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THE EXAMINER,

A Sunday Paper,

ON POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND THE FINE ARTS.

FOR THE YEAR 1842.

PARTY IS THE MADNESS OF MANY FOR THE GAIN OF A FEW.-POPE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR A. FÖNBLANQUE, BY GEORGE LAPHAM, AND PUBLISHED BY HIM AT

THE EXAMINER OFFICE, 5 WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND.

1842.

1

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.-Daring burglary, 11. Aris-

tocratic amusement, 11, 28. Distress, 11, 141, 314.

Murders, 11, 28, 43, 58, 59, 125, 172 (Tragedy in

Aldermanbury), 188, 221, 235 (Good), 236, 251, 252,

268, 283, 284, 299 (Cooper), 316, 331,348, 364, 380,

393, 397, 413, 428, 525, 541, 589, 659, 668, 700, 730,

732, 764, 779, 780, 796, 811, 812, 826, 828, 842, 843,

844. Railway accidents, 12, 26, 44, 172, 173, 204,

236, 284. 314 (Meudon). 316, 331, 348. 411, 445, 459,

492, 620, 636, 700, 733, 778, 796, 809, 843. Inquests,

12, 28, 29, 43, 44, 59, 60, 108, 251, 252, 331, 381,

397, 413, 445, 460, 476, 509, 525, 573, 589, 605, 694,

716. 747, 780. 811, 826. Fall of buildings, 12, 92,

124. 268, 348, 363, 492. 573, 715. Fires, 26, 29, 43,

59, 123, 125, 140, 141, 156, 157, 172, 188, 220, 251,

984, 300, 311 (Hamburg), 314, 316, 327, 331, 332,

348, 364, 378, 380, 381, 413, 428, 429, 445, 476, 492,

509.557, 605 (Liverpool), 618, 620, 630. 636, 653,

666, 667, 683, 684, 700, 714 715. 716, 730, 733, 747,

764, 780, 796, 809, 812, 827, 828, 843. Embezzle-

ment, 28. Affray with poachers, 28, 698. Railway

travelling; Miraculous escape (very); Death of a

Waterloo charger; Singular pledge; Ridiculous affair

at Wexford Rough shampooing, 28. Children

starved; Well-managed elopement; Accident at a

launch, 29. Disasters at sea, 29, 74, 92, 123. 141,

172, 236, 364, 397, 413, 428, 509, 556, 605, 620, 621,

636, 667, 684, 697, 700, 710, 731, 732, 733, 748, 777,

809, 827, 843. Suicides, 43, 60, 75, 76, 109, 173,

187, 205 (Earl of Munster), 235, 236, 251, 268, 284,

316, 348, 364 (Lord Congleton), 380, 413, 476, 492,

509, 525,541 (leaping from the monument). 542, 557,

605, 618, 636, 667, 668, 684, 780, 811, 843.

wholesome meat; Snow storm; A pauper ninety-

eight years of age; Infamous hoax; Spontaneous

combustion, 43. Sudden deaths, 43, 173, 589, 700,

716. Accidents on the ice, 43. Mutiny and murder

(the Creole), 55, 332. A disguised highwayman, 60.

Steam-boat accidents, 60, 204, 205. 541, 605, 733.

Escapes from gaol, 76, 748, 778. Edward Beaumont

Smith; The law of ejectment, 76. Piracy, 92, 748.

Hampton-Wick outrage, 92. Storms, 92, 173, 187,

202, 218, 284, 492, 557, 573, 589, 617, 636, 746,

811. A series of accidents; The boy Jones again,

109, 685. Earthquakes, 124, 186, 331, 394, 428,

429, 460, 525, 557, 573, 710, 775. Ribbonism; An

old prisoner; Voluntary attempt at starvation, 125.

Duels, 140, 157, 173, 204, 251, 332, 348, 397, 460,

476, 614, 620, 636, 652, 828, 843. Explosion of a

powder mill, 141, 157. Falling of a cauldron; Hor-

rible case; Transportation to England, 141. Elope

Ua-

bullion; Scandal case in Manchester; Heroism at

Paisley; Costs of prosecution, 476. Barbarous out-

rage, 477; Drownings, 492, 509. A prince in prison;

Delicate affairs, 492. Fracas at the Chapel Royal,

Brighton, 509, 525. Extraordinary escape, 509.

Case of stabbing; Riot in Cork; Shocking inhu-

manity; Singular; Romance of real life; A throat

cut in joke, 525. Diamond cut diamond, 541.

Keeping a body unburied; Refusing to take an oath;

A conviction quashed, 542. A birth in the street,

557. Escape of a family from drowning; Extraor-

dinary delusion; Flogging in the army, 573. Carriage

accident, 589. A whale; Presentiment of evil;

Extraordinary operation, 589. Instance of self-

devotion; The American diver; Recovery of stolen

horses, 621. Spanish vengeance; Waterspouts ;

Fatal leap from Sunderland bridge, 636. Miraculous

escape; Tale of a "Lancashire witch," 652. Acci-

dent to Sir W. Geary; Strange story; Compensation

for injury; More convicts transported to England ;

Curious detection of a thief, 667. Attempts to escape

from gaol, 667, 700. Ridiculous story, 684. Escapes

from Bethlehem; Courageous conduct, 685. Curious

case of desertion; Credulity; Enormous fish in the

Thames; Befriending a neighbour; Gaol haunted;

Singular occurrence at Hammersmith, 700. Attempt

to rescue prisoners; Atrocious outrage; Maternal

depravity; Mutiny in Newcastle gaol, 715. Selling

a child; An ingenious device; The sword of "Justice"

fallen; Lunacy at sea; Extraordinary charge; A

case of suspicion; Annual burning of children; Ex-

traordinary story, 716. Fraud, 732. A battue of

brigands; Death-bed confession; Greenock pro-

cession; Ayrshire Colliers; Gluttony; Distressing

death; Mortality in the penitentiary, 764; The won-

derful doctor, 779. Great take of herrings; Courage

in a child; Daring fraud; Use of a bloodhound, 780.

Save me from my friends; Lynch law; Ruffianly

assault, 795. Transports from Sydney; Marriage in

the condemned cell; A marriage forbidden; Perilous

feat, 796. Benevolence; An emeute at Norfolk

island, 827. Filial piety in Cork; Eruption of Mount

Etna, 828. Calamitous occurrence in Galway, 842,

813. Premature interment; The Gipsy festival, 843.

Trials of Charlotte Hamblin for the murder of Andrew

Young in the theatre at Mobile, and of Jacques Besson

for the murder of M. de Marcellange, 844.

Colonial Bishoprics, 522.

Commerce and Trade, 13, 29, 44, 60, 76, 93, 109, 125,

141, 157, 173, 188, 205, 221, 237, 253, 269, 284, 300,

317, 332, 349, 365, 381, 397, 414, 426, 429, 446, 461,

475, 477, 493, 509, 525, 542, 558, 574, 599, 606, 621,

636, 653, 668, 685, 701, 717, 733, 749, 765, 780, 796,

812, 828, 829, 839, 844.

Conference at Birmingham, 834, 840.

Congleton, Lord, death of, 380.

CONTINENTAL POLITICS-AUSTRIA, 461.

BELGIUM, 740.

CHINA, 772.

FRANCE, 4, 18, 35, 52, 68, 83, 99, 115, 132, 163,

179, 195, 235, 274, 292, 307, 323, 355, 370, 387, 420,

435, 451, 468, 483, 498, 515, 531, 546, 563, 612, 643,

675, 724, 755, 772, 788, 804, 835,

GERMANY, 579, 607.

LEVANT, the, 211.

PORTUGAL, 132.

PRUSSIA, 52.

SPAIN, 4, 83, 132, 356, 387, 421, 675, 755, 788,

821, 835.

TURKEY, 436.

Corn Laws, proceedings relative to the, 9, 23, 26. 39, 56,

71, 73, 75, 107, 108, 122, 124, 140, 233, 250, 266,

328, 444, 457,474, 489, 490, 505, 507, 520, 526, 538,

551, 554, 695, 791-see Anti-corn law league-Food.

Country members and their constituents, 760.

state of the, 360, 379, 459, 460, 476, 521—

see Riots-Strike.

Court and Aristocracy, 9, 22, 55. 73, 89, 108, 117, 139,

154, 168, 184, 201, 215, 233, 235, 250, 280, 296, 312,

(bal costume), 327, 344, 379, 393, 410, 425, 457, 473,

489, 504, 517, 533, 582, 615, 629, 647, 663, 679, 694,

711, 728, 743, 759, 777, 793, 807, 823, 839.

Courts Martial, 65, 125, 141, 173, 236, 445, 460, 636,

652, 715.

Creole, The, case of the, 55.

Cropping affair at Dover, 595, 602, 603, 633.

Darling, Grace, death of, 696.

Davidge, Mr, death of. 85.

Dinners. public, 165, 266, 282, 313, 316, 393, 394, 426,

695, 727, 807.

Distress in the country, 24, 93, 314, 328, 378, 379, 406,

426, 443, 473-see Riots-Strike.

Albert, Prince, lays the first stone of the Royal Ex-Divisions, lists of, 122, 140, 201, 266, 279, 345, 410.

change, 57

Antarctic expedition, 614.

Anti-Corn-law Lengue. 328. 538, 551, 554, 561, 566, 615,

631, 647, 649, 663, 983, 697, 713, 722, 727, 730, 743,

839, 842-see Corn Laws.

744, 746, 760, 762, 775, 778, 793, 807, 809, 824, 826,

APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS.-13. 30. 45, 58, 59,

61, 77, 108, 109, 125, 142, 158, 174, 189, 206, 218,

222, 237, 250, 254, 265, 280, 283, 285, 296, 299, 312,

317, 329, 333, 319, 362, 365, 393, 397, 411, 414, 429,

446, 461, 477, 493, 509, 526, 533, 542, 554, 558, 570,

574, 590, 599, 621, 637, 647, 653, 664, 665, 669, 682,

686, 702, 713, 717, 728, 729, 733, 745, 749, 765, 777,

781, 793, 796, 813, 826, 845.

Army, augmentation of the, 185.

Ashburton, Lord, his dinner at Washington, 346.
Asylum for French paupers in London, 24, 140.

ments, 141, 397, 413, 476, 525. 605, 620, 636, 826.

Poisoning, 157, 620, 715. 747, 748, 796, 811.
Abduction of paupers, 157. The earthquake story,
157, 169, 185. Explosion of a firework manufactory,

157. Threatening placard, 172. A novel pledge;

Vitriol throwing; Hocussing; Forged checks, 173.

Curious Case; Accidental execution; Infanticide,

187. Desperate and extraordinary scene; Shocking

result of a petty prosecution, 204. Prize fights, 204,

284, 621, 723, 843. Unseemly conduct in a Scotch

kirk, 204. Executions, 204, 348, 445. Flood at

Derby, 219. Military outrage at Stockport, 219,

236, 250. Not worth while; Afflicting circumstance,

20. Singular capture of a slaver; Dreadful occur-

rence near Paisley; Discovery at Lambeth; Affecting

incident, 221. Extraordinary accident, 236. Colliery

accidents, 251, 348. 413, 732. Van Amburgh and

his lions; Extensive seizure; The grave of St

Patrick; Appalling discovery; Singular delusion,

4. Killed by an elephant; Extraordinary burglary;

Taking the veil; Novel wager, 300. Case of Mr

Bankes, 316. Strange story in Lambeth, 316, 332,

364. Arrest of English delinquents in America, 331.

Revenge of a rejected suitor; Trial of one of the crew
of the William Brown; Verdict of manslaughter
against a policeman; Highway assault; Agrarian
trages; The attack on H.M.S Pantaloon, 332. Chartists, the, 9, 26, (in the pay of Tories). 139. The

Fall from a cliff: Undermining a house; Hydropho-

bia, 348, 352, 525, 586, 621, 636, 666, 828. Explosion

Petition, 298, 314, 348, 393, 425, 488. 538, 552, 553,

at Apothecaries hall, 363, 380.

620, 647, 649, 680. Female one's, 684, 695, 705, 743,

An Algerine 744, 791.

execution; Death caused by tight lacing; Treatment Chatham, a descendant of the great earl of, 124.

of Medway paupers, 364. Death of a miser, 397.

Balloon assent; Cigar riot, 413.

Accident to the

Marchioness of Waterford, 428. Swindling, 428, 541.

Bacon, a few slices from, 648.

Bank of England, 602.

Banking-house hours, limitation of, 648, 665, 681.

Birkbeck testimonial, the, 281.

Borthwick, P., and others, v. Sir W. L. Wraxall, 138.

British Association, 314, 378, 426.

CABUL. Massacre of the British troops at, 231, 249, 365.

Lady Sale's Letter. List of officers, 295, 298, 440,

628, 665, 679, 729. Restoration of the prisoners, 759,

793.

Church-rates, 10, 39, 58, 220, 328, 329, 346, 362, 363,

378, 394, 426, 473, 506, 524, 732, 793, 825.

the National, 357.

Disgraceful fracas, 428. The Welsh convicts, 460. Coinage, the, 377, 379. 393, 395, 410, 411, 425, 426,

Fatal accident on the Mersey; Coach laden with

443, 445, 474, 504, 793.

"Don't be dependent on foreigners," 73.
Ducrow, Mr, death of, 85; funeral. 91.

Dundas, Colonel, his gross reflection on the Queen, 4,

25, 434, 438, 441.

Earthquake panic, 157, 169, 185; at St Domingo, 394.

Election intelligence, 10. 24. 40. 56, 59, 72, 75, 88, 91,
108, 122, 124, 139, 203, 219, 233, 249, 266, 279, 280,
293, 298, 299, 314, 327, 345, 347, 360, 363, 376, 379,
393, 410, 474, 505, 507, 520, 523, 538, 540, 551, 584,
663,695, 761.

proceedings about 1646, 346.

Etiquette, point of, the "Esquire question," 632, 648.

Exchequer bills, forged, 520.