[June 10, 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
The Southwark Park.—A numerous meeting of the 
inhabitants of Southwark was held this week in the vestry 
room of the church of St. George the Martyr, to take 
into consideration a requisition addressed to the church- 
wardens for petitioning Parliament and the Government 
for a grant of a suitable piece of ground for the formation 
of a park for the southern districts of the metropolis. 
The churchwarden submitted a resolution, stating that it 
was of the first importance to the moral and physical con- 
dition of the people that they should have open walks for 
healthful recreation, which would tend to prevent or at 
least alleviate disease. He mentioned a very eligible 
site for the projected park, a large plot of ground near 
Walpole-place, Kent-road, which extends all the way to 
New-cross, and which would be very soon built upon if it 
were not secured in time for such an object. Several 
letters were read from a great number of Peers and Mem- 
bers of the House of Commons, all promising their co- 
operation to effect this object. The resolution was passed 
unanimously. 
The Enclosure of Hampstead Heath.—The excite- 
ment created throughout Hampstead and the northern 
suburbs of the Metropolis at the projected enclosure of 
Hampstead Heath by the bill now before Parliament, 
introduced at the instigation of the Lord of the Manor, 
Sir T. M. Wilson, and entitled the ‘‘ Wilson Estate Bill,”’ 
still continues to increase, and petitions against it are 
preparing in every quarter. On Thursday the objections 
to the bill, a copy of which it is intended to place in the 
hands of every Member of the Legislature, were finally 
arranged on the part of the copyholders, and it is their in- 
tention also to call upon the public generally for their as- 
sistance to preserve to the Metropolis this favourite place 
of recreation. 
Kensington.—At a meeting of the rate-payers of St. 
Mary Abbots’ on Monday, after a long discussion respect- 
ing Col. Fox’s recent diversion of the north end of the 
Addison-road, it was resolved that the churchwardens be 
requested and authorized to take the necessary and pro- 
per measures for the restoration of the road. Col. Fox 
having offered, as a compensation, £200 towards the pav- 
ing of the road, Mr. Percival moved, as an amendment,— 
“* That a committee be appointed by this vestry to inform 
Col. Fox that the vestry are willing to accept the indem- 
nification he offers for the alteration of the line of the 
church path in the Addison-road, if Col. Fox will take 
the proper steps to make such an agreement a legal one, 
and binding upon the parish.” Mr. Mills seconded the 
amendment. Only two hands, those of the mover and 
seconder, were held up for the amendment; and the 
original motion was carried with acclamation. 
Hampton Court.—On Friday, at the Feltham petty 
sessions, a young man, named William Bennet Watkins, 
who stated himself to be gardener to Mr. B. Watkins, of 
Hammersmith, was brought before Messrs. Devon and 
Carpenter, the sitting magistrates, charged by .a police 
constable with haying stolen a quantity of plants and 
cuttings from the Royal Gardens at Hampton Court 
Palace. The charge having been clearly proved, he was 
convicted and sentenced by the magistrates to one month’s 
hard labour in the House of Correction. 
Mortality of the Metropolis.—The following is the 
number of Deaths registered in the week ending Saturday, 
May 27:—West districts, 155; North districts, 156; 
Central districts, 163; East districts, 175 ; South dis- 
tricts, 210. Total, 859—(457 males, 402 females.)— 
Weekly average for the last five years, 903—(461 males, 
442 females,) and for the last five springs, 854. 
*rovincial Wels. 
Incendiary Fires.—The provincial papers give accounts 
of incendiary fires in different parts of the agricultural 
districts. The Maidstone papers state that as two gen- 
tlemen were riding last week past Tyland-farm, on the 
Rochester-road, they saw a sainfoin stack burst into 
flames, and a man run away from it, up a lane leading to 
the Warren. They immediately galloped in pursuit, 
and overtaking the man, apprehended him. He proved 
to be astranger in the district, knowing nothing whatever 
of Mr. Hills, the owner of the stack. He confessed that 
he had done it from a desire to be sent out of the country, 
as he was starving, and could not obtain employment. 
He was taken to Boxley cage, where he is now in custody. 
His name is George Brown, a gardener, from Bradford, 
Essex. ‘he stack was entirely consumed, but was 
sured. 
Alnwick.—The following account of the Draining- 
plough is extracted from the Newcastle Journal :—* An 
interesting trial of the power of the draining-plough, 
“Green’s Patent,’ was made at Alnwick on Saturday last, 
in a field called Stamp’s-close, adjoining Alnwick-moor 
belonging to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland. 
The draining took place on the market-day, to give the 
farmers and neighbouring gentry an opportunity of form- 
ing a practical opinion as to its merits. The field consists 
of about 8 acres. The drain lines had been laid out, and 
the turf thrown aside by the common plough on the pre- 
vious day. The draining-plough commenced operations 
at the usual hour on Saturday morning, and the whole of 
the drains, one between each ridge, to the depth of 18 
inches, were completed by the evening. The plough was 
drawn by 8 horses, attended by 4 men. Mr. Patten, 
his Grace’s park and farm steward, superintended the 
work. One decided advantage that the draining-plough 
has is, that it can be used when the farmer has little or 
nothing else to do. The work was unanimously approved 
of ; and, among other suggestions that were thrown ont 
by the gentlemen and farmers on the ground, the following 
may not be unworthy of consideration, viz.,—that a town- 
ship or parish might purchase @ plough for their common 
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use, or one might be kept in each bailiwick for the use of 
the tenantry. It was also observed that, in proportion as 
the soil'was more impregnated with clay, the draining 
was more perfectly done. This would indicate its supe- 
rior applicability to the soils of Northumberland.’’ 
Birmingham.—Last week the western neighbourhood 
of Birmingham was considerably alarmed by rumours of 
disturbances amongst the turn-out nailors of Bromsgrove 
and the adjoining mining districts of Cradley, Stourbridge, 
&c. Forsome years past various reductions have taken place 
in the manufacture of nails, amounting in the aggregate to 
20 per cent.; and about a fortnight ago a further reduc- 
tion was attempted. A good workman, upon the average, 
could, under the old prices some years ago, earn about 20s. 
per week ; but since the reduction first took place, the price 
has reduced the rate of remuneration to 16s. The attempt 
recently made would reduce it still further to 14s. The 
strike became general last week, in consequence of these 
reductions. The magistrates endeavoured to effect a com- 
promise between the operatives and their masters, but the 
men refused to return to their work without an increase 
of wages. A public meeting was also held, without effect- 
ing any satisfactory settlement. The following statistics 
| will show the poverty of Bromsgrove and its neighbour- 
| hood :—The population of the parish is 9,671; the num- 
ber of houses assessed to the poor 2,016—of these 1,763 
are under 10/. per annum, and 1,391 under 57. About 
| 180 Occupations are void, and the tenants of 619 are from 
poverty excused paying rates. The number of permanent 
paupers receiving regular relief is about 1,000; and on 
Friday week, in addition, 360 heads of families, comprising 
about 1,500 people, received temporary assistance at the 
Union workhouse. 
Bristol. — A determined burglary and attempt at 
murder was committed on Saturday night at Conham, a 
small retired village on the banks of the Avon, about six 
miles from this city. Three men called Watkins, an 
uncle and two nephews, broke into the cottage of an old 
woman named Hunt, who had amassed a considerable sum 
of money ; after robbing it of all the property they could 
carry, they stabbed Mrs. Hunt, and left her, as they sup- 
posed, dead, having covered her with a bed and a heavy: 
box for the purpose ‘of suffocating her. She succeeded 
however in releasing herself, and is likely to recover. The 
prisoners have been apprehended, and committed to take 
their trials. 
Carmarthen.—The outrages of ‘‘ Rebecca and her 
Daughters’ have reached such a height as to excite ap- 
prehension that the magistracy of this and the adjoining 
counties of Pembroke and Cardigan will be obliged to 
place the whole district under military surveillance. From 
attacking and destroying turnpike gates in remote and 
unfrequented parts of the country, they have proceeded to 
exploits of greater daring, and on Saturday morning last, 
attacked and completely destroyed one of the gates of 
the county town, Carmarthen. It appears by the state- 
ment of the toll-collector, that at about one o’clock on 
Saturday morning, nearly 300 persons arrived at the 
gate, and immediately pla sentinels in Water-street, 
and about Greenhall, the residence of Capt. Davies, a 
borough magistrate. Their leader, ‘‘ Rebecca, who is 
easily distinguished by his extraordinary stature, was 
attired in female clothing, and proceeded with a sort of 
body-guard to enter the toll-house. He then gave direc- 
tions ‘‘to smash the windows and unroof the house.’’ 
The windows were instantly beaten down, and they were 
proceeding to unroof the house, when the wife of the 
toll-collector rushed forward to this mysterious leader of 
the band, and entreated him to spare the house for the 
sake of her dying child, who lay ill up stairs. The man 
seemed moved by this appeal, and proceeded to the bed- 
side of the invalid, when finding the statement of the 
mother to be correct, he gave orders ‘‘ to stay proceed- 
ings,’’ as far as the toll-house was concerned, but they 
destroyed the gates, and fired several volleys of musketry. 
They also stated their determination to raze the Car- 
marthen workhouse to the ground in August next. 
Liverpool—The many fires which have occurred 
recently in this town have drawn the attention of the 
magistrates seriously to the subject, and several meetings 
of the justices have been held during the week. It is 
understood that several witnesses were examined, and 
that the result of the investigation was a strong suspicion 
that the recent fires, and particularly those at the Duke’s 
warehouses, have been produced by incendiaries. ‘The 
evidence was transmitted to the Secretary of State, and 
the Home-office has determined to co-operate with the 
magistrates and corporation of the town in the endeavour 
to discover the delinquents. Placards were posted through- 
out the town and suburbs on Saturday, offering 500/. 
reward, namely, 300/. by the council of the borough, and 
200/. by insurance offices, for the discovery of the 
offenders, and announcing that a free pardon would be 
| granted to any accomplice, who will give such information 
| 48 shall lead to the discovery of the actual offenders. 
Manchester.— A fatal accident, occasioned by the 
explosion of a boiler, occurred last week, at Medlockvale 
Dyeworks, the property of Messrs. Hulme and Sons, 
situate in the township of Failsworth, about five miles 
from this town. The accident occurred when the works 
were in full operation, and it is remarkable that it did not 
prove more extensively fatal. One man was killed on the 
spot, and others are so severely injured as to render their 
recovery a matter of great doubt. The explosion filled 
the whole of the dyehouse and narrow passages aroun 
with a dense volume of steam and dust, and so great was 
the expansive power of the steam that the whole of the 
roof was blown from the dyehouse, the windows shattered, 
and a portion of the front wall thrown down.—The 
inquiries into the origin of the late outrage between the 
military and police are still in progress, and are not - 
likely to be concluded for some days. 
Oxford.—We announced last week that Dr. Pusey, the 
Regius Professor of Hebrew, had been suspended from 
preaching in the University fortwo years. The subjoined 
recapitulation of the case will not be uninteresting :—On 
the fifth Sunday after Easter, Dr. Pusey being called on 
to preach before the University in the Cathedral of Christ 
Church, took for his subject the doctrine of the Eucharist. 
An impression was made on some of his audience that 
the doctrine of Transubstantiation and of the Mass were 
advanced and defended in a tone altogether dissonant from 
that of the standards of the Church of England, and the 
result was that an official demand was made on the Vice- 
Chancellor to appoint a board to examine the sermon. In 
compliance with this call, a board was constituted of the 
six Members of Convocation mentioned in our last. Each 
of these divines sent in a separate report, as three of them 
are said to have found little fault with the sermon; but 
the Vice-Chancellor thought proper to suspend the Regius 
Professor of Hebrew from preaching within the precincts 
of the University for two years. Against this sentence 
Dr. Pusey has addressed a protest to the Vice-Chancellor, 
from which the following is an extract :—‘‘ I have stated 
to you, on different occasions, as opportunity offered, that 
I was at a loss to conceive what in my sermon could be 
construed into discordance with the Formularies of our 
Church ; I have requested you to adopt that alternative 
in the Statutes, which allows the accused a hearing ; 
have again and again requested that definite propositions, 
which were thought to be at variance with our Formularies, 
should, according to the alternative in the Statute, be 
proposed to me; I have declared repeatedly my entire 
assent ew animo to all the doctrinal statements of our 
Church on this subject, and have, as far as I had oppor- 
tunity, declared ‘my sincere and entire consent to them 
individually ; I have ground to think, that, as no proposi- 
tions out of my sermon have been exhibited to me as at 
variance with the doctrine of our Church, so neither can 
they, but that I have been condemned either ona mistaken 
construction of my words, founded upon the doctrinal 
opinions of my judges, or on grounds distinct from the 
Formularies of our Church. Under these circumstances, 
since the Statute manifestly contemplates certain grave 
and definite instances of contrariety or discordance from 
the Formularies of our, Church, I feel it my duty to pro- 
test against the late sentence against me as unstatutable 
as well as unjust,’” 
Portsmouth.—The Victoria and Albert royal steam 
yacht will be brought round here next month, as it is ex- 
pected she will be fully equipped and ready for sea in 
about six weeks. Whatever intention Her Majesty might 
have had of visiting Ireland in the course of the summer, 
there is now no probability of such a visit taking place, at 
least until that country is ina more settled state. It is 
understood to be Her Majesty’s intention to take repeated 
excursions to sea during the season, and to visit some of 
the principal ports along the coast, and among others 
that of Plymouth, to inspect the dockyard and other pub- 
lic works there. It is stated that the Prince of Wales 
and the Princesses will be brought down to the coast dur- 
ing the summer for the benefit of the sea breeze. 
Southampton.—On Friday morning, about half-past 
en o’clock, smoke was seen to issue from the hold 
of the brig Tartar, lying in the new docks at this place, 
and laden with a quantity of war stores, consisting of 4 
large number of Congreve rockets and above twelve hui- 
dred shells, The crew, who had only arrived from Lon- 
don on the previous night, immediately left the vessel to 
her fate, it being currently reported she had fifty tons of 
gunpowder on board. This fortunately was not the case, 
or great mischief must have happened to the railway tet 
minus and that part of the town situated near the docks. 
The smoke still continued to issue, but in very sma 
quantities, until a few minutes past eleven o’clock, whet 
it burst out into flames. It now became quite apparent 
that any attempt to scuttle her would be unavailing, from 
the danger of her situation. At twelve o’clock a party C 
Sappers and Miners arrived, and with the aid of sit 
horses brought one of the large guns from the platform 
into the dockyard, where six shots were fired into her 
bottom, but without effect, and in an instant a tremendous 
explosion took place, rockets and shells flying in all hes 
tions. The scene at this time was very grand ; the whole 
deck was in a blaze, and at intervals of every three or on 
minutes fresh explosions took place, which lasted a 
past two o’clock, when it was thought the whole of A 
combustible parts of the cargo had entirely explode il 
Preparations were then made to obtain one of the aes 
Isle of Wight steamers to haul the burning vessel to it 
mud banks, as it was quite certain she must soon sink ; , 
the wind, which had been previously very high, ucts) 
abated, when the flames took another direction, ond ae 
moment another series of explosions took place, W eat 
continued for about twenty minutes, when the vessel ie 
down head foremost. She had twenty long brass cate 
and their carriages, destined, with the war stores, for a 
Mexican government. The value of the cargo cit 
25,0002. The consternation in the town was eS 
from the report that there was a large quantity 0 8 
powder on board, that all the inhabitants in th 
i i icited to show ho 
Saturday morning, but nothing was elicite ae 
the fire originated. The magistrates said it was an extr 
