May 4,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



of age, and the facts contained in letters found at his 

 lodgings are sufficient proof of an attachment existing 

 between the parties. It further appears that Dalmas 

 had obtained one of his daughters a situation at Bromp- 

 ton, and on Monday afternoon deceased took that girl to 

 her place. It is supposed that she then called upon Dal- 

 mas, and that he walked with her as far as the bridge 

 homewards, when some words arose respecting some men 

 to whom he alleged the deceased was paying too intimate 

 an attention, and that he then drew her head backwards 

 upon his breast, and cut her throat. It is stated that 

 after 11 o'clock on Tuesday Right the murderer called 

 upon his daughter at her new place, and said that he 

 would commit suicide. She went down on her knees and 

 entreated of him not to talk in that manner, and to banish 

 such thoughts. He said he had murdered Mrs. M'Far- 

 lane, and directly afterwards rushed away from her. Not- 

 withstanding the efforts of the Police he has hitherto 

 eluded detection, and no trace of him from the time of his 

 leaving his daughter has been obtained. 



Removal of Convicts.— On. Saturday morning, 79 pri- 

 soners who had been convicted at the late sessions of the 

 Central Criminal Court, and sentenced to transportation, 

 were removed in the van from that gaol to the Peniten- 

 tiary at Millbank, there to undergo a short imprisonment 

 previous to their being taken on board the transport ship, 

 which is to convey them to Botany Bay. Among them 

 were William Henry Barber, Joshua Fletcher, and Henry 

 Sanders, the parties convicted of the late will-forgeries, 

 the two former having been sentenced to be transported 

 for life, and the latter for seven years. There were also 

 among the fenrile convicts the lady shoplifters, Mrs. 

 Earnshaw and Miss Wells. 



Mortality of the Metropolis. — The following is the 

 number of Deaths registered in the week ending Saturday, 

 April 20.— West Districts, 127 ; Northern, 180 ; Central, 

 147 ; Eastern, 171 ; Southern, 221 ; Total, 846. Weekly 

 average for the last five years, 946. 



39robinnal Netos. 



Bath. — On Friday night the cloth factory at Twerton 

 Mills, near this town, took fire, and the centre of the 

 building was entirely destroyed. The damage is estimated 

 at 10,000/., but the property was fully insured. 



Bagshot. — On Wednesday morning the extensive planta- 

 tions in the forest near Bagshot, the property of Prince 

 Albert, which was purchased some time since by his Royal 

 Highness, and which formerly belonged to the late Duke 

 of Gloucester, were discovered to have been fired, and in 

 the course of the day and night upwards of 700 acres were 

 totally destroyed. 



Belper. — This town on Monday week was surprised by 

 the announcement that a mechanic named Yeomans, for 

 some time past employed at Messrs. Shutt's mills, had 

 murdered his wife, and afterwards cut his own throat. 

 Yeomans was a married man, 50 years old, and had a 

 family, the eldest son being married. It appears that for 

 some time past he and his wife have not lived happily to- 

 gether. The jury at the inquest returned a verdict ** That 

 William Yeomans killed his wife while labouring under a 

 fit of temporary insanity, and afterwards, during the con- 

 tinuance of the same fit of insanity, destroyed himself by 

 •cutting his throat." The Coroner, on receiving the ver- 

 dict said, that the verdict was the Jury's, and not his, 



and that he thought nothing like satisfactory proof of in- 

 sanity had been given. 



Boston.— The large estate near this town, the property 

 of Lord Monson, was sold last week at the Auction Mart, 

 by Mr. George Robins, for 57,100 guineas, to Mr. 

 Malcolm, the former M.P. for Boston. The room was 

 crowded by capitalists. 



Coventry.— On Monday week, an infant 17 months 

 old, daughter of Mr. Golsby of the Canal Tavern in this 

 town, was found murdered in its cradle, having been 

 stabbed with a carving-knife. A servant girl, under 13 

 years of age, who had been employed as the child's nurse, 

 is supposed to be the murderer, and has been committed 

 for trial on the capital charge. 



Deal. — The atmosphere was on Tuesday week so rare- 

 fied at this place, that Calais was plainly discernible with 

 the nuked eye. The vessels could be seen leaving the 

 harbour without the aid of a glass. 



Eton. — The ancient triennial festival of the Eton 

 Montem will take place on Whit Tuesday, and from the 

 increased number of scholars it will be conducted on a 

 more handsome scale than has been witnessed on any 

 previous occasion, there being in the college at the present 

 time the unprecedented number of 720 students. It has 

 hitherto been customary for the gentlemen to dine at 

 Salt-hill, and spend the afternoon in the gardens, but on 

 the present occasion Dr. Hawtrey, the Head Master, has 

 arnanged that, after partaking of refreshments at Bothams, 

 the scholars shall return to the College, and dine under 

 spacious tents to be erected on the Fellows' Eyott, where 

 the grand promenade will take place. 



Liverpool.— At the Liverpool Police Court last week 

 Thomas Nelson was convicted in two mitigated penalties 

 of 300/. each, for adulterating tobacco with China flowers 

 and saccharine matter. The defendant pleaded guilty, 

 and declared that he could not live by the trade without 

 doing so. The full amount of the penalties incurred was 

 1800/. George Brown was convicted also in mitigated 



penalties o( 200/. and 300/. for a similar offence. On 



Wednesday week Mr. John Hartley was charged at the 

 Borough Court, Bolton, with having manufactured adul- 

 terated tobacco, whereby he had incurred a penalty of 

 300/. On another clause of the act he was charged with 

 having adulterated tobacco in his possession, the penalty 

 for which offence is 200/. ; and he was also proceeded 



against|for the forfeiture of 170/.'s worth of tobacco seized 

 upon his premises. After hearing the evidence, the Mayor 

 decided that Mr. Hartley should be fined 200/. on the 

 second charge, and forfeit the tobacco. A similar charge 

 was brought against Mr. Alfred Hamer, successor to Mr. 

 Hartley, and having been proved, he was ^fined in the 

 mitigated penalty of 50/. 



Portsmouth. — Two Courts-Martial^ were held in this 

 port last week. The first was on Mr. G. M. Smith, 

 acting mate on board Her Majesty's brig Pantaloon, 

 Commander Lapidge, on a number of charges. The 

 Court having heard the whole of the evidence and the 

 defence, was of opinion that the charges had not been 

 proved except that Mr. G. Smith had been guilty of 

 having improperly made use of the name of his com- 

 mander, Lieut. Lapidge, in the gun-room of the brig, and 

 admonished Mr. Smith to avoid in future theline of conduct 

 so calculated to subvert the discipline of Her Majesty's 

 service. The second Court-Martial was on Lieut. La- 

 pidge, commander of the above ship, on charges respect- 

 ing the bad discipline on board his ship, while stationed 

 on the coast of Africa. The principal witness in this 

 case was the mate who had been tried previously. The 

 Court considered the charges partially proved, but con- 

 sidering the services and good character of Lieut. Lapidge, 

 they adjudged him to be severely reprimanded. 



Stourbridge On Wednesday week a fatal accident 



happened on the brewery of Messrs. Hipkiss and Green, 

 wholesale brewers, near Oldswinford Church. The pre- 

 mises contained a powerful engine, used for drawing 

 water for brewing, grinding malt, &c, the boiler of which, 

 from some cause at present unknown, burst, and de- 

 stroyed everything around it. The building was entirely 

 cleared to the ground — the boiler itself rushing across the 

 road to a house opposite, which it beat in and unroofed, 

 remaining before the ruins an extensive flattened mass, 

 and but for the rivets which remained, more like a flat 

 plate of iron than the arched roof of a boiler. To the left 

 of the boiler-house another small house was laid in ruins, 

 and all within the reach of the destroying power was 

 razed to the ground. "* As soon as possible after the explo- 

 sion search was made for those who were known to have 

 been in or near the premises. Mr. Green was first dis- 

 covered suffering from scalds and contusions ; two of the 

 workmen and a child were found dead, and others were 

 seriously injured. 



Sunderland. — The pitmen's strike has brought trade 

 almost to a stand-still in Sunderland, the only coal now 

 shipped being of a quality that would not have found a 

 market in times of ordinary trade. One effect of the 

 strike is, that ships are going down into Scotland from 

 the Tyne and the Wear, to seek cargoes of Scotch coal for 

 the use of the metropolis, thereby giving it an introduction 

 and perhaps a permanent standing, in the most important 

 market of the trade. 



York. — The churchwardens of the different parishes in 

 York are at present actively engaged in going from house 

 to house soliciting subscriptions for a clock bell, to weigh 

 no less than eight tons, to be placed in the north-west 

 tower of the Cathedral ; and there is every reason to 

 believe that their exertions will be successful. 



Railways. — The following are the returns for the past 

 week: — Birmingham and Derby, 1360/.; Birmingham 

 and Gloucester, 2143/. ; Eastern Counties, 4474/. ; Edin- 

 burgh and Glasgow, 2091/.; Great Western, 15,8G8/. ; 

 Grand Junction, 8295/.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 

 1180/.; Great North of England, 1525/.; London and 

 Birmingham, 19,095/.; South-Western, 5891/. ; Black- 

 wall, 875/. ; Greenwich, 851/. ; Brighton, 3763/. ; 

 Croydon, 287/. ; Liverpool and Manchester, 4141/. ; 

 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull, associated, 6369/. ; Mid- 

 land Counties, 2902/. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 

 3345/. ; North Midland, 4545/. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 

 1356/. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 3587/. ; Sheffield and 

 Manchester, 522/. ; York and North Midland, 1638/.— 

 A special meeting of the Eastern Counties Company was 

 held on Tuesday, when resolutions were agreed to for the 

 purpose of raising 960,000/., in order to extend the line 

 from the Ely and Peterborough line to Lincoln. The 

 directors stated that they had deemed it right to advise the 

 extension of the Hertford branch to Hitchin for fourteen 

 miles, for which they had ordered a survey, also in con- 

 tinuation from Hitchin to Bedford, after which the pro- 

 prietors would be called together.— On Wednesday, the 

 opening of the Bristol and Exeter Railway to the terminus 

 at Exeter was celebrated with the usual honours. All 

 business was suspended in that city, thousands flocked in 

 from the country, and the streets, paraded by bands of 

 music, were densely thronged with people in holiday 

 attire. By the openirfg of this line there is now an un- 

 interrupted communication westward from London of 194 

 miles, 1 18 of which belong to the Great Western Company, 

 the remaining 76 miles being the length of the Bristol and 

 Exeter line.— The Bricklayers' Arms station of the 

 Croydon, Brighton, and Dover Railways was opened on 

 Wednesday, and will doubtless prove very convenient to 

 travellers going to the West End of London. 



Ireland! 



The State Trials.— As announced briefly in our 

 last, the motion on the part of the traversers for a new 

 trial, was opened on Thursday by Mr. Whiteside, who 

 occupied the whole of that day and Friday with his argu- 

 ments. The address of the learned gentleman was more 

 distinguished for legal acuteness than for eloquence or 

 public interest. The first ground of his objection 

 was, that there was no such person on the jury as John 

 Rigby, the gentleman who impersonated him being John 

 Jason Rigby, who was neither on the panel or summoned 

 to attend. He cited a considerable number of cases to 



convince the Court that but 11 jurors actually triedlhe 

 late issue. His next had reference to the " abstraction " 

 of the names from the jury list ; then to the Judge's 

 charge— next, to the evidence which was admitted for the 

 prosecution. The learned gentleman argued at great 

 length, that the violent ballad sold at Mullaghmast should 

 not have been received in evidence ; and that the news- 

 paper evidence should have been rejected on the ground 

 that there was no proof to ( affect any of the traversers bv 

 newspaper publications, except the registered proprietors 

 of those journals. He concluded by quoting a series of 

 passages from the Lord Chief Justice's charge 

 which he contended were his directions, inasmuch as 

 the Judge gave his own opinion as to the guilt or 

 innocence of the traversers, and touched upon questions 

 which, properly speaking, came within the province of the 

 Jury. On Saturday, Mr. Moore, Q. C, followed on the 

 same side as counsel for the Rev. Thomas Tierney. He 

 said it was necessary for the Crown to establish the af- 

 firmative of two propositions ; first, that on, or previous 

 to, the 23d of October, 1843, there was an already-formed 

 conspiracy, and then that Mr. Tierney had joined in it • 

 but if either of those propositions failed, he ought not to 

 have been convicted, and the verdict ought to be set aside. 

 The Learned Counsel then proceeded to urge that the 

 evidence affecting Mr. Tierney failed to establish those 

 points, and that there was no evidence to show that he was 

 aware of any of the meetings attended by the other tra- 

 versers, or heard of or read their speeches, or publications ; 

 that there was nothing to connect him with the conspiracy 

 antecedent to the 23d of October, 1843. He contended 

 that the evidence against Mr. Tierney was not sufficient to 

 warrant his conviction, and that the evidence had not been 

 submitted by the Learned Chief Justice to the Jury in 

 such a way as it ought to have been, and that he therefore 

 was entitled to a new trial. Mr. O'Hagan then followed 

 on behalf of Mr. Duffy, contending that there was no 

 legal proof against Mr. Duffy, of the proprietorship of the 

 Nation newspaper, and that the conductors of public 

 journals cannot be made responsible for the acts of the lead- 

 ing members of the party whose opinions they advocate. At 

 the close of his speech the Solicitor-General rose on the part 

 of the Crown to oppose the motion for a new trial, and 

 commenced by replying to the arguments on the wrong 

 entry of the name of Mr. Rigby. The Court adjourned 

 after he had been speaking about an hour. On Monday 

 the Solicitor- General resumed his address, and replied to 

 the arguments on the omission of certain names from the 

 Jury List, contending that all that had been said in sup- 

 port of obtaining a new trial on that ground, was mere 

 repetition of the arguments put forward on the motion to 

 quash the panel. He defended the charge of the Chief 

 Justice, and said that it was listened to from "beginning to 

 end by the counsel for the eight traversers, without one 

 single objection or observation being made. He then 

 referred to the argument, that although the statutable 

 proof is sufficient against the proprietor of the paper, it 

 is not sufficient evidence as regards third parties. On this 

 point Mr. Justice Burton appeared to think that the 

 question had not been met. The Solicitor-General, 

 therefore, read the section of the statute of 6 and 7 W [1- 

 liam IV., chap. 76, on the subject, and relied on the 

 objection not having been made at the trial, that the evi- 

 dence of publication was not sufficient against those tra- 

 versers who were not proprietors of the papers, as pre- 

 cluding them from now objecting to it, and he would say 

 it was (he meant in contemplation of law), a fraud to let 

 evidence pass by without objection, and then, after a ver- 

 dict was got against the party, for him to come forward 

 and object to its having been admitted ; it was an ^unfair 

 mode of proceeding. In regard to the objection that the 

 Jury were allowed to disperse the case of King v. kinnear 

 in 2 B. & Al., 462, cited by Mr. Whiteside, from 

 1 Chitty, showed that it was lawfully done, and the consent 

 of the party ought not to be asked. The Solicitor reaa 

 the short-hand writer's notes in reference to the point, to 

 show that the traversers' Counsel had assented to the Jury 

 separating/and it, was now too much to call on tn 

 Court to grant a new trial on this ground. At this time 

 4 o'clock had arrived, and the Court adjourned. l« 

 Solicitor- General on Tuesday brought his speech to a 

 close, when Mr. Henn commenced his address in r W 

 behalf of Mr. Steele. He adverted generally to the nm 

 points as had been argued by the previous counsel o ^ 

 same side, dwelling particularly on the charge o 

 Chief Justice. On Wednesday Mr. Monaban, . «£•» 

 followed on behalf of Mr. John O'Connell, and direw 

 his arguments chiefly to the jury-lists. At the c 

 his speech the Court adjourned, and on Thursday ^ 

 Fitzgibbon opened his address on behalf of Dr. ^[ay- 

 is arranged that Mr. M'Donagh will follow on the sa 

 side, and the Attorney-General will then reply on 



whole case. _ . ». BA ,.ia- 



JDwMm.-The weekly meeting of the Repeal Associa 



tion took place on Monday. Mr. D. O'Connell. J un. 

 took the chair. Mr. S. O'Brien then moved *% a *°P™ d 

 of a petition against the renewal of the Bank otire 

 charter. The motion was seconded by Mr. J. BeynoMj 

 who went at considerable length into the state of banKi * 

 in Ireland, and detailed the injuries that would i«™Vj 

 result to this country from the contemplated wi hdra 

 of small notes from circulation. Mr. O'Connell move 

 that the Association at its rising do adjourn to rr j 

 next. He would on that day bring forward hu i plan 

 carrying on the agitation after the termination o 

 state trials. He then proceeded to inculcate thepn 

 pies of peace and tranquillity, and perseverance na r 

 That nothing could so much dishearten him * nd '" J for 

 their cause as any outbreak or disturbance. Ihe rem 

 the week was 191/. 13*. 3rf. 



