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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 26, 1843
Page
4
A column mocks salaried female clerks and fixed office hours, contrasts bank desk life with a banker’s daughter’s plight, and rails at French manners and statistics. It reviews Mr Grant’s observations, critiques a Paris rat census, and condemns The Comic Almanack for 1844 as dull and dismal.
A critical report argues pauper child training should use restrained diets to reduce burden on parishes and endorses dancing as a useful skill. It mocks singing exercises and suggests integrating dancing into pauper schools, with questions to assess foot health, age of dancing end, and leg alignment, citing a charity ball as a success. It attributes the proposal to the commissioners and urges union workhouse masters to adopt the approach.
A critique linked to Cobden's Dorsetshire inquiry details severe poverty among farm laborers. It cites low wages, dilapidated cottages, and squalid living conditions in Batcombe and surrounding areas, urging parish vestries and landowners to act to protect workers and improve housing and wages. The piece endorses public exposure as a means to drive reform and calls for cross-party cooperation.
A list of anticipated patent grants covers sweeping machinery for income tax collection devised by Sir Robert Peel, Britannia metal refinement to high perfection for Lady Sale, a heat introduction method for churches by Newman and Pusey, rotatory motion for power by Lord Brougham, screw expansion for increased pressure by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pauper reduction methods by the Poor Law Commissioners, grinding process improvements, and drainage innovation for Ireland attributed to Daniel O Connell.
A Keswick town hall meeting formed a committee to honor the poet laureate Samuel Taylor Coleridge by placing a white marble tablet with a medallion likeness of Dr Southey inside Crosthwaite Church. The plan calls for a public memorial in the parish churchyard.
The column recalls the 1830 formation of the Earl Grey administration and reports on Lt. Munro’s near-trial, a solitary turnpike house in Aldrington, and coastal decline at Adur Shoreham. It also covers rail freight cuts by Aire and Calder, a Liverpool egg trader’s large turnover, guano adulteration concerns, a new Carmarthen butcher, and London and Brighton Railway receipts for the week.
A collage of reader letters covers debts and liens, dower rights, and how to handle bankruptcies. It includes praise for King Leopold, guidance on annuities, warnings about savings banks, and comments on court politics and church funding. It reflects 1840s weekly concerns with law, governance, press ethics, and social strain.
The guide describes calculating sunrise and sunset by latitude using offsets from 61 deg 80 min and 51 deg 30 min, with adjustments of 6 and 14 minutes. It also lists high water times for major ports relative to London Dock timing, detailing offsets for Bristol Cork Falmouth Hull Milford Haven Brighton Cowes Dover Dublin Holyhead Liverpool Port Glasgow and Southampton.
Sunday outline gives liturgical readings for morning and evening and notes the date. It records year length moon phase times and sun declination, plus detailed daily weather forecasts from Weather-Legh Meteo Ephem and Zadkiel for November 26 to December 2, including St Andrew's day and Advent onset.
A critical review of The Times and Sir Robert Peel amid the anti Corn Law League rise. The piece accuses The Times of shifting ground to attack the League, condemns Peel’s shifting stance, and questions the governmental path after repeated warnings about Sliding Scale and Cobden’s reforms. It also surveys Spain's turbulent politics, Narvaez, Lopez, and the crown crisis, warning of continuing instability and future trouble.
The speaker opposes a fixed duty and argues for a full Free Trade in corn as the gateway to Free Trade in all sectors. They urge plain, consistent principles, dismiss patching and tinkering, and predict the nation will align with Peel’s reforms while the Times has long shared this view, now recognized by all.
The piece discusses the O Connell prosecution, the Plea in Abatement, and the potential path if a guilty verdict occurs. It imagines a Writ of Error to the House of Lords, possible nullification of proceedings, remittance of fines, and a retrial if authorities allow it. It notes the Crown’s expected stance and the defendants readiness to defend using all legal means.
The article discusses Sir Robert Peel’s opposition to 1816 Irish Grand Jury reforms, Horner’s push to align English and Irish law, and the Irish Judges’ resistance. It notes Peel’s assent was conditional, judges hindered the measure, and Horner’s perseverance amid parliamentary opposition. The piece frames the struggle as pivotal for the law’s protection of innocence and the balance of power between courts and government.
The piece argues Salisbury’s result as an honorable defeat against Church, Squirearchy, and Pembroke. It credits Mr Bouverie with a strong showing, forecasts possible unseating, and condemns Whigs for vacillating between Free Trade zeal and Monopoly compromise while urging clear alignment with popular demand and League principles.
In Dublin the court rejects the Plea of Abatement and confirms an appeal to the House of Lords. Westminster Hall opinions are said to be strongly against the present decision, signaling likely reversal. The Irish Attorney General secured a trial date, with a preliminary battle ending Friday to fix January 15 for the real contest.
Paris reports doubt Queen Christina will proceed to Madrid soon and may delay until Count Bresson confirms safe access to return to Spain. Also covered are progress on French recognition of Sandwich Islands independence, Bouffé’s move to Varietés with a large penalty, and theatre penalties affecting star actresses.
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