1842.] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 47 
curious will case is likely to occupy the — of the | an accident o : a a a sag 
legal emer ee term, the a of which are as by which oot "Aiton as — reer a Railways course with men, and drove away from their territories all 
: An old 1 mvs ‘ Roman-Catholic, aa P°Whies | beve Sollee: “Hievainee seer gl prem ir Aa = who approached with matrimonial intentions. This anti- 
oe "after leaving various fiieb to Catholic gl as the village of Motherwell, pr the w s ne onl Be ep Aptatien A is now supposed to be on the decline; 
directed that in case = failure of issue on the part of her starting from the top of the line at New Maiuesue oye rs —— k Pe em aR EST disappointed 
son, a sum 0 . o which he was eon snot g0 | habit of placing the h i i ; | are rapithe wossed; and the: members of the population 
“ Archbishop cae Dublin,” meantne, De: uttey, | the tiuin ‘dhotiee red get ils by ceric’ Pee ma? aia rp a, decreasing. These women are nearly all Ma- 
_ acangr se ose — mas mentioned in an- | this occasion the waggoner followed the usual custom, and 
other par € disposed of in charity as he | at the same time gay ive i 
might think proper. The son has died, and the money | the waggons. The train] bad pieeenaed te rabaat rooms atv. 
is claimed by the Commissioners of Charitable Bequests, | mile from Wishaw when the first waggon entered a ‘‘]ye”’ lad OF CHANCERY.—Attorney-General v. Corporation of Ply- 
on the part of the Protestant archbishop, inasmuch as the | —the tongue having been left open—and being thus y di- | The plaintiff pment Cousens of a charitable f the Master of the Rolls. 
w.does not recognise any other.—Intelligence was re- | verted from the straight course at the moment it was mons. | Trane att oe constructed by the saan Sir Francis 
ceived on Monday that Howth Castle, the seat of the | ing with great speed, it was overturned, and killed the two | su pplyiay at of the houses eh eee the town of Plymouth, and 
Earl of Howth, situate ahout nine miles f this | passengers on the spot. The accid ' is sai have that it was the va op co ery “te 
city, had and that destruction appeared | been occasioned in a great measure by the carelessnes I aint, inspection of the original grant and othee Be as 
inevitable. Before, however, the e had proceeded | of the driver. waggoner, it appears, has a large bec ind, on the ground thee ra ane Rolls, however, refused Jeave 
towards the a second account reached, stating | block between the wheels of the waggons th: t can be om oondhect of t ee ast ane due eae Tad not been used in the 
at the fire had nder, owing to th sence | mediately put into operation, and restrain the s b Neg prion’: riefly intimated his opinion that no unreasonable dela: 
of mind of the Countess of Howth, (his lordship being simply moving a handle at the side of the ve eet ioe! 8 ee »and therefore the application 
absent,) who, with the assistance of the domestics, threw further said to be th e driver’s duty to gos slowly na report 1 “Ture. a Le a Chepceiln a Fe ee ee 
wet blankets over the parts ignited, “078 eg extinguished proaching lyes on the line, but that none of > Hea pereioe: ence in the report to some leases ; ey ie nok ack out a — 
the - before % had se cy ecm : The seein tions wére-obsstead oni this ‘indies Pp gn bee a psa way, to save expense, would be “put in 
is said to have been ge by the atiea of the flue ie TP OnE Eee verify them by affi before . 
aa overheat a Am aie . § € flue Stirling.—It appears that trade | in this town and the The report might then pass without further application te she Court. 
surrounding district has been some time, and still con- | _,V!CE-CHANcELLOoR’s Court.—Salisbury y. Morrice.—This suit 
_ King 0 official inquiry, beyond what was | tinues, i depressed and rece condition. The | [Dich Was heard at great length in Michael aaj i 
given < a sat. has s been instituted into the circum- | Jocal journals announce that three failures of houses con py aprayre veg er leh pened APY secthinkenting 
stances connected with the death of the man Fla nagan, nected with the wcollen trade have taken place in the nership with Reap grag nea § preted UMr, At rota 
near Philipstown, inthis county. From communications, | town within the last few ays, and that it is feared these | Salisbury, and the bill prayed an aecount against the represen tatives 
however, which have appeared in the » it app are merely the forerunners of a series of simi lami- Gefault wright Be rfoccnmiiareh png dpm wat his wil 
that the affair w exag hat deceased, | ties. A great number of working people have been thrown | agent fo i in res t of er y bere ~ trix ; 
who was at the time greatly intoxicated, accidentally set | out of employment in consequence, and general distress | ” I 50s land. for her in the — “. 
his own clothes on fire with a candle, and thus received | begins to prevail among the operative sleaeeat canard me vow sg real estate ae ‘hich "ahe was devise for li 
the injuries fro ts of which he afterwards Paisley.—It is stated that the Lord Advocate has re- sentatives of of Ms. bid . Webb hay t Mr sa enacg pf pnd a 
* is also announced, that .-M gan, at whose | quested the Procurator Fiscal for ae “s en 2 forward nthe two wills, ir alan i giving 
house the alleged murder was perpetrated, is about to | an official report regarding the r toppage of pay: Judgment, entered pote into several points, which he said must 
vindicate himself to his friends by an appeal in the | ments by this town, and the “histienioa of the savin sips Nad Sain cl ded one form Jn which the decrea shania he 
,o a criminal information to the Court 4 fund by the cor poration : en together, Mr. me. Webb Sasa man of great probity, though i 
nee 8 —- A serious outrage was committed o Greenock.—The half-yearly meeting of the sn a me was shown in the correspondence, as early as 1817, complaints were 
the 28th ult.on a man named Patrick Morcan , his wife, Greenock Railway Company has been held int Wann, ts. Salisbury of his not receiving the rents, and his back- 
dnablier:en “7 th M alli LOCK ) his n, | wardness was also referred to by Lord Fitzharris and other ¥ 
ai = y ss pare son gi eiaks foneygal, in this county, by = which it was unanimously resolved that a dividend of ji Honour supposed the fact to be, that his talents were such, 
om the paris oom, county Tippe- | four per cent. for the past he was employed b, le th wed 5 
rary. The father died on the Ist inst., frowi the bP ass of | shar 5 ein pene sine meM betes. gubdtortine execute all his business, and that a fall which sp raked retlee ed 
the injuries he received ; "the eldest son’s life, it is said, is -saiays ar a eaprimemememmee ed windbleana the he grid oe 5» # agg Ra Srroush the. Joad. of 
: ed of; and all the others appear to have been se- SHPiscellane neous moral point of view, to have been quite irreproachable, but he was 
riously inj est has been held, and, after a Em —The inly negligent in accounts which, as agent, it 
ned investigation, a verdict was returned of ‘ : i i follo aks return which has been sexe his duty to have made out from time to time. He should there- 
ful murder” against ‘al Slanmahan, Thode Glecsas. | a ly abled ‘shows that e ration is still agi ore Pronounce one decree in both suits for an account ho da taken, 
hi” Ke ’ y ? nsive scale. Emi, m from the Un and in that account he was of opinion that R. Webb’s ought 
ohn Kennedy, and William mnnedy, who have b Wine Sais igratio nite d | tobe : d with with what he might have received but for wilful d default, 
Th Te ane Oe a2, and. committed to take their trial. feet is England. Scotland. Ireland. Total Ligepislacenninn veins oS ae ahaa inthe Brith h 
. . . fe) ‘ 0 © plaintit, who 8 2 
a ae vey rope pasion it is said, oe: aoe in the affair, | To North sae Auxiliary Legion in Spain, ite restrain the defe nied, Tyan i 
Ti; yet been appr chen ate Colonies .- . 5,305. 3,053 23.935. 32.993 | Tecelving any further instalments on a titulo, he eae pate 
pperary.—The gentry of this county have held a| United States.» 35/309 1/246 4087 40°642 | Sah oF the amount due to him for his services. ‘The injunetion 
meeting in Clonmel, to give saiation to their regret at Other parts of Ame- i : ; : inane, illo sien ror shoe nm om agent ee to pay the 
date wanton act of poisoning the Marquis of Water- rica ae: # 44 ie Be 44 burn Binglelon-The jubebeiaal this case, which 
ford’s hounds, noticed in our Jast Number. The ree West In di 745 6 stood for judgment, and which had-already occupied the Court seye- 
man, Mr. Moon, of sain said he would not be a part The Cape ce 31d 4 v4 aon in Pedy hee yar a ane Saag eee ore pre 
+ ‘a ° mp8 - n ear , ’ i i 
offering a re » as might stichulate other ill- Mise Ausirelin- end - feeaty. oF contract with William aoe the eects te va 
ae A rents to commit alike offence ; but he would sug- Zealand ... 14,495 817 538 15.850 pie reversonary lease for lives. of pr proper ein the county of York, 
addr ented to the noble meme : ; ; Oe oT ae en ees ODE ODO) acto, Dertely maeey 
expressing indi * i bane acre —_ ---— its at Kilham, amounti to 1022., “in tie stauhosint Sihex: 
pr 3 ng earn at the maha The proposal wa 56,213 5,811 28,719 » 90,743 | and aise amiciety of the sectental tithes of the parish of Swathorpe, 
rained adcress drawn up, which, it is said, re- | The Jale Census.—From the recent population returns e same county. ‘The beneficial interest in the lease was 
si eiiee oe rec liaa of sighathine: there a o be an almost exact uniformity in the aibabee quently indy ee Basten aver Pd ane St senna od oF life, 5 
er, — cisio i ; : 
citement‘in this Prise, begin has produced general ex- | proportion of males to oe in England, for the last | farm at e titee was fi ig pee odempebee of the defendant } Milner, and 
of Queen’s h ’ been given in the Court | three out of the five uses taken during the present | bad been so for some years. He held at it as a yearly tenant under 
ench, Dublin, ayherehy all marriages in | century. The dispro rere is greater in the two first | 477° Thompson, at at arent of betw Sad ie Deine Bye 
Treland celebrated } P : oe ‘ghd & fe two nts been read from vont Lee answers—from that of the 
a ae ee resbyt terian ministers, where | periods, which is supposed to have been occasioned by achigas tela Singleton—showing that in the year 1824, the Dean, who 
The Presh ints not — Hamaae, are declared invalid. | the extensive draughts of the population requisite to carry | th rent too low, told by Jolin Singleto » the younger, 
pwards A 6 Sin this county, it i ‘ed, on the war, y 1801, there were 47-86 | 2°,’ is @ surveyor or land agent, that he thought it was a fair rent. 
Betabrition of aan and hitherto it appears that the | males to 52 ales ; and in 1811, on me 9 eo on hte isis ace 
members of Athi ween Presby e | 47°97 to 52°03. In 1821 there were =~ males to 51°31 | Dean, by which it was agreed that in consideration of 400%. 
r eomientanit es by Presbyterian ministers | females; in were 48:7 51°29; and i i | et - set wo Rc a baer mene pr 
1841 the proportion was 48°82 to 51° +8. No distinction -The Dean gave his bond forthe 6000 It mas" in veer = 
SCOTLAN of sex was made in the published returns earlier than pain te pection Snpcheanetne:s was consulted by the Dean on the 
Edinbu D. oan ian for Engle a: —Puerine wold ot Creek DHE: | Te nen tie taneeeamaer ioe: te ee 
« inburgh—A local paper states that Minis 1s: ix : became payable, and agreeing to 
blihnsatol. toro ca. D ie ge 10,0002. for the esta- n 1831, 48-49 to 51°51; and in 1841, the piapueaiae nh in his answer, stated his 
in @ rmal schools, one in this city and one eieate 64 to 51:-36.—We also learn from the report of the peliet that at the plaintiff had "for some years m previously to 1835, em- 
pba with 1,000/. a year to defray the annual | registrar-general, that selecting the Metropolis and twenty- ployed the lefendant Singleton as Et oe ee aie <4 
G management in i both, 3 our of the principal town and city districts, and com- | whether, in April 1885, Milner had or hed ast such hess nor 
eile taxa case © Spray derable interest has been | paring the registration mala fom thes districts with | was he aware that such a question was put to him by the bill.’ His 
ae a cha Sation of the magistrates of this city, in- similar Yeturne ‘obtained from es ‘cobtaiging's lead | Zacont, \ice-Chancellor. Broce), in. giving. Indgment, sald 6 wae 
y arge of oer ey te : a i necessary to see how far the — stood in the same situation as 
against Mr. R. Smith f & serious extent | dense popu ation, in net the inhabitant are chiefly en- | they did at the close of 1835. it appeared that in 1836 Milner filed 
Sande. = teas ped € tellers of the Glasgow | gaged in agriculture, arr has rtained that the | a bill for the p Purpose of establishing the agency of Singleton in the 
gl tsepents that intorasation having been | mean duration of life in the rei Saeed OF CRE CT | Mere Binge tee a se property = 
5 ri uM, Tatton ected with the bank, | nearly seventeen years, the average of life between fifty-five one waitin Cone toe Gdisece Whe Sean and others were ex- 
> cen ae 5 mith’s cash transactions defi- years in the country and only thirty-eight in the towns. amined, and in July 1840 a decree was made, directing an isssue to 
of 2,000/., that gentleman was taken | The density of the population in the country districts oho sueney < hich wasirand. As Y otk, in favour Sf inen. Ae 
wa saa é books and pa ound in his | referred to, compared to that in the towns, is as 10 to it July ees decese” Walk tind & ly for a new conveyance. rg tend 
g 2 exam ere were found numerous | 245; the mortality as 100 to 144. The returns also | was no party to the suit of Mil Milner, nor was it , for the legal 
Spicious character, and, among others, | show an increase in the ane of habitable houses ae women Aes :" of She Deets and wan vets — bon 
8 4 agreemen: "Ss was : 
os Bawendi, 1. to en the last 40 years aoa less — 89 = cent., | Junin five months s ater We hilar wis erin te i was. not until 
irit : e na r. | whilst the population has on y increased during the same | three years after the commencement of Milner’s suit that the pre- 
rs that on b pirit merchant, High-street. It also paren: average of 78 percent. In 1811] the actual il was filed : and now the Court was to undo or to ren~ 
he ts on being apprehended, r.’ Smith sald that ‘ of jeibahited: house 231.1 yin 1821 it der fruitless all that the verdict and the decree had done by taking 
second Beaumont § ith.” ’ ing that as “a 528, ,033, in 1831 there were 421 807, and in 1841 it was | so much anxious and expensive litigation. His Honour, therefore, 
ae 6 or expressions of a similar im- ot less than 593,911. With respect to empty habitable the ct since May - 
; were 3°45 per 
fing , however, it seems that in 1801 they were 
cent., in 1811 as low as 2°88 ; in 1821 they were eae in 
1831 they were 4°44, and in 1841 no fewer than 5-41 per 
t. It appears e 
ucted in 
above facts have trans and are | for the last 
The prisoners have Soka Sian fe i 
