854 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[N° 52. 
subsisting between himself and the 
and fr rom the fa at that he pace the “formation given | 
by tas gentle- 
man 0 in eee, with Govern a * nd 
distinet tone of his proposals was regarded as afford 
ing clear indications of what may expected from the 
without profit, Mr. Greg wi, that, with the exception of 
one year, his mills had neve 
} pobicy state they are now in, arising from ha length. 
ned inundations, doubts are entertain ed whether i . ee 
f those aa which have sonnet the 
or provided any fund for lepreci jation of machin 
Mr. Alderman Brooks, however, stated that he pong no 
exception, for he could say that he had lost oney during 
every year since 1 fter os several 
utions were adopted, 
Mr. Christopher considered that the law should aim at | whi t similar meetings 
i e price of whgat as nearly as possible between | The first affirmed the general anger ge . aac and 
56s. and 65s. the quarter. This he pronounced to be | stated “ that the ‘ctongs district, of whie s town is 
the extent of protection which may be justly claimed as popes g e cotto 
necessary 8 - farmer’s well-being, and conceded with- its depe endencies, i is vip ara vike a general 
out unfairn othe rest of the community. And a depression, ee duration of whi ch has no parallel i in the 
or caine riike _ he proposed to secure, by affix ing history of Lancashire. _ That 
imum duty of 5s. per quarter on wheat, 
_— amount to or exceed the sum of 65s. ; and ae both employer and pc is agen deteriorated ; — 
as prices decrease, increasing the duty (at what rere fixed capital, such as buildings, machine ery , &c, has s depre- 
ote ve did not mention) till it arrives at it xi half ‘that capitalists, 
mum of at least 20s., or at _ wt _ Christopher, y, havi e long ceased to obtain a return 
a bod 
for their inv eotments 
y 
s have determined to plough up the land and eh 
it in rig spring ng 
ee —A 
was att 
aising 
rifled his paras of 122. with «hich they pats off. "The 
spot where: this a pe. teok ye is only a few yards 
from the village, and at the same time several persons were 
a h 
profitable 
howev sp pro} posed to pr e principle of a that a agi gts and insolvency 
ee scale, and declared himself uae? ‘opposed to have — ine mia that  shopkee pers have 
any alteration of vas peter of the Corn-laws, to whic 
e co d that the important fact was t ‘ea referred, | has been gene rally dimininished ; that great A sap of 
that from 1816 to 1838 the price of wheat has varied less | skilful and sa workmen are either wholly or par- 
in any other country exce Fdendon tially unemployed ; that pauperism has been marae aug- 
and v very considerably less papas in any of those countries | mented, and disease, crime, and mortality have m 
and cities which he quoted, except St. Petersburgh and | fearful inroads amongst the poorer classes of the com- 
perhaps Trieste.” munity. That all these evils are d at th 
tin —During the last week, a fraud to the geomet sent ‘moment with unm mitig ated severity, and that there i is 
of 1.3 
means sof forged checks upon a Belgian Bank. The iat 
in our last. The guilty a0 gt isa age named Ranyier, 
*” The subsequent resolutions ex- 
ting, ‘‘ that the ones 
s of this distre e885 
this — ‘commun ity. 
pressed the opinion of the mee 
and Corn- laws are the principal source 
between 35 and 40 years p 
paige ee this city since vs ¢ 4 ne nst., in order to emb: 
for A confederate of Ranyier sw 
Le 
to pean e to eds on Friday the Ith inst., and the 
poli w on the ale a : their 
owerer, e local papers 
re uns' 
state that the pionhents in this city fete ns at the pre- 
in the adjacent fie a ilking, one of whom seeing Mr, 
Gowland’s horse running loose down the road, ran after 
and caught it, supposing the rider r to have fallen by 
vere render ing 
No clue has ie ee discovered to the 
sbury.—A murder, wh 
excitement in the Se thant has been com 
oe E i 
mitted on 
an elderly woman, named ngs ng in the 
village of Chirk, five miles Oswestry, in this 
fi 
county. Deceas sed, it seems, kept a small shop. | and her 
She was supposed to have saved a con vaerable sum of 
money, and this is thought to have led to her murder, 
She had be@ seen by some customers wee she served 
foun 
of just government any law which gives to a privileg 
— a monopoly of rh in any sad but psi 
e first Sacseenn A 
Saas in 
her kitchen dead, with he er throat cu a aia ises 
_ ns everything valuable. als attac shee im two 
me med Jo ohn Wi lliams and Jos seph | Lawson, who ha d 
een 
in tl sangh is: etition, embodying 
h s adop | for presentation to Parlia- 
» praying eet ‘the subject may be take serious 
consideration.—A destructive fire occurred in this tow 
had visited a neighbouring public-house, where it was 
pn rey that they had with hoe: a bacige bundle. 
they had quitted the hou 
or ag omg ded of | eis, oengs 
made their escape. Th e bundle on being examined was 
sent moment a larger number of inm ans via val ever | on _Monday, which in a short time destroyed propert. : 
a before ; there being nearly 2,000 p of 30, 0000. one balding ahs it 
The ne ij k t dilly. chad 
slam ot oe Derbs is also said to that th the " p tchet 
inadequate to ue proper accommoda- and Jones. cand carriers. TI b hicl ig 
tion of the crowded in the buildi Th built by th db ld Lord F Egerton for 
pooyers ing. 
accounts add that the Poor Law Guardians have pur- 
£ Wivlk 
Y ,0002. ve was erected, for th 
St. ele ns-—The parties wh 
on suspicion of Ae aving been conceraad in the late | a 
wea 
dale, on — meer intend to erect a b 
of pauper boys 
this building shall be + complete, the children, two thirds of 
aildins g for 
girls ; pee that a. { 
e persons passing, sad the alarm being g given, sore 
engines were soon on pply of 
© was eo The pac of the flames, how 
of Mr. Gra 
amination ies the “magistrates. 
vidence taken by the 
Mie over, and a man 
Some eiditionl 
last meeting was 
named Colquitt, who = evidence 
ver, nahin 80 pid that = was no chance of saving the at the arer = while i in a sta ate of intox ication, was re-ex- 
dale from t the present workhouse, which bas become too ich w. were 0 of a very inflam mable | amined, and confir stated, viz. that 
nature principally ee 20,0002 value. stick, found near the gs 
into it—On Saturday, the wind having changed to ft ed co a¥ vith blood, was the same he had 
st, ab ne d been wind- a periitls an co some Paeues was also done to the sijoining ne possession of the prisoner c Jacques, the pee 
for a 60 of pro’ perty. The origin of the fire is not know ith cer- | be for e the uarder The i strates after a long delibe- 
foreign ports, loaded with British aa a for nearly | tainty t hes at- i on discharging three of the prisoners 
every commercial depot in the world. It is repo orted | of cotto ‘on, lying in the canal, over which the resshews —namely, _— Woods, Thom as Meadowcroft, and 
in this eity that. the , West. india Royal ‘Mail Steam | was te the boat being discovered on fire at the time | William Ja acques, on entering uate their own recognizances 
ity of Glasg th was given, The captain< of t the boat, his wife to The other three, viz. 
steamers , which are ro meno to ply between ‘stations in and my were all sleeping on Tsa aac Jacques, Robert nd Thomas Molyneux, 
the West Indies, in with their other steam- | sensible of their danger, ju om into the canal, and were | were remanded until the debiaibe of the was made 
ships. —A er ine a nama at St. Jude's. church in | got ashore. The captain was severely burnt while in the | known, Thi since been determined, the verdict une 
= sian ag five persons, ail of mature age, publicly Te ** Wilfal murder’ agai’ saac Jacques, t W. 
coer ie the Chere f Rome.—Lord Grenvi Bie 
water, by a quantity of joati ating wool, which was on fire, 
= remains in a da pore The 
s of the w 
ober 
8 
The prisoners all fenied oF 
and _Thomas 7” lyneux. 
mig by but were committed to take 
e crime, 
iva 
merset, commissioners for canning in! pe tion will, it is ex so “a impeded . it f ei 
the revenue, have ceived in this town, and have for pene seve a ral days.—Some = — has vi ict yr thi ‘is ~ ee “2 F ome days past workmen hav 
en sah et a eee se eid i: grag he oar by = announcement of the failure of the house of | employed in focminn a new private eon from Frogmor 
i po e | Taylor, Boggs, and Co., of ondon (Gardner, Boggs, and | Lodge d: reat Park, which, it is sald, wi 
ier ions, it is hoped wi will Sonaghy —* ss the kag ty at Liverpool), ae were — ngaged in the trade finished in the spring. The object a is page ee 
: and | to the ndies. s stated that the bl e Court, whenever they 
Excise, whieh, without jmaiee the collection of the | this firm oe “he coals of | 002... ¥ to shee rahe es ngs iae'gs ng subjected to the 
‘eescaele ne Nora part y in the landing | considerable proportion is aniags to parties in this town. | public gaze. The 1 pass by the building known as 
Bhath hire since on ecm — several failures in | The failure is ascri o the unprofitable state of the | the Old Hospital, and t! rough the fields, entering tl 
mportance, an d among a Gardner and Co af | Ree oh 0 Maths wend the loss 0 on produce imported, reat Park through sod sage gates.—It havin it 
this city, to a tibhenh ah +) in especially East India cotton, of which it seems that house | communicated to the Base oe Majesty wou! E= 
Maidstone.—The Paping sg fin: regia: _— stoppage | ceive the corporation o h at = 
ith ty all fi e fail wn, namely, | Wednesday, for the purpose at ‘resenting an ‘need o 
Maen FR Hobday oor Co., Gmc ae tulat’ Prince of Wales, the 
y h i re hee hart by wee 
sien ay aa . Smith, had, it seems, left for 
only our prerion sly to 
that of 
whe, * is said, are creditors of Messrs. Taylor, Boggs, 
eenan7 
9 ” 
the cvse of force has not yet been ascertained. 
it is reported, amount to about Pena Iti is, however, 
ion on the birth ithe 
bers a 
ton, proceeded on the afternoon of that da: 
Cas' le, 
and ee lpperg aan ~~ the Royal presence, the 
ter — A me etin ng o of deputies from the vari pon: ich h d for the occasion, ae 
OWNS. trict, of hich + likel ers! 
Ms wos enesy read by the Townclerk 5 a abies ges B seg ma 
on P rf the cee a : the Corn Ex- Norwich os Saturday t oe hous of Me, ers idge, a poo wie Sage ply: ‘I thank you for t al and datifel L 
hange, ich upwards of one thousand pers t f Lake: — near = y, was broken open address. ih grad to think é “ie earliest recol- 
t. e object of the as “to collect i i by tw It s f will be associated with the ancient 
gre an — beeen f fi ae i ti tof the and | residence of the corerigns of thi rap pal ont ree 
2 ie; the conditi population of | forcing it o ith ~bar. 2 rance of your attachmet 
pot vee > employer and operatioas the past mpl a = = por : se ise he eta neo : ouey eo a ” Address were after- 
wages} the numbers of u unemployed ; the ° 4 and the Duchess ¢ 
shop cape d two men a it  packin g upg A 
> duri 
oods, 
which Mr. Aldridge was 
the trade of the be hood, 
ai neighbour! and the sn 
meeting commence: m after 
o'clock, and, with the adjournment of an teak only fo 
dinner, Gght in the evening. The attendance of 
deputies was large, and the chair was taken by Mr. = ni 
, who a of meeting by gi 
a general survey of the state ‘of the cotton trade in ‘as 
and other ports: was then s iv 
ddressed by Mr. rs Kershaw, Mr. 
Holland, the Rev. Mr. Smith, the Rew. Mr, Waddington, 
and the Mayor of Stockpoi These» 
ke at considerable 1 th, made some. sting 
aie at ts rela m “ee «presentation of thi 
manufacturing distric' 
‘the masters. All the 
last five years tie minster 9 pyre 
wards presented to Prince Albert 
pater Ken ras which their Royal Highnesses severally Toph) 
knocked down and beaten ; he eee ever, Succeeded in and Cano ge egw go a attended at t 
fending himself, until his ‘eries brought the police to his Castle on the sam —, 
baer ie ta = addresses, ‘ek ber “Majes jesty rep n crepe 
magistrates the followi day, but acce t with articular pleasare is address W 
made no defence, and were committed to anus sales Gaus. . z tnde ta paar a for ~ 
ading.—Notwithstanding the frost, which has birth of the Prince, my son assured that it is my 
in within the last two or pee tins it plan ia jo ety 
siding of the waters, several vonieees of acres of wtes and moral virtue, and to Paved a on bis mind 
neue ia ter oats, ar 1 overflowed in | duty of transmitting to posterity on tigsous inaieuoa 
ire, and im many parts to a : th realms.’’ 
effects of the floods upon the land tonto Railways —The way Times gives the following @ 
sown will, it is , be very injurious to the interests recep of the pie jpal railways for the past wesk = 
ae Cie Depelte : ¢ breadth of wheat was | Blackwall, 540/ raingha 13,4114. 5 Great ee 
sown during the preceding the high lands ; 10,5342. ; Greene 3, 664%. 5 
but upon all those farms not so favourably situated, | mingham : “Midland Counties, 
searcely an acre has been planted ; and from the wet and | North vas easanos i 
