Aug. 17, J 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



("1844. 



Jiii per or, Wfera] of thrrn, particularly those who took a 



leading part in the insurrection, refused to accept them, 

 fearing that they should have no chance of showing their 

 innocence, and that from Kowno they should be sent to 

 Siberia. Since the offer was made, those who appealed 

 for the amnesty have received a communication from 

 the Russian Ambassador, stating that their liberty was 

 granted, upon condition of their proceeding to Poland 

 through Holland, and, moreover, that as many of them 

 were in a state of poverty, and unable to bear the ex- 

 penses of travelling, a sum sufficient for the purpose was 

 laced at their disposal by the Russian Government. On 

 Sunday last 13, two of whom have married m England, 

 .quitted London in the Rotterdam steam-boat, amongst 

 them being Count Golyowski and M. Nowacb, who, 

 about a year ago, committed an assault on Lord Dudley 

 Stuart. Some of the Poles remaining in London are 

 deserters from the Russian army, and to them no pardon 



has been offered. 



The Art- Tnion.— The annual meeting of the sub- 

 icribers to the Art-Union of London was held on Tues- 

 day in Drury-Line Theatre, H. R. II. the Duke of Cam- 

 bridge in the chair. The Report, after alluding to the late 

 proceedings in reference to Art-Unions, stated that the 

 subscription for the present year amounts to 14,848/. Is., 

 being an increase of 2513/. Ms. over that of last year. 

 The amount set apart for the purchase of works of art 

 was 8.*»90/., which was allotted as follows : — 



Twelve, of 60/. each 

 Eight, of 70/. each . . 



JFifty works of art, of the 



value of 10/. cacli . j£500 

 T hirty-six, of 15/. each • 540 

 Forty. two, of 20/. each . 840 

 Twenty-cipht, of 25/. each 700 

 Twenty five, of 30/. each . 750 

 Tvcnty, of 40/. each . .800 

 Fourteen, of 50/. each . . 700 



Six, of 80/. each 

 Six, of 100/. each . 

 Two, of 150/. each 

 Two, of 20C/. each 

 One, of ... . 

 One, of 



j£720 

 . 560 



. 480 

 . 600 

 . 300 



. 4(-o 

 . 300 

 . 400 



To these were added 30 bronzes of the " Bust of Hebe," 



making in the whole 283 works of art. The report 



stated that the reserve fund amounts to 1202/., and 



urged the payment of subscriptions for the purpose of 



increasing it. The necessity of obtaining more ample 



apartments, and of a gallery for the exhibition of works 



of art purchased by the prizeholders, was also adverted to. 



After the reading of the Report, the Duke of Cambridge 



retired, and Lord Monteagle presided during the drawing 



of the lots. The following were the principal prizes : — 



400/., Miss C. Hemmington, near Lonsdale. 300/., 



Mr. George, 92, Cheapside. 200/. Mr. Sanders, Burton- 



upon-Trent ; and Mr. Flamman, Tavistock. 150, Mr. 



Hazlilt, Ilounslow; and Silentio. 100/., Mr. Kelburn, 



Port Philip, Australia ; Mr. Collingwood, Liverpool ; 



Mr. Wntlington, Bedford-place; Mrs. M'Queen, Tot- 



' tenham-court-road ; Mr. Chancellor, Bolton. 



Navigation cf the Thames. — On Thursday the com- 

 mittee again assembled at Guildhall, for the purpose of 

 hearing the objections to the suggested regulations in 

 the government of steam vessels on the Thames. The 

 Lord Mayor took the chair, supported by Aldermen 

 Lucas, John Johnson, Kelly, Farncomb, and Musgrove. 

 Several members of the Navigation Committee, steam 

 vessel owners, and others, stated their objections to many 

 particulars in the regulations, and offered suggestions on 

 <he subject, which were entirely of a technical nature. 

 The Lord Mayor informed them that the committee 

 would immediately take into consideration the objections 

 they had made, and adopt a course which he had no 

 •doubt would be favourably received by the public. 



The Convict Dalmas. — This convict has been removed, 

 by order of the Secretary of State, from the Milbank 

 Penitentiary to the insane ward of Betblem Hospital, 

 <here to be confined during Her Majesty's pleasure as a 

 lunatic. It is said that the report of the medical men 

 who have daily visited Dalmas since his incarceration in 

 the Penitentiary, leaves but little doubt of his insanity. 



The Ncwfound!and Church Shij< A schooner yacht, 



called the Hawk, of about 60 tons, has been given to the 

 Bishop of Newfoundland, by the Rev. Mr. Eden, rector 

 of Leigh, to be used as a church in the smaller and more 

 •remote settlements, where there is no permanent church, 

 and also to convey the bishop from place to place in his 

 visitations. On Saturday the Bishop of London accom- 

 panied by several of the clergy, by Sir H. Douglas, M.P., 

 Mr. Acland, M.P., Mr. Cotton, Governor of the Bank 

 •of England, and other friend?, paid a visit of inspection 

 to the vessel, and examined the missionaries who are 

 •about to proceed in her to Newfoundland. The Hawk 

 has been supplied with the necessary ecclesiastical fit- 

 tings, such as plate, an altar, table, books, &c., for the 

 celebration of divine service, by the private contributions 

 •Of the friends of Bishop Feild. 



The Abolition of Imprisonment for Del t. — The above 

 Act, -which received the Royal assent on Friday by com- 

 mission, came into operation on Saturday, when a 

 number of debtors who had been imprisoned in the dif- 

 lfhf n * metr £P olit ™ prisons for debts under 20/., were 

 iiDerated The same course will be adopted in all the 



^nffn ga ° M, f ° r dcb v tW § h °ut the country, with the ex- 

 £tt? r 8C S° 8 ^ nd co ™'tted for penalties due 



h. t l£n T ' J 6 ! her l ffi ° f LondoQ ™ d Middlesex 

 ™i. g • ?h T ° thC keepe " of the respective 



a! . a* m° U J ' *°\ '?• take in an y Person whose 

 •debt is under the sum stated in the Act 



Mortalityof the Metropolis. -The 'following is the 



nvn was reported several times to have died since th e 

 passing of the sentence ; and in a state chiefly of uncon- 

 sciousness the time passed away with him from that period 

 to his last hour. He made an entire confession of his 

 guilt, of which, indeed, the evidence adduced on the trial 



did not leave a doubt. 



Buckingham.— -The Marquis of Chandos will attain his 

 majority on the 10th of next month, and great preparations 

 are making at Stowe to celebrate the event. Ameetingwas 

 held on Monday in this town, at which the Mayor pre- 

 sided, to consider the best means of celebrating the event ; 

 a series of resolutions were adopted for the furtherance of 

 this object, and congratulatory addresses were voted to 

 the Dike and Duchess of Buckingham and the Marquis 

 of Chandos. All the poor in the neighbourhood of the 

 Duke's estates are to be regaled on the occasion with old 



English cheer. 



Cardiff.— The local papers state that Sir J. truest, 

 Bart., the proprietor of the Dowlais iron-works, has 

 recently received an order from Russia for 50,000 tons 

 of iron, for the purpose of being used in the construction 

 of railways in that country. 



'Carlisle.— -From Cumberland we learn that the sport 

 on the moors in Cumberland and Westmoreland on 

 Monday the 12tb, was excellent. Birds were plentiful, 

 but it required the greatest ingenuity to come within 

 range of them, as they were universally strong on the 

 wing. All the accounts agree in stating that the birds 

 are numerous, but, in consequence of the long continued 

 dry state of the weather during the hatching season, they 

 are packed and remarkably wild. 



Deal.— The Safety Beacon erected about a year ago, 

 by Capt. Bullock, R.N., was run down last week by a 

 Dutch galliot and destroyed. The Lords of the Admiralty, 

 however, have ordered that another be placed on the 

 same spot immediately, and on the principles of the 



old one. 



Durham.— Wednesday, the 28th inst., has been fixed 



for laying the foundation-stone of the temple to be 

 erected to the memory of the late Earl of Durham, on 

 Painshaw Hill, in this county. An invitation having 

 been given by the building committee to the Freemasons 

 of Durham and Northumberland to attend the ceremony, 

 a provincial lodge was held at Newcastle last week, at 

 which it was resolved to accept the invitation, and testify 

 once more their respect for the memory of their late 

 grand-master. The Earl of Zetland has promised to 

 lay the foundation-stone. It is expected that the 

 temple will be completed early next summer. — A cruel 

 murder was perpetrated at High Eighton, in this county, 

 on Saturday. It appears that a potato-field, belonging to 

 Mrs. Mitcalfe, of that place, had suffered severely from 

 depredators, and Mr. Fleck, manager of the farm, had 

 placed a watch to prevent a recurrence of these losses. 

 On Saturday night last, he sent two young men to see 

 that all was right, when, on passing through the fields, 

 one of them, called Robson.was shot dead by a man con- 

 cealed in the bedge./^No less than 187 shots were found 

 in his body. An inquest has been held, but adjourned 

 for further evidence, no clue having been obtained to lead 

 to the detection of the murderer. 



average for the last five years, 946. 



Bodmin.- 



flace on Mon 



Gravesend. — On Tuesday the Russian frigate Aurora 

 weighed anchor and left Gravesend, where she has been 

 lying for nearly a month, on her return to St. Peters- 

 burgh with despatches for the Emperor. 



Isle of. Wight. — Mr. Commissioner Goulburn, in the 

 Court of Bankruptcy, last week gave judgment in the 

 case of the Isle of Wight Bank, in re Roe and Blatch- 

 ford. After adverting to the various charges brought 

 against the bankrupts, which he considered to be sub- 

 stantiated, and to be attributable to false representations 

 on their part, he said that neither partner could acquit 

 himself. The official assignee, in answer to a question 

 by the Court, said that the debts amounted to upwards 

 of 100,000/., but from the uncertain nature of the assets 

 he should think that the dividend would not probably be 

 more than one shilling in the pound. The Commis- 

 sioner having gone through a full review of the facts, as 

 detailed in the evidence, proceeded to say that there was 

 a great difference in this case from that of persons who 

 had got into difficulties from misfortune or from circum- 

 stances over which they had no control ; but here was 

 conduct grossly fraudulent, and he should be giving way 

 to a morbid sympathy if he were to decide this case 

 upon the same footing as that of an honest trader. Un- 

 der the whole of the circumstances, as evolved in this 

 extraordinary case, he felt it to be his duty to refuse the 

 certificates of both the bankrupts. — The local papers 

 mention, with much regret, that a piece of land sur- 

 rounding Carisbrooke Castle, is about to be sold on build- 

 ing leases, and they complain that this measure will 

 seriously injure the most interesting historical monument 

 in the island. It appears that the range of land is partly 

 in grass, and partly adorned with flourishing plantations, 

 and in front and on one side it constitutes a part of the 

 slopes of the eminence on which the castle stands. This 

 land is thus essentially connected with the castle, forming 

 an important feature in its beautiful scenery, and was 

 part and parcel of the castle domain, until separated 

 from it, in some unknown manner, about the period of 

 the Commonwealth. The late Lord Bolton, when Go- 

 vernor of the Isle of Wight, purchased it from the then 

 proprietor, solely with the view of preserving it from the 

 builders. His Lordship's heir having no connexion with 

 the i>land now wishes to dispose of it. It is said to have 

 been offered to the Crown for 1200/. ; but the Crown has 

 hitherto declined to purchase, and it is now advertised 



Liverpool. — The Thomas Bennett, a fine American si.j 

 of 483 tons, which sailed from Liverpool for Charleston 

 on the 3d inst, with a general cargo, worth about 30 000/ 

 has put back to this port in consequence cf the murder 

 of her captain on the high seas. It appears that 5 day* 

 after leaving Liverpool, Capt. Halsey, while in a stateof 

 intoxication, was irritated at some delay in getting his 

 dinner, and proceeded from the cabin to the cook-house 

 on deck, in which the steward and cook were employed in 

 dressing the victuals. The cook was in the act of 

 peeling potatoes, and had a large sheath knife in his 

 hand for that purpose. The captain, in the first instance, 

 seems to have abused the steward about the preparation of 

 the dinner, and then snatched a large table-knife out of 

 the steward's hand, and ordered the latter out of the 

 caboose. He then seized the cook with his left hand by 

 the throat, and dragged him out upon the deck. What 

 occurred at this moment does not appear to have been 

 exactly witnessed by any of the crew ; but it is said that 

 the captain made an attempt, with his knife, upon the 

 cook's life. If, however, the attempt was made, it must 

 have been unsuccessful, for the cook escaped without 

 having received the slightest injury. There is no doubt, 

 on the other hand, that the cook used his knife with a 

 very effective and determined purpose ; for scarcely had 

 he been dragged upon deck when the captain fell dead 

 at his feet from no less than nine deep stabs. The mate 

 at once put the cook in irons, and brought the vessel 

 back to Liverpool, where the prisoner, who is a native of 

 the town, was handed over to the civil authorities, by 

 whom he will be committed for trial. 



Manchester A public funeral was given on Monday 



to the remains of Dr. Dalton, who died in Manchester a 

 few dsys ago, aged 78. Dr. Dalton was a member of 

 the Society of Friends, and was celebrated throughout 

 Europe as a chemist, and as the discoverer of the 

 "atomic theory." The Mayor and Corporation joined 

 with his scientific friends in giving this public testimo- 

 nial to his worth, and no less than 100 private carriages, 

 including that of the Corporation, and the various socie- 

 ties in the town, formed a part of the procession to the 

 Ardwick Cemetery, where his remains were interred. 

 The shops and warehouses in the line of road were closed, 

 and a marked desire was manifested by the inhabitants 

 to pay every respect to the philosopher's memory. 



Newcastle. — Notwithstanding the number of pitmen 



and their families ejected from the dwellings of their 



employers at the various collieries of this district, the 



strike yet remains in full force, and not the slightest 



prospect is afforded of the old pitmen resuming their 



employment. The commercial and trading interests are 



suffering most severely, and there never was a period in 



the history of Newcastle when so many acceptances, and 



to so large an amount, were held over at the different 



banking establishments, from the inability of the parties 



to withdraw them. The local papers also state that 



there are at this moment upwards of 50,0007. worth of 



silver lying unprofitably accumulated at the various 



banks, which, under ordinary circumstances, would ^hav e 



been employed in the payment of wages, and distributed 



weekly through the channels of trade and commerce m 



the district. There are upwards of 33,000 persons ge - 



rail* employed in the collieries of NorthumberlaDd and 



Durham, and of these only 2508 W"«"^ra£ 



ment up to Saturday last ; these had been joined by 36o 



men, brought into the district from a distance ; making 



a total of 6160 hewers at work, Producing, on » he 



average, 8310 chaldrons of coals per day. J*e > con 



owners have already carried out the ejecting process to a 



considerable extent, but that seems to have failed m 



bringing the men to terms; and in con" e qaencc,^ 



general meeting of the owners was held m bwto« on 



Saturday, when it was determined that ; if h »o» did not 



resume work on or before Friday, the 16 b, agents woo 



resume worK on or Deiorc 1'"^;)- ,';,.... ^ere 

 be sent into the South of England, and f*«^™ ti 

 it had been ascertained that an abundance^ otm 

 could be obtained, to engage a sufficient numoer 



supply the whole of the collieries. . 



V lrJ wcaslle . nnder . Ly ne.-On Sunday week a j*Hj 



man named William Cooper, son of a f™™% ssiitini 

 T. F. Boughey, Bart., and who was in the , hatat of. «« Jj 

 his father, when on his return from chapel, wa 

 dead on reaching the door of his father . hou» by 

 person lurking near. The police ^^ '""£, Bn d 

 ng the footmarks of two persons near the sp ^ , f 

 traced them to Scot Hay, where they .pp«*» ^ 

 young man called Powys, whose boots precise y 

 responded with the smaller footmarks. They » ^ 

 prehended a man called Downing, who had c J ^ 

 released from prison the day before the m arte , 

 being imprisoned on the evidence of _decea sea ^ 

 for poaching. His boots corresponded exac uy 



other footmarks. A gun was also *?»»*.•' ^ d &. 



•n recently dischargee, a« 



|3i:obmcial Xefos. 



The execution of the murderer Weeks took for sale by auction on the 20th inst., parcelled out into 

 day at the couDty gaol here. The unhappy small lots for building purposes. 



1 



house, which had bee 



prisoners have been committed for «»• { t „ 



F Kollingham.-\n our Assize I ntel >lf * c a e '„ d ed the 

 W e briefly noticed the catastrophe which attend^ on 

 execution of Seville the murderer in t £ 3 iUe 

 the 7th inst. The loca papers state that it ^V i 

 to give any adequate idea of the consternation P ^ ^ 

 in all classes by the occurrence. I he cro 

 execution was immense = it was w°»*/£££ * 

 countless thousands were packed on the : pave ^ 

 far as the eye could reach, nothing but the heuu^ m , de 

 and women could be seen. Occasionally a cry ^ 

 that a man, woman, or youth, was fainting 

 crushed to death, and if the wuwidual ""U allowed 

 *noueh to have strength left, he was lifted up end > fl 







the heads 



to wa S lk to the extremity of ^. «ro-do« -j ^ of 



the people. Many hats were 



