

Nov. 16,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



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far improved as to allow of his being out again. He has 

 twice this week taken a carriage airing. 



Derby. — An inquest has been held upon the bodies of 

 the persons killed by the accident at the Mill Fleam in 

 tne Morledge, as noticed in our last. Evidence was 

 given at great length, which tended to show that the 

 work was well executed and the materials good, and that 

 had there been two sets of centres instead of one, so that 

 the arch might have had more time to set before they 

 were removed, the accident would probably not have oc- 

 curred. ^ The^ Jury returned a verdict of Accidental 

 Death, with a deodand of Is. upon the centre of the arch, 

 and a recommendation that in future all such works 

 should be carried on with not less than two centres. 



Knutsford. — On the 5th inst. the coroner for this divi- 

 sion of Cheshire, held an inquest at Monk's Coppenhall, 

 on the body of Richard Gallop, carpenter, in the 

 employ of the Grand Junction Company, who was sus- 

 pected to have come to his death by foul means. His 

 daughter, Mary Gallop, was in custody charged with 

 having administered to him poison. A lengthened in- 

 vestigation took place, in which evidence was adduced of 

 the prisoner having purchased poison, and that she had 

 also mixed it with the food oi deceased. The jury re- 

 turned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Mary Gal- 

 lop," and she was committed on the coroner's warrant 

 to Chester Castle, for trial at the next assizes. During 

 the whole proceedings she manifested no emotion either 

 for the loss of her father or at her own position in the 

 affair. It appears that deceased had amassed about 

 400/., and it is supposed that the daughter wished to 

 bestow it, with herself, upon a young man to whom she 

 was much attached. She seems to have been administer- 

 ing the poisonous ingredients for three weeks past. 



Liverpool.— The Birkenhead Dock Company have 

 given notice to the corporation of Liverpool that it is 

 their intention to pay cash for the property purchased by 

 them at Wallasea Pool, taking up the leases forthwith, 

 instead of accepting the stipulated credit. The amount 

 is said to be about 300,000/.— Another collision on the 

 Mersey took place on Sunday night, during the severe 

 storm which prevailed in the Channel. The brig Blun- 

 dell, of this port, bound to Trinidad, came in contact 

 with the American ship Feronia, and almost immediately 

 went down, head foremost. No lives were lost. 



Manchester.— The first conviction of a millowner, in 

 a penalty for injuries received by a party in a mill, owing 

 to the machinery being left in an insecure state, took 

 place on Saturday, at the Borough Court, in this town. 

 Considerable interest attached to the case, in consequence 

 of the question raised being, Whether a person not a 

 worker in a cotton- mill could receive compensation for 

 injuries received from unprotected machinery ? The 

 mother and brother of the injured girl were power-loom 

 weavers employed in Mr. Waddington's mill, and the 

 girl, who is 12 years old, was in the habit of coming to 

 the mill every afternoon with her mother's and brother's 

 tea. On the 8th October, the girl came as usual, and 

 shortly afterwards was heard to utter a piercing scream, 

 and was observed to be fast bound by her clo.hes to an 

 upright shaft, and turning round at a frightful rate. Some 

 time elapsed before she was released, and not before she 

 had received severe injuries about her head and face. A 

 solicitor took an objection to the proceeding, on the 

 alleged ground that the clause of the act under which it 

 was taken ^as applicable only to persons employed in 

 the n ill. The magistrate said, the opinion of the bench 

 was, that there ought to be a conviction with a penalty 

 of 20/., and it was to be understood that such was the 

 decision of the court ; but he would consider the law 

 mora narrowly, and announce the result in a few days. 



Newcustle-on-Tyne. — A serious encounter took 

 place on Thursday night between a party of watchers 

 and some poachers on Lord Ilavensworth's estate, about 

 three miles from this town, in which two of the keepers 

 were severely wounded, and now lie in a precarious state. 

 The keepers were on the watch, and challenged two men 

 who mace their appearance in Hagg's Wood, when the 

 poachers fired, wounding both men, who were distant 

 only a few yards. The police are scouring the district, 

 endeavouring to find out the poachers, who are supposed 

 to be pitmen ; but there is little chance of their succeed- 

 ing, for the night was so dark that it would be impossible 

 to identify them. 



Oxford — The Rev. Isaac Williams has addressed the 

 following i etter to the Times. " I understand that it is 

 stated in the Morning Chronicle and other papers, that 

 a letter has been received by me from the Rev. J. H. 

 INewinau, intimating that he can no longer continue a 

 member of the English Church. This is a simple false- 

 hood. I have had no letter, and no intimation of the 

 kind whatever." 



Plymouth. — A few weeks since, sentence of death was 

 Passed by a Court-martial upon a man named Barnes, 

 jate carpenter's mate of Her Majesty's ship Resistance, 

 for striking the boatswain of that ship. This sentence 

 has now been commuted to two years' imprisonment ; 

 and another Court-martial has been held upon the boat- 

 swam, who has been dismissed the service for provoking 

 the other man to strike him.— On Friday morning a fire 

 broke out at the extensive tan-yard at the top of Tavis- 

 tock-street, belonging to • Messrs. Tanner, of Sheiwell- 

 nouse. It raged with uncontrollable fury for sometime, 



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oi ts to save the property, and a plentiful supply of | at the same time the Company's guarantees to i 

 water to all the engines of the neighbourhood no doubt undertakings. The rent will be 'variable, the mini 

 much circumscribed its ravages. The fire at first was 



other 

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supposed to have originated spontaneously from the un- 

 disturbed deposit of tan, but later reports ascribe it to 

 an act of incendiarism. It was on'that day week the 

 saw-mills were burnt in the Borough. A Chartist lec- 

 turer has been visiting this part of the country, descant- 

 ing on the evils of machinery, and the unequal distribu- 

 tion of property. — On Sunday an immense quantity of 

 snow fell in the neighbourhood of Dartmoor ; and on 

 Monday, Dartmoor itself was found covered with snow 

 to the depth of more than six inches. The weather 

 throughout Devonshire has been extremely rough for 

 several days past. 



Southampton. — The Eleanor, from Fayal, arrived at 

 this port on Saturday, in 11 days, and discharged her 

 cargo of 950 boxes of oranges at Southampton on the 

 same evening. This is the first arrival of the season, 

 and the oranges were immediately despatched by the 

 Southampton railway to London, and had not Sunday 

 intervened, the brokers, Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, to 



being 5 percent.— It is rumoured that the Liverpool and 

 Manchester Company have purchased the North Union, 

 and that the Grand Junction and the Liverpool and 

 .Manchester Companies have agreed to amalgamate. 

 Such an arrangement, if effected, will affect various 

 local lines, and prevent the laying down of others in 

 contemplation. — The South Eastern and Dover Company 

 held a special meeting last week, for the purpose of con- 

 sidering the expediency of capitalising the mortgage 

 debts of the Company by the creation of new shares, 

 to provide funds for the formation of the Canterbury, 

 Ramsgate, and Margate lines, and for other purposes. 

 It was stated that among the various measures contem- 

 plated by the directors was a project for shortening the 

 line between London and Dover to the extent of 12 miles. 

 It was resolved to capitalise the mortgage debt of the 

 concern, the sum required to be raised for this purpose 

 being 1,400,000/. An issue of 42,000 new shares will 

 be made to effect this object, at the rate of 33/. 6s. Sd. 



tot each 507. share. It is stated, that though the 

 whom the management and sale have been intrusted, issuing of these new shares at a discount of 167. . Id. 

 would have been selling them in London 24 hours after may appear great, it is a sacrifice less in amount than 

 they had been landed at Southampton. Every facility has been suffered in previous issues. Of the ultimate 

 was afforded by the Customs in expediting the unload- prospects of the Company a highly favourable account 



ing of the cargo ; and the railway directors were so im- 

 pressed with the importance of the result, that special 

 engines were ordered to be applied, if found necessary, 

 to increase the speed to London ; and the experiment 

 being attended with the best success, will no doubt be 

 productive of much increased business to the port of 

 Southampton. In hazy or bad weather, ships are some- 

 times 9 or 10 days in beating round to London, which, 

 with perishable cargoes, is often attended with loss. By 

 discharging at Southampton the vessels now save all 

 this detention and risk, and are able to make three voy- 

 ages where only two have been previously accomplished. 

 Warwick. — In consequence of the recent outrage at 

 Mr. Worthington's, at Mancetter, (noticed in our Paper 

 of the 26th ult.), Mr. Dugdale, M. P., convened a meeting 

 of magistrates, when it was unanimously agreed that 

 a communication should be forwarded to the Secretary 

 of State for the Home Department, signed by all the 

 magistrates, soliciting the Government to offer a reward 

 of an additional 100/., with Her Majesty's free pardon to 

 either of the parties who will impeach his accomplices. 

 A letter from Sir J. Graham to Mr. Dugdale was re- 

 ceived on Thursday last, granting the request of the 

 magistrates, and offering a reward of 100/., in addition to 

 the 100/. previously offered by Mr. Worthington, for the 

 discovery and conviction of the burglars. 



Yarmouth. — A Government agent has recently been 

 at Yarmouth inspecting various localities for a lunatic 

 asylum for both officers and privates in the army. It is 

 said that the Royal Naval Hospital has been selected for 

 that purpose, and that GO or 70 persons will shortly be 

 inmates of that fine building. 



York. — The local papers state that last week, at the 

 Howden Horse Fair, the greatest, perhap?, in England, 



was given at the meeting. — An adjourned meetiug of the 

 West London Company was held last week. The chair- 

 man said that the negotiations with the London and 

 Birmingham Company, for the lease or purchase of their 

 line, had been unsuccessful, and that most of the directors 

 had sent in their resignations. He recommended the 

 formation of a new direction, and the adoption of 

 measures for extending the line to the Thames, as the 

 only means of making it profitable. Lord Kensington 

 warmly opposed this plan, and 6aid that the railway was 

 already a most unprofitable concern, without any 

 attempts to extend it further. After an angry and 

 personal discussion, it was resolved to appoint a new 

 direction, and to apply to Parliament for power to 

 extend the line to Knightsbridge and the Thames. — 

 At a meeting of persons interested in the South 

 Males Railway at Cardiff, on Friday, Mr. Brunei 6tated 

 that the Box Tunnel of the Great Western Railway 

 cost 100/. per yard; the White Bali Tunnel on the 

 Exeter Railway cost 53/. ; the Cheltenham tunnel, in 

 connection with the Great Western Railway, was esti- 

 mated at 1 36/. per yard, and it cost but 34i. per yard ; 

 and to show the reduction in this department alone, he 

 mentioned that within the last three weeks he had con- 

 tracted for tunnelling at 28/. per yard. — A meeting of 

 the landowners of North Essex was held on Monday for 

 the purpose of considering the propriety of forming a 

 railway from the Eastern Counties line to Sudbury. At 

 a previous meeting it had been proposed to join the line 

 at Kelvedon, but it was now moved, in consequence of 

 the desire of the inhabitants of Witham to have a branch 

 to Braintree, that the Sudbury Railway should join the 

 line from Braintree to Witham, at which place it would 

 of course fall into the Eastern Counties. This resolution 



among those present there was a buyer from the Em- was unanimously adopted, and it was stated that the rail- 

 peror of China, in the person of one of his subjects, at- way will eventually be carried to Halsted. 

 tended by an interpreter. 



and was not got under until property to the amount of 

 between 5000/. and 6000/. was consumed, including the 

 destruction of the tan-yard, buildings, bark, wool, and a 

 «rge quantity of leather. One man, who was actively 

 assisting in its suppression, is supposed to have fallen 

 into the burning mass of tan, and there perished. The 



Railways. — The following are the returns for the 

 past week : — Birmingham and Gloucester, 2287/. ; Bris- 

 tol and Gloucester, 944/. ; Eastern Counties, 4324/. ; 

 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2217/.; Great Western, 

 15,320/. ; Grand Junction, 7744/. ; Glasgow, Paislev, 

 and Ayr, 14l>8Z. ; Great North of Englaod,~18S2/. ; Lon- 

 don and Birmingham, 16.074/.; South Western, 5892/. ; 

 Greenwich, 7. ( »7/. ; Blackwall, 776/.; Brighton, 4789/. ; 

 Croydon, 382/. ; Liverpool and Manchester, 4586/. ; 

 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull associated, 6'502/. ; Mid- 

 land, 9961/. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 3123/. ; 

 Newcastle and Carlisle, 1975/.; Newcastle and Dar- 

 lington, 1177/. ; Preston and Wyre, 310/. ; South-East- 

 ern and Dover, 4742/. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 632/. ; 

 York and North Midland, with Leeds and Selby, 2326/. 

 — The two meetings, decisive of the treaty between the 

 Manchester and Birmingham and Sheffield, Ashton, and 

 Manchester Comnauies, were held last week. The Shef- 

 field, Ashton, and Manchester Company met on Monday, 

 Mr. Parker, M.F. lor Sheffield in the chair ; and after a 

 discussion as to an alleged insufficiency of notice, and the 

 necessity of adjournment in consequence of the crowded 

 state of the room, the chairman in a long address set 

 forth the advantages which would result from the treaty, 

 and concluded by moving — '• That this meeting consider 

 it expedient to authorise, and hereby authorise, a lease 

 to be granted to the Midland and Manchester and Bir- 

 mingham Railway Companies of the line and works of 

 the Sheffield, Ashton-under-Line, and Manchester Rail- 

 way Company, for a term of 30 years.'* After a lengthy 

 discussion, Mr. Roberts, of Chester, moved as an amend- 

 ment, " That this meeting do adjourn." The original 

 motion was, however, carried by acclamation. The 

 meeting of the Manchester and Birmingham Company 

 was held on Wednesday, when the following resolution 

 was passed : — "That it is expedient to authorise this 

 Company, in conjunction with the Midland Rail- 

 way Company, to accept a lease from the Sheffield, 

 Ashton-under-Line, and Manchester Company of their 

 line and works, with all the stations, tolls, emo- 

 luments, and other property thereof, for a term of 30 

 years, to commence on the expiration of six months 

 from the opening of the said line throughout, and deter- 

 minable by either party at the end of the first 10 or 20 

 \> , on 3 years' previous notice." It appears that the 

 lessees are to pay all interest on loans not exceeding 



public authorities, naval, military, and local, made great ] 700,000/., and all the liabilities of the Company, adopting 



IRELAND. 

 Dublin The weekly meeting of the Repeal Associa- 

 tion was held on Monday, Cant. Broderick in the chair. 

 Mr. Ray, who has been absent for some time, having 

 made his appearance, was greeted with a round of ap- 

 plause. The Secretary returned thanks for this token of 

 regard, and said that he had had a delightful sojourn in 

 the wild mountains of Derrynane, and 1 ad left the Libe- 

 rator in excellent health and spirits. During his absence 

 he had acted as a Repeal missionary in a small way, and 

 would take this opportunity to give an account of his 

 mission. He then read a sort of report on the state of 

 the Repeal cause in the different towns he had visited, 

 including Kildare, Kilkenny, Clonmel, Cork, Limerick, 

 and other places. He represented the state of the 

 movement as very propitious in all thpse localities ; the 

 organisation complete, the Repeal wardens most active, 

 reading-rooms and other conveniences for carrying on 

 the agitation. Mr. Ray, having concluded reading this 

 report, said that during his tour he had been most for- 

 cibly struck by the beauty and magnificence of the coun- 

 try, and the extreme misery of the people — their hovels, 

 rags, scantiness of food, &c. He then announced that 

 he had two letters to read from the Liberator, the first of 

 which referred to a remittance of 500/. from New York ; 

 the second announced that Mr. O'Conneli would attend 

 the meeting on the 25th, to submit two topics which he 

 considered of vital importance. *• The first," says Mr. 



O'Conneli, " involves the subject of an application to Par- 

 liament for an impeachment of the persons principally con- 

 cerned in the late monster persecutions, and in particular 

 to consider deliberately the propriety of addressing the 

 people of Great Britain, in order to procure their aid in 

 enforcing on Parliament the necessity of such an impeach- 

 ment. If such an address shall be agreed npon, it will 

 remain to be determined whether it shell take place by 

 personal attendance in England of a delegation of the 

 Association, or through the medium of the press. The 

 second great object for the consideration of the Asso- 

 ciation on the 25th is one which has engrossed much of 

 my thoughts, and from which my mind is full of the 

 anticipations of great utility, if it cm be legally arranged 

 — I mean the appointment of a Preservative Society of 

 Three Hundred." Mr. O'Conneli then adverts to the 

 question of Federalism, and says— 



"It is also ascertained that if the Repealers should find the 

 plan of Federalism is one by which Ireland could get ali that 



