Dec. 25.] 
THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
853 
and fand, to be applied in liquidation of dee creditors, 
ug 
inst individual pr ors,” rsd then deter- 
mined that the director: a rangements for 
meetin 
the meeting adjo 0) Tass, Jan. 11. n 
esday, th nual meeting of the members of tl the Spitel 
fields and Beth Green School Society was ag = 
Rt. Hon. S. Lushington, V.P., in th pg 
ing was numerously attended, and a gre Pee or 
laties siecle t. The So ociety’ s ‘superintendent 
read the rt, fi hich i stand- 
ing gre leavin had been made, sn new 
the fire continued for nearly 
Th; until bees Lech of the tailing was 
e ten head of cattle. _ The flames, however, had 
ut two Seneenk 
poun mds. * The 
ing over of the tar-k wore: 
fire, it is supposed, eiinsied by the boil- | 
ing a a its contents were encseting: Suspicion has 
attached to a iY ood . 
during the time of the fire ; but though diligent inquiries 
ce been 
him 
supposed that the cause of his 
Accidents and Inquests.—On Tue morning, Mr. | have been set on foot after him, he has not sin 
John Miller, Gann s Counsel, was ever | dead in his bed, | heard of, 
at his chambers, Stone-buildings, Lincoln’s-inn. r Barking.—We learn by the Essex Papers La MES 
Mi iller, it seems, was in perfect health the previous even- ago, a discovery of a singular kind was — in srt 
ing, when att higgplace nteri a 
his ‘servant, havi laced his coff his table, left him | the building ‘aff. rding searcely room for a nara 
tes night. On e found population = _ o- brow nd its vicinity, the rector, the 
n his bed, w with n hie clutbes © on, quite ‘ead, S is | Hon iddell, t 
aa: 
‘ee 
en and s 
schoels hed been opened, there were epesita of 6. ites 
n the parish without scho' ol accommodat 
children | Natural | To 5 eootenplok a it was found prema to cut away a 
Duri the p dea M. Claude Lechin e, t 
of schools, althougl aged 65, a eae notary of ers who, it seems, d wi 4 g a thick 
la greatly incressed pari at of Betbral- for | er ust of peer in which one of ‘the pill d 
tion had The 
green contained 74, 087 inhabitants, of whom 9,250 re- | 
a lar; 
arge ‘ succession’ due to him from the om Indi 
Ompany, to the amount of between 3,000,000/. and 
ears ago to give 
stone, they so a nest of : 
¢ 
| tou two of which were large, 
about , Seeming perfectly ray. and were area up a 
ut in a uw ~ el In removing _ e wooden 
skirting — wall ne r the e same spot, al e bat w 
so fou 
quired edu catio on; for which 2,000/. per annum was . | Co 
site, 4,000,0002. The investigation was a lengthened one, and 
model school continued to prosper, and there were ead lasted two re Ss. othing, however, on as to t 
» 392; girls, 17 erits of th claim in que stion. Fro ‘om the evidence it 
1 y ie "380; appeared 4 
ny 687. The oe oks—bo — 3 182 ‘ mi and a French ‘tnedical man, a friend. of pores stated 
170. The ages of the ciiren varied from to sixte him shortly 
ildre: nar weavers an being seized with an attack of vomiting of blood, rhe "efi 
nd otal artisans. 
mounted to 281i. mh 
ments to 2841. 10s » lea org 31,6 
These di curiosities 
B 
de ad. H } 
= same po as the weir 
f f t I Hl, it is said, to 
7 
Heater. of the heart. t-mortem examination was Che 
the Convict Ward—On Monday this | the a of eet jury. bois it was found that dnocuete bat has pen been aay behind the new skirting, and 
dhiitiad nt Meh the ha sactalies = _ rely in front deat th w as perfect tly 
of Newgate. Efforts had been made, hopes the back part arations made, 
tertained, by the friends of the para ie that the t he jury Sree a red accordingly. hichester nk meeting has been held in this city of 
ight be c ted; but on Saturday an i@timation lity ws the Metropolis—From the weekly state- | the creditors of Messrs. "Ridge and Co., bankers, 
received from the Secretary of the Home Department, teri the number of deaths from all causes, registered will be embered, stopped payment a short time since. 
that the law must take its course, p recent | in the week ending Saturday, the 11th inst., it appears | It was a preliminary meeting tor the choice of assign 
period tk ng th that there were—males, 366; females, 404. Weekly | and p f debts, and it appeared from a rough state 
the child day he ad- | average 1838-9-40—males, 475; females, ment ie to the commissioners that the engagements 
mi his was not true, alt! hrs he the same ackney.—This parish has a agein been of a | the bank were about 150, . to meet which there were 
time dec} that he neve e subse- contest on on the question of Chure aoe "the parishioners 54, assets, made up of items, including cash and 
quently admitted that being intoxicated, he struck the orate bills in the house, securities, and surplus for sepa- 
child with his fist, and so d the mortal injury ; and the The Reictberane aie rate 
he persisted in this statement to the last. The sheriff read his estinaste; and ssked fo r a fourpenny rate to meet | ‘Don aster. —The local papers inform us that a Pear- 
ked him whether it was true re i it, Mr. Offer moved that the estimate should be referred 
time, to which he replie was, and that his | back to the papery a 3 = the propos not be ion r-tree, and has | ‘naa! been an rye oi curiosity in the 
ve of spirit had been the means a placing ao in on granted; but ands, pow cmendment was | town, has lately b t stood in the garden ~ 
Latrerar earns He asserted that at the time he negati ya raat vd ee again t 65. poll was behind the bankingowse - ‘Mews. hee in “High 
be a intention to Bade , but that, as those “bat then demanded, which continued d street, from whence, onseque some building 
Tbe ode of death, he ‘acknowledged that he was lowing day, when wee result oe red to be, fo r the | alterations, it wa fou nd port ar rae it removed. 
jostly charged with the e mur rder, and was therefore liable | rate, 250 votes, from 6 persons; yore it, 173 votes, | The property formerly cnaatitened | part of the site of th 
he usual | from 132 persons. In July, yrodiyg two days’ poll, a a rate Priory of | Carmelites or White Fri riars, one of ma 
hour the led to th fold with the customary | was negatived by a majority of 1; g 
procession, he his appearance was the signal for a burst ha carried by a majority and which was sarrendered in the year 11538, In the year 
of cheat, hag with groans, from the assembled crowd. Sort <r n Monday three men, named Alder, Baie, 1641-2 Charles the First po ~ visit to this town, when it 
Ro bherie. robb rf = - Saturday discovered Scott, were brought before thie’ inaiehens at Croy- | is on that he dined at the Lady Curlingtord’s, to 
ha 1 rkhouse at Walworth. It an charged with felony, under the fo ‘ollowing cireum- whom e house thea and upon this cecasion 
ared, from a ratement ead by Mr. Herring, fee | stances. ‘ su to have kt this memoria tact x 
eving offi eceived aig sie in cop, had unlawfally rooted it: 0 destroyed a quantity of | visit. Most a a wood, as well as a drawing of the 
money, he paid’ away seen Tee the relief th out tee | oy nero and trees, to an unt sai Shs ; — — has been pre 
ky bag and having locke d tre gol ‘old wer: ser in an iron of parliament was wii clared to be f Gloucester —We 20 pena in our last the movements 
copper in a small tub near Penfold, who supporte ed the charge against the pion, pr place in it parts of, ‘the country, to get ~ 
his ‘aca, d Ro; sang d let a house at On Satu 
k. He 
doors, and left 
then crea fastened boy eer all th 
t by th s return in 
re in the : same state ‘he ha d le ft 
as 
present caahiohecst of the raral | police. 
h f Chip. 
Croydon, and there being some dis 
the tenant, the latter threatened oa eon would do some 
em 3 but 
20. in Reads was gon 
1 An inspector of 
for, an and made a fe ger 
nt | 
careful examination of the a Dut no 
to the property; and > ago ely. — removed 
paying any ri 
ping Sodbury, in this county, to consider the propriety of 
itioning for the di i f this body, it was re 
a Agapevig ft ih eee tier 
<P. 
all the furniture spe 
ho 
room in wae th t: 
ce of parto f the 
It appears that a Short time since a sim milar 
employed the defendants up and destroy every 
tree and shrub in the gaiden; eae premises were 
and Ro was unable to obtain possession 
nt.—On Mon med Wells 
the next Christmas ‘Gn arter ey 
of i until it was gitth ‘o him by 
scovered that defendants were the 
- trees, 
puni 
Mr. read the 
act of “perament waking the offence felony, 
agree en o be salootte sought for 
ald show that the prisoners had destroyed pro- 
ted al 
praying ngiatrates to discontinue the said pagal 
Ata vestry meeting h held | the 
it was 
appen 
in the Forest o! 
out of repair, some sulphurettec ed h ydrogen gas 
occupied 
pe vty m wa grea F 
and he should Age call > agp the 
commit One of the 
magistrates to 
Mr. Wells rewarded the lad for his 
the. eas dy hes pocket-book quite sa 
— ated, e to about 250/.—With 
honesty, and fi 
mo amounting, 
he last few 
und 
it 
by a man named Conroy, bis wife, and two lodge ers, who 
were all asleep in n bed. The ey were found in in the morning 
their 
magistrates inquired eng a s the time the | ll 
enancy 0 
of the party in 2 pos- 
three 
One of the lodgers, however, was found 
The 
of them roid 
Mr. 
tenant was at ae time in legal possession of ras pre 
eT? 
= 
A person, repre 
seating ‘ie to be the mttaer ti ‘ooitie oblate or 
gent , has called at the offices of the 
institutions, and presented a a purporting to be 
tne mp re oe igned by the p: i 
of the writer t 
and 
rea 
party 
a man betwee! 
rance of a gentleman’s gardener. 
the 
mises. The Bench — that as _ — the case, they 
ai d t ‘thi k the resent! 
ithough the nt cel ight be civilly liable for the 
Link 
others, it is said, are doing we 
Isle of Wig ht. —A local paper states that the 
which | the papers, ont © 
was copied into our last Number, mut oo celebrated 
had entirely dis- 
te rains, is not correct. It adds 
cee na be boost within the scope o 
question. In answer to Le ap from the tec defend. 
that = one of ‘he “cit is much shivered, and the sand. 
ants said they were employed by 
Se ok 
pay 
= acres; but that the cave still 
and were, 
laid out afresh, and they did not k gre were nese 
They - said "hat they aia emplo loyed to | oo 
t of se 
exists pe prin a oune fa cility of — than 
before, some parts of the gran nd archw way 2 t the — - 
the outside of th house. Mr. Penfo id said, 
bt and 
it is supposed, gare rise to the ‘report of its pact aie. 
they must _ known —" were doing wrong. 
said th at itw scandalou ns proceeding, but as aie aid 
_Knaresborough.— 
stance of the power of co 
euch The 
. € written in a fashionable — — = 
> are female, and are alls imilar, with the exception 
ree 
al paper relates the tse png 
e pe 
~ the charities imposed on. 
eo fire broke out in a ropery 
present oe they could not proceed any 
r? a 
— loc 
gular 
. A prep ‘etter, fet half-a-crown, ¥ 
ed by radesman in this toma, in 
9 
which the 
3 hal a eRe 
in the place ot which 
3 “a cs 
the matter. The defendants were then discharged. 
— News. 
Ambleside —A few nights since, the family of ¥ 
Herd, farmer, of Buh Close, Loughrigg. ‘near this s place, 
r 
Eincoln.—At a dinner given by the emeeioneats - 
ity, on Monday, to t ty member, Mr. R. fag 
ré.—On Monday 
igi to Mr, Wright at Poplar. — infam- 
mable nature of the — = ae premises, the fames 
Gpecad with great rapidity, oe 
the baihasegee’ on bares Th Hing-h hort! 
afterwards ignited, and burnt for some time the 
arrival of the engines. A good me ee 
the barn, situated about half a mile from 
to the fortuna’ tely arrived 
topher, that pt ree si specs ote sabi 
if the Corn-l which has men exes considera interes . 
by © LCorn-laws, which all 
them 
ever the seaaipmey aaa Mr. Herd with his servan: ts 
| hastened spot, and 
a 
