Court developments in Queen s Bench and Common Pleas sessions
Proceedings discuss postponements and rulings on motions for criminal cases, sergeants privilege, and bail matters. Lord Denman and the bench caution that unprepared motions and irregularities should not be indulged. The Privileges of the Serjeants decision confirms sergeants enjoy exclusive pleading rights in the Common Pleas.
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Court OF Queen’s Bench
Moxpar
Banco
Mountz
Sergeant Adams
Lord Denman
Justice Parke
Court OF Common Pleas
Newton
Royal Union Society director faces summons over insolvent fund
George Glenny, managing director of the Royal Friendly Union Association, is summoned to show cause why he refused £20 to an annuitant. The case reveals an insolvent pension and annuity fund, with assets exhausted, contested accounts, and potential chancery action. Witnesses describe drained offices and lost pensions affecting many poor subscribers.
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Bow Street
George Glenny
Royal Friendly Union Association
Lancaster-place
Wellington-street
Strand
Twyford
Edward Cheeper
Aldersgate-street
Cross
Patterson
Edinburgh
George the Fourth
Society
Isleworth
Tidd Pratt
Society For Annuities
Jersey
Glenny
Mr. Twyford
Mr. Cross
Queen’s Bench
Glindy
Norfolk
Colbrook
Newbury
J. Twyford
Bodkin
Cheeper
Friendly Societies’ Act
Court of Equity
Court of Chancery
Mr. Cheeper
Association
Mr. Glenny
Bank of England
Benjamin Bright
Bright
Assault at Lincoln's Inn Fields Man faces indecent assault charge
George Dawson Lowndes Esq of Lincoln's Inn Fields stands trial after Frederick Lea a 16 year old boy testified to repeated indecent advances in a Newman's Row shop. Prosecution alleges three visits with improper questions and actions. defense guided by counsel. Separate reports cover accidents and a Mitcham inquiry into alleged parental poisoning attempt.
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Henry. Coxhead
Newman’s-row
Lincoln’s-inn-fields
Hamilton
Lincoln’s Inn-Fields
Charlotte-street
Bloomsbury
Richard Etheridge
Rascal
Joseph Lea
Combe
Humphries
A Column for the Curious on the Penny Postage Day
The piece celebrates Rowland Hill and the penny postage reform. It extols the one penny rate from distant places like John OGroats to Kilkenny, notes letters reach friends cheaply, and praises the moral value of news, love notes, and even a dying man’s letter, closing with gratitude to Hill for the blessing.
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John O’groat
England’s End
Norfolk
Kilkenny
Nature
Jack Woo
Jenny
Rowland Hill
The Progress of Truth and an Admiral’s Tough Gift
A compact item recounts two anecdotes: Du Marais on prejudice praises peaceful truth and gradual change, while a wartime moment shows Lord Howe promoting a loyal Larcom after ordering him off the Queen Charlotte, surprising the brave officer who asks why.
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du Marais
Portsmouth
Lord Howe
Larcom
Great Palace of Copenhagen and Yankee Clockmaker Tale
Excerpted notes describe Copenhagen’s royal library as a vast repository with about 400,000 volumes and priceless manuscripts. It recounts a Yankee clockmaker tale of selling ninety-nine faulty clocks and cleverly exchanging for profit, then shifts to brief mentions of Joan of Arc sculpture by Princess Marie of Orleans, Byron on Scott, and reflections on human pursuits and fame, with light travel diary and poetry excerpts.
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Copenhagen
Royal
Europe
Niebuhr
Rask
Brenmner
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Sam Slick
Joan OF Arc
Marie OF Orleans
Byron
Scott
Waterloo
Cervantes
Gordon
Final examination of prisoners at Bow Street Bethnal Green
The Clartists in London. Final examination of the prisoners taken into custody at Bow Street Bethnal Green after an illegal meeting at Trades Hall Abbey Street Bethnal Green on Tuesday the 4th inst. Prisoners Neesom Williams Spurr and others faced charges of being at an unlawful gathering while others were remanded on arms charges. Police evidence described a large crowd with inflammatory language and threats of blood, with Neesom chairing and Williams demanding explanations from police.
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Bethnal Grees
Charl Hudson Neesom
Richard Spurr
Joseph Williams
Dave Byrne
Thomas Clarke
Thomas Rennard
Thomas Hope Joliam Wilkins
David Williams
John Cherry
Thomas Era
George Livings
Bow Sty
Hobler
Commissioners of Police
Prendergast
Hope
Wilkins
Myir Boydon Roberts
Child's Place
Middle Temple
Spurr
Neago Joseph Williams
Geen Livings
Thomas Evans
George Cherry
Tomain
Illega
George King
Ivision of Police
Neesom
Brick Lane
Williams
England
Sellon
Presen
Prenier
George Takle
Trades’ Hall
Abbey-street
Bethnal-green
Ramsey-street
Mr. Roberts
Henry Cotton
Mr. Prendergast
David Evans
Mr. Neesom
Denis Power
Mr. Hobler
Hay
Pearce
Spust
Serjeant Barker
Gerald Galaveen
Wit Hall
Nesses
Trades’-hall
Henry Charles Barker
Michael Con
Aabe Dergast
Conway
Hall
Jas. Tyler
London Co
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Ferpay
Dok
Suire
Mr. Thesiger
Justice Patteson
Police
Newman’'s Row
Great Russell-street
Hatton Garden
James Rolles
Kennington-lane
Newington
St. Albans
Jane Bentley
Countess Craven
Gorhambury
Earl of Verulam
Earl and Countess Craven
Earl Craven
Rose and Crown
John Coles
Anc
Herts
Rotherhithe
Charles
Finsbury
Hill-street
Paul-street
Newsom
Whitecross-street
Jeffery, Square
Sun
Richard Weaver
Eastgate-street
Chester
Ellesmere and Chester Canal
Maples
Christleton-road
Chester Chronicle
Mitcham
W. Carter
Surrey
Bull Inn
John James Garn
Robert Hill
Witess
Hill
Tipple
P Division
Whitechapel
F. Green
Whitechapel-read
Edw. Tipple
Daniel Isaac
Mr. Isaac
Jenyns
Austria
Prussia
Cholochel
Mazeppa
Earth
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London
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