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THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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second visit to this town, for the purpose of propounding 
his views on the subject of the Corn-laws, and their effect 
upon the tenant-farmers and farm-labourers. A hustings 
was erected in a field at the back of the Bell Inn, where 
the proceedings took place. There were upwards of 1,000 
persons present, the great majority of whom were the 
mechanics and working classes of the town and neigh- 
bourhood, but it being market-day a good many farmers 
were also present. Mr. J.Copeland was called to the 
chair. Mr. Cobden addressed the meeting at great length 
in favour of total repeal, and Mr. Holt White spoke on 
the other side. A resolution in favour of total repeal was 
then carried by a large majority. 
Chester.—On_ Friday last, the wife of a labourer in 
the employ of Mr. G. Wilbraham, of Delamere-house, 
in passing down a lonely Jane at Crowton, called Red-hill, 
discovered the body of a man lying on his face, and bleed- 
ing from the back part of his head. She immediately 
gave an alarm, when the body was recognised as that of 
Matthias Bailey, the gamekeeper of Mr. Wilbraham. He 
was quite dead, and was bleeding from a gun-shot wound 
in the top of the neck. It was evident that he had been 
shot from behind, and fell suddenly forward without the 
slightest struggle. Five men were taken into custody 
on suspicion of being concerned in the murder, but there 
was no evidence against them, and the jury have returned 
averdict of Wilful Murder against some persons unknown. 
Durham.—There are only two instances of Quakers 
haying been returned to Parliament, and it is remarkable 
that one was for the county, and the other for the city, of 
Durham. Mr. Joseph Pease, of Darlington, represented 
the southern division of the county after the passing of 
the Reform Bill, and Mr, John Bright, of Rochdale, has 
now been returned for the city. 
Eion.—The annual celebration of ‘election’? com- 
menced on Saturday, and attracted, as upon all former 
sions, a large blage of the nobility and gentry 
of the neighbourhood, and many old Etonians and cistin- 
day, the cloister speech was delivered by Joynes, M.A-, 
K.S., and Captain of the school for the succeeding year. 
After the delivery of the speeches, the boats left the Brocas 
for Old Surley, and on their return there was a display of 
fireworks. On Monday the public delivery of the speeches 
took place, after which the Provost and the visitors pro- 
ceeded to the long chamber, which was tastefully orna- 
mented with boughs and evergreens. The “ election” 
festival took place in the College-hall, to which upwards 
of seventy guests were invited. There are more pupils on 
the establishment at this ‘election’’ than at any former 
period ; a gradual increase having taken place every year 
since 1836, when the number on the books was 444. The 
number now is 713—viz., 661 in the Upper and 52 in 
the Lower School. In 1745 the aggregate number in 
the two schools was only 248. Since the foundation, in 
41, 2,257 have succeeded to King’s. It. has been 
determined that the examination this year for Prince 
Albert’s prize of 50/., is to be in the French and German 
languages, and that the prize is to be thus divided :—the 
first prize to consist of 10/. in books and 35/. in money ; 
to be given to the successful candidate on leaving school ; 
the second prize to consist of books of the value of 5/. 
HHereford.—Myr. Cobden visited this city last week for 
the [purpose of discussing the question of the Corn-laws 
with the tenant-farmers of this district. It had been 
concluded that the interior of the Town-hall would not be 
large enough to contain the expected assemblage, and a 
platform was erected in the open square at the east end 
of the building, The meeting, in a short time, reached 
in number from two to three thousand, The audience was 
composed of agriculturists and inhabitants of the city ; 
among the former were many farmers from the neighbour- 
hoods of Ross, Ledbury, Bromyard, Ludlow, Leominster, 
Kington, and Hay. Sir S. R. Meyrick was unanimously 
called to the chair. Mr. Cobden, Mr. Baily, M.P. for 
the county, and Colonel Thompson, addressed the meet- 
ing at considerable length, and a resolution in favour of 
the total repeal of the Corn-laws and all other monopolies 
was afterwards proposed to the meeting by Mr. Southall, 
of Leominster, and seconded by Mr. Morgan, the banker 
at Ross, and when put by the chairman it was carried 
almost unanimously—a very few hands only being held 
up in opposition. 
Hull.—Since our last report, ar ts have been 
sums of money in his possession, knowing the same to have 
been stolen from Mr. Marquis, at the Preston Guild, and 
Mr. Blakemore, M.P. Mr. Dowling, commissioner of 
olice, produced the gentleman whose pocket had been 
picked of 1999/, at the Preston Guild, which had become 
necessary in consequence of the evidence given last day 
by Mr. Jennings, clerk in the Branch Bank, that he had 
changed the stolen notes for the prisoner at the bank, by 
substituting for them others of asimilar amount. Mr. 
Marquis accordingly deposed that he lived at Accrington, 
and when at the Preston Guild in September, 1842, lost 
19997. in notes. They consisted of two 500/. and nine 
100/. notes, which he received from Cunliffe and Co., 
Blackburn. Since the robbery he had ascertained that 
the numbers were known to the clerk at the bank, from 
whom he had received them. All the notes were of the 
Manchester branch of the Bank of England. A woman 
had been apprehended in London and convicted of steal- 
ing the money from him. There was a 100/. note pro- 
duced at her trial, found at Birkenhead the day after the 
robbery. Mr. Rushton said it would be necessary to have 
the banker’s clerk who paid the notes to Mr. Marquis, 
and knew the numbers, examined. Two inquiries have 
since taken place, and the prisoner is still remanded. 
Maidstone.—Some particulars connected with the dis- 
covery of the body of a young female in the Medway, at 
Maidstone, under very suspicious circumstances, have 
appeared in the daily papers. On Friday the inquest took 
place before the coroner for the borough, and from the 
rumours circulated in the town the inquiry created con- 
siderable interest. The first witness was a boatman, who 
proved that, while he was waiting upon the river bank, 
about half-past ten on Wednesday night, he heard a 
screaming up the water for about two minutes, which 
appeared to come from a woman’s voice. He was about 
to get into his punt to see what was the matter, when he 
heard footsteps, and a woman’s voice say, “ Oh dear, oh 
dear, what shall we do?”’ He plainly saw two men anda 
woman, and one of the men said, ‘‘ Come along—she’s all 
right,” and they all then walked along very fast. He 
went up to them, and gave them into custody, and after- 
wards got drags and discovered the body, but life was 
quite extinct, The surgeons who examined the body after 
it was taken out of the water found no marks of violence 
about the deceased. The three persons accused were 
examined, but nothing was elicited further than that they 
heard a noise as of a person drowning, and that the woman 
in their party was greatly frightened. Some other 
evidence was adduced, and the jury returned a verdict of 
‘* Found drowned.’” The prisoners in custody were after- 
wards examined before the mayor, but there being no evi- 
dence to implicate them in the transaction, they were dis- 
charged from custody. The borough police, however, 
are still pursuing their inquiries into the affair. 
Manchester.—On Tuesday last, while workmen were 
employed in strengthening the curbs to exclude the water 
from the pits in Mr. Yitzgerald’s colliery, at Pendleton, 
the whole gave way, and the water rushed into the pits 
with such violence that the entire colliery was destroyed. 
The loss to Mr. Fitzgerald is stated to be gt least 50,0002, 
and several hundreds of workpeople are thereby thrown 
out of employment, The pits supplied nearly 1,000 tons 
of coals daily to the Manchester market. 
Rochester.—Last week the bodies of a man called 
Hendery, and of a young woman called Hannah Sancto, 
daughter of the innkeeper at Stroud, were found drowned 
in the Medway, clasped in each other’s arms, which were 
tied together by a piece of tape. It appeared at the 
inquest that the parties were to have been married, but 
that some obstacle had been raised by Hendery, who for 
some days had been in a desponding way. Subseq' 1 
the young woman went to meet him, but never returned 
home again. On Thursday last the bodies were found. 
After the jury had retired some time to consider their 
verdict, they reported that seven of the number were for a 
verdict of ‘‘ Felo de se,’’? and the remainder for that of 
‘Temporary insanity.” The coroner told them he could 
not assist them,as he could not take a verdict unless 
agreed upon by twelve of them. The jury were again 
locked up, each party continuing to uphold their opinion. 
After some hours they all, with the exception of the 
foreman, agreed to a verdict of Felo-de-se, and the bodies 
were buried at night by the Coroner’s warrant. 
Shields.—The local papers state that upwards of 200 
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made for weighing the hull of the Pegasus steamer, and 
numerous persons have arrived at Bamburgh and Holy 
Island to make inquiries for the bodies of their lost rela- 
tives. A considerable portion of the wreck, and various 
items of property, have been brought to shore. On Tues- 
day the quarter-deck of the vessel, having risen to the 
surface, was towed on shore by the fishing-boats. The 
cabin staircase and skylight were attached to the deck, as 
also the cabin floor. Below the deck was a writing desk 
marked ‘* William Banks, 1836.’’ No bodies have as yet 
come ashore in addition to those mentioned in our last. 
The following is a statement of the number of passengers 
and crew of the Pegasus, according to the latest estimate 
in the local papers :—Cabin passengers, 18 ; steerage, 23 ; 
crew, including firemen, 14. Total, 55; of whom there 
were saved 6. Drowned, 49, 
Hythe.—I\t appears that the English vessel mentioned 
in our last as having been run down by a French Govern- 
ment steamer, did not founder as was supposed, but was 
discovered on the following morning by a brig belonging 
to Great Yarmouth, and carried into Dover harbour. The 
mate, also, who was reported as killed, was found on board 
the wreck, unhurt. 
Liverpool.—John Anderson was again brought before 
Mr, Rushton on Thursday, on the charge of having had 
ployed workmen of South Shields have thrown 
themselves on the parish, and are now employed breaking 
stones and covering the churchyard with gravel, at 1s. 
per day, whilst others have gone into the workhouse, 
where they receive the food of the house, and lodgings. 
Stafford.—Another dreadful accident has just happened 
in the Potteries, and within a short distance of the scene 
where only a few weeks ago nine persons were killed by 
an explosion of fire-damp. It occurred on Wednesday 
morning, as four colliers were descending the shaft of one 
of a pair of pits belonging to the Broadfield Company, at 
Fenton, and was caused by the breaking of a spur-wheel 
connected with the engine used for drawing the coals. 
When these four men were going down one pit, a corfe of 
coals was ascending the other, and as soon as the spur- 
wheel broke, the corfe, which was within 15 yards of the 
top, and the men within 15 yards of the bottom, caused, 
by its great weight, the men to be thrown ont of the pit 
with great velocity over the pulley-wheel. The bodies of 
the men were thrown a considerable height in the air, and 
nearly 70 yards from the mouth of the pit; they were 
greatly mutilated, and death must have been instantaneous. 
Ware.—A correspondence has taken place between the 
parishioners of Ware and the Bishop of London on the 
subject of the services of the church as pezformed in that 
parish. 
The Churchwardens transmitted a memorial to 
the bishop, signed by the whole congregation, with the 
exception of about five or six individuals, calling upon his 
lordship to recommend the vicar to return to the former 
mode of celebrating the Service, and abandon certain 
innovations of recent date. The bishop having requested 
to know the particular points to which objection is made, 
the churchwardens in reply, state that the parishioners 
object—‘“‘ Ist, to the preaching in the surplice instead of 
the academical gown. 2. To the entire omission ofthe 
prayer before the sermon in the morning, and to the use 
of the long prayer prescribed by the 55th canon, instead of 
a simple collect, with the Lord’s Prayer, before the 
sermon in the afternoon. 3. To the service being con- 
cluded at the communion table with the use of the 
offertory, instead of dismissing the congregation with the 
blessing immediately after the sermon.’’ 
Wells.—The Dean and Chapter of Wells have just 
concluded arr for i li and thorough 
repair of their cathedral at an expense of about 70,0002. 
Windsor.—In consequence of the crowded state of the 
small portion of consecrated ground attached to the Royal 
Chapel of St. George, which is appropriated for the in- 
terment of the dead, the dean and canons have removed 
three houses opposite the west entrance to the chapel, 
for the purpose of having extensive vaults excavated, 
extending to within a few feet of the west door leading 
into the nave. The catacombs are nearly completed, and 
will contain between 200 and 300 coffins. 
Railways.—The following are the returns for the past 
week :—Londonand Birmingham, 18,7042. 5s. 2d. ; Great 
Western, 17,3187. 19s. 11d. ; S. Western, 8,426/. 0s, 101d. 
South Eastern, 3,5507. 10s. Eastern Counties, 
3,3110. 6s. 8d. ; North Midland, 4,6542. lls. 7d.; York 
and N. Midland, 2,170. 4s. 1d. ; Greenwich, 702/. Os. 5d. 5 
Croydon, 3627, 13s, 2}d,; Brighton, 4,305/. 6s. 11d. 5 
Blackwall, 1,1037. 18s. 8d. ; Hull and Selby, 1,1892. 17s. 6d.5 
Midland Counties, 2,724/, 5s. 2d.; Grand Junction, 
8,3492. 19s: 1d. ; Northern and Eastern, 1,817/.; Edin- 
burgh and Glasgow, 2,400/. ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 
2,450.; Birmingham and Derby, 1,280/.; Great North 
of England, 1,4802.; Liverpool and Manchester, 5,230/.5 
Manchester and Birmingham, 3,280/. ; Manchester and 
Leeds, 5,000/.—The halt-yearly general meeting of the 
Liverpool and Manchester Company took place last week. 
The report stated that the receipts for the half-year had 
amounted to 108,960/., and the disbursement to 51,8972. 
leaving a net profit of 57,062/., out of which a dividend 
at the rate of five per cent. for the half-year was declared. 
While the receipts in the merchandise department had re- 
mained steady, there had been a falling off in the coaching 
department to the extent of 5,0002., which was partly attri- 
butable to the completion of the Boltonand Preston Railway. 
It appears by the report that during the last six months 
great progress has been made in the construction of the 
Leeds Junction line, and of the Company’s new station 
at Hutt’s-bank.—The Manchester and Bolton Company 
have declared a dividend of 12. 7s. 6d. per share, leaving @ 
surplus of 1,9352 1s. 2d. The net profit for the half- 
year’s working is stated to have been 9,008/. 4s. 1jd.— 
public dinner was given last week at Northampton to 
celebrate the passing of the Act recently obtained for the 
construction of the Northampton and Peterborough Rail- 
way, which is intended to join the London and Birming- 
ham line at Blisworth. Mr. Barwell, the mayor, pre- 
sided, supported by a large number of the principal inha- 
bitants. Jromthe remarks of Mr. Bidder, who, jointly 
with Mr. R. Stephenson, will act as engineer of the line, 
it appeared that its length is nearly 48 miles, and that 
theestimated amount of traffic from passengers, mer 
chandise, and cattle, is about 40,000/. per annum n its 
route it willform the principal medium of communication 
between the eastern and western districts, connecting the 
manufacturing districts of Birminghata and the north on 
the one side, with the agricultural counties of Lincoln 
and Norfolk on the other. The line will be worked by 
the electric telegraph, with one set of rails, and will pass 
through Thrapston, Oundle, Boston, and Kettering. _ It 
was announced that, under the direction of the Birming- 
ham Company, the line would be commenced imme- 
diately.—The half-yearly meeting of the Greenwich Co 
pany was held on Tuesday. The report announced tha 
the traffic account, as compared with the corresponding 
period of last year, showed a falling off of 119,000 se 
sengers, and of 2,327/, in receipts, and which was Bee 
butable, in the opinion of the directors, to the omnibue 
and steamboat competition. ‘The directors therefor 
recommended that the fares of the railway be penne 
from 6d. and 8d. to 4d. and Gd. The net profit for ne 
half-year amounted to 1,103/. of which 1,000/. youl 
appropriated towards the expense incurred in aspha ¥ . 
the line. The directors regretted the issue of the es 
Parliamentary contest with the Croydon Company An 
prevent the construction of the Bricklayers’ Arms Lee s 
The adoption of the report having been moved, an pace! 
ment was moved and seconded, that acommittee be eerie 
to investigate the affairs of the company, and that ae 
apply themselves more particularly towards Se at 
amicable arrangement with the neighbouring ne ai 
London-bridge, report on the great falling off in thet eas 
returns, and suggest the best means for its speedy 
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toration, The proposition elicited a long and Sreeaes 
discussion, but was ultimately carried. —On eae ule ae 
a regular communication between Longe an d 
was established by way of Folkestone; two nl Ke 
despatched twice a day on the Dover Railway, 19 conn 
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tion with steam-vessels between Folkestone and erated 
