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London, England, 1831-05-02 00:00:00

BRIGHTON HERALD, APRIL 30.

A declaration has this week been put forth in the Lenore Journal, to
which about one hui.dred names are attached, including those of Lords
Gage, Sheffield, Liverpool. &c, in which the subscribers declare them.
selves dissentient from the prayer of the petition agreed on at the late
County Reform Meeting at Lewes. We leave these gentlemen to de.
title t,a the policy of this step • but an old agricultural friend, with
whom we have this week conversed on the subject,said he thought that,
under present ci-cunistances, it would have been quite as well if they
Lad continued silent
We last week noticed that a fire had taken place on Mr.: Jenner's
I,i-enlists. at Keymcr, which, there is no doubt, was wilfully occasioned.
I: it row our painful duty to state that on Sunday night last a barn. at
Hurst. containing a considerable quantity of wheat in the straw, the
property of W. Borer, Esq. was consumed, and no doubt exists hut
that it was the work of an Incendiary.
hir local commissioners have determined on borrowing a further
sum of 20,0001. to be applied in carrying on the various public improve.
tut nts row in progress.
The new shingle wall, now erecting for the purpose of widening the
!ewe, end of the Marine-parade, from the Steyne to the nstern
11. heilse, is now nearly completed, being level with the road nearly
to: Off end of the line. Blocks of Portland stone are now laying down
on whirl' to fix the fence, and the workmen are lowering the hill, by
iiich the ascent will be rendered much easier.
Mr. Laidlaw. the proprietor of the Panoramas in Church-lane, the
scenery of which will be shortly exchanged for some grand military
battle pieces. has this week received from London a miniature steam.
carriage, of elegant construction, and capable of carrying two or three
persons.
Lewes Corn Markets...-Oats, 11. 68. to 11. Bs. 6d. per quarter
Tuesday, April 26.--Wheat (white), 31. lbs. to 41.2 s ; ditto (mixed),
31. Bs. to 31; lfis ; ditto (red), 31. 12s to 31. lbs ; Barley, 11. fn. to 21.
2s • Oats, 11. 7s to 11. 10s ; Beans, 11. lbs. to 11. 16$. per quarter ;
Oil Cake, 121. per thousand.
Chichester Corn Market.—lnspector's return ;—Wheat, 67s 61d;
Barley, 44s lid ; Oats, 255. 111 d • Beans, 425. 71d. per quarter.
AfARRIED.—At Brighton, dr. Henry Ferrell, to Miss Susannah
Lashmar, of Shelley's Folly, Heaney.
DlED—Suddenly, 73, the Right Hon. Edward Garth Tumour,
Earl of Winterton; and on Monday morning, at Shillinglee Park, near
Petworth, Harriet, Countess of Winterton, surviving his lordship only
two days. His lordship is succeeded in his title and estates by his
eldest son, Viscount Tumour.

'SHEFFIELD COURANT, APRIL 29.
Mr. William Turner of Charlotte-street, who, on some frivolous pre.
tence, was put for a night into one of those miserable lock-ups for
debtors, which disgrace every town, gives of it the following picture :
It has very lately been my lot, from a combination of the vilest trea-
chery and the basest ingratitude, to pass 48 hours In the Debtors, Prison
in Scotland-street. I had no more intimation or apprehension of any
course of law being in operation easing me than any Individual who may
read my story, consequently it was out of my power to make a more
speedy compromise of the evil. A bed was assigned to me in a kennel
such as no criminal of any degree is doomed in any other prison of this
land to occupy. I will spare the disgusting detail, hut no conception
can go beyond the filthiness of the place. I know men liable as myself
to the trial, who would have died or gone distracted ur,tltt it. Morning,
however, found me unscathed and undaunted, and ready to forget my
own indignities in the contemplation of more savage injustice. It is,
no doubt, highly necessary and proper that there should be stated times
for the wives and friends of prisoners to have access to them, as also a
limit to the stay they may conveniently make in the jail, but there is
no clock within sight or hearing to regulate this arrangement.—
In consequence, I round four or five poor women in tears because
they were denied egress, having overstaid the time allowed.—
It turned out that they had actually been admitted after the
period when they ought to have returned, and some accident having ap.
prised the porter of the actual time of the day, he was detaining them
to the next time of unlocking the door, (above an hour) whilst their
home duties were suspended, and their children perhaps on fire. I
argued first to procure their liberty, and then so far forgot myself as
to demand that the door should be opened, and, strange to say, the
latter effort succeeded. It was at this moment that I conceived the
thought of what lam now fulfilling. I believe I pledged myself to
do it, and I can aver with truth that all selfish consideration was just
then dormant in me. I have seen the regulations and economy of
several prisons, and the degree of authority that jailers generally
hold over debtors and felons. I was lately residing in a county town
where the son of the prison governor was near forfeiting his own and
his father's situation by conniving at a quart of spirits being brought
Into the debtor's room. In Scotland-street their is no restraint or con-
trol over any excess, no subordination or discipline but that of bolts
and hers. The miserably degraded inmates hoot, and brawl, and
sing indecent ribaldry, curse, swear, and blaspheme, as they think
fit, and if they are not perpetually drunk, it is only because they
have not the means to ray for liquor, or, in a few instances it may be
hoped, have better inclinations. Two men at least were in a state of
beastly intoxication the whole time I was present. After my twenty.
four hours' quarantine, I was promoted to What would have been my
settled destination if I had continued in this nethermost hell—a forlorn
garret, twelve feet by ten, in which I found a real gentleman in intel.
lest and cultivation, who I fear is destined to remain there during the
term of summer. He stated that he too was the victim of oppression,
and had no previous notice of the fate that awaited him. In his cause
I plead for some amelioration of the sickening lot to which he already
Is, and to which future hundreds may be subjected. The squalid den
that he occupies contains a wretched bed which we were both ordained
to share, but we had both long since decidedly resolved not to con.
nive at such an outrage on the decencies of existence. This abomina-
tion alone, Sir, is in itself an iniquity that cries to every feeling of de-
cency and civilization for redress, and must be attended to. The place
admits of and affords the means of an easy remedy for these intolera-
ble nuisances. Let others deliberate whether the term be not strictly
applicable to the thing altogether."
His Grace the Duke of Norfolk has subscribed 1001. towards the
funds for erecting a Philosophical Hall in this town.
The trial of Hynes, who robbed the Trades Association, took place
at Manchester, on Friday. when the Jury returned a verdict of guilty.
He was afterwards sentenced to one year's imprisonment in Lancaster
Castle.
EXECUTTON.—On Saturday, Charles Turner and James Twibell,
were executed at York, pursuant to their sentence at the late Assizes,
for robbing and barbarously maltreating Jonathan Habershon, on the
King's highway between Sheffield and the Intake on the sth of October
lest. The bodies of the unfortunate sufferers having hung the usual
time were cut down snd given to theit friends for interment.
(In Sonday the new church dedicated to St. George. and situated on
the London road, in this town, was opened for divine service. The
church is not yet completed ; the style is gothic, with very little orna-
ment ; the internal arr..ngements arc admit-Ale ; it is capable of con
wining about eleven hundred persons,. It has evidently been the oh.
jest of the architect, Sir. Joseph Elotham, formerly of Sheffield, but
no. of this place, to secure the utmost accommodation at the least pos-
sible expence, at tie same time retaining all the leading features of
places of warship. The cost cannot be equal to two thirds of what
has on the average, been expended on government cUurches to occur,
rue same number ot' eittings.--Derby Mercury.
MARRIED—John Moser, Esq. of Hodroyd Hall, to Ann, relict
of theists Mr. Wm. Bradley, of Barnsley.-111r. John Wade, of Shef-
field, to Charlotte, daughter of the late Mr. Alderman Bailey, of East
Retford.—Mr. Clifton, of the Spread Eagle, High-street, Sheffield,
to Miss Yellcott, of Wedsley—The Honourable Richard Pepper
Arden, to the Lady Arabella Vane, youngest daughter of the Marquis
of Cleveland.
DIED—At Chesterfield, Mr. Samuel Towndrow, aged 58.—John
Parsyde Watson, Dig. of Bilton-park, near Knareabotough. As an
amateur performer, on the Violoncello, be was inferior only to
Lindley.
NOTTINGHAM REVIEW, Arßiz 29.

At a general meeting of the subscribers, Wm. Wilson, Esq. mayor,
in the chair, the committee of the Lancasterlan Scheel reported, that
they had called a general meeting of its subscribers and friends, for the
purpose of laying before them a statement of the accounts, and with an
endeavour to give an additional stimulus to the institution which 16111
prevent it from falling into decay. The annual subscriptions are duel
at Al ichaelinas, but the collection of them has fallen into anew, and
those due in 1830 will tequire to be iminediately collected, as the state-
ment of accounts will show a balance due last year to the Treasurer of
321.35. 7d. which is now increased by payments for the present year to,
1001. Gs. Bd. The subscriptions to pay for the repairs of the building,
occasioned by the fall of the rock, and towards the liquidation of the
debt due to the Treasurer, amounts to 1101 16s. Gd. and the expense,
incurred amounts to 1001. 45. leaving a balance in the Treasurer's hands
of 101.25. 6d. and a further sum of'LL his. not yet paid. The number
of boys attending the school at the present time is 202, and the average
attendance only about 140. It has afforded the committee pleasure to
and, by an examination, that taking their ages into consideration, their
improvement has been satisfactoty.
A few weeks ago, we noticed the circumstance of a person named
Shipley, having decamped to America, taking with him a considerable
NUM of money (we have heard more than 10001.) belonging to his can.
ployer, a respectable hosier of Leicester. Within the last month, two
other instances of similar roguery on the part of inhabitants of Leicester
have taken place ; one, a tailor and lace manufacturer, who is said to
have added the offence of forgery to that of leaving his creditors in the
lu: ch ; the other a commission hosier, who compounded with his we-
ditsrs several years ago, and subsequently carried on a considerable
Ind.'. The latter has, of late, had a warehouse in the metropolis, and
contrived to dispose of vast quantities of goods, with the produce of
which he has left the country. A banker and worsted spinner are losers
by him to the amount of six or seven hundred pounds each.
On 111 'tidal, evening. some of the inhabitants of Buford, near this
tout:, ill.minated diets Louses, on account of his Majesty's dissolving