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Some Selected Reports from The Windsor and Eton Express
21st January 1832
Yesterday afternoon a labouring man, named James Gilder, of Farnham Common, met with his death in the following shocking manner :- Gilder was at work in the gravel pits at Salthill with his father and another man named Hughes, and all of a sudden Gilder the elder, observed the bank on the side of the pit giving way, he instantly gave the alarm, and Hughes fortunately succeeded in getting away previous to its falling in, but the deceased did not, and was completely buried under the gravel : it was nearly half an hour before the poor fellow was dug out, and when he was extricated, life was extinct.
UXBRIDGE - On Monday night some thieves loosened a boat that was moored on the Iver stream; above bridge, and proceeded down the river to the mill of Mr. Ed. Powell, where they broke into his poultry house and stole 14 fowls and 7 large ducks. A few nights before, the same party, it is supposed, stole the whole of the poultry of the Hon. Charles Tollemache, of Huntsmoor Park, nearly adjoining Mr. Powell's mill.
MARLOW - On Tuesday last the body of an infant was found in a wood near Little Marlow, tied up in a handkerchief. A woman, named Mary More, had been apprehended on suspicion of having lately given it birth, and afterwards destroyed and concealed it.
The same day a person named Allen, who formerly kept a public house at Little Marlow, fell down suddenly and expired.
A death occasioned by rather a curious circumstance, took place on Monday the 9th instant, at Hoddeston, Herts. Mrs Batty, landlady of the Black Lion, was, on the previous Saturday, in the act of correcting a servant, when she over-balanced herself; in the fall, one of her long ear-rings broke, and a fragment cut open the jugular vein, and she died in consequence on the Monday evening.
DIED.
On Monday, the 16th inst, after a long and painful illness, Jemima, wife of Mr. Moore, sen. of Thames Street, Windsor, aged 73.
On the 15th inst at Uxbridge, Mr Stanley Jarvis, aged 53.
On the 16th inst at the same place, Mrs Eliz. Webster, aged 36.
On the same day, at the same place, Mrs A. Charlton Langley, aged 90.
On the 18th inst in York-street, Portman Square, Edward Gwatkin, Esq, in his 73d year.
On the 19th inst at Grove Terrace, Lisson Grove, Deputy Commissary General Redwell
WINDSOR.
FIGHT BETWEEN HARRY JONES AND JACK PERKINS, ON TUESDAY LAST, FOR �50 A SIDE. - It was expected, the fight between these two well known pugilists would take place at Warfield, (about 7 miles from Windsor), on Tuesday last, but on the previous day a local Magistrate (Captain Thompson) presented himself before mine host of the public house at Staines, where Jones was training, and observed "This fight must not take place anywhere in the neighbourhood of Windsor." The hint was enough for Boniface, who posted immediately to Maidenhead, where Perkins was to sleep. After discussing the nature of Captain Thompson's visit, it was finally agreed that a meeting should take place at Maidenhead, on the following morning, when it could be decided where the fight should eventually come off. The locality having been changed so suddenly, the Londoners were unacquainted with the place of the contest, and in consequence proceeded down the Great Western Road to Staines : on arriving at which place however, they soon ascertained what had taken place, when the entire line of carriages, gigs, carts, horsemen, and pedestrians, beat their course through this town (Windsor) towards Maidenhead. Many of the horses, when they passed through Windsor, appeared to have had quite enough of it, still they had much more to do, for on the arrival of the leading men at Maidenhead, it was agreed the place of combat should be HURLEY BOTTOM, about 4 miles beyond Maidenhead, on the road to Henley. A general move of the whole company, which was pretty numerous, then took place, and no further stoppages occurred. At Hurley Bottom the fight took place after the necessary preparations were made, and lasted for 47 minutes, during which 21 rounds were fought, Harry Jones winning the battle. Perkins had his collar bone broken, but nevertheless fought several rounds afterwards. A second fight took place between another Oxford man, and a Londoner, in which fight as in the previous one, the Londoner came off victorious. Perkins was trained at Oxford.
FESTIVITIES AT WOBURN ABBEY - The above noble residence, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, has been the scene of great and splendid entertainments during the past week. Banquets on the most sumptuous scale, with concerts, masked balls, and private theatricals (in the latter the whole of the characters supported by the nobility) have added to the gratification of the distinguished guests. The dramatic pieces were The Liar and The Day after the Wedding. Amongst the numerous guests were the Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, Countess of Sandwich, Marquis of Abercorn, Lord and Lady Wm. Russell, Lord Ossulston, Lord John Russell, General and Mrs Balfour, Mr Balfour, Mr Mildmay, &c. - We understand that Mr Henry Hunt did not perform The Liar.
The Earl of Radnor gave a grand entertainment on Friday at Coleshill Hall, in Berkshire, to the Nobility and Gentry of the county. A large party from London also went down to partake of his Lordship's hospitality. The poor on the Noble Earl's estate at Coleshill likewise participated in his Lordship's bounty. The Earl and Countess, together with some branches of his family, have since taken their departure for Grosvenor-street.
DEATH OF GRAY THE GAOLER - On Sunday morning last, George Gray, who was well known to all the inhabitants of Windsor, as keeper of our Borough Gaol, departed this life, in his 56th year. By the death of Gray, the borough has lost a steady, upright, and humane servant, who, while he strictly performed the duties of his office, had the discrimination to perceive the difference between misfortune and depravity, and sufficient humanity to make the distinction felt. At the time of his decease, he had officiated as Gaoler for this Borough for 14 years, having succeeded James Painter in the year 1818. The illness which terminated his existence, although of long duration, was not until latterly very severe; and within a few weeks of his death, he continued to discharge his official duty.
SIR JOHN GORE accompanied by his lady and two eldest daughters, left Datchet for Portsmouth, on Saturday. Previous to his departure for India, it is expected that Sir John will give a public ball at Portsmouth, and another on board his ship.
LORD MONTAGU and family have for some time been residing at their town residence in Hamilton place, in consequence of the continued alarming illness of Lady Montagu's brother. The family, however, are expected at Ditton in the course of a few days.
Sir Wyndham Carmichael Anstruther, who unexpectedly came into possession of considerable property by the decease of his nephew, Sir John Anstruther, whose melancholy death at Eton must be in the recollection of most of our readers, has in the most honourable manner discharged the whole of his former debts, some of them of 16 years standing, together with legal interests from the period of their contraction.
POLICE COURT.
At the Magistrates Meeting on Tuesday, Mr. Dauberry the Surveyor of Clewer, applied for an exchange of road between the parish of Clewer and Windsor, and to make a final adjustment of the same. We stated that the road from Clewer lane at the bottom of Peascod street to Beamond's pond, was peculiarly situated, one half belonging to Clewer, and the other half to Windsor. The Surveyors of both parishes had hitherto divided the said piece of road in length, and he said that the parish of Windsor had kept the whole of the road from the bottom of Peascod street to Grove House in repair; while the parish of Clewer took the remainder from Grove House to the pond. He (Mr.Dauberry) wished this to lie finally settled by the Magistrates, in order that each parish might know its own bounds. He likewise proposed that a piece of road from the Cavalry barracks to the Stag and Hounds (which belongs to Windsor parish) should be exchanged for the same length of road from Grove House to the Cavalry barracks, which is in the parish of Clewer. This would be an accommodation to both parishes, inasmuch as the whole road belonging to Windsor would commence at the bottom of Peascod street, and continue on nearly to the Cavalry barracks. - Mr. Adam, Surveyor of the parish of Windsor, objected to the exchange on two grounds :- first, because the parish of Clewer could not be depended upon to put the road in good repair, as for the last seven years, that part of the road from Grove House to Beamond's pond, which the parish of Clewer engaged to keep in good repair, had been shamefully neglected; and he objected, secondly, because the piece of road belonging to Windsor parish - from the Cavalry barracks to the Stag and Hounds, and which it was proposed to exchange was in good repair, and an open piece of road, whereas the piece on this side the Cavalry barracks, which was offered in lieu of it, is low, narrow, and in as bad repair as could be. Upon these grounds he therefore objected, as Surveyor of Windsor, to the proposed exchange. The Magistrates informed Mr Dauberry that as both parties were not agreed, they could not confirm his application.
Thursday - Three men named Malleson, Brown, and Hall, appeared in answer to a summons issued by the Magistrates, on the report of Johnson, our newly-appointed night constable, to that the said young men did on the night of Monday drive a horse, with a cart laden with night soil, at an improper rate, thereby occasioning a great nuisance to the inhabitants; and afterwards for holloaing and creating a disturbance in the street. Reprimanded by the Magistrates and dismissed.
Two men named Pass and Taylor, were next brought from the cage by Johnson, where they had been placed by him the previous night for loitering about the streets at an unseasonable hour, and not being able to give a satisfactory account of themselves - Reprimanded and discharged.
A DANDY Journal, alluding to the inconvenience of being pestered with the penny publications of the day, which he denominates his "Copper Contemporaries" goes on to say - "They are extremely welcome, we can assure them; and all we ask of them in return is, that they will not adopt another fashion of our friend Figaro - that of sending us his Saturday's sheet on the previous Thursday (!) specially marked "private", so as to prevent our secretary from opening it. But above all, we would entreat, that if they cannot live without laying their lucubrations before us, they will at least abstain from the soiled envelopes and relaxed wafers of our facetious friend above named. Any thing but these we can forgive."
THE Clergy of Bucks have presented the Marquis of Chandos with a superb copy of Macklin's Bible and a splendid Prayer Book, with appropriate inscriptions, as a memorial to their attachment and gratitude, for his zealous support for the Protestant Church. Upon the receipt of the books, the Marquis addressed the following acknowledgement to the Chairman of the Committee :-
Wotton, January 3.
My dear Dr Scobell, - Mr Nash arrived this morning, and brought the magnificent Bible and Prayer Book which have been presented to me by the Clergy of the county, with so gratifying an inscription. I do indeed consider these books invaluable, and shall always appreciate the gift as a testimony of the approbation of men for whose opinion I entertain the highest regard. Believe me to remain, my dear Dr Scobell, yours sincerely,
CHANDOS.
PRIVATE ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC JUSTICE IN ETON.
HITHERTO the Eton Magistrates have been in the habit of administering justice in private, and consequently the public has not had an opportunity of deriving that instruction and example from their decisions which is the primary object of all criminal proceedings to produce, and which the learned judgments of the Reverend Bench at Eton in particular, would be so eminently calculated to afford.
In accordance with a long-formed opinion, backed by the highest legal authorities, that the proceedings of Courts of Justice from the very highest to the lowest, should be under the cognizance of the public, we have from time to time endeavoured to obtain reports of what transpires at the monthly meetings of the Eton Magistrates, held at the Christopher Inn. Up to the present time, however, every attempt on our part to dive into the aforesaid magisterial mysteries has proved abortive, and our constant application for information as to their worshipful proceedings has been uniformly met by one or other of these excuses - "that their Reverences did not like to see the report of what they did in the Paper;" or "their Reverences always hold their examinations in private." Far from satisfied with the bare assertion of their Reverences likings and dislikes, we resolved on the first opportunity that might present itself, and which should afford no reasonable ground either for withholding or denying publically, to bring the matter at once to a satisfactory conclusion, and see what lengths their worships were willing to go in support of their system of exclusion. On Monday the wished for occasion arrived. It will be remembered that in last week's Express, just before going to press, we gave an account of a man and woman having been taken before the Borough Magistrates, charged with robbing the Windsor coach, and stated that in consequence of the offence not having been committed within the precincts of the Borough, the parties were handed over to the County Magistrates, at Eton, before whom they underwent an examination and were remanded till Monday. Accordingly, on Monday morning, our Reporter attended at the Christopher, and there learnt the examination was to take place at the private residence of Mr William Hexter, one of the County Magistrates. We are informed that Mr William Hexter is Writing Master at Eton College, from which circumstances it is presumed he derives his qualification to act as a County Magistrate.- but of this hereafter. To continue our narration : this gentleman happens to be troubled with a cough, on the morning in question, and not liking to encounter the raw morning air, resolves to take the depositions at his own house; our Reporter very naturally considered that, as the Court was held at the Magistrate's private dwelling to suit that gentleman's own personal convenience, there could be no possible impropriety in his attending the examination with the witnesses and others connected with the cause. Upon our Reporter's entering the room, he perceived the Rev. Thomas Carter of Eton College and Mr Hexter in attendance; and the latter immediately requested to know his business.
Reporter : I propose to take notes of the present proceedings for the Windsor Express newspaper.
Mr. Hexter : (apparently somewhat astonished) - But this, Sir, is not a Police Court : are you aware it is my private residence ?
Reporter : I am Sir; but as public business is on this occasion being transacted, I submit that the public have a right to be admitted.
Mr. Hexter : No such thing, Sir; this case is one of a private nature; and you cannot be allowed to remain.
Reporter : Am I to understand that you, Mr. Carter, concur in the view taken by Mr Hexter, that this is a private examination and that the public cannot be admitted ?
After a short consultation in an under tone, Mr. Hexter said - Yes, we are both of opinion that it is "strictly private," and that you cannot remain; - and accordingly our Reporter left the room.
In order, however, that the public may judge as to the private nature of the case, we have subjoined a report of what took place; but as it was not furnished through the usual channel, we do not pledge ourselves as to its entire accuracy : if, however, it be inaccurate, the fault lies rather with those who so strenuously endeavour to suppress the truth, than with ourselves. To say nothing of impolicy, the injustice of such a practice is obvious. It cannot be doubted, that decisions arrived at in this secret way, are at least as interesting and important as those disposed of in the ordinary course; and that, therefore, they must necessarily reach the public in some shape - probably in a mutilated or distorted one, - for in the absence of an authentic statement, every individual will feel himself at liberty to invent such an account as shall best accord with his own particular interests and wishes; and hence not only may great wrong be done to the aggrieved party, but the public generally may be injured by false information. With respect to the case inserted below, it is said that the Magistrates enjoined the most profound secrecy : now, without any particular desire to defeat the enlightened views of these gentlemen, we really feel that we should have compromised our duty towards the public had we pursued any other course. We do not asset that there are not particular instances in which a temporary privacy may be enforced properly enough : for example, with a view to conceal from a delinquent evidence through which he would receive notice to withdraw himself or his effects from the reach of the law. This would be rather furthering than frustrating the ends of justice, as it would eventually be succeeded by complete and entire publicity. But the regular and systematic administration of the public law in a private closet appears at once so monstrous - so utterly at variance with the letter and the spirit of the common law of the land, that we really cannot believe any enlightened body of English gentlemen can seriously propose to support it; and under this impression our Reporter will attend the next monthly meeting of the Magistrates at Eton, in the hope that Mr. Hexter may not have accurately represented their feelings as a body; or that possibly the fact of his being in his own house, may have led even that gentleman to adopt a principle upon which he would scruple to act elsewhere. In conclusion we ask why, if this private system of disposing of cases before Magistrates be a salutary one, is it confined to the Eton Magistrates ? - if pernicious, why tolerated even there ? It is clear, we think, that the public and the private administration of the laws are incompatible with each other, and that they must necessarily clash in practice as well as in principle : for publicity is the necessary instrument of justice : secrecy (unless under the restrictions we have mentioned) almost pernicious engine in the hands of tyranny and oppression. The cases to which we have alluded, is contained in the following report :-
ROBBERY OF THE WINDSOR COACH.
Mr Bragg, book-keeper to Messrs Moody, Thumwood, Lillewhite, and Gray, the proprietors of the coach from which the property was stolen, was the principal witness examined : he stated that after making active enquiries to ascertain the thief, he was informed, on Friday last, that a pair of silk socks, answering to the description of a pair of socks which constituted part of the lost property, were in the possession of a Mrs Russell, and in consequence, witness proceeded to Mrs Russell's house, and from her received the pair of socks in question. Mrs Russell told witness that she had received them from her daughter, who had them sent to her by a young woman named Ann Baker, who lodges in Clewer lane at a Mrs Campart's, for the purpose of putting legs to them. Upon this information Ann Baker was next enquired for, and she informed Mr Bragg that she had picked up the socks in her room on the morning of 27th of December, after the departure of a man named William Hollingsworth, who she stated had been cohabiting with her, but had since deserted her - Hereupon a warrant was obtained against Hollingsworth, and it be ascertained that he lodged at the sign of the William the Fourth public-house in Thames street, he was taken into custody on the Saturday morning by the Windsor constables, and was finally turned over to the Eton Magistrates for examination. Mr Bragg here produced the socks. Mrs Ward of Eton College was present at the examinations, and swore to the socks being her property, and also to their having been lost from the Windsor coach on the night of the 26th of December.
Ann Baker said that on the night of the 26th of December, Hollingsworth came home; and after going into her room, told her to go to the privy and fetch a carpet bag. She said the bag contained ladies wearing apparel; and a little box tied over, but she did not know what it contained. Hollingsworth told her that he obtained it in the following manner:- As he was walking along the road near Datchet, on his way home, he saw a sailor-like looking man without a hat, with the bag over his shoulder, and that he called out to him, "Hello!" whereupon the sailor dropped the bag, and he accordingly picked it up, and brought it home. At six the next morning, Hollingsworth left the house, and said he should take the bag to the place where he had found it, and place it in the road.
A witness from Colnbrook named Buckland, stated that on the night of the robbery, he saw the prisoner Hollingsworth in the Crown public-house, Colnbrook, and that as he (witness) was standing outside the door, he saw the prisoner come out of the house, and run after a coach; but what coach it was, witness could not say, but it was about the time the Windsor coach generally passes.
The prisoner (Hollingsworth) was committed to the Sessions to take his trial; and the witness Ann Baker was also committed for prevarication in her evidence.
The simple case occupied the attention of the Mayor from three to six on Saturday, and from ten to six on Monday.
When this case had been disposed of, and the Magistrates having dined, their attention was occupied till ten o'clock at night, in investigating a charge against two young men, for stealing a shoulder of mutton. The defendants, who were native of Slough, we believe were committed for trial, for stealing the joint of mutton on Friday, from a butcher named Mountford, of Slough.
UXBRIDGE, JAN.20th - The Annual Ball, which took place on Tuesday at the White Horse, was well attended, and the company consisted of many respectable families resident both in this town, and in the neighbourhood, for some miles round; and it is understood that, but for the circumstance of a large private Ball at Slough being fixed for the same evening, many families from that place, and from Eton, would also have attended. Quadrilling commenced about half-past nine o'clock, and was continued till a late hour on Wednesday morning. Weippart's band played during the evening, and introduced some new and beautiful airs. Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those gentlemen who acted as Stewards, (Messrs. Goodman, Croft, Phillips, Powell, and George Harman) for their exertions to ensure the comfort and promote the gratification of the company, whether in their judicious and liberal arrangements for their entertainment, or their active personal attentions in the ball room. Previous to the departure of the company, stewards were appointed for the year ensuing, when the choice fell upon Messrs. George Brumbridge, Kemp, Norman, and Hewitt.
AYLESBURY, JAN 20. - COMMITMENTS TO AYLESBURY - County Gaol - On the 14th instant, John Tyrrell, for housebreaking - On the 16th, James Rance, for sheep-steeling.- Same day, William Davis, for further examination, for house breaking - On the 17th, Thomas Norris, Samuel Andrews, and Thomas Johnson, for stealing a bag of shot - Same day, Thomas Stevens and Henry Manners, for stealing a shoulder of mutton.- Same day, William Hellingsworth, for stealing a gold watch, &c.- Same day, Ann Baker, for receiving goods knowing them to be stolen - Same day, David Bignall, for bastardy - On the 18th, James Rance, jun for sheep stealing - On the 20th, Geo. Johnson, for stealing an iron pot.- To the House of Correction - On the 16th instant, George Gill, for poaching : two months.- Same day, John Watts, for disobeying an order of filiation, three months - Same day, Robert Evans for stealing nails : 21 days - On the 19th, James Holt, for poaching : six months - Same day, Chas. Hinson, as a vagrant : two months - Same day, William Redhead, for disobeying an order of filiation : three months.
At Aylesbury fair, yesterday, the supply of both cows and horses was good. The best horses sold well, but inferior ones could scarcely be disposed of at any price. Fat cows fetched bad prices; the graziers complaining that they did not get more than 3s.6d per stone for their prime beasts.
An inquest was held yesterday, in Aylesbury, before J. Burnham, Esq, coroner, on the body of Robert Brazil, labourer. It appeared in evidence that the deceased has a stew baked at the house of Mr. Judkins, Bakers lane, where he went to partake of part of it on Wednesday evening last. The deceased appeared to eat very heartily for a few minutes, when he was heard to exclaim, "I have something in my throat, and shall be choked," Mr.Judkins untied the man's neckerchief, and placed him on a chair, where he died almost instantly - Verdict - Died of suffocation.
ABINGDON, JAN.20.- MR. MABERLY - A scurrilous libel on the electors of Abingdon appeared in a paper published on Saturday last, respecting (inter alia) the distribution of Mr. Maberly's annual gift of coals to the poor. The writer of the article we allude to, after expressing entire ignorance of the facts of the case, states the "although Mr.Maberly spent between �6000 and �7000 at the last election, and which had been distributed among his small constituency, not one could be found, in consequence of a recent event, to advance a beggarly �100 on account, for a charitable purpose." We pronounce the statement it contains to be destitute of foundation. Mr. Maberly's charitable donation was distributed this year in the usual way, by his agent, and the bills were called in by that gentleman, and immediately discharged.
On Saturday last an inquest was held on the body of a child, named Matilda Day, by Mr Cecil, one of the coroners for Oxfordshire, at Culham, near this town. The principal witness was Mr Bevan, the surgeon, who gave it as his opinion that the child died of cholera morbus (English) and the Jury returned a verdict accordingly.
On Monday last a young man named Stone, of Oxford, appeared before Wm. Bowles, Esq and the Rev. Nathaniel Dodson, to answer an information charging him with using a gun at Wootten in September last, he not being qualified. The defendant took an objection to this information, and produced a case, by which it appeared the conviction must take place within three months after commitment of offence. The Magistrates, considering the objection good, quashed the information.
Richard Fleckner and George Poole were committed on Tuesday last, by our Borough Magistrate, to our House of Correction, to hard labour - the former for 21 and the latter for 14 days, for misbehaviour in the workhouse of the parish of St.Helen.
Mary Champ was committed, on the complaint of the Overseers of St.Helen's, to our House of Correction, for having a bastard child (the second).
BUCKS - On Thursday last, thirteen prisoners who were convicted at the Bucks Special Assizes in January 1831, of being implicated in the agricultural disturbances at Stone, and some of whom were sentenced to two years and others to eighteen-months imprisonment, were liberated from their confinement in Aylesbury gaol, in consequence of the term for which they were sentenced having been commuted. Their conduct during imprisonment has, we understand, been most exemplary, and is spoken of in the highest terms by Mr Sherriff, the Governor of the prison, who states that they were as different as possible from the generality of prisoners who are committed to his custody, and that he should not have feared to trust them with the protection of the whole of his property. Upon their liberation the Right Hon. Lord Nugent presented each of the poor men with a donation of 10s.
GUILDFORD - At a Meeting of the Commissioners for Paving the town of Guildford, on Wednesday, it was resolved to appoint additional Commissioners, when a considerable number were nominated.
Several farmers have been robbed of their poultry in the neighbourhood of Guildford, within these few days. On Tuesday night some peacocks and hens were stolen from the Warren Farm, belonging to Mr W. Smallpiece. The same night part of the roof of the poultry house at Tithing Farm was taken off, and several fowls stolen.
ESSEX - On Friday afternoon, about half past three o'clock, a fire broke out at Bishop's Hall, a farm near the Robin Hood public house, late in the tenure of Mr Estaugh, but now in the hands of the proprietor, C.T. Tower, Esq, who was but a short distance from the spot where the flames burst forth. It has been ascertained that a person made some enquiries of a cottager a few days since relative to the property, and the same man was seen near the premises on the very day the conflagration occurred. It is thought, from the description given, that Mr Tower met the incendiary soon after he saw the flames, and whilst proceeding to the scene of devastation. A large double barn, a cart and bullock shed, and the piggeries, forming together a range of buildings upwards of two hundred feet in length, were destroyed. In the barn were five quarters of oats in sacks, and a large quantity of oat straw, which, with a stack of barley straw, fell a prey to the flames. The house was with much difficulty saved. Mr Tower immediately despatched four men on horseback in pursuit of the fellow he had seen, but darkness coming on, the villain escaped. Mr Tower's engine from Weald Hall and the engine from Brentwood were employed several hours with considerable effect. The farm adjoins Sawyer's Hall, upon which much property was lately destroyed by the hand of an incendiary.
HERTS.
The London and Birmingham Rail-road is opposed by a large body of proprietors and others on the line, of whom numerous and influential meetings were held at Great Berkhamsted and Watford last week, when resolutions were entered into, and a large subscription made. The Right Hon. Richard Ryder presided at Berkhamsted, and the Earl of Clarendon, at Watford.
HADDENHAM, JAN 19th. - In addition to Miss Wykham's almost unbounded liberality in clothing and bedding, the poor have this week been favoured with rugs and calico to considerable extent, delivered out to them by the hands of the Rev. T. Hayton, and his kind-hearted partner, without respect to sect or party.
The Rev. J. Willis, vicar of Haddenham, has also distributed this week, to many poor persons in the parish, various articles of clothing, and upon a liberal scale, considering the vast number of persons in distress and deserving help.
We hear that Lord Carrington has generously given �20 to the Haddenham poor.
BIRTHS.
On Sunday, the Lady Tullamore, of a daughter, which survived but a few hours.
MARRIED.
On the 17th, T. Hamer, Esq, to Emma Cooper, youngest daughter of the late R.S. Pierrau, Esq [?], of the Hon. Company's Service.
On Wednesday, at St.James's Church, Mr. John Churchill, youngest son of the Rev. James Churchill, of Thames Ditton, Surrey, to Georgiana, eldest daughter of Joseph Touissant, Esq of Pall Mall, and of Manor House, Feltham, Middlesex.
DIED.
At Boisselas, near Blois, Joseph Bullock, Esq, Commissary-General to his Majesty's Forces, and for many years chief of his department in the West India command.
On Tuesday, the 17th, at his house in Saville row, Francis Knight, Esq, in his 85th year.
On the 18th inst, in Portland place, the Dowager Countess of Sheffield, in her 69th year.
On Wednesday last, at his father's house in Aylesbury, Bucks, Mr. Alfred Ball [?], aged 36 years.
On Tuesday last, after a short illness, in his 54th [?] year, the Rev. Godfrey Goodman, Rector of Kemerton, near Tewkesbury, he was sufficiently well to perform the whole of the morning and afternoon service on Sunday last.- Mr.G. was presented to the living only about twelve months ago. The advowson of Kemerton is in the Corporation of Gloucester, to whom it was granted by Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Gloucester, in 1688. The deed enjoins that it shall be given to one of the Bishop's descendants, if any of them who may be duly qualified shall make application within a prescribed time; otherwise it goes to the son of the Mayor or the senior Alderman.
On the 19th inst, aged seventy-two, Mr Benjamin Briant, who has lived for forty-six years as steward in the service of Sir Clement, and after his decease of Lady Cottrell Dormer.
Lately, Elizabeth, wife of Mr John Hood, of the Unicorn Inn, Chipping Norton.
A few days since, aged 87, Mr French, of Deddington.
Yesterday morning, after a long illness, Mr. W. Faulkner, of St.Aldate's, Oxford, aged 68 years.
On Monday, Mrs Moore, of Windsor, at an advanced age.
On Saturday last, in Broad street, Oxford, Mr Levasseur, fencing master and French teacher in this University.
Suddenly at Calais, on the 15th instant, John Woodcock, Esq of Fern Acres, Bucks, aged 55.
On Wednesday last, at Chilton, Bucks, Mr. Thomas Bagot, aged 92 years. Deceased had been bed-ridden eleven years and has left three children, all advanced in years - his son being 72, a daughter 70, and his other daughter between 60 and 70 years old.
At Newport Pagnel, on Sunday, the 8th inst, Mrs Chapman, mother of Mr W. Chapman, of Newport Pagnel, draper.
Mrs Erskine, the widow of Dr. Erskine, brother to the present Lord, died suddenly on Thursday, at the Adams Arms, in Lower Southampton street, Fitzroy-square, into which she had run to escape from a shower of rain.- An inquest was held on the body on Friday, and a verdict of "Died of apoplexy" recorded.
We have seldom had to record a more affecting instance of the sudden termination of life than occurred at the village of Askam Richard, near this city, last week. An aged couple, of the name of Rennison, had long subsisted on the pittance afforded by the parish. On Wednesday the husband arose and prepared breakfast for his partner, which he carried up to her in her bed. On approaching the bedside, he found that, in the short space of time since he had left her, the mortal struggle had passed. In his grief at this sudden bereavement he was heard to exclaim that "he wished the Lord would provide a place for him also." His prayer was heard - for before the close of the evening he was called to ' where the weary are at rest." Their remains were interred in one grave on Saturday last.- York Courant.
L. WHITE
CORSET, STAY & DRESS MAKER, MILLINER, &c.
RESPECTFULLY returns her most sincere thanks to the Nobility, Gentry, and Inhabitants of Windsor, Eton, and their vicinities, for the liberal encouragement she had received in the above businesses; and now begs to acquaint her numerous friends that she had removed to 13, (opposite the Star and Garter) Peascod-street, and hopes, by strict attention to business to merit their future favors.
L.W. takes this opportunity of informing her friends, that the business in Thames-street, carried on by her Nieces, late in her employ, in entirely unconcerned with the above.
WANTED a healthy young Woman, with a good breast of milk, she must be a married woman, and able to produce a satisfactory character.
Inquire at the Express Office, Windsor.