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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Jan 31, 1841

Page

7

Trial at Guildhall Over Election Fraud Involving John Baker

In a Guildhall hustings case the prisoner faced charges of political misrepresentation and perjury linked to votes cast under false identities. Key testimony centered on identity, names, and poll-book entries with Alderman Farebrother ordering remand for poll-book production and later release on bail with sureties for Old Bailey trial.

Baker Humphries Mose Clark Gobler Yedger Thomas Watson Sor Humphries Hobler Everett Prior-place Eastlane Thompson Thompon Potter London Reynolds Redcross-square Cripplegate Painter Towse Plumbers’ Company Morris Alderman White Guildhall Daniel Harker John Arnolds City Plumee Company Gibbs Sheri Gibbs White Central Criminal Court Old Bailey

Assault on Officer Atkins Reported on Worship Street

On Tuesday William Shearing and Bigham Wig U excavator were charged before Mr. Sham with assaulting policeman Atkins on Worship Street. The incident involves the duo’s alleged attack during a disturbance, with proceedings continuing in court.

William Shearing Bigham Mr. Sham Atkins

Chess Watcher at Régence Café Declares No Moves

A taciturn man spends ten years at the Régence cafe daily for six to seven hours watching chess games yet refuses to play and cannot name the moves. When pressed, he admits he is married and prefers not to go home, serving as an unofficial umpire in a quiet, bemused vignette from Fraser's Magazine.

Vincent Mr. Twyford Lai Henry Vincent Okeham Arthur Dyson No. HG Kingsland Road Mr. Hall Dyson Richard Cameron Dorrington-street Cold Bath-square Clerkenwell Hall Cameron Mr. Cameron Nile Mace Mr.Dyson Hallen Ting Gadship Biggs Southampton Rawlinson Serley Peter Ting AD the Mar Cafe DE LA Regence The Régence Monsieur Fraser's Magazine Thames William Barley Harley Broderip John Williams Cook Calcutta Madras James Dunn Williams Earley Anglesey Headfort Normanby Ducie Erroll Lovelace Lichfield Fingall Albemarle Uxbridge Clarendon Ilchester Duncannon Beaumont Monteagle Lurgan Segrave Portman Carrington Sudeley Kinnaird Paltimore Byron Foley Strafford John Russell Viscount Palmerston Dalmeny Morpeth Seymour Alfred Paget R. L. Sheil G. Stevens Byng F. T. Baring H. Labouchere J. Hobhouse T. B. Macaulay Fox Maule Colonel Anson W. Cowper E. A. Stanley G. Grey Bart. Hussey Vivian Bart Thomas Wilde J. Campbell R.S. Donkin H. Parnell T. Trowbridge Charles Adam Edward Horsman R. Bernal Henry Taffnell William Clay R. Godron M. More O'Ferrall John Parker Henry Rich Thomas Wyse Horriere Murper Xzan Droitwich Wichbold Crown Inn Mary Ann Patrick Benjamin Patrick Birmingham Miss Baker Upton Warren Mr. Rose Crown Worcester Journal Vt Murper Sheffield Thomas-street George Raney George Belk Raney George’ Belk Newbould’s Belk Sheffield Patriot Montpellier Herault Aris Birmingham Gazette Austria Berlin Erlangen Leipzig Hungary Transylvania Brittany Perros-Guirec Trollope Thomas More Lady More Thomas Moore Lord Stanley Jos Somes Mapnay Seocater Pirie Monte Video France Charivari Her Majesty Isle of Dogs Cyclops Gorgon Styx Messrs Messrs. Ewart Bundy Fleetstreet Brentford Castle Tavern New Brentford Clitherow Stoddart Hazard Powell Tapp Bunting Hopkins Cudland Hill Brown Cherry London Jupp Cudland, Brown Bunting and Hopkins Felix Booth John Farnell H. Powell H. Jupp Grainger Parsons Duke of Northumberland Cutland C. Stanborough Rowe Queen Archbishop of Canterbury Duke of Cleveland George Byng Middlesex T. Wood Colonel Wood Brecon Archdeacon Cambridge Mr. Cambridge Baroness de Rothschild Feaver Friday Street N.B London Morning Papers Thomas Schofield Royal J. L. Curtis Conrany Balliers Regent-street Ollivier Pall Mall Strange Paternpater-row Pattie Brydges-street Strand Machen and Co D‘olier-Street Dublin Huncan High-street Edinburgh Bsun Messrs. Curtis and Co Frith Street Soho Usua Mons. LE Dray Monsieur le Dray Europe Newman-street Oxford-street Paris Adam Seas

A miscellany of wit on language and meals

The excerpt surveys figures of speech and language change with notes from Ignatius of Antioch to Samuel Pegge. It retells Napoleon’s campaign anecdote, describes Rumford’s approach to hot hasty pudding, and lists thirteen divisions of the day, highlighting superstition around the night hours.

Ignatius Antioch Trajan Husebius Napoleon Count Rumford Grande Bourne

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