THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



._ . i C5 , 1( ,dl froro'the Board of Heads 



^t*-^ "^'f * ^ The subject of dining 

 rfSS-^JrSd at the houses of confections , 



§re re mi 

 ^.trary to the 



WP"^ ,t n? 'dama g e C doneTo"the"farmers in the 

 * •*: !£ ^«d«g Xnting ; " and the ncnergwdu- 



?VJ th °I both the abovenamed practices are 



' < t »?ute° and subject the offenders to 



x\ ' Vice Chancellor has prohibited any 



r- ■ , J, ? of the Free Church of Scotland in any 



•»** ■ *Xo to, wWch the students have access. _ 



•■£l£ &wr5 incendiary fires have taken place in 

 Wham.- Se ™ra ^ fort ht . Among 



a**"' P hie out at Falkbourn-hall, the seat of 



mild" 

 6ned 



J^ln^^ and the .hole of the stable- 



'tui was -«tS«.W destroyed. The carriages were 



r K _ a m 



Mfi«„« were burnt to the ground. 

 ^nfinrdTtheie buildings ; neither the mansion nor any 

 SXttber out-buildings sustained injnry. 



The fire ori- 



entirely destroyed 



Eincu injured, and two of the horses were burnt to 

 £5"?t being impossible to remove them in time. 



The following are the returns for the past 



1193/.; Birmingham 



Counties, 3185/. ; 



Great "Western, 



week 



•nd 



ek .-.Birmingham and Derby, 11 

 I Gloucester, 1735/. ; Eastern 

 inhnrsh and Glasgow, 1/95/.; 



Brighton, 



London and Birmingham, J z,//ui. ; aoui 

 4 /.: Blackwall, 5 U 8/. ; Greenwich, 69 J/. 



3795/ 



"till North Midland, 37C2/. ; Newcastle and Car- 

 liife 1294/. ; South Eastern and Dover, 243G/. ; Shef- 

 ield'and* Manchester, 468/. ; York and North Midland, 

 1339/- — The half-yearly meeting of the London and Croy- 

 don Company was held last week. The report announced 

 that the branch line to the Bricklayers' Arms would be 

 opened by the 1st of May, when the fares upon the main 

 line would be reduced, the traffic upon which was in a 

 stationary state. With respect to the question of toll with 

 the Greenwich Company, no definite conclusion had been 

 arrifed at, and the directors suggested that any further 

 negotiations must be deferred until the Greenwich Com- 

 pany has fully ascertained the results of the policy they 

 had hitherto pursued. The directors, for a variety of 

 reason?, had declined to entertain the proposition of the 

 South Eastern and Dover Company to lease the 

 Croydon line. The Brighton Company, since the last 

 metting, had agreed to join the establishment at New 

 Cross, for the amalgamation of the locomotive power of 

 the companies, the arrangement for which commenced on 

 the 1st of this month. A Bill for the extension of the 

 Croydon line to Epsom was now before Parliament, and 

 the directors had felt it their duty to promote the forma- 

 tion of a proposed line to Chatham, by a junction with 

 the Croydon Ililway at Norwood, thus opening a com- 

 munication with the metropolis and Rochester, Gravesend, 

 Brighton, Portsmouth, &c. The directors "observed with 

 satisfaction the appointment of a Parliamentary Com- 

 mittee, and thought that both the policy and position of 

 the Croydon Railway had everything to hope from it and 

 nothing to fear. The balance for the half-year was 

 14,6o5/., out of which a dividend was declared of 7s. per 

 share. A long discussion took place on the topics con- 

 tained in the report, which was carried unanimously.— 



u j yearIy meetin £ °f the West London Company 

 was neid last week. The report announced that the 

 wnoie of the line was completed, and only wanted the 

 necessary proofs of testing its solidity before its opening 



U t P L° n the 15th Ma J next - Satisfactory results 

 naa^been obtained in the recent negotiations with the 

 uwitfon and Birmingham and Great Western Companies, 

 i lie directors, with a view to the business arrangements 

 or tne line had appointed Mr. S. Braithwaite, the late 

 manager of the traffic department on the Eastern Coun- 

 ws Kaiiway, to superintend it. The report having been 

 tnr. r 5 soI l utlon > *ere passed authorising the directors 



th/lif J i- e f Capital of 129,200/. for the extension of 

 1? fin™ knightsbridge, and also the remaining sum of 

 "',7' a ^ tbo "sed to be raised under the Company's 



ueS Act * , Great P art of th e 129,000/. will be ex- 

 Hwow in purchasing the land across which the branch 



not uifVi ? n ' The Actors calculate, however, that 

 o*efYh ™ * iU b * actually wanted, and therefore 



sumln. r reS ° iUtl0ns embodi ed a plan for expending the 

 new.;; Bny ' ln cance ^ng the shares created by the 

 £* *rran g ement.-The thirteenth half-yearly meeting of 

 Manchester and Birmingham Company was held last 

 -tavin* t i a d,videod ot " 18s. per share was declared, 



fetors Lr , aIan r c V n hand of 4858/ - St. ld - The satis- 

 iWeW ♦ °V heCom P an y' s affairs immediately caused 

 1 ^ares to advan cejo 4/. premium. 



Dulli Tt IRELAND. 



w»s h*u " x. WeekIy met>tin g of the Repeal Association 

 caair \? n ,? nda y» Mr - D e Verdon, of Dundalk, in the 

 ■Whi. ftu ] ' Conne11 said he had received a letter 

 inBirni if"' c,lbingtSie rcc «P*»on he had received 

 to the I i rn * Wa8 sure ifc uould T rove gratifying 



P«tted \? Av p!e t0 hear of tlie enthusiasm which 

 «*e l*f« Ut i nnc11 on CTer y occasion in which he 

 tt oved tl f m ™« 1Uh audience. Mr. Smith O'Brien 

 »inM,. I \ • I 1 "' OConnell '8 letter be inserted on the 



S.O'BriP« * a "? Carried ' **■ R - D - Browne, Mr. 

 ncn, and others, then addressed the Association at 



circulation of them. They were determined to respect 

 even the semblance of law. He further observed, that 

 the " Instructions to Repeal "Wardens " had been made 

 the subject of much cavil in the recent State Trials, and 

 had been used against them. He then mentioned that 

 new instructions were in course of preparation, and he 

 moved a resolution to the effect that the existing instruc- 

 tions be suspended, and that all Repeal Wardens should 

 cease to act on them ; but that, nevertheless, those 

 Wardens should continue in their praiseworthy efforts to 

 preserve the peace, to obtain signatures to petitions, and 

 to apprehend Ribbonmen. Mr. Steele, as head Repeal 

 Warden, earnestly called on his brother Wardens to act 

 in accordance with the advice cf Mr. J. O'Connell. The 

 rent for the week was 305/. 45. Ad. 



Belfast. — A special meeting of the Irish General As- 

 sembly was held last week to consider the recent decision 

 of the House of Lords in the Presbyterian Marriage case. 

 The moderator, the Rev. Dr. Stewart, presided, and ar- 

 rangements were completed for meetings to be held all 

 through the country to petition Parliament. This agita- 

 tion, it is said, will assume a very formidable character. 







conid 



10 r epeat thut *u * — ,wo "'B icul » »aia it was necessary 



ae 4aner \ S0Ciation could not in future transmit 



^ *; or have any connection whatever ia the 



1ato. 



Assize Intelligence.— Norfolk Circuit, Aylesbury.— 

 The Rev. John Day was indicted for having feloniously and mali- 

 ciously wounded seven sheep, the property of one William Weedon, 

 on 19th Julv last. This singular case excited very general interest 

 in the neighbourhood of Aylesbury, and the Court was thronged to 

 hear the details of the trial. The prisoner is rector of the parish of 

 Hawridge, near Aylesbury, and at the time to which the evidence 

 related he lodged in the house of a farmer named Glcnister. Mr. 

 Glenister held some land as tenant to the prisoner, and adjoining 

 that land was a pasture belonging to Mr. Weedon, the prosecutor. 

 On the 19th of list July the prisoner and Mr. Weedon met in the 

 high road at Hawridge, and the prisoner told Mr. Weedon that 

 seven of his sheep had been trespassing in his close, and he had im- 

 pounded them. Weedon replied it was all nonsense, for that the 

 fences over which they had strayed— if they had trespassed at all- 

 were Mr. Day's, and he alone was in fault. The prisoner upon this 

 said, " Then I'll go and prosecute the sheep ; " and he and Weedon 

 parted. It appeared that the prisoner went directly to his stable in 

 which the seven sheep w ere impounded, and having called one ot 

 Glenister's labourers, desired him to hold them while he hamstrung 

 them. He took out his knife, and having driven tbc poor animals 

 into a corner in the stable, he stabbed them all in the right flank to 

 the depth of about six inches ; after which he turned them out of 

 the stable, and drove them in the direction of their own pasture. It 

 happened that at this time Mr. Weedon was going by, and seeing 

 his sheep bleeding and lame, and in a most pitiable condition, he 

 accused the prisoner of having cut them, an accusation which the 

 latter denied, telling the prosecutor he was a liar, for none of the 

 sheep had been on his premises. The prosecutor replied that it was 

 plain how the matter stood; to which the prisoner rejoined, there 

 was no creat deal of harm done after all, and the parties then sepa- 

 rated. Mr. Weedon then procured the attendance of a couple of 

 butchers, who examined the sheep, and certified that the damage 

 done was 4/. ; this was reported to the prisoner, who refused to pay 

 that sum, but offered 21., and said he hoped he had not injured them 

 any great deal. They were, however, very sevcrclj injured -, and on 

 the following day the butchers recommended their owner to have 

 them put out of their misery, and it was done. The prosecutor after 

 this took no steps to bring the prisoner to justice, and would not 

 have taken any notice of the matter, had not a neighbouring justice 

 told him it ought to be followed up, and that prosecutor, as the 

 constable of the parish, ought of all men to be aware how wrong it 

 was to let so serious a matter pass. He therefore laid an informa- 

 tion, and the prisoner was apprehended and committed to prison. 

 In his cross-examination the prosecutor said there was no lll-leeling 

 betwixt him and the prisoner, but that on the contrary he had been 

 bail for "the latter upon some other charge at the sessions, ine 

 defence set up was, that the prisoner had no malice or grudge 

 atrainst Mr. Weedon, and that therefore he could not have done the 

 act in question from any wish or desire to injure him by destroying 

 his property ; and that the real truth was, that the prisoner thought 

 that he had a right to kill or wound the animals which had com- 

 mitted the trespass in respect of which they were impounded. If he 

 sincerely believed this, he was entitled to an acquittal, as suchbeliet 

 ne-atived all notion of malice on his part, which was a necessary 

 ingredient in the evidence for the prosecution in support ot such an 

 indictment. The Jury took this view of the case, and Acquitted the 

 prisoner. Lord Abinger, addressing the prisoner, advised him to be 

 very circumspect in future, and endeavour to govern his temper, it 

 was really lamentable to see such an ignorance of the first rules and 

 principles of law in a man occupying the station and filling the office 

 which the prisoner occupied and filled ; and he seriously advised 

 him to profit by the grace and the mercy which had been shown to 

 him, by applying some portion of his time in acquiring a knowledge 

 of the laws of his country and the rights of his neighbour. The 



prisoner was then discharged. .„.,,. _ 



Oxford Circuit, Worcester.— Beg-, v. the Rev. TI illiam 

 8 th— The defendant, who is the vicar of the paush ot bt. 

 Faith Overburrv, some time since dismissed the l m ^ecutcr, 

 Thomas Harris, from the office of parish Clerk, which he had held 

 for several years. The prosecutor obtained a mandamus in trie 

 Court of Queen's Eench, calling on defendant to restore him to 

 that office, the return to which alleged as the grouncs of dis- 

 missal, several acts of gross misconduct on the part of the 

 prosecutor. To this return there were two pleas; tirst that 

 prosecutor had not been summoned or heard m his defence prior 

 to his disn al, to which plea there was a demurrer; and 

 secondly, a traverse of the various acts of misconduct alleged on 

 the return ; on this plea, issue wasjoined. The Court of Queen s 

 Bench had given judgment in the prosecutor's favour on the 

 issue in law, and the issue of fact now came on for trial, beverai 

 itnesses were called who had been in the constant habit oi 

 attending the church in Overbury, and who clearly proved that 

 on St. Andrew's day, 1841, and Ash Wednesday, 1842, the prose- 

 cutor was intoxicated in the church j that on the former day he 

 could not find the proper place in his book, and that it was 

 found for him by one of the congregation; that he read in an 

 irregular and incorrect manner, sometimes ben re and sometimes 

 after the vicar; and that his conduct and reading annoyed tne 

 congregation, and made bcveral laugh. Before the visitation in 

 August, 1842, the vicar having introduced chanting, desired tne 

 clerk to read the responses in a lower tone of voice; out ne 

 ceased reading them altogether, until the second Sunda> aiter 

 the visitation at which the charges were made against defen ° ant . } 

 and en that Sunday he began to read them in a loud and nnu 

 voice, and most irregular and hrawling manner, which scterai 

 witnesses declared was very annoying to the vicar and 7Q c . _ D& # ^" 

 gation. At the evening service, on Ash Wednesday, ««»«*: 

 f endant went to the communion rails to change his s^P"^*";; 

 the prosecutor, holding up the gown in his bands, endeavourtu 

 to force it over the surplice. His conduct on lhat J? veul " s tl J;pp 

 described to be precisely that of a drunken man. Two or "« 

 witnesses proved that at the evening service, in Dec , ! ° 4 ^ P 5~ 

 cutor endeavouring to snuff hiscandles,exting nedone or J ne '"' 

 and this awkwardness witness thought at the time was causes .uy 

 drink. The prosecutor's violence on receipt of thc r n °„,, r ' "", 

 his insolent language respecting the vicar, were tuuy P™""- 

 It was shown by the testimony of some of those who ^ ei J P^" 

 sent for the purpose of receiving the sacrament at Michacimaa, 

 1842, that the wear, seeing the prosecutor in ^^^"^'^ 

 Mrs. Smith to him thrice. The witnesses did not hear wnat sue 



said to him ; he waited a few minutes and left the church. He 

 socn after re-entered, the service not having yet commenced. 

 Mrs. Smith was sent to him again, when he exclaimed that he 

 was ordered by Mr. Price the churchwarden to do his duty, and he 

 should do it, and read aloud. The vicar then said that those who 

 wished to receive the sacrament should draw near, and that those 

 who did not were to withdraw. The prosecutor then went away. 

 The service was interrupted for about a quarter of an hour. 

 Several other acts of an indecorous and improper character, both, 

 in church while acting as clerk, and out of church when en7 

 messages or notices were sent to him by defendant, were proved. 

 Se veral witnesses were called by prosecutor's counsel, but though 

 they stated that in their opinion the prosecutor read well, yet they 

 admitted that his voice was loud and discordant, and heard above 

 the chantin g of the congregation. They also confirmed the evidence 

 given by the defence respecting the intoxication of the prosecutor. 

 Mr. Justice Coleridge, in summing up, said that he should leave 

 three points to the Jury for their consideration :— fii whether 

 they were satisfied that the prosecutor had been intoxicated as 

 alleged ? secondly, whether he had read in a loud and harsh 

 voice to annoy the vicar? and, lastly, whether he had obstructed 

 the administration of the sacrament ? The Jury after a short 

 deliberation found for the defendant on the first two points, and 

 for the Crown on the third. The verdict was then entered gene- 

 rally for the defendant. This case occupied the Court 11 hours. 



Nortiikrx Circuit, Durham.— Topham and Wife v. Mac- 

 gregor and Wife.— This case, which commenced on Thursday 

 morning at nine o'clock, was an issue directed from the Court of 

 Chancery, to tiy the validity of a will made by the late Richard 

 Wrightson, of Cockerton, near Darlington, under date of Decem- 

 ber 29, 1829, bequeathing certain copyhold premises within the 

 manor of Bondgate to his then wife, one of the present plaintiffs. 

 The. plaintiffs said that the testator did thereby devise the same; 

 defendant asserted that he did not, and thereupon ue was 

 joined. The case was gone into at great length. The facts are 

 briefly, that Wrightson bequeathed, by the will alluded to, all he 

 possessed to his wife, Mrs. Wrightson, who afterwards married 

 the plaintiff, Topham ; Wrightson's sister was the wife of Mac- 

 grcgor; nothing was bequeathed to them; and they disputed 

 the validity of the will on various ground*, one of which was, 

 that the execution of the will was informal, the attesting wit- 

 nesses signing it before it was a will— being merely then blank ; 

 another, that when he made it he was of unsound mind ; and, 

 third, that the making of the will was the result of a conspiracy 

 between Topham, his wife, and Mr. Mewburn, their law agent. 

 The plaintiffs repudiated these allegations, and counsel en'cred 

 into lengthened statements, read various lette and called a 

 number of witnesses to establish this disclaimer. Baron Rolfe 

 having summed up with great minuteness, occupying nearly three 

 hours, the Jury, after retiring for a short time, returned a verdict 

 for the plaintiffs. The case occupied three days. 



Mini.AXD Circuit, Northampton.- Nath ulie Xuard, aged 2~t 

 was charged with having, in April last, at Barnock in this 

 county, feloniously delivered to the Rer. Herbert Charles Marstt 

 certain letters, demanding 10,000 francs being of the value of 

 400/. in English money. The prisoner was a Frenchwoman, ana 

 it was stated she knew hardly a word of English. The Rev. Mr. 

 Marsh the prosecutor is about 36 years of ape, and son to the late 

 Bishop of Peterborough. He is Rector of Barnock and Prebcn- 

 dary of the Cathedral of Peterborough, but since the facts of th .s 

 case have been known to the present Bishop the slices of his 

 Church have been performed by a Curate. The facts of the case 

 are briefly these: -Mr. Marsh is an unmarried man, : ™ »^ 

 years ago became ac inted with the prisoner at a d« TC P u ^ le 

 house in London. This led to frequent communication bctwecii 

 them in London and Paris, which ended in her *»"'£"* J™' ' ™ d 



thus led to the present prosecution. The Jury niter o long con- 

 sultation returned a verdict of Not Guilty, which was received 

 with applause by a crowded Court. This demonstration of feelmj 

 was instantly checked. There was a second indictment, hut the 

 Counsel for the prosecution said it was substantially the same 

 question, and therefore no evidence would be offered ; the prisoner 

 was therefore acquitted on the second indictment. There was a 

 third charge, that of conspiring to extort money, which was not 

 pressed, upon her entering into her own rcoopizancw to come 

 up when called upon, and in the meantime to keep the peace. 



BIRTHS.-On the 5th inst., at Baden Baden, the lady of W. 

 H. DoL-cr.AS, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter-5th inst. , at 

 Beddington, Surrey, Mrs. G. ENcsxapM.of a son w! bich sur- 

 vived its birth only a short time-;th inst., at S^rctton, v^olver- 

 hampton,theladyof Lieutenant-Gencral M .™*™*!**. !ff 

 andheir-fjth inst., at the Vicarage, St anwel the w fe of the 



Rev. W. W. Brrrv, of a son-Qth mst., at / b,c .V^ 1 « t Th n rn 

 shire, the lady of P. Lkversace, Esq., of a ^Shtcr. stiB-bora 



-9th inst., Mrs. J. *^\^'^^&:2LZ*£fti 



ter-Oth inst., in Upper Stamford-street. Mrs. J. M.»tthkws, or 

 a daughter- 0th inst., at Hornsey, Mrs. M. Spar-tali, of a 

 daughter-Hth inst., at Priory -pi ace, Edgbaston, near Birming- 

 ham, the lady of A. J. L. Peebles, Esq., 59th Reg., of a son. 



MARRIED.-Onthe6th inst., at Monkstown, near Dubhn, 

 M W iiBLETT, eldest son of Mr. G. Niblett, of Bow Middx 

 to Mart widow of the late Mr. J. Kertland, of Sackv, lie- street, 

 DubliiWth inst., at the parish church, \olverhainpton S 

 Bolrne Esq , of her Majesty's Customs, Jamaica, to Char. 

 lotte rMAR^/eldest daughter of the late J. S. Sparrow Esq of 

 Oxlev,SUffordshiie-8th inst., at Tonbridge- chapel London 

 the Rev. T. W. Hixns, of Essex, to Jane, eldest «™£f^* 

 late R. Johnson, Esq., of Fleetholme-house, ^'^f^^ 

 land-Qthit>st., at St. George's, Hanovcr-square, J. Stort, 

 Esq., of Mile-end, to Harriot Docker, niece cf J. boraes, Esq,, 

 of New Grove, Mile-end. 



DIED.-On the 9th Jan., near Hawulbaugh ,, hy the accidental 

 discharge of his gun,_whilst out shooting Lieu ^ B. ^ Coow« 



KS^Sffi^rtSSSw H^JTlT Wauoh, Esq., Com- 



23 aft? "^^i:^r^^^^^ 



l^SS^&M^^UTSSk o! the late H. Ileyman, 

 Esq ' of mncerl-hill, Middlesex- 10th inst at is, . Pittville 

 vmas Cheltenham, Major G. H. Hutch ws, late of the Bengal 

 \ mas, Y,!; } ' l V . V FroK .house, near Monmouth, after a short 

 mn^^UoK^^rj^^m^ns^ of the late A. 

 VY att E«q" l*th inst., at Brentwood, Essex, Caroline Mann, 

 widr w of the late Rev. C. R. London, of Richmond, Surrey, and 

 JeetoTof Vange, Essex-Uth inst., at 44, Bedford-square, of in- 

 flammation of the lungs, Elizabeth Miriam, the beloved 

 daughter ofPhineas Nathan, Esq., aged 22- I2«h mst., m Ore*- 

 ve or-place, T.S. HonxBR,cf Mells.paik-12thinst.,at Higham- 

 hill. v\althamstow,the infant son of J. B. Capel, Esq.-lOth 

 inst., at Broxbourne, Herts, P. E. Ottev, Esq., formerly of the 

 Navy Office, and a magistrate for the county of Middlesex, agg 

 87-l2th inst.. after a long illness .Cecilia the sixth JaugMer 

 of the late Sir Bethel Codrington Bart of Dodington, ^ccs 

 tershire-lst Jan., at Camp Danaila, Major G. R-^mllw* 

 C.B., 1st Regiment of Nativelnfan ry. His death ' "■"S, 



Rev. J. A. Ashley, oMVoodhaU, H^F-^-- 'physician in 

 ! residence in Curzon- street, Sir Henrv ^X n'ftlr a long ill- 

 ordinary to her Majesty, fte. J*J^*L * William and Mary 

 ness, Clal-de Miodlkton, the beloved son oi tt 

 , Howitt, a boy of extraordinary promise. 



