1842. THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 503 
ve payin g them less, than was ever before known. The | latter sum includes 
‘ 1 the amount ded i 
ocal papers state that nothing will probably prove the | ; tap) Mer Ors only-for in Bank of Englan issuing the new silver +, the 
— a r pal pee ay Myton Sid Stockpoit mire Saat and dots e Pretites reagacttad also for the inju ry demand at the Balon-ffe on Friday and Sstordey by 
oo peor rates ; and, referring to these, it will be foued Row age seve to the property of. se rene Bada tradespeople, was ter than has or many years 
that in the year 1836 the poor-rate was 2s. 6d, in the | 1am e ee rrp 2 area in : e total of | which proves the great ae there is throughout the 
ound upon the annual rental; in 1837 the amount AS pee fayor has arrived ei ‘Dublin metropolis of small coinage. In consequence of the d 
+s ti; ths ine ilu cele a was = ee ew esent at the Repeal meeting on | dends baving been u nee the 7 
3 this increased amount the late Soe a The oe ~ red mr She to | ant the run upon the Bank for silver has been ve 
* df ff ly 3 es Coroner’s Inquest on Mr. Byrne, alluded t great, and, notwithstanding that 3 ft f 
guardians retired from office nearly 3,000/. in debt in our 1 is not yet concluded “nue trio ’ ing that struc 
atal accident occurred on the How ve been examined, and thn aller’ anak ba ba esses / at the Royal Mint of half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences, 
son Saturda It appears that the Old Quay | considerable tinteréuts aan papers pe Fe favvatatas non seas a at hens rr bey ohtnomn sie ~¢ taal 
Company have for some time past been engaged in re- of the prospects of nay Seine] papely ob Gee SiGe asewnenice Loh lca 
pairing their locks at the terminus of the canal joining the Tipperary.—The two men Byrne and Quilty, capi- ane S tes een Hondas « cml amet 
river Mersey, and for that purpose had erecte a tempo- re byte at re Spee ial Commission, the i 6 a a! co oa - en le arma 
rary railway upon bulks of timber, to con he blocks | for of Mr. Hall, the latter for that of Laff t © manufacturing and agricultural districts, 
of stone. On Saturday, during the operation, the found- soa acted in front of Clonmel Jail on Seturday: ogekd Sarvaeeel cng : the present mag 
ation gave way, and the whole machinery, carriages, en-| Quilt denying his guilt to the last. The Roman Catholic | ar daily at at ” a og ernie 
gines, &c., fell into the excavation upon the workmen be- priesthood i the baronies of Ormond, pperary,. joined | as flees 4 as the oy hy ing the : 0 ee aay 
low. Two were instan k lied, and nine others had their emorial on behalf of this man, averring their new sovereigns ond hal > eon sory oa ae dhe 
limbs broken. A coroner’s inquest was held on Monday. lief of his entire innocence. To this appeal the Lord | public de fi sovereigns Sati sufficient for the 
i stances of the accident were detailed, and ieutenant replied, that he had read with the deepest at- | reigns Mt. ad Gehan of = as, of th 
verdict returned that deceased m r death acciden- | tention the s ments in that orial to invalidate the | ha been circulated ie aboes a a bts map malt 
— , owing to the defective state of the frame-work on | evidence u hich the er was found guilty, and | have found way into the Bank acd the light gold 
w ie sole a enbtrre A deodand of 5, was laid pe sreralied to be obliged to add, that he found noth ng | panic from various le of the United Kingd | e 
em In their statemen authorise him in setting asid i 
_ Railways.—The fo aa a the returns of the prin- | verdict of the jury which tried the case, and w whi hich had Juasaist tagtaria baition at the Mint w ae csehe 
cipal railways for the past week :—London and Birming- | suc ample arr of weighing the sits of the | during the last month far exceed those of former 
ham, 17,342/. 17s. 2d. ; Great Western, 14,5637 9s. 6d. ; | testimony on bot a The amounts paid by Government to the Bast di "Co 
uth Western, 7,064/. 13s. 2d. ; righton, 3,4771. 4s, Mayo.—It ane return just Sep that | pany, on acdea of the war in China and Aff, Saktetens 
10d. ; Blackwall, eo 6s, 2d. ; Greenwich, 9102. 17s. | the Iri ich Gove pie phe Iready expended the sum of | have had a tendency to create a searcity both of, old and 
10d.; Croydon, 4631, 2s. 4d.; North Midland, 4,5012, + gi towards the relief of “e distressed population in | silver. It appears from an official return that the follow 
; rth Midland, 1,5967, 18s. ; Edin- | D "Hale’s arch-diocess of Tuam, in grants v. ing sums have been paid since the last two years :—1840 
burgh and Glasgow, 1,890/. 5s. «d.; Eastern Counties, fee a 0 1002, cording to the exigency of the case. | October 27, 150,000/.; 1841, July 2, 100,000/.; 1842. 
BSB. 15 $ and" Ayr, 1,059/. 13s ; | A correspondence has t lace between Lord Eli uary 9, 23 4427 —Total 573,142/.; besi et t 
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 1,100. Os. 5d. ; and the Archbishop respecting the case of a m his | mittance of June las upwards of 50,00 
Eastern, 8 s ‘Railway Magazine ” states | fam y at Tuam, who were stated ve been for five ntiquities.—The Museum of Narbonne has lately been 
hat experiments are about & ma e tern | days without foo The archbishop in his letter ex- | enriched by some interesting ng “discoveries of antiquities 
Counties’ Railway, un © superintendence of Mr. | presses his conviction in the truth of thi tatement, an made near that place by the Archeologi —— stesicn 
Hood, for the purpose q Into the cause and | enters into long details of the general distress of his dio- | Amon mps of m ar- 
phenomena of the crystallisation of railway axles.—S§ se. He concludes by saying, “ eriously con- ble, lass, ~~ rapes and terracotta ; phials for perfumes 
. ral of the railway compa intimated an inten-| sider all the delays, and inquiries, orr ndence, ornamented h various and most curious emblem ®, aad 
tion of publishing and distributing a ong their share- | and explanations, and impracticable conditions that are | other des ei Egyptian, and Gallic. On 1 some 
holders their reports which they present at their yearly | annexed to the stingy measure of relief, eat the we oes remains pre although it is thought they 
and half-yearly meetings, a fortnight before such meetings | fabled food of Tanta talus, by snatching from e grasp the | must have lain buried t least eighteen centuries. 
actually take place, in order t the proprietary in full | fagitive morsel by which hope an hunger are excited s of man aes ade them are still 
possession of the subjects likely to be discuss hi w ider how the lives of a fin ple fled | legible u nai eoue b ving Roman, and oth 
: . em vate been adopted wi Fe: ‘calue with, aa their misery mocked, I must confess I have | Gallic terminations,. Amon e other objects are some 
sae e mous fact connected | never read, i s anna i te) ments, any- horse ; an ew voto representing the finger of gra 
4 with railroad ipbranS that on Wednesday the 13th, the thing more painful or discreditable than ani men si i be Vestal Virgins ; Sie, or eee : belttons — 
; own at one time 1,800 pas- | be perishing of want—as some have alrea dy perished— | keys; dice ; 1 ins for the hair; metal irrors ; 
Sengers, of whom 1,400 went all the way to Bristol. Most | near the very centre of that empire | Whites strength they | fragments of musical instruments, and a probe for ens 
4 - them, it is presumed, went with a view of attending | are faithfully sustaining, wh are i ig ing woun ear several of the tombs whi n 
4 the great agricultural meeting. They were drawn by two er expended on a host of overgrown pensioners at thes i found a great many eyster-shells, the 
. ae only, and went with their usual speed.—An acci- | as well as on every extravagant enterprise and speokieane fish cag it is supposed, been eaten at t rl fat 
ay be fortunately involving no other inconvenienc over every region of the globe. To thes e to be added an antique Indian. 
an del engers, occurred on th ig Bacchu fs in | ronze, of Roman workr * in perfect 
am Friday afternoon. hortly after the 4 SCOTLAN preservation ; a Janus Bifrons; an amulet of lead of the 
o’clock train from Bir ingham left ‘Cov pete t xle- inburgh.—At the meeting of the United Associate god Fascinus, similar to those attached to children to pre- 
tree of the truck suddenly rene d was ora Presbytery, on Tuesday, the inst., a letter was read | serve them evil eye; a small statue of Miner 
Considerable distance on the ina. displacing several of the Moderator of the United Associat te Synod, en- | wi ze Mercury, very fine segie a 
the carriages from the rails, and causin on the Dr. Welsh, ; 
line of ly two hours.—An ace ent occurred last week ros i tor of the General Assembly of the Church of 
at ehead, the pies ef the Stanhope and Tyne Rail- | Scotland, requesting the co-operation of the Associate 
_ Way, by which the eldest son of Mr. T. Kemp, gardener | Synod in observing the proposed fast. After discussing 
_ tothe Rev. W m Tl. rector of Stanhope, unfortu- | the auton at considerable length, the t e to 
nately ce a life. It apy at he was accompanied | the unanimous resolution that, as the chief reason ssigned ap 
two young lads, and w. the act of crossing the | by the ssembly as a ground for fasting, viz., the i o protectand nest under her wings, with 
Sotpath which passes over the line of way, when | sins and di ties Established Church of land, | a ood of 17 chickens. About a year ago, in the ae of 
© aggons, which were retarded in their progress | is one in which Dissenters cannot sympathise, the Pres-| the same gentleman,a large cock of the he Friesland kind, 
up the incline by a deficien 5b ytery decline the pr eee n, All th er | which was of a blood-red colour for three , suddenly 
© Tope. € waggons ran down incline with | dissenting bodies in Scotland have come to a si cha its plumage into a milk white 
pi ; locity, and the last of the three passed over the | solution. Spurious Ancient Coins.—The “Times” states that it 
uldren, : ve e deceased on the sp 2. seriously | Comrie 10th #57. a shock of an earthquake | ‘suc some time since in stopping the career of a 
; & one of the other lads. The jury at the inquest | was sensibly f felt "heck eather at a of the | forger of Greek, Roman, and Saxon coins, whe by his 
returned a. “ verdict aed eh Accidental deca! vf witha detoned shock was calm, but or suedintele after it ability in imitating the ated types of these series de- 
- 58..0n the waggon and lime.—An accident occu to blow from the we +. deal of rain “having fallen | ceived some in is Ts , and robbed them of con- 
week on the t North of England Railway, by the | during i ‘preceding’ night and weer: € local | siderable sums of money. “Another adventurer is now 
ng turned into a siding, in consequence of which | papers mention that more wind n preceded this | supplying the et with counterfeit coins, for 
4 atriage went over an embank- than any which has been felt pone the 10th of Sept. | dies have actually been ved, ill of 
passengers were much hurt, but | 1841, and that the dines, was more sensibly felt | able D - Among these may be pointed out as 
they mer ble to ua e a thin} journey to Darlington o: on | than any since that clever ete and re to deceive even ex 
the arrival of another engine, Glasgow.—The yabers s mention that Madame Petrisci, | numismatists, pennies of Stephen, Feany of Edward Viks 
Snel or Harris, better known as the ‘“‘ Lady Thief,” was dis- Bae of Philip and i awn . oe reas of Que 
IRELAND, issed prison on Satine uae after having com- | Mary—the last a gold piece of great 
Pty —lt is stated that ciara ‘De Grey ha is fired his pleted her period of 18 months’ imprisonment, to which Bee Swarming.—The folowing scout s publishedin © 
arture ‘for to-morro row (Sunday). — Bcelleney will | she had been sentenced by the Circuit Court, for com- | the “ Elgin Courant.” “ Dur he present forcing wea- 
Stay a few d y in London, mer en proceéd to Ger- | mitting thefts in three of the hotels in this city, which | ther it may not be amiss to vol an anecdote just fur~ 
many. — It confidently s ser at Arc te Basie were rted in ou t the time. Du the | ni a respectable individual, who vouches for its 
shy ear hte of the Duke of Wellington, p » sh principally employ t gentleman in Ayr rey hia: —, in 
the A the new Bishop of Meath.—It is unde that | in nies needlework. She left the jail handsomely dressed, | his garden, waiting for the cas gofa 
ttorney-General has been offered, and has refused, say one who | obse rved Her could suppose that she had | fortune to attract the swarm, as it, r. eather nespecely, 
an I ’ ward. | came off, and the bees, thick and clustering, goigtes 
the vacant Seat on the bench, and that. Mr. Jackson will 
- ae also stated ee Mr. T. B Cc. Sm ith, She. left the alae the same day; and has kept her secret his throat, his face, mouth, and sinakatig 
will b i 
80 well, that as little of her real history is known now as | after, his eyes were blinded by 
ergometer for him a seat in | on the ‘day of her apprehension. Expecting the infliction of instant 
of for the University of Dublin. The {| | Perth.—For the last fortnight ae eae fishery has | stings, he dreaded to make the slightest movement 
- tna ef ndapoion of Mr. Jus orrens, arisi Thi € person present. A 
yon more s than for man rs past 1s | voice or limb, an 
of gou e | fortune Depp's is not general to all the stations in the 0 
m the bench before next term, unless his Tay, but is. confined entirely to those fishings between | m 
é op of e i 
tor e| Perth a 
« Dr. Sandes, bishop of Cashel, hardly exceeding seven miles. Below Mugdrum ae 
aspect as to cause great appre- | the season as yet has proved but ago ae a 
between 2. - an 
urs on Saturday: It ran ee ra were prenmened by the to 
fey's. to Se ka cs the ag emount sate 3 
5 demagn 2.9070 ont “dy which The New C 196 eK 
Be 
