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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 27, 1836
Page
3
Oxberry stages a comic escape tale where a husband finds his supposed dead wife alive at a ball. The episode opens with his voyage to America then returns to a dramatic reunion. Audience laughs at Oxberry and Mrs Orger as French lines amuse.
In a November 1836 message from Dame Street Dublin Daniel O Connell speaks as Governor of the National Bank of Ireland. He pleads for confidence in the bank and cautions against gold runs that depress prices and harm farmers and workers. He defends bank share liability and urges public support to sustain credit and employment.
Two fires at Jupp and Son malt houses near Kewbridge alarm Brentford. Suspicions fall on a young man after a Sunday blaze among sacks and coke. no previous light reported in affected areas, insurer Phenix. plus obituary notes and society items from London and Europe.
The piece notes George Colman’s reports bound in the Duke of Devonshire’s library, remarks on the poor law reducing appeals, and Maurice O’Connell facing the loss of his eldest son. It mentions sympathy for the bereaved husband and outlines a forthcoming Longford county contest between Conservative Fox and Liberal Luke White, nephew of Lord Farnham.
An inquest at the Adam and Eve Rotherhithe reviewed the death of William Goodwin aged 30, who drowned in the Surrey Canal after family misfortune and sister's death. Evidence showed a possible suicide amid long illness and despair, with verdict death by own action while temporarily insane.
A navy captain and guardian of an afflicted brother sought to move a reference from Master Brougham to another master for alleged ungentlemanly conduct. The Lord Chancellor insisted on proper notice to the master and adherence to court forms, denying the motion.
In a Regent's Park case the Vice-Chancellor refused to hear a ward dispute until the offending party appeared in court after an injunction was issued. The court ordered committal for contempt when personal attendance could not be achieved and service was contested. The matter involved a potential marriage and a fictitious address given to authorities.
In a King’s Bench session the proprietors of Bell’s New Weekly Messenger face a rule for a criminal information over a libel against Mr Dyer. The Satirist case prompts debates on affidavits, with Digby and Shepherd involved, and a ruling on whether to reopen the rule. The Attorney General defends the action as a safeguard for private character amid circulating slander. The session also notes speculative mania in America, royal naval college dissolution, and odd local anecdotes.
The court discharged a feigned affidavit as false and held the libeled party should be restored to his prior position with rule absolute. A self styled Shepherd confessed to the tale then fled, revealing the fabrication. The ruling emphasizes avoiding precedent despite the peculiar libel matter and perjury indictment.
In the Court of Common Pleas sitting in Bance the habeas corpus case of exparte Garcia, a bankrupt, was heard. The court ruled the prisoner is not in custody under the warrant and remanded him, noting five other writs against him and that discharge would be inoperative until those detainers are resolved.
Prerogative Court approves administration during the illness of the late John Day to continue his blacking manufactory business. Executors named in the will receive the order with security set at £30,000 to cover estate matters and related affairs.
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