Stout Hoghead Theft Trial In London Theft Case
Reuben Bicknell a printer appeared at the Thames inquest and charged with stealing a hogshead of stout. Witnesses described a river spill, taps, and a Thames police misstep as Caldwell the officer admitted aiding in drinking and broaching the cask before a long magistrate's session ended with discharge for the prisoner and scrutiny of police conduct. An inquest into a Westminster hospital death followed, with questions over surgeon attendance and a porter’s negligence. The panel returned an accidental-death verdict. In a separate incident, the Dowager Countess of Scarborough narrowly escaped injury when a bird-shooting youth fired near her window, with lead from a pistol found at close proximity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reuben Bicknell
Linquats + SAOning Post
Thames
Dublin
Stout
Olne
Thomas Grimstone
Forestreet
Lambeth
Fore‘street
Charles Caldwell
William Fawcett
St. Katharine’s
Caldwell
Bucknell
Broderip
William Blenkhorne
Grimstone
Erith
Lambeth Stairs
Praget
Fara
Orvicens
Westminster Hospital
Higgs
Red Lion
Princes-street
Westminster
Mary Holland
Frances Taylor
Queen Ann's Ward
William Crow
Beadle
St. Margaret's
A Division of Police
Activision
Charles Henry Gurstin
Barnard Holt
Garstin
Frost
Holt
Mr. Garstin
Mr. Hult
Garstin and Holt
White
A. White
B. Holt
Kis
May
Pipes
Marylebone-lane
Tedman
Shove
Bennett
George-street
Susanne
Aid
Questions and Answers on Property and Law Inquiries
A collection of reader queries on marriage rights apprenticeship death wills and notices with brief legal guidance. Topics include validity of marriages Scotland English law rights of widows and orphans notices to quit penalties under weights and measures and voter registration questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus Wood
Helen
England
Scotland
W. C
Doctors' Commons
Doctors’ Commons
Norwich
Yorkshire
R. P
Thomas Brend
R. J
Mary
Lambeth
J. P
The Week and Elections Debates in 19th Century Times
A long weekly column covers Proper lessons for Sunday services, celestial notes, weather forecasts, and a miscellaneous section. It reports on the Printers Pension Society excursion aboard the Star to Herne Bay, reader letters, and political reflections following a general election. It discusses the Tory majority, reform debates, and the inertia of momentum toward Free Trade and Democracy, with critiques of Peel and Parliament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Printers’ Pension Society
Weekly Chronicle
Star
Nolice
London-bridge
Herne Bay
E. R. Mipparton
Board of Guardians
Tulius Casar
Took
J. B
Tooke
Windsor
Helen
John Willliams
James Jackson
Debt reduction meeting at the treasury with key officials
A Wednesday meeting of the debt reduction commissioners was held at the treasury attended by the chancellor of the exchequer and the governor of the Bank of England. An inquest at the Duke of Gloucester on Charlotte Hughes age 42 and her 12 year old son James concluded with a verdict of natural death amid a family dispute and prior threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Bank of England,&c
Higham
Baker
Duke of Gloucester
Seabright-street
Bethnal-greenroad
Charlotte Hughes
James Hughes
Harford
Louisa Hughes
Hughes
Calendar for Britain and Ireland July 11 to 18 sunrise sunset
A dated calendar guide explains sunrise and sunset times for Great Britain and Ireland. It shows how to adjust times by latitude differences and lists high water offsets for major ports such as London Dock, Bristol, Cork, and Liverpool. It notes other harbours and references notices to correspondents for further calendar information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain and Ireland
Great Britain
Ireland
London Dock
Bristol
Cork
Cove
Falmouth
Hull
Milford ‘Haven
Brighton
Colves
Dover
Dublin
Holyhead
Liverpool
Port Glasgow
Southampton
Canada Lord Sydenham Speech and Timber Duties Debate
The Great Western prints Lord Sydenham's Canadian Parliament address praising reform while warning against costly timber duty abolition without mutual gains. It argues Canada should abandon monopoly of the English timber market if needed, notes Canada US politics over Mr. McLeod, and stresses urgency of a settlement amid border tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Great Western
Lord Sydenham
United Provinces of Canada
Canadas
Canada
M‘leod
America
van Buren
Crossing the frontier to avoid sharing fate of Mr. M'Leod
The passage notes the obvious inconvenience of a state of affairs where fifty people on both sides gain livelihoods by trading in neutral waters. They move repeatedly between countries, seeming to belong to both, and seek to cross the frontier without risking further consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M‘leod
Predictions on a New Parliament and the Queen's Speech
The piece imagines a post election Parliament opened by the Queen, with Ministers advising a bold, uncompromising Speech. It discusses the Speakership battle, anticipated government resignations around August 27, and Peel's forthcoming shaky finances. It warns of new taxes if Tories resist—while praising the Import Duties Report as fostering political awakening and potential backlash against monopolies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaw Lefevre
North Hants
House of Commons
Lord Stanley
Lord Sandon
Robert Peel
North Lancashire
University of Cambridge
Dorchester
Launceston
Goulburn
James Graham
Henry Hardinge
Mr. Colquhoun
Kilmarnock
Handley
Burke
Liberal Party
London
Liverpool
Hull
England
Chesterfield Union Tyranny Over Workhouse Women
A London paper reports alleged abuse at the Chesterfield Union Derbyshire where women entering the workhouse are stripped of stays. A room holds the garments ticketed while inmates endure discomfort to shorten stays. The piece questions authority and calls for safeguards against punitive measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesterfield Union
Derbyshire
Times
Somerset House
Chesterfield
Spectator and Friends of Free Trade Debate Divides Liberals
The Spectator argues that Liberals should treat nonallies as opponents under current conditions. It notes an unusually clear party line and asserts that motive matters are unknowable while the division among forces remains pronounced. The piece emphasizes ideological separation over individual intentions.
Split Parties Shift in Free Trade Debate in Britain
A long critique argues Whig landowners move toward Conservatism driven by fears and disloyalty to Liberal aims. It condemns the Spectator for duplicity, urging candor and unity within the Liberal cause to defeat Tory influence, and warns that continued factionalism harms reform efforts and public trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spectator
John Russell
Lord John
London
Travers
Jones Lloyd
Liberal
Evans
Westminster
Liverpool
Leeds
Hull
Hume
William Molesworth
Aldam
Baines
Carlton
Reform Club
National Debt sinking fund halted amid 1841 deficit report
The National Debt Office announces that no funds will be allocated to the sinking fund from July 7 to October 10, 1841, after the Treasury certified a deficit of £1,851,917 5s 11d for the year ended April 5, 1841. Royal Navy and railway notes follow, including an inquest verdict of manslaughter in Deptford and reports on a fatal launch accident at Rotherham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lords Commissioners
Her Majesty's Treasury
S. HigHnam
National Debt Office
Royal Polyrecuxic
Ublic
Sin Cuartes Adam
Charles Adam
West Indies
Halifax
Newfoundland
Malabar
Illustrious
Ellice
Boxer
Peter John Douglas
Jamaica
Lakes
Canada
Sandom
Philip Durham
Robert Stopford
Mediterranean
Naval and
MA Military Gazette
Paris and
Orleans
Stephenson
Newcastle
Paris
Corbeil
Galignani
Deptford
Old King Street
Frances Studd
Edward Studd
Studd
Taylor
Deptford-pier
Elizabeth Dalton
King Street
Bridget Ives
Atkins
Adam Uriah Bryant
John Nind
Central Criminal Court
Wm. Young
Clarkson
Espinnasse
Phillips
Hackney Road
Mr. Clarkson
Baron Alderson
Josefa Collins
Three Tuns Tavern
Fetter Lane
Payne
Joseph Collins
John Wright
Fleur-de-lis-court
Fleet-street
Two infant deaths from suffocation at Lambeth workhouse
In Lambeth a coroner’s inquest followed the smothering deaths of Jane Elizabeth Reeves and another infant at the workhouse. A nurse named Sully aided the children, but the jury found suffocation with no blame attached to her. A separate street robbery in Smithfield involved a gang attacking Mr. James Noble and fleeing with his valuables. Jane Smith, a notorious thief, was captured amid warnings about gangs in Turnmill Street and Cow Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ik Mae
Rotherham
James Yates
West Riding
Ates
Tency
Cadman
Sheffield
Sheffiel Is
Joseph Buckley
Alfred Buckley
Samuel Herdcott
Joiner
Henry Cowder
David Conder
Wiliam Bradshaw
Andrew Dobson
Henry Goodell
George Nixon
William Hall
John Patteson
John Millito
Richard Millito
Joseph Earnshaw
J Samuel Woolhouse
Charles Matthewman
Rob Lancaster
Samuel Cobb
William Blackburn
John Parrott
John Kent
Masborough Wrship
George Ramsden
George Curtis
Willi Freeman
Samuel Freeman
Richard Shaw
John Gretrey
William Wood
William Grinfelt
Alfred Grinfield
William Bouler
Thomas Dut
John Fox
Charles Hanby
John Jacques
Ger. Earnshaw
Joseph Furness
Thomas Woodyer
William Woodyer
George Brown
James Hayrit
Thomas Shaw
Charles Robinson
Thomas Bybury
John Haywood
John Gillett
John King Father
Thomas Badger
Henry Newsome
George Wilson Chambers
Witness
Dief Buckley
Richard Callis
Bear
Edwin Cadman
Haywood
Vsta
Afr
Yates
Chambers
Chaurice
Bentley
Odd Fellows
Masbro’ Chapel
Stowell
Mr. Carter
Jolly Gardeners
Jane Elizabeth Reeves
Sussy
Lambeth
Martha
Suits
Scott
Matt
Sully
Duke
James Noble
Marylebone-lane
Smithfield
Noble
Eliott
Statium
Jane Smith
Turnmill-street
Cow-cross
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Taz Weest Caxronice
St. James's Chronicle
Bell's
Mark Lane
Strand
LEGAL
Senpas
Sam
Luke Xsili
Murphy
Legh
Thetford
Erasmus
Attwood
le Marchant
Harwich
Becket
Muntz
Tamworth
Cotton Twist
Joseph
Lincolnshire
Northumberland
Loxpon
North
Fripay
SaTvepay
the Weekly Chronicle
the Spectator, and
the Friends OF Free Trade
Rotherha