15 Mar 1840
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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 15, 1840
Page
1
The Spectator and Liberal Radicals exchange sharp arguments over reform, leadership, and strategy. Both sides defend independent action, question open questions, and defend their preferred path to progress amid calls for patience, accountability, and political realism.
Historic item reports Mr. Turnbull author of Travels in the West ordered to submit details of his anti slave trade plan to government. The piece also covers a Privileges Committee meeting in Great Queen Street, Stockdale letter to Central Criminal Court, and a Horsham bank robbery inquiry with magistrates and partners present at the King’s Head hotel.
A detailed chronicle of a state dinner for the Queen Dowager at Buckingham Palace. Mentions arrivals, attendees led by Prince Albert, and subsequent Covent Garden visit. Notes on royal academy patronage, imagined Palaces at St Leonard's, and a Monday dinner with frock dress and dancing. Also covers elaborate balls and performances surrounding the royal circle.
A sixteen year old girl named Ellis, orphaned and from Peterborough, was forcibly taken from a seminary by music-master Barrett and captured at Weedon station before being recovered by her brother, a Northampton chemist. A warrant is out for Barrett while Miss Ellis may be placed under chancery ward. In Berkeley Square the theft of Mrs Drummond’s jewels from her upstairs room is reported, with the thiefs entering via the attic and leaving behind a gold repeater. Helen Faucit defends against slander with medical attestations proving nervous debility and required rest. Also included is an extensive dispatch detailing New Zealand exploration by Colonel Wakefield on the Tory voyage to Ship Cove, Queen Charlotte’s Sound, describing tribes, geography, resources, and potential settlements with emphasis on prospect of colonization and trade.
An inquest at the Royal Standard Edgware Road resumed into the death of two full grown twin infants, illegitimate offspring of Isabella Parker. Verdicts on the two children differed with one found dead and the other Wilful Murder returned. Parker committed for trial.
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