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Newspaper

Weekly Chronicle

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Sep 30, 1838

Page

4

Queen and Royal Family Attend Windsor Park and Windsor Services

The Queen spent Saturday in Windsor Park on horseback with a large royal entourage and attended divine service at St George's Chapel on Sunday. Highlights included the Dean of Windsor and Rev Proby delivering the sermon, Mr Elvey presiding at the organ, and royal departures toward Portsmouth aboard Hastings after a busy weekend of hosting and illness-related health improvements.

Windsor Park St. George’s Chapel Boyce Jomelli Haydn Windsor Proby Elvey Viscountess Barrington Miss Gore Marlborough-house Bushy Park Portsmouth Hastings Busby Prince George of Cambridge Exeter New London Inn Cornewall Falmouth Braganza Gibraltar Ser Scotland Henry Fitzsimon Royal Service Dublin Bank of Ireland James Dunn Miss Coutts Burdett James Crabb Springhill-house Southampton Hull Paulet Mildmay Winchester Spas Corporation of Ludlow Holford Lord John Russell Duke of Bedord Spain Count de Toreno Thorvaldsen Sound Reta Denmark Leghorn Lisbon Atlantic New York London Birmingham Cairo Abbas Pasha Nile William Denbow Bideford Union Heiden Appensell Switzerland Deal Duke of Wellington Cinque Ports Gloucester M. Tripet Manchester Liverpool New Forest Hampshire Brighton 12Th Lancers Rory O’more St. Peter’s Vauxhall Gardens Union Hall van Amburgh Nassau Berne Duke de Montebello Cantons Tees Great Britain Sir Edward Lees Edinburgh Leeds and Manchester Railway Littleborough Rochdale Commissioners of Woods and Forests Princess Augusta St. James’s Union Workhouse Barham Elizabeth Gates James Lime Johnstone-place Mile-end Royal Exchange England Journal de Paris Astor Louis Napoleon York Phillips Oxford Enders Statina Amburgh Astley’s

Coriolanus Opens With Macready at Covent Garden

The Covent Garden season opens with Shakespear's Coriolanus, Macready star, praised for fidelity and vigor. Vandenhoff, Warner, and Virgilia receive strong notices. the audience cheers the lead and the company delivers a full evening of drama and an afterpiece.

Shakespear Coriolanus Macready Vandenhoff Marcus Curtius Tullus

London police reform urged as city ward system condemned

A House of Commons committee reports the London police as inefficient and costly. It urges consolidation under a single central authority and criticizes ward deputies, aldermen, and common council for patronage and mismanagement, noting parallel reforms in metropolitan districts.

House of Commons London Lord John Russell Commons Robert Peel Duke of Wellington Sir Robert Peel Westminster Finsbury Holborn Smithfield-market Robert Corporation John Russell Court of Aldermen Court of Common Council Common Council Matthew Wood Elity Police Rowan Mayne Metropolitan Police Horne Tooke John Royal Exchange

Dreadful Fire at Tottenham Court Road Calamity

A blaze on No. 19 Pancras Street near Tottenham Court Road destroyed Holt premises and left 19 occupants homeless. Firefighters arrived quickly from multiple stations. a police serjeant risked entry to awaken residents as the building burned, a 22 year old woman perished, and remains were found among charred debris.

Tottenham-court-read Richard Holt Pancras Street Tottenham Court Road Thorn Seaman Colf Smith Holt FB Division Metropolitan Police London Crown-street Wells-street Holborn Farringdon-street Chandos-street West of England

Death of Lord Farnham and Irish peerage vacancy

Lord Farnham Col Barry died in Paris in his 71st year creating a vacancy in the Irish representative peerage and in the Cavan militia colonelcy. The estate passes to Rev James Maxwell, brother of the current Cavan MP. The field of blood at Newtownbarry remains a principal estate. Thanksgiving for harvest discussed with guidance from Lord Euston and Sir G Robinson urging a nationwide day of thanks by royal decree.

Lord Farnham Col. Barry Paris Ireland Cavan Orangemen Coote Bellamont Forest John James Earl of Farnham Meath Farnham Lucy Earl of Annesley James Maxwell Northamptonshire Farming and Grazing Society Lord Euston Sir G. Robinson S. Robinson

Pension Ponderings From a Longshoreman’s Letter

A letter to the editor humorously laments marching toward pension time. The author references Harvey and Vance in playful dialect, noting work and hunger concerns while hinting at pension talk and personal pride amid modest hardship.

Tragic Shoreditch case ends with found drowned verdict

In Shoreditch a young woman Elizabeth Collard died by drowning after an alleged liaison with Thomas Chamberlain. The inquest at Black Horse tavern heard her aunt and husband testify on her age, upbringing, and supposed misconduct. Doctors found no violence. the jury returned a verdict of found drowned. Chamberlain faced proceedings as the accessory before the fact.

Shoreditch Baker Black Horse Tavern Kingsland Road Sarah East George East Turner Square Hexton Old Town Elizabeth Collard Thomas Chamberlain Chamberlain Manus Thomas Blakely Collins Kingsland Road Bridge Regent’s Canal Witess Toa Juryman Hampstead Road Holmes Finer Surgeon Finer Surgeon Holmes

Working Men's Association Plans Union for Universal Suffrage

Delegates from Radical Associations across the country meeting in Gray's Inn Road endorse an address to Ireland urging unity with England Scotland and Wales to secure universal suffrage annual parliaments and vote by ballot. They condemn violence and expect a swift triumph through perseverance. The assembly, described as the first parliament of the working classes in London, was nearly fully attended.

Adelphi London Honey Adelphi Theatre The Gazette Musicale M. Tardivel Bayaderes Webster Knowles Frederick Elector Palatine Bohemia Prague Planche Oxenford St. James’s Theatre Vestris Ducrow Astley’s Davis Drurlane Theatre T. Cooke Bishop Cooke Eliason Blagrove Albertazzi Drury Lane Theatre Mozart Zerlina Tapis Covent Garden Theatre Edward Loder Brown, Jones Working Men’s Association Palace-yard No. 6 Upper North-place Gray’s-inn-road Ireland England Scotland Wales Edinburgh

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Corioli Vandenkoff Warner Columnia Barnet P. Horton Poole Shrivall Stretton Madame Feron Senor Huerta Wieland Devil Strand Burietta Mr. Selby Jacques Strop Robert Macaire Auberge Des Adrets J. Lee Macaire Hammond Strop Mr. A. Younge Mr. Ganache Weekly Chronicle Vance Harvey Vance Harvey Landaa
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