Diverse Miscellany Highlights From 19th Century Observations
A digest of London and Bristol notices, trials, quirky anecdotes, and local happenings. Items include Conscience money to the chancellor, an earthquake report, a death after amputation, social banter, crime briefs, statue arrivals, weather and travel curiosities, and remarks on public figures and literature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Downing-Street
Gazette
BeRuix
Brossets
Levi
United States
Hod
BetterFlies
Feargus O’connor
Mancus
Bedford
Theatre Gossip and Updates from London Newspapers
A sprawling blend of theatre notes from Bath to Bath in England and New York gossip. Rumors on Mr Caantes Kean in the west, Rodwell eyeing Covent Garden, Paulina Garcia and Lachner operas, Liston’s Hyde Park mansion purchase, Lewes and Worcester Theatre news, and Covent Garden tax rates and Bulwer’s Richlieu casting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caantes Kean
England
Bath
Bristol
Plymouth
Exeter
America
New York
Charles Kemble
Hamlet
George Frederick Cooke
Jonathan
Macready
Covent
Rodwell
Royal Academy of Music
Paris
Peper
Paulina Garcia
The
Philharmonic
Lachner
Munich
Bulwer
Pompeii
Liston
St. George's Place
Hyde-park- Corner
Betty
Alexander the Great
Bella
Earl of Warwick
Charles the Second
J. Barnett
Forinelli
Drury Lane Theatre
Lewes Theatre
Mechanics’ Institution
Hooper
St. James’s
Surrey
Adelphi
Belfast
Worcester Music
Worcester
Hereford
Gloucester
Wosurn Appey
Duke and Duchess of Bedford
Colman
Poly Hunneycombe
Abbey Theatre
Marchioness of
Edward Bulwer
Covent-garden Green-Room
Richlieu
H. Faucit
Bristol Starvation Inquest Returns Tragic Verdict
An inquest at the Seven Stars Bristol into the death of James Horler 76 found death by apoplexy. Witnesses detailed long poverty including improvised shelter no regular meals and a day-old bone of beef boiled for the deceased. Surgeon J Brady found no evidence that starvation hastened death despite filthy lodging and extreme destitution. Bristel Gazette reported the verdict and remarks on relief practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisa H. Sheridan
Mr. Burr
New York
London
Literary Gazette
France
Louis XIV
Times
Steele
Dubois
Wakley
Thomas Wilson
Bank of Ireland
Armagh
Madame de Wolezagen
Frederick Schiller
Jena
Winlaton
Gateshead Ober
Castle Howard
Earl of Carlisle
Gravesend
Peter
Bristol
J. B. Grindon
Seven Stars
St. Paul's
James Horler
Thomas Horler
Butterfield’s Court
Callowhill-street
Witness
Clifton
Legg
St. Peter’s Hospital
Stapleton
St. Philip’s
J. Brady
St. Peter's Hospital
Bristel Gazette
Marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert Revealed
The Times reports the anticipated royal marriage between Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, detailing Albert as a 22 year old visitor to Britain and note of royal confirmation uncertainties. Paris dispatches discuss ministerial resignations and royal interment plans, while London notices cover ship passage counts, accidents, and rising civic concerns include cotton demand and corn laws debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Prince Albert
Duke of
Saxe Coburg
Sun
Morning Chronicle
Paris
Marshal Soult
M. Tiers
Dreux
Mary
Times
Moniteur
Mapriv
Copenhagen
James Wooton
Hemsworth
Regent’s Park
Kentish Town
Liverpool
Edinburgh
Thomas Dick Lander
Clerkenwell
Wesleyan Methodists
Wesley
Wales
Scotland
Ireland
Poole
Murpher
Waterman’s Fields
Woolwich
Ann Matthews
Warden
Roya Hunt
Great Western Railway Company
North Star
Southall
Royal Hunt
Lloyd
Halstead
Adelaide
South Australia
England
Chelmsford Chronicle
Warneford
Gloucester
Ramsgate
Crown Hotel
Margate
Dunkirk
Royal Victoria Steam Packet
London
Attorney General seeks amendment in Canadian prisoners case
In the Queen's Bench on Wednesday the Attorney-General moved to discharge a rule and amend the return in the Leonard Watson case. The case concerns a supposed clerical error omitting Watson's name from the warrant and the legality of Batchelor the Liverpool jailer. The court discharged the contempt rule against Batchelor and granted leave to amend the return, with further steps to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen's Bench
M. D. Hill
Batchelor
Liverpool
Leonard Watson
Weston
Hill
van Dieman’s Land
England
Waller
Messrs
Ashurst
Gainsford
Watson
Blunt
Colonial Office
Upper Canada
Sir George Arthur
Mr. Batchelor
Morton
Deponent
Radcliffe
Maule
Treasury
Sir John Colborne
Canada
Captain Morton
F. Pollock
Wightman
Falkner
Mr. Roebuck
Justice Littledale
Silent Lyre and Memory Ode Presented in Fragment
A miscellany piece from an old issue features elegiac verse for L. E. L. and the muse of England, plus a mock translation of a Bristol druggist robbery note, a Gulf Stream essay, a Sabbath sonnet, and essays on Providence and the lama. It closes with a verse response to a farewell inscription.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlton Club
F. Burdett
Cecil Martin
Southampton
British Museum
John Denny
London
Denny
Afric
England
M. Price
Bridewell
Bristol
Trowbridge
Richard Willcox
Formey
Dyer’s
Gulf Stream
Bahamas
American
Gulf of Florida
Atlantic
Azores
Straits of Gibraltar
Madeira
America
West Indies
Porto Santo
New World
M. Guizot
Cordilleras
Foreign Quarterly Review
Belov’d
Mal
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