Gough praises Chinese expeditionary force and mourns losses
Official dispatch from May 1842 reports Captain Pears and officers aiding the expeditionary force, including Lieutenant-Colonel Tomlinson's death at Chapoo. It notes Lieutenant-Colonel Mountain's recovery, lists killed and wounded among regiments, including 18th Royal Irish and 49th, with total casualties and names of officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pears
H. Gover
Lord Stanley
Chape City
Hugh Gough
Tomlinson
18Th
Royal Irish
Mountain
C.B
J. B. Goucu
Adjutant General Expeditionary Force
K.G
Chapo
Her Majesty's 18Th Royal Irish Regiment
Her Majesty's
Cameronians
Her Majesty’s 49Th Regiment
Her Majesty's 55Th Regiment
Madras Sappers and Miners
35Th
Madras Native Infantry
N. R. Towlinson
A.S.H. Mountain
Colin Campbell
5Ath Regiment
A. E. Jodrell
8Th
Royal Irish Regiment
A. Murray
Majesty’s
T.S. Reynolds
Her Majesty's 49Th Regiment
W.P. R. Browne
J. G. Johnstone
Madras Sappers
J. 13. Guuau
Expeditionary Force
Budget Talks Hint at Inheritance Duties and Stamps Increase
The discussion notes a plan to raise ordinary means with higher inheritance and stamp duties to balance expenses. It mentions 1842 state accounts, prior years, and that overplus funds were used to clear arrears. A 6,000,000f capital remains available from public debt, to be drawn as treasury needs. Pensions are being revised by a special commission. The Belgium Holland final treaty has been definitively concluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Arnheim
Belgium
Holland
Bergara
Madrid
Buena Vista
Toledo
Ciudad Real
Juan Lacarte
London
Moffatt
Tax Lonpon Custom-House
Robert Peel
Svar
Etorensane
RK. Beck Bart
Board of Trade
Customs Department
J. B
Spitalfields
Duke of Gloucester
Seabrightstreet
Bethnal Green-road
Mr. Foster
St. Martin's Church
Hemming
Regent Street
Homix and
Sun Insurance
Masonic Department
Voluntary Courney Association
Congregational Library
Finsbury
Culling EK
Smith
Culling Smith
Liefchild
England
Jerusalem
Thomas James
Burnet
Warren Companies
Lambeth
White Hart Tavern
Kennington
Lambeth and Vauxhall Water
W., Barker
T. Cooper
Messrs. Blanche
Orme
Bird
Cooper
Hunt
Vauxhall
Royal Navan Bexxvouryh Society
Willis
Willis's Rooms, St. James's, When Rear-admiral Sir Robert Stopford
G.C.B
Marshall
Langhame
Hongaton
Tite
Conolly
Jay
Casey
Scott
Markham
Davison
Bedford
Navy
Governor and Company
East India House
Halifax
Pim
Tveir
DisEaszs
London Tavern
Bishops
Gate-Street
Matthew Foster
Revit
Itl
Reid
Derby
Bakewell
Joshua Birley
Robertson
Owen
Birley
Edinburgh
Derby Chronicle
Ipswich
William Harrison
Vaol
Harriy
Harrison
Melton
Liverpool
Wepszspay Morsine
Waterloo Road
Reyner
Whitty
Fleet-street
Leeds-street
Joan Bigsy
Esa
Royal Bank of Liverpool
Bibby
Royal Bank
Everton
Mr. Bibby
Bootle
North Shields
Sexton
Pye
Dingley Dell
Quety
Levant Mail reports Syrian policy hard line from Porte
Despatches from Constantinople dated 28 ult indicate the Porte will not concede on the Syrian question. The hatti-sheriff creates Turkish administration for Maronites and Druses, with Essaad Pasha named governor of Libanon and Anti Libanon. Omer Pasha recalled. Turkish envoy to Teheran prepares to deliver ultimatum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courrier Français
M. Guizot
M. de Bourquenay
Constantinople
Porte
Courrier
M. de Boutenier
Corps Diplomatique
Dugsburg
Persia
Servia
Great Britain
Naples
Essaad Pasha
Saida
Omer Pasha
Emir Beschir
Syria
Teheran
Trebisonda
French and Iberian affairs loom in foreign intelligence
The dispatch covers France’s naval and political maneuvers with Thiers and Molé possibly returning to office, naval builds at Brest, new military works, a mosque project in Paris, wine crop notes, and arrivals of Cowley and Bulwer. It also reports Spain easing exemptions for Carlists, Portugal finance strains, Algeria constructions, and India and Afghanistan war rumors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National
Count Molé
M. Thiers
The
Belgium
England
France
Marine Department
West Indies
Egyptus
Marseilles
Alexandria
la Cietat
Toulon
Uranie
Egerie
3D Regiment of Marines
Quartier Beaujon
Champs Elysées
Paris
Journal de Rheims
Avize
Cramant
Brest
M. Lamartine
le Patrice
London
Opening of the Dutch States General Session 1844
The session opened with a royal procession and a speech by the king. He announced progress on the Belgium London treaty and reforms to militia law and police. He noted general prosperity in colonies and arts, but concerns in West Indian affairs. The penal code and judicial retirement provisions were set for discussion. Brazils packet reports economic distress and political shifts in Rio Grande, Bahia, and Pernambuco amid currency depreciation. News from Buenos Ayres and Montevideo covers Rosa regime tensions and armed incursions, with France and England mediating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tau Hasue
States General
Saxe-Weitmar Eisenach
Netherlands
Belgium
London
East India
West India
Dubita
Brazils
Rio Janeiro
Banto Manoel
Rio Grande
Rio
Bahia
Pernambuco
Buenos Ayres
Monte Video
Chili
Madrid
Rosas
Tucuman
Salta
Jujui
la Rioja
Guazu
Brown
France
England
London merchants adopt three to four oclock change
A public meeting at the London tavern, chaired by Joshua Bates, adopted a resolution to shift the exchange hours from three to four p.m. daily. The plan aims to reduce late-hour inconveniences and speed commerce, with a committee empowered to implement the change and address related issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merchants of London
London
Joshua Bates
House of Messrs. Barings and Co
Rothschild
Moffatt
Dallas
Hutchinson
Doxat
Infirmary report and bank affairs dominate parish meeting
A London infirmary report notes lack of cutaneous disease care prior to autumn last year and 964 patients treated with 642 cures at under 30 each. It praises Dr Startin and records funds and debts. Separately Tae waTk Marytenone Bank faces creditor settlements, director liabilities, and shareholder contributions to pay public creditors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hospital of
St. Louis
Paria
Henry IV
Dublin
Wallace
J. Startin
Tae waTk Marytenone Bank
Defence Committee
Hannay
Scotland
St. Pancras
Pauren Cullprex
Messrs
Tremenhere
Twisselton
Stebbing
Williams
G. Houghton
Poor Law Commissioners
Special Commission
Victoria
Douglas
Tre.emenhere
St. Pancras Parish
King’s Road
Edward
Duke of Kent
George the Third
Oliver Cromwell
Manchester
London
Mr. Twisselton
Mr. T'wisselton
John Balguy
Walker Skirrow
Sergent Ludlow
Sergeant Stephen
Sergeant Goulburn
Nathaniel Ellison
Martin West
Edward Daniels
W.T. Jemmett
C. Phillips
Montagu Bere
Richard Stevenson
Whitecross
Street Prison
Rungick
Church of the United
St. Edmund the King and Martyr
St. Nicholas Acons
Lombard-street
Church Militant
Reform meeting and inquest reports on crime and accidents
A crowded reform meeting at the Britannia tavern voices demands for rights against despotic governance. Inquests at Elephant and Castle and Chelmsford detail accidental deaths on railway works and a suspected infant murder case with post mortem notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kubrick
N.B
Church of England
London
City of
Cone Homes
Hannt TweEiyi Hoang
B.C
Ravorm
Fauxcuise
Britannia Tavern
Waterloo
Road
Lockett
Sewell
Wakley
M.P
Elephant and Castle
Camden Town
St. Pancras
King’s Road
Regent’s Canal
Hillier
Higgs
Westminster
Rochester
Maidstone
Eastern Counties Railway
Lewis
Essex
Union
Chelmsford
Richard Smith
Monay
Cherry Garden Lane
Widford
Southampton
John Needhall
Stanway
James Smith
William Clerk
Lexden
Colchester
Court-martial at Chatham on attempt to murder private Onn
A general court martial at Chatham heard charges against Robert Onn alias James Brown of the Roth regiment for firing on Lance-Corporal Joseph Allen at the King's Head inn Wye Kent on July 3 1841. Onn denied guilt and desertion followed by evidence from multiple witnesses before adjournment until Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chatham
Chatham Barracks
Robert Onn
James Brown
Roth Regiment
Joseph Allen
Sir Frederick Smith
Royal Engineers
George Pipon
King’s Head
Wye
80Th Regiment
73D Regiment
Joseph Clements
10Th Regiment
Canterbury
Ashford
Kent
William Groom
Corporal Allen
Newcastle
Croydon
Addiscombe Road
Anne Cooper
Bromley
Rumors on Irish Chancellorship and Dublin Burgess Revision
Ireland rumors say Lord Lyndhurst may retire as English chancellor with Sir Edward Sugden or Mr Pennefather to Ireland. Blacburne tipped for Queen's Bench, Warren for master of the rolls. In Dublin, O'Connell completes burgess revision amid Liberal gains. A sea disaster report from Dundonald and Kirby notes a collision near Waterford with loss of crew, details scarce and unverified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Law
Lyndhurst
England
Edward Sugden
Pennefather
Queen's Bench
Edward
Blacburne
Warren
Rolls
Edwardy Sugden
Dupuy
O'Connell
Lord Mare
Dundonald
Troon
D. Sping
Kirby
Dudden
Lancas
Cumberland
Waterford
Hook
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Levant Mail
Foreign Intelligence
Spain
Portugal
Lisbon
Algiers
Algesiras
Moniteur
Algeria
Bugeaud
Kalifat Ben Salem
India
Lord Lowther
Luea
Trieste
Vienna
Hamburgh
Ostend
Malta
Egypt
Affghanistan
Herald
Jellalabad
Akhbar Khan
Pollock
Akhbar
Dost Mahomed
Nott
Candahar
Cabul
May
Orr Tx
Cayenne
Polu Vigne
M. Vigne
Macouria
Poly Vigne
Hammucek
the Metropolis
Ireland
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