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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[June 18, 
and nature of Fs poy 
r it; and 
re 
t y of one o 
greatest artists ought to be perpetuated, and that 1,600/. 
would not o high a remuneration. Fo ft, 
if a first-rate sculptor demanded 2,000/. for the he 
Sir P. 
d the 
1,600/., it ought to be given to the ay 2 
be more prises 
After a short 
who might be: selected to verect t the sta atue. 
ana nd Sir P. Laurie, a resolution was agre ane ‘to, that the 
full amount of the subscriptions — be applied to the 
statue. chairman said that 
r. Hal 
be employed, on accou 
pis Wilkie, wh ich was recisside red b 
ee, was Se adopted : 
should be proposed, unless previous intimat 
sent to the secretary seven days before, and that ti names 
of the be then to tee.’ 
«Bast vade.—A circular has “ote aunied by Mr. 
8. ‘ t of which is to state, that the tem- 
Pp ’ of payments by Messrs. Briggs, Thur- 
London iverpool, announced i 
to the drafts 
latter firm, arrangements hav een made with 
eath, Furse, and Co., to pay them when due 
| Mortality _ af Metropolis.—The tal n 
de: etropolis, from all causes, registered in the 
hb in 760. The average weekly 
being the portraits illus. 
een Anne and the first two 
» Many of them ar reat rarity. The sale is 
to oat et ten raijs, and to realise several 
thousand poun 
eplford. De nday some interest was excited i 
this town and naipubourt ged by the arrival in the river of 
an Arabian man rst, itis said, that ever ap- 
ic 
> Wit 
A eis from Zanzebar, 
ro ur Arabian horses as a prese 
m of Muscat to her Majesty. On Monday 
- Katherine’s 
a reiion: and carries 10 
zn and manned by Arabs. Bie 
r, and a native if the 
nts, consisting of 
and has brought 
sey, m 
wane of metal ties 
te inches in length, filled wit 
m plagged, and others not 
number of seconds from the t 
Ee bags of their art, eae 
3 hie et deck 
gabrons of a fot sata ‘within mbick have teks ie 
der 
alge ork, repre the 
old 12-p on ship carriages, 
@ pra 
some good File practice? ‘ee took 
is | “ That pr rere = — bill now 
place, carried on by the wih Artillery, under the com- 
mand of Lieut.-Col. Wylde, from the various batteries. 
The rocket troop also went thro ough their practice in the 
Marshes, and the Aueheress of ten rockets at one time 
had a —s effec 
Chat ike official order was received in this gar- 
rison on Man nday fi"ah an enatkaton of Pols to  Proveed 
immediately to China. 
=f 
cr 
amou 
i ovo clei 
€ regiments 
y: 
readiness or ae gs 
marched fi this garrison to Gresesend. and there em- 
barked for their destination. 
Brobincial Nets. 
ingham.—A public meetings RAINE at ttended, 
en held in this town, for the purpose of ae into 
ie rae 
5 tha town. 
Ne ae — and peer Tntroduced ae subject 
bef ing. Mr. n Cutler then rose, and 
after siluding "6 the pra purer the 
ct into the town, and strongly snimadvertng 
on several of the clauses proposed by Sir J. Graham, con- 
be al 
re 
o 
os. 
A 
2 
=e 
o 
cluded b 
local act “for th he management o “4 his BOSk of this parish are 
sufficiently ample, that their on has hitherto been 
satisfactory to the parish ; ae “heetore any interfer- 
e New Poor Law, cannot 
, an on be presented to 
Parliament for the exemption of this town from the opera- 
tion of the said bill. r. Al an Mathews, in second- 
ing the mokion, Lis t the New $ an in- 
ts of the people — the Seer = 
the industrious taseare were the victims of it. It 
i ik receivers, aa a 
o were — upon to 
y: ch the 
méasure through Parliatient, and to do all in their power 
to counteract it. n Muntz agreed that those who 
paid the es trey ought to aa ve the power of its manage- 
ment and disposal; but in the first pl did not 
believe the soa tataanhaek would have the power over local 
ts whi :. said the Jaw would confer upo 
them. He moved, as an amendment, ‘‘ That this council 
petition Partie ent that powers be given to guardians 
the poo Itlsien out-door relief in all cases they 
oe necessary.”. A de ry conversation ensued, dur- 
ing which the. Mayo r took oe asion 3 defend the Po 
Law, and expressed his opinion that the Poplar outery 
— es Bos g woul ot cease 
ya oy Fee 
a lengthened debate, t “ eedings 
fevnisated by on withdenwal of both the prev ie ‘esol 
us adoption of the followi 
of Commons, for ment of the Poor 
w, may rbd construed ts interfere ‘with the present man- 
agement of the poor of Birmingham, resolve that it be 
o the Besliamentary eo committee to frame such 
t 
‘a 
government of the poor as shall empower the guardians to 
administer in their respective parishes such out-door relief 
to them eg appear expedient.’’ e petition was 
then draw ed to be Peongtina to the 
opt 
Fendt the cueanaa of the w into this 
wn, and a petition agains} a i was agreed to and 
forwarded to the House of Com 
urnley.—The local papers publish the peraee state- 
ts we have 
B 
o 
=] 
pr 
Mabrict: 
comprises a about 26 townships, having 
f which upwards of 
€ increase of 
- 
as 
poor-rates respective town ashing is’ ig er as 
very great; partielaly in the townshi 
Briercliffe, Rou 
portion o 
loom 
possible to he ‘rates “he 
alue of the rateable property in Barro: 
filets bat frou paride 0 1836 Heh rates ts re 0% 
per annum; in es were 1,120/.; and in the he first 
pees of thi shoe year they amounted to 420/. ile is 
added that wages of all descriptions of labour are o n the | 
decline ; that artisans who have lately been in the rec receipt 
of sufficient wages are for the most part unemp)] 
that the distress generally prevellins among ployed, ana 
ous.—A fire broke out 
being estimated at fro 
of workmen will be ae out of employment by ~ 
unfortunate occurrence 
Heriford.—A ccrigie fire, atended by great destrnction 
of property, occurred at Hite hin n this county, o 
Tn 
urs 
was at length got der +P 0 
done is consider able, and hearly 50 families of ha shore 
ing c ela sses have in consequence been deprived of their 
hom 
apnea ier.— A prel ieioety meeting of t¢ shop 
keepers of this town was held on Monday, to ae 2 
consideration the depressed A of their trade. Fr. 
s 
statem 
and See are in a get red ial sodibis on, from want of 
employment and the inability to procure the necessaries 
f life ; eon e of which the business of shop- 
eeere — 
as poe rt agreed to 
an faddr ress o the Qu een on her Majesty’ 8 pronaaes 
The Rey. R. ee late avurd of Brasennose College, 
cipal of that oe in the room : 
d . Kay, fellow 
ele cted bs fill the Pusey aa 
Dowager. A Gove 
early Pie and proceeded to Sou 
of embarki n2 her aap pad anirad by the n 
f he afternoon the s 
+ iy ah e Royal standard ‘Ayres 
and at thre ree 
war ae 
gun wharf at this 
a We ter to announce that the Rev. Tho mas 
Amold, D » head master of the s ae ol in oe town, 
died on Sunday morning, of disease o' of the a 
ess of a few hours. Dr. Arnold was well ane i om = 
of the most distinguished wri ea 
he — 
ro. : > he lo ey al s dis. ; 
ress prevails among the working town an 
neighbourhood ; and that there are to 5,00 
men out of loy in the mining districts, with a const 
derable number of women, boys, and girls, whose emp 
ment is connected with mines in these parts - 
want of employment is stated to ari from the recent 
stoppage of seyeral mines, in consequence of the "i 
among the shcohobian: produced by the new ‘Tarif | du y 
on Hae copper. a 
n Saturday the (Queen reviewed, 12 
ah Toya Home ‘Guards, un i 
a 
is) 
eS. 
w 
4 
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4 
a 
n | Or he Garter. On the Queen pee 
| éroaind, the Royal Hote Guaids marched past by & Mee 
and | rons and by th trott . 
Fret and 
wheeled into Jine 
and went rene 5 a per, of evolu! 
of a a A aft plat id - 
leaving the : 
mented the ae the. re 
po tearaege and disiine of i men, in 
‘ds, atm 
pag ld for the rey time, their aa ae) 
d to be an improvement on the old 0: 
