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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 13, 1842
Page
2
A chaotic transcript outlines an inquest and legal proceedings with references to witnesses, police, and magistrates. It mentions adjournments, examinations, and potential trials, naming Beale and Kilshaw among those connected to the case, with procedural details and locations in England.
News from Desay notes Lord Eliot’s brief Coleraine stop and Downhill visit amid Tory plans for a new attorney general and Presbyterian hopes for Dr Boyd. Reports from Tipperary recount renewed agrarian violence, torchings, and a brutal home assault where the Powers family endured a chaotic night as armed intruders clashed with residents.
Disturbances near Ayrshire coal pits led to mobs harassing new workers at Whitletts and other sites. Windows broken, threats issued, and labour halted as authorities arrest leaders and deploy witnesses. Carrick yeomanry to patrol. watchmen armed for property protection amid ongoing strike activity.
Ballinaclough police and Ballygrainge youths surrounded a house with pitchforks but found no target after sweeping the countryside. Reports describe blood near the Powers ruins and a noted, praised resistance, while James Ryan alias Early was found guilty of stealing a gun lock from Cappagh police barracks for information to police, and a separate inquest in Clonmel Gaol blamed carbonic acid gas from an Arnot stove for the deaths of Edmund Burke and William Sullivan, urging removal of the gas tube.
The officials report on the state and education of pauper children at St Pancras workhouse. They detail religious instruction concerns, improper interferences by a vestryman, and call for safeguards against proselytism. The study finds overall poor progress, notes improvements since new staff, and urges better record keeping, training, and an infant school.
The piece surveys two 1843 publications the Musical Bijou by D Almaine and Crurkenann s Comic Almanack tilt and rogue. It praises musical merit and exquisite presentation while lamenting gilding over substance and parodies legal satire. It notes the Almanack s jokes on lawyers and the era s steam powered courts with sharp comic commentary.
Readers are treated to a satirical parliamentary sketch chronicling bribery charges, suffrage debates, and a riotous divide vote amid mock-heroic phrases and farce. The piece lampoons Victorian politics, from Bat t ersea to Twickenham, and the chaotic discourse over reform and finance. It closes with a spoof science column about a submarine voyage and oceanic colonization plans by David Drinkwater.
The piece details a meeting of the United Female Chartist Washerwomen and the Infant Society of Universal Suffrage, debating amendments to a five to six pint measure and pledging funds to a Victim Fund. Subscriptions include patriotic mothers, charwomen, tailors, grandmothers, and clock hands, with social toasts during tea.
A letter from Mattukw Musxer mocks the Hemperor called Brother of the Moon and comments on Chinese enemies. He ridicules governance, compares natives to dying and colors, jokes about earlier science, and laments deficient artillery. The piece jests at Chinese customs, footwear, and dress while noting a 600-strong regiment and imminent guard relief.
Inquests at Guy's hospital reveal William Hughes aged 33 died after a cement cask fell on him during unloading. A warehouse fire at Mr Badder’s wine and spirit vaults in Goswell Street caused extensive damage and loss of stock, likely sparked by a candle. An inquest on a two and a half year old child linked poisoning to prussic acid, with a coroner noting lack of labeling and calling for better safeguards.
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