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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 05, 1839

Page

2

Despatches from India suggest no delay for Sar HK plan

Reports note no obstacle to the Sar HK arrangement and that campaigns against Herat are discussed. Other dispatches mention Turkish and Egyptian diplomacy, along with frontier tensions and troop movements, signaling a volatile but unsettled regional picture.

India Sar Hk Shah +P Erzeroum Herat Levant Lon Constantinople Tahir Pasha Malates Kurdistan France England Porte Egypt

Notable Society Accounts and Elections at Exeter Hall

The report details 5 900 named, 1 000 reptile specimens, 1 170 fishes, and 83 mounted skeletons. Officers were elected with the Earl of Derby reappointed president, and Charles Darwin among new council members. A Church Missionary Society meeting at Exeter Hall reported income of £71,300 and expenditure of £91,400, with foreign missions driving the deficit. A Protestant groups meeting described France’s revival and Society activities in education, scripture distribution, and evangelism, noting increased contributions and cross‑channel influence.

Hanoversquare Rooms Duchess of Kent Findlay Count de Taafe B. Bond Cabbell Beecham Ireland W. Evans M.P Connelly Doctor Paton New York Doctor Beman Troy W. S Edward Lytton Samuel Shipley Ashburne Sergeant Jackson Thomas Jackson Acep Pitcrims Friend Society Exeter Hall Earl of Roden Box Watkins Kepple Cox Camberwell Imfanr Orphan Asylum Freemasons’ Tavern Great Queen Street Kenny H.F. Fell Reed Kirby Hadore Hawthers Norbury Duke of Cambridge Jane Scott Company of Skinners Company Duchess of Gloucester Zootechal Society Museum Leicester Square Viscount Braybrooke Earl of Derby Norwich Carlisle John Shelley J. Boileau Barts Messrs. Childers Vigors Committee of Auditors Fuller Kingston Barlow Marke Charles Drummond John Barlow T. Frankland Lewis Charles Darwin W. Ogilly J. Whishaw W. Yarrell J. P. Boileau Col. Sykes Owen Church Missionary Society Earl of Chichester Church of England West Africa West Indies New Zealand France Voltaire Chateaubriand Luther Calvin Geneva Paris St. Denis St. Vincent of Paul St. Genevieve England Rome Martin Bordeaux Edward Bickersteth Earl of Galloway Stewart Mr. Burgess Walter Farquhar

Colonization plans for New Zealand via Tory voyage

A London led effort to colonize New Zealand announces a 20 000 pound company fund subscribed by forty members. The barque Tory, under Colonel Wakefield, sails with arms stores and native interpreter Nayti to establish the settlement, with notable figures present in support.

New Zealand Wakefield Nayti West India Docks Lovegrove’s Friends of Association Earl of Durham Lord Lady Petre Ladies Courtenay Sir Geo. Sinclair M.P Admiral Young Marylebone Joseph Hume Earl of Essex Watford Belgrave Square Admiral Capel Ward Beedle B. G. King, Esq Capel Mr. Clatterbuck Essex Arms Court of Common Council Watch and Police Committee London Remembrancer General Purposes Committee Ladies British Society For the Infirmary

Court Grants Funds for Gresham Lectures and City Gates

The court on motion granted an adequate sum from the city cash to provide apparatus and illustrations for Gresham lectures and to maintain them annually until the Gresham trusts can cover the expenditure. It ordered the Gresham committee and City of London School committee to determine sufficiency and report. The matter also referred to committees to consider enlarging the Mansion House justice-room and to prepare a bill altering ward representation and rateable property. The court directs the corporation inquiry committee to seek law officer opinions on applying corporate reform resolutions to Parliament.

Fistala, &c London Society For the Protection Emales City of London School Committee Gresham Trusts Gresham Committee Corporation Inquiry Committee Is Court

Hopkins Cleared in Westbury Murder Probe

James Hopkins, charged with the wilful murder of Richard Powell at Westbury about 13 years ago, faced re-examination at Cheltenham magistrates. The witness Vaile offered a long silence and highly suspicious testimony with no corroboration, leading to Hopkins being discharged from custody.

Westbury Mupper James Hopkins Richard Powell Cheltenham Powell Vaile Hopkins

Tragic Liverpool Death Follows Laudanum Overdose

Inquest reveals Elizabeth Busby took laudanum on April 23 causing death after prior trial for attempting to shoot her husband’s brother during a period of illness and rage. Won acquittal at assizes. family strains and alleged abuse noted. suicide verdict recorded with a long lamenting letter addressed to her husband Fred and his mother.

Elizabeth Busby John Jones Busby Decessed America Fred Daniel Mick Father Liverpool Mail

Inconsistencies of the Post Office Arrangements

A report from Hertford details long mail routes and delays between Hoddesdon Broxbourne and nearby towns. It notes high distant London routes and slow delivery times, with letters taking up to forty eight hours over twelve miles. A separate Havre discovery reports a unicorn horn embedded in a copper hull causing a watertight breach.

Hoddesdon Hertford Broxbourne Waltham-cross Hadham St. Alban’s Barnet London London Post Bishop’s Stortford Stortford Luton Dunstable Herford Reformer Havre Journal du Havre

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