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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
England
Wales
Scotland
British
Monmouth
Hereford
Middlesex
Lancashire
West Riding of York
Surrey
Somerset
Devon
Durham
Cornwall
Norfolk
Glamorgan
Radnor
Argyle
Dumfries
Haddington
Kinross
Peebles
Perth
Sutherland
Lanark
Berwickshire
Edinburghshire
Jersey
Guernsey
Alderney
Sark
Herm
Jethou
Man
Cnsus
Hovsss
Ing. Inc
Bedford Sae
Berks
Buckingham Se Teen Ee
Cambridge Wa Anne Ae
Chester Ameean Mae
Cumberland
Derby
Dorset
Essex
Gloucester
Hartford
Huntingdon
Lancaster
Leicester
Lincoln
Monmouth Waa
Norfolk Seacceaeune
Northampton
Northumberland
Nottingham
Oxford Eeeeenes
Rutland Geeetereare
Southampton
Hants
Staffor Eereene Wens
Suffolk Eeeneee
Surrey Eeneeee
Sussex Ve
Warwick Fees
Westmorland Oon
Wilts
Worcester
Ghar East Riding
York & Ainstey
North Riding
York
West Riding
Ing Incr
Anglesey Tees
Brecon Sean
Cardigan Ave
Sil
Carmarthen
Carnarvon
Denbigh
Sarees
Flinteae Os
Merioneth
Llow
Montgomery
Pembroke
Awe
Weaee Ee
Eee
Argyll Eoenee
Seat Erenees
Berwick
Bute
Ersee Enpae
Caithness
Clackmannan Ane
Dumbarton Wrewneee
Edinburgh
Cay
Apo
Moray
Vodie Baeare Bs 'E
Haddington Ae Eee
Si Inverness Eos
Pihoatitte Sereve
Kinros
Kirkcadbrigh
Ste
Wartry
Eeetes
Linlithgow
Orkney and Shetland
Peebles Creeees
Ross and Courts
Roxburgh
Eae
Selkirk Oneness
Stirling
Sutherland Aaoe
Wigtown
Bene
Great Britain and Islands
Housss
Islands
England and
Cotland Oe
Meare &c
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Serggox
York-Minster
Dean-street
Soho
Higgs
Mary Donovan
Ellen ‘Evard
Newman-street
Farrell
Ecessar
Wells
Jones
H. D. Jones
Soho-square
Thei
Mary Farrell
Co Station
Charlotte-street
Fitzroy-square
I R Wells
Lorppp Grey
College-green
O’connell
O'Connell
Mansion House
Suppen
Red Lion
King-street
Bloomabury-square
Wakley
John Bazeley
Southampton-row
Russell-square
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John Russell
Ord Fol Russell
Wat
Commerce and Manufactures
Artiall Wweian
N. Esterhazy
Ang
Tynas NY
Earl Brownlow
Wakefield
Grantham
M. Cholmondeley
Bis
Stanford
Ner
Monteagle
Continent
Elephant and Castle
Westminster
Society of Apothecaries
N. B. Ward
John Preston
University College, London
Copeland
Alfred Baring Garrod
George Johnson
King’s College
John Thompson
Rable Society of Gray's-inn
Hamilton Geale
John Archibald Russell
Livetun’s Isn
Hon. Society of
N'Sina
Richard Coote
Albert Francis
Thomas Young M‘christie
Charles James
John Bruce Norton
Charles Bruce > Skinner
Robert Ralph Augustus Hawkins
Marsham Elwin
I . Juz Masons
Craven Head
Drury Lane
Bauer
Jackson
Society of Carpenters
Acton- 4
Gray’s Inn-Road
Goddard
Messrs
Riely, Simpson
Armstrong Walton
Essex Herald
Caelms
Weekly Dispatch
Chilvers
Magist Os
T. Wakley
King’s
Chelsea
Ann Davis
King's Parade
Chelsea New Church
William Martin
Croydon and London Railway Company
New-cross
Guy’s Hospital
S-Acre
Belvidere Road
Lambeth
James White
Sporting Intelligence
G. Clark
Hatfield
Nessus
Ballinkeel