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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 22, 1848
Page
4
Long reader letters discuss lease liens, bankruptcy, trusts, wills, and court actions. Topics include rights on property, guardianship, debt collection, insolvency, and legal notices. References name James Archibald Stuart Worsley MP, Cardigan Hussars, and various towns and courts.
A London review of Our Street by Titmarsh, lampooning the boarding houses and social circles of Pocklington Square and Paddington. It lampoons young Anglo Catholic fashions, the harem of Bulbul, the oratory clique, and the blue book habit, praising Jelly Newboy while lampooning the era’s“latch key” society.
Curiously detailed letters from convict Maynard, in the hands of Mr. Nash, describe railway depredations and alleged schemes. Garratt and associates reportedly used trusted agents to steal railway scrip and a £15,000 bill, with plans to expose weaknesses and seek restitution.
Instructions give methods to compute sunrise and sunset by latitude and degree offsets, list high water times at London Dock and adjustments for Bristol, Cork, Falmouth, Hull, Milford Haven, Brighton, Cowes, Dover, Dublin, Holyhead, Liverpool, Port Glasgow, and Southampton. Also includes weekly liturgical dates, moon phase, day length, and dawn/dusk times for January Sundays.
The Times argues for reviving differential duties on slave grown sugar to aid West Indian planters while examining the broader issue of labor supply and industrial reform. It critiques dependence on slave labor, urges free labour and improved land transfer, and highlights legal and conveyancing reforms to boost property ownership and production.
Reform in the transfer of real property is urged as a widespread issue affecting landowners and investors. The piece notes prior parliamentary inquiries in 1828 1631 and a 1846 Lords committee on burdens of land, highlighting failed expectations and continuing complaints about the complexity cost and delay of property transfers.
The Bishop of Oxford shifts from opposition to Hampden and then retracts his stance in a famous letter. Public opinion shifts from seeing him as a martyr to speculation about royal favor and a possible primacy, with Wilberforce rumored to be considering primate prospects.
An English newspaper cites a Paris suit over Alexandre Dumas allegedly misrepresenting an ancestor of Marquis St Luc. The court ruled the plaintiff could not recover, arguing that personal actions die with the person, and extending such rights across centuries would create absurd, endless liability for distant descendants and even omit rights against figures like Lord Lyttleton and Macaulay.
A 19th century critique argues against a French nobleman’s bid to sue over ancestral honor. The piece notes potential damages would multiply across generations, mocks the notion as preposterous, and defends England’s practical view of duties tied to rank rather than inherited damages.
An editorial notes government orders to try night poachers at the Assizes rather than Sessions, viewing the reform as a step toward fairer justice. It argues the change reduces potential bias and harsh treatment, increasing impartiality and limiting abuses in game-law prosecutions.
A Liverpool Manchester deputation led by Mr. Rawson and Mr. Haywood M P met Lord John Russell at the Treasury to urge total abolition of tea duties. The interview yielded courteous replies but little immediate hope, leaving the delegates with the impression their aim might not be met for now.
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