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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 17, 1842
Page
3
A Leicester robbery at John Taylor’s home involved a seventeen year old girl who took sixteen sovereigns from a locked drawer then shaved her hair and wore a servant’s clothes to flee. Police recovered much of the stolen money near Melton and she was committed to quarter sessions by a magistrate.
In Ireland the Queen's lock wheat totaling 21 000 quarters was liberated for an 8s duty with Malta grain paid under protest. A Dublin college deputation pressed government over Hamilton contest terms, while cattle distemper flares anew. Dr Singer denies education board motives for vacant bishopric. Fracas in CaldbecK Belfast reports Emerson Tennent clashed with Caldbeck, followed by reconciliation. Colonel Wyndham praised for rent abatements and public works for tenants, prompting other landlords to imitate his liberal measures.
The Duke of Sutherland, absent his duchess and Lady Elizabeth Gower, tours vast Scottish territories with agent Mr. Loch. He visits Wick and Pulteney amid public breakfasts, an address from magistrates, and a dinner at Leith's hotel before heading to Dunrebin and DanBeach Castle. Meanwhile, Edinburgh reports robberies as three alleged culprits evade punishment and a violent Teviot farm murder follows a harvest celebration.
Sweden reports the vessel Her Majestys Stoop Magnet raised from Melmo roads by a diving device invented by Count de Wenkerheing. Masts and rigging are intact. Three skeletons and a preserved body were in the hold. The Magnet, an 18 gun oak-built ship, foundered in 1809, resting 33 years underwater.
A Surrey coroner and a respectable jury at the Angel tavern Rotherhithe investigated the death of Joseph Paul master of the Eden of Newcastle on Tyne. The Waterman No 2 steamship struck the Eden causing capsizing. Witnesses blamed the steamer yet jurors found accidental death and a deodand of 260 pounds with a strong recommendation to enforce speed laws.
A large blaze near Prince's Dock at Tobin's bonded warehouse 212 in Galton street Dundee street and Paisley street caused heavy losses. Fire brigades and water carts fought flames into the night, one labourer injured, while upper floors and vaults stored cotton coffee sugar rice palm oil turpentine and rum.
An London coroner rules increased compensation for recovering dead bodies from the river. A waterman had skipped aiding a body due to a half crown fee. the coroner announces a five shilling minimum and higher in exceptional cases. In another inquest a plumber, William Tarlington, dies suddenly. verdict natural death. A separate report covers the brig George being abandoned while sinking and rescued by the American bark Byron and others, with praise for rescuers and Shipwrecked Mariners Society aid.
Shortly before three on Wednesday a fire broke out at Mr Leadbetter Japanner Belvidere place Borough road behind Queen's Bench prison causing considerable damage estimated near £200 and not insured. Another blaze at 2:30 in Paul street Finsbury in Mr Blower's timber yard caused trifling loss. Export machinery policy note from Whitehall dated Sept 8 1824 mentions permission to export spinning machinery except flax related items. Thomas Norton, charged with burglary arson at Welling Kent, examined. police traced corn theft, sacks buried in garden, bridle and reins sold on Blackheath. prisoner remanded for trial.
Literary Chronicle reviews William Taylor and his tour through Lancashire factories amid the Lancashire turn-out, praising his humane critique of factory misery and social conditions. It notes his contrasts between industrial hardship and moral dignity, cites anecdotes on wages, foreign dependence for cotton, and the impact of legislation, and previews further excerpts from related works including Irish life sketches.
A fragmentary tale follows Jack and a dangerous pursuit across Irish shores with a treacherous band, a rocking chase, and a peril in a dark gulf. A sudden greenswater trick saves them as the pursuers collapse into infighting and disappear forever. A separate note praises a British Empire statistics tome by George Beeson, with colonial seals and storm-weather predictions by Grimatone.
The New French Protestant Church near the Post Office will open for public service next month. Built under Edward VI charter for the Consistoire, it costs between £7000 and £8000, partly funded by aged-members funds and city compensation. The florid Gothic structure by J W Higgins follows Owen of Portsmouth designs with two French divines, M Martin and a second preacher, appointed to officiate.
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