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TIIE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844, 



2o years. The ret. gentleman wis repeatedly entreated 

 by different members of the vestry for the take of peace 





whi any legal duty was grounded for the breach of 

 which an action on the case for damages would lie ; they 



to give up the weekly off ory, a liberal contribution to , therefore reversed the judgment of the assessor in the 



th" mo tllrction on Sacrament Sunday being offered 



in lien of it ; but he refused to give way in the slightest 

 degree, observing that he was " the vicar of the par: h, 

 and that it was the duty of the parishioners to obey him 



Court below and ordered the amended libel to be dis- 

 missed, Mr. Macmullen paying the costs of both parties. 

 Ir. Cary on the part of Mr. Macmullen gave notice of 

 further proceedings by an appeal to a higher Court — that 



•carried unanimously. It was also resolved unanimously 

 ** that the w-opener, beadle, snd < r officers paid by 

 the parish, be discontinued at the expiration of their year 

 of office, and that in the meant e they be directed to 

 discontinue carrying round the plates at the weekly offer- 

 tory." In consequence of these resolutions the church on 

 Sunday last was almost deserted. 



Leeds. — A statement which excited a good deal of 



public tttent i receutly appeared in the local papers, 

 charging an alderman of this borough and a member of 

 the watrh corr ttee, with not only being cognizant of 

 the disturb.! tt of August, 184?, pr ous to their com- 

 mencement, but with having been actually instrumental 

 in producing them. The statement was first le pu c 

 by Mr. Hobson, publUh'-r <>f the Northern Star, and a 

 member of the Town Council, at a public meeting held in 

 Leeds a abort time ago, and on M lay the subject came 

 under discus in iheCoun'il, where Mr. Iluhson reite- 

 rated his statement, stating that the remarks applied to 

 Aid- .an Hateson. From the explanations of Mr. IJob- 

 aon, Mr. I.atrson and ( en, it appeared that the charge 

 had been I by a person named >ith, who d 



been made n bank: upt by Alderman Bateson, and who, 

 It was uteri 1, could not be bel red. After a great 

 deal of altercation, the inril decide i that the matter 

 did' omen bin their jurisdiction. 



/ r, — At the gener il quarter ifsti for this 



« 1 1) I on Tuesday the quest! as to the propriety 



of affirming the pre- tmeat ran I at the last session 

 for the amalg atlon of the County Gaol and \h e of 

 Correct i was brought forward and after a long discus 

 ■ion carr >y a majority of ID to . 



/ iverpont. — The particulars of the late On n .vcd 

 th ^ week are more disastrous than at first an I pa ted. 

 One man was killed l>y being buried under the ruins, and 

 sjeveral others have been taken to the infirmary with seri- 

 ous injuries. The loss sustained, i tiding the buildings, 

 machinery, goods, tkc. , is estimated under 7'V .'., of 

 which 32,000/. are Insured.— The appointment of official 

 assignee of the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy, 

 Tacant by the removal of John I , Esq., to London, 



has been conferred upon George Morgan, F. , of Bristol. 



Maxdston*.— Ob Tuesday night Walter Riddel!, 



Bart., wa* returning to his i dence at the palace, when 

 on passing e mill-bead of Messrs. r nnd Parton't 



mills he met a man and woman, and immediately after- 

 wanU heard a splash in the water nnd a cry of distress. 

 S:r Walter hasti d to the spot, and seeing something 

 the surface of the water, which is at this spot about six 

 feet deep, and ram with a rapid current under the mill, 

 without hesitation he plu in with all his clothes on, 



and succeeded in saving f u a watery grave the WOmao 

 whom he had j just before. 



North Wales. — We must not omit to mention among 

 the incidents of Christmas, that Dr. Thackeray, whose 

 plantations have acquired such well-earned celebrity, has 

 this year, according to his annual custom, placed clothing 

 to the value of /. at the disposal of the small parish of 

 »r(|iii«, to be distributed as he thinks proper to his poor 



neighbours. 



Northampton. — On Thursday last, a young man named 

 Thomas Katterns, a weaver residing at Kettering in this 

 county, voluntarily surrendered himself to the authorities, 

 confessing the commission of an act of incendiarism per- 

 petrate 1 five years ago. He stated that the <• onscionsness 

 of the crime pressed so much upon his mind tiiat he had 

 come to the resolution of confessing all. A person who 

 seems to have been in the secret, corroborated the account 

 of K itterns, who wss committed for trial. 



i> '/ham. — On Sunday afternoon several convict 



made their escnpc from the county gaol in I la town. 

 Between 1 and 5 o'clock on the second turnkey going 

 down into th ns' yard an attack wss tie upon him, 



the key taken out of his hand, and he was locked in tl 

 yard. Six convicts rushed up the stt and proceeded i 

 the outer door, where, meeting with the head turnkey, they 

 fell upon him, knocked him down, and forcing the key 

 from his hand they unlocked the door and ran out. An 

 alarm w ;iven, but they all escaped. Three of them, 

 Smith, (lowers, and Binns, were convicted of the burglary 

 at Sutton Bennington, at the house of the Rev. R. Meek, 

 and were sentenced to transportation for life at the late 

 assize. The fourth, Thomas Burton, was under 

 sentence of transportation for 1 "> years for stealing ten 

 hogs at Farnsfield. The fifth, William Thompson^, was 

 convicted at the late assize of burglary at Fisker- 

 ton, and sentenced to be transported for 10 years. The 

 sixth, Thomas Green, was convicted of burgl»*ry at Pisker- 

 ton, and sentenced to transportation for h The con- 

 vietj all had the pr n dress on. and were without hats. 



Oldham.— Or, Tuesday evening a public o ting was 

 held in the Town-hail in aid of the Anti-Corn-hiw League 

 fund of 100,000/. Mr. Gillham, head constable, presided. 



The meeting was addressed by Col. Thompson, Mr. Cob- 

 den, and Mr. Moore, and subscriptions were annouii i to 

 the amount of 860/. 



Oxford. — The delegates in congregation met on Wednes- 

 day, when the Master of University College, the chair- 

 man, pronounced the judgment of the Court in the case of 

 Hampden, appellant, v. Macmullen. That the amended 

 libel was wrongly admitted, the delegates being of opinion 

 that there were no allegations on the face of the libel on 





in spiritual matters." The rttofot i was then put and | of the delegates in convocation. The above decision is of 



course hostile to the Tractarian party. 



Plymouth.— On Tuesday night the premises of Mr. 

 Hicks, wine-merchant, Bilbury-street, were broken into, 

 and cash to the amount of 70/. in notes and gold stolen 

 therefrom. No one resides ou the premises, which extend 

 to Kennell-street, in the rear, where the burglars scaled 

 a wall about 10 or 12 feet high, and having dropped into 

 th yard, removed a pair of steps to the curtilage, and 

 went through a first-floor window. No obstacle now 

 prevented their gaining access to the office in front, and 

 there they set to work to detach a ponderous cast-iron 

 chest from its j lace, within one foot from the street- 

 window. This must have employed them some time, as 

 a quantity of bottles and barrels were removed to avoid 

 increased' noise. When it was detached, an iron poker 

 was placed under a nest of shelves, previously supported 

 by the chest, which was carried to a small cellar behind, 



vered with a horsecloth, and one side broken in by 



repeated blows. An iron inner partition prevented their 



btaining their object by this opening, and they turned 



the chest and broke into it on the opposite side. The 



nti i of the cash-box were then carefully assorted, all 



sand unavai'ablc papers left behind, and the cash only 

 taken away. There is little doubt that the robbery was 

 effected by a "gang of experienced burglars who have 

 lately visited this neighbourhood. 



Port -nth. — The Lords of thrt Admiralty are pre- 

 paring, not only a new set of naval regulations and instruc- 

 tions, but also a general code of port orders, for which 

 purpose a clerk from tl Admiralty has recently visited 

 ich of the out -ports, and e.\ lined into the local orders. 

 It is intended to deliver a copy of the port orders to every 

 copt: immediately he has commissioned a ship, so that 

 the difficulty at present experienced by a captain on first 

 joining his ship, arising from his uncertain knowledge of 

 lis first act of duty will be obviated, and officers be no 

 longer called upon to copy three or four hundred written 

 general orders, of which perhaps not one half are in 

 ■ rce. or of any utility. 



Rochester. — On Monday the Rev. Henry Winter, chap- 

 Iain to the Fortitude convict-ship, together with Mr. G. 

 Basiett, army butcher, residing at Chatham, appeared 

 before the map rates in this city to answer informations 

 charging them with disposing of a heifer on the 25th Nov. 

 being unfit for food. "\\ imesses proved that the Rev. Mr. 

 Winter resides on board the convict- ship off Chatham 

 dock-yard, and occupies two farms in Chatham parish; 

 that he has had several heifers which died of a disease 

 called the "murrain," and had been sold to butchers; 

 that the animals were in a state totally unfit for human 

 food, and that on the 25th Nov. one of their carcasses 

 was driven in Mr. Winter's cart to the house of Mr. 

 Bassett. After hearing this evidence the Magistrates 

 bound over the defendants in the sum of 40/. each to 

 appear in a week, and adjourned the inquiry for the pro- 

 duction of further witnesses. 



Sudbury. — An inquest has been held in this town on 

 the body of a boy named Joseph Clark, in the employ of 

 Mr. Simon Vial] of Middleton-hall a short distance from 

 the town, who was said to have come to his death in con- 

 sequence of blows and kicks inflicted by his master, a 

 farmer occupying it is said 700 acres of land. The boy 

 expired at his father's house in Sudbury on Sunday the 

 '24fh ult. The investigation was carried on for four days 

 and at the conclusion ou Friday the Jury returned the 

 following verdict: — "The Jury after four days 1 careful 

 investigation are unanimously of opinion that Joseph 

 Clark deceased, on whom this inquest has been held, came 

 y his death from a kick or blow given him by Simon 

 Viall of Middleton-hall in the county of Essex, and that 

 the Jury return a verdict of Manslaughter against the 

 aforesaid Simon Viall.*' 



If >r. — The Commissioners of Woods and Forests 



have just purchased the whole of the extensive and valu- 

 able property belonging to the Keppel estate, which con- 

 sists of 170 acres of the most valuable land in the borough. 

 This purchase has been made preparatory to the carrying 

 out of various extensive improvements which for years 

 have been in contemplation. The parish of Windsor con- 

 sists of 2460 acres, out of which there are no less in- 

 cluding the Keppel property than 2170 acres belonging to 

 the Crown, which leaves 290 acres only chargeable with the 

 poor-rate. 



Worcester. — The local papers have lately contained 

 long accounts of a mysterious robbery at the seat of the 

 Earl of Beauchamp. The police have thoroughly inves- 

 tigated the circumstances, but at present nothing has 

 transpired to fix the theft upon the guilty party, though 

 from the fact of a considerable quantity of wine having 

 been stolen the opinion gains ground that the thief was 

 one well acquainted with the interior of the mansion. 

 The cash-box was found in a ditch between the chapel and 

 the front lodge, 200 or 300 yards from the bouse. All 

 the keys were in the box, and as the lock was uuinjnrcd 

 it is supposed that his Lordship unintentionally left it 

 unfastened, for the lock could not have been picked. 



Railways. — The following are the returns for the past 

 week: — Birmingham and Derby, 1,516/.; Birmingham 

 and Gloucester, 1,891)/.; Eastern Counties, 3,1.") 7/. ; 

 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1,822/. ; Great Western, i:»,(J92/. ; 

 Grand Junction, ft, 166/.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 

 1,092/.; Great North of England, 1,603/.; Hull and 





Selby, 970/. ; London and Birmingham, 18, 266/. ; Soath 

 Western, 6,216/. ; Blackwall, 667!. ; Greenwich, 679/. . 

 Brighton, 3,1)20/. ; Croydon, 324/. ; Liverpool and Man! 

 Chester, 3,817/. ; Manchester and Leeds, 4,834/. ; Mid- 

 land Counties, 2,881/. ; Northern and Eastern, 1,8767. • 

 North Midland, 1,976/. ; South Eastern, 3,3937. ; Shefl 

 field and Manchester, 474/. ; York and North .Midland, 

 2,134/. — From a return made to the House of Commons 

 last session, it appears that the railroads in England and 

 Wales, 56 in number, paid in the year ending January 5, 

 1843, no less than 152,663/. 13s. Oftf., as passenger duty. 

 The increase of railway traffic within the last ten years 

 may be gathered from the fact, that in the year endin* 

 January, 1833, the whole sum paid to Government as 

 passenger duty was 639/. 16#. 10*/. The amount paid in 

 the year ending January, 1842, was 148,204/. 13*. lOJrf. 

 In Scotland, in the year ending January lest, 20 railroads 

 paid 15,125/. Is. 6\d., being an increase of 3,468/. 0s. llrf. 

 over the preceding year. The gross amount paid by all 

 the railroads in the kingdom during the last year was 

 167,788/. 1 4.v. 7\d. The amount paid in the previous 

 year was 159,861/. 11*. 6d. t showing an increase in 1843 

 of 7,927/. 0*. \\d. The ten railroads terminating in Lon- 

 don paid 82,447/. As. bd. : the three largest amounts 

 being paid by the London and Birmingham, the Great 

 Western, and the South Western, which paid respec- 

 tively 25,940/. 145. M., 25,804/. 5s. 2d., and 12,043/. 

 19.*. 7d., or more than two-fifths of the whole amount. 

 — On Saturday a special general meeting of the South 

 Western company was held to take into considera- 

 tion the propriety of extending the line to Salis- 

 bury, Newbury, and Epsom. The report stated that 



the proposed line to Epsom by the construction 

 of five miles of railway, touching at Ewell, would 

 bring Epsom within 14 miles of Vauxhall, the cost being 

 estimated at 51,000/., the traffic at 5412/. per annum, of 

 which a large amount would be derived from carrying 

 visitors to the races. The proposed Salisbury Railway, 

 from the Bishopstoke station, by Romsey, somewhat 

 under 22 miles, might be completed for 230,000/. having 

 the advantage of forming a good communication between 

 Portsmouth and Southampton. The estimated revenue 

 from traffic would be 25,000/., of which 14,000/. would 

 accrue from passengers, so that allowing 40 per cent, for 

 working expenses, there would be 7 per cent, profit on the 

 investment. A branch to Guildford was also contem- 

 plated but no proposals ou that subject would be made at 

 present. The report was received with satisfaction, and 

 power was given to the directors to apply to Parliament 

 for the construction of the Epsom and Salisbury branches. 

 — A special meeting of the Manchester and Leeds Com- 

 pany was held last week at which the directors were 

 empowered to make arrangements for the construction of 

 branches to Bury, Bradford, and Huddersfield, and also 

 to accede to the terms proposed for the union of the 

 Manchester and Leeds with the Hull and Seiby Company. 

 The leading points of the contract are as follow :— 

 that both Companies shall lease their respective lines 

 to a new firm ; that the new firm shall consist of 

 a board of directors, constituted of the whole of the Man- 

 chester and Leeds directors, and of two directors of the 

 Hull and Selby Company ; and that this board shall con- 

 duct the business of the joint companies, using their lines, 

 stations, and all their engines, and conducting the whole 

 business ; but that as respects capital, each company shall 

 remain as it now is, a distinct individual company; that 

 these two companies shall share in the net receipts of the 

 associated company in proportions of 16 \ per cent, 

 to the Hull and Selby company and 83| per cent, to the 

 Manchester and Leeds company ; that all future capital, 

 including the capital expended in the Hunt's Bank exten- 

 sion and the Halifax branch, shall be provided by the 

 two companies in the proportion of their shares in this 

 associated company. So that each company will remain 

 a distinct company on all points connected with capital, 

 while the associated company will work the traffic, pay 

 the expenses, manage all the business, and at the end of the 

 year divide its receipts into two sums, which are to bear 

 to each other the proportion of 16 j to 83'J, and pay them 

 over to the directors of each company, who are to dispose 

 of such shares to their respective proprietors. — An order 

 has just been issued from the War office intimating that 

 arrangements have been entered into by Government with 

 the Birmingham, Great Western, Brighton, Dover, Grand 

 Junction, North Midland, Midland Counties, Northern 

 and Eastern, Eastern Counties, Birmingham and Derby, 

 Manchester and Birmingham, Birmingham and Gloucester, 

 Manchester and Leeds, York and North Midland, Lan- 

 caster and Preston, Newcastle and Carlisle, and Great 

 North of England railways, for the conveyance of the 

 horses of field and staff officers and infantry, when 

 proceeding by route with regiments end detachments on 

 railways ; and likewise for the conveyance of sick horses 

 of cavalry regiments. The rates of conveyance are fixed 

 as follow : — For any distance not exceeding 58 miles, 4«- 

 per mile for each horse ; for beyond 50, and not exceed 

 100 miles, 3Jrf. : and exceeding 100 miles, 3d. The route 

 or order of the commanding-officer of the regiment or 

 detachment is to be produced at the railway station as the 

 authority for the conveyance of the horses, and the written 

 appointment of the principal veterinary surgeon in regard 

 to the sick horses is to be annexed to the charge in the 

 public account for such conveyance. The regulation wn» 

 have effect from the commencement of this year- 



IRELAND. 



Dublin — On Monday the Lord Mayor for the current 

 year Mr. Timothy O'Brien, a staunch Repealer, vfas 

 sworn into office with the usual formalities. After some 

 preliminary proceedings the late Lord Mayor, Mr. Georg* 



