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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Mar 05, 1837

Page

6

Assize Hears Poaching and Murder Trials Across Circuits

Several indictments from Oxford and Northern Circuits recount poaching on Abingdon lands, a fatal wounding with a gun-barrel, and a later case of attempted murder. The Carlisle Newcastle sessions cover slander, a street robbery, regicide, and an insane plea. West Winchester reports a reverend beating a boy, with a fine and imprisonment.

Earthquake Destruction Across Syria to Cairo Reported

Firefly brings confirmation of Syria earthquake with 7000+ dead as villages between Sidon and Beyrout vanish. Beyrout trembles, Jews observe day of fasting. Malta reports plague and charges against English officials amid broader Mediterranean dispatches.

Falmouth His Majesty Firefly Pearce Mediterranean Corfu Patras Zante Malta Algiers Gibraltar Cadiz Syria Cairo Alexandria Egypt Sidon Beyrout Chesney Bagdad Bombay M. Mettrovich Josias Rowley Spain Abercrombie Robinson Scott Madras Calcutta Willoughby Cotton Maura Malia India Suez Bussara Hugh Lindsay Ituphrates Cal. Chesney Fitzjames Alexander Stewart Arabian Desert England Tartarus Tripoli Tunis

Dreadful Rotterdam Fire Reported With Loss of Life

A Rotterdam blaze at a linen dealer’s house consumed the structure and several others. Two young daughters aged 14 and 20 and a 30 year old maid may be among the victims. Gas explosion suspected. bodies of two victims recovered from the ruins.

Philadelphia Tioga Gazette Rotterdam The Hague

Queen of Portugal v Glyn and Others legal appeal

In a House of Lords session an appeal from Lord Abinger’s Equity Exchequer ruling addressed discovery in a dispute over bills drawn for loans to Don Miguel. The Queen contends to recover the amount, while interpleader questions and a potential bill are discussed, with judgment postponed. The Vaux peerage committee then considers Mostyn and Hartopp as co heirs. The Lords decide the peerage likely by writ, descending through female lines, and allow the claim contingent on royal decision.

House OF Lords Fes Queen OF Portugal Glyn Lord Abinger Court of Equity Exchequer Soares Don Miguel Portugal Court of Equity Donna Maria Seaves Lord Wynford Vaux Crown Mostyn Hartopp Lord Vaux Lord Lyndhurst Lord Brougham Wentworth

Bay Market inquest probes diseased meat and illicit spirits

The inquest at Portsoken ward investigates the sale of diseased cows’ carcases at Whitechapel slaughterhouses, the absence of inspectors, and improper disposal, while examining Slaughter-house owner Higginbottom, partner Scoones, and keeper Kirby. A separate case charges Patrick Sullivan with illicit spirits involving a three gallon haul and a man named Parish.

Burrowes Portsoken Ward Mansion House Whitechapel Market Harrow-alley Benjamin Higginbottom Whitechapel London Samuel Chappel Lawrence-Jane James Witham Lombard-street Burress Higginbottom Sceones Harrowalley Kirby Scoones Patrick Sullivan Matthew Wood Philip Parish Cheap Side Newgate-street Woodstreet Witness Excise

Embezzlement and Theft Case Involving Colonel Kerby’s Grooms

Richard Parker, formerly a groom in Colonel Kerby’s Spanish Legion service, and Richard Vaughan, a well connected young man, faced final examination for pawning property valued at £500 to £600 belonging to Parker’s master and for Vaughan’s alleged theft of a portmanteau containing clothing, military uniform, and other items from the Custom-house. Witnesses testified to the charges.

Richard Parker Colonel Kerby Spanish Legion Richard Vaughan Messrs Hardwick and Combe Col Kerby

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