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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 23, 1848
Page
4
A vivid review of Our Street by Titmarsh at Paddington, lampooning the parishioners and society figures. It lampoons the Young Oriels and Balbul, the worshipful Rumbold and Pinkney, Jolly Newboy, and a host of local clerics, wives, and lodgers with comic keen observation of suburban life.
A dated calendar entry explains calculating sunrise and sunset for any Great Britain or Ireland location by latitude, with adjustments per degree above 6ldeg30min and below 4deg30min. It lists high-water times at major ports, with offsets for Bristol, Falmouth, Hull, Milford Haven, Brighton, Cowes, Dover, Dublin, Holyhead, Liverpool, Port Glasgow, and Southampton. The entry includes liturgical notes for Third and Fourth Sundays after Epiphany, moon phase data, day length, and daily sun times, with a sequence of named days and feasts.
Curiously detailed notes from Maynard the convict describe railway robberies, accomplices, and schemes to secure prison leniency. Garratt and others plotted with agents, forged papers, and planned to exploit the scrip trade, while the narrator explains his own career in commerce and intent to disclose further frauds to aid the public.
The Times shifts to defend West India interests urging a return to differential duties on sugar and slave trade restraint. It argues capital will flow eastward, labour supply must increase, and marks conveyancing reform and land ownership as keys to productivity. The piece links abolition with labor supply and calls for modernization of law and production.
Discussion on simplifying and speeding the transfer of real property. The piece notes long standing grievances with costly and dilatory procedures and recalls commissions from 1628 1831 and a 1846 Lords committee report urging improvements to land transfers. It highlights the need for practical remedies to ease selling land and investing capital.
The Hampden interlude unfolds with Slippery Sam’s shifting stance and the Bishop of Oxford’s sudden retraction of his Hampden heresy position. Public opinion swings from admiration to disbelief as the bishop’s letter halts further action, fueling rumors of royal favor and a possible primate future for Dr Wilberforce.
A Faris newspaper editor sued the novelist Alexandre Dumas for misrepresenting an ancestor, but the Seine court ruled the plaintiff could not recover. The piece argues English law would bar such a claim as personal actions die with the individual, and warns of absurdities if rights could pass to future generations. It cites St Luc, the Marquis, and extrapolates to figures like Buckingham and Lord Lyttleton in a satirical tone.
At Middleham Magistrates on the 13th instant an order from the Home Department was noted to move night poaching trials from Sessions to the Assizes. The change is praised as a reform improving impartiality and reducing potential bias in handling game offenses and related violence. A Liverpool Manchester deputation pressed for abolition of duties affecting workers. Lord John Russell declined prospects of reform, citing revenue concerns. Rail sabotage near Moira railway prompted a police reward hunt and calls for harsher penalties. An inquest at St Bartholomew's Hospital investigated the death of 17 year old Jarod Keller, apprentice to Ephraim Fletcher, whose harsh living and abuse were highlighted. verdict cited fatal consumption with reprehensible treatment by master and mistress.
A 19th century French allegation on ancestral damages faces dismissal as absurd. The piece argues that extending legal action to descendants would multiply claims, stretch moral duties, and turn ancestry into income, impractical for English law and common sense, while praising measured obligation over prestige.
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