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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 01, 1840
Page
2
Reported movements show Carlists concentrating at Villafmuengo while the death of Cabrera remains uncertain. Madrid and Saragossa жд both expecting mail. road between Madrid and Saragossa blocked by Carlist cavalry disrupting communications.
Advices from Lisbon report the throne’s address under debate in the chamber with ministers recalled to the Chamber of Deputies. The speech faces sharp criticism over the slave trade and foreign debt. The budget and pensions for Wellington and Beresford are noted, alongside tensions with England and China trade disruptions. The East section covers Bedouin movements, Cairo militia plans, and a French naval training cruise near the Levant.
United States and British correspondence on the Maine boundary dominates dispatches from Washington. Reports note fires in New York and Binghamton, a steamer fire near St. Louis, heavy cotton market.moves, and Chinese interests with Canton merchants urging protection. Canada and Texas emigration issues, Nova Scotia fisheries, and Texas land titles appear. China reports British families displaced by Chinese actions at Macao and Hong Kong.
The paper reports on a Lent instructions in London 1840 praising Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, urging prayers for the royal couple. It notes a new prayer addition naming Albertus consortem ejus Regium and cites church authority for the change. The item reflects church state ties and royal celebration in the era.
An inquest in Chester Ward examined Joseph Barber, aged 44, who died after being severely burned by a grate at a steam mill engine on New North Road. He had slept rough and was intoxicated the night before. The fireman granted him access to the engine fire, but Barber was found ablaze when the fireman returned. He died at the infirmary after nine. The verdict was accidental death.
A crowded Guildhall meeting features Lord Mayor and Sheriffs addressing royal oaths and parliamentary privilege amid uproar. Speakers defend the oath and call for an address to the Queen, while critics urge safeguarding liberty and limited government power. A separate Farthingale ward meet condemns the Sheriff’s confinement and endorses House of Commons rights.
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