The Press. — London, England, 1858-11-06 00:00:00

T HE DONEGAL ASSASSINS have fortunately failed in their diabolical attempt. The Rev. Mr. Nixon is going on favourably, notwithstanding the dangerous er e of the woun d inflicted u p on him b y his nature assailants. There was to be a meeting of the magistrates of Donegal on Saturday at Letter kenny in reference to the attempt. As latsli LANDLORD'S POSITION is shown in an address of the Earl of Erne to his tenantry in the cou nty of Donegal, desctibing his anxiety for their improvement of the land. " They were all," he "no doubt greatly frightened at receiving not ices to quit; but he thought, and no doubt so did they, that they were more frightened than hurt. The fact was he had served all his tenants, rich and poor, alike —no exceptions were mate. He was sure, therefore, none of them thought it was through any wish to treat them badly. The reason was, as per haps they were all aware, that last year he said he could add five per cent. to the rent of the non improving tenants, as a set-off for the five per cent. be deducted off improving tenants. He had flat tered, oribed, and given premiums; but, he was sorry to say it, in a number of cases he had failed to stir up his tenants to a due regard for their own interests. Since he became connected with the estate he had returned to the tenants for premiums, drainage, agriculturist's salary, dtc. a sum of 5,0002., and it was no wonder that he should feel vexed that up to the present time some of them had never so much as won a premium. What would the public say of him, who had been offering these premiums, when they looked at the state of some of the houses on the estate? He wished to make such parties pay at least five per cent, more rent. It would be a tine for their negligence. If they obtained good tickets in the meantime, however, the fine would not he enforced. This plan he would try for five years. After that, if parties would not improve their farms, they must go off the estate. This was the nearest approach he could make to forcing the tenants to improve their condition. It was to enable him to make suitable arrangements in this respect that he had served them with notices to quit. He also intended, in all leases that should be:granted, to have clauses inserted enforcing the provision of a law, which he was not sure was yet passed, for securing proper houses for their cottier tenantry, as it was too much the practice among the farmers of sheltering this deserving class of people in wretched tenements. He had also found, in looking over the estate, that some of the holdings paid too much and others too little. Those he had endeavoured to regulate, and place all on a fair and equal footing, so far as prac hcable. Besides, if any of the tenants expended more than five per cent. for draining, vkc., the amount would be placed to their credit, so that he hoped eventually none of them would be much the worse of the notices to quit be had served upon them. If so, the fault would be their own." RIBBON SOCIETIES are denounced by the Nation, breause they give the Government an excuse to oppress the people," &c. Mr. Smith O'Brien also an! ec, saying he has never belonged to a secret society. THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 6, 1858. Rth of the same month, Ensign John James Scott, of the 47th Regiment, was arraigned upon the undermentioned charges, viz. First. —For conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, in having at Portsmouth, on or about the 30th day of May, 1858, when on the sick report, and undergoing medical treatment, quitted his barracks, with out the leave or authority of the commanding officer, or the surgeon of the 47th Regiment. Second.—For candoct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, and to the prejudice of good older and military discipline, in the following instances : First Instance.—" In having, at Portsmouth, at o about half-past ten o'clock, p.m., the 30th day of May, 18.58, in company with Ensign Dunne, 47th Regiment, entered the quarters of Ensign G. P. Pigott, of the Wex. ford Regiment of Militia, in Clarence Barracks, in his absence, upset his furniture and utensils, and otherwise deranged his room, and caused the bedding to take fire." Second Instance.—" In having, at Portsmouth, about twelve o'clock, p.m., same date as above stated, been drunk and disorderly in the George Hotel, and then and there otherwise misconducted himself." . . Upon which charges the Court came to the following decision : " The Court, having maturely weighed and considered the evidence in support of the prosecution, together with what the prisoner has urged in his defence, is of opinion that he, the prisoner, Ensign John James Scott, 47th Regiment, is guilty of the first charge. " With regard to the second charge, first instance—that he, the prisoner, Ensign John James Scott, 47th Regiment, is guilty, with the exception of ' conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman,' and the words, and caused the beiding to take fire,' of which it acquits him. " With regard to the second charge, second instance— that he, the priner, Ensign John James Scott, 47th Regiment, is guilty, with the exception of the words ' and disorderly,' of which it acquits him. " The Court, having found the prisoner guilty of the first charge, and of so much of the second charge as is above specified, which being in breach of the Articles of War, does now sentence him, the prisoner, Ensign John James Scott, 47th Regiment, to be severely reprimanded ; and further, to be placed at the bottom of his regimental rank, and his name to appear immediately below Ensign George V. Boyd." Her Majesty has been pleased to approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court. His Royal Highness cannot allow the officers of the army to be led astray by a tacit acquiesce:lee ie. such erroneous opinions as app..-ar to have been eau rtained by the members of this court-martial. He had hoped that since the publication of the orders by the late Field Marshal Commanding in Chief, the dis graceful habit of practical jokes had been entirely discon tinued. Those orders were personally delivered to, and acknow ledged by, Ensign Scott, on his first appointment to a com mission ; his disobedience thereto was, therefore, unbe coming the character of an officer, and to conspire with another for the personal annoyance of a brother officer by entering his room uninvited, to upset his furniture and utensils, and otherwise disarrange his room, can be desig nated by no other term than ungentlemanlike ; neither, in the opinion of his Royal Highness, can it he otherwise than disorderly in an officer to be drunk in au hotel, and then and there otherwise to misconduct himself. His Royal Highness considers each conduct to be fitly described by the language of the charge, and he therefore recommends courts-martial to cheek, by adequate punish ment. practices which a perseverance in cannot fail to effect the character of the officers of the army as gentlemen. By order of his Royal Highness the General Commanding•in-Chief. G. A. WETHICIULL, Adjutant-General. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS the General Commanding in alai will hold a levee at one o'clock ua Monday next, the Bth inst. A NEW CODE of ADMIRALTY INSTRUCTIONS WAS short time ago received at Woolwich, restricting the term of persons to be continued in the employ of her Majesty's dockyards up to the age of seventy. The order has been recalled at the suggestion of the Lords of the Treasury, by reason of tha heavy ex penditure that regulation would entail on Govern ment. The whole of '.hose who were on Saturday discharged, on the above-named conditions, were ordered to be sought out and reinstated in their former positions. Tan NEW PATTERN LIGHT CLOTHING, formed of drab•coloured jean, and drab felt helmets, have been shipped in large quantities un board the transports taken up to embark the reinforcements for India, numbering 2,000 rank and tile, between the 4tb and 12th inst. Etc 6turtk. Tax BISHOP OF Nonvacs has resumed his episcopal duties. During the past week his lordship has been holding confirmations at various towns in the diocese. At Ipswich the right rev. prelate laid hands on 1,538 young persons ; at Norwich, on 364 ; and at Great Yarmouth, on 113. MOSUMPNTAL BRASS EFFIGY to the memory of the late Dr. Monck, Bishop of Gloucester, was placed in the north aisle of Westminster Abbey on Tuesday. Toe effigy reflects great credit, not only on the Messrs. Hardman, of Birmingham, by whom it was etecuted, but also on Mr. Samuel Candy, who is well known as the reviver of some of the exterior parts of the abbey, and to whom the placing was intrur.ed. THE ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL SPECIAL EVENING SioncE will, it is expected, number several thousand worshippers. The choir will consist of about 400 voices. Every facility will be afforded to the congregation to join in singing, and, in addition to the ordinaty cathedral service, psalmody will be introduced ; and if the congregation can be induced to loin with the choir the effect will be grand in the extreme. Preparations are being made for lighting the cathedral with gas jets, which will extend all round the Whispering Gallery, and the dome is being regdded and enriched with stained glass. gatal itDnlititarg TELE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE ON PRACTICAL _ ----- JOKING IN THE ARMY. 1. " Duke of Cambridge has issued the following eeneral order on the recent matt-martial at Portanonth Hone Guards, S.W., Oct. 8. At a general eourt-martial, held at Portsmouth on the lat day ofJuly, 1U.56, and continued by adjournment to an Sporting. AN EXCITING MATCH at partridge shooting came off between Captain Alexander and Captain Corrance, upon General Hall's estate, et Weston Colville, on Saturday last. The terms were that Capt. Corrance should stake 751. to Captain Alexander's 501., to kill the greatest number of partridges in walking turnip fields, from 10 o'clock till 4. it WAS agreed that they should walk 50 yards apart, the one not to kill the bird flying in a direction to the other, and all birds falling oat of the field not to be counted. The birds were very wild and diiiicult to get at. Captain Cor- 1081 ranee killed 67 in first-rate style ; Captain Alexander killed 39 only.—A still more remarkable instance of sport is recorded : The Duke of Cambridge arrived on a visit to the Duke of Rutland on Thursday week, and shot over the park preserves, in which 435 phea. -ants, 54 partridges, 55 hares, 18 rabbits, and ono woodcock were killed. On the following day the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Rutland, and Lord G. Manners, bagged 240 pheasants, 66 partridges, 73 hares, and 24 rabbits, in tour hours in the Links preserves. His grace has also been visited by Lord G. Manners, Lord Alfred Paget, Earl Jermyn, Lord Keane, General Hall, and G. Norman, Esq. The game killed by his grace and friends, with an average of three guns a day for upwards of a fortnight, is 857 pheasants, 2,700 partridges, 600 hares, 129 rabbits, and 2 woodcocks ; and the bags made by Mr. Bell, park-keeper, during September, as presents for the tenants, &c., were 620 partridges, 81 bares, and 3 rabbits, making a total of 5,082 head, which, in con sequence of the unusual abundance of game, is scarcely missed. yfralz Voila. THE MIDDLESEX SESSIONS commenced on Monday. William Robinson, a g nteel•looking man, wearing three military decorations, was found guilty of stealing a glazier's diamond, the property of Robert Winter Thompson. After the witnesses had been heard, the prisoner strongly protested his innocence, but said be declined to call witnesses to his cha racter, as it would be his ruin. He was sentenced to six months' bard labour. Guy FAWICEN . DAY is generally usbered in by some convictions against the pyrotechnists who prepare the squibs and crackers for the loyal young Britons, who annually adjure her Majesty to " remember, re memuer, the sth of November." On Monday Mr. Drewell, pyrotechnist, Westminster road, was fined the full penalty of 51., by Mr. Elliott, at Lambeth Police•court, for the dangerous practice of selling fireworks. A FRENCH ADVOCATE named Griesdon, who has been in this country about eighteen months, pre ferred a charge at Marlboroagh•street Police-court, on Tuesday, against Jean Cazador, a designer, of Toneuham•court-road, of conspiring, with another man named Victor, to defraud him of a sum of money. The prosecutor had accepted a kind invitation to join in " a little game with some respectable persons; " this was followed by others, and each succeeding game found his purse getting steadily lighter, until it was relieved of the sum of 2001. The case was adjourned for a week until Victor, who is in custody at Liverpool, can be produced. WiLusx BROWN, the coachman charged with causing the death of Itolin.t Langliarn, by striking him on the head with the handle of a setter, has been committed to take his trial on the charge of manslaughter. A CASE OF CONSIDERABLE INTEREST to manufac turers and ratepayers was discussed before Corrie, at Clerkenwell Police•court, arising out of a summons served on Mr. Henry Dodd, the City con. tractor, for refusing to remove a quantity of rubbish from the zinc manufactory of Mr. Laman , ki, in Shoreditch, which rubbish is estimated to accumulate at the rate of 400 loads a year; the decision of the question invol ring a sum of 10,0001. per annum to the various parishes. The dispute turns upon wtpe ther the residuum is ashes or the refuse of trade, but this Its worship refused to express an opinion upon, and dismissed the summons. The parties express taeir intention to take further proceedings. - - - OLIVER, THE STOCKBROKER who is charged with unlawfully appropriating to his own use the sum of 5,000/. belonging to Miss Ada Dance, has undergone another examination at Guildhall. Some additional evidence was forthcoming, and the case against d►e prisoner resolved itself into two charges. The first was the misappropriation of the Canadian securities, which he had purchased for Miss Dance to the ex tent of 3,500/., and the second, the entire appropria tion to his own use of the balance of the money, amounting to 1,5001. The prisoner was committed for trial, and the Alderman required two sureties of 5,000/. each as bail. A FISH SALESMAN of Billingsgate-matket, named Mr. Edward Benjamin, and a servant in the employ of another salesman, have been charged at the Man sion-house with having possession of a quantity of salmon •aid to have been taken from the river Tweed since the close of the indasoo, and thereby rendering themselves liable to a penalty. It was asserted, on the one hand, that the salmon were Tweed River and not sea fish ; on the other, it was denied to be possible for any one to distinguish he. tween river salmon and sea salmon any more than between twa grains of wheat. His lordship consi dered it his duty to inflict a fine of halt a crown for each salmon on Mr. Benjamin, and ana shilling for each on the other defendant, making . I#. 4s.