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THE NEWSPAPER. 



f!844. 



kind of amende to the militia of the island 





^** ^Dcech delivered at a review called in honour of the 

 Vrth bfaPrince. The journals of the island had quoted 

 5; J Graham's words in the House of Commons, ex- 

 TJrtw stating that troops were sent to the island in 

 EaZJuence of official information received from the 

 pernor. General Napier says upon this point-" You 

 We been told that I sent for the soldiers. That is an- 

 other falsehood. I never did ; I never knew that they 

 were coming till they were in the harbour. In this 

 manner have base falsehoods been circulated ; and I am 

 eUd to be able at last to see you together, to remove 

 them from your minds. Nor do I believe that you are 

 enemies, though I have been told so. But, whether 

 you are or not, I am not your enemy." 



Leicester. The first consecration of a Roman Catholic 



Monastery which has occurred in England since the 

 Reformation took place in this county on Tuesday. It 

 W pears that the first English monastery of Cistercians 

 was founded at Waverley, in the county of Surrey, in 

 1129 and so rapid was the extension of the order in this 

 country, that, as old chroniclers tell us, there were no 

 less than 62 houses of these monks in England in the 

 reign of Edward I., a.d. 1300. At the suppression of 

 monastic institutions by Henry VIII. at the Reformation, 

 a great number of Cistercian monks, who remained faith- 

 ful to their vows, sought safety in voluntary exile, and 

 monasteries were built for their reception by their con- 

 tinental brethren, where they might continue to practise 

 the austerities of their order in security. Of late years, 

 however, the Roman Catholic faith in this country has 

 pushed itself b every direction, and created a sort of 

 revival in its favour. Under these circumstances a party 

 of English Cistercians lromthe monastery of La Trappe 

 returned to their native soil, and settled eight or nine 

 years ago at Charnwood Forest, in Leicestershire, where 

 they founded the monastery of St. Bernard. The build- 

 ing of the monastery, which from various causes has 

 occupied so long a period of time, is now completed, and 

 consists of cloisters, chapter-house, refectory, dormitory, 

 calefactory, guest-house, prior's lodgings,lavatory, kitchen 

 offices, &C. The buildings are erected in the greatest 

 severity of the lancet style, with massive walls and but- 

 tresses, long and narrow windows, high gables and roofs, 

 with deeply-arched door-ways. Solemnity and simpli- 

 city are the characteristics of the monastery, and every 

 portion of the architecture and fittings corresponds with 

 the austerity of the order for whom it has been raised. 

 The monastery is sheltered on the north side by a huge 

 rock, on the summit of which it is intended to erect a 

 calvary, the crosses and figures of which are to be of 

 gigantic size, and be visible from an immense extent of 

 surrounding country. The consecration of the monas- 

 tery and church took place on Tuesday the 20th, being 

 St. Bernard's-day. This being the first event of the 

 kind in England since the Reformation, the attendance 

 of Catholic bishops, priests, nobles, and gentry holding 

 that faith was exceedingly numerous. The services com- 

 menced with a procession of monks and ecclesiastics, 

 attended by the visitors and an immense concourse of 

 ■pectators from all parts. They left the old temporary 

 monastic buildings at ten o'clock, chanting appropriate 

 psalms, and on reaching the new monastery the usual 

 ceremonies were gone through, the office of consecration 

 being performed by the Right Rev. Dr. Walsh, bishop of 

 ^ambysopol-s ; high mass by the Right Rev. Dr. Wise- 

 man bishop of Melipotamus, assisted -by the Right Rev. 



? 8 ' bisho P of Tr °y- A- sermon was afterwards 

 peached by Bishop Wiseman, and the day being spent 

 religious exercises, vespers were sung, and the pro- 

 ceedings closed by a sermon from Bishop Morris, 

 rpm w f^° 0/ -— The prisoner, John Kent, who had been 

 remanded from last week on a charge of killing Capt. 

 aisey, has not been committed for trial as was expected, 

 dirt JU ? f the Coroner 's inquest having returned a ver- 

 in . ^ ustlnabl e Homicide. He was however kept 

 Mond. t0 aU( * Was Drou g ftt U P for re-examination on 

 authot Sn ^ aga ' Q remanded » in order that the American 

 would" m tliis C0untl 7 migbt decide whether they 

 for th P COnsent t0 ni s release, or claim his surrender 

 AmpH PUrp ° 8e 0f bein g tried for the manslaughter of an 

 th P n CU,Zen ' The res «lt of this remand was that 



coroner'° ner **" 8et at libert *' the verdict ° f the 

 bablv . s W being considered satisfactory. — Pro- 



exceptin ?h U ° pla ° e in the kin S dom > DOt even 

 monev § • metro P olis , where a larger amount of 



tion of 1S M. process of expenditure in the construc- 



Livpm ? Works thaQ th ere is at this moment in 



itates t ?°; an ? Birk enhead. The Manchester Guardian 



in Droirr m Llver P° Gl there are the following works now 



New r? , , : ~" Aa8iz e Courts (corporation), cost 80,000/.; 



^'arehn ^ c< * r P or ation), cost 100,000/. ; Albert Dock and 



Dock wt ^ d ° ck C0I »mittee), (500,000/. ; New North 



Canal (nt* inciudin g land and junction with Leeds 



kne, and ° mmittee )' 1 ' 500 » 000/ -; reservoirs, Green- 



50 000/ C ? rr , es P° ndi ng works (highway commissioners), 



30,000/' ! p '"trial Schools at Kirkdale (select vestry), 



140 OOo/ e? E *tension (New Gas Company), 



2500/ • , haw_street Park (private shareholders), 



pendent £ * * total of 2 »S00 f 0J0/. All this is inde- 



in coote *?*** ° tller works ' BOme in progress and others 



Comment ail ° n ' With P ros P ect s of almost immediate 



'eckonpH C £": nt * , Amon gst those in progress may be 



Yate, . t f f rlDce 8 p «*. now forming by Mr. R. V. 



"an Ch U rh 80uth end of the town ; the new Presbyte- 



Catholic F ^ M y rtle - 8t reet ; Female Orphan Asylum ; 



Pital Cto.V? ale ,° r Phan Asylum; New Northern Hos- 



Ctoward 



lOOOn"'"^ 8 ^ lch Mr - W - Brown recently contributed 

 ' " ; ' 6t " M *rtin's Schools; Catholic Magdalen 



Wooiton, and St. Mary's Catholic 



Church, in Edmund-street. Besides other works in con- 

 templation are the Daily Courts, on the site of Islington 

 market (now discontinued) ; the intended additional 

 railway tunnel to the north end of the town, by the 

 Liverpool and Manchester Company; an additional mer- 

 chandise station for the Grand Junction Company ; the 

 enlargement of the Lime-street terminus ; and some im- 

 provements on the Bridgewater property. These various 

 works will probably absorb not less than another million. 

 The magnitude of the works in progress at Birkenhead 

 may be inferred from the following abstract, which is 

 taken from the estimates : — New Market (commis- 

 sioners), 20,000/. ; Town-hall (commissioners), 10,000/.; 

 Park (commissioners), 25,000/. ; Docks in W aliases 

 Pool (commissioners, as trustees), 400,000/. ; Dock 

 Warehouses on the margin of Wallasea Pool (private 

 company), 600,000/. ; Tunnel from Monk's Ferry to 

 Grange-lane ( Chester and Birkenhead Railway), 20,000/.; 

 making a total of 1,075,000/. ; and further, a proposal 

 has been made, which is now under the consideration of 

 the Finance Committee of the Liverpool Corporation, to 

 buy the freehold of all their Wallasea estate, and pay for 

 it in ready money ! Besides the works named as in pro- 

 gress, a cemetery and infirmary are contemplated, to 

 which may be added a design for the erection of one or 

 more churches. On the two former it is intended to ex- 

 pend about 15,000/. 



Manchester. — A poor woman named Mullen was 

 murdered in this town last week by a young man named 

 Evans, who lodged in her house, and immediately 

 absconded. The police, however, succeeded in tracing 

 him to Liverpool, where he was apprehended. The jury 

 at the inquest returned a verdict of wilful murder against 

 him, and he has been committed for trial. 



Maidenhead — A destructive fire broke out Inn range 

 of stabling within the yard of the Great Western Railway 

 station at this place, in the middle of the day on Tue 

 day, which it is strongly feared was not occasioned by 

 accident. The names when first discovered burst forth 

 with inconceivable rapidity ; and within less than half 

 an hour the whole building, which was composed of wood 

 covered with slate, was a heap of ruins. There were 12 

 horses in the stable at the time, eight of which were 

 rescued after considerable difficulty, without sustaining 

 any damage. Three, however, which resisted every effort 

 to extricate them, were burnt almost to a cinder. The 

 other was got out alive, but in so dreadful a state that it 

 was necessary to kill it immediately. The stabling and 

 horses were the property of Mr. Lovegrove, proprietor of 

 the Bear Inn, who provides the omnibuses which convey 

 passengers between the town and the station. It is stated 

 that the stabling was only insured as late as Friday last, 

 but that Mr. Lovegrove will nevertheless sustain a loss 



of upwards of 100/. 



Nottingham. — A Roman Catholic cathedral on a 

 larger and more magnificent scale than any built in Eng- 

 land since the Reformation has been recently erected in 

 this town, and will be opened on Wednesday, the 23th 

 inst. A large number of the Roman Catholic gentry, 

 including the Earl of Shrewsbury (who has been a prin- 

 cipal contributor), Lords Arundel, Camoys, Dormer, 

 Newburgh, and Southwell, the Hon. C. Clifford, the 

 Hon. T. Stoner, Sir P. Mostyn, Sir E. Vavasour, &c, 

 are expected to be present, and high mass will be per- 

 formed by Dr. Wiseman. The architect is Mr. Pugin. 



Portsmouth. — The Collingwood line-of-battle ship is 

 still at Spithead, and is said to be under orders for the 

 Pacific. Lieut. Peel, son of the Premier, will take his 

 passage in her to join his ship, the Cormorant. Two 

 returns have been published by the House of Commons, 

 which are interesting to naval circles at this juncture. 

 The first gives the amount of horse-power ordered for 

 Her Majesty's steam-vessels between the 1st April, 

 1839, and the 31st August, 1841, as follows :— Number 

 of vessels, 18; horse-power, 449G; tonnage, 16,581. 

 The second states that the amount of horse-power, &c, 

 between the 1st September, 1841, and the 1st July, 

 1844, was: — Number of vessels, 30; horse-power, 

 11,261; tonnage, 26,892. From these statistics it 

 seems that in the first three years of the present Admi- 

 nistration there has been an addition of 12 to the 

 number of our war steamers, with a corresponding 

 increase of more than 10,000 tons in their burden, as 

 compared with the strength of the same department 

 during the two last years of their predecessors — a period 

 memorable for the isolation and the irritability of 

 France, and the naval demonstrations in the East. — On 

 Sunday afternoon Mr. Robert Owen, the Socialist, left 

 London by railway for this port, from whence he pro- 

 ceeds to America on a visit to his family residing in New 

 Harmony, Indiana. His friends and disciples assembled 

 in St James's Park in numbers amounting to some 

 thousands, and accompanied him on his way as far as 

 Vauxhall Bridge, where Mr. Owen bade them farewell. 



Stafford. — On Saturday the extreme sentence of the 

 law was carried into effect at the County Gaol on Wil- 

 liam Beards, who was convicted at the lait assizes of the 

 murder of Elizabeth Griffiths, at the village of Wednes- 

 bury, in March last. The culprit made a full confession 

 of his crime, and acknowledged the justice of his sentence. 

 Stratford-upon-Avon.— The local papers state that, 

 stimulated by the recent demonstration in honour of 

 Robert Burns on the banks of the Doon, preparations 

 have already been announced to celebrate, next year, on 

 the 23d April, his birthday, the memory of Shakspere, at 

 Stratford-on-Avon. The Leamington Courier 'contains 

 an earnest appeal on this subject to the nobility and 

 gentry of Warwickshire to commence in good season, and 

 it is expected that they will receive the co-operation of 

 the Shakspere Society of London. A committee in the 



metropolis to co-operate with that formed in Warwick- 

 shire is also talked of. 



Sunderland. — Mr. Day, master of the brig Earl Vane, 

 of this port, has been brought before the sitting magis- 

 trates, charged with having attempted to scuttle that 

 vessel at sea. The vessel returned, after being out for 

 about nine weeks, without reaching Archangel. Soon 

 after her arrival an investigation took place by the com- 

 mittee of the assurance policies, when it was elicited 

 that the cause why the vessel had returned was, that an 

 attempt had been made by the master to scuttle her. A 

 criminal charge having, therefore, been made against 

 him, he was accordingly brought before the magistrates. 

 The crew deposed to several conversations, in which the 

 iptain acknowledged the attempt. A disclosure of his 

 ignorance was rather startling, and disgraceful to the 

 commercial marine of this country. It appeared that on 

 the preceding voyage, a coal voyage to London, he en- 

 gaged the mate to teach him navigation, which tuition 

 continued on this foreign voyage, the mate being paid 

 by the master 5s. per month additional in consequence. 

 This master, who was intrusted with the conduct of n 

 voyage to Archangel, was utterly ignorant of the first 

 four rules of arithmetic ; he could scarcely write, and 

 his letters showed he was unacquainted with orthography ; 

 and, although in the prime of life at the time of this oc- 

 urrence he was only able to take the meridian altitude. 

 The defence was, that the prisoner was labouring under 

 temporary insanity at the time of the offence, but the 

 magistrates determined to send the prisoner for trial at 

 the assizes. Bail in the sum of 100/. was, however, 

 taken for his appearance. 



York. — The Town Council of this city met last week 

 for the purpose of agreeing upon an address of congratu- 

 lation to Her Majesty on the birth of another Prince. 

 Alderman Hud i, in seconding the address, M heartily 

 hoped that the Prince now given birth to would be n 

 Duke of York. It was not for them, however, to go 

 further than to express a hope on that subject. It must 

 be left to the Prince's Royal parents to say whether he 

 should be a Duke of York or a Duke of Kent. At the 

 same time, he did trust that our gracious Queen would 

 not forget the ancient city. York was once the seat of 

 royalty, and now that that great boon had been taken 

 from us, he hoped that Her Majesty would determine 

 that the Prince should be named the Duke of York. 

 That this should be so was the ardent hope of himself, 

 and he felt sure that it was also the anxious desire of the 

 Council, and of the citizens at large." All the gentlemen 

 present concurred in expressing their hope that the Royal 

 infant might " live long to be an ornament to the nation, 

 and an honour to their city as the Duke of York." The 

 address was adopted by acclamation. 



Windsor. — It has been determined by the Commis- 

 sioners of Woods and Forests to take down the old and 

 dilapidated houses in the lower ward of Windsor Castle, 

 the residences of five of the Military Knights, and known 

 as the Lower Foundation. It is in contemplation to 

 form a noble terrace on the site of these houses, to be 

 open to the public, affording extensive and highly pic- 

 turesque views over St. Leonard's and the Great Park. 

 It is also in contemplation to restore the Salisbury 

 Tower, agreeably to the original plans of Sir J. Wyat- 

 ville, and as they were approved of by George IV. When 

 this has been accomplished it will afford a convenient 

 residence for three Military Knights on the Lower Foun- 

 dation. The remaining two knights on that foundation 

 will have apartments provided for them at the upper end 

 of Henry the Eighth's Gateway. No one unacquainted 

 with the locality of the Royal residence can form an idea 

 of the splendid view which will be thrown open from the 

 upper grounds of the Castle by these arrangements. It 

 is hoped that amongst other improvements the Horse- 

 shoe Cloisters will be razed to the ground, so that the 

 terrace may be extended beyond the Bell Tower. It 

 will then only remain to restore the Garter Tower, in 

 order to effect one of the greatest improvements ever 

 produced in this portion of the erections connected with 

 the Castle. Several of the houses in Thames-street 

 (portions of which are built over the old ditch of the 

 Castle) have been recently purchased by the Crown, and 

 the materials sold. The remainder of the houses on the 

 Castle side of the street will also be purchased as soon an 

 the necessary arrangements are made from time to time 

 with the owners of the property by the Commissioners 

 of Woods and Forests. The northern and eastern ter- 

 races will then be extended round the Castle.— In order 

 to insure some sport during the approaching hunting 

 season, Prince Albert has commanded a large quantity of 

 leverets, which have been caught in the Home Park, to- 

 be turned out upon the lands, both in Buckinghamshire 

 and Berkshire, in the immediate neighbourhood of Wind- 

 sor. It is said that the occupiers of farms around 

 Windsor will afford every facility to his Royal Highnes* 

 f when the proper season arrives. On former occasions, 

 the hares caught by the Prince's harriers were invariably 

 given, by command of his Royal Highness, to the farmers 

 upon whose lands they were taken. 



Railways.— The following are the return s_ for 

 the past week : — Birmingham and Gloucester, 32/ 3/. ; 

 Bristol and Gloucester, 1184/.; Eastern Counties, 

 1720/. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 3628/. ; Great Western, 

 18,304/. j Grand Junction, 10,058/. ; Glasgow, M 

 and Ayr, 3242/.; Great North of England, -. is J L , 

 London and Birmingham, 21,484A; South ^estern, 

 8274/.; Blackwall, 1424/.; Greenwich, 865/ .; Brighton, 

 6220/.; Croydon, 630/.; Liverpool and Manchester, 

 5777/. Manchester, Leeds, and Hull, "™"£> 



8702/.; Midland, 12,102/.; *™^™ f**,*^*' 

 ham, 3634/. ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 2054/. ; New- 



