1843. 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
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square canister-shaped urn of emerald green glass, with a 
handle on one side. It was nearly 16 inches high, and 
eight inches wide; and was about half full of burnt bones. 
By the side of the urn was a large plain iron lamp, of the 
accustomed form in length, from the wick-chamber to the 
handle nearly a foot. Unfortunately, from the ignorance 
of the man who made the discovery, the cist was opened 
so carelessly, that the fine and curious urn was broken. 
This part of the country must have been extensively oc- 
cupied by the Romans, for patere, and pieces of pottery, 
swords, spurs, and other articles of iron, have been 
frequently and for many years discovered within two feet 
of the surface in this part of Rougham, and within the 
adjoining parish of Whelnetham. ‘The land was common 
till within the last 30 years ; and so many human bones 
were found, it is said, on removing part of the Eastlow- 
hill, that the then owner of the estate (Mr. Kedington) 
refused to permit any more of the hill to be cleared. 
Adjoining to the tumulus which has been opened is 
another, as yet quite undisturbed; and near to them are 
the pits or trenches, whence it is probable the soil was 
procured to heap up these simple and long-enduring rest- 
ing-places.— Suffolk Herald. 
A Contrast.—The change of times and manners cannot 
be more strikingly illustrated than in contrasting the 
account of Prince Albert’s visit to Bristol, as inserted by 
us last week, with the following curious particulars of a 
visit paid to that city in the reign of Queen Anne by her 
Royal Consort, Prince George. In ‘Corry and Evans’s 
History of Bristol,’’ vol. ii. page 423, is the following :— 
** Bxtract from an old Bristol newspaper, relative to Sir 
J. Duddlestone.—Prince George of Denmark, consort of 
Queen Anne, in passing through this city, appeared on the 
Exchange, attended only by one gentleman, a military 
officer, and remained there till the merchants had pretty 
generally withdrawn; not one of them having sufficient 
resolution to speak to him, as perhaps they might not be 
prepared to ask such a guest to their houses. But this 
was not the case with all who saw him; for a person 
whose name was John Duddlestone, a bodice-maker, who 
lived in Corn-street (probably the house now occupied by 
Norton and Son, booksellers, which is very ancient), went 
up to him and asked him ‘If he was not the husband of 
the Queen ?? whoinformed him, ‘he was.’ John Duddle- 
stone told him he had observed with a good deal of con- 
cern that none of the merchants had invited him home to 
‘dinner, telling him he did not apprehend it was for want 
of love to the Queen or to him, but because they did not 
consider themselves prepared to entertain so great a man; 
but he was ashamed to think of his dining at an inn, and 
requested him to go and dine with him, and to bring the 
gentleman along with him, informing him that he had a 
Piece of good beef and a plum-pudding, and ale of his 
dame’s own brewing. The Prince admired the loyalty of 
the man, and, though he had bespoke a dinner at the 
White Lion, went with him. When they got to the house 
Duddlestone called bis wife, who was up stairs, desiring fred 
to put on a clean apron and come down, for the Queen’s 
husband and another gentleman were come to dine with 
them. She accordingly came with a clean blue apron, and 
was immediately saluted by the Prince. In the course of 
the dinner the Prince asked him if he ever went to London? 
He said, that since the ladies had worn stays, instead of 
bodices, he i went to buy whalebone; wh 
the Prince desired him to take his wife with him ‘wet he 
went again, at the same time giving hima card to facilitate 
his introduction to Court. In the course of a little time he 
took his wife behind him to London, and, with the assist- 
ance of the card, he found easy admittance to the Prince 
and by him they were introduced to the Queen, who ie 
vited them to an approaching public dinner, informing 
them they must have new clothes for the occasion. So they 
each chose purple velvet, such as the Prince had then on 
and in that dress they were introduced by the Queen her, 
self as the most loyal persons in the city of Bristo] and 
the only ones in that city who had invited the Prince ber 
husband to their house. After the entertainment the 
Queen desiring him to kneel down, laid a sword on his 
head, and (to use Lady Duddlestone’s own words) said to 
him, ‘Ston up, Sir Jan.’ He was offered money, ora 
place under Government; but he did not choose to accept 
of either, informing the Queen that he had 50/, out at 
use, and he apprehended that the number'of people he saw 
about her must be very expensive. The Queen, however 
made Lady Duddlestone a present of a gold watch, which 
iny lady considered as no small ornament when she went 
to market, suspended over a blue apron. Sir John Dud- 
dlestone, with his lady, lie buried in All Saints’ Church, 
4 ristol, on the right side of the entrance from the north 
Oor.’” 
The Comet.—aA letter from Villeneuve-sur-Lot (Lot.et. 
Garonne), 17th inst., says :—‘ Last night, at about ten 
o'clock, we again saw the famous comet, as it appeared 
inthe month of March. It occupied an immense space 
in the heavens. In a very elevated position above the 
horizon, to the south-east, it had a slight oblique direc- 
tion with respect to the Milky-way. Its form has not 
changed, but it appeared much more brilliant in our 
Southern sky than it did at Paris. After the’rising of the 
moon the light of the comet became feeble, and at a 
quarter past ten it was no longer visible.”’ — Extract from 
eee dated Sydney, New South Wales, March 6, 
43: * We are all exceedingly interested in the course of 
® prodigiously-fine comet which surprised us a few days 
say _ Usaw it on Thursday, March 2d, Just at sunset, 
wre ce then it has arisen higher every night. It infi- 
Y Surpasses everything I have ever thought of in a 
comet, e tail fe . 
ag straight ate oes 40 degrees, of a perfect white, and 
WNG.—A Berlin correspondent of the Dédats writes, 
on the 11th inst. : ‘‘ We have received letters from our 
fellow-countryman, the missionary Gutzlaff, in China, 
stating that he had ascertained that the art of constructing 
buildings of cast iron, of which the English pretend to 
have lately been the first discoverers, has been practised 
for centuries in the Chinese empire. M. Gutzlaff has 
found on the top of a bill, near the town of Tsing Kiang 
Fou, inthe province of Kiang Nan, a pagoda entirely 
composed of cast iron. It is covered with bas-reliefs and 
inscriptions, which, from their forms, characters, and dates, 
show that they are as old as the dynasty of Tang, which was 
on the throne as far back as from the 5th to the 10th cen- 
tury of the Christian era. It is in the shape of av octagon 
pyramid, is 40 ft. in height, and 8 ft. in diameter at the 
base. It has seven stories, each containing extremely 
curioys historical pictures. M. Gutzlaff represents this 
Monument as being strikingly elegant, and’ surpassing 
in this respect everything of the kind he had previously 
seen in China.” 
Steam in France.—On the 1st January, 1842, there 
were in France 5,605 steam-boilers and 2,807 steam- 
engines, besides 169 locomotives. Of these 5,605 boilers, 
4,857 were of French manufacture; 1,747 of them fur- 
nished steam for various uses, and the remaining 3,858 
supplied the 2,807 engines. Of the 2,307 engines, 584 
were low pressure, equalling 11,1]4 horse-pewer, and 
2,223 high pressure, equalling 26,182 horse-power, making 
together 37,296 horse-power ; that is, the force of 121,888 
draught horses, replacing the strength of 783,000 men of 
labour. These amounts, as compared with the year 1840, 
present on one side a reduction of 40 boilers, not used for 
steam-engines ; and, on the other, an increase of 285 
boilers for steam-engines, of which last 216 were fixed 
and 27 locomotive. This increase gives an equivalent to 
2,946 horse-power, or 8,836 draught horses, or 62,000 
men. In 1841 steam-engines in France did the labour of 
155,061 draught horses, or 1,085,427 men. 
French Finance.—The national debt of France, which 
in 1572, under Charles IX., was only 17,000,000£, was 
in 1832, 5,417,495,016f. At the present time it is almost 
7,000,000,000f. France has already been bankrupt six 
times, viz. :—Under Sully, who deducted the interest 
formerly paid on the capital; at the end of Louis XIV.’s 
reign, under Desmaret, who paid neither capital nor 
interest ; at the fall of the “‘ systéme Law,” under Lepel- 
letier ; under the Abbe Terrai, who did not pay the assign- 
ments ; during the revolution after the creation of 
45,000,000 of mortgages ; lastly in 1799, by the reduction 
of two thirds of the debt. 
Kilts.— I shall be off to the highlands this fall ; but 
they hante got no woods there ; nothin’ but heather, and 
that’s only high enough to tear your clothes. That’s the 
reason the Scotch don’t wear no breeches, they don’t like 
to get ’em ragged up that way for everlastinly, they 
can’t afford it; so they let ’em scratch and tear their 
skin, for that will grow agin, and trousers won’t.”—Sam 
Slick in England. 
Court or Cuancery.—(Before Sit J. Wigram,)—Recve vy. 
Aitorney-General.—The testator, the Rev. Thomas Meyrick, 
amongst other charitable legacies, gave 1,000/. to the Society for 
Majesty, under her royal sign manual, shall direct, 
efore Sir J. K. Bruce.)—Rich. 
he affairs might be put an end to, 
rayed. It appeared that some 
is is exemption are those who had contributed 
the increased amount ‘of capital. before the 
His Honour therefore thought, that assuming, for 
the purposes of the argument, and for those purposes alone, that 
the suit was defective 
when a 
in many cases quite impracticable. The law would never recog- 
nise the legality of a partnership, and yet not afford the means 
of redress on breach of the contract between the parties. He 
must declare that on the present state of the pleadings, and on 
the assumption that the answer was true, he must hold that the 
suit was defective for want of parties. With such a declaration, 
he should direct the matter to stand over to the hearing of the 
cause, without prejudice to any question, and without prejudice 
to the right of the plaintiff to amend his bill, and ali costs must 
be reserved, and each party to have liberty to apply. 
Assize INTELLIGENCE.—(NorFoLk Circuit, Beprorp.)—The 
Wresllingworth Murder.—Surah Dazley, aged 28, pleaded not 
guilty to an indictment, charging her with the wilful murder of 
William Dazley, her husband, by arsenic, on the 29th of October 
last. This case, which has for some months excited greatinterest 
in this county and the adjoining parts, was noticed by this Paper 
the time. The avenues leading to the Court and the seats 
therein appropriated to the public were densely crowded at an 
early hour. The jury having been sworn, the counsel for the 
prosecution proceeded to detail the almost unparalleled cireum- 
stances under which the prisoner became involved in this accu- 
sation; and from this statement, corroborated by the testimony 
of various witnesses, it appeared that the prisoner, who pursued 
the trade of a milliner and dressmaker among the lower orders 
of society, after having buried ber first husband, one Henry 
Mead, married William Daziey, the subject of the presentinquiry, 
in October, 1840, For some time they continued to live together 
happily, but it would seem that their domestic circle was latterly 
marred by discord, for not many weeks before his death, which 
took place on Sunday, the 29th October, 1842, they were known. 
to have had a serious quarrel, which ended in the exchange of 
blows. Notwithstanding this, the deceased enjoyed among his 
neighbours the character of a good husband, and having fallen sick 
about a fortnight before his death, it certainly appeared that his 
wife was unremitting in her attention to his wants, though his 
mother lived in the house, and that she made a point of adminis- 
tering to him all his medicine and food. On the Tuesday before 
his death he became worse, a professional gentleman, 
Sandell by name, happening to ride through their village, Mrs. 
Dazley called him in to prescribe for her husband, The condition 
of his patient not appearing very pressing or serious, Mr. Sandell 
told the prisoner to come over to his residence at Polton and 
get some medicine. This she did, being accompanied by one 
Mary Carver, to whom on their way home she said ‘“ she should 
not give her husband the pills which she had got from the 
doctor, but some others which she had got from a Mrs, Garry, 
a woman who sold drugs in Polton, and knew quite as well as 
Mr. Sandell what to order for sick folks.” Saying this, she 
opened the box, threw away its contents, and inserted in their 
place three other pills, which she produced from her pocket in a 
piece of newspaper. On herarrival at home she told her husband 
to‘take the pills which Mr. Sandell had prescribed for him, ani 
quitted the house. During her absence the deceased took one, 
but not without great demur, so much so, indeed, thata girl who 
was in attendance was obliged to take one first. This cireum- 
stance, when made known to the prisoner, appeared greatly to 
excite her anger, while both her husband and the girl Mary Bull 
became very sick, hot, and thirsty, in about an hour and a hi 
afterwards. This attack, however, soon subsided, and the sick 
nto mend till the Saturday, when the prisoner said 
8 going again to Mr. Sandell for some more medicine. 
This’she accordingly did, and having returned, in the evening, 
she, in the presence of the two brothers of the deceased and 
and though great difficulty interposed by the length 
which had occurred since the death of Mr. Me 
r, Simpkinson and Mr, Shapter 
contended for the contrary proposition.—His Honour said it was 
important case relating to a trading company, part of the 
hich took one view of the point disputed, and an- 
other division of the partners a contrary one. The number of 
ion in dispute. v] 
te eases on the record except the Directors, who were 
in the situation of Trustees, as well for the plaintiffs themselves 
s the shareholders who dissented from them. They could 
not therefore freely, end in an unfettered manner, contest 
se who had paid the 75/. per share, as those 
cord. These Directors 
duties subsistin 
Pi 
stances 0! a 
company ha 
crauitiffe could be rightly compelled to pay more than a cert: 
specified amount 
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bod; 
out going into all the minute details, after havin: ven 
Outline of the main facts, it may suffice to state thacMindneneaee 
a chemist at Polton, and his apprentice, i the 
the prisoner bought some arsenic at their 
day between July and Christmas last 
ied, a 0 xem pt 
from the liability to contribute any further capital ; and the large 
