THE NEW PAPER. 



[1844. 



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Ok 



rtJ.. *»iUr to . a ;^ t " so ' much r0 om to 



?Ifte dop- ^ " U c 10 or 11 on a side in 

 fcoonds hare. Tney ' ? Mr _ Mellor ._ 



The Bf .^fteir feet touch, Mr. Boot 

 * , bet to feet. ^ e touch Qr ^ 



*^"jl c«not »y ^,f a ff a r was a disgrace to hu- 

 "T^vA the "hole aMir on .^ own 



""laSgjgwSaffS 



»» «""& i: S thU djr Ihe 20th inst., for the 

 T " "JS such * asls as may be thought 

 JUL * «<ffi the proceedings of the Anti-Corn- 



ires of 



Mi- -The list of Mathematical Tripos was pub- 



^2Ij . >,» which it appears that Mr. <j. w • 



yMte f S 'John^ th Senior Wrangler ; Second 

 fc. of Si .John , is in th* first Senior 



tnJ 



n»2' JJ r w wXHopkin8, of Caius ; the first Senior 



&Stai. equal, Mr. R.E Robertson, of Cams, 

 Mr G F. Snowball, of St. John's. 

 Cm^mthcn -It is stated by the Carmarthen Journal 

 tkiVSwi Scjborfawr and Dai y Cantwr the persons 

 So .tie lit/ assizes were convicted for Rebecca riots 

 mi severally seotenced-the former to transportation for 

 Me. md the other for 20 years— have made confessions to 

 Tba Chambers, Esq. jun. of Llanelly. Shoni confessed 

 Is h» that he was present at the burning of Mr. Cham- 

 hen' two farms, namely, Mansant and Tynywern. He 

 £o mentioned several nightly meetings he had attended, 

 vkre measures were taken to avoid the military, who at 



patrolled the country. He admitted -that he 

 of a party who pulled down a dozen gates, which 

 he named, and the several nights on which they were 

 demolished. He further gave the names of several farmers 

 pretest with him. It appeared from his statement that 

 he and hk companions were to be paid a certain sum a 

 day for breaking down gates, and that he and many others 

 were paid 5*. each for setting fire to Mansant from a pub- 

 lican, who acted as treasurer. He further states that the 

 old woman at Hendy Gate was shot by a boy uninten- 



Dai y Cantwr states that he was present with 

 Shoni in many of his midnight riots, and was present when 

 thefanniof Mansant and Tynywern were fired, and that 

 he taw Mr. Chambers' horse shot. He has mentioned 

 the names of several persons who assisted in the com- 

 ■Ittri of outrages upon property in this and the adjoining 

 «•»**•, He further states that the proposition to shoot 

 Mr. Chambers was not the wish of any one person in par- 

 tjcokr, hit that it was the opinion of the people generally 

 tiat the younger Mr. Chambers ought to be shot. 



*"™*-7At 1 meeting of the Durham Farmers' Club 

 «*Mtirday last a resolution was proposed condemnatory 

 ot toe proceedings of the League and pledging the farmers 

 wmj their best exertions to counteract the effects pro- 

 •ow** the Wue agitation. 



t»U t ~y* am -~'On Saturday a public meeting was 

 i„ v °" n to follow U P il1 Suff olk the movement 

 turutL 



J«o room adjo,m„g the al mshouses took place . John 

 ■tookti ? H ° USe ' Resident of the Asso- 



toh.™ K P0 W room in the inn where the meeting 

 etan^ \T' ld bdng filled ' an adjournment to the 



n * i,ll »tolU »»ain«f »u r 6 u * U1 «g"cu^urisr.s. 



*»»ereunE Le ? g-Ue and in favour of P r otec- 

 taoei. wuH ° ^ Camed ' and a lon S list of subscrip- 



Hal if 



^•wma^rial L'm. ".■ Udl the evidence of a little 

 by the — • tQ e following farts „ P r <xi:«u«j i_* __i. 



and 



*? of * commonTrrL- 1 " 5 Detokened a situation far above 

 * 8 1«n of 2 ^ rkl . n 8-man) said she was a few weeks 

 U *^*hth&Zl„T$<{Kstioned however in order 

 ••Tee 



2* ^utaer the «p ro " r ""* vv/ ' ""parents wnicti drew 



iff *«<id not know' * n * cmn *tion of the bench. 

 "" *** ever h ear d 7k ° God "•*> nor what he was; 

 to church or rh T Was one ! She ^ver went 

 mr*!?^- The. nl? 'w ' ? UIlda J-«c«iool f nor her 

 £ ** ^ow ;K" tau § ht her to say her prayers, 



■** * f •* oath u ,' t0 Pray ' She did »ot know 

 • ^ Hai «. . never been told always to 



* atgistrate ■ S Ug faCts were elicited last *«* 

 ^^ (wW a gaV u he f name Sarah A nn Jagger, 



* * e^iin I «r - rei1 bet ° kened a situation far oboTe 

 " of age K o n l ^" man) 8aid she was a ^w weeks 

 ^^rc; D ^ f ^ lng( l uesti oned however in order 



of neglect ; on I SWOrn » her a nswers betrayed 

 : f ^?r 1 Ll h o e Part °f her P are nts which drew 



sr 



P«*»er 





ways to 



tell a lie. 

 of the girl 



SR* ° f the q'A? K«- M,P -i ha8 re8igned the ^oeir. 

 ■rdum;.. ine reiectinn JiufrUn ~ „„:_*.„ . 



15^ 



We" I*"/!?** writ eH 7r;7"",? lun announcing this 

 • *nd 1 cann ^ .anient which he has made in his 



of the evidence 



w * foil, 



not ' 



cannot 



Xftteitr.L cu °y thecironm V L your motion 



^^ than was nece Ssar C v Um8 T tauces of the case, and 



T- 1 cannot but regret the 



decision of the court of quarter sessions, which appears to | 

 me not to be such as the truth of the case and the interests 

 of the public required ; and I particularly regret that this 

 decision has had the effect of depriving the public of your 

 honourable and useful services as chairman of the court of 



quarter sessions." ..**-.« , 



Isle of Man.— On Tuesday Henry Tyson, who was 

 examined on Monday week, charged on his own confession 

 with being an escaped felon from Castle Rushen, was 

 again brought before the magistrate at Woolwich, where 

 he had surrendered. A letter was read from Inspector 

 Bellion, of the Douglas Police, in reply to a letter from 

 the magistrate's clerk, stating that the prisoner's state- 

 ment was strictly correct, and requesting that he might 

 be sent in custody to Douglas, from whence he would be 

 conveyed to Castle Rushen, from which he had effected 

 his escape. The magistrate told the prisoner that as his 

 story appeared to be true, he should order him to be sent 

 to Castle Rushen with as little delay as possible. 



Rochester. — The neighbourhood of the Earl of Darn- 

 ley's estates at Cobham is greatly infested by poachers, 

 although the exertions of the trustees have lately reduced 

 their number. On Monday a notorious character named 

 James Goodhew was brought before the magistrates, 

 charged with trespassing upon land in the occupation of 

 Mr. \V. Lake at Chalk on Wednesday last with wires in the 

 pursuit of game. The prisoner, who had been convicted 

 of poaching twice before, pleaded guilty to day- poaching, 

 but not guilty to night-poaching, the offence having taken 

 place in the afternoon after five o'clock. The bench said 

 that the question turned on the fact whether or not it was 

 night, and on consulting the almanack they found that the 

 sun set that day at^ four minutes past 4 o'clock. The 

 bench convicted the prisoner, who promised, if let off, not 

 to repeat the offence. The chairman told him that he 

 thought it was not in his power to refrain from poaching. 

 He had as great a taste for it as gentlemen had for sport- 

 ing, but the game must be protected. He therefore sen- 

 tenced the prisoner to two months' imprisonment and 

 hard labour, at the expiration of that time to find two 

 sureties in 5/. each for his good behaviour, or be further 



imprisoned for six months. 



Kirkdale.— The sentence of death passed on Ann 

 M'Cormick who was convicted at the late special com- 

 mission before Mr. Justice Wightman of the murder of 

 her infant child by administering arsenic to her, has been 

 commuted to transportation for life. The reprieve was 

 received on Wednesday, but before its arrival the culprit 

 had made a confession of her guilt to the chaplain. She 

 acknowledged that she had given the child the poison, 

 adding that she took as much arsenic herself as she believed 

 would have destroyed her own life. 



Leeds.— On. Sunday morning some shots were heard in 

 a small Fir-wood adjoining Worsborough Hall, the resi- 

 dence of W. B. Martin, Esq. That gentleman and his 

 servants with the gamekeeper were aroused, and made 

 towards the spot ; but previous to the whole force col- 

 lecting, two of the watchers came in collision with a gang 

 of poachers and were severely treated by them ; their 

 guns were broke, a fine dog that seized one of the poachers 

 was shot, and one of the watchers was wounded, having 

 received several heavy blows on his head. Before Mr. 

 Martin and his servants arrived the poachers had made 

 their escape into an adjoining wood. 



Lewes.— A meeting of the East. Sussex Agricultural 

 Society was held in this town on Wednesday, Mr. Mab- 

 bott Vice-President in the chair, supported by Sir H. 

 Shiffner, Bart., Mr. Darby, M.P., &c. Resolutions were 

 passed deprecating the decrease in the price of corn, and 

 pledging the meeting to oppose in every possible way the 

 Anti-Corn-law League, and to attend a meeting to be 

 held at Steyning for that purpose on Monday the 29th. 



Maidstone.— On Tuesday last a meeting of landlords 

 and farmers was held at the Star Hotel, to take into con- 

 sideration the propriety of forming an association, or 

 adopting other measures for the protection of agriculture 

 against the Anti-Corn-law League. The principal speakers 

 were the Chairman, Mr. Noakes, Colonel Austen, Lord 

 Mai sham, Mr. Croughton, Sir Edmund Filmer,Mr. Elvy, 

 Mr. Whittaker, Mr. Ellis, &c, and it was unanimously 

 agreed that a provisional committee be formed, with 

 power to add to their numbers, for the purpose of calling 

 a public meeting to form an association for the protection 



of agriculture. 



Plymouth.— The Dutch man-of-war schooner Lancie 

 came into this port on Sunday in distress, having on the 

 12th in mid-channel carried away both her masts within 

 six feet of the deck. Fortunately, at 2 a.m. on Saturday, 

 when within 20 miles of Jersey and Guernsey, and fast 

 drifting on the dangerous rocks near those islands, she 

 fell in with the revenue-cutter Active, by which she was 

 safely conducted into harbour. The Lander left the Texel 

 on the 9th, bound to a Dutch colony on the coast of 

 Africa, established for the suppression of slavery. ^ 



Rcigate.—k meeting of the farmers and occupiers of 

 land in the neighbourhood of this town was held on Tues- 

 day for the purpose of considering the best means of op- 

 posing the measures of the Anti-Corn Law League. The 

 requisition was signed by all the principal farmers in the 

 district, and a number of these together with some of the 

 county gentlemen were present. Mr. Foskett was the 

 principal speaker, and proposed a resolution to the effect 

 that the existing protection to agriculture was an insuffi- 

 cient return for the peculiar burdens to which land was 

 subject, tha*. a reduction of these duties would spread uni- 

 versal ruin, and that they should by all legal means resist 

 the League. Other resolutions, recommending the union 

 of agriculturists with the common object of protection 

 were passed by acclamation, and a committee was formed 

 to carry out the objects of the association. 



Sheffield. — At the meeting of the town-council of this 

 town on Wednesday the police surveyor submitted to the 

 council an instrument of destruction which a few days 

 ago was found concealed on the premises of Mr. "Kitchen, 

 manufacturer, of Earl- street. Its length was about 24 

 inches, its diameter at each extremity about 4 inches, and 

 the centre 6 inches. Both extremities were plugged up 

 and in the centre was an orifice capable of receiving a 

 fusee commonly used in blasting coal-mines and other 

 excavations. The case was of cast-iron and computed to 

 be charged with not less than four pounds of gunpowder. 

 A fusee as described of about three yards in length was 

 found attached, but its combustion had been destroyed 

 owing to the improper manner in which it bad been 

 inserted in the perforation, otherwise there might have 

 been devastation and destruction too appalling to con- 

 template. Mr. Raynor stated that he had shown this 

 machine to Lord Wharncliffe who requested that it should 

 be forwarded to Sir James Graham. His Lordship inti. 

 mated that he should be glad to render his best assist- 

 ance in the prevention of any further attempt of the like 

 nature on the lives and property of the people of Sheffield. 



Stafford Sarah Westwood convicted at the last spe- 

 cial assizes for the county before Mr. Baron Rolfe, for the 

 murder of her husband by arsenic, was executed on Satur- 

 day at Stafford. It appears that the culprit was the 

 daughter of a labouring man living at Churley, a hamlet 

 near Burntwood where the murder occurred. 



Windsor.— Captain Moore late of the 67th regiment 

 who received the appointment of a Military Knight on 

 the death of Captain Cumming in June last, has been 

 appointed to the Governorship in the room of the late 

 Captain Fernyhough. The new Governor was the junior 

 knight.— On Tuesday last Mr. Alfred Raffle, son of Mr. 

 Rafne of Horton near this town, met with a serious 

 accident by the discharge of his fowling-piece. It appears 

 that the young gentleman was withdrawing the charge 

 without having taken the necessary precaution of first 

 removing the cap, when the gun suddenly went off, and 

 the ramrod and whole of the charge passed through his 

 hand, which was so frightfully shattered that on the 

 arrival of Sir John Chapman surgeon of \\ indsor, niv 

 Baker of Staines, and Mr. Adams, another professional 

 gentleman from Colnbrook, it was deemed necessary to 

 amputate the arm below the elbow, which was skilfully 

 performed by Mr. Adams. Mr. Raffle is going on, 



favourably. . . .. . 



Railways.— The following are the returns for the past 



week :-Birmingham and Derby "^; Birminghain 

 and Glocester, 1650/. ; Eastern Counties, 3359/. -, Edin- 

 burgh and Glasgow, 2068/. ; Great Western, 10 205/. ; 

 Grand Junction, 6218/. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr,. 

 1548/.; Great North of England, 1141/.; London and 

 Birmingham, 12,322/.; Southwestern, 4847/.; Black- 

 wall, 636/. ; Greenwich, 665/.; Brighton, 2062/ ; Croy- 

 don, 208/. ; Liverpool and Manchester ,420b/.; Man- 

 chester, Leeds, and Hull, associated, 5095/. ; Midland 

 Counties, 2178/. ; Manchester and Birmingham, »;«•• 

 North Midland, 3407/. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, . I Ui l. » 

 South-Eastern and Dover, 2248/. ; Sheffield and Man- 

 Chester, 669/. ; York and North Midland, 1 26 J /.—I ne 

 principle of atmospheric traction, successfully brought 

 into operation on the Dalkeith branch of the Dublin and 

 Kingstown railway, is likely to be brought into extensive 

 use upon short lines. Among others in which it is said it 

 might be profitably employed, are the Blackball and 

 Greenwich railways ; and one of the projected lines to 

 Gravesend and Rochester, under the superintendence i of 

 Mr. Brunei, is started on the understanding that the line 

 will be worked by atmospheric traction.— It appears from 

 a series of resolutions advertised in the daily papers, that 

 a strong opposition has been raised by the Croydon land- 

 holders; including the most wealthy proprietors, against 

 the proposed Croydon branch to Epsom ; and from the 

 determined course which these parlies have taken, a 

 formidable array in Parliament may be expected when the 

 competing lines bring forward their respective cases, lhe 

 route by The Southampton line is stated to have the pre- 

 ference, and little opposition is anticipate d in that quarter. 



IRELAND. 



The State PnosECUTioNS.-Another application for a 



postponement of the trials was made to the Court of 

 Queen's Bench on Friday. On that day, Mr. Moore, Q.C. 

 on h part of the traversers applied ^ a postponem nt 

 until the 1st Feb. next, in order to afford time for the 

 rectification of the jury list, by the insertion of the names 

 5 quaUfied special jurors which had been omitted or „p. 

 pressed in the list returned by the Recorder to the High 

 Sheriff, and for the striking of a new jury list. The At- 

 torney-General opposed the application on the ground 

 that the Court had no jurisdiction, and hat they could 

 not interfere in the case. The Court unanimously decid d 

 that the application could not be granted. The trial* 

 onsequentf/ commenced on Monday Mr O'Conne 1 

 went to the Court in the state carriage of the Lord Mayor, 

 followed by the carriages of the other traversers, and of 

 the Aldermen and officers of the Corporation, in proces- 

 sion. The traversers were loudly cheered in their passage 

 through the streets and on arriving at the Four Courts 



First Day.-On Monday the Judges of the Queen s Bench 

 took their seats at 10 o'clock, and the counsel and agents 

 at both sides were in attendance. After some delay the 

 traversers all appeared and answered to their nau e^ The 

 special jury summoned-twenty-four in number-were 

 then called; and, with the exception of thr ^ four, 

 severally answered to their names. S*^^ 

 were made to excuse a few from serving -on th [J™™*™ 

 ill health. The general list having been then ^called over 

 the gentlemen to compose the jury of 12 were about 



