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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 12, 1842
Page
3
A fragmented OCR item discusses ideas about belief and turning off a channel or signal. It mentions good intentions, sides, and a preface but lacks clear names, dates, places, or concrete actions. The readable portion hints at evaluating beliefs and responses to external input.
A scrambled OCR excerpt mentions the Oxford Institute and prison governance topics. It references a commission, oath, magistrates, and guards, with unclear timelines and many garbled phrases. Names and precise details are not recoverable from the fragment.
Fragmented report details a Thurles quarter session where Paddy McKews is linked to robbery and Ryan alias Early is jailed for stealing a gun from Cappagh police barrack. A charged sentencing remarks on Ryan criticize his criminal path, suggesting wider county unrest and corruption. An inquest in a Tipp gaol records two prisoners suffocated by carbonic gas from an Arnot stove, prompting calls to relocate the gas tube.
Disturbances near Whitletts and other pits disrupt workers as mobs threaten, destroy property, and pressure men to quit. Sheriffs pursue leaders. Carrick yeomanry and watchmen guard sites. Later reports note assaults, intimidation, and thefts as strike actions continue with authorities enforcing order and protecting those willing to work.
Official report by assistant poor law commissioners details the St Pancras workhouse school system. It records interference by vestryman Mr Williams during religious tests, calls for safeguards against proselytism, and notes inadequate education with calls for better recording, infant schooling, and broader material resources. The commissioners urge improved church oversight and chaplaincy, plus reforms in registerkeeping, classification, and instructional apparatus.
William Humphery, Esq., sworn as lord mayor at the Guildhall, with a grand show through Cornhill and Gracechurch before a procession marred by steamers and mishaps. The day featured hissing at Blackfriars, a banquet at the Guildhall, and toasts to Peel and the queen. Speakers praised London’s history, wealth, and civic harmony despite political divisions, and urged peaceful cooperation between government and city authorities.
A London reviewer reviews Delmaine and Co’s Musical Almanack for 1843, praising music and art while criticizing gilding. The piece parodies Tom Hood and lampoons lawyers, judges, and China conflicts with satirical sketches, concluding with a mock letter from Matthew Musxxr.
In 1913 like a satire of old times, the scene shifts from a Commons aimed at reform to a mock legislative debacle. Raucous oaths, a speaker’s bell, and a budget of gin set the stage as Battersea and Twickenham demand suffrage while barley wine and bribery accusations swirl amid a chorus of toasts and a mock petition to the Victim Fund.
A satirical survey notes how the income tax reshapes London commerce and households. Tradesmen cut expenses, a grocer dismisses an assistant, a linen shop reduces staff, and even a publican lowers a potboy’s pay. The piece mocks retrenchment, pennies, and the broader strain on workers, shop staff, and families as prices and living costs rise.
Inquests at Guy's hospital reveal William Hughes, 33, died after a cement cask toppled during unloading. A fire at Mr Badder’s Goswell Street wine vaults caused extensive damage and loss of stock. A separate inquest on John Taylor, aged two and a half, concerns a fatal prussic acid incident linked to phial mismanagement and unlabeled poisons. Verdicts: accidental death.
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