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==f = rSS^f the Court, to be taken by consent, 

 order « aecre . fa . examine d before a Master, 



•^ * Jto .Uowed or otherwise. It is added that the 

 tf ^'i law, by which Alderman Gibbs's tenure 

 T ff 1S churchwarden will be decided, is to be tried 

 ° on an to* as to the custody of the vestry books 

 Tirii "re at present held by the churchwardens elected 



* ; vestry ( Messrs. Rock and Flight), and of which 

 Tu'prm.n Gibbs endeavours, as plaintiff, in a suit to be 

 ' • tL Court of Common Pleas, to obtain possession. 

 Ult \ ia /7 C A— A meeting of the parishioners of St. 

 , * .!J! Shoreditch, which commenced at 3 o'clock 



m"] not terminate until 12 o'clock at night, was held 



i ,,k in the parish church for the purpose of making 



* for the relief of the poor. As the parishioners 



* I Id the church, the curate was reading prayers, and 

 tJ fT lapse of a few minutes the service concluded. 

 Thf conduct of the party was tumultuous throughout. 

 The chairman repeatedly called the meeting to order, 



nidst groans, yells, kicking against the pews, and cries 



f Shame It was moved that a rate of Is. in the pound 



he made to meet the expenses. An amendment was 



moved that a rate of 8rf. in the pound be granted, and 



carried bv a large majority. 



Wood-Paving.—^ Court of Sewers was held on Tues- 

 day at Guildhall, at which about 30 Commissioners were 

 iiiiient \lderman Gibbs presided. The question of 

 wood-paving again came under discussion, in consequence 

 at the attendance of deputations from the inhabitants of 

 Fleet-street and St. Paul's Churchyard, soliciting the con- 

 firmation ol'a resolution for paving these great thorough- 

 fares with wood, which had been passed on the previous 

 court-day. Mr. Peacock moved that the resolution be 

 rescinded ; which having been seconded, Sir P. Laurie 

 observed that he was opposed to wood-paving, not only 

 because it was unsafe, but from a conviction that it would 

 entail a greater expense than stone on the citizens, and 

 he therefore thought he was rendering the inhabitants 

 an essential service by supporting the motion for rescind- 

 ing the resolution. The motion was, after some further 

 observations, put and carried, thus deferring wood-paving 

 for the present. The deputation, consisting of about 50 

 persons, expressed disappointment at the result, and 

 declared their intention to procure the convening of 

 wardmotes as early as possible. 



Mortality of the Metropolis. — The following is the 

 number of Deaths registered in the week ending June 29. 

 —West Districts, 160; Northern, 198; Central, 150; 

 Eastern, 2;2; Southern, 244; Total, 964. Weekly 

 average for the last five years, 946. 





IJrobmctal Nctos. 



Alcerstoke. — A handsome tablet has been erected in 

 Alverstoke Church, near Gosport, to the memory of the 

 officers and soldiers of the 44th Regiment who fell in the 

 Affghan war, over which hangs the colours of that ill- 

 fated regiment. The following is the inscription: — 

 * 4 Sacred to the memory of Colonel T. Mackrell, A.D.C. 

 to her Majesty ; Major W. B. Scott, Capt. T. Swaine, 

 Capt. R. B. M'Crea, Capt. F. R. Leighton, Capt. T. 

 Robinson, Capt. F. C. Collins, Lieut. W. H. Dodgin, 

 Lieut. W. G. White, Lieut. W. G. Wade, Lieut. H. 

 Cadett, Lieut. S. Swinton, Lieut. F. J. C. Fortye, Lieut. 

 A. \Y. Gray, Paymaster T. Bourke, Lieut, and Quarter- 

 master R. B. Hallahan, Surgeon J. Harcourt, Assistant 

 Surgeons W. Balfour and W. Primrose, and 645 non- 

 commissioned officers and soldiers of the 44th Regiment, 

 who fell upon the field of battle in the disastrous Affghan 

 *ar of 1841 and 1842. They sank with arms in their 

 hands unconquered, but overpowered by the united hor- 

 rors of climate, treachery, and barbarous warfare ; their 

 colours, saved by Capt. J. Souter, one of the few sur- 

 vivors, hang above this stone, which is erected to their 

 memory by the officers of the 44th Reg.— June, 1844." 



Bedford.— The Herts County Press states that "a 

 circumstance, the like of which has never been known 

 within the memory of the oldest inhabitant of Beds, 

 occurred in this county on the 20th ult. Mr. Jeffreys, 

 a farmer, residing at Great Barford, whilst his neigh- 

 bours were 8 °wing barley, cut and carted a quantity of 



♦k 8 ? m i e grain - The barle y was the P roduce of a neld 



tnat had been severely injured by the hail storm of last 

 year, and the occupier had it ploughed up for the pur- 

 pose of sowing it with wheat, but observing a good deal 

 or the grain growing, he allowed it to stand, and the 

 result has been that he has obtained an excellent crop, a 

 nne sa m pi e of which was exhibited in Bedford market 

 on Saturday last." 



.ff^-A dreadful explosion occurred at the woollen 

 ™ of Alderman Brooks, of Manchester, on Monday 

 liU mn ^' * hen the steam-boiler blew up with a report 

 end VT 6 ° f artille ry- The engine-house stood at the 

 low V, -ii? factor y> and on the other Side there was a 



rnlm? u ng occupied as a warehouse, with working- 

 rooms abflVM 'PL- _•% „ ., 11 . iL„ ~„A n .lw»rP 



above. The sideof the mill at the end where 

 bei«~ D - 8 - m ? 8t00d was shattered to its base, the walls 



the 



Th/ !■ ' and the windows completely demolished, 

 earti V* ran S e of building was shaken as if by an 

 w "7J ke ' Three persons were killed, and others 

 until tl * The dama S e oone is nearly 2000/.; and 

 will k , fact °ry be rebuilt several hundred workmen 



li L,be thrown out of employ. 

 tn a* e " < ** / « r -— A public meeting of the shareholders 



on Mo PP i 0rterB ° f the A e ricultura l College was held here 

 mana„r ay ' to recei *e the report of the committee of 

 attenda nt * Earl Ba ^urst was in the chair. The 

 of Osf i WaS numer oos and influential; Dr. Daubeny, 

 «atisfar!- Wa8 am ong the number. The report wa 

 ct0r y. It is intended to hold a public meeting at ; 



Southampton in aid of the scheme, on the occasion of 

 the great annual meeting of the Agricultural Society of 

 England in that town. A farm of about four hundred 

 acres, nearly a mile from Cirencester, on the road to 

 Stroud, called Port Farm, belonging to Earl Bathurst, 

 is to be the experimental farm for the intended college. 



Durham. — The pitmen's strike still continues, and 

 there is no prospect of its speedily coming to a close. 

 Several coal-owners have commenced ejecting their 

 workmen from the houses occupied by them. At Pit- 

 tington, Haswell, Hetton, and Rainton, several were re- 

 moved last week. Some of the men who have left the 

 union have gone to other collieries than those at which 

 they worked last year, and are now in the receipt of good 

 wages. One of the agents of the Marquess of London- 

 derry proceeded to Ireland on Saturday to bring over 

 labourers from the lead mines in that country— so that 

 there will be speedily a great increase in the number of 

 men employed in the collieries. Operations for sinking 

 a new colliery at Seaham Park, by a wealthy company, 

 on the estate of Lord Londonderry have been commenced. 

 This colliery will be on an extensive scale, and should it 

 be successful, will probably be one of the most important 



and profitable in the county. 



Manchester.— A meeting to be held on the 8th of 

 August has been called by the mayor, on a requisition 

 most respectably signed, for the purpose of considering 

 the propriety of establishing u public parks, walks, and 

 playgrounds" in the neighbourhood of this town. 



Portsmouth. — It is said that the Caledonia, 120, St. 

 Vincent, 120, and Camperdown, 104, the flag-ships at 

 Plvmouth, Portsmouth, and Sheerness, are to proceed 

 to'sea immediately, and that instead of cruising in the 

 Channel they will go on to Gibraltar. The Albion, 90, 

 the flag-ship at Cork, will join them at Gibraltar. It is 

 alleged that this sudden movement is in consequence of 

 the state of affairs between France and Morocco/and the 

 failure of the mediation of this country to effect an 

 amicable arrangement between the belligerents, it being 

 deemed expedient to have a squadron of observation on 

 the coast to watch the proceedings of the French squad- 

 ron under the command of His Royal Highness the 



Prince de Joinville. 



Sxidbury.— The Bill for the disfranchisement of this 

 borough is now in Parliament, having been read a second 

 time last night. It is prepared and brought in by the 

 Attorney and Solicitor-General, and is contained in a 



space of 28 lines a remarkable circumstance for an Act 



of Parliament. We quote from the preamble in order to 

 show the grounds upon which the Ministry have thought 

 themselves justified in taking this extreme course. It 



sa y S •« Whereas an Act was passed in the 7th year of the 



reign of Her Majesty, entitled ' An Act for appointing 

 Commissioners to inquire into the existence of Bribery 

 in the Borough of Sudbury,' whereby, after reciting that 

 there was reason to believe that the practice of bribery at 

 elections of members to serve in Parliament for the 

 borough of Sudbury had long prevailed in the said 

 borough, and that bribery to a great extent had been 

 systematically committed there at the last election of 

 members to serve in Parliament, certain Commissioners 

 were therein named and appointed for inquiring into the 

 manner in which the last election (in 1841) of members 

 to serve in Parliament for the said borough had been 

 conducted, and whether any bribery had been committed 

 at such election, and into the particulars of such alleged 

 bribery, as in the said Act is more fully set forth ; and by 

 the said Act the said Commissioners were directed from 

 time to time to report to Her Majesty the evidence which 

 should be taken by them, and what they should find con- 

 cerning the premises ; and whereas the said Com- 

 missioners made their report in writing to Her Majesty, 

 dated the 12th dav of March, 1844, and thereby, after 

 detailing various illegal practices before and during the 

 election, reported finally that systematic and extensive 

 bribery prevailed at the last election of members of 

 Parliament in the said borough ;— be it therefore enacted, 

 &c. that the borough of Sudbury, in the county of Suffolk, 

 shall, from and after the passing of this Act, cease to 

 return any member or members to serve in Parliament. 

 Thus, no provision is made at present for the filling up 

 of the" vacancy that will occur in the House of Commons, 

 by transferring the elective franchise to another place. 

 It is said that at the general election of 1 761 , caused by 

 the demise of George II. and the accession to the throne 

 of his grandson George III., Sudbury publicly advertised 

 for a " highest bidder " for the seats in its gift. 



Windsor.— AW who have visited Windsor-park and 



the grounds adjoining Virginia Water will remember a 



beautiful and retired spot called "The Ruins." The 



name is derived from some architectural antiquities 



brought from Greece by Lord Elgin, and which were so 



disposed in this locality, under the direction of George 



IV., as to represent the remains of a Grecian temple. 



The principal ruins consist of several columns, and 



various statues are placed on either side of the approach 



and in different parts around. Several of them are of 



great antiquity, and in a good state of preservation ; ; and 



others date from about the middle of the 16th century. 



On Sundav week, according to the statement of the man 



appointed 'to show the public the cascade, a statue ot 



Flora was thrown down from the spot where it stood, 



with great violence. The fall broke the head completely 



off, and also broke the right arm in two .places u This 



could not have resulted from accident, as the strength of 



two or three persons must have been required to remove 



the figure from its pedestal. The papers state that the 



destruction of this statue, though the most recent, » 



not by any means a solitary instance of the mischievous 



conduct of some of those who thus abuse the privilege 



granted to the public of viewing these splendid grounds 

 and Virginia Water. Various other works of art in the 

 Park bear proofs of the same destructive spirit. There 

 was formerly a row of statues on each side of the ap- 

 proach to the principal group of columns. Now the 

 uniformity is entirely destroyed, and the ruins spread 

 around are far more numerous than agreeable to behold. 

 Very few of them have entirely escaped ; some are carved 

 upon the breast, or some conspicuous portion of the 

 body, with the names of visitors who have been thus 

 anxious to expose themselves to the contempt of all 

 right-minded persons. Most of the statues, however, 

 are even more mutilated ; the heads having especially 

 formed favourite points of attack. There is little doubt 

 that a continuance of such conduct will cause a suspen- 

 sion of the privilege by which the public are now ad- 

 mitted to Windsor-park. 



Railways. — The following are the returns for the past 

 week :— Birmingham and Derby, 1587/.; Birmingham 

 and Gloucester, 2858/. ; Eastern Counties, 1687/. ; Edin- 

 burgh and Glasgow, 2197/.; Great Western, 20,329/.; 

 Grand Junction, 9359/.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, 

 1305/.; Great North of England, 1595/.; London and 

 Birmingham,19,218/.; South Western, 7349/.; Black wall, 

 14187. : Greenwich, 807/.; Brighton, 1272/. ; Croydon, 

 502/. ; Manchester, Leeds, and Hull, associated, 6995/. ; 

 Midland Counties, 3175/. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 

 3253/. ; North Midland, 5077/. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 

 1G35/. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 4585/. ; Sheffield 

 and Manchester, 581/. ; York and North Midland, 

 1923/— The introduction of Mr. Gladstone's Railway 

 Bill into the House of Commons has created considerable 

 alarm in the railway community, and deputations from 

 most of the companies are now in town for the purpose of 

 taking steps to oppose it. A meeting was held last week at 

 which the representatives of the following companies were 

 present:— Liverpool andManchester,Manchesterand Bir- 

 mingham, Great Western, South-Western, Great Midland, 



York and North Midland, Great North of England, New- 

 castle and Darlington, Sheffield and Manchester, Sheffield 

 and Rotherham, Manchester and Leeds, Hull and Selby, 

 London and Brighton, Bristol and Exeter, Bristol and 

 Glocester, Eastern Counties, Northern and Eastern, 

 and South-Eastern. A resolution was unanimously 

 adopted to the effect, that the Government Railway Bill 

 contains provisions of a most objectionable character as 

 affecting the interests of railway companies ; and that 

 the reports on which the Bill is founded lead to the con- 

 clusion, that a system of Government interference with 

 railways is contemplated, which is wholly uncalled for 

 and inexpedient as regards the public interests, and should 

 be strongly resisted by existing railway companies. It 

 was considered that the attempt to pass such a Bill at so 

 late a period of the session, and with so short a time for 

 the due consideration of its details, was most unjust, and 

 the meeting resolved to obtain an interview with Sir R. 

 Peel. This interview took place on Monday, and Sir R. 

 Peel listened with great attention to the case of the com- 

 panies, which was laid before him at considerable length. 

 A long conference ensued, in which the directors enlarged 

 on the objectionable character of the whole measure, 

 both in its principle and details, and concluded by ex- 

 pressing a hope that, at the present late period of the 

 session, the Bill would be postponed. Sir R. Peel de- 

 clined acceding to the request of the deputation for a 

 postponement until next session. 



IRELAND. 



Dublin.— The rumour is again revived that Govern- 

 ment intend to take measures for the prompt suppression 

 of the Repeal agitation, which, it is now evident, has not 

 been checked by the suspension of the monster meetings 

 or by the legal proceedings subsequently adopted. In 

 the meantime, the Lord Chancellor continues to supersede 

 magistrates who have taken any part in the agitation, 

 and Mr. Cornelius O'Brien, who presided over a recent 

 meeting at Castle Lyons, for the purpose of collecting 

 Repealrent, is among those who ^vc ten dwmi«ed 

 since our last-It is announced that Lord de Grey _ will 

 leave Dublin on the 13th, and that Lord Hejte.bory, 

 who has been appointed his successor, will arrive at the 



Castle on the loth.-Thc weekly "$"* *[*%**** 

 Association took place on Monday, Mr Mai er, M.P.,m 

 the chair Mr. O'Neill Daunt, after handing m some 

 money, said that the State prosecution was to hare extin- 

 guished O'Connell and his influence for ever ; yet he had 

 ?,; onnmince to them that not half an hour before, the 

 Coporaton of Dublin had offered to Mr. O'Connell 

 SXToralty of the city for 1845. The Liberator had 

 thought proper to decline the offer, but the moral effect 

 was The same ; and the fact showed that he never stood 

 higher in the estimation of the people than at present. 

 Several gentlemen addressed the meeting, after which 

 Mr. H. Grattan, M.P., spoke at some length in support 

 of a" resolution, requesting the Orange party to abstain 

 from walking in procession in honour of the battle of 

 the Boyne. He said, that it had come to his knowledge 

 at Rome that overtures had been made by cert * m ,! n " 

 dividuals acting, as he supposed, on behalf of the -bnglisn 

 Government, to his Holiness the Pope, which constitutedan 



infraction of the statute ofpremunire, and hepledge a 

 self to put into the hands of any Protestants f^^L 

 who would accept it sufficient proof of the fact to enao^ 

 articles of impeachment to be brought a ? a,n \, , , d 

 dividuals in fault. He alluded to the *«'*** ™ p ontiff 

 been made at the Court of Rome tc J^acethe Vo^ 

 to exert his influence to separa te ™ e * 5J He did not 

 from O'Connell and the repeal [££-•£ « . ^ 



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