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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 12, 1837
Page
3
A miscellany column surveys a range of topics from Cowper’s alleged impiety and a physician’s convulsions cure to the wedding finger’s anatomy. It also recounts Old London amid Lord Mayor’s Day histories, pageants, and the Abou Ben Adhem poem with its famed moral about loving humanity.
Review surveys Dickens sketches with Cruikshank plates and a long critique of parish life detailing the parish beadle, vestry, workhouse master, and schoolmaster. It highlights urban poverty, family misery, and the parish system's reach from taxation to relief. Also notes naval keepsake on Nelson and a critique of quarantine pestilence books.
The piece addresses Queen Victoria as maiden Queen and Ocean Queen using flowers as symbols. Violet Ivy Carnation Tansy and Anemone appear as emblems. The speaker envisions Victoria crowned with wreaths from England and Plantagenet lineage, symbolizing peace, virtue, and hopeful reign.
The poem extols summer as the dearest season, praising sunshine shadows waters and green pastures. It paints lively scenes of bees linnets squirrels water rats and waterfalls, with mountains gardens and radiant flowers.
A collection of quips and scenes including Johnson’s sharp retort to Garrick about Shakespeare. Additional snippets recount pauper removal by coach and a Somersetshire servant retort. A physician’s philanthropy anecdote closes the fragment.
Her Majesty left the Pavilion of Brighton at ten in the morning in an open carriage escorted by two scarlet out riders. She travelled via Hickstead Croydon to Brixton hill with a guard and entered the palace by the centre gate at three. A dinner with distinguished guests followed and on Sunday she attended no service, while Russian court members visited the Duchess of Kent.
A busy chronicle of royal and noble movements in St Leonards including Queen Victoria and Princess Augusta attending Divine Service and walking the Parade, Duke of Cambridge visiting Sandhurst, and other court figures seen in London and Norfolk lectures. It also reports on promotions, parish grants, and various international items from Madrid to Moscow.
A critical review condemns Planche's Caractacus as a distorted Beaumont and Fletcher adaptation. It decries dull speeches, weak performances, and poor staging though Balfe’s music and choral work offer minor relief. The Olympic Burletta A Dream of the Future and Byron Don Juan adaptation also receive praise for performances and scenery.
The column reports brisk attendance at Newmarket and Parliament gaps, listing Derby odds for D Egville and others. It notes Harkaway’s high bid and planned English debut next year. Cheltenham stag hounds ran splendidly from Square Ditch to Northleach, with twenty riders pursuing the deer across open country in a striking display.
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