THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844 



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= 7- a in reference to science and literature. 



SIS?** 2S£*«? «&r*K" 



i„ which e«wca»u" t . rowd ed with persons 



i ,t w lo* * rate, wouw tanities . At Ox- 



; .^, themsel s o. suc^opp^ ^ 



per 



^to .vail them-v^ ; . ; -- ]as . . and quaUty f 



«£.i for «hich tuey ""' „ ' wou u cos t from 200/. 

 ~«« » ^ lircSz ns ala St :end their children to 

 „300/. let ,' , f 'l nf this economical arrangement. 



""'" *% ad d 7an 'he ould not sufficiently express the 

 Ttt ej preferred (ana fcu for thelf condact) 



thoroa 5 h scorn and contemP of 20 (M or 300/. 



«*T P referre i Ton ft Oxford or Cambridge, and 

 t0 educate one ^ up ; n prance. 



le ft .11 the re=t of «l ^ ^^ jn wMch they were 



N ° t 2fL not in a central situation ; no one com- 

 •"""^h „t i was not a healthy place ; and no one con- 



pl.ined ' hst . I ,t„ teachers than they had were to be had 

 Ud that \etter eacher, withstand .J g ^ ^ ^ ^ 



eUewhere. Ana i,V,i ar kened their doors. He hoped to 



0f * Te dav when this stain on the character of the 

 U « to «e the day w M .^^ Qf igQ 



dliieD , »ho M ta wiped , ^^ edu<;at . oni they 8hould 

 T000g men recewn ^ at least 2 000 or 3000. 



Kir* , ^ a lew remarks on the desirableness 

 Xlie Lnairro . to acquire gene ral in- 



f th \Z n uded amidst°loud and protracted cheers. 

 ^iSSd SSi Piopo^d a vote. of thanks to Lord 

 Brougham for his conduct that day in the chair, which 

 was carried amidst loud acclamations. 



CA-rd- Missionary SocM^Th* annual meeting of 

 thi. Society was held on Tuesday at Exeter Hall The 

 Earl of Chichester presided, and was supported by the 

 B..hops of Winchester, Chester, and Ripon, Viscount 

 Ldon, M.P., SirR. H. Inglis, M.P., Mr. Plumptre, 

 31 P., the Dean of Salisbury, &c. The chairman congra- 

 tulated the members on the favourable aspect of the So- 

 ciety's affairs, and briefly reviewed its operations during 

 the last year. The report commenced by referring to the 

 embarrassments under which the Society had unfortu- 

 nately laboured two years since, through want of support. 

 Those difficulties had entirely disappeared without curtail- 

 ing any of the missions, with the exception of the one at 

 Jamaica, and that not to a very great extent. The oper- 

 ations of the Society during the year had extended to 

 various parts of Africa, America, and the Indies, and to 

 various other parts of Asia Minor. Missions had alsobeen 

 formed on the coasts of the Mediterranean, and in con- 

 nection with the missions schools had in most cases been 

 founded. It was intended to establish Missionary sta- 

 tions in China. During the year fifty-four branch Asso- 

 ciations had been formed, in addition to eighteen juvenile 

 branches. The receipts towards the general fund were 

 97,7011. 2s. Zd.; the special and China fund amounted 

 to 15567. 16s. \d. The capital fund was 2648/. Is. 8c/.; 

 sum for building, &c, 1181/. 17s. The total receipts, 

 including sundry items not classed, for the year, were 

 104,323/. 16s. 10c/. The expenditure of the year was 

 93,472/. 7*. The report next stated, that towards the 

 building fund for Sierra Leone, a sum of 2000/. had been 

 granted, in addition to a sum previously appropriated to 

 that purpose, making altogether 36,000/. The Bishop of 

 Chester, the Rev. Professor Scholetield, the Rev. Hugh 

 Stowell, and other gentlemen, addressed the meeting in 

 support of various resolutions. 



The Art- Unions On Saturday a numerous meeting 



of artists and others, convened by the Institute of Fine 

 Arts, was held to take into consideration the recent an- 

 nouncement of Government respecting the illegality of 

 Art-lnions. Mr. Wyse, M.P., presided and addressed i 

 we meeting at great length in favour of Art-Unions, after > 

 V»ch Prions to Parliament praying that such asso- 

 ciations m *y b e legalised were adopted with only 

 ,„ ™entient. — The following observations on the 

 the T mi ° n i these lo "eries is from the City Article of 

 after Ti'\ "• The declaration that « art- unions ' are illegal 

 tion in t u • oa of eight years, has excited much atten- 

 fof cond*t eCl ^ ,n0t - SO rauch on account of the embarrass- 

 th P f«nf .'l 10Q ia wll ich man Y persons are placed, as from 

 »«! ; t f e ' Art - Unio,lo{ London ' created, as it 

 Precedent ^ benefit of art > has been q uote . d as a 

 character 



e 

 S 



- D for many a scheme of a much more questionabl 

 baitof'In'n , . eries for goods, holding out tlie temptin 

 cost bar P h g the P° or with necessaries at a trifling 



■nch con * m VOgUe > and [t need not be said hoW easiIy 



tumbler d™* Can be made a means for defrauding the 



explicit a* aSSeS -l The law on the sub ject was as clear and 



ref er to th P ° Ie » and no one, who took the trouble to 

 galitv of th StatUt P s ' could question for a moment the ille- 

 might he l8 . Sp / Cles of gambling, under whatever name it 

 might be g? • l ij ° r by whatever plausible pretext it 

 concerns! i i N evertheless, whenever any of those 



Ulegality oft , . tenes o» a small scale were charged with the 

 « hand that C | r P roceedin S s . they had always the answer 

 tD0 *e of the 'A princi f ,les were precisely the same as 

 Stowed on .f- rt * Unio < and that the high patronage 

 *taou, \ ? underta ^ing showed it could not be 

 ^contrarv ? W f f he ' Art -Union ' is formally declared to 

 h0 more be o°t a statute s in force against lotteries, it can 

 ^J exist no &S a P recede nt, and the minor lotteries, if 



only to be re ' ^j ' h ° pe for any sort of sheltcr - Xt is 

 edo P t ed soon 8rett tbat 80me P lan of tne sort was not 

 bi 8Wst person'' aSmUchof the l»e r P^xity in which the 

 oexiori with th « ^ country are placed by their con- 

 ^ e dl <l all in C UUnion ' might have been saved. 



evcr J eUa, ot - . 0Ur P°wer upwards of a year ago to warn 

 10 8no * how e S ; nuy of every species of lottery, and 



uncompromising were the statutes. In 



the Times of the 17th September, 1842, under this 

 head, we commented at great length on the subject, and 

 printed the clauses of the statutes by which the law is de- 

 clared. Had the warning been taken at that time, there 

 is no doubt that much mischief would have been pre- 

 vented." 



Anti-Corn Law League. — The weekly meeting of the 

 League was held on Wednesday in Covent-Garden The- 

 atre. Lord Kinnaird presided, and the meeting was ad- 

 dressed by Mr. Ricardo, M.P., Mr. Somers, a tenant 

 farmer from Somersetshire, and Mr. Cobden. 



Opening of Trafalgar-square— Ow Wednesday Tra- 

 falgar-square was thrown open to the public. The work- 

 men have, however, not yet left, as the asphalte pavement 

 is not yet completed, nor are the jets d'eau yet in play, 

 although the basins have been charged with water for 

 several days. The base of the Nelson column is still sur- 

 rounded with a hoarding, and part of the upper scaffolding 

 still remains. In a few days the equestrian statue of 

 George III. will be removed from its present site, Pall- 

 Mall°East, to the vacant pedestal at the west end of the 

 terrace in the square. The day for holding the nautical 

 fete, at which the pensioners from Greenwich Hospital 

 will be present, will be shortly appointed. 



London Banks.— A return of the annual clearing pay- 

 ments made by the different London bankers, who send 

 their daily claims on each other to the clearing-house to 

 be written off, and the final balances paid, has just been 

 published in the Bankers' Circular. This is an interest- 

 ing document, but it is no guide absolutely to the relative 

 rank and importance of the houses named in it. None of 

 the West-end bankers, for example, are in the list, their 

 demands upon the City being cleared by the City banks, 

 and swelling by that amount the returns of those houses 

 employed as their agents. The bill and stock-brokers 

 accounts have a similar effect, without being a true index 

 of the amount of general banking business. Still, the list 

 is valuable, as showing the enormous amount of money 

 passing through the Metropolitan banks in a single year 

 (1840). The following are the items :_Barclay and Co., 

 107,000,000/.; Glyn and Co., 105,000,000/.; Jones, 

 Loyd, and Co., 104,000,000/.; Masterman and Co., 

 90 000,000/.; Robarts and Co., 80,o80,000/.; Smith, 

 Payne, and Co,, 64,000,000/. ; Williams and Co, 

 56,000,000/. ; Barnett and Co., 50,000 000/. ; Lubbock 

 and Co., 33,760,000/. ; Stone, Martin, and Co., 65 t t UO.uw. , 

 Prescott and Co., 30,000,000/.; Denisorv and Co 

 26 ; 863,000/. ; Hanbury and Co., 24,/ 00,0007. . ; . Lad- 

 broke and Co.,24,200,000/.; Willis and Co.,20,.00,000. 

 Curries and Co.17,500,000/. ; Spooner ^ Co.,16,000,000/. 

 Price and Co.,15,300,000/. ; Hankey and Co., }^00,000. 

 Barnard and Co., 12,000,000/.; Vere and Co., 10,428,800/., 

 Rogers and Co., 9,000,000/.; Dornen ^°'^^'' 

 Fuller and Co., 7,500,000/.; Brown and Co., i, 000 000/. ; 

 Bosanquet and Co., 3 ,700,000/. ; Stevenson and i Co 

 3,500,000/.; Weston and Co., 3,26o,000/ ; Tota , 

 978 496 800/. This statement does not include the bills 

 and'ehecks either of the Bank of England, of the Joint- 

 Stock banks, or of the bankers of Westminster. 



Death of Mr. Commissioner Menvale.—We regret to 

 record the death of this learned gentleman, under very 

 sudden and distressing circumstances, on Thursday even- 

 ing, at his residence, in Bedford-square. It appears that 

 the deceased was in excellent health and spirits at dinner- 

 time, and was seated in the dining-room reading a book, 

 when he suddenly expired of apoplexy. Two of his 

 daughters, and Mrs. Merivale, had retired to the drawing- 

 room after dinner, and it was upon Miss Merivale going 

 into the dining-room to request her father to join them at 

 the tea-table, that she discovered the lifeless body of her 



• — 1 The Jury, 



aucr iuH»iM.g me eviueucc vi ^.. **....«., „. _ower-street, 

 who was called in to attend the deceased returned a 

 verdict of " Natural Death." Mr. Merivale had from 

 early life associated with his legal attainments some of 

 the higher acquirements of a man of letters. For a con- 

 siderable period he had ranked amongst the contributors 

 to the " Edinburgh Review," and in connection with 

 Lord Chief Justice Denman (who was his early friend 

 and associate), the Rev. R. Bland, and the Rev. F. Hodg- 

 son, the Provost of Eton, he produced the well-known 

 •« Translation from the Greek Anthology. The last 

 effort of his pen was a translation from the German 

 of Schiller. In the discharge of his professional and 

 somewhat unpleasant duties as Judge of the Bank- 

 ruptcy Court, Mr. Merivale won the esteem and 

 respect of the bar, and was universally regarded for 

 the moderation with which he discharged the exten- 

 sive powers delegated to him under the provisions of 

 the law. Previous to the passing of. this statute, he was 

 one of the 70 judges in Bankruptcy, who held 14 inde- 

 pendent and distinct courts ; and upon the new Bank- 

 ruptcy Act coming into operation, in 1832, he was selected 

 as one of the six commissioners, at a salary of 2000/. per 

 annum. He married the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Drury, 

 head-master of Harrow School, by whom he has had eight 

 children, and six ot them are now living. 



London District Post.— On WednesJay an important 

 change in the regulation of the town posts came into 

 operation. There arc now 10 deliveries in London in- 

 stead of seven only daily, which will be made up at the 

 following hours :— morning, 8, 10, and 12 o'clock; after- 

 noon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 o'clock. In addition to the 

 accommodation that this will afford the inhabitants OT tue 

 metropolis, the time for posting letters to be delivered in 

 the country districts of the London district post the same 

 night is extended from 2 to 3 o'clock, and the tuns tor 

 posting letters for delivery the same evening at places 

 within six miles from the General Post-orhce, is extended 

 from 4 to 5 o'clock. The late regulation of allowing 



the tea-table, that sue discovers uic ...«-» « 

 parent, in a sitting posture, in ^ easy- chair, 

 after hearing the evidence of Dr. Hillier, of G 



j letters to be posted half an hour later at the receiving 

 houses, Cornhill, Charing-cross, and Regent-street, is 

 discontinued, and the hours of despatch from these offices 

 is the same as at the receiving-houses. Letters can still 

 be posted at the principal office, St. Martin's-le-grand, 

 one hour later than at the receiving houses for the morn- 

 ing despatches, but at the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 o'clock 

 despatches, the time allowed is only three quarters of an 

 hour, as the box closes 15 minutes before each despatch- 

 The present number of twopenny postmen is 700, and the 



general 400. 



Hampton Court. — A great sensation has been occa- 

 sioned at Hampton Court Palace and its environs, in 

 consequence of the discovery of the mutilated remains of 

 a new-born infant, at the mouth of the common sewer 

 which runs from the Palace into the Thames. The infant 

 had been cut up in almost numberless pieces, and intro- 

 duced into the sewer; but from tue number of families 

 occupying apartments in the Palace, and the great number 

 of female servants attendant upon them, it will be a matter 

 of extreme difficulty to fix the offence upon the guilty 

 person. The general opinion is, that the mother of the 

 infant was delivered in one of the water-closets of the 

 Palace, and that she or a confederate there divided the 

 body into portions, that it might pass through the pipe* 

 of the closer. Information has been sent to the Coroner, 

 and an inquest will be held forthwith. 



Respite of Mary Furley. — Mr. Sheriff Musgrove 

 attended at Newgate on Friday to perform the painful 

 duty of fixing a day for the execution of Mary Furley, 

 under sentence of death for the murder of her infant 

 child, and appointed Monday, the 6th of May. On 

 Saturday afternoon, however, the Sheriffs received a com- 

 munication from the Secretary for the Home Depart- 

 ment, stating that her Majesty had been pleased to respite 

 the sentence of death during her Majesty's pleasure. It 

 will be recollected that the poor woman was convicted under 

 circumstances of a peculiarly distressing kind ; she had 

 been long out of employ, and having no means of sup- 

 porting herself or child, she resolved on destroying it, and 

 committing suicide at the same time. The former part 

 of her resolution she carried into effect, but was herself 

 saved from drowning. Since her conviction several gentle- 

 men have interested themselves in her behalf, and have 

 represented to the Secretary of State, that under the 

 melancholy circumstances of her case, she was a fit object 

 for the Royal clemency. It is not at present known what 

 her sentence will be, but it is expected that she will 

 undergo a short imprisonment. 



Murder on Ballersea Bridge.— On Monday nightabout 

 11 o'clock, Mrs. Sarah M 4 Farlane, a widow, living in the 

 Bridge Road, Battersea, and obtaining a subsistence by 

 keeping a day and Sunday school, was murdered on Bat- 

 tersea-bridge. The supposed perpetrator of the crime is 

 Augustus Dalmas, a Frenchman, for many years con- 

 nected with some chemical works at Battersea, but who 

 has lately been employed at a floor-cloth manufactory at 

 Knightsbridge, and had been paying his addresses to the 

 deceased. It appears that Mrs. Hal!, the wife of one of 

 the toll-collectors at Battersea-bridge, was standing at the 

 toll-house at the Surrey side, about 11 o clock on Monday 

 night when the deceased, whom she did not at the moment 

 know, came running up to the gate, and cried out in a 

 faint voice, « Oh, take me home— a man has ill-used me 

 -I've .been cut-Fve been stabbed." Mrs. Hall asked 

 the deceased where she had been injured, but she could 

 not reply. She grasped Mrs. Hall's right arm convul- 

 sively, and was in the act of falling when another woman, 

 together with the toll-collector, caught her. A cry ot 

 "Murder" was raised, and the landlord of the Swan 

 Tavern, which is close to the bridge, together with several 

 gentlemen who were in the parlour, ran out, and with 

 the assistance of the police, raised the deceased from the 

 ground. It was then discovered that there was a gash 

 in the right side of her neck, extending from the 

 windpipe to the right ear, and the blood was flowing 

 copiously. The deceased was taken into the Swan public- 

 house, and a police-constable started for a surgeon. In 

 the interval that elapsed before the surgeons arrival a 

 P olice-constable,who noticed that deceased s life was ebbing 

 fast asked her who had cut her throat, and deceased 

 eplied in a faint voice, « Dalmas." The constable said 

 -Did Dalmas do it?" and the reply was " ^ e*. . Oa 

 the arrival of Dr. Connor, which was almost directly 

 afterwards, he declared her dead. He examined the 

 wound, and found it to be about five inches m length, ex- 

 tending from the windpipe to immediately underneath the 

 right ear. It was a very deep gash, and had evidently 

 heen inflicted bv a razor. None of the superior vessels, 

 Xt the ugulr vein, had been divided. Dr Connor 

 declared that the deceased could not have committed the 

 act herself, and therefore she must have been murdered. 

 The deceased was afterwards removed to her own residence, 

 i and measures were concerted for the apprehension of the 

 assassin. From the long accounts published in the daily 

 papers, it appears that the murderer is from the south of 

 France. He has been 20 years a resident in Battersea, and 

 has had the management of several chemical factories. He 

 is not only a clever operative chymist, but an excellent 

 linguist, being master of most of the modern languages. 

 Some time since he published a work on chymistry. 

 When he first came over he was married, and had two 

 daughters. His wife died about 18 months since, and 

 the deceased at that time undertook the charge of these 

 children. Thus the intimacy originated betwee n ^«P^ 



ties. Some transactions in P ecun * ar J ™,u e L ren still 

 Dalmas to abscond from Battersea ; but the en red 



continued at the deceased's. It had bee 

 before Dalmas left Battersea that he woma J 



deceased, who was a fine-looking woman, about years 



