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respectably connected, who had been employed in the 

 cashier's department, and absconded with a large sum 

 of money. It appears that on Thursdays it has been his 

 practice to go to dinner between two and three o'clock, 

 and as usual he left for that purpose without any parti- 

 cular notice being taken of his departure. The clerks, 

 however, finding he did not return at the usual time, be- 

 gan to wonder at the cause of his delay, and it was almost 

 instantly discovered that twelve 100/. notes were missing 

 from a drawer to which Warner had access. Inquiries 

 were immediately set on foot respecting him at his re- 

 sidence, but no information could be obtained, and the 

 police were instantly sent in search. He was traced to 

 Shrewsbury, and thence to Chester, where he was appre- 

 hended in a state of intoxication, with 1160/. in his pos- 

 session. It would seem that he had been drinking con- 

 stantly from the time he left Birmingham until taken 

 into custody — On Monday week, Mr. Hampton, the 

 aeronaut, who about five years since made perilous de- 

 scents in a parachute at Chelsea and Cheltenham, as- 

 cended from the Vauxhall-gardens in this town, in a new 

 balloon. The machine, which is the sole invention of 

 Mr. Hampton, has been constructed in an entirely novel 

 manner, both with respect to the valve, shape, and car ; 

 the silk of which it is composed, amounting to several 

 thousand yards, is manufactured by Spitalfields weavers. 

 It is nearly the size of the great Nassau balloon, being 

 67 feet in height, 124 feet in circumference, calculated 

 to contain about 24,000 cubic feet of gas ; the car, 

 which is capable of holding six persons, being five feet 

 m diameter and of a circular form. Considerable disap- 

 pointment was caused as the time drew nigh for its infla- 

 tion, for, by that period, the machine was found not to 

 be one-third inflated, and the gas was of so inferior a 

 description, that it bad only ascending power enough to 

 take up the aeronaut himself, so that no one could 

 accompany him. The atmosphere being very clear, the 

 ascent was beautiful in the extreme, and after the aero- 

 naut had gained an altitude of two miles, he effected an 



easy and safe descent at Shear's-hill, near Wolver- 

 hampton. 



Brighton.— On Tuesday morning a stiff breeze sprung 

 up, and the sea was considerably agitated, and in the 

 course of the afternoon the hull of the John o' Gaunt, the 

 vessel destroyed by Captain Warner, was seen drifting 

 with the wind. Hundreds of persons followed its pro- 

 gress down channel, and a large portion of the devoted 

 vessel drifted just off the Chain-pier, and went on shore, 

 thousands of persons were on the beach, anxiously wait- 

 ing to examine the hull of the ship, which was so perfect 

 a wreck that the timbers were completely separated. 

 t-apr.Pechell's fears respecting the danger to vessels going 

 down Channel are now, of course, removed.— Captain 

 Warner has addressed a letter to the Morning Chronicle, 

 in answer to some observations of a Brighton paper, on 

 the information of some Shoreham pilots, which the 

 editor of that paper thinks are "calculated to throw a 

 suspicion upon the genuine character of his experiment." 



• x. I' Youn & he sa y s » "a well-known and respectable 

 inhabitant of Shoreham, went on board the John 

 o' Gaunt, from which no person was excluded, as soon 

 as she arrived in Shoreham Roads, and remarked a 

 quantity of new warp (a rope about three inches round) 

 lying on the deck, and wondered what the rope could be 

 for. This mysterious rope was simply a coil, consisting 

 of two new tow-ropes, for the purpose of towing the 

 ship. Other ropes, which seem to have perplexed 

 these Shoreham visitors, were merely guy-ropes, for 

 conducting the large or tow-ropes on board the steamer: 

 others were man-ropes, hanging over the sides for the 

 more convenient escape of the crew ; and I dare say 

 there were ropes towing overboard both ahead and 

 astern, as will happen in slovenly ships ; and the John 

 o Gaunt was slovenly enough I dare say ; though I 

 pledge you my honour I never was on board her from 

 the time she left Gravesend, ten days before." Captain 

 W arner m conclusion says, " This visit proves* one 

 thing at any rate— that every one was not excluded from 

 the John o Gaunt, one of the many false assertions under 

 which I am for the present doomed to labour. I per- 

 ceive many of the correspondents of the public journals 

 suggest a variety of methods and materials by which my 

 experiment off Brighton might easily, without any 

 difficulty whatever— to adopt their own phrase— be per- 

 formed. I invite these gentlemen to go and do likewise." 

 Cambridge.— The Consistory Court of Ely have 

 decided m favour of the stone altar and credence-table 

 placed in the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, 

 «nt mS , / hich the Rev ' Mr « Faulkner, the vicar, had 

 reJlntf \ aS a Pa3e y ite innovation. The church has 

 bridal c^a reS i° r ? d Under the di rection of the Cam- 



iM^s^ which had sanctioned the st °- 



Ince Bank, ne« K™ i" ?**?' W * S f ° Und ° n 



inquest was* held on the body on tl J T*" A " 



verdict of « Accidentan; D b ^ d ^ t re e d da ^ "* * 



Uton.—lhe arrangements for the iti«»Jiw r 



prizes to the amount of 50/., giventn^ b y l princ°e 



Albert for the promotion of the study of 11! 



guages, have just been completed. The examl^f- 



this year will be in French and Italian ^ ^ 



place immediately after the return from the vacation of 



the 6th form. The provost and head master have deter 



mined to dispose of Prince Albert's gift as follows --To 



the best French and Italian scholar, 25/., in money, and 



lot. in books ; and 10/. in books to the second in point 



of merit. The examiners appointed by the college are— 



i* French, M. de Vericour ; and in Italian, Signor 



Panizzi, Librarian of the British Museum. — The annual 

 speeches and banquet on Election Monday took place on 

 Monday, in the presence of a great number of visitors. 

 The number of boys now in the col ege list is 751, being 

 38 more than at the election last year ; and showing an 

 increase since 1835 (when the school numbered 446) of 

 upwards of 300. Drake, K.S., the captain of the school 

 (who had Montem this year, and who also obtained the 

 Newcastle scholarship), and Brocklebank, K.S., have 

 just succeeded to King's College, Cambridge ; the intel- 

 ligence of the resignation of the Rev. Messrs. Hervey 

 and Denton, to cause the vacancies, only reached Eton 

 on Monday morning. 



Gravesend. — On Monday, during the sitting of the 

 magistrates at Rochester, Richard Dadd, the parricide, 

 arrived in custody of the police officers, who were sent 

 to France by the Secretary of State. The prisoner was 

 confined in a lunatic asylum at Clermont, about 30 miles 

 from Beauvais, which place they left on Friday morning. 

 He was pinioned by the arms, and wore a large military 

 blue cloak. He had rather a lengthened beard, and hair 

 over his upper lip. On his entering the office there was 

 a visible wildness of expression in his face, and his eyes 

 wandered over the whole court. After the usual forms 

 had been gone through, he was remanded to Maidstone 



Gaol for further examination a week hence On Friday 



last the Rev. G. Harris, a clergyman attached to one of 

 the city churches, who had been residing a short time at 

 Gravesend, committed suicide by cutting his throat with 

 a razor. He had for some months been in a desponding 

 state of health, and the jury at the inquest returned a 

 verdict of Temporary Insanity. 



Leeds. — The local papers state that the new society 

 instituted in this town under the name of " Odd Fel- 

 lows" is rapidly increasing in importance. At the 

 Selby anniversary last week, where the Rev. Dr. Hook 

 preached, himself a brother and warm friend of the 

 order, it was stated after dinner, in his presence and with 

 his concurrence, that the funds of the order consisted of 

 upwards of one million of money, the supposed annual 



income 230,000/. The increase of members for the last 

 year was 25,000. 



Liverpool. — On Sunday morning a tailor named Owen 

 Leonard, who keeps a low lodging house in Peter-street, 

 murdered his wife by cutting her throat with a razor. 

 The murder took place in the presence of their son, and 

 is said to have been the result of jealousy. Both parties 

 were Irish, and lived unhappily together. * An inquest has 

 since been held, and a verdict of Wilful Murder returned 

 against the prisoner, who has been commited for trial. 



Nottingham. — A prize-fight took place at Merry's 

 Close, near this town, last week, between a man named 

 Cumberpatch and another named Fitzhugh, in which the 

 latter received such injuries that he died in a few hours. 

 The father of deceased was present, and was one of the 

 chief instigators of the fight. An inquest has been held, 

 and a verdict of Wilful Murder returned against all the 

 parties concerned. 



Plymouth.— At a court-martial on board the St. Vin- 

 cent, 120, in Plymouth Sound, on Wednesday, Admiral 

 Sir D. Milne, Bart., Commander-in-Chief, President, a 

 private marine named Joseph Noble, was found guilty of 

 stabbing Mr. Protheroe, a Midshipman of the Mada- 

 gascar, and sentenced to be hanged at the yard-arm of 

 one of her Majesty's ships. -The prisoner, however, was 

 recommended to the merciful consideration of the Crown, 

 on account of the good character given him by the wit- 

 nesses, and also because there are no serious results from 

 the assault, which was committed in a moment of great 

 excitement. , 



Railways. — The following are the returns for 

 the past week :— Birmingham and Gloucester, 3117/. ; 

 Bristol and Gloucester, 987/.; Eastern Counties, 

 o204/.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2570/.; Great Wes- 

 tern, 18,461/.; Grand Junction, 9774/.; Glasgow, 

 Paisley, and Ayr, 1585/.; Great North of England, 

 1/02/.; London and Birmingham, 19,041/.; South 

 \\estern, 8530/.; Blackwall, 1653/. ; Greenwich, 938/.; 

 Brighton, 4863/.; Croydon, 609/.; Liverpool and 

 Manchester, 6242/.; Manchester, Leeds, and Hull, 

 associated, 7962/.; Midland, 10,112/.; Manchester 

 and Birmingham, 3273/. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 1900/. ; 

 Newcastle and Darlington, 730/. ; South-Eastern and 

 Dover 5403/.; Sheffield and Manchester, 582/.; York 

 and North Midland, with Leeds and Selby, 3072/.— A 

 special meeting of the Liverpool and Manchester Com- 

 pany was held last week. The report recommended a 

 dividend of 5/. per share for the half-year ending the 30th 

 June, and called attention to a project for a new 

 issue of shares. They set forth the expediency 

 of liquidating their debt of 454,055/., and at the 

 same time stated that although the dividends have 

 been at the nominal rate of 10 per cent, per annum, 

 this has only been on an incomplete share-capital 

 and not on the company's outlay and expenditure: 

 This outlay having been materially increased by the 

 recent construction of the extension line, the annual sum 

 to.be divided would . m fact be only 7\ per cent, on ex- 

 penditure and liabilities, though it would be 10 per 

 cent, on the incomplete capital, so that an erroneous 

 impression might be made. The plan proposed by the 

 directors is the creation of 40/. shares, and the appro- 

 priation of these to the shareholders in the proportion of 

 one 40/. share to every 100/. share. The acceptance of 

 an offer by the Bolton and Leigh Company to unite 

 their interest, on the principle of three of their shares 

 being deemed equivalent to one Liverpool and Man- 

 chester, was also recommended in the report, which was 

 unanimously confirmed.— At a special general meeting 

 of the South Eastern Company, held last week, resolu- 



tions were passed empowering the directors to borro^ 

 133,000/. on mortgage, to make a branch from th* 

 vicinity of Ashford to Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Mar- 

 gate, and to join the Canterbury and Whitstable Rail" 

 way ; and also empowering them to raise 600,000/ n 

 mortgage under the act for completing the branch 

 railway and the approach to Folkestone harbour, and to 

 effect certain alterations and extensions of the works of 

 the Maidstone branch. A plan for a steam-boat com- 

 pany connected with this railway was laid before the 

 meeting, though it cannot be regularly discussed till 

 September. The proposition is to create steam-boat 

 shares of 3/. each to the number of 42,000, those persons 

 alone being entitled to take the shares who hold ten 

 shares in the railway. It was also announced that the 

 directors intend to carry a branch from Tunbridge to 

 Tunbridge Wells. — Among the recent alterations in 

 railway arrangements, the South Western Railway Com- 

 pany's trains to Hampton Court now stop at Kingston 

 instead of Esher. The extraordinary extension of building 

 in the neighbourhood of Kingston would scarcely be cre- 

 dited by those who have not visited it of late — indeed it has 

 become by far the most important station on the line ♦ the 



number of passengers during the past year being up wards of 

 150,000. — Preparationsaremaking,priortothecommence- 



ment of cutting the intended line of rail way between Lancas- 

 ter and Carlisle. A number of excavators are now at work 



in the neighbourhood of Shap, removing walls and fences, 

 making roads, and clearing away all obstruction in the 

 direction of the line. As soon as the crops are got off 

 the ground, the cutting will be in active operation in the 

 vicinity of Kendal. — The works of the South-Devon 

 Railway will soon be in full action ; Mr. Brunei has been 

 daily employed with a great number of men in obtaining 

 the necessary information, preparatory to the contracts 

 being advertised. The specifications are nearly ready, 

 and in the course of a week the public notices will be 

 issued. At Dawlish-beach the soundings for the founda- 

 tion have been ascertained by Mr. Brunei, and have been 

 in some instances about 17 feet, and at other places a 

 much less depth than was at first imagined. It is con- 

 sidered certain that the line to Newton will be completed 

 within 12 months, and to Plymouth within two years. 

 The latter is not however so certain, as unforeseen con- 

 tingencies may arise as the works are in progress. At 

 all events the line will be completed to Plymouth as 

 soon as the tunnels can be finished. Everything apper- 

 taining to the line is progressing favourably, and it is 

 arranged that a public meeting of shareholders shall take 

 place in Plymouth about the end of August. 



IRELAND. 



Dublin. — Lord Heytesbury, the new Lord-Lieutenant, 

 arrived in Dublin on Saturday, and was received with 

 the usual honours. His Excellency landed at Kingston 

 Harbour and proceeded to Dublin by the railway. On 

 his arrival at the terminus he was met by the mayor and 

 corporation, who delivered up the keys of the city with 

 the usual forms. Upon his arrival at the Castle, Lord 

 Heytesbury was conducted to the Presence Chamber, 

 where the Lords Justices received his lordship. The 

 noble lord was subsequently conducted to the Council 

 Chamber, where, after the letters patent had been read, 

 the oath of chief governor was administered to his lord- 

 ship by the Archbishop of Dublin, authorised for that 

 purpose by a commission under the great seal of Ireland, 

 and then the usual oaths were administered to his lord- 

 ship by the Clerk of the Council, the Privy Councillors 

 being uncovered during the administration of the oaths. 

 After the ceremonial of swearing-in had been gone 

 through, his Excellency held an undress levee.— The 

 rumour current for the last few days respecting the 

 resignation of Mr. Lucas from the post of under-secre- 

 tary is stated to be quite true, and that he now merely 

 holds office pending the appointment of his successor.— 

 The prayer for Mr. O'Conneli and his fellow-prisoners, 

 and for the prosperity of the Repeal cause generally, was 

 not used in the Roman Catholic chapels of Dublin on 

 Sunday, nor was the day observed as one of Catholic 

 humiliation. Dr. Murray, the Roman Catholic arch- 

 bishop, is said to have disapproved of the measure.— 

 The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association was 

 held on Monday in Conciliation Hall. The chair was 

 taken by the Rev. T. Tierney, P.P., Clontibret, one of 

 the traversers in the late state trials. The Chairman 

 addressed the meeting, and expressed his determination 

 to persevere till the object for which they were struggling 

 should be achieved. Mr. Smith O'Brien commenced 

 the business of the day by handing in several remittances. 

 Mr. J. Kelly, M.P. for Limerick addressed the meeting. 

 He said that on that day fortnight he had the honour ot 

 presiding over a meeting of the Association, and since 

 then he had visited his constituents, and found that their 

 confidence in this Association was as unbounded as ever, 

 whilst their confidence in the foreign legislature was 

 becoming " small by degrees and beautifully less. p£ 

 would ask, what had they to expect from the British 

 Legislature ? He would therefore call on those Liberal 

 members who had not as yet identified themselves with 

 the movement, to shake off their listlessness and join the 

 ranks of the Repealers, and he could assure them they 

 would be received with open arms. It had been g en . e " 

 rally circulated that the policy of their present chiet 

 governor would be to institute a prosecution against the 

 leaders of the Association. It was in consequence ot 

 this rumour that he was there, but he could not believe 

 that a man of such diplomatic experience as Lo ^ 

 Heytesbury would resort to any such course. ^ houl " 

 he, however, do so, and succeed in imprisoning the men 

 he saw around him, he would find that there would be no 



