May 25,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 



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August last. The damages were laid at 1000/. 

 appeared from the evidence, that Mr. Fothergill taking 

 offence at an expression of Mr. Brown's, in a bay field on 

 the estate, struck the latter with a pike, which broke in 

 two pieces, and inflicted such serious injuries on Mr. 

 Brown, that he remained under medical treatment for 

 nearly five months, and still labours under injured vision 

 and partial deafness, from which two medical gentlemen 

 gave it as their opinion that he would never recover. 

 A number of witnesses described the occurrence in the 

 hayfield, the sufferings of the plantirT, and the injuries 

 under which he continued to labour from the effects of 

 the blow. No witnesses were called for defendant ; and 

 the jury awarded the plantiff 500/. damages. The 

 greatest interest was manifested in Swansea, Merthyr, 

 and Cardiff as to the result, Mr. Fothergill being one 

 of the principal iron-masters, and a magistrate of the 



county. . 



Nottingham.— The Nottingham Review of yesterday, 



states that when on the point of going to press, they had 

 ascertained that the police have discovered the bodies of 

 a woman and three children, in a plantation, near Col- 

 wick., with their throats cut. They are identified as the 

 wife and children of one William Saville, of this town, j 

 who was seen taking a walk with them in that direction, 

 on Tuesday morning last. TheVnan is appreheuded. 



Oxford — The Tractarian party are greatly excited by 

 the refusal of the Vice-Chancellor to allow Mr. Macmul- 

 len's degree. Mr. Knollis, Fellow and Dean of Mag- 

 dalen College, has addressed a letter to the Margaret 

 Professor of Divinity (Dr. Faussett), calling on him to 

 bring before a board of heresy the sermon of Professor 

 Garbett, preached at St. Mary's, ou Suuday week ; and 

 a similar letter has been addressed to the Vice- Chan- 

 cellor by the Rev. C. Marriott, of Oriel, one of the 

 leading followers of Mr. Newman. It is also announced 

 that the Tractarians will oppose the new statute for 

 ^establishing the proposed college of modern languages, 

 on the ground that the teachers are not called on by the 

 new statute to sign any test of religious doctrine, so that 

 continental Protestants, Presbyterians, and others, may 

 be admitted. At a meeting of the Hebdomadal Board 

 on Monday, a resolution passed unanimously, com- 

 missioning the Vice-Chancellor to enjoin upon the Regius 

 Professor of Divinity a return to the statutable form of 

 divinity exercises. This resolution involves the over- 

 throw of the whole practice of divinity exercises as 

 at present existing, and upon which the Regius Professor 

 has based his claims of setting the theses, and testing 

 the candidates' orthodoxy ; and it is the very point which 

 Mr. Macmullen has been trying to obtain by litigation 



during the last two years. 



Penrith.— On Wednesday, the 15th inst., the estates 

 belonging to the Duke of Devonshire, in this parish, were 

 offered for sale, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 41 lots. The 

 ruins of Penrith Castle, the farm-house, and about five 

 acres of the Castle-farm, called the Castle Garth, com- 

 prised one of the lots. The competition for this lot was 

 very smart between the steward to the Earl of Lonsdale 

 and Mr. Bleaymire. It was declared a sale at 1300/., and 

 was ultimately struck off to Mr. Bleaymire at the price 

 of 2000/. Jt is understood that this lot was purchased 

 for the directors of the Carlisle and Lancaster Railway 

 Company. His Grace's hotel, buildings, and shambles 

 adjoining, comprised another lot, which was offered at 

 £000/., but there being no bidders, it was bought in at 

 a reserved price. The greater part of the other lots were 

 town-fields scattered over the parish, many of which the 

 projected line of railway runs through. Some of these 

 lots 



Hkh of June; thus bringing the University within a 

 drive of two hours and a half from the metropolis. 



A meeting of the Great Leinster and Munster Company 

 was held in London on Monday, at which it was an- 

 nounced that the Cashed Company had agreed to give up 

 to the Leinster and Mun-ter Company the branch to 

 Athy and Carlow, from the main trunk near Kildare, 

 with a view to the construction of the line to Kilkenny, 

 as originally projected by the Company. It was then 

 unanimously resolved that in consequence of the favour- 

 able disposition evinced by the Cashel Company, the 

 present committee be requested to negotiate with the pro- 

 visional committee, with a view to make the requisite 

 arrangements for having the branch to Athy and Carlow 

 transferred to the proposed South Eastern Company, 

 and that a special meeting be shortly held to take the 

 whole subject into consideration.— The Essex papers 

 mention as a proof of the economy and expedition of 

 railway travelling, that a legal gentlemau of Colchester 

 left that town, after a very early breakfast, on Wednesday 

 morning, by the mail train for Warwick, which he 

 reached by 11 o'clock, and went on to Leamington 

 to complete his business, where he had 20 minutes' inter- 

 view with his client. He then returned to London via 

 Coventry, reached town by 6 p.m., dined, and kept 

 three appointments during a stay of two hours and a 

 half, returning to Colchester by the mail train to a late 



London, his safe arrival and the result of his journey 

 The distance thus travelled in 20 hours, besides the 

 walking in London, was as follows :— From his house in 

 Colchester to London, 52 miles ; Shoreditch to Euston- 

 square, 4 ; to Coventry, 94 ; to Warwick (posting), ten ; 

 to Leamington, 2 ; to Coventry, 10 ; to London, 94 ; 



were sold at the rate of about 265/. per acre ; the 

 grea'er part of the remaining lots was bought in. 



Windsor. — It has been announced in the daily papers 

 that the appointment of Master of the Royal buckhounds, 

 filled by the Earl of Rosslyn, has been abolished by her 

 3Iajesty, and that the whole establishment over which 

 his Lordship presided is to be immediately discontinued. 

 It appears however that the announcement is premature, 

 no official intimation of the discontinuance of the Royal 

 bunting establishment having at present been received. 



Ha'du'tys. — The following are the returns for the past 

 week: — Birmingham and Derby, 1321/.; Birmingham 

 and Gloucester, 2147/. ; Eastern Counties, 4371/. ; Edin- 

 burgh and Glasgow, 2U2/. ; Great Western, 15,964/.; 

 Grand Junction, 7334/. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 

 2064/.; Great North of England, 1315/.; London and 

 Birmingham, 16,904/.; South-Western, 6242/.; Black- 

 wail, 1044/. ; Greenwich, 850/. ; Brighton, 3520/. ; 

 Croydon, 458/. ; Liverpool and Manchester, 4645/. ; 

 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull, associated, 5766/. ; Mid- 

 land Counties, 2582/. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 

 3144/. ; North Midland, 4359/. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 

 1383/. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 3931/. ; Sheffield and 

 .Manchester, 612/. ; York and NorthMidland, 1491/.— A 

 special meeting of the Great Western Railway Company 

 was held on Tuesday, for the purpose of taking the opi- 

 nion of the proprietors on the Bill now before Parlia- 

 ment, for enabling this company to unite with the South 

 Devon Company, and subscribe 150,000/. towards that 

 undertaking. The report stated that the consent of three- 

 £ fths of the company at a special meeting was neces- 

 sary before the Bill could be read in the House of Lords. 

 A resolution was then passed unanimously, approving of 

 the Bill, and it was announced that on the 10th inst. the 

 Royal assent was given to the Hill for enabling the com- 

 pany to amalgamate with the Oxford and Cheltenham 

 Compauies, whereby they would be all under one ma- 

 nagement, and the lines would be completed at less 

 coat. It was also stated on the authority of Mr. 

 Brunei, that the railway from Oxford to Didcot will 

 be opened, as originally intended, 



to Shoreditch, 4 ; to Colchester, 52 ; total, 322.— On 

 Thursday, a committee of the House of Commons (Lord 

 Howick in the chair) decided upon granting the Croy- 

 don Company's branch railway to Epsom, and on reject- 

 ing that of the rival company, the South Western. The 

 characteristic of this protracted contest is, that the 

 Croydon Company propose to lay down a line from 

 Epsom to London (a length of twenty-one miles) on the 

 atmospheric system. Mr. W. Cubitt, Mr. Brunei, Mr. J 

 Samuda, Mr. B. Gibbons, and other engineers were ex- 

 amined for the atmospheric plan, and Mr. R. Stephenson 

 against it. The subject has excited much interest in the 

 scientific world; and the committee-room has been 

 crowded daily.— The opening of the West London Rail- 

 way, which has been so long in bringing to completion, 

 is at length announced to take place on the 27th inst. 

 (Whit Monday). This line is intended as a communi- 

 cation for passengers and luggage between the Great 

 Western and the London and Birmingham Railways, and 

 the south and south-western portions of the metropolis 

 and its suburbs, as well as for the transit of heavy goods 

 from the above principal railways and the Thames, by 

 means of the Kensington canal. It commences at the basin 

 of the Kensington Canal, south of the Great Western-road, 

 under which it passes at the western extremity of Ken- 

 sington, and proceeds in a northerly direction under the 

 Uxbridge-road at Shepherd's-bush, and crossing Worm- 

 wood Scrubs, passes across the Great Western Railway 

 at Kensal-green, and from thence passing under the 

 Paddington Canal, joins the London and Birmingham 

 Railway. On the north side of the Great Western-road, 

 and also on the north side of the Uxbridge-road, two 

 stations have been erected, with convenient waiting-rooms 

 for passengers, from which it is intended to run trains 

 every day, after Monday next, to meet corresponding 

 trains on the Great Western and London and Birming- 

 ham Railways. — A select committee of the House of 

 Commons have been engaged for nearly a month in an 

 investigation into the respective merits of the two 

 competing lines projected by the South-Eastern and 

 the Brighton Railway Companies, the former designated 

 the Hastings, Rye, and Tenterden Railway ; and the 



the matter, and the Court adjourned. The Court had 

 been crowded during the day. 



Dublin. — The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal 

 Association took place on Monday, in Conciliation-hall. 

 There were very fevr persons in attendance. Mr. W. 

 Gernon, Barrister-at-law, acted as chairman. Mr. J, 

 O'Connell, M.P., announced the receipt of the following 

 sums from America : — Wisconsin, 12/. ; Watertown 

 22/. ; Hamilton Gore district, West Canada, 25/. j 

 Buffalo, New York, 20/.; Halifax, Nova Scotia, 307.; 

 Providence, Rhode Island, 36/. ; Fawn-river, Massa- 

 chusetts, 31/.; and Philadelphia, 200/. The last- 

 mentioned sum was inclosed in a letter from Mr. Robert 

 Tyler, son of the President of the United States. Mr. 

 J. O'Connell, in moving the thanks of the Association to 

 the writer of this letter, said, that he had but one diffi- 

 culty in doing so, which arose from the fact of his beiag 

 the son of the man who had set his name to a document 

 authorising the annexation to the Union of the 6lavehoId- 

 ing district of Texas. There was one sentence in Mr. 

 Tyler's letter, however, which showed that it was im- 

 possible he could approve of the acts of these Texan*. 

 It was to the effect that all men were capable of self- 

 government, and as that sentence redeemed the writer 

 from the imputation of sanctioning slavery, he felt much 

 pleasure in moving the thanks of the Association to him. 

 Mr. Steele seconded the motion, which was unanimously 

 adopted. — Mr. Doheny, barrister, now entered upan the 

 subject of the " spy system/- and charged the Govern- 

 ment so broadly with directly encouraging and maintain- 

 ing this system, as to elicit the interference of Mr. J. 

 O'Connell, who protested in the name of the Association 

 against such language as Mr. Doheny was indulging in. 

 Mr. Doheny said that he was aware the Government re- 

 pudiated that instrumentality, but still he maintained 

 that there certainly was some principle in existence 

 which induced spies to suppose that they would meet 

 with promotion and rewards, if they made themselves 

 useful in getting men convicted ef crime, die then 

 went largely into the subject, and concluded by moviqg 

 a resolution, whicb, being seconded by Mr. Cangly, 

 another barrister, was put and carried. — Mr. Steele 

 moved the warmest thanks of the Association to Mr. 

 Doheny for his admirable speech. They remembered what 

 Castlereagh, and what former Governments .had done 

 by means of spies and hired agents, and it was therefore 

 most important to O'Connell's peaceable system of 

 reformation that such a system should be exposed and 

 denounced.— Mr. Clements, barrister, seconded Mr. 

 Steele's proposal, which was put and carried.— Mr. 

 O'Neil Daunt now rose to move the resolution relative 

 to "Mr. "Hume's attack on the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 

 of which he had given notice at their last meeting. It 

 was, he said, a colossal falsehood to say that the Irish 

 people were tired of the Vice-regal Government; there 

 never was a greater lie. But it was common to put 

 forward such a protest when the secret object was plunder, 

 robbery, and spoliation. What would be the eftect ot 

 depriving Ireland of the Lord Lieutenancy ? V 

 deprive her of an expenditure of one hundred tn 

 pounds a year at the least. But in the first instance, 

 Mr. Hume said this was in the spirit of the y™ n '^' 

 and so it was-robbery was the true spirit of the Union. 

 The total rent received during the week including ^ 

 from America, was stated to be b00/.-The Dubba 

 Protestant Operative Association have passed a reso 

 tion, in which they declare that "they f^f^^ 

 Hume's proposition for the abolition of our local Govern 

 ment, and for the further progress of the modern sjstem 

 of centralisation, as highly objectionable , and cbIcuWW 

 to produce effects exceedingly detrimental to the u" 

 of Ireland."_Mr. Coneys, engineer o he Br J 

 Works, has been directed to take up the lraiee r 



Why, to 



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Canal from the contractor, who left it ^finished, an 

 proceed forthwith to complete the w f ^T"*" bou t 

 guards which for some time hate been P]* ced ™, r °°& s 

 the garrison of Dublin, are discontinued, and tb w J A 

 on duty are now reduced to the ordinary sjanoa . 



latter the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway, forged draft for 450/. was presented to the sUsp j c ion 

 Monday and Tuesday were consumed in replies by Mr. land on Friday last, and paid; but s0 . as se t on 

 Talbot on the part of the Brighton line, and Mr. Austen having been excited during the day, an in ^ u * who has 

 for the South-Eastern ; and on Wednesday the commit- foot, and the fraud traced to one of the po ^ ffh0 

 tee decided that the preamble of the Hastings, Rye, and 

 Tenterden Railway Bill is not proved, and that the pre- 

 amble of the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings line is 

 proved. Large sums have been expended in the inquiry. 

 — The infancy of the great project of the London aid 

 York Railway is not without the trials incident to such 

 undertakings. After elongating its original route, then 

 altering its original route, then coalescing with a 

 m monster" rival, it has finished by changing its 

 engineers. Messrs. Walker and Burgess have, in fact, re- 

 signed, on the ground that the" matter has now assumed 

 such a magnitude and character that it would occupy too 

 much of their time." 



IRELAND. 



The State Trials.— The Court of Queen's Bench 



opened for Trinity Term on Wednesday, and a great 



number of persons had assembled in the expectation that 



judgment would be given. The Judges, however, did not 



enter Court until the unusually late hour of twenty 



minutes past four o'clock, having been for several hours 



previously shut up in chamber in consultation, and Mr. 



Justice Burton alone having attended for the purpose of 



swearing in the Grand Jury. The Chief Justice said, 



immediately after taking his seat, " Mr. Attorney-General, 



I have to state to you that the Court has appointed 



Fri lay morning for giving judgment in the case of the 



on Monday, the I Queen -v. O'Connell and otaers.t' No more was said on 



loot, ana me irauu uaucu iu vu^ ~* r ^ ^iiu 



since been arrested at Athlone. An accowp 

 has confessed the facts, is also in custody. . glly a 

 that the cheque filled up for the 450/. was or s^ ^ 

 blank one, which had been dropped in tw ^^ 



was found by one of the porters im P\ lcat * , CoQn eU, who 

 has been current for some time that Mr. U ^^ {]x 



has been some years a widower, is aoout T . rep0 rthas 

 sister of a lay Fellow of Trinity College. 1 «- ^ gome 

 been contradicted, but it is again revivea, ^ 



additional particulars. It is said that abon ^ very 

 ago, when Mr. O'Connell visited the north, n ^ who 

 hospitably entertained by the young lad, s This 



likewise presided at one of his meetings m &* vhP 



was the first time that M r. O ConneU saw -the ^ J 

 had just then returned from school.-Acc of 



Bantry Bay! state that the bay has been tue ^^ 

 great excitement, in consequence of a ^°„ nmber were 



having entered the harbour. An immense n - 



secured, the value of which is computed at ;i» senten c« 



Carrickfergus.-On Wednesday the 5tfr, ' in tbe 



of the law was carried into execution in tn s t ^ lftSt 



case of John Cordery, who was fo « nd 8 ulU f he un fortu- 

 assizes, of the murder of Sergeant Dodd. J ■ d tbe 



nate man died extremely penitent, an . u * l t was ma* 

 crime to the influence of drink. Great intere i ^ 



to save his life, but the ^ord-Lieutenant haw ^ ^ 

 weighed all the circumstances, would not t 

 course of the law to be interrupted. 



