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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 10, 1839
Page
4
A lengthy parliamentary session covers naval manpower, flogging myths, and a defense of the navy by Lord Asney. Ireland’s state is debated with calls for detailed crime returns, government conduct scrutiny, and partisan exchanges as leaders clash over policy and impeachment rhetoric.
The speech questions landlords duties and rights over ejectment and praises a future Irish leader. O Connell appeals for sympathy toward the dispossessed while noting government stance. The debate adjourns with Lord Russell planning a second Irish Corporation Bill reading and a supply vote, continuing Friday.
A dated diary listing notable events and high water times for March including figures for days from Sunday March 10 to Saturday March 16. It notes Benjamin West 1820 as a milestone and marks historical items such as Gregory, Herschel's discovery, Admiral Byng execution, a total solar eclipse, and Gustavus III’s assassination with corresponding lunar phases and high water readings.
A long medical correspondence section discusses an influenza like illness with symptoms and home remedies. It lists calomel and antimony, various tonics and syrups, and dietary guidance. Readers are urged to seek professional help for serious cases and to await further mortality notes in a future issue.
A miscellany of home remedies and dietary guidance include calomel and lime water regimens for illness, with cautions on malt liquor. Medical mixtures are proposed for a child’s vomiting, and rhubarb and bismuth powders. Garden tips cover pelargoniums, Polyanthuses, roses, and bulbs plus nut tree lore, onion seeding, and date stone trivia. Communications comment on clerical appointments, bankers, shop hours, and public notices.
A large crowd at the Corn Exchange hears the Delegates report from London. The meeting thanks the delegation, vows to renew efforts to destroy the landowners monopoly, and urges manufacturing and commercial bodies to unite with agricultural workers to repeal the Corn Laws as national policy.
In a detailed speech on Navy Estimates, Mr Charles Wood debunks reports of a dilapidated fleet and shows government reductions matched earlier limits and even expanded them. He contrasts UK ship numbers with France US and Russia, arguing Britain's strength remains adequate and not to provoke war.
A critical piece attacks Lord John Russell and the Lord Chamberlain over Lent theatre closures in Westminster. It denounces partial religious justifications, urges a universal rule, and warns Liberals against episcopal influence while demanding equal scrutiny of public morals and royal conduct.
Mr Milner Gibson pressed for extracts from communications with the Stockholm mission over the Gottland port of Slito. Lord Palmerston claimed Sweden’s internal interests, not England’s or Russia’s, were at stake. Radicals urged retaining a resident mission to safeguard commercial links and counter rival powers.
The weekly foreign notes review upheavals in France where liberal gains threaten the king, Spain where insurgent atrocities and Don Carlos conflict dominate, Hanover where Hanoverian deputies clash with constitutional limits, and Belgium where a treaty with Holland seems near and regional peace appears restored.
Mr Wood defends prudent defence spending and warns against unnecessary armament while praising the Admiralty for reform ideas. He cites historical costs and stresses readiness, manpower selection, and stores, urging action on morale, patronage, promotion, and officer recompense to improve naval administration.
The debate centers on whether Lord Palmerston’s non intervention or Poulett Thomson’s active interference guided trade policy. Gibson's motion was narrowly defeated in a 262 seat House by 22, with independent MPs favoring publication of papers. The Morning Chronicle labels the vote factious, while noting no prior concert among MPs before Palmerston’s speech.
Postscript notes Mr. Shaw's motion on outrages in Ireland sparks adjourned debate. Critics warn that extended arguments could fill the session and beyond. They contrast Ireland’s misery with calls to reform and warn Britain may face global hostilities requiring stronger, unreduced defence.
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