The Press. — London, England, 1854-07-15 00:00:00

I AMY 15, 1854. gluibtnts an effnuts. ings against the defendant was, it is said, his unex pected presence in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace during divine service on Sunday last. THE POOR FRENCHMAN LATOUR, who was so much hurt by the fall with his parachute, after a balloon *scent at Cremorne Gardens, has died from the in juries he received. At the inquest held on Monday last Mr. Henry Adams, the aeronaut who had the mana gement of the helicon, stated that he ascended with the deceased from Cremorne Gardens on the 27th of June. Deceased was seated on a parachute formed as a horse, a pair of wings on each side being attached to it. His feet rested on a treadwheel intended to move the wings. Finding the parachute would not act, and knowing the danger of liberating it from the balloon under such circumstances, wit ness made the descent. The ropes were twisted round the parachute, which he attributed to their being damp. The deceased made n 9 attempt to separate the parachute from the balloon. The grap pling-irons were put out and caught in a ditch. The balloon and its appurtenances were carried over a tree, against which the deceased was dashed with much violence. He was extricated and removed to an inn at Tottenham, near where they fell, and where he lingered until his death. Mr. C. Green, the aeronaut, in answer to the coroner, stated that if the ropes had been braided they would not have twisted. Verdict, " Accidental death." Deceased was in his forty-ninth year, and it is said that he has left a family in very indigent circumstances in Paris. THE premises of Mr. Wilberton, a carpenter and builder at Hornsey, were destroyed by fire on Mon day, and the valuable stock in trade and working tools consumed. The building was insured. Con siderable damage was also dune to the adjoining home and its contents. WHILE some boys were engaged a few days ago in taking a bird's nest from a tree on the premises of Mr. Cooper, tanner, at Milton, near Gravesend, one of them, named Gowen, thrust his hand so resolutely down the hollow in which the nest was situated that he wai unable to extricate it, and it was found neces sary to saw the tree asunder in order to liberate him. THE DEFALCATIONS OF H. SWABEY, the late Re gistrar of the Court of Admiralty, are set forth in a report just printed by order of Parliament. The committee state that the total amount of the dell. ciency in Mr. Swabey's accounts appears to be as follows, namely— In money £35,328 18 8 Exchequer Bills Stock, 3 per Cent. Consols Stock, 3e per Cent. Reduced 2,842 8 9 . . and the amountof dividend on such stock, from July, i 843, and interest upon Exchequer Bills, for varying periods, amounting to a considerable sum. Mr. Swa • bey's salary was 1,400/. a year : he gave no security, ior was he ever called upon to render any account, except in the comparatively unimportant case of the fee fund. A CONVICT escaped from Dartmoor prison last week under extraordinary circumstances. He got out of Jis cell by cutting a piece from the lock of his door, Which enabled him to reach the large hall. He then proceeded to make a hole in the roof, which occu pied him three hours, and thus got outside the prison, but had another difficulty to surmount—the boundary Tall, upwards of twenty feet high—he succeeded, aowever, in scaling it, and, on finding himself out side, broke into the house of Dr. Campbell, with which he was well acquainted, having been there to work, and stole the plate, as well as the doctor's macintosh, frock-coat, leggings, and riding-boots, with which he equipped himself, and started for Two Bridges. Here he broke into a stable, and, taking a horse and saddle, mounted, and was off on the road to Exeter. He had not proceeded far before hernet with the owner of the horse, who had been to a fair about seven miles off, and was returning in company with another person. They stopped him, and de manded to know where he was going to take the horse; and, on perceiving that he had on a part of the prison dress, they took him into custody and brought him back to the prison. Tux Dirego, which sailed from the Mersey on Thursday week, with 420 Government emigrants on board, returned to Liverpool on Monday last, seve ral deaths having occurred, and about 100 passengers suffering from diarrhoea. The vessel, it appears, had reached Queenstown, when the disease became so alarming that it was deemed prudent to return to port. Up to Tuesday night 44 cases had proved fatal among the emigrants. The late accounts are more favourable, and no new cases are reported to have oectured. A YOUNG MAN, clerk to a solicitor who is clerk to the board of guardians, committed suicide last Wed nesday at Haslingden, He was addicted to drinking, and often was not able to be at his post in conse quence. It appeared also that he had recently ob tained a check for 201. as money required for one of THE PRESS. he relieving-offioers when no such sum was really ' wanted, and which he never handed over. A MELANCHOLY AaCIRENT took place at the Syden ham Crystal Palace on Monday. A glazier engaged in repairing the semicircular roof of the great transept had neglected to secure himself properly by a rope while working at that dizzy height. He fell upon the ledge which runs along the side of the roof, and was killed almost instantaneously. Singularly enough, only one pane of glass was broken by his fall, the framing, frail as it looks, being sufficiently strong to prevent his falling through. AT THE WORKS OF MR. J. B. EDELSTEN, Warring ton, last week, a large grinding-wheel of stone, turned by a steam-engine, while at its greatest velocity, sud denly broke in pieces, some of which passed through the wall and roof of the building, and killing instan taneously a young man named Tickel, who was standing at the wheel. grtlata THE GOVERNMENT have determined upon an im portant step in the employment of the Irish constabu lary, instead of the military, in what may be termed strictly garrison duty. The Evening Post gives the following account of the proceeding " We have learned that 900 of the constabulary are to be brought from out-stations through the country, and placed in barracks in Dublin, fur the purpose of occupying all the military positions of the metropolis, with the exception of the Castle guard. They are to be on duty next week. After the embarkation of the 03rd Regiment, there will be left in Ireland, exclusive of the depots, only two complete regiments. Six English militia regiments, it is stated in the military circles, are ordered for Ireland, and a number of Irish militia regiments are to be forthwith embodied." It is considered probable that the Irish militia regi ments will be placed on duty in England. THE application to admit Mr. Carden to bail on the charge of abduction was made on Monday in Dublin, before Chief Justice Lefroy. After hearing counsel on both sides, his lordship refused the mo tion—first, on the ground of the near approach of the assizes ; and secondly, because it was doubtful if a much. more serious charge might not be pre ferred than that of attempting to commit an abduc tion. It appeared by the informations that the prosecutrix, Miss Arbuthnot, was moved from her position in the car or carriage in which she was seated, and the Chief Justice would not say that an actual abduction had not been committed in point of law. A charge of conspiracy might also, perhaps, be preferred. AN INVESTIGATION took place on Tuesday, before the magistrates of Cork, into a case in which a young man named John Walsh, a printer, was charged with fraudulently taking away a Miss Mary Spillane from her parents, she being under the age of eighteen years, and entitled to personal property of consider able amount on attaining her majority. The young lady's mother was present, and stated that her daugh ter had disappeared on Friday, and that she had not since discovered her whereabouts. Sbe was last seen in the company of the prisoner. The magis trates took informations and refused bail. A TIPPERARY POLICEMAN, emulous, it would ap pear, of the example set him in higher circles, car ried off a young woman from her family last week. IT is stated that a valuable iron-mine has been discovered on Lord Carew's estate in Queen's county Mr. BIGGER, a magistrate for the county of Louth, who has been an active co-operator with the Rev. Mr. Ashe in missionary efforts in that quarter, has re ceived from the Ribbon Society the following intima tion of their disapproval of his zeal : " Bigger's—take this warning from our society, that, on the pearl of your Life, and also your wife's and children, if you keep to be a companion of Paddy Ashe's, and aiding him in his dambed confedresy making anti-crista, or going to his church ; on the pearl of your lives, do not attempt to come to Filips-town, or you may meet with worse than Eastwood of Castletown—we will leave ye that ye wont tell Ho hurted yes. We also intind to give Paddy what Sante Stevin met wid—stoned to death. Take this as a warning from a member of Saint Patrick. You need not suppose that we are all hung yit, or that you wil Get Slippin so handy as you got Before from our Hands ; for we will go early to work this turn, if yes dont stop from coming to Paddy. So take that as a warnin, and have your coffin ready if yes do come. " Son to Molly Maguire, and no mistake." THE ARMY IN IRELAND is now reduced to four regiments and four depOts of cavalry, and four regi ments and twenty-eights depOts of infantry. This force, exclusive of artillery, might be estimated at about twelve thousand men. When the 21st Fusi leers and 63rd Regiment embark from Cork for the East there will be only two regiments and twenty eight depots of infantry in Ireland—a smaller force than has been in that country for many years, not excepting the period of the Peninsular war. POTATO DISEASE.—I have seen letters from Cork, Balling, Sligo, and Westmeath, all of which state that the potato blight has appeared, but only to a very small extent. house Wa taking Mr. C of the down he we eery t Tai gistra report coma cienc:, folios In Ex Su and t 1843, peria bey's nor I excel fee ft A( uncle hie ci whirl VOCE pied : but I wall, howe side, whic' work maci with Brid hors, to E with shot with man hors the brot T Tht bow rai Buff rea' alai pot anu fay( oec the nes an( qu( tab COMMERCIAL FAILURES. - - THE fist 'or comMercia/ failures during the present year is a long one, and shows a very considerable amount, of liabilities, while generally the result of liquidation pronfises to prove unfairourable to the crodttort. • Tbs. suspensions commenced in January, with Messrs. Thomson linithers and Co., calico printers, of Primrose, Yorkshire, with liabilities of 120,0001., and assets about 84,0001. This was followed during March and the subsequent months by Messrs. Benjamen Elkin and Sni, of London, in the West India and Australian trades, with liabilities amounting to 140,0001., with nominal assets to pay mare than 211. in the pound. Messrs. P. Mouteaux awl Co„ of Loudon and Paris, exchange brokers, liabilities 100,0001., and assets uncertain. Messrs. Dickson and Co., of Glasgow, in the Australian trade, liabilities 300,0001., assets but small. Messrs. Gladstone, Bond, and Co., of Manchester, general brokers, liabilities 80,0001., and assets uncertain. Mr. T. M'Gregor, of Loudon, woollen warehouseman, liabilities 50,0001., assets about 25,0001. Messrs. Warwick, Harrison, and Co., of London, silk and shawl manufacturers, liabilities abotit 37,0001., and assets believed to be about 15,0101: to 20,0001. Messrs Moritz, Bauer, and Co., of Hamburg, merchants, liabilities 400,000 marks b.c., and assets uncer tain. Sir Evan M'Kenzie and Co., of London, in the East India trade, but the liabilities in this case were very trifling. Messrs. Salvago and Co. of London and Manchester, Greek merchants, liabilities about 100,0001., and assets 94,0001. Messrs. Read, Brothers, and Co., of London, provishin mer chants, liabilities about 40,0(X)1., assets doubtful. Messrs. Scaravoglio and l'eloso, of Genoa, merchants, liabilities about 00,0001., assets unknown. Messrs. Shuttleworth and Co., of London, auctioneers, liabilities about 25,0001., asset a considerable. Messrs. Sanderson and Reed, of London, silk manufacturers, with limited liabilities, and assets unknown. Mr. Samuel Zagary, of London, foreign mer chant, with liabilities of about 25,0001 Messrs. Davidsmi and Gordon, of London, colonial brokers, with consider. able liabilities, estimated in all about 500,0001., and the assets doubtful. Messrs. J. and J. Hall, of Nottingham, in the hosiery trade. Messrs. T. Taylor and Sons; of Brad ford, woollen manufacturers, with liabilities of about 100,0001. Messrs. Howatta, Moon, and Co. ' of Bradford, woollen manufacturers, liabilities about 18,0001., and assets about 12,0001. Messrs. Halstead and Co., of Bradford, woollen manufacturers, with liabilities of 12,0001. Messrs. Goddard and Co., of Birmingham, with liabilities of about 13,0001. Messrs, Wright and Williams, of New Orleans, general merchants ; Messrs. Moses Greenwood and Co.; of New Orleans, both for large amounts. Messrs. Platt and Son, Philadelphia, East Indian and Californian merchants, with liabilities of about 200,0001., and assets of about 75,0001. Messrs. Hall, Brothers, of New York, merchants, with large liabilities. Mr. Julius Sterling, of Moscow, mer chant, with liabilities of 40,0001. Messrs. H. W. Lord and Co., of London, East India and colonial brokers, with con siderable liabilities, estimated at about 100,0001., whilst the assets are comparatively small. Messrs. Cole, Brothers, and Co., of London, East India merchants, with liabilities of about 400,0001., and assets uncertain. Messrs. Spiridiono Gopcevitch, of Odessa and Trieste, with liabilities of about 400,0001., assets unknown, but believed to be considerable. And lastly, Messrs. Mark Gopcevitch, of London, with limited liabilities. Pistelianta. SomE nights since a man and his wife, residing in the hamlet of Branco), near Sevres, were awoke by a noise in their bedroom, and, on making search, the husband saw the legs of a man, who was concealed under his bed. lie said nothing, but quietly took his musket, and, levelling it at the intruder, told his wife to jump out of bed and call the guard. The man under the bed begged for mercy, but the other told him that on the slightest movement he would fire. They remained in their respective positions until the wife had brought the guard, and the fellow, who was afterwards recognised as a liberated convict, was marched off to prison. A I)uEL was fought on the 3rd of June in Mississippi, near the Alabama State line, between General J. C. Saun ders, of Alabama, and Judge Evans, of Mississippi. Five shots were exchanged, and both the parties were wounded, Judge Evans dangerously. The di ffi culty arose from some hat language used by Saunders, in reply to an address delivered by Evans before the literary society of the West ern Military College in Alabama. The fact of five shots being exchanged, says the New York Herald, may be re garded by some as an indication of great courage, but the experience of duellists is to the contrary. The prolonga tion of the affair betrays nervousness on the part of one of the combatants at least. THE occurrence of a disastrous shipwreck and loss of life is announced in a letter from Lima of May 17. It says :—" The steamer Rimac was lately towing the trans port Mercedes from Casma to Callao, with nearly 1,000 troops on board. On the day after they left Casma, about three in the morning, the towropes snapped, and, the crew not being able to replace them by others in time, the Merce des, drifting with the current, struck on a reef and went down immediately. The official reports give the number drowned. as 731. Captain Noel, who commanded the sh,ip, might have escaped death, but, unwilling to leave his post, perished in the general wreck." A Cvntous Gnrim COLONTAI. COIN has been recently found in the neighbourhood of Stamford. It is a second brass coin of the colony of Proconessus bumla, in Mysia. It bears on the obverse the laureated head of Septimus Severus, and the inscription, ' Au (tocrato) Kaesar Save ros.' On the reverse is a male figure standing. This is the only Greek coin known to be found in that locality. Severus arrived in this island in 20k, with an immense army, to suppress an insurrection of the Caledonians, and the probability is that this coin was lost by a soldier who had previously served in Greece. 859