Bombay court clears woes of Larkins affair with Lewis
In Bombay a Supreme Court case details Mrs Larkins elopement with Mr Lewis amid marital strife with her husband Mr Larkins. Witnesses describe religious disputes and jealous quarrels. Damages awarded amount to 2000 rupees after a lengthy testimony and cross examinations.
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Jane
Bombay
Messrs. Howard
Eriinfrion
Iy. Campbell
Mr. Larkins
Bushire
Mr. Lewis
Mrrs. Larkins
Mrs. Larkins
Mrs. Larkin
Mra. Larkins
Antarctic Expedition Foresees Pole Quest and Voyages
The article outlines the Antarctic Expedition’s route from the Cape of Good Hope to Van Diemen's Land and beyond to the southern pole. It notes magnetism lines, planned landings for observatories, and encounters with Franklin, Erebus, and Terror along New Zealand and Australia coasts. It discusses expected findings between longitudes 140 and 160 E and latitudes 62 to 70, with aims to reach high southern latitudes and return safely by 1841.
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Cape of Good Hope
Marion
Prince Edward’s Island
Groxer Isles
Kerguelen Land
Africa
Australia
Bellinghausen
Briscoe
Kemp
Enderby Land
John Franklin
Terror
Australian
Port Jackson
Howe Island
Admiralty Rocks
Curtis Island
L’esperance Rocks
Chatham Island
Cornwallis Isles
Antipodes’ Island
Capt. Ross
Strauss
Antarctic
E. Long
Sabrina
Bulleny
Enderby
South Pole
van Diemen’s Land
Great Polar Basin
Weddell
Ross
Christ
Impromptc
Hull
North Magnetic Pole
I. C. Ross
Spontaneous Gas Lights Coatbridge in Novel Illumination
Reports describe a luminous gas-like light appearing in Coatbridge at Mr James Tenent's residence. Visitors praise the bright, pure glow and speculate on its duration and potential for wider use, with no evident source of gas identified.
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Coatbridge
James Tenent
Glasgow
Wakley
The Slave Trade Exposed in Mozambique Letters
A Portuguese writer in London presents a detailed expose of the Mozambican slave trade. He describes feitoria slave houses, branding, brutal confinement, and the brutal exchange of captives for weapons and goods, with vivid accounts of overcrowding, disease, and murder aboard slave ships.
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London
Messrs
Africa
Mosambique
Isbon
Cape de Verd
Com Escala
Angola
Misericordia
Lisbon
Providencia
Rafael Antonio de Cavalho
José Octaviano
d’Aracaty
Antaume
Rio de Janeiro
Leite
José Baptista Boisson
Mr. Boisson
Nha Grande
Cabaceira
Massaril
Bosanguet
Portugal
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India
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Europe
Joan Wane
Effingham Wilson
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Turkey
Duke of Wellington
Ottoman Empire
Britain
Brougham
University of Paris
Robert Taylor
House of Commons
Privy Council
England
Peel
Feodore
Duchess of Kent
Hohenlohe-Langenberg
Prussia
Lord John Russell
Eel
Huskisson
Palmerston
Manchester
New Brunswick
Wellclose-square
Miguel
Court of Aldermen
Saul
Waterford
Dublin
Gazette
Don Miguel
Dillon
Calcutta
la Perouse
Court of Arches
Earl of Portsmouth
Miss Hanson
Major Mackenzie
Ross-shire
Firth
Ingwall
Edinburgh
Gall
Spain
Chamber of Deputies
Russia
Persia
Black Sea
Bosphorus
F. Burdett
Francis
Marquis of Lansdowne
Empire
American Senate
Westminster Magistrates
Freemasons’ Tavern
King's College
Buckingham House
Taylor
Messrs. Herries
Arbuthnot
Huisson
New London
Edward Chitty
Macdonald
Graham
British Association
Glauber
Faraday
M H H. Jacobi
St. Petersburgh
London and
Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine
Timade
Gazettes
Neva
Polytechnic Institution
Regent-street
Carpentter
Navy
Berlin
Rembrandt
M. Leipman
James Wartz
James
Jans
Arago
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