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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 16, 1838
Page
3
A wide miscellany reports royal visits and moves, planned tours, and property purchases including the Duke of Cambridge buying Coombe Wood for Prince George. It notes Austrian, Portuguese, and Italian court moves, European political shifts, railway and canal plans, and various local curiosities and incidents across Britain.
The Haymarket offered Tom Noddy's Secret by Mr. Haynes Bayly with strong audience approval. The farce blends Restoration intrigue, mistaken identity, and lively performances by Strickland Buckstone Taylor Cooper Hemming, drawing praise for its witty writing and cast.
The Russian ambassador to London Count Pozzo di Borgo will leave England for Paris to spend part of the winter at his Rue de l Univer site hotel. Departure follows northern powers rejecting new terms in the Holland Belgium affair, now indefinitely adjourned. A separate note mentions a well attended Mariners Church meeting at Wellclose-square supporting civil and religious liberty and criticizing police, magistrates, and the arrest of Hugh Carlisle for open air preaching. Seven resolutions were passed in favor of open air preaching.
The Herald’s denunciation of the penitentiary system draws scrutiny on silence and solitary confinement, noting a 12 year old admitted in idiotcy and recalling earlier cases of children subjected to harsh discipline. Authorities later faced pressure as magistrates and ministers denied claims, and orphans were placed in lunatic asylums. Harris’s case remains to be fully investigated.
Correspondent reports Dury and associates fled to Boulogne after a coroner's verdict manslaughter in Brighton Bill affair. Eliot and Young Dutch Sam stay as authorities pursue warrants, amid French police clashes and a coachman’s summons. sales of stock in Wales noted amid wider crime stories from Liverpool and Dublin.
An inquest into the deaths of Thomas Oakes, a grave-digger, and Edward Luddett, a fish dealer, found both deaths accidental. Evidence described deep, poorly aired graves where carbonic acid gas from decayed matter suffocated the men, with witnesses detailing attempts to rescue them and the graveyard’s hazardous conditions.
A corporate committee toured a country estate and returned with a demand for a full year’s rental to cover their expenses. Mrs Charles Kemble formerly Miss De Camp dies after a lengthy illness in her sixties with her family scattered abroad. The Great Western sails on its fourth voyage to New York amid celebratory crowds in Bristol. A French law fixes imprisonment terms by debt amount with a maximum of five years. A fatal Rose steamboat collision near Wapping prompts a coroner's inquest verdict of accidental death and high praise for Captain Tucker.
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