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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 10, 1839
Page
2
Dossiers from Boulogne Paris and Madrid describe election results hinting at liberal gains while ministers extend influence. reports mark the King’s carriage accident and royal decrees renaming officials. Spain shows Maroto’s reorganization at Estella, royal favor, and reports on Queen Regent recovery amid loan negotiations.
In Patras Greece on February 14 a correspondent reports British merchants face deadly attacks and property losses under King Otho’s rule. The British consul Crowe is insulted and the local government refuses punishment. The Morning Herald correspondent says a warship may be needed to safeguard British interests.
The article notes no ceremony for laying the first stone of the new Parliament works today with a June plan for the foundation stone to be laid amid grand masonic honors by the queen. It mentions a lower stone for the embankment with coins and records political commentary on Irish governance and forgery allegations surrounding the Earl of Stirling.
A fierce storm wrecked trees and a funeral hearse near Ardgay, with a four-horse coach overturned and its four occupants losing hats while one man sprained an ankle. The Highland roads remain snowbound and mail service disrupted.
A couple and their eleven year old daughter lived in a state of heavy drinking with the father bedridden. The wife died after a night of gin consumption. A jury found death caused by excessive drinking. Separately, a Cheltenham young lady, about twenty five, disappeared after being lured by beggars. police investigate Read details of attire and possession including a gold Geneva watch and sovereigns.
At the Clare assizes Patrick M Namara and 16 others faced murder charges in Ca hirmurphy for the Minogue death on April 18. Witnesses, including the widow and children, failed to prove the prisoners’ involvement and the case was discharged amid a riot indictment resulting in four guilty verdicts for the opposite faction. A separate Longford action by Lord Lorton against a widow Murphy over land was decided for the defendants. The jury sided with the Murphy family, deeming the eviction and cabin destruction illegal.
A Rochester report claims William Lyon Mackenzie plans to move his paper to Rochester, prompting a wary wish to be rid of him. Other items note a court martial finding several Beauharnois prisoners guilty and sentenced to death, with defence forthcoming. Weather remains bitterly cold as ice advances on harbours. Sir George Arthur tours Upper Canada’s western district receiving official honors and local congratulations. A Port Natal dispatch details ongoing emigrant farming, health, and provisioning amid a minor military exchange rumor.
A boiler explosion at Mr. Marshalls boiler works in Colchester Street Whitechapel on Saturday night killed two men Richard Sterne and Mr. Marshall junior and caused extensive property damage. The blast shattered walls, drove boilers into nearby buildings, and fire crews battled the flames aided by locals. Mr. Marshall rushed to save his horses and a 15 year old son was lost to the disaster. Police and a coroner were summoned as investigators began.
A coroner and jury in a parish inquiry concluded Samuel Marshall aged fifteen and Richard Sterne aged thirty-two died accidentally after a steam boiler exploded during a test at Colchester Street premises. Witnesses described the boiler, weights hurled by the blast, and the safety valve's condition, with belief the explosion was an accident not negligence.
A Saturday gathering of Tories at Sir Robert Peel's followed a Friday split over the Irish Municipal Bill. Peel rebuked the rebels for anarchy and forgave the offenders after visible remorse. An inquest at St Thomas's noted a five year old girl Elizabeth Poplett died from burns caused by a red hot poker left in a fire banquet incident. The coroner warned of danger of leaving pokers in fires. Verdict accidental death.
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