The Press. — London, England, 1858-02-13 00:00:00

ITSW , VW: E PRESS, FEBRUARY 13,1858. Sul JOSEPH PAx.roN, M.P., has tendered to the present duke bis resignation of the offices be held under the late Duke of Devonshire. Sir Joseph wished to retire some months ago, during the life of the late duke, who dissuaded him from bis intention. It is rumoured that a policy of assurance for 80,0001. on the late duke's life was effected by Sir Joseph Paxton. . T Cowl Anh r faskion. Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, with the mem- bers of the Royal Family, according to the present arrangement, will leave Buckingham Palace for their marine residence at the Isle of Wight on the 22nd jest. The Court will return to Windsor Castle for the Easter vacation the last week in March, after residing in town for a short period. Volittral. CABINET COUNCILS were held on Saturday and Wednesday at the official residence of the Prime Minister in Downing-street. All the Ministers attended. THE NAVY ESTIMATES for the present financial year have been printed. The total vote required is 9,140,127/., being a net increase over the vote of 1857 Bof 932,6011. The increase has taken place in nearly every item. LORD PALMERSTON has appointed his relative, the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, second son of Lord Shaftes- bury, to be one of his private secretaries. THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE Will succeed the late duke as Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire, and the Earl of Sefton will be the new Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, in the room of the Duke of Devonshire, who has resigned that office. CONVOCATION assembled at Westminster on Wed. nesday. In the Upper House, which sat on Wednes- day only, the Bishop of St. Asaph presented a petition from the Foreign Gospel Society, praying for the subdivision of the vacant see at Calcutta. The Bishop of Lincoln also presented a petition from 200 of the clergy against the proposed liturgical revision. The Bishops of Oxford, St. David's, Man- chester, and London, spoke unanimously against the proposed liturgical revision. The Lower House sat on Wednesday and Thursda:„ when several petitions against liturgical revision and against the new Divorce Act were presented and ordered to lie on the table. WE understand that Viscount Monck is about to resign his office of one of the Lords of the Treasury. —Globe. NltlroDalitait. HAVELOCK'S proposed monument will be erected on the opposite side of the Nelson column to that of Sir Charles Napier's statue. THE Committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, of which the Archbishop of Canterbury is at the head, intend meeting in the course of a few days on the subject of the proposed new Indian bishoprics. Tim DECISION OF THE ROYAL COMMISSIONERS against the removal of the National Gallery from Trafalgar-square is already known to the public. The Lords of the Treasury thereupon requested the Commissioners of Works to provide an estimate of the expense of enlarging the present gallery, as pro- posed by the majority of the commission. Mr. Hunt, the surveyor, estimates the total expense at 500,000/. THE COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL on Thursday agreed to refer to a committee of the whole court to consider what measures it may be desirable to take with respect to the two Corporation Reform Bills, and report thereon to the court. A DINNER is to be given this day to Dr. Livingstone, the African traveller, on the occasion of his departure from this country for a fresh expe- dition into the interior of Africa. He is furnished with all requisite assistance from the Government of this country to push his discoveries to a still more successful conclusion than heretofore. A sum of 5,000/. has been assigned to him for the prosecution of his enterprise. He is to be accompanied by com- petent assistants, and, in short, everything appears to have been done which can help him on his way. Dr. Livingstone is to proceed in the first instance to the Cape of Good Hope. THE DEATH OF MR. HORSLEY PALMER, whose name for fifty years has been among the most eminent and honourable in connection with British commerce, is announced. Mr. Palmer was elected a director of the Bank of England in 1811, filled the Post of governor for three successive years (1830 to 1832), and at the date of his retirement last April was senior member of the court. His withdrawal from the active business of his firm was notified at the opening of the present year. Vrabintial. A SlLven CRADLE, in accordance with an ancient Custom of Liverpool, has recently been presented to Mrs. Francis Shand, wife of the late Mayor of Liver- Pool,—that lady having given birth to a child during her husband's term of office as chief magistrate of the borough. 6 rt.lailli. (Front our own Correspondent.) DUBLIN, Feb. 11, 1858. MR. ROEBUCK'S motion for the abolition of the Irish Viceroyalty has naturally drawn attention to that verata quastio. Several important secessions from the anti abolitionists are reported. It would be premature to an nounce them now, but there is one convert, or pervert, whichever you please, whos3 recantation of this portion of his political faith is a matter of notoriety. Mr. Horsman, ex-Chief Secretary for Ireland, is said to have become an ally of Mr. Roebuck's, and intends to be his fidus Achates in the ensuing conflict. He told his constituents at Stroud that he resigned his office because be found it a useless one. It is maliciously whispered that he did not form that opinion until it had been preceded by the discovery, on the part of the Government, that he was himself what he considers the office to be. " Poor Lord Carlisle," at the Mayor's dinner the other day, alluded to the rumours, which, if true, he said would " extinguish an office so high, and a person so humble," and somewhat naively declared that he had no sympathy with any such movement. No one ever suspected him of it. His lordship is very corn fortably placed where he is, he likes the glitter and pageantry of his Viceregal duties, and though the world understands that it is Colonel Larcon who really governs Ireland, it would be too much to CA pect that the Lord Lieutenant should admit it. There was an amusing incident at the Mansion house banquet which may be worth noting. Lord Chancellor Brady took up the cue from "poor Lord Carlisle," and stood forward as a vindicator of the recent legal appointments. He must have felt his case a bad one to have intruded his defence upon a social gathering ; nor could people refrain from wishing that Lord Carlisle would give some better proof of his aversion to religious discord and sectarian strife than by grossly encouraging it in his unjust disposal of his patronage. Two bon mots, attributed one to a learned Chief Justice, and the other to an eminent Q.C., are going the rounds in Dublin. Speaking of the Court of Common Pleas, the former remarked it was strange that there were three Papists on the bench, and only one Christian. The latter, when asked which " O'B." was to have the judgeship, replied, " Why, ' J.0'8.,' of course ;" and the appropriateness of the retort will not be misunderstood by those who are familiar with the names of a recently promoted sergeant. During the last week Dublin has been greatly engrossed with a young preacher who has just returned to his native country, Mr. Grattan Guin ness. People who have not seen or beard him talk of him as a rival to Spurgeon. There is no compa rison between them. Mr. Guinness is a refined and polished gentleman. His manner, his voice, his ges tures, his language, the expression of his counte nance, are not what are generally associated with the man who attracts thousands daily to his ministra tions. He is a most eloquent and accomplished speaker ; and in the beauty of his diction, the grace of his delivery, the fervour of his tone, the vigour of his illustrations, he has but few equals; nor would you learn without surprise that these are the gifts of a young man not yet twenty-one. Enormous con gregations crowd to his preaching. On Sunday all the leading members of the Irish Protestant Bar were seen in York-street Chapel, handing round the plates for the collection which followed the close of the service. On Wednesday the Lord Lieutenant and the members of his household were present, and rarely in modern times has such interest attached itself to one individual. I shall be surprised if a long and distinguished career be not Mr. Guinness's destiny. At Limerick the election fight waxes hot and furious. Mr. Ball has the lion's share of priestly popularity, and will win by a good majority, I under stand. Limerick voters like a man who is sufficiently faithful to the Government to be able to command its favours. Independence they consider a delusion and a mistake. All the Conservatives will support Mojor Gavin, who with all his errors of opinion has no aspirations for place. Pabst anb Dilitarg gitttiligente. THE FIRST EXAMINATIONS UNDER THE NEW SYSTEM introduced by the Commander-in• Chief and the Coun: cil of Military Education, have now been concluded 159 with the most satisfactory results. Of 37 candidates for the Staff College, 15 were admitted, the full com plement, all of them being well up to the required standard. Out of 33 for the junior department, for candidates between sixteen and eighteen years of age, the full complement of 24 were admitted, 10 of whom showed evidences of the highest talent. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GENERAL COMMANDING 'S-CHIEF held a levee on Thursday at the Horse Guards, which was most numerously attended, be tween 100 and 170 oftl.:ers having paid their respects to his Royal Highness. COLONEL HENRY EYRE, now in command of the depot battalion et Walmer, has been appointed Com mandant of Chatham garrison, in the room of Major-General W. H. Eden, who resigns on promo- tion. THE GOVERNMENT have issued a citcular announc ing that the bounty to recruits is raised from 21. to 31. with a free kit. BY the death of Vice-Admiral the Hon. William Gordon, late Cominander•in•Chief at the lore, and brother of the Earl of Aberdeen, Captain Lord Clarence Paget obtains his flag, by which promotion a good-service pension falls to Government. SO; anb A CLERGYMAN AND HIS WIFE, the Rev. S. and Mrs. Smith, who conduct a collegiate academy at Clifton, have been arrested on a charge of " felonious maim ing," under the most singular circumstances. The evidence adduced at the preliminary examination on Thursday disclosed some curious particulars. It appeared that a Mr. Leach, living in Surrey, and who had known Mrs. Smith before she was married, and when she was a kitchen-maid at Swan and Edgar's, on the 23rd of last month received a letter from her, stating that she was a widow, expressing a hope that he had not "forgotten the promise" be had made " on the night " when they were together at the seaside in 1849, and giving an address at Bristol. Mr. Leach replied, and on the 28th he received a second letter from Mrs. Smith, appointing a meeting near Bristol, and proposing to spend the night at Wapley, " to talk over matters together," but intimating that there must be nothing improper. Mr. Leach kept the appointment, coming from town for that purpose. He met Mrs. Smith on the 3rd inst., on the Bristol and Birmingham platform, went off to Yate with her, and while crossing the common was suddenly knocked down and beaten by a man, whom he recognised, but could not swear to, as Mr. Smith. A struggle ensued ; assistance arrived ; Mr. Leach was rescued, but much beaten ; Mr. and Mrs. Smith walked off together ; and a six-barrel revolver, loaded and capped, and which was proved in evidence to have been purchased by Mr. Smith in Bristol the day previous, was picked up off the ground. Con clusive evidence was also given to prove that Mr. Smith had sent -one of his pupils to receive Mr. Leach's letters at the address given to Leach by Mrs. Smith ; and a parcel of clean linen, brought down from town by Mr. Leach, has been discovered in Mr. Smith's house. Both prisoners have been fully committed for trial. THE HALL BANKRUPT CASE came on again on Wednesday, when Mr. Rivington asked the court, on the evidence before it, to refuse any certificate or protection to the bankrupts : Lady Rushout's case brought them within the third division of the penal section (the 256th) which related to contracting debts, or obtaining the forbearance of debts, by fraud or false pretences; and Sir Charles Rushout'a complaint brought them under the second division, rela tive to keeping false accounts, or making false entries, with a view to conceal the state of their affairs. Also, under the ninth head, they were chargeable with having omitted to keep proper books of account, and with having kept them imperfectly, carelessly, and negligently, with the view to deceive. Besides their general conduct, the course of dishonesty and falsehood which the evidence had disclosed disentitled them to any certificate whatever. Further peering was adjourned till Wednesday next. CHRISTIAN SATTLER was hanged on Monday in front of Newgate. Settler, it will be remembered, was convicted of the murder of Them, a detective officer. THE TRIAL of the British Bank Directors com mences this day before the Lord Chief Justice at the Guildhall. Sir Frederic Thesiger is leading counsel for the prosecution ; Sir F. Kelly for the defence. -------- AN ACTION FOR BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE, brought by a gentleman against a lady, and in which the damages were stated to have been laid at 30,0001., to be tried yesterday, was withdrawn. A large lumber of persons attended the court, at tracted by the curious nature of the defence, and they appeared much disappointed at finding it had gone off. A REWARD OF 2001. has been offered for the appre hension of Thomas Allsop, a well-known democrat, and lately a member of the Stock Exchange, for being connected in the recent attempt to assassinate the Emperor Napoleon.