ENGLISH NEWS.
Two more important and deplorable secessions to the Church of Rome, occurred immediately before we left England, Viscount Fielding, M.P., and the Rev. Byre Stewart Bathurst, the latter resigning his living of Kinworth Beecham, Leicestershire^ value £1500 per annum.
The Chartist Coloxy. — Mr. Feargus O'Connor has commenced legal proceedings for the purpose of recovering rents from the 152 allottees at 'Sing's End. On Wednesday week, '"bailiffs proceeded from Gloucester to serve'fiftytwo writs. The colonists, who had got intelligence of the coming storm, held a meeting on the preceding evening, and concerted their arrangements. On the appearance of the bailiffs, they intimated that they would " manure the land with their blood before it should be taken from them." The bailiffs, we understand, did not make a levy, being convinced by the statements of the colonists that it would be illegal and impracticable: illegal, because the colonists are not tenants 4 and impracticable, because a most determined resistance would have been offered to them. The bailiffs, therefore, retired, and the colonists are now awaiting with some anxiety the next step of Mr. O'Connor towards his " children."
. Sale of Chartist Allotments in Oxfordshire. —On Saturday last, the allotments at Minster Lovell, (one of Mr. Feargus ©'Conner's land schemes) were brought to the hammer, at Oxford, by order of the mortgagees, who have a claim of £5000 upon the whole of the estate, which, as described in the catalogue, comprises 297 acres of superior land (the superiority of the land may be inferred from the fact, that seven acres and a half, with a good shed upon it, realised £198 only), and 82 excellent cottages of three, four, and more rooms each. The auction was attended by a large number of occupiers and others, who were attracted to the room, no doubt expecting to see some fun, in consequence of the following having been circulated previous to the sale, TnoTe than for the purpose of purchasing : —" Minster Lovell Estate.—Notice is hereby given, that any persons purchasing any portion of the above-named property, which is advertised for. sale at the Star Hotel,' Oxford, on the 31st of August/1850, will thereby involve themselves in a suit in Chancery." One of the occupants, in addressing the auctioneer, said it was the intention of all of them to keep possession, or throw it into Chancery. This threat of not giving up peaceable possession by the present tenants (who considered the allotments theirs) seemed to have the effect of restraining persons from becoming purchasers, for out of the 85 lots only 6 were really sold; severaliwere bought in, and for the greater majority of the lots there were no bidders. One lot, consisting of a cottage and four acres of land, with a rent-charge of £l. Bs., and a land tax of 45., realised £250. Another, with two acres, and proportionate outgoings, was knocked down for £125. The cottages cost building £ 150 each. A soliciter attended on the part of Mr. F. O'Connor.—[We think our Canterbury colonists will have no wish to exchange their condition with that of Mr. Feargus O'Connor's " children?']
One of tTae most interesting events which occurred immediately before our leaving England was the completion of the submarine electric telegraph between Dover and Calais. The ■electricwire lies along the bottom of the Channel between Dover and Cape Grinez, enclosed in a gutta percha tube. Shortly after being laid down, the tube was cut in two by the rocks close to the French coast, but the breakage was speedily repaired, and the position of the wire altered, so as to ensure its future security. A similar communication will shortly be established with Ireland.
Louis Phillippe, the ex-king of the French, was buried in the vault of a Roman Catholic chapel, attached to the residence of Miss Taylor, at Weybridge, on Monday, Sep. 3. The funeral was conducted with the utmost simplicity.
The English papers were full of the accounts of the Queen's visit to Balmoral. In passing through Edinburgh she took up her abode in Holyrood Palace. The prince laid the founda-tion-stone for the, National Gallery of Scotland.
Ikelasp.—Conciliation hallwasfinally closed, and the Bepeal Association at an end, tlje rent ])ein^ insufficiento P ay t^e expenses.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume 1, Issue 2, 18 January 1851, Page 2
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