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THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



J J|r. U. w"|~' •-_;- . f am ot lvir. riiiuc, «. 



J*^. On Fnday on the « stacks were de . 



«***-, °tJ,t Harrington, Northamptonshire, some 

 H.TJtawete at Harnn , Satur( jay a large 



S^jjcoperty **> c »" su £ a e v a of Lye Court, Brierley, 

 S5T**X^V so-e stalks of hay belong- 



-*ffw£.^3- ^ te ? f Sir John Smyth ' at 



' •"'•"Sected to the Sheriff of Northumberland 



. u mmt .r thp ce*ebrated race of cattle so 

 to the hammer the ce.eor* .«..„. 



iL^rxctire^sVessTon of the Earls of Tankerville 

 SflflShii wild cattle have long been an object of 

 I^ f to .rangers visiting this county, and Sir Wa Iter 

 — hi. Votes to the "Bride of Lammermoor has 

 SiZ "celebrity of this race of Northumbrian cattle. 



4+dm* -A meeting of between 500 and 600 far- 

 TSXi interested in the prosperity of agriculture 

 Jd in this town on Saturday. Mr. Edward Hor- 

 ZZdefAiton Clinton in the chair. On the platform 

 mm Sir Harry Veroev and several other landowners. 

 Evolutions in favour of protection having been moved, 

 fir'H Verney proposed an amendment that petitions 

 be presented to both Houses of Parliament pray- 

 bf for in investigation into the peculiar burdens that land 

 wm robject to. He considered that there was every pro- 

 bability that the protection enjoyed by agriculturists would 

 be taken away, whilst the burdens they were subject to 

 would remain. He conceived that there was great danger 

 of tint taking place, and if it did it would be owing to the 

 want of vigilance of those who have been called the far- 

 Ben' friends. He then spoke in favour of a fixed duty 

 and of long leases; but the amendment was negatived, and 

 tbe original resolutions adopted by a large majority. 



Barton-upon-H umber. — A meeting of the Agricul- 

 turists of North Lincolnshire was held in this town on 

 Monday. W. Maw, Esq., in the chair, supported by a 

 large body of freeholders and tenant-farmers. Resolu- 

 iiiiwere adopted, pledging the meeting to resist the 

 progress of the League, and to raise a fund for the pur- 

 pose of securing adequate protection to Agriculture. An 

 •Wren to Earl Spencer was also adopted, calling upon 

 ail lardshipto resign the Presidency of the Royal Agri- 

 eekaral Society, and declaring that the meeting will not 

 •Upfert the Society if his Lordship remains its President. 

 Blackburn,— A. meeting in favour of the League and 

 free trade was held in this town on Monday, Mr. "W. 

 web in the chair. Colonel Thompson, Mr. Cobden 

 «MMf. Bright addressed the meeting, and subscriptions 

 to tbe amount of 713/. were entered into on behalf of the 

 kacne Fund. 



Blndfad.-Q* Saturday the Blandford Agricultural 

 mtection Society held their first meeting in this town, 

 «r. James Burgess in the chair, at which the rules for 

 m V?"*™* of the Society were arranged and a 



*Sw T t0 carry out its objects * 



Wfc.™^ 1 ^^ St - J<An, Mr. Green of 

 tiki • .5 M f St ' We, Mr. Higgu 



downers. There was a full attend'- 



Abbey, and other 



of feoant.far 

 woo 



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gins of Surrey 



""called toZ\ M [* J ' Paine of Felmersham, 

 * ■SS | to J h d e ^ riefl y "P^ed the object 



tb * -cecity of n nl ? 1Utl0nS Were ado P ted enforcing 

 nmmtl &^ a . to Agriculture by means Jf 



A sub- 



**W~T V .„ ?" t0 aefra - T incident ^ eposes. 

 ta ««WUd„„Poii^ « atdybeea under '"oottea- 



*» >»« Wu Cih '' ceoffiees ' ">»' two Bo«r-st 



5? , T*i&. lT- COnnected with ^ese extraordi- 



r* 01 h *«o co; 



">ey s ate also that some parties in 

 ** «e ..— ' S 't red t0 , be ° f irreproachaole cha" 



™ W'Pected ta k i , '"eproacbable 

 r k,,e »»t , s * * f«P»T implicated, but the 



/•^wrtMjfo Tl,Z , ei B ca P tttriD g them. 



JL Cb /^rs pa y ;,if h r" 5 . tatesthat ° n Friday-week 



er one. 



"»»«„o,' 8 hou^'and T r /? ter ' iew took Place in 

 5^ ' 8t »te ments » f ^ ' ast eJ several hours. The 



*■'" "«' particular bu . P r r ' SOners " e "-e confirmed by 

 l2 t £ 0t, • reoetiH,;" f, .S a . t . the . confession was necessa. 



fc *^Jfta: Wars ;;;;rd 



10st « Km\, • but the c °n 

 ! OWS \° n f the f0 "« 

 •"PP^er, /^ '^- Chamber, had gained 



?"■% i» the , n „^ nt / berem d ^t"ct, that a 



necessa 

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TVi, 



by the 



10/. 



*****?* '° P«l>et Ze r Subscii oing, and the 

 *«» T^odto 'o, sh« ? "•"•""ion then re- 

 -»« t° f lUis »»m w a$ Sh a °" 1 n « l go« on to state 



J 1 ' K^ f " r "'com"r. K °n^ Y ^^ ' The rest 

 »», J" 0f '. ,le »che„,e 5, ™ cons cq«ence of some of 



7"' ««d in ., ""erne refimin. ~^ ' 5 ° me ot 



Si»« I °. e . '"-ore, h?,' Ca P ed ; Sboni it is s ,,id 





JJ*. - iue "" 6 e,, de „ c C e ™ ,0 n w »lbe the most likely 



"* / a r !f pec,a b!e f I i» °' mSed reward and » 



«■ i? I .*°' k *PeM i„ th" n, "l! ed ' and aIso 

 ,nd L:anon. W' ", the . n cghbourhood of 



*'JI*r 



A. meeting was held in this town on 



The talc of th e 



of 

 payment of 



those who assisted in the destruction of gates and firing 

 of farms is repeated and insisted on as correct by the con- 

 victs, who name a number of the parties who subscribed 

 to pay them for their labour. 



Cheltenham. — An inquiry has been instituted by the 

 trustees of the Winchcombe Grammar-school into the 

 charge of cruelty brought against the head-master by tbe 

 verdict of the Coroner's jury at the inquest on the body of 

 Conrad Algernon Carter, reported in our Paper of the 

 13th ult. The inquiry occupied three days, and was ad- 

 journed until Tuesday, when Lord Sudeley stated at great 

 length the final decision of the trustees. He said they 

 had found that Conrad Carter had been guilty of insub- 

 ordination on several occasions, and would have been ex- 

 pelled by the committee if such conduct had been re- 

 peated ; that he had been punished severely by the master, 

 whose only alternative was corporal punishment or expul- 

 sion ; that such punishment could not in the remotest 

 degree have caused death, and that had the medical wit- 

 ness been examined before the coroner his evidence would 

 have been clear and satisfactory, and the jury would have 

 arrived at a very different conclusion. This verdict of 

 course exonerates the master, who retains his situation. 



Croydon. — A meeting of tenant-farmers, landowners 

 and others was held in this town on Saturday, J. W. 

 Sutherland, Esq., in the chair, at which it was resolved 

 to adopt immediate measures for the resistance of the 

 League, and to convene a meeting for the 10th inst., for 

 the purpose of establishing an Agricultural Protection So- 

 ciety for the eastern division of Surrey. 



Derby. — On Friday a meeting of the tenant-farmers of 

 South Derbyshire was held in this city. About 400 

 farmers and landlords were present, among whom were 

 Messrs. Colvilie, M.P., Mundy, M.P., Edward Chandos- 

 Pole, Reginald Chandos-Pole, C. C. Worsley, the Hon. 

 and Rev. F. Curzon, &c. Mr. Joseph Hassell presided 

 and said as he happened to be merely a tenant-farmer his 

 being in the chair would give a contradiction to the idea 

 the League had laboured to propagate, that the present 

 movement was the work of the landlords. Resolutions 

 were then passed condemning a repeal or further altera- 

 tion in the Corn-laws, and a committee was appointed 

 with power to add to their number to correspond with 

 other societies formed for a similar purpose, and to adopt 

 such measures as may seem expedient for effectually ex- 

 posing and arresting the further progress of the League. 



Epworth. — A meeting of tenant-farmers was held in 

 this town on Thursday and attended by about 400 per- 

 sons, at which resolutions condemning the League and 

 declaring protection to be necessary to the Agricultural 

 interests were unanimously adopted. A subscription was 

 also opened for the purpose of aiding the central com- 

 mittee of the county. 



Falmouth. — In reference to a paragraph respecting 



certain Roman Catholic conversions copied by the London 

 papers from the West of England Conservative^ the Rev. 

 Mr. Lempfried has addressed a letter to the Times denying 

 the statement altogether : — " The only ground," he says, 

 " upon which the story could possibly rest is that on 

 Christmas-eve we had a midnight mass, as is usual in 

 many Catholic churches, but which I believe has not 

 occurred at Falmouth perhaps for some centuries. No 

 converts however were admitted on that occasion." 



Gainsborough.- 

 Tuesday " to take into consideration the necessary means 

 to be pursued to support the present arrangement of the 

 Corn-laws." John Skill, Esq., of Normanby presided, 

 and resolutions forming a Protection Society to co-operate 

 with the other Societies in Lincolnshire were adopted. 



Grantham. — A meeting of the Kesteven Agricultural 

 Association was held in this town on Saturday, and was 

 attended by about 500 persons, J. C. L. Calcraft, Esq., 

 in the chair. It was resolved to appoint a corresponding 

 committee, to petition Parliament that no reduction may 

 be made in the protection now given by the present Corn- 

 laws, and to open a subscription in aid of Agricultural 

 protection. The meeting was attended by Sir John 

 Trollope, one of the county members ; Sir W. E. Welby, 

 Bart. ; Mr. Allix, of Willoughby, and several other land- 

 owners, and about G00/. was subscribed in the room. 



Gloucester. — A meeting of tenant-farmers was held on 

 Saturday in this city to adopt measures for the formation 

 of un Anti-League Association. The meeting having 

 been called by private means and not by public advertise- 

 ment, the attendance was not so numerous as it other- 

 wise might have been. Mr. John Long was called to the 

 chair, and resolutions denouncing the League, affirming 

 the necessity of protection, establishing an Anti- League 

 Association, and appointing a committee, were carried. 



Holbeach. — On Thursday week a meeting attended by 

 nearly 300 farmers and other persons interested in Agri- 

 culture was held in this town, in order to adopt steps 

 for endeavouring to protect British agriculturists. W. 

 Skelton, Esq., presided, and resolutions in favour of 

 agricultural protection were unanimously carried. Peti- 

 tions to Parliament embodying these resolutions were 

 then adopted, that to the Lords to be presented by Lord 

 Yarhorough, that to the Commons by Sir J. Trollope. 



Hull. — Two meetings were held in this town last week 

 to receive a deputation from the Anti-Corn-law League, 

 consisting of Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., and 

 Colonel Thompson. Sir W. Lowthrop was called to the 

 chair, and opened the proceedings at some length. Mr. 

 Cobden and Colonel Thompson then addressed the meet- 

 lll g. After some disturbance from a person from New- 

 castle, who wished to challenge " any person in the 

 world" to discuss the Corn-law question with him, the 

 subscriptions were announced, amounting to 305/. In the 

 evening a meeting took place in the Victoria Rooms, 

 when about 500 persons, aaaong whom were many ladies, 



sat down to tea. The Rev. J. Aspinall, rector of 

 Althorpe, Lincolnshire, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Bright and 

 Colonel Thompson severally addressed the meeting. The 

 evening's subscription amounted to 49/., making with 

 that in the morning a total of 354/. 



Huntingdon. — A meeting of tenant-farmers and agri- 

 culturists was held in this town on Saturday, James Rust, 

 Esq., in the chair, at which a Protection Society for 

 Huntingdonshire was formed. A petition to Parliament 

 was also adopted, denouncing the League and praying for 

 a continuance of the laws now in force for the protection 

 of agriculture, the petition to the Lords to be presented 

 by the Earl of Sandwich, and that to the Commons by the 

 county members. 



Ipswich. — Pursuant to a requisition addressed to the 

 committee of the East Suffolk Protection Society, a public 

 meeting was held on Tuesday in this town, to take steps 

 to counteract the operations of the Anti-Corn League by 

 the adoption of petitions to Parliament, &c. Mr. Moseley 

 presided, and the meeting was addressed by Archdeacon 

 Berners, Sir Philip Broke, Bart., Mr. Cobbold and other 

 gentlemen, and a petition to Parliament denouncing the 

 League and praying for a continuance of protection was 



unanimously adopted. 



Leicester. — After having been remanded no less than 

 five times since his last apprehension, Mr. Messenger, the 

 master of the murdered labourer, Garner, was once more 

 discharged from gaol on Tuesday, the magistrates being of 

 opinion that the evidence would not warrant his further 



detention. 



Long Sutton. — A meeting of Lincolnshire farmers re- 

 sident in the neighbourhood was held in this town on 

 Friday, in pursuance of a requisition similar to that which 

 called together the agriculturists of the Holbeach district 

 on the preceding day, for the purpose of concerting 

 measures in opposition to the League. Resolutions were 

 adopted in favour of agricultural protection, and declaring 

 the opinion of the meeting that " the extreme depression 

 in price of all agricultural produce which must be con- 

 sequent upon the abolition of the Corn-laws would be in 

 the highest degree injurious to the manufacturer, to all 

 tradesmen dependent upon agriculture, and wholly de- 

 structive to the agriculturist." A resolution was then 

 agreed to establishing a society for the protection of agri- 

 culture, on the same principles as the kindred associations 

 in the other parts of the country. 



Maidstone. — A young man named Mepham who was 

 transported about two years since, and has since been 

 proved to be innocent of the offence for which he was 

 convicted, returned to his friends in this town last week, 

 having been provided by Government with a free passage 

 home and an abundant outfit. He gives a detailed ac- 

 count of the hardships and privations endured by all con- 

 victs in a penal settlement, and states that he saw the 

 Chartist convicts the day before he received his pardon. 

 Frost was at the Cascade station, about 60 miles from 

 Hobart town, in the bush, and acted as schoolmaster, on 

 which account he was exempt from labour in the forests. 

 Williams broke his leg by a tree falling on him three days 

 before. Jones was employed as a constable to watch the 

 working party in the bush. He told Mepham on the eve 

 of his departure that he would give 10,000/. if he had it 



to change places with him. 



Market Harbrowjh. — A meeting of the Agricultural 



Society formed on the passing of the Reform Bill for the 

 11 Protection of Agriculture" was held in this town on 

 Tuesday, pursuant to a numerously-signed requisition, for 

 the purpose of adopting measures to resist the progress of 

 the League. Mr. Hungerford presided, and was sup- 

 ported by Mr. Stafford O'Brien, M.P., Mr. Halford, 

 M.P., the Hon. W. Wilson, Sir E. Hartopp, Sir A. Ha*- 

 lerigg, and other gentlemen. Resolutions against the 

 League and forming: a committee to carry out the objects 

 of the Meeting were unanimously carried. 



Newmarket. — A meeting was held in this town on 

 Tuesday, R. D. Fyson, Esq., in the chair, supported by 

 Mr. Eaton, M.P., Mr. Allix, M.P.,and numerous land- 

 owners and farmers, at which resolutions were adopted in 

 favour of Protection, and condemning the League. A 

 subscription was then entered into, which exceeded 250/. 



Oak/iam.— A meeting of the agriculturists of Rutland- 

 shire wis held in this town on Monday, attended by the 

 Hon. W. H. Dawnay, M.P., Mr. Heathcote, M.P., Mr. 

 Fiudyer the High Sheriff, Mr. O'Brien, M.P., and nume- 

 rous other landowners and tenant-farmers. Mr. R. Smith 

 of Burley presided. Resolutions were adopted denouncing 

 the League and pledging the meeting to raise subscriptions 

 and form a committee, consisting of a member from each 

 parish in the county, to correspond with other protection 

 societies, and to concentrate a great central association. 



Oxford The members of the Oxfordshire Agricultural 



Society and the Agriculturists of the county generally 

 held a meeting on Tuesday " to consider what steps it 

 may be necessary to take to protect the Agriculturists 

 from the designs of the Anti-Corn-Law League, who have 

 openly avowed their determination to endeavour to obtain 

 the repeal of the laws for the protection of Agriculture." 

 The meeting was attended by at least 400 persons, among 

 whom were Mr. Ashurst the president, who took the 

 chair, Mr. Henley, M.P., Mr. Harcourt, M.P., Mr. Black- 

 stone, M.P., Lord Villiers, M.P., Rev. Dr. Ingram, Sir 

 H. Paton, Lord Norreys, M.P., Sir. H. Lambert, Bart., 

 and many other gentlemen. The meeting was addressed 

 by Messrs. Roberts, Gardner, Carpenter, Blake, and 

 Gillett, tenant-farmers, by Col. North, Lord Villiers, Mr. 

 Harcourt, Mr. J. Fane, Mr. Peers, Mr. Blackstone, M.P., 

 Lord Norreys, Mr. Henley, M.P., and other gentlemen. 

 Resolutions were adopted pledging the Asssociation to use 

 all lawful and constitutional means to oppose the designs 

 ot" the League arid to maintain protection for British 



