The Press. — London, England, 1858-01-09 00:00:00

The report shows that the total number of members enrolled was 163; that classes had been formed in anatom y, botany, arithmetic, and mathematics, mechanical drawing, elementary drawing, English and Latin grammar, and general literature, and also male and female adult schools for teaching reading, writing, arithmetic, Sac. The total receipts from the classes and,the sale of members' tickets amounted to 21/. Ils., and the expenses 201. 18s. Od., leaving a balance of 12s. 6d. in the hands of the treasurer. THE TOTAL NUMBER of emigrants who left Liver pool in 1857 is returned at 154,000. Of these 07,594 sailed for the United States, 51,243 (including 400 to New Zealand) for Australia, and 6,000 for the Canadian ports. "In the latter part of the year," observes the return, " there has not only been a con siderable falling off in the emigration to the United States, but many of the old emigrants have returned to this port, and either proceeded to Ireland or have taken passages for Australia, and have thus helped to swell the numbers who are still crowding to those colonies. A FETAL BOILER EXPLOSION occurred at the Aber chan Ironworks on Tuesday, whereby the fireman engaged, and two boys walking in the immediate neighbourhood of the works, were killed. The engineer escaped most miraculously. The inquest will be held this day. SOME of the charitable institutions of Glasgow have lately received a most munificent bequest. By the will of Mr. Buchanan, of the firm of Denistoun Buchanan an 6 C0.,10,0001. are left to the Merchants' House, 10,0001. to the Trades' House, 10,0001. to the Royal Infirmary, and 3,0001. for ten years, or during bis widow's lifetime, for the institution of an indus trial school. At Mrs. Buchanan's decease the residue of his fortune is to be applied to the permanent maintenance of the institution. In this view the bequest cannot be less than from 150,0001. to 200,0001. A condition is imposed on the city of Glasgow to provide and maintain the necessary buildings for the institution. and it is provided that if Glasgow shall not accept the offer it is to be made successively to Liverpool, Manchester, and New York. THE PRESS, JANUARY 9, 1858. in which it appears was mixed an amazing quantity ' of arsenic. The husband also partook of the pud ding, and was ill, but he has recovered. In his exa mination last Monday, Puttick stated that he kept arsenic in the house, that his wife was aware of the fact, but that she never touched the parcels, although she had access to them. The medical evidence proved clearly that the deceased bad died from ar senic, and in the absence of any evidence to prove bow the arsenic came into the pudding the inquiry was adjourned THE INQUIRY into the supposed poisoning of Mrs. Sagan. at Keighley, has resulted in the following ver• diet :—" That Barbara Sagar died from the effects of arsenic, but by whom administered there is no evidence to show." The Leeds Mercury states that it is worthy of note, in connection with the inquiry, "that not one of ►he medicine bottles taken posses sion of by the police has been analysed, although the deceased invariably took her medicine from her husband's hands, and complained that the stuff burned her." A PAINFUL EXCITEMENT took place in the neighbourhood of Upper Eaton-street, Belgrave square, on Monday last, in consequence of Colonel Stewart, residing at No. 28 in the above street, attempt ing self-destruction by discharging the contents of a pistol into his mouth. He was found alive, but utterly unconscious. From the nature of the wound, very little hope is entertained of his surviving. The colonel has been in a low desponding state for some time, and great anxiety has been felt by his family and connections. He is an officer of great distinc tion, having served through the Peninsular and ' other campaigns. THE CONVICT BEALE will be hanged on Tuesday next. He has made no confession of his murder of Charlotte Pugsley. THE Two COLOURED GIRLS who recently repre sented themselves to Mr. Burcham, at Southwark, as runaway slaves, and whose case excited so much public commiseration, have at length confessed their representation to have been a gross deceit. A LAUGHABLE CASE occupied the attention of Mr. Burcham at Southwark on Monday last. Captain F. Patten, R.N., was summoned before him by a Mr. F. Lambe, a merchant, for having pulled the said Mr. Lambe's nose in a second-class carriage on the North Kent line last Saturday evening. The circum stances of the case were simply these. Mr. Lambe and his family party had shut themselves up in a compartment of the carriage. There was room for one, and Captain Patten, being in great haste, en tered the same compartment, against the protesta tions of Mr. Lambs that there was uo room. No sooner was he seated than Mr. Lambe charged the gallant officer with being " very rude." Capt. Patten denied the charge, upon which Mr. Lambe retorted that his denial was " false." Captain Patten in stantly pulled Mr. Lambe's nose till it bled. Mr. Lambe, undoubtedly thinking discretion the better part of valour, said no more, but summoned the gallant officer to answer for the assault. Mr. Bur cham, having duly considered all points of the case, decided that there were faults on both sides, and inflicted a minimum fins of ss. on the gallant officer. CHRISTIAN SATTLER, the Bavarian charged with shooting Thain, the detective, on board the Hamburg steamer Caledonia on the 21st of November last, was tried at the Old Bailey on Wednesday. The case presented some points of interest. The prisoner had robbed a Mr. Ballantine in Huntingdon of 2301., and had escaped to the Continent. Thain was sent after him to Hamburg. The local authorities arrested Settler on Thain's representations, and taking their prisoner on board the Ca ledonia, delivered him over to Thain, who handcuffed him, locked him up in a cabin, and proceeded with him to London. The prisoner complained that the hand -efie hurt him, but Thain declined removing thorn. By some means or other the prisoner when left alone the next day broke open his box in the cabin, took out a pistol he had packed in the box, loaded it, and, waiting for Thain, shot him the moment he entered the cabin on the next occasion. The defence of the prisoner was that he meant to shoot himself, that Thain tried to take the pistol from bim, and that in the struggle Thain was shot. But the evidence of the passengers and of the deceased himself was clear to the effect that the prisoner had deliberately shot Thain, and that he bad acknowledged his intention of shooting him, and moreover, when handcuffed in London had threatened to shoot the officer as he had shot Thain, declaring at the same time that he had shot Thain "because he had handcuffed" him. Such were the principal facts proved against the prisoner. At, the trial two points were made on his behalf—one, that the act of shooting Thain was not intentional, but accidental ; secondly, that even if intentional it was justifiable, supposing the arrest to have been, as it was contended to have been, illegal. With regard to the first suggestion, viz., that the act was not premeditated but accidental, that was very properly overruled by the court, on the ground that it had 35 absolutely no foundation in the evidence. The other point created a little more difficulty. It has long been taken to be the rule that resistance to an illegal arrest, even if it involve fatal results to the party putting the arrest in force, is not murder but man slaughter ; the limitation upon the rule, as Mr. Bodkin very properly reminded the court, is this, that the fatal act of resistance must be committed at the moment of the attempted illegal arrest ; if it is committed afterwards, with a view not of resisting such arrest but of revenging it, the case is one of murder and not of manslaughter. The mode in which Mr. Baron Martin left this point to the jury was in the highest degree favourable to the prisoner. " If," said his lordship, " they believed that the act Was committed by the prisoner out of a feeling of revenge against the officer for taking him into cus tody, and, as he considered, breaking faith with hi in by placing handcuffs upon him, when he had pro mised not to do so—then he was bound to tell them the offence was murder. If, on the other hand, they should be of opinion that the prisoner—who was no doubt taken on board the vessel against his will— had committed the act while smarting under the impression that he had been wrongfully arrested, and that the handcuffing was such as, under the circum stances, would induce a reasonable man to commit an act of such a description (as shooting the officer) — they would in that case be justified in finding lihn guilty of the lesser offence of manslaughter." The jury took the former of these two views of the case, found the prisoner guilty of " Wilful Murder," and Mr. Baron Martin, in spite of Sattler's vehement protestations against the verdict, sentenced him "to be hanged." Ma. J. E. Joinisox has been elected chairman, and Mr. T. Tilson deputy-chairman, of the Surrey Sessions, held at Newington. LEGAL APPOINTMENTEL—ME. Sergeant Byles will be the new judge, in the room of Mr. Justice Cress well, appointed to the Court of Divorce and Matri monial Causes. Mr. Sergeant Willa is appointed the new judge of the S .reme Cnnrt in India. Mr. Justice Cresswell take .ds seat zu, the new Probate Court on Monday nes.. The sittings will be held at Westminster. Sax ant( Siiitarg fltelligetut. THE LAMENTED DEATH OF SIR HENRY HAVELOCE will create a vacancy in the list of general officers, c.nd render a new appointment to the colonelcy of the 3rd Buffs necessary in the room of General Wodehouse. Thomas Wood, of the Grenadier Guards, becomes a major-general ; Lieutenant. Colonel James M'Queen, lately commanding a cavalry depot, a colonel ; and Major Edmund Wodehouse, a lieutenant-colonel iu the army. Colonel Eden, Com mandant at Chatham, is now the senior colonel. By Colonel Wood's promotion a step will go without purchase, causing the promotion of Colonel C. W. Ridley to be regimental lieutenant-colonel ; Colonel Lewis, to be major; Brevet Major Tipping, to be captain and lieutenant-colonel ; and Lieut. Thynne, I to be lieutenant and captain. VICE-ADMIRAL FANSHAWE, C. 8., it is believed, will succeed Admiral Lord Lyons in command of the Me diterranean station, and that the Royal Sovereign,l3l, will relieve the Royal Albert, 121, as flag-ship. It is stated that Vice-Admiral Lord Lyons is to be again employed in diplomatic service. ARRANGEMENTS are in progress for the transfer of the officers forming the field-train department to the other departments of the Royal Artillery service, in consequence of the Ordnance Corps having been placed under the direction of the authorities at the Horse Guards, and the various departments being under the supervision of the Secretary of State for War. ADMIRAL DOGNMAN died on Monday last at his seat in Hampshire. The gallant admiral had seen much service, and was one of the reserved flag officers in receipt of the good-service pension. Admiral Dounman held the naval medal and two clasps for the defeat of the Spanish fleet off Cape St. Vincent, and for the expedition to Egypt in 1801. By his death, Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, Bart., K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy, obtains his flag. AN UNFORTUNATE DEATH FROX POISON is reported to have occurred at Moulmein. Mr. J. C Bond, an assistant surgeon of the Madras Medical Establish ment, on the evening of the 28th of October, previous to retiring to rest, took what be supposed to be two blue pills, but which unhappily proved to be pills containing a grain of strychnine each—prepared for the destruction of the pariah dogs with which the compounds of all the houses in the vicinity of his residence were infested. The unfortunate gentleman, who was very highly respected, expired in a few hours from the effects of his fatal mistake. Mr. Bond was, we believe, a native of Edinburgh. Vtlaul Ur TO THURSDAY no new legal appointments had been officially made known. THE HEALTH OF MR. JUSTICE PERRIN 19 not 80 satisfactory as we could wish. THE DEATH OF MR. MACDONNELL has occured this week. It will be recollected that Mr. Macdonnell occupied a most conspicuous position in Irish politics, and was the agent of the Raman Catholic body in England during the struggle for emancipa- lion. THE VACANCY IN THE BOARD OF EDUCATION created by the resignation of the Right Rev. Dr. Denvir has been filled by the appointment of Thomas O'Hagan, Q.C., Chairman of the County of Dublin. THE EARL. OF CARLISLE has made the following appointments in his household :—Major George Bagot, to be Controller ; Mr. Robert Williams, to be Gentleman Lishtr and Master of the Ceremonies ; Mr. Frederick Willis, to be Chamberlain. A FRENCH Buck was wrecked off Kingstown on the night of the 4th. Eleven out of a crew of seven. teen were saved. THE Cork Reporter intimates that the Holy See, by special authorisation, is about to constitute in the diocese of Cork a dean and chapter, having full powers. Bulls, it is also said, have been received for the consecration of the Rev. Dr. O'Hea as " Bishop of Ross." THE news of the death of General Havelock had created a profound feeling of regret throughout Dublin. Yate at* Volta. THE REGISTRAR OF THE NORTHAMPTON BOROUGH COURT, Mr. G. Cooke, has been committed for trial on a charge of fraud and perjury connected with certain claims be has preferred for loss of fees and compensation. A HORRIBLE MURDER has been discovered in Cumberland. An old man named Irwin, residing at Fenton, near Corby, was picked up in the road on Christmas morning insensible, and in a dying state. He bad been terribly beaten about the head and neck. In less than twenty-four hours be died from the effects of the injuries be had received. His son in-law, with whom he lived, a labourer named Skelton, has been arrested on suspicion. Irwin was known to be possessed of savings to the amount of 2601., which he had invested on security and bequeathed by will to his grandchildren, leaving the interest only to his daughter. A CURIOUS CASE OF POISONING BY ARSENIC iS now undergoing inquiry at Shoreham, Sussex. The wife and child of a butcher named Puttick died last week, within a few hours after eating some pudding,