THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Marcu 19, 
soon afterwards obtain the control | a 
at a ro esta arose in 
. Tuesday, on the for the second reading 
ill, and that it wed “altimatel carried b 
ing seem advis able. The opini 
in the following restating c whieh wer 
That this meeting views with alarm 
meeting wa 
by at on subject of leather, believing that 
the low rate of duty will not adequately protect 
the British mantifacturer ; that the present depressed state 
of the trade will not allow incieased imports from the 
Continent, but that the meeting relies upon her Majesty’s 
Government for a scale of duty high enough to afford 
tection to the British manufacturer ; that while the reduc- 
if into effect, will r 
Aa be appointed to represent the Haas ion of the 
to the President of the code Trade 
n to the House of 
ti- 
(voskoning the interest 
per cent. durin 
three yea 
fore, 
ng 
rs the peg abit would obtinius) ; and the agers ies 
irectors to take s 
pileebchation to Sir Robert 
case.”’—On Th 
measures fo 
pF asse 
he new tari propdied F 
1 | their 
n Act in the ent reign, entitled ‘‘ An Act to 
baabite her Majesty’s Commissioners of Woods to com- 
lete the contract for the sale York-house, and to pur- 
—Great activi ty, i é pte 
sent dalle at tthe a. 
be i in contemplati 
ra 
1,200 rank and file, will, it is added, 
selection of ¢ eae , 108 non-commissioned officers 
ortality of We Metropolis.—The following is the 
number of deaths in the Metropolis, from all oem fet , re- 
piatered in the week ending Saturday the 5th inst, 
, 484; females, 473; total, 95 eekly average, 
ghee te le ae ae ; ae yee 445 ; total, Ap 
urders. am nusu- 
ay m rd 
ally painful description, which h produced great stiiterian t 
in th € nei ghbourhood, but throughout 
Aldermanbury. urd 
of = own of ldres, eoninite’ rae wasa Las 
38. It appears that he had b 
years éin plo. oyed asa fo gered wed 
business in the City, but, owing to t 
loyment for ney six 
g unable 
ft 
teak a 
i mn upstairs to s 
her euiteting e bedroom he peeved "che bo 
of the father and he these children lying 
one and an Fine razor is ‘the Ga 0 
Be be Assist was 
Teel fortes but life 
as found to be ane extinct, Th id 
t Ji Bae 
pon ae te ae travelling from 
Australia. latter, he said, a 
miles distant, and it required 68 days to r ont y sti 
The gos of transit proposed, by way of P , was 
t India saan mail to 
urne 
mus of Panama t 
6,280 miles, which would be 
e they w row! be conveyed to Sydney, a further dis. 
tance of 1,285 miles, which would leted in five 
country to Australia was an object desired by the 
nists. Another gentl id that he was satisfied, fi 
the z under the sanction of 
Gov nt, s the ye im- 
practicable, from was a bay 
about ae mi ae aces 7h ‘that weal at he suit the savigaton 
very W Several g ng exp 
Ete aon ped veri Sates to weg 
it 
ou meeting until the opinion of 
cig the Isthmus could be obtained. 
—On 
tr Vattichem 
ace fd birth us Rl the 
erectus sd “aloe es which bit i [frond be 
i words = 
bid & 
Royal Highness replied 
of the hi pee 
tow 
most eee to my feelings. I pray that Alaighty 6 God 
r your be a that our child ma: 
pee ict, and that Saat ive 
mply repai 
Addresses of congratulati ere also | 
pelbbated to ‘“ Dacha ro Kent, hs returned suitable 
repli 
otetongitan rhe eit oF .—In the House of Com- 
mons the Earl of Lincoln obtained leave to 
extend and enlarge the provisions of 
, two 23 Mf 
bork hort @ iB Bi i, asd shad 
ing Nee 
‘neighbourhood, ina 
ly 
great fess, fenent pe reviled in “ya the 
r round the dwelling. 
thousan cong 
The Lord Ppt and other city aicers visited the spot, 
| and every attention w id m to’ the widow, to 
relieve her distres: vid tn ities. ~An 
inquest was held on the bodies the following day, but * 
évidence was addticed ats the simple statement o 
facts given above, and the jury returned a verdict of 
* Temporary is igre 
Accidents and I ts.—On Wednesday an inquest 
by the falling of a sidence of 
i; Atkinson, Holowey, durin the violent storm on the 
e inst. . The i nquiry, which lasted a 
ong time, was eet directed tothe obtaining the evidence 
of gene Be nh as en any 
negligence Sag construction of the premises, or non- 
on tp 
: rabjest From the evi 
that oo original chimney, hich was oat ate feet ish 
y been increased in heig) ool pa fe t, and tho 
built in a zig-zag directi had n ceeatmanies ee 
any stay or bar. By the of Parliamen at, builders wat 
oth mes © or oes chine, sis, ka was stated, 
bound to give the dist veyor ; 
it was seldom that they did 80, @ ee in >this tie it had not 
been done. District surveyors wer whatever in 
the act to control the ee of a cease to any hei eight, 
or order it to ulled down. The coroner wished 
‘jars Paolo kc era 
the ba of the police, who, at risk of por ives, 
the young gk ae Feast, from the fate of 
eeeded who asa by same apartment, a verdict to that 
merse ts, 
long accounts of the injury done to pro- 
bat. 
mily w ere at chu Lk Ni ca ster, ashe resided nar i 
Mp a light which he had kindled, and raised a 
several 
on “helt vi hcbbi Ak an batribes, he shot hi mself, 
and som 
It was then dukosered tliat. e med with 
loaded pistol, a life-preserver, a large knife, and that 
feet were padde t roner’s dg viry on yi: 
a Agere ° Felo de se aa eturned, and he 
rig be rae d to retain counsel 
The assignees, i Yevhan. decided againsh all of these 
profession asa sculptor, died sudde 
Sa yi morning. At thei inquest b beld on Monda ay, t the 
rien pict in the shop of f Mr. Burdett, a surgeon in N 
ee gered down the steps of t 
healed nd appeared very ‘i Witness called fo 
geon, who proceeded to bleed hi ut life 
r. Burdeit, surgeon, spoke to i hi 
ding Thursday, when he laboured under dyspeps 
of one of the large blood-vessels i 
returned a verdict whet this 
also that de by the "yiaieaelons of God.” Mr, 
ti 
He is we 
o take place on Wednes 
in the Metropolis, as num mbers of families of the middi 
avo 
s consequence es. In the course of Tuesday night ne 
haenty eersitere arrived ; a circu mstance, if appears, 
has not occurred since the opening of the London and 
Brighton Railw 5% 
Carliste.—On Saturday poral the Angel Inn, int 
wh, was discovered to be e, but the flames we! 
subdued in about an hour. id nation of thi 
misés, however, by the superintendent of police, eviden 
it is said, was discovered that they had been wilfully 
fire to, in consequence of which, Mrs. Christoph 
the landlady, her servant, and da r, were taken in 
ustody, and examined before the magistrates, whe 
servant sed to having prepared peat, wood, oie 
o burn 
and. 
laying the bine of dhe proposal to the girl The 
soners were Baer: removed, and uae tb Ee kept in 
ce 
rate confine 
Mon Nearinan-wa “gh ng informs us that a misunder+ 
standing whic his existed for some weeks between ne 
proprietors of collieries on the hills, and the workmen 
their employ, in con w 
trade of fen 
es 
ee be ‘obtained i half a1 an how. 
spread, and soon ca 
howe, which it “consumed, Hothing being mgr ee the 
walls. Two ad ouses bo cau ught fire ; 
the exertions of th 
emen ¢ ( 
| for the nie Hall ; ing to an e wective engine 
ference: yD peaying upon it, the fire wa: pe 
ge 
Railways.—The following are the receipts 3 of Railways» 
week : vig fe 13,4162. ; Great West 
Brighton, 1,918/.;° Blackwall, 64645 
for the past 
ern, 10,1554. ; 
