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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 01, 1845
Page
2
Eyewitness accounts and coroner testimony piece together a deadly blaze at Basgett's Hotel. Families mourn missing relatives while jurors debate fire escapes and causes as recovery efforts continue and jewels are recovered from the ruins.
Milton Fowler, about 35 and deranged, entered the Presipest’s House yesterday morning with a bread loaf under each arm and a bottle in each hand. He admired the room, flourished a knife, and was removed to a police cell after being arrested by J. W. Dexter and committed for trial on the charge of disturbing the peace.
Paris papers publish Don Carlos abdication to the Prince of the Asturias and possible passports for the prince. Tahiti reports dominate findings with Queen Pomare’s letter to King Louis Philippe. Morocco and tangent frontier disputes loom. Market notes show steady bonds, bank runs, and railroad shares with Royal approval discussions in Algeria.
The New Zurich Gazette reports Dr. Steiger will not be executed but banished, with his wife allowed visits and letters. In Athens, May 10, French intrigues and etiquette failings vex the Greek court as Piscatory and Colletti draw scorn, while the Prussian minister is snubbed. The ministry resists Senate expansion and civil list demands as royal power battles continue.
The Metropolis reports a charity anniversary at London Tavern with Jewish patrons, substantial £2,000+ subscriptions including a £1,000 legacy, and a child’s ode by Lavinia Levi. It also covers church-building grants by the Society for Promoting Enlargement of Churches, revealing funding gaps and housing shortages in Manchester, Bolton, Whitechapel, and Woolwich, plus a campaign against the Post Office early-delivery fees. A traders meeting urges broader debt recovery powers, while clerks and Caledonian Association events celebrate widows’ elections and charitable anniversaries with dinners and performances.
At Marlborough Street Dublin on May 23 1845 prelates chaired by Archbishop Murray resolved against the Governments Education Bill as dangerous to Catholic faith and morals. They urged amendments via a memorial to Lord Lieutenant Heytesbury to secure Catholic control and protection in new colleges. The repeal association denounced the bill and framed a heated debate among O Connor O Brien Grattan and O Connell with calls for mixed education, religious safeguards, and unity in opposition.
A Monday meeting at the Royal Exchange, led by Alderman Butler and notable figures including Sir J Power, urged Mr O Connell to oppose the New Bank Bill in Parliament. The event, attended by Repeal Association members, aimed to shield the Biberniad Bank from ruinous effects, with emphasis on O Connell’s duties in the House of Commons.
A report notes Mr. Pugin the architect has employed several Lynn artists to cast parts of St Margarets Church and St Nicholas Chapel as models for the decorative sections of the New Houses of Parliament saying the arrangement is entrusted to him. A separate item describes a suicide attempt by Sophia Warner in Granby Street Waterloo Road. She leapt from a boat near Waterloo Bridge after a quarrel with Joseph Hargreaves but was rescued, treated, and returned home.
Review notes Miss Strickland’s Life of Henrietta Maria in which the author portrays the queen as graceful yet obstinate, recounting her arrival in England, her marriage to Charles I, refusal to be crowned, and tensions with French servants. The piece details court politics, religious strains, a clash over household appointments, and the 1625 Whitehall quarrel culminating in expulsions.
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