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Intimation has been given by Mr. Justice Coleridge, Archdeacon Man- ning, and Archdeacon Wilberforce, that a sum of money has been placed in their hands to form the commencement of a fund for the foundation of a College in the University of Oxford, the object of which will be to in- crease the supply of well-educated clergy for the Church at home, and to render the advantage of Oxford more easily accessible to many men of small means who are preparing for other liberal professionii. The sum already offered by twelve persons somewhat exceeds 3,0001; but it is com- puted that as much as 30,0001. will be requisite for the site, building, and en- dowment for fifty students; and should 50,000/. be subscribed, the number of students might be proportionably increased. There will be no diffi- culty, it is said, in obtaining an eligible site for the new College.—Globe. Application is to be made to Parliament in the ensuing session for an act for the division of the parish and rectory of Manchester into distinct and separate rectories, parishes, and districts, for ecclesiastical purposes; for their endowment, for building churches therein, fixing the right of patron- age, and providing parsonage-houses for their incumbents and residences for the Dean and Canons of the Collegiate Church, and for selling or letting the houses intended for residences of the Dean and Canons.—Morning Pest.
The Church of the Holy Trinity at Runcorn was reopened for religious service on Wednesday last. The church was built in 1837, chiefly at the voluntary cost of the gentry in the neighbourhood. In 1838, the Countess of Ellesmere caused an infants' school to be erected near it, at the cost of 4501 Soon afterwards, the incumbent, the Reverend James Cox, pro- jected the addition of a school for pupils of more advanced age. The pre- sent school was therefore erected. It is a building in the Elizabethan style, capable of accommodating 150 boys and 150 girls, with washing- rooms, play-ground, and residence for the master. The Earl contributed 4501. of the 1,400/. expended. As soon as the schools were finished and filled, it was found that the church had become too smalL It has there- fore been so enlarged that it will contain 900 sittings—the sittings of the poor being made especially convenient. Towards the cost of these last measures the Earl of Ellesmere subscribed 300/.
At Ipswich, on Monday, Mr. James Hoag, a gentleman in the employ of the Bank of England, was charged with having wilfully altered the register of a marriage between John Fenner and Susanna Burnby. The register was in St. Rmawald's Church. It was alleged that Mr. Boag had taken an opportunity while examining the register to alter the name of Busby to Burnaby. The mo- tive for such an act does not distinctly appear in the report of the case; but it seems that money was coining to Fenner, Boag, and the ei-devant Burnby. The Magistrates thought enough had been proved to warrant their holding Mr. Hoag to bail for the production of another witness who was then absent from the town, There has been fresh insubordination in the Third Regiment of Dragoons. A troop of the regiment has been quartered for some time at Loughborough, which is about fifteen miles from Nottingham. On Wednesday sennight, an order was received from the Colonel, Lord Cathcart, that the men generally should be in berracks at twenty minutes past eight, instead of at nine, the usual hour for cavalry regiments. The men were dissatisfied, and resolved to disobey the order. When the roll was called at twenty minutes past eight, the whole troop except nine or tea were absent; the force in hand was too small to send out piequets after the truants, so the commanding officer perforce waited their return of their own ac- cord. About nine o'clock, the bulk of the men returned, a dozen being absent. In the course of the night three more surrendered themselves, and were placed in the guard-room. But next day these men knocked down the corporal and sentry who were guarding them, and got clear off. On Friday, they were captured at Sheepshed, without shoes or jackets; and they were subsequently taken to Not- tiogham. The other absentees have all returned or been arrested. The opinion of the lower classes of the people is strongly in favour of the soldiers, who are con- sidered to have been hardly used.
Thomas Davidson, a game-watcher for Sir James Graham in the wild dietriet ofBerreastle, on the borders between Scotland and East Cumberland, has been murdered. Joseph Hogg, a poacher, had been fined on Davidson's evidence.; Hogg's father is in gaol by the same means; and Joseph had been heard to threaten the watcher. One night, Davidson did not return home; search was made; and on the third day his body was found on the heights, about two miles from his house, with meek' which showed that he bad been murdered by stran- gulation. Joseph Hogg, John Nichol, and Andrew Turnbull, all poachers, were arrested on suspicion. It appeared at the inquest, that the men were near the fatal spot on the day of the murder. On the second day of the inquiry, Turnbull made a statement to the Superintendent of Police. The three went "out to- gether poaching on the morning of the day of the murder, and they then agreed that if they met deceased they would kill him. After shooting the whole day, they were on their return home at night, when the deceased saw and chased them about a hundred yards. Joseph Hogg and John Nichol then turned round upon and seized the deceased, and strangled him; but he (Turnbull) ran away, and left the other two prisoners; and was thus unable to give further pa] tioulars. The last that he saw was Hogg and the deceased falling down together.' Joseph }Ione had a scratch on his upper lip, and there was blood on the knee of his trou- sers. The inquest has been adjourned. Accounts from Liverpool state that a serious accident occurred at the Britannia Bridge on Tuesday. Some supports gave way, and a cylinder was thrown out of place into the channel; killing one man and wounding several others in its descent. A very melancholy accident has destroyed Mr. William Armitage, the inventor a the railway fog-signal, with his father, his housekeeper, and a boy and girl employed by him. Mr. Armitage was a chemist residing at Louth in Lincolnshire; besides the fog-signal, he had invented a snow-tal and a redhandelight, for rallways, but he had registered only the light. The composition of the fog-signal Was known only to himself, his apprentice Walker, and Cotton, a porter. The chief explosive ingredient seems to have been chlorate of Maas. The compound was put in tin boxes in a damp state, and when dried a lid was placed on them, and the signals were otherwise made ready for use. On Saturday last, Mr. Armitage was making up a large order, which he wanted completed by night. To dry the composition in the boxes, the inventor had recently been in the habit of putting the articles into the kitchen-oven. On Saturday afternoon, about fifty boxes were in the oven ; there was a large fire, as the housekeeper wasironing linen. A very strong smell had been perceptible. Old Mr. Armitage and the boy and girl were in a room over the kitchen filling boxes. The housekeeper and a female servant were in the kitchen. Mr. Ar- mitage entered, and opened the door of the oven: instantly there was a terrible explosion; the kitchen and parts of the building near it becoming a heap of ruins. The father, the son, and the girl, were taken out dead ; the housekeeper and the boy were rescued alive, bat died soon after ; the female servant was mangled in the face, but escaped through a window which was blown out by the explosion. Engines stopped the lire from spreading, and thus prevented the great explosions which the nature of the stock in the house would have caused. At the invest, on Monday, Walker and the servant were examined; and the Jury gave a verdict describing the manner of death ; adding, they were of opinion that due caation had not been observed in the drying of the signals."
The house of Blenheim has been in peril from fire. A qu may of green grass was thrown into a muck-bin near the stables, and over it manure accumulated; the grass took fire. About three o'clock in the morning, a female servant smelt the fire, and aroused the household ; a fire engine was set to work, and the flames were extinguished. Had the fire got a greater hold before it was discovered, the blazing hay and straw in the stable would probably have endangered a whole wing of the palace.
Several fires are reported in Cambridgeshire, and they are said to be wilful.
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