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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jan 24, 1841

Page

3

Novel Pran ron Detectine Taser and Railway Talks

A Canterbury note details a hedge stake powder device once used by a thief to frighten householders and steal fences, followed by a public meeting about supporting a Ashford Canterbury railway branch and a Dorchester arson case with a suspect identified. Dublin and Edinburgh items cover Tory strategy, a castle fire, and a landlord tenant circular, plus local police actions and Morpeth prison labor benefits.

Canterbury Laura Eastian Raimway Guildhall Ashford Ramsgate Fearon South Eastern Railway Dorchester Faulkner Oxford London Partridge A Division Metropolitan Police George Wheeler Faulimer Wheeler Marsham Orford Herald Dublin Tory Polley Ireland Woods Milverton Wood Lord Courtown County Dublin Grance Woops Edinburgh A. Penny Tait Messrs Boyd and Latta Gloucester Strince Leonard Bouldown Tetbury Dursley Kilekenny O'Hara Hay Phillips Earl of Cassilis 17Th Lancers French Hel&ham Butler Kilkenny Morpeth Cousins Tyne

Dividend declared by Katuartxé Dock Company half year

The Katuartxé Dock Company held a general meeting to consider dividend for the half-year ended 31 December. The chairman showed a dispos able balance of £108,312 11s 4d after interest on debentures, and a 24 percent dividend for the half-year was proposed and adopted, amounting to £33,820 and leaving £74,492 14s 4d. A decline in trade with China and India was noted, but dock receipts were expected to recover as inter national commerce resumes. The meeting also reviewed ship entries, grain imports, and port activity during the year.

F F Sr Katuartxé Dock Company China London India Roya Navan Benevolent Society St. James's Street George Cockburn Lord Radstock Henry Hope Mortimer Haslar Hospital France Verdun Granville England Brisbane Lord Howe New York d'Estaing Rhode Island General Clinton Admiral Ross Valparaiso J. G. Bremer Singapore Richardson Gosport Messrs. Chippendale Cass Navy Outram Chitits Lixin Society J. Foster Isle of Portland Buckland Janson F.L.S Charles C. Babington Newport Mayo Treland H. Solley F.R.S William Griffiths Madras Medical Establishment Affghanistan Farringpon Without Farringdon Without St. Thomas's Day Court of Aldermen Court of Common Council Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench Court of Queen's Bench Ns Pehele Court of Queen’s Bench Sergeant’s Inn Fleet-street Guildhall ACRS Gibbs and Ledger Bridge Hmself Gibbs Ny Falls Cripplegate Watch House Eeodhunter Mr. Brand Redcrossie Matthews Rede Seth White Vine City Compter Giltspur-street Smithfield Reas Thong Dustai

Ashton Combinations Examinations In Conspiracy Case

Prisoners Paxton Rowbotham Irving and Moncross faced magistrates in Ashton under Lyne after being arrested on October 80th charges of conspiracy to oppress master sawyers. Evidence described delegates tested by lawyers from Manchester unions, with judge ruling the men guilty of conspiracy and ordering bail.

Manchester Ashton Benjamin Goldthorpe Garland Moncross Peter Keogh Cowley Patrick Keogh James Keogh John Harvey Thomas Garland Union Foulkes Thomas Butterfield Patrick Lenand Smithfield Tavern Butterfield Lenand Smithfield Hugh Boyd Paxton Clayton Road Isi Knobsticks Harvey Grimes Patrick Lenands Goldthorp Stone King's Head Jowett Oldham Society Lord Oldham, Being A delegate—Mr. Foulkes Mr. Lord Mr. Jowett Goldthorpe Mr. Foulkes Irving Robotham Wright

Three Dumbarton ship-carpenters shot by accident on Glasgow road

On the 11th inst three young men Gray Smith and Thompson ship carpenters of Dumbarton went fowling near Graggy's bridge. Smith fired while passing through a hedge the gun went off wounding Gray who died about three hours later. Smith lingered at his bedside until his death. In Clackmannan a woman named Laing burned to death in a house fire raising great sorrow among neighbors.

Gray Smith Thompson Dumbarton Glasgow Graggy's Bridge Caledonian Mercury Clackmannan Laing Dr. Kitchener Izaak Walton

LITERARY CHRONICLE Catches Moments In France Travel

A long feature reviews reading passages from Stortsarax in France, with extracts about the Curé and his housekeeper, plus a practical fishing and pike dressing guide. It recounts boar and pike hunting, social visits at a chateau, and a French ball, ending with living costs and English setters in L Orient and Quimper.

French names for English dishes tale of corned beef

An English hotel dinner features Captain G and a French guest, the latter mispronouncing pot-luck as a dish name while enjoying a large corned beef brisket. The story recalls hospitality and a humorous language mix up as officials later host a formal dinner in return.

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