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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 11, 1842
Page
5
The readable fragments suggest a damaged report referencing ABER, Vages, and a hostile tone. No coherent event, date, or names form a clear news item. core facts cannot be recovered from the text as provided.
A mix of society names and proposed memorials for Dr Arnold, a Dover theatre bail case with hair shaving and gaol conditions, Pope to OConnell gifts, wreck removal methods and costs on the Thames, Easter pardon prospects, joint river and harbor updates, weather and transport items, a fatal carriage crash near Stannington, cannibalistic crime tales and cautions about mushrooms, odd market curiosities, and a promotion for Semco Gout and Rheumatic Pills.
In Quadring near Spalding, Miss Mary Spencer was found murdered in her school room. A deaf and dumb laborer William Howett was arrested after bloodstained clothes and a clasp knife were found. inquest returned a verdict of wilful murder and he was committed to Lincoln Castle for trial.
A severe Wednesday thunderstorm caused damage in Hackney Bow and Stratford inundating market gardens and wharfs from Poplar to Limehouse. A chimney stack was blown away at Beaumont row while a servant laid supper. a postman, Ward, was exhausted after being struck. A Blackwall woman was knocked into the Thames and rescued after landing at Poplar by mistake. A policeman was knocked down on the parking road and an oil skin hat cover was torn without injury. In Dumfries, 30 stocks yielded 100 stones at Johnston mill, noted as an extraordinary crop yield.
A survey of June theatre plans and incidents across major venues. Lang Turzaine previews openings with Mrs Nisbett Rosalind and Purcell’s Arthur, while Olympic Theatre expands seating and hires top writers. Carter suffers a lion attack during The Lion King, Saintly Butler debuts at Surrey, and Faust and new comedies draw brisk crowds amid repairs and revivals.
The monthly statement shows weekly letters delivered in the United Kingdom for August 21 1842 3 833 880 and August 22 1841 3 697 949 with an increase of 135 931 since 1841 and 2 247 907 since 1839. The Batavier Dutch steamer arrived from Rotterdam with 100 passengers and a cargo including 35 oxen under the new tariff.
A report covers Warwick and Rochester race meetings with results for Attila Cabrera Policy Seahorse and others, plus detailed betting, weights, and winners in St Leger and Warwick Cup events. It also recounts cricket results, aquatic races at Hastings, and a long satirical note on chivalry in the nineteenth century.
A remarkable three heat sculling contest on the Thames featured London Westminster and Vauxhall Iron Steamboat Company prizes a silver cup for the winner and sovereign purses for the runners up. Favorable conditions and top rowers drew a large crowd aboard steamers and on Bankside. The first heat saw Hill Lett Meckiff Green battle to Green’s victory by six lengths with Pink and Yellow close behind.
In a bankruptcy hearing before Commissioner Fonblanque the case against a former Dairy proprietor from Islington was continued. Creditors argued on proofs for several partnership debts while the bankrupt, said to be abroad in America, has admitted inability to appear. Proclamations of outlawry were issued as assets were estimated around £5,000 against debts near £20,000.
James Onions and John North faced Alderman Gibbs in custody for conspiring with others to defraud Mr Gaz of 155 Cheapside. The case centers on circulating bills as the acceptances of Gaze and Co after a partnership dissolution of Gaze and Co, Cottagerow Bermondsey, tied to a patent venture in malleable iron founding.
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