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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 20, 1841
Page
3
A Ban don district report notes strong support for a dependable local representative break with prior allegiances. Constituents decry broken promises, desolate streets, and factory losses, pledging to elect a man of integrity who will defend local interests despite pressure from party factions.
In Aberdeen on November 11 a presbytery attempted to induct Rev. W Middleton as assistant to Rev. Ferdinand Ellis amid strong opposition. A mob surrounded the church, smashed entries, pelted attendees, and injured several, while sheriffs struggled to maintain order before the ordination proceeded at a distant venue. The incident signals deep church tensions fueling a broader Scottish ecclesiastical crisis now entering a peak phase.
A Birmingham gathering of the Anti-Corn-law Association inviting Mr Curtis from America to lecture on corn laws met with heavy disruption. Chartists led by White interrupted, crowds clashed, police avoided entry, and the meeting dissolved after Mr Sturge escorted Curtis out. A later report notes renewed support for repeal and growth in association strength.
A string of damaging fires in Chelsea and East London injure none but damage property and trap residents in flames. A school fire at Hans-town School of Industry prompts an arson inquiry after a thirteen year old girl admits starting a second blaze. Fireworks stock in Curtain-road explodes, killing a 15 year old worker and injuring others. Casualties include a pregnant woman and a little girl later dying from burns. A separate fire in Great Rupert street is contained with no injuries. In Genoa, Turin signs a navigation treaty between Sardinia and England, granting reciprocal rights for ships, outlining nationality, cargo rights, wreck salvage, and ten-year validity with a mutual secession option.
Merchants of Manchester press the new commission to extend bonding rights to Manchester and other large inland towns. Lord Granville Somerset, chair of the commission, is said to favor Manchester’s claims. The Greenwich Union notes Deptford begins repeal actions, joined by Woolwich, in Queen's Bench to challenge a Blackheath division distress order and the poor law commissioners. Proceedings will be in St Nicholas Deptford’s name, with Woolwich sharing half the costs.
A Westminster woman Eliza Walters, wife of policeman No. 65 B, living at No 3 Market Street, was taken to Westminster Hospital in a dangerous condition after swallowing oxalic acid bought in two to three pennyworth and one sixpenny worth portions. Doctors doubt the exact quantity consumed. The incident follows a quarrel with her husband and prompts questions about magistrate Mr Grove’s handling of a separate ejectment case at Woolwich involving Mr Graham and his wife. A letter from Mr Graham reports his wife’s prolonged danger and a dead child, attributing the distress to the magistrate’s forcible removal order.
A literary critique reviews The Panish Creix edited by Theodore Hook, praising its wit. It recounts a tale in which Litigious Graspem, unpaid beadle of Buyemup, dreads bell ringing, loses the clapper and rope, then hides them. The town council orders him to resume tolling and reallocates his pay to holiday fare, much to his disgust.
Betty the waitress arranges a market era table when two identical gentlemen, Deale and Rosewater, arrive separately for breakfast. Mrs Bibulus mocks guests as she notes the comical double. the pair, police-like and in sync, order beefsteak and onions while debate ends in shared, rhythmic prose.
A lively house dinner unfolds with Betty and guests Desle and Rosewater sharing steak and jokes then Betty clears the dishes. The text shifts to book notices praising a 1842 gift volume of poetry and a new Cook’s Voyages edition for distinguished readers in London.
A London magistrate, Sir Peter Laurie, hears a case against tailor Jones accused of assaulting women with a blue bag and improper hair, prompting a derisive lecture on long straight locks and a proposed remedy of shaving criminals. Also reports a coroner’s inquest into Samuel Taylor’s death by self harm, a collision between ships Royal William and the sloop Aid near Wapping, and other local incidents including mysterious death of Henry Moat and Hyde Park riding accident involving Mr. Savage.
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