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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Nov 21, 1841

Page

4

Incendiarism and public alarm in London and Woolwich

A chaotic miscellany of reports detailing an alleged incendiary attack on the Horse Guards and Charing Cross barracks, a Woolwich dockyard fire deemed accidental, and a series of related urban incidents. The piece cites police inquiries, eyewitness accounts, and official statements about attempts to burn public buildings, mysterious fires, and deadly accidents.

National Gallery Charing-cross Col. Rowan Metropolitan Police Tower of London Horse-guards Scotland Yard Rowan A Division of Police Gardner's Lane Sentinel Horse Guards St. George’s Barracks M‘gregor Mr. M‘gregor Chron West End Leicester-square Globe Woolwich Plymouth Lords of the Admiralty Woolwitch Dock Woolwich Dock Charlton Pier Robinson 1Th Foot

Population growth contrasts across Great Britain 1841 census

The summer census reports England up 14.5 percent in ten years and Great Britain total population at 18,664,761, with Wales Scotland and Islands showing gains and several Scottish counties posting decreases. It notes county by county increases, notable rises in Monmouth Glamorgan and Lanark, and Jersey Guernsey Man figures.

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Court and City and Ten Thousand a Year at Covent Garden and More

A London theater page reviews Court and City an adoption of two comedies with mixed authorship, praising Farren and Bartley in key roles but noting a lengthy plot. It also covers apeal theater’s Ten Thousand a Year adaptation, Sixteen String Jack at the Olympic, the Black Rover nautical melodrama, and other evenings at Laptor's Writs and SuprEv theatres, citing accidents and standout performances.

Covert-Gayden Court and City Court City Lord Lady Medway Dangerfield Lord Flutter Lord Whiffle Mr. Peake Sir Antony Branville Sir Paladin Scruple Knightley Mrs. Charmington Colonel Medway Rumbush Farren Sir Paladin Watteaue Bartley Sir Hector Rumbush Harley Humphrey Mr. C. Mathews Harry Whiffle Madame Vestris Litttle Walter Lacy Miss Barbara Lydia Covent Garden Blackwoods Peake Titmouse Aubrey Scarn Knave Gammon Yatton Wright Mr. Lyon Mrs. Yates Kate Aubrey Olympic Theatre Leman Rede Angels Lucifers George Wild Benjamin Brimstone Miss Lebatt Wild Officers of Justice Cornwall St. Michael’s Mount Hontier Jack T. P. Cooke Mr. Herbert

Coriolanus and Juliet on London stages and Polish relief benefit

Evening performances feature Coriolanus by a provincial actor and Juliet by Miss Waverley. Theatre repairs at Daury-Lanze. Nightingale’s death prompts a fund for his aged mother. Fanny Kelly heads to America after a failed theatre venture. Guildhall Polish relief night draws 1500–1600 attendees with Adelaide Kemble and dignitaries in attendance. Paganini’s son seeks papal reversal of his father’s burial ban.

Coriolanus Miss Waverley London Juliet Daury-Lanze Theatre Nightingale Oxford Cambridge Miss Ketty England United States Dean Street Soho Jonathan Fanny Kelly America Bart Guilp Poland Kemble Dudley Stuart Peacock Carr Royal Duke of Brunswick Lord Wharncliffe Lord Harley Charles Lady Grey John Lady Key James Duke M.P George Carroll Alderman Farncombe Sheriff Rogers M. J. O’connell J. Dennistoun W. Williams S. Harford Queen Order of the Bath Queen's Bench PaGanini Rome

Betting Roundups and Hunt News From Derby Card

Sporting intelligence covers a quiet Derby market with slim bets on Attila and others, plus 1800s hunt reports from the Brighton harriers and Findon fox hounds. Tweed fishing closes strong with notable catches by Duke of Roxburghe and others and a list of Haslar yacht fleet entries in Haslar Creek Gosport.

Tattersall Derry Anson Attila Lord Verulam Robert de Gorham Mr. Maher Hon S. Herbert Bowes Cooke Lord Miltown Ramsay Duke of Grafton Mr. Morgan Auckland William de Fortibus Passion Brighton Harriers Erringham Portslade Hill and Dale Withdean Patcham Standean Lord Chichester’s Park London Road Strawberry Gardens Findon Hoelmbush East Wood Newtimber Park Clayton-hill Hassucks Ditchling Brighton Gazette Tweed Duke of Roxburghe Kelso Stevenson Sir C. Dalbiac Sprouston Colonel Hare Redden Brigham Hudson Duke of Leeds John Scott John H. Bentinck Earl of Hardwicke Earl of Selkirk Ossulaton Carfrae Rowan G. Baillie Watson Kelso Mail Haslar Creek Gosport Mischief Sir Joseph F. Hayley Bart Flower of Yarrow Viscount Giulia Earl of Tyrconnell Naiad Rowell Midge Colonel Pike Spider F. S. Greville Bayley Violet F. A. Berkeley Louisa Gipsy Portsmouth

Levee scene as O Connell leads lord mayor through Dublin streets

Large turnout from orange and tory gentry fills College-green for the first levee of the lord lieutenant with Mr O Connell in official robes. He appears in state carriage amid cheers, then returns to Mansion House to further applause from the crowd. Inquest at Red Lion in Bloomsbury-square into John Bazeley Took's death, aged 62, from natural causes after a heavy dinner.

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