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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 07, 1843
Page
4
The column compiles varied notices from St Andre death after childbirth to Lamb mortality in Yorkshire, Dover floods and ship shelter, a seaman’s fatal fall, emigration ships, Jewish White Fast, Sunderland nunneries, Bishop of Meath ordinations, and railway hops and shipyard shifts, plus local resignations, brig building plans, Rebecca-era crime, and canal repairs with Irish emigration notes.
The Drury Lane season opens under Mr. Bunn with Melpomene out, Euterpe and Terpsichore in, a new curtain, and uneven reception. Performances feature Miss Rainforth as Clara in Donizetti’s L Elisir d Amore, with praised ballet The Peri by Carlotta Grisi and Petipa, while Templeton struggles with falsetto and Leffler’s Michel disappoints. The piece includes crowd reactions, a chaotic last act, and notes on scenery, costumes, and a witty cast.
The piece Women draws critique on construction and pacing while performances by Mrs Nisbett and the Vandenhoffs are noted for energy yet fall short. Adelphi and Olympic shows feature Marie, Ondine, and a weak Little Offspring with burlesque twists, plus Salvi and Ronconi in Paris Opera debuts.
The report lists bets on horses including Trueboy Armytage Blackdrop Arcanus Shocking Mamma Lady Sale Whistle Binkie and others with heavy bets on Blackdrop and Arcanus. Shocking Mamma showed backers at 12 to 1 until near close and Lady Sale and Whistle Binkie dropped from the market. Cuireron races and Derry events also noted with Voltri Ugly Buck tension and large stakes on T Auld Squire.
The Kingston Jamaica blaze of August 26 destroyed upwards of 400 houses and caused losses between £250,000 and £500,000. Fire spread through Harbour Street, Rum Lane, and Hanover Street, with crews aided by seamen and artillery. One life, Ebenezer Depass, perished. others injured, lootings reported as crowds fled. Royal Gazette notes Haiti turmoil with Salomon seeking French protection.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas four miles won by Mr Ramsay's The Shadow, aged Rus Noble, over Lord Eglintoun's Pompey and Aristotle. Two miles won by Mr H Johnstone's William le Gros, beating Cable and Lara. Mile heats won by Lord Eglintoun's Egidia over Zoroaster and Broadhelm. Match 25 savs three quarters won by Finley’s Eagle over Lalla Rookh. Sweepstakes for untrained horses won in three heats by Redfern's Sir John, beating Patriot and Nabocklish.
A Reading Monday event at Sampson's ground pitted Wild and Byrom of Lancashire Maxwell of Sheffield and Sheppard of Birmingham in a one mile three time laps plus nineteen yards race. Sheppard won heat one in four minutes fifty seconds, Byrom second, Maxwell third, Wild fourth. After a rest, heat two saw Sheppard win by about seven yards over Byrom with Wild third and Maxwell fourth in four minutes fifty three seconds. A hunting stud sale at Hyde Park Corner led by Lord Cardigan auctioning off prized horses including Jacopo, Burton, Triplicate, Clown, Asmodeus, Radical, Windmill, Water Witch, Swinford, Beggar Boy, Brash, and Muley Ishmael with several lots bought back. A draft from Lord George Bentinck racing stock, including Faringtosh and Mustapha, Flytrap, was also sold, some purchased by the East India Company.
A London hospital inquest into the death of Mary Smart aged four years seven months from clothes catching fire while playing with potatoes on a stove. The child ran for help. the fire was extinguished after she was badly burned and later died at the hospital. Verdict: Accidental death. Also reports a severe accident to John Presley a Kensington Palace butler with a fractured thigh after a barrel toppled in the ale cellars. He was taken to St George's hospital with some hopes of recovery. The issue of tollgate removal between Plymouth and Stonehouse is noted as completed by public auction ending a long standing barrier.
Paris papers lead with fortifications and France’s satisfaction over Jerusalem affront. Madrid reports heavy precautions, army orders to quell disturbances, Narvaez’s illness, centralist tensions in Seville and Badajoz, Segovia conspiracy, and royal decree easing foreign officials.
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