1843,] THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 797 
exorbitant charges of magistrates’ clerks have been like- | thieves had already effected an entrance. He slipped 
wise urged as forming a part of the list of grievances, and | down a flight of back stairs, and went out at a back door 
are charged to investigate, 
butter. 
accounts of the several trusts. 
has hitherto gone with the readine 
tion in their pow 
the Temple Church. i 
Hounslow.—One of the mixing-mills at the gunpowder- 
works on Hounslow-heath exploded on Saturday morning, 
by which the boarding and roof were ripped off the build- 
ing, but no further damage was done, and no one injured, 
Liverpool,—A correspondent (‘‘ Facile”) informs us that 
Anderson, the convict, the account of whose connection 
with the Preston Guild and other robberies has been 
already noticed in this Paper, has attempted to bribe the 
e€epers who were taking him by railway to London pre. 
vious to his transportation to a penal colony. One of the 
Parties has called upon the Liverpool Mercury, and stated 
that Anderson’s first offer was 600/. to the contractor and 
1002. to the keeper—700/. in all. This took place at 
irmingham, After he saw that there was no hope he 
offered the same party 250/. and 700/. to the contractor, 
and at last he wished a sum to be named, as hundreds 
Were of no consequence to him. There was a party in the 
train ready to give the money as soon as any bargain was 
made. The person states that he has no doubt that 50002. 
or 60002. would have been given for Anderson’s liberation. 
Leeds.—In our last Number there appeared an account 
of a charge brought on the previous Monday against Mr. 
Thomas Walker, attorney, of Dewsbury, of having forged 
the name of Mr. Bere, a Commissioner in the Leeds Dis- 
trict Court of Bankruptcy, to a spurious interim order of 
Protection, and a renewal thereof, to an insolvent. The 
orgery was distinctly proved, and the prisoner was 
admitted to bail to take his trial at the next assizes. It 
having been discovered that there were other charges of a 
ike nature against him, he was apprehended on Friday 
Morning and taken before the Leeds borough magistrates, 
on a charge of having forged the signature of Mr. West 
the other Commissioner at the Leeds Court of Bankruptey. 
In this case he had been employed b 
Burnley, of Batley, to get him through the Court as an 
Msolvent. He gave Burnley an interim order on the } 8th 
established, readily relinquish the possession. 
the remotest grounds for the accusation.’” 
dated Sarawak, August 13 :—« [ 
little or no injury.”” 
he registrar proved that no petition of an insolvent of the 
name of Burnley had been filed in the Court, and no fees 
Paid on behalf of any such insolvent. The prisoner made 
No defence, and was committed to York Castle for trial, 
Leicester.—We lately 1 that Mr. M = 
the farmer charged with the murder of his servant, had 
een admitted to bail. The Leicester Mercury states 
that on Sunday he invited his sureties and other friends to 
8 feast to celebrate his release on bail, when they drank 
ardent spirits to such excess that one Johnstone, of 
Rotherby, died in consequence. 
Llandaf?:—The Rev. Knight Bruce, Chancellor of 
was carried :—“ That considering the vast extent of Crown 
property within this borough, in no way contributing to 
the parochial rates, and the extensive defal 
into these subjects the commissioners have expressed their | to obtain assistance from the village, but when about 
Intention of instituting a careful inguiry. Some other | 120 yards from the house, he was attacked by two men, 
matters upon which they have been appealed to seem to | who struck him on the head with a crow-bar, inflicting 
partake too much of a personal and peculiar character to | three severe and dangerous wounds,and then dragged him to 
be classed among the ‘causes of disturbance” which they | the house. ‘The ruffians then went up stairs and broke open 
Such, for instance, are the | the bedroom door, which Mrs, Meek had locked when her 
rating to the lighting and paving-rates and borough-rates husband went off for assistance; they held a crow-bar 
of Carmarthen of persons living beyond the precincts of | over the lady as she lay in bed, and demanded the money 
that town, and therefore deriving no benefit from the | that had been received that day for rent, and also the key 
application of such rates—or the recent enforcement of a | of aniron chest. Mrs. Meek at once gave them the key, 
penal statute which had been for some time practically | and the thieves commenced a regular search, breaking 
obsolete, regulating the use of particular casks for packing | open the drawers and ransacking every drawer, but they 
The time of the commissioners, with the excep- | could not succeed in finding the object of their search 
tion of such intervals as have been occupied in the manner | which was in a desk concealed from sight. They remained 
described, has been employed in the examination of the | in the house upwards of an hour, and then went off 
The commissioners haye together. The police, however, succeeded in obtaining a 
expressed their complete satisfaction so far as their inquiry | clue to the robbers, and three men residing in the village 
ss shown by all parties | have been apprehended on suspicion.—The local papers 
whom they have examined to afford the fullest informa- | state that the workmen employed in pulling down an old 
5 dwelling-house at Gotham, in this county, found the pro- 
Chichester.—The interior of the cathedral of this city | bate copy of the will of a man named Burrows, who had 
is now undergoing restoration. The ancient tombs and resided there many years ago, and owned the property. It 
their effigies, and the mutilated Purbeck marble columns, | was found stuck between two walls in the staircase. This 
which have so Many years been suffered to remain in q property has been long held by Earl Howe, in consequence 
decayed state, are restoring under the superintendence Of | of the inability of the parties to make any title to the 
Mr. Richardson, who was employed in the restoration of | same ; but it is now conceived that his Lordship will, on 
a pedigree being produced, and the title of the heir-at-law 
xford.—Dr. Kenyon, Fellow of All Souls, has been 
appointed Vinerian Professor of Common Law. Th 
Oxford Chronicle states that the Rev. Mr. Sibthorp ha 
addressed a letter to the President of Magdalen College, 
intimating his return to the English establishment, and 
soliciting re-election to his fellowship.—The Bishop of 
Oxford has written a letter to Dr. Pusey, entirely exone- 
rating Mr. Newman from the charge of having broken his 
faith with his Lordship, by suffering a re-publication of 
Tract 90. The Bishop says, “I lose no time in stating, 
that when I requested the Tracts for The Times might 
cease, however I might have regretted the original publi- 
cation of Tract 90, it formed no part of my injunction or 
request (from well-considered reasons at the time) that 
there should be no re-publication of that tract. People 
may feel themselves at liberty to express their opinions as 
to the policy or propriety of having published more 
editions of that tract ; but the accusation of Mr. Newman’s 
having done so, contrary to promise, is unfounded and 
unjust. No one, however, who has the slightest know- 
ledge of Mr. Newman will give a moment's credit to such 
a charge of unfaithfulness in him; and I feel sure it is 
unnecessary for me to state to Mr. Newman or yourself 
that nothing which I have said or written can have giyen 
Portsmouth.—The following is an extract from one of 
Mr. Brooke’s letters received by the overland mail, an- 
nouncing the safety of her Majesty’s ship Samarang, and 
am happy to add that 
the Samarang is afloat and getting ready for sea, with 
IWindsor.—A general meeting of the inhabitants of this 
town was held on Friday, for the purpose of taking into 
consideration’a proposition made by the Earl of Lincoln, 
as head of the Woods and Forests, that the town should 
contribute the sum of 8,0007., being a moiety of the esti- 
mated expenses for draining the castle and town of 
Windsor. After the Mayor, who was in the chair, had 
briefly addressed the meeting, Mr. Adams, builder, pro- 
posed a resolution that the inhabitants decline bearing any 
share of the expenses, observing that in the event of the 
passing of a contemplated Act to compel the inhabitants 
to improve the drainage of the town, it might be effectively 
done for less than 3,000/. Mr. Bedborough moved as an 
amendment that the sum of 5,000/. be contributed towards 
the expenses, and raised by the disfranchisement of the 
Corporation property, which was negatived, and after con- 
siderable discussion the following proposition of Mr. Adam 
South-Western at Bishopstoke, 
contemplation, was given at 400,0002. 
unanimous in support of the measure, and 
liament may be obtained in the ensuing sessions. 
gone through, count by count. The deepest interest was 
ing the progress of the prosecutions. During the day a 
number of witnesses for the Crown—36 it is stated—were 
slightest chance of their coming to any decision on that 
day, the witnesses were directed to go home. On Satur. 
two persons were included—Thomas Tierney and Peter 
James Tierney—whereas this name should have been 
Peter James Tyrrell. Some of the jury appeared to think 
that as this was a clerical error, the name of Peter James 
Tyrrell should be substituted for Peter James Tierney. 
A desultory discussion ensued, which terminated in 
the Chief Justice declaring that all the members of the 
court were of opinion that the alteration could be made, 
as the document was not properly a bill of indictment 
in that state, i 
the bill returned to the 
Nation.—Mr. Bond Hughes, the Government Teporter, 
and several other witnesses, were subsequently examined, 
and on Wednesday afternoon the Grand Jury came into 
court with a true bill. Mr. O’Gorman, one of the Jur : 
however, declared that he dissented from that finding. 
The Attorney-General moved that the traversers be now 
called upon their recognizances. The Clerk of the Crown 
then called upon Daniel O’Connell, Esq., John O’Connell, 
Esq., Thomas Steele, Esq., M. T. Ray, Esq., John Gray, 
Esq., Charles G. Duffy, Esq., and the Rev. Messrs, 
Tyrrell and Tierney, all of whom appeared. The Attorney- 
General then said that he had next to call upon the Court 
to put a rule upon the parties that they should plead 
within four days. Mr. Steele objected to be prosecuted 
by the Attorney-General. The several parties then 
applied by their Council for copies of the indictment. 
The Attorney-General said that copies should be furnished 
them within an hour. A discussion of some length arose 
as to enlarging the time for pleading ; but the Court said 
the statute was peremptory, and they were bound to 
go by it. There was a considerable number about the 
court to hear the event, but the town was perfectly 
tranquil—On Monday Mr. M’Donough applied for a 
In the 
Landagr, has issued an appeal to the clergy for subscrip- | various ratings arising from the destruction of propert 
Bote for the restoration of the cathedral church of the | with recent improvements of the Castle, and being con- 
locese, The building is in several parts in a dilapidated 
vinced of the inability of the borough to meet any material 
Condition, and many of its principal beauties haye been 
addition to its present burthen, resolved, that this meeting 
feels itself compelled to decline to contribute towards the 
expenses of executing the extensive and extravagant plan 
proposed by the Commissioners of her Majesty’s Woods 
and Forests, with a view to the drainage of the Castle and 
town, the more especially as such plan would appear to be 
confined almost entirely to the service of the Castle, and 
that a very considerable proportion of the town and its 
suburbs are wholly excluded from any contemplated benefit 
to be derived therefrom.’’ 
Raihoays.—The following are the returns for the past 
week :—Birmingham and Derby, 1,4802. ; Birmingham 
and Gloucester, 1,816/.; Eastern Counties, 2,651. ; 
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2,3377. ; Great Western, 1 4,2127.; 
een 
Calling “pon each other to make the sacrifice of half a 
*Y in the week by closing their places of business at one 
* Clock on Saturdays, in order to afford time for the recrea- 
ton and intellectual improvement of their assistants. The 
Measure has the assent and support of some of the leading 
Commeregi 
Nottingham,—On Saturday week, at 2 a.m., the resi- 
Sut © of the Rev. Robert Meek, rector of St, Michael’s, 
ys ton Bonnington, was entered by five men in smock | Grand Junction, 7,511. 3 Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 
ane ads their faces masked with black rape, who | 1,359; Great North of England, 1,5387.; Hull and 
© th 
Selby, 1,0147.; London and Birmingham, 16,5421, ; 
London and South-Western, 6,2072. ; London and Black. 
wall, 665/.; London and Greenwich, 708/.; London and 
Brighton, 4,1202,; London and Croydon, 2287. ; Liver- 
pool and Manchester, 4,007/. ; Manchester and Leeds, 
4,846/,; Midland Counties, 2,9027.; Manchester an 
Birmingham, 2,845/.; Northern and Eastern, 1,7782, 
North Midland, 4,3847. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 1,4 
South-Eastern and Dover, 3,768/.; Sheffield and Man- 
chester, 4452, ; York and North Midland, 1,6582—A 
publi¢ meeting was held at Salisbury last week, to further 
erefrom several valuable articles. The burglars 
tffecteg 
3 he 
, calling on the Magistrates of College Street 
Police-office to receive Mr. Barrett’s informations charg~ 
ing Mr. Bond Hughes with perjury. The application was 
Opposed by the Attorney-General, and the Lord Chief 
Justice held that if the grand jury were to receive evi- 
dence against the Crown, that would be trying the case, 
which it was not their province to do, Now, that being 
the rule, which was as old as the Jaw itself, he asked, how 
would it be possible, without infringing on that rule, to 
permit bills of indictment to be sent up against Mr, 
Hughes until the existing bills were disposed of ? When 
that occurred, it would be competent for the parties to 
prefer bills of indictment against Mr. Hughes or any other 
Witness ; but the court, in the present stage of the proceed- 
ings, could not consent to allow the accused parties to 
become witnesses in their own case.—'The weekly meeting 
of the Repeal Association was held on Monday. After a reso. 
lution had been passed pledging the Association to use every 
effort to promote the general collection of the O’Connell 
Compensation Fund for 1843, which is fixed for Sunday the 
19th inst., Mr. O’Connell handed in 100/. as Proclamation 
Money from the law clerks of Dublin, and moved an address 
to the people of Ireland, pointing out the objects of the 
Repeal agitation, showing that they do not desire separa- 
tion from England or Catholic ascendancy, but freedom 
d| of conscience, education, and the press. This address 
was adopted, together with the draft of another to the 
Queen, to be presented by each parish in Treland. Mr. 
O'Connell said “ it might be objected that the address to 
the people reiterated matter that had been spoken of be- 
fore-—it certainly did, but it was his plan to reiterate his 
the project of a railway communication between that city 
and London, by means of a branch line, to join the 
Anestimate prepared by 
Mr. Locke fixed the cost of the line at Jess than 250,0007., 
whereas a former estimate, when a similar project was in 
The meeting was 
a committee 
was formed, of which the Hon. Sidney Herbert and other 
influential landowners in the district are members. It 
appears that the South-Western company engage to raise 
one-half of the required capital. Surveys of the pro- 
jected line are already in a forward state, and the neces- 
Sary measures will be taken in order that an act of Par- 
manifested by the crowds in and about the courts respect- 
