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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 14, 1842
Page
2
A dramatic eyewitness account details Hamburg's 48 hour blaze consuming vast districts from Jungfernsteig to Steinstrasse. Fire spreads through St Peterschurch and Brings down banks, exchanges, hotels, and priceless libraries as thousands flee with furniture in tow.
The Geneva constituent assembly quietly revises the federal compact. The first article declares the republic of Geneva as a sovereign state within the Swiss confederation. Sovereignty rests with the people within constitutional limits, and government is a representative democracy with equal law for all citizens.
Reports say the Texian army grows to about 3000 along the Guadaloupe river with plans to march on Mexico this fall. General Houston remains in Houston waiting for a tangible target while Calaviers Rancho hosts around 400 troops and many men have been furloughed to San Antonio. A Texian spy company of 80 watches the Rio Grande as papers criticize government tardiness and the public pushes toward action.
A common council vacancy in Bishopsgate street follows the death of wine and spirit merchant Mr Barker. Four candidates appear Matthieson radical Allan Tozer liberal and Welsh tory. The last election saw a Tory ousted on St Thomas day.
Canada segment reports Governor Bagot leaving Kingston to found a Toronto college and then heading to Halifax to meet his wife. Toronto papers hail his arrival as brilliant. Lord Sydenham’s will leaves vast property to Poulett Scrope. Hogan rumored cleared of Caroline burning. mayoral letter urges steady trade with Kingston. Trade improving. Canada appears calm.
Vera Cruz reports say Santa Anna secured an England loan for several million dollars and agreed to surrender Californias until repayment. Yellow fever kills multiple daily while trade languishes. Texan naval captures cast gloom on Vera Cruz commerce as thousands deploy in capital Xalapa and Vera Cruz. Prisoners toil in chains. two escape. Kendall remains hospitalized in good health and honor as emigration to Texas continues amid unsettled fronts.
A second meeting for proofs of debts in Wintey’s bankruptcy convened at Brighton Town Hall before Commissioners Merrifield Attree and Cooper. I N Wigney attended part of the session as the undecided £2,327 8s 10d claim for potato starch supplied to St George’s East sugar manufactory was debated. The issue whether Wright and Taplin acted as Wigney’s servants or as agents was settled earlier in favor of their being his servants. A proof for £5,000 was offered by Mr Beechcrott.
In Liverpool and Montgomeryshire reports of major fires, drownings, and a brutal double murder were logged. A flour mill fire near Bergbb orga caused structural collapse and serious injuries to three foremen, while a boat accident at Buck ferry left two men missing. A Preston murder case unfolds as a man kills his wife then attempts suicide, and a dramatic Tenby tale recounts a Halifax woman posing as a widow and mother to a clergyman, surviving a sea voyage before landing in Wales.
Ireland dispatch reports the attorney general filing indictments for libel against Belfast Vindicator and N Examiner over trial comments regarding Francis Hughes’s conviction for murder. Also noted are political shifts, with the Earl of Bandon named custos rotulorum of Cork, and sharp commentary on Peel era Irish policy and Orange sentiment.
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