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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 07, 1842
Page
1
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In a May 1842 parliamentary scene the Chartist Petition with 3,300,000 signatures sparked cross party dispute. Mr Duncombe's motion to hear Petitioners at the Bar split Liberals, with Roebuck defending Chartist principles and Macaulay opposing. The piece notes the era's looming reform pressure and warns that working class political rights persist despite factional rifts.
The chairman of the Chartist Committee in Sheffield explains a letter from petitioners urging that their representatives be heard by counsel at the Bar. He clarifies support was for hearing on grounds distinct from universal suffrage, condemns opponents who mix political aims with the petition, and defends his stance against misrepresentation.
Report covers the royal levee at St James's with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert leaving Buckingham Palace for Claremont and referencing the Queen's masque. It describes the royal guards departing, the pageantry of costumes, and a humorous masque of various nobles as historical figures. The piece notes diplomatic tension with France and hints at future warlike pomp.
The theatre faces a string of accidents with principal performers struck by illness and withdrawal. Lucia replaces Torquato Tasso as a hurried program shows Bordoni guiding a creditable performance amid chaos. In other items, the Infant Orphan Asylum plans a dinner presided by the Duke of Wellington, and London City Mission reports growth and funding gains. Court inquests record accidental poisoning of a child and a Prussian courier’s suicide under mental distress.
Latest February 14 intelligence from Macao says Yuyao Tsikee and Funghwa were captured by a force of three steamers with about 700 men. Tartars offered slight resistance then fled. ammunition and stores seized. Hongchow Foo to be occupied in February as the British plan marches toward Pekin. Reinforcements from India and England expected, and Sir Henry Pottinger pivots to Canton trade and Pekin negotiations.
Dispatch from March 28 discusses divided Indian press over Kabul disaster, Akhbar Khan’s role, and Shah Soojah’s loyalty. Reports detail Wild and Pollock movements, Afghan uprisings, and the siege dynamics at Jellalabad with Sale holding out, while mutinies and political intrigue ripple across Cabul and Kandahar fronts.
The Duchess of Nemours gave birth to a prince at Neuilly after pains of labour. King Louis and the royal family attended, and the Count de Eu was named. Paris journals note the event and a later funeral in Paris for Minister Humann. Marshal Soult fainted from heat at Madeleine. A Paris Bayonne railroad bill passage is reported.
The Independent, Susquehana, and Virginia packet ships arrive with dates to the 14th, bringing Washington Irving to Madrid as American minister and noting Lord Ashburton's Washington arrival. Reports detail the Caroline affair, Hogan's arrest, and frontier tensions. Naval, financial, and trade news include a steady cotton market, steady corn, and variable stock prices as Lord Ashburton’s diplomacy looms.
Advices state no change in political scene with the porte maintaining internal administration. Greek question remains sole foreign issue with hopes of amicable settlement after Canning Effendi conference. Alexandria reports four pasha frigates sailing for oxen at Tarsus, one grounded but freed by French steamer. Mehemet Ali at Nabara en route to Alexandria. Nile embankment work expands. plague cases rise at Alexandria. Mus Mustafa Pasha’s failed disarmament of Candia Mussulmans noted. island residents refuse arms without sultan’s command, fearing island revolt if war with Greece.
Gloucester merchants report unprecedented wheat consignments from abroad, forcing some cargoes to be moved to Bristol. The Sturge firm is expanding warehousing to accommodate the record inflow of foreign common bond grain, reflecting a peak in Gloucester's import volumes.
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