THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844 



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that a meter was 

 0SC btcj — - ise3 which would 



tUe T e r arge" amount against the 



10 .imost every 

 upon 



to 





S o soon as it rose 



He 



SSSd *- such a^ ta e ^ ~- ? - - tQ ^ The 



&■ NOt tars 'be coal used gives off pure gas; 

 EoDeor two hours tue d a f te r tins a quality 



Jfit .n *<***£ ^ U 'and to the purity of the 

 yjt,, detrimental to '^ M there WM no contro l over 



B^ht «a> ■« l *f5 l SUl., on the contrary, and perhaps 

 She* tbiacs. I" B r m »• a Uw elisted whlcIl 



ta other omental at« ' ana . ies . Where gas 



fapi in <** the cnp.d.ty of he c P^ ^ ^ 

 ^ applied of. bad ^. tue ^ ^^ 



w tan, three and tour "^ 6aid he did not Ilke 



#& , M fficient light. *• ideQt tohim 



^^1,^%" ogive too great a power to 

 jta, they breathed a desire »g then spoke , after 



Cemment. Several 0^™ he 7iew of following 

 ,hick wolaiicna ™"°^ W „ ongit them was one to 



^r-t;" e ndTrThnr 8 da y afternoon a 



*^5OT£ priVMe-hanUing-houses was 

 M. -~ containing several sums of money, 



derk in one 



3kd of his case, containing several sums 01 money, 



ruu .. ,' Prinrps-street to Gomhill. Ine 



.ade on h.s way Um _ Pnn« » atr l ^ ^ ^ 



mmUrf\riin'sactioii8 takes place after that hour, and 

 chiefly from 4 to 5, between the Bank of England and the 

 joint-stock banks with the private banks ; and it is now 

 ascertained that this part of the banking system of London 

 feat come to the knowledge of a gang of thieves, who 

 have long been on watch and have at last committed this 

 robbery. 



Accidents The daily papers announce that the Hon. 



Capt. Rous is recovering from the effects of his late acci- 

 dent, and that he will not lose the sight of the injured 

 eye. It has been incorrectly stated that the misfortune 

 — ** occasioned by the gun bursting, which was not the 

 ; it eipioded while in the act of reloading, and the 

 rod wounded the finger which has since been ampu- 

 tated, lacerated the eyebrow, and passed through the rim 

 of his hat. The Captain's escape was almost miraculous ; 

 had his head been a trifle more advanced, the consequences 

 must have been fatal.— The Dowager Lady Geary, while 

 dnving near Hadlow, Kent, last week, had an escape from 

 a tenous accident by the horses of her carriage taking 

 frjfht. They cleared two gates, dragging the carriage 

 alter them, when one at length fell, and her Ladyship was 

 rescued from her perilous situation with no injury beyond 



* te» slight bruises.-On the 29th ult., when Sir Rich- 

 ard Sutton was hunting at Greetham, near Oakham, his 



» aS. k. • i t ? ing a feuce ' accidentally put his foot into 

 ■ ceep bund ditch, and threw the Baronet wiib great 



7£fciTt!i ♦ W lt was feared > fro,n the wwity 



alS;n f M r ? chard had broken his ■«*. but 

 3f Y Wes is severely injured, he is likely 



Dcr ncThe Hi!w ^\ bef ™ the ™<* of the season.-l 

 thS! ^' Ch Prevailed a few evenings since, 



* «J « by ein?;" 7 ^ HunterC ° m be " h0U ^ Buck * 

 ^^rnhim about "n T*, npon a 8tee P bank > close to 

 *e P^ft»^ n her residence - Such was 

 f °otm an and coa chin t Car 7 a S e . was overturned that the 

 ^7 GrentK™ 1 ? f ° Und , lt im PO^ible to extricate 

 ti0B *l ■wistancp »» • u penl0US situat ion without addi- 

 Her Ladyshr;^ 1 ? " as P rocured fr om the village. 

 ^ved/eveS *£>, attained * very advanced afe, 

 •fferiDj^The nrovin, i U8l ° nS fr ° m * hicb sbe is "till 

 ^ ^» * fi^lffi C ^f a P«™ ** .that a fish-bone 

 ?"* Thursday week th^ n *J eargU9 O'Connor's throat 



£ . His ^edfcaT at J n 1 f f 0rtB bave faiIed t0 remove 

 "*»* that UhL n r d , ant ^ e . ein8 his sit ««tion so pre- 



^sation.^Th Cork t^ *T *° abstain frora •« oon- 

 ; J ^ - the Earl onS™ ^ that ° n Thwdny, the 

 g^tain, whew^X^^ 1 ,^ .returning frora tbe 



^ ht '^ runnin, doin ^mi 8, | 00tillR the horse to °k 

 ^^ came i/contact Ji. tbe carri ^ in which he 



%Wi ? d ' wi * »ncffi„!. ,th a 8t0ne fence at the side 

 »S? S? the body naT 8 T S t0 ;^Parate the two hind 



J^^erable force Hp "^ WaS dasbed out 

 S^^ons who *e« " .? WSS takeQ »P insensible by 



S C> e - He wa?, P e » a ° d carri ^ d ^to an adja- 



£«tn Week Was c 0n4 ed ' y T/^ brUiwd « and ^r 



^^ " 8UfferiQ§ "^ Pain ' 



tnctT^'its, 194 p'1 2 ^ / N °rth Districts, 1S5 ; 



female) 



(male 



478; femal 



es, 



^3 



'theTa st n fiv year "' 9 ° 3 ( 4 °1 *S 

 _l^five autumns, 90S. 



Jj^Sk^ '»* • fiSl^' °" S »™. y week, 

 ** « Mat,: b , ar,t ' d " o,; d * V^P-tion of Mr! 

 au^ '7'. two m ii e di J. '. nearl ? at tIle san >e 



^.ro, 



" ,0 T«d.-i n ;™ co nt ainin _ •" ,' u " ">« farm of Mr. 



U " B ^r, a 8ta t of ^ at Writ "«. oo the 



* 0f wUea£ » Ae produce of 



12 acres, destroyed ; at Great Easton, on Wednesday 

 evening, on the premises of Mr. Turner, of the Manor 

 Farm, some out-buildings destroyed. — In Notts, on Sun- 

 day night, on the farm of Mr. Robinson, of Arnold, a 

 straw-stack destroyed. — In Kent, on Saturday, on the 

 farm of Messrs. Benton, at Barrow-hill, near Ashford, two 

 wheat-stacks destroyed — At Alford, on Friday, on the 

 farm of Mr. Rowell, of Bilsby, the stack-yard and several 

 stacks destroyed. — At North Grimstone, near Walton, on 

 the 30th ult. a stack of straw in the stackyard on the farm 

 of Mr. Johnson, destroyed. — On the I -lth ult. a stack of 

 wheat, the property k of Mr. David Evans, of Llanidloes, 



destroyed. 



Bedford. — The magistrates of this county and of Hert- 

 fordshire have determined on instituting legal proceedings 

 against a man named Burke, of trotting notoriety, who 

 engaged a fortnight since to trot his pony against the 

 Bedford coach. The terms of the match were, that Burke 

 should drive his pony in harness, and start from the Swan 

 at Bedford at the same time with the coach, to proceed to 

 the George and Blue Boar, Holborn, and return the same 

 day with the coach to Bedford, and then to start the next 

 morning from Bedford with the coach and to arrive in 

 London first. The match commenced on Monday morn- 

 ing, the pony and the coach leaving Bedford together at 

 a quarter past 8, and Burke drove up to the George and 

 Blue Boar about 20 minntes before the arrival of the 

 coach, the distance being 52 miles, performed in 5| hours. 

 After having been fed, the pony was brought out to 

 start with the return coach for Bedford. The coach left 

 town accompanied by the pony, and travelled together till 

 within 20 miles of their destination, when the pony indi- 

 cated great distress, but continued on to Shefford, 9 miles 

 from 'Bedford, when it fell dead from exhaustion. — At the 

 quarter sessions on Tuesday the report of the visiting 

 justices was brought forward, in which a proper classifi- 

 cation of prisoners and the establishment of separate cells 

 of proper dimensions and under judicious regulations as 

 to the intercourse of prisoners was recommended. After 

 some discussion a committee of magistrates was appointed, 

 with power to call in the aid of Major Jebb, with the view 

 of carrying out the proposed alterations in prison disci- 

 pline, and it was also resolved that a special session be 

 held on the 1st March for the decision of the question. 



Boston. — The annual general meeting of the Boston 

 Agricultural Association was held on Wednesday, and was 

 attended by a large body of its supporters. Mr. Gee, the 

 President, took the chair. Petitions to both Houses of 

 Parliament against any further reduction of the protective 

 duties on British Agriculture, and calling upon Parlia- 

 ment to resist the efforts now making by the Anti-Corn 

 Law League, were adopted ; and it was resolved that the 

 Peers and Members connected with Lincolnshire should 

 be requested to support the petitions. 



Bolton. — A meeting in favour of free trade was held in 

 this town on Wednesday, at which! about 500 persons 

 were present. Mr. Gregson presided, and Col. Thomp- 

 son, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. Moore, addressed the meeting 

 at great length. The amount collected was 1,205/. 4s. Od. 



Bristol. — On Saturday morning the inhabitants of 

 Clifton-road were alarmed at hearing a noise similar to 

 the rumbling of thunder, which arose from the falling of 

 one of the new villas erecting in Clifton-road. At the 

 time of the accident there were six men employed on the 

 building, five of whom escaped unhurt ; but one was 

 buried beneath the fallen mass, and killed. From the 

 evidence given at the inquest it would appear that the 

 accident was occasioned by the rottenness of the stones 

 and other materials used in the lower part of the building. 

 The house was built for sale, and was run up in the slop 

 style. The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental 

 death," at the same time requesting that the depositions 

 should be sent to the mayor and magistrates for them to 

 take what steps they judged proper. — The steam-ship 

 Great Britain is at length definitively appointed to proceed 

 on her first voyage from ^England to New York on the 

 25th May next. Some conception of the vastness of her 

 size may be formed from the fact that her burden is 3,500 

 tons and her engines 1000-horse power, whilst those of 

 her sister ship the Great Western are respectively 1600 

 and 450. Captain Hosken the present commander of the 

 Great Western will take the command of the Great Britain. 

 It is a source of disappointment to the Bristol people, 

 that although their city has all the honour of projecting 

 and constructing the Great Britain, Liverpool will have 

 the credit of first sending her to sea. It is understood that 

 the Great Britain will visit the Thames in the course of a 

 few weeks, in order to display her gigantic portions and 

 internal fittings to the inhabitants of the metropolis. 



Cambridge. — The Earl of Hardwicke has contradicted 

 the paragraph originally inserted in a provincial journal, 

 to the effect, that at a late rent-day dinner he had ex- 

 pressed his opinion that free-trade principles would ulti- 

 mately triumph, but that such a result would not be so 

 disastrous as generally anticipated. His Lordship states 

 that he uttered no such sentiment. 



Gloucester. — At the quarter sessions on Tuesday the 

 new dietary introduced into the gaols throughout the 

 county by order of the Home Secretary formed the subject 

 of discussion. The subject was introduced by the chair- 

 man, who said that the dietary, although fixed by Sir James 

 Graham after consulting the most eminent physicians and 

 surgeons in the kingdom, and ordered to be introduced 

 into all gaols and bridewells throughout the country as 

 a great improvement on previous dietaries, had no sooner 

 been introduced iuto the gaols of Gloucestershire than 

 great complaints were heard of it from the prisoners. A. 

 presentment on the subject of the enlargement of the 

 several gaols and bridewells, including the building of a 

 considerable audition to the County Gaol and Penitentiary 





at Gloucester was then read and resolutions in conformity 

 thereto were passed. The magistrates then proceeded to 

 consider the recommendation of the Home Secretary after 

 the late inquiry at Northleach to consolidate the Houses 

 of Correction throughout the country, and establish a 

 Model Prison on the plan of that at Pentonville. Ths 

 chairman said he for one was not prepared to carry out 

 the Government recommendation, which might be very 

 well adapted for London and other large towns where the 

 population was exceedingly numerous, but was not at alf 

 suited to the county of Gloucester and its rural districts, 

 where the population was very thinly scattered. He 

 insisted that the various prisons throughout the county were 

 indispensable, and ought not to be abolished. He also 

 contended at great length that the prisoners throughout 

 the county had been treated with kindness and humanity, 

 and had no ground of complaint. Whatever might be the 

 general government of the Model Prison, it was not at all* 

 suited to the habits of the prisoners in the various 

 prisons in Gloucestershire, and the discipline of their 

 new prisons was looked upon as exceedingly mild and 

 humane and the punishment very light compared with, 

 that of the Model Prison in London. He concluded byv 

 moving that the recommendation of the Secretary of State 

 be negatived, and the plan of a model prison for the- 

 county be rejected, and that other plans and estimates for 

 the enlargement of their prison be submitted to the Secre- 

 tary of State for his approbation. The chairman then 

 explained the plan to the court by which additional ac- 

 commodation would be afforded for nearly 500 prisoners- 

 Although the expense would be great, it would be much, 

 less than the Government wished the Court to adopt, and 

 at the same time the visiting magistrates would be enabled 

 to carry out one portion of the recommendation of the. 

 Secretary of State, while the system of tread-wheel 

 labour, of which the magistrates approved, would be con- 

 tinued. The Lord Lieutenant of the county (Earl Fitz- 

 hardinge) fully concurred in the sentiments of the chair- 

 man, and seconded the rejection of the Government plan,, 

 stating that he was fully satisfied with the present system 

 of prison discipline throughout the county. An animated 

 discussion followed, in which a number of magistrates- 

 expressed their opinions relative to Beale's case at North- 

 leach and the prison discipline of Gloucester and that in 

 operation at the Model Prison. Amongst other magis- 

 trates who took part in the discussion was Mr. Ben- 

 gough, who wished to see the Government plan carried, 

 into full operation. He considered the Model Prison was 

 a perfect and most admirable system, and the discipline 

 extremely beneficial, lt trained the prisoners to habits ot 

 industry, and taught them useful occupations, so as to 

 enable them hereafter to earn an honest livelihood. The 

 chairman in reply to several questions said Government, 

 could not force the plan upon them, and the only way 

 they could compel the county to build a model prison 

 was by Act of Parliament, which if the county members, 

 did their duty the Government could never obtain. Ths 

 rejection of the Government plan was then carried by a 



large majority. 



Iluddersfield.— Xord Ashley's bill for the prohibition f 

 women working in mines and pits came into operation jo, 

 March last, since which time nothing of the kind has been 

 heard of. Last week however the first infringement f that 

 act that has been brought forward was heard before the ma- 

 gistrates at this place. Mr. J. W. Moorhouse, coalpit- 

 owner of Wooldale, was summoned by George Haigh, a 

 constable of Almondbury, for having on the 15th Nov. 

 employed or suffered to be employed in Lidget-pit, as, 

 •« hurriers,' 1 four girls under 17 years of age, who were 

 dressed as boys and so completely disguised that it was 

 difficult to distinguish them. The case was fully proved, 

 and the poor girls were examined but were found to be so- 

 ignorant that they knew not how long they had worked in 

 the pit ; they knew nothing of the month of November ;. 

 they had given over working six weeks since, but they 

 recollected seeing the constable in the cabin ; they worked 

 there three days after that and were "hurriers." This. 

 being the evidence the magistrates convicted in the lowest 

 penalty prescribed, viz., 51. in each case, making 20J. and 



the expenses. 



Ilford. — Thursday week a meeting of the select vestry 

 of this parish was held for the purpose of taking into con- 

 sideration the memorial lately presented to the Bishop of 

 London and his Lordship's letters in reply. After some- 

 preliminary matter Capt. Gilmore moved a resolution that 

 every attempt having been made in the most conciliatory- 

 manner to induce the vicar to return to the accustomed 

 manner of performing divine sarvice, but without effect,, 

 the churchwardens be requested to move the credence 

 table and restore the reading desk and clerk's desk to their 

 former state. The resolution having been seconded by 

 Mr. Paulin, considerable discussion ensued, in the course 

 of which a letter from the Bishop to the churchwardens, 

 was produced, in which his Lordship requested the 

 churchwardens not to remove the credence table without 

 further directions from him. The vicar admitted he 

 had informed the Bishop that the opposition to the 

 credence table proceeded from a M faction N and that 

 it was not generally desired by the communicants, 

 adding " I for one should like to see the Church and 

 State separated to-morrow." A member of the vestry 

 asked whether he had understood the rev. gentleman 

 aright, when the vicar replied that he did not mean to use 

 the word '* to-morrow ""literally, as all sudden changes 

 were bad. He said that in the present state of things the 

 union of the Church with the State was only an in- 

 cumbrance to the Church, and that unless the Church had 

 the power it possessed 300 years ago, when the liturgy 

 was composed, he should be glad to see the union dis- 

 solved, and added that it would be done within the neit 



