Guardian’s crime ends in two years’ prison term
In a London court, a man described as a guardian to a young girl lured her away from her mother, pretending marriage as a ruse. Baron Gurney condemned him for a grave act against the child’s welfare, ordering two years imprisonment with no hard labour after a prior recommendation for hard labour.
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George Dann
Albion-place
Hydeark-Square
Gretna
Esther Denning
Mr. Parry
Gerrard Street
Islington
Baron Gurney
Clarkson
Wortham
House of Correction
French Press Reports Moroccan War and Paris Turmoil
Paris dispatches detail France pressuring Morocco response after incursions into Algeria. Reports cite English arms to Morocco, troop movements, and a Paris de Bar to Lamoricière chase. Emperor’s stance, Guizot notes, and cabinet reshuffles discussed. Paris papers note funerals and royal family movements amid ongoing conflict.
Spain in upheaval as ministers awaited and Cortes dissolves
Mapzip reports that war minister General Narvaez and foreign minister were soon due in Madrid. A decree dissolving the Cortes and convoking a new legislature was sent to Barcelona for the Queen's signature. The prior evening state creditors and Bank of San Fernando committees met with the finance junta to set bases for a financial arrangement.
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Mapzip
Narvaez
Cortes
Barcelona
Bank of San Fernando
Junta of Finance
Complex international financial notes and imperial dispatches
A Paris Madrid and Gibraltar focused summary covers Three per Cent loans and debt payments, amid notices of Moroccan ultimata and British mediation. Reports from Tangier Ceuta and Tangier indicate tense relations with Morocco, while Spain and Holland detail court and military movements. Italy Greece Turkey and Brazil updates follow with church coffers, princely education plans, and Rio politics. America news centers on Polk nomination and Senate treaty debates as US stock markets rise.
Damaged Fire Ruins 280 Homes In New Orleans
An arm shattered by a ball preceded a post Disaster conflagration in New Orleans on the 18th algebra. Flames erupted from Mr Gott’s carpenter shop at Franklin and Jackson, spreading to adjoining tenements with rapid speed and burning for three hours. At least 280 houses, many elegant brick residences, were destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Gqueensey
P. Bredthorft
General Baily
Privy Council
Advocate Tupper
London
Liverpool
Birkenhead
Michael Rayners
Grange Lane
Boydell
Walker
James Taylor
Grange Farm
Manchester Guardian
Birmingham
Derby
Joseph Adcock
Shustock
Water Orton
Castle Bromwich
Adcock
Chatsworth
Birmingham Advertiser
Emancipation of Industry and Local Society Gatherings
A summary of meetings and events across London society including the Society for the Emancipation of Industry voicing opposition to a currency bill, the Westmoreland Society gathering with the Earl of Lonsdale, and the British School examination led by Sir George Grey. It also notes the London Coffee and Eating-house Keepers' Association dinner and other civic proceedings.
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Emancipation OF Industry
Society For the Emancipation of Industry
Parliament-Street
Spottiswoode
House of Commons
Lord Mountcashel
Robert Peel
Clarke
Lord Western
Westmoreland Society
the Westmoreland Society
London Tavern
Bishopsgate Street
Earl of Lonsdale
County of Westmoreland
Alderman Thompson
Henry Lowther
Arthur Lowther
Colonel Lowther
Westmoreland
Robert Barra
William Nicholson
Edward Condor
John, Miles
George Grey
Bart
Norwich
London
Corfee Axpd Eating Horsz
Mr. Hare
Humphreys
Marquis of Westminster
Warburton
Pattigan
M.P
Mastermen
Fleet Street
Deputy Obbard
John King
Vintry Ward
Christie
Godson
Ludgate-hill
Blackfriars-bridges
Paidentieriva
Messrs. Craven and Lucas
Red Lion-streat
Whitechapel
Patent House
Jeffery-square
Wellclose-square
Watling-street
Fire-Engine Establishment
West of England
Waterloo Road
East London
Messrs
Craven
Lucas
Braidwood
Sun and
Phoenix
Alliance
Imperial
Phenix
Sun
Wilkins
Rolls
Kennington Lane
Kennington
Paris
Morales
Baker
Red Livun Street
Spitalfields
Fights Between Police and Soldiers in Bristol Disorder
Disturbances in Bristol on Saturday as police clashed with intoxicated soldiers from the Alst regiment. Several policemen were beaten and kicked while attempting custody. Magistrates fined the soldiers. default imprisonment followed in the house of correction. Cambridge: counterfeit freshman incident led to public disturbance and a nocturnal patrol.
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Bristol
Alst
House of Correction
Cambridge
Incog
G. Fisher
J. Skrine
Repeal Association meets in Conciliation Hall chair by Limerick mayor
The Repeal Association held its weekly meeting in Concilia tion hall chaired by Mr Geary mayor of Limerick. An address to the Queen on imprisonments of conspirators passed unanimously. A resolution disavowing arms and passive resistance was adopted, urging moral legal means only. Rent for the past week reported at £3100. A Dublin deputation visited Buckingham Palace to seek a royal pardon for Mr O Connell, with the Queen reaffirming support for the rule of law.
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America
Liverroot
Royal Mail
Britannia
John Hewitt
United States
Senate
Navy
War Departments
Secretary of the Navy
Gulf Squadron
Union
Burton
Messrs. Walker
M‘duffie
Messrs
Choate
Miller
Tuppon
Great Britain
Texas
Locoefoco
Baltimore
Kent
Tyler
House of Representatives
House
James K. Polk
Tennessee
George M. Dallas
Pennsylvania
Van
Morris
H. Sherwood
H. 8
Harrison
Montreal
Lachine Canal
Canada East
Secar
Repeal Association
Geary
Limerick
O’brien
M‘nevin
Dublin
H. O’brien
Buckingham Palace
O’connell
Duke of Wellington
Robert Peel
Lord Stanley
James Graham
Egan
Keshan
Supreme Tribunal of Appeal
Cox’s Hotel
Jermyn Street
House of Commons
Memoirs of an Eastern Princess in Holy Land Travel
A London review praises the two volumes Memoirs of an Eastern princess for vivid portraits of Arabia and Christian life in the infidel world. Extracts recount pious parrots, Arab hospitality, a samiri desert storm, Bedouin song, a Damascus bath, and Easter Greek rituals observed through a Christian traveler’s eyes.
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London
Henry Colburn
Holy Land
Paris
Damascus Bathing Practices Described in Vivid Detail
The narration details a Damascus bath scene with attendants washing and perfuming bathers using earth from Aleppo, hot water, soap, and herbal bags. It portrays long sessions with massage, lounging on couches, sherbert and coffee, perfumery, and the social bustle of city baths including dances by enslaved women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aleppo
Damascus
Violent Convent Plot Endangers Druse Nun in Escape
A desert chieftain besieged a convent to claim a Druse convert, bringing armed horsemen and threatening massacre. He fired a musket through the grate at a nun, who dodged the shot as the assailants fled after the attempt. The escape prevented a fatal encounter.
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Druse
Eastern Childbirth and a Harsh Acre Justice Tale
A Bedouin woman delivers mid field work washing the newborn in Jordan and detailing infant care practices for the first months. The second tale follows the Acre Christian merchant case where a son refuses to relinquish his father’s damp apartments, provoking Djezzar’s stern justice as guards arrest the defiant heir.
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Jordan
Acre
Egsin
Djezza
Pesha
Djezzar
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Basle
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