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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 17, 1839
Page
6
A poetic piece on a woman's love likened to the violet spring and steadfast rock, praising its uplifting power. The second item recounts Sir Walter Scott quoted by Lockhart on valuing honest, educated hearts over literary pretensions, urging the education of the heart above mere book knowledge.
A lettered note recounts the freezing mixture's dangers after a snow and salt challenge that left a youth with a paralysed hand. It then surveys chivalry, citing Edward the Black Prince and a Cherbourg clash where Sir John Copeland felled a French knight.
Crowds gathered as Sir Chapman Marshall was installed as lord mayor of London with pomp. The day featured a blue livery pageant, state coaches, barges, Westminster Hall oath, Guildhall banquet, and lavish tables with royal toasts, drawing a festive procession through Cheapside and Blackfriars.
A Paris themed vignette describes a landlady playfully resisting a kiss, then an American paper relays a theatrical family tale. The porter tunes pianos for ten sons, performs at the Petit Lazare at night, and his clan fills roles from Mother of the Gracchi to a doge impersonation. A rare boy in a vaudeville acts drowns in a fishbowl of patronage, while the mother mourns before the room brightens with a weary smile.
Discussions on Moses and creation span biblical antiquity and the earth’s age, questioning intervals between Genesis verses and the scope of antiquity. A note on steam’s weight contrasts water’s density. Then a vignette laments street readers who pilfer knowledge from stalls, praising a boy’s hunger and a poet’s moral tale about choosing books over meals.
The Liverpool brings urgent intelligence on American money troubles. The U S Bank suspended specie payments, with others likely to follow, while fires in Philadelphia caused heavy losses. The report covers Cuba slave cases, Canadian unrest, Bermuda hurricane damage, and French action near Montevideo, plus U S bank asset concerns and North American mail updates.
A liberal dinner in the city featured toasts to the People and the royal family, followed by speeches from Lord Albert Conyn and Sir W Somerville. The gathering praised reform measures, education, and retrenchment, while defending Ireland and loyalty to the Queen amid Tory opposition. The event concluded with broad applause and a sense of harmony.
Telegraphic dispatches recount Carlist forces near Manresa and San Juan de las Abadessas with General Valdez at Manresa and de la Goudie unable to join him after poisonings. Reports detail the Count DEspagne’s deposition and arrest, a dramatic Berga review, and Carlist rejoicing as gallows are broken and prisoners freed. Also noted is the intended funeral arrangement for the late Duke of Bedford with multi-coach procession specifics.
An inquest revealed that a rope at Radestock Wells Way coal pit broke during late night descent, smashing twelve men. Witnesses attributed deliberate damage to the rope, with a verdict of Wilful murder against unknown offenders. Widows and children were left of several victims.
A Sunday murder in Lees near Oldham saw James Bardsley, 23, kill his father John Bardsley with a sharpened clasp knife in their family home. He attacked after a dispute, then fled only to be captured as crowds gathered. The coroner and jury held a large inquest at Spring-head. verdict was willful murder and he was committed to York Castle for spring assizes.
A Westminster coroner report compiled by Messrs. Gell and Higgs records 489 inquests into self-inflicted deaths from 1812 to 1831, including eight cases of Je lo de se. Men outnumber women nearly two to one. Westminster populations rose from 160,801 in 1801 to 202,891 in 1831. November yields the fewest personal crisis reports. June and July lead, with temperatures and intoxication often linked to insanity and self-harm. Also notes a railway inquest of Thomson killed by a train near Preston, verdict accidental death with deodand.
A chimney sweeper, R J Rogers, was found to have forged bills paying out £4 16s and £4 10s after presenting them as valid. The lord mayor questioned the practice, noting loose conduct and signature authenticity. Rogers, claiming royal service, was committed for trial at the end of the proceedings.
A brutal stone-throwing attack on a Preston to Parkside train endangers passengers, injuring the carriage and rail line. Local miscreants near Parkside and Preston are blamed for further disturbances including sleepers and a gate placed on the rails. The report also recalls the navy exploits of Captain Trollope and notes other civic distress in London and Edinburgh.
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