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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 26, 1837
Page
3
Reports indicate W Busfield Whig candidate has 430 electors' signatures but Bradford borough remains unsettled awaiting further confirmations. The looming contest hints at Hardy's possible exit and Commons support shifting as tempers ease.
The Goldsmiths Company funds two £50 yearly exhibitions at Stockport Grammar School open to Oxford or Cambridge, contingent on headmaster testimonials and scholar conduct. A Greek king’s Catholic-Protestant mixed lineage prompts questions about church affiliation for potential offspring among royals.
A New York dispatch describes a radical faction calling themselves Loco Focos, their anti monopoly platform, and the flare of urban unrest sparked in February. rioters attack flour warehouses, detaining and scattering barrels, with police and militia deployed as crowds dwindle.
A nineteen year old man faced the Riom Court of Assizes on a charge of poisoning twenty three people. The supper on July 28 involved Barthelemy Seyvigne the Vallese Montagne mayor his family and workers. Twenty three fell ill with vomiting and strong poisoning fears but no deaths occurred. he was found guilty and sentenced to twenty years hard labour.
In St Mary Abbots parish Kensington a court hearing summoned 1200 rate-payers for non payment of church rates for 1835 to 1837. Magistrates ordered distress warrants for many, while dissenters voiced objections on principle and legality. Several speakers, including Baptist and Catholic figures, argued rates are unjust and favor the wealthy, but the bench proceeded to enforce payment.
In Chobham a watchmaker Wood discovered his wife Jewers dead by hanging. An inquest heard the wife’s mother and neighbors describe tensions over property and living arrangements. The jury found she killed herself while temporarily insane and condemned Wood for leaving her alone and for trying to bleed her.
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