From Paris to Bombay to Marseilles Mails News India China
Express letters from Paris report slow overland mail from Calcutta to Bombay and Scinde, with June shipments from China. Bombay to Suez by Victoria, then delays and transfers via Malta and Marseilles. Bombay correspondent notes calm in Scinde, army movements near Agra, and political shifts in Lahore, Kabul, and Gualior. Also details on police corruption in Bombay, court-martial disputes, Somnaum Gates, and a large captured alligator at Accra farm with grisly measurement and stomach contents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
China
India
Thia
Calcutta
Scinde
Bombay
Aupuet
Suez
Victoria
Alexandria
Geyser
Malta
Lycorgue
Alecto
Marseilles
Boulogne
Gualior
Hugh Gough
W. Nott
Lord Ellenborough
Agra
Allahabad
London
England
Sir Charles Napier
Shere Mahammed
Beloechee
Indus
Ali Mahemmed
Ameers
Mourad Ali
Cabu
Ghuznee
Candahar
Khelat
Ganges
Bengal
Sukkur
Hyderabad
Tatta
Kurrachee
Scindian
Simpson
Charles Napier
Lahore
Dhyan Singh
Shere Singh
Akhbar Khan
Cabul
Jellalabad
Ameen Oolah Khan
Mohammed Zeman Khan
Bokhara
Dost Mahommed
Suftur Jung
Persia
Bundetkund
Punjab
Chandoo Loll
Hon. Company
Madras
Barrackpore
Mr. Bird
Fey
Poonah
Journal of the Asiatic Society
Nott
Grand Hellenic Festival at the London Tavern
A Saturday dinner at the London tavern celebrated Greece's recent events with Greek and English guests, Greek flags and patriots' portraits adorning the hall. Speakers included Mr. C T Ralli and Dr Bowring, with toasts to King Otho, Queen Amelia, the Hellenic Nation, and Greece’s philhellenes, amid Greek poetry, music, and enthusiastic tributes to liberty and independence.
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London
Greece
B. Cochrane
Bowring
C. T. Ralli
Otho
Amelia
Ionides
Europe
Eton
Great Britain
George Canning
Escape at Yvetot Prison Mirrors Lavalette Plot
A Prussian prisoner Garelli escaped Yvetot by the same ruse as Lavalette. Two women visited daily. one stayed behind, swapped garments with the inmate and slept in his bed. The pair were later found. the other accomplices remain at large. Additional items report Somersetshire chaplain’s note on 360 prisoners ignorant of the Saviour, missions funding, tolls in Breconshire, and a fatal wine-gas accident at Suresne.
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Garelli
Yvetot
Lavalette
Somersetshire
Taunton
Christ
Bristol Times
South Wales
Pontypool
Rebecca
Bristol Mercury
Sir James Shaw Bart late Chamberlain of London dies at eighty
A memorial notes Sir James Shaw Bart born in Riccarton Ayr. He rose from a city counting-house partner to alderman sheriff and lord mayor. He later served as chamberlain of London until May last and faced a public exchequer bill loss with calm dignity while aiding numerous young people and charities. He died Sunday night in his 80th year aged and revered.
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Riccarton
Ayr
James
Portsoken
Shaw
George III
Mansion House
Lord Nelson
Prince of Wales
Temple-bar
Royal House
James Shaw
London
Herald’s College
Sir James Shaw
Sir James
Richard Clarke
India
Corporation School
Aldermen questioned over court’s degraded dignity and Gibbs remarks
The Globe reports a sharp critique of the aldermen’s ethics led by Sir Peter Laurie who laments the court’s fall from grace while Alderman Gibbs faces scrutiny over withholding parish accounts. Dr. Croly advocates public audit, urging transparency and accountability amid ongoing disputes at St Stephen Walbrook.
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Aldermen
London
Peter Laurie
Peter
Wilson
Alderman Gibbs
St. Stephen
Walbrook
Croly
Charing-cross
Globe
Conflagration Devastates Canadian Forests in Drought
The Montreal Morning Courier reports a vast wildfire across Beauharnois and surrounding townships fueled by a long drought. Flames torch swamps and cleared lands, ruin soil quality, burn fences, barns, and hay, and sweep pine plains with immense, nearly apocalyptic destruction.
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Montreal Morning Courier
Miramichi
Beauharnois
St. Lawrence
Beauharnois Canal
Ormstown
Godmanchester
Pine Plains
LITERARY CHRONICLE NOTES AND NEW WORK REVIEWS
A review of the Illinoised Magazine style and content praises its binding on a volume that blends light literature with engravings, while criticizing some morbid designs by Kenney Meadows. It covers Pacer's Library or Fiction, a French-English hybrid tale, and remarks on the educative role of literature, plus notices on William Wilberforce writings, Treland and Montgomery Martin’s history, and Voyages’ philosophical dictionary editions.
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Iltuniinated
Kenney Meadows
Pacer
London
Paget
C@o
Frederick Soulie
William Wilberforce
W. Strange
Atlantic
Treland
Gara Brairaix
R. Montgomery Martin
W. S. Orr and Co
Ireland
Freighted Storm Toll a Coastline Tragedy and Rescue Efforts
A week of fierce gales caused heavy loss of life among northern and eastern coast coastwise fleets. Vessels from Hartlepool to Padstow wrecked or driven ashore, with dozens feared lost. Coast-guard rescues saved some, but many crews perished, including on the brig Ganges and the Hope. The Norwich and other vessels faced ruin, while lifesaving apparatus and rigging methods were highlighted as critical.
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DrEapron Suipwrecks
Mariner
N.N.E
N.N.W
Hartlepool
Sunderland
Laing
Padstow
Cornwall
Pentire
St. Minoa
Sherringham
Norfolk
Emily
Goole
Weybourne
W. Calverson
Coast-Guard
Dennett
John Osborne
Thomas Jackson
Bideford
Ganges
Owen
Harry Bluff
Berkeley
P. G
T. Miller
Blucher
Gloucester
Clovelly
Peppercombe Rocks
Barman
Johnson
Eliza
Wales
Cork
Croyd Bay
Nore
Mann
Sovereign
Essex
Winter Fashions from the Ladies Gazette of Fashion
A lengthy notice details winter costumes with new cloaks mantelets pelisses and bonnets. It cites velvet satin plain silks furs and embroidery as fashion trends with many patterns in walking dresses and robes. Turbans greens browns and golds are among the fashionable colours. Also notes on a KenpaL Expection political meeting favoring Warburton and Free Trade with speeches by Warburton and Aglionby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berger
Kenpal
Warburton
Aglionby
M.P
Odd Fellows” Hall
John Whitwell
Mr. Aglionby
Mr. Warburton
Belgium
Saxony
Kendal
Durham
London
Edward Hawkes
Edward Brown
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Mahmoud
Somaath
Ghuznec
Somnanuth
Voice of
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Asiatic Society
Friend of
Keying
Canton
Hong Kong
Singapore
W. Parker
Henry
Government-House
Kwang
Hong Kong House
Sir Henry
Chusan
Balfour
Hingtae
Kingqua
Mowqua
Acra
Anon
Waterhouse
Yorkshire
London ‘Tavern
Eleutheria
Parnassus
Marathon
Aegean
Canning
Plato
Socrates
Asia
Lascaridi
Xenophonalli
Suresne
James Shaw,Bart
the City of London
Canada
Literary
Chronicle
Vourarge
Dugdale
Holywell-street
Voltaire
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