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hhave been received by Government from this town and expressed in them, 'that the effect of the alt 
; eration of the long continuance under water.—A contest has taken place 
neighbourhood, which occasions fears oe the continued | duty would be to destroy the cultivation of hops in Eng- | in Portsea on the subject of church-rates. At the vestry 
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| peace of the district. It is stated that e guardians of | land, if this meeting had been held it might have | meeting last wee as by the church- 
_ the union have represented to the Setrety of State that | been said that op-growers and farmers of this coun Gardens and strenuously jesidtod by tho ehhing 
: e distress is beyond their means of relief; that they | were agreeable to the roposed change, which was [far | wa 8 finally demanded, which terminated in the loss of the 
have 12,000 ons on their books, and: must leave the from e He then went into some details, | rate: the numbers being, for the rate, 768; against it, 
matter in the hand Governme the accounts a nd said he had no doubt that hops could be grown | 1,318; majority against the rate, 550. 
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who has applied 1 Covetiziet for £500, which has | hops in this country would never exceed 4/. per cwt.; that | the igiecelvd kitchen-gardens beloageay to the iar 
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‘appears to be the depreciation in the value of manufac- uence must be that a large amount of sgticittiatal fae me ~ k, and i the Royal kitchen-gardene at Kens sington, 
tured goods, and the inability on the part of the labouring | would be thrown out of employ. The noble Lord con- “ie a mediat pacious 
classes to procure work of any description. It is stated | cluded by saying that the Tariff would, in his opinion, | kitchen-garden (containing between 20 and 30 acres of 
q that the artisans who are in full work only earn 3s, 9d. | prove ruinous to the country; and he regretted to see that | superior arable land), now arranging under the uperin- 
_ “per week. On Sunday, 20,000 people met at Enfield; | a Parliament, which was returned, in a great measure, by | tendence of Mr. Ingram in the grounds attached t 
and we  taineeneyr= of an outbreak appear to be | the agricultural constituencies of the empire, should have | Frogmore Lodge. In consequence of this arrangement, 
eo rtai acrificed those whose interests they were bound to have the whole of the building materials, including five spacious 
Several other gentlemen addressed the meet. hothouses, gardeners’ sheds, and other erections at Cran: 
nally the resolutions were put and carried una- | bourn odge, have just been sold by auction, by order of 
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As soon as th ardens at Frogmore are brought into 
© Government bya rane of coal owners from |. state of cultivation, the Maestricht gardens will be 
I i conveyed to the and other coal districts, it is said that the thrown into the Home Park, from which t ey are now 
magistrates of this town, that a party of colliers had Chancelloy of the Exchequer has intimated that, having | divided by a high brick wall, some hundreds of yards in 
_ proceeded to Shut End, about midway between this place | given the subject full consists tion, Government are pre- length ; and the gardener’s house and the other buildings 
_ and Stourbridge, with the intention of cutting the ropes red to recommend t e duty on the — of coals | will be disposed of sand Forests e new 
_ atthe colliery. The magistrates at once gave orders that | to foreign parts be fixed at 2s. per ton, and not at 4s. as | gardens will comprise an extensive grapery ahd pinery. 
_ the military should be put under arms, but it was some ee proposed : the duty to be uniform on all descriptions | The wholé of the forcing and hothouses will be heated 
_ time before could be assembled, in consequence of the | of coal. upon a novel plan, by as of hot r, and will extend 
presumed tranquillity _ the neighbourhood having led Nowane hes of Wight).—In our last we gav in one line to the length of upwards of 250 yards. Close 
‘the officers to take up their quarters in different parts. port of a public meeting in this town on the sablenp. of to these will be erected a residence for Mr. Ingram, the 
Considerable ‘egg e was raise fe the town from the | church rates 8, when a motion for the imposition of a superintending gardener, with a spacious conservatory, 
y which pr ong t i ordi i e 
officer pol n all, 12 feet 
habitants. In a short time, however, the troops as- | demanded, which ‘has since taken n place, and eee in height, which will afford great facility for the cultivation 
sembled, and, accompanied by several magistrates, pro- | as follows :—Against ie ee 165; for it 73; majority | and rearing of wall fruits. The whole of th : 
_ ceeded to Shut End, where. the acts of violence intended | against ss rate, 92. incurred by these extensive improvements will be met by 
had already been carried into e ect, but unattended b Newiton.—A public meeting has been held in this town | the disposal of the site of the Royal gardens at Kensing- 
any other serious consequences. They then proceeded in | for the fake of <citacie the propriety of addressing | ton, which will be let on building leases. It is calculated 
_ search of the offenders, ~_ they had succeeded ce making | Sir J. Graham on remarks made by him during the late | that the ground-rents will realise a sum amountin 
their escape, and pate 29 arp t yet been B-Upiehen ded, = Le debate on the New Poor Law, stating “that the informa- | between 28,000/. and 30,000/.—A few days since some 
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this district amounts o 15,000. axes? has 14, 000 are | in the out-townships.” Mr. N. Varley, one of the High | an unusual character. A Signer Duyalla performed the 
Epotontacily absenting ieee from work, a: nd the re- | Co — _ the chair. Mr. J. Leigh, a manufac- | feat o walking on a tight rope over the river, upwards of 
maining 1,00 eterred se ecti i in height at on 
are de d the meeting on | 300 feet length, and nearly 50 in height at one ex- 
raham, which he reprobated tremity, i prese of a grea ber spectators 
nd said es he should move that a letter | It is also stated t has announced his" i ti f 
t from the m t Grimsditch em making an ascent and descent from the Little Park to the 
clesfield, putting that gentleman in immediate top of t ound Tower of Winds — if he can ob- 
the facts, so that he would be enabled to re- ~— See in so ensuing mo 
ments of Sir J. Graham in the House of f tl ipal 
mmons. Mr. D. Boote said that he’ should object to aitearel es the last week : Riad vi 38,0901. ; Weary 
Such a letter being sent to Mr. Grimsditch ; he should l 94 s South Western, 6,828/. ; Great Western, I 1172; 
sa ndment ‘* that the meeting should petition | Noythern and Pettecny 1,452. ; Greenwich, 2,1882. ; - 
for a total repeal of the law. Hewas afraid that Sir ees Cou ae s, 1,0872. din h and Glasgow, 2,1114. ; 
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td. Os Graham and his party were intendin ng to pass a worse law, Work and North that and, 1,6542.; Great North of Eng- 
endment:;——‘*That a lcompulsory enact- | if it were possible, than the previous one. long dis- land, 1,438/.; Midland Counties, 2,922/.; North Mid- 
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ments for the support of eligious institutions were con- | cussion ensued, during which sever of the orking me land, r 4301.5 Bipingham and Derby, 1,254/.; Man+ 
€ Pranern of Christianity ; gtd a the | addressed the meeting, expressing themselves in favour of hnetee and Leeds, 5,200/ ; London and Birmingham, 
rned for a twelvemonth.”’ en rong remonstrance to Government, praying them to 6,255.3; an al chester and Birmingham, 7001, _ 
d, anda long debate wae aha withdraw the measure. This, they were of opinion, w official cir f 
question was put to the meeting, and the rate the best answer to the statements of - Gr ‘ | to the directors of the different railways, 
ared to be carried : the numbers for the amendment | It was ultimately 2 he: that the amendment should be attention having been drawn to the practice of 
i 2 jority for the rate, 2]. withdrawn, on con n that a petition for the total - tie doore of railway carriages in consequence of the 
A local paper states in proof of the extent of peal should be sent 4, Pa arliament age same time.,,,.This'| disaster 0 ris and Versai i 
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the was agreed to, and the motion that the letter be pre ve ships ae hak of subject to eral 
h, there were in this township alone 618 | to Mr. Grimsditch was then passed. A petition for the of Dain ways, Major-Gen. Pasley, cao reported tothe 
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number was 953 a : i total repeal of ig New Poor Law was subsequently fo ollowing effect mate © That his opinion is decided that pas- 
the same quarter of rent see ern and signe sengers in a railway carriage ought not to be shut in by 
s than 1,351, which, with the. addi d.-—Pu ble “attention has been excited by a new locking both doors, without the pores of getting out, 
r Kirkland, m e ni Z subject of of controversy which has sprung up in this $ Uni- |; though it is proper and useful to lock all the carriage 
uals, or one-eigh e population, receivii ersity, and whi s already created considerable inte- doo va ck the ok wide lone the midill the railway, 
expenditure for this township alone | rest. It appears that in 1836, Dr. am ving been e they might crushed by a tr ing on the 
arch quarter, 614/. 13s. tas in 1840, | appointed Regius Professor of Divinity, drew upon him- wher sides tua if the passengers have the power of get- 
+3 in 1841 it rose to 911/. Gs. 5d.;- ad this | self the censure of the College by the publication Of | tin ting out on the near side of the train only, it id be the 
it amounts to ] 30592. 10s. 11d. certain doctrines contained in a sermon published by him means of saving their lives under many circumstances, 
Maidstone.—A meeting of hop-planters and owners, ime bef A large majority of the members of ich are too obvious to require explanesiiny, if, ae 
s in this county has been held, | C. cation condemned Dr. rine te practice of locking up the 
he sense of the cou ty upon | deprived him of the usual privileges of his office, by dis- < Si pi the loss of many lives which might primed 
Protection now by law given to the British grower of pensing with, or rather discountenancing, attendance saved in the late lamentable catastrophe at 
upon the injury to be apprehended from any | on his lectures which ha been reg: Pasa Th é Paris. hat the practice of mens th doors ay. bess 
at su H 5 a qualification for holy orders. In this position the Uni- adopted by one or two companies in this country, from a 
re ttaker, im | versity has since remained with respect to the Professor belief that it is safer to deprive paste gers of the jason 8 of 
to the meeting, obser of Divini H , su watt FF pe gs motion ; but that this 
alteration in the duty on hops was one | well as before his condemnation, the heterodox i precaution is of little use in a pon of third class car- 
eir interests most materially ; and | drawn from his writings, but has n ot recanted them ; and riage passengers, ue travel in open carriages, and can 
part of a deputation appointed to wait on | the University censures have conti in up to seldom be of use except in the case of persons reckless 
ject, when Sir Robert told them | the present time, the Regius Professor remaining destitute from the effect of liquor, or-devoid of common p ce, 
i u of his accustomed authority in ca University. It seems ee y : t might occur would be 
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that it is now the intention of peae pee een in Sip justly ‘abated © “the individual himself, while, in the 
d attend to it. They had accordingly | University to propose the withdrawal of re sebsp eats case of lives being lost in consequence of the passengers 
"hig passed on Dr. Hampden. It has been announ being locked up, the blame would be properly attributed 
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d t e. any material effect upon anne : ‘ 
no and that it would only benefit the | statute o May 5, 1836, and to re-instate the Regius Pro- Hey hes laat’tm: tha teas ae 
; ous beak of Diy i in all t Pri poy Pagers ported also induces their Lordships to recommend that, where 
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these representations, Sir Robert Peel, he wl opposition ; ; <per the result of the contest is looked cese"shodid-bh saben aes Uk use e engines of 
ried ; and he was of | forward to with Danae . +h “ 
penton th c . jetly to acquiesce init, but | Portsmouth.— week the operations 
s they 9 ough a valet aoe i He then a. against the wreck of the iy Jad Mresis have been resumed, 
cogs: that the meeting a a ao portion of the loose timbers have been 
re p and landed he Do 
e ring int and by ex- that during i summer the Mie will be so completely 
ssing an opinion that the cifect "of the alteration i in the | removed that the anchorage w te a lox 
r would be to pet entirely the cultivation Bs hops | brass 24-pounder, that ened part of ' 
country, and cause the whole ae to be taken rac fectonoey tere pred has been mounted on 
ign fess ees a. portion 
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that he concurred wi ith the opinions od Cast Dt A7ES: dad. appears to 
