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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Mar 04, 1838

Page

5

Privy council and royal spectacle at Buckingham Palace

Amid a Monday privy council at the New Palace a new sovereign was presented and approved. A royal banquet at Buckingham featured Rockingham china dessert service, admired by foreign diplomats, with a promising spring fashion reveal from British manufacture.

New Palace Buckingham Palace Foreign Corps Diplomatique Rockingham China Messrs Brameld Piccadilly Pier Marlborough House St. James’s Lord Egremont Somersetshire Earl The Netherlands Prince of Orange Leopold Belgium Germany France Duke de Berry Gratz Goritz Vienna Milan Sardinia England Wales London Wilton House of Correction Taunton Tilbury Minasi Hambro University of Durham Earl Grey Turin Winchester Tuscany New York Fowler Saltash Legislative Council Martinique Nice Messrs. Gioan Naples Trench United States Cambridge Chronicle Bellamy House of Commons Constantinople House of Rothschild Rothschild Havannas Almaden Leeds Mercury Huddersfield Bradford Wigan Austria Europe Portsmouth Liberal Mr. Fleming Abingdon Dossett Murphy Constantine Mississippi and Ohio Ivers Opera Worcester Church of England Vern Worcester and Birmingham Chepstow

Theatres Face Lent Ban and Public Outcry in London

Critics condemn Lent theatre curbs as absurd while noting mixed performances at Drury Lane Covent Garden and St James's. Royal support for Covent Garden Theatrical Fund and upcoming operas, benefits, and concerts fill the London scene with appointments and applause. The Duke of Sussex presides at the festival dinner as Italian Opera announces Sonnambula for March 17.

Marylebone Finsbury Southwark London Westminster Brighton Windsor Drury Lane Coventgarden Adelphi St. James’s Olympic Victoria Surrey Thames St. James'’s Harley Smith Bishop Anchor James’s Paris Auber Henry Wheatley Covent-garden Theatrical Fund Duke of Sussex Stirling City of London Theatre Persiani Catch Club George the Fourth William the Fourth Dukes of York Cumberland Sussex Cambridge, &c Glee Club Melodists’ Club Roya Academy OF Music Handel Alexander F. Cramer Mr. Lucas Royal the Duke of Cambridge

Assault at Bermondsey Workhouse Aimed at Teenager

Henry Passingham was charged at Union Hall with assaulting Caroline Sant a fourteen or fifteen year old inmate of Bermondsey workhouse. The girl testified that after being refused admission to the workhouse she was assaulted near Russell Street and at the railway. Police and witnesses supported her account with details of the incident and timing between one and two o'clock. The magistrate urged protection for the vulnerable and ordered police to notify the workhouse master of the neglect contributing to the incident. The report also notes Thames Tunnel progress and channel patrol concerns.

Henry Passingham Jeremy Union Hall Caroline Sant Bermondsey Cow Cross Smithfield Russell Street Sliceman John Kelly MN Division Russell-street Phipps Thames-Tunnel Rotherhithe Wapping Middlesex Thames Channel London Scilly Islands Falmouth Marylebone Charles Febinson Cap'ain Montagu Charley Swell Mob Mesare Shatt and Rawlizsor Jseph Gibbons E c John Gibbons K Prasner Portland-place Williams Ace Gisbors Sautt Gibbons Bishopsgate- Street Ann Arden Jeremy and Traill Welch Arden Li Tla Mr. Jeremy Christ Church Norton James-street Lissen-grove Panett Westerday Fleet-street Serjant Andrews

Hygeian Medicine Advocated by Dr R Lynxon in London Letter

An 1838 letter from R Lynxon M D of the British College of Health argues for Hygeian reform in medicine. He calls for public inquiry, defends vegetal purgatives like Morgan's Pills, and outlines plans to lecture in Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool to promote the cause.

Chronicle Bynon Yau Morgan R. Lynxon British College of Health Hamilton- Place King’s Cross London Manchester Birmingham Liverpool

Marylebone Election Official Declaration Of Poll In Fortunes

Crowds gathered at Portland Place for the Marylebone election hustings as Alderman Lainson announced the poll results. Lord Teignmouth led with 4166 votes, Ewart 3762, and Colonel Thompson 186, amid cheers and heckling.

Ald. Lainson Portland- Place Mr. Ewart Mr. Hume Colonel Thompson Lord Teignmouth Marylebone Murphy Tories Ewart Thompson Alderman Lainson House of Commons Col. Thompson Murphys Dorchester J. Dyer Hall M.P

Burdett and O'Connell in Parliament Riot Report and Fashion Notes

Reports recount Burdett escaping the Speaker's warrant, being seized from his home, and committed to the Tower after riots. O'Connell obeyed orders and remained in his place. Fashion pages detail walking, carriage, and evening dress styles with various fabrics, cloaks, and accessories from London and Paris magazines.

Francis Burdett House of Commons O’connell Burdett Westminster Marco Redingote London Paris Ladies’ Magazine of Fashion

Fires and mishaps thread through city notices

Portable dispatches describe a Baltimore theatre fire with losses of 120000 dollars and damaged property, a Paris rumor of European talks to end coalitions, and minor court actions including theft, perjury, and a swell mob arrest. Also noted: Abraham King’s death and a Dublin mayoral portrait of hardship.

Canada Portsmouth Quabce Jeff New Marssy Cooke M. C Bordeaux Jara Peco Central Criminal Court Verrip Hazay Wermen Sarah Ann Hayward House of Summers Bristol Abraham King Scarcenet Marfield Stillorgan Ireland Abraham Dublin George IV Dabdlin Lord Maidstone George James Earl of Northamptonshire Paris London Europe Sprin Mayer Dake Syau-street Bishoysgatr Sald

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