Ca rie -head, when the m 
co. ced. 
822 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[N™ 50, 
and heavy weather prevented from being placed o 
@estined site, is now on a slip in the ‘eset ie 
this port. As early i s the weather will 
permit, it will 
of the foundation will be 
‘The delay that “hai taken place is looked | 
as fo 
aha, 
winter weather bas voided, and th of the 
summer months wil re uit en for the mason ¥ re nsoli- 
date and settle before it. be exposed to the fores ‘of the 
autumn: 
gales. 
er by —A few nights since the fine mansion of Hather: 
sage Old Hall had a narrow escape from destruction by 
fire. Mr. Pera ey he proprietor, was from home, 
ances shorty ater midnight, by c fire 
disco very w de by a a neighbour abt at the t 
* hall ; and an alarm beng 
the 
given, phn assistance was afforded, and fire 
soon got under, though truction of ‘tie 
apartment. Iti is hres rod a ay this early discovery 
the whale mansi on ould hav n des estroye ed, and that 
py 3 genery the | t 
of the hall being built of oak, which, it is bapposed, for 
som: 
e tim isted the flames. 
Dev 0 Saturday the village of Lemme near 
this town, was much excited bya report that a young man, 
named Geo Stokes, had been Tnot by t man, 
5.3 
ov 
wn 
puty 
Taylor, and renting rane 100 acres of the e okes 
ged t to the gipsy re and had only lately ‘been ve 
resent at as arr 
a 
conveyed to the willbe | 
an l h lntion 
and being put together | 0 
teh ¢} lant? + 
1 that e latter 
. 
obec 
pact t of the  receedi 
lary was committed on Satur 
f Mr. J. Cotta eo of Fence Foot, in 
tes s br oken into and 
g, th ons were rg ‘ood } 
off. 
——— 
Four parties were apprehended on suspicion, who ate 
well known to the authorities as desperate characters and 
who long i nfested the neighbourhood, and been i 
prisoned repeatedly for various terms Nn inquest 
ee esday, when, ra lengt d inquiry, the 
best a answer red by adjournment, and he accordi: ingly be 
by six or seven me 
ttam ind his family, and tied them fast 
t i Ay succeeded in finding 
| and making off with mo the amount of 100/., viz., 
two 5/. Bank of Engitsd "ii, one 5/. Lancaster note, 
about 65/. in gold, and 202. in silver. 
é local paper ne ‘ag great distress at pre- 
sent prevails among the er classes in this to own, 
and that this is proved by. ‘the large and rapidly-i in- 
t the parochia al board in relief 
ti ee 
to the destitute. _ The 
wigs 
a 
a 
So 
&, 
aoe 
from 1839 to 1841 :—Payments in the mont - of “Nove em- 
839, 938/. 8s. ; ; as tag ,0157. 14 3 ditto 
1841, 1,2527. 13s. 1 ing an i oF 333 
per cent. in the Pietenk Med bend a relief sited in the 
corresponding mon nth of | 839. A ded, tha t during 
numeroiis and urgent t than at sitneat any former per iod ; 
and that the pressure has been gradually i aa for 
some time back, out-door labour having been ‘so scarce 
during the summer, that the overseers had to sive employ- 
usual number . able-bodied poor. 
Many ofthe working-clas ow out of employ, and a 
— number are only partially - eaikibed and this hav- 
ing continued for a long pr ge yer resources and credit, 
id, are exhauste ona 
t the severity of the 
Oxford. The approaching ‘lection of a Poetry Pro- 
mee 
_— at this University is li fikel ly 
r, which “bas alvendy 
wi 
Ty | Fa a” hineh % 
2 a Stokes nf ied saying ity ree better go home, an 
ed on, calling on New to follow him; upon ciieh 
tter said if he did not return he wou uld shoot him, 
and pimped presented his gun at him, not being 
og a yards distant, and shot him in the side 
rning round. ou arm rivet tbh 
ot ir, ciara 5 this, it ug 
eo gta a Sheer fatal. ” See was at Bice apprehended, 
ce been committed to prison, where he will 
Stok es be known. 
Se ter.—The recent weather has caused a general ris- 
ing of the waters in all parts of this ogee & 
A melan- 
choly Leary ty arising from this cause, took place a fe 
nights at Coleford, near Credit 7% te particulars of 
ge lows :— - H. A. Hughes, of Zeal 
ith his wife, son, and nt, were pro 
im an open carriage, but the rising of the 
= — the vehicle was 
Ving | 
servi y by the force of rrent, and the whole 
re mith the peattin of the eenlesan himself, were | 
wned i Mr. 
the ta general. Bove 0 tt’ 4 i state of the 
wo, Mr. 
cast 5 
stated ‘by ~ head of his patie who brings hi im forw ard, 
to be deep 
hose . his having filled on 
office of exami mel master at - Univers sity, and ir Ho 
ppo nted. to pre the Bampton Lectures. 
poaeves, that me | frente of these aoe isa a frend OF, 
least al and s stated 
in the Communication of Religious Knowledge, which ap- 
peared in the ‘Tracts for the Times,’’ and is charged 
with the . ee “ the writiggs of that divi 
Hence a strong opposition has been ‘raised against 
return, rite the aan, ‘which i is looked. parte to with 
considerable i interest, is expected to be vigorously and 
ely ¢ ed. 
Reading. accident occurred a few days age 
rar fat 
during the heavy floods to Mr. ieee powui-keeper at 
Whitchurch pou und-} ock. It appears he left his hou se in 
next, 
Sulton. —About three 
$ 
gines were soon on the spot, and reudeaeil ‘fectal pring 
ance ; notw ihstonding ber = ‘on wey ie three valua 
wheat stacks, sta ee wert 
sumed d he los hr 
ated at mare 30 hor This, it seems, is the third tinie 
within a year that Mr. Chamber, rs’s stacks have been fired, 
Walsall—An old man, upwards v7 70 years of age 
named Adams, residing near the Aobein was mu rdered 
3 a party of bur Deceased, it 
ems, ie a: i 
through the ro vot of al low bre Whous Se 5 but the noite they 
ae 
beard 
oman say Po in n the ndjeining premise: 
and by calling out to a 
Aw 
the e noise and saw the 
caused them to run off, Ted fog 
by their violence that he died the piprteoes day. They 
Med apa: booty, rd 
were, it appears, disappointed of the 
ceased iaat oe ee a a reine j 10%. in the bank on 
the previo 
into edbtody on sus 
mises a pistol corteepoig with one whieh the Pia 
York.—At the ree Bsns meeting of the boatd of 
guardians of the feb aw union in this city, the attend- 
ance was muc’ ore  iulierdiis than usual, owing to its 
ar Ass sta aoa that the pe en A ia pr ctin * the 
ew workhouse would c - 
‘oor 
w workhousé, and 
into effect be deferred till the 24th Feb. 
board an opportunity - ee wing the intentions of Go- 
he “a he New Poor-law. Mr. Bell 
ment, the effect of which Wad to resist 
boar jans should have secured to them b 
the right of administering relief ‘at their own discretion, 
without the interference of f the , ae a aa 
After i endm carried 
by a large majority. 
_ Railways. —Many of the railroads bave suffered greatly 
- SAItis added, that the life o Hughes is de- 
f, _ fpr jock he has received. 
—On Saturd écident, resulting from 
ie req ap? reprehensible pra ice of playing with 
fire-arms, occ ais A young man, in the 
employment oat ne ee Bell-street, had a 
near the Fetry-boat pooner oom tet where he landed, a 
wha t be 
ni bridge, hi in 
se of the Sirti of ‘the Stream, struck ngsost 
double-barrelled wf peer, on y his who had | after obtaining 
 sigecar discharged one barrel, Siig meeuse loaded. 
oung man eo ee g that it in not loaded, went 
into coir ga 2 and apace gh to the cook to fright 
i J, 
cap which be obtained A ihite. “He acco rdingly did so, and 
as the git ahah he room “a ber elled the gun at her, 
iad the w tents ed the back part of her 
head. t porns A coroner’s in- 
th?’ 
with a Verdict of “ Accidental dea’ 
a publi re meeting, convened by the 
by about so Pepe 
and immediately turned over a went dow: 
H carried down below the bridge, and grasp ia 
bough df & ti a tree oteab aii the river, but - ticks with 
pan weight; — = wne ed. His wife, it is said, wit- 
ern _cotinties, the -embatikihents in some places being 
bins ay tiper of Corsham were alarmed on Monda 
ng by a report t that the Great Western Railway oa 
but on inquiry this was pie to be incorrect. It 
however, that on oe ening, in consequence of th 
quantity of rain, the w to rise in the Firfiord 
d bet line presented one hone of 
water extending peri ft a mile in length, and more re- 
sembling a canal than a tailwa ray = Every precation w 
ty trains. When the waters 
ber 
ti Spd brage, but from the Arie state of the stream, 
abated, men were aon to remove “ih tim 
no 
aon 
which the strea m had car ried ated ae an engine con- 
to Keep th e tails élear—an nd 
onday 
gus 
rene | the line 
7 
slip of 
ate =A titi 
ta yore in — city, wheat 
nay, 
was hed in the Gs scope for 
higee bid 
Lrg iting 
way, hie oh  dethitied the fraiha 
Railw soli i 
a of the wetness of the season, and 
‘Z nl 
purpose | by the demise of Mr. Ralph Banks. = porns Walmsley, ghseaaet? 
On tu ropriety of “pollaeioe ot Cambridge, ey s chosen b — the dean and chapter to de- te of the soil, the directors have resolved . sdxcontine 
mine tile t mer of the various a at 4 rte 
7 tion T this ripen in the House of Common ‘ons, with a contest, au jebce, Mra lopli, the present. The calculatio of ‘ae ae 
peg pF omen aia ig hall was densely crowded of ‘Westminster peregee weekly returns of 34 peri Ae 1 232 miles in length given 
ieihata fo pee oe eae ee ; ne y chair, asa sub-| Sevenoaks.—Mr. Booth, ae ae Par of Sundridge, | in = Railway Magazine :—Nutaber of passengers om 
iis en chief magistrate, Mr. Pack presented him-| had i “andi ience on Wednesday qe appointment, with the 20 railways, ashi consequently the total for the week 
e meeting, for t pladogee bigs a a Series Poor- Jaw Commissioners, when must ie above 400,000, he receipts passengers 02 
ee ~ erg: with whi ich he mar He said to the S 34 railwa gry 47,5140. ater tral mart Tis 
apie the feelings noticed r last, on the hea of the abru t termina- ways, 17,110/. 13s. 6d. : total, 64,6241. . Sd. This 1s 
big : ag er towards the ite for th the pusillani- | tion of eh Tbebiigabion, and the ‘ an average of 52. ~ 10s s., per mile per week. The —_ 
Ret € evinced in not coming forward, asa professing | the inquiry had be en conduc ted. In reply the commis. there t b Hs 
eformer — to take the chair 08 Such an occasion a year, a on carrying 15,000,000 passengers. 
t, and therefore i could not be € expected to give “ag REEAND. 
ropos- aa amet at resent, but the b cgend bs ho time, when 
regen snes to ibe oe first, or the By conse- | once they re ui ved th repaels ite th 2 the satipect ti to Dubli: s of congratulation continue to be 
fee ais the entire failure of the so-called — Be, consideration. forwarded from all part of the country to his Excellency 
: fine Vg hercaiale e Com elen' ‘8. ies murder, which has ponies great ex-| the Lord Lieutenant. Two have been p ented eres 
oe ths caiet , ame 0 committed | counties of Wicklow and gorge since last; i oe 
Seer sey trig: Say np esi ay Sige | try oe Se a i, ot 
A was essential to | who resi at int bout t d ber of the gentry 
0 coed: cel ae members of Parliament hand. ix Sota aaitere — aoe eo beer Majo ts the  raarees od @ With thedt addre: 
xotce of all male subjects oe a town on his usual business ; : and havi rt is Exc ellency bh ee re lied to it in the usual terms, 
per a sos i Cree Sour i ng chascore, Fé is nel oe . = plied nilam ebepoece EF 
<i pags i it! ist iderab! his per: Ss é whic ou have present » 
i sid be cpproved CoE of the princi E | son idee ie Set out for home. He waso after mid- hen 1 1 ‘find as of every different class and perstt oy 
resolutions, prinei ples ok ick ee Brineipl é “ps As for admittance at the ioe’ s : teed} gitlic- uniting ffering me assurances of their hearty aa 
eer ipa ens hay ave been long since ut was not seen after, until found at a place called | tion, I have indeed reason to hope that a course of polit 
TS Gals obesione oe if it had Git a man who saw him lying in the high- | whic be, = you have ae it, just, impor 
fetch ‘The pecker was bereeeeete supposed him to be asleep of intoxicated. Lit ra set frm, may be atended with «lem 
gral uproar a8 pS RET ep Pe pong Figen that he was dead, with | resul 7 said to be item of fave but, tbe rhe 
& =. Wh bean ‘omen ee BA rg Ratt regard to the stipendiary boy ana tid of 37, The num 
slic puch, tat Me 
cia | caeh couihty, x al 32, chil 
