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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 09, 1839
Page
3
An extract describes a brutal siege of a village with murder and strangling, then tossing bodies into a cistern. The narrator recounts escapes and menace, including a lurid episode of foraging and a chaotic Irish duel with pistols, wives, and bloodshed, ending in a controversial court of public opinion.
At a Tuesday meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge a motion from the standing committee proposed a grant of £5000 to the National Society for the Education of the Poor to support the objects of the resolutions carried unanimously at Willis's Rooms on May 28. Court of Aldermen: a Tuesday court despatched business. the proposed address to the Queen Dowager was withdrawn after Lord Howe’s letter to Sir Peter Laurie. The lord mayor named sheriff nominees for Midsummer Day: Samuel Prior Henry Wilson Thomas Poynder Arthur Pott Thomas Mills Frederick Perkins Thomas Brandram John Wheelton.
A parliamentary session records petitions in favor of penny postage. The Bristol and Gloucester Railway Bill faces a second reading after a division. Lord Melbourne and Lord Winchilsea clash over reform and policy, with ministers defending their course and urging unity. Bills on Napier and Lardner divorce proceed. Beer Act discussed. select committees formed for Hansard’s case.
Discussions on Penny Postage and Education Grant dominate as Lords and Commons consider Canadian union plans. Ministers push for a unified Upper and Lower Canada with a representative system and delayed assembly until 1812, amid broader reform and police bills debates.
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