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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Nov 17, 1839

Page

4

Destructive fires and various notices from the era

Monday morning a large tallow melter and candle manufactory in Islington was destroyed within an hour. Earlier, Kent and Co brush workshops in Great Marlborough Street burned, confined to the workshop. Notices mention imports from Germany, a chancery arrears petition, a drowning at a canal lock, a hospital charity sale, autographs sold, tea deliveries, and Duchess of St Albans’ memoirs. Accidents, insolvencies, court cases, and public meetings fill the rest of this miscellaneous column.

Islington Wm. Barefoot Upper North-road Messrs Kent and Co Great Marlborough-street Fry Sausebes England Germany Paar Court of Chancery Exeter Dally Wilts Hercutex St. Albans Thomas Kingston Gray Pritchard Lawdor Pickford Labouchere Board of Trade S. Laing Derapre Ann Griffiths Gray's Inn Manchester Square Abernethy Finburgh Courant Stovcex Dearn Pye Smith Homerton Dixnst Bolton A. W. Paulton Bolton Free Press Brotherton M.P Villiers Ainsworth R. Cobden J. B. Smith J. Thomasson John Bright Rochdale H. Ashworth Ballantyne France Nottingham Burton Mapper-tew Ostend Severstition Holly Lodge Coutts Duchess of Gloucester R. Rice Hughes Kemerton Archdeacon Thorp Gloucester Corporation Logaliy Cambridge Advertiser Streatham Surrey Duke of Lidford Saxpay Trepinc Chelmsford Chelmsford Chronicle Pembrokeshire John Owen Cheshire North Staffordshire D. W. Russell Derby Mercury George Cornwall Legh North Cheshire E. J. Stanley Tollesaps Wilbraham Hull Times Morning Post Duke of Wellington

Dickensian stage notes and sporting results at Covent Garden

The report covers a mixed program at Covent Garden including a Roberto Bellini style performance with Mrs Croft as the Fairy, praised singing by Miss Davenport in Toronto, and a lengthy summary of Sheridan Knowles drama Love and the farce Dont be Frightened. It also details Drury Lane theatre administration, public notices, amateur performances at Tealby, and a Windsor steeple chase with Mountjoy Townshend and a later pedestrian trial at Lord's Ground.

Neti Rossini Ake Capauie Migs Deley Ferry i Deley Fraser Aju Covent Garden Theatre Sheridan Knowles Morton Timothy Flinch Mr. Bartley Finch Maria Miss. Lee Major Rocket Charles Timothy Matia Miss Lee Bartley Sir Timothy Daphne Ellen Covent-garden Theatre Drury-lane Theatre Earl of Glengall Durant A. Baugh Hall Court of Queen’s Bench Toronto Patriot Vincent Crummles Atlantic Richard London Kean New York General Morris Richard III Richard II Miss Davenport Edinburgh Dublin Boston Philadelphia New Orleans Toronto Drury Lane Tom” Parry Buckstore Birmingham Harriet Cawse Fiddes St. James's Theatre Oscar Gustavus Mozart Munich

Betting-room notices shake Derby odds and falcon in England

In Tattersalls on Monday the Derby favourite Grey Milton faced renewed doubt as Lord George Bentinck hinted the horse would skip the Derby to target safer engagements. Odds moved on several contenders including Launcelot Wardan Angelica colt and Ishmael with prices fluctuating. A fine two-foot-two-inch falcon weighed 23 pounds and is now stuffed for public viewing at Princes Risborough. A brief foreign hunting note praises English fox hunting while a German steeplechase near Stuttgart reports six starters and Lt Silberhorn winning in twelve minutes. A Ayr Townhead family reports a cat delivering a live fluke from garden waters.

Tattersalls Grey Milton George Bentinck Wardan Angelica Launcelot Ishmael Scott Jersey Mr. Wreford Orford Uley Glenorchy G. Bentinck Grey Milton Lichfield Princes Risborough Thomas Whitwell Aylesbury News Foreign Huntinc Monsieur Chelmaford Chronicle Winrempenc Stuttgardt Ludwigsburg Zottenhausen Silberhorn Veiel Socom Ayr

Destructive Fire in Widegate Alley Claims Eight Lives

A disastrous fire in Widegate alley near Bishopsgate early Tuesday morning claimed eight lives and damaged multiple properties. Fire brigades from Jeffrey Square and nearby stations fought the blaze, with collapse of Nos 9 and 10 endangering occupants and triggering a thorough search that uncovered several victims. Eyewitness accounts describe frantic scenes of families fleeing and a woman leaping from a first floor window. Police and fire crews conducted a careful recovery operation as investigators assess origin, with preliminary notes suggesting possible neglect of light by Flood, a resident, though the exact cause remains uncertain. Property losses run high across Nos 7 to 11 and adjacent Windsor Place, with several tenements uninsured. The city police and fire authorities coordinated evacuations and guarded the ruins to prevent looting.

Chapmaal Marshall Carey i Ian Dowd Ballinaslée Dublin St. Lazare du Notariat Bibi Lord Brougham Cumberland Carlisle Journal Carlisle J. Dixon Weir Richardson W. Richardson Mr. Browne J. Graham Mr. Graham William Browne Butchergate Mr. Barton Adjd Polycamy Johnson Newcastle Regent's Canal Rogers Saunders St. Luke’s Heckmondwike Queenshead Halifax Express Lavine Foundation Stoxes Herschel Undercliffe Lane Bradford Leeds Intelligencer Benjamin Bond Cabbell R. F. Richardson City of London Generals Pension Society Cabbell Mathew Belfast Chronicle Fletton John Rowell Lincoln Chronicle Monterean Vincennes Paris Braun Vienna John Rennie Medina Royal Yacht Squadron Norris Hampshire Stamford Lincolnshire Otway Pena C. B. Parsons National Theatre Cincinnati Louisville Boston Robert Kitchen Park-row Robert Ann-street Herald Office Schuylkill Bank Philadelphia Enioria Apvick Jarvis Hartford Suicipe 3D Light Dragoons George T. Beresford G.C.H Charles Manners Sutton K.C.B. Ket Alfred Montgomery Bert Dale Owen Robert Owen Indiana E. Tennent Emerson Tennent Orange Belfast Marcu Ornrmocrarny Crawford-street Jack Ketch Surcipe S Division Ernest-street Regent's Park University College Hospital Salter Widegate Widegate Alley Charles “Hyde Ely-place Holborn John Barton Oass Jeffrey Square West of England Bailey Pocock Braidwood No. 22 John Webb Windsor-place Crookland Newman Burton No. 10 Flood M‘carthy Ennison Bishopsgate Ewman Newnan London Hospital Mary Smith Marchant Petticoat-lane Barton Phenix W. Adams Shoreditch Carter Royal Exchange Stanley Westminster Sun Phoenix Windsor-street

Giant gas inflated figure floats on Guy Fawkes day

A twelve foot aerial machine inflated with gas rose from a Pentonville resident's premises and drifted for some time before landing in the garden of Mr Smith, a Bethnal Green beerseller. Witnesses likened its swaying limbs to a walking giant and many believed it to be a living being with supernatural powers. The beerseller has since profited by displaying the craft to customers.

Guy Fawkes Pentonville Smith Fleet-street-hill Bethnal-green Beerseller

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