The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

THE PARKS AND METROPOLIS

IMPROVEMENTS.

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From the Nineteenth Report of the Commissioners
of Woods and Forests, relative to the various public
mprovements under their control, it appears
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made by them from the Dean and Chapter of West-
minster, and other parties, more fully to complete
their plan for giving an improved character and
appearance to this already much-used
access.
Mr. Cubitt, has, at his own cost, removed the Can-
non brewhouse, which occupied the site of the new
entrance, and the demolition of several other houses in
Knightsbridge, have contributed to effect the present
beneficial alteration.
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a new road
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111. The kitchen-garden at Kensington is
par-
celled out into lots to be let as sites for v
proceeds to be applicable to form, a new Royal
kitchen-garden, at or near 'Windsor, for her Majesty.
The Lord steward has the plans for the latter purpose
now under consideration.
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IV. The Lodge in the Green-park, occupied by
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Lady William Gordon till her death, has been taken
down, and grass laid down on its site, and a gravel-
walk formed to connect with other walks in the Park.
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spot will be speedily commenced, the requisite pur-
chase having been made from the Provost and Fel-
lows of Eton College.
VI. The formation of a new Park between the
Hackney and Whitechapel-roads will 800 n be pro-
ceeded with. York House has been sold, and the
money invested for the purpose ; certain other pro-
perties are now being treated for.
With regard to Metropolis Improvements) the Come

missioners state that, according to empowerment, they- ,
had raised the sum of 500,0001. upon mortgage of the.
Land Revenues of the Crown, ;n Middlesex and Lon-
don, towards the intended faimation of a new street.
from Coventry-street to Long-acre, and for other im-
provements ;n the metropolis. The Commissioners
further state upon this score that they have completed
purchases in three of the lines of the projected Im-
provements, to the amount, in the aggregate, of
120,8041., and have contracted for purchases, in rll
those lines of improvement, to the furtlier aggregate
amount of 122,7421.; viz.,
1. In the line frtm Oxford-street to Holborn,
the Commissioners have completed purchases to the
amount of 115,7431., and have contracted for pur-
chases to the further amount of 5,310/.
2. In the line from Bow-street to Charlotte-street,
Bloomsbury, no purchase has been completed. Pur-
chases have been contracted for to the amount of
11,3851.

3. In the line from the London Docks to Spital-
fields Church, purchases have been completed to the
amount of 3,2611., and purchases contracted for to
the further amount of 29,3601.
4. In the line from Coventry-street to Long-acre,
purchases have been completed to the amount of
1,8001., and purchases contracted for to the further
amount of 76,6871.

' In the foregoing statement of purchases made and
contracted for, the Commissioners include those cases
only in which the purchase-monies have been fixed.
They have entered into contracts for many other pur-
chases in each of the lines of projected improvements,
at prices which remain to be ascertained by arbitration.
5. Purchase or contract has not yet been made for
the purchase of any part of the ground and houses re-
quired for the formation of the new street from Enst
Smithfield to Rosemary-lane; bat notices have been
given to the freeholders on this line, p►rrsuant to the
Act of Parliament, that their premises will be re-
quired, and that the Commissioners are ready to treat
with them for the purchase thereof.

THE LATE MURDER in STANLEY,
DERBYSHIRE.

Within the last week very important evidence has
been obtained respecting the murder of Miss God-
dard, at Stanley, in this county, the particulars of
which have from time to time appeared in our paper.
It seems to go very far towards firing upon the par-
ties—particularly Holmes the sweep—now in OU7
county gaol, the crime ‘,N which they are charged, and
for which they will be ti ;ed at the ensuing Spring Assizes.
It appears, that for about a period of th-ee weeks
previously to the commission of the murder, Holmes,
one of the alleged murderers, had in his employ a
about eighteen years of age, named Richard Dron-
field, commonly called among his companions Dick
the sweep. This lad states he was with Holmes at
Heage at the time of the murder, and was privy to
conversations between the three men, Holmes, Bonsai],
and Bland, which, if true, places beyond doubt their
guilt ; and he also speaks to their arming themselves
with staves, and to Holmes taking a knife with him,
having whetted it for the purpose, on the evening on
which the murder was committed, as well as to their
burning the staves whEn done with.
We gather :rom his statement that, after the !Tim.-
der, Holmes took the lad Dronfield with. him to Leek,
in order to be out of the way as much as possible,
Holmes's parents residing at that place. It will be
recollected that Holmes hid himself in a wood near
Leek for some days before he was apprehended, and
that it was in consequence of communications passing
between him and his relatives that the constable of
that town was enabled to apprehend him. In these
communications the lad in question, Dronfield, was
mixe I up, so far, we mean, as having conveyed them
from one party to the other. Holmes being fully
aware that Dronfield was cognisant of the murder,
and of the share he had in it, threatened the lad that
if he dared to mention it to any one he would murder
him too. Dronfield from the time Holmes was appre-
hended has led a wandering life, and it was by mere
accident that he was met with. Our readers will re-
member that, in former statements respecting the
murder, we have mentioned a person named Domino.
This person, it appears, accidentally fell in with the
lad Dronfield in or near Wirksworth on Tuesday or
Wednesday last, and took him to. Mr. Hawkins, the
constable of Heage. The lad then narrated all he
knew about the murderers.

The most material part of Dronfield's testimony is
this :—lt appears that, after the murder, the clothes
stolen from the Miss Goddards were divided amongst
the murderers, and the lad stated that Bonsall secreted
his share in a garden, and that Holmes hid his in a
sough near to Ambergate. The sough, which Wl';
pointed out, 'vs been searched, and several gowns
and shawls belonging to Miss Goddard were found as
described by the lad. Most of these have been cleerly
identified by parties residing in Stanley and the neigh-
bourhood.

Uronfield is now with Mr. Potter, of the Hill-top.
who has clothed him, and will give h;m employment
until the assizes.

It is needless to say that Dronfield stands peifectly
clear of the least participation in the murder. All
that he knows of it was obtained n consequence of
his being in Holmes's employ, and his overhearing the
cony ersations of the alleged murderers.

DEATH OF MRS. KIRWAN, CASTLEIIACKET.—
Died, at Castlehacket, this morning, Mrs. Kirwan,
relict of . the late Major Kirwan. The demise of this
universally-esteemed and respected lady has thrown
several of the most respectable families in this county
into mourning ; while the poor have to deplore in her
the loss of a generous and kind benefactor. She sur-
vived her lamented husband but five months and a few
daP.—Team herald of Saturday.
RAILWAY LIBERALITY.—Having occasionally con-
sidered it our duty to the public to take exception to
some of the proceeding of the Directors of the
London and Greenwicht'llailway Company, we gladly
seize an opportunity of giving publicity to an act of
the board which is worthy of imitation by the Direc-
tors of other railways. The Company, having hitherto
conveyed the Post-office letter-bags between London
and Deptford and Greenwich for two deliveries a-
day, was lately applied to by the Post-office authori-
ties for the terms upon which they would convey the
bags for a third daily delivery ; to which the board
made answer, that for an additional payment of only
301. per annum they would be ready to carry as
many bags, to and fro daily, at the several times of
the running of the trains, as might be desired. This
liberal. offer was at once accepted; and Greenwich
and Deptford will, in consequence, on and after Satur-
day next, have the benefit of four instead of two daily
deliveries of letters.

PROPOSED RAILWAYS.--SUITCyS are now in pro-
gress, and application to Parliament is intended to be
made in the ensuing session for leave to construct a
branch railway from the Blisworth station on the
London and Birmingham Railway to Northampton
and Peterborough, and likewise for another branch to
Leamington and Warwick. Branches are also in
contemplation from the London and Dover Railway
to Canterbury, Margate, and Ramsgate. The Eastern
Counties Company are about to make a line from their
station at Kelvedon to Bury St. Edmund's ; and the
Northern and Eastern will extend theirs from Bishop's
Stortford to Cambridge, terminating by a junction
with the Norwich and Yarmouth. Two branch lines
from Oxford are to be constructed to join the Great
Western at Wallingford and Dideot ; and a third to
communicate with the Aylesbury Railway. Surveys
are also in progress for a line to pass through the
towns of Greenwich, Woolwich, Gravesend, Ro•
chester, and Maidstone; and also for another to con-
nect the Brighton and South Western railways.
The above lines, when completed, will open a direct
lino of communication with the metropolis from
nearly all parts of the kingdom. Two new stations
have lately been opened on the London and Birming-
ham Railway-, at Sudbury and Rimer, to accommo-
date the increasing traffic.

A NEW ZBALAND NEWSPAPER.—We have been
favoured with the first two numbers of the Maori
Gazette, a newspaper published at Auckland, in the
native language. It is entitled Te Karere 0 Mi
Tireni, Na, to Rawana, 1 mea Kia taia. It is printed
on a sheet of foolscap, and each number contains
some original articles, and several letters, which we
understand are the production of natives who have
been instructed by the Church missionaries. We will
endeavour to get one or two of the letters translated,
in order that our readers may be able to form an opi-
nion of its contents. The effect ivhich this publica-
tion, if judiciously edited, will have upon the minds
of the native population of New Zealand, is likely to
' be very beneficial; and it is highly creditable to the
Government to have started such a publication, the
first of the kind in the history of colonisation.—Syd-
/ley Herald, June 14.
KEEP SOBER.—Luke Booth, a , plasterer, was
brought up at the Borough Court, on Monday last,
charged with having been found in an improper state
in the street, during the hours of Divine service on
Sunday last. The Mayor—What have you got to say
to this charge ? Defendant—Why, aw reckon aw
wur doing wrung ; but there wur folk there wur
drunker than me when they brought me. The Mayor
—You must pay five shillings ; that is our rule as to
persons who get drunk on the Sunday. Defendant—
Well, aw reckon its law (taking out of his pocket two
half-crowns); but, before aw pay it, aw should like
for't know where it goes to ? The Clerk—You will
have another half-crown to pay, for the conviction.
Defendant (scratching his head, and staring with as-
tonishnient)—Eh, my. G—, what's that for ?—ex-
penses ! Is it for drinking Belmont water? for I've
had nowt else ith' dungeon.—(Laughter.) Eh, dear
my ! Why, bless my days! Johnny Mangno (agent
for the Water Company) doesn't charge above three
shillin for a quarter of a year, un yoa chargen hawve-
a-crown a neet. Eh, Johnny's a
.foo to yoa awever.
—(Laughter.) " Take him down,' said the inspector
of police ; and the defendant was removed from the
Court.--Martehester Paper.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, GLASGOW.
FOR THE EDUCATION OF LADIES.
I The unparalleled success of tb;s spited enterprise,
and the sensation wb;ch the ceremor;al of its opening
(which WC noticed on a former occasion) produced,
aftbrd the best proof of the estimation in which it ;s
held, and of the void in female education which it has
suddenly filled, hi that 'great community. In the
fist fortnight of its existence it has enrolled about
100 pupils—a number which its prototype here re-
quired yeas to ac."nieve. When we look at its pro-
gramme, we are equally struck with the comprehen-
siveness of the provision made for a liberal and gene-
rous female education, and with the number and
talent of the teachers. Theology, literature, science,
and the faie arts; are all answered for by professors
who, in ether seminaries in Glasgow, have established
the higYLest characters. One feature of this Institu-
tion is. especially graceful—its harmony. Its pa•
trone sses are of all shades of religious and political
con aexion. Clergymen, both Churchmen and Dis-
senters, undertake its theological department ;
which, with. much propriety, is limited to Natural
Theology, the evidences of Christianity, and sa-
cred history and geography, trusting the special
religious instruction, in which sects disagree, to
home and pastoral care; while its professors of the
other branches meet under its roof from all the rival
seminaries of note in Glasgow. We find what we
may call the philosophy of this achievement of our
friends in the Wstst, so concisely set forth hi the shoe
speech made by our townsman, Mr. Simpson, at the
splendid rnee!ting-
the " in the Assembly-rooms, on opening
e," that we cannot do better than transfer
it from the Argus to orr own columns.
Be'-ng called upon by the Lord Provost to address
the meeting, as one of the strangers who had come
CP.an a distance—
Mr. Simpson said, that on an occasion like the pre-
sent, he could not be satisfied with sending an apology
for absence, but, when honoured with an invitation,
at once resolved to attend.—(Cheers.) No doubt
the noble railroad, which almost makes the two great
cities one, offered him great facilities ; hut he
sincerely said—so highly did he estimate the im-
portance of this meeting, not merely to that
great place, but to the country at large—that
he would have walked to Glasgow for the
sake of the privilege he at the moment enjoyed.—
(Loud applause.) He had spoken from that same
platform four years ago on the subject of the new
education and its advantages, in the elementary-way
which its novelty then demanded ; but such had been
its progress since, that, as one gentleman near hith
(Dr. Penny) had remarked, its topics have become
common-places and truisms. That crowded hall was
real evidence of this. That enlightened platform, the
splendid assemblage before him, needed not to he told
that the old education was a mockery—that the new
contrasts with it as much as educating all the faculties
ofman contrasts with imperfectly educating one—as the
knowledge of the creation of God in its realities con-
trasts with words without meaning—as the formation
of character, and the development of intelligence,
honesty, and mercy, contrast with bad reading and
worse writing. No adult present but has felt, in
every relation of life, that that wide field for culture
in man, his feelings, his impulses to action, has been
left miserably barren ; nay, worse, that these impulses
have been miseducated, to the incalculable increase of
human suffering. This misdirection begins early, for
it often mars the future man in his nurse's aims.
We complain that men are sensual, while they are
taught to be sensual by the abuse of food to selfish
enjoyment, in the first months of their existence. We
complain that they are violent, often cruel, while
they are taught to rage, to strike, to revenge, before
they can walk, while violence and dcmineering are
their daily lesson in their schools, and bettered by
them as a practical instruction in their after years, till
force and fear, and violence and blows, and sangui-
nary laws and wars, are considered by them as the
essential moving powers of the moral world. How
different the new education, which rules that the chili
should never hear an angry word, should never see an
angry face, should never receive a blow, or be in-
structed to discover that such a thing is a possibi-
lity in nature. If they are trained to be violent,
men are also made deceitful, proud, vain, and selfish,
by concealment, and competition, and emulative
struggle, misnamed generous, but intensely selfish,
and often incurably attaching to character through
life. It is only those who appreciate the new educa-
tion, who know and feel how deeply the iron of the
old entered into the soul of society, and how beauti-
fully the new is adapted to remove almost every
complaint that renders life a life of wailing and woe.
It would sweeten domestic intercourse—exchange
household wrangling for " the music of kind voices,
and the heaven of kind looks"—give to private life its
" quiet majesty"—exalt and purify public relations—
banish party for justice, self-seeking for benevolence,
and all uncharitableness for brotherly love. We com-
plain of the servants of our houses, and our business ;
but we are only learning that their uneducated, mis-
educated, impulses render them the nuisances that an-
noy us. How and when is the counter process to he ap-
plied ? We are coming nearer to the object of the meet-
ing. When in this place four years ago, he (Mr. S )
had summed up the items of a sound education—moral,
which rightly trains the feelings—intellectual, which
opens up even the stores of science, and claimed that
sum of education for all—he was asked, " What ! even
for females?" Yes, he answered, for females, even more
imperatively than for men, seeing that, in educating wo-
man, you are educating the most important, because
the earliest, of the educators of man. You are edu-
cating a teacher whose function and responsibility re•
duce the teachings of science and art to insignificance.
—(Cheers.) The germ of the future man is in her
trusted hands—the opening of his being—the first
movements of his muscular frame—his first sensa-
tions—his first emotions—his first cognition of
existing things. What may not, what ought
not, woman to do for that education which forms
character ?—nay, Tather, he would ask, can that
education be realised without her agency? can,
above all, that emotional religion, which cherishes the
love of God in the heart, by an unceasing exposition
of his goodness by her who first pointed the infant
eye upwards too his throne, be implanted by any so
well as a female hand ? Never-to-be-forgotten
was the brief—in. her own language, the mono-
syllabic—answer of Madame Campan to Napoleon,
who asked her what she considered most necessary
for the educatiOn of the French people ? she re-
plied, Mothers !‘—(Loud cheers.) Write this on the
door-posts of this new • seminary ; bind it, as on.
their frontlets, on the memory and the heart of every
pupil that treads its threshold, and its opening in
Glasgow will be well entitled to be held one oAf
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whether they would or no.—Mr. Simpson concluded
by congratulating Glasgow on the opening of the
Queen's College ; and added that, with its High
School, Collegiate School, Western Academy, Trades'
School, and Queen's College, no place in the empire
possessed a richer provision of means for an en-
lightened, liberal, and generous education for the
middle classes. A national plan alone will extend the
blessing to the entire population.—Scotsman.

THE TEN HOUItS BILL.—MANCHESTER, TUESDAY
NIGHT.—The approaching session of Parliament is
thisil()t to
district,b e passed without the
distressed verlv
factory operatives
aremakinganotheoxf
attempt to emancipate their children' from the slavery
to which they have too long been subjected by being
worked from an early hour in the morning until a,
late hour at night, by which they are deprived of all
means of acquiring either a domestic or moral edu-
.cation. Yesterday evening a very numerous meet-
ing of the Lancashire Central Short-time Committee
was held at the house of Mr. Thomas Wilkinson,
Red Lion Inn, London-road, at which it was
agreed again to appeal to Parliament through their
friend and champion, Lord Ashley. Amongst
other things it was resolved to print 1,000 copies of
their address, presented to Lord Ashley in the latter
end of September, together with his Lordship's reply
on that occasion. It was stated to the Committee
that there was every prospect of something being done
during the forthcoming session of Parliament to
abridge the hours of labour in cotton and other fac-
tories. It was also stated that Lord Ashley was very
sanguine as to the success of his measure, provided he
was supported by the Short-time Committees of Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire. The Committee, which was
attended by most of the most active of its members in
former struggles, entered warmly upon the prosecu-
tion of the good work, and have resolved to leave no
means untried to forward the emancipation of the
children of their fellow-workmen. . .

EFFECTS or CULTURE.--The almond, with its
rough coriaccous husk, has been changed by long
culture into the peach, with its beautiful, soft, and
delicious pulp; the acid sloe, into the luscious plum;
and the harsh, bitter crab, into the golden pippin. At-
tention to nutrition has produced quite as marked
changes in the pear, cherry, and other fruit trees;
many of which have nut only been altered in their
qualities and appearance, but even in their habits.
Celery, so agreeable to most palates, is a modification
of the apium graveoleu, the taste of which is so acrid
and bitter that it cannot be eaten. Our cauliflowers
and cabbages, which weigh many pounds, are largely-
developed coleworts, that grow wild on the seashore,
and do not weigh more than half an ounce each. The
rose has been produced by cultivation from the com-
mon wild briar. Many plants may be modified with
advantage by suppressing the growth of one part,
which causes increased development of other parts.—
Dr. Truernan on Food.
TULIPOMAISIA.—The sum "of 6401. has been lately
given for the bulb of a new tulip, called the " Citadel
of Antwerp."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 24.
LANCASTER V. EVORS.
Sir CHARLES WETHERELL replied in this case to.
day at considerable length, and
The LORD CHANCELLOR postponed his judgment

ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 24.

This day being set apart as the general petition day,
previous to the close of term, Lord Langdale was
engaged throughout the morning in hearing consent
petitions.