THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 
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shire for the promotion of the same object. About 
20007, it is stated will be sufficient to effect Mr. Oastler’s 
liberation, but it is proposed to raise 8000/., in order 
that some permanent provision may be made for him. 
Ilford.—Our readers are aware that in consequence of 
éertain innovations alleged to have been made by the 
officiating curate of Ilford Church, some of the congre- 
gation opposed to those forms called a meeting of the 
parishioners at which the subject was discussed with 
much warmth and a memorial to the Bishop of London 
was agreed to, calling upon him to interpose his authority 
to puta stop to the practices complained of, their tendency 
being to drive from the church its most constant attend- 
ants. The Bishop in reply has forwarded to the memo- 
rialists a letter expressive of his sentiments upon the facts 
as detailed in the memorial. His lordship calls attention 
to the course indicated in his last visitation charge to the 
clergy of the diocese. In reference to the specific alle- 
gation of the introduction of novel forms, set forth in the 
memorial, his lordship is of opinion that the clergyman is 
not accountable, provided the service be performed in 
accordance with the Rubric. In such cases the congre- 
gation have no right to object to the introduction of these 
forms. If, however, the minister goes beyond the Rubric, 
he is open to censure. The prayer for the church 
militant, &c. should not be omitted, nor is the congre- 
gation entitled to object to it, The memorial averred 
that the minister had been in the habit of making the 
sign of the cross which had given great offence to con- 
scientious Protestants ; that he usually read the Litany 
_with his face towards the Communion-table, having his 
back towards the congregation ; and that he knelt while 
placing alms on the table during the offertory-service. 
‘These matters call forth the bisbop’s censure upon the 
curate by whom they were performed, and the incumbent 
is condemned for having permitted the continuance of 
such irregularities unrebuked. In reference to a parti- 
cular sermon preached in the parish church, which, as the 
memorialists alleged, maintained the doctrines of transub- 
stantiation, his lordship considers that the sermon referred 
to does not admit of that construction to the extent which 
the memorialists had put uponit, The letter, which is of 
very great length, concludes by enjoining harmony betwixt 
ministers and their flocks as the surest way to the pro- 
motion of piety and sound religion. 
Liverpool.—On Friday two females named Scholes and 
Craig, with Andrew Craig the husband of the latter, and 
Jobn Neil were brought before the magistrates, charged 
with being engaged in extensive swindling. They were 
discovered by means of an application to Lord Newry 
purporting to be from Caroline Stephens and inclosing a 
forged certificate from Lord Downshire, which led to the 
detection of the writer. The police had traced the parties 
and seized a quantity of books and papers which showed 
such a system of fraud and deception on the part of the 
prisoners as has rarely been equalled. From these docu- 
ments it appeared that the ramifications of the gang 
extended far and wide, comprising all the principal towns 
and cities in England, Ireland, and Scotland. Letters 
and documents bearing the names of the peers, bishops, 
and of the most wealthy and influential persons in the dif- 
ferent localities in which they had practised their frauds, 
were found amongst these papers, and if but a tithe of 
the sums there stated were given, it proves that they must 
have long practised a successful course of villany. Some 
of the papers seized related to Liverpool, Manchester, and 
various places in Cheshire. In these towns lists of wealthy 
individuals, particularly those having the character of 
being benevolent, were noted down to be called upon and 
ictimised, and ci ti the most minute were 
pointed out regarding them. Their hours of attendance, 
the general disposition of the parties applied to—whether 
liberal or otherwise—were carefully noted. The forged 
documents seized formed acatalogue unparalleled in fraud, 
for it appeared by these that they had carried on their 
depredations in Cheltenham, Birmingham, Leamington, 
Nottingham, Sheffield, and Newcastle in this country, 
and bad also practised to a great extent in Ireland. Jn 
Scotland their operations had extended to most of the 
counties and towns therein, comprising Berwick, Had- 
dingtonshire, Roxburghshire, Dumfries-shire, Kirkeud- 
brightshire, Fifeshire, and Forfarshire. In all these dis- 
tricts the prisoners have, according to the papers seized, 
been carrying on the most perfect system of deception that 
can well be imagined. ‘The magistrate after hearing the 
evidence expressed his determination to put down such 
fraudulent attempts on the public, and remanded the pri. 
soners for further inquiry. 
Manchester—Up to Friday night the total amount 
subscribed in Manchester to the League Fund was 
17,902. Inaddition to this, 1,665/. was subscribed in 
Rochdale from Tuesday to Thursday evening, makin 
altogether, with the 1,1502. contributed by Rochdale at 
the late Manchester meeting, no less than 2,825/. from 
that town. 
Northampton.—At the mayor’s dinner in this town on 
Tuesday week, after several toasts had been given, that 
of Earl Spencer was proposed and received with such 
enthusiasm that for full 20 minutes his lordship was upon 
his legs before quiet was sufficiently restored to enable 
him to speak. After dwelling on local affairs for some 
time, his lordship proceeded to express his views of 
general politics as follows :—‘ My attention has not been 
sufficiently called to political questions to enable me to 
give you any useful explanation of my opinions. I can 
only say generally with respect to free trade, that neither 
of your worthy members is a stronger advocate of it than 
Iam. The only time I addressed the House of Lords on 
the subject what I said was to the same effect. I am 
anxious not to be misunderstood on this point. Iam a 
landed proprietor and an occupier of land, and I have 
no other means of subsistence. If I were to say thet I 
desired a repeal of the Corn-laws, believing at the same 
time that it would destroy the landed interest, you might 
say that I was a very honest man, but you would certainly 
not say I wasa wise one. But J believe no such thing. 
I quite agree with what Mr. Currie has said. I believe 
that this is a question of the most essential importance to 
the welfare of the empire at large. But I do not believe 
that the repeal of the Corn-laws would tend materially to 
lower the price of corn. I believe it would raise the 
wages and increase the employment of the people. Thus, 
although it would not lower the price of corn, it would 
bring increased means of buying it. I believe, too, that 
it would be followed by a great increase in the price of 
corn on the Continent, and the effect of this would be 
that our manufacturers would be enabled better to com- 
pete with the manufacturers on the Continent. With 
respect to the objection that foreigners will not take our 
manufactures in exchange, as Mr. Currie has said, if we 
have their corn they must be paid for it, and if they are 
to be paid for it I know of only one way of paying them 
directly or indirectly, and that is by the industry of the 
people. I set little value on reciprocity treaties. If we 
take from the foreigner corn, we must pay for it with our 
manufactures, if not directly, indirectly ; and the effect 
of such a trade must be to raise the continental price of 
corn to our level, not to reduce ours to theirs.” The noble 
earl concluded by saying that they would well understand 
why he, declaring himself an advocate of the total repeal 
of the Corn-laws, was anxious not to be misunderstood. 
He should be sorry, indeed, if such a change should in- 
volve the ruin of those with whom he was now associated, 
the agriculturists, but he had no such belief. He believed, 
on the contrary, that it would be for their benefit as well 
as for the benefit of the country at large. His lordship 
sat down amidst repeated rounds of the heartiest cheering. 
Windsor.—A field of between 100 and 200 were present 
at the meet on Monday last, which took place at Maiden- 
head. The celebrated Scotch deer, Highlander, which has 
heretofore afforded such excellent sport, upon being 
uncarted on Maidenhead Thicket, went away across the 
thicket to the Great Western Railway, where it ran along 
the up line towards Reading for upwards of a mile anda 
half. The hounds followed in hot pursuit, having got 
upon the railway before the huntsmen and whippers-in 
had got up to call them off. When between a deep cutting, 
an up-train, proceeding at the rate of thirty miles an hour, 
appeared in sight. At this moment the destruction of the 
whole pack (the hounds still proceeding downwards on the 
up-line) appeared inevitable. The stag made for the banks 
of the cutting as soon as it saw the approach of the train, 
and thus got out of harm’s way. Jot so, however, the 
hounds, who still pursued their dangerous career along the 
line. Fortunately, however, when the train had advanced 
within Jess than 100 yards of them, and when every one 
expected that in another second or two the whole would 
have been sacrificed, the pack passed over to the down- 
line of rails, and thus fortunately escaped. The feelings 
of all who witnessed the danger of the royal pack and 
their extremely lucky escape, were, as may be imagined, 
greatly excited. From the railway the deer ran back 
towards Reading, and after a run of two hours and three- 
quarters over 30 miles of country was taken in the tap- 
room of a public-house. 
Railways.—The following are the returns for the past 
week :—Birmingham and Derby, 1265/.; Birmingham 
and Gloucester, 1537/.; Eastern Counties, 2118/.; Edin- 
burgh and Glasgow, 1923/.; Great Western, 11,2077. ; 
Grand Junction, 6393/.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 
12012. ; Great North of England, 13417. ; Hull and Selby, 
33/.; London and Birmingham, 13,3727.; Blackwall, 
South Western, 45587. ; Greenwich, 677/.; Brighton, 
and Carlisle, 1378/. ; 
York and North Midland, 13847. ; South Eastern and 
Dover, 2665/.—The works on the Newcastle and Darling- 
ton line, which is to connect the Great North of England 
Railway with Newcastle, are proceeding with a spirit that 
promises the successful completion of the undertaking at 
a considerably earlier period than the public had been 
led to anticipate. The works in the neighbourhood of 
Durham are in a state of great forwardness, and it is sup- 
posed that the whole line will be finished early in the 
ensuing year.—A fine of 5000/. was lately imposed by the 
Court of Queen’s Bench upon Mr. Scott, one of the offi- 
cers of the Leeds and Manchester Company, for blocking 
up the highway at Rastrick, near Halifax; but it is under- 
stood that this judgment is intended only to quicken the 
movements of that body, and that if the impediment be 
removed on or before the 10th day of Easter Term, neither 
that fine nor the fines of 202. each upon the other defend- 
ants will be enforced.—On the North Midland line a large 
carriage has been fitted up for the accommodation of 
smokers. It is termed the ‘‘divan,’”’ and first-class fare 
is paid for the convenience.—It has been currently stated 
in the city that the Dover Company have made proposals 
to the Brighton and Croydon Companies with the view of 
negotiation for the former company to lease the lines of 
the last-named companies, the terms to be mutually 
settled by the respective boards of directors. 
IRELAND. 
Dublin.—An express appeared in the Times of Satur- 
day, announcing an important seizure of arms in this city. 
It appears that the superintendent of the detective force, 
having received information that there was a cask on 
tlereagh, and believed that the same game was intended 
to be played in 1843. i 
O'Connell had declared at the great meeting at the 
Abbey-street Theatre, that but for his accidental pre- 
sence in Dublin, Clontarf would have become a scene 0 
havoc and bloodshed which would have spread through 
Treland in twenty-four hours. O’Connell’s motto was 
that ‘whoever committed a crime strengthened the 
enemy,” and those words of the great moral regenerator 
he, as his head pacificator, now repeated, while he de- 
clared that though a poor man he would not change his 
present position for the brightest diadem in Europe. Her 
Majesty’s Attorney-General in Treland had attempted to 
prejudice the minds of the Jury before whom they were 
to be tried, but whatever might be the effect of such an 
attempt, should O’Connell even by any human possibility 
be sent to prison, it would be the duty of the people then 
to become doubly tranquil, for then would O’Connell be 
doubly terrible to his enemies— ay, more terrible even than 
while inhaling the air of his native mountains. O'Connell 
was the sole though sceptreless monarch who reigned in 
the hearts of the Irish people; and if he were imprisoned 
he might say to Earl De Grey in the words of Manfred, 
«Thou worm whom I obey I scorn.’’ Mr. J. O'Connell 
addressed the meeting on the subject of the system of 
Ribandism, which he regretted to say was notwithstanding 
the repeated d iations of the Association, still spread- 
ing in the neighbourhood of Dundalk. Mr, Barrett 0 
the Pilot made some observations on the same subject, 
and referring to the Finnoe murders, expressed his con- 
viction that the real perpetrators of the crime would be 
found to be neither Roman Catholics nor Repealers. ‘The 
rent for the week was announced to be 9940, 11s. 5d.—The 
Earl of Devon arrived in Dublin on Monday, and com= 
menced his duties as chairman of the Landlord and Tenant 
Commission.—On Friday town-councillor O’Brien was 
elected Lord Mayor for the ensuing year without opp?” 
sition. He is a thorough Repealer, and was proposed by 
Mr. O’Connell and seconded by Mr. M?’Clelland.—The 
Penelope steam-frigate has arrived in Kingstown harbout 
loaded almost to the water's edge with large gun-boals 
They are intended for the Upper Shannon and the large 
lakes formed by that river in its progress towards the 
lower branch. A considerable number of persons wel® 
collected on the banks of the canal to see them towed t0 
Portobello from the basin at Ringsend. They are immense 
boats with great beam, capable of carrying two guns and 
a large body of men ; are doubled banked and each pulled 
by twelve rowers.—Sir George Back and Capt. Fair, the 
Commissioners appointed to report on the comparative 
merits of Holyhead and Port Dynllaen Harbours, have 
sent in their report to the Admiralty, in which they state 
their ‘‘ unqualified opinion that both as to capability 8? 
position, Holyhead is unquestionably the most eligible 
harbour on the coast as a port of communication ey 
Dublin.””—The Rev. Peter James Tyrrell, parish-priest 
Lusk, and one of the nine persons implicated in the pe 
ing state prosecutions, died on Monday night after & abe 
attack of erysipelas. The Rev. Gentleman was it 18 eal 
greatly beloved by his parishioners, and did not un i 
recently mix himself up with the various political arnt 
tions which have lately agitated this country. He call 
cold during his exertions to prevent the meeting at C 1y 
tarf, after the proclamation was issued, and never entire 
recovered from the effects. th 
Tipperary.—At a meeting of the gentry of the nen 
Riding of Tipperary, held on the 29th ult., at Borrisokan’? 
the following resolutions were adopted :—" Resolve’ ri 
That we contemplate, with feelings of the deepest Miss 
and regret, the savage and unparalleled murder © | an 
Vereker and Thomas Waller, Esq., and the bruta 12th 
barbarous attack on his family, at Finnoe, on the 
inst. 3 and we hereby tender the expression of 
liest sympathy to the members of that family. 
frequency and brutality of such crimes compel Us 
with great alarm upon the danger that evidently 
upon usin the present state of the county. | 
the most anxious consideration, we have artty By 
conviction that this outrage is connected with, anised 
roof of, a widely-extended, secret, and. Se county: 
conspiracy against law, life, and property in this only 
That while, on the part of the landlords of the Je aa 
we rejoice at the pending commission of inqUIrY» 1” 4. in 
deny emphatically that their conduct has been are A 
any manner to palliate or justify the crimes 80 60 
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