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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 22, 1840
Page
6
Reported remarks discuss magistrates power to inquiry. The lord mayor ends the session saying no more provocation is expected and that aggrieved parties will know how to proceed if needed. The dialogue notes the need for full facts before deciding if a case warrants trial.
Reports cover a libel action against a clergyman for a published account of penance and the judge's ruling on privilege. Also details a habeas corpus on church-rate debt and a consistory court dispute over divorce and restitution of conjugal rights in Sheridan suit.
Jon Leary, a young Irishman, was brought before Sir George Carroll on a felony charge. Witnesses said he followed Mr. Miles and a friend from Smithfield to Barbican, then stole a handkerchief from Miles. Leary claimed Miles stole it first amid a scuffle, and was committed for trial.
An elderly man named William Ail faced magistrates on a disturbing charge, with two witnesses and a stubborn insistence on a full trial at Westminster sessions. A second case involved William Auten, who allegedly passed a counterfeit shilling and swallowed it to avoid detection, leading to his discharge but a warning to avoid future appearances.
Two men English and Coleman faced Mr. Bingham for creating a disturbance at a Stoke Newington temperance society meeting and assaulting the chairman. Coleman was bound over for three weeks and the other to find bail.
Sergeant Clarke testified a boy in custody formed gunpowder in an Italian iron bowl lit by a wire fuse. The blast demolished the bowl, a piece flew through a window, nearly missing Mrs Garratt, and traveled twenty seven feet. The boy escaped uninjured. After reprimand the magistrate ordered payment for the glass and discharged the prisoner.
In a crowded docket, Charles Stanley the Bricklane barber and five others Clinch Miller Brown Hastell and Paddington faced remand on charges of supplying him with stolen goods. Stanley allegedly ran a widespread receiving operation, while a separate case reexamined James Bridges for breaking out of Devon gaol in 1837. At the Surrey theatre Sir Pertinax Macsycophant disturbances by George Clarke and William Payne led to a 10s fine each.
A large Leicester gathering supported William Baines jailed for non payment of church rates. Dissenting ministers led a procession to the gaol and presented a memorial praising his conscience, while Mr Thorogood and others urged wider action for religious liberty.
Reports say Austria urges France to influence Mehemet Ali to submit to the Sultan with Egypt retained. Four powers likely back the move if France exerts influence. Also notices on Peruvian finance controls, Liverpool election results, and various parliamentary items.
A disputed incident in Steyning involves Rev John Hurst firing at pigs that trespassed in his garden. Letters between Rev W Barlee and Hurst reveal heated exchanges over gunfire and rumors, with threats of sessions and public inquiry. The affair unsettles local gentry and parishioners as accusations of misconduct ripple through Chiltington and surrounding towns.
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