The Press. — London, England, 1858-10-30 00:00:00

THE PRESS, OCTOBER 30, 1858. conveyance, they were driven to Beattock station and booked for Carlisle, and " were o'er the border and pin y " before the lady's absence was discovered. The lady's personal attractions are of a very high order. The last thing heard of the happy couple is that they are in Liverpool, where it is supposed .irrancements had been made for their marriage. specify them, especially since the full truth will be laid bare to the public by the searching investigation which the authorities are sure to institute. As to the possible motive of the assassins, it is currently be lieved that the attempt on Mr. Nixon's life arose out of the part he took in those social commotion% by which Gweedore and Clouglisneely have latterly been convulsed. At the same time it is accepted as the truth that the fellows who made the actual attack did not belong to the neighbourhood. Up to the hour of our latest advices no arrests had been effected, but if it be the case that the assassins flung off their outside clothes as they ran, a clue might thus be obtained by which the culprits would soon be brought to the bar of justice. Mr. Nixon is being attended by Dr. Eames, of Dunfanaghy, and Dr. Brady. Being of corpulent habit, the unfortunate gentleman is in an exceedingly critical state, and mortification is apprehended. We believe that at first the medical men did not perceive much danger, but their opinion has latterly been considerably altered, their patient having got weaker. He is not able to speak, and can communicate his ideas only by signs and by writing. Irtlank AN AMERICAN INVASION in Um described, in the fol• lowing curious communication in reference to a Transatlantic regiment, the 09th, published in the Evening Mail : Berm, Oct. 26.—1 am glad to see that the Everting Mail has directed the attention of the Government to the proposed landing in this country of a regiment of limed men from America, commanded by Colonel Ryan. There are just grounds for the exercise of caution in this matter, is I am sorry to inform ..ou that seditious societies have been discovered in this neighbourhood as well as in other places in the west of the county of Cork. They are also creeping inland, and have made some progress in the neighbouring county of Kerry. A strange peculiarity pervades this movement. The members of the society bind themselves not to divulge their plans to the priests, and where spoken against from the altar they denounce the priests as despots, as bad as the rest of their tyrants. 'Fhey are supposed to derive inspirations from America, and money also. They declare their intention to rise in arms whenever there may be any difference with France or ►merica. The Government is, I believe, aware of these tads. At present the whole thing is very contemptible. The strange point in the matter is excluding the priests, and without them they can do nothing beyond producing another cabbage•garden campaign. AN ECCENTRIC AND BENEVOLENT INDIVIDUAL IN Con has banded to the mayor the following humorous epistle, the cream of the joke being that the letter did really inclose the genuine bank notes to the amount of five hundred pounds sterling : " Ballyhooly, Oct. 21, 1858.—Dear Mr. Mayor,—l beg to inclose a prize value 500/. to be raffled for in tickets of 11. each, more or less, the proceeds of which to be distributed at Christmas, among the helpless, of all creeds and denomiustions.—Yours respectfully, TIMOTHY TIGHTROOTS. N. 8.—1 feel quite satisfied you will select a few good names for the committee that will give the utmost confidence both in the drawing and distributing.—T.T. The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Cork." A DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO MURDER THE REV. ALEXANDER NIXON was made in Donegal on Sunday last. The circumstances are thus detailed in a local paper: —On the day in question Mr. Nixon was returning from church, accompanied by his wife and daughter. The party travelled in a close ca rri age. When about a mile from Falcarrah Mr. Nixon's attention was attracted by three persons on the road. They were dressed in women's apparel, but there was something strange in their appearance. It is said they had been n o ti ce d on th e roa d ear l ier in the day, and had been mistaken for women of loose character. As it turned out they were really men, dressed in the clothes of the other sex. The three seemed to be under the influence of drink, and were conducting themselves in a way to justify that assumption as the carriage came forward. One of the fellows sprang to the horses' heads nod stopped the vehicle ; another began, as is stated, to dance outrageously on the road ; others say the second ruffian seized the coachman and held him ; but, be this as it may, Mr. Nixon put his bead out to see what had interrupted his journey. This seems to have precisely answered the calculations of his assailants. No sooner had the head of the gentleman been protruded from the carriage window than the third fellow fired at him. The weapon used was a pistol, and the shot passed through his face. Enter ing at the side of the head, fronting the ear, the 'lugs smashed through the jaw-blade, carrying away two or three teeth, and came out at the opposite eheek. The deed done, the ruffians fled. No doubt they thought they had killed their victim. Fortu nately, however, such was not the case, for it was found that the wound, though serious, was not mortal. Some of the slugs were found subsequently in the bonnet of Mrs. Nixon. It is unnecessary to say that the ladies experienced a severe fright, and were well.nigh ovenome by the horrible nature of the bloodthirsty outrage. Running off, some declare that the ruffians parted with their female habiliments, on as not to encumber themselves in their flight. They went towards Muckish mountain. A bailiff in , t he employment of Mr. Nixon is stated to have fol to.wed them for some distance, but, on coming up with them, one of the men turned, and, presenting a ?mei, swore lie would have his life it he came a step further. The other then desisted, and the fellows Pet off. We have not heard anything tellable as to tishether any of the country people were by at the ofme that, the attempt on M r . Ni xon, a l t h oug h i t i s sa id while the ruffians were making their escope, ei . eral pers ons w h om they encountered did not offer %Impedimen t t o t h e i r progress. Various rumour:, e of them intrinsically untrue, are afloat on this 441:t t :161 Of the story, but for the present we forbear to 6itttieit nttiligtittt. THE LIBERAL ELECTORS OF MANCHESTER held Meeting on Tuesday, and selected Mr. Bazley as their candidate for the representation vacant by the death of Sir John Potter. Mr. George Wilson pro- posed Mr. Cobden, but it appeared that Mr. Cobden had declined to represent Manchester even if elected. Mr. Bazley advocates an extension of the suffrage, vote by ballot, retrenchment, and a pacific policy. REIGATE.—The election of a member for Reigate in the room of Sir H. Rawlinson, who has accepted of a seat at the India Council, took place on Saturday, ending, after a struggle of unusual intensity, in the return of Mr. Monson, Liberal, and the defeat of Mr. Wilkinson, Radical, the late member for Lam beth. On the declaration of the poll the numbers were—for Mr. Monson, 225 ; fur Mr. Wilkinson, 210 ; mailrity for Mr. Monson, 15. Gtru.DFoßD.—The election for the representation of this borough, caused by the retirement of Mr. Mangles, on his acceptance of a seat in the Indian Council, took place on Saturday, and resulted in the return of Mr. Onslow, the Liberal candidate. The official declaration of the poll was made on Monday, when the mayor declared that the numbers were— for Mr. Onslow, 268 ; fur Mr. Evelyn, 1239 ; majority for Mr. Onslow, 29. GREAT YARM'OUTH.—Sir E. H. K. Lacoo, who sat for Great Yarmouth on the Conservative interest from 1852 to 1857, has announced his intention of offering himself as a candidate for the representation of the borough at the first opportunity. El l e Ouro. THE REV. ALFRED POOLE has commenced legal proceedings against the Hon. Frederick Baring, in consequence of the alleged defamatory statements made by the latter at the meeting in St James's. hall on the 11th of June. Mr. Bovill, Q.C., and Mr. Coleridge will be counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Edwin James, Q.O , is retained for the defendant. An application will also be made to the Court of Queen's Bench, on behalf of Mr. Poole, for a man damus, to compel the Archbishop to regehe his appeal, and sanguine expectations are entertained as to the result. It will be recollected that a similar procedure was successful in the case of Archdeacon Denison. Ma. LretwosTos has reigned the Precentorship of Carlisle Cathedral, retaining his Minor Canonry, and the Dean and Chapter preliminarily accept, though the matter cannot be concluded until the next chapter meeting. ANOTHER NEW ZEALkI4D BISHOPRIC, making six in that colony, is to be endowed by a wealthy lady, and it is said that the Rev. John Coleridge Patteson, M.A., fellow of Merton College, Oxford, will be the first bishop. The rev. gentleman, who is a son of Sir John Patteson, and a nephew of Sir J. T. Coleridge, ex judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, graduated in 1848, when he was second-class in classics. MR. J. G. HUBBARD, late Governor of the Bank of England, has undertaken to build a large church, at his own expense, in Baldwin's-gardens, a densely populated district on the north side of Holborn. The church will cost about 6,0001. THE LORD CHANCELLOR has presented the Rev. W. G. Pritchard, MA., incumbent of Christ Church, Mount Sorrell, Leicester, to the vicarage of Brignall, Yorkshire, rendered vacant by the preferment of the Hon. and Rev. Frank Sugden, M A., son of Lord St. Leonards, to a Crown living ; and the Rev. F. God dard, M.A.. incumbent of Alderton, to the vicarage of Hillmarton, near Colne, Wiltshire. THE Buittop OF NELSON was presented with a testimonial on Wednesday, in the presence or it large 1053 number of persons assembled in the beautiful hall of Merton College, Oxford. The testimonial, which was presented by the late Vice-Chancellor, the Rev. Dr. Williams, Warden of New College, consisted of a silver-gilt communion plate, valued at 1201., manu factured by Mr. Carter, silversmith, High-street, accompanied with an alms-box, made of oak, and ornamented with iron scrollwork. The plate was inclosed in a large box, on the lid of which was en graved in church-text illuminated letters the follow ing inscription :—"This set of communion-plate, consisting of a flagon, a pair of chalices, a pair of patens, offertory desk, and two collecting-plates, was presented by the parishioners of St. Peter's-in the- East, Oxford, to their vicar, the Rev. Edmund Hob house, Bishop of Nelson, New Zealand, as a testi mental of their appreciation of his ministerial services during seventeen years, as an expression of the deep interest they take in his welfare, and as a means of frequently reminding him, in his larger and distant sphere of labour, of the flock which has long enjoyed his pastoral care." A handsomely-engrossed scroll of vellum, containing the names of the subscribers, accompanied the testimonial. THE GOVERNING 'BODIES OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVER am held a most important meeting on Tuesday in the Arts School, having for its object the discussion of the draught statutes provided by the Royal Com mission for the proposed governance of the Colleges of Trinity and St. John's, and which include proposi tions which it was felt would in all prebability be applied to the remaining colleges in the event of the commissioners prevailing upon the authorities of the two colleges above named to accept them. These statutes were forwarded at the close of last term, and though in many material points they created a feeling of dissatisfaction, there was no time for any course permitting unity of action, and, accordingly, their consideration was deferred until Wednesday, when nearly 250 members of the governing bodies assembled under the presidency or the Vice• Cha ncellor, the Rev. the Master of St. Catherine's. The following resolutions, some of which were opposed, were carried by large majorities : Proposed by the Master of Trinity College, and seconded by Mr. Adams, of St. John's, That the system of electing to vacant fellowships ( with occasional exceptions) from among the members of each college, having confessedly woi ked in a satisfactory manner, it is inexpedient that the proposition of the Cambridge University Commissioners fur opening the fellowships in every college to competition to all graduates of the Univer sity should be adopted. The following amendment to this resolution, pro posed by Mr. Pheard and seconded by Mr. Liveing, was negatived : That this meeting, without expressing an opinion of the proposed statute by which each college is required to institute a special examination for fellowships, and to elect mainly according to the result of such examinatim, desires to see all suitable restrictions upon elections for fellow ships removed, and the practice of opening fellowships to members of all colleges further extended. The next resolution was proposed by the Master of St. John's College, and seconded by Professor Sedgwick : That it is inexpedient that the proposition of the Cam bridge University Commissioners, providing that every fellow shall vacate his fellowship at the end of ten years after attaining the fall standing of M.A., except in certain specified cases, should be adopted. Proposed by Mr. Todhunter, of St. John's, and seconded by the Master of Jesus College, the Rev. Dr. Corrie That any tax upon the distributable income of colleges for University purposes, as proposed by the Cambridge University Commissioners, would be highly objectionable. Proposed by the Rev. T. T. Perowne, of Corpus Christi College, and seconded by the Rev. G. Williams, of King's College That this meeting. haring regard to certain proposals of the commissioners affecting the religious character of the colleges, earnestly deprecates any measures which would tend to impair the exist►ng confection between the colleges and the Church of England. Proposed by the Rev. the Provost of King's College, seconded by the Rev. Mr. Martin, Bursar of Trinity College:— That the Vice-Chancellor be respectfully requested to send the resolutions of this meeting to the Canthridg,a University Commissioners. A vote of thanks to the Vice-Chancellor, carried by acclamation, concluded the proceeding. 3abal au tilitarg THE SCREW LINE-OF-BATTLE SHIP EDGAR, 91 gun% was launched successfully on Saturday, shortly be fore two o'clock, from Woolwich Dockyard, in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. THE FUNERAL Csit of the late Empernt Napo!eon is to be embarked on Monday, for conveyance to France, on board the paddle-wheel steam yacht Black Eagle. 1