The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

STOPPING FOOT-ROADS.

In Nottingham a highly respectable Committee
(through a public meeting) has been formed, for the
purpose of preventing any further illegal stopping urt,
of foot-roads (which has been frequently done in that
locality latterly) belonging to the public, and for the
purpose of re-opening those which have been illegal
closed. Some of those roads have already been re"
opened to the public by the Committee, and subscrir
tions to aid them are handing in. The " rneel:
stoppers" have now a force against them they do ye;
relish. The Committee have obtained opinion °'
counsel. Subjoined is a copy :
" The law relating to public roads is very dig's,
rent from that which relates to private roads; twentl
years' usor or disusor has no reference to the fowler,'
The Crown (that is, in effect, the public) are barred
by no lapse of time, except in cases provided for 11
particular statutes, none of which apply to pubis:
roads. Previous to the last General Highway M"
any person might dedicate his land for a public rool,
and when once dedicated, it becomes a public road ic
o.
ever, unless stopped up by legal proceedings, none
Act'
a have been adopted in this case ; since that M"
a party cannot dedicate a road except as therein Pre:
vided. Before that Act, no precise number of year*
permission for the public to use it was necessary°
constitute it a public road; length of time was 04
evidence, more or less strong, of an intention to deli'
cate, and an usor of much less than twenty years W°
held sufficient.
" Applying these principles to the present woe,
the ground proprietor set out roads which the pubh
have used for several years, much less than twentl,
the public have the right now to use those roads, the'
is, assuming they were set out and used before Alv
gust, 1835 (the date of the Highway Act).
The non-usor of the other roads would not es
tinguish them; the only effect non-usor would have!
would be to render it a question for the jury, whether
.
they ever were public roads; if it can be cleat/
shown they were, they are not extinguished by 00'
usor.
" This answers the first and second queries. Ill,:
Committee may legally insist on all roads which We
public all the year being open all the year ; but the
fact of their having been closed nine months is e/i"
dente that they are not public roads all the Yee!'
What evidence the Committee have to rebut this .L
not know; it is a question of fact for the jury, en
°
not of law. " C. H. WHITEHURST•
" Temple, June 18, 1844."

A SCHOOL EXHIBITION GAINED BY A FACTO-
Boy.—Mr. Saunders, the factory inspector for Y„.°l3;
shire, in his report for the quarter ended the 30th Jut
last, says :—" That the education of factory childreh
where sufficient attention is paid to the subject, inaiLs
efficiently conducted, has been proved during the 07ii
quarter, by a factory worker having been the success(
candidate for an exhibition to the York Training Sch,?°l
which was open to the competition of all National Scu`A
children in Leeds. A second factory boy who offenCe,
himself was favourably noticed by the examiners.
boy, Edwin Spencer, now between fourteen and fin,
years old, who has gained the exhibition, has worked iv
a factory since he was ten years old ; and the 0111/_„-ble
struction he obtained during that time was as a rei,.. es,
half-time attendant at the National School at Leeds, 'O,
tablished almost expressly for factory children. lge,B„eit
Hives and Atkinson, in whose employment he has Vo
(for the sake partly of reward, and partly to stirellill
all to exert themselves), permit four children, after tbsed
have obtained the age of thirteen, to continue 55,11,4.
timers, but in the receipt of the same wages as
eit
ployed full time, on condition that they continue t
attendance at school. Had these boys been obliged
work twelve hours from the time they became thirteeto
it would, of course, have been impossible for thette,
have undergone the same stiff examination to which "lei:,
were subj 4 ct on this occasion. The success of E. SPen ion
there is no doubt, will excite others to greater o
atteate
and regularity, and will, I am convinced, prove of Cto
service to many. The principle of giving this preat;o
to a limited number of well-conducted boys has 2O
adopted by other mill-occupiers; and the expensfe-oge
each case will doubtless be in part repaid, by the, •
conduct of the whole number of children empleYea•
The Admiralty have issued orders to build, so
contract, two second-rate iron steam-frigates--a ere
work with paddle-wheels, and the other to have * Se 57
propeller. They are each to be 203 feet in lengtht_.„,
feet in breadth, about 1,300 tons burthen, and 500 1:1°;i.
power. On the 27th July we stated that "Messrs4,oo
Fairburn and Co., of %Unwell, were in daily exPecteste*
of an order from the Admiralty to build an iron ,„:
frigate, on a new patent principle of their own invente;ce
They have now received the order, and will cony°
forthwith.—United Service Gazette. —.OOl

BIRTS.
On the 22d inst., at MountfoH
rt House, Islington, Al"—
nelius Paine, of a son. I of°
On the 22d inst., the wife of the Rev. Richard pole'
son, still-born. the
On the 22d inst., at Lansdown-crescent, Cheltenhani,
lady of Captai
inst.,
R. Nugent Everard, of a daughter.
On the 23d at Bails Vicarage the
wife of the
Cornwall Smalley, jun., of a daugter. winisns
On the 22d inst., at Grove. lane,h Camberwell, Mrs. "
Stevens, of a son.
On the 23d inst., in Arlington-street, the lady of
Stanhope Illingworth, Esq., of a daughter. ,e 210°.
On the 23d inst., at South-street, Finsbury-64u—
Michael Henry, of a daughter.
On the 23d inst., at Cheshunt, Herts, the lady of rilldirici‘
Robert Crowder, Esq., of a son. T rho'
On the 23d inst., at Commercial-road East, Mrs. T.
lipO, of a son. les /.
n the 24th inst., in Portland-place, the lady of Char
lee
Esq., of a son.
On the 24th inst., the lady of Robert Hawthorn,
a son.
On the 25th inst., at Champion-hill, the wife of 11'2°1°
Hilton Bothamley, Esq., of a son.
MARRIED. gr. /A.
On the 24th inst., at Bromley Church, Middlese-1, eon'
Durham, cutler, of Regent-street, to 111iss Agnes, rscoy
daughter of John Edie, Esq., of Bromley, many Yesoo9'
fidential clerk to Frederick Hodgson, Esq., brewer, -04
the
Middlesex. The happy pair immediately set off to es
honey moon at the Isle of Wight.
On the 20th inst., at St. George's Chapel, Stleilf6644ll
Lieutenant James Jarvis, 88th Regiment, to Istib.„eLle'eet•„
daughter of the late James Rose, Esq., Bequis, St. v Tone I
On the 20th inst., at Christ Church, St. MarYle titer
Deverell, eldest son of Robert Pyper, M.D , late 4th kilter 01
Irish) Dragoon Guards, to Harriette, youngest datig
Captain Cuthbert Featherstone Daly, R.N., C.B. Isle °I
On the 15th inst., at the Church of St. Ilel"'s!ss Jobe'
Wight, Alexander Oswald, Esq., M.P., to Lady -Dulnot.,
atone, widow of the late Sir Frederic Johnatone,
Weaterhall, and only daughter of the late Earl of Crin: Nor
On the 22d inst., at All Saints Church, Beaulieu-Pl' joie,
wood, Surrey, John Coates, Esq., of Demerara, to Moultietor
eldest daughter of the late Charles Bingham, Esq' °
lieu-bill, Norwoo,
at
On the 22d 'inst, ,Wet Hackney Church, lir. 13' e''utngelL
son, jun., of Mark-lane, to Elizabeth Catherine, Y
daughter of the late Mr. Mills, of Spitalfields. On:st
On the 22d inst., at Rendcomb, Gloucestersbn!. eid
Miller, Esq., of Preston, Lancashire, o Caroline n'.d6'
daughter of the late R. Robbins, Esq.t , of Lincoln.43' lu" self.

DIED.
the
On the 23d inst., at Bridgewater, Jefferys 9410. f
On the 24th inst., G. Blandford, last surviving son
late W. Burgess, Esq., of St. John's, Southwark. _4,01
On the 11th inst., at London, Mr. James Crichton,
surgeon, Perth, Swan River, Western
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