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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 25, 1843
Page
6
The trial covered a woman who testified about a written marriage promise and alleged assault, with the prisoner acquitted after witnesses, including a constable, described events. Other trials included sedition charges and a murder case with three defendants found guilty and sentenced to death, while a separate rape case resulted in a not guilty verdict.
In a court hearing summaries show the prisoner denying money, offering to sell a book, and insisting the witness buy it while planning to burn it. Testimony describes letters dated Hull and early 1840s, meetings at Catsworth, and a claim for wages as part of a broader dispute. The judge noted the charge of making a false claim to extort money and the jury found the prisoner guilty, with sentence deferred.
A London police round up reports on murder charges, alleged poisonings, and public disturbances. The case details a Wrestlingworth resident Starley facing murder allegations tied to arsenic in a husband’s stomach and suspected deaths of prior spouses, with post mortem results prompting remand to Wrestlingworth. Additional notes cover mania at Guildhall and Bow Street including a Scotsman John Freak and a shipman John Edward Freak, plus other assaults and dangers reported from Marylebone and Clerkenwell venues and a House of Lords riot case.
A Dublin style court scene on Duer Street Bloomsbury details a widow known as Quid Mother Hennessy suing Mr Patrick Ryan for two pounds. Amid laughter the parties defend reputations with bawdy anecdotes about courtship borrowing and a claim that Ryan had taken funds for whiskey and meals before a judge ordered immediate repayment.
News of the death of Dr Southey, laureate and biographer of Nelson, follows Coleridge, with homage to his early genius and later prolific career. The piece notes his political shifts from Jacobin to Tory, his essays and biographies, and the enduring praise for his prose style.
A curious correspondence reveals Lord Brougham and John Bright in sharp exchange over party zeal and corn laws while letters mock the League and political alignments. The piece contrasts their public factions with personal temper and ends by noting the broader moral indictment threaded through public life.
The piece notes Seidlitz powders arriving by late date and Whale Fisheries reports of blubber through last year urging trade protection. No North Pole advices. doubts about commerce with that region. Bears’ rush could panic markets, as Captain Ross failed to break the ice in that quarter.
The Times leads with the Queen Dowager’s drama as the King moves to replace the ministry after Lord Spencer’s death, signaling possible Wellington intervention and Lord Brougham’s dinner with the Queen. It also surveys 1813–14 and 1841–42 education and art expenditures, noting big rises and a jumbled fiscal trail.
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