Nov, 30,1 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



a tbead is now entirely free from any obstruction 



from this wreck. It is said that an attempt will be made 



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HassaH has been committed to take his trial at the en- ] 



:ing assizes on the charge of manslaughter, but haa 

 since been liberated on bail. 



Sleaford.— The Lincolnshire Chronicle states that it is 

 currently reported at Sleaford that a well-known mill- 

 wright (a working wan) of that place, by a recent deci- 

 sion in the Court of Cbancery, immediately comes into 

 the possession of a large estate* near London of the annr 

 value of 13,000/., as well as arrears of rent for the same 

 for the last 20 years, amounting to the sum of 200,000/. 

 Uxbridge.— In the Maidstone Gazette of the 9th inst. 

 was inserted an advertisement expressing a desire to be- 

 come acquainted with a lsdy, with a riew to matrin y, 

 the lady to bs possessed of a small competency, and 

 willing to take as a husband a man between 45 and 50 

 years of age, in independent circumstances, and not un- 

 prepossessing in appearance, and reqtu ; any lady 

 who might wish for an interview to addre> ; letter I 

 Mr. Stone, 99, Old-street, St. Luke's. The advertise- 

 ment attracted the attention of a shopman of a cheese- 

 monger of Uxbridge, who wrote a letter to the above 

 address, signing it as "Frances Gower," expressing i:n 

 earnest desire to have an interview with the advertiser, 

 and requesting him on the following Sunday to come 

 down to Uxbridge by the Wycombe coach, and to wear 

 a flower in the button-hole of his coat, have a white- 

 pocket handkerchief in his right hand, and be reading a 

 book as the coacli paised towards the inn. On Sunday the 

 shopman was at the spot appointed, while numbers of his 

 companions, to whom he had mentioned the hoax, were 

 secreted at short distances. When the coach drew up, 

 they saw on the box a respectably dressed individual, 

 exhibiting the desired flower, book, and handkerchief. 

 The shopman accosted Mr. Stone, and representing 

 himself to be Miss Gower's brother, expressed on the 

 part of his sister the regret she felt at having been pre- 

 vented from keening the appointment ; but her papa 

 not having gone to church that morning she was un- 

 able to leave the house, but she would meet him at 

 £ past 2 o'clock. Mr. Stone appeared disappointed, 

 but agreed to accompany the young man in a walk about 

 the town. The latter, however, led his victim in the 

 direction of Uxbridge-moor, whither his companion 

 had gone before, and on their coming up with them, 

 Mr. Stone w<*s hustled and thrown into a pond, and 

 pelted with mud. Charles Henwood, gardener to Mr. 

 R. Fell, and another of that gentleman's servants, were 

 accidentally present, and used their utmost endeavours to 

 rescue Mr. Stone from his assailants, in which they 

 eventually succeeded, and conducted him to the cottage 

 on the moor. Mr. Fell, on being made acquainted with 

 the particulars of the outrage, conveyed Mr. Stone, 

 who is stated to have formerly been clerk to one of 

 the coroners for Middlesex, in his caniage to the West 

 Drayton station of the Great Western Railway, on his 

 way to town. On Monday 17 young men were brought 

 before the magistrates charged with being concerned in 

 this outrage ; the ringleaders were fined 20.?. each, and 

 the rest dismissed with a reprimand. 



Wigan. — On Monday week, an eruption of water and 

 foul air, followed by an explosion, occurred in the coal- 

 pit belonging to the trustees of Mrs. Williams, situated 

 at Pemberton, about a mile and a half from this town. 

 Two boys were killed on the spot, and two others so 

 severely injured that they only survived a few hours. 

 Several others were much bruised and burnt. The jury, 

 at the inquest, after examining many practical men, who 

 could give no explanation of the cause of the explosion, 

 returned a verdict of M Accidental death." 



JVolverhamplon. — An investigation has for some days 

 been going on in this town, in which a lady of hitherto 

 respectable character, together with a married sitter and 

 a young surgeon, have been charged as being implicated 

 in a case of infanticide. On the 28th ult. the body of a 

 female child was found dead in Queen- street, at the 

 back of the house of Mr. Quinton, surgeon. It appears 

 that for some time previous to the finding of the body, 

 Mr. Hildreth, printer, residing in the town, had paid 

 daily visits to Mr. Quinton's surgery, always inquiring 

 very parlicularly for Mr. Sheriff, Mr. Quinton's assist- 

 ant. Mr. Quinton interrogated his assistant as to the 

 cause of these frequent visits, and was informed that Mr. 

 Hildreth wished him to procure abortion •* for a person 

 of great respectability, secrecy being guaranteed, and 

 money no object.'' Mr. Sheriff asked Mr. Quinton if 

 he would attend ? but that gentleman refused to do so. 

 Mr. Sheriff informed Mr. Quinton that the party was Miss 

 Railton, of the Post-office; and subsequently applied to 

 Mr. Doubter, surgeon, of the same place, but omittin^the 

 name. Mr. Doubler also declined to attend. Since 

 the finding of the body, the suspicion attached to Miss 

 Railton that the child was hers, and she was eventually 

 apprehended by Colonel Hog?, of the county constabu- 

 lary. She at first denied having had a child, but since 

 her apprehension she made disclosures seriously affecting 

 Mrs. Hildreth (her sister) and Mr. Sheriff, Mr. Quin- 

 ton's assistant. From her statement it appears that on 

 Sunday three weeks, at Mr. Hildreth's house, at noon, 

 Mr. Sheriff went and performed an operation, and ihe 

 was in dreadful agony from the time he had done this 

 until she was delivered of a child. The body was taken 



to remove the wreck of the Boyne, 98, which took fire 

 on the 1st May, 1795, aud sank when about a mile off 

 Sonthsea Castle. — The royal yacht has been dismasted, 

 and had her funnel u: ipped, and her alterations will 

 be proceeded with immediately, among which she will 

 have a falsa keel of six inches added, and her ruddei 

 widened. It is reported, notwithstanding, that she will 

 never be used again by the Queen, who has ordered 

 another vessel to be built. A small iron screw-propeller 

 is now uilding at Blackwall as a tender to the royal 

 yacht. This little steamer is to draw only four feet six 

 inches, so that she may be able to run close in shore, and 

 enable Her Majesty to land and embark without the aid 

 of any intermediate boat. 



Peterborough.— The Lincoln Mercury states that not 

 a hundred miles from Peterborough, at a late quarter 

 sessions held in an ancient town-hall, a remarkable cir- 

 cumstance occurred. On the trial of a prisoner charged 

 with robbing his master of various articles, the business 

 had proceeded so far as to leave the matter in the hands 

 of the jury ; and that body not being able to come to a 

 satisfactory determination whether the prisoner was 

 guilty or not, aud being locked up, the foreman proposed, 

 in order to shorten the question, that the poker from 

 the fireplace should be placed exactly upright, and that 

 if it fell to the right the prisoner was guilty, and if it fell 

 to the left he was not guilty ! The poker so placed 

 fell to tbe right, and the prisoner obtained three months' 

 imprisonment in consequence. 



Roc ale.— In accordance with a resolution passed in 

 this town on the 21st inst., Mr. Sharman Crawford, 

 M.P. for the borough, and Mr. Livesey, chairman of the 

 Board of Guardians, proceeded to London, and had on 

 Saturday an audience with Sir J. Graham at the Home- 

 office. They presented to him the memorial committed 

 to their charge, signed by 11,415 ratepayers, and de- 

 tailed various matters connected with the present admi- 

 nistration of the relief of the poor in the locality under 

 the Select Vestries Act. Sir J. Graham stated that so 

 strong a manifestation of the feelings of the people of 

 Rochdale, together with the statements made by the de- 

 putation, should receive due consideration. Sir J. 

 Graham, in answer to a memorial of the Board of Guar- 

 dians, which had been forwarded previous to the memo- 

 rial of the ratepayers, replied that he had no power to 

 suspend or alter the operation of a general law. 



Rochester. — A few days since a singular case came 

 before the county magistrates sitting at this place : — 

 Toree men, named Meager, Oliver, and Prentis, were 

 charged by the Rev. E. Shepherd, of Luddesdown, with 



having, on the 29. h August, stolen a large quantity of 



peaches and nectarines from his garden. It appeared 



in the course of a long examination, that the prisoner 



Meager, at the time of the robbery, was gardener to the 



reverend gentleman, but had received notice to quit his 



situation ; and in order to revenge himself upon his 



master he went to the two other prisoners and another 



man named Colman, who were at work close by, and 



said that he was going to leave his service on the fol- 

 lowing Monday, and wished that they would come and 



strip the garden, us the peaches and nectarines were 



getting nicely ripe. Colman, however, refused to have any- 

 thing to do with it, and no* appeared as a witness. 



The same evening Meager again saw them, and said, if 



they would come he would shut the dog up in the stable, 



and added that it was no new thing, for the garden was 



stripped almost every year. On the night of the 29th 



August the garden was accordingly stripped of its wall 



fruit, but not without disturbing Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd, 



who opened their bed-room window, and Mr. Shepherd 



threatened to fire, when Meager came up the walk, and 



said that if Mrs. Shepherd had not made*a noise he should 



have caught the thieves. His manner excited suspicion, 



and subsequently the facts coming to the knowledge of 



the prosecutor, the prisoners were taken into custody. 



The two men admitted the truth of the witness's account, 



and said that the first night they went the dog interfered 



with them, and they told Meager, who said they ought 



to have let him know, and the next night the dog was 



fastened up. The bench thought Meager most to blame, 



and let oft' Prentis and Oliver on paying a fine of 0;/., 



os, for the fruit, and 13s. tid. costs, but sent Meager to 

 the House of Correction with hard labour for four 

 calendar mouths. 



. Stapleford. — Several examinations of parties concerned 



in the riots consequent upon the attempt of the railway 



surveyors to get upon Lord liarborough's property have 



taken place before the county magistrates. In some 



cases the parties have been held to bail for assaults ; in 



others the magistrates have refused to grant warrants. 



On Monday upwards of 200 special constables were 



sworn in for 21 days, and placed in various parts of 



Stapleford-park, and there are also several in the neigh- 

 bouring villages, headed by some of the Leicestershire 

 county police ; they keep watch in parties of about 20, 

 and are relieved every eight hours. It is stated that the 

 surveys have recommenced on the Oakham-canal towing- 

 path, and as there appears to be a right of way reserved 

 to the public by the Act of Parliament, it is not thought 

 that Lord Harboroogh or his advisers will \enture again 

 «pon ejecting the railway agents from it. 



atonrbrv'ge. — This town for some weeks has been in 

 tl 8t& A e ° f great exr »tement, in consequence of a report 

 at Mr. S. C. Hassall, surgeon, had caused the death of 

 t»s wife by ill treatment. The Jury at the inquest re- 

 turned a verdict that death had been caused by deceased's 



habitual intemperance, bat the interference of the police <...*. .»««.«.« « =■ -- -- , ,„ , . ... . ^ ., j n*.. ruff b.f 



^ving produced an inquiry before the magistrates, Mr. cealing the birth of her child, and the others as accessories. I Horseshoes, and M.ss Ann Grettou, of Dove Clin, btaf- 



away three or four nights afterwards, and the material 

 question in the investigation is, whether the body found 

 is that of the same infant. From the post mortem exa- 

 mination, there appears no doubt that the child was born 

 alive. Mr. Sheriff; Miss Railton, and Mis. Hildreth 

 were then taken into custody, and after several examina- 

 tions before the coroner's jury, were committed to take 

 their trial at the ensuing assize-. Miss Railton for con- 



York. — At the Yorkshire Assizes last year, a person 

 named Joseph Mason, who resided at Clifton, near this 

 city, was tried for having burglariously entered a house 

 at Hall Moor, and was sentenced to 20 years' transpor- 

 tation. Many persons at the time believed that he was 

 innocent, but he was sent to Norfolk Island. This 

 week, however, two men who have been committed to 

 York Castle for felony have confessed that they, together 

 with two other persons now at large, committed the 

 j burglary at Hall Moor for which Mason ha been 

 transported. The two prisoners have also confessed 

 that four other persons have been unjustly tia; .rted 

 fore :ices which were perpetrated by the Hall Moor 

 bui ; rs. T m ex'raordinary statements have been 

 communicated to the Secretary of State. — The Derby 

 papers n ton that Earl De Grey has purchr. ! the 



Duke of Devonshire's Burton Moor estate in this 

 county. 



Railways. — The following are the returns for the 

 pnst week : — Birmingham and Gloucester. 2- I. ; Brit- 

 tol and Gloucester, 83 I ; Eastern Countie 9676/. ; 

 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2214/. J Great Western, 

 12,970/.; Grand Junction, 7264/. j Glaspow, Paisley, 

 and Ayr, L464J. ; Great North of England, 1661/. : Lon- 

 don Rod Birmingham, 14,376/.; Southwestern. 3/. ; 

 Blackwall, 648A ; Greenwich, 711/.; Brigh 1702/. ; 



Croydon, 307/. ; Liverpool and Manchester, 50/. ; 

 Ma tetter, Lei i, and Hull associated, G(i J (.7. : Mid- 

 land, 8523/.; Manchester and Birmingh . .21. ; 

 Newcastle and Carlisle, 1055/. ; Ner ! e and Dar- 

 lington, 1054/. ; l'reston and Wyre, 338/. ; South- st- 

 ern and Dover, 40.55/.; Sheffield and Manche 

 York and North Midland, with Leeds and Selby, 2180/. 

 — We gave in our last a brief account of the fatal acci- 

 dent on the Midland Counties Line, of which the first 

 intimation I ed town on Friday night. It appears, 



from the detailed accounts which have since been pub- 

 lished, that a tender belonging to an engine attached to a 

 train of coal-waggons having got off tbe up line, about 

 150 yards above the station, passed the road cros&ing to 

 Wilford, so as to impede the passage ; and the out Derby 

 train, which should have left Nottingham at 10 minutes 

 to 3, was tmablfl to proceed along the proper line, and 

 some delay in starting consequently took place. At length, 

 after waiting ten minutes or a quarter of an hour beyond 

 its proper time, Mr. Lightfoot, chief clerk at the Notting- 

 ham station (having dispatched a messenger on foot up the 

 line, to stop an expected down-train at the Beeston sta- 

 tion, about three miles up the line), determined that the 

 train should go along the down line at a slow pace, aod 

 accompanied it himself, calculating that the train would 

 either reach the Beeston station before the arrival of the 

 down-train, or that the messenger would stop the arriv- 

 ing train, so as to prevent collision. The messenger 

 either did not arrive at Beeston in time for the train, or 

 he did not deliver his message properly, for the train to 

 Nottingham had left the Beeston station before the train 

 from Nottingham had arrived, and the engineer, either 

 not knowing or not regarding the message that had been 

 forwarded, drove the train at its usual rapid pace ; and 

 as it had attained considerable impetus, in consequence of 

 having proceeded about three-quarters of a mile towards 

 Nottingham, he then came into contact with the up-train, 

 on which was Mr. Lightfoot, with the engineer and 

 stoker. In consequence of the dense fog which pre- 

 vailed at the time, and had continued for a great part of 

 the day, the collision was quite unavoidable, and the de- 

 struction tremendous. In consequence of the down- 

 train being driven at so much more rapid a pace than 

 the train from Nottingham, and being a much heavier 

 train, and having a powerful and very heavy engine, the 

 up-train from Nottingham sustained the principal part 

 of the damage. The up-train consisted of an engine 

 and tender, a second-class carriage, containing parcels, 

 but no passengers; then two second-cla-s carriages, with 

 passengers, followed by a first-class carriage with pas- 

 sengers, and then a third-class carriage. So great was 

 the force with which the down-train met the up-train 

 that the engine of the latter was actually driven from its 

 position downwards, and the boiler was elevated to the 

 height of many feet above it ; the tender of the engine 

 was driven through the parcel carriage, and the two pas- 

 senger second-class conveyances were a3 completely 

 smashed to pieces as if they had been egg-shells. The 

 unfortunate passengers in these two carriages were dread- 

 fully crushed and mutilated, although, upon assistance 

 being rendered, none were found actually dead. Mr. (Jr. 

 Baker, who had taken a second-class ticket, but had, by 

 some accident, along with Mr. Tutin, butcher, been put 

 in the first-class carriage, escaped without much injury. 

 As soon as he wns able to collect himself and alight, he 

 assisted Mr. Wildey, who had been riding in the third- 

 class, to release their more unfortunate fellow-travellers, 

 and proceeded as rapidly as he could across some 

 ploughed fields, to procure assistance; and about an 

 hour after the accident, two carts, containing straw, 

 and some other conveyances were procured, and 

 some of the sufferers were conveyed to Beeston, some 

 to Lenton, and others, by a train sent up for the pur- 

 pose, to Nottingham, when those who were able reached 

 home, and others were taken to the infirmary. Twelve 

 or fourteen were thus conveyed away seriously hurt. 

 The following is a list of the sufferers, from the Notting- 

 ham Journal .—Mr. Dean, Hounds-gate, dead. Mr. 

 .Nee p. of Retford, seriously injured, but hopes are enter- 

 tained of his recovery. *G. Burley, stoker, seriously 

 scalded and burnt, the fire and boiling water having fallen 

 upon him from the engine, when forced upwards by the 

 collision. Mr. Bowlestridge, landlord of the Three 





