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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Nov 27, 1841
Page
5
A chaotic Michaelmas term closes after delays and shifting motions in the Queen s Bench. Proceedings include remarks by Justice Patteson, a libel case against The Northern Star editor, and a rowdy street disturbance involving Felix O Connell and Mrs Brett with public house spats and a Bow Street charge.
In a bankruptcy hearing, counsel argued that profit must be shown to sustain claims, with fraud in money abstraction noted as a prerequisite. Commissioner Holroyd allowed the matter to stand over, and a dividend would be officially declared in a few days.
Andrew Hickey, an Irishman, faced Mr. Alderman Brown for deserting his wife and six children to the West London union. The case revealed his wife with a broken leg in Bartholomew's Hospital and six children in the union workhouse. Hickey, claiming general distress, received a month's hard labor on the treadmill after the hearing.
A well dressed man calling himself Benjamin Yale a surgeon of Crawwford street faced Mr Rawlinson for assaulting Mrs Foley and her companion in Dorset street near the New road. Ellen Davis corroborated the claim and Yale a surgeon’s assistant admitted a shove by a friend. He was fined four pounds.
A widow accuses her husband of repeated brutal assaults and threats, aided by his wife. The case features letters, a campaign of intimidation, and an effort to expose the husband to his wife. Witnesses describe violence, bruising, and a demand for money. The magistrate orders discharge of the warrant after noting the couple’s mutual complicity.
An aged prisoner died in Horse monger lane jail after six to seven years’ confinement. He had not sought insolvency relief but, urged by fellow inmates, signed papers for the unclaimed dividend fund to file his schedule. death prevented the court relief. Inquest found natural causes. A second inquest at St Bartholomew’s on John Bintiff, 65, brush maker, who died after a fall and weeks of illness linked to prior neglect of nourishment. verdict accidental death.
A satirical verse broadside attacks Prime Minister and cabinet figures over shortages and a symbolic dinner. It names Peel Melbourne and lordly figures, lampooning political maneuvering, Cabinet seating, and the nation’s distress as London grows thinner and the country starves for a dinner. The poem mocks the appetite for patronage and fear of who will be invited to dinner.
A reflective poem recalls an ancient family Bible with leather binding and worn pages kept on a cottage shelf. Generations read aloud at church and home, cherishing its births, names, and prayers, while newer Bibles tempt readers. yet the speaker vows to love the old book till death.
Mr John Bridges of Parade Islington, aged 72, swallowed a needle at age nine or ten. After a lifetime of vague pains, a pricking sensation woke him one morning to find the same blue coloured needle protruding from beneath his flannel at his right ankle. The needle had travelled through his body and finally emerged, leaving a puncture mark.
Mr Cuthbert of Liverpool has devised a galvanic device to defend plants from worms and slugs. A zinc conical ring and copper ring set around stems generate a galvanic shock when molluscs contact them, harming only the pests. The apparatus works in wet or dry weather and resembles a flower-pot, claimed cheap and crushproof after 12 months trials with no plant injury.
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