27 Nov 1841
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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 27, 1841
Page
1
Hes Majesty progresses favourably and the Infant Prince is well. A patent creating the Infant Duke of Cornwall Prince of Wales is prepared and will likely appear in the Gazette tomorrow evening.
The Queen Dowager showed some improvement after a series of nightly symptoms and cough, with nurses noting a stronger morning condition over several days in November 1841. General officers and nobility in London monitored Marlborough House reports as a formal bulletin detailed her progress. A venerable lieutenant general of Middlesex and Westminster died aged 78 at Brockhall. The Earl of Beverley is slated to fill the Yeoman of the Guard captaincy after the vacancy created by the death of the Sisine of Lothian. A new Presbyterian church near Woolwich military hospital rises in brick with a plain spire, planned as a public ornament.
The Standard of Tuesday publishes letters about the upcoming Oxford poetry chair election. Candidates are Rev. J Garbett of Brasenose and Rev. J Williams of Trinity, with Pusey and Gilbert arguing over residence, church loyalties, and which candidate best upholds Anglican reform.
The Hackney Anti Church-rate Association issues a parish notice stating moral and legal objections to the 1840 rate affect the current year’s rate, with the Ecclesiastical Court to decide. Alfred Waddilove, Esq. D.C.L. is called to the bar at Middle Temple. Eton College records 635 pupils, a new peak.
The Non-Intrusion Committee reports on negotiations with the government over church affairs. It explains proposals, aims to protect church courts from civil coercion, and emphasizes the principle of non intrusion as the basis for any settlement. The committee outlines October resolutions guiding future dealings and notes government openness to a satisfactory adjustment.
A Denbigh district enumerator, paid for past services by the superintendent registrar, asked for the next census in 1851. The Acadia steamer sailed to Halifax and Boston with many passengers. A post office search found about sixty contraband letters at Halifax and Boston offices before departure, with penalties expected for senders and carriers.
A London style impostor known as Bernard Cavanagh was detected in Reading after deceiving medical bodies. He received three months on the treadmill for rogue and vagabond acts, with Tiernan jailed a month for hawking without a licence. The case drew public letters praising the imprisoned man’s calm, claiming he had eaten nothing since detention.
Inquests at St Bartholomew hospital on three deaths from accidents and burns. Robert Atkinson 38, a carpenter, died after a scaffold fall at Sun Fire office site. Eliza Mussard aged four died from severe burns after clothes caught fire. Thomas Hodgetts 85 died following a fall from a kerb leading to paralysis. Verdicts: accidental death. Fires followed by two blazes at rotherhithe Chandler and Kennington bakery. A woman named Ann Harris was rescued from Thames attempted suicide at Westminster.
Delegates from the Metropolitan Anti Corn Law Association met in Strand to receive the Manchester conference report and plan practical action. Notables included Peter Taylor James Wilson and R Ricardo with over thirty deputations. A bazaar and fundraising sermons were discussed to boost funds for the cause.
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