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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 01, 1842
Page
6
A rhetorical speech praising love as the true inventor of social welfare and progress. It lauds the French Revolution, equality, and the shift of political science from force to rational religiously grounded principles. It calls for women to apply and administer laws, and for ministers of alms and virtue to lead charity and resignation. Prolonged applause.
A lengthy bankruptcy hearing in Chipping Wycombe centers on a self described banker who kept no cash book, with property allegedly removed prior to fiat. The commissioner adjourned sine die, awaiting a clearer accounts statement. final examination was declared, while other insolvency cases and bail applications proceeded in London courts.
A list of defendants including William White T Morris F Peploe Mary Sime Elizabeth Kelly Edwin Clayton and many others is recorded with durations four months for some and three months for others. Several were imprisoned for one month and 57 were acquitted with judgments repeated. the court adjourned to Monday October 24 at rising.
Peter Dowling, employed as collecting clerk for the Weekly Chronicle, was sent for trial after police testimony showed he did not remit several money sums paid to him on the paper's account. Witnesses from Davies and Co. and others testified to payments totaling multiple pounds, with most not fully paid over.
A servant narrator details a brutal assault and attempted confinement in a large closet, as the prisoner fights back, escapes through the street door, and recounts a life ruined by an improper liaison with her master’s son leading to despair and a near self harm. The defendant claims distress and misfortune, with authorities mulling bail as the case proceeds.
In Hoxton three men Dodd employees were charged with possessing mutilated infant remains found in a dust yard. They claimed no knowledge, a coroner’s verdict left no death cause evidence, and they were remanded on bail while inquiries continue. Local magistrates also weighed manslaughter and theft cases involving coster Edward Ashburbury and a seduction theft at Islington, with further public notices in Kensington on jury lists and officer titles.
Sarah Cox, 31, was charged with extraordinary conduct at Mr Johnson's coal merchant house in Little Abingdon Street Westminster. Eliza Strait, the prosecutor’s servant, testified Cox entered pretending illness, drew a knife from a kitchen tray, locked doors, and assaulted her by grabbing hair during an attempted robbery on a Saturday night last week.
A young man named Charles Dixon was charged on suspicion of desertion after wearing a military frock coat and cap. The magistrate released him, noting the cap’s display as the key issue and that Dixon claimed to be a labourer.
A Baldwin's Journal excerpt recounts a French case where a large black aerolite found in a park sparked a novel legal dispute over possession. Two claimants argued rights to the stone, with judges ultimately ruling for the second claimant but noting the object was not the devil.
A Berwick paper recounts a bold falcon attack on canaries at Broomhouse near reeler. The boy felled the hawk with a stick to protect the cage, but the bird recovered, attempted another raid, and was eventually captured and is now safe at Broomhouse.
An extract from Lord Wodehouse’s Norfolk speech contrasts good and bad landlords. A good landlord pays a fair remunerative rent, knows his estate, and aids tenants in distress while staying involved in improvements. A bad landlord relies on agents, ignores the land, and loses touch with tenants and welfare of the property.
Joan Covey, Reg. Gen. of Shipping, notes the Customs department returns do not classify males and females for the past year. The report from the Custom-house in London is dated March 2, 1842.
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