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Newspaper
Weekly Chronicle
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 21, 1845
Page
3
A literary critique discusses Horace Smith and Mesmerism, pairing Love as a Venetian tale with a dramatic inner-room scene. The review savages the Mesmeric chapters as morbid, while praising visual detail and condemning excess in sentiment and style.
Reports from Bedford and Carnarvon Herald describe widespread potato disease in England and parts of Ireland caused by heavy rain and cold, with early varieties hit hardest. Investigations note underground onset, and fears rise of a national calamity as crops fail across Meath, Tipperary, Cork, Wexford and surrounding counties.
A long trial in Montpellier covered the Traboucayres band and their links to the Justafré family and Laporte. Verdicts: Cedros guilty of armed rebellion and accomplice to murder. Vincent Justafré guilty of most charges. Laporte and Jacques Justafré sentenced to years in prison. Farré, Rolland, Renard, and Pontounet found not guilty and discharged. Nearby Buenos Aires reports detail a brutal Kidd family murder amid political unrest.
A mobbed Birkenhead court hears the Rock Ferry murder case against Patrick Tallant William Nowlan and William Lynch linked to the December 31 assault on Thomas Peacop of New Ferry. Witnesses describe a night chase a two foot stick with a lead knob and a brutal head wound. An informer Michael Burns aided by a priest’s advice becomes an approver as police recover a leaden weapon and a breadth of evidence implicating the gas works workers and local knot of suspects.
An ex-sailor known as Buros testifies about a December robbery at Mr Peacop's shop near Rock Ferry with Tallent Lynch Nowlan and others. He describes plans, the alarm, two loaded whips, the assault, and the takings. The court remands the four prisoners and the approver at Chester Castle while details are pursued.
On Wednesday inquests were held at the Crown Limehouse Norfolk Army and Ten Bells Spitalfields into multiple sudden deaths. William Roder aged eight months died soon after being nursed at Limehouse with verdict inflammation and diarrhea. John Jena Stringer aged seven years died natural. David Edweras 38, a window glass cutter, died after leaving his home. verdict natural death by visitation of God. John Smith Mile End Omnibus driver charged with fatal collision on Whitechapel road. infant unharmed. Margaret Crayley, mother, distraught at her child’s death, detained under care after demanding admission to Whitechapel workhouse.
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