The National Register. — London, England, 1818-03-22 00:00:00

MARC!! AQ POOR LAWS. The following is the purport of the chief clauses of the Bill on this subjeet.new before the Houce of Com mons... Every parish *here the rates amount to 10001. to have a Select Vavtry of inhabitants, not less than s.nor more th:u► 1 , 2, for the ►management of the poor, and the distribution Of the rates. Overseers to act under the direction of the Select Vestry. Justices empoweretl to order relief in certain cases, fur a limited time. One justice may order temporary relief, in cases . of urgent necessity. Minutes of select vestries and reports of their ,pro ,Tedings to be laid before the inhabitants in general ec. it ry. Power to appoint non-resident overseers, with.consent rc the persons so appointed. Assistant overseer may be appointed. Children whose parents are unable to support them, may be provided for by the parishes, in places to to ap pointed. Parish houses may be used for the reception of. ftulcs may be framed for their management. Rules may be•confirmed by justices. No other relief to be ordered fur children, for whom the parish shall offer to provide. Justices empowered to visit houses provided for the re ceptien .of children. Parishes to hire and let out land for the employment .of the poors—rS'ee our first article.) Power to raw owners of certain houses instead of the occupiers. Goods of occupiers may be d:strained fur rates to the amo•,mt of the rent actually due. Occupiers paying rates empowered to deduct the an-.ount out of their rent. Receivers in certain cases may be rated as owners. Persons rated as owners may .anneal, and may vote In vestries. No owner, not being an occupier, to be rated, in "places Whese the right of voting for Members to serve sn Parliament depends on the rating. Justices out of sessions empowered to order relief by parents, &c. Justices in special sessions may assess relatives of the poor, for their relief. Pensions for service in the nary or the army, may.be .assigned in certain cases. The pension assigned, to be paid to Churchwar dens, ,S:c. Power to ,remove chargable poor, born in Scotland, Jrcland,:&.e. not being vagrants. Scotch and Irish vagrants may be- removed without Bing whipped or imprisoned. ON THE :ERROR Or COMPUTATION OF THIS PRE "r EASTER.—UntiI the year 1757, the Julian Calen i'...r had been equally r‘dopted throughout the British (I.:minions, but had at length by patient investigation, .been discovered to be erroneous, and as the error was iaereasing, anti would in • process of time occasion the 'everal Equinoxes and Solstices to fall at very different limes in the. civil year, to what they formerly did, it was determined and enacted by Parliament, that the Calendar should be reformed in *hat year. The rule by this new Calendar is, "that. Easter day is always the first Sunday after the full moon, which happens .upon or next after the 21st day of March, and, if.' the full moon happens upon a .Sunday, Laster day is the Sunday after." Now, by referring to all our Almanacs for the present year, Easter clay is entered for the 22t1 inst. and the full sizoostis also entered for the same day, at 2,in the nfterneca, so that the grand celebration of Easter day, Nhich is of course by the morning service chiefly, will .12VC. actually passed befere the full moon,. and .Cood Friday will therefore not be observed in Passion week ! Thus it seems, that we are in error as to our observa tion of Easter on the 22d March, and that nest Sun day, the 2gth, should have been the day fixed by the Calendar—and again, if the darkness at the Crucifixion was an eclipse, that could only have been at a full moon; now by fixing Good Friday and Easter. in the present ycar before this full moan, these ,days are very errone cusly appointed, though perhaps, it is, in a religious view, of but secondary importance. • A. H. The Hosiers and Frame-work Knitters of Notting ham, Leicester, and that neighbourhood, to the num ber of 10,000, are now petitioning Parliament, in con ,•equenee of the distress they experience. This has been brought upon them by the Luddites. A great part of machinery has imat.ll hstroyed,. ant! the master-ma :lt'Acturcts have thA satety to other parts. Nay, roany rt.spLetable families, who spout mach money among the shopkeepers, have withdrawn to more trail qail districts. .The consequences of theztrocious con !piracies are row visiting the working classes. The Petition was referred to the Committee ofthe House of ( :ommons en the Poor Laws.—Courier. Among other novelties in preparation at Drury Lane Theatre, is a new Tragedy, by a Mr. Charles Knight,, if Windsor, in which Kean is to play the rriucipal character. THE NNTIONAL REGTSTFR. MA UNDY.THURSIIIY. Thursday being what is generally called Maundy- I Thursday, was observed with . the usual ceremony of distributing. the Royal bounty. :The custom is known to have been established in this country by Edward 111. in the year ISO, when that haughty king .actually washed the feet of the poor people who were relieved, in imitation of the humility of our Saviour ; and it is on record, that Cardinal Wolsey afterwards performed the same ceremony in the city of York. This obser vance is still kept up in Portugal and other Catholic countries. ;The name of Maundy-Thunelay is derived from the hand-baskets, which were called (front the Saxon) blaunds, in which the different Christian poten tates distributed provisions to the poor. The number of persons relieved corresponds with the age of the mo narch, and were therefore SO of each sex. The distribu tion/ as usual, took place at Whitehall-411,1047; . ,but on account of an extra staircase being built fironi the ante chapel to the Ropal closet, for the Duchess of York, a temporary erection was made on the outside in Privy gardens, where accommodation was provided for 80 men and 80 women, and about 50. spectators, when '2 cods, 2 salmons, 18 red herrings, 13 pickled herrings, with 4 loaves, were given to each person in a wooden bowl. After the fish and bread had been distributed, :3 pounds air' a half of beef and one loaf were given to each person. In the afternoon, the ceremonies and additional Loyal bounties were resumed in the Chapel. They commenced by a procession entering the chapel, j of eight Yeoman of the Guard, and a Yeoman. Usher, one of the Yeomen carrying en his head• a large gold dish, in which were 160 red kid bags, which. ought to have contained 20s. in gold, but bad a 11. note each, and also white kid bags, tied to the ethers with white leather strings, about two feet long, in which were Id. 2d. 2d. and 4d. in silver, amounting to 63. Sd. being as many pence as the King is years old : the dish con taining these numerous bags was placed on a table, which was covered with a white cloth, in front of .the alter. The remainder of the procession consisted of the Rev. Mr. Holmes, the Sub-Dean of the Chapel Royal ; the Rev. Dr. Page, the .Sub-Almoner ; Mr. Hanby, the Lord High -Almoner's bLeretary ; Mr. Jones, the Groom of the Almonry. •Two boys and two girls were selected from St. Margaret's National School, for their good behaviour, by the Sub-Almoner, and with the Gentlemen were decorated with cambric ,muslin scarfs and sashes, carrying bouquets of flowers, and preceded by a Gentleman Verger of the Chapel ,koyaL After • the first lesson, these Centletnen distri buted to the 80 men, shoes and stockings. After which, the Gentlemen of the Choir sung au appropri ate piece. After this, cloth for a coat, and linen for a shirt, were distributed in a similar manner. Au appropriate piece was again sung. The red bags : containing the IL notes end the. nraall silver coinage, were distributed in a similar manner. The ceremony of distribution to the s omen was pre cisely similar. The anthem, " Who is this that cometh from Edont ?" was then sung, and an appropriate thanksgiving and prayer were then read. The King's health wes after wards drank in claret out of wooden cups, by the Gen tlemen who performed the service awl composed the procession. GENERAL ELECTION. Sir George Warrender is gone to canvass tLe freemen of Sandwich, it being understood that Sir Joseph Yorke does not 4f3 ' er again fur that borough. Lord .Binning is mentioned as the new .ciindidatc for Rackester. It is row certain that :,here will be a ccntest for Ne w•eustle-upon-Tyne. Mr• Liddell is considered as one of the candidates for orthumberland. The Lord• Advocate of Scotland is elected reembe: of Parliament for the burghs of Euster and Neste Anstruther, Pittenween, Kilrenny, and Crail, in the room of Sir J. C. Anstruther, Bart. deceased. The day after the attempt to assassinate the Duke of Wellington, information was received that an indi vidual, named Ouin, was in haste to leave Paris, after hating cut off his mustaches. 'He was instantly pur sued and arrested near . .Lyons. He was bruug:tt intu Paris on the 11th inst, _ As a testimony of esteem and gratitude to oar coun. tryman Howard, so celebrated for his philanthrophy who visited so many prisons in Europe to male him: selfacctiainted with their altuatiou, cud to io , :liorate the fists cif the prisoners, and who, in the year 1; ;;c, terminated his humane career at Chcrson, a rqenuutcat is now erecting at Odessa to his memory. The Seine continues to swell. The Shopkeepers on the quays of la- Greve and Vort-au-ble :have caused a barrier of brickwork to be constructed before their houses, to oppesc the-water which threatens to invade them. They expect to be compelled to quit their Es;,- sidelaCC4 if the danger becalm Jaterc alarmin g. MURDERERS at GREENWICH DISCOVEitELL On Fr:day week it was reported that three young men, gentleman's servants out of place, were the gailty persons. That a circumstance occurred on Friday, which threw suspicion on a young man, named Charles Hussey, who was lately discharged from the service of a gentleman named Stevenson, residing at Greenwici , . Inthrmation was given to the proper authority, and steps were immediately taken to apprehend him, but he had fled. A man named raseidoa, who was a short time ago discharged from the service of Mr. Parker, a solimor there, a companion of Hussey's, was respected, from his having been at that time constao:ly in Ilus scy's eempany. He was accordingly apprehended, and taken before Mr. Smith, the magistrate, atel examined privately. Hirtsey has a brother at Peckham, a hair• dresser, and a man much respected. He had deposited a bus M his brother's house. As soon as he was suspected, Mrs. Hussey examined the contents of the box, and discover.. ed three watches, a silver ladle, some silver spoons, it quantity of linen and other articles, which she believed was the property stolen from Mr. Bird's house She took the property down to Greenwich on Saturday.— Hussey, whom the officers ate in pursuit of, lodged at the.Tigefs Fiead, and front the kitchen window had a view of Mr. Bird's premises. lie slept at the Tit., , er:s Head on the night the murders were perpetrated ; but' the landlord of that house does .not know whether be was at home or not during the evening of that night. He paid sixpence a night for his lodgiatv. Luring the time that Haseldon lived with Mr. Paer, Mr. Bird's will was made by Mr. Parker. Both ft:sell:in and Hussey are young men of dissipated habits; and their eharaeters being suspected, a native of Greenwich, a Jr.N Morgan, a - few days after the murders were mitted, -went to the magistrates' office and gave infor mation against them. They were apprehended and taken to the cage ; but the next day were set at liberty. Had their lodgings been then searched, llussey's at least, some of the stolen property, would, no aught, have been discovered at that that time. On Saturday night, between seven andtighto'clocic, an examination took place before the Greenwich Ma gistrates ; the investigation lasted a considerable time. The property alluded to was produced by Mrs. Hussey the .v. ife of :Jr. Hussey of Peckham. An elderly wo man, who wa.: employed as chuir-woman by Mr. Bird, was brought tUrward on this occasion to examine tte property produced by Mrs. f lussey, for the purpose of identifyieg it, which she immediately was able to do. She, it appears, is the only person besides the washer woman, that has any knowledge of the property of the , late Mr. Bird. •It was not thought necessary-hy the Magistrates to have the prisonetJlasehion brought be fere them ; and being in hourly expectation of receiv ing information of the apprehension of Hussey, they ordered Haseldon to stand coaunittO for rc-exaaninit. &Lee writing the above, we learn, that besides pro perty stolen, clothes stained with blood were in dial:r ent boxes, belonging to Charles Hussey. Charles Hussey is about '27 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, of a ftir complexiou, grey eyes, brown hair, and has an impediment in his speech ; wore a black coat .pod waistwat, tniu,gled pantaloons * and a hathapd zoand,ais bat. .No tidings have yet been learnt of the retreat of russey, who is suspected of being the perpetrator of the late barbarous murders at Greenwich. His wife is now confined in child bed in the country. Ilis father is eaid to. have died J::ad, and ,Its cut her throat under the inPucnce of inzaiiity. The-wili -cri Mr. Bird, of •Grecntyir!i, was pored on Wednesday, the awount of personal property was sworn under 8,0001., the bulk of which is settled on his son, and his son's children : there is no legacy to the unfortunate person who liYed with him as house keeper Miss. Kelly is arrived at ' Manchester from Dublin, where she is engaged to .perthrm, during the Easter week, after which she takes the Birmiezham Theatre on her way to the capital. John 13ebh, F.sq. the Chairman of the riast C.taipany, has declared himself a Lund:date for tie' City of !toe:tester, on the dissolution of the vresent . 11uuse of Commons. Mr. Voting ;s gone down to Bath, to perform seven of his principal cllaracter; Own.. flit four first parts arc to be licro./c!, LW/card Mortimer, L or d I'vn• n and I 'en The Pop: IL::: bought a mctt• chariot anti ei g ht bl ac k horses, at Paris, which vre_ nut'• en their jetrzney to pine :loanßowe. Tl , c Iron. Ma:gills Kipnairtt to 13ibhop's Castle, tn , ) mutt reason to fear his interest was waning, atuor.g the burgesses. called The Murdered Muhl, has beepA.=tt.ferP:;::tdt'ite Sunderland theatre, the story of is folio/a:lppon that of Moly Ashford. ;A* r, ;as singing the latter tnd of January last, with mut . % success, at the Boston Theatre ; so that the report of his death s icom New Yolk, is in all probabiw lity unfounded. .~'