Tragedy and Fire Alarm Near Westminster Bridge and Watling Street
Reports detail a drowning incident after a woman reportedly jumped from a Westminster bridge pier amid unrest among Irish workers on the North Union Railway. Separately, a fire at Mr. Newman’s Watling Street printing shop endangered residents and workers, with Mrs. Newman and children rescued from a church roof by firemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Castle
North Union Railway
Westminster Bridge
Nichols
M‘cann
Parliament-street
Royal Humane Society
Montague House
St. Margaret’s
Newman
Watling-street
City
St. Mary ,Aldermary Church
Brn
Inquest Reports Three Fatalities In London and Islington
An inquest at Green Man Tavern on Samuel Fisher a 32 year old dyer ended with verdict of temporary mental derangement after he killed himself with a pistol. Witnesses described intoxication quarrels and deranged behavior. Separate Greenwich workhouse inquest found Thomas Robinson 63 died by suicide in oakum room with a razor nearby concluding temporary insanity. Islington brick kiln inquest found an unnamed man suffocated while sleeping on top of a burning kiln with no signs of violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green Man Tavern
New Bondstreet
Higgs
Samuel Thomas Fisher
Lower Brook Street
Sarah Hydes
Powell
Russell
Broadstreet
Golden Square
John Cope
Porter
Greenwich
Carttar
Thomas Robinson
Oakum
John Sutton
Creenwich
Purvis
Robinson
Oakum Room
Andrew Bristling
Edward Clayton
Vinay
Pied Bull Tavern
Islington
Stirling
Greville-street Free Hospital
William Watelhurst
G. W. Merner
Murder Charge After Man Found Dead at Llanelly Ironworks
The body of a middle aged man named William Williams alias Pontypool Will was found with fatal wounds near the Royal Oak Inn at Llanelly works. Samuel Powell is committed to Brecon gaol for wilful murder after an inquest found him responsible. evidence includes sightings with the deceased on the night of the crime and a bloodstained shirt found at Powell’s house in Abergavenny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Oak Inn
Llanelly
Royal Oak
William Williama
Pontypool
Thomas Davies
Breconshire
Samuel ‘Powell
Brecon County
Spring Assizes
Powell
Messrah Morgan
Abergavenny
Govilon
Butchers-Arme Ine
Williams
Ahorses
Ellis
Watkins
Gamddiffat
Abergayeony
Distress in Workhouses and Squalor in Markets Abroad
A disquieting essay contrasts workhouse despair with social neglect, likening entry to a prison in which hope dies. It then surveys famine in Canton markets, noting rare delicacies priced with harsh scarcity, and describes brutal conditions among higher and lower classes. An inquest in Lambeth reports Frances Elizabeth Rowe’s suicide by arsenic amid alleged assault and coercion, with testimony of seduction and abuse by Thomas Noakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Episce Market
China
Jerusalem
Lord Byron
Canton
New Bell
York Street
Lambeth
Frances Elizabeth Rowe
Harriett Michals
Princess-court
Commercial-road
Thomas Noakes
Noakes
Peacock
Broadwall
Blackfriars
Thames
Southwark-bridge
Destructive Cotton Warehouse Fire in Robert Street North
A massive blaze in Liverpool's Robert Street North destroyed six warehouses with saltpetre and cotton stocks amid East India goods, causing explosive blasts that shattered windows, damaged ships at Waterloo Dock, and injured several people including a police officer and a butcher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Robert-street
Great Howard-street
Prince’s Dock
Messrs
Henry Davies and Co
King-street
Great Howard Street
William and
James Brown
Molyneux, Witterby, and Co
Wilds, Pickersgill, and Co
Everton
Shipbread
Cheshire
Waterloo Dock
Jacob Penne
Clarence Dock
Dennison-street
Manchester and
Bolton
Gibraltar-street
Pass
Dennison Street
Hill
Sun
Manchester
Hill-street
Robert-street North
William and J. Brown and Co
Anderson
Norwich Union
Whitehouse
West of England
Robert Street
Eagle Hotel
Messrs. Grundy and Co
Tyrer Street
Fire destroys cotton warehouses and threatens city
Eyewitness reports describe a massive blaze on Hill and Dennison streets with burning cotton warehouses owned by Wm. and James Brown. Nine thousand bales of cotton and East India goods were lost, insurers covered much, with casualties and a single death blamed on the explosions. The fire exposed inadequate water supply and fire-police weakness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Brown
Hill-street
Dennison-street
India
Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co
Messrs. Wm
Moppay
Robert-street
Remedies and a fatal coal hold explosion in 1838
The page recounts home remedies for cramps and dyspepsia with brandy and rhubarb, then reports a fatal coal hold explosion aboard the Charlotte of Sunderland after sulfurated air buildup. It covers poor law liability claims over maintaining parents, a literary bureau incident, a prison hair-cutting critique, and a brutal assault on a boy with court fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Sunderland
Joseph Lowry
John Bacon
Colchester
Lexden
Bacon
Yeomanry Corps
John H.alland
Cheltenham
Smith
Justices of the Peace
Gloucester County
J. H. Alland
Brura
Brentford
John Machell
John Meacock
Hanwell
Walmesley
William Carter
Thomas Haffenden
Colonel Catherow
Catalog of practical books and moral treatises for tradesmen
A regional catalog advertises affordable practical works on law, accounting, post office reform, domestic duties, marriage and morality, and social satire. Items praised include Penny editions by Henry Wiekins, Oswald’s bookkeeping guides, and Cruikshank satire works, with endorsements from the Morning Chronicle and The Times.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kidd’s
Tavistock-street
Covent-garden
Ine
Paternoster-rew
Baxeks and Co
Man
Hawthorn Nottinceam
Warwick la Seeee
Kidds
England
Pertor
Henry Wiekins
Kics
Morning Chronicle
Vata
Proeial
IDD
Caulxs HaNick
Kipp
Literary Gazette
N.B
Apothecary
Momningerald
Henew
Raymond Percivan
N.te
the Times
Berencar
Earl of Lichfield
House of Asl
Shakspeare
Oxy and PorvnaRk AurEon
Bell’s Messenger
Andora
Morning Post
Trinity College, Cambridge
Courx- Banl
Globe
Cruikshank
Francis Hocus
Carthsuanx
Coronene
Railways
Epsom
Ascot
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