Court actions stretch across libel and electoral cases
Reports detail Queen v Feare, a libel dispute over a newspaper claim about a starved boy, and Queen v Irvine a Reform Act case. A separate habeas corpus matter in Exchequer faces Upper Canada pardon and transportation terms. A mandamus to Eastern Counties Railway is sought to complete the line to Yarmouth. Minor cases include bail court notices and local vagrancy issues at Hatton Garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court OF Queen's Bench
MonpAy
Strinxes
Banco
Feareus
Pea
Bichie
Worthern Oe
Seine
Minster
Bally
Thesiger
Lord Denman
Bath
Mr. Roebuck
Somerset Assizes
Erle
Upper Canada
van Diemen’s Land
Quebec
Lower Canada
England
Digby Martin
Ross
Liverpool
Canada
Her
Crown of
Bachelor
Justice Williams
Eastern Counties Raiway Company
William LV
London
Norwich
Yarmouth
Colchester
Ipswich
Norfolk
Suffolk
Essex
Victoria
Severn and Wye Railway Company
Public disturbance leads to fine in Barbican incident
Patrick Fitzgerald Irish labourer fined five shillings for drunken obstruction in Barbican as a crowd gathered around his protest of the people's charter. In Marylebone, two boys from the Children’s Friend School case are questioned after being found wandering at dawn and returned to guardians, with details about their aunt and grandmother and a Canada-linked apprenticeship raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Fitzgerald
Regan
Barbican
Alderman Pirie
Hackneywick
Brenton
Children’s Friend
Mr. Rawlinson
Mrs. Patrick
Cape
Boy King
King
Bethnal- Green
Sergeant Adams
Wright
Henry Wright
Canada
Mrs. Wright
Rickard
St. Catherine Soranes
Lord Montford
Rawlinson
Colonial Office
Carr
Highgate
Trubshaw
de Witt
Beggar and smuggler cases amid Thames court actions
A detailed London magistrates scene covers Francis Macmuniin a mendicity fraudster and twenty year imposture, mendicity officers, noble solicited aid, and a one month sentence. Thames Office pursues smuggling with John Allen felled, and Countess of Lonsdale ship tale. A wife and daughter self harm case, drunk and disorderly arrests, and a coat theft at a bath conclude the docket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Macmuniin
Gregorie
Lord Morpeth
Earl of Dartmouth
Lord Grosvenor
Countess Carlisle
Abbott
Emily
Pelham
Park
Phillips
Horsford
Marylebone-lane
The
Mendicity Society
Thames Office
George Warwick
Ballantine
Greenwood
Thames Police
Croucher
Thames
Dyson
Davis
Warwick
Middlesex
Irongate Stairs
Tower
W. Pulley
Queen’s
Evans
Countess of Lonsdale
London
Helland
Mr. Greenwood
Mr. Ballantine
Mr. Evans
Cooke
Solicitors of Customs
Board of Trade
Walford
Customs
J Srapnine
John Allen
Thomas Brian
Jane Griffiths
Shadwell
Prisoner Accused in Coat and Garment Theft Case
An uneasy prisoner attempted to move to a corner and drop the complainant's coat at his feet. The coat later appeared, and the shirt and waistcoat were found in the prisoner's box. He denied knowledge of the items and claimed the act improbable for a respectable man. He was committed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Square
Edward
William
Francis Macmullin
Lord Worsley
Lord Wellesley
Phonix-street
Soho-Square
Search Levy
K 100
Rebecca Thompson
Canning’s Head
Sidney-street
Stepney
Union Hale
John Berry
Jeremy
Woodington
National Bath
Westminster Road
Death Aboard the Countess of Lonsdale Steamer Inquest
An inquest in Horselydown reviewed the death of Johann Wilhelm Peyck found with a fractured skull and internal bleeding from a violent blow on the temple. The vessel Countess of Lonsdale, 100 miles from land, carried Peyck from Cuxhaven to London where he died. The coroner adjourned proceedings for two weeks to pursue further passenger testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fore-street
Horselydown
Payne
Johann Wilhelm Peyck
William Miskin
Robert 8. Stranack
Countess of Lonsdale
London
Hamburg
General Steam Navigation Company
Cuxhaven
William Arnyrd
Samuel Cotterell
James Ferguson
Charles Chapman
Lady Lonsdale
Arnyrd
Robert Upton
Robert Freshwater
Francis May
Upton
Lombard-street
Miskin
Maidstone
America
Stranack
Admiralty
Fire at the St Katherine's Dock engine-house
Early Monday two oclock a fire broke out in the engine-house at St Katherine's Dock Thames Street. Police and fire brigades joined dock officials to extinguish, avert vessel loss, and limit damage thought from coal ignition. no further harm reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Katherine’s Dock
Henry M‘namara
Thames Street
John Hall
Mr. Pierce
H Division
Norman
Ducrow
St. Denis
Paris
M. Franconi
Abbey Street Theatre
Dublin
Dames
Dublin Mail
Calvert
Kincstown
Salthill
James Ward
Mabledon-place
Burton-crescent
Ward
University College Hospital
H. F. G. Cavendish
Burton Crescent
James’s Park
Macarthy
Church Lane
St. Giles’s
Cavendish
Eddby
Westminster Hospital
Young
Atkinson
Walmgate
York
Leeds
Our Church
Guildhall
Leeds Mercury
Dan Ghnons
New Greenwich Company
Hardy
London Greenwich
Elphinstone
Portman
Portman-square
Beak-street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Royal Society
Edwards
William Horsewall
William Norage
King’s Head
Upper-street
Islington
William ‘Phelps
Royal Mail
Lambeth Street
Lady Lonsdale Hambure
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