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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 16, 1841
Page
3
Fragmentary readable text from a historical page references unclear events and names. No complete sentence conveys a clear action, place, or date suitable for a full item.
The Pampeluna rising and allied moves in Bilbao Vittoria and Tolosa are reported with O Donnell in Pampeluna. Espartero supports Madrid. royalist proclamations urge Basque and Navarre troops to defend the queen and the constitution. Madrid remains vigilant as guards seize leaders and bolster posts.
Letters from London dated July 28 describe the expedition fleet reaching Caps Coast Castle from Sierra Leone with the Soudan Albert and Wilberforce arriving on July 15 through 24. News says the voyage is in flourishing condition and delays in Niger ascent are unlikely. large vessels cannot pass above Bre until August. Vintages in Burgundy France viewed as satisfactory with reduced yields, champagne quality mixed, and southern wine prospects low due to weather and heavy rains. Roussillon vintages began and ended early with grape spoilage noted at Rivesaltes.
A Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts meeting in London was disrupted by chartists. Lord Wodehouse chaired briefly before interruptions escalated. Clergy and police intervened as chartists denounced parsons, while speakers defended charity work and missions to English emigrants.
The debate touched on education grants versus royal building funds. Clarke faced charges after being brought to the hall by Captain Money but was discharged with a pledge to answer later. The chartists left amid interruptions. an evening meeting was canceled.
Multiple inquest reports from a London era, including the death of Robert Irwin from apoplexy after an omnibus journey to Paddington, a late robbery at H Johnston's Pimlico home, a child poisoned by fly-water, a female found in the Thames, a man crushed by a dam stone and a wild bull incident near Aldgate, plus an accidental death from stairs at St Bartholomew's hospital.
Literary Chronicle reviews John Mills's The Otp Egatisy Gentleman as a collection of hunting sketches. It praises Striver the old huntsman and his terrier Button in vivid scenes of trapping fate and a moonlit confrontation with a badger, concluding with a contrasting note on the Drawing-Room Scrap-Book album by Fisher and Son.
The passage extols beauty as a universal drive for excellence, linking humble craft with loftier arts. It argues that love of grace feeds both common labor and grand architecture, sculpture, and painting. It praises patronage, memory of gifted minds, and the transformative power of art.
A review of The Settlements of the New Zealand Company by H. W. Petre. The author, part of the 1839 Wellington colony, offers an account of a year’s experience, praising the colony and outlining sections on expedition, progress, difficulties, climate and prospects. The piece notes his plan to return in spring and highlights colonial history in the narrative.
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