The Press. — London, England, 1857-11-14 00:00:00

Y , ..irdrar.r. THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 14, 1857. 1106 THE EXETER•HALL SERVICES have been " vetoed " by the Rev. Mr. Edouart, the incumbent of St. Michael's parish, Strand, who has addressed a letter to the Bishop of London, with a view to vindicate the prohibition of the Sunday services at E xeter ball. The rev. gentleman declares that in protest ing against "public preaching" within his parish by "strange clergymen," and in "an unconsecrat..d building," he is only upholding the parochial system and the discipline of the Church: — In thus protesting against public preaching within my parish by strange clergymen, and in an unconsecrated building, i am only upholding the parochial system which for many centuries has been maintained inviolable throughout England, and am setting my face against a proceeding altogether irregular, and which, if permitted, would prove thoroughly subversive of all discipline and order in the Church, and would tend, beyond all concep tion, to destroy that form of sound words so essential to the purity and power of our branch of Christ's Church. In conclusion, Mr. Edouart, " acting under the advice of counsel," supports his argument with legal precedents, and hopes the bishop, " b 3 the interposi tion of his authority," will relieve him from the ne cessity of "further proceedings." It is understood that an appeal to the courts of law, it' the bishop re fuse to interfere, will be made. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY has consented to preside at a general meeting, which is to he held on the '26th inst., to take into consideration the sub ject of the extension of the Church of England's missions in India. THE BRITISH BANK SHAREHOLDERS on Wednesday evening held a meeting at Guildhall, Mr. Wyld, M.l'., in the chair. The chairman said that if the arrange ment to pay 6s. 6d. in the pound were carried out by the shareholders it would finally put an end to the affair. In reply to a shareholder, Mr. Linklater said that each shareholder who paid the 6s. 61 in the pound would receive his release. Mr. Harding said that he had received promises to the amount of 85,8991. 2s. 4d ., to which th ere were offsets, leaving about 65,0001. He thought 113,000/. might be got from persons who had made no offer. Mr. Humphrey Brown alluded to the approaching trials, but was called to order. Before the meeting separated, Mr. Harding announced that fresh offers to the amount of 11,7001. had been made. THE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS have dis covered that the Board of Examiners in its constitu tion and proceedings are illegal. The board has been established for ten years, and this discovery has given rise to a lively discussion between the board and the council, resulting in the suppression of the Board and the resignation of Dr. Booth. THE REGISTRAR GENERAL'S RETURNS exhibit that increase in mortality usually looked for in November. The deaths have risen from 988 and 1,017 in the two preceding weeks to 1,160 in this week. The greatest increase is observable among persons of the ages of sixty and upwards. The births for the same period amounted to 1,682 children. Vrahintial. A FOURTH VICTIM has been added to the cata logue of persons killed by the collision of the pas senger trains on the South Wales Railway, near Pyle, on the 14th ult. John Lawson, the driver of the down passenger-train, which, it will be remem. tiered, was travelling at the time upon the wrong line of rails, under written orders from the station roaster at Stormy, is the fourth victim. He received severe injuries, besides having a leg broken, and he died at Swansea, whither he had been removed after the accident. The inquest on the bodies of Mr. Ashman and Mrs. Israel was resumed on Tuesday. Colonel Wynn, Government inspector of railways, has visited the spot, and instituted a strict inquiry into the circumstances, the result of which he will duly report to the Government. SHOP AND HOUSE OF A CHEMIST, a Mr. Ince, near Wigan, was blown up last evening by gunpowder. A large quantity blasting gunpowder was lying loose in the the fellow hail the imprudence to light his the powder in this exposed position. Of spark from the piece of lighted paper fell powder. Two children were killed, and the his wife most seriously injured. PERSONS, Williams, and two brothers, , in the employ of the Government, at, their itory, Birmingham, have been arrested on of being connected with the late robbery of lent firearms. ;DEN CHURCH 15 to be restored. Sir S. .he Rev. Mr. Glynne, and the Right Hon. Gladstone, M.P., have presented 2,0001. the 4,0001. required to restore the church, i the parishioners agreed to raise 1,0001. by A resolution approving of the plan was pro seconded, and carried unanimously. In ing a resolution, proposed by Archdeacon lam, that subscription lists be forthwith opened, ladstone, referring to the fire, said : • The calamity we have suffered has excited a great feel ing even in remote parts of the country; and I can say of my own knowledge that it has everywhere given birth to a sense of shame that so base a crime should have been committed. There are some sins criminals would not commit. I verily believe if you were to turn all the criminals out of Chester Castle to•morrow, you would not find one among them who would have condescended to burn a church in any p arish ; you cannot find a motive in heaven or earth, you must go elsewhere to find a motive which could induce a man to perpetrate such an act of unkindness and cruelty to his fellow-creatures, and shame and dishonour to his God. A reward of 1501. has been offered for the apprehen sion of the incendiary. A SINGULAR SERIES OF CASUALTIES has occurred within the past two or three days on the Tyne. A barque, the Magna Charta, struck on the insand in going out of the shortly after c Northumberland Dock, struck on the ground, and her back is also broken. On Saturday the Pioneer, iron screw steamer, ran over a heavy coal lighter, and sunk her. A brig that was coming down after the steamer unfortunate:y struck on the lighter and was impaled there. The barque George Fife, from Quebec, drove on the Herd Sand, and on Sunday evening there was every prospect that she would become a total wreck. THE TIGER which recently broke loose in Rat cliffe-highway has now rendered himself famous. The tiger was the property of Mr. Jamrach, and lie sold it a day or two after its escapade in London to Mr. Edmonds, the successor of Womb well, for his well-known travelling menagerie, which it joined on Monday at West Bromwich. It was placed in one of the ordinary carriages, one of two compartments, the adjoining den being occupied by a very fine lion, six or seven years old, for which Mr. Edmonds gave 3001. three years ago. suddenly a tremendous uproar was heard in the menagerie. The tiger had broken through the "slide," or parti tion, dividing his den from that of the lion, and had the latter in his terrible grasp. The combat which ensued was terrific. The lion acted chiefly on the defensive, and having probably been considerably tamed by his three years' confinement the tiger had the advantage. His attacks were of the most fero cious kind. The lion's mane saved his head and neck from being much injured, but the tiger at last succeeded in thrcwing his antagonist, and seizing the lion by the belly, in the twinkling of an eye ripped him up, and the poor animal was dead in a few minutes. The brutes in the other dens are said to have been much excited by the conflict, and their roaring and howling might have been heard a quar ter of a mile distant. Of course Mr. Edmonds and his men could not interfere while the conflict lasted, but when the tiger's fury had partly subsided they managed to remove the carcase of the dead lion. THE Bisuor OF OXFORD this week delivered his triennial charge to the clergy at Newport Pagnell. In the course of his charge his lordship took occa sion to refer to the Matrimonial Causes Bill : Our duty under these painful circumstances (said the bishop) seems to me to be plain. We cannot let the matter rest where it is. For whether or not we think that the innocent parties ought to be set free from an adulterous union and suffered to marry again is not the question. It is whether for ourselves and our children we can permit the Church of this land to be degraded from being a witness for God to be a mere earthly machinery, and to speak the 'words which the State may put into her mouth. And against this we ought to protest, by requiring that those marriages which the State resolves to legalise against the Church's law should be contracted before the civil magistrate without the profanation of our appointed prayers. THE FIRST PORTION OF THE EAST KENT RAILWAY (from Chatham to Faversham) was opened on Wed nesday last with great klat. In a few months the whole line to Canterbury will be finished. tiant. Wrrs respect to the present monetary crisis, the Dublin papers are generally using every endeavour to calm the apprehensions of the public. A panic has nevertheless broken oat in Belfast ; the mills are working only half time, and a vast amount of labour is thrown out of employ. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRF.I.AtiD has filed ex officio informations in the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, against the Rev. Messrs. Conway and Ryan, against whom the House of Commons ordered pro ceedings to be taken in reference to the late Mayo \ election. MR. CONNELL, a farmer in the county of' Meath, whose barbarous beating by a party of Ribbonmen was announced last week, expired of his woun ds on Friday week. WHILE the Roman Catholic priests — and a lar g e number of the laity also, it must be said — are hold ing aloof from the national subscription f or the Indian Fund, the Protestant public of Irelan d have , displayed the best spirit in the matter. The Dublin contribution now amounts to within a few pounds of 12,00 W., and this is exclusive of funds yet to accrue from denominational collections made by Dissenting bodies in corporate capacities, which have not yet been handed to the treasurers. A movement has been set on foot in Galway, under the auspices of the Marquis of Clanricarde, who, in a speech made at a meeting on this subject this day week, vigo• rously defended Lord Canning against the criticisms passed upon his acts by a portion of the London press. Hts Gr..tcF. TILE Anesarsuor , OF DUBLIN deli. vered an interesting lecture on Tuesday, at the Rotundo, on the social life of Egypt. The object of the lecturer was to contrast Egypt with our own country ; and his observations were quite apropos of the state of feeling which exists among a class of the Irish population who are continually, in their journals, libelling the institutions of England. In deed, Dr. Whately seems to have intended the appli cation of his remarks to such, since he closed thus, alluding to the home sepoys and the exaggerating press. In conclusion, he remarked upon the prac ice of some writers of exaggerating every evil they could find in the British Constitution, and of passing over all that was good and praiseworthy in it : An Eastern despot, reading the productions of one of these writers, would say that, with all our precautions, we are the worst-governed people on earth,and that our law courts and public offices are merely a complicated machi nery for oppressing the mass of the people ; that our House of Lords and Commons are utterly mismanaged, our public men striving to repress merit, and that our best plan would be to sweep away all those, as with less trouble matters might go on better, and could not go on worse. Charges of this nature cannot be brought pub licly forward in the Turkish empire. In Cairo a man was beheaded because he made too free a use of his tongue. He was told not to he speaking of the insurrection in Syria, and had dared to be chattering about the news. There are other countries, also, where, because elicit charges are true, it would not be safe to circulate them. But those writers do not mean half what they set forth. They heighten their descriptions to display their elo quence; but the tendency of such publications is always towards revolution, and the prac:ical effect on the minds of the people is to render them incredulous. They un derstand that these overwrought representations are for effect, and they go about their business with an impres sion that the whole is unreal. If one of these writers were visited himself with a horrible dream that he was a pea sant under an Oriental despot—that he was taxed at the will of the Sovereign, and had to pay the assessment in produce, valued at half market price—that he was com pelled to work and receive four-fifths of his low wages in food consisting of bard sour biscuit—let him then dream that be hail spoken against the Ministry, and that he finds himself bastinadoed till he confesses that he. brought false charges; that his grown-up son has been dragged off for a soldier and himself deprived of his only support, and be would be inclined to doubt whether ours is the worse system of government after all. 7 : *ab3 aub THE ACCIDENT AT MILLWALL. THE coroner's inquest upon the body of the man Donovan, killed last week at the recent attempt to launch the Leviathan, was held on Monday last, and was remarkable for the explanation given by Mr. Brunel of the cause of the accident which killed the man. [t will be remembered that Donovan and four others were struck heavily by the handle of a winch, which a sudden strain from the ship's rapid passage down the slides caused to revolve with great rapidity. Mr. Brunel, who was examined at the inquest, said : It is a common thing to launch ships in this way, and there is nothing new in it. The machinery that was used principally on that occasion consisted of two hydraulic presses, one at each launching way—by them I mean the cradles. One was a ten-inch press and the other twelve-inch. The pressure could not have exceed.2d wals 3090 tons at one, and 150 at the other, but I do not think o great a pressure was put on. At each launching way was a powerful chain and tackle, with a double sheet purchase block. The chains weighed about 500 cwt. to the fathom. They were made for the purpose. Th es e chains wero wound round large drums eighteen feet long and about eight feet diameter. T here were powerful breaks; besides this, there were chains fro nt the shi p , fore and aft, from barges moored in the river. These chains were brought back to the shore and worked by steam engines. The chain was brought back to the shore to an ordinary w lass worked by machin er y . There were four barges with powerful chains and purchases worked by hand. These were to assist it' required , but were not used for the purpose of easing the launch. Attached to the great drums were checking chains with some ordinary wheetwork and handles, which had been used for winding the chain un on to the drums, and w ere ke p t on for the purpose of - w inding the drum, so that the ship should move easily. To each drum there was at some distance behind it an ordinary " crab " with rope tackle to assist in overhanlin at g th e great chain in the event o f the ship no t moving. Th was the tackle to which t he witness R o sa referred, but it had nothing to do with the starting of the ship or the machinery, and his business was merely to unhook it if not wanted. The rope he alluded to was not a thick rope, but a small one, as thick as a luau's thumb. The ship was not affected by it, nor was the signal alluded to by him of any importance, but he was in a very good Moore, of Saturday of collier's 1 shop, and t gas, with tl course a sp upon the pi man and b THREE Brereton, I arms-facto suspicion GovernME HAWARI Glynne, t 1 W. E. C towards provided a rate. . posed, s secondin Wickhas Dir. Gls( ,••••*