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THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER ii, 1858. 874 The BISHOP then said that, no material fact being controverted, in his judgment it was nut necessary to call any witnesses. The Court would take time to consider its judgment. The Court then adjourned, no day being fixed for its reassembling. THE BISHOP OF LONDON has refused to license Mr. Poole to the curacy of St. Mary Magdalene, Munster square, to which he had been nominated by Mr. Stuart. Dr. Tait says :—" I felt, it my painful duty to revoke your• licence at St. Barnabas, because, in my judgment, your practice it, respect of confession was calculated to bring scandal on the Church ; and I cannot accept you as Mr. Stuart's curate." THE BISHOP OF OXFORD has issued a commission, addressed to three laymen and tmo clergymen of his diocese, to inquire into the statements alleged against the Rev. Richard Temple West, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, and curate of Boyne-hill, in reference to his practice of confession, as brought out in a ewe which has lately been so prominently before the public, and to report to his lordship whether there is prima facie grounds for instituting further proceedings against hint. The commissioners are—Dr. Robert Phillimore, chancellor of the diocese : the Venerable James Randall, M.A., arch deacon of Berkshire; the Rev. J. Austen Leigh, M.A., ♦icar of Bray (the parish in which Mr. Gresley's district is situate) ; Mr. Charles Sawyer, of Heywood lodge ; and Mr. J. Hibbert, of Braywick•lodge—the two latter being county magistrates. All these gentlemen hold High Church views, particularly Dr. Phillimore, Archdeacon Randall, and Mr. Leigh, who are commonly classed amongst the ultra or Tractarian party. The usual fourteen days' notice was served upon Mr. West. THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE is about to erect in Romsy Abbey Church a monument to the founder of his family, Sir William Petty. A CASE of CONSIDERABLE IMPORTANCE TO THE CHURCH will probably come beforo the courts of law at the earliest opportunity. A few weeks since the rectory of Niton, in the Isle of Wight, became vacant by the death of the Rev. Richard Dixon, and the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Oxford, presented thereto the Rev. Thomas Castle Southey, M.A., a fellow of that society. The Bishop of Win chester, in whose diocese Niton is placed, has refused to institute him on account of his Tractarian tendencies, particularly basing his refusal upon a sermon which the rev. gentleman preached at St. Paul's, Brighton—a church with which the name of Mr. Gresley, of Boyne-hill ndtoriety, is closely iden• titled—on the subject of the Holy Eucharist, and on account of which the Bishop of Chichester prohi. bited him from again preaching in thnt diocese. The case will probably come before the Queen's Bench upon an application for a mandamus, directed to the Bishop of Winchester, to show cause why he refuses to institute. A CHURCH-RATE CONTEST has taken place at Melcombe Regis, Weymouth. The dissenters mus tered in great force, and demanded a poll. At the close the result was in favour of the rate, by a majority of 182. The Wesleyan% did not vote against the rate. A NEW Cnunat is to be built at Newington, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral having given a site for a new church at Newington Butts, and an endowment of 1501. a year for the incumbent. The new church will cost 5,0001., and will contain 1,000 sittings, entirely free. It is proposed to build the church in the poor-cat and worst part of the palish, with a population of 10,000 souls, made up of keepers of small grocery and coal shops, artizans, bird fanciers, day and job labourers, costermongers, rag and bone pickers, and five streets, containing more than eighty houses, occupied by not less than 1,200 people of bc,th sexes, who have no recognized means of obtaining a livelihood. THE FOLLOWING REINFORCEMENTS FOR INDIA embarked at Gravesend on Tuesday on board the Blervie Castle, 616 tons, Commander G. Mg-lardy :- 30 men of the 7th Dragoon Guards, 40 men of the 27th Enniskillens, 10 men of the 61st. Regiment, 15 men of the 70th Regiment, 10 men of the 81st Regiment, 30 men of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, 24 men of the 94th Regiment, and 35 men of the 98th Regiment. The number of reinforcements despatched to India by the authorities since the month of June has exceeded 5,000 cavalry and infantry troops of all ranks, which number includes those under orders to embark at Gravesend during the next few days. EAST INDIA RECRUITS, to the number of 600, are ordered to be held in readiness to embark for Indic as soon as the required amount of tonnage has been taken up for them. Of this number 300 are to embark for Bengal between the 20th and 25th, and 150 each for Bombay and Madras between the 20th and the Bth of October. THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF THE 32ND FOOT, who distinguished themselves during the memorable siege of Lucknow, hare been promoted, as the following extracts from the Gazette of Tuesday last will show:—" Assistan►.-Surgeon W. Boyd to be Surgeon, for eminent services throughout the whole of the siege of Lucknow, vice Scott, promoted to Staff Surgeon First Class; Surgeon Scott, M.D., from the 32nd Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, for eminent services throughout the whole of the siege of Lucknow." The COMMITTEE OF THE SIR HENRY LAWRENCE MEMORIAL have been officially informed that the Asylum for Soldiers' Children, foundel by the late Sir H. Lawrence, at Kussowlee, near Simlah, will be adopted and maintained by th--y. Government of India. The despatch which communicated to Lord Canning this decision of the Court of Directors called for a report upon the condition of Sir H. Lawrence's similar schools at Mount Aboo, in the Bombay Presidency, with a view to their adoption also. An inquiry was at the same time directed as to the ex pediency of founding a school of the like kind for the children of Europ&an troops on the Madras side. Sir H. Lawrence had long projected the formation of such an institution at Ootacamund, on the Neil gherries. If, eventually, the Government of India resolve to charge themselves with the support of the two existing Lawrence Asylums, and the erection of a third for Madras, the Memorial Committee will consult their subscribers as to the disposal of the fund. assault. The proseentrix, who was a housemaid at Ashley's Hotel, Covent-garden, on July 27 engaged a cab at Islington to take her home, but was induced on the way by the cabman to take a g l ass of ale, and insensible, and was taken t o a h ouse of ill. reet, Seven Dial s , w h ere she was famebecamien eo divested of her clothes, part of which and her money were taken away by the cabman. The couns e l having gone into the case at great length, evidence was given in support of the charge, and Mr. Creasy, the judge, summed up. The jury, after a short retirement, returned into court and delivered a ver dict, finding the prisoner guily of simple larceny. It was then proved that the prisoner had kept two brothels in the Hampstead -road before he took to cab driving. The sentence of the court was that the prisoner be imprisoned for ten months with bard labour. A CHARGE OF ROBBERY, rather singular in its nature, has been preferred by Mr. Samuel Jacobs, jeweller, of Knightsbridge, against a young girl, his servant, at the police•court, Westminster. It was stated that the prisoner had stolen a brooch and toothpick, which were both found in her box. The girl, in her defence, declared it was a conspiracy against her, and that the articles were put into the boa during her absence. The result was that the prosecution was withdrawn, and Mr. Lewis, who appeared fur the defence, stated his intention of bringing an action for false imprisonment. gtaihnts antt News. SHOCKING TRAGEDY. A SHOCKING tragedy has just been brought to light by the apprehension of a young man, named W. Liam Reid, in Glasgow, by Mr. Shaw, the superinten• dent of the Falkirk district of the county police, on the charge of being concerned in the murder of a young woman, named Ann Taylor. So far as the particulars are known, it appears that the servant. girl of Reid's mother, who resides near Polmont, had become pregnant by him, and that on Sunday last he had operated upon her with instruments, assisted by a young medical man named Girdwood, with the view of procuring abortion. In consequence of the injuries she sustained she died on Monday evening. Reid fled immediately thereafter to Glasgow, where he took his residence in the first instance in the North British Hotel, under the name of Hardie, in. tending, it is believed, to pursue his flight next morning. The superintendent of the police followed him, however, by the night luggage-train, and appre hended him before he had time to make a start. He was removed to Falkirk-gaol in the course of the evening. This case has led to another deplorable affair. So soon as the young medical man, Girdwood, ascertained that the girl was dead, he hired a cab under the pretext of carrying him on business to Linlithgow, but while in the vehicle lie swallowed a large quantity of laudanum, and when the cab was opened at its destination he was found either in a dying state or dead. The lifeless body was brought back to Falkirk. From the statements of the mother of the deceased girl and the medical man, the follow ing particulars have been collected. She was taken violently ill on Sunday afternoon, and becoming gradually worse during the rest of that day, was visited by Dr. Myrtle, who had been sent for on Monday forenoon. From what she could be got to tell as to what was the matter with her, Dr. Myrtle concluded it was only an ordinary case of bodily derangement, and treated it accordingly. The girl, however, appeared to get gradually worse, and would in all probability have died without disclosing the real cause of her illness, had it not been for o ne of those extraordinary incidents which, occurring as they do in circumstances like the present, almost stagger belief, and make truth seem stranger and less crediblo than fiction. The girl's mother, a widow, living in the suburbs of Linlithgow, was disturbed on Sunday night by a dream that her daughter was at times suffering intense agony from some cause or other. So deep an impression did this dream make upon her mind, that though entirely ignorant of the condition in which the poor girl was, she started etl for Smallburn the next forenoon, and arrived there to find her fears only too completely confirmed —for her daughter was by this time raked by excru ciating pains, and fast sinking boyond the hope of recovery. The doctor was at a loss to account for the aggravated symptoms of the case, and but little infor mation could be elicited from the girl herself. Atone time she spoke to a young woman who was attending her in a way that led her to believe she had some . : thing of importance to communicate; but William Reid her mistress's son, entering the room at that moment, she remained silent. When her mother came, how ever, she made, according to the old woman's story a clean breast of the whole affair; confess ed that she i was enciente by Reid, and described th e treatment she hail been subjected to in order to procure ahoy' Lion. Dr. Myrtle having been i mm ediately inforiaeeet of these disclosures, found that she had b L operated upon as she had stated, and delivered bets &bat nn rata!! itttlligtntt, WOUNDED TROOPS FROM DELHI, to the number of 140, most of whom took part in the desperate assault and capture of the Indian strongholds under General Nicholson, arrived at Chatham on Saturday. They had previously debarked at Gravesend lrom the Indianian Waterloo , from Kurrachee, which port hhe left ou the 4th of 11tay last, the voyage to England occupying 123 days. The sick and disabled men belong chiefly to the 61st, 70th, and 81st Regiments ; but there are, in addition to these, invalids from most of the cavalry and infantry corps now serving in India. THE 48TH REGIMENT are ordered to embark at Gibraltar for Calcutta ; the Ist battalion of the 3rd Regiment of Foot, at present at Corfu, are under orders also for Calcutta. The 28th Regiment, at Malta, are to proceed to Bombay, orders having been sent out at the close of the past week from the Horse- Guards. All three regiments are to go to Alexandria, and by the overland route to their respective stations ju India. Yalu anb Volta. A MATRIMONIAL MISADVENTURE Of a singular nature was brought under the notice of the magic• trate of the Westminster Police-court on Monday. It appeared that Mr. Thomas Stevens, a house decorator, of middle age, was married, on the Ist instant, at St. Luke's, Chelsea, to Miss Martha Elizabeth Dunkley. After the performance of the ceremony it was suggested that they should com mence the honeymoon with a visit to Cremorne that evening, whither they repaired. They left early to return home, and were joined by the bride's sister. Alter proceeding a short distance Mrs. Stevens took a fancy to some dainty in a ham and beef shop window, when her husband requested her to stay outside while he went in and purchased it for her. To his surprise, on regaining the street he found his newly married wife and sister some distance off, running as fast as their legs could carry them. He called to them to stop, but in vain, and being unable to follow them at any pace owing to a recent attack of paralysis, he lost them, and found that all attempts to recover his wife were useless. He saw no more of her until Saturday evening, when he met the in constant fair in the street in company with a formid able man of colour. In consequence of what he had heard he was afraid to go up to them, but was determined to watch them, in which, however, he was, after keeping them in sight for a few minutes only, frustrated. To add to Mr. Stevens's mortifica tion, he had lost his clothing and several other articles. He had applied fora portion of these where he believed his wife to be secreted, but could get no satisfactory answer, and had since betaken himself to the house of his wife's father, in Church-street, Chelsea, where, in anticipation of his marriage, he had deposited other propetty, when, to his surprise and alarm, the lady's parent told him to be off, or he would run a knife into him. The object of the present application was to obtain summonses against Mr. Dunkley for the threat, and for the unlawful detention of the property. The application was granted. AT THE MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, 011 Tuesday, John Knight, the cabman, was indicted for feloniously assaulting Mary Catherine Barry, putting her in bodily fear, anti stealing from her person a purse containing 1/. 19s. Od., and some clothes. In a second indictment he was charged with having as saulted her with intent, for unlawfully and indecently tearing her clothes from her body, and fog a common 111 e \