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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 27, 1841
Page
4
Long extract compilation covers Queen Dowager's serious illness with cautious updates, Bank of England loan notices, Oxford sermon on Puseyism, legal and professional appointments, Plymouth breakwater funding halt, and local incidents from Britain and colonies.
A severe blaze at Barrowfield near Glasgow destroyed Bartholomew and Co facilities. Fire brigades from Glasgow, West of England, and Anderston battled flames from 3 am, saving the west wing of the mill but losing most of the central and eastern structures. About 25,000 spindles and 500 workers affected. total loss near £40,000 with insurance on the premises.
St Bartholomew's Hospital sees Dr P M Latham resign. Dr George Burrows likely to replace him with Dr Hack as candidate. Christchurch Streatham consecration led by the Lord Bishop of Winchester with clergy and MPs present. Limehouse vestry debates church repairs after wardens resisted a rate. Bishop instructs rate and repairs cost estimated at £472. Anti corn law deputies meet in Manchester under Greig with MPs present to press repeal. Mrs Blakesley dies after husband’s execution. inquest records willful murder verdict. Turkish service note warns porte refuses foreign admissions and dismisses temporary ranks. admiration for Jochmus and admiral Walker noted.
The era of new stage engagements begins with Mr. Macready bolstering the female operatique corps including Miss Romer Miss Horton and Mrs Keeley revealing plans for the upcoming season starting on the 27th. A new farce Love Hetempore from veteran author Kenney plays Haymarket with Miss Horton and Mr Vining in central comic confrontations. The review praises the brisk pace tight dialogue and strong performances led by D Rees as Livingstone. Barbe and Parisian opera news note M Barfe nearing completion of Hifrid a grand opera for Theatre Italien with Grisi likely to sing the principal role.
A Windsor pony, 12 hands 1 inch high and 6 years old, trotted 14 miles in an hour at Slough, ridden by a 14-year-old boy weighing 64 lb. The feat drew large bets and astonished spectators, with the owner offering to back 15 miles in the same time.
Proceedings into the mind of Richard Weeks, a Greenwich hospital pensioner and former Royal Navy midshipman, reveal delusions of wealth and royal entanglements. Doctors describe him as wholly insane and incapable of managing himself or property. The inquiry, opened at Gray's Inn Coffee House, led to a verdict of unsound mind since September 1840.
Canterbury report on Sir Edward Knatchbull facing a toll exemption charge under the General Turnpike Act. He argued travel to an election on the prior Saturday warranted toll exemption. magistrates found him guilty and fined £2 2s with costs, with an intended appeal.
John Joseph Ward 40 is charged with wilful murder of Timothy Easted a year and nine months old. Witnesses describe repeated ill treatment and a fatal head injury from blows. Inquest at University College Hospital finds skull fractures and brain trauma as the cause. Ward remanded and later committed to Newgate for trial.
The article reports on new chancery orders active this Michaelmas term with several suspensions until next Easter. It covers changes in service, pleadings, and attachments, plus the Masters and Rolls courts handling cases including a Lincoln charity land dispute and an injunction in a maritime salvage matter.
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