Law Court of Review Tossnay Case on Usurious Bills
The petition sought that assignees endorse a bill of exchange held as security for 2900 pounds. After maturity the bankrupt renewed it with a 100 pound fortnightly bonus and similar renewals followed. The chief judge approved legislative interference against usurious dealings. the petition was dismissed but an inquiry was ordered into Gibbs’s due from Lord Wellesley’s security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court OF Review
Tossnay
Lord Wellesley
Russell
Gibbs
Central Court session on juries and Paget Holt libel case
The March sessions opened with jurors excused for office and religious duties. The recorder commented on depositions delays before cases of revolt on shipboard and a mother charged with murder. The Queen v Holt proceeded with Lord William Paget libel allegations, detailing a long cross examination and the publisher’s conduct.
Paget given guilty in libel case over Bellew affair
The court heard details of payments and a misused term plant connected to Lord William Paget, with witnesses including attorneys and reporters. The jury found him guilty on all counts of the libel article, and he was remanded to custody after the verdict amid discussion of sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Paget
Thomas Holt
Age
Queen’s Bench
Eags
Lord William Paget
Clarkson
Doane
Wordsworth
Wilkins
Dge
Dge, and Which Reflected Upon the Character of the Prosecutor. He (Mr. Clarkson
Earl of Cardigan
Everbody
Mr. Clarkson
Lord W. Paget
Lord Cardigan
Marquess of
Anglesey
dAgé
Mr. Wordsworth
Hay
Fisk
Paris
Miss Bellew
Royal Navy
Holt
J. Rose
Bebb
Winter
Court of Common Pleas
Grand Jury
W. H. Watts
Clark
Mr. Bebb
Pagett
Cardigan
London
Eared
Change of Cutttng at Old Bailey Courtroom
In a Patteson Williams hearing Jeremiah John Kelly 46 coal-dealer was found guilty of common assault for striking Daniel Morris in High-street Shadwell with a walking stick after a dispute. He is discharged on one shilling after mercy. Another case, William Bladen 21 mat maker, charged with rape of Mary Cook, had no counsel or defence. The Thames Police report a domestic stabbing in Sophia Street Poplar where Margaret Wagwell stabbed her husband Charles Dogwell after a quarrel. The court remanded Wagwell until the husband can attend. Separately, William Barber, 26, indecently assaulted Eliza Watts 16, fined five pounds or two months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Clarkson
William Paget
Lord
Lonps Canpiay
Wittiam Pacer
Lonp Wittiam Pacer
Hamer
Lord W. Pacer
Andover
Paris
Earl of Canpican
Earl of
Carorean
Clarkson
Lord Cardigan
Wm. Paget
Lord William Paget
Doane
Marquess of Anglesey
John Thomas
Frederick Winter
Willian Paget
Winter
Thomas
Lady Paget
Major Close
Attornney
Mr. Doane
Lord W. Paget
Mr. Deane
Wordsworth
Lord William
Court of Commons
Patrick Hay
Portsmouth
Mr. Hay
Lady William
Cavendish
Mr. Fisk
Hay
Samuel Bamford Hamer
Douglas
Cassidy
Miss Bellew
Mr. Cassidy
Holt
Age
Mr. Holt
J .Temember
Hotel Fricour
Mr. Gompertz
Strand
M‘grath
Justice Patteson
Justice Williams
Jeremiah John Kelly
Daniel Morris
Ballantine
High-street
Shadwell
William Bladen
Mat Mak
Mary Cook
Clarkson Cal Re Doane
Sadler's Wells Theatre
Thames Police
Margaret Wagwell
K Division
Charles Dogwell
Sophia Street
Poplar
Witness
William Barber
Eliza Watts
Broderip
Acquittal and Guilty Pleas at Old Bailey Sessions
The report covers trials with Stack found guilty of stealing a purse containing £10 and coins, Foxcroft differing by confession and previously imprisoned for pocket picking. Judge remarks and merciful sentences frame the day as numbers show fifty four prisoners committed for trial.
A Wrcken Coup and a Forged Cheque Case Remarkable
A twelve year old boy Frederick Adams stood charged with wounding his mother Anne Adams with a table knife after dispute over pudding. He was described as a bad character and fined five pounds or two months in prison. Separately Thomas Cates, a country lad, became involved in a forged cheque fraud at Woodhouse’s coffee house and Elliott’s yard. The child was remanded after assertions of innocence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrcken
Frederick Adams
Rawlinson
Anne Adams
Middlesex Street
Somerstown
Marlborough Street
Thomas Cates
Maltby
Pearce
Birchin Lane
Gun Tavern
Pimlico
Thompson
Smith
Bonistreet
Messrs. Elliott and Co
Messrs
Elliott
Marten
Croydon
Diabolical Fire Plot Uncovered at Lambeth Works
Early Saturday crews at Grissell and Peto premises in Guildford-street Lambeth uncover evidence of a deliberate arson attempt near the workshed where substantial property valued in the thousands resided. A Sunday wind event saw a five to six year old girl and her ten to eleven year old brother almost drown in the Serpentine but a dog rescued the child. A pistol offender released after serving an eighteen month sentence at Milbank Penitentiary for threats against the Queen’s carriage is freed after serving the full term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Grissell and
Peto
Guildford-street
High-road
Lambeth
Brompton
Piccadilly
Temple
Dean-street
Park Lane
Liperatios
Beax
St. James's Park
Central Criminal Court
Old Bailey
Milbank
Meeting to Mr. O Connell in Birmingham
A large public meeting at Birmingham Town hall addressed by Mr O Connell and leaders of the Complete Suffrage Association. Speakers condemned government abuses in Ireland, urged free representation, and praised Irish sympathy from English supporters. O Connell emphasized unity of English and Irish in a democratic cause and called for continued trial by jury protection amid prosecutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Joseph Sturge
Thomas Weston
Complete Suffrage People
O’vonnell
Edmonds
Morgan
Complete Suffrage Association
D O'Connell
O'Connell
British Empire
England
Lord Morpeth
Sturge
Queen’s Bench
O’connell
Hatton
8. Crawford
Anti League meetings at Covent Garden and Freemasons Tavern
A crowded Covent Garden gathering heard Dr Bowring praise Moore and Sir Robert Peel while Mr Leader and Mr Collier attacked protection and lauded free trade. At Freemason's Tavern a later Anti League meeting descended into rowdy opposition as Chartists captured the floor and ended in disarray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covent Garden Theatre
Bowring
Moore
J. T. Leader
R. Peel
Collier
Plymouth
Morning Post
Fox
Anti League
League
Freemasons
Newton Abbot
Anti League Association
Freemason’s
Sherrard
Union of Spitalfields Weavers
Richard Joddrell
Marlard
Anti National Association
Discovery of Roman Remains at St. John’s Wood
A column notes discovery of Roman remains near St. John’s Wood during roadworks on Abbey Road. Workers uncovered tiled foundations, copper coins from Tiberius to Constantine, bones and tusks, with experts guessing a Roman station or outpost. Finds may go to the British Museum. site may become a burial ground per historic parallels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood. John's
St. John's Wood
Marylebone
R. Scuice
F. W. Bushill
Abbey-road
Hamilton-terrace
Kilburn
Svake
Seatleman
Colonel Take
Britis
Tiberius
Cesar
Commodus Vespasian
Magneetlius
Constantine
Verulam
St. Albans
Pumpeii
Stow
London
Christchurch
Spitalfields
Claudius
Nero
Vespasian
Trejan
Antonius Pius
St. John’s’ Wood
Scalia
British Museum
Erroneous Press Corrections Highlight Comic Typos
A compilation notes typographical errors in publications and their humorous misreads. The examples include names like Sylvanus Grogan and political terms such as budget and gaol, with mock corrections from Dublin papers and the Sunday Monitor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvanus Grogan
Roscommon
Dublin
Chamber of Deputies
O'Connell
Dublin Evening Post
Sunday Monitor
Curious Cromwell Era Book Title About Eggs of Charity
A Renaissance era pamphlet or book title from Cromwell’s time mocks religious factions. It references eggs of charity laid by chickens of the covenants and watered with divine love, a satirical or allegorical phrase reflecting religious discourse of the period.
Fox Hunting Costs and the Fare of the Hunt
The Sporting Review notes fox hunting is costly with high funeral costs for each fox killed. It cites a figure of about £50 per fox in early hunts, assuming 50 foxes yearly, plus contingent expenses and the keep of hounds, horses, and servants, recalling John Ward’s remarks on dine costs in Pytchley hunts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Ward
Pytchley
Northamptonshire
Judge O Neall sentences Brown to death for aiding slave escape
A New Orleans judge sentences John L Brown to die for aiding a slave to run away. The Revetting sermon like address urges repentance, with hope for mercy from God. The execution is set for April in Fairfield district jail before transport to the gallows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
J. B. O'Neall
Orlans
John L. Brown
Winnsboro
Jesus Christ
Fairfield
King of Sweden and royal boasts in a moral age
A French periodical notes the Swedish king's arm bears the Liberté Egalité ou la Mort motto after a bleeding episode. It comments that long kingship rewrites republican beginnings and that liberty is a paradoxical tattoo on power. Also juvenile quackery story and Rouen heart legend reflect on fame and mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweden
Charles John
Girardin
Also Mentioned on This Page
LAW
Centrel Criminal Court
Alderman Farncombe
Court of Chancery
Charles Grote
Simeon Oppenheim
Oppenheim
M‘gregor
Lambert
Deptford
Middlesex
Essex
Admiralty
Kent
Surrey
New. Coast
Hicaway Rospery
Henry Stack
Thomas Foxcroft
Bristol
S. Lucas
A. Rovuxsp
William Judge
Isaac How
How
MR. O'Connell
Birmingham
Skating Club
Green
King’s Bench Prison
Richard Coeur de Lion
Rouen Catheral
Rouen
Richard
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