Dalmas murder trial reveals bitter letters and dying statements
The Dalmas case unfolds with witness testimony from Augusta Dalmas and others, including letters found in his Brompton lodgings. Prosecutors present floating accusations, alleged poisoning discussions, and a claim of intimate relation with the deceased Mrs Macfarlane. The trial adjourns to Tuesday as police present letters A B and C detailing jealousy, profligacy, and vows of death by self.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalmas
Langton
Augusta Dalmas
Clive
Cook
Chelsea Old Church
William Gosling
Meredith
Bicknell
V Division
Mr. Bicknell
Andrews
Augusta
Brompton
Murder Suspected After Field Find Near Windsor
Suspected Munpen International reports a possible murder near Windsor after a field on Mr Murrell’s farm yielded a red silk bonnet a lace trimmed cap a brown hair front and torn braces with buttonholes. Footprints lead toward a hedge by the Thames where hair dangled from branches a passerby noted a well dressed woman with a soldier near Surrey hall the previous evening. The river has been dragged for bodies but none found. Police pursue the mystery. Also Gaelic bard Alastair Buidhe Mac Tadhair died at Gairloch aged eighty four. He served the lairds of Gairloch with a pension and was famed as the last of the Highland bards save for Maccoll of Loch Ail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munpen
Windsor
Murrell
Surrey Hall
Thames
Surrey-hall
Deata
Alastair Buidhe Mac Tadhair
Gairloch
Ross-shire
Alastair
Loch~ Aic
Maccoll
Inverness Courier
Buckeridge-street
Church-street
Buckeridge
Commissioners of Woods and Forests
George-street
St. Giles-in-the-Fields
Commissioners of
The
Metropolitan Police
Clerk’s Buildings
Broad-street
St. Giles’s
Church Pastoral Aid Society
Exeter Hall
Captain Waldegrave
Lord Ashley
Freemasons
Great Queen Street
Marquis of Northampton
Oxendon Chapel
Oxendon Street
Haymarket
House of Lords
Earl of Mountcashel
Bennett
Cook
Morrison
Thomas Archer
Thomas Stewart
Protestant Association
T. P. Plumptre
St. Paul’s School
Charter-house Square Infirmary
Albion Tavern
Aldersgate-street
Emerson Tennent
London Infirmary
Hall of Commerce
Lord Feversham
Governesses Benevolent Institution
Hanover Square Rooms
Missionary Society
Knowliz
Exeter Ball
London
Hatton Garden
St. Paul's Cathedral
Duke’s Place
Aldgate
Ireland
Duke's Place
Great St. Helen’s
Leadenhall-street
Parliament-street
Westminster
Shadwell
Foreign Intelligence from Paria and Paris Letters
The Paria papers report debates in the Chamber of Peers on Secondary Instruction and the Prison Discipline Bill, with moves toward limiting prisoner exercise. Paris concerns include abolition talk, royal visits, trade worries, tariff talks, and naval despatches amid a shifting Franco British context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paria
Chamber of Peers
Chamber of Deputies
Paris
M. Guizot
Great Britain
Duchess of Kent
Leiningen
Versailles
Trianon
Tuileries
Fontainbleau
France
Paris Globe
General Boyer
Haiti
America
Presse
Belgium
M. Langer
Oran
Lamoriciere
Tlemcen
Sebdou
Abd el Kader
Mémorial Bordelais
Mauritiug
Isle of
Bourbon
Constitutionnel
Frankfort Journal
Munich
Rouen
Paris and
Saxe Cobourg
Gotha
Victoria
Court of
Vienna
Anholt
Hesse
Cansel
Orleans
Havre
Avignon
Strasburg and
Basle
Ditto
Singapore
Manilla
Pegu
Japan
Ningpo
Belcher
Cochin
News Briefs From United States and Atlantic Waters
Liveproof reports arrival of the Independence ship detained off Kinsale and reaching Dublin mail. New York papers dated April 8 discuss Calhoun’s potential joint Texas and Oregon moves and Mexico talks, with Mr. Hanegan proposing trunk search clauses. Professor Sanderson, author of The American in Paris, dies in Philadelphia. The Frances Lord is visited by the Alert off Africa where a musket shot is fired and courtesy is alleged to be lacking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Packet
Independence
Nye
Kinsale
Dublin Mail
New York
Calhoun
Oregon
Mexico
R. Pakenham
Hanegan
Sanderson
Paris
Philadelphia
Frances Lord
Brown
Britannicajesty
Alert
Africa
West Indies News and Haiti Refugees Arrive in Jamaica
The Tweed arrived at Southampton with April 1 mails from the West Indies. Kingston received Teviot on April 14 and Thames reached the Kingston wharf on April 7 after Bermuda gales delayed her. A Jamaica Gazette report details a mass slaughter in Haiti near St Domingo, with 140 passengers aboard Adeline fleeing to foreign ships. Captain Tahet of Adeline refused to abandon the refugees, steering for Jamaica to protect those aboard, even as chaos spread through Aux Cayes and the port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Indies
Tweed
Royal Mail Company
R. Sharp
Southampton
West India Islands
Royal Mail
Teviot
Kingston
Jamaica
Thames
P. Hasle
Havanna
Bermuda
Haiti
Adeline
Tahet
Herard
St. Domingo
Aux
Cayes
France
Cuba
Porto Rico
Adelina
Metropolitan Bank Charters Meeting At Bank of England
A special meeting of Bank stock proprietors at the Bank of England discussed government communications on renewing the charter. Governor William Cotton explained the delay in publishing government plans to avoid garbled statements and assured prompt communication with directors on this national banking matter. The court adjourned to Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of England
William Cotton
Her
Court of Directors
Burrisu
Forricn Schpers
Exeter Hall
John Russell
M.P
Lord Monteagle
Samuel Gurney
Edward Codrington
John Burnett
Stewart Majoribanks
Prince Albert
Lord John
Duke of Bedford
Buirisa
Foreton
Crosby Hall
David Wire
John Clayton
Morris, Esq
London
Henry Warren
G. R. Ward
R. Rothwell
W. Finden
E. Goodall
London Art Union
Royal Academy
Society of British Artists
Society of Painters In Water Colours
New Society of Painters In Water Colours
British Institution
Robert Peel
R. Peel
Mr. Wyse
Rookery
Oxford-street
Holborn
Southampton-street
Queen's Bench judgment deferred to next term in Irish case
Provncial Ireland report on a Queen's Bench trial where judges were deadlocked on a new trial motion and could not render judgment until the next term. Details describe the court's mood, potential cross-court consultation, and political comment from Dublin. Also noted is Bristol Severn steamer wreck near Newport, with eyewitness account of the collision with the bridge, compartments flooding, and panic aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dustin
Queen's Bench
Justice Burton
Justice Perrin
Justice Crampton
Queen’s Bench
Baron Pennefather
Kilkenny
House of Commons
Burton
Perrin
Dublin
Daniel O'Connell
Trinity College
Church of England
Desperate Rescue and Vessel Sinking Under Mysterious Chain
A vessel was saved after passengers were landed amid mud and pumps rigged. The ship later sank with the crew rescued, a twisted chain on the screw blamed. Owners offer a £20 reward for information leading to the culprit, with raising and repairs planned by Wilmott and Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iit
Wilmott
Penllwyn Gwyn Pit
Langhorbridge
Llanelly
Preston
Howmare
Freckleton-marsh
Kirby
Freckleton
Alicé Allanson
Ilenry Harrison
Harrison
Preston Chronicle
Covent Garden Anti Corn-Law Meeting Exalts Free Trade
The National Anti Corn-Law League held a crowded meeting at Covent Garden theatre with influential free trade supporters. Mr Warburton chaired as Hon Villiers and Mr Gibbs argued repealing the corn laws would boost employment and prosperity. Gibbs cited landlords pressing tenants and menaced rents to secure votes, noting tactics to sway votes via farm tenancies and local elections. the gathering adjourned at ten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covent-Garden
National
Anti Corn-Law League
Covent-garden Theatre
Friends of Free Trade
Warburton
Villiers
Gibbs
Duke’s County
League
Council of the
Aylesbury
Ashton-Clinum
Also Mentioned on This Page
Worol -Munper
Augustus Dalmas
Newgate
Wandsworth Woriestern
Augaane ‘Dalmas
Charlotte Georgiana Dalmas
Patrick
Montpellier-square
Montpellier-Squate
Mr. Clive
Mr. Gilliam
Charlotte Dalmas
Rebecca Seward
Chelsea
Beaufort-street
Duke-street
Battersea Bridge
Cross
Mr. Gilham
Rogers
White Hart
James Cook
Danvers Street
Carman Timms
Church-lane
Wells
Stout
Gilham
Aldin’sa Coal Wharf
Duke Street
Hall
Willian Parkins
Mrs. Macfarlene
Mr. Gosling
Eliza Long
Fonel
Battersea Folly
Perdition
Millwood
Sophia
Derby
Miss
Battersea
Hell
Tam
A. Dannas
Macfarlane
No. 13
Bridge-road
A. Almas
Caroline
Charlotte
A. Datmas
Foreign Intelligence
Franch
Spain
Bravo
Madrid
Narvaez
Christina
Council of Ministers
Heraldo
M. Isturitz
M. Men
Manni
Marquis de Villama
M. Mon
M. Pidal
Interior
M. Macens
Armero
Insutt
Algesiras
Christine
Tangiers
Portugal
Almeida
Fonte Nova
J. D.riszino
Prussia
Berlin
Baron Bulow
Earl of Westmorland
Customs Union
Greece
National Assembly
Maltese Times
Huereb
Thomas Reade
Tunis
Malta
Penrose
United States
the Metropolis
Bristol
Avon
Newport
South Wales
Bateman
Monmouthshire
Severn
Newport Bridge
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