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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 01, 1840
Page
7
A column excerpt speaks of looking at nature beyond youth, hearing the music of humanity. It describes a distant presence that elevates thought, guiding minds through light, ocean, air, sky, and human minds as a life force and motive behind all thinking.
A late night halt between Lagos and Moda yields a playful escape from hunger. A hussar unit uses a hymn and feigned reverence to distract Spanish hosts, then pilfers bread from a chest, sharing a capital supper and hearty laughs later.
A witty quarrel unfolds between a obstinate couple as they joust over who contradicts whom. The woman and man trade barbs about Jenkins and Jenkins in a blue coat while a dinner table, a wine cellar, and black humor frame their tense satire.
A crowded Middlesex county meeting at Freemasons Tavern devolved into a riot over Sheriff Evans. MPs including O Connell Hume Wakley and others clashed as Under-Sheriff France read the riot act and police hesitated. Chairs, platform and tables were overturned amid cheers, groans, and accusations of Tory bias.
Deposition by Mark Moss describes a brutal assault at sea near the Santos Point aboard the Black Joke. Lascars and Chinese attackers killed crew, wounded Moss, looted the boat, and attempted to blow it up, with Tindal surviving by clinging to the rudder. Captain Hall later rescued Moss at Macao. Authorities corroborate injuries and note Moss’s dangerous condition yet gradual recovery.
Cater and Ward and Mrs Ward faced the lord mayor for beating Howe who lay near death after a poker attack in Sparrow-court. Howe’s wife drunkenly provoked the fight, witnesses describe her as a “devil in darmate.” Howe was taken to London Hospital with fractured ribs and head injuries while the couple and Cater were remanded for depositions.
Paris reports the Chamber of Deputies rejected the Nemours doration bill by 226 to 200, leaving a 26 vote margin. Ministers handed in resignations to the King amid ensuing Paris uproar and rapid stock-market moves as ministers face a potential cabinet change.
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