The Press. — London, England, 1857-10-31 00:00:00

light, before he was brought to justice. The mischief which the fear of such ruffians does to a county is really incalculable. It is not to be tolerated that hired assassins should exist among us, and we trust that a large reward will be instantly offered for the apprehension of those concerned in this scandalous conspiracy and fatal crime. It is said that some ejectments were lately enforced by this unhappy man, and no doubt they are sometimes very cruel:) , put into execution; but no consideration of that sort can have weight in viewing guilt of this kind, for, no matter what may have been the provocation, no thing can furnish a defence for cowardly, treacherous murder. Several persons have been arrested on suspicion. THE central committee of the Grand Orange Lodge have published a manifesto in reply to the recent letter of the Irish Lord Chancellor. CHIEF JUSTICE PIGOTT has resumed his seat as one of the Judges of the Commission Court now sitting. THE PRESS, OCTOBER 31, 1857. the Times." Captain Thorne, however, thought it a great pity that it should be taken to the Times until Mr. Cadogan had seen it. Mr. Cadogan requested a copy of the letter. " I have no objection to make a copy," replied Thorne ; " but I must consult a friend first, as Mr. Evans is out of town." After pausing a minute or two he said, " I have consider able pecuniary transactions with Mr. Evans. What ever I desire Evans will do." He dwelt some halt a dozen times upon the heavy pecuniary engagements he had with Evans ; and he observed that it was a great pity the letter should be published, and that it contained very serious reflections upon the company. He then went away, professedly to consult his friend, having arranged to return at nine. He came back at nine or halipast, said he bad consulted his friend, and wished to be released front his promise to give Mr. Cadogan a copy of the letter. "Oh, no," said Mr. Cadogan. " T insist upon a copy." Captain Thorne then gave Mr. Cadogan a copy of the letter, and repeated—in the presence of Lady Cadogan— that there were very grave engagements of a pecu niary character between Evans and himself, and, although he did not in terms request money, he continued to dwell upon the subject. He produced a letter from Evans, addressed to him at the Prince of Wales Club, as if Evans bad really been in the country, and which inclosed the libellous letter. The points for the jury to decide were whether this interview was made for the purpose of extorting money, and whether the allegations made in the letter were sustained by the evidence produced. After patiently hearing the evidence for two days, they decided that the prisoners had failed to sub stantiate their libel, and that they were both guilty of an attempt to extort money. The learned Recorder sentenced them each to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour. THE ADJOURNED INQUEST upon the mutilated remains found on Waterloo-bridge was brought to a close on Monday. The report of Professor Taylor was read in evidence. The following are the con clusions at which the learned professor arrived :-- 1. That the remain!' are those of a person of the male sea, of adult age, and in stature of at least five feet nine inches. . . 2. That they present no physiological or pathological peculiarities by which they can be identified. The only fact observable under this head is that the portions of skin remaining are thickly covered with dark hairs on the wrist and right knee, and that the deceased was, therefore, pro- bably a dark hairy man. :3. That the remains present no mark of disease or of violent injury inflicted during life, with the exception of one stab iu the space between the third and fourth ribs on the left side of the chest. This stab was in a situation to penetrate the heart and to cause death. It presents the characters of a stab inflicted on a person either living or recently dead. 4. That these remains have not been dissected or used for the purposes of anatomy. All those parts which are useful to the anatomist have been roughly severed and de stroyed by a person or persons quite ignorant of the anatomical relations of parts. They have been cut and sawn before the rigidity of death had ceased—i.e., in from eighteen to twentyfour hours after death—and in this state have been partially boiled and subsequently salted. The body of the deceased has not been laid out or attended like that of a person dying from natural causes, whose body might be lawfully used for anatomical purposes. 5. That the person of whose body these remains are • part may have been dead for a period of three or four weeks prior to the date at which they were examined by me, namely, on the 21st of October. The jury, after a short consideration, delivered the following verdict:—" That the bones found are the remains of a male subject of adult age, and that he has been wilfully murdered by some person or per sons unknown." The procedings then terminated. A reward of 3001. has been offered for the discovery of the murderers. THE INQUIRY into the causes of the deaths of Mr. Ashman and Mrs. Israel, two sufferers who have since died from the effect of injuries received at the collision on the South Wales Railway, is adjourned until Nov. 10th, in order to secure the attendance of Mr. White, stationmaster of Stormy, who stands committed already upon one charge of manslaughter. THERE will be Winter Assizes fur general gaol delivery in the large counties, and where the greater number of prisoners are to be found. These assizes will be held for criminal trials only, as they have been for two or three years past. The plan of the commissioners for a general winter assizes must receive the sanction of Parliament before it is per manently adopted. _ A CONVICTION under the Fraudulent Trustees Act took place at the Leeds Quarter Sessions on Tuesday. A commision agent, one Hinchcliffe, in September last obtained certain goods from Mr. Hare, a manu facturer at Eccleshill, upon an understanding that these goods were to be sold to a certain firm— Messrs. Atkinson and Brush—for a fired price. Hinchcliffe sold them to another firm for a price less than was agreed upon. He was therefore charged with dealing in the goods as his own property, and which he had received for a specific purpose. Thejury found him guilty of appropriating the pro- Stibl anb Volta. A CASE OF LIBEL, which has excited considerable interest, has been tried this week. One Captain Thorne and a Mr. Evans were charged by the Hon. F. W. Cadogan with having attempted to extort money from him by an offer to prevent the publication of a libel on him in the Times. The crcumstances of the case were shortly these :—On the Ist of August last certain strictures had appeared in the Times money article with reference to delays that had taken place in the transmission of messages by the Submarine Company. On Monday, the 3rd of August, Sir James Carmichael, the Chairman of the Company, replied by letter to these complaints. On Tuesday, the 4th, the manager of the Times received a telegraphic communication from the defendant Evans, then at Gravesend, stating that he was in a position to prove that the management of the Sub marine Company was by no means so immaculate as the letter of Sir J. Carmichael represented it to be. The next day Evans called upon Mr. Sampson at the City office of the Times, and stating that for two years previous to 1854 he had been Superintendent of the Submarine Company, declared that he was in a position to controvert the statements contained in Sir .1. Carmichael's letter as to the mode in which the affairs of the company were conducted. The City manager of the Times told Evans that he could not then go into the matter, but that if the state ments were put into writing they might be sent in. Evans promised to return the same day with a letter embodying the charges he had to make. He did not, however, reappear until Saturday, the Bth of August. On that day, accompanied by Captain Thorne, he again presented himself at the City office of the Times, and brought with him the letter which constituted the libel. The charges it made were of a very grave nature. It imputed to Mr. Cadogan that he was in the habit of visiting the in strument-room, reading the despatches, and then proceeding at once to his brokers with a view of em ploying the knowledge thus unfairly gained in operations on the Stock Exchange. It also imputed to him that on several occasions he caused the con tents of public despatches to be forwarded to his private residence, and that in one specific instance he directed Evans, contrary to the fixed rule of the office, to give precedence to a message of Baron Rothschild's over several others which had arrived before it in order of time. Such were, in substance, the charges contained in the letter. Considering the position of high trust and responsibility occupied by Mr. Cadogan, it is impossible to conceive accusations of greater gravity. The City manager of the Times very properly declined to take upon himself the re sponsibility of giving the circulation of that journal to allegations so serious, and referred Evans and his companion to the managerin-chief of the paper. It was then about three o'clock on the Saturday after• noon. They left Mr. Sampson, and no communica tion was made to the Times on the Saturday, but a communication was made to Mr. Cadogan, which led him to believe that some measures were in progress, though he did not well know their nature. When he reached borne he found Captain Thorne bad called there, and must have done so very soon after leaving Mr. Sampson. Mr. Cadogan was not at home at the time, but Captain Thorne called again later iu the evening, and Mr. Cadogan, who suspected his pur pose, requested that his wife would be present at the interview. Captain Thome called at seven o'clock, when Ladp Adelaide Cadogan was present, and heard the whole or the greater part'of the conversation. Captain Thorne sent in his card, with the address of the Prince's Club, and produced the letter set out in the indictment. He did not seem to know very well at the time how to go about his business. He said, " I got this letter from Mr. Evans, whom I know. He is very ill." Captain Thorne, it must be remembered, had been with Evans certainly till half past two o'clock that day. " Evans is down at tiravesend," continued Captain Thorne ; he has been there four days, I believe, with bowel com plaint. He cannot come up to London, and has, consequently, intrusted this letter to me to take to 1063 petty to his own use, and the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned for eight months with hard labour. Two OFFICERS OF DRXGOONS, with a " loose " woman, were brought before Mr. Bingham, at Marlborough•street, on Tuesday, charged with creating a disturbance in the Haymarket by attempting to rescue this woman from the hands of the police. The officers denied the charge ; but Mr. Bingham fined them forty shillinge each, upon the ground " that the police must be supported." A CLUE TO THE ELLESMERE ROBUERY has at length been obtained. Edward and Anne Jackson, respectable (?) tradespeople in Finsbury, and Stead man, a ticket•of-leave man, have been arrested by the police for having in their possession a quantity of valuable wearing apparel identified as belonging to Lady Ellesmere, whose portmanteau, containing property valued at 15,0001., was stolen some few months ago. Obituarg. - THE DEATH OF MAJOR WARBURTON last Friday evening was attended with very painful circum stances. The deceased destroyed himself in a fit of temporary insanity, brought on by physical pain. From the evidence given at the coroner's inquest, it appears that Major Warburton on the previous even ing had suffered a severe attack of vomiting. His head became affected. Towards morning he was visited by a medical man, who, not liking appearances, de sired that he might be watched. Shortly afterwards be rose from his bed, staggered into his dressing room, and, snatching up a pistol kept in the room, blew out his brains. Evidence was given at the in quiry to show that in his domestic life Major War burton was exceedingly happy, and that he had only recently expressed his thankfulness at the happiness of bis life. At the same time, he was subject to attacks of severe pain in the head. Major War burton was well known in the literary world as the author of " Hochelaga ; or, Euglaod in the New World." He was a member of a most ancient and respectab;e Irish family, being a younger son of the late George Warburton, Esq., of Augbrim, county Galway, and of Southfield, in the county of Somer set, who for many years held the post of Inspector- General of Constabulary in Ireland. His mother was Anne, sister of the late Colonel William Acton, some time M.P. for county Wicklow. The deceased gentleman was born in 1816, and received his early education at the Royal Academy at Woolwich, from which in due course of time he obtained a commis sion in the Royal Artillery ; at the Lime of his death, he was a major on the retired list of that service. Having unsuccessfully contested the borough of Harwich in 1852 against Mr. D. Waddington, he was elected after a short contest at the last general elec tion. He was a strong supporter of Lord Palmers ton's general policy, and is described as being " in favour of an extension of the suffrage, though op posed to the ballot and to the repeal of the May nooth grant." In 1853 he was married to the Hon. Elizabeth Augusta Hanbury, daughter of the first Lord Bateman, and sister of the present peer. His eldest brother was the late Mr. Eliot Warburton, who was lost in the unfortunate Amazon ; and another brother, the Rev. William Parsons Warburton, one of her Majesty's inspectors of schools, is married to a stepdaughter of Lord John Russell. THE RIGHT REV. DANIEL GATEWARD DAVIS, D.D., Bishop of Antigua, expired suddenly, from a disease of the heart, at his residence, 2, Bryanstone street, Portman-square, on Sunday last. Dr. Davis was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1811, and after filling various offices in the Church at borne, was, with four other colonial bishops, consecrated in Westminster Abbey in 1842, by the late Bishop of London, acting under s com mission from the Archbishop of Canterbury. THE HON. EDMUND Primps, who died at his resi dence in Wilton crescent on Tuesday last, in his forty-ninth year, was the third son of Henry, first Earl of Mulgrave, and consequently a younger brother of the present Marquis of Normanby, and of the lion. Colonel C. B. Phipps, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse, and Treasurer of the House hold to his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. The deceased was born in 1808, and married, in 1838, Maria Louisa, widow of the Hon. Charles Francis Norton, brother of Lord Grantley, and eldest daughter of the late Major General Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.8., sometime Governor of Nova Scotia and Ceylon. He was called to the bar at Lincolu's•inn in 1835, and had held for some years the Recordership of Don caster, which is vacant by his decease. LADY GRAHAM died on the 23th inst., at the Pavilion, on the Parade, at West Cowes, after a long and painful illue.s, in the sixty-fourth year of her age. As her ladyship's dissolution had been almost hourly expected for the past month, all her family had assembled round her, Sir James, the Hon. Mrs. Duncombe, and the Misses Graham, being with her in her last moments. By her ladyship's particular wish, her body will be deposited in a vault at Whippinghani, Isle of Wight.