THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



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„ 4. p«M* « "1 t0 ret um to bis own country w.th 

 ^«f gf nn anitt^g the chnrch the crowd who were 

 • •*• °u. vT .amission, set up a loud cheer as the 

 .,,«, to obMm *f t e S r;espective carriages, and the 



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c » ri0Slty -!5 ^unle that it was with the greatest difficulty 

 * *vJ?e enabled to clear the way for their progress. 

 tfcepouce*^ 6 wall.— In the course of excava- 



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^ J«t of St. Botolph's, Aldgate, the workmen last 

 t0 ? C ^ nn the foundation of the ancient Roman wall 

 *" ^h from ^e surface of about 15 feet. It was of 



2 ' f2Tiwn-th and width, and built upon a solid brick 

 Mn strongly cemented together. The bricks were 



J/tion aooarently as perfect as when they were 

 ^SX ^r A 'shor? time ago another part of 

 SKIS wall was discovered, at a similar depth, m 

 Sak^et Houndsditch, from which it appears that 

 ?^ across the lower end of Houndsditch, under the 

 ba&und of the church of St. Botolph. A quantity 

 ofTuJ metal, which is supposed to have been melted in 

 X. fir* of London, was discovered among the earth. 

 &« was a depth of made earth of from 15 to 20 feet, 

 which wai of a fine loamy quality. It is supposed that 

 when the Tower-ditch was excavated, a large quantity of 

 the toil was brought there. The same sort of soil is found 

 in mint other parts adjoining London-wall, leading to the 

 site where Winchester-house formerly stood. The ground 

 ii dog for a sewer, and there is a depth of about 20 feet 



of made earth. ' 



Accidents.— On Thursday morning a fatal accident 



occurred at the terminus of the Dover branch Railway, in 

 the Old Kent Road. A building was in progress for the 

 reception of the carriages, about 500 feet in length and 

 150 feet in width. The roof was of a gable form, and 

 principally composed of iron divided into three compart- 

 ments, supported on columns of iron 30 feet high, and 

 placed at intervals of 53 feet. The roofing was supported 

 by iron principals resting upon iron girders, and about 

 four feet distant from each other. On the top of the prin- 

 cipals were placed a quantity of boards, and upon them a 

 layer of slates. At six o'clock in the morning about 200 

 men commenced work in various parts of the terminus. 

 Several were engaged in slating the roof, and others in lay- 

 ing the concrete for the foundation of the platforms and 

 tramways of the respective compartments. The men 

 had been at work about three quarters of an hour, when 

 the attention of those below was attracted ^to the roof by 

 a number of the slates rolling off. They then saw no reason 

 for alarm, but almost immediately the entire roof was 

 observed to swerve slightly to and fro, and they then Ire- 

 treated as fast as possible, calling out to apprise those who 

 were at work on the roof of their danger. Scarcely had 

 thit alaimbeen given, when the roof of two compartments 

 to the extent of from 200 to 250 feet gave way with a 

 tremendous crash, carrying with it all the men who were 

 on it at the time, and burying those who had not time to 

 make their escape from below in the ruins. Many were 

 struck in endeavouring to effect their escape by the falling 

 fragments ; one man was killed, and eight others seriously 

 injured. The noise occasioned by the fall of the building 

 181 e( l ,lal t0 th e discharge of a park of Artillerv, and so 

 great was the alarm of the inhabitants in the vicinity, that 



nn/ r r u ,m P elled them > in numerous instances, to rush 

 oat or their houses in their night-clothes, believing that 



r D ,° ,S L7 lS occasioned - «y an earthquake. 

 Vr n tr £-~ The Commissioner of the City Police, 

 I » Harvey, has published his report for the past 



ami*, fk ° ng t. the multit »de of facts which it records, it 

 fi«-J!» j .. numbe r and magnitude of the robberies 



m*» , a n the c[t 7 durin S the y ear ha ™ been much 

 tuallv in >a and that the total amount of property ac- 



lest than m** th ? pa8t year ' valued at the hi 6 hest rate » is 

 1229 robb ^f ^ tm ' lt a PP ears moreover that of the 

 citv dnrin ei ?w 8 al1 descriptions which occurred in the 

 ▼aloe thV / ear 1843 not one amounted to 300/. in 

 exceeded 5 7 . &h exceed ed 100/. ; 607 not having 

 Ttlue Th J there bein S 426 case8 of theft under 5*. 

 base's upo 6 n J Umber of persons brought to the station- 

 to call for a * ar ® es '. and under circumstances too trivial 

 B Pon the . maglsteria l interference is very great, and largely 



k chieflv l D tt re k Se ~" a fact which Mr - Harvey thinks may 

 idle and X . uted t0 the inducements held out to the 



°f the connT Pated J t ° flock t0 London from remote parts 

 D °t be toa i r the foolish impression—which can- 



easiI T and 8pced . ll y dispelled-that food and lodging are 

 to the noli. gra l UltOUSly t0 be o bt ained ! In regard 

 K ' have hip 6 5 lS - 8tated that out of 1068 men only 

 272 retired T dlsm,ssed d nringthe last three years, whilst 

 t°* expense • assume superior situations. As regards 

 ^'ce is 41%^ / app , e . ars that the total cost of the city 

 ind men fin'-n 1'J^ h ' includi ng commissioner, officers, 

 of ^e Marriak )f ,s 76/ ' P er h ead; whereas the cost 

 ke *». Mr H policc ( 181 men) exceeds 112/. per 



Ut "reneth of IV™* statUtical results are appended :— 

 tte « of the new Clt 7 P o!ice force was at the commence- 



* n tbe year 1843 ^tk ^^ and ° nly 37 wer e dismissed 

 before the maril L f . , totttl nu mber of persons taken 

 ^2 i 18 ^? l8t ™ te. m 1843 amounted to 4478, against 



tbe Person, and , f ^ who . [n 540 ^ere offenders against 

 5 w ere discVl-i a 5 alnst Property ; of these 4478 



(1843), the total number of summonses was 1467 against 

 1502 in 1842. The number of lives saved by the police 

 was 41 ; number of fires discovered by them 182 ; value 

 of property stolen 83537., of which 1407/. was recovered. 

 Of the robberies committed in 1843, 26 were burglaries, 

 736 robberies in dwelling-houses, 274 from the person, and 

 193 in the streets — making a grand total of 1229. 



Mortality of the Metropolis. — The following is the 

 number of Deaths registered in the week ending March 

 30_West Districts, 149 ; Northern, 199 ; Central, 168 ; 

 Eastern, 227 ; Southern, 337 ; Total, 1080. Weekly 

 average for the last five years, 946. 



CITY. 



Money-Market, Friday. — A memorable event was put 

 upon record on Saturday last in the entry of the day's 

 transactions at the Stock Exchange. After a steady and 

 almost uniform advance that has been a good while in pro- 

 gress, Consols, in which fund are comprised two-thirds of 

 the public debt of England, were officially marked at par, 

 or 100/. money for 100/. stock. The last time they were 

 at 100/. was in 1749, the year after the peace of Aix-la- 

 Chapelle, at which period the amount of the public debt 

 was rather more than 78,000,000/. The highest price the 

 Three-per-Cents. ever rose to was in June, 1737, and 

 again in May, 1739, when they attained the high price of 

 107/. Between the years 1729 and the year of the 

 Rebellion, 1745, the Three-per-Cents. were never lower 

 than 89, and for a considerable portion of that period 

 they were above par. Again, in March, 1792, they rose to 

 9 7 J, when the amount of the national debt was 239,350,000/. 

 During the period between the peace of Paris, in 1763 

 (when the amount of the debt was 138,774,000/.), and the 

 breaking out of the American war, they fluctuated between 

 80 and 90 per cent. Towards the close of the American 

 war — namely, in February, 1782, they were as low as 54^. 

 At the termination of the American war the debt was 

 249,851,628/. In the years 1797-8, in consequence of the 

 great success of the French armies on the Continent, and 

 of tbe mutiny at the Nore, and of the rebellion in Ireland, 

 together with the failure of the attempt to negotiate with 

 the French Republic, the price of stock became less than 

 it has been before or since that time. In May, and again 

 in June, 1797, the Three per Cents. Reduced were as low 

 as 46J. In the September of that year the Three per 

 Cent. Consols fell to 47|, being the lowest price to which 

 they have ever fallen. Dr. Hamilton, in his work on the 

 national debt, states that they were also at that price in 

 January, 1798. The Three per Cent. Consols have not 

 been under 68 since tbe latter part of 1820, when they 

 were 67|. The highest price the Four per Cents, ever 

 attained was 107|, in August, 1791 ; and the lowest price 

 was 59£ in January, 1798. The highest jprice the Five 

 per Cents, ever attained was in August^ 1791, when they 

 were 122^, and the lowest price was in August, 1798, 

 when they were only 69J.— Consols closed last evening 

 at 100| for account, Three per Cents. Red. 99f ; Three- 

 and-a-Half per Cents., 103^; Bank Stock, 200J to £ ; 

 Exchequer Bills, 74 to 76 p.m. 



DECLARATIONS OP INSOLVENCY.— R. Mark«, 7 of Union-«tr«et, 

 Southwark, and of Liquorpond-street, Bedford-street. vuuualler-R. Dikk*m, 

 ot Tiverton, Devonshire, out of bnnnesi— J- Johnson, of Birmingham, retail 

 brewer— E. Gate*, of .Oxford, milliner— I. .CoaaN, of Hattingi, buinx, 



jeweller. 



GAZETTE OF THE WEEK BANKRUPTS.— J. Powell, jun. f of the 



Quadranr, Middlesex, and also now or late of Birmingham, lodging house, 

 keeper— T. and J. Wai.krr, of York-road, Lambeth, uphoWten-rs-N. 

 Procter, of Meanwood, Yorkshire, tanner— T. Pbarcb, 01 Meaford, Stafford- 

 shire, miller.— C. Clack Beech-street, Barbican, haberdash er.— feusAN Ssacn- 

 dhrs, Golden square, Westminster, board and lodging- house keeper. 



SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS — R. G. Macoonald, Esq., of Clantanald 

 kelp-mannfacturer— R. DoccLAs.of St- Andrew's, blacksmith— R. MiUak, 

 Jan., of Dundee— W. Andrrson, of Dundee, merchant-J. >lk»ht and J. W 

 'Nicholson, of Edinburgh, engineers-R. H. and W. H. I-tkr, ot Glasgow 

 ship-chandlers — P- Smyth and Co., Tillicoultry, woollen-manufac- 

 turers— G. Thomson, Cullace, Perthshire, manufacturer. 



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ap a 35- confl d *^ l he magistrates, 1626 held to 



committed for trial. l a the same year 



Brighton. — On Saturday, John Lawrence, who was 

 convicted at the late assizes for Sussex of the murder of 

 Mr. Solomon, the chief officer of Brighton, undeiwent 

 the sentence of the law in front of the county gaol at 

 Horsham. The subscription set on foot for the widow 

 and children of Mr. Solomon already amounts to 1200/., 

 including 500/. from the town commissioners, and 50/. 



from her Majesty. 



Bristol. — The Bush coach-office in Bristol, where an 

 extensive business had been carried on for, we believe, 

 more than a century, closed last week in obedience to the 

 power of steam, and the absorption of its business in the 

 great vortex of railway travelling. — The following appears 

 In the Bristol Gazette, and, if true, is one of the most 

 extraordinary facts of a similar nature on record : — The 

 person, a cattle dealer, who was a minute too late to get 

 on board the despatch boat, by the upsetting of which in 

 a squall, at the New Passage, all who had embarked lately 

 perished, is the same man who, on the 1st September, 

 1839, was a few seconds behind time to get into the Old 

 Passage boat, which foundered, with a great loss of life. 



Croydon. — On Wednesday a new and commodious 

 stock market was opened in this town at the back of the 

 Greyhound Inn, and adjoining the fair field. The old 

 market at the bottom of the town had long been found 

 inadequate, and Mr. John Martin, an old inhabitant, 

 liberally resolved to supply the deficiency by erecting the 

 new market in the centre of the town, and close to the 

 station of the Brighton and South Eastern Railways, 

 thereby giving great facility to graziers from the lower 

 parts of Surrey and Kent to bring their stock to market. 

 The profits of 'the market from tolls are to be vested in 

 trustees for the benefit of decayed tradesmen of the town. 



Ipsivich.— The local papers mention another escape of 

 a felon, more daring than the recent ones at Nottingham. 

 Leach Borley, the man who was on Friday last convicted 

 before Mr. Justice Patteson of maliciously setting fire to 



a barley stack, the property of Mr. Gayford, of jRymer 

 House, and sentenced to transportation for life, was im- 

 mediately after his conviction conveyed with other pri- 

 soners to the van employed in carrying prisoners to the 

 Shire-hall. On the arrival of the van at the jail, the 

 turnkey as usual went to open the door of the van to let 

 out the prisoners, when Borley \nade a sudden sprirj£ 

 from the steps. The governor, who was standing by at 

 the time to receive the prisoners, noticing the spring of 

 the convict from the steps, attempted to grasp his collar, 

 but the rapid motion of the convict prevented his so do- 

 inp, and, suddenly eluding his grasp, he ran off rapidly in 

 a direction towards Haberden Grounds. Several of the 

 turnkeys attempted to follow him, but the darkness of the 

 night, with the speed of the convict, prevented their com- 

 ing up with him. No tidings of him have been received.. 

 Leeds.— On. Monday night a numerous meeting of the 

 inhabitants of this borough was held in favour of a re- 

 striction on factory labour to ten hours per day for women, 

 young persons, and children. It had been contemplated 

 to give a public soiree to Mr. Oastler on his liberation 

 from prison, but in consequence of the withdrawal of the 

 Factory Bill, and the substitution of a new measure, it was 

 resolved to hold a meeting instead, in order to ascertain 

 the public opinion on the subject. The Rev. Dr. Hook 

 presided, and Mr. Oastler and several other gentlemen 

 addressed the meeting at great length. Resolutions in 

 favour of the ten hours restriction, and petitions to Par- 

 liament, founded upon these, were unanimously adopted. 



Manchester.— The course pursued by Lord Ashley hi 

 allowing Sir James Graham to withdraw the Ministerial 

 Factory Bill without opposition, has been the subject of 

 considerable observation in Manchester. The Lancashire 

 Central Short- time Committee met last week, when the 

 following resolution was unanimously adopted, and printed 

 for extensive circulation :— " Resolved— That having read 

 Lord Ashley's letter to Mr. Howarth, Chairman of the 

 Delegates in London, explanatory of the course which his 

 Lordship pursued with respect to the withdrawal of the 

 Ministerial Factory Bill by Sir James Graham, this Com- 

 mittee avail themselves of the earliest opportunity to 

 express their entire concurrence in the course which his 

 Lordship has adopted ; and, at the same time, beg to 

 assure his Lordship that we place the utmost reliance and 

 confidence in his wisdom, integrity, and ability to conduct 

 this great and important question to a successful and, we 

 hope, a speedy issue ; for the accomplishment of which 

 we shall be most happy to render his Lordship every 

 assistance in our power." 



Newark.— The once-celebrated post-house, the Clinton 

 Arms, in this town, has ceased to be such; the horses, 

 coaches, &c. were last week sold in consequence of toe 

 decrease of road business. The town has now that listless 

 look so general in places dependent upon posting and 

 coach traffic, which has been destroyed by the proximity 

 of a railway and the effects of steam travelling. Ihe iirn 

 alluded to had, a few years, ago, 25 to 30 pair of post- 

 horses, besides those required for stage coaches, &c. 



Oxford.— Richard Elliott, who described himself as a 

 cigar merchant, residing in Bell-street, Paddington and 

 who has been in custody since the 18th of last month, on 

 a charge of being concerned with two others, not yet m 

 custody, in robbing the Defiance Oxford coach of 150O 

 sovereigns, was for the first time publicly examined on 

 Saturday. Several witnesses were examined, but their 

 evidence added little to the facts already known to our 

 readers. After a long examination the magistrates re- 

 manded him to a future day. 



Rochester.— Mr. John Withers Powell, solicitor, of 

 Canterbury, was last week committed for trial at the next 

 sessions, on two separate charges of felony-namely, with 

 stealing, on the 23d March, three silver teaspoons and a 

 silver table-spoon, from apartments in the house of Mr. 

 Anderson, in this city, in which he lodged ; also with 

 stealing a telescope from the same apartments. X He pri- 

 soner is respectably connected, and not long ago held the 

 office of coroner for the western division of Kent. As he 

 has latelv acted in a very strange way, there is reason to 

 believe that he is insane. The prisoner during the whole 

 of the proceedings was in a highly excited and nervous 

 state. About two years since he was the inmate j af i a mad- 

 house, from which he escaped, and has since b"«t lai£. 

 Two of his former keepers were present, but were not ex- 

 amined. In the course of the examination he remarked, 

 "This is a cheap method of trting a commission of 



^Sheffield —The local papers mention the explosion of 

 another infernal machine in a private family in this town. 

 It appears that on Saturday morning a tin case loaded 

 with gunpowder was thrown into the bedroom-window of 

 Mr George Gillott, file-grinder, residing at 197, Granvilie- 

 street. Mr. and Mrs. Gillott, with an infant, were at the 

 time in bed ; but on jumping out he saw the fuse burn- 

 ing, and got his wife and child down stairs as quickly as 

 possible. They had scarcely, however, crossed the lower 

 room, when the explosion took place, shaking down part 

 of the ceiling of the* bedroom, and breaking every pane in 

 the window, with other damage in different parts of the 

 house, but none of the inmates were injured. The Shef- 

 field Iris adds, that the frequency of these occurrences is 

 rapidly degrading the character of the town. 



Wolverhampton.- On Easter Monday, Mr. Cobden, 

 Mr. Villiers, and Mr. R. R. Moore, as a deputation from 

 the Anti Corn-law League, attended a Free Trade meet- 

 ing in this town. Mr. Barker, a l«r»'"^"* 

 and a borough magistrate, presided ; and ^ m J^V^ 

 addressed at great length by Mr. VW«e», Mr lhorneky, 

 Mr. Cobden, Mr. Moore, and other gentiemen A sub 

 scription in behalf of the League Fund ^^vlll 

 and 500/. were subscribed before the meeting broke up. 



