The Press. — London, England, 1858-11-27 00:00:00

THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 27, 1858. 1154 THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF ST. PAUL'S propose to open the cathedral for special evening services, as an experiment, from Advent Sunday (to-morrow), to next Easter. The service will commence at seven o'clock. The public will be admitted at the two western side doors from the area facing Ludgate•hill. The north door will be closed, in order to give a fair trial to the warming process, not yet completed. The south door will be open to the Lord Mayor and the authorities of the City, the clergy of the cathedral, and the committee with tickets. The choir will be admitted with tickets at the south.east postern door, opposite to Watling-street. The sermon to-morrow evening will be preached by the Lord Bishop of London ; that on Suuday next by the Dean of St. Paul's. THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSF.U3I was visited during the week ending November '2oth by 0,157 persons. SW anb Volta. TfIE KNIGHTSBRIDGE CONFESSIONAL CASE came before the Court of Queen's Bench on Tuesday, on a motion for a rule nisi, calling upon the Archbi,hop of Canterbury to show cause why he refused to bear the B►ev. Alfred Poole's appeal from the decision of the Bishop of London, founded upon the Church Discipline Act of 1839. Mr. Bovill argued the case for Mr. Poole ; and after referring to several autho rities it was decided that a rule should be granted. THE SWEARING IN OF A MAHOMMEDAN as an attorney occupied the Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday. Amongst the applicants to be admitted as attorneys in the Bail Court on the previous day was Comrooden Tyabjee, a Mahommedan gentleman, who had regularly served his articles to an attorney iu London, and had passed the examination. As some difficulty arose as to the oaths to be taken, Mr. Justice Crompton referred the applicant to the full court, and the matter stood over for decision until the sitting of the court on Thursday morning, when Lord Campbell said : A question has arisen respect ing the oath to be taken by a Mahommedan gentle man who has qualified as an attorney, but who cannot conscientiously take the oath required on certain occasions " upon the true faith of a Christian." The question is whether it is necessary that the oath should be taken by him. My learned brothers and myself have considered the question, and we are of opinion that the oath is not required to be taken by this gentleman, because before the late Oaths Act passed during the late session of Parliament it was not necessary, iu order to be admitted as an attorney, to take the oath of abjuration, but only the oath of allegiance and the oath that the party would properly demean himself in his capacity of an attorney. We think that the oath containing the oaths of alle. glance, supremacy, and abjuration, need not now be taken by those who are not bound before the passing of the act to take the oath of abjuration. It was not required to be taken by attorneys, and we do not suppose it was the intention of the Legislature to inflict, by the late Act of Parliament, disabilities on any of her Majesty's subjects to which they were not previously subjected. This gentleman may there• fore be admitted an attorney on his taking the oath of allegiance and the oath to demean himself as an attorney.—Mr. Comrooden Tyabjee then took the oaths in the form most binding on his conscience, namely, by placing the Koran between his hands with his right hand uncovered, and then raising with both hands the book to his forehead and kissing it.— Lord Campbell, addressing the newly.admitted attor• ney, said : I wish you success in your profession, sir. —Mr. Comrooden Tyabjee thanked his lordship and withdrew, bowing to the court. HENRY Hattusow, a poverty-stricken-like man, formerly minister of Ebenezer Chapel, Sbadwell, was brought up in custody, on Tuesday, before Mr. Burcham, at Southwark Police-oourt, charged with threatening to stab his wife and cut his daughter's throat. The wretched wife assured the magistrate that she was afraid of her life, that they were in a state of the most abject poverty, being even without a bed to lie on, and all this misery, she added, arose from the intemperate habits of her husband. The prisoner admitted the truth of these statements, but repudiated any intention to injure his wife. In default of finding security to the amount of 201., he was committed to prison for three months. THURGOOD, a surgeon, and Rikey, a commission agent, were tried on Tuesday at the Central Criminal Court on the charge of conspiring to defraud Mr. Christie, a Liverpool merchant, of a large quantity of whisky. Both ptisoners were found guilty, and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. WILLIAM Lenox OuvErt, the stockbroker, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, to several indictments, charging him with having appropriated certain stock and securities, intrusted to him for a specific purpose, to his own use. He was then removed from the bar.—lsaac Hermond, alias Isaac Bandey. bricklayer, was charged with the wilful murder of Sarah Farrell, who lived with him as his wife, by throwing her out of window of the room in which they lived, at No. 5, York-street, Westminster. After the examination of a number of witnesses, Baron Bramwell summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. The learned judge said be did not complain of the verdict, but if the jury had returned a verdict of murder the prisoner would have been banged; the sentence of the Court was that he be kept to penal servitude for the rest of his life. The prisoner did not evince the least emotion.—Edward Mark Council was found guilty of shooting at William James Budd, with intent to murder him. The learned judge ordered judgment of death to be recorded, and said the Government would consider what punishment should be inflicted upon him. THE INSOLVENCY OF WILLIAM GEORGE HOWARD, nephew to the Earl of Wicklow, and heir to the title, is to be superseded, by raising 43,0001., to pay the creditors by means of insurances and loans on the insolven:'s reversionary property. The case stands adjourned in the Court for that purpose. A CONFESSION OF MURDER has been made by a soldier of the Royal Artillery, named Pilkington, while on his way to India some months ag o in a transport-ship. He alleges that the murd er was committed near Manchester about two years ago. The statement is verified by the fact that a body was found at the time and place named. Pilkiugton bad an accomplice who is believed to be in America. ANTOINE Am: Huoow, a traveller, and HUGON REV ERDE ' a merchant, both Frenchmen, were found guilty on Thursday of attempting to make coin re sembling Turkish piastres, with the intention to pass it as Turkish coin. The Court sentenced the first named prisoner to six, and the latter to twelve E imprisonment.—Lewis Lewis, a fraudulent bankrupt, was convicted of the charges brought against him, and was sentenced to six years' penpf servitude. He had been a draper in Exmouth•street, Clerkenwell, and absconded to America with the pro perty of his creditors. position, was seen to iced his musket, when h e deliberately pointed it to his leg and fired, the ball shattering the limb below the knee. He was at once conveyed to the garrison hospital, where th e rema i n. ing portion of the leg was immed i ately amputated by Dr. Maclean, the principal medical officer. Drower is very anxious that it should be understood he was labouring under religious excitement when he corn. mitten the act. As soon as he is able to lea ve t h e hospital he will be brought to trial before a court. martial, the mutiny act making it a serious crime for any soldier to mutilate himself. Obituart DEATH OF ADMIRAL LORD LYONS. ADMIRAL LOAD LYONS expired at Arundel Cas tle at eight o'clock on Tuesday night. Some mont e was f Norfolk, induced to oy visit his Arundelam i a amiable Castled a u h te f i , w t th he e the gallant admiral was suffering from indispos it ion , sgo and Duchess h benefit of his health. When Admiral Lyons was summoned .. by her Majesty to command the sq uadro n " which visited Cherbourg, he was then in a b ad state of health ; but his love for the Queen, added to hi s desire to carry out his duties as commander-in-chi e f , predominated, and he accompanied her Majesty o n that visit. Since his return, his health has been gradually declining. For some time, however, he was enabled to take carriage drives, accompanied by the Duke o f Norfolk or some member of the family . . but he ultimately became too weak to be removed from his room. He also suffered severely from tic douloureux ; but the . cause of disease was general debility. Admiral Lyons was born at Berton , near Christ church, in Hants, on the 21st of November, 1790, and consequently has just completed his sixty.eighth year. He was the second son of Mr. John Lyons, of Lymington, who was ",a major ia the Christchurch Volunteers. He married, in 1814, Angus:a, second daughter of the late Captain Josiss Rogers, R.N., by whom be had two daughters—Anne Theresa Bickerton, married Dec. 24, 1839, to Baron Philip von Wurtzburg ; and Augusta Mary Minna Catherine, married June 10, 1839, to the present Duke of Nor. folk. He had two sons—Richard Pemell Bickerton Lyons, attaché at Florence ; his younger son wan 1 Captain Edmund Moubray Lyons, who died of wounds received before Sebastopol. The public life of Admiral Lyons possesses con • siderable interest. After completing his education at Westminster, ho entered the royal navy at the early age of eleven years, first serving on board the Royal Charlotte, from which he removed in the following year, and joined the Maidstone. In 1807 be was serving on board the Active, 38, during the passage of the Dardanelles by Sir John Duckworth, and was engaged in the successful assault upon the redoubt of Point Pesquies, on the Asiatic shore. In Poi he was lieutenant of the Barraeouta brig ; and it was in the next year that be achieved his first great success. He was one of the foremost in the escalade of the Castle of Belgica. This was accomplished during the raging of a terrific storm. In this exploit Mr. Lyons displayed that skill and boldness which stamped him as a true British sailor—for the naviga tion was intricate and the garrison strong. The news of this little victory was received gladly in England, and scarcely had our hero reached his twentieth year ere Admiral Drury appointed him as his flag lieutenant on board the Minden, 74. Within a twelvemonth after this appointment he sailed on the coast of Jaws, to await the arrival of an expedition then fitting out in India for the reduction of that island. Whilst lying off J ava Mr. Lyons received some pnsoners, among them hieing an intelligent person with whom he got into conversation; from him be learnt that the Dutch expected no attack during the monsoon. Mr. Lyons immediately saw the opportunity .for action, and, with a boldness which excited astonishment and admiration, b.: put off !wo boats at midnight with their cre ws, consisting of 35 officers and men, to attack Fort Marrselii of 54 guns. It is said that as the boat approached , the moon peeped out from behind a cloud, sad rel vealed the sentinels ready to challenge. All hope of surprise was gone, but it was not a moment for de: liberation, and he boldly pushed on in the face of t h e enemy. There was a heavy surf on at the time, b ut h he succeeded in landing his little force beneat h t e embrasures, and carried the lower battery. was yet a good tough piece of work set out. fo di r on reaching the hill he found no less than 400 sol is facing bim. ~I have 400 men and shall a a dew ill quarter," he exclaimed. His men charged, went the enemy heher-skelter. The fort wm dawn Lured—he succeeded in holding it, and on be daw e of day the British ensign was floating Pursuing his career with the same spirit, 1,1':, him appointed commander of the B.enaldo in 1 c l e -. in which vessel be escorted Louis X% IIL . to Fran : on . the wa11 . !._ . , and the Allied Sovereigns to England, besides affor ing a passage to Mr. Flan"' the bearer of the Treaty 24tilants an Offencts. A FEARFUL MURDER has been committed at Andover. It appears that on Tuesday a man, in the employ of Mr. Parsons, on his re turning from a wall• on the Salisbury-road, and on passing a field, the property of Mr. H. Footmer, saw the body of a man, apparently dead, lying in Cie field. On arriving at his employer's he told one of the shopmen that he was going to the police-station, as be had discovered the body. He then got the assist ance of a constable, and went to the field, when he found that the body was that of his employer, Mr. Parsons, lying on his face with his skull smashed to atoms, and his face fearfully disfigured. On a search being made a quantity of blood was found, and other marks which seemed to indicate that a fearful struggle for life had taken place. On searching the body the money and watch were found quite safe. No reason can be assigned for the brutal act. The perpetrator of the murder is still at large, but the police are using every endeavour to discover the assassin. THE DUKE OF HAlarros met with an accident on the 12th instant, near Brodick Castle, Arran, while engaged, along with two gentlemen, in the cover in pursuit of woodcocks. One of the gentlemen, in firing at a woodcock—not perceiving that the duke was in the same direction,—discharged his piece and bit his grace. The pellets are small which are used for this description of game ; but one entered his shoulder, two his left hand, and a fourth struck his right eyebrow, and penetrated to the bone, running an inch round, and lodging in the outer angle of the eyebrow. His grace has been confined to his room for some days, but the effects of the injuries are happily disappearing quickly. A MOST DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCE, resulting in the death of Madame Kinkel, the wife of Professor Kinkel, who resided at Eastborne Terrace, occurred on Monday. She went up to her bedroom on the third floor, and was shortly afterwards found dead in the back garden, having fallen from a height of forty eight feet. It is supposed that she had opened her window, and, in leaning out, had overbalanced herself. DIFTHERIA continues its deadly ravages in various parts of the kingdom. A painful case has occurred at Salisbury, where Mr. Carter, son of Mr. Carter, of Brentwood, his wife and child, all lie dead from this lisease. TIIE POPULATION of the kingdom of Sardinia, according to the new census, comprises 5,194,t407 inhabitants. As EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SELF-MUTIT./TION By A SOLDIER, with a view of disqualifying himself for rattler military senice, has just taken place at Chatham garrison, a private of the gist Regiment, named George Drover, having deliberately shot off his right leg by a ball from his Enfield rifled musket. The occurrence took place in one of the barrack rooms of St. Mary's iiiirracto4, where the 81st depot is stationed. The man, who is of a moody, sullen dis- It h it it 5, tt o )( e• is it le re rs 10 - 1.1 e. 11-