January 8th 1848

Grand Soiree at the Glasgow Athenaeum - front page half page (There is a small stain to the border of this page, not affecting text or image)
Mr Cantelo's Patent Hydro Incubator for Hatching Chickens
Chess problem by Moonshee Waris Ali of Delhi
The late Madame Adelaide
The Chapelle Ardente
The Late Madame Adelaide's Chateau, Randan
The late Dr Crotch
Blowing up of the concrete shoal in the Thames (Limehouse reach) There is a separate sketch overleaf, untitled but showing the method of placing the explosive charge on the river bed - by means of what looks like simply a very long pole
Pantomime night - drawn by Phiz - full page of three sketches entitled :- The Gallery, The Boxes, The Pit
A London Thoroughfare - Fleet Street - Half page (showing premises identified as J Sargent at no. 142, Kings and Key)
The Masque in Balfe's new opera 'The Maid of Honour' at Drury Lane - half page
Mr G V Brooke
M Gavarni
The Founder's cup at Pembroke College Cambridge
Paris Fashions for the New Year - page devoted to fashions - including sketches of Paris Fashions for the New Year, Bourse Imitation Filet Dessin, Fleurs En Laine Clochette Dessin, Moitie De La Pelote, Fois Ce Coupon pour La Bande du Plomb
The Glasgow Athenaeum
Mr Cantelo's incubator
The state of Italy - The arrival of 12000 percussion muskets from France
News from Tattersall's
Madame Adelaide D'Orleans
Obituary of Eminent Persons recently deceased - including : Lt Colonel Babington of Gloucester Rd Regents Park; Colonel Thomas Peebles of the Royal marines Barracks Woolwich; Mrs Susanna Eleonora Watkins of Leamington Warwickshire; Alderman Mathias Prime Lucas of Wateringbury Place Kent; Dr Crotch of Taunton (whose son was headmaster of the Grammar school there)
The blowing up of the concrete shoal in the Thames
Total Loss of H M Steamer ' Avenger ' on the Cerilla Rocks - (Three Officers, a Surgeon and five crew survived)
A Pantomime audience by Angus B Reach
Metropolitan brief news including : South Sea House, Tower Ward, Langbourne Ward, Royal college of Surgeons, College of Preceptors, Marylebone Vestry, United Yacht club London, Dividend day at the Bank, Western Jews Free School for Boys, National Defences, Lamb and Flag Ragged schools, Benevolence in Westminster, Mortality in the Metropolis, Proclamation of Outlawry, The Westminster Murder - The case of McCoy and Sale
Country News including brief news of :- The Tenants of the Marquis of Downshire, Birkenhead Dock Commissioners, The North and South Wales Bank, Dinner for emplot=yees of London and North western railway company, Liberality of working men (of Birmingham), The Weather and mails at Dover, Terry Alts in Lancaster - assault on the Whalley family near Blackburn, More highway robberies near Liverpool, Sudden deaths recorded in the Devizes Gazette
Picturesque sketches of London Past and present - by Thomas Miller
Foreign Musical news (Auber's Haydee)
small news : A sensation at Dombey's, Rationale of Travel writing, Periodical passions of the Germans, Russell Square Visits (Mr Osborne), a case for the sanatory commission
Ireland : Injurious effects of Chloroform, Alleged denunciation of the late Major Mahon; Threatening notices against the Roman Catholic Clergy; Assassination of Thomas Brown at Ballydine near Cashel
A Destructive fire at Ahlden Hanover
Dreadful accident at Euston square terminus - injured include John Shay, Daniel Dunnett, Thomas Clarke, Benjamin Gales, Charles Gage, Michael Lewis, Edward Scandling, Thomas Hayley, William Ellier, James Jukes
Police News - a lamentable affair at Wandsworth - Incident involving PC Potter, Mr Beadon, Charles and Emma Burchell, and Thomas Clifford
Accidents and offences - including :- Accident on board HMS Oberon; Disastrous shipwrecks in Orkney - The Violet of Belfast, Adelo of Marseilles, Henrietta of Sunderland,
Thuggee in England - a most wanton murder near Nailsea - victim John Wall perpetrators Charles Manfield Robert Jakeways
Suicide of Mr and Mrs A T Williams of Cleveland street Fitzroy square
Murder of two children (Amina and Robert Blake) by Esther Parker at Clerkenwell
Mr G V Brooke
Mr Gavarni
Paris Fashions
' The Hotel De Ville at Paris - Prisoners in the Vaults ' front page from a drawing by Gavarni from sketches by Charles Chandellier
' Market Day at Thurles in Ireland '
' Scene at a Chapel at Thurles in Ireland '
' Mlle. Jenny Lind at Her Majestys Theatre '
' Stowe - The Lake and Palladian Bridge '
' Prize Fruit Grown at Blenheim ' from a painting by G. Lance
' War Steamers in Kingstown Harbour Dublin Bay Ireland '
' Chess Problem by Herr Kling '
The Slave Trade - ' Plan of A Slave Vessel ' - - - ' The Water Line '
Small Plan or Map of the Fort of Mooltan '
The Sale at Stowe
' Chimney Piece in the Tapestry Room with Portrait of Field Marshal Viscount Cobham ...'
' Bust of the Poet Prior by Roubiliac '
' Majolica or Raffaelle Ware Cistern '
' Ivory Chairs - - - ' Marble Vase '
' Ivory Tankards '
' The Temple of Ancient Virtue at Stowe '
Paris Fashions - Three dress designs
' Vancouver Island The Hudson Bay Company Establishment '
' Her Majesty Cup Presented to the Royal Western Yacht Club ..'
The Peace of Europe
The Weather
Foreign and Colonial News
Court and Haut Ton' at Osborne etc
Ireland and The State Prosecutions with reference to O'Doherty - Martin - Mr Williams - The Potato Blight
Tattersall's
Obituary of Eminent Persons Recently Deceased includes Brigadier General George Moore died onboard The Earl of Hardwicke - - - The Right Hon. Sir Augustus John Foster GCH - - - The Rev. Cholmeley E. J. Dering - - - George Stephenson Esq CE The Eminent Engineer of Railway Fame died at his Establishment in Derbyshire age 67
Imperial parliament includes The Slave Treade - - Sugar Duties Bill - - Commercial distress - - Corrupt Practices At Elections Bill - - Vancouvers Island
The Slave Trade
Epitome of News Foreign and Domestic
Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science at Swansea
Monetary Transactions of the Week
The London Gazette - The War Office and Appointments - - Office of Ordnance - - Bankrupts