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Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 23, 1841

Page

5

Anti corn law rally in Manchester and nationwide petitions

Massive meetings in Manchester and Southampton rally for corn law repeal and tariff reform. Speakers urge repeal of prohibitions, tax on bread, and protectionist duties, while petitions flood Parliament from cities including Leicester Sheffield Coventry Norwich and Dublin in support of ministerial measures and free trade.

Ripon James Scholefield Gentleman Elijah Dixon Alderman Walker Manchester Alderman Kershaw Walker Thomas Potter T. Bazley Bazley J. B. Smith Manchester Chamber of Commerce Brazils United States Wylie Mr. Cobden Duggin Ireland Rathbone Greg Thomas Hopkins George Hadfield William Neild Tre Ames Alderman Trotal John Russell T. Hopkins House of Commons Poland America Council S. Stocks J. Naylor Jon Ia Manchester Chamberwen Merce and Manufactures C Eakens A Robert Their Bedy Southampton Guildhall Hapton F. L. Harman S. Hill Bowyer Joan Gurriox Anti-Corn Law Association Leicester Walsatt Gladstone Villiers Mr. Gladstone Licurixta Barnsley Lord Morpeth Worsborough Anpathy Dopworts Acton Working Men’s Reform Association Divett TorrinaTon Arishes George Toms Joseph Hume Fea M.P Anti-Cornlaw League Ashtonunder-Lyne Hastines Holland London Sheffield Preston Kirby Lonsdale London Committee Devonport Town Hall Norrincham John Cam Hobhouse Walter Porriza Rome Coventry Norwich Marshall Captain Money Woolbright Newcastle and Gateshead Shipowner’s Society Town-Hall Newcastle Richmond Rayner Chamber of Commerce of Clitheroe Blackburn West Indies England TewnEspany Lewis Lynx Beprorp Lit Tle Hampton Sussex Toll-house Surrey Wolvenhampton Prince Albert Messrs Villiers and Thornley Brnmincham Treland Mzsrine DuBuin Dublin Royal Exchange Lord Charlemont Percy Nugent Ross Can- Rick-On-Suiz John Fitzgerald, Esq

Campaigns for Repeal of Corn Laws Across Wales and Scotland

Reports detail widespread petitions and meetings advocating repeal of the corn laws. Déclarations recount petitions signed by thousands in towns such as Dunfermline Epinal and Fornis, with radical support pushing for urgent parliamentary action. Meetings in Mostyn Carnarvon Flint and Glasgow urge immediate repeal and debate of ministerial tariff proposals.

Ireland Scortano Dunvix EpiveurGs Fornis Burgh Morrison House of Commons Stratine Justiciary Epinsunca Startrom Penth Dunots Henry Parneil Glascow Scotland Wales Mostyn Cysegr W. Griffith S. Hamer Carnarvon Flint Robert Eyton Griffith League

The Duke of Rutland Attacks Pauper Diet Again

A Leeds era item notes the Duke of Rutland's 1839 move to lower pauper meals in his union, arguing that wages rose yet the diet worsened. It cites hospitality to peers for praise and asks how the policy misfired, urging accountability to a public less prone to praise. The piece links protests to broader labor and bread shortages.

Duke RutLayp Duke of Rutland Suort Commons Sheffield Great Britain Brazil Iupia Mart General Post-Office Colonial Office West India Islands Duantist Tony Compaor Crown and Anchor Exeter Hall O’connel Martin London O'Connell Manchester Greg West Indies Robert Peel House of Commons Caroline

Insolvent Debtor Proceedings In London Court

The Insolvent William Boxp Knight appears for discharge, facing opposition from silversmith Hall over jewellery claimed as gifts to Scottish ladies, amid alleged knighthood claims and prior prison escape. The case adjourned to amend designation and renew. The court later dismisses the petition as he left custody since filing. The same session covers theatrical creditors and discharges for Ratcliffe and Pitt, with further references to Victoria theatre leases and debts.

Mownar Willliam Boxp Kyiut Hall High Street Marylebone Scotland Hume Edgware Teakle William the Fourth Fleet Brown Thomas William Boyd Dinary Piccadilly Charing-cross Cooke Hammond Drurylame Theatre Cabaldiston Arthur Wentworth Woodroffe John Bond Ratcliffe Victoria Theatre Ratcliffe Joan Bonn Barczirre

Infec ted Pauper Apprentices and Shoplifting Ring At Strand

A Strand resident complains that union officers sent a boy with a contagious itch into her home, infecting children. legal advice suggests consulting a solicitor. In Oxford Street a shopman and a woman are charged as burglars in a large plunder case with goods identified from Smith and Monteath’s store. A separate case at Worship Street covers a man fined for assault over ham charges in a roadside inn. Proceedings involve attempted loan schemes, drunkenness, and a police clash with offenders using life preservers.

Strand Union Union Tooting Old Bailey William Bynon Messrs Trish Byron Mr. Smith Monteath Stangate-street Westminster-bridge Road Gloag Bynon Thornton Lizzy Clerkenwell Tur Sir Emanuel Moore Rochfort County Cork Ireland William Cleaver Railway Tea and Coffee Seymour-street Euston-square Liverpool Jane Mott Watmaugh Hooper-street Westminster Road Desmond Popham M‘phane Papham Donoghue Tower-street Thompson Marvin M‘phone Pine Maltby House of Correction

Stopp Seeks Bail Reduction in Court as Assignment Sought

In a ruling touching bail limits and judgment debts Stopp, now a prisoner in the Fleet, petitioned the court to reduce bail without resolving all debts. The court allowed a renewed application if a judgment creditor consents. Separately Sir Hugh Evelyn sought the appointment of an assignee under a vesting order in the Queen’s Bench prison case. The court granted the assignee application, with costs to come from in court funds.

Hugh Evelyn Bart Queen’s Bench Cooke Nichols Sturgis Baronet Queen's Bench Prison Court of Chancery

Central Criminal Court case on Wakeling Williams sentencing

The Central Criminal Court met to adjudicate respited judgments, focusing on Wakeling and Williams convicted of robbing a lady on a Paddington omnibus. Witnesses testified to Wakeling's cab business and character, leading to transportation for life for two defendants and a range of terms for others.

New Coury Chapman Marshal Wakeling Williams Paddington William Mabbet George Hayman Ann Dodd Home Office John Hoffman John Hoffman, Alias Chapelle Jos. Oliver J. H. Stevens William Young George Goodluck William Jong, the Younger John Shephard Thomas Hattersley Wm. Crouch Juckes Thomas Pinnock H. Price James Coker Mary Hassan John Wakeling John Williams Samuel Mason Samuel H Wm. Shaw William Alshorne Philip France John Brown W. Smith James Armstrong Henry Weston Wm. Strong Samuel Little Mary Ann Smith W. Crule Thomas Ware Arnold Russel John Bowles Charles Rees J. Morgan George Riggs Elizabeth Davis

Oh Moonlit Parlour We Sing In Quiet Vale

A column for the curious presents a lyric about moonlit sittings and a parlour floor brighter than nature. It images a lamp as the night orb and shadows on a green bedscape, praising home warmth over grand external realms and imagining music, laughter, and open casement views.

Isles Kaisar Rey Eageas

Romance of a Mind Restored by a Virtuous Girl

An 18th century anecdote describes a near-idiotic patient saved by a young virtuous girl who taught him to read and write. Through her care he recovered, married, and later a tragedy struck when she died after childbirth. the tale ends with him becoming an active, restored figure in society.

Pyemetat Seerth Lis Realuy Cumbe United States

Sea Bathing Debate and a Poem of Dreary Night

A fragmentary miscellany contrasts antique sayings on sea bathing with a dramatic poem about longing and despair. It weaves quips from Horne Tooke Porson Sheridan with a mournful lyric of a woman awaiting an absent beloved. The verse depicts night, dawn, and a lonely moated grange as she laments and wishes for death.

Horne Porson Sheridan

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