Dec 21,1 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



may apply to send into the bank such notes as they may 

 possess of 1000/. each, bearing date the 13th of May, 

 1844, in order that they may be exchanged for others of 

 a different date. 



Death of Mr. Corbould the Artist.— We have to re- 

 cord the death of Mr. Corbould, the well-known artist, 

 who died last week under singular circumstances. He 

 had been staying lately at St. Leonard's, on a visit to 

 Lady Chan trey, to whom it is understood he was about 

 to be shortly married ; but on Sunday last, he quitted 

 that place on horseback, accompanied by a servant, for 

 Hawkhurst, in Kent, whither he was proceeding on a 

 shooting excursion, his four sons being already there 

 awaiting his arrival. The deceased was seen to ride 

 slowly with his coat thrown open, and the -circumstance 

 attracted attention, as sufficient precaution did not seem 

 to have been taken by him against the severity of the 

 weather, the frost being intense. On ascending Silver- 

 hill, near Robertsbridge, Mr. Corbould was mortally 

 struck by the cold, and fell in a fit of apoplexy, it is pre- 

 sumed, for the full particulars of the melancholy event 

 have not transpired, though an inquest has been held. 

 The deceased appeared, but an hour before the catas- 

 trophe, to be in the best health and spirits. 



Singular Discovery in the Tower. — On Saturday the 

 men employed in removing the remains of those interred 

 in the buryiug-ground on the north side of the parade, in 

 the Tower, preparatory to the erection of new barracks, 

 came upon a coffin, the contents of which consisted en- 

 tirely of sawdust. The outside coffin, which was made 

 of wood, and had brass handles, contained a leaden one, in 

 which was a shell filled with sawdust. The coffin had been 

 in the ground 61 years, the date being ascertained from 

 the plate on the exterior coffin. This mysterious dis- 

 covery has occasioned much gossip in the Tower, and 

 numerous are the surmises as to the disposal of the 

 body, which naver had been interred, and consequently 

 the funeral, as well as the burial service must have been 

 a mockery. 



Collision on the River — On Tuesday afternoon about 

 half-past 3, as the Sylph Woolwich steamer, which had 

 just left the pier at Greenwich with a number of passen- 

 gers on board, was standing across the river, opposite 

 the point at Blackwall, she was met by the Orwell steam- 

 boat from Ipswich, proceeding to London with the tide 

 and at reduced speed. Although it appears a good look- 

 out was kept on board both boats, it unfortunately hap- 

 pened, in consequence of the dense fog, that the Orwell 

 was not observed by those on board the Sylph, which 

 was unfortunately struck amidships abaft the paddlebox, 

 and literally cut in two. She was immediately towed to 

 the Union wharf, Greenwich, when it was found that one 

 man, a hawker, living in Kent-street, Borough, was 

 killed, having had his arm, leg, and head dreadfully 

 fractured. Another man was taken on board the Dread- 

 nought hospital-ship, and has since died. Four ladies, 

 passengers, were conveyed to the Anchor Tavern, where 

 they were immediately put to bed, and are doing well. 

 A woman and two children were taken to another tavern, 

 and, as there were several passengers in the fore-cabin, 

 it was feared that more deaths would be discovered as 

 soon as the unfortunate vessel could be floated to the 

 Bhore, as she was lying on Tuesday night with her fore- 

 cabin completely under water. It has, however, been 

 ascertained that there was no further loss of life. An 

 inquest on the two deceased persons was held on Thurs- 

 day, when the facts above stated were proved by several 

 witnesses ; and after a long sitting the coroner adjourned 

 till Monday, for further evidence. 



Metropolitan District Visiting Society.— The first 

 annual meeting of this Society was held on Thursday, 

 the Bishop of London in the chair. His lordship opened 

 the proceedings by a long address, detailing the opera- 

 tions of the Society. The report for 1844 was then read. 

 It described the origin of the Association, in the winter 

 of 1843, when very great distress and destitution existed 

 in the metropolis ; and it stated that the efforts of the 

 Society had been eminently successful in accomplishing 

 the objects for which it had been instituted, exhibiting a 

 constant progress since its establishment. Viscount 

 Sandon moved, and the Rev. W. Champneys se- 

 conded, that the report be received and printed for 

 circulation. Sir R. H. Inglis moved, and the Hon. and 

 Rev. B. Noel seconded, the second resolution, which 

 stated that fifty newVisiting Societies had been established 

 since the Association was originated, and expressed a hope 

 that, ere long, no district in the metropolis would be 

 without its visiting association for relieving spiritual 

 and temporal destitution. The Rev. T. Dale proposed 

 the third resolution, which stated that the objects which 

 the association proposed to accomplish, especially that 

 of bringing the wealthier classes into more frequent in- 

 tercourse with the poor and needy, were highly deserv- 

 ing of public support and local co-operation, aud that 

 the measures already adopted for carrying into effect the 

 charitable designs of the contributors to the fund had 

 been eminently successful. The resolution was seconded 

 by the Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., and like the former ones 

 was carried unanimously. A Committee and Auditors 

 for the ensuing year were then appointed, and a vote of 

 thanks was passed to the Bishop of London for his 

 zealous co-operation. 



The Duly on Paper. — On Thursday a meetiiig took 

 place of the leading paper*manufacturers in London and 

 the provinces, for the purpose of organising an applica- 

 tion to Government to relieve the trade from the pres- 

 sure of the present Excise duty on paper. Similar meet- 

 ings were recently held at Manchester and Edinburgh, 

 and a deputation from Manchester attended at the pre- 

 sent meeting to offer their co-operation. Mr. John 



[1844. 



Dickinson, of the Old Bailey, presided, and the meeting 

 having been addressed by Sir W. Magnay, Mr. Gaussen, 



Mr. Pewtres3, Mr. Laurence, and other manufacturers, 

 unanimously adopted resolutions embodying the chief 

 evils of the tax, and agreeing to a memorial to the 

 Treasury and petitions to Parliament for a repeal of the 

 duty. t 



Meeting of Middlesex Magistrates.— An unusually 

 numerous meeting of magistrates was held on Thurs- 

 day, at Clerkenwell, for the purpose of electing a Chair- 

 man of the Magistrates to preside over their meetings on 

 what ire termed county days, in the place of Mr. Ser- 

 geant Adams, who resigned that situation on being ap- 

 pointed Assistant Judge of the Middlesex Sessions. 

 Two candidates were proposed— Benjamin Rotch, Esq., 

 and Henry Pownall, Esq. The election was by ballot, 

 and at its close the scrutineers reported to the Court 

 that the numbers were as follow:— For Mr. Pownall, 

 70 ; for Mr. Rjtch, 25 ; majority in favour of Mr. 

 Pownall, 45. 



Father Mathew.— On Thursday night a meeting, 

 attended by 2000 persons, was held at Exeter Hall "to 

 consider the claims of the Rev. Theobald Mathew on 

 the sympathy of the British public, in order to relieve 

 him from his pen iry difficulties." Lord John Russell 

 presided, and detailed the objects of the meeting, which, 

 he stated, was the cause of no party or sect in politics or 

 religion, but was to achieve a great moral good, so 

 happily commenced by the Rev. Father Mathew, the 

 great apostle of temperance. None suffered so much 

 from the vice of drunkenness as the lower orders, a vice 

 which entailed misery and ruin on their families, clothed 

 them in rags, and brought destitution and misery to thei- 

 domestic hearths. Father Mathew had effected a great 

 moral change in the lower orders of his countrymen, 

 which was truly surprising. BuS in doing this he had lost 

 sight of prudence— ace his present embarrassment. He 

 (Lord J. Russell) had .strictly investigated those reports 

 which stated that Father Mathew had amassed large sums 

 of money, and he was happy to say that they were entirely 

 without foundation. Believing the rev. gentleman worthy 

 of the gratitude of his country, he camp forward to assist 

 him in the hour of his difficulties. His Lordship, after 

 advocating the claims of the rev. gentleman at some 

 length, sat down amid great cheering. Mr. Bunn then 

 read the address of the Committee of the National Tem- 

 perance Society to the British public on behalf of Father 

 Mathew. Admiral Sir E. Codrington moved that the 

 address be printed and adopted. The gallant Admiral 

 said that the sin of drunkenness prevailed all over the 

 globe, but nowhere to such an extent as among that 

 class of men whom he had the honour to command ; he 

 believed he might say, that all the punishment inflicted in 

 the navy originated in intemperance, and he might say 

 the same thing of the numerous accidents which occurred 

 on board of ships, such as men falling overboard. The 

 resolution was secouded by Mr. Buckingham and car- 

 ried. Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting at 

 great length, and a subscription was opened. Letters 

 were read from the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord 

 Clarendon, the Bishop of Norwich, the Hon. and Rev. 

 Baptist Noel, and others, approving of the object of the 

 meeting. 



Mortality of the Metropolis. — The following is the 

 number of deaths registered in the week ending Dec. 14. 

 West Districts, 176; Northern, 209; Central, 209; 

 Eastern, 268 ; Southern, 339 ; Total, 1201. Weekly 

 average for the last five years, 946. 



^robmctal Nefos. 



Brighton. — One of the largest meetings which ever 

 took place in Brighton was held on Monday evening by 

 adjournment from that day week, the adjournment being 

 for the purpose of giving the inhabitants time to read 

 and digest a report presented by a committee at a pre- 

 vious meeting, which recommended the inhabitants to 

 petition the Queen in Council for a charter of incorpo- 

 ration. The meeting was attended by at least 2000. 

 Captain Pechell and Lord A. Hervey, the borough mem- 

 bers, were both present, and remained till the close of 

 the meeting, at I o'clock on Tuesday morning. A reso- 

 lution was moved — " That in the opinion of this meeting 

 it will not be beneficial to the inhabitants that the 

 borough should be incorporated, but, on the contrary, 

 highly injurious; and that, therefore, the recommenda- 

 tion of the committee contained in their report presented 

 to the last meeting be not adopted, and that this meet- 

 ing be dissolved." This was met by an amendment, 

 " That the recommendation of the committee be adopted, 

 and a petition agreed to praying for a charter." The 

 meeting lasted seven hours, nearly the whole of those 

 present at the outset keeping their seats to the end of 

 the meeting, when a division was called for, and there 

 appeared to be two or three times as many opponents as 

 supporters of the incorporation. The proposal to incor- 

 porate the town was therefore declared to be negatived. 



Carmarthen. — The local papers mention with regret 

 that General Nott is so seriously ill as to create appre- 

 hensions of his ultimate recovery. The severity of the 

 weather during the past week, it is believed, has been the 



chief cause of relapse. 



Cambridge. — The Vice Chancellor has given notice 

 that the first prize, in accordance with the will of Sir 

 Thos. Maitland, already noticed in this Paper, will be of 

 the value of 100/., the subject to be " The Necessity for 

 Christian Education to elevate the Native Character in 

 India." The exercises to be sent in before the division 



vants of Mr. J. Oakley, of Darland, lost their lives in 

 consequence of charcoal being used to warm the room in 

 which they slept. It appears that they slept in a room 

 near the bailiff's cottage, and as they had complained of 

 its being damp, and the weather cold, Mrs. Chaplyn, the 

 bailiffs wife, had been induced to light some charcoal, 

 and place it in a watering-pot in the room, in which there 

 was no fireplace, and the ventilation in consequence was 

 imperfect. The next morning they were found dead. The 

 Jury at the inquest returned a verdict of Accidental Death. 

 Chester. — On Saturday, a man named James Crowly, 

 son of a farmer at Parnell, in Warwickshire, was appre- 

 hended in this city, charged with the wilful murder of 

 William Tilsey, one of his father's farm labourers, as far 

 back as December, 1842. lie escaped at the time to the 

 United States, and returned to Chester last March. On 

 being apprehended he confessed his crime, and has been 

 removed to Warwick to take his trial. 



Exeter. — Bishop Philpotts has written a letter to one 

 of the rural Deans in his diocese on the subject of the 

 proposed innovations in the mode of performing 1 ine 

 service. In this letter his lordship approves of the 

 clergy delaying the use of the surplice in preaching until 

 the first Sunday in January, in order, he says, "that 

 you may all be able to satisfy your people that the use of ic 

 is adopted by you, not from any preference on your own 

 part, but from obedience to your Bishop — obedience 

 which, at your ordination, you vowed to God that you 

 would reverently pay. My order on this particular is 

 given for the sole purpose of putting an end to party — 

 another word for those divisions which the Apostle 

 deprecates in terms which no Christian can read without 

 a deep sense of the duty imposed on him, kc. You may 

 explain to the people the reason of my ordering the sur- 

 plice. It is because I mu«t make some order, if there is 

 to be uniformity. I must ordtr either surplice or gown — 

 and the surplice has the authority of the Church, which 

 the gown has not. If there are any so perverse as to deny 

 the Bishop the right to make such an order, and if they 

 threaten to leave the Church onaccount of it, use with them 

 all Christian persuasion ; let them see that it is not 

 really the surplice which is here the point at issue, but 

 it is the right and duty of the Bishop to act on the di- 

 rection of the Apostle, that * All things be done decently 

 and in order.' The real question, in short, It, whether 

 there shall be authority or not ? Those who say there 

 shall not, must be already separated in heart ; and we 

 dare not sacrifice a necessary principle to theiripleasure. 

 I have no doubt that calmly stating the matter will suf- 

 fice with all whom reason can satisfy." In reference to 

 this subject, we learn from all parts of Devon and Corn- 

 wall, that the laity of the diocese are determined to re 

 aist the introduction of the new forms. Since our lr 

 notice of their proceedings, we have to announce "tiat 

 the following parishes in the city of Exeter concur in 

 the measures of those who have taken the lead, and in 

 which similar resolutions have been adopted, with one 

 exception, unanimously : — St. Thomas the Apostle, St. 

 Olave's, Ailhallows, St. Stephen's, St David's, St. Sid- 

 well's and St. James's. In these two last a furthar step 

 has been adopted. By a majority of 120 to 4 a letter 

 has been addressed to the Bishop, signed by the church- 

 wardens, in the name of the parish, respectfully but ear- 

 nestly entreating him not to enforce the directions of his 

 pastoral circular to the clergy. The parishioners of Ta- 

 vistock also, on the 12th, resolved that the Bishop's pas- 

 toral letter, to use his own language, is " part of a sys- 

 tematic attempt to bring back our church nearer to the 

 corrupt usages from which it was reformed." They also 

 expressed their disapproval of the contemplated changes, 

 and adopted resolutions strongly urging upon the laity 

 the necessity of making a firm and vigorous stand in 

 defence of Protestantism, the right of private judgment, 

 ■ nd civil and religious liberty. A meetine of the clergy 

 of the Deanery of Axminsttr was held at Honiton on the 

 5th ult., for the purpose of hearing the Bishop's letter 

 read by the Rural Dean, at which it was resolved, after 

 due and respectful consideration of his Lordship's 

 wishes, to have no future meeting upon the subject, 

 " thinking it better to wait in anxious hope" for some 

 final arrangement from the whole episcopal body. The 

 inhabitants of Plymouth are not backward in resisting 

 the movement. At a meeting last week, the Mayor in 

 the chair, it was resolved almost unanimously that the 

 churchwardens of the two parishes of the borough be re- 

 quested to convene vestry meetings, for the purpose of 

 taking the opinion of the parishioners on the innovations 

 proposed in the Bishop's letter. 



Falmouth. — The local papers state that, on its being 

 recently represented to Sir It. Peel that Mr. Peach, an 

 officer in the coast-guard service, in Cornwall, with a 

 large family and small pay, has for some years past, 

 during the intervals of his duty, made valuable researches 

 in natural history, which he has communicated to the 

 meetings of the British Association for the Advancement 

 of Science ; and that he has also made collections in 

 fossil conchologv, which have been of much service to 

 the ordnance geological survey of Cornwall ; Lady Peel 

 has been pleased to confer on Mrs. Peach a pension for 

 her life, from a small fund under the control of the lady 

 of the Prime Minister, in consideration of the scientific 

 merits of her husband. 



Liverpool. — On Tuesday a public entertainment was 

 given to Sir Henry Pottinger for his distinguished services 

 in China. Previous to the banquet, the East India and 

 China Association presented an address to Sir Henry in 

 the Town Hall, and the merchants of Liverpool intimated 

 their intention to present him with a permanent testi- 

 monial in the preparation of which they were anxious to 



of the Easter Term, 1845. _ t . ,, 



Chatham.— On Saturday three young men, farm ser- 1 consult his own wishes. At the banquet, the Mayor, 



