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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 29, 1837
Page
3
Hastings nets and trawls spread two miles of mackerel and one mile of herring nets as a lively tradescape appears. Hints to housekeepers describe a fly and wasp exclusion net from the Entomological Society. English forests and proclamations mix with curious relics and poems.
The review endorses Mary Hewitt's Christmas Library as a fine seasonal gift. It highlights Buttercups and Daisies as the standout poem and notes occasional verse flaws. It also mentions other pieces such as Sow to Rise and The Church Rates debate and presents cautious critique of versification.
A London review article urges practical reform as the Liberal party faces a transition. It calls for ballot voting as essential to unity and political leverage, pressing ministers to adopt it or risk loss of support and dissolution. The piece argues union around the ballot, with ministers kept in power only if they back the measure.
Extract from agents to Lloya's at Campbeltowr dated Oct 19 describes charted shoal near Santa Island named Gluinemore and Patterson's rock misplacements. Warns of a dangerous reef lying east by northeast about a mile from Santa Island, extensive and submerged except at very low ebbs, with many wrecks and few recoveries.
Lord Durham’s masterly address to the North Durham Reform Society calls on readers to match prior workers’ zeal and to push liberal principles. He recalls past victories, warns against apathy, and urges education as groundwork for lasting reform, while urging unity and steady effort.
A tour of Fawcett and Preston’s iron foundry and steam-engine works highlights the scale of the operation with over seven hundred workers and innovations like a yard-long iron shaving. It notes brass and iron health comparisons, and the Dutch government ordering artillery while Bury and Branker’s locomotive works and Logan’s chain cable factory display engineering prowess. It ends with a quatrain of maxims urging duty and virtue.
William Perry a Glasgow born tobacco spinner living in Paisley was executed for killing his wife and two of their children. Readings from ministers and close religious support marked his last hours as the crowd watched the scaffold scene in front of the County Buildings.
A Greenwich report warns of a gang intending to break into the Princess Sophia of Gloucester's Blackheath home while she stays at Rama te. Police set guards. a Deptford railway path letter outlines a risky eight-thousand-pound burglary with names, weaponry, and a Tuesday afternoon attack plan.
The article discusses deadly risks from decomposing cheese bacon and sausages and notes the rarity of food poisoning in the country due to insufficient medical policing. It explains the difficulty of identifying the immediate poison and the rapid, unstable changes during putrefaction that complicate chemical analysis.
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