Calamitous St Martin's court fire claimed three lives
A warehouse fire in St Martin's court Leicester Square destroyed Noah's Ark boot shop owned by J Labram. Three residents, Mrs Pollock and her two children, perished amid collapsing floors as fire crews battled the blaze from two a.m. to five a.m. The Pollocks and King households suffered heavy losses. the blaze originated likely from a kitchen timber beam and gas line.
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Petropolis
Topping’s Wharf
Fetterlane
Smith
Chandos Street
New River Company
Sutintendent
Braidwood
Messrs
Carter
Connerton
St. Martin’s Lane
West of England
T. Martin’s Lane
Pollock
Labram
Frederick Warren
Charing-cross Hospital
Avery
Emma Pollock
John
Alexander
Orrictal
St. Martin’s Court
Leicester Square
J. Labram
Westminster
W. Ackerman
Globe
Union
Walker
Tweeddale
Charles Lofting
Higgs
St. Martin’s Parish
Red Lion Tavern
John Pollock
Alexander Pollock
Noah’s Ark
Crown Street
Soho
Oxford-street
Wells‘eet
King Street
St. Martin's Court
Joshua Keeble
King
Mr. King
Reed
Thomas Winter
Mr. Labram
Tijl
Douglas Guest
No. 6
St. James’s Street
Colonial Club
Edward Machin
Keeble
Walter
Address and Anecdotes of Espartero in Spain
The piece contrasts a Tory city address for Baring with hints of protectionist aims and taxation talk. It thenRelates anecdotes about Espartero in New Spain, his Madrid rise, an 80,000 dollar win, a near opponent’s remark, and his later perilous position amid royal reforms, noting army bribery, delays in pension, and speculation on his return to Spain as a national mood shifts.
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Baring
John Bull
Robert
Peel
Thomas Baring
Muman
Alderman Gibbs
League
Promis
Espartero
New Spain
Canterac
Cortes
Madrid
Albacete
Spain
Literary Gazette
Skeleton found in St Pauls churchyard dig near ruined walls
Workmen uncover near complete skeleton remains five feet below surface while excavating a sewer at St Pauls churchyard north side. No coffin found, but strong foundation walls resist tools as excavations reveal parts of old St Pauls. A separate tale recounts a staged Adelphi theatre fire scare and a boys chimney sweep rewarded with a sovereign.
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Old ST. Paul's
St. Paul’s
Beechey
North Pole
Silver hoard from Rohne unearthed by ploughman
A Rohne countryman named Fondarfive finds an oval copper vessel containing about 3350 silver coins from the 10th and 11th centuries. Around 380 are Anglo Saxon Danish or Norwegian coins of Ethelred Canute Harold Hardicanute Edward and Sven Erickson. others are German from Cologne Augshure. Also two other peasants found a coin and a clasp. The find is dated to the end of the 11th century with only two Arabian coins. The article also notes Napoleonic battle deaths totaling 1,811,500 with potential total deaths up to 2,000,000 when including unreported wounds and naval battles.
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Wisxy
Fondarfive
Rohne
Ethelred
Canute
Aarold
Hardicanute
Edward
Sven Erickson
Cologne
Augshure, &c
Queen appoints lady of the bedchamber and other court notices
The London Gazette reports Queen Victoria naming Elizabeth Marchioness of Desaro as lady of the bedchamber in ordinary, replacing Charlotte Duchess of Norfolk who becomes extra lady. It also lists appointments of commission members for inquiries into South Wales turnpikes and Irish union workhouse contracts, insolvencies, bankruptcies, dividends, certificates, partnerships dissolved, and Scotch sequestrations with numerous names and locations.
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St. James's Palace
Elizabeth Marchioness of
Desaro
Charlotte Duchess of Norfolk
Waitr
Thomas Frankland Lewis
Obert Henry Clive
William Cripps
South Wales
George Kettilby Richards
Hitehall
James Pennethorne
Ireland
Great Queen Street
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Independent Chapel
Brackley
Northamptonshire
W. Harker
York
John Webster
Blackburn
J. Massey
Hough
Cheshire
J. Lane
South Shields
T. Cook
St. Alban’s
Hertfordshire
W. J. Cumming
Matlock
Derbyshire
W. Starters
Hatton Wall
W. Smith
Lewisham Road
Kent
G. Mitchell
Manchester
R. Stockbridge
Pickering Place
Paddington
W. C. Davis
Bailey
Handsworth
Staffordshire
E. Dunn
Birmingham
S. Hewitt
Aston
W. Cox
Burslem
T. Starkey
Stoke Upon Trent
W. Calvert
Otley
Yorkshire
J. Worrall
M. Penninson
Huddersfield
S. Callum
Leeds
J. Hutchinson
Manhhanter
J. Keate
Cardiff
J. Cooper
Berner's Mews
G. Barrett
Red Lion Passage
Red Lion Street
St. George the Martyr
Poulterer
J. Bennett
Shiffnal
Shropshire
J. and
R. Davies
Chiswell Street
F. W. E. Barandon
Kilpet Lane
J. Mallett
Hadley
Middlesex
Miller
J. Millington
T. Sadler
J. Bancroft
Salford
R. Goolden
Welch
Pool
Carrier
D. Hannay
Cavendish Square
J.varty
St. Paul's Churchyard
T. Trafford
Hatton
Tincolnshire
Buchanan and Cunningham
Liverpool
W. Broomhead
H. Kay
Victualler
Green and Wicking
Sutton At Hone
M. Stanley
Lees, Whitehead, and Co
Oldham
Williams and Wood
Worcester
Swift and Elkin
Stoke upon-Trent
Usherwood and Ellis
Warbleton
Suase
E. Tennant
Sheeld
S. C. Proctor
Firth
Hellawell, and Co
Marsden
J. Wood
J. Mercer
Glasgow
M. Anderson
Glas OW
J. Coutts
J. Coutts, Jun., Esg
Aberdeenshire
G. Thom
Sen
R. Thom
Whiflet
A. Thom
Clarkston
A. Broombe
Staleybridge
Wilder
J. Harrison
Brighton
W. E. Filbey
Norwich
J. L. Woodruff
Great
H. Hardie
North
Theatre Tavern
Bath
T. Hooper
Hay
Breconshire
Chymist
D. Edwards
Pembroke
R. Pitt
West Bromwich
Andrews
Twin
Hope Brewery
Peckham
J. B. Herbert
Gloucester
J.J.M. M. Scott
H.B. Jones
Birkenhead
Chester
J. Hellings
Rugeley
T. Hitchcock
Alrewas
W.S
T. Bate
Staff
Brewers
A. Harris
Sharp's Buildings
Tower Hill
Stopseller
R. Jones
Carnarvon
Draper
Abercarne
Monmouthshire
E. Rawlinson
St. Helen's
Lancashire
T. Skinner
Godalming
Surrey
C. Holebrook
Uttoxeter
J. C. Burnley
Heckmondwike
J. A. Lee
Iron
J. Ard
T. Harriman
Nottingham
Drapers
J. Bottomley
Delph
E. Laughton
Wisheach St. Peter's
Cambridgeshire
Birt and Clarke
Stroud
Gloucestershire
Linenapers
Moss, Leman, and Bryan
Commercial Wharf
Old Swan Lane
Thames Street
Buckley and
Apsden
Calico Nen
Lampard and Crockford
Heytesbury
Warminster
Iltshire
Baly and Righton
Leamington Priors
Warwickshire
Silk Mercers
W. Kilburn and Co
H and C. E. Clements
Hammersmith
Fraser and Baillie
P. Cardno
Aberdeen
J. Simpson
Greenock
A Storm in the Polar Sea and Lola Montez in Berlin
A dramatic description of apocalyptic ice sea collisions from Beechey’s voyages, pairing with a Berlin note about Lola Montez the Spanish dancer facing possible imprisonment after a clash with a gendarme during the royal review. Montez, age nineteen, reportedly causes a court incident and arrest for disrespect.
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Danseuse
Berlin
Madile
Lola Montez
Molle
Montez
Galignani
Brutal animal experiments noted in Lancet report
A Lancet notice describes brutal experiments on a cat where brain and spinal marrow were removed and replaced with a mercury quill amalgam. The animal briefly revived and showed signs of life before dying, with ongoing circulation and gastric juice secretion. The account laments the cruelty and fears potential harm to humans if unregulated.
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Weinhold
Antiquarian Researches From Dieppe Excavations
A Dieppe letter reports excavations at St Mar guerite led by librarian M. Feret uncovering six mosaic-lined rooms and Saxon warrior skeletons with armour coins and vase fragments. A complete Roman villa is revealed. skeletons are small, suggesting youths aged 16 to 18.
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Dieppe
St. Marguerite
M. Feret
Army promotions and transfers in the British regiments
War Office issues dates and names for captain, lieutenant, ensign, and cornet appointments across Life Guards and several regiments, including by purchase and exchanges. Entries list officers moving between units, promotions, resignations, and paymaster appointments, with notes on resignations and adjutant changes.
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War Office
Regiment of Life Guards
James Macnaghten Hogg
4Th Light Dragoons
Colston
1St
Regiment of Dragoons
Charles Coningsby Waldo Sibthorp
Purchase
Peel
William de Cardonnel Greaves Elmsall
Sibthorp
Henry Croft
Cornet
Elmsall
2D Regiment of Dragoons
John Ramsay Brush
St. Helena
Wedderburne
4Th Regiment of Light Dragoons
Edward Colston
1St Regiment of Life Guards
Hogg
Sik Regiment of Light Dragoons
Henry Francis Cust
26Th Foot
Haffenden
9Th Regiment of Foot
Frederick Percy Lea
Layard
88Th Foot
Richard O'Connor
60Th Foot
Jennings
17Th Foot
Warner Westenra Johnson
Halfpay
41St Foot
Harvey
Foot
Henry Murray
Adlercron
Andrew Beatty
Murray
25Th Foot
George Bent
Cust
8Th Light Dragoons
Charles Dowson
90Th Foot
Bent
29Th Foot
Hugh George Colvill
39Th Foot
Corcoran
34Th Foot
Folliott Duff
Lee
James Maxwell
Duff
Douglas Munro Fyfe
Maxwell
86Th Foot
Henry Samuel Bowman
Wheatstone
38Th Foot
Arthur Ara
9Th Foot
Crofton Hamilton Fitzgerald
44Th Foot
William Campbell Mollan
Halfhide
Lawrence Hartehorne Scott
Mollan
John Stanley Howard
Scott
George William Molyneux Lovett
Smith
George Bingham Jennings
O'Connor
67Th Foot
Vere Webb
Blakeney
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment
Charles Edward Watson
Otway
Scots Fusilier Guards
Alexander M Grigor
Wilson
84Th Foot
Charles Alexander Hall Hide
49Th Foot
Bamford
59Th Foot
85Th Foot
Thomas Edmond Knox
Patterson
86Th
91St Foot
James Christie
Blackwell
James Day Cochrane
Christie
John Trotter Bethune
Cochrane
97Th Foot
Henry George Woods
Kelly
Rifle Brigade
Julius Richard Glyn
Morrice
3D West India Regiment
Frederick William Lane
Tighe
Edward Hugh Blakeney
M‘grigor
71St Foot
St.elena
John Mullins
Brush
2D Dragoons
Charles Vereker
27Th Foot
Cnpnance
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Sir Thomas Downham
K.C.H
Beevor
County Palatine of
Chester
Royal Cheshire Militia
Richard Cornwall Legh
Parker
County of Bedford
John Brownlow Osborn
John Harvey
Bank OF England
William IV
Committal of Master Tailor for Stock of Stolen Goods
Henry William Morley a 36 year old Dean Street Soho tailor was committed to Newgate on ten counts of possessing stolen goods. Police seizure tied items to Edwardian tradespeople on Bond Street Charlotte Street Grosvenor Street and Belgrave Street with valuations from £7 to £70. Morley offered a bribe of 20 to a constable, and further cases were identified but not pursued.
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Henry William Morley
Dean Street
Soho
Marlborough Street
Newgate
Dean-street
Haynes
Twitcher and
Shaw
Morley
G. D. Doudney
Old Bond-street
B. J. Kriesa
Charilotte-street
Fitzroy-square
Frances Laker
Mattison
Attison
John Falconer
New Bond.street
George Mackay
Falconer
Messrs
Johnstone
James
Bond-street
W. Dyke
Grafton-street
Gottemeyer
Regent-street
Bownd
Twitcher
Lord Dungannon
Messrs. Storr and Mortimer
TIRLING REES ESSENCE PROMOTES HEALTH AND VIGOUR
The Stirling essence claims rapid cures for blood impurity disorders with sarsaparilla compounds. It touts strong surgeon endorsements and world demand, promising effects in three to four days, with no return after treatment. Sold by J W Stirling, chemist, Whitechapel, with stamped genuine bottles.
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Tirling
J. W. Stirling
Whitechapel
N.B
Cavarion
A Popular Treatise on Medical Ethics for Women
An early advertisement promotes a sealed volume on medical ethics relating to women and deferred maternity by Goss and Co. It claims moral and health guidance, reviews from multiple papers, and offers delivery by post for three shillings with secure packing. Also notes of organic health and worldwide medicine delivery from Lancaster-place and Dublin offices.
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Goss
Com. Fay
Lancaster-place
Waterloo-bridge
Strand
Ndon
London Morning Journal
Edinburgh
Edinbur i
Matsp
Glasgow
Dublin Morning Journal
Dublineekly Journal
Sherwood and Co
Paternosterrow
Porter
Grafton-street
Dublin
Messrs. Goss and Co
Waterloo Bridge
London
Silent Friend and Perry health tracts reach London readers
The advertisement list markets the Silent Friend by Perry and Co. and Lamert on debility, with several medical volumes about venereal disease and manly health. It details prices, publishers, and where to consult, urging secrecy and professional guidance at 19 Berners Street and 9 Bedford Street, with a £1 consultation fee.
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Birmingham
London
R. and
L. Perry
Guest
Bull-street
Perry
Messrs. Perry
Berners-Street
Oxford Street
La’merton
Samuel Lamert
Breprorp Street
Berprorp.square
University of Edinburgh
London Hospital Medical Society
Apothecaries
S. Gilbert
Paternoster-row
John Field
Reent-quadrant
Jackson
New Bond-street
Gordon
Leaenhall-street
Noble
Chancery-lane
Mansell
King-street
Southwark
Westerton
Parkside
Knightsbridge
Heywood
Oldham Street
Manchester
Newton
Church-street
Liverpool
Watts
Snowhill
Barraclough
Fargate
Sheffield
Davey
Broad-street
Bristol
D. France and Co
Butcher Bank
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Patern and Love
Nelson-street
Glasgow
Manchester Chronicle
La’Mert
Bedford-street
Bedford-square
C. J. Lucas & Co
Newman-street
Brittain
K. Paternosterrow
J. Gordon
Leaden All-Street
G. Mansell
C. Westerton
A. Phillips
Oxford-street
Field
Quadrant
Regent-street
Huett
High Holborn
J. Buckton
Briggate
Leeds
J. Noble
Market-place
Hull
T. Lawler
Courier-office
St. Ann's-square
J. Whitmore
Market Street
W. Howell
Dale-street
Liveool
J. Howell
Waterloo
Wood
High-street
Irmingham
J. Fryer
Westgate-street
Bath
G. Davey
Broad Street
W. Grant
Castle-Square
Brighton
H. Guy
Chelmsford
W. and
H. Robinson
Greenside Street
Edinburgh
T. Price
Dame Street
Dublin
United Kingdom
Lucas
En Bell
Mesars, Lucas and Co
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Blackwood's Magazine
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Great Britain
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Grocers’ Company
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Hoxton
Old Town
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Hitchin
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Southampton
Euston Square
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Cheltenham
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Medical Bookseller
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Mann
Cornhill
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Sawler
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