The Press. — London, England, 1854-08-12 00:00:00

I AUGUST 12, 1854 gall au last*. Volitual an &mai. THE QUEEN embarked from the Isle of Wight on Tuesday morning on board the royal yacht, and pro ceeded upon a cruise to the Channel Islands. The Prince Consort and elder children accompanied her Majesty. The royal steam squadron consisted of the Victoria and Albert, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman (commander -in-chief) ; Dasher, Captain Le Febvre (as pilot) ; Fairy, Master-Commander Welch ; and Admiralty yacht Black Eagle, Master-Commander PAley. The squadron sailed at eleven a.m., and at sir in the evening reached Alderney, where Prince Albert and the Prince of Wales landed and inspected tie new harbour-works and breakwater. On the fol hying morning her Majesty landed, and went on a Our of visits to the chief objects of interest in the island. Upon re-embarking the royal party continued t ieir cruise, but returned towards the Isle of Wight i the evening. On Thursday morning the Queen had safely returned to Osborne-house, which, how ever, she again quitted early yesterday (Friday) pruning, and proceeded to London by the South- Western Railway. Yesterday afternoon her Majesty held a Privy Council at Buckingham Palace, when the royal speech upon the prorogation of Parliament was submitted for her approbation by the Prime Minister. THE QUEEN wrote a letter of condolence to Prince El Hhaini Pacha previous to his leaving England, on the death of his father, the late Viceroy of Egypt. HER MAJESTY, it is stated, intends erecting in one of the churches in the Isle of Wight a monument to the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King Charles I. This unhappy princess died at the age of fifteen in captivity in Carisbrook Castle, in the above island, about a year and a half after her father was be headed. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR G. CATHCART dined with the Queen at Osborne yesterday week, previously to his departure for the seat of war. THE MARRIAGE OF EARL SPENCER WITH MISS ADELAIDE SEYMOUR, daughter of the Dowager Lady Clinton and the late Sir Horace Seymour, and for merly maid of honour to her Majesty Queen Adelaide, was solemnised on Wednesday morning at St. James's Church. LORD GEORGE PAULET, one of the officers of the English fleet in the Black Sea, gave a splendid fete on board his ship on July 28. A sumptuous banquet, to which a number of French officers sat down, was followed by a dramatic entertainment, consisting of a comedy of Sheridan's and A Visit to Bedlam. His EXCELLENCY COUNT WALEwsia, the French Minister at our Court, with the countess, arrived at Florence, from Milan, on the 2nd instant. CABINET Couxcus were held on Saturday and Wednesday last. THE following members of the Ministry were present at the fish dinner at Greenwich on Wednes day evening :—Lord John Russell, Duke of Argyll, Earl Granville, Duke of Newcastle, Viscount Pal merston, Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Bart., Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, Bart., Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Viscount Canning, Viscount Sidney, Lord Wodehouse, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Right Hoa. W. G. Hayter, Right Hon. Lord Ernest Bruce, Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Right Hon. Lad of Mulgrave, Right Hon. Sir John Young, Mr. Grenville Berkeley, the Solicitor-General, Major- General Buckley, Mr. Chichester Fortescue, Lord Alfred Hervey, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Monsell, Mr. Frederick Peel, and Mr. James Wilson. MAJOR JAMES has been appointed superintendent of the Ordnance surveys of Great Britain and Ire land. . _ Ma. E. J. PAGE, of the secretary's office in St. Mary-le-Grand, has been appointed to the new office of Inspector-General of Mails to the General Post office. THE LONG VACANT SEE OF SYDNEY has been at length filled by the appointment of the Rev. Frede ric Barker, incumbent of Barlow, Derbyshire. Mr. Barker was for many years perpetual curate of Edge hill, Liverpool. SIR B. HALL, M.P. for Marylebone, will, it is stated, be the first Minister appointed under the new bill, brought in by Sir W. Molesworth, for the re constitution of the Board of Health. THE COLONFL'3Ir OF THE 3D BUFFS, vacant by the death of General Sir Henry Ring, will be conferred on Lieutenant-General the Hon. H. E. Butler, father of the gallant defender of Silistria. AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT under which dogs are not to draw trucks, carts, dc., in any part of the United kingdom has received the royal assent, and will come into operation after the Ist of January next. The provisions now in force in the metropolitan district are extended by this statute throughout the whole country. THE PRESS. MR. BELL, the sculptor, who lately received the commission to execute the large Guildhall memorial to the late Duke of Wellington, has just been coin mis*ioned by Colonel Adair to execute a marble heroic statue of " Armed Science," to be presented to Woolwich mess-room. THE Peninsular and Oriental Royal Mail and Gene ral Screw Companies have earned about 120,000 i. from the Government during the last four months, by transporting troops and _stores to the seat of war. This work has not interfered in the least with the mail work of the companies. SIX FLAT-BOTTOMED BOATS, for the conveyance of troops, are ordered to be built immediately at Devonport Dockyard. An equal number is to be built at each of the eastern yards. TH.E SECOND COURT-MARTIAL on Lieutenant Perry, of the 46th Regiment, had lasted eleven days on Wednesday evening, when the evidence given for the prosecution was completed. The court then adjourned until Monday, on the application of Lieutenant Perry for time to prepare his defence. The decision of the authorities upon the first charge against Lieutenant Perry was received in Windsor by express from the Horse Guards on Thursday evening. The exact tenor has not been published, but in substance it is known to be as follows :—The court-martial found Lieutenant Perry guilty, and sentenced him to be dismissed from the service. The Judge Advocate- General, however, on carefully perusing the evidence, found that certain questions had been put which ought to have been rejected, and certain evidence refused which ought to have been taken ; and re commended her Majesty not to confirm the sentence. The sentence was accordingly unconfirmed, and Lieutenant Perry released from the charge. AN ORDER, dated Fort William, May 22, 1854, has been issued by the Governor-General of India, ex tending to the Indian army the provisions by which the system of " clothing colonels "is abolished. The order directs " that from the Ist January next the clothing of the army at the three Presidencies shall he provided al the cost of the State, and that a fixed sum, calculated on the average of the off-reckoning shares for the last twenty-one years, shall be payable to colonels of regiments and others entitled quarterly in England, and monthly in India, under the head of colonel's allowance. The staff salary of army clothing agents who may hereafter be appointed is fixed at 750 rupees per mensem." Six HENRY YOUNG, whose removal from South Australia to the government of New Zealand was announced some time since, will now, it is stated, succeed Sir William Denison in the more lucrative government of Van Diemen's Land. gaio aitO Voila. AN AcnoN Fon LIBEL came before a jury at Staf ford Assizes on Tuesday, the complainant being a surgeon practising at Brewood, near Wolverhampton, and the alleged libel consisting of an article in the Wolverhampton Gazette, imputing to his unskilful treatment the death of a person named Clift. The deceased was a farmer, and his sons were the defend ants in the action : It appeared that on the 28th of May, 1853, Mr. Clift, who was aged seventy-one, broke his arm, and the plaintiff was called in on the following day to attend him. According to his account he reduced the fracture, placing the broken parts in perfect ap position; but, in consequence of the patient's bad constitution, the bone did not unite, and at the end of seven weeks the splints were taken off. The family were not satisfied, and Mr. Edwards, a surgeon of Walsall, was called in. Plaintiff and Mr. Edwards, nevertheless, met in consultation the following day, and the splints were put on again. Mr. Crean continued to attend the patient occasionally. He died in October from a carbuncle. A good deal of recrimination took place in the neighbourhood re lative to the alleged improper treatment by Mr. Crean, and a pat-mortem examination was made, conducted by Mr. Edwardis partner. Mr. Crean subsequently called on Mr. Edwards to re tract what he was supposed to have said against his professional skill, and, on the latter declining, Mr. Crean held a whip over him, and told him to consider himself horsewhipped. Au angry correspondence then ensued in the Wolverhampton Chroniele. At last the libel in question appeared in the shape of a letter from the defendants, stating that they came forward injustice to Mr. Edwards, and characterised Mr. Crean's statements as utterly devoid of truth. The letter, in substance, also insinuated that the death of the old man was occasioned by the maltreatment. A number of witnesses, professional and unprofes sional, were called on each side, and the arm was produced in court. The jury eventually found a ver dict for the plaintiff—Damages, 251. THE ESHER MURDER CASE was tried at Guildford on Wednesday, when the unfortunate woman Bzough was arraigned upon six separate indictments for the murder of her children. The case, of course, attracted a crowd of spectators, and occupied many hours in recapitulation and the examination of witnesses. Throughout the proceedings the culprit exhibited much indifference, if not absolute uncon sciousness of her awful situation. The facts of the crime have already been published, and were estab lished in legal form to the jury. Medical evidence was then given at much length as to the probable state of mind of the prisoner at the time the acts were committed. Ultimately the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity, and the woman was consequently ordered to be kept closely confined during her Majesty's pleasure. 755 ANOTHER EXIGRA.NT PASSENGER ACTION has been brought before . a jtiry, the defendants being the well• known shipping firm of Wigram and Co. The plaintiff in the case, Mr. Fieldhouse, formerly carried on the business of a wheelwright at Melbourne, in Australia. The present action was brought. to recover compensation for a breach of contract in putting the plaintiff and his family in inferior cabins on a voyage from Melbourne to London, he having taken passages in the ship Kent, the property of the defendants, for that voyage. The plaintiff also complained of the filthy state of the ship and badness of the provisions. The evidence offered on both sides during the pro gress of the case was very voluminous, and, as usual, very conflicting. The witnesses for the plaintiff de posed to a variety of discomforts from dirt, insufficient accommodation, bad or scanty provisions, &c., while the defendants produced testimony to show that these causes of complaint were either non-existent or presented nothing more than the ordinary disagrimens inevitable in the course of long voyages, further protracted by accidents of wind and weather. The case occupied two entire days at the Devizes Assizes, and terminate,don Tuesday night in a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 501. AN ENGLISH CASE OF ABDUCTION was tried at Appleby, on the northern circuit., upon the 4th inst., when John Atkinson stood charged with having, on the morning of the 25th of May, unlawfully taken Anne Jane Ward, an unmarried girl, under the age of sixteen years, out of the possession, and against the will, of Jane Bishop, who had at the time the lawful care and charge of the said Anne Jane Ward. The prisoner was a music-master, who gave lessons at Miss Bishop's school, where Miss Ward was one of his pupils. The girl seems to have been prema turely developed, both in mind and person. Some of the witnesses stated that she appeared to be six teen or seventeen, and several letters read in court showed an unusual precocity of sentiment and con trivance. It was proved that she was a consenting party, having voluntarily and vary skilfully contrived to escape from the school and join her lover, when the pair proceeded to Gretna-green and were united by the officiating practitioner of the place. They were, however, closely followed, and the prisoner was arrested very shortly afterwards. On the trial it was ruled that the consent of a girl so young and RO situated did not justify the abduction ; and Mr. Atkinson, being found Guilty, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment in the county gaol. glltibtats anb Offturts. AN INQUEST was held on Tuesday relative to the sudden death of Robert Snow, Esq., ag ed furry-nine, late of the firm of Snow, Dean, PaukSttallan, and Co., of the Strand, bankers. It appeared by the evi dence that deceased, who had previsusly been subject to fits of an epileptic character. was found dead in his bedroom by a servant on the previous Friday morning. The post-mortem examination showed that death was occasioned by disease of the heart, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly. Dn. OusnAmstry, the inedical superintendent of the Worcester City and County Lunatic Asylum at Powick, committed suicide on Monday last by taking prussic acid. Dr. Grahamsley was in Worcester on Saturday in his usual health and spirits, and no cause is assigned for the melancholy deed. The doctor w as a Scotchman by birth, and was appointed to the asylum at its completion about two or three years ago. He was greatly respected in Worcester. THE CONVICT LEWELLYN GAIMATT TALMADGE HARvEy, who murdered the poor girl Mary Richards, was executed on the morning of yesterday week, the 4th inst, in front of Exeter gaol. Tim Loss OF THE Situ Gu/nare, of Liverpool, with the fate of the captain and mate, who perished in attempting to save the gold from the ship, wasnotified at Lloyd's on Saturday last, through a letter forwarded by their agent at Cape Coast, dated likt. June. The Gamete went ashore on the beach, about sixty miles westward of the Cape, on the morning of the 26th of May last. The captain and mate were drowned, owing to their having loaded themselves with gold, which immediately sank them, and neither was Seen to rise after. The natives congregated in large numbers on the beach, robbing the survivors, and seized everything that come from the wreck. The bodies of the captain and mate were afterwards found, stripped of everything, and completely naked. The ship became a total loss. Two OF Tar DrvEas employed in the diving-bell be longing to the Clyde trustees, and stationed on the rock in the bed of the Clyde at Spiershedge, near Renfrew, were engaged in blasting a piece of rock at the bottom of the river, when from some accidental canse an explosion took place, and splinters of the rock were (lashed into the bell, injuring severely, if not fatally, both of the workmen. Their names are Stirling and M'Nair. The latter, it is feared, cannot survive his injuries. ,