The Times, on behalf of the English population, welcomes Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha on his wedding day to Queen Victoria, London, England, February 10, 1840
We welcome his Royal Highness to his adopted country in a spirit of frank and true cordiality.
We
wish him all happiness.
We wish him the full reward of public and private virtue in a nation’s approval and in his own. Should he deviate into error, we will respectfully caution him. Should he suffer from calumny, we will strenuously defend him. And so, gallant stranger, we bid you welcome, and God prosper and protect you.
Brooklyn, New York, November 26, 1843
Brooklyn, New York, June 9, 1845
LOST CHILDREN!
ANDREW OAKES, ESQ., CORONER, having kindly offered to receive into his family and take care of Children who may have strayed from their homes, so as to enable Parents and Guardians more readily to recover them -
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE
to all persons into whose hands LOST CHILDREN may come, that the offer has been accepted, with thanks, and it is earnestly requested that such may be taken to the store of ANDREW OAKES, No. 163 Fulton Street, that they may by taken care of.
By order of Common Counsel.
Brooklyn, New York, June 10, 1845
Alice “fetched her a slap, and told her to go about her business.”
Brooklyn, New York, September 27, 1844
A WRETCH - The Montreal papers contain accounts of a horrible crime committed by Capt. Wallce of the ship ‘Jane Brown,’ at that port from Glasgow. A young lady of sixteen, who was put under his charge by her friends in Glasgow, was seduced and dishonored by the Captain during the passage, and when the ship reached Montreal the poor girl had become an idiot, and the crew state that the Captain used to beat her with a rope’s end, the marks of which were deep and frequent on her shoulders! The wretch was committed.
Brooklyn, New York, September 23, 1844
PROCLAMATION
Whereas, the Public Lamps of this city are often wantonly injured by evil disposed persons; now therefore, I, J. Sprague, Mayor of the city of Brooklyn, by virtue of authority vested in me, do hereby offer a reward of TEN DOLLARS for the detection and conviction of any person breaking the glass of the city lamps, or otherwise violating the 11th section of title 2d of “A Law to prevent evil practices in the city of Brooklyn.”
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Mayoralty of the city of Brooklyn, this 14th day of September, 1843.
J. Sprague, Mayor.
Brooklyn, New York, September 23, 1844
REWARD
By virtue of a resolution of the Common Council passed May 27th, 1844, I hereby offer a reward of FIFTY CENTS for every dog that is not muzzled so as to prevent him from biting that may be killed while running at large in the city of Brooklyn, and afterwards buried, upon satisfactory evidence thereof being given to me, from this date
J. SPRAUGE, Mayor.
Brooklyn, New York, September 23, 1844
Hill & Adamson: The Misses Binney, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1843
Lambeth High Street, London 1847
Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and his niece Queen Victoria see Jenny Lind at the opera, 1849
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