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choly accident occurred here on Monday afternoon, by 
which Miss Granville, a young’ lady, 19 years of age, 
daughter of Mr. W. Granville, of Bedford-square in this 
‘own, was thrown from her horse, and so seriously injured 
that she died in a few hours. It appears that Miss Gran- 
ville, who was on the point of being married, was riding 
on the Dike-road with some friends, when her horse ran 
away with her ; she became frightened, and threw herself 
off, falling back upon her head. The horse was stopped 
soon afterwards, The jury at the inquest returned a ver- 
dict of accidental death, with a deodand of Is. on the horse. 
Carmarthen.—On Friday last, two more gates were 
levelled to the ground by Rebecca and her daughters. 
They appeared about midnight at the Narberth east gates, 
and d the work of demolition, which was com- 
pleted on the two gates in the space of about 20 minutes. 
The party in this instance consisted of about 60 persons, 
headed by an athletic female on horseback, who gave the 
command with considerable coolness and promptitude. 
The demolition, says the Welchman, was witnessed by 
several cottagers living by the gates, but not a person 
interfered ; and Rebecca and her children, having fired 
two or three shots of triumph, retired, passing through 
the town as if they had done good service to its inhabit- 
ants by having thus asserted their own supremacy over 
the laws. 
Chelienham.—The Manor of Cheltenham, last week, 
underwent a change of owners—Lord Sherborne having 
sold his manorial rights and immunities to Mr. James 
Age Gardner, for the sum of 39,000/. The negotiation 
for this transfer has been going on for nearly two years. 
The purchase includes, it i8 said, in addition to the heriots 
on the copyholds of the manor and the'tolls of the mar- 
kets and fairs, the market-house and arcade, as well as 
the interest possessed by Lord Sherborne in Trinity- 
church, together with some other properties pertaining to 
his Cheltenham estate. The manor of Cheltenham had 
been in possession of the Sherborne family for 225 years 
—John Dutton, an ancestor of the present peer, having 
purchased it of Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1618, for the 
sum of 1,2002. 
Eweter.—We learn from Woolmer’s Gazelle that the 
Bishop of Exeter has been under the necessity of seeking 
pee protection from an unfortunate clergyman, the Rev. 
W.H. Tucker, who has been several times in the Asylum 
in this city, and in other lunatic establishments. It 
appears that during several weeks past he has addressed 
letters to the Bishop of Exeter, containing threats of a 
very violent description, and has also expressed similar 
threats against the Bishop in letters written to the Chan- 
cellor of the diocese and to the Archbishop of Canterbury. 
It is said that the Bishop was under the necessity o 
yemoving Mr. Tucker from the charge of a parish into 
which he had been irregularly introduced as curate, and 
it is supposed that this was the exciting cause of his 
hostility. He was examined last week before the magis- 
trates at Torquay, and, as there was no doubt of his 
insanity, he was sent to the Lunatic Asylum in this city 
for safe custody. 
Marlborough.—The new School for the Sons of Clergy- 
men, founded last year under the patronage of the Arch- 
bishops and Bishops is expected to come into operation 
about Midsummer next. The course of general study will 
approximate as nearly as possible to that pursued at Hton 
and Harrow. When the arrangements now in progress 
are complete, there will be ample accommodation for 200 
pupils, exclusive of apartments for the head masters, 
assistants, and servants. ‘There are already 1,370 sub- 
scribers, a great number having qualified as life governors, 
and the sum subscribed, including donations, somewhat 
exceeds 14,0002. It is calculated that about 3,000/. will 
Cover all costs of outfit, the residue being converted into 
Stock. 
Portsmouth.—The new steam-yacht, the Victoria and 
Albert, building at Pembroke for her Majesty’s private 
use, is shortly expected at this port. She is to be rigged 
a a’ polacea, a style of rigging very prevalent in the 
Mediterranean, and much admired for its beauty. It con- 
Sists in the lower masts, topmasts, and t il 
order that the Mayor might communicate with Sir'J. 
Graham on the subject. 
Railways.—The returns of traffic on the principal lines 
for the past week were as follow :—Northern and Eastern, 
1,1992.; Greenwich, 753/.; Eastern Counties, 9654. ; 
Croydon, 213/.; Liverpool and Manchester, 3,505/. ; 
Brighton, 2,177/.; Grand Junction, 6,7287.; York and 
North Midland, 1,714/.; Blackwall, 5877. ; Great North 
of England, 1,236/.; Midland Counties, 2,119/.; Man- 
chester and Leeds, 3,907/.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 
1,9482.; Birmingham and Gloucester, 1,708/.; Bir- 
mingham and Derby, 1,038/.; North Midland, 3,637/. 
South Western, 4,560/.; Great Western, 11,0287. ; Lon- 
don and Birmingham, 12,873/.; South Eastern and Dover, 
1,437.—The periodical meetings of railway companies 
have passed for the present half-year, with the exception 
of one or two of minor importance, the particulars of 
which may be briefly noticed: At the meeting of the Lan- 
caster and Preston Junction Company, on the 15th ult., 
a dividend of 16s. was declared on the whole shares, and 
10s. 7d. on the three-quarter shares, subject to deduction 
of the income-tax.—The Aylesbury Railway is about to 
pass into the hands of the London and Birmingham Com- 
pany, and a committee has already been appointed to 
negotiate the terms of sale. In the meantime a dividend 
of 8s. per share is to be paid to the proprietary.—At the 
Ulster Company’s meeting a dividend of 10s, per share 
was declared, leaving a small sum to be carried to the 
reserve fund for the balance of profits of the half-year, 
stated to be 5,336/. 7s. 10d. The management of this 
undertaking, having a proper regard to economy in 
its. various departments, find a steady increase in 
its revenue, and a good development of traffic. — 
Considerable excitement prevails at the present moment 
in the railway world with reference to the contest now 
going forward between two of the principal companies, 
whose lines radiate to the north, with reference to their 
extension through the county towns of Cambridge, Peter- 
borough, and Lincoln. The London and Birmingham 
Company support the line from Peterborough to Blisworth 
as connected with their line, and the Northern and 
Eastern advocate an extension from their present 
terminus at Bishop’s-Stortford—first to the town of 
Newport, in Essex, a distance of ten miles—and thence 
on to Cambridge. In support of this latter project a 
public meeting was held last week at Cambridge, for the 
purpose of considering the propriety of constructing the 
proposed line of railway from Blisworth to Peterborough, 
and for taking the necessary steps for an extension of the 
Northern and Rastern line from Bishop’s-Stortford to 
Cambridge, and from thence on to Peterborough. The 
Earl of Hardwicke, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, took 
the chair, supported by Earl Fitzwilliam and a large 
number of the landed proprietors of the adjacent counties. 
The meeting resolved that the bill now in progress for 
making a branch railway from the London and Birming- 
ham line from Blisworth to Peterborough would give to 
the London and Birmingham Company an entire mono- 
poly of conveyance to the north, and interfere with the 
further progress of the Northern and Eastern line—the 
extension of which would, in the opinion of the meeting, 
be more serviceable to the whole of the districts ex- 
tending north. After a long discussion on the advan- 
tages to be derived from the proposed extension on the 
part of the North-Eastern Railway, another resolution 
was passed, recommending the raising of capital for the 
purpose of carrying out the undertaking.—The engine 
driver, Jenkins, committed on the coroner’s warrant for 
the manslaughter of Mr. Harvey, at the Barnsley station 
of the North Midland Railway, has been acquitted.—The 
Eastern Counties Railway was opened to the public on 
Wednesday, for the first time, throughout the entire line, 
when it was traversed by a passenger-train from London 
to Colchester. The mayor and town-council of Colchester 
celebrated the event by inviting the directors of the com- 
pany and other guests from the metropolis, to an enter- 
tainment in their town-hall. Along the whole line between 
Brentwood and Colchester, it appeared as if all the towns 
and villages in the neighbourhood had poured out their 
Pp 
being all formed of the same spar, and all her yards will 
Strike. She will be fitted with Smith’s wire-rope. Her 
breadth of beam will be 33 feet, and her length 200 feet. 
—The Hampshire Telegraph states that Mr. Abbinett 
has again been successful in his process of raising sunken 
Vessels, having last week raised the brig New Holland, of 
167 tons; with the whole of her cargo (330 tons of coals) 
On board. The vessel took the ground on the 19th inst., 
while under repairs, in consequence of the late extra- 
Ordinary low run of the spring-tides, and slipped off the 
bank and sunk in deep water. The use of lumps, chains, 
., was promptly afforded by the government authorities, 
and a party of seamen and marines, from the St. Vincent, 
having volunteered their assistance, under the direction of 
-'t. Abbinett, the object was accomplished, notwithstand- 
ing the difficulty of the brig’s position, her stern, from 
the nature of the ground, being from 12 to 15 feet higher 
than the bow, in the short space of 48 hours. 
Rochester —On Wednesday evening, in consequence 
of information given to the police of this city, a young 
fant who gave his name Jchn Richmond, was brought to 
te tation-house from a publi igh-street, on a 
Charge of threatening to take the life of the Queen and 
ae On Thursday the prisoner was brought up 
ai Sre the borough magistrates. He is a young man 
* ve 27 years of age, and has the appearance of being a 
Nears He said his name was John Richmond Ellis, 
fie ie was a native of Margate, and by trade a confec- 
ce r. The charge was fully proved by the evidence of 
eral witnesses, and the prisoner was remanded, in 
whole pop to welcome the train ; and on its arriving 
at Colchester, it was welcomed by the cheering of thou- 
sands, who had collected near the station-house, waiting 
for its approach. The guests afterwards formed into 
a procession to the town-hall, where they were enter- 
tained by the corporation. Sir H. Smith, M.P. for the 
borough, in the chair. The ceremony passed off without 
the slightest accident. 
RELAND. 
Galway.—At the late assizes for this county, a criminal 
proceeding was tried before Judge Perrin, arising from 
that once fertile source of blood and violence, a faction 
feud, and ending in a homicide. ‘The parties engaged on 
both sides were proved to have been inflamed with drink— 
a circumstance which is now of rare occurrence in Ireland. 
The Judge publicly noticed a circumstance so remarkable; 
he inquired of the witnesses whether the Temperance 
Society had been introduced into that part of the county 
where the riot occurred ; and in his address to the jury 
declared that such another case had not been brought 
before him for the last four years: or, in other words, 
since the date of that reformation by which Father Ma- 
thew has accomplished so much for social peace and 
the orderly submission to law. 
Cork.—About fifty gentlemen, members of the com- 
mittee appointed to conduct arrangements preliminary to 
the approaching meeting of the British Association, 
assembled last week in this city. Letters were read from 
a number of gentlemen resident in England and Ireland, 
distinguished for their scientific and literary research, 
intimating their determination to attend the meeting. The 
secretary stated that having heard, from a source presumed 
to be good authority on the matter, that it was really the 
intention of her Majesty to visit Ireland in the present 
year, he had written to Lord Delawarr on the subject, from 
whom he had received a letter, stating that Lord Dela- 
warr had no reason to know that the Queen would visit 
Treland in the month of August. It was then resolved to 
commence the sittings of the association on Thursday, the 
17th August, thereby, it was hoped, securing the presence 
of the Judges at the Summer Assizes, and of the country 
gentlemen in town.—The Earl of Roden steamer was lost 
on Wednesday week, near Poorhead, on her voyage from 
Papaye to London. ‘The crew and passengers were saved, 
together with the greater portion of the cargo, but the 
vessel is likely to go to pieces. 
Waterford.—The collection of the poor-rate at Gaultier 
commenced again on Tuesday week. A troop of Hussars, 
a company of Infantry, and about 150 police, stole a 
march at 4 in the morning on the recusants, and after 
journeying about 30 or 40 miles, brought home two cows, 
evidently in the last stage of death from starvation, and 
two pigs. The alarm was given the instant the military 
were seeh, and the cattle vanished as if by magic. But 
for the interference of the Roman Catholic clergy itis said 
that there would have been a great loss of life. There appears 
to be no further apprehension that any actual resistance 
will be offered to the authorities; but there is a general 
impression that passive resistance will continue. 
SCOTLAND. 
Edinburgh.—The ‘action{of damages raised by Mr. 
Clark, against the majority of the Presbytery of Dunkeld, 
for refusing to take him on trial, with a view to induction, 
was brought before a jury last week, and damages to the 
amount of more than 2,000/. were awarded to him. A 
petition has just been presented to the Principal and 
Professors of the University, praying for the restoration 
of the academical costume, or college gown, as formerly 
worn in the University of Edinburgh, and still in use in 
the Colleges of Glasgow and Aberdeen, and recently 
introduced into Durham University, King’s College, 
and University College, London. This petition has been 
signed by 380 of the matriculated students of the Univer- 
sity, and has been received in a favourable manuer by 
several members of the Senatus Academicus. 
Glasgow.—A journeyman shoemaker, named M‘Cole~ 
man, whose insanity would appear to have fixed upon Sir 
R. Peel as the object of his delusions, made his appearance 
last week in the Sheriff Clerk’s office in this city. His 
business, he said, was to have two clerks to go up with 
him to Sir R. Peel on important business. He talked 
unconnectedly on different subjects with the persons in 
the office, but always ended in something about going up 
to London to Sir Robert. He insisted also upon his being 
the father of M‘Naughten, and threatened, if his wishes 
were not complied with, to assassinate all who opposed 
him. Finding that he was undoubtedly insane, the 
authorities conveyed him to the lunatic asylum. 
Dumfries.—We learn by the local papers that the 
earthquake which was so generally felt in the north of 
England on the morning of Friday fortnight, was expe~- 
rienced in many parts of Scotland. In Dumfries, the 
inhabitants, in some instances, were awakened from their 
sleep, and got up, under the belief that robbers had 
entered their houses. The shock was felt as far as New- 
abbey and Kirkbean. It is said that, with the exception 
of a slight vibration along the range of the Tinwald hills, 
about 12 years ago, no earthquake has been felt in this 
locality for upwards of sixty years. The loch at Closeburn 
was observed to be much agitated on the day of the great 
earthquake which devastated Lisbon ; and a slight shock 
was felt in the same spot about two years ago, which 
extended at that time over the north of Scotland. In 
the present instance, however, the shock appears to have 
proceeded from south to north, as it was felt here and 
throughout various parts of England at the same hour. , 
SMiscellaneous. 
The Aerial Steam-Carriage.—Our readers perceived 
by our Parliamentary Report of last week that a Bill, con- 
stituting a Company for the working of this invention, 
had been brought forward in the House of Commons. The 
following account, communicated to the Times, by a cor- 
respondent, may therefore be interesting to our readers: 
—‘ When it was announced some time ago, by the ordi- 
nary monthly lists of patents granted, that Mr. Henson 
had invented a machine capable of conveying despatches 
and passengers through the air, the general impression 
was, that some moody and enthusiastic projector was 
about to exhibit the produce of his day-dreams. Our 
readers may therefore be somewhat surprised to learn that 
this is in truth no visionary scheme, but a design of very 
scientific conception, carefully and perseveringly wrought 
out. It would perhaps be too much to affirm (what yet 
we cannot deny) that the machine .in its present state 
will certainly succeed ; but the least which can be said is, 
that the inventor has most skilfully removed the diffi- 
culties which have hitherto debarred us the possession of 
the long-coveted faculty of flight, and has made its even- 
tual, perhaps early, attainment, a matter of little less than 
certainty. All former attempts of this kind have failed 
through the want of a source of power whose energy bore 
a sufficiently high ratio to the weight of the requisite 
machinery. Could this source of power have been found, 
there was ingenuity enough to turn it to the desired ac- 
count. Mr. Henson, in overcoming the difficulty, has 
first divided it. To seta machine a-going, and bring it 
up toa given velocity, is one thing; to maintain that 
velocity against opposing forces, is another. Now, in the 
