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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 02, 1841

Page

7

Exhibition at Pall Mall East Water Colour Gallery

A review of the 37th annual Society of Painters in Water Colours exhibition at Pall Mall East notes its size 333 works, strong landscapes, and notable pieces by Cox Fielding Lewis and others. The Queen and Prince Albert visited, buying several pictures. omission of Cattermole disappoints admirers. the critic praises many works including Noon by Cox and Market People by Cox, plus Watery scenes, Portrayals of Rome, Romney Marsh scenes, and Rosalind and Celia by Wright.

Cox Copley Fielding Cattermole Prince Albert Cox and Copley Fielding Rome Neapolitan St. Peter's J. F. Lewis Poussin Athens Lewis C. Bentley Lancaster Sands Romney Marsh Kent Fielding Cumberland T. Holland Frederick Taylor W.evans F. Stone Wakefield Olivia Varley Gaspar Poussin Hawking Stapleton Mill Bristol Watt Vist Rosalind Celia J. W. Wright Whetter Wilace J.D. Harding Jh.d Cate W. Callow

Rescue at Thames After Blackfriars Parapet Jump

A middle aged woman leaped from the northeast parapet of Blackfriars Bridge into the Thames on a Friday evening. Police and bystanders pulled her from the water near Water Lane and she was treated at Glaziers Arms by surgeon Mr. Hutchinson. She identified herself as Ann Baines of Cow Lane Test Smithfield and said she had no London relatives.

Destenay Blackfriars Thames Water-lane Tchinson Farringdon-street Ann Baines Cown Test Smithfield London

Lord Cardigan and the Easter Sunday Punishment

The piece rebukes Lord Cardigan for ordering a Sunday punishment of a soldier in the 11th Hussars at Hounslow on Easter Sunday. It praises Lord Hill’s strong General Order condemning carrying out penal sentences on the Lord's Day, questions Cardigan’s fitness, and urges action to remove him from command if he remains in his position.

Lord Hill Rogers England Lord Cardigan Commanitin 11Th Hussars Hounslow Joan Macponarp Macaulay House of Commons Lth Hussars Rons Times Her Majesty's Army Lord LordCardigan Earl of Cardigan Lith

Horrible Cruelty Trial of a Mother Over Her Child

Elizabeth Whiting faced Middlesex Sessions indictment for assaulting her own eight year old daughter Jane Elizabeth Whiting on 13 February. Evidence described repeated beatings with a poker and sticks, forced feeding with excrement, neglect including starvation, and immobilization. The jury found her guilty. she received one month in the House of Correction and local benefactor M Ewen arranged care for the child at Chelsea’s School of Discipline for two years.

Elizabeth Esther Whiting Middlesex Sessions Jane Elizabeth Whiting Chadwick Jones St. Pancras Therisoner Hunter Jamea-street Wellington-square M‘ewen Hatton Garden Mr. Jones James Street Gray’s-inn-road Eliza Hunter Peter M‘ewen Richard D. Estcourt House of Correction Chelsea

Death of General Gordon at Cairness in Aberdeenshire

London reports the death of General Thomas Gordon of Cairness and Bushlaw who died suddenly at Cairness Aberdeenshire on the 20th. He spent twenty years in Greece after 1821 and witnessed the siege and surrender of Tripolizza where Greeks harmed Turkish residents. He recovered from a serious illness in Zante and later faced health struggles. He held rank from the Greek government for aiding Greek independence and spent much of his fortune in their cause. He leaves a widow of Armenian origin and no children.

Gordon London Thomas Gordon Cairness Bushlaw Aberdeenshire Greece Tripolizza Morea Zante

Exchequer Chamber and Insolvent Debtor Court Hearings

The Exchequer Chamber opened with writs of error and legal points. In the Insolvent Debtors Court, George Henry White faced scrutiny for a 53-creditor case with £3199 debts, including a mortgage, after supplying mills unlawfully and misusing funds. the court ordered ten months’ confinement. At Marlborough Street, a boy eight years old was found to have faked street beggary to collect money, plaguing his distressed widow mother.

Exchequer Chamber Tur Dryad Queen P.axp M. Wattacy Dryad Central Criminal Court Lord Denman Swinptrxc George Henry White Woodroffe Messrs Hall Messrs. Hall Dudley Pilgrim India Chalice Cooke Commissioner Bower Marlborough Street John Lewis Greek Street Soho Compton-street

Tragic infant found on Hay's Brook road leads to murder verdict

Early Wednesday Ledbury intelligence reported an infant found dead on the Worcester Hereford turnpike road at Hay's Brook. Constable Samuel Purnell traced the child to Wellington inn Chance's Pitch and later arrested Anne Walters, the mother. After inquest at Ledbury, a jury returned a verdict of man slaughter.

Ledbury Worcester Hay’s-brook Samuel Purnell Hay Hereford Chance Edward Weaver Juckes Chance’s Pitch Hooper Wellington Inn Bray Purnell Parnell William Butt Thomas Evans Anne Walters

Vestry debates repeal of the window tax in London parish

At St Martin's in the Fields vestry a report from a nine parish central committee cited no clemency from the chancellor toward repealing the window duties. The meeting renewed efforts to press for repeal as Manchester officials honor Commodore Sir Charles Napier with a town banquet and praise for his Syria conduct. A separate river accident in Rotherhithe left an Irish laborer dead after falling from a barge amid river traffic.

Wixpow St. Martin’s in-the-Fields Hutchins Westminster Manchester Town Council of Charles Napier K.C.B Commodore Borough of Syria St. Jean d’Acre Great Britain Liverpool Mehemet Ali Constantinople Commodore Napier England Lord Palmerston Lord Minto Alexandria Pacha Porte Napier Stuart Mitchell Flower Rotherhithe Evans and Isbester Thames Police Stratford

Measures to deter English depredations off Cherbourg coast

The journal Le Francais de Orient reports the minister of marine will detach a guard ship to the Bay of St Briens and oversee oyster dredging limits within three miles, aiming to protect oyster fisheries and boost national wealth.

Panta Journal le. Francais de Orient Cherbourg Bay of St. Briens Aioe St. Brieue Courrier Francais Bridge of Flanders Las Petite-Vilette Panthres St. Gervais Belville le Commerce Palace of the Tuileries Count de Paris Mostaganem Cheliff Mastara Tazza Tekedempt Bugeaud Journal Des Débats Toulon Medeah Changarnier Rente de Naples Paris Ivry Bicetre Vauvres Issy Fontainebleau Spain Madrid Espartero Christina Senate Senores San Miguel and Carrara Senor Lesana Minister of the Interior Ldth Interior Cortes House of Ardouin Correo Nacional Geome Catalonia Balearic Islands Nogueras Majorca Barbadoes Jamaica St. Kitt’s Dominica St. Lucia Lucia St. Christopher Lieat St. John’s Turkey Constantinople Fethi Pacha Raouf Pacha Visier Redschid Pacha Ponsonby Reform Ministry Great Britain Tahir Pacha Ibrahim Pacha Syria Mehemet Ali Foreign Office Lord Melbourne Lord Normanby Buckingham Palace Westminster Bridge Blackfriars-bridge Basinghall-Street Piris Ellis John Pirie Osborn Forsyth William Thomas Merthyr Tydfil Glamorganshire East Indies Alderman Pirie Alderman Thompson Captain Thornhill Messrs. Silver and Co Thompson Pirie John Wedderley Hutchinson Trig Middlesex Francis Medhurst Central Criminal Court Hayes Medhurst House of Correction Marquis of Normanby

MYSTERIOUS MARRIAGE CASE AT THE MANSION HOUSE

A 24-year-old William Smith and a 27-year-old Elizabeth Taylor were arraigned for theft and wife desertion. Richard Taylor claimed the pair ran off with property after the wife, his wife, left him for Smith. The couple denied wrongdoing, blaming each other as witnesses described abuse. They were remanded for a week.

Caim. Cox William Smith Elizabeth Taylor Richard Taylor St. Ives London St. Martin’s Lane Cersa Simon John Smith Mr. Hobler Mrs. Taylor Smith James Haines Taylor Joseph Holden Tufnell Marylebone-street Mr. Hardwick Joe Holden Danine Arncuin Tu1zi Thomas Hawes White Lion-street Bow Street George Ireton Brown Norfolk-street Strand Charing_cross hospital Reece Worship Street Ropping Axp Re Jane White W. H. Woodall Bishopsgate-street Shackell G Division Featherstone-street Glascow Hell Glasgow United Kingdom James Oswald, Esq Robert Wallace Archibald Hastie Hough Bailie Mitchell John Fleming William Stirling Andrew Bannatyne William Gray James Lumsden A. G. Spiers S. Higginbotham G. Crawford Croupiers Alexander Johnston Shieldhall John Tenant St. Rollox Walter Buchannan John Dennistoun M.P Robt, Bartholomew C. J. Tennent D.J. Bannatyne James Donaldson James Cooper James Adam Princess Royal W. Buchanan Johnston Dugald Bannatyne Chamber of Commerce Oswald Alexander Graham A.W. Speirs Culcrench John Pattison Dennistoun Professor Nichol Manchester

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