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THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



capacity of magistrate up the coast, to communicate to | 

 the natives the determination of the magistrates uot to 

 make nor sanction any attempts to take vengeance for 

 the lives of the settlers killed at Wairan, bat to leave 

 it to Government who would set according to the law. 

 Iflr. Spain had accordingly proceeded to Otaki and had 

 returned a few days previous to the date of the despatches. 

 It wa« understood that on his arrival at Waikanae, he 

 met with Rau pa/aha, who was endeavouring to persuade 

 the natives of that place to make common cause with him 

 against the settlen. The chief, however, continued firm 

 to bis first purpose, stating that he had always received 

 from the settlers just treatment, and would not engage 

 against them in a quarrel which noways concerned 1 

 self or his people. This friendly sentiment was confirmed 

 >>y the statements of Mr. Spain, who took great pains to 

 i: ress upon the whole body of natives that principle of 

 English law which forbids that the innocent should be 



unished with or for the guilty. At Otalv Mr. Spain met 



¥nt mui aud the other chiefs of the Ngati Raukawa tribe, 

 and received froui them positive assurances that they would 

 in no case be concerned in acts of oppression upon the 

 settlers but they unanimously stated their determination 

 to protect Rnupsraha at all hazards. — It was reported 



lit this chief had died since the affair at W'airau. During 

 the conflict in pressing op one of the lines cut by the sur- 

 veyors the stump of a manuka-bush pierced through his 

 right foot. From the accounts of the natives, which may 

 however be exaggerated, it would seem that mortification 

 commence! I that death speedily ensued. Meanwhile 

 the Inhabitants of Wi ! ngton petition Parliament for the 

 establishment of a military force in Cook's Straits, to pro- 

 tect them from the repotted aggressions of the aborigines, 

 who they say have the power at any time to massacre the 

 whole Hi »h | < ^potation — a consummat. on often threat- 



aed by Uauparaha, the chief eogaged in the late cala- 

 mitous affray. 



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CITY. 



Money Market, Friday. — Consols for the opening 

 closed at 97j| ; Three per Cents. Red., 97 j to 8 ; Three, 

 •ml- Half per Cents., Red., 1024 to |; Bank Stock, 

 1 \ to 5 J ; Exchequer Bilk 67 pro. 



.metropolis ana its Ficinfin. 



The Weather — During a great part of Sunday the 

 weather was as mild as that of a May-day, and the sun 

 shone out with great brilliancy; but towards evening a 

 gale sprang Bf which during the night increased almost 

 **> • burr llowed by a great deal of rain, nn.l 



between v t and nine a heavy fall of snow took place. 

 At one o'clock on Monday afternoon the atmosphere 

 again cleared up. and the sun shone out will tjenial 

 warmth. At midnisrbt on Tuesday the mercury having 

 descended t • and the wind bearing northerly, the frost 

 waa very severe, and increased in intensity towards morn- 

 Ing, at six o'clock the thermometer in* ttinjr. only '^0° 

 Inhr. A more severe night has seldom been felt, and its 

 •everity may he judged from the fact that most of the 

 onds and stilt waters in the neighbourhood of the metro- 

 polis were covered with ice upwards of half an inch in 

 thickness. The ornamental waters in the parks and Ken- 

 sington-gardens were covered with a coating of ice ; that 

 in St. JameaVpnrk, near the Ornithological Society's, 

 measured more than three-eighths o( an inch in thick- 

 ness. At the Humane Society's Receiving-house in 

 Hyde Park sctive preparations were made for their winter 

 campaign, while at many cutlers' shops the stock of skaits 

 were furbished up and displayed for sale. But in a brief 

 space of time the whole scene changed ; the mercury 

 rapidly rose, and at noon stood at 3(i° ; the wind veered 

 to the south-west, and the frost gave way. Before two 

 o'clock it thawed rapidly, and the streets became slippery 

 again, producing a marked contrast within 2 hours. The 

 thermometer has since continued higb, with a S.W, wind. 



Fires in the Metropolis — Mr. Braidwood, superin- 

 tendent of the fire brigade, last week made his annual 

 report to the directors of the principal insurance com- 

 panies. It states that the fires in 1843 as C spared with 

 the previous year have decreased by ; the average 

 however for the Ian 10 years shows an increase of n£ 

 The number of fires and alarms from January 1 to De- 

 cember 31, 1843, at which the engines of the establish- 

 ment have been called into operation, amounts to 901. 

 The fires by which premises were totally destroyed were 

 29. buildings considerably damaged 231, ditto slightly 

 489, chimnies 83, and false alarms 79; total, 901, Of 

 these. 2S0 occurred in private houses, chiefly caused by 

 bed and windoweurtains igniting through the neglect of 

 servants, 59 lodgiog-houses. GO licensed victuallers, '23 

 coffee-shops, 20 woollen and silk-mercem, 23 sale-shops, 

 20 cabinet-makers. 5 public buildings, 10 bakers, 7 lucifer- 

 nianufactones, and 3 on board ships. The chief causes of 

 tire are stated to have been carelessness of servants and 

 defects in stoves and flues. 



Fine A rtf.— Mr. Baity, the Academician, has just com- 

 pleted a model for a st e in mrrble of Sir Charles Met- 

 ceJfe, late Governor of Jamaica, and n.ur Govcrnor- 

 < >eral ol Canada, to be erected opposite the Senate 

 House in Spanish Town, Jamaica. The height is nine 

 feet and the costume military. A bust in marble of Sir 



Charles has likewise been commissioned for Calcutta 



The colossal statue in marble of Sir A. Cooper is receiving 

 its finish, and will be removed to its destination in S 

 Paul's in a few days. The site chosen is on the south 

 aide, between the monuments of Sir John Moore and 

 General Gillespie — Tlie statue of Nelson in Trafalgar- 



squart: is to undergo some slteration, the cable at the feet claim to respectability would offer themselves i« sJjfTZT 

 r.# #k- i,i»;~ik.;.., n n«M.,.H i Ar »..iin»M»w M !;.!;^ of a vacancy. The motion having been seconded ij? 



recriminatory conversation took place ; and after t? 

 remarks from the Rev. W. Curling, the minutes oftw 

 last meeting were disallowed by a considerable majorfe 

 It was alleged that several new votes had been madeu 

 swamp the opposition to the committee. 



1 1 unwell Asylum. — An Artesian well has been recess* 

 completed at the Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell, undertZ 

 superintendence of Mr. Baker, of Westminster-road, whi** 

 from the quantity and quality of the water, as well as tat 

 height to which the water rises, may be reckoned as oat 

 of the most powerful in the kingdom. The shaft to 

 depth of 31 feet is 10 feet in diameter, and thence ta i 



t 



Of the Admiral being considered to require greater solidity. 

 — The staircase of the Goldsmiths' Company has lately 

 been embellished by the addition of four statues in marble, 

 emblematical of the seasons, by Mr. Nixon. The last 

 of these, that of Autumn, was raised upon its pedestal a 

 few days since. There is some novelty in the treatment 

 of the figures, as all the four are represented as youths. 



Conference of Dissenters The Dissenting papers 



announce that a General ( lference of those who are 

 opposed to the union of church and state has been deter- 

 mined on. The proposal originated in the midland 

 counties, and has been acceded to at a meeting of leading 

 dissenters in the metropolis. 



Colonial Bank. — Oa Tuesday a meeting was held of 

 the shareholders of the Colonial Bank, when the half- 

 yearly report of the directors was laid before them. The 

 report proved far from encouraging. The bank has made 

 numerous bad debts and losses of various kinds in the 

 West In- s. It had been hoped that its affairs were not 

 quite so bad as was represented to be the case by some 

 of the propriet r* at a former meeting, but the reduction 

 of the ta i of the bank has been sufficiently large to in- 

 duce the board to suspend for the present the payment 

 of a dividend. The losses made by the bank in the West 

 Indies are now estimated at 1 IG.000/., independently of a 

 reserved fund of 40,000/., which will be applied to liquid- 

 ate a portion of them. The bank in the early stages of 

 its career paid a dividend of eight per csnt. per annum. 



Ml. I'ancras. — On Tuesday at the meeting of the 

 directors and guardians, Mr. Curtis one of the medical 

 officers of the north division of the parish submitted to 

 the board the alarming amount of fever prevailing in 

 certain portions of his district on account of insufficient 

 and improper drainage. He said that in Ferdinand-street 

 the want of drainage was so great that the water lay in 

 stagnant pools from which noxious and dangerous effluvia 

 arose, and the result was that there were no less than 13 

 houses in that street alone infected with fever. He had 

 been applied to by some of the inhabitants and had given 

 a Certificate as to the dangerous state of the locality through 

 want of proper drainage, which was about to be laid before 

 the poor-law commissioners. The churchwarden said 

 that Kentish-town possessed a local act and the commis- 

 sioners were bound by act of Parliament to carry out, 

 throughout the district, a proper drainage. It was ultim- 

 ately resolved that the clerk should forthwith call the 

 attention of the Kentish-town commissioners to the state 

 of drainage in the district. 



Christinas Holidays. — The number of visitors to the 

 British Museum during the late holiday week was 41,151, 

 being on Tuesday 18.377, Wednesday 13,281, Thursday 

 1,683, and Friday 7,810. The number who passed through 

 the Thames Tunnel last week was 37,114. The number 

 of visitors to the Tower during the week was, to the 

 armouries 911, to the jewel office 711. 



The Oasller Liberation Fund. — On Thursday a meet- 

 ing of the committee appointed to take into consideration 

 the best means of effecting the release of Mr.Oastler from 

 prison, where he has been confined for three years, and 

 for providing for his future comfort, was held, when com- 

 munications were received from the central committee of 

 the West Riding, at Hudderaneld, stating their strong 

 convictions that energy and exertion on the part of the 

 several localities, and at the centre of action, was alone 

 now necessary to the consummation of their object 

 44 within the space of a few short weeks." It was further 

 stated that the London committee were progressing favour- 

 ably with regard to the collection of the necessary funds, 

 and that amongst the subscriptions received was 50/. from 

 Mr. M. Atwood, M.P. 



Asylum for Female Orphans. — On Thursday a quarterly 

 court of the governors of this institution was held, and as 

 some important business relative to the recent contest for 

 the chuphinship was likely to be broughfunder considera- 

 tion, an unusual number of guardians attended. It appears 

 that some weeks since the office of chaplain became vacant, 

 when many clergymen announced their intention of becom- 

 ing candidates. The committee inserted an advertisement 

 in the morning papers, calling upon the guardians to vote 

 for the Rev. S. R. Cattley. Immediately on this announce- 

 ment being made, all the candidates resigned, fearing that 

 they had no chance of success, with the exception 

 of the Rev. W. Curling, who was d rmined to try 

 the result. At the close of the day's proceedings, 

 Mr. Curling's friends proposed a vote of censure on the 

 committee for their interference. The resolution was put 

 to the meeting-, and carried almost unanimously. The 

 object the committee had in view at the meeting on 

 Thursday was to prevent the confirmation of this vote. 

 Mr. Shadbolt took the chair, and offered a few prelimi- 

 minary remarks ; after which Mr. Clarke rose to move 

 that the minutes of the Inst meeting, at which the vote of 

 censure was implied, should be confirmed. It had gone 

 forth to the world, and certainly not without some sem- 

 blance of truth, that no candidate had any chance of elec- 

 tion to any office in their institution, who failed to obtain 

 the patronage of the committee, and that so long as that 

 patronage was allowed to continue, efficient men would 

 never be obtained. At the election of chaplain he had 

 nominated the Rev. S. Bridge curate of St. Mary's, Is- 

 lington. From the time Mr. Bridge was proposed he 

 had endured a system of persecution totally unworthy of 

 the committee of such an institution, and exceedingly 

 repulsive to the feelings of any gentleman against whom 

 it was directed. When the committee so far forgot 

 themselves as to circulate printed hand-bills reflecting 

 upon a clergyman whose character was above suspicion, 

 in order that they might secure the election of their own 

 nominee, they could not expect that any persons with any 



further depth of 200 feet is 6 feet in diameter, making 

 feet. At that point a 6mall auger was driven below 



a sand stratum strongly charged with water, through whickl 

 it was found necessary to force cast-iron cylinders into tie 

 clay beneath, a depth of 12 feet. At the depth of 243 fcg I 

 a guide-rope was inserted and secured with brickwork, 

 and the boring commenced with pipes of 14 inches internti 

 diameter, which are carried down into the flints immefr 

 ately overlaying the chalk a depth of 290 feet, whence ta* f 

 water now rises and overflows the surface at the ratio of 

 100 gallons per minute, and at 26 feet above the surftta I 

 at the ratio of 23 gallons per minute. The temper&tiji 

 of the water as it overflows the surface is 55° Fahr. | 



St. Stephen's, Walbrook — On Wednesday the parish- 

 ioners met pursuant to the adjournment of the loth Nor. 

 Mr. Cunliffe the banker presided. The vestry clerk 'i 

 representative was called on to produce the minutes of tW 

 select vestry held on the 22d ult., from which tat 

 parishioners were excluded by Alderman Gibbs, when ,: 

 appeared that no record of that meeting had been entered I 

 on the vestry-book, and that the only minutes of it wett 

 now in the possession of Alderman Gibbs. The Rev. Dr. 

 Croly addressed the meeting at great length, describiaf 

 what had occurred in the select vestry, and censuring with 

 great severity the whole conduct of Alderman Gibbs, not 

 only in withholding his accounts, but in besieging tss 

 church-doors by a party of police officers. He stated that 

 he had been offered the inspection of the accounts on the 

 day of the recent meeting, but feeling it impossible t» 

 examine the accounts of ID years in three hours, he hii 

 declined the task ; and the only proposal made to the 

 chair was simply that the accounts be printed, t» 

 which he of course acceded. He would mention to tst 

 parishioners a circumstance which finally stamped ha 

 judgment of Mr. Alderman Gibbs, but of which he hsi 

 not spoken publicly before. Iu the course of the* 

 transactions he once was asked whether he knew that 

 there was an old legacy of a guinea a-year to be paid to 

 the rector of Walbrook for preachinpr a Good Friday 

 sermon ? He had never heard of it. However, meeting 

 the Alderman some time after, and almost ashamed to 

 speak of such a trifle, he inquired whether the bequest 

 really existed ? * 4 Oh, yes," said he, 44 it does ; butyoa 

 aud I settled that long ago over a chop." Now not 

 comprehending this settlement and feeling that he coali 

 not have settled a thing of which he did not know the 

 existence, he sent his collector to the Alderman, who then 

 paid the eight guineas — a guinea for every year of his 

 incumbency. Mr. Rock stated that a deputation has 

 waited on Archdeacon Hale to know whether he had gives 

 authority for the exclusion of the parishioners from tss 

 church on the 22d ult., that the Archdeacon stated he hid 

 been informed that a select vestry existed in Walbrook, 

 and being asked whether it had the power of preventinf 

 others from intruding, gave it as his opinion that " anf 

 body of men meeting for the discharge of their peculiif 

 duties had the power of so doing." This was evidently 

 no authority for excluding the parishioners from the I 

 church, nor did the Archdeacon intend it as such. Since 

 then Mr. Alderman Gibbs had been a suppliant at Mr. 

 Rock's feet, apologising for his conduct, and asking for 

 further time to file his answer in the Court of Chancery. 

 Should he give it ? (Several voices, * 4 No, no.") Then 

 he would not give one second, and if the answer was not 

 filed, there was no other alternative but the Queen* 

 Bench. It was then resolved unanimously, ** That tbt 

 payment of the Is. and Is. 6d. rate, lately levied by the I 

 select vestry, be resisted until the accounts of Ahiermsa 

 Gibbs were produced." I 



The late Duel.— On Wednesday the sale of I 

 Munro's effects, which was prevented a fortnight since bf I 

 the Coroner, commenced and concluded without interrop- I 

 tion. Mr. Wakley did not make his appearauce. 



The Gas Companies. — On Thursday evening the •* 

 journed meeting, which was convened in pursuance of a re* 

 quisition presented to the churchwardens, to take into con- 

 sideration the present mode of supplying the public wita 

 gas, and to devise if practicable some mode of establish^ 

 a standard of purity and measure for the same, toe* 

 place in-, the vestry-room of St. Martin's-in-the-nelo* 

 Dr. Jones was called to the chair, and stated that one" 

 the principal grievances which not only the householder* 

 of that parish laboured under, but every consumer of fP 

 throughout the United Kingdom, was, that great partialitf 

 existed in its supply, those who burn by meter having-* 

 pay much more than those who are supplied by contra*** 

 He maintained that all alike should burn by measure, * n * 

 that such measure should be regulated by some gofer** 

 ment enactment, like that which now kept in check ta« 

 fraudulent tradesman from using other than authorise* 

 weights and measures. So far as regarded the g 8 *" 

 meters ai. present in use, nearly all, if not ail, were defi- 

 cient ; and what was the course pursued by the c0,D P*' 

 nies ? Why they compelled every consumer ere tb*7 

 permitted his putting a meter up to send it to t 

 directors^ to w be tested by their officers. The coa^ 



