The Press. — London, England, 1854-03-25 00:00:00

__'AO Attikitts nub efieutts. T_' A lionmer7. MURDER was perpetrated in St. Luke's, oti"Satarday, by a stonemason named Hennen, of Whose insanity there seems to be no doubt. The victilti was his Wife, for whom he had always testified mach affeetion, and the unhappy woman was found lying dead In bed, with her skull shattered to pieces. A hatchet covered with blood and hair was near the body. The man has been committed both by the verdict of a jury and on a magistrate's warrant for wilful murder, and awaits his trial. THE NEW TRIAL OF DR. Starlit for the murder of M'Donald, at St. Fergus, in Aberdeenshire, is fixed for Wednesday, the 12th of April next. A Seamus Ronaxalt OF JEWELLERY has been com mitted on the premises of Mr. Cordeux, watch and chronometer maker, at Clifton, near Bristol. The house was entered on Sunday, during daylight, by some burglars, who succeeded in carrying off an immense number of gold and silver watches, guard chains, bracelets, diamond rings and brooches, ear rings, a nd money—amounting in all to the value of 1,3001. or 1,4001. Merry Presoss AT Ptymotrrit have been made the dupes of a man, of gentlemanly manners, a fltient tongue, and soft voice, who pretended to have come to buy the copyright and printing establishments Of the Devonport Independent and Western Courier newspapers. He engaged solicitors, visited houses on the pretence of becoming a purchaser, entered into literary and business engagements, lived in good style, and obtained several articles of luxury from various tradesmen, but one day last week, after ordering a dinner for himself and a friend whom he said. he expected, left Nyithout paying any of the bills, ,leaving only one old coat , behind. His score for board and lodging was 171. 10.5, During his stay he advertise,d in the London papers, offering a situation, with a liberal increasing salary, to any one who would advance taking the 'Copyright of a provincial newspaper as security. These advertisements are known to have brought letteis, brit no dopes. A DEarnectiVe FIRE occuruten Ar Bataret: oh Sunday, when the extensive vegetable oil and grease manufactory of Mr. Lewis ' SL Philip's, was burnt down. At this factory resitilifilia distilled, and by some proeeis manu f ac tured into vegetable oil or g r ease. Froth' the inflammable nature of the mate rials, the !Seines spread with a fury perfectly uncon trollable, add the eti tines coed mate no head against them. A Incifer.mateli manufactory, abut ting on the other factory, was fortunately saved, as was also a portion of the dwelling-house, but the greaseworks were totally deStroyed. The damage is heavy. MR. FREDERICK De /dolma, formerly member of Parliament• far the c o u nt y of Kerry, and nephew of an Irish peer, died suddenly in Newgate on the 17th instant. He was committed by the Lord Mayor, from the Mansion-house, on the charge of uttering a forged power of attorney, and obtaining thereon the antolanti of 1,500 t. stock, in the Bank of England, vested in the name of a Mr. Simpson. Mr. De Molyns was unable to procure the extent of bail demanded (4,0001.), and was, in consequence, conveyed to Newgate. On Friday, the 17th, a disease (under which he bad long laboured) took a fatal turn, and, notwithstanding every aid on the part of the medical officers of 'the prison, he gradually sank and expired 'late the sera . ..evening. Ali auinqest was held on Saturday by kir. y. Payne, when verdict of "Natural Death" was recorded. I'l 1. , a, ' •. • b i tztar g. .szif: MM.! I I : in, THE EARL OF LICHFIELD, whose name will be re membered in connection with a well-known political event, " the Lich fi eld - house compact," died on Sunday last at the family re sidence, •No. 2, Stanhope treet, Mayfair. The deceased peer,. Thom as William Anson, D.L, was them' of the first Viscount Anson, by the third daughter of the celebrated Coke, of Holkham ball, Norfolk, e first Earl f Leicester. He was born in 17 a n d o o*, an d married in 1819 the youngest daughter of the late Nathaniel Phillips, Esq., he of Sl e beek-hall, in the coun t y of Pembroke, by whom has had eightchildren. He succeeded his father in the viscounty in 1818, and. was raised to the earldom in 1831. The deceased peer was always &strong adherent to the Whig party, and frornlB3s to 1841 held the office of Post master-General under Viscount Melbourne's Adminis tration, having beenlyrevionaly Master of the Buck. hounds. His lordship at one period of big life friend was a warm su pp o rter of the turf, and was the intimate ins porting matters of the late L ord George Benti n o k He won the Great St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster in 1836 with Elis. The penny post system was intro • ducted during the time Lord Lichfield held the office of Postmaster-General. He is succeeded in the title and estates by Thomas George Viscount Anson, 34. P. for Lichfield, in the representation of which city a vacancy consequently occurs. The present earl was precis writer to Lord Palmerston in 1825, whilst his lordship was Foreign Secretary. ~ Y ~~~ ~a ila z I LORD GILBERT GROSTilfeli, R.N. lieutenant of the Boscazren, 70 (one of the N orth Sea fleet), died suddenly on Monday last. Lord Gilbert, who was but 21 years. of age, was tenth child. and second son of the Marquis and Marchioness of West minster. He took leave of his parents in London only a few days previously,, when he appeared to be in vigoreus health and spirits. Indeed, there were no iudicatiens pf any kind of the near approach of death, and the intelligence came as a shock upon his family and friends. Through Lord Gilbert's death the families of the Marquis of Westminster, Dukes of Northumberland, Norfolk, and Sutherland, the Earls of Ellesmere and Macclesfield, Lord and Lady Leigh, and some others are placed in mourning. Mn. DANIRLIi, one of the eotamissionnees of the Court ofßanloruptcy at Birmingham, expired suddenly en Tuesday at his residence, Meriden-honse. He presided in his court on the previous Thursday in his usual health. Mr. Daniell was appointed a bank• ruptcy commissioner by Lord Lyndhurst when the act passed in• 1849; and•in that capaeity opened the court at Birmingham. In private life the deceased was a kind-heeded and a benevolent man. Coroner, Gonnos, brother to Sir James A. Gordon, K.C.B. , G ov ernor of Greenwich Hospital, who had for' st int 'thee 'been on a 'Mit to his brother, left GreeAwieh oh' the 15th instant to proceed by the Birmingham Balboni, and was found dead in the railway carriage. ' Artiant• VV I ,izi ~cr . . THE DUBLIN PROTESTANT AS/Pa/ail:oN held a crowded meeting! on Tuesday, at which a. petition to Parliament, Setting forth the duty of wtthdrawing all State encouragement from institutions in which Rornieh doctrines are inculcated, and of taking steps to arrest the progress of Popery, was moved by the Rev. T. Gregg, and unanimously adopted. ~, Tux. Ilos, so.4ruisn E. cwasw, late of the, Bth .Idusears, has. been appointed lieutenant-colonel of !the Wexford Militia, vice Lieuieoant-Colonelyigott , deceased. IN the midst pf most extensive operations for spring agricultural work, and general complaints of a deficient supply of laboUreril, em ration. still PrO• coeds with an unchecked. course. , T he remittances from friends in. America,cbutillue to arrive, and those. who receive them are ready, at the shortest notice, to obey the oral and cross the Atlantic. The last! steamer from Waterford to Liverpool .toolt oliq, KO emigrants bound for North Amer&ca. , _ ~ / THE CHOLERA has appeared in a malignan it 'eft in 1 Limerick, and, according to an accou nt in a GiNray paper, has broken out in the military b ar racks and carried off a sergeant and two or three of the men. A SPLENDID DONATION of 800/. for the Catholic Vniversity of Ireland has been received by his Grace the Archbielicifof Dublin from "Anonymous." • . Soie labotiters employed on the works of the Limeridk)Mcl Ennis Railway, in the neighbourhood of Ballyidlty, in the county of Clare, last week dis covered &deposit of ancient gold ornaments, consist ing of collars, rings, itc,, which they speedily appro priated. One man sold a hatfut of the treasure, weighing 1104 ounce's, And worth, it is supposed, nearly 4001., for the sum of 301. to a person at New market. The gold is all of the purest quality. A CONCERT on an n n p r ec e dentedly grand scale, has been projected to be given in the Musie - hall , Dublin; fbithe purpose of realising a sum in aid of a &rid fee' thif relief end Support of the Wive* and childrend the soldiers who have teteettli embarked for the 'East. A Coruesrosorscs: has pa s sed lately between the Lord Lieutenant and the Lords of the Treasury on the subject of an application for a gettnt of motley to carry on certain inprirrements in the city of Dublin. His excellency had recommended a grant of 80,000/., but the Treashry, though " ftilly alive tothe advantages Which VrolikUresult from the acebnplishment of the 'various plans suggested, regret that they are unable to cotaply with the request, as they could not ask Parliament to grant Money from the general revenue :dfthe country for the Purpose of effectin g local Mt irovetaents, however desirable they may be." Not ' Withstanding this reply, the corporation are about to send a deputation toLondeti, to renew the application to the Prime Minister. AT THE LAST IftEtINCI i'le TrE ROYAL FLAX ISl rnovEwrrr Sorrerv, held in Belfast, a communication was read notifying that the Treakury had granted 1,000/. to be expended in the praCtical instruction of flax piterh'in' the` counties of Cork, Kerry," Clare, ti` erait " Geier) y, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim, and Res- C 6 men, hi certain proportions recommended by the society. • t ittttion fltittiajtittt. New writs have been moved far during the week for the count of WePrrnoircasn, vacant by the death of Alderman Thompson ; for the borough of Lis- KEARD, whose repre s entative, Mr. Crowder, has ac- 275 cepted a fpniarte jißgesitiPi; Ibk:o7l l lborough of TYNEMOUTH, where the late return of Mr. H. Taylor has been declared void by the decision of an election committee. In bromism the Hon. F. Calthorpe, son of Lord Calthorpe, is the candidate in the Liberal interest to succeed Lord Anson, now become Earl of Lichfield. At lustexan, on Tuesday evening, a meeting of the Liberal party was held, at which Mr. R.W. Grey, late member for Tyneinonth, ar.d private secretary to Lord Pahiterttin, WIN introduced as a candidate by Mr. John Abel Smith, M.P., his father.in-lavr. Mr. Grey announced that he considered Lord John Russell as hie model statesman. Mr. J. H. Reade, Mr. W. J. S. Trelawny, Mr. Carpenter Rowe, Q.C., recorder of Plymouth, and Mr. White, hon. secretary' to the Ballot Society, are &Ist mentioned as can didates. TRAFFICKING IN PLACES. THE committee appointed to investigate the charge against the Irish members are pursuing their inquiries, and have during the week examined some important witnesses. Among these, Mr. Ford, • Dublin solicitor, was questioned en MOnday,revipeet ing an alleged conversation with the late Mr. Shell, to the effect that on a remark being made as to Lord John Russell having made a mistake, and what he would do with the Irish members, that Mr. Shell replied, " Oh, as to the Irish members, a secretary of the Treasury, Mr. —, holds them in the palm of his hand ": The Chairman asked Mr. Ford if ho had any recollec tion of any snob observation? Mr. Ford, iu explanation, said he might have used it himself in an after.dinner speech, and Mr. Shell might have assented to it. Ile did not remember using the exact expression that Mr. --, a secretary to the Treasun, held the Irish members in the hollow of his hand. His general observations were on the sahjectof patmnage. The longest thing he remembered was that of an Irish member Who having promised a place to a supporter, and having failed to do . tio s and given it to another, had to pay to his supporter 1,0001., an arbitration, tor his failure in doing so. . Mr. Butt, having referred to another statement alleged to have'been made by Mr. Shed. charging the Irish dem ben with corniption, asked Mr. Ford if he had any recoil• leetion of Mr. Shed having made thew , observations ? Mr. Ford said he was certain that be bad nut. To Mr. Moore: .Ide bad used the expression that Lord John Unasell held the Irish members in a leash like grey hounds, and that observation was Mad(' by him In conse quence of its being mentioned that when Lord John Russell brooglit in the Reform Bill for Ireland, and being In. fornied that It wmild dirtier the 'Whole infinence into *e hands of the priests, replied that he aid nos care shoat that, as they etyma voted for him. Mr. Keogh : Lo you know of any member of the pre sent Parliament receiving 60,0001. for Ms parliamentary services ? Mr. Ford Indeed T do not, and I should think no member *mild take it. On a later day Mr. Mowbray Morris, manager of the Times, was called and questioned very search ingly as to the authority on which certain articles had been published in that paper, in ,September and February last, accusing the Irish members of cor ruption, or of purchasable comp li ance with the wishes , of the Minister. After much, persistence on the part of the committee, Dlr. Morris positively refnaed to give any information upon the required sukject. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuuday, Minvh 21. _Al4l.E nt irTetEs ANNULLED.—.toss Stranis, Relh illifess, Poplar, leillder—Jeuss PriLDING, (3100G0p, *Mon *planar. ji3ANKBUPTS.—Josspn SEAGNR, Ramsgate , Kent, draper — HENRYY CIIARLEN PALICFN, Iliiroluth, retell hatter '4.-CitAIII.IIIIEDWAID REINUAIID, Rochester. Kell, cost merchant —Smolt itrZsates, Char It Pimlico. buikier—Mrsa Exrnr, Brighton, licensed victualler—PMCDSßlelt fluor*, Kltham, Kent, grocer—Tease Fivicf.ws, Coventry, ribbon mann feetursr—Jesarn WADDINGTON, Knottinglee, Yorkshire. shoe- Ultawitifair, Wakefield, torkshire, draper— Grottos, Hivsl i ocic and MAfreSw h axJAxrx Itossos, Monk weiniontb, nintsin, itim builders. HCOTOH • KRQUEORATLOMit.--Jaxis K'Dotioal.l., Glas gow, dryselter--Cos)tai MAGAILLAT, Oreenockelothier. Pride& Mink M. BANKRUPTCY ANNBI.I.EB.—Hicen Bratios and Mans Co /TES, Manchester, stuff merchants. BANKHUPTK—Press Lnicsaisa, Birebin.lape, Cornhill, iron merchant—Wm:oars Brags& Great Saint Helen's, mar ctaut—lionsnr Bitowe and .ports flOnmesx, Patton, Bedford ire, brewers—Joww SAGAN, Birkenhead, brewer—Roma? Jinn:swoon and STItITHILL YODUN, Liverpooi, IV wool sad ashen dealers—ii Lusty Ituiumx De Klee, Bristot, bookseller—/LUSA LIVESEY. Vauxhitlllirldge-rnad, bell.hanget and gas-fitter— wiLLlA‘i isiLLtrion, lttatnitiil, TA/1 , 11.4t0r, Fume mason and builder—FnAlfel• QUICK. Bristol, jeweller and silversmith— JAMS, 1100*INI, Paddiagton, reason and Wilder — WlLlAM' SHUMALWORTH, Stlatford-upon-Avon, licensed victualler — W raralf ckutrio. Ludlow, innkeeper. SCOTCH ISEGBJESTRATIONti.,--THoirte BRAID, Glasgow, builde.r—Awn*kw °Liven and Courser, Glasgow, merchanta— PArriamon and Nititaos, Linwood, Paisley, calico prin ters. AccoRDING to the LimerickChronicie, the Emperor of Russia is proprietor of several stores and house concerns in that city, purchased many years ago from Harman and Co., of London. Tear. Sreknza Maim' arrived in Southampton yesterday with the heavy Indian mails. -rri~ M • =