The Press. — London, England, 1853-09-24 00:00:00

490 THE SPEAKER hits Ihe (azrite 11131. at the end of fourteen day, Irian the Inth ite.t. be will issue his warrant for the election of u new member for Lisburn, in the room of IL J. Sul)th, Esq., deceased. Tits Lash As!) Emioakrios Com m,sstosilts re ceived last year 91,0112 Lai cr., Mid tie-vitt:lied 11 i ,45:1. ALL persons having claims fur repayment of in come tax oil the ground of exemption, by reason of their incomes being less than 15401. a y tar, must WWI in such claims, so far as regards the years ended the sth of April, 1452, and the sth Of AFril, I "fi:t, to the surveyors for the districts its which ti n y reside, or to the head milee in London or Edinburgh, on er before the 10th of October next, and no such claims can be received after that p. rilsl. This rule applies as well to cases where claims have been established in former years as to those where claims may now bu made fur the first time. Tim N►.MB►h:lt 01.' Divissioxs L.►sr SEssIoN w►s 257, of which 179 occurred below midnight, anu 744 alter THE lIMMINtiIIAH GAOL 1.:41111Y C HIMISMONEHM have not yet Inc:tented their report, but some striking and even melancholy results of the investigation are already announced. Mr. Cotterill, one of the warders, died suddenly ins the very day alter the last examina tion by the commissioners from excitement a►td mortification; Mr. J. Blount, the chief surgeon, has resigned ; and Freer, the chisl warder, has been dis missed by the visiting justicei. WtiItEMEN% Minims continue and extend in various branches of manufacturing industry, it would appear that the employers are securing at least thew fair share of profit filen the present flush of prosperity. A member• of one manufacturing eon• cern in Preston, Lancashire, has recently purchased three e states, at at itost of Mitsui. 120,41011/., and the Saint . 111111 ane n e w erecting ►t lit w mill at a coat Or HOMO I/. het 111111111fiteltircr have also given evi dence of the accumulation of insmcnse wealth. THE lloAitio in. Ili:malt have held interviews with parsons ant lioritiei and departmental functionaries during the week respetting the provisions to be nialle against the cholera. Anion others, Sir J. inedieal insp.:4l44r of (Ireeinvich Hospital; Mr. Wal cott, secrettir3 to the Colonial Land sad Emigration 114iiird ; and the Hight Hon. t+. It. Dawson, ‘iee chairman of t'ustonis, have atten4led to confer upon the means of protection to he adopted for the i.en si 111 l ers, emigrants, or crews respectively under their control. AN 01110 ER IN will forthwith issue for II form of prayer, to he preuartml by the Archbishop of Canterintry, of d oleru, to he offere:l in all churches ht )011 IV: possible. PitoFF.ssott No 4.1, late Professor of Geology in Queen's College, Cork, tram inducted to the choir of Civil anti Natural llistoty in Mstrisehal College, Aberdeen, last weok. Mr. Nicol la the first proft•ssor who has taken the new test under the Lord Advto rate's l'itivt rsities Aet. Tim Peninsular and I trii•lttel Company's sterner Sultan is to be put almost immediately on the Ponin nular line to convey tin. ttwils. She I' 1,1011 tons burden anti 4•20-horse Ismer. Wiwi the packet- station is removed from Ply mouth to Southampton, whielt will silently be the ease, there n 11 be eleven art;vals and eleven (Wpm tures of foreign ine;l packets computed w;th the latter port two; mouth. Southampton as a bl - ei:tn mail packet station will shot tly connected *:th the Peninsula, Mediterranean, Int' a, China, Mo. tralia, West Indies, Mexico, Brazil, River Phtte, Celt trill America, Spanish Main, Chili, Peru, California, Cape of Good Hope, and the United State a. Soso: small artivals of gold have been sent into the Rank doesn't the week, but the drain continues, and it is understood that very large atm:mils have bet it wit'oleawn for transntissi 111 l Gt lia,sia and other Slti:•ments of gold to Franco have also volition at upon a moderate settle. Of the $O,llllO 4 owes of gold brought in last week by the Rent a n d Marco Polo, by far tho larger proportion lots &ready been despatched abroad. Ripon, which Southampton on Tuesday Iv ith the heavy Indian mails, eareiell away no less than 400,talni. in speeit , for India tutu the Levant. A Coma OF DIRECTORM with held at the K i ist India House on Wednesday, when Dlr. Frederick James Halliday was appointed a provisional wailer of the Council of India. - - -------- TnE F.l.Ecitox ot , A LOUD MAvon for the city of London, in the room of Alderman Challis, M.P., will take place in the Ouildhall on Thursday next, the 29th inst. Alderman being the senior of those who have n r, prised the chir, will, in an pro. Lability, be to till the in ~ .orulty fur the year 1853.4. THE PRESS. I THE DUTY UN ATToItNEYW Cl:icriFicATEti will be come due On the 111th December, when the new duty of 91. in London instead of 121., when admitted for three yeare and upwartia, will be levied; and 4/. 10s. when not so long admitted. In the country., instead of 9/. a year, the duty in future will be 6/., admitted for three years, and 31. for a less period. AT THE CAMP AT lIELFArT the British Government will be reptesented by Colonel the Earl of Lucas', aceempanied by Captain the Marquis of Worcester, Captain Dupuis, and Lieutenant Lord ItinOam, who have already lett town for France, in order to be present during the niamenvres. ItETULSM prepared by the rear-law Board, as to the number of paupers in the receipt of poor-law relief in the course 411 . the last and the present year, present some remarkable ferittlreM. deeiease between the Ist of July, 1552, and the Ist of July last, numbered 56,533 paupers. In England the number was 56,4)32, and in Wales 1,724. Au exami nation of the English counties shows that in Lan caster the decrease was 9,84;4, and in the West. Riding of Yorkshire 6,221. The next largest dimi nution in one county was 2,525 in Suffolk. In Mid dlesex, on the lst. of July, 1M52, the number of paupers in the receipt of poor-law was 38,078, :toil on the Ist of July last, 35,447. With respect to able-bodied paupers, the decrease was 17,4102, and on the Ist of July last there were 1,084 adult males in the receipt of relief, on account of the want of work or other causes, against 2,9417 in the preceding year. There were 10,7)41 wives against 11,445 in the I:receding year. Of widows, the number was 45 471 te,:tinst 47,562 of the previous year. On the Ist of July, 1852, the number of single women without children in the receipt of relief was 5,375, and on the lat of July last, 4,847. There were 3,180 mo thers of illegitimate children on the Ist of July, mid 2,640 on the Ist of July last. On the Ist of July last there were 1,72 S wives relieved on account "their husbands being in gaol. Yab3 ad Volta. Et 'CENTRIC CHARACTER, whose vagaries have taken a religious shape, and result in some singula rities a conduct and costume, appeared at the Guild hall Court to answer the complaint. of having caused e'sturbance in the street, before his Lather's ►esi dence in the Minories. His name is James John Dew, and this was by no means the first instance of his appearance at the bar of a police-court. The prisoner's brother stated the complaint, alleging that the defendant came to his father's house ott Stmday night, and again on Monday night, and demanded Id,: wife, who was then living apart. from► her husband. The wife went out and told him she would not live with him, but he continued to knock at the door and abuse his father, and created such a disturbance that a mob soon collected, and witness was obliged to give him into custody : Prisoner : I went to demand my wife, und Led no right to keep her front MY. 1 detamuled Inc Ulla r the laws of Hod uid my maniage 'sights, and if in u doing a crowd collected I could wit help it. Alden eta Cram: Judging front your extraordinary• appear th..• , not require any great atroca or iniwThisuhdi to la:- that Vlltorever you show youenclf people will stop to gaze at you. If yen will make your am...armlet , . nu conspictioun you must take the consequence. Prisoner: It is my relision and my belief :or %Ohl& I have el ays been perneetited. Alderman email.: You have co 11111 l an °Renee and ren dered yourself amonmi.le to the laws, and I vaunts, lei you leave this e t t•nles■ you premise not to tro near or annoy your father writ'''. 11l Winer: I'll not make out pnimilte atrainst the laws of um], for the Scripture says, " Ye shall make league with 110 Mall." Al:termini 1 am not geiltg halo St Uu•ldol;ie.tl MON with you here. auJ, 101 you are not hielined to undor the pro mise I require oi you, I Anil litre you 6111111 ti over 10 ket-p the pelee fur three months, and further (WI upon you tat lied surety h 1 201. to iio NO. I revet hem:, ohli;,eil alt s.•a.t yeti le prison, but. if the surety Is• not fortheoming I have no alt.•outtive. Primmer : vourne. sir, you MUNI. du your duty. You are sworn to do it .rui:iint the laws of li.nl. You eau do us y o u like with me; I tam tot hones+, hoed-working man, and unt muly to In• perreetiteil by you or any else. The prisoner was ultimate'y removed to t►le pl ;son at IPolloway, where lie will pass the next three months unless he puts in bail in the interim. Tem nosr ligmaasAma: CASE IF' WIFE AsSAULTINO that has transpired dining the week was accompanied by an attempt at suicide. Alt Irish labonrer, maned 't% bite, was charged at Southwark Police Conn with bin ing murderously assaults d his wife, and idler %%mils with attempting to hang himself. The unhappy woman was unable to attend at the examination, the police witnesses stating that her skull had been henten in, and it was doubtful whether she could recover : • • • - - - )Ir. Cosine *4'4l whether there was any one 1n court who Knew" anything or the horrible affair? Joel Harris, a 'sideman and lighterman, reeitling near the pilau:sees house, sail that ou the previous evening (Monday) he N% !mas's; No. 23, Cottage•plave, when the prisoner's son (a lad .sf 11) cause rushing out. unit called out, " 1W some one come ~nil lend a hand, AA my poor father is banging himself." Winters eut.sted the house i 111 l us diately, ISM ells proc t •thijug up stairs h e -.ail the prisoner with a handkerchief tied tightly round his neck, A nil one end unstilted to a rope, which hail been fa..trucd to a nail in the wall. Witness' loosened the handkerchief, and aam horror -truck, Oil looking round, in per. , ii‘ing his wife on the door at the other cud of the MUM, *uttering ha her Lli.ood. Ile SATURDAY, blatantly went and fetched a doctor, and, tneetitig a police constable on his way, he told him the circumstances. Mr. Cones: Was be actually hanging whin you entered the room? Winless: No, sir. A handkerchief was tightly fastened round his neck, and the end war attached to a rope stretched across the room. The rope wits tired to a nail in the wall, but It 11P itrutril that his weight pulled it out. .dr. I 741 M HE asked the primpinr whether the woman lie had so dreadfully injured was his wtf ? Hu replied that she was, and that they had been married litany years. Mr. Coates: How cane )ou to beat her in such a dreadful manner Prisoner : I don't know, only I'm subject to tits. Mr. Cures : No doubt, tits of !musical ; and in one of those tits you have nearly murdered your wile. This is a mast diabt heal affair; and Irons the medical eertineates produced before one ii is ildalptild whether the %, waist' may recover. Iteinauded fur a weck. A PETTE:OAT LANE SHOPKEEPER, named Isaac Levy, was brought before the Lord Mayor on Tues day, to account for the possession of a stolen watch John Wright said: On Sunday morning week, between the mid Iwo o'clock, upon coming out 01 a colteesloopiu Rai:cross-street, 1 was ruddenly ►nockett down by a now who PAS with one or two and, after rising and being knocked down again and ►icked all over, I found 1 had been robbcii of my Watt it bold be tween 31. unit dl. The mutat cost we Ps. rd., and was, 1 'whew, t4lO of those %Inch um sold by the peck. (Laughter.) Verter day morning, as I walked litrot.gh Petticoat-lane, I saw my watch exposed for rale to the shop attic defeatism, and I claimed IL Watt stuck to it till 1 got a policeman, tot lit , refused to give it up to we. (here the witness described the watch perfectly to the satisfaction of the Lord Mayor.) He added : 1 sissed the ilw fenthint from whom he had the wish, with the object of ascsr• Lai g who had abueutt and robbed we, and he sum lie hail pur chased it of a man with a cap, , Allllll4 , 111111Ic lie did hut kilos. Mr. I►AsIELS, Mr the defence, aubiiiitlad that there aus 110. thing in the evidenee to implicate his clit M. • The IMED MAYOR: Certainly, there is no open him that lie was eimeenietl in the rot:boy; but it is qiiite e‘i deut that the watch is the complainant's, indite twist When with him. 1 Uluk It Ileeet• sitry to say that, if the gehtlenom who keep chops in Petticoat-lane would 1.. e nil kind tali to be it little inure cautious as to the purchases they make atid the eai Li 'wriw atilt whom they deal, tits difficulties 14 III) h11:4111-1SE ar r tuagisuste would be Very much diminished. (bond& r.) I shall expect that, in future, the Pettieoat•luue shopkeepcie will enter the manes a►d addresser of those win, Nell wattle% to ilium. (Liouvlitt r.) Mr. 11. 0 att6ui (Lu In client) : Mr. I awy, you alit be so good as to pay particular attention to what hie loribilm has note, " Enter the names and addresses of all your cult• were regulaily in a book." (Laughter.) The charge was then dismissed—the watch mint: rug to its lawful owner. AN "OlitiTßOl'll.ol2li J'ASMENI:EIt, as the driver termed him, was charged at the Mansion-lo use with being disorderly in a cab. He had boiled the ve• hide and got in, but the ultimo', discovering that i a was drunk, refused to take him as a fare, and ordered hint out of the cab. A scuffle ensued, a window was broken, and the driver received a severe blow in the face from the intoxicated " fare." Ultimately, at his own request, the defendant was driven to the station-house, and locked up. The Lord .‘letyor lined him for his drunkenness and disorderly conduct, complimenting the cabman, at the same tin e, for his singularly proper conduct towards a diunken man, 01 whom other cab -timers would have bLen teo apt to make a prey. 'I•HE DEBTS OF A Insrit.i.Eit named I:. Roset.bety, of Albany-street, who was examined at the Bank ruptcy Court on Saturday lust, were set down at 8,0001., and his assets at the large sum of 313,0010. The bankrupt, it appeared, was the patentee of bOlllO machinery for u u tk►ng casks. A company hail keen formed to carry out the invention, fr o m w h o m the b an k ru pt had received li,ooo/., and they now owed him .1,0001. in part payment for work, plant, et.c. He also claimed ;),000/. 10r one fifth value of the shares subscribed, and on ether accoutas 14,C00/. He estimated his patent for France at 5,011 ti/.; ditto for Spain, :1,04i0/.; and for Austria, doubtful; hut, as they remain unsold, it is doubtful if they will leafier) the amounts stated. The value of his patent for Prussia he estimated at 6,000/. His creditors prin cipally reside at. llarbadoes, am) at Albany street, Regent's-pau•k. The accounts not being complete, the examination was adjoin tied, by demo it, for two months. A Yot•xee Ilitiewt.ftevrn's leAnorner, named (leery, was charged at Bow-strect with forcing. leis way to the top of the I►uke of York's monument. lie was intoxicated at the time, and, rushing by the dooor. keeper, rushed up the steps, the latter chasing him to the top. Here he became exceedingly refract , ry, threatened to let "daylight" into ;be keeper's load, and abused the Duke of York, Nelson, and Well ng ton most irreverently. The prisom r, who said be wits entirely meconscions te.e oflence, was tined 10s., or ten buys in prison. As OttoAs-otalloiNt; NetseN4 a-stuneil store what formidable dimensions in the btattilleiltS made laetiore ti,o ehtlititister police magi:trate. Om Do minic Cavita.-., an ituliali, was bro u ght up in cleats y of the police. Ice beta followed his calling in lington-square, Chelsea, with the result of occasiot • ing much annoyance to one of the inhabitants that he was warned away, anti, on per;istence, given in charge. '11;e grievance sustained by the strong minded complaiment in the case was, however, of in significant consequence compared wall that inflicted on a Mr. Russell, au aged and invalid gentleman living two doors off, and who has been absolutely frightened into a Mate of deplorable nervousness by the receipt of Lite following hotter from the organ grinder :