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The Week.
a banquet at Edinburgh , as well as at Glasgow , during the Easter holidays , Jlr , Cardwell made a speech at the annual dinner of the Oxford Druids , on Thursday , tlie 1 st inst . Its main points were a very cursoi-y allusion to the American war , a well-deserved tribute to the patient endurance of the suffering operatives of Lancashire , and a brief survey of our financial position as shown by the satisfactory revenue tables issued the previous day . There was a great
gathering of the Conservatives of Devonshire , at Newton Abbot , on Thursday , the 1 st iust . The chair was occupied by Lord Courtenay , and among tho speakers were Lord Devon , Lord Churston , Sir Stafford Northcote , Sir L . Palk , and Mr . Kekewich , M . P . A highly jubilant tone pervaded the whole of the speeches . A curious discussion took place at the quarter sessions , held at Oxford , on Monday . It appears that when Lord Panmure was distributing the guns captured
at Sebastopcl , the Mayor of Oxford applied that two should be sent to that city . The application was complied with , but the Town Council refused to go to the expense of mounting the pieces , which were accordingly consigned to the "City Coal-hole . " Recently a subscription was got up for the purpose of rescuing the " trophies " from their ignominious position , and the Mayor asked the Court of Quarter Sessions to allow them to be mounted in front of the County
Hall . At the meeting of magistrates , on Monday , however , there seemed to be a general feeling that " bygones should be bygones , " and in favour of abstaining from anything which might offend the susceptibilities of the Russians . The application of the Mayor was , therefore , rejected . Several members of Parliament connected with Lancashire propose to hold a conference before the opening of the session , with a view of considering what ought further to be done
by the Legislature to assist the cotton manufacturing districts in tiding over the present crisis . Mr . Hibbert , M . P , hinted at the last meeting of the Oldham Board of Guardians that the Government were not , as yet at least , prepared with a scheme for meeting tin ' s difficulty , and he stated that the Lancashire members were , therefore , desirous to draw up some plan based upon the fullest information tliey coidd obtain from Boards of Guardians and other sources .
At the meeting of the Central Relief Committee , Mr . Farnall reported a further decrease in the number of persons in receipt of parochial relief , but he added the gloomy qualification " that although increased work was being afforded in some places , the improvement was not expected to be of more than temporary duration . " This discouraging view of the future of the cotton manufacturing districts was supported by several members of the committee , including Mr .
E . Ashwortli , Mr . Ross , and Mr . J . Piatt . Mr . Ross , indeed , went so far as to express an opinion that" it behoved the more independent portion of the operatives to turn their attention to other sources of industry in this country which might afford an opening for their employment . " A meeting of gentlemen who had served on the Indian Famine Relief Committee was held in London , on Friday , when a resolution was passed authorising the Lord Mayor , as
chairman of the Mansion House Lancashire Relief Committee , to draw upon the Government of India for £ 20 , 000—part of the surplus of the India Famine Fund . Some years ago , shortly after the publication of " Uncle Tom ' s Cabin , " a large number of English women signed an address to the women of America , praying them to use their influence to abolish negro slavery in the United States . Among the names were those of the wives of several British statesmen . Mrs .
B . Stowe has written a reply to that address , in which she attributes the whole cause of the war to tho determination of the Southern States to maintain slavery , whilst the Northern wish to abolish it . The Recorder of Stamford has quashed a conviction under the Poaching Prevention Act , on the ground that it had not been proved that a reputed poacher who had been found in possession of a hare , several rabbits , aud a quantity of netting , had been " unlawfully on laud in
search of game . " At the Warwickshire quarter sessions , Sir R . Hamilton called attention to the prevalence of crimes of violence , and to the proportions of such offences committed by ticket-of-leave men , and moved that a petition be presented to Parliament , praying for an amendment of the penal laws . Mr . Adderley proposed as au amendment that au address should be presented to the Queen , thankmg Her Majesty for issuing the recent Commission of Inquiry ; but , on a division , the original motion was carried by a majority of 21 to
8 . The old man , Ockold , who murdered his wife at Oldbury , under circumstances of great brutality , in November last , has been executed at Worcester . Another execution also took place at Liverpool . In this case , the condemned convict is a butcher , named Edwards , who murdered his paramour at Liverpool , some cinic ago , apparently in a fit of jealousy . Another foolhardy "female Bloiidin" has met with an accident . She was going through her hazardous performances at
Northfleet , when a pole broke , and she , as well as an assistant , was seriously injured . The heavy rains of Thursday night ; the 1 st inst , have caused serious damage in various parts of the country . At Cougleton and Macclesfield , more particularly , a large amount of property has been destroyed . The Theatre Royal and the Royal Hotel at Plymouth—a block of buildings belonging to the Corporation , and described as the noblest specimen of architecture in the West of
England—suffered greatly from a fire which broke out in the propertyroom of the theatre , early on Tuesday morning . The damage done to the hotel is very serious , and the theatre has been almost entirely destroyed . The proprietor , Bro . Newcombe , was not insured . We regret to have to record a preliminary inquiry into self-confessed forgery by the Rev . J . Wood , incumbent of Clayton-le-Moors . The rev . gentleman was taken before the Blackburn magistrates and remanded .
A desperate attempt at murder aud suicide was made on Wednesday in Pitt-street , Old Kent-road . A man named Goodwin , who was visiting a Mrs . Harman there , quarrelled with he-.- , and cut her throat . The police were sent for , but before they had arrived Goodwill had cut his own throat . Both of them were conveyed to the hospital . Au inquest has been held on Mary Scanuell , a girl of 16 , another victim to crinoline . The poor girl was burnt to death ,
as many a one has been before her , her extended dress having caught fire . A serious collision took place on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , at Knottingley , on Tuesday morning . Two Great Northern trains—one from York and the other from Leeds—approached the junction at the same time , when the Lseds train ran into the other with fearful force . Several passengers were seriously , and some it is feared fatally , hurt . A few weeks ago a man was
charged with abstracting money from a letter in Glasgow . It is uow admitted that he had done so , and he afterwards confessed his crime to the Rev . W . M'Lauglilin , a Roman Catholic priest , but not in the confessional . Mr . M'Lauglilin , however , pleaded the privileges of his profession , and refused to give evidence ; and the magistrate , unable to admit those clerical claims , sent him to gaol for a month for contempt of court . Application was made to the Home
Office for a remission of the sentence , but Sir George Grey refused unless the priest would acknowledge he was in error . We understand the priest has been liberated on some technical points , which , if decided against him , he must go back to gaol to finish his sentence . A murder has taken place , attended with circumstances of almost unparalleled atrocity , of an engine tenter at one of Lord Crawford ' s collieries , in the neighbourhood of Wigan . The Wigan
tragedy was enacted close to the place where , a few weeks ago . a watchman was almost deprived of life by a set of ruffians who attempted to rob the counting-house attached to an extensive paper mill . It appears that on Friday night , a man , named John Barton , was in charge of the engines at the Baukhouso Pit , at Ilaigh . Oil the following morning he could not be found , but marks of blood were discovered about the place , and an examination of the
"firehole" disclosed a small quantity of what appeared to be charred human bones , several buttons , a buckle , two teeth , and a few smal nails of a kind used in making boots . Various conjectures are afloat as to the motives which led to the commission of this crime—some supposing that Barton was murdered for the sake of tlie trifling amount of property he had about his person , and others that he might 2 'ossibly have known something ol the thieves who who
recently made an unsuccessful attack on the Worthington paper mills , and was , therefore , " put out pf the way" by those ruffians . Lord Crawford , the proprietor of the colliery , has offered a reward of £ 200 for the apprehension of the murderer ; ami it has been decided to communicate with Sir George Grey , with tho view of ascertaining whether the Government will take any steps to assist the local authorities in the matter . A woman and her six children perished in a fire which occurred at Portsea ( Portsmouth ; early on Friday
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week.
a banquet at Edinburgh , as well as at Glasgow , during the Easter holidays , Jlr , Cardwell made a speech at the annual dinner of the Oxford Druids , on Thursday , tlie 1 st inst . Its main points were a very cursoi-y allusion to the American war , a well-deserved tribute to the patient endurance of the suffering operatives of Lancashire , and a brief survey of our financial position as shown by the satisfactory revenue tables issued the previous day . There was a great
gathering of the Conservatives of Devonshire , at Newton Abbot , on Thursday , the 1 st iust . The chair was occupied by Lord Courtenay , and among tho speakers were Lord Devon , Lord Churston , Sir Stafford Northcote , Sir L . Palk , and Mr . Kekewich , M . P . A highly jubilant tone pervaded the whole of the speeches . A curious discussion took place at the quarter sessions , held at Oxford , on Monday . It appears that when Lord Panmure was distributing the guns captured
at Sebastopcl , the Mayor of Oxford applied that two should be sent to that city . The application was complied with , but the Town Council refused to go to the expense of mounting the pieces , which were accordingly consigned to the "City Coal-hole . " Recently a subscription was got up for the purpose of rescuing the " trophies " from their ignominious position , and the Mayor asked the Court of Quarter Sessions to allow them to be mounted in front of the County
Hall . At the meeting of magistrates , on Monday , however , there seemed to be a general feeling that " bygones should be bygones , " and in favour of abstaining from anything which might offend the susceptibilities of the Russians . The application of the Mayor was , therefore , rejected . Several members of Parliament connected with Lancashire propose to hold a conference before the opening of the session , with a view of considering what ought further to be done
by the Legislature to assist the cotton manufacturing districts in tiding over the present crisis . Mr . Hibbert , M . P , hinted at the last meeting of the Oldham Board of Guardians that the Government were not , as yet at least , prepared with a scheme for meeting tin ' s difficulty , and he stated that the Lancashire members were , therefore , desirous to draw up some plan based upon the fullest information tliey coidd obtain from Boards of Guardians and other sources .
At the meeting of the Central Relief Committee , Mr . Farnall reported a further decrease in the number of persons in receipt of parochial relief , but he added the gloomy qualification " that although increased work was being afforded in some places , the improvement was not expected to be of more than temporary duration . " This discouraging view of the future of the cotton manufacturing districts was supported by several members of the committee , including Mr .
E . Ashwortli , Mr . Ross , and Mr . J . Piatt . Mr . Ross , indeed , went so far as to express an opinion that" it behoved the more independent portion of the operatives to turn their attention to other sources of industry in this country which might afford an opening for their employment . " A meeting of gentlemen who had served on the Indian Famine Relief Committee was held in London , on Friday , when a resolution was passed authorising the Lord Mayor , as
chairman of the Mansion House Lancashire Relief Committee , to draw upon the Government of India for £ 20 , 000—part of the surplus of the India Famine Fund . Some years ago , shortly after the publication of " Uncle Tom ' s Cabin , " a large number of English women signed an address to the women of America , praying them to use their influence to abolish negro slavery in the United States . Among the names were those of the wives of several British statesmen . Mrs .
B . Stowe has written a reply to that address , in which she attributes the whole cause of the war to tho determination of the Southern States to maintain slavery , whilst the Northern wish to abolish it . The Recorder of Stamford has quashed a conviction under the Poaching Prevention Act , on the ground that it had not been proved that a reputed poacher who had been found in possession of a hare , several rabbits , aud a quantity of netting , had been " unlawfully on laud in
search of game . " At the Warwickshire quarter sessions , Sir R . Hamilton called attention to the prevalence of crimes of violence , and to the proportions of such offences committed by ticket-of-leave men , and moved that a petition be presented to Parliament , praying for an amendment of the penal laws . Mr . Adderley proposed as au amendment that au address should be presented to the Queen , thankmg Her Majesty for issuing the recent Commission of Inquiry ; but , on a division , the original motion was carried by a majority of 21 to
8 . The old man , Ockold , who murdered his wife at Oldbury , under circumstances of great brutality , in November last , has been executed at Worcester . Another execution also took place at Liverpool . In this case , the condemned convict is a butcher , named Edwards , who murdered his paramour at Liverpool , some cinic ago , apparently in a fit of jealousy . Another foolhardy "female Bloiidin" has met with an accident . She was going through her hazardous performances at
Northfleet , when a pole broke , and she , as well as an assistant , was seriously injured . The heavy rains of Thursday night ; the 1 st inst , have caused serious damage in various parts of the country . At Cougleton and Macclesfield , more particularly , a large amount of property has been destroyed . The Theatre Royal and the Royal Hotel at Plymouth—a block of buildings belonging to the Corporation , and described as the noblest specimen of architecture in the West of
England—suffered greatly from a fire which broke out in the propertyroom of the theatre , early on Tuesday morning . The damage done to the hotel is very serious , and the theatre has been almost entirely destroyed . The proprietor , Bro . Newcombe , was not insured . We regret to have to record a preliminary inquiry into self-confessed forgery by the Rev . J . Wood , incumbent of Clayton-le-Moors . The rev . gentleman was taken before the Blackburn magistrates and remanded .
A desperate attempt at murder aud suicide was made on Wednesday in Pitt-street , Old Kent-road . A man named Goodwin , who was visiting a Mrs . Harman there , quarrelled with he-.- , and cut her throat . The police were sent for , but before they had arrived Goodwill had cut his own throat . Both of them were conveyed to the hospital . Au inquest has been held on Mary Scanuell , a girl of 16 , another victim to crinoline . The poor girl was burnt to death ,
as many a one has been before her , her extended dress having caught fire . A serious collision took place on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , at Knottingley , on Tuesday morning . Two Great Northern trains—one from York and the other from Leeds—approached the junction at the same time , when the Lseds train ran into the other with fearful force . Several passengers were seriously , and some it is feared fatally , hurt . A few weeks ago a man was
charged with abstracting money from a letter in Glasgow . It is uow admitted that he had done so , and he afterwards confessed his crime to the Rev . W . M'Lauglilin , a Roman Catholic priest , but not in the confessional . Mr . M'Lauglilin , however , pleaded the privileges of his profession , and refused to give evidence ; and the magistrate , unable to admit those clerical claims , sent him to gaol for a month for contempt of court . Application was made to the Home
Office for a remission of the sentence , but Sir George Grey refused unless the priest would acknowledge he was in error . We understand the priest has been liberated on some technical points , which , if decided against him , he must go back to gaol to finish his sentence . A murder has taken place , attended with circumstances of almost unparalleled atrocity , of an engine tenter at one of Lord Crawford ' s collieries , in the neighbourhood of Wigan . The Wigan
tragedy was enacted close to the place where , a few weeks ago . a watchman was almost deprived of life by a set of ruffians who attempted to rob the counting-house attached to an extensive paper mill . It appears that on Friday night , a man , named John Barton , was in charge of the engines at the Baukhouso Pit , at Ilaigh . Oil the following morning he could not be found , but marks of blood were discovered about the place , and an examination of the
"firehole" disclosed a small quantity of what appeared to be charred human bones , several buttons , a buckle , two teeth , and a few smal nails of a kind used in making boots . Various conjectures are afloat as to the motives which led to the commission of this crime—some supposing that Barton was murdered for the sake of tlie trifling amount of property he had about his person , and others that he might 2 'ossibly have known something ol the thieves who who
recently made an unsuccessful attack on the Worthington paper mills , and was , therefore , " put out pf the way" by those ruffians . Lord Crawford , the proprietor of the colliery , has offered a reward of £ 200 for the apprehension of the murderer ; ami it has been decided to communicate with Sir George Grey , with tho view of ascertaining whether the Government will take any steps to assist the local authorities in the matter . A woman and her six children perished in a fire which occurred at Portsea ( Portsmouth ; early on Friday