Midnight Rhapsody and Curiosities in a Victorian Column
A column mixes Romantic verse and antiquarian excerpts. It opens with Mrs Cornwell Baron Wilson’s midnight rhapsody lamenting forsaken muse and memory, then shifts to brief antiquarian anecdotes, politics, and social observations featuring Lynne’s mayoral quirks, Kean and Shakespeare, Hogarth and public notices, a nursemother anecdote, the First of June battle, religious revival notes, and assorted witticisms, all styled in a 19th century miscellany voice.
Singular Case of Child Stealing at Ashton under Lyne
A wife from the 20th regiment, Blakemore of Ashton, feigned pregnancy to gain her husband’s affection. She abducted a infant, staged a birth hoax with a recruited nurse, but a midwife’s examination revealed her ruse. The infant was returned, Blakemore was jailed, and committed for trial at Salford sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashton-under-Lyne
Solomon
Blakemore
20Th Regiment of Infantry
Ashton
Mr. Newton
Campbell
Stand-still on China trade and Greenwich coal case
Advices note a complete stand-still with vessels leaving Whampoa and those from India staying onboard. Greenwich Sessions address a short weight coal case where Messrs Pope are fined for four sacks underweight after a weighing dispute. A Bridge Ward reform motion fails narrowly, with 60 in favor and 46 against, amid council debate on representative balance and city governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Whampoa
India
Rogers
Swan
Pope
Maardenstone Hill
Commn Council
Bridge
Bridge Ward
Taylor
Burton
Wheeler
London
John Key
Ashurst
Beckwith
Bedford
Bennet
Blackett
Bond
Brown
Carr
Charles
Christie
Collingwood
Croucher
Davies
de Jersey
Edkins
Evans
Jun
Eldred
Figgins
Finnis
Frodsham
Galloway
Gibson
Godson
Goodridge
Green
Hale
Hall
Harrison
Heppell
Hicks
Hoard
Hoole
Hoppe
Hunter
King
Lake
Lott
Negus
Parker
Patten
Peacock
Price
Prichird
Robinson
Rolls
Selson
Sprague
Stacey
Thomas
Tyars
Unwin
Watson
Welch
White
Woollatt
Marriott
Davidson
Neg
Sir C. Marshall
Amos
Bousfield
Boyell
Syndge
Britton
Buckland
Collinson
Elmes
Emerson
Gadsdon
Gandell
Ganthony
Haswell
Heyward
Hill
Holt
Jackson
James
C. Jones
Kipling
J. Lawrence
Leparp
Locke
St. Thomas-day
Great Floods in the West of England
Description of widespread floods across Somerset and adjacent counties. Towns such as Manrocx and Ilchester endure record high waters with roads and cellars inundated. A heroic dog rescues Bartlett from a overturned cart and a local vicar and residents assist livestock and people. The Thameslike inundation disrupts travel, with coaches stranded and inns active for rescue.
Extrapromary Case Inquest at Aston Clinton Over Fatality
A coroner's inquest at Aston Clinton Bucks examined John Choules and the alleged killer Thomas Patterson. Patterson confessed to killing a man believed to be Kibble near Buckland after an alcohol fueled night with Choules. The jury found Patterson guilty of manslaughter and remanded him for Bucks assizes. An ox caused a late lampooned incident at Mr Sellwood's shop in Southampton, entering a garden and street without damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aston Clinton
Bucks
J. W. Cowley
John Choules
Buckland
Thomas Patterson
Choules
New Inn
Patterson
Christopher
Tring
Johnson
Mr. Fleet
Fleet
Charles
Humphrey Bul
Bull
Humphrey Bull
Bucks Assizes
Sellwood
Southampton
Mr. S
Old Bailey Trials Presented A String Of Sentences In London
Reports recount Mary Foley aged 17 indicted for stealing a shawl valued five shillings, with other cases showing William Lovell and John Chapman convicted for robbery, John Miller jailed for attempted murder on his wife, James Stuke tried for manslaughter on Rosalie crew, and others receiving transportation or prison terms for assault and violence aboard ships and in Deptford and London streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Foley
William Cotterell
Phesprose Ontee
Tottenham,court-road
Hanway-court
St. Giles
William Lovell
John Chapman
Palmer
Swell
Bank of England
Thos. Thompson
Messrs
Phillips
Bet
Mr. Phillips
Chambers
Killips
James Stuke
Rosalie
James Norman
Clarkson
Howard Hannah
Liverpool
Rio
Baron Maule
Clerkenwell
Bullock
Derriorp Murper
Baron Gurney
William Calvert
William Aldridge
William Pine
John Pine
John Burke
Calvert
Ballantine
Mary
Stevens
George Stevens
King-street
Deptford
Hobble
Dock-Yard
Pine
Carey
New Road
Aldridge
Witness
Telegraph
Tell-House
Cross
Joseph Buckmaster
George Baker
Burke
Buckmaster
The Chartists Trial at Trowbridge
George Harman aged 31 was found guilty of publishing a seditious handbill to the Chartists of Wiltshire at Trowbridge. He admitted distributing papers in August and was judged to have published the libel with intent. He received nine months in Fisherton Gaol and a twelve month peace bond on release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlborough Sessions
George Harman
Wiltshire
Trowbridge
Slade
George Foley
George Sucre
England
Fisherton
Hatton Garden Assault Case Confusingly Heard
In Hatton Garden a 66 year old man, Thomas Finner, testified that Ann Duncan, a young woman, bit his ear and damaged his cheek after a moral dispute in a public house. Duncan, who said Finner tried to seduce her, claimed she acted in self defence and was discharged by the magistrate. A second note discusses the Queens privy purse and Cape Breton mine claims tied to the late Duke of York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hatton Garden
Senrvine
Ann Duncan
Thomas Finner
Parker-street
Borough
Mr. Greenwood
Inspector Penny
Finer
Guy Faux
Hastings
Duke of York
Cape Breton
Province of
Nova Scotia
Ao Crown
Also Mentioned on This Page
A. Midnight Rhapsody
Mrs. Cornwell Baron Wilson
Maior
Thoms
Kean
Shakspeare
Bunn
Drury-lane Theatre
Mathews
Youra
Norfolk
Wade
George the Second
Hogarth
Finchley
George I
Bainter
Utica
Marlborough
Moncton
Burron
Earl Howe
Europe
Pest
Oxford
Pittsburg
Antwerp
New York Herald
Walker
Hamlet
Covent Garden Theatre
Armour
Mr. Chapman
Cromwell
Surrey
Fairfax
Imagination
Charles Mb
Rhodee
Marshal Marmont
Wordsworth
Bartlett
Thornford
Bradford
Oakham
Parrett
Incurster
Ilchester
Northover
London Road
Ivel
Langport
Harris
King's Ham
Lymington
Darlington Hotel
Castle Inn
Sherland
Wiminster
Shorland
Dolphin Inn
Payne
Victoria
Ichester
Haines
London Mail
Uchester
Suernorge
Somersetshire
Central Criminal Court
Brookman
Victualling Department
James Woolverton
Samuel Holmes
Francis John Hall
James Hairside
Wiliam Pine
Charles Hampton
Betty White
Hannah Richardson
Edward Downing
Ace Aldridge
Richardson
Itness
Morper
Hiew Seas
John Wentworth Fairbank
Arthur White
High Seas
Doane
Serjeant Andrews
Bodkin
George Menty
Rio Janeiro
Falmouth
Thei
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