Debates In Parliament Over Various Bills And Motions
The Lords and Commons discussed the Irish Tithe Bill select committees for social reforms, and motions on lunatic asylums and railway use on Sundays. A municipal amendment bill faced division, while the Metropolitan Cemetery Bill failed its third reading amid petitions against it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hibel
Joan Rossetr
GramLey Berkeley
CuertwynNp
PoLuitt
Garry Exhur
Seleet Comey
Anwell
Lintuary
O. Mosby
Messrs. Fourdrinier
H. Wexsey
Eagisig
Sir A. Agnew
Scotland
Apreocate
Baronet
Ranuxe
HOUSE
LORDS
Lenp
CuancEeLton
Commons
Lord Abinger
Lord Wynford
St. Majority
Housh CY
Faraxenney
Poor Law Committee
A. Trevor
Jord
Jons Resssxy
Trevor
Lincoln
Lord Sanpon
Liverpool
Mixed Royal and Society Gossip From London Page
We learn the king’s illness has strained his nerves with the queen seldom resting since Tuesday. Reports note Dr. Davis joins the royal medical staff and the Annandale peerage rumor links Sir J Murray. the Duke of Wellington hosts a grand dinner. and a yacht cruise sails from the Sufra. Also mentioned are recovering injured, noble bequests, park carriages, Almack’s, and various legal and shipping items.
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St. James’s Palace
Davis
Kine
Dr. Davis
Hushey
Annandale
Sir J. Murray, Bart
Stenhope and Boughton
Peebies
D. Murray
Jeannate Johanstcn
Earl of Hartfield
Marquis of Dours
Dover
Rifle Brigade
Duke of Wellington
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort
Apsley House
Lord Jehu
Caamnel
Horace Pitt
Marquis of
Wataford
Zick
Miss Strachan
Flar
Metropol
Countess of Glengall
Almack’s
Abercorn
Household Troops
Royal Artillery
Hyde Perk
Wathew Tierney
Bruton-street
Lord Egremont
Brighton
Ajyrnner
Augusta Jesse
Bilinorough
House of Commons
John Russell
Professor Henslow
Cambridge
Hitcham
Middle Temple
E. &. Freer
Shnen Angelini
William Rose
T. W. Sanders
William T. Howe
William Yardley
T. P. Taylor
A. Norton
Esgis
Boston Corporation
Ailsa Craig
Dublin
Wicklow
Kinestown
Duke and Duchess of Cleveland
Spitalfields
Cork
West Indies
Hamburg
Lebanon
Great Britain
Beotland
Elliott
Malta
Wm. Eliot
G. Bradfield
Vauxhall
Havingia
Haymarket Reopens Under Benjamin Webster’s Management
The Haymarket summer season opens with Benjamin Webster at the helm, presenting a mix of legitimate drama and lighter entertainments. Cast highlights include Macready as Hamlet with Elton, Huddart as Gertrude, and Vincent as Ophelia, while Franks seizes a Garrick lease for summer operas and vaudevilles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haymarket
Benjamin Webster
Morris
Colman
Morton
Reynolds
Webster
Times
Farren
Macready
Hamlet
Elton
Elopement and Marriage Amid Courtroom Gossip
A fragmented London paper snippet reports a dramatic elopement ending in Westminster after a chase from Blackfriars and Vauxhall. It mentions the girl’s brother and father arriving too late, references the Cheater bridge as the largest stone arch, and includes assorted notices on public works, insolvency, and railway passenger figures alongside local gossip.
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Blackfriars
Elopaa
W. Dewey
Vauxhall
Westminster
Cheater Bridge
van Diemen’s Land
New Norfolk
DatTron
Queen Square
London
Westminster-bridge
Dublin
Canada
Weymouth
Isle of Portland
Michael Barry Macarthy
Covent Garden
Trafalgar-square
Lorger
Gravesend
Star and Diamond
Magine
Metropolitan Conservative Journal
Spring Rice
Yaet
Treasury Bench
John Bouser
Livingston
Bizamy
Liverpool and Manchester
Surrey Zoological Gardens Balloon Ascent Attended By Nobles
Mrs Graham made her fourth ascent this season from the gardens on a showery day. Prince Paul Lieven and Lord Chesterfield were among the attendees. The balloon rose at 6:50 pm after rain ceased, with a panorama of Mount Vesuvius shown to the crowd. The balloon drifted southeast toward Essex for about fifteen minutes, carrying the monkey Jacopo in a parachute who was lost to view after the parachute failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surrey Zoological Gardens
Graham
Prince Paul Lieven
Lord Chesterfield
Mount Vesuvius
Captain Currie
Currie
Essex
Tragic Ben Sherrod Steamer Fire Claims 150 Lives
A desolate river disaster details the Ben Sherrod fire near Natchez on May 8. Captain Castleran and a large crew faced flames as passengers jumped into the Mississippi, with only a fraction saved by Columbus and Statesman rescuers. The loss includes many women, children, and crew, plus extensive valuables and money lost.
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New Orleans
Ben Sherrod
Castleran
Louisville
Natenoz
Columbus
Jones
Statesman
Cape
Castleman
Susith
Cook
The
Alton
Davis
St. Martinville
Smith
Mobile
Kenceops
Sax
Stith
Gamble
Mississippi
Tennessee
Prizes Awarded At Royal Naval School Camberwell
The annual prize distribution at the Royal Naval School Camberwell will be on Tuesday with Vice-Admiral Lord Colville in the chair. Prizes include a gold and silver Dickson and Bell medal named for W H Dickson and the late Rev Dr Bell funded by a £10 000 bequest.
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Sesoon
Royal Naval School
Camberwell
Lord Colville
Rusell
Xcaster
Charterhouse
Hall and Brasseur
King’s College
King’s Bench
St. Pancras
Edward VI
Germany
Prussia
Rhenish
Prussian
King to the End? Royal Bulletin Shows Worsening Hope
An 19th century bulletin tracks the ailing monarch with mixed notes of feeble improvement and lingering danger. The Queen remains fatigued and near collapse, while the Duchess of Gloucester is unwell. Medical attendants and royal family members stay close, as official notices draw scrutiny.
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Wimson
Jung
Chamuerns
David Davies
His
Earl of
Ervole
Ing
Duke of Cumberland
Munster
Falkland
Te Lista
Duchess of Gloucester
Brighton
Augusta
Henry Halford
Dr. Chambers
Matthew Tierney
Davis
Marriage and parental authority reforms in Switzerland
At the Grand Council of Switzerland meeting on the 22d alt the main debate centered on marriage. The proposed change raised the legal marriage age to sixteen for men and fourteen for women. On the 24th the council also agreed that a young man should be declared free from parental authority at eighteen.
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Grand Council of
Switzerland
Plunder Trial Over Silk Theft In Cheapside
Charles Westwood Frederick Chandler and Louisa Bridgewater faced Alderman Wilson after being accused of stealing silk worth hundreds of pounds from Stable and Co. in Cheapside. Police traced three rolls and fragments to the female suspect as others corroborated the earlier weeks long theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Westwood
Frederick Chandler
Alderman Wilson
Louisa Bridgewater
Stable
Stable and Co
Silk Mercers
Cheapside
Shire-lane
Fleet-street
Compter
Bridgewater
Execution of an Innocent Niran in Deal
In 1723 a London apprentice sailmaker travels to Deal Kent to visit his mother for Christmas. He lodges with a landlady who offers him her uncle a boatswain of an Indiaman as a bed partner. After midnight the youth is implicated in a murder when blood and a knife with a coin are found. He is executed despite pleas of innocence as the boatswain later reveals the body was not his and the blood evidence was misinterpreted.
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London
Deal
Kent
Blore
Waa Xo
Othem
Tania Bold
Berama
Infidelity and assault case in Westminster courts
A wife elopes with a costermonger named Carter and returns to her husband, leading to a violent confrontation. The magistrates order the seducer to find sureties to keep the peace. In a separate case a father known as Smash the Clock is accused of barbarous treatment of his son, with the boy chained and padlocked, a horsewhip found, and the father remanded.
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White
Vauxhall Bridge-Road
Carter
Westminster
Tothill Fields
Stroo—T
Henry Bishop
Calvert
George-row
Bullhill-row
Greenacre
Inspeetor Moraw
G Division
Town Hall Comedy Trial Over Black Art Provesson
A man named Maghee faced a Town Hall hearing on a charge of improperly obtaining property from a college professor. The defendant, described as very dark complexioned, defied officers with a brush and scraper, was hauled to the Town Hall on a truck, and fined 40s with costs or two months in the House of Correction for nonpayment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town Hall
Maghee
Thoburn
Seymour
Seymaour
House of Correction
Great Western Railway progress and reform opinions advance
The Bathaskara line nears opening to Maidenhead by October as workers labor day and night. A wrecked native vessel off Quilon with cargo from Bombay highlights ongoing losses, while Irish political satire and Reform Club activity urge canvassing and accurate voter registration ahead of a coming election.
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Great Western Railway
Bathaskara
Maidenhead
Quilon
Bombay
Keiah
End
Ita
Dando
House of Commons
Shane
Yhone Voulike
Reform Cius
City of London
Westminster
Referm Club
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Lessee
Franks
Adelphi Theatre
English Opera House
Garrick Theatre
Salter
Wyman
Forraster
Gomersal
Vernet
Stirling
Tua
the Victoria
Wrench
Vining
Osherry
Barnett
Macnamara
P. Horton
Crisp
F. Matthews
Adelphi
Davidge’s Observatory
Lycenza
Surrey
Lyon
Martin
Hughes
Honey
Matthew
Charles Mathews
Cooper
Joseph
Hammers
Bucktone
Hine
Windsor Castle
H. Halvord
W. F. Coampens
M.j.trmpngy
Polica Barone
Niran
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