THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. [ Nov. 5, 
vestigate harges made against him with respect to | were actively employed. Across the Pacific Ocean, in| visions of Michael Angelo Taylor’s Act. The Societ sty 
the - appa Mining oe : ny- ew Zealand, the operations of the society’s ministers has also served similar notices to the proprietors of the 4 
E 4 a late meeting of the Court of | were proceeding favourably; and many of the native river steam -boats navigating between Richmond and it 
Directors, it was eat hs present a gold medal to the tribes, at the date of the last advices, were to be seen as- | London- -bridge. eB 
distinguished native Dwarkanauth Tagore, who has recently sembled in Christian worship. e wilds and forests of ecord Office.—It is pei in the daily re that 2 
isited this country. In their letter conveying this mark | Australia had proved no obstacle to the zeal of the mis- | Government have decided appropriating part of the +9 
of respect, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman state that | sionary, for bumbers of the aboriginal inhabitants were | Carlton riding-house, which *ajoins the Queen- Dold wager’s 
it is intended by the Directors as a testimonial of their | now converted to Christianity. There were 266 principal | stables, fora new record office, and that workmen are now 
esteem, and of the approbation with which they re ard | missionary stations, and 380 engaged ministers, in addi- employed on the new building. 
the public benefits conferred by him upon British India, | tion to many subordinate teachers, &c. Seven printing Public Meetings —On Tuesday a meeting was 
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by the liberal encourage ent he has afforded to the dif- | establishments had been formed, where the work of trans- | the Hall of Science, Blackfriars-road, for the purpose of 
fasion of education, and to the introduction of the arts lating t the Bible into the language of the people was car- | recording some expression of public feeling in regard to 
and sara ; and by the generous support he has given | ried on. The number of languages into which they were | the conduct of Miss Martineau in refusing a pension of 
to the charitable institutigns of Calcutta, whether esta- steady te rendered ~ twenty. The condition of the | people | 300/. a year offered to her by the late Administration. The 
blished 33 the relief of the Findoo oo b we British com- | in the neighbourhood of all the stations was stat ted to be | Hall was completely filled, upwards o persons being 
munity. They further express the f the Court, satisfactory, an and the income of the society during the year | present; Colone hompson in the chair. After several 
that the noble course which he has Pict nil have the cope increased to 101,000/. addresses had been delivered by speakers of both sexes, 
ffect of contributing to the accomplishment of that ob- ritish-A merican Association. — The affairs va this | the following resolution was unani adopted :— 
ject which it has ever been their anxious desire to promote Com mpany have been brought prominently befor: es “That this meeting fully appreciate the moral and poli- 
iz., the identification of va feelings and interests of | public within the last few Pt t appears that the pro tical honesty which led Miss Martineau to refuse the 
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government, and th Rumpikesing the bonds which | tion of the territory on the north bank of the St. Lawrence, they think there has rarely occurred an instance in which 
unite India with Great Britain. In Sch: hjeilindating this | about half-way between Quebec and Montreal; that the the Royal bounty would have been so well bestowed ; 
rk of esteem, the eminent Baboo says, “ If distress and | circulars issued to the public announced the Duke o River Steamers.—Notwithstanding the immense num- 
danger had beset my path, I should have considered my- | Argyll as president, sev wakes noblemen as vice-presidents, | bers who have been conveyed by steamboats on the river 
self more than rewarded by the distinguished honour now | and the baronets of Scotlan and Nova Scotia as its active | during the present year, exceeding that of any former 
conferred upon me; but I felt with confidence, and not eapicatindasie. uring oy last fortnight several Seguin season from the commencement of steam navigation on E 
less with gratitude, that under the e just and liberal rule of | tives who had given up good situations in this country, | the Thames, some of the companies have realised no pro- : 
the Hon. Court, an honest citizen seeking to improve the | for the purpose of emigrating under the protection of the | fits, others have met with severe losses, and two have been 
condition of his country by legal and not unworthy means, | Company, have complained to the Lord Mayor that they ee This result is attributed to the competition, 
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have worked in my humble sphere under a firm conviction | sidered to be the representatives of the association, to go various steamers. The Commercial Company, and — 
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that the happiness of India is best secured by her eon- | to Prince Edward’s Island in the ship Barbadoes, and that running to Greenwich, were recently dissolved: anda f 
nexion with your own great and glorious country ; and | the te of the contracts had not been fulfilled. His | days since, at the annual meeting of the Star Gravesend 
the mo e people of that empire were en- rdship, therefore, directed that Captain D. Campbell, | Company, whose fine vessel n ing 
lightened, the more sensible uld beco f a sel, and Mr ho negotiated | years, it was agr t, in consequence of the losses sus- 
ible powerof the protecting state,and of the excellence | with the emigrants, should attend to answer the charge of | tained by the competition, the company i 
a Government whose pure and be nevolent intentions, | violation of their contracts. In the course o the state- | solved ; a committee was appointed to wind up the affairs 
whose noble solicitude ro the welfare and improvement of | ments made, a great many assertions upon the part of of the concern, sell the vessels, and effect other arrange- 
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the oemyty sewer by Providence to its charge, m ay| the complainants were denied by the r a dee grit ments for the benefit of the shareholders, who hav t 
e the ration of the tera orld.”’ of the company; and the Lord Mayor considering a voyage received any dividend for two years, and are considerably 
her of ‘Conk merce.— A proposa he has lately been | to Prince Edward’s Island at the present season of the | in debt. It was stated, that neither the Diamond, nor an 
ey in the leading g mereantle cites of| of the City, aes form | year a suspicious circumstance, wrote to the Duke of| other company running to Gravesend, is likely to paya 
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Duke considered pipe liable for the pecuniary transac- pany and the iron-boats paying a dividend of ten p ‘ 
tions of the management. Inanswer to the Lord Mayor’s’| cent.; so that it would appear that the new and fast boats 
letter, the Duke of eth replied that he ha *\ are well supported by the public, and that the failure of 
taken an interest in the company, ing that it might | the companies is not altogether peibatebt o the 
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Gat ne cue to emigrate advantageously to North America ; | wh know the value of cheap modes 
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e |; drawing his nam 1 the veer. His Grace | Metropolitan Prisons.—At the recent meeting of the 
a afford further states vy oe bod not responsible for any pecu ware Middlesex Magistrates, the Annual Report of the Go- 
‘of ve _ action. | transactions , and that he contributed | vernor of the House of Correction -was sap up. It 
It is also urged that such a bay yout be of great’service | 500/. in June its u ore implied rig understood condi- | was stated that the facts detailed in that report were of 
in establishing order and regularity in the despatch of | tion that no yey involving any expenditure of money ta great ia importance, tending to show the operation 
business, in dein Sth the different markets, and in | to be undertaken on the part of the coma, till- the and effect of the system of. prison discipline adopted. 
investigating such m s of public interest as have bein of 50,0002, eal duly cert tified to have been s Lihabeibed: 7 or | It pices that from Michaelmas, 1841, .to Michaelmas, 
brought to light in sbiiaatiod with the Custom-house and | place ed to the ¢ company Ss credit by some means or ot ther. | 1842, there had been no less than 10,380 committed to 
prey oh e was brought that gaol; that the greatest number confined there at any 
Missionary Societies.—On ‘Wedne sday, a meeting of | before the Lord Mayor @s to wages, &e., to be paid to | one time was 1,226. Of the 10,380 prisoners, 1,856 had 
the City branch of a Aah te Missionary Society was | operatives and emigrants upon the com moaiiy's account.”’ | been once before committed, had been confined there 
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ea had been established eo. years ago, and had done | in Prince Edward’s Island came forward to support the | 354 had been sent there for the fourth time. These facts 
uch ge converting eathen inbabitants of the | Lord Mayor’s observations about the climate, and acon! were of importance, and had impressed upon the visiting 
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several islands in the South Seas. The Bishops of Cal-| would have to travel 200 miles over a “difficult rr with regard to secondary punishments, and providing 
cutta and Madras testified to the successful efforts of the | and di their boats over nine miles of ice. The | some means of employment for prisoners after their dis-* : 
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pace with its expenditure, and the efforts of the mis- | the reports which were always current as to the intense | while ia prison, by whipping them with a birch rod, in- 
sionaries must be confined to the localities of their present | rigour of the winter of that particular spot. Ba seep stead of resorting to solitary confinement, this plan had 
stations. ew missions coul not be undertaken at | that he was induced to interfere in consequence of, the a most utary effect, but the course had not been 
present. The actual number of missionary stations spread presentations which had been made a him Wy the poor adopted until all other methods of keeping them in order, 
_the more distant countries was 107. There were | men who be in his opinion, running a very a The report stated that there are at present = 
miss labourers, of whom 117 were ordained | hazard by emigrating, under all the eiteighatitiodd which within the walls of this prison 1,925 prisoners ; viz., 157 ; 
he ¢ yh of England. The spenates 2 had come to his knowledge. males and 268 females, besides 15 children. 
society for the year 1841 Berna Westminster Abbey.—The installati reading-in, of ‘arylebone.—The question of erecting a monument in 
increased subscri shit dodatiens the newly-appointe ted ne n of Westatinster; Dr. Turton, | this parish to the memory of the Scottish Reformers was 
t a. debt might be | will, it is understood, t. wah ogy in the Abbey on Tuesday | again considered on Saturday. On the minute being 
est a reserve | next, with t the usual ditions . The prebends and a brought up for the recommittal of the report, Me. tiene 
to the citizens of London dignitaries of the church will's assist at the ceremony, moved the non-confirmation of the minute. Ad “as 
of the great emporium of | which the public will be admitted by tickets of some length ensued, in the course of which the sharaotee 
he ¥ were bound by two| Metropolitan Im ents.—At the late ‘meeting of the of the Scottish Reformers ig assailed and vindicated by 
other religious, to aid the | Court of Common amell. Mr. R. L. Jones brought pe i a a 
ht as a vaca 26 brou. ght the report of the improvements’ committee on the subject | the non-confirmation 13; agai ninst it, 18 ; giving a major 
| of the viaduct proposed by Mr. Taylor to be formed from | of 5 for the pas of the report, which is fntamout 
Hatton-garden to Skinner-street. It expressed the ap- | to - Bhi sak favour of the erection of the colum 
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tion of a viaduct to counteract the difficulty of the accli- say, ‘negated by . Le ye ority, the motion for the 
vities, and admitted the ingenuity of the project. It held of the ing pat which prevents any 
out no hope that fands could be speedily found to under- senator of the perer from being a candidate for any 
a€ | take so great an alteration. The expense at w ic r. | office or fies in the gift of the corporation. It was pro- 
| Taytor estimated the cost of the viaduct was 90,000/., and posed to suspend it in favour of Alderman Sir W. Hey- 
€ | he did not mean to erect houses on any part of it. Mr. | gate, in order that he might t be a candidate for the situa- 
to| R. L. Jones added his hope to that expressed in the on of of High Bs = of this borough ; but this decision of 
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| he said the Government must allow the funds for carrying Death a ur cttlan Coaninghane We regret to re- 
is- | the improvement into effect, for the ie biettaty cord the 4 of Mr. ningham, a nam e well 
not afford to enter unassisted upon so vast an under. | known in eecacion ci Sagteh literature and native 
; taking, which could’ not in his opinion be accomplished | art. H on t ng hegeany in: from paralysis a 
e Mora i : for less_than 200,000/.—The Committee of the Metro-| ap y- His health had lon precarious, and his 
Wid 3 in the country. Its operations extended over New- | politan Ny ao Society have issued cir@blars to the | death free from suffering. He ste completed his ‘' Life 
oundland, New Brunswick, Canada, the West Indies, the | proprieto rs of the cipal manufacturing and engineer- | of Sir David Wilkie”’ only two days before his death. AS 
Polynesian Islands, India, Ceylon, Western ns Raed ca, New | ing establishiaients; breweries, &c., espresdieg: their | the friend of Ciestr. and the * honest Allan’? of Sir 
Zealand, several parts of the Continent, | ee In | intention, in case some = are not spe adopted | Walter hes his name is likely to be long remembered. 
rica, the conversion of the native tebe wih ‘proceeding to put an end to the ance of smoke, to proceed | Mortaliiy of i ¢ Meiyopolie.—The number of deaths 
satisfactorily, and in India and Ceylon 38 missionaries | against them oh ‘he ebiinibh ty iis or enforce the the pro- | sguaeoel te k ending Saturday, Oct, 22, was 8005 
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