Queen and Court Attend Service at St James Palace
The Queen attended divine service in the private chapel at the new Palace in St James's Park with Lady Barham Viscount Torrington Mr Rich and Colonel Buckley. The royal party left the castle Sept 1 by horse and carriage as a storm swept over the area. The Queen becomes patroness of the Surrey Zoological Gardens and plans to take possession of the Brighton Pavilion Pavilion alterations will employ 200 workmen. The Queen Dowager seeks a Weymouth mansion and may reside at the Royal Hotel if needed. A grand review is planned in Home Park Windsor with the King Queen of Belgium and Duchess of Kent in attendance.
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New Palace
St. James’s Park
Chester
London
Lady Barham
Viscount Torrington
Mr. Rich
Colonel Buckley
Great Park
Surrey Zoological Gardens
Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens
Brighton
Office of Works
Weymouth
Miss Carter
Royal Hotel
Baron Stockmar
Duchess of Kent
Augusta
Frogmore Edge
Prince Charles of Lichtenstein
Austria
Queen Victoria
Windsor
Belgium
Sunpary Mornine
Spain
Pamplona
Saarsfield
Mendiore
Madrid
Espartero
Senor Gonzales
Portugal
Saldanha
Terceira
Marshal la Badiera
Cortes
Lisbon
Smithfield Market
Shewmoen
Felix Webb
Regent’s Canal
Battlebridge
Bow Street
WuHeesa
Mary Sully
Catherine Sully
Johnstone
James Walsh
Elizabeth Walsh
Keeney
Walsh
Lendady
Walshes
Hatton-Garden
Phillips
Mr. Laing
Whitechapel
Laing
John Rickets
John Bull
Brewer-street
Cirknwell
St. John of Jerusalem
Fairburn
Compton-street
Rickets
Union Hall
RosBeRy
Br. Jeremy
Mr. Jeremy
Parliament works advance with embankment tenders issued
The article notes progress on the new Houses of Parliament with tenders opened for an embankment from Pope's Wharf Abingdon Street to Westminster Bridge. Other items include the hereditary Prince of Orange's upcoming three month German tour, Lord Durham’s lung complaint, and death of Sir Coutts Trotter at Hanover Square aged 78.
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Pope’s Wharf
Abingdon-street
Westminster Bridge
Royal
Hereditary Prince of Orange
Hague
Germany
Lord Durham
France
Italy
Coutts Trotter, Bart
Hanover Square
Coutts Lindsay
Balcarras
Saldanha
John Russell
Endeleigh Cottage
Devonshire
Windsor
Coburg
Rhine
Bonn
Victoria
Allgemeine Zeitung
Willian Bentinck
House of Peers
Glasgow
Patrick Maxwell Stewart
Lancaster
Sunderland
Messrs. Peter Taylor and Co
Hollingwood
Monkwearmouth
Earl of Dundonald
Board of Admiralty
Cape of Good Hope
India
Vestris
Armand
Paris
Richmond Bridge
Teddington Lock
Baron Vequel
Supreme Court of Appeal
Bavaria
Naples
Chhelera
Sicily
Tinley
Gloucester
Legion of Honour
Meyerbeer
Robert le Diable
Nxt
Paris and
St. Germain
William Wordsworth
England
Mount Rydal
Ulster Times
Antrim
Doetor Cooke
Belfast
Died Princess Victoria and civic duty at Guildhall
The Princess Victoria daughter of Landgrave Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal died in Philippsthal in her 25th year. Alderman Cowan is named next in line for the civic chair and will host Her Majesty at Guildhall next Lord Mayor's day.
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Victoria
Ernest of Hesse
Philippsthal
Alderman Cowan
Guildhall
Todi
Linthal
Canton
Glaris
Museum
King’s College
Bank of England
William Paget
Anglesea
Liverpool
Vienna
Pannonia
Danube
Bavaria
Latour d’Auvergne
France
Donauwirth
Neuburg
Sergeants’ Inn
Chancery-lane
Bristol
Devonport
Arrival of the King and Queen of Belgium at Ramsgate
Ramsgate awoke to a grand reception as King Leopold II and Queen Marie Louise landed by government steamer at six pm. A Belgian minister, Lord Lilford, Sir Henry Seton and local dignitaries greeted them. a town meeting praised the royal visit amid crowds, cannons, and decorated yachts. The royal party dined at Sir W Curtis’s later and planned Windsor the next day. The visit is linked to the youthful Queen’s engagement.
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Ramsgate
Belgium
Sir W. Curtis
T. W. Beaumont
Lenden
Lord Lilford
Henry Seton
W. Curtis
Sir William
Duke of Wellington
Walmer Castle
Old England
Albion Hotel
Windsor
Sophia
Gloucester
Phelps Debuts as Shylock Amid Theatrical Gossip
The review notes Mr Phelps in Shylock at the Haymarket with cautious praise, praising his stage craft and restraint yet noting a lack of flexible exterior expression. Mrs Warlett is praised, and Surrey theatergoers receive details on The Law of the Land and other performances, casts, and notable arrivals and engagements across London venues.
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Kean
Roscius
Dodd
Fielding
Johnson
Boswell
Cooper
Peter Laurie
Colosseum
T. Green
Russell
Lewis
Tom
Little Keeley
Liverpool
Hall
Strand Theatre
Mr. Braham
St. James’s
Bunny
Paris
Drury-lane
Corps de Ballet
Stretton
St. James’s Theatre
Macready
Covent Garden
Phillips
Yates
Brighton
Adelphi
Irs
Williams
Little Oxberry
Norton Folgate
Miss Daly
Hammond
Wakefield meeting votes for plate to Daniel Gaskell
A large Wakefield gathering of the Operative Association debated honoring Daniel Gaskell with a piece of plate for his parliamentary conduct. The resolution passed amid accusations of defection and notes on voting patterns and election costs.
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The
Operative Association
Wakefield
Ings
Daniel Gaskell
J. Kershaw
Gaskell
W. Molesworth
Leeds
Mr. Gaskell
Filthy Lucre
Lascelles
Gill
Kershaw
Ring theft and lightning deaths shock Strand readers
A refined gentleman mislaid a gold ring in a Strand cigar divan as two well-dressed men lingered near the basin. Police decline to intervene. In Colmworth, Mr Sharman and kin were struck by lightning. Miss Emery and a child died, while Mrs Sharman survived. A London gig accident yielded £200 in silver, later recovered. An attempted murder at Riccarton ended with the assailant wounded and taken to Ayr jail.
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onpInany Coxpact
Macisteate Larne
Strand
Lstter
Laing
Colmworth
Mr. Sharman
Netherstead Farm
Miss Emery
Tonkin
Southampton-street
Pentonville
King William-street
London Bridge
Alexander
Howie
Riccarton
Ags
Andrews
Ayr
Lord Lyndhurst
Lewis Goldsmith
Goldsmid
Goldsmith
England
M. Peltier
Napoleon
French Empire
Europe
Paris
Thames Tunnel
Gunpowder Explosion On River Near Blackwall
Reports describe the fatal accident on the river near Blackwall. A gunpowder skiff named Rainbow is found broken on the marshes at New East Greenwich with little other remains. Several crew and passengers are injured and a coroner’s inquest may be held.
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Blackwall
Trinity House
Rainbow
New East Greenwich
Curson
Giuseppe
Greenwich
Matthews
Barking
Alarming Explosion at London Gas Works Vauxhall
A fierce blaze erupted at the London Gas Works in Vauxhall on Friday night around seven thirty. Four workers escaped with severe burns as flames fed by leaking gas from purifiers spread, destroying three new tanks and the carpenter’s workshop. the site reportedly had no insurance.
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London
Vauxhall
Ricard Parsons
Thames
Parsons
Guy’s Hospital
A Child at Play with a Watch by Mrs. Osgood
From New Monthly poetry a specimen is quoted showing a mother’s meditation on Time and her child Ellen. The lines praise the child’s innocent eyes and dimples and wish Time will delay his toll to keep the beloved baby bright.
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Ellen
Bartholomew Fair and city happenings headline the London gossips
A chaotic column covers Windsor fireworks TORI, a Lambeth baker blanking a Tory vote, Swiss notes on Dr Mayer, and various London incidents. It details Norwich stonemason Baldwin's throat-cutting attempt, Sir Alexander Gormay's cab collision, a serious horse accident, and an inquest into Elizabeth Hughes's suicide. Also reports Pamplona riots, Madrid unrest, Bartholomew Fair setup, home-robbery cautions, and police cases from Bow Street and Worship Street.
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Mayer
Lausanne
Arenenberg
Duchess de St. Leo
Prince Louis Buonaparte
St. Petersburg
Russia
Asia
Baldwin
St. John Timberhill
Norwich
Anthony Hudson
Alexander Gormay
Oxford Street
Halsey
Saint Martin’s Church
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London Gas Works
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