Newspaper Transcripts
Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express
6th May 1837
High Wycombe, May 5.
We understand that the ladies who usually attend Ebenezer Chapel, intend shortly holding a Fancy Fair, the proceeds of which are to be added to the subscriptions now raising for building a new chapel.
Several swallows were seen here on Saturday last, and on Monday the cuckoo was heard in the neighbourhood of the village of Loudwater, near this town.
At a Petty Sessions on Saturday a man, who gave his name Tutton, and who had one of his hands in a sling, and stated that a short time before his thumb had been taken off, was brought up charged with begging in the town the preceding day, and with having, at ten o'clock at night, got over the palings in front of the house of Mr.Turner, relieving officer, and in a most violent and abusive manner demanded relief, without which he refused to go away. His hand having been examined , and it having been found that there was nothing whatever the matter with it, and that the thumb must have been amputated some long time since, the Mayor, Mr.Alderman Harman, committed him to the House of Correction for 14 days.
Uxbridge, May 5.
A meeting of the Uxbridge Temperance Society was held at the Public rooms on Wednesday evening, at which T.A.Smith, a speaker from London attended, and about 350 persons took tea and coffee at sixpence a ticket. Mr J.Hull was in the chair.
Highway Robbery
Mr.J.Thonger saddler, of this town, while returning from Drayton on Tuesday evening last, about nine o'clock, was attacked by two men, near Colham Bridge, who knocked him down, and robbed him of his watch, hat, handkerchief, and pocket knife. The attack was so sudden, that Mr.T had no opportunity of defence, or getting any assistance, though within fifty yards of houses by the road side.
Staines, May 7.
Literary and Scientific Institution
On Tuesday evening last a lecture was given by Henry Innes, Esq., Honourable Secretary to the Milton Institution, London, on the ethical object of Shakspeare, in the tragedy Hamlet. The subject was treated with excellent taste and feeling, and appeared to give general delight to a large assemblage. Mr.Innes has promised three successive [?] lectures on the sacred poets of Great Britain; the first of which will be given next Tuesday week.