The Press. — London, England, 1853-12-24 00:00:00

that even Air. Mane dill not know where it was until it was described to him, it up reared from the insolvent's account that faAtion reigned just as captirii usly among the inhabitants. The mass of Artisans and servants, it was slated, closely imitated their betters, and insisted upon having the same 'dupes for their bonnets which thoir mistresses had pronounced to lie orthodox. Mn.SEIttiVANT AliUni, at the NI Sessions, has taken occasion to pro 11111 l nee Isis de c ided opinion against the practice of whipping criminals, whether obi oryonng. •• Ile hail for years," he said," watched the progress of this system, and lout hail ample oppor tunities for doing so, on account of sup many children being tried before bins, and he hail found so fre quently that the cotmnencentent of a child's criminal history was with three days' imprisimment and a whipping, and after that beginning.. he child so cots staidly came buck to this court, that a mind pine revolted from passing a sentence inv , i.ring whipping at all. Ile ilia not think that it did any good." Is their crusade against the gamloling-housi the police have discovered a new agent of alarm 111111 punishment. On Monday they once more broke into the " Cocoa Tree," in St. James's street, and carried off' some twenty persons found in the rooms. No traces of gaming were, of course, existing by the time the officers obtained entrance, and the Marl borough-street magistrate. was consequently again obliged to discharge all the defendants. The pollee, however, hail taken care to trace out their real names and addresses, trusting to publicity, with the disgrace and prossible damage that might resell, 111 deter them and others from running similar risk in future. To aid in this well contrived 111110.1111 i we give the names of the parties caught on Monday night, as they appeared on the poliee registers:— I loarle4 Harrington, William Boswell, John Watson, Edward Herbert, Arthur Pearson, ileum! Williams, William Ilichanbi, Jaws Winsett, Frederick James IVilkinson, James i;ritlitlis, tieorge Chariot Lyley, Hon. F. A. Carey, lieerge Brown (doorkeeper), Nathaniel Kemp, Captain Scott, and Arthur l'imper. SomE Exrxxserg HIM Fottiiilims appear to have been discovered in the City. inn! Anderson, who has been extensively engaged in business for some years past, Arta for 41644)111n a bill for 2,1:01. drawn in a very formal manner apparently by a Calcutta house, and in reference to a large consignment. int investigation it was found that the acce pt a n c e wik4 forged. Anderson was arrested in consequence. Notes to the amount of itioni. were found on his venom, and documents relating to extensive transac tions at the docks. His connections are stated to be wide and his transactions large, and a number of I ills which he bad pout into cirenlatien are still out in various stages of advance towards maturity. It is feared that more forgeries will nun up. Illing examined at the Mansion-house en Wednesday. the Primmer was remanded, and bail peremptorily re lased. 31iisyv 0413:4 ton of it large tallowehandlery firm, a Iresiiectulolt. man mimed Ihningliite, was tried tit the ",‘liilellesex Sessions on 'Monday for embezzling Natiolls sttlall 5111115. ifis ellarileter hail long sti Ligh for probity, and his employer% stated that lie had faithfully colleeted from -10.1wNit to tiei.oneti. for them. lie had also been trustee of a charitable fund, which he hnil faithfully . administered. Lett terly, however, he hail lieceinie in felled with Ilse betting lltallitt, and, having lost, hail Used about :►►ll. of his employers' money to pay his hisses. They proseented him with regret, and still thought so highly of his diameter 014 to promise to enable him tee emigrate, if the court dealt leniently amid gave hint some brief term of punishment : The %MINT.% NT 31 Ins,: !Sid 11% one. est Ow Sissso pniuful ease% 111. 111W1 1.%1 r 11x11 i.. 41 iil ait li. I I am. it Iliss‘t • .Id ii. see st Man a la) hid ulsthltaulvl ti high a eliorn , ter %lilt hi. tnasiEr+ in midi a lawitimi. Nitta t h e areal roitiilviire hxd la•eit reiae.e.l in . llr 1111.1 b4.0 , 115e r `:rd those Vile hell stud heel plot. lei. Hittite to bill!. for his 1.111/11`01, 01111 aliClll lie f.. I lie 14.111.1 111.1 1.11 111111111 e it.r.l I'l4 model-a for ilie T 111.4 hid 01111. I.f 010,4 , 1.111.1. M alien , a high cIINT 101' hid Illlisis. 1.1116,14- 1.11/1116* Ihrtl, %hick %villa leis% ee 1..4.11 A iiiii 1.11111.4. of 11:4Kr.1%.1. ion. tied bill Niel jots ; iiitel, 1111111'Y 1111 11.1. 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THE largest accounts that have for ninny years passed through the Court of Itankruply were ime.ti gated on Thursday, the bankriipts being two extensii e railway contractors. 'the first and most extensi‘e balance-slicet examined wal that of Oetirge Helmet, THE PRESS. described as engineer, contractor, and shipowner, of Duke-street, Westminster, Bristol, Bridgwater, Ply mouth, and Teignmouth. The totals on each side of his account amounted to close upon 640,000/. His dolt s unsecured were :t3:1,00W. ; ditto secured, 11,000/. ; liabilities, 17mM/. ; capital on .January 1, !sift, 130,000/.; profits on four years' business, :17.1100/.; ditto on French contract, 16,000/. The property and good debts are estimated at 1411,000/.; doubtful and bad, 52,1100/.; losses, :174,1M10/. The latter head includes a long and melancholy list. Among the items are •-- Ni Smith In.' on Hallway shares, 4",".500/. ; shares, 41,01101. ; discounts for tso years, 40,045 if. ; plant, cost :04,420141., present valor, t0,r444/. ; 141 Nati and Itu iiiiiii Company shares cost alsmt 2,414/111. ; farther may silents 011 111.1.1miat. of the liabilities, prior tothe witiding•itp, 15,4 ; on iron 44111- trit , tx, 22,51114.; on Langley Held Iron Works, rimme.ls,4 mm old for 3.tusil., net boss, 12,11NN0.; shares, I; .0571. ; 11rest Westem Ile iails,token in pi) meld, I ,9110/. ; Walks Italway shares, 3,200/. ; TIVI'MtIIII4. Tile Cotopany, s,lstn/.; law e‘ pea w es, 3,1 I;/.; urea Western ordinary stock trken in pay. to at of Windsor contract. 211,5401/.. sold at A loss 41 4,1701.; Clifton property, cost jinn Nil to 1.11.111.4. 111.:40. 2,r,101. ; ull Forest of I ...Ha mines, •cost 1,1141041., sold 1,111511. ; mosaie plettice, 19.'4 1,740101., I , MS I,IMM 11.; I iiirß Ily-11011 , 14, 2,1115. ; Bristol r W.lrkg• 4 . 0%t 1,2 50 1., sold for :501.; by luinkniptcy, SON.; adventure to Sydney, 501.; on adventure to McIK swim. 511111. ; un skips—/otda Nab. steamer, I.;oitt. ; Ifrtem Sionmon, 1,r101.; 1 . ..../ . 454re (stranded), 21101.; by W. Itieliarilson's lainkroptey, 1,500/.; Itridgs liter and Nt. in Ituils - sy Company, n:o ;0u Cliaring•croas Foot-bridge, on shares 24. e se b, e ost 1;25/., now estimated al loss 124/.; nu Holler's Patent Aidiertestati44l4 of ltoilers, 1,241(N. The list of el.-411ton. ei minim. about Nat mimes. TOP lorgesi creditor is 141 r. ;corm. !Nilson for 27,9391. las. 4.11 :12 acceptances of the bankropes of various aurunnts friao 51141/. to 2.500/., which sere chiefly dile he Mara, April. and Slay last. Mr t. O. Pooley, of Si , 144.1asdsue, is a er...104.r for 23,113/. II s. 241., 1111 25 aceeptateees. Mr. Georg., Wither, of !telltale, Air mini Colonel Wool ' itbze for 15.3911/. Is. 2.1. T 1441.4. is an item of 12,147; I. doe to me. i l oW it holders I.l' 111.1.1.141411CCS i6Mlle4l between October, 1852, Mid Last. 'l'he►e has been a dividend of Is. lid. in the pound nire►uly declared on the estate, wl►ich is expected to realise altogether about ss. The second was that of 'l'. Hutchins, also a great ein I rac tor, of I 'ark -s treet , Westminster, Great frimsby, and Acton, Yorkshire. His balsnce-sheet includes items amounting altogether to 5a,500i., and 5:1,5611/. is owing to unsecured creditors. Heav}• losses had been incurred on various contracts for rail way works, lighthouses, waterworks, fie. Both bankrupts passed, and the same day, Jan. 11, was appointed for the certificate meetings. qtc(ibents an Oftuts. A SnoeKtxn MrnnEn was perpetrated in York on Tuesday evening. Mr. John Hall, of Swainton New near Scarborough, was at York, attending the great Christmas horse show. In the evening, being in liquor, he fell into the company of two loose girls, who induced him to accompany them to the King's Stahl), a dark lonely place, near the river ()use. A little before six o'clock a 111R11 named Sargent saw 31r. Hall with these two girls, who were shoving hint with a view, it is supposed, of robbing him. Ile endeavoured to beat them oft, but was so much intoxicated as to lie unable to do so, and they per sisted until they forced him gradually down to the water's edge, when one of them gave him a shove. and ho fell into the water. Assistance was imme diately procured, but he was quite unable to help himself, and was sucked in under a vessel lying near the spot. The body was found two hours afterwards, with six 5/. notes, nineteen sovereigns, and ss. lid. in silver, in the pockets. The two girls ran away, but were apprehended in the course of the night. A ItAnixi. AND SUCCESSFUL ROBBEILY was perpe trated in the Strand on Monday. A brougham was standing at the door of a jeweller's shop with nobody inside. The driver's attention was distracted for a few moments by some queries addressed to him by a gentlemanly-looking man, and meanwhile some thief, evidently an accomplice, purloined front the interior of the vehicle a canvas bag, containing an immense itnantity ofjewellery. The property stolen is said to be worth 2,001)/. Both parties escaped before the loss was discovered. Probably they had somehow got information of the bag and its value. A C %sr: or SUSPECTED MCIIIIER a short time since, under rather extraordinary eimainstances, in the parish of St. Fergus. near Peterhead, Seot- Wok the victim being a respectable laboming man, on whose life the alleged murdurvr, Dr. Smith, had etlCcted insurances to the amount of .2,M0/. Dr. smith h av ing lately been apprehended, a full inves tigation has been made, the result of which lins just been made known to the Lord Advocate for Scotland, upon whom it lies to determine whether or not the accused shall take his trial for the deed. Meantime Dr. Smith continues in clo s e co nfi nemen t in the gaol of Peterhead. AT THE 1111011 Colin' OF JUSTICIARY, Edrillbllrgil. on Monday, William Cumming, a seaman, was con y ivied of the murder of his wife, by repeated assaults and barbarous treatment. The prisoner had served ill the East Italia Company, from whi c h It was sa id he had a pension, and married the deceased on his return home five or six years ago. Several witnesses deposed to repeated acts of the most brutal cruelty. SATURDAY, Medical testimony was called, and a long catalogu e of injuries was proved. The immediate cause of death was oppression of the brain, caused by external v i o l ence . The prisoner admitted having struck his wife with his hand on one occasion, but alleged that he knew nothing of the more severe injuries, and as serted that she was given to drinking. The jury unanimously returned a verdict of guilty of murder. The Lord Justice Clerk passed sentence of death on the prisoner, to be executed at Edinburgh on the Hil l of January next. NAKEI) $01)Y or A Yol - TII, with a number of marks and bruises on various parts of the body, was found on Monday morning last by a labouring man passing down Irvine-place, in East Acton. Nothing could be found lying near the deceased that would show how lie came there, or how or where he came by his death. THE TorAL WRF.eli OF THE STEAM • sll 1 - 1 r3111()1.1 was announced at Lloyd's on Monday, and caused much sensation, on account of the heavy amount of insurances that had been effected on her cargo, which is reported to have been worth upwards of The Humboldt VMS a most powerful steamer, of nearly 1,400 tons burden. She had been twelve days out only front England, but, getting short of coals, Cap tain Li ties bore up for Halifax harbour to obtain fuel, and, on arriving oft' it, hove to for a pilot, who shortly came on board, and undertook to take her into the harbour without delay. A dense fog pre vailed shortly after, but the pilot persisted in going ,n, and in attempting to make the harbour ran the vessel on to a forinidable reef of rocks, known as the Sisters. She was immediately backed off, but on sounding the pumps was found to be making water so rapidly that it. became necessary to run her ashore. The whole of the passengers and crew were taken ofd' in safety, together with most of their baggage and luggage. Very little of her cargo, however, was saved, and towards night the sea broke completely over her. Afterwards it is stated that the machinery had sunk through her bottom, and the vessel was a total wreck. StNDAV EVENINa rim Mr.ruort, Gravesend steamer, was run into, near Blackwell, by the Dublin screw steam-ship Sylph, and, from the violence of the collision, the Meteor was cut almost down to the keel. Great confusion and alarm arose amongst the passengers, who were saved with some difficulty. The Meteor went down in a few minutes after the shock. Obituary. The Coil:Tr.ss or E.II.IXTnN died On the morning of the 111th inst. very unexpectedly. She had been slightly indisposed for some time previously, but so little was any serious danger anticipated that Lord Eglinton left his castle on Thursday week, to attend the Scottish Bights' meeting in 6lasgow. During that night, however, the countess became suddenly worse, and expired at four o'clock on the morning of Friday. The mournful intelligence was at once cow municated to his lordship, who was staying in 1 flas gow, and lie returned immediately to Eglinton Castle. Theresa, Countess of Eglinton, was beloved and respected while living, and her many good qualities will be held in remembrance alike by the rich and the poor. From the day on which she arrived at the ancestral seat of Lord Eglinton, she became endeared to every inhabitant. but especially to the poor arotutd Eglinton Castle, whose wants in the season of trial and distress were never left unsupplied by a hand which responded to every good claim. The excellent ragged school in Ayr, and all kindred institutions in the west of Scotland, found in her a zealous friend, and she never seemed so happy as when attending the examination of some band of poor scholars picked up from the streets. In Ireland, while Lord Eglinton officiated as Vicemy.brief as was the period of their residence there, it sufficed to make her lady ship's character fully known to her warm and im pulsive country men, who will mingle their regrets et her sudden death with the sincere sorrow which ani mates the Scottish heart. The deceased lady was daughter of Charles Newcomen, Esq., and widow of Richard Howe Cockerel], Esq. She married in ls-il the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, by when. she has left issue Archibald William I.ord 31ontgomelie, born ; Lady Egidia, horn It;-4:t; lion. Scion Montolieu, horn ; and lion. tieorge Arnulpb, born 1141 s. The MAnentoNEss WET.T.EsTEY. widow of the elder brother of the late I of Wellington, e•pired ant Saturday last at her apartments at Hampton Court Palace. after a short illness. The deceased. Matiatnie Marchioness Wellesley, was a daughter of Mr. fliehard Caton. and, when the late celebrated Marquis Wellesley married her, was widow of Mr. Hobert Pat ter-Iln. She was the marquis's second wife, to whom she was united 29th October. lsls. The late mar chioness was for many years lady of the bedeltandwr to her late Maie3ty Queen Adelaide. She was sister of I.adv Statford. • _ _ _ The death of the Countess of MAR AND took place at the family seat of Mloa-house, Clack-