Apr. 20,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



his children in his cottage. He is a journeyman farmer, 

 and has worked for Mr. Harnon, of Whitwell, for the last 

 13 years. He had killed his three elder children by beat- 

 ing them on the back of their heads with a large heavy 

 hammer. The youngest, an infant, he put head foremost 

 into a large earthen pot full of water. An inquest was at 

 once held upon the bodies of the children, and a verdict of 

 Wilful Murder returned against the father, who has been 

 committed to Norwich Castle for trial. It appears that 

 he has lately belonged to a new sect called the " Revival- 

 ists," and been very active among them as a preacher. 

 Formerly he was a Methodist Ranting preacher. It is 

 generally believed in the neighbourhood that he mur- 

 dered his children under the influence of fanaticism. 



Winchester. — A serious affray, which caused great 

 alarm among the inhabitants throughout this city, took 

 place on Sunday evening between the privates of the 1st 

 battalion of Guards (recently from Windsor) and the 

 44th Foot. A quarrel having occurred at a public-house 

 between two men belonging to each regiment, the affair 

 was taken up by their respective comrades, to the number 

 of between 300 and 400 on either side ; and, from the 

 severe blows which were exchanged, fatal consequences 

 were expected to ensue. Pickets from each regiment, 

 amounting to 300 men, with fixed bayonets, were imme- 

 diately ordered out ; but it was upwards of two hours be- 

 fore the whole of the men would be captured and secured 

 within their respective barracks. Several, who were se- 

 riously injured, are now confined to the hospital. The 

 44th Regiment is 900 strong, and the 1st battalion of 

 Grenadier Guards about 700. From the ill-feeling which 

 has sprung up between them, it is expected that one of 

 the regiments will be ordered to another district. 



York — On Friday morning a special messenger from 

 the Home Office arrived in this city by the mail train, with 

 an order from Sir J. Graham to respite the execution of 

 George Lowther for six days. It will be remembered that 

 he was convicted of the murder of Mr. Moffatt, head 

 gamekeeper to the Marquess of Normanbyl Should the 

 respite not be further extended, the execution will take 

 place this day. The prisoner admits that his act was the 

 cause of the unfortunate man's death, but denies any 

 previous feeling of malice or ill-will towards him. 



Railways. — The following are the returns for the past 

 week :— Birmingham and Derby, 1415/.; Birmingham 

 and Gloucester, 2108/. ; Eastern Counties, 4293/. ; Edin- 

 burgh and Glasgow, 2339/. ; Great Western, 14,080/. ; 

 Grand Junction, 7443/.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 

 1563/.; Great North of England, 1319/.; London and 

 Birmingham, 15,281/.; South-Western, 5575/. ; Black- 

 wall, 1131/.; Greenwich, 1341/.; Brighton, 3889/.; 

 Croydon, 401/. ; Liverpool and Manchester, 4385/. ; 

 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull, associated, 6094/. ; Mid- 

 land Counties, 2476/.; Manchester and Birmingham, 

 3086/. ; North Midland, 4296/. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 

 1375/. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 4273/. ; Sheffield and 

 Manchester, 577/. ; York and North Midland, 1622/.— 

 A direct northern railway from London to York by 

 Lincoln, having in view the connexion of the north of 

 England and Scotland, by York and Lincoln, with the 

 metropolis, is about to be projected. The line is to 

 commence from King'e-cross, pass through Chipping- 

 Barnet, Biggleswade, St. Neofs, Huntingdon, and Peter- 

 borough, to Lincoln, and thence by Gainsborough, Thome, 

 Snaith, and Selby, to York. The capital required is 

 4,000,000/. in 100/. shares. Among the advantages which 

 it is stated this route will possess are— that the distance 

 between London and York will be 39 miles less than 

 by tne existing railways ; that it will reduce the distance 

 between London and Edinburgh 39 miles ; and that it 

 will be the nearest way to Leeds, Selby, Hull, Halifax, 

 Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield, Fontefract, and 

 Sheffield. The work will be placed under the superin- 

 tendence of Sir John Rennie and Mr. Gravatt, the civil 

 engineers — Another new line in contemplation is from 

 Edinburgh through Fife to Dundee, with a junction to 

 Perth, which has the support of the most influential and 

 wealthy people of the Scotch metropolis. 800,000/. is to 

 be the capital, which is guaranteed to cover all contin- 

 gencies ; and as the line, when it is completed, will be 

 the main trunk for the northern traffic, it appears likelv 

 to return a considerable profit.— It is reported that Lord 

 Francis Egerton has an intention to drain dry the Bridge- 

 water Canal, which was constructed throughout on the 

 level without any lock or inequality of bed, and to con- 

 vert it into a railway from Manchester to Runcorn, for 

 the conveyance of goods and passengers ; the commu- 

 nication to be completed by steamers from Runcorn to 

 Liverpool. It is said that there will be no necessity to 

 go to Parliament for any powers to raise money or buy 

 land ; for the land belongs to the Bridgewater trust, and 

 the cost of laying dry the canal, laying the rails, &c, will 

 be borne by the trust, or by Lord F. Egerton individually. 

 If the report be true, this is one of the consequences 

 Of the recent purchase, by Lord F. Egerton, of the 

 Mersey and Irwell Navigation. I„ that river line, he 

 will still possess a cheap means of water conveyance, while 

 in the proposed new railway he will gain great facilities 

 for the rapid transit of goods and passengers between 

 Manchester and Liverpool, and the measure will doubt- 

 less be advantageous to Manchester, in connexion with 

 the privilege of bonding warehouses.— On Friday mornin- 

 the directors of the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway! 

 accompanied by General Pasley, the bishop of the dio- 

 cese, and a few friends, proceeded from the station at the 

 Foundry Bridge to Yarmouth, that General Pasley might 

 inspect and report upon the line. The train went verv 

 steadily, and arrived at Yarmouth station in 30 minutes. 



The line will be opened on the 1st of May A special 



general meeiing of the London and Birmingham Com. 



pany was held a few days since at the Euston station, for 

 the purpose of considering the draft of two bills now be- 

 fore Parliament, for the construction of the proposed rail- 

 ways from Chester to Holyhead, and from Lancaster to 

 Carlisle. Mr. G. Carr Glyn, the chairman, stated that 

 the company had received from the highest authority, in- 

 timation that it was the intention of Government to carry 

 out the projected improvement of Holyhead harbour. He 

 then read the clauses of the Bill, from which it appeared 

 that the London and Birmingham Company were to be 

 authorised to subscribe to the extent of one million ster- 

 ling in the Chester and Holyhead line. The Bill had 

 passed its second reading without any opposition. The 

 Bill for the Lancaster and Carlisle line would authorise 

 the Birmingham Company to raise 100,000/., and the 

 directors had come to a resolution to remain perfectly 

 neutral as regarded all the other Scotch railways projected. 

 Resolutions approving of the provisions of the Bill were 

 then carried unanimously. 



IRELAND. 

 The State Trials. — Monday being the first day of 

 Easter Term, there was as great an anxiety among the 

 people of all parties to witness the proceedings, as on any 

 day during the recent trials, every one being eager to know 

 whether the traversers would be called up for judgment. 

 The quays leading to the Four Courts were thronged by 

 numerous groups of the lower orders for hours before the 

 arrival of the Judges ; and the squares, hall, and passages, 

 were crowded to excess by a silent but excited multitude, 

 which increased as the day wore on. The Court of 

 Queen's Bench, where the internal arrangements are the 

 same as during the late State trials, was filled shortly after 

 11 o'clock by the junior bar and the public. Mr. Justice 

 Burton entered the court between 11 and 12 o'clock, when 

 the crier made the usual proclamation that all persons out 

 on bail or recognisances, should come and make their ap- 

 pearance. Several gentlemen were then admitted as barris- 

 ters, the majority of whom were Roman Catholics, — a cir- 

 cumstance so unusual as to excite general remark. Shortly 

 after 12 o'clock Mr. O'Connell, accompanied by his sons, 

 droveslowlydown,followed in silence by agreat crowd of per- 

 sons. As his carriage entered the yard, there was a low mur- 

 mur through the crowd, and a general anxious movement 

 to see the hon. gentleman as he entered the hall, but there 

 was not the least outburst of cheering, nor any shouting ; 

 and as he passed through the hall the crowd followed him 

 without any visible emotion till he retired to the robing 

 room. Messrs. Steele, Ray, and Gray were the only 

 traversers who appeared in court throughout the day, but 

 it was understood that the others were in attendance in 

 case their presence should be required. Mr. Justice 

 Burton re-entered the court at half-past 1 o'clock, at 

 which hour it was as crowded as at any period during the 

 late trials, but from the absence of all the law officers of 

 the Crown, it could be easily conjectured that no motion 

 in the case of the Queen v. O'Connell and others would 

 be brought before the Court, although it was very gene- 

 rally expected that the Attorney-General would have 

 moved for a rule calling on the traversers to appear in 

 Court within four days to receive judgment on the verdict 

 had against them last term. The Lord Chief Justice, 

 and Justices Crampton and Perrin, entered the Court at 

 3 o'clock, the intermediate time having been occupied in 

 swearing in the county and city grand jurors, and in the 

 disposal of some motions of no public importance. At 

 3 o'clock, much to the disappointment of the persons who 

 had waited so patiently throughout the day, their Lord- 

 ships adjourned to the next morning. — Subsequent to the 

 rising of the Court, it was ascertained that a side bar rule 

 had been entered on behalf of the Crown, setting forth 

 that judgment would be applied for on the verdict, unless 

 cause to the contrary be shown within four days. A copy 

 of this rule was served on the traversers the same even- 

 ing, and the question was expected to be argued on 

 Friday. In the course of the evening however the Crown 

 Solicitor was served with a notice, stating that the tra- 

 versers intend to apply for a new trial, without prejudice 

 to their moving an arrest of judgment. The grounds upon 

 which they rested their application are twofold, viz., — that 

 improper evidence on the part of the Crown had been re- 

 ceived by the Court, and that partiality in favour of the pro- 

 secution had been shown by the Chief Justice in his charge 

 to the Jury.— On Tuesday, Mr. O'Connell swore anaffidavit 

 before the Clerk of the Crown, in which he denies having, 

 at any time or place mentioned in the indictment upon which 

 he stands convicted, combined,- conspired, confederated, 

 or agreed, with any of the other traversers, or any other 

 persons whatsoever, for the purposes alleged in the said 

 indictment, or that any illegal conspiracy was ever 

 formed, or ever did exist, between him and any of the 

 said traversers. After much technical language in re- 

 ference to the revision of the jurors' lists, he states, 

 that he believes it to be true that many names had 

 been omitted therefrom that ought to have been in- 

 serted ; that it was not until after the ballot for 

 the jury on the 4th of January, to try the issue, that 

 he became aware of any such omission ; and that the said 

 omissions from the general and special lists, or either of 

 them, have taken place without his consent, knowledge, 

 privity, or sanction ; that he had had no communication, 

 either directly or indirectly, with George Magrath, the 

 clerk in the office of the Clerk of the Peace,°to induce 

 him or any other person to omit such names, or to tamper 

 in any way with the revision list ; and that he verily be- 

 lieves that the omission of such names was not by acci- 

 dent, but was the effect and result of a design and con- 

 trivance to prejudice him upon his trial. Mr. J. O'Con- 

 nell and Mr. Steele swore affidavits to the same effect, and 

 it is probable that the other traversers will do likewise. 



Dublin.— The weekly meetimTcTThe^Rr^T 

 tion took place on Monday, an d S was rem^rKh, **•*■ 

 for a long speech by Mr. O'Connell, in wh i i ? Chle| J 

 declared his belief that his imprisonment in I i* '**» 

 ting a period to the repeal agnation, ^ul "be l° f » 



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spring of its universal spread and avowal Th - 



the week was upwards of 600/., including 115/ ^V" 

 from the Archbishop of Tuam.— ThePresbTteri ** lM 

 question continues to produce great excitement T** 

 mg has been held at the Rotunda, at which a n' P hV *" 

 the House of Commons was adopted, pravine th u to 

 to pass an act, declaring valid to all intents and DU Z! 

 in law, all marriages heretofore solemnised or herX? 

 be solemnised by Protesant Dissenting mS?* 

 lrelar,d._The Dublin steeple-chase too/plac 12 I ? 

 and Lieut. Vigors, who was riding one of the horl ^ 

 thrown and killed on the spot. The iurv rT '7* 

 verdict of accidental death. ine J ur 7 returned a 



Rathfarnham.—The trial of John Toole, for the m„, 

 der of the priest's housekeeper at this place, after *£ 

 four entire days, was brought to a termination on M? 

 day, and then ended in the acquittal of the prisoner ThU 

 case has excited a good deal of interest, both on il/nJI 

 account and by reason of the length of time which 2 

 been expended upon its investigation. The main factual! 

 simply these :_The priest, Mr. Roache, resided at ££ 

 farnnam ; his establishment consisted of a young man hk 

 nephew, a female housekeeper (the murdered woman! 

 and Toole, a man of all work. On the evening of the mar 

 der, which happened to be a Sunday in Jan. last, Mr Roache" 

 ordered his car at five o'clock, and Toole drove him to 

 Mr. White's of Killkee, between two and three miles of 

 up the mountain, to dinner. The nephew went to dine 

 out with a friend, and the housekeeper was left alone ii 

 the house. Mr. Roache, on his return from Mr. White'i 

 at nine o'clock, found the housekeeper dead— her throat 

 cut— and his desk broken open, and cash abstracted. 

 Suspicion very soon attached to Toole, and in due course 

 he was arrested, and eventually brought to trial. Itwai 

 thought that he did not sufficiently account for himself 

 from the time he set down his master at Mr. White's till 

 their return back, and a great number of circumstances, 

 curiously concatenated, combined to involve him in t 

 charge of guilt. However, he never attempted to elude 

 the course of justice, and his character previously was good. 



Cork. — A circumstance occurred at the close of the 

 late Repeal dinner in this city, which has attracted a good 

 deal of attention. The Waterford town-councillors had 

 arrived in a steamer carrying the Repeal flag, and another 

 bearing the arms of Waterford, On their return, Admiral 

 Bowles fired a gun, and made the steamer heave to, while 

 one of his officers in a 12-oared barge boarded the vessel, 

 and took possession of the flag. It appears however that 

 the Repeal flag had been previously struck at Cork, and 

 that the flag in question was the one bearing the Water- 

 ford arms. 



Cahir. — From Cahir, dated Monday week, there is the 

 following statement : — Last night while Lord Tullamore 

 was returning to Cahir, where he is quartered, from 

 Brittas Castle, in his gig, two fellows rushed at him, and 

 one presented a gun close at his head, which, on snap- 

 ping, providentially missed fire. His horse started, and 

 he drove off. Soon after another man rushed at the gig, 

 stared at him, and, evidently seeing he was not the person 

 they wanted, sulkily said, " Good night." Tbis fellow 

 had one hand behind his back, no doubt holding a gun. 

 Both Lord Tullamore and his servant saw and heard the 

 snap of the first man's gun. A Cahir correspondent of 

 the Evening Mail states that Mr. Vincent Scully was the 

 person intended to be shot by those who made thii 

 attack. This gentleman is the brother of Mr. Scully 

 who had been murdered some time since. " A tew nigno 

 (adds the writer) before the attempt on Lord Tullamore 

 was made, the captain of infantry quartered at Tnuriej 

 was dragged off his horse by a gang of fellows, who, jo* 

 as they were about proceeding to beat him with blud- 

 geons, discovered that he was not the victim intended 



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The Corn Trade. —A paper containing accoa ° t *jT 

 lative to the import, export, and consumption or corn, 

 grain, meal, and flour, in the year 1843, ending toe™ 

 of January, 1844, has been printed by order of the n 

 of Commons on the motion of Mr. Gladstone, msi 

 of the Board of Trade. It appears that the to a q 

 tity of foreign wheat upon which duty was paid tot^ ^ 

 consumption from the 5th of January, 1B43, up 

 4th of January, 1844, amounted to 843,739 q^ rte "' 5tfc 

 quantity of British colonial wheat (under J*eA 

 Victoria, cap. 14), to 12,406 quarters; and the q 

 of Canadian wheat (at the fixed duty of U. ), ™ '^ 



No idea, however, can yet be f° rm ^ at ^ 

 probably annual importation of corn from ' Can ' a ^ 

 reduced rate of duty, as the Act (6th and tin ^ 

 cap. 29) only came into operation last autu -^^ 

 total amount of duty received thereon was to ^ . 

 wheat, 601,172/.; for British colonial wheat, - 

 and for Canadian, 620/. The duties ruling » ^^ 



quarters 



corn 



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during the period in question (1843-44; ^ j B 

 August and September it fluctuated between 1S ^'*" waJ 



from January to the end of July, 1843, to V^,.; 



and in October, November, and Decern her, " ,W " IS ' 20* 

 never lower than lite., and frequently as nig ^ 

 The average rate of duty throughout the i y ^^ 

 be stated at Us. 3d. on foreign wheat. * jn t* 

 quantity of foreign wheat was entere 6 oO,^* 

 month of September, when no less tn» ^ ^ 

 quarters were entered in one week, at a du y j j tl* 

 quarter. As many as 46,396 quarters were em 



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