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An address expressing "deco regret and poignant sorrow" that Robert Owen should have been introduced to the Queen, has been signed by 15,200 women of Liverpool, and presented to her Majesty by the Marquis of Normanhy.
At a meeting of the London and Birmingham Railway proprietors, held in Birmingham on the tilt instant, a dividend of 4 per cent. was declared, and a seta:din:tory statement given of the Company's affairs. It was agreed to raise 25o,n0W. on loan notes to defray the expenses of erecting buildings required for the increased traffic on the railway.
In most of the provincial towns, the Queen's marriage was celebrated by illuminations and other demoostrations of loyal joy.
Mr. John Richardson Correia a Commoner of Ballot College, Ox- firril, and a very promising young man, was drowned on Thursday week, in coosequence of unskilful management of a boat on the river.
Mr. Nevil Norway, a timber and iron-merchant of Wodebridge, in Cornwall, was murdered on Saturday night, as he returned on horseback from Bodmin to Wodebridge, w itlt a considerable sum of money. The alarm was first occasioned by the arrival of the horse at home without his rider, and the saddle bloody. Mr. Norway's body was found with his bead in a mill-pond, the money missing. He has left a wife and eight young children. Four persons are in custody on suspicion.
An old woman, employed to carry the letter-bags between the village of Newbridge, in Monmouthshire, and the neighbouring villages, wi!s murdered on Wednesday, and the body found immersed in water. It is supposed that the murderers expected to have found a large sum of money sent up to one of the iron-works to pay workmen, but it had been conveyed by a special messenger. There have been four incendiary fires in the neighbourhood of Shef- field this week, and one at Bolton. The Sheffield fires destroyed farm- ing property ; at Bolton premises in a timber-yard were partially consumed. " Chartist villany " is said to be the parent of these con- flagrations. The Horsham Bank was broken open on Friday night, and between five and six thousand pounds in notes and gold carried oft'.
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