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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 17, 1847
Page
2
The Times reports Paris and London maneuvering amid the Pellapra and Teste trials, with Guizot and Dachatel under scrutiny. Abd el Kader gains ground in Morocco while Spain and Portugal see shifting alliances and potential coups. Queen Victoria’s reception of French dignitaries hints at rapprochment efforts between courts.
Saturday forenoon service at the church in feman ey ty bireoh ma oba. Notice of a solemn ceremony attended by Albert Prince Waldemar and other dignitaries, with a new sacred edifice costing £6500 funded by voluntary contributions including £300 from the Queen and £200 from Prince Albert. Also reports on political letters, hospital sermons, and various local council meetings detailing finances, inquiries, and public safety measures amid crowded Thames steamers.
The sovereign considers dispatching an accredited agent to Madagascar to restore friendly relations and adjust affairs on the island. The move signals a respectful, formal approach to reestablish ties and address lingering tensions with mutual interests in governance.
A luggage train on the Manchester Bolton line struck a body later found to be a watchman who had fallen across the rails near Salford. A Gravesend river collision between the Satellite and Eclipse left a youth named Moore severely injured, with amputation after rescue. An ensuing discussion in Manchester covered Ten Hours Act implications for local manufacturers.
A Dublin Conciliation Hall gathering by the Trish Confederation prompted fierce oratory against Old Ireland, the union, and tyranny. Coal-porters mobbed attendees as the meeting broke, injuring O’Gorman, Byrne, and others, with police intervention averting greater harm.
Employers in Stockport Preston and Manchester discuss resuming fall time with ten hour days. Stockport large firms eye ten hours. Preston reports four firms at eleven hours, rest at ten. Ashton members resist fall time. Manchester estimates eleven hours for some, others drop to ten. Resolution approved to push full factory act restrictions effective soon.
On Tuesday information reached the police regarding Mr Ernest Barsheim an advocate and notary of Elsenberg who has absconded with a sum in dollars. He is suspected to be in London trying to sail to America as Inspector Shackell pursues him. A Railway Casualty Compensation Company proposes life-long protection against railway injuries with staged premiums and injury payments from £1 1s to £10 10s, including £300 for fatal injury and £3,000 for severe cases. Fomes are offered at half price, with a workers’ injury scale for non voluntary acts. A directors’ meeting is slated to appoint officials.
A lengthy review celebrates Mrs. Marsh's Norman's Bridge as a morally serious three volume novel embracing truth and nature over fashionable romance. It praises character drawing, especially Michael Grant and Joan, and commends scenes depicting honesty, sacrifice, and a young lord's downfall linked to estate drainage and a covetous rival. The piece includes a long extracted scene of Edward and Joan and ends with the author’s public advice on choosing a husband.
The notice reports penny fares on new omnibuses from Hungerford Market through Hampstead road and to London Bridge with varied routes to Westminster Paddington and Hampstead, plus a 3d fare to Hackney and Fulham. It also notes Emperor Nicholas backing a vast railway linking Warsaw Moscow and St Petersburg, with cost estimates and strategic aims. A Wolverton accident is expected to cost the London and North Western Company between £30,000 and £40,000 in expert assessment.
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