Feb. 17J 



^r^ffiee and the house ^T^essr.. Ladbrooke 



*• ban , k f " Ca ^« d ar-T S he eS Commis.io n er 8 of Woods 



fffls, inconsequence of the extravagant term. 

 and Forests, in h jes for gupl ,l,, n g the new 



demanded by Ac .water I ^ ^^ m fc 



^ Z w .U. "h will^ive an ample supply not only or 

 Artesian wells, »n h officc(i m tfae ymmty> 



the fountains bu^o r all tie l 1>]lrliament; and for 



together with the new ,,.,,„ conim | g8ion , rl 



: ater ' • g P „ orderslo have the works carried into execution 

 have g. en onto, hk> (q be ^ by gUam 



forthwith. Th > "ate 11 flxcd over the epgine . 



r Wet • wdch will be sufficiently elevat, d to give tlie 

 h0USe ' Z nressu re so as to produce the effect desired by 

 ?f e n l P inbU design for the square. The site selected 

 J 1 ''* nUs the stone yard behind the National Gallery. 

 f °w Znt of the Metropolis.-The following i. the 

 ^o Deaths registered in the week ending Feb. 3. 

 DU w//t DiSs 134; Northern, 189; Central. )<J4 , 

 £Et «6 ; Southern, 323 TuUl. 1086. Weekly 

 average for the last fiv e yearn, 946. 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844, 



39robi 



facial Nctos. 



-Since our last report, meet- 



Agricultural Meetings. 

 Ws in favour of agricultural protection, and for the 

 purpose of forming associations to resist the League, have 

 been held in the following p aces :-On Monday week at 

 Abingdon, Mr. Harris the Mayor in the chair, supported 

 by Mr. Duffield, M.P., and other landowners.— On Tues- 

 day at Berwick, the Earl of Lauderdale in the chair, 

 supported by Mr. Hay of Dunn Castle, Sir J. Pringle, 

 Bart, and Mr. Spottiswoode of Spottiswoode.— On Satur- 

 day at Bedford, Mr. Pain a tenant-farmer in the chair, 

 supported by Lord Alford, M.P., Mr. Stuart, M.P., Mr. 

 Astell, M.P., Sir C. G. Payne. Bart., F. Pym, Esq., R. 1 

 Arlebar, Esq., &c— On Saturday at Croydon, J. W. 

 Sutherland, Esq., in the chair, supported by Mr. Antro- 

 bus, M.P., Sir W. Jolliffe, Sir H. Bridges, Mr. J. W. 

 Freshfield, Mr. A. Barclay, &c— On Saturday at Glou- 

 cester, Mr. Niblett in the chair, supported by the Hon. 

 F. Charteris, M.P., Sir M. H. Beach, Bart., and other 



Agriculturists On Tuesday, the Oth, at Penrith, Sir 



George Musgrave, Bart., of Eden Hall, in the chair, sup- 

 ported by 11. Hodgson, Esq., the High Sheriff of the 

 county ; E. W. Hasell, Esq., Dalcmain ; A. T. Huddle- 

 ston, Esq.; R. R. Saunders, Esq., Nenwiek] Hall; and 

 about 400 farmers :— On Saturday at Kingston, Mr. D. 

 Maydwell, a tenant-farmer, in the chair, supported by Mr. 

 Trotter, M.P., Mr. Kemble, M.P., Sir D. Scott. Sir H. 

 Fletcher, Mr. Row, &c, At. On Tuesday at Woking- 

 ham, J. St. John, Esq., in the chair, supported by the 

 principal landowners of the district and about 400 of the 

 tenant-farmers of Berkshire.— On Wednesday at Wolver- 

 hampton, Dr. Mannix in the chair, supported by the Earl 

 of Dartmouth, and most of the landowners, farmers, &c. 

 in the neighbourhood. — On Wednesday at Shrewsb«y f 

 the High Sheriff in the chair, supported by Earl Powie, 

 the Hon. R. H. Clive, M.P.. Viscount (live. Lord Hill, 

 Lord Newport, Lord Berwick, Sir J. R. Kynaston, Sir 

 B. Leighton, &C 



;.. Alnwick.— Tht local papers state that the anticipated 

 spoliation of Chillingham Park announced in our Paper 

 of the 3d inst. has" fortunately not Uken place. Tbe wild 

 cattle have been successfully claimed by Lord Ossulston 

 as heir-looms of the estate, and consequent!?- unalienable 

 property of the Earls of Tankerville. The deer only were 

 therefore offered for sale, and on Thursday last were put 

 up at the following prices :— The rein. deer in one lot at 

 80/., and the fallow-deer at 50/. There was not however 

 a single offer made, and the sale did no' proceed. 

 Birmingham.— A local paper states that it is the inten- 

 . <» Ministers to bring in a bill before Easter for 

 establishing Central Criminal Courts in seveial large 

 towns on the same plan as the Metropolitan Criminal 

 in°7i r U 8aid lnat Birmingham is to be included 

 in x c and that prisoners from all places within 

 l.Zt* ° f the bo ">ugh will be tried at this court. A 

 court-home and prison are to be built, half the expense 



thV 7' T C r t,0n t0 be P" id °y Government. An assize for 



onp fti • prl,onrr8 wil1 be bcld eTcrY * if weck§ at whicn 



tiAn.k- he - ud G«« will preside. Should Parliament sanc- 



tion 



Society ^ecreiaiyof the Koyai Agricultural 



list of nn & that liis name may be erased from the 

 recent ? e ! nber, of M* Society, in consequence of the 

 Soei. L aralion of Lo^ Spencer. President of that 



*&!!.£» «** of the Cor..|M. 

 the sum #■ i ^ I, J e§t J ba » been pteased to contribute 



the late M (' t0 the fund for lbe re,,ef of lhe family of 

 ^ruction *i hard ' wno rcce nily committed self-de- 

 Itannp, , circu '"stances of a distressing character, 

 ter tK?k in 1830 » Mi, » ^"ehard, the eldest dau«h- 

 roy inl^ ,, e y ears of age. wa« admitted by Sir J. Con- 

 w a , 1 i P r e»ence of her Majesty at Clifton. She 

 *itha h not,ced by her Majesty, who presented her 

 served ° ea , Ut,ful fl ower. This flower was carefully pre- 

 *o Mr* a * few days 8 * nce a fomraoni- ion was made 

 toeflowe ° n res P ectin « ll, e distress of her family, and 

 men ^af f r , 80 .P reserv e i l was also transmitted with a state- 

 ^heatL , facts ; in r H -v. her Majesty directed Sir H. 

 as a ,\1U° lra n«mit to Miss Prichard a cbeaue for 20/. 



Privy Purse. In his letter to the Committee, Sir H. 

 Wheatley stated that he had been commanded by her 

 Majesty to forward this sum as a mark of the satisfaction 

 with which the Queen had witnessed the beauty of the 

 sacred edifice when her Majesty visited Cambridge. The 

 Committee are still in debt between 1000/. and 2000/. 



Cheltenham. — On Friday an inquest was held in this 

 town on the body of a child which had been received, 

 packed in a hamper, by the Rev. F. Close, and had caused 

 great excitement throughout the. town ; forming the lead- 

 ing topic of conversation at the assembly-rooms, libraries, 

 the spas, and news-rooms. Mr. Hillyer, clerk to the 

 railway station at Cheltenham, proved that the basket was 

 received on the night of the 7th inst., which he forwarded 

 in the omnibus to the Royal Hotel. The basket was 

 addressed to the ** Rev. Mr. Close, Bays-hill, Cheltenham, 

 Gloucestershire." The sum of Is. l\d. had been paid on 

 it at Birmingham. It had been delivered to the Rev. 

 gentleman in the usual way, but when the contents had 

 become known it was sent back to the station. The 

 coroner said the magistrates had complained to him rela- 

 tive to this occurrence, but the magistrates ought to have 

 been apprised of the affair before the hamper had been 

 removed, as many unpleasant 'reports had gone abroad. 

 Although they might have no foundation, still it was very 

 painful. Mr. Russell, superintendant of police, had been 

 sent for, and opened the box by order of the magistrates. 

 He found an exceedingly handsome child's coffin, which 

 contained the dead body of a remarkably fine new-born male 

 infant. He had instituted every inquiry, and found that 

 the hamper originally came from London. The investi- 

 gation was still proceeding in order to discover the guilty 

 parties. Mr. Hawkins, surgeon, had made a post mortem 

 examination of the infant by order of the coroner. The 

 body was carefully and neatly dressed with good baby- 

 linen, but the mother had not proper medical assistance 

 at the birth. There was no food in its stomach, but 

 witness would not undertake to say what was the imme- 

 diate cause of death. The coroner said it was proper that 

 the circumstance should have the fullest investigation, he 

 would therefore adjourn the inquest to afford the police 

 time to pursue their inquiries. The occurrence has 

 excited a great sensation in Cheltenham, being the uni- 

 versal topic of conversation. 



Nottingham.— Her Majesty's Government has issued 

 a free pardon to Valentine Marshall, one of the rioters 

 who was transported for life by Mr. Justice Gazelee at 

 tbe special reform riot commission at Nottingham in 

 1831 for setting fire to Colwick Hall, the seat of John 

 Musters, Esq., in this county, and from the effects of 

 which Mrs. Musters, the famous u Mary" of Lord Byron, 

 met with her death in tbe shrubbery. This announce- 

 ment appeared in tbe Ilobart Town Courier of Sept. 8, 

 and by a private letter received from Marshall he states 

 that he shall be in Nottingham in a very short time.— -It 

 will be remembered that on New Year's-eve six burglars, 

 sentenced to transportation, broke out of Nottingham 

 not, after a furious assault upon lhe turnkeys, one of 

 whom was so severely beaten that his life for a time was 

 despaired of. One of them, Burton, wss apprehended 

 the same night ; and another, Binns, was Uken about a 

 week afterwards. On Thursday week a third, named 

 William Thompson, was arrested in tbe house of a labourer 

 at New Sneinton, where he had been coneealed some 

 days. A brace of loaded pistols and a number of skeleton 

 kevs were found on his person. The hiding-places of the 

 three other prisoners who are still at large are known to 

 the police, and hopes are entertained of their speedy 



spprehension. 



Oxford— The public meeting which took place on 



dent of Magdalen, Rev. Vaughan Thomas, Rev. R. Gress- 

 well and Mr. J. Parker have each given 100/., and Dr» 

 Ingram the President of Trinity 50/. towards the establish- 

 ment of the cemeteries. — The Chancellor of the University 

 as visitor of Pembroke College has given his opinion that 

 the election of Dr. Jeune, the Dean of Jersey, was in- 

 formal, in consequence of some of the votes tendered for 

 the Dean being given by Fellows on the more recent founda- 

 tions, and as such not entitled to vote at the election. 



Sunderland. — The merchants of the Coal Exchange are 

 getting up a petition to Parliament against the projected 

 duty of five per cent, which Government intends impos- 

 ing upon all sea- borne coal that enters the port of London, 

 for the purpose of enabling them to carry out the proposed 

 Metropolitan improvements. A memorial has also been 

 forwarded to Sir R. Peel from a numerous meeting of 

 coal-owners of Northumberland and Durham. 



Uxbridge.—K fire, which has resulted in the destruction 

 of Hillingdon-house, the country seat of R. H. Cox, Esq., 

 of the firm of Greenwood, Cox, and Co., of CraigVcourt, 

 and one of the magistrates for the western division of 

 Middlesex, broke out on Sunday morning while the family 

 were preparing to attend divine service. The fire was first 

 seen by the servants upon the premises, who, observing 

 the smoke, discovered, after some search, that flames were 

 issuing from the north-east end of the roof, whence they 

 extended with great rapidity to the opposite side, destroy- 

 ing in their progress the massive wood-work and descend- 

 ing to the stories below. Three engines soon arrived, but 

 they were barely sufficient to furnish the hose of one, from 

 the distance the water had to be conveyed. It was soon 

 found that nothing could save the house, and the efforts 

 of those present were concentrated upon the destruction 

 of all connection with the valuable offices. This, fortu,- 

 nately, was effected. In the meantime great part of the 

 pictures, plate glass, and plate, with the most rare part of 

 the furniture, &c. was placed out of danger. The drawing- 

 room which is now a scene of desolation was fitted up 

 magnificently about three weeks since, on the occasion of 

 the visit of her Majesty, who lunched with the family on 

 her way to Pole-hill. Altogether the damage is estimated 

 at upwards of 15,000/., which will principally fall upon 

 the Sun Fire-office. The fire is supposed to have origin- 

 ated through a flue at the back of the staircase commu- 

 nicating with the roof. 



Whitby.— An inquest has been held upon the body of 

 John Moffat, gamekeeper to the Marquess of Normanby, 

 who was shot in the night of the 29th ult. by a poacher 

 named Lowther, and subsequently died of his wounds. A 

 verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Lowther and a man 

 named Pearson, his companion, was returned and they 

 have been committed to York Castle for trial. Moffat 

 had lived with the Marquess of Normanby at Mulgrave 

 Castle for the last 1 5 years, and was just about to be mar- 

 ried. His body was interred in Lyme churchyard on 

 Saturday, and the funeral was attended by the Earl of 

 Mulgrave, Mr. Turton, and a large concourse of people. 

 The murderer has been thrice convicted of poaching, and 

 was the first person suspected of having committed tha 

 murder of Mrs. Robinson, at Eskdale-side, for the dis- 

 covery of which a reward of 200/. was offered, but nothing 

 appeared in evidence against him, and he was discharged. 

 Rail-rays.— The following are the returns for tbe pa** 

 week:-Birmingham and Derby, 124G7. ; Birmingham 

 and Gloucester, 1717/. ; Eastern Counties, 3ol,/. ; Edin- 

 burgh and Glasgow, 1742/.; Great Western, 11,801/.; 

 Grand Junction, 6888/. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 







dona* 



Church, one Fill! ' Committee of the Round 



of ll »e kind in °t« tl ' C - " beautiful antique structures 



li <Jn from i 1PP m • kin 8 (1 "rt. has just re eei t ed a subserip- 



r 31a J fc *ty of 25/. thiougu the Keeper of the footing as the 



tbe 2nd ult. relative to a plan for a general cemetery for 

 Oxford, and which was fully noticed i 

 to additional efforts on the part of 



Dissenters. The corporation bave since met and resolved 

 to establish a general cemeicry in opposition to the wishes 

 of the parochial clergy, who however supported by the 

 bishop of the diocese have taken further steps. A meet- 

 ing was convened by the archdeacon at his rooms in Christ- 

 church on Tuesday the 16th ult. for the purpose of 

 considering the propriety of providing additional burial- 

 ground for the several parishes. It was attended by many 

 of the heads of colleges, several influential gentry and 

 tradesmen of the city, besides the parochial clergy. It 

 was resolved " that the crowded slate of some of the 

 churchyards in Oxford renders it desirable to provide addi- 

 tional burial ground or grounds, to be placed on the same 

 footing as the present churchyards -.—that a committee 

 be formed for the purpose of considering the best means 

 of giving effect to the punciple embodied in the foregoing 

 resolution, and that they report on the same to an ad- 

 journed meeting to be convened by the archdeacon. At a 

 meeting of the committee held on Friday week at the Arch- 

 deacon^ rooms, Christ Church, the report of the sub- 

 committee was delivered in and adopted, recommending— 



1. The purchase of three burial grounds on different sides 

 of Oxford for the use respectively of the parishes nearest 

 them; considering the many evils which might result 

 from funeral trains being made to pass out by one road, 

 the injury to property lying on the sides of that road, the 

 great inconvenience likely to arise on occasional days ot 

 busytraffir.the interruption to vehicles passing, and the un- 

 seen.linessof all that would take place amid such scenes, not 

 to mention the great advantage and comfort to the attend- 

 ants on the funeral procession—the aged and infirm, for 

 example— of not being compelled to extend their walk 

 through the length of the city under such circumstances. 



2. That su rial-grounds should be purchased by sub- 

 scription. 3. That these burial-grounds should be a pio- 



r!ei»n • r all persons, being placed precisely on the s»e 



ae existing chv nyards." Dr. Routh Presi- 



1187/.; Great North of England, 1309/. ; London and 



Birmingham, 14,585/.; Soul* Western, 4654/. ; Black. 



wall, 536/.; Greenwich, 578/.; Brighton, 2/88/.; Croy- 



, / rlnn 188/ t Liverpool and Manchester, 3965/.; Man- 



the Church .»d he land Counties, 2404/. ; North Midland, 40/5/ ; New. 

 the Church and the ^^ ^ ^.^ m ^ ; South . Ea8tern and Dover, 



281/.; Sheffield snd Manchester, 447/.; York and 

 North Midland, 137U-The Brighton Company heli 

 their meeting last week. A dividend of 1/. per share 

 less the income-tax was unanimously accepted, and 

 resolutions were psssed authorising the Rectors to- 

 take steps to conclude contracts for leasing the Hastings 

 and Lewes branch at a rate of 4 per *£*ff* *? 

 cost of construction, not exceeding 4/5,000/., snd 

 the Shoreham and Chichester branch at a rate of 4 

 per cent, upon cost of construction, not exceeding 



00 000/. Another important resolution was passed 

 givirc the directors power to enter into negotiations with 

 the South !• astern Company for a finsl settlement of the 

 large outstanding claim of 360,000/. on fair and reason- 

 able terms. Unless such power was delegated, it was 

 itated that no hope of arrangement could be expected 

 for the present generation of shareholders. Tbe re- 

 port states the traffic of the line to have increased 

 during the half-year 9,885/., while the expenses have 

 been reduced 7.500/., making a gross increase m net 

 revenue of 17,300/. Further economy is contem- 

 plated, which it is said can be exercised without impair- 

 ing the efficiency of the staff or decreasing the safety of 

 the public. The Brighton Company has at last joined 

 the South-Eastern and Croydon Companies in an amalga- 

 mation of working expenses, which arrangements come 

 into operation from the 1st March. After paying ; this 

 dividend, which absorbs 35,156/., a surplus of i,WW. * 

 left to the credit of the current half-year.— The Birming- 

 ham Company held their meeting last week, the dividend 

 declared was at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum paid 

 out of clear profit, leaving a considerable surplus undi- 

 vided for the benefit of the current half-year, lbe di- 

 rectors announced their determination to carry on the 

 management of the undertaking onj^oundjootm- 

 and rigidly adhere to the 



