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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

May 31, 1840

Page

2

Prisoner Suspected Due to Strong Resemblance to Courvoisier

On the 6th he had been out all night but proved at home the previous night. He admitted a strong likeness to Courvoisier alarmed Mr. Pearce who suspected him after the examination. He explained rushing toward the prisoner but claimed it was curiosity and a chance to be near him one last time.

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Foreign Intelligence. France and Spain news from Paris and Madrid

French journals report on Lord Stanley's bill defeat and ministerial fate. Paris dispatches describe Teniah pass battles with 6000 defenders, naval preparations at Toulon, and a planned St Helena squadron. Reports cover New Zealand settlement plans, Buenos Ayres blockade, Prussia's king, and Naples/Greece tensions with Austria. Also mentions Serbia unrest, US and Canada news, and China affairs.

France Paris Lord Stanley Afoniteur Toulon Teniah Medeah Leath Orleans Duke d’Aumale Favorite St. Helena Prince de Joinville New Zealand Rochefor Comte de Paris Langlois Banks Island Nantes Bordeaux Raba Balgueree Arnous Riveere Toche Noquet le Constitutionnel Buenos Ayres Rosas Dupotet Berlin Prussia

Notorious brigand Gaspareno sold knife and hat in exile

Naples letter claims the brigand Gaspareno killed at least forty three people then confined at Civita Vecchia. He allegedly sold his knife handle to an Englishman for 83 napoleons and his hat for 50 napoleons to a French tourist, amid sensational escape rumors and prison life reports.

E.D Gaspareno Naples Civita Vecchia

Royal Naval School meeting seeks new site and donors

The Royal Naval School held a large meeting at Regent-street to choose a site for a new school, elect a headmaster, and plan fundraising. Donations from the Earl of Yarborough and others boosted the building fund to £2,441 6s 5d as plans for a parliamentary bill move forward.

Royal Naval School Horticultural Society Regent-street G. Seymour R.N J. M. Hope Sir E. Troubridge, Bart H. Meynell Earl of Yarborough Additio Charles Dixon T. Chambers St. John’s College, Cambridge E. Codrington J. Copley Goldsmiths’ Company Skinners’ Company F. Ommaney Robinson Forber Dustron B. Hall M.P Messrs. Kirby Hugh Biers G. A. Young Clapp Joseph Marylebone Vestry Home Office Marylebone Home Secretary Fox Maule Catuoxie Instituts Catholic Institute Freemasons’hall C. Langdale Lords Campus Stratford Stourton Clifford Lovatt C. Clifford Messrs. O'Connell Husband Dunfermline P. Howard C. Weld Wheble C. Townley F. Lucas Lawson Baldacconi New York Campys Sisk Earl of Shrewsbury Gregory XVI John Catholic Institute of Great Britain Church of Christ Great Britain Gregory the Great Britain Pious Association Father of Mercies Rome St. Peter's Gregory P.P. XVI Orran London Andrew White Sir James Hillyer Tiarks Steinkopff Mr. Kidd C. Stowell Westminster School St. James’s Street Richard P. Glyn George Rose John Boyd John Osborne I. P. Williams Archdeacon King Lambert, Powell Higginson Doe Williamson G. Preston Phillimore Iserland A. Cooper E. Chaplin H. Hussey Ames Andrews D’oyley Mudan Sha W. C. Plowden R. B. Berens T. H. Dickenson Somers Cocks Prince Albert Floreat Christchurch Trinity Westminster Elizabeth Nance Williamson Duke of Bedford Earl of Mansfield Lord Guillamore St. George Vy. W. Quekett

Provincial teetotalism spreads in Aberdeenshire and beyond

The report notes a rising teetotal movement across Aberdeenshire led by Rev. R. G. Mason with plans for a northern union to unite local societies. Fraserburgh and nearby fishing villages show strong teetotal adoption as authorities anticipate impact on revenue and policy. An expanding temperance push is linked to wider Ireland’s movement.

Aberdeen R. G. Mason Aberdeenshire Ireland Buchan Fraserburgh Ardmagh Colonel Rawdon Armagh London Friends of Ireland Lord Stanley Tories Orange Colgendon Dublin

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