The Press. — London, England, 1853-07-23 00:00:00

AnN 23, 1853. dark and squally, the boat in which White was placed was hauled close up to the Cleopatra in a very dangerous position. It capsized once, but rjldited again, and White continued in it. This was to the captain, who refused with an oath to allow any person to interfere, and the result was that the boat again capsized and White was drowned. Shortly after this the crew seized the captain, kept him in irons in his own cabin, and navigated the vessel to Barbadoes, where Captain Chapman, by means of a doctor who boarded the ship, communi cated with the authorities, who arrested the en: tire crew, and all, with the exception of Duncan, the carpenter, were tried for mutiny, and sentenced to from one to three years' imprisonment. Duncan, having returned to England in another ship, brought this charge of murder against the captain, who was accordingly arrested at Liverpool. After hearing the evidence in support of the charge, the magistrate ex pressed hia conviction that it was not sufficient to justify him in committing the prisoner, who was ac cordingly discharged. Foil STARVING HIB WIFE TO DEATH, one Garnett, a cabinet-maker, was committed on Saturday last by a coroner's jury on a verdict of manslaughter. The evidence went to show that the wretch was in the habit of treating his wife with the almost unheard of cruelty, leaving her and her children without food for days together, although in the constant receipt of 30s. and upwards per week. He had been known to come home and cook a steak for his own dinner, and sit down and eat the whole of it before his wife and children, knowing, at the same time, that they had had no food. The deceased had obtained a medical order, a short time since, to come into the me work house, but, when she got a little b etter, begg her discharge, for fear of the neglect and ill-treatment of her two children by her husband, with whom they were left. On her going out her treatment was just the same, and sheer exhaustion, from want of nourishment, induced her again to seek an asylum in the workhouse, where she died the day after her admission. A FIRE broke out on Wednesday morning on the premises of Messrs. Cartell and Brown, wholesale confectioners, Princes-street, Soho. Notwithstanding the efforts of the firemen, the flames communicated to the houses of Mr. Lane, baker. Mr. Fitch, brick layer, Mr. Farrel, Rupert-street, Mr. John Beadon. and Mr. John Hodges, licensed victualler, anti were not extinguished before very great destruction of property had taken place. A FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION happened last week at some ironworks near Bilston, in Staffordshire. The engine was standing still at the time, and a number of men were grouped round the fire, when suddenly the boiler exploded, killing two men on the spot, and severely scalding thirteen or fourteen others, one of whom died in a few hours. Some heavy masses of metal were hurled a distance of 2(X yards. AN INHUHAN OUTRAGE was committed on Sunday week at Barnet on a poor woman named Rebecca Brysdon by a party of four Irish tramps. She had travelled a long distance, and took shelter in a barn, where the miscreants entered afterwards and ill treated her so brutally that she died on Wednes day last. A Government reward of 1001. was offered for their apprehension, and two of the number were captured, and, after examination before the local magistrates, remanded to prison. It is expected that the others will be apprehended before long. Two CHILDREN WERE MURDERED NY THEIR MOTHER in Birmingham yesterday week. They were twins, and about two years old. On that morning the neighbours were surprised by the unusual silence in the house which they inhabited, and some of them, entering, found both the children dead in bed, evi dently from the effects of laudanum. The mother had gone off, but was followed, and, though she had herself swallowed some of the poison, remedies were applied, and she recovered. She is now in custody. A SUICIDE was committed on Monday night at Kensington, near Lord Holland's Park, by a man named Abraham Giles, who shot himself with a holster pistol. The deceased, who was in the employ of a Mr. Stranham ' had been paying his addresses to a servant girl, and it appeared that during the last month some misunderstanding had occurred between them. On Monday night he paid her a visit, and upon leaving placed his hat upon the railings in front of the house, and in a most deliberate manner blew out his brains. A CONFLAGRATION occurred on Saturday afternoon in a narrow street running between Sloane-street and the Brampton-road. The flames broke out in a timber-yard, where an immense stock of mahogany, deals, &c., was totally consumed, and extended to several adjoining habitations, six of which were more or less damaged before the fire could be extinguished. The resulting loss is estimated at many thousand pounds. THE CORPSE Or A MAN respectably dressed was thrown up last week on the beach at Walton Bay, near Weston-super-Mare. It was identified as the body of a Mr. Joseph smith, a retired furniture• THE PRESS. - - - dealer of London. There were marks of violence on the head and face of the deceased, who had bean staying at Clevedon for the benefit of his health, and the breast-pocket of his coat, in which he carried his pocket-book, was turned inside out, and the pocket book was missing. Deceased bad recently sold a policy of insurance on his life for 1,000/. for the sum of W 4., and he had received on account a cheque for 210/. a short time before he left his lodgings. Au inquest was held on Wednesday, but adjourned, that a post-mortem examination might be made. rtlanb. Accounts have been received in Dublin stating that the Royal visit, which had been delayed by the illness of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, is to take place about the close of the next month. The reports of the crops are still very favourable, showing that the heavy rain has caused no material injury, even to wheat. With respect to the potato crop, the provincial journals, with scarcely an excep tion, contain the most satisfactory accounts. The United Service Gazette says : " In consequence of its not being possible to bring together with convenience a sufficient number of regiment* to form another division to succeed the one now being encamped at Chobhatu•connuon , it is probable that troupe will be concem Crated in Ireland, and the eurragh of Kildare has been mentioned as the place likely to be selected for the third encampment for this year." The jury empannelled to try the alleged mur derers of Mr. liateson were discharged yesterday week. They had been occupied during six days in hearing or considering the evidence, and had been locked up since the preceding Wednesday evening. The foreman stated to the last that there was no prospect whatever of their agreeing on a verdict, and the judge discharged them, believing that human nature could not endure much longer the confine ment and deprivation without serious jeopardy to health. The expected trial of twenty. live men at the Ennis killen Assizes, on a charge of conspiring to s hoot an agent, resulted in the liberation of all the prisoners on their own recoguisances, the approver on whose ormation they were charged having absconded. An extraordinary libel case, " Birch v. Gray," was :ommenced on Monday in the Record Court of the county Kildare. The plaintiff' was the proprietor of the late World newspaper, and he sued for damages from the proprietor of the Freeman's Journal for the publication of articles calculated to injure him in the estimation of his countrymen. The alleged libels re lated to the actions tried some two years suice, one in which Birch was plaintiff and the Irish Viceroy virtual defendant ; in the other a lady was plaintiff, and Birch received a sentence of twelve months' im prisonment. The trial lasted until Wednesday, when a verdict was returned for Dr. Gray ou all the counts. INDUSTRIAL Extuarrioss.—This novel species of man's undertaking and daring extends so rapidly as nearly to become a separate chapter of journalist". The Exhibition of Moscow has been viewed by the Minister of Finance, Peter Feodor Brok. .Especial ly important, at the present moment, are the arms pro duced by the factories of Siestroietzk and lschewsk. To what perfection the manufacture of arms has pro gressed iu Russia may be gathered from the fact that every musket of infantry and cavalry, the carabine:-; of the Cossacks, and the rifles, are made in the whole empire according to one uniform and matte matically true pattern, so much so, that any component part at any of the numerous arm-manu factories will exactly fit any other part made at any other place of the vast empire—a perfection not achieved, we think, in any other country of Europe. —The King of Bavaria has just sanctioned the hold ing of an exhibition of the products of industry of the Zollverein at Munich in the summer of Isst. Whether the exhibition will be placed in the new Schrannen-halle, or whether an especial building is to be erected, is yet undecided. In a work published on the Russian nobility it is stated thatthc family of Jackovletr, in consequence• of its large establishment for ke old-washing, possesses the most colossal fortune of the Continent, it being estimated at nearly 100 millions of roubles. Nest come the I temidotfs, who have on their estates a large mass of malachite, every pod (40 lbs.) of which is worth Mtn roubles. Afterwards come the families of Galitzin, Worenzi df, Bobrinsky, Baschkoff, Paskiewitch, Uwarotl, Potemkin, Panin, Laaaretf, ESt.c. A great number of old princely families are so fallen that they have lost both their title and their rank. A M. de Rischett, for instance, still wears the princely arms and the ermine mantle, but without enjoying the corresponding title. In a village near Womnep reside some peasants who have still some serfs. They cultivate their fields like other peasants, although they descend from princely blood. They are only distinguished from the others by a red cap, which they alone have a right to wear from ancient usage. There are, moreover, a certain number of descendants of old sovereign bundles, such as the scions of the Czars of Georgia, the Begradites ( Bragation) and the princes of Giro., the di rect scions of Dechingis-Khan. A descendant of Mahomet resides at Tiflis. The family of Cantaktizeue derives its origin from the old Emperors.of Byzantium. 275 SECOND EDITION. sATURDAY EVEXING. LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. (From our ottu Correspondents.) Authentic news respecting the state of the negotia tions in St. Petersburg has at length reached us. Three projects were submitted to the Emperor Nicholas, two of which were already known. The first, prepared by Baron Bourqueney, French Am bassador at Vicuna, suggested a Turkish note and Russian counter•note. the second, by General Cu telbajac, proposed a simple note embodying the de mands of Russia and the concessions of the Porte. The third, proposed by Sir Hamilton Seymour, would consist in the sending to St. Petersburg of a solemn embassy bearing a hate-scheritt continuing all privileges possessed of old by, or receutly conceded to, the Christians. The first project was judged the must admissible by the Czar, who, without accepting it officially, gave it a favourable reception. The pro. jest was sent to Coustantiuople, and the answer of the Sultan is speedily expected. The Russian fleet of the Baltic, consisting of thirty-seven sail, lett Cronstadt on tho lath tor a cruise in the Gulf of Finland. A republican conspiracy was discovered on July lf) at lunspruck k Tyrol ). Numerous arrests took place, among which were those of the eons of two high Austr►an functionaries. The insurrectionary tribes of Bekrassowza and Lippowa have uttempted to surprise the tom-tress of lshmail. The Russians succeeded in repelling the attack. The King and Queen of Bavaria made au excur sion to Hamburg un July •4t►. The poor remnants of the shells plot are yet im prisoned at Berlin. Preparations fur their trial are still going on, but it seems doubtful ehether the charge of high treason can be substantiated against them. On the Paris Bourse, yesterday, it was reported that the Emperor Nicholas had accepted the Austrian mediation. Th, funds, which were dull at opening, rallied in consequence of the rumour, and the Mousse closed with a general rise. lice news received in Vienna, on the 11th, front St. Petersburg was altogether pacific. Tito Czar, it wits believed, had accepted time proposals of France for the settlement' of his dispute with Turkey. His Ambassielor, M. de Meyentiortf, presented, on the previous day, to the Emperor Francis Joseph, a letter twin his master continuing the most pacitie as surances. The Czar waits for a communication from Constantinople, where the Ambassadors of the powers have probably prevailed upon the Sultan to agree to an arrangement which is equally acceptable to Russia. The greatest confidence in the main. tenance of peace prevailed, and the final settlement of the dispute was expected by the end of August. 'fur Dublin Evening Poet states, on the authority of its L , /ntion correspondent, that the Queen is nearly convalescent, and that the Royal visit to Ireland will take place immediately alter the prorogation of Par liament. THE 'HIM BANKS and other joint-stock compa nies had, up to yesterday, received no official intima tion respecting the payment of the income tax, and dividends as they become due are paid in the usual manner, without deduction of plutitlage. The pay ment of the dividend of the Milling Company of Ireland, at the rate of fifteen per cent., commenced on Thursday, the proprietors receiving the full amount. The case is, however, didetent with respect to the tiovernment securities. The Bank of Ireland, in paying the dividends on Consuls, have deducted one half year's instalment for income tax, thus an tieipating the amount that will become due ou the 10th of october, as the tax is payable iu lIIIVWDee. Tim Nolan AND SOUTH WEsTEHN JUNCTION RAM; WAY, am short line running from Willesden to hew, which has hitherto only been worked for goods traffic, is to be opened for passenger traffic on the Ist of August next, in connection with the Duck Junction and Blackwell Railways. FORTY PiliLie ACT's ol• Putt.i.otr.Nor have been passed during the present session, which began in November, and at Christmas atkionrned to February. About 11$) more public acts are likely to be passed before the prorogation, which is expected to take place on the 25th of August. HUNAN BRAINS by THE W Eli:HT.—Since the weight of the brains of Daniel Webster has been as certained and published, it has become a custom in America to follow the example with almost every man of any consequence. Th.• brains of the late Amos Lawrence were found two ounces heavier than those of Webster. A letter from Constantinople states that the Earl of Carlisle, a few days after him arrival at Constantinople, loft that city for broussa.