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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
May 30, 1846
Page
6
A lengthy London Queen's Bench session covers multiple cases. The prose details the prosecution of various motions and rulings, including rule applications on penalties, two-court proceedings, and a jury challenge over exemptions, with references to Daguerreotype patent disputes, railway company liability, and a coal weighing case.
A wide range of cases unfolds including Thiman Richards and Benny Kirby summoned for insulting a Vice Chancellor’s officer and a refused apology, a stabbing case against Joseph Carter, a fraudster in matrimony facing reexamination, a Drury Lane theft of a rare opera glass, railway robberies, a manslaughter examination in Drury Lane, brutal assault on Mary Lovell in Acton, and other public notices with multiple magistrates' inquiries and remands.
In a Surrey trial the plaintiff was awarded six penalties of five pounds each totaling thirty pounds. Separately a juror admitted a misrepresented juror acted by personating his employer named Davis to sit in court. Davis was fined ten pounds. Smith remained in custody until magistrates decide his punishment.
The Monday session for Henry Norman, accused of robbery involving £52 from Mr William Noof of Madeley House, Kensington, and suspected in the murder of Mr Robert Westwood in Soho on June 3, 1839, drew a crowded court. Lord Kensington attended, with others linked to Norman through Jamaica, New York, and the tragedy. Evidence showed a £42 sum handed to take to the Imperial Gas Company and various confessions of robberies and five murders. Inspector Havill followed leads to Liverpool where Norman was identified, found with £42 and later £20 in a carpet bag along with other wearing apparel.
The Wilt Protection Society invites tenant farmers to a meeting at Willie's Rooms with expenses paid. A special general meeting of the Chamber discusses promoting the Corn and Repeal Bill to avert district evils, with a petition to the Lords to be presented to the Duke of Wellington. A dramatized incident follows in Southwark, then a South Midlands Junction Railway meeting at the London Tavern dissolves amid confusion over plans and an injunction threat. Railway statistics and weekly receipts are listed for multiple lines, with preambles and third readings noted.
A House of Lords committee report on land burdens splits into two published documents. The protectionist majority calls for property law reforms, registration of deeds, and public funding for lunatic asylums, while the Free Trade faction urges property tax reform, abolition of many rates, and centralization of certain costs. The analysis notes inquiries into foreign farming and the balance of burdens, with specifics on stamp duties and militia charges. A separate Bristol incident reports a murder trial arising from a servant’s suspected concealment of a child, verdict reached as wilful murder.
A satirical column debates repeal and Peelite politics, contrasting, in a mock dramatic style, the motives to oppose or pass the bill, while lampooning landlord power and parliamentary maneuvering amid references to Peel and Downing Street. Celebrity concerns widen to a vivid sketch of public life and reform debates.
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