The Press. — London, England, 1858-10-02 00:00:00

THE PRESS, OCTOBER 2, 1858. with great violence against the wheels. He was insensible state extricated and conveyed in an state to the hospital, where ho expired from the frightful injuries he had received. A verdict of Accidental death " was returned at the inquest, which was held on Monday. A CASE OF MATRICIDE was brought before Mr. Burcbam, at Southwark, on Tuesday. The prisoner was named William Hill, a ticket-porter of the Borough market, who, while in a state of intoxication on Saturday night, struck his mother a blow on the forehead with his fist, when she fell down, and soon after expired. The unfortunate woman, also, it is stated, was drunk at the time. The prisoner was remanded to await the result of the coroner's in quest, which was adjourned for further evidence. JOHN OWEN, a shoemaker, was charged at West minster Police-court, on Tuesday, with having ad ministered oxalic acid to his daughter. It was, however, urged that she knew the nature of the potion, and took it of her own accord. The woman was removed to the hospital, when antidotes were used, and she is in a state of recovery. Mr. Arnold remanded the defendant until his daughter should be able to attend. THE FORTUNE•TELLING PROFESSION is decidedly in a flourishing condition at present. A swarthy middle-aged woman, who gave her name as Anne Williams, but refused her address, was brought be fore the magistrate at Worship street by a servant girl, who stated that she had received a visit from the prisoner, who, after assuring her of a speedy marriage and all the desirable etceteras, carried away 30s, worth of apparel, " that it might be covered with mould in the churchyard, and receive a blessing." The prisoner was remanded. A CASE OF POISONING has occurred in Gloucester shire, the victim being Thomas Taylor, a railway labourer, who died under circumstances raising a strong suspicion that he had been poisoned, and that his wife and brother were concerned in his death. The deceased had one child by his wife, aged about four years, and an illegitimate child, aged seven years, also lived with them. About six months since the deceased's brother, Charles Taylor, a returned convict, came home, and went to reside in the same cottage. The deceased and his wife had frequent quarrels about the illegitimate child, and since the brother's return they had lived more unhappily than before, the brother taking the part of the wife. It was shown from the evidence of various witnesses that the wife had expressed a strong partiality for Charles Taylor, and her wish that her husband was stiff and dead, and that about a week before his death the deceased, who was previously in sound health, was seized with violent pains in his stomach, which continued at intervals until the evening of the 4th ult., when death ensued. After death the house was searched, and remains of poison found, and the brother, Charles Taylor, has absconded. At the inquest evidence tending to criminate the wife and brother of the deceased was adduced, and the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder " against Anu Taylor and Charles Taylor. 'The woman was forth with committed for trial, and a warrant was issued for the apprehension of Charles Taylor. THE CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER at West minster has resolved itself into an accusation for the capital crime. Isaac Hammond was on Thursday again brought up before Mr. Paynter at Westminster, charged with the wilful murder of Sarah Farrell, by throwing her out of a window of the house iu which they lived, in York-street, on the night of the 16th ult. An important piece of evidence, in addition to that already elicited, was furnished by a woman, who swears to having heard the prisoner threaten to murder the deceased only about an hour previous to his actually doing so. After some further testi mony, the prisoner was fully committed for trial on the . charge at the Central Criminal Court. THE CORONER'S INVESTIGATION into the facts con nected with the melancholy catastrophe at the Sheffield Surrey Music-hall, was brought to a close on the 24th ult., when the jury, after a long consul tat'ion, returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died from injuries received while escaping from the Surrey Music-hall during a panic, but whether such panic was caused by the firing of a pistol or an explosion of gas there was no evidence to show. THE ADJOURNED INQUEST on the bodies of thirteen of the persons killed by the collision of two excur sion trains on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton Railway, on the 23rd of August, was resumed on Thursday, at Brettle-lane, belore Mr. Phillips, the district coroner, and was again adjourned. The Government inspe-tor, and several engineers, ex pressed an opinion that if the break had been duly applied the carriages could have heen stopped, and the collision prevented. 4rtibtnts . anb Offtrats. A DISTRESSING ACCIMINT has happened near 3 aiiii!mry. Mr. William Fawcett, of Longford, was out partridge shooting with his ion, Mr. beery Vawcet4, and having fired at a covey of partridges, he hastily I turned and discharged the contents of a second barrel at a bird which separated from the rest. Unfortu nately his son was standing at no great distance, and received a portion of the charge in his chest and face. Singularly enough, there were only two shots which reached his face, and they, after breaking the glasses of the spectacles lie wore, entered his two eyes, completely destroying, it is feared, the sight of one, if not both of them. Much sympathy is telt for the sufferer, who is a young man of great promise, having already obtained a fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and standing well for high University distinction. A RAILWAY COLLISION, which might have been I attended with very serious loss of life, occurred at the Preston station on Saturday night. The 9.35 p.m. train from the north, carrying a portion of the night mail, was leaving the station, when it came into collision with a luggage train, consisting of an engine and seven or eight waggons, which was being shunted on to a siding. The shock was a severe one ; three of the waggons were smashed to atoms, the persons in the passenger train were a good deal shaken, and the smoke-box of the engine attached to it was knocked in. It had, of course, to be replaced by another engine, which occasioned a delay to the train of one hour. The driver of the engine to the passenger train acknowledges that he was to blame, as the proper signals were displayed, and unattended to by him ; but he says that after he saw the danger he did all in his power to avert the collision. The train left on its journey south at eleven o'clock. A FEARFUL CALAMITY occurred on Thursday morning at Page Bank Colliery, six miles west of Durham. At eight o'clock the shaft of the pit was found to be on fire, and one of the overman was killed by portions of the burning brattice. The fire has consumed the whole of the brattices, and ex tended to the coal in the return-drift. The fire raged the whole of Thursday. Sixty men and boys are in the pit; no hopes of any of them being saved. THE SUICIDE OF MR. GERARD B. SMITH, Warwick square, Belgravia, and proprietor of the well-known Pimlico Wheel Works, has been the subject of the coroner's inquiry. Evidence was brought to prove that the deceased deliberately threw himself across the tramroad when the Hampton-court train was approaching the Wandsworth station, and before the driver of the engine could stop the train the whole of the carriages went over him, causing instantaneous death, and mutilating the body in a most frightful manner. The jury returned a verdict of "Tempo rary insanity." The deceased has left a widow and young family to lament his premature and awful death. Ohituarg. THE COUNTESS OF CLANWILLIAM, sister to the Right Ron. Sidney Herbert, M.P., the Marchioness of Ailesbary, the Countess of Dunmore, and Viscountess De Vesci, died unexpectedly a few days since. The Countess bad been staying with the Countess of Dunmore in the north of Scotland, and was taken seriously ill while on her return southwards. The relatives of the Countess were telegraphed to, but before they could reach her she died. The Countess was the eldest daughter of George Augustus, eleventh Earl of Pembroke, by his second marriage, with the Countess Catherine, only daughter of his Excellency Simon, Count Woronzow. Her ladyship was born on the 31st of March, 1809, and married the sth of July, 1830, the Earl of Clanwilliam, by whom she had issue, a daughter, Lady Selina Vernon, married in 1851 to Mr. Granville Edward Vernon ; and four sons, the eldest, Viscount Gilford, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and who gained his promotion by his gallantry in the recent operations in the Chinese waters, born in October, 1832. LADY BOWRING, wife of Sir John Bowring, her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in (Mina, died at Taunton, on Monday, aged 6-1. THE DUCHESS OF MONTMORENCY has died in Paris, after a long and painful illness. LIEUTENANT GENERAL HENRY THOMAS, C. 8., died on the 21st ult., after sixty years' service, having entered the army as far back as April, 1798. The deceased was colonel of the 20th (or East Devon shire) Regiment. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN MARSHALL, late of the 91st (Argylesbire) Regiment, died on the 21st ult. Ths gallant colonel entered the army at a very early period of life, in 1808, as ensign in the 91st Regiment, and after serving in the expedition to Portugal, and being engaged at the battle of Roleia and Vimiera, accompanied his regiment into Spain, under the command of Sir John Moore, with whom he covered the retreat of the army through Galicia to Corunna. Me was in the action of Lugo, and at the battle of Corunna, and subsequently embarked with his regi ment. on the expedition to Walcheren, where he was present at. the siege of Flushing , and remained in that country until evacuated by the 13rittsb in 1810. 955 During this expedition the gallant officer contracted. ague and liver complaint, from the effects of which he suffered during his life. Colonel Marshall re turned with his regiment to the Peninsula, and was engaged at the battles of Vittoria, the Pyrenees, in front of Saroran and the neighbourhood of PBmpe luna, on the 20th, 27th, and 28th of July. He was wounded un the 28th. He was in the battles of Nivelle and Nive on the 10th, 11th, and 13th of De cember, 1813; at the investment of Bayonne; and ut the battle of Orthes on the 27th of February, 1814, where be was again severely wounded. Colonel Marshall for his services received the war medal with seven clasps. In 1819 he married Rosahints. Ellen, the only daughter of the late Lord Dunboyne, who survives him. SIR CHARLES DES Vaunt died on Tuesday last, at Sellwood•house, Brighton. The deceased, who was the second baronet, was born in 1779, and married, first, 1801, a daughter of the late Richard Ilurd, Esq., of Rawdon, Yorkshire (she died in 1841), and second, Lady Cecilia, daughter of the thirteenth Marquis of Winchester. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy in 1814. He served in Holland under the Duke of York, and at Alkmaar lost his right leg from a cannon•shot wound. The first baronet was a member of the Irish Parliament, and had passed many years in India. Sir Charles is succeeded in his title and estates by his son, Henry William, who was born in 1809, and who married in 1839 Lady Sophia,youngest daughter of the seventh Earl of Coventry, and relict of Sir Richard Gresley, Bart. MR. SAMUEL GARDNER, who for more than twenty years filled the responsible office of her Britannia Majesty's Consul at Jassy, in Moldavia, died on the 29th of August. During his long residence at Jassy, Mr. Gardner had endeared himself to all classes of society. The Prince himself, and all the Ministers, as well as the civil and military authorities, wero present at the funeral. The four corners of the pall were borne by his colleagues, the Consuls of Austria, France, Prussia, and Russia. The body was received at the churchyard by Mr. Colquhoun, her Britannic Majesty's agent in Wallachia, and Consul• General, who read the English service over the remains of his old and much-respected friend. MRS. EDMUND HAYES, wife of the Solicitor• General for Ireland, died on Wednesday morning at Killin carrig-house, county of Wicklow. Her death resulted from tetanus, and arose out of an accident which the lamented lady met with about a month since, when her clothes caught fire, and she was dreadfully burnt before any effective assistance could be obtained. The deceased was about forty years of age. Mn. CHARLIER, secretary to the Royal Humane Society, died on Wednesday, after a short but very painful illness. Mr. Charlier had seen in his earlier days considerable service in the army. Throughout the Peninsular campaigns he had been engaged as Deputy Assistant Commissariat-General, and was at the battle of Waterloo. His medal has ten or eleveu clasps attached to it. MR. BRIGHT will visit Birmingham in the last week of this month and address his constituents in the Town-hall. The new Reform Bill, it is said, will be the principal topio of his address. MR. DAVID ROBERTS, the artist. was presented with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh on Wed nesday last. THE ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S new submarine cable for connecting England with the Continent has been successfully laid. It contained four wires, weighed upwards of 1,260 tons, and was submerged at the rate of four and a half knots an hour. LINCOLN'S-INN FIELDS afford an illustration of what may be done by a gardener in London. Under the judicious management of Mr. Morgan, the head gardener, it has become the most attractive of all the metropolitan squares. He has succeeded in training a great number of whet is technically called pcnnpones, or dwarf chrysanthemums ; some of these are on single stems, three feet in length, with a perfectly flat head upwards of four fast in circumference; others are of a pyramidal form, nearly seventeen feet in circumference, and only two feet in height; another is twenty feet in circumference and only eleven inches in height. This degree of excellence in the growth of chrysanthemums, one of the last of our autumnal flowers, is only attainable by great patience and industry. Another interesting fact in connection with these gardens is deserving of notice. Mr. Morgan does not possess the organ of destructiveness observable in so many gardeners, of destroying any rare birds visiting him ; the consequence is, that for the last two years a fine hawk takes his breakfast early every morning in the spring season, and great numbers of starlings regularly feed there until disturbed by the children. A pair of rooks also appear inclined to take up their abode in the sardine, . and would meet with every encouragement, • retort Taylo with c for th TH minst capita again charg throw they ult. to thi who to mi to hi mon! the c TE Deets Shef on tl tatio dece from whet piste to si of tt sion ham on 1 dist Goy pre app' the A itl par ME