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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jun 24, 1848
Page
6
A rambling column blends a satirical mock song about political knocking at the door with a string of short notices. It mentions Lord John Russel, Dick Cobden, and a comic house scene, followed by parliamentary and public affairs items and miscellaneous curiosities from the era.
Lablacht shines in Doc Pasquale revival at Her Majesty's with Tadolini and Bellati delivering lively, if imperfect, turns. Julia Bennett’s benefit features Corinna and Keeley as Flippante while St James's presents The Spirit of Gold. St James's gardens teem with Ethiopian Serenaders and Juba the dancer, plus Thames divers, fireworks, and a bustling crowd enjoying the grounds and amusements around the metropolis.
Sporting intelligence reports a Manchester race meeting with multiple heats and stakes. Alpheia wins the 100 guineas three year olds race, followed by Miss Harrison and others. several fields including Ellen Loraine, Woolwich, Chanticleer, and Lady Wildair compete in selling races and cups with various distances and prizes.
Stakes across the Tattersall market shift as small investments move with limited impact while numerous horses draw varied odds. Bets linger on favorites like Grat and others, with heavy action noted on Osterley and Saucy Dick as sums, even into the thousands, are placed against rival horses.
The Newcastle on Tyne page details horse races including the Produce Stakes won by Touchstone offspring and by Lord Eglinton's Eagle's Plume, with multiple runners such as Bolus Post-temper and Licentio. It also notes the Lord Mayor's banquet to ministers with speeches by Lord Russell and Viscount Palmerston praising peace, commerce, and parliamentary liberty.
A Paris morning report details Louis Napoleon Bonaparte's letter to the National Assembly and the ensuing uproar over his claims of order, with ministers, generals, and deputies debating his status. A separate evening note mentions his resignation and growing unrest, while other items cover a London fire, a theater concert, a railway incident, and Bishop Bonner's Fields riots case at the Central Criminal Court.
A chaotic episode at the Nonwich workhouse ends with nine inmates resisting confinement and clashing with police, resulting in arrests and street violence as order is restored. Separately, a Preston cotton mill boiler explosion at The Soversign kills six workers and injures others, traced to low water, weakened plates, and prior fire damage, with an official coroner's verdict of accidental death.
In a case before Mr Justice Patteson Patrick Coakley and Jerome Coakley faced indictment for feloniously killing Daniel Harker Monk, a police constable of the E division. The jury found the two guilty. Patrick Coakley received seven years transportation after the judge expressed doubt whether the act amounted to murder. The report also notes a Frankfurt senate vote abolishing oaths for Jews and adopting the general oath “So help me God.”
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