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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 13, 1847
Page
2
A dense dispatch covers Belgium 1848 sessions with talks on wartime budgets and social reforms. It notes royal acknowledgments of laborers, pardons, and calls for pension and asylum management. Spain, Switzerland, Italy, and Cape of Good Hope tensions also surface with ministerial reshuffles, mobilizations, and censorship shifts.
The article recounts Maori and Pakeha tensions near Wanganui with voices urging peace yet asserting resolve against disturbances. It notes Te Rauparaha’s conditional acceptance of terms, intercession by Captain E Stanley and the Calliope crew, and details on troop movements, ship arrivals, and pending municipal corporation debates while awaiting Eyre’s arrival.
The Metropolis reports a court session before the new Lord Mayor with a commutation from Sir G Grey in the Mary Ann Hunt case. The court also adopts a report on Sunday trading and notes the resignation of the Guildhall Police court clerk. Swearing in of the Lord Mayor at the Guildhall and Huskisson statue at Lloyds are mentioned, along with an inquest in Walworth into the murder of a newborn, which the coroner brands as willful murder.
Read of Lewes suppression of annual Bonfire Night riots with tar barrels and armed rioters. Captain Mackay's patrols halted disturbances. 80 others captured and remanded. Also Monmouthshire voter removals, Rochester assaults by soldiers, and Tiverton murder case arsenic links.
Nov 4 Dostim Irish Council session weighs relief measures and suspensions of trade laws. Debates income or property tax with landlords and tenants, calls for broader taxation, and pressures Parliament for rapid remedial actions amid famine distress. Demonstrations at Blackwater and Knockane Hill noted with appeals by landlords and local leaders for law and aid.
A large crowd gathering in City Hall discussed frauds by grain merchants meal mills and provision dealers who adulterated meat and food for the poor. Speakers urged strict inspection fair trade and legislative action while proposing a city committee to investigate and press Parliament for reform.
A Glasgow tale recounts a husband who chased a missing wife across Scotland after she vanished during their brief honeymoon. He traced her to Perth and Campsie before reuniting in a public house where she returned to his arms. The piece ends with renewed happiness and a second, longer prospect for the couple.
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