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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 27, 1855
Page
6
A historical note describes Mr Urquhart and allies in a century old row over financing a Turkish protection fund. The dispute centers on £20 loan advances by Mr Coningham, with Urquhart and Rolland demanding apologies and meetings, while Coningham resists duelling and seeks warrants from Brighton magistrates.
A violent gale off Margate leads to the total loss of the Glasgow barque Janet Boyd of 400 tons from Hamburg. All 28 crew perish as the ship strikes the north east spit on Margate Sands. Local boatmen attempt rescue amid colossal waves. cargo pieces wash ashore and the rudder chains likely failed. It was en route to London.
A New Orleans store mischief ends in a country gentleman and a city lady swapping purchases. Each heads home to reveal outfits only to discover the bundles belong to the other. Both customers return to swap back and resume their day amid lighthearted embarrassment. Kippenminster Canners notes the carpet trade in Kidderminster remains bleak.
A Sunday report from Limerick details a young wife Mrs Samuel Lawrence killing her four month old baby and then dying by her own hand. The article notes blood on the kitchen floor and a throat cut in the closet above the water barrel. The couple had a two year old daughter. The piece also covers a Derbyshire assault that left a man blind in one eye and later died, plus a Wirksworth burglary with heavy silver theft from Philip Hubberstey's residence.
The inmate Barthélémy faced the scaffold with cold composure on Monday morning at Newgate. He refused faith, debated religion with Sheriff Crosley, and requested Paradise Lost in French before his execution. He walked to the scaffold in a firm, unflinching stride.
The dying scene unfolds as Calcraft carries out a fatal drop on the condemned man. A letter from Sophia, a Frenchwoman, is found. The deceased confesses a link to Moore, a Catholic priest’s illegitimate daughter, and a disputed pistol confrontation at Moore’s house.
Surveyors find Tux Royan forests totaling about 103,150 acres hold strong crown value in roughly 30,000 acres of young plantations. They favor orderly management and caution against annual profit thinning and navy timber overextension, predicting the forests may largely supply war needs by century’s end.
The Court of Exchequer heard Boyle v Wiseman a libel action brought by a Roman Catholic priest against Cardinal Wiseman. The Mountgarrett Peerage case followed, with Lord Mountgarrett’s legitimacy at issue and a new trial ordered. Cock fighting dispute also debated as the week’s docket moved forward.
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