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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
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and my colleagues on! in being ogg = “ to have a had absconded ont : large amount of property in his | since ve ed. The boy pgs 9 at fret feared that tho 
ee oe ae ope? te © Toca osreb berate pene bearer” ba bat bee betst nearly thecragh designedly, 
paper that the ‘ae cotton factory opera was at at | and that he held ro dtentie of book-keeper sod ee cos pager aia heh ese 
Chapel-en-le-Frith stopped last week. This factory, it | clerk, in which capacity large amounts = sh cae - a abyertemir a. meg Seg eam 
seems, belongs to Messrs. Ashton and Co., of Hyde, who ewer ga passing hrowle his hands. On the 4th u Siaicuadhy aicviee seebity laid 
ha n obliged, it is said, through depression of paid over a balance of 80/. to the 9h requesting pe pot : peed i saeco a ge pore oot s 
and other inconveniences, to stop all their works, both at | mission to go into the we so by the seyret Lek ilap-hoe? oh daeTeh p andthe 
Hyde and eee cae whereby upwards of a hun- the succeeding Mon se |b the thahe part eGvihe: Rnety.whinit wae estheilll 
dred and fifty hands have been thrown out of employment | granted, and he left the eo but not anaes . or A marti oe se of tid; i is thought that the weight off 
at foe thing Gok were eltogether depending upon 
Mess n for s 
 Cuvituas night about twelve o'clock, a 
steamer then on he 
mént which many a dip ty-bd it is sai 
wey Yih The law; it seems, does not 
apply to such a 
swich.—A Tocal bong me ne a Aner one of the 
nveyed no less than ten tons of 
ht 
tons of ¢ description of Christmas fare having been 
previdualy forwatded by the same steamer for the London 
market, 
Launceston.—A local paper ented - this i is so 
extensively undermined, that chur 
and churchyards, 
mansion-hou and hostelries, ar any of theth sus- 
nded over a yawning gulph, and in constant danger of 
falling upon the miners below. The wall Gazette of 
last week g fe a narrow escape 
wife of a labourer called 
a 
BSve wey, 
a much larger amount than that eae, discovered. 
eweastle-upon-Tyne.—Mr. Will mm Gibb, 1 he agent, 
0 ers of this 
tion without an i 
Manchester.—The property recently preva by fire 
in this town has since beet the scene of a still more serious 
calamity. The particulars of the fire to were de- 
tailed in our last Number, the building destroyed being a 
large warehouse in , in the occupati f the 
Union Carrying Company. The ruins; which re 
main ndisturbed ee ig ae re, were about t re- 
moved on Friday, Chri e, when another Ne tink 
hough the bailing had been completely gut- 
ed by the fire, t a eae een 
and that at the bac 
hi 
Mr. *s; and that, o 
well as M rman and hi o daughters, partook of 
ome oth. Shortly afterwards they were seized 
with severe illnéss, attended by all the symptoms of hav- 
ing taken poison. ica istance being called in, 
active remedial measures were adopted, and they were al 
res ; though € m continued for several 
days greatly indisposed. There appears to mys- 
tery connected with the affair; no suspicion att gt 
any of the inmates, though it is supposed that arsenic 
must mixed with the oatmeal u 
an- 
eath, 
anes 
tured at Coventry ; and were discovered on Mon day in 
to dispose of some silver 
spoons at a etetengh s, rho suspecting they were the 
r, forwarded informatio 
the police of this town tio ‘epi mediately pro oeeeded there 
and succeeded in appr 
s 
persons as to t them, but by t ge- 
ments of the police they were safely secured in the gaol, 
without interrup or violence being use meee 
em by the mob. ey have since undergone xam 
nation befor re the Magistrates, which did not elicit any 
afew da 5. 
—Another murder has within the last few days been 
committed in this _ county, a hex r Wem. 
It seems that a with the assistance of her hus- 
ison to both 
es are as foll 
decea of an sr aes at dinner, and 
was jenmmedistely tibet ill, and di veni Her 
usband did not eat 
ng. A 
f the eviden € prisoner made a state 0 the 
oa that he had told his mit on vaate the that tmething 
as the matter with the m dm 
e 
omas Harries, a 
a they were sire committed t 
ord, — us Soehlnint attended oy loss of lif 
bs 
aah reer’ -pit paging te essrs. Job and 
Page' fasiaes at Darin. It appea 
a boy were descendin 
the 
yards, 
he 
bell ter, Bolton, and Bury Canaljand Railway Company 
One 
the men was killed on the spot, and eg other two mal 
untied the epee slipped. it through the ring 
thus caused the acci 
—A fom paper states that a singular eyi 
on the gro owth of towns is t 
-upon-Trent.—A meeting of the ratepay@e 
ais pont pursuant to pu 
ore was 345/. 5s. He therefore ot pelted 
rate of 1jd. in the ease r irs 
penses of Stoke and Shel hurches, be 
obinson, a Chartist, then addressed the meeting; o 
ing the rate with considerable wa 
proposing as an amendment, ‘‘ That the m 
opinion that the church-rates were u 
and ought to be resisted, and that the meeting do adjoui 
for twelve months.’ he ame 
y then spoke 
pet the imposition of church-ra 
ing distress among > rete 3 anda 
tie tihennien’ in which ufac ‘ 
sent time placed, the hardship of the soo 
the distress of all, he proposed t o make tise 
ome agai n and do likew r. Robin 
pie his amen t in r set Mr. Ridgwa "s, 
loud cheers. The chairman called for a sho 
for the rate, when a fe ly were held 
number agai a 
the chairman said should open immediately ; 
wards be adj ed to Fri He 
amendment, and left the room am 
After his departure the chair was taken by of 
opposite party, and the Carer fiver of Mr. Ridgwats 
carried unanimous! 
on in Ashfield. 
— We have a in ites 
of incendiary 
place and neighbourhood, without he clue being 
vered to t of them. d 
was made to set fire to the church ea 
the sexton went to ring the bell, he discovered that 
pitch, cotton, and sticks had been inserted in 0 
pews throug ndow, where a of 
extracte ischief, however, was don 
he having fortunately fallen upon a part of the 
ie oa 
ur ua 
ublic hei, which was n 
attended, has ven held in this ae to consider the 
priety of of eduecati 
umerously- ee requisition. 
speeches were 
ast 
ould not do 
- could not prov Me aa ve ge those schools ; bes 
only aid and enco 
ws :-— 
d given attention to 
ne th 
élieved all who had 
deprecate idvingy that the charge of educating the 
