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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Mar 30, 1844

Page

5

Interment of a young serviceman at Ipswich and gas explosion

Reports detail the interment with military honours of a young officer from a prominent regiment at St Mary Tower Ipswich. Also described is a gas explosion at Foxwell and Co. drapers 26 Judd Street Brunswick Square, with fire, stock losses near £100, and immediate firefighting efforts.

William Hitt Pleman St. Mary Tower Ipswich Messrs Foxwell and Co Jineu Drapers Judd-street Brunswick-square Phoenix Anderton’s Fleet-street Kenneth Wolverley Auwood General Post-office St. Martin’s-le Sydney New South Wales London W. L. MaBerty Southampton Oriental Company Little Liverpool Gibraltar Cadiz Lisbon Oporto Vigo Lady Mary Wood Peninsular Royal Commission of Fine Ants Her Majesty's Commissioners Whitehall Westminster Hall Deats Colonxel Nimeguen St Lucie Egypt Hanover Zealand Sweden Walcheren Peninsula Barossa Lord Lynedoch Ersign Colote Clerkenwell Police Court Duke Inspector Penny William Burton Newenham Francis Louisa Wortham Gerard-street Coburg-row Islington Berkeley-street Portman-square Gretna Green Carlisle Street Soho Square Penny Chancery Newenham Combe Court of Chancery Baller- Bridge Irwell New Bailey Street Manchester Samuel Kirk Atoemaker Bers Perhans Estes Manchester Archan Kentish Observer Emma Hearntom Worshouse Poor Law Lion Mie

The Drama at Drury Lane and Hav Market Theatres

Cenerentola at His Majesty s Theatre drew full houses with Mademoiselle Favanti delivering a celebrated performance. Donizetti s The Favourite showcased Duprez s Fer dinand with a triumphal reception while Miss Romer impressed as Leonora. Lolah or the Wreck Light opened at Drury Lane with Buckstone s comic touch sustaining audience mood. The Drury Lane Fand dinner raised funds for needy actors as 240 guests enjoyed music, speeches, and performances by Rainforth Horton Oury and others.

Christeauren George Rose Earl of Malmesbury B. A. Harris R.N League Tice Sopley E. A. Harris Wm. Tice Mr. Harris Briscoe Moore Sleigh Paris Corelli Mademoiselle Favanti Carlotta Grisi Queen Dowager Earl Howe Georgiana, Curzon Miss Eden Miss Mitchell Mollie d’Este Henry Curzon Andrew Barnard Davry-taxst Mr. Bunn M. Duprez Beethoven Madame Dulcken Moscheles Benedict Bunn M. Fornasant M. Fornasari Tribunal of Commerce London M. Fonsari M. Fornasati Goth Galigani West End India Admiralty Whitehall Busckyrians Paiple Joseph Payne St. Thomas's Hospital Blackfriars Bridge Alfred Harris Surrey Harris Hes Theatar Cenerentola Mademoiselle Fayanti Drury-Saxz Donizetti Ferdinand Leonora Misa Remer Duprez Romer Haymarket Lolah Lelah Celeste Tempest George Trafford Buckstone Moorue Favanti Wardrup Fornasari Tamturini Cerito Brussels Her Majesty’s Theatre Thalberg Italy Universal Haven Camillo Sivoni Cavary-Lane Drury-lane Freemasons Duke of Cambridge Marquis of Clanricarde Lord Altamont Montague Gore T. Denman Alfred Bunn Harley W. Symonds Cartwright Harkworth Comper Queen Burdett Coutts Duke of Bedford Lord Clanricarde Benjamin Bond Cabbell Drury Lane Theatre Miss Rainforth Balfe Priscilla Horton Horncastle Crouch Calvert Misses Williams Miss Allen

Promise of Manarase Damages Awarded in Spring Assizes

At Kineston on March 28 spring assizes the Betson v Williams case saw the plaintiff seek damages for breach of promise of marriage. The jury awarded £250 after hearing that the defendant abandoned the match to wed another, despite prior assurances and a child born in 1835. A second charge, an assault by Frederick Fox on John Hammond in Hambledon Union, resulted in a two year hard labour sentence.

Alderman Gibbs Eddison Cunliffe Flight Howett Kalher Red Lion-street Clerkenwell-green Farringdon Street St. Sepulchre’s Kalber Rather Sun Fire Office Murper Shapwertz Baker Julia Scales Farmer-street New Gravel Lane Shadwell Newgate Baracu Manarase Betson Wil Liams Chambers Frimley Surrey Maria Augusta Williams John Belson Inramous Charce Frederick Fox John Hammond Hambledon Union

Murder charge in Monmouths not guilty verdict

Oxford circuit. Thomas Thomas 30 arraigned for the murder of his infant child Mary Jones at Monydluslone. Welsh witness describes pregnancy and child’s clothes. Body found in Abercairn canal. verdict: acquittal after jury deliberation.

William Barry Mary Donovan Bennett Queen’s Counsel Brogan Castlemartyr Ahern’s Fanny Walsh M‘carthy Catherine M‘carthy William’ Barry Mackey’s O’hea Mr. O'Hea Baron Parke Thomas Thomas Mary Jones Monydthuslone Valentine Lee Richards Crewo Sergeant Talfourd Sir Thomas Phillips Lee Gwinifred Jones David Davies Pen Graig Bargoed David Rees Catherine Jones Hendy Rees Rees’s Harry William Evans Abercairn

Fatal railway inquest in London on Mehegan death

An inquest at London Hospital into the death of John Mehegan, 40, an exporter for the London and Blackwall Railway, found he was struck by a Limehouse carriage while crossing five lines near Minories. He died from a fractured skull after being conveyed to the hospital. verdict: accidental death.

Farat Blackwall Minories Limehouse Snow

Departure of Prince Albert for Germany in royal voyage

Latest intelligence reports Prince Albert leaving Buckingham Palace at 9:30 am on Thursday with a small suite for a journey via South Eastern Railway to Dover. The royal train reached Dover after noon with guards, salutes, and spectators. He traveled to Ostend by steamer Princess Alice and is expected to continue to Gotha and Coburg before returning to England within a fortnight.

Prince Albert Germany Royal Buckingham Palace George Edward Anson Francis Seymour Bouverie South Eastern Railway Londonbridge Joseph Baxendale Dover Prince Colonel Jones 77Th Regiment Ender Mercer Aredcliff Fort Princess Alice Gotha England Woolwich Alice Ostend London Captain Coburg

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