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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 25, 1841
Page
3
A historic bank, established 1828, announced it will cease issuing local notes and rely on Bank of England notes henceforth. The move followed a thorough trial period and concerns over local circulation, signaling a planned shift in regional currency and a return to a central banking standard.
Five crew members were rescued when a passing vessel plucked them from the water after their boat capsized on nearing the shore. One man, Cole, did not survive, leaving a wife and six children. The Essex Herald notes the sorrowful loss and the perilous moment at sea.
In Ireland on the 15th, Royal artillery 13,734 total strength and 11,629 infantry, 1,191 cavalry. Reports detail a string of violent Orangeman incidents from Downhill to Carnew and Lurgan, including gunfire, arches, processions, and anti Catholic taunts. Rioters attacked Widow McDonnell and Catholic homes, with threats and archery across towns, amid protests over papists and Daniel O’Connell.
In Scotland, reformers in Perth hosted a lavish dinner for Fox Maule with nearly 500 nobility present. Reports cite upcoming regional circuits and a grand Edinburgh colors ceremony for the 58th regiment, while royal family tragedy colors Perth and Glasgow gatherings. Dickens declines Glasgow dinner but hopes to visit later. Fishing and library sales are noted, as is a critical Camden stance on the church and state.
A lady asks Sir Thomas Lawrence why he stopped playing billiards. He replies that despite never playing for money, his skill drew bets and encouraged gambling in others, so he quit. He recalls a past chance meeting with the Duke of Wellington, where both were out of practice and laughed as they laid down their cues.
An extracted passenger letter recounts the Sampson's peril near Newfoundland after leaving Portsmouth on May 1. Fogs and breakers forced a rock island landing, fires on shore, robberies by some crew, and eventual rescue by fishermen. Survivors endured rain, hunger, and seabound drift before reaching Whitehead harbour and Halifax then New York.
York July 19 court crowded for the Knaresborough murder case. Burlinson Gill and Nuttall faced a brutal, premeditated killing of Joseph Cocker in his kitchen. Witnesses described bloodstained clothes, a candle, hammer blows, and a derailed escape as the jury found them guilty of murder.
A London lad named William Butler, convicted in 1840 of uttering forged cheques, was sentenced to fifteen years transportation. After investigations by Daniel Forrester and Lord Normanby, new evidence showed his innocence, and a royal pardon was granted. Butler returned with his father to thank city officials who aided the inquiry.
A Meuden native pursued Maddie Champel after his suit was rejected. He shot her and then killed himself at Villeneuve after fleeing to Clarens and breakfasting, while an inquest at St Bartholomew's hospital reported John Devenpert, an 82 year old shoe-black, died after a dray collision at Snow Hill. the verdict was accidental death.
The Literary Chronicle reviews Legends of Many Lands from London publisher William Brittain. It summarizes a tale within the series about exiled Spaniards in Bordeaux, social contrasts between Bordelais and Madrid natives, and a romantic plot where the widowed Countess Inesilla resists a suitor Longpré while recounting a Madrid romance of Dolorés and Don Miguel and the dramatic threat of a betrayed manola Manuela with her child.
A countess recounts a tale of passion and betrayal ending with her marriage to M. Longpré after revealing her disguise as Dolorés and her child. The dramatic unmasking shows Manuela dying from poison, a forged bed scene, and the vow that leads to a planned wedding with the widow now seeking a genuine future away from deceit. The tale underscores how fate and romance twist identities and destinies.
A Tallahassee letter dated June 10 describes brutal frontier life with Indians mutilating a former Alabama resident named Livingston and ongoing fevers. locals report years of conflict, plentiful game, and general misery amid a bleak outlook. A Paris smugger is caught after a basket of flowers hides twelve litres of spirits and two bladders of liquor under clothing. An enormous twenty foot boa constricts a keeper at Surrey Zoological Gardens, injuring him, while the ship William Brown wreck prompts a harrowing account of mutinous acts and rescues aboard a small boat near disaster, with shipmates casting lots and sacrificing themselves rather than killing others.
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