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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 12, 1839
Page
6
A miscellany of nature verse and anecdotes alongside lengthy extracts on Africa’s rhinoceros, camel milk customs, a Persian fable, and a South Africa–related frontier battle narrative. The piece weaves poetry, animal lore, and colonial reportage with historical letters and traveller tales.
Lordships affirm the Court of Session ruling that the 1834 General Assembly act intruded on patronage. The judgment holds patronage to be a civil right, enforceable in civil courts, and rejects the assembly’s power to veto a presentee or bind the presbytery through congregational voting.
A satirical sketch portrays the undertaker Mandrake as a calculating dealer who treats death as a marketable service. Pride and profit trump the corpse, with feathers, mutes, and costly ground chosen to please the living, not honor the dead. The piece critiques funeral pomp and social desire to display wealth.
A moral meditation on funerals in London contrasts lavish services for the wealthy with the poor’s stark rites. The undertaker profits from pageantry, while the pauper’s burial is plain, exposing social inequality and the snare of material display in death.
Court of Queen's Bench considers whether stock in trade may be rated for the relief of the poor. The sessions had confirmed Wimborne Dorset rate, but the appeal argued the recent act 6th and 7th William IV c.96 exempts personal property from rating. The court held the rate invalid as framed, quashing the rate.
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