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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 05, 1841
Page
3
A fanatical Malay vowed to purge sins by violence. He attacked Ayah and children in the bathing room, killing a sister and wounding many with a creece. The porter and father died in the ensuing chaos as a brutal parricide hunt unfolded.
A fragmentary antique verse collage includes J E Reade on snowdrops with sacred imagery and beauty noted, then Fraser's Autumn Leaves meditating on fading beauty and death, followed by MAIDEN LYRIC lament of wealth and romance ending in a brash satire about chasing money and an old buffer, with a stray note about marriage and possessions.
From Buffalo papers reporting the Erie explosion and fire off Silver Creek eight miles from Dunkirk. About 200 on board, including 30–40 cabin passengers and 140 steerage, many Swiss and German immigrants. Survivors say demijohns of turpentine and varnish on boiler deck caused the rapid blaze. Captain Titus aided passengers as boats swamped. Mrs Lynde saved from water with life preserver. Clinton and other vessels aided rescue. hull towed near shore then sunk. Clinton found no bodies. many perished in flames or in the sea.
The Dutch steam frigate Etna lies off Deptford dockyard after arriving Friday from Amsterdam. She comes to receive on board patent steam machinery for spinning rope yarn, with British sanction for export to the naval yard at Amsterdam.
In Bristol on August 30 a young cabinet-maker named Hopper died after being stabbed by Henry McCarthy a stranger to him and a carpenter by trade. At a coroner inquest held at the Dolphin tavern witnesses testified to the struggle in Philadelphia Street and Tabernacle Row with McCarthy threatening to kill and Hopper crying murder before dying from a belly wound. The coroner ruled the case murder and the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against McCarthy who is remanded to Gloucester gaol for the next assizes.
George Hill a musician faced a serious charge of assaulting Mary Ann Tiley near Bath. The case revealed the alleged violence through statements from the complainant and witnesses, with Hill remanded on bond while magistrates commit him for trial at the assizes. Accidents and other news follow in the report.
The Lords met at 3:30 pm with Earl of Shaftesbury presiding. Viscount Melbourne announced the resignation of ministers after a similar vote in the Commons, to take effect as successors are named. Bills on town improvement and Chancery reform proceeded. a bill to indemnify a peer for voting was set for immediate passage pending suspension of standing orders.
In a heated session Lord J Russell defends ministerial responsibility and attacks opposition actions while stressing constitutional advice from the Crown. Speakers praise restraint, condemn personal bitterness, and discuss the Queen's speech and ministerial resignations amid a pivotal political dispute.
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