Injunction Granted Over Punch Steamboat Copy Impersonation
Law report describes ex parte application by Bradbury and Evans owners of Punch seeking injunction against Marshall for publishing Punchs Steamboat Companion with near identical portrait and letters from Punch. Vice-chancellor grants injunction, jury convicts defendant of common assault in a separate criminal note with deferred sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tugspar
Punch
William Bradbury
Frederick Mullett Evans
London Charivari
Marshall
Fenchurch-street
Breach of Promise case in Northern Circuit court
Mary Ann Redshaw, aged about 21, sued for exemplary damages against joiner and builder Wilman for seduction and breach of promise after a 1838 pregnancy. The case details a long delay in marriage, alleged coercion, and failed settlements for the child. Verdict awarded £150 damages amid testimony from plaintiff’s family and defense counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Circuit
Yank
Lipk
ReEvsHaw
Wilman
Justice Wightman
Mr. Baines
Pashley
Wilkins
Monteith
Baines
Mary Ann Redshaw
Settle
Pearson
Hannah Crier
Waddington
Kendal
Justice Cresswell
Elizabeth Wright
Patrington
East Riding
Richard Staveler
Raines
Bliss
Ann Jephson
Jephson
Parrott
Staveler
Police Reports Bow Street Disorder and Deserter Trial
At Bow Street Charles Tilder faced final examination for loitering near Whitehall gardens. Bail was set as his father and uncle offered sureties, with verdict pending. A tailor, Benjamin Leach, disputed as Benjamin Leach, was bailed after identity testimony from a Galway soldier, then committed to Tothill Fields Bridewell for court-martial proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Tilder
Robert Pee
Whitehall Gardens
Jardine
Levies
Tothillfields
Martin
Mitre Street
Aldate
Ergeant
Jones
Leach
Benjamin Leach
Benjamin
Richard
America
Cambridge
John Leach
Galway
Bond
London
Wife Assault and Murder Attempt Case in Dorset Street
Richard Barnard charged with assaulting and menacing wife Martha Barnard at New Street Dorset Square after a daytime blow and a late night slap and threats. A lodger testified to repeated threats of murder. In a separate case Michael Bryant, a tailor, was charged with attempted murder of his wife after a violent scene with a razor and severe wounds to the woman in Hertford Street Somerstown. Both defendants remanded to August 17 for further examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Barnard
Martha Barnard
New Street
Dorset Square
Mr. Long
Greatorex
Mr. Greatorex
Michael Bryant
Hertford-street
Somerstown
Sophia Rose
Frank Ose
Weston-street
No. 19
London University Hospital
Kelly
Hutton
Marlborough Street Woman Charged With Stabbing Brother
Jane Ready of Peter-street faces assault charges after she wounded her brother Samuel Ambrose with a knife during a drunken dispute at home. He required medical care for multiple facial stab wounds. defense claims self-defense but surgeon disputes her account. Judge Maltby remanded her for a week to monitor potential fatal outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlborough Street
Siste Dernravity
Jane Ready
Samuel Ambrose
Peter-street
Queen Square A Strance Cast Scene Case Deserter Adjudication
A highly respectable city tradesman faced adjudication after a strang e scene at Queen Square. The alleged deserter from a line regiment, named John Leach, was apprehended and testified, with authorities seeking judgment on Tuesday before Mr Bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Square
Strance
Bond
John Leach
Disturbance at Ferguson’s exhibition rooms in High Holborn
In High Holborn a poor-looking woman named Thompson faces a disturbance charge after an incident at Ferguson’s exhibition rooms. A door-keeper testified she insulted witnesses and Mr Ferguson, attracting a crowd. She claimed mistreatment by staff and said she came to see her children, two boys aged nine and five, kept at the premises since Easter for 30s a week. The magistrate ordered parish inquiry and postponed action, with a week for witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prentis
Thompson
Ferguson
High Holborn
Alexander
Mr. Combe
Catherine Evans
John Brocker
Upper Bedford-place
Kitty
John
Mr. John
Billy
Two Journeymen Cabinet Makers Charged With Assault
Henry Smith and Joseph Johnson, both described as journeymen cabinet makers, were charged before Mr. Broughton with violently assaulting Miss Emma Lawrence and several others near Hackney-downs as they returned from the river Lee. Witness Thomas Mack was knocked senseless, Miss Lawrence lost consciousness from a blow, and a gentleman plus two ladies were also maltreated before police arrived to detain the pair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Smith
Joseph Johnson
Broughton
Emma Lawrence
Cursitor Street
Miss Lawrence
River Lee
Hackney-downs
Smith
Thomas Mack
Mack
Lawrence
English magistrates condemn assault and infanticide case notes
The report records harsh fines for two prisoners and remarks on magistrates. It details Ann Regan’s examination for concealing birth and deserting an illegitimate child, a police constable's account of a distressing birth in Hackney road, Ellen Baker’s testimony about a stranger with a baby, Charlotte Norton’s witness of infant cries, and Anne Delaney showing the emaciated infant. The prisoner is committed to Newgate for trial amid witness coercion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broughton
Smith
House of Correction
Hogriste
Cullprex
Ann Regan
John Spencer
Hackney Road
Ellen Baker
Nichol’s Street
Bethnal-green
Charlotte Norton
Flynn
New Montagu Street
Spitalfields
Anne Delaney
Newgate
Dreaprout Case at Wandsworth Ends in Committal
In a Wandsworth court Rev Nathaniel Forth a near seventy year old clergyman, poor and with a distressed family, faced an assault charge for choking a landlord over rent. The magistrate offered leniency if payment occurred, but Forth failed to surrender and a warrant led to his apprehension. He offered apologies, claimed poverty, and was fined 20s with 14 days in Kingston gaol after the complainant insisted on 30s and the defendant could not pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathaniel Forth
Clive
New. 36 V
Dickenson
Kingston
Extraordinary Courtship Fraud Charged At Clerkenwell Court
Middlesex July Session opened at Clerkenwell-house with 25 prisoners, 17 in petty larceny. Charles Althous, 27, a clerk in the London docks, stood trial for defrauding Miss Harriet Wilkins of sums totaling 16 pounds while posing as a single man. The jury found him guilty and he received six months hard labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlesex
Clerkenwell-green
Wealesby
Charles Althous
Albert
Harriet Elizabeth Wilkins
Horry
Chapel-street
Hackney-road
Eagle
London
Eastern Counties Railway
St. Paul's Cathedral
Whitsun
Greenwich
Park Gates
Hornsey
Dalston
Greenwich Park
Harry
The
Bathstreet
the Eagle
William Soames
Charles Frederick Althous
Whitechapel Union
Ong
House of Correction
Lying in State for Catholic Bishop Dr Bainess Funeral
The right rev Dr Bainess lay in state at Prior Park near Bath with full ecclesiastical regalia displayed around his coffin. Thousands visited, the ceremony featured a black canopy, purple velvet mitre cushion, gilded crozier, silver cruets, and a solemn procession, underscoring life's uncertainty and the vanity of rank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prior Park
Bath
St. Peter's College
Siga
Funeral Rites Private for Bishop Petros Baines at Priory Park
Solemn private funeral conducted Thursday at Priory Park chapel for Bishop Petros Augustinus Baines. Dignitaries, four bishops, and clergy processed in state as the body lay in purple velvet bier. mass and sermon led by Bishop Griffiths. The remains laid to rest in a vault after rites, with notable Murillo and Van Dyck paintings adorning the chapel.
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Brindle
W.G. Regent
Uly 12
Lingworth and Woolet
Shattock
Griffiths
Olena
London
Briggs
Trachis
York
Gillis
Lymeria
Edinburgh
Morris
Troy
Mauritius
Petros Augustinus Baines
Woolet
Millar
England
Rey
Christ
Bonnomi
Murillo
Vandyke
Dreadful accident near Kensington during Queen's departure
A carriage escort passing from Buckingham Palace to Claremont caused a gig to wheel into spectators on the Kensington road. Two gentlemen aboard were thrown violently. one reported killed. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, with the royal party, were delayed about thirty minutes, expressing regret for the calamity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kensington
Claremont
Knightsbridge
Buckingham Palace
Prince Albert
Suite
Convicts in New South Wales described in private letter
A private letter from New South Wales portrays Beaumont Smith as a clerk to the Cascada station superintendent near Hobart Town. It notes convicts' harsh conditions, tight surveillance, and the dreary life at stations with about 160 inmates each, where escape ends quickly due to hunger and patrols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New South Wales
Beaumont Smith
Cascada
Hobart Town
Convict Smith
Contros
Maxim on Humility and Appearance in Social Life
There is an affected humility more insufferable than pride as hypocrisy is more abominable than libertinism. Genuine unsophisticated virtue matters because pride provokes scrutiny and mortification. A winning demeanor can hide flaws and deform true grace. Calm passions reduce conflict and good humor shields against satire, while precise, well aimed rhetoric should avoid needless snaring.
Extraordinary Tide at Cullercoats Near Tynemouth
A Newcastle Journal report describes a remarkable tidal interruption at ten in the morning last Saturday off Cullercoats. The sea lay calm with no wind as the tide receded about twelve yards, leaving a boat dry briefly, then surged two feet beyond the previous mark before returning to normal. The event lasted about ten minutes.
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Cullercoats
Tynemouth
Newcastle Journal
Swan Hopping on the Thames Ends in Humble Apology
A Thames swan hopping trip ends with a prank gone wrong when a toastmaster whacks a chaplain on the back mistaking him for a waiter. The chaplain kneels to pardon the offence, while guests laugh at the mistaken identity and the toastmaster’s dramatic apology.
Extraordinary mushroom found near Cirencester weighs heavy
A mushroom picked in Mr. Gregory's nursery Cirencester weighed 0.807 pounds and exceeded 38 inches in circumference. An iron airship concept is proposed by a Mr Loose to form a 2122 ton wrought iron shell with air exhausted to rise rapidly, a rare sight that would outpace existing aerial machines.
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Gregory
Cirencester
Loose
Remarkable Nile rise shifts timing by two months
The Cologne Gazette reports an unprecedented Nile flood in Cairo, with the rise occurring on May 5th instead of after the summer solstice as in past centuries. The rise lasted four days before receding, an event with few historical parallels such as during Cleopatra’s era and in 1737.
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Cairo
Cleopatra
Cologne
Leviathan Ship At Bristol Describes Gigantic Iron Vessel
A Bristol report details an enormous six masted vessel with 322 feet length, 4,000 ton capacity, iron midship, extensive boiler and engine complex, and lavish passenger suites. The design includes a 74 foot main mast, 150 to 160 foot lug sails, an acre and a half sail area, six compartments, and a 120 ton fresh water capacity.
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Bristol
Pastry
Fore-Castle
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Assize Intelligence
Bow Street
Marylebone
Clerkenwell
Wandsworth
DR. Baines
Thames
Corporation
Great Britain
Peter
Lavater
Ati
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