The Press. — London, England, 1858-10-16 00:00:00

The principal winners are Mr. Howard (to whom the horse formerly belonged), Mr. E. Green, Hodgman, Mr. G. Lambert, Mr. C. Farrance, and the trainer. EXTRAORDINARY SPORT has been had on the estate of Mr. J. D. Magens, Brightlingsea. No less than 372 head have fallen in three days, before the guns of Captain Stringer and Mr. A. Fuller. The killed on Monday consisted of 57 pheasants, 87 partridges, 11 bares, and 0 rabbits; on Tuesday, of 101 par tridges, 10 hares, 4 rabbits, and 1 landrail ; and on Wednesday, of 86 partridges, 5 hares, and 4 rabbits. THE PRESS, OCTOBER 16, 1858. an hour and a half, when she was found lying in the bath dead. They immediately sent for medical assistance, and it was discovered that she had taken poison, a bottle containing sulphuric acid being found in the room. Mr. Woodman, a schoolmaster, residing in Devonshire.square, Bishopsgate-street, said that deceased, who had resided with him for the last nineteen years, was his wife's sister, that she was of a very strange and obstinate temper, and that her brother also committed suicide. The jury re turned as their verdict that deceased destroyed her self while labouring under temporary insanity. AT THE WORSHIP STREET POLICE-COURT On Tues day, Mary Ann Williams, a strong, determined-look ing woman, was charged before Mr. Hammill with stealing a carpet- bag, containing property to the amount of 1351., belonging to Mr. Peter Wincey. The prosecutor had arrived per train from Exeter, and went into a confectioner's hop, where he placed his carpet-bag against the c&unter and sat down. The prisoner immediately entered the shop, seized the bag, and handed it to a man outside, who made off with it. The woman, however, was seized. The prisoner declared her innocence, but, finding the magistrate resolved to commit her for trial, she pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Saba an Notice. James LIST AND WILLIAM SAVILLE, gravediggers, were brought before the magistrates, at the Illford petty sessions, on Saturday, on remand, charged with breaking into a vault under Christ Church, Stratford, and stealing a copper coffin worth 10/. Since the prisoners were last examined List has volunteered a confession, and was on this occasion admitted as approver, when he stated that himself and his fellow prisoner had first taken the copper coffin, and after wards a leaden one, both of which were broken up and sold. The proceedings are adjourned for a month. THURGOOD, THE SURGEON, AND RILEY, THE AGENT, who have undergone several examinations at th 3 Guildhall on a charge of conspiring to defraud Mr. Christie, a distiller, of Liverpool, of nineteen hogs heads and one puncheon of whisky, value 3001., were committed for trial, on Saturday, by Alderman Sid ney, and bail refused. THE FORTUNE TELLER, Ann Williams, has been committed by Mr. Hammill, at Worship-street Police• court, to take her trial at the next Middlesex Sessions. A host of charges has accumulated against the prisoner since her last examination, by servant girls, impatient to know what shall be the colour of their future husband's hair. THE SHOCKING MURDER AND SUICIDE at Preston has been investigated by the coroner's jury, and has resulted in a verdict of temporary insanity. The facts of the case as given in evidence were that Robert Bond, a young man twenty-five years of age, who was of dissipated habits, had conceived an attachment for Miss Waiman, aged nineteen, which she did not requite, and having probably maddened himself by drink he shot her with a gun as she came out of her father's door. The murderer then entered his own house, which was next door, reloaded the gun, and sitting down in a chair blew out his brains. . . THE Trxxisa COINING CASES came on for trial at the Birmingham sessions on Wednesday, before M. D. Hill, Esq., Q.C., the Recorder. Thomas Moss was indicted for conspiring with Antonio Calvoco reai to defraud the Turkish Government by means of certain counterfeit coin of that country called piastres. The indictment contained two counts, the first charging the prisoners with making the coin, and the second with a conspiracy for the same pur pose. Mr. Adams and Mr. Motteram were for the prosecution ; Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. O'Brien for the defence. The prisoner Calvocoressi being a foreigner claimed his right to have a jury composed partly of foreigners. No foreigners, how ever, having been summoned, the case against Moss was taken first. The evidence having concluded, the jury returned a verdict of guilty on the second count against Moss. The recorder respited sen tence until next sessions. It was also agreed by con sent to postpone the trial of the prisoner Calvocoressi until the same sessions. Both prisoners were admitted to bail. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE was investigated at Guildhall on Tuesday, before Aldermen Salomons and Wilson, Mr. J. P. Brown, Secretary to the National Brazilian Mining Association, having been summoned to answer a charge of assault upon an lash serv an t g i r l out o f p l ace, name d Cathe rine Pursell. She represented that the defendant had enticed her into his office, in Throgmorton-street, under pretence of finding her a situation ; but her story was a perfect tissue of contradictions. The complainant was supported in h er c h a r ge by Richard Am . or, a lawyer ' s c l er k, w h om s h e sty l e d " h er friend," and who it seems has supported her for the last three months. The evidence of the " friend," however, was anythin g but friendly to her cause. Eventually the summons was dismissed, the worthy alderman assuring Mr. Brown that be left the court without the slightest imputation on his character. SUICIDE IN • VAPOUR BATH has beer the Rllbjec t of a coroner's i nquest h e ld on the b ody of Miss Leigh Bunyon, aged forty-two, who was found dead in one of the baths of the establishment, in St. Mary Axe, on Friday, the Bth instant, under some what peculiar circumstances. From the evidence of the attendants, it appeared that there was nothing strange or excitable in the manner of the deceased when she applied for the bath. She remained in gtrtibtnts anb Offencts. A RAILWAY COLLISION, by which Titmarsh, a guard, was killed on the spot, and Dickerson, another guard, so seriously injured that his life is despaired of, took place at Six-mile Bottom Station of the New market branch of the Eastern Counties line, at a few minutes before twelve o'clock on Saturday night. The injured men were the guards of a train of empty horse-boxes, which was returning to London, and they were sitting in the break at the rear of the train, when a goods train which left Newmarket a few minutes after the first ran into it, smashing up the break and killing Titmarsh on the spot. As THE COUNTESS OF MOUNT EDGECUMBE Was driving along the beach at Cretnille towards the yacht belonging to the earl, lying off the point, on Tuesday, some clothes-lines, extending from the cottages across the road, caught the front of the open car riage in which her ladyship was sitting, forced the staple from the wall, which struck her ladyship's forehead with great force, causing the blood to flow very freely. She was taken in a fainting state to the residence of Mr. Chappell, where every attention was paid her. She was afterwards conveyed in a very weak state to the mansion, where she is now doing well. THE BURNING OF THE " AUSTRIA," with the loss of five hundred lives, appears to have been one of the most fearful in the annals of similar calamities. At a little after two o'clock on the 13th dense volumes of smoke burst from the after entrance of the steerage. The ship was instantly put at half speed, at which she continued until the magazine exploded. The engineers, it is inferred, were instantly suffo cated. Fire was next seen breaking through the lights amidships, and it travelled aft with fearful rapidity. Some persons let down a boat from the port side of the quarter-deck, and she was thought to be crushed under the screw. An attempt was made to launch a boat on the starboard side, but it was swamped by the number who rushed into it, and all were lost. All the first-cabin passengers were un the poop, except a few gentlemen, who must have been mothered in the smoking-room. Many second cabin passengers were also on the poop, but a num ber of them got shut into the cabin by fire. Some of them were pulled up through the ventilator, but the greater number could not be extricated. The last woman drawn up said there were six already suffocated. The ladies and gentlemen on the poop jumped into the sea by twos and threes, some of the ladies in flames. Several hesitated, but were driven to it at the last moment. In half an hour not a soul was to be seen on the poop. The fire is known to have arisen from very culpable negligence. The captain and surgeon considered it expedient to fumigate the steerage with burning tar. The operation was to be performed by the boatswain, under the superintendence of the fourth officer. The boatswain heated the end of a chain to dip it in tar to produce smoke; the end became too hot to hold, and he let it drop upon the deck, to which it. set fire. The tar upset, and immediately all about was in flames. A feeble attempt was made to extinguish it, but without effect. There was nothing at hand to meet such an emergency. Mr. C. Brew, one of the survivors, who saved himself by swimming to a boat, has written a graphic description of the awful scene. We extract the following passage : The scene on the quarter-deck was indescribable and heartrending. Passengers were rushing frantically to and fro ; husbands seeking their *ices, wives in search of their husbands, relatives looking after relatives, mothers la menting the loss of their children, some wholly paralyzed by fear, others madly crying to be saved, but a few per fectly calm and collected. The flames pressed so closely 1003 upon them that many jumped into the sea; relatives, clasped in each other's arms, leaped over and met a watt ry grave. Two girls, supposed to be sisters, jumped over and sank kissing each other. A missionary and wife leaped into the sea together, and the stewardess and assistant steward, arm in arm, followed. One Hungarian gentleman, with seven fine children, four of them girls, made his wife jump in, then blessed his six eldest children, made them jump in one after the other, and followed them with an infant in his own arms. Obituarg. COLONEL HUGH FRASER, C. 8., died at Mussooril on the 12th August. He was the eldest and only surviving son of the late Hugh Fraser, Esq., of Stoneyfield, Inverness. Colonel Fraser died in his fiftieth year, thirty consecutive years of which were spent in Bengal. He erected the beautiful iron bridge at Lucknow, the first structure of the kind which had been seen in India. His services in the Burmese war, and his success in housing and pre serving the health of the troops there employed, ;are in the fresh and grateful recollection of those who benefited by them. For his gallantry in taking by assault, with his own engineers, the " White Horse " Stockade at Rangoon, where be was first in, after a disagreeable " check " on the side of our assailing force, he was rewarded by a Commandership of the Bath. MRS. JAMES HOLMES, wife of the Mayor of Liver pool, died on Saturday morning last, in London, at the residence of one of her daughters. Mrs. Holmes had been ill for a long period, and on Saturday morning she became suddenly and alarmingly worse, and rapidly sank, dying at noon on that day. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY has arrived in Dublin, for the purpose of taking measures for laying down a new line of com munication between Ireland and England. The new line will be direct from Kingstown to Holyhead. M. DONATI, the discoverer of the comet now visible in the heavens, has been appointed a.saistant astro nomer of the Impe►ial Museum of Florence. THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF AN ASYLUM FOR INEBRIATES was laid on the 25th ult., at Binghamton, in the State of New York. The citizens of that town have granted 250 acres of land for it. Dr. Francis, Rev. Drs. Bellows and Bethune, Hon. George W. Clinton and Alfred B. Street, took part in the cere monies, and the Rev. Edward Everett delivered an address. The idea of an asylum for inebriates is founded in the fact that intemperance, though a vice, nevertheless becomes a physical disease, and needs medical as well as moral treatment. This institution is an entire novelty. PRI:IT IN ISlmiroN is this year so plentiful that some kinds are almost unsaleable. In one instance the owner of an orchard shook the fruit off the trees and turned in his pigs to eat it. POSTAGE STAMPS have been introduced into Spain. They are square in shape, and the colours are pink, green, and brown. Within a circular border is a representation of the head of Queen Isabella. The lvalues of Spanish postage .stamps are ltd., 24d., and sd. THE GHOST OF GENERAL MARCEAU has, according to the Gazette de Cologne, been playing strange pranks at Coblentz, acting in open defiance of military routine, and thus reversing the case of the ruling passion strong in death. "It is very well known," says oar credulous contemporary, " that underneath the Fort Empereur Francois, near the Cologne-road, the monument of the French Repub lican, General Marceau, who fell at Altenkirchen, had been erected ; the body of the general having been buried at Coblentz, on Mount St. Pierre, where may now be found the principal part of the above mentioned fort. The monument of the general, which was a truncated pyramid, had been removed when the building of the fortifications of Coblentz was commenced. It was, however, subsequently reconstructed at the place where it now remains by the express order of the late King Frederick William 111. M. de Stramberg, who in his Rheiniseher Antiguarius gives a very detailed biography of Marceau, in making mention of this monument states that several persons bad alleged that they had seen the general on different occasions at night, long after his death, mounted upon a white horse, and enveloped in a cloak of the same colour (the French Cbassenrs), riding towards Mount St. Pierre. It is stated that a soldier who was on duty at this mount at midnight has just seen this white spectre, mounted upon a grey horse. Not receiving any answer to his demand, the soldier fired three times at the object. A patrol having come to the spot in consequence of those shots found the sentinel extended upon the ground in a state of unconcions ne,s, and in a frightful paroxysm of fever. He was transported to the hospital, where he became dan gerously ill, and throughout his delirium he could speak of nothing but the aforesaid apparition."