Jan. 13,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



the pnrpoie of promoting the establishment of t general 

 cemetery. Alderman Tawney was in the chair, an I was 

 f ported by a considerable number of the clergy, muni- 

 cipal a borities, &e., including one of the representatives 

 of the city, J. H. Langston, B*q. The own-Clerk read 

 • ^Tcral pages from Mr. Chadwick's report, pointing out 

 the ei ils re ing from the crowded state of church -yards, 

 confirmed by statistical tables, and suggesting a remedy. 

 After > ne discussion on a prnpositio >y the Rev. Ifr. 

 Hall that the cemetery should be exclusively for the church 

 and not r all religir nominations, the Rer. Professor 



BttckU'nl said that as to the general question that there 

 was a necessity far cemeteries, that was admitted and felt 

 all over the world, and in every instance it had been done 

 on thebroai principle. Rumple was at all times valuable 

 to refer to, an 1 if they looked to experience and what h id 

 already been done they would find, an I he cited it as a; 

 historical facr, that in erery case where cemeteri 

 had been established they were for large communities, 

 an he knew of no case where it had been, necemry 

 to have more than one, which was of a general and 

 public nature. In currying out such an object they must 

 ex ct to rreet with < critics In dc( , which they 

 would surmount: but H ear church was re* [red to 

 provide its bu r ground, and 12 or 15 separate ones 

 would be wanted, he woul. ure to say that it would 



not be done in 100 years. He had that morn r received 

 •■letter ma friend of his, who told him that he bad 

 jest got Mr. adwick's report on the int >ent in towns, 

 which was full of curious and frightful facts. It was 



stated that in the parish of St. Margaret's, Leicester, 



there were 22,000 Inhabitants, and from calcnla'ions and 

 faqi. es which bad been made it appeared thnt some 

 portion Of that parish was effectually drained, some part 

 but partially so. and the other not at all. Int! letter 

 the average .r ition o t f c was only 1 years ; while in 

 the same pariah, where it was partially drained, the 

 erage was 23J years, showing thereby the frightful 

 efeots of bad atmosphere. The city of ( >xford was beset 

 with , ntial ditches, which poured forth their poison ; 



and if this was true, it was also in a cer legree th 



respect to that which was below the surface. He, for one, 

 did not believe that anything but a general cemetery 

 would correct the evil ; for if », q parishes could find 

 addition il speoe, 'even others could not, but must remain 

 f/» Slsill 7ns, and the probability was the last seven wo ! 

 be the most populous and crowded, and required it the 

 most. If, on the other hand, a general measure were 

 adopted, ami I I acres found, it could easily be divided 

 into 14 or J J different portions. The expense also of* 

 getting several burying places woui.l be ten-fold more than 

 that of ageneral one ; and there was another circumstance 

 to be borne In Bind, that there was the gr.-itest diffi- 

 culty to find even one appropriate spot, in consequence 

 of nearly three-fourths of the vicinity of Oxford being 

 utterly unfit for the purpose. All within a certain lev 

 was t- r immersed in water, or had clay within a foot 

 of the surface, which rendered such spots objectionable. 

 To come to the point, of all places wh were the most 

 fitted for the purpose, that grow was the best which had 

 been geologically tested, and which would tend to accele- 

 rate decay. He had paid some little attention to bones, 

 and be bad In his posse* n the bones of a human tang 

 which had not been bnried more than seven year,*, and 

 yet were in a more advanced state of decay than some 

 which he had that had been buri- 1 tho- ndl of years. 

 The latter had been excluded from the effect of air and 

 water, vr\ eas the former, which had been sent to him by 

 Lord Aithorp. had been buried in a sandy rick-vard, and 

 within 7 inches of the surface, so that it was within the 

 reach of air and percolation of storms, and in that state 

 had almost passed to dust. If ground is got for the mass 

 of the people it is desirable that the coffins placed there 

 should not last too long, for a cemetery was a resting- 

 place and intended for succeeding generations, and there- 

 tore the soil should be such as would accelerate decay. 

 Lord Stowcll h.d given his judgment in a way that 

 could not be offensive to the feelings of any on- 

 which was, that where iron oofins were used, 

 an additional amount should be paid for the ad 

 ditional time a buryin~-place was occupied. In se- 

 lecting a spot, it was absolutely necessary to select a 

 gravelly soil, n consequently the greater portion of St. 

 Clements was thereby excluded, and it waseqnatly so with 

 respect to the south and west of Oxford. The only ground 

 that was in fact lit for a 01 metery was in the north, where 

 it was well known the gravel was deep ; and the best site 

 for it was between the Observatory and Summer-town, for 

 on the east and towards Port Meadow the clay was very 

 near the surface. He considered it impossible for ten 

 parishes if they waited for tea vein to find bwymg-pbeet, 

 whereas a general cemetery might be accomplished at 

 once, and confer a great and lasting benefit on the com 

 munity at large. The reverend professor was listened to 

 throughout with the greatest attention, and sat down 

 amidst plaudits from all sides. After an animated dis- 

 cussion the sense of the meeting was taken on the proposi- 

 tion, and on a division there appeared for Mr. Hall's 

 motion for a church cemetery, 9 ; against and for ageneral 

 cemetery about 60. On this decision the nine die- 

 sentients, all clergymen, retired from the meeting, which 

 then proceeded to appoint a committee to carry their 

 measures into effect. 



Plymouth. — On Sunday evening shortly after eight 

 o clock a fire broke out on board the bark Cambridge, of 

 Liverpool, undergoing repair on the patent slip at Tcat's- 

 hill. It originated in one of the cabins from the careless- 

 ness of a boy belonging to the ship. The crew succeeded 

 in putting out the flames and all was supposed to be safe 

 bhortly after nine o'clock however it was discovered that 





the fire had been smouldering out of sight, and it broke 

 out afresh. The fire increased, and it being thought de- 

 sirsbie to remove the bark from her position, preparations 

 were made for launching her, and as she was sent off the 

 slip the vessel presented the most imposing spectacle. 

 The fire had gradually crept up the masts, the flames 

 were running up the shrouds, and were flickering on 

 every inch of cordage in the rigging. Presently after, 

 masts, yards and rigging were in one continuous blaze, 

 which reached high above the trucks of the topmasts. As 

 it was low water the engines were comparatively useless. 

 Soon after the flames reached the forecastle the masts 

 went by the board, when the fire becoming more con- 

 densed raged with redoubled fury. Any further exertion 

 in favour of the ship was then useless. The flames con- 

 tinued up to 4 o'clock, a.m., on Monday, when the tide 

 reaching her they were extinguished. She had no cargo 

 on board. — Three persons have been convicted on the 

 charge of being concerned in the burglary noticed in our 

 last and sentenced to be transported for 1 5 years. 



Portsmouth.— Int authorities at the Horse Guards 

 have ordered a General Court Martial to be held at this 

 e, on Lieut. -Colonel Fuller commanding the 59th 

 regiment In garrison here, relative to charges of small 

 amount made against men discharged from the regiment, 

 the pr< , of which were applied to the Regimental 



Pond, inch charges bring contrary to the army regulations. 

 Lieut-General Sir T. Arbuthnot is to be the president, 

 and it is laid the court will be composed entirely of officers 

 in command of regiment*. 



He /.—A meeting of the committee of the Berk- 

 shin jty for the protection of agriculture was held on 

 Saturday at which Lord Barrington, M.l\, Mr. Pusey, 

 M.P., Mr. Duffield, M.l\, and many other gentlemen 

 atter I. and ir was resolved to get up a general petition 

 to Parliament in favour of protection, to issue an address 

 to the agriculturists inviting them to cooperate in opposing 

 the League, and to have a public dinner early in February. 



Rochester The adjourned inquiry into the case 



against the Rev. II. Winter, chaplain to the Fortitude 

 convict. ship, and Mr. Bassett, butcher, of Chatham, was 

 resumed on Friday, before a full bench of county magis- 

 trates. The Inquiry excited great interest, and during the 

 five hours' investigation the Court was so densely crowded 

 that it was impossible to obtain standing room : every 

 avenue leading to the Court was blocked up by farmers 



id others of the neighbourhood, anxious to hear the 

 result. The evidence adduced on the previous day havii 

 been read over and some additional evidence brought for- 

 ward, Mr. piuasse was heard at length for the de- 

 fendants. Ultimately the chairman decided that in default 

 of any evidence on the part of the defendants, the bench 

 must hold them to bail to answer the charge at the quarter 

 sessions. Mr. Espinssse begged to offer some evidence, 

 submitting that the bench ought not to hold the parties 

 to bail, but leave the prosecutor to prefer an indictment 

 at the sessions. He then called a man in the employ of 

 Mr. Bassett, who stated, ■* I recollect the carcase of a heifer 

 being brought to my master's on the 25th November in 



Ir. Winter's cart by Mr. Winter's man. Mr. Bassett 

 went to the cart, and said he did not think he could do 

 anything with it. The next morning by my master's 

 directions I cut it up for the hogs. The bones I had for 

 my perquisites and the skin went to the tanner's." This 

 witness underwent a rigid examination by the magistrates, 

 but persevered in his testimony. Mr. Espinasse offered to 

 produce Mr. Bassett's pocket-book- of the entry of the 

 trans ion. The magistrates ultimately determined to 

 discharge the defendant?, and leave the prosecutor to 

 indict at the sessions or assizes. 



St. Alban's. — On Sunday morning the Rev. James 

 Brogden, residing at Childwick Hall, near Harpenden- 

 common, believing as he alleges that some thieves were 

 on his premises, posted himself at the upstairs landing 

 window of his house with his double-barrelled gun, com- 

 manding a side view of the road. A police constable of 

 the Herts constabulary was making his customary round 

 of the premises, when he heard the report of two guns 

 from the house; he immediately went up the Ilarpenden- 

 road leading to the hall, a distance of sixteen yards from 

 the outer gates, when he received the contents of a gun 

 IB his fac . and upwards of thirty shots in the scalp of his 

 head and other parts of his body. He staggered several 

 yards, and fell bleeding to the ground from the wounds. 

 Mr. Brogden who fired the gun immediately alarmed the 

 lumates and every assistance was rendered, but from the 

 serious nature of the wounds he was removed to the West 

 Herts Infirmary, where he lies in a precarious state. 



I Vmdsor.— Captain Thomas Fernyhough, Governor of 

 the Military Knights of Windsor, expired suddenly on 

 Monday morning at his residence in the lower foundation | 

 of the Castle. He had for some time been afflicted with 

 a disease of the heart, and on Monday morning while his 

 medical attendant was in the act of administering some 

 weak wine and water, he was seized with spasms of the 

 heart, and in less than two minutes was a corpse. Capt. 

 fernyhough received the appointment in June last, on the 

 death of the late Governor, Capt. Cumming. 



Railways.— Ths following are the returns for the last 

 week: -Birmingham and Derby, 1,468/. ; Birmingham 

 and Gloucester, 1,737/. ; Eastern Counties, 2,112/. Edin- 

 burgh and Glasgow, 1,927/.; Great Western, 10,932/.; 

 Grand Junction, 5.84-1/.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 

 1,274/. ; Great North of England. 967/. ; Hull and Selby, 

 958/. | London and Birmingham, 12,019/.; South 

 Western, 5,11-1/.; Blackball, 583/.; Greenwich, 732/. ; 

 Brighton, 3,073/. ; Croydon, 209/. ; Liverpool and Man- 

 Chester, 4,158/. ; Manchester and Leeds, 4,730/. : Mid- 

 land Counties, 2,073/. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 





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2,485/. ; Northern and Eastern, 1.553/. ; North MiAi^. 

 3,908/. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 1,307/. ; South SS 

 and Dover, 2,449/. ; Sheffield and Manche^te 25? 

 York and North Midland, 1,613/.— On New Year's jS 

 the extension line of the Manchester and Leeds lU"! 

 from Collyhurst to the New Victoria station at He»? 

 Bank was opened. There was no public celebration a! 

 train taking its departure in the ordinary way, amidst tW 

 cheers of those assembled. This station is the larsejtli 

 the kingdom, possessing a larger covered area thanew! 

 the Derby station. Being the joint and central 8 ta2 

 connecting the uninterrupted Railway communh 

 between the seaports of Liverpool and Hull, it will 

 in a line of the most accessible communication f 

 the largest towns in the north of England— LiwT 

 pool, Manchester, Leeds, and Hull, and thus brtJ 

 the German Ocean and the Irish Channel within! 

 few hours' distance of each other, while it also linka te 

 this chain of communication the towns of Bolton OU. 

 ham, Middleton, Rochdale, Huddersfield, Bradford ,HaB. 

 fax, Selby, and York ; and gives access by means of fa 

 junction with the North Midland and York and Nor* 

 Midland Railways, to almost every other great line of 

 railroad in the kingdom, north and south.— The im. 

 porters of the West Coast line, by way of Carlisle to Sco 

 land, have at length succeeded in forming a companr 

 and in raising the necessary funds for a single line of 

 rails between Lancaster and Carlisle, a distance of about 

 70 miles. The whole extent of railway to be constructed 

 to carry on the West Coast line from Lancaster to Scot 

 land is about 170 miles through a country which will 

 give full scope to the talent of the engineers. In the 

 meantime the promoters of the East Coast line are not 

 idle. Their railway will be opened as far as Newcaitk 

 next June, and as the North British Company propose to 

 go to Parliament in the coming session for powen to 

 construct a railway from Edinburgh to Berwick, only 

 about GO miles will be left unprovided for. Arrange. 

 inents are already in progress for insuring the passing of 

 an Act for the construction of the intermediate link in 

 the session of 1815. There can be little doubt that what- 

 ever may be the progress of the West Coast line, the 

 railway by the East Coast will connect England with the 

 Scottish metropolis before three years.— The railway cir- 

 cular of Messrs. Railton of Manchester, just published, 

 contains some curious information respecting the present 

 value of railway stock. It appears that in the absence of 

 failing harvests at home, and" repugnance to foreign 

 securities, the impatience of money for improvement his 

 raised the value of railway stock in the last two months, 

 since the end of October, 6,041,350/. on a paid-up capital 

 of 15,855,896/, on eighty-two lines— the premiums being 

 then 7,702,137/. over discounts, and now 13,743,487/., or 

 an increase of 30/. per cent, in the aggregate value of 

 stock at the end of December last, when the premiums were 

 211,581,543/., and the discounts 6,838, 05G/. It maybe 

 remarked, that towards the premiums 18,088,341/. wu 

 gained by the eight following lines, viz. :— London and 

 Birmingham, 8,533,566/.; Grand Junction, 2,805,850/. ; 

 Great Western, 1,624,187/.; South Western, 1,578,115/. ; 

 Liverpool and Manchester, 1,567,457/. ; York and North 

 Midland (including Scarborough branch, 1 20.000/.), 

 816,800/.; Manchester and Leeds, 692,250/. ; and East- 

 ern^ Counties, 470,1 16/. —being 88 per cent, of the whole 

 20,581,543/. — At the special meeting of the Eastern 

 Counties Railway shareholders held on Wednesday, the 

 resolutions empowering the directors to carry out the 

 extension lines to Cambridge, Brandon, and other locali- 

 ties and raise 960,000/. in the shape of a perpetual 5 per 

 cent, stock for that purpose were carried unanimously. 

 Although a protracted discussion took place on the variottf 

 topics under deliberation it eventually resolved itself into 

 an expression of the desire of the various parties to pro- 

 mote the success and prosperity of the general trunk lines. 

 Mr. Cobbold's line to Ipswich it appears is not to be 

 opposed by the company, and Mr. Braithwaite's line to 

 Harwich is to be leased in connexion with the main trunk 

 railway. It was also stated that a line from the station 

 at Stratford to the River Thames is to be constructed and 

 completed for 30,000/., and then to be leased to its pro- 

 moters for seven years at a minimum rent of 1,500/. per 

 annum. The Harwich branch is to be constructed by an 

 independent company, and the terms of the lease are to be 

 10,500/. for three years, and 8,400/. per annum afterwards 

 in perpetuity, the net profits beyond the latter rent 

 being equally divisible between the lessors and lessees. 



IRELAND. 

 Dublin.— On Friday the clerk of the Crown attended 

 in his office pursuant to appointment, for the purpose of 

 proceeding with the reduction of the names selected on 

 Thursday, from 48 to 24 : each side, the Crown and tra- 

 versers, having the right of peremptorily striking off 12- 

 Mr. Kemmis was in attendance for the Crown, an* 

 Messrs. Cantwell and Mahony appeared for the traversers. 

 The clerk of the Crown addressing Mr. Steele, who wSl 

 present, said that as he had no attorney to act for binir 

 he was desirous of giving him priority if he had any 

 observation or suggestion to make. Mr. Steele said that 

 he wished to leave the present business altogether in the 

 hands of the professional gentlemen who attended on 

 behalf of the other traversers. Mr. Mahony then protested 

 against the jury panel, on the ground that 39 persons who 

 were Roman Catholics and liberals were omitted from the 

 list, although they had qualified before the Recorder. He 

 exempted the High Sheriff, however, from any knowledge 

 of the circumstance. The clerk of the Crown stated that 

 he had no power of any kind over the panel. It had been 

 arranged by the proper authorities and he could not abro- 



