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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 12, 1837
Page
3
The cortes debate a new Spanish constitution while Calatrava cabinet shifts loom. Valencia battles Carlists near Burol with 3,000 Carlist force and 2,200 defending troops as Espartero faces harsh weather and delayed military action amid reports from Marseilles and Bayonne detailing casualties and strategic movements.
Letters from Canton to October nineteenth reveal mercantile fears of a native tea cartel pushing 25 percent price advances on black teas. European and Hong merchants resist, causing a trade standstill while a prior twenty year old clash with the East India Company is recalled. The Jardine steamer, returning to Lin Tin with repaired chimneys and paddle wheels, faces Canton authority orders to depart immediately to avoid further disturbance.
A letter from Port Vendres dated February 25 describes Tristany uniting with Zorelia to ambush a Madrid courier escort near Igualada, with 900 Carlist troops. The attack killed the courier, captured the mail and carriages, and reportedly left 500 to 800 Queen's troops dead, with heavy damage at Lamell near Sabadell. Five thousand Carlists overran Valencia, cutting Madrid communications. Royal Asiatic Society reports on the poisonous Upas Valley in Java, its barren landscape, skeleton remains, and experiments with gas causing deaths. A bloody duel in St Petersburg between two high-ranking court figures ends with one dead and the other killed in return, witnessed by the Emperor.
James Gordery, 22, labourer, faced a jury for killing and taking a ewe from C. T. Tower of South Weald on January 21. Evidence linked him to footprints and mutton in his home. verdict guilty and transportation ordered. Also Norfolk and Northern circuits report burglaries at Earl's Colne and Brill school, with guilty verdicts and damages. Wentworth Castle silver theft case saw George Bailey convicted of burglary with a death sentence upheld for the perpetrator.
In Darlington on the Oxford circuit a case over 80 sheep bought while the defendant was intoxicated ends with a £64 verdict for the plaintiff. The jurors consider the level of drunkenness and whether it voided consent in the cattle deal.
The Augsburg Gazette reports extensive failures in Trieste that have shaken the credit of several respectable Vienna houses. The influenza is beginning to take a fatal character in Prague.
Monday reports recount a middle aged man drowning in Regent's Canal at Camden Town, a newborn girl found slain in Maiden Lane Battle Bridge, a large fire at D Waite lucifer match works Whitechapel with several workers saved, and multiple fatal injuries from drunkenness, burning, and industrial accidents including a child burned to death at White’s Grounds Horsleydown.
At the annual proprietors meeting the tunnel works were reported advancing steadily with 135 feet gained since resumption. Last year 37 270 visitors descended the tunnel, 8 900 more than the prior year, while safety measures protected workers with no accidents or deaths. Financials show £2 000 received from Government and £65 800 total Exchequer Bill loans to date. Separate notes cover influenza among cattle and Cumberland, and a Dublin court case over Agricultural Bank of Ireland share calls seeking injunctions and amendments.
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