15 July 1843 News Items - Cumberland and Westmorland Newspaper Transcriptions

15 July 1843 News Items

The Dissenters and the Education Bill.

The Manchester Guardian, a fierce advocate of the mill owners and the
dissenting interests, has an article in a late number, condemnatory of the
conduct of the bill. We take from this article the following significant
paragraph. "We believe that the dissenters, in the peculiar opposition
which they have offered to the educational clauses, have fallen into an
error similar in character to that which they committed in 1834; that their
conduct is calculated to retard the extension of education to the children
of the poor, and the damage, instead of advancing, the true interests of
civil and religious liberty."

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Chester Cheese Fair.

At this fair, on Tuesday, a very light quantity, say about fifty tons, was
piled for sale, much less than at any previous July fair. This was caused
by the very deficient make of last year, being about one-fourth below an
average; and created an advance. The sale was brisk, and prices ruled
generally from 55s. to 65s., being an advance of 4s. to 7s., per cwt. above
last fair. There was no fine cheese in the market. By *Michaelmas,* when
markets are freely supplied with new cheese, prices will doubtless recede as
low as they were three months back.

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The Wine Trade.

The following is the proposed arrangements of the long-pending, question
respecting the return of duty on wine merchants; stocks, to take effect in
the event of a treaty for a reduction of duties being made with any of the
wine-growing countries:-
1. The duty is to be returned to dealers only. Those selling wine to the
consumed on the premises will not have the benefit of the return unless they
hold the ten-guinea license. Dealers to be excluded who have any Cape wine,
or wine from the Channel Islands, or sweet in the same premises.

2. The duty will be returned on all such wine as may be henceforth cleared
from the Customs, provided a stock equal thereto shall be found in the
dealer's possession at the time of the reduction of duty. If the stock be
less than the quantity cleared, then the return will be made on the actual
stock. The return is limited, however, to the quantity duty paid, if
Portugal or French wine, within two years previous to the reduction or if
any other foreign wine within six months before, even if the stock should
exceed this amount.

3. Declaration are to be forthwith called for the dealers' stocks at
present, to be tested by an examination of the stock and bind books.

4. A book is to be kept by every dealer, open to the inspection of the
excise officers. In which shall be entered the stock now declared, and an
account of all wines received in or delivered out, also a separate account
of wine exported.

The above arrangement is to take effect from Monday next, the 17th instant.
It must, however, be considered as providing for an event probably very
distant; for the lords of the treasury observe, that, "from the termination
of the negotiations with Portugal, they see no reason to anticipate a
reduction of duty."

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His Majesty the King of Hanover.

It is a well known fact that her late Royal Highness the Princess Augusta,
in consequence of the unbounded charity and benevolence she practised during
her long life - (for her Royal Highness in acts of kindness to the numerous
distressed objects of her bounty was liberal to a fault,) died in anything
but affluent circumstances; although the property possessed by the Princess
at her death was quite sufficient to pay every outstanding engagement to the
various tradesmen and others connect with her Royal Highness's Household. a
great portion of the late Princess's valuable plate and jewels was
bequeathed at her deceased to her illustious brother, his Majesty the King
of Hanover. No sooner, however, was his Majesty made acquainted with the
circumstance that the domestics in his Royal sister's household (many of
whom had been for upwards of twenty and thirty years in her late Royal
Highness's establishment) were left totally unprovided for, than his Majesty
(with the most kindly feeling and benevolent consideration for the welfare
of those domestics of his late sister) commanded that the whole of the
property thus bequeathed to him should be valued by an eminent jeweller,
before it was forwarded to Hanover, in order that the domestics, who had
been deprived of so kind a mistress, should not be left entirely destitute
after their long and faithful services, his Majesty having been graciously
pleased to express his determination to forward the amount at which the
plate and jewellery were valued, to England, to be appropriated amongst the
household of the deceased Princess. this benevolent arrangement on the part
of the King of Hanover was immediately acted upon, and the whole sum at
which the valuable pieces of family plate and jewellery were estimated, was
devoted to those purposes in conformity with the highly praiseworthy designs
of his Majesty.

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Roman Antiquities in Moorfields.

In the course of the excavations now going on to the south of Sun-street,
Bishopsgate, a large quantity of horns of bullocks and rams has been dug up,
together with other bones of various animals. In Peter-street, part of a
peat bed was discovered, near which was a well, and in it a pump formed from
the trunk of a tree. A red earthen jug was in the well, in perfect
preservation. Several red earthen pipes, said to be of Roman construction,
and some coins were scattered about. It is supposed, that the whole space
between Bishopsgate-street and the Finsbury pavement, and north of the old
Roman wall, contains similar remains. This space is said to have been a
moor or marshy ground, whence the name Moorefields. It was here that much
of the rubbish from the neighbourhood was thrown together after the great
fire, and accordingly broken bricks, tiles, &c., are mixed up with the
earth, many of which are blackened by the action of fire.

Athenaum.