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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Oct 23, 1836

Page

7

Church Rate Abolition Society Formed in London Meeting

A large gathering at the City of London Tavern endorses abolishing church rates. Speakers urge government action, condemn compulsion on Dissenters, and back a new society to pursue abolition by constitutional means. Several MPs send support from afar.

City of London Charles Lushington Hume D. W. Harvey M. Ewart T. Duncombe Humphries Hawes Easthope Burton Regius Oxford Fancourt Leicester Beccles Childs Bungay Charles Hear William IV Edinburgh Glasgow Mr. Grote M.P Aglionby Clay Sergeant Wilde Cuthbert Rippon John Wilks W. Tooke James Patteson Mr. Bentham Mr. Hume Altherp Hornbuckle John Russell Ireland Church Rate Abolition Society London Joseph Henry Green F.R.S Royal College of Surgeons St. Thomas's Hospital King’s College, London Franks St. Thomas’s Hospital Josten Henry Green Lincoln's Inn-fields Brans Sy Cooper Guy’s Hospital Cooper New-street Spring-gardens William Hentsch Furnival’s Inn Holborn Free Hospital Greville Street Hatton-garden Sir Tam William M Hentsch George Franks Blackfriars’road Barclay and Sons Farringdon-street Edwards St. Paul’s Church Yard Thomas Butler Cheapside St. Paul's Sanger Oxford-street Johnston Cornhill Prout Strand Heudebourck Middle-row Bowling St.George's Honourable Commissioners of Stamps Blackfriars-road Wn.b Efay England Jean Lefay Stirling High-street Whitechapel J. W. Stirling Brandeeti Maesty Honourable Commissioners of GEO. Hodgkinson Aldersgate Street Hospital Zaccheus Hunter Webber -Row United Kingdom A. Hawkes Dudley Zaccheus Frunter Ley

Deaths from drunkenness and derangement in inquest reports

Inquests report Elisabeth Hull dies after long drinking, Richard Fowler's suicide linked to hereditary derangement, a 13 year old killed by omnibus with driver charged with manslaughter, Mary Russell's suicide linked to preaching influence, Louis James Ashton commits arsenic suicide, and other brief notes on public disturbances and reactions.

Elisabeth Hull Cornwall Cottages Arthur Skelton John’s Place Cornwall Road Carter Surrey King’s Arms Surrey Canal Camberwell Richard Fowler Brown Binnion New Church Elizabeth Higgs Bathplace Newington Omninus Murpger Angel Inn High-street St. Giles’s Stirling Richard Cooper Robert Rose Messrs Warburton and Co London Conveyance Company George Woodman Holborn Compton-street Johnson Sanderson Paddington Ralph Middleton Westbourne-green Middlesex James Holston George’ Woodman Higgs King’s Head Park Road Clapham Mary Russell London Hospital Baker Louis James Ashton British Oak Oxford Street Stepney Solemmly London England ANB Town and Country Ltd Great Britain Old England Town and Couuntry

Rescue at Serpentine Park Averts a Possible Suicide

A fashionable young woman named Sergeant, about 18, attempted to throw herself into the Serpentine but was saved by James, who restrained her at the bridge. She claimed distress after a family dispute and possible espionage rumors, then resumed life with gratitude.

James iTyde Park Kensington Robert Geneva Sergeant Miss Sergeant Limerick Star Jim Roughan Childer Johnson Gineral Dhrownd

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