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in the effort might reasonably have anticipated for the scheme a successful issue. Their hopes were, however, only in part fulfilled. The edifice was fitted up at an expense of 100/. ; the school was maintained for several years ; but at length a suitor in Chanct-ry claimed the building, and by the aid of John Doe, or his more modern representative, " ejected " the school. The worthy incumbent is not, however, disheartened ; and he now invites the co-operation of the charitable in raising a fund towards the purchase of iron school rooms, to be placed on a little plot of ground already available near the church. Numerous ladies and others have joined in the attempt, and under their auspices a bazaar, for the benefit of the Ragged and Industrial Schools of St. Stephen's is to be held on Tuesday, the 21st inst. and the two following days, at St. James's Hall, Piccadilly. We are requested to state that any friends of the object who may be prompted to give active or other assistance, may communicate with Mrs. J. H. Simpson, 74, Virginia•terrace, Dover-road, Southwark. We add the expression of our own hope that such assistance will be generously accorded to an enterprize which has so strong a claim on the warm sympathies of a Christian com- munity. THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW has been held during the week, the private view being fixed for Monday, and the public generally admitted on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and yesterday. On Saturday His Royal Highness the Prince Consort . . visited the show, and paid great attention to every object of interest pointed out to him. Some of our most eminent agriculturists were amongst the ezhi bitors, and altogether the show was a most saris_ factory one. The annnal dinner, under the presi dency of the Duke of Richmond, took place on Wednesday. THE RAILWAY COMPANIES ASSOCIATION met on Thursday at the Ra•lway Clearing-house. The rail- way directors present, who represented a capital of 136,873,0001., set forth in strong terms the many serious grievances under which the ra i lwayinterests of the country labour. It was stated that the report issued by the association has met with the almost unanimous support of the railway shareholders of the kingdom, and that the intend to bring into Parliament during the next session a measure for legalizing decisions of arbitrators on all questions which railway companies may fairly submit to arbi tration ; and also for legalizing agreements between . . companies for the division of traffic. The chairman gave notice that at the next meeting of the associa tion he should propose that the . Government be . . requested to appoint a select committee on railways, with full power to inquire into all grievances com: plained of by railway companies, and to suggest such remedies as in their opinion might appear desirable. THE BIRTHS of 1,763 children were registered last week in Lo ndon . The return of the Registrar- General for the last week again shows an excessively high rate of mortality, the deaths amounting to 1,738. Measles and scarlatina are on the decrease, but whooping•cough is on the increase. ttiant. POLITICAL ARRESTS have taken place in Ireland. The Cork Reporter of Thursday says :—" At half past eleven this day fifteen prisoners, charged with being members of an illegal society, arrived by the Brandon train under the escort of a large party of police. They are all young men, and of respectable position in society. Twelve of them are from Skib bereen, and three from Bantry. The captures were effected last night, while most of the parties were in bed. They are members of the Plicenix Society, and the informations have been sworn against them by one of their body named Sullivan. The object of the society is said to have been for the purpose of obtaining an invasion of the country by American Fillibusfers." 3001. A PROCLAMATION has been issued by the Lord Lieutenant for the suppression of Ribbon and other associations of a seditious and treasonable character. It declares that all such bodies or persons associated under the pretended obligation of oaths unlawfully administered are illegal, and that every person who shall unlawfully take these oaths shall be guilty of felony. After cautioning all parties against becoming or remaining members of these societies, the firm determination of the Government to uproot them is announced, and all loyal subjects are required to the utmost of their power to discountenance such so cieties or assemblies ; and a reward of 1001. is offered for such information as will lead to the conviction of any of the persons who shall have administered any oath, and a reward of 501. for such information as will lead to the conviction of any of the persons who shall be found to oe members of, or in tiny way con neoted with, any of the aforesaid societies. THE SADLEIR FRAUDS were the subject; yf a judg- _ . ment by Mr. Commissioner Long&ld in the Incum bered Estates Court, Dublin, on Monday. The case came before the court " n re Burmester," the substantial question in the matter being whether the official manager representing the Tipperary Bank, or the London and County Bank, was entitled to the proceeds of the estates of the late John Sadleir. The learned judge entered into an elaborate review of the facts upon which he grounded his judgment. Upon the facts as they appeared he had formed a very decided opinion that the right of the parties claiming under the different securities should depend on the circumstances wider which the securities had been executed. He could not believe that all the evidence which had been adduced was that of per jured persons, and that the directors of the London Bank, with a full knowledge of the affairs, had been engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the Tipperary Bank by making large advances to John Sadlen.. The evidence rather showed that the Tipperary Bank and Sadleir were both unable to meet their engage ments. The failure of Sadleir would have brought ruin upon the Tipperary Bank. It was too much to call upon the court to believe that the directors of the Lo:elon Bank were aware of the frauds of Jobn Sadleir. His lordship said he had entered into the transactions of the present case at more length than usual, in order that bosh parties might have an op portunity of correcting any erroneous impression which he might entertain in the case, in the event of an appeal. The court overruled the objection of the official manager without costs. The decision will • seriously affect all parties interested in the Tipperary Bank. saw an 'Volta. THE GREAT SHREWSBURY EJECTMENT CASE Came - - - - before the Court of Common Pleas on Monday. The action was brought by the present Earl of Shrews. bury, who has, by the decision of the House of Lords, been declared heir male in tail of the first Earl of Shrewsbury, against the defendants, the executors of the late earl, Bertram, who bequeathed the ex'..en- sive estates to the younger son of Duke of Norfolk, to recover possession of those estates. Ultimately a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the full court on the point of THE IMPORTANT CA6a - 01 , SCULLY V. THORAX occupied the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday and Thursday. The charge preferred by the plaintiff, who was formerly member for Cork, imputed to Mr. Ingram, M.P. for Boston, and pro. prietor of the Illustrated London News, grave acts of misrepresentation in the matter of a certain Irish estate, Called Castle Hyde, by which Mr. Scully sustained a severe pecuniary loss. After having been locked up for several hours the jury, who probably for the first time in the history of British juries had been permitted to enjoy the luxuries of a fire, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages ELIZABETH MARTHA WHITF:. wife of a master mariner at Deptford, was charged, on Monday, before Mr. Trail!, at Greenwich Police court, with cruelty to her stepdaughter, six years of age. The poor child was found to be in a shocking state from bruises, excoriationq, and even cuts. These were proved to be the work of the stepmother, who the father, notwithstan ling, gravely efirmed was "a kind-hearted and feeling woman ! " The magistrate sentenced the wife to one month's hard labour ; and the women assembled outside the court knocked the husband's hat overhiseyes when he came out. THE CHARGE which Mr. Mowbray Morris had preferred against a Mr. Capron, a solicitor, for .an assault committed upon him the day beiore his marriag i with Miss Delane, was postpuned until next Middlesex sessions, the defendant alleging that he .. ... had not had sufficient time to prepare his defence. lailants and Offences. Two RAnwkr COLLMIONS of a serious character have occurred during the week—one at the Hackney _ .. station, on the North London Railway, on Monday, during the fog, and the other at the Lea bridge station of the Eastern Counties Railway on the same evening. In both instances several passengers were injured, but fortunately no lives were lost. Two Lives, these of a mother and daughter, were . _ lost at a fire which broke out in the house of Mr. Pond, Old street, St. Luke's, on Monday morning, although the escape arrived only five minutes after the discovery of the flames. THE ROYAL HAIR DRESSER AT WINDSOR, Mr. Charles Alder, put a period to his existence, on Friday, by placing the muzzle of a horse pistol loaded with ball to his breast and shooting himself through the heart. At the coroner's inquiry, on Saturday-last, it appeared that anxiety, occasioned by pecuniary difficulties, had at the time of his committing 'this rash act deprived him of his reason, and a verdict to this affect was returned by the jury. Mr. Alder had been left s handsome income by his father, who during the reigns of George 111., IV., and William IV., had been emplavP l at Windsor Castle as hair 1 ~ • - . • . ... . ..... • - - • . . . DECEMBER 11 , THE PRESS, 1858. 2111 end its tide to constitutional government, in the effort might reasonably have anticip ated for o ffi cial manager representing_ the Tipperary Bank, or lonia n State • ith T the scheme a successful issue. Their ho pes were, the London and County Bank, was entitled to the bit i n g their respective b yoo b ta n b e b reat7 of Paris, are a source . ig er t t an t e will of any single however, only in part fulfilled. The edifice was proceeds of the estates of the late John Sadleir. derived from state, whether sovereign or su ordinate. They form a fitted up at an expense of loot. ; the school was The learned judge entered into an elaborate review • of the public law of Europe. They cannot be maintained for several years ; but at length a suitor of the facts upon which he grounded his judgment. / xenon infrnged or altered by any authority inferior to that from w hi c h they flow. It is therefore readily to be understood, in Chancery claimed the building, and by t h e aid of Upon the facts as they appeared. he had formed a alike from the t erms of the Commission and from t h e John Doe, or his more modern representative, v e ry decided aPin • ' a ethantttefemennrigtihete should f on a the dependparties reaso n of the case, that my mission avoids every ulterior " ejected' the school. The worthy i ncum b ent i s claiming underthe la diffre quest ion that could derogate from the relations in which, not, however, disheartened ; and h e now i nv i tes on the circumstances wider which the securities had the co-operation of the charitable in raising a fund been executed. He could not believe that all the by the concert of so many great States, England and the towards the purchase of iron school rooms, to be evidence which had been adduced was that of per- i s l an d have been reciprocally placed. - The liberties placed on a little plot of ground already available jured persons, and that the directors of the London guaranteed by the Treaty of Faris and by lonian law are, i n the eyes of her Majesty, sacred. On the other hand, near the church. Numerous ladies and others have Bank, with a full knowledge of the affairs, had been the purpotte for which she has sent me is not to inquire . . _ joi bazaar,ned i n f 0 r t the e a tbteenmepfitt, of and the under ß eg g e d t their rd auspice Industrials a e ß n a g n a k g e b d y in m ak a i n g conspiracy l arge advances to o theJoh John Tipperary Sadleir. into the British protectorate, but to examine in what way Great Britain may most honourably and amply diacliarge the o b l i gat i ons which for purposes European and lonian, Schools of St. Stephen's is to be held on Tuesday, The evidence rather showed that th e Tipp erar y B a nk the 21st inst. and the two following days, at St. and Sadleir were both unable to meet their engage- rather than British, she has contracted. For th i s o bj ec t, then, I earnestly invite y ou, the Chief James's Hall, Piccadilly. We are requested to state ments. The failure of Sadleir would have brought that any friends of the object who may be prompted ruin upon the Tipperary Bank. It was too much to Executive Authority of the State, and all ther persons represen ting or having an interest in the Government, to give active or other assistance, may communicate call u p on th e court to b el i eve that the directors of the ins titutions, or the people of the county), to assist me w i th Mrs. J. H. Simpson, '7 ' 4 Vir iniseterrace, the London Bank were aware o f t h e f rau d s of John freely with all such information and counsel on the state Dover-road, Southwark. We add ' g the expression of Sadleir. His lordship said he had entered into the of the Islands and of their laws as ought to influence the our own hope that such assistance will be generously transactions of the present case at more length than conduct of the protecting power. For it is only by this efficacious aid that I cal hope to give effect to those offer ,- accorded to an enterprize which has so strong a usua l , i n or d er that both patties might have an op- ti o nate wishes for the welfare of the Islands which I have claim on the warm sympathies of a Christian coin- portun i ty o f correcting any erroneous impression a w n hi a c p h p h ea e l. mig T h h t e e e n o t n e r r t ta o in ve i rr n u t l h e e d c t as he e, in the event o of been permitted to hear uttered personally by her Majesty. munity. It has pleased Almighty God to endow the lonian people oebidecettirionf willthe THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW has been official manager without costs Th with remarkable gifts, and also to try them in other times held during the week, tbe private view being fixed seriously affect all parties interes ted . in the Tipperary with many vicissitudes. May it please him now, iu an age alike of peace and of hope, to afford them more and for Monday, and the public generally admitted on Bank. more all the blessings of civilized and Christian life ; may Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and yesterday. On your countrymen find in the subsisting relations, wisely Saturday His Royal Highness the Prince Consort developed, a position worthy of their best energies, and of visited the show, and paid great attention to every gati an Volta. their ancient and distinguished traditions, and may their object of interest pointed out to him. Some of our h a ppiness ever be secured by the double union of freedom —. most eminent agriculturists were amongst the exhi with public order and of knowledge with the Christian faith. b iters, and altogether the show was a most Estis. THE GREAT SHREWSBURY EJECTMENT CASE came factory one. The annnal dinner, under the presi- before the Court of Common Pleas on Monday. The The President of the Senate returned an appro.- dency of the Duke of Richmond, took place on action was brought by the present Earl of Shrews- priate letter expressing gratitude to her Majesty, and Wednesday. bury, who has, by the decision of the House of Lords, promising all assistance to Mr. Gladstone in his THE RAILWAY COMPANIES ASSOCIATIoN met on been declared heir male in tail of the first Earl of mission. Thursday at the Ralway Clearing-house. The rail- Shrewsbury, against the defendants, the executors of The letter above quoted says : way directors present, who represented a capital of the late earl, Bertram, who bequeathed the exten- The Hon. W. E. Gladstone has personally made a most 136,873,0001., set forth in strong terms the many sive estates to the younger son of Duke of Norfolk, favourable impression with all classes here. The real in• serious grievances under which the railway interests to recover possession of those estates. Ultimately a terest he has shown in everything connected with this of the country la b our. It was stated that the report verdict was taken for the plaintiff, subject to the country, his eloquence sod captivating address, and the • issued by the association has met with the almost opinion of the full court on the point of law. earnestness which characterises his research into the ....—..... ....... _ unanimous support of the railway shareholders of causes of their malcontent, have clearly convinced all THE IMPORTANT CA‘A, Ole SCULLY v. INGRAIE lonians with whom he has been brought in contact that the kingdom, and that the association intend to bring occupied the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday there is no lack of goodwill towards them on his part. into Parliament during the next session a measure and Thursday. The charge preferred by the Yesterday morning he held a public levee at the Palace of for legalizing decisions of arbitrators on all questions plaintiff, who was formerly member for Cork, St. Michael and St. George, which, in spite of the nn- which railway companies may fairly submit to arbi- imputed to Mr. Ingram, M.P. for Boston, and pro. favourable weather, was attended by numbers of the most tration ; and also for legalizing agreements between prietor of the Illustrated London News, grave acts respectable portion of the inhabitants. The Greek clergy, companies for the division of traffic. The chairman of misrepresentation in the matter of a certain Irish the officers of the garrison, and fill Corfiotes of any note gave notice that at the next meeting of the associa- estate, called Castle Hyde, by which Mr. Scully were on this occasion presented to him. Her Majesty's turn he should propose that the Government be sustained a severe pecuniary loss. After having steam frigate Terrible has been placed at the disposal of re. nested to appoint a select committee on railways, been locked up for several hours the jury, who Mr. Gladstone during his stay in Greek waters. He is accompanied by Mrs. Gladstone and his daughter, the Hon. with full power to inquire into all grievances cons• probably for the first time in the history of British Arthur Gordon,his aide-de-camp, and a Neapolitan gentle- plained of by railway companies, and to suggest such juries had been permitted to enjoy the luxuries of a man who acts as his secretary and interpreter. On the remedies as in their opinion might appear desirable. fire, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 6th of next month be leaves on a tour to Cephalonia, THE BIRTHS of 1,763 children were registered 3001. Zante, and the more southern islands, and, after a visit to last week in London. The return of the Registrar- ELIZABETH MARTHA WHITE. wife of a master classic Athens, is expected to return to Corfu by Christmas. General for the last week again shows an excessively mariner at Deptford, was charged, on Monday, before high rate of mortality, the deaths amounting to 1,738. Mr. Trail!, at Greenwich Police court, with cruelty A CABINET Corsicrr, was held on Monday at the Measles and scarlatina are on the decrease, but to her stepdaughter, six years of age. The poor official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whooping-cough is on the increase. child was found to be in a shocking state front in Downing-street. The Ministers present were the bruises, excoriations, and even cuts. These were Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the pliant. proved to be the work of the stepmother, who the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl father, notwithstan ling, gravely efirmed was " a of Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of POLITICAL ARRESTS have taken place in Ireland. kind-hearted and feeling woman ! " The magistrate Malmesbury, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, General Peel, The Cork Reporter of Thursday says :—" At half sentenced the wife to one month's hard labour ; and Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. past eleven this day fifteen prisoners, charged with the women assembled outside the court knocked J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. A Council being members of an illegal society, arrived by the the husband's hat over his eyes when he came out. was also held on Wednesday, at which the same Brandon train under the escort of a large party of THE CHARGE which Mr. Mowbray Morris had Ministers were present. police. They are all young men, and of respectable preferred against a Mr. Capron, a solicitor, for an MR. ALFRED WALNE, her Majesty's Consul at position in society. Twelve of them are from Skib- assault committed upon him the day betore his Cairo, has been appointed British Commissioner at bereen, and three from Bantry. The captures were marriag J with Miss Delane, was postponed until next Jeddah. The choice will doubtless prove a happy effected last night, while most of the parties were in Middlesex sessions, the defendant alleging that he one; Mr. Walne being well fitted for the post by bed. They are members of the Phoenix Society, and had not had sufficient time to prepare his defence. his many years' experience and knowledge of Eastern the informations have been sworn against them by affairs• one of their body named Sullivan. The object of the laikats ad Ofitarts. SEYED PACHA, the new Turkish Commissioner, soc iety is said to have been for the purpose of arrived at Alexandria, from Constantinople, on the obtaining an invasion of the country by American 22nd of November, and left Cairo on the morning Fillibusters." Two RAILWAY COLLIbIONs of a serious character of the 24th, for Suez, whence both he and Mr. A PROCLAMATION has been issued by the Lord have occurred during the week—one at the Hackney Walne were to proceed for their destination by her Lieutenant for the suppression of Ribbon and other station, on the North London Railway, on Monday, Majesty's steamer Roebuck. associations of a seditious and treasonable character. during the fog, and the other at the Lea- bridge It declares that all such bodies or persons associated station of the Eastern Counties Railway on the same nittropolitan. under the pretended obligation of oaths unlawfully evening. In both instances several passengers were administered are illegal, and that every person who injured, but fortunately no lives were lost. ST. STEPHEN'S, SOUTHWARK, RAGGED shall unlawfully take these oaths shall be guilty of Two LIVES, those of a mother and daughter, were INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. felony. After cautioning all parties against becoming lost at a fire which broke out in the house of Mr. THERE is no object more truly philanthropic in or remaining members of these societies, the firm Pond , Old street , St. Luke's , on Monday morning, itself, nor one which we can more conscientiously determination of the Government to uproot them is although the escape arrived only five minutes after recommend to the sympathies of the benevolent, announced, and all loyal su b j ects are re q uired to the the discovery of the flames. than the effort now being made by the Rev. J. H. utmost of their power to discountenance such so- THE ROYAL HAIR DRESSER AT WINDSOR, Mr. Simpson, the Incumbent of St. Stephen's, Southwark, cieties or assemblies ; and a reward of 1001. is offered Charles Alder, put a period to his existence, on to establish ragged schools in this neighbourhood, for such information as will lead to the conviction of Friday, by placing the muzzle of a horse pistol loaded which is remarkable even amongst metropolitan any of the persons who shall have administered any with ball to his breast and shooting himself through districts for its need and destitution. This is not oath, and a reward of 501. for such information as the heart. At the coroner's inquiry, on Saturdayiast, the first attempt by the same hand ;it is rather the will lead to the conviction of any of th e p ersons who it a pp eared that anxiety , occ asioned b y p ecuniar y following up, under much discouragement, of a shall be found to no members of, or in any way con- difficulties, bad at the time of his committing 'this design which engaged the thoughts of the mourn- neoted with, any of the aforesaid societies. rash act deprived him of his reason, and a verdict to bent on his first entering on his ministerial duties in THE SADLEIR FRAUDS were the subject: of a judg- this affect was returned by the jury. Mr. Alder had his pa r i s b, ment by Mr. Commissioner Longfleld in the Incum- been left a handsome income by his father, who school was ; as an n d ot th w i i s t ae ho h u ie t vded,iffichueltayntdhatht those who S joinedimpson substantia l d tan E ti s a ta l t g e u s es C ti o o u n rt, in t D he ub m li a n t , ter on bei M ng on w d h a e y t . her T th h e e dm... during:he reigns of George 111., IV., and William obtained a building suited for use as a ragged case c ame before the co urt " In re Burmester," the IV., had been emplavP l at Windsor Castle as hair , . .. .. , •