510 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [JuLy 29, 
Bristol at 4 0’clock by aspecial train. The burthen of the | in the kingdom, entirely removed, and Teplaced with | taken by the Commanding Officer of the ship; while in 
Great Britain, which is built entirely of iron, is 3,600 tons stained glass, containing Scriptural devices and emblems. | the case of Miss Yerker, the jury returned the following 
register. For the sake of contrast it may be well to | The Upper boys have applied to the authorities of the special verdict—* That the deceased was accidentally killed 
mention that the tonnage of the Great Western is 1,600 College for permission to carry this intention into effect, | by the explosion of a portable magazine on board her 
tons. The Great Britain will carry double the quantity ofthe | and to defray the whole of the expense from their own Majesty's ship Camperdown, but how that explosion oc- 
Great Western, and be light afterwards. She will be pockets. In this undertaking there is no doubt that very | curred there is no evidence to show ; but the jury are of 
propelled by engines of 1,000 horse-power combined: the material assistance will be rendered by many old Etonians. opinion that it partially arose from the reprehensible prac- 
length from figure-head to taffrel is 322 feet ; length of | Mr. Eastlake, the Royal Academician, has been applied to | tice of keeping so large a quantity of powder out of the 
keel 289 feet, extreme width 50 feet 6 inches: she has | on the subject, and has consented to furnish a design, magazine, and the jury do recommend for the future that 
four decks, the upper deck is flush, and is 208 feet long ; eeds.—During Father Mathew’s visit to this town, | the proper authorities will cause their recommendation to 
i on Sunday and Monday week, he administered the pledge | be carried into effect.’” 
to 6,000 persons. In Bradford, on Tuesday, it is said Winchester—A meeting, convened by Mr. Cobden 
ss, 67 feet by 21 feet inches. The third | he administered the pledge to 7,000. In Huddersfield, | and Mr. Bright, took place in this city on Saturday, for 
sts of the dining saloons, the grand saloon | on Wednesday, his visit is also said to have been attended | the purpose of considering the ‘ agricultural working of 
ing 96 feet 6 inches by 30 feet, and the second with success, and in York he gave the pledge to 2,000, the Corn-laws, and the true cause of the present depressed 
~ewes.—Mr, Cobden paid a visit to this town on | condition of the farm tenantry.” The hour fixed for com- 
ms are 8 feet 3 inches high, and surrounded by | Tuesday for the purpose of addressing the Sussex farmers mencing the proceedings was 2 o’clock, but there were 
sleeping berths, of which there are 26, with single beds, | on the subject of the Corn-laws. The meeting first | then not more than 100 persons present. Shortly before 
and 113 containing two, giving 252 berths. This large assembled in the County Hall, but afterwards increased | 3, however, they increased considerably, the number being 
number is exclusive of the accommodatian which could be |so much that it was necessary to adjourn to the Friars’ | then estimated at 600 3 and Mr. Cobden, with his friends, 
piepared on the numerous sofas. The fourth deck is | Field, where about 1500 or 1600 persons assembled. Mr. having taken up their position upon the platform, which 
appropriated for the reception of cargo, of which 1,200 | Curteis, M.P. for Rye, presided. After a long address | 
tons will be carried, in addition to 1,000 tons of coal. | from Mr. Cobden followed by Mr. Elphinstone, M.P. for Exchange, the business was proceeded with ; Mr. Etwall, 
this borough, Mr.) H. Brown moved, ‘That in the | M.P. for Andover, in the chair, Mr. Bright addressed 
opinion of this meeting, protection to one class at the | the meeting on the various topics connected with the 
expense of other classes is injurious to the community at | Corn-laws, and said he wished it to be known that the 
large, and, therefore, all laws professing to protect either League did not advocate low prices, but natural prices. 
the agricultural, colonial, or manufacturing interest, ought They were desirous of those prices which the produce of 
to be forthwith abolished.’ The chairman then spoke in | men’s industry would fetch if it had not been interfered 
favour of a fixed dury, after which he put Mr. Brown’s with by legislation. The League was an association which 
resolution to the meeting, and every hand appeared to be | had nothing to do with politics ; they never supported the 
raised in its favour; he remarked that it became his duty Whigs or their fixed duty, and had with equal energy 
to declare it carried, only two hands having been held up | opposed the present Ministry with its sliding-scale ; they 
with the patent wire rigging, the hull is divided into four against it, and both of them belonging to one person, would continue their exertions to the Jast by the most 
Water-tight compartments, and the quantity of coal con- Liverpool,—A discovery in connexion with the recent determined opposition to all Ministers, of whatever poli- 
sumed will be about 60 tons per day ; upwards of 1,500 | fires at this port was made last week, from which there js | tics they might be, or however influential, if they inter- 
or second 
deck consis 
4 inches in diameter. The chimney is 39 feet high, and 
8 feet diameter. She is fitted with six masts, the highest 
of which is 74 feet above deck. The quantity of can\ass 
carried will be about’ 1,700 square yards, she will be fitted 
tons of iron have been used in her construction and that | reason to apprehend that the incendiaries are desirous of | fered in the slightest degree with the furtherance of the 
of the engines and boilers; the draught of water when perpetrating additional mischief. It seems that as One of | principles of free trade. Mr. Cobden next addressed the 
laden, will be 16 feet, and the displacement about 3,200 | the police was going his rounds about 8 o'clock in the | meeting, and commented for an hour and a half upon the 
ddition to which she will be propelled by the evening, he found a large heavy piece of pitch intermixed | eyil effects of restrictions of any deseription upon trade. 
ead of paddles; so that the whole vessel may | with fresh cotton, lying under the weatherboard of a cellar He reiterated the opinion he had promulgated in Bedford, 
garded as a great experiment of iron v. wood— | in Greenock-street, situated under an immense pile of | Norfolk, Essex, Kent, and elsewhere, that the Corn-laws 
screw v. paddle ; and immense v. moderate length. She | warehouses, extensively filled with cotton and other as a ‘‘ protection ” to tenant farmers was a rank delusion. 
will also be fitted with very powerful pumps, which can | valuable Property. The pitch and cotton were immedi- | He contended, at great length, that the price of Corn 
throw off seven thousand gallons of water per minute. | ately removed to the office of the Commissioner of Police, principally depended upon the home industry of this 
about 100,600/. | where it has been inspected and found to bein a highly | country, and that the laws regulating the importation 
Argus, arrived | combustible State, only requiring the slightest application | of, foreign productions put a fetter upon industry, 
Saturday morning with the | of a lighted match to set itin ablaze. Jt was most for- | and stopped the stream of commerce, He then 
Femains of Captains Drew and Jenkin Jones, two elder bre- | tunate that the discovery was made at so early a period of | referred to the act passed in 1815, and repeated the 
thren of the Trinity-house, who were unfortunately drowned | the night, or the consequences might have been very | arguments which he urged at Colchester in opposition to 
on the previous morning off Trevoise Head, Padstow. | serious. No clue has yet been obtained to lead to the | the continuance of the Corn-laws. He said he had spoken 
Several of the elder brethren had been surveying the apprehension of the offenders. feelingly upon the subject, being a farmer's son, and 
light-Louses in the Channel, and on Friday morning, five Southampton.—A deputation from the council of the | knowing the effect of the operation of those enactments 
of them, with four of the crew, attempted-to lund at Royal Agricultural Society held their first meeting in this upon the condition of persons in that class. He attributed 
Trevoise Head; but in consequence of there being a heavy | town on Monday, for the purpose of making preliminary | the ruin which had come upon the farmers of England for 
sea vas considered unsafe to attempt a landing, and arrangements as regards site and buildings for the general | the last 28 years to nothing else but the Corn-laws. le 
they returned to the steamer. On nearing her, the annual meeting of 1844, The deputation arrived by rail- | then dwelt at great length upon various topics in opposi- 
engines were stopped, and, in attempting to cross her way, and were met by the mayor and corporation, with | tion to the Corn-laws, and in conclusion observed that he 
bows, the boat came in contact with the steamer while | whom they proceeded to the Audit-house ; and, after par- | did not expect any advantage whatever personally from 
she was heavily pitching, and she was cut in two 5 all were | taking of a collation provided by the mayor, proceeded to | the part he had taken in the question. He regarded the 
immedic he sea, and Captains Drew and | examine the various plans suggested as fit for the show, principles of free trade as just, and of importance for the 
The other seven were saved. The | pavilion, and ploughing-matches, &c. The committee establishment of peace between the people of all parts of 
d were secured, and every means | expressed themselves pleased with the excellent accom- | the world. There were so many moral and social ad- 
but all proved ineffectual. modation this town and neighbourhood is capable of vantages likely to grow from it, he had supported it with 
held, and a verdict of acci- affording them, and will make their report, to the next | all the power of which he was capable, and the only 
teath returned, general meeting of the council in London. reward he expected was that he should be considered @ 
Carmarthen.—In consequence of the unsettled state of Sheerness.—We regret to state that the accident on faithful and zealous advocate for the accomplishment of 
South Wales, owing to the determination of Rebecca and | board H.M.S. Camperdown last week has proved more | those principles of free and unrestricted trade all over the 
her daughters to destroy the turnpike gates, orders were serious than was at first anticipated, and that a seaman world. Mr. R. Owen next presented himself, but in con- 
received at Woolwich at an early hour on Sunday morn- | and Miss Yerker, one of the ladies who were on board, | sequence of a row it was impossible for him to proceed. 
ing to have in readiness a six- pounder field-gun and twelve- | have died of the injuries they sustained by the explosion, | Mr, Hoskins, M.P., also attempted to address the meet- 
pounder howitzer, which were sent off on the same day, Inquests have been held on the bodies, at which it was ing, but was scarcely audible in consequence of the general 
with the usual’ number of men of the Royal Artillery, proved that, whilst the ship was firing a royal salute as | riot and confusion which continued among the crowd. 
required for their service in the field. The orders were | the King and Queen of the Belgians were passing, a| He was understood to deny that the farmers of Dorset 
to proceed to Bristol by the Great Western Railway, and | portable magazine, called the saltbox, was placed on the and Somerset were favourable to a repeal of the Corn- 
from Bristol to Carmarthen with the least possible delay, | main deck, about three feet from the after-gun, before the | jaws. Mr. Jones, a practical farmer, and Mr. Marsh, 4 
in case their presence might be required to put a stop to | bulkhead, which was used for saluting cartridges, so as to solicitor, then addressed the meeting, the latter expressing 
the destruction of property in that quarter. The Bates | obviate the frequent opening of the magazine. The box, | his dissent from Mr. Cobden’s views. Mr. Monday, @ 
destroyed since our last are the following :—The Pontne- | at the time of the explosion, contained ten cartridges of | farmer proposed a resolution condemnatory of the Corn- 
wydd Gate and Toll-house, about five miles from Carmar- } three pounds each. There were also four rockets hung | laws as injurious to all classes of the community, and 
then, in the afternoon of Friday week (to which the Dra- agaiast the beam over the saltbox, two of them one pound | stating that the adoption of free-trade principles would be 
i rockets, and the other two half. pound. After the Royal advantageous to the country in general. ‘The resolution 
salute had been fired, another gun went off, and then the | was Seconded, and adopted by a large majority. t 
saltbox exploded, and a short time afterwards a dis- Railways.—The following are the receipts for the a 
charged rocket was found lying about midships. The week :— Croydon, 360/. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 436 2 
Greenwich, “785/.; Birmingham and Derby, T2208 5 
Blackwall, 1,148/.; Great North of England, 1,325/. 5 
York and North Midland, 1,725/.; Northern and Eastern, 
1,849; Birmingham and Gl y aye bos ee 
and Glasgow, 2,159/.; Midland Counties, 2,585/.; Man 
chester and Birmingham, 2,654/,; Eastern coe. 
2,9371.; South Eastern and Dover, 3,298/. ; North Lg 
land, 4,4171.; Manchester and Leeds, 5,176/.; eae t 
Western, 7,1377.; Grand Junction, 8,637; Grea 
Western, 15,2687. ; Birmingham, 17,7972. 
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Suspicivus character) ; the New Inn Gate, near Liandilo ; 
the Gwarallt Gate, near Lampeter, and a toll-bar near it, 
on Monday week; two gates near Cardigan; the Pont. 
wely Gate, between Rhydfach and Llandyssil, on Friday ; 
the Pumpsaint Gate, near Dolecothy, on Thursday ; and 
the Bronfelen Gate, five miles from Llandovery, on the 
road leading to Liandwrtyd, on Saturday. The magi- 
Strates have caused several persons to be apprehended on 
Suspicion of destroying this gate, and are busily employed 
in investigating the affair. Such was the difficulty of obtain- 
ing aperson to receive the tolls at the Bronfelen Gate, 
that fourpence was allowed to the collector for every shil- 
ling he received, Sixteen gates, toll-houses, and bars, 
have been destroyed in the Three Commott’s District. It 
is a rather singular fact that not a single gate has been | is adopted on board her Majesty’s ship Excellent, at 
3 Portsmouth. The ship’s crew were firing with Finmore’s 
tubes for priming, and it has been known that the quill 
part of the tube, and part of the worsted, have been 
thrown from the gun in an ignited state. Several gunners 
were examined, who proved that the salt-box was placed 
in the most secure part of the vessel; and Commander 
Finling, of the Camperdown, stated that he and his 
Officers had used every means to discover the real cause 
of the explosion, but they had not been able to satisfy 
themselves. In the case of the seaman, the jury returned 
@ verdict of Accidental Death, at the same time expressing 
their opinion that all Proper care and diligence had been 
the lids of the boxes were perfectly secure during the 
firing of the Royal salute. It is also customary to 
keep, for present use, rockets bung on the beam of 
line-of-battle ships, under the half-deck. The rockets 
IRELAND. 
Dublin.—Mr. Maurice O’Connell has been ig 
since our last, for attending Repeal meetings. cad 
papers statethat the money transmitted to the Repeal sees, 
ation is periodically invested in the Government ee es 
Last week the sum of 6,000/, was invested, ne aoc 
Three-and-a-half per Cents., by the broker of ante, 
ation. A Repeal demonstration took place ore ae 
at Swords, a village about seven miles from Du ee = 
place was decorated with triumphal greet, em 
immense quantity of green ponebe: The atten a siohcg 
J, O'Connell, Mt .P., addressed the meeting.—The sec 
meeting of the Repeal Association took place on Monday. 
attack on the workhouse; but the trials will not take 
place at these assizes, having been removed by certiorari 
into the Court of Queen’s Bench. 
Lton.—The great east window of the College chapel has 
just been fully exposed to view by the removal of the 
woodwork on either side, which was accomplished during 
the recent repairs and alterations within the interior of 
the edifice. Considerable anxiety has been manifested, 
for some time past, to have the present plain glass of this 
window, which ranks amongst the finest church windows 
