The Press. — London, England, 1858-02-27 00:00:00

THE PRESS, FFBRUARY 27,1858. had a regular csptain, patent of nationality, ship pe ra, and was not engaged in any act of piracy. It had ' s ailed from Genoa on its passage to Cagliari and Tunis, Reco rding to public advertisement. Its voyages took place at fired periodical days : in point of fact, it was the royal mi d; packet between the Continent and the Isle of Sar dinia. The captain was, therefore, en regle, and the cap ture of the vessel could not be justified by the universally admitted principle that subjects pirates to the jurisdiction of all nations. The Cagliari was not, as tlte counsel of the Neapolitan Admiralty seems to argue, an enemy to the State; it be longed to a friendly power, by whose flag it was pro tected. The fact that forcible possession had been taken of her by the passengers, and retained for some time, and that she had then become the instrument of a wrongful woes• mon, could not create that state of war which does only exist between two recognised Governments. The mad in road of Ponza and Sapri was the act of a handful of con spirators engaged in a desperate enterprise, and it would be an abuse of the legal import of terms to compare and confound such attempt, of which it is impossible to say whether the madness or the guilt is greater, with a helloed state of puolic war. in order to found on it the remiling right of prize. This would be the first time in which a hand of conspirators and criminals has been recognised as invested with the prerogative of a belligerent power. The attempt of Ponz'i and Sari was a crime of rebel- lion aid robliery; it was an ordinary crime, to the trial of which the rules of the ordinary criminal law ought to be applied, and in which the principles of public right cannot be appealed to in the absence of all foundation fur such , . appeal. So far as we are concerned, moreover, the criminal fact was at an end. The vessel had no rebels on boarl ; it was under the command of its lawful captain ; its Hal ional flag ought to have secured fur it protection, immunities, and pnvileges of the sea. Upon these grounds Count Cavour claims the restoration of the Cagliari and her cargo, and the re lease of the prisoners. Lord John Manners, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. Via count Newport, the Right Hon. Lord Claud Hamil ton, Lord Robert Cecil, the Right Hon. Colonel Cecil Forester, the Right Hon. Mr. Henley, the Right Hon. Joseph Napier, the Hon. A. Cole, Rear-Admiral the Hon. Arthur buncombe, Sir William Jolliffe, Sir E. Bnlwer Lytton, Sir Frederic Thesiger, Q.C., Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Q.C., Rear-Admiral Walcott, Col. Taylor, Col. North, Col. Boldero, Major Cumming Bruce, Mr. Whiteside ' Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. Miles, Mr. Adderley, Mr. Macke, Mr. Malins, Q.C., Mr. Whitmore, Mr. Gatborne Hardy, the Hon. George Waldegrave, the Rev. Henry Drury. THE REV. GEORGE E. L. COLTON, master of Marl borough College, has been appointed to the Bishop• ' ric of Calcutta, vacant by the death of the late Dr. Wilson. It is, we understand, in contemplation to constitute a see of Agra. SIR HENRY DAYINSON, Puisne Judge at Madras, has been appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay, vice Sir William Yardley. THE THREE VACANT GARTERS have been given by Lotd Palmerston to the Dukes of Wellington and Norfolk, and to the Earl of flarrowhy. Mr. llayter, whipper-in of the late Administration, is to he made a baronet. Mr. Griffiths, the Dish civil engineer, is also to be made a baronet. MR. ADAM BITTLESTONE. of the Midland Circuit, who for sevrral years reported its pr , cceilings, has been appointed by the late Ministry t 5 the vacant Indian Judgeship. 203 nothing particular about him except that he carried a bundle. In the course of the day, when dinner time came, and Madame Louise did not make her appearance, the keeper of the house and the lodgers began to have their suspicions; and about seven o'clock in the vening they resolved to search the room, when they were horrified at finding Madame Louise dead, and quite black in the face front strangulation; and there were finger-marks on the throat, and indications of a violent struggle. Medi cal aid was immediately procured ; but the docto Mr. Tothill, of Charles-street, pronounced that the woman had been dead for some hours. There was a small quantity of blood on the pillows. On ex: mining the room, it was discovered that nearly all the wearing apparel of the dead woman was missing ; also sotoe pawnbrokers' duplicates and money. The black velvet cloak the deceased wore when she met the foreigner was also gone. As the earri►igs were torn from the ears of the deceased it would seem that rubbery was the motive ot this barbarous murder. The deceased was a Frenchwoman, about twenty two years of age, and when she came to England, about six or eight months ago, set up the business of a laundress in Little Winittnillottreet Being en- cumbered with two children she could not get a maintenance by laundry wnik, and then she joined the numerous herd of foreign prostitutes who intratie Regero.street and the neighbouring streets. On the evening when the deceased went liotn3 with the Foreigrer she is kn ,wn to have worn a watch and chain, wide!' call nowhere be found. Inspector Park, of the C division, was eng ,geil throughout Thursday in the inquiry. The following descriptioa of the supposed murderer has been sent round to every police station :—A German, about thirty years of age, five feet six or seven inches high, speaks French fluently, and stated that his father was a captain in the navy. He was dressed in a dark grey paletot coat, wide sleeves, grey trousers, and strong Wellington boots. AMERICA. The Senate had been engaged with the debate upon the Kansas question, and bad again ad journed. The House of Representatives had adopted the proposition of Mr. Harris, of Illinois, to refer the Lecompton Constitution to a committee of fifteen members instead of the Committee on Territories. Mr. Keit and Grow, the principals in the disgraceful scuffle which had taken place, had both made an apology to the house. The Navy Department had appointed the officers to the steamship Niagara or that department, which Vessel is again to be engaged during the coming spring, under the command of Captain W. L. Hudson, in the renewed effort to lay down the Atlantic telegraph cable. A large Anti-Lecompton meeting, called by Mr. Daniel Webster, had been held at Philadelphia. St. Louis advices of the 9th inst. report that a bill providing for a constitution had passed the Kansas Legislature. Writs had been issued for the arrest of M‘Lean and Sherwood, who bad escaped. The Westport correspondent of the Republican states that difficulties had again broken out at Fort Scott, Kansas, and that a requisition had been made to the Governor for troops. gout anb 4astion. Her Majesty the Queen and Court have passed the week at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty's levee, announced for Wednesday, the 10th of March next, will not be held. Her Majesty will hold a levee on Wednesday, the 17th of March, and a further levee on Wednesday, the 21th of March next. Volitual. A CABINET Cotrscrt. was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing•street. The Ministers present were— \ iscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren don, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. Lord Palmerston, upon the break ing up of the Council, had an audience of her Ma jesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace. In the course of Saturday evening her Majesty summoned the Earl of Derby to the palace. The noble earl had a lengthened interview with her Majesty. The noble earl had an audience of her Majesty on Sunday afternoon, and again on Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday, and Thursday afternoons. HI: RIGHT HON. TICE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE or COMMONS gave his second parliamentary full-dress (honer on Saturday evening, the 20th inst., at his house in Carlton-terrace. The following had the honour of receiving invitations :—The flight lion. Mr. Disraeli, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, the Right Hon Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. Plu ant Volitt. BERNARD, the refugee charged with conspiring to assassinate the Emperor of the French, was re examined on Tuesday at Bow-street. Some impor tant evidence, tending to connect him with the Orsini gang, was brought to light. A M. Outrequin, a friend of Bernard, deposed that in last December a Mr. Allsop arrived in Paris, bringing to him a letter of introduction from Bernard. This Allsop turned out to be Orsini, who was travelling with Allsop's passport. Shortly after this Mr. Allsop's arrival, Outrequin received another letter from B,r nerd, stating that he was about to send over to his (Outrequin's) care some " magnificent revolvers " for Allsop, who would call for them. The pistols, packed in a box wrapped in oilcloth, duly arrived, and Allsop called and took away one, while Pierri called and took away the other. The box and oil cloth found in Paris were then produced in court, and identified both by M. Outrequin and King, the book ing clerk at the railway•oifice, Quadrant. Evidence was given that the passport found on Orsini had been originally issued to Allsop, and M. Bernard was then remanded for a week. EDWARD TRUELOVE, a publisher at 240, Strand, was brought up on Monday, charged with publishing a pamphlet on " Tyrannicide." A remand was applied for, and bail being given in two sureties of 40/. and his own recognisance in 1001., the prisoner was set at liberty. ALFRED FEIST, late master of Newington Work house, charged on sixty-four counts for having dis posed to his own profit of the bodies of paupers for dissection, was tried at the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, and found guilty of the sth, 6th, and TA counts of the indictment. A verdict of "Guilty " was then recorded, but no sentence was passed, and the defendant was allowed to be at large upon his procuring sureties to appear and receive judgment in case the questions of law that are reserved should be decided against him. Mn. RADCLIFFE WILSON, Town Clerk of Stockton, destroyed himself a fow days since. He had been in a desponding state for many weeks past, but no evi dence was adduced at the inquest on Wednesday to account further for the act. MR. HENRY EDWARD LEGGE, late Paymaster of the 2nd Regiment of the West Surrey Militia, was tried on Thursday for the embezzlement of 1,300/., public moneys received for the service of the corps. The evidence for the prosecution failed so entirely to prove the intention to defraud, the jury without hesi tation returned a verdict of " Not Guilty," and the prisoner was at once set at liberty. JACOB SKELTON, labourer, charged with the mur der at Hayton on Christina+ day last of his father in-law, one Irwin, was tried at Carlisle on Wednes day and acquitted, the evidence, as Mr. Baron Martin observed, amounting to "suspicion" only. A HORRIBLE MURDER has been committed in the immediate neighbourhood of the Haymarket. The following are stated to be the particulars of the case :—On Tuesday night a foreigner (a German or Italian) accosted three French girls in the street, and, after a short conversation, accompanied one of them, known as Madame Louise, to her lodgings, No. $, Arundel•place, Haymarket, a house kept for, and inhabited by, foreign prostitutes. On Wednes day morning at five o'clock the foreigner left the house, the servant letting him out, and noticing FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, February 29. BANKRUPTS.—JosErit Mosus, Newnham - street, Tenter. ground, Goodnian's-fields, manufacturer and clothier—WlLLlAM BARDOZTT and JOHN PtcARD Mark-lane-charnbers, corn factors —T. SYCKELMOItE, Gataiels-hill. Maidstone, Kent, currier and leather seller—T. G. GABRIEL, Midford.place, Tottenham-court road, brush board and wood ring manufacturer and sawyer J. THomAs, Stroud, Roc beider, Kent, ironfouuder—JOHN PAGE, Hythe, Kent, grocer—AnoLlws ACKERMANN (and not Acker man, as stated last Friday), Beaufort-buildings, Strand, print seller—C. WHirr, Williugale Spain, Essex. poulterer—HENßY MARTIN RADLO7,, Peckham-grove, Camberwell, oil refiner— H. J CHITTY, Farnham, Surrey, linen draper—S. BAYLEY, Burnt Tree, Tipton, Staffordsbire,malater--Joun BEDDOE, lOU Top, Westbroinwich, Staffordshire, timber merchant and builder —JOHN BRITON, fieretord, corn factor—JOHN DULsIoIF. Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, grocer—J. 8. PARKES, Oldbury, Worcestershire, wine and spirit merchant—HENßY REDFERN, Nottingham, 'lumber and glazier—S. SHEERINO and JAMES LITTLE. Bristol, printers and stationers—SAnnEL BRAIN, Well/. EMI eet, Bristol, timber merchant—Tuonas PETERS, Llan‘abon, Glamorganshire. grocer—WILLIAX LEE, North-street, Exeter. grocer —WILLIAm BARRER, Dunningtou, Yorkshire. Innkeeper and agricultural machine maker—JosEra GALLOWAY, jun., Greengates, Bradford, Yorkshire, cloth manufacturer—CALLp GLELHILL, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, draper—R. MITCHELL. Sheffield, edge tool man& .cturer- -GEORGE RIPLEY, Rt. H elan 'I, Lancashire, ironfouuder—WlLLlAN HENRI CRA Bras , Preston and Garstang, Lancashire, grocer and tea dealer—BENrAmta HAYMAN, Manchester, stationer, engraver, and printer. SCOTCH 8 EQU EST RATI ONS.—ALZIANDRE WC ALLEM. Cowdenbeath, Fifeshire, grocer—MITCHELL and MITCHELL, Glasgow, ho-iiera—ROBERT MoalueoN, London.street,G aagow, stay maker--JoHN K. KENT, Jedburgh, money 'envenom — JAMES KNOX, Princes.strew ' Edinburgh, tea merchant — Jonn MUIR, Arbroath, flax spinner —JOHN MITCHELL. Princes-street, Dundee, grocer— WILLIax Baows. Glatig-w, slate merchant,— DuoALD hPCALL, Greenock, grocer—ANDREW MORRISON, Hose street. Edinburgh, smith—JOHN FINDLAY and Sons, Market buildings, Aberdeen, watchmakers. Friday, February, 26. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.—ROBERT Lzre, Priory Mills. Old,,am. Lancaster, cotton spinner—last:a Slurs, Lowes toft, Suffolk. briekmaker. BA NKRUPTS. —GEoltOli E. Last, Old Heath, Colchester, Essex, manure merchant—ROßEßT MCKEAN, Whitecross-street Prison, ship broker—ARCHIBSED A. COUPES, Old Broad street, City, East India nierohant—CHAßLES P. BARBER, Moor-terrace, New Peckham, Surrey, haberdasher—EDMUND V. WALLIS, High-street, Hemel Hempstead, Hens, plumber—THOMAS YOUNG, Hainpton•terrace, Hampstead-road, china and glass dealer—Wu-was H. Osßose, Princes street, Cavendish-square, silversmith—WlLLlAM [Awls, Horseley Heath, Stafford, timber dealer-1111)MT CRANE, Wolverhampton, Stafford, !roe founder—Jo IN PowEEL, Aston, Warwick, awl blade manufacturer —THOMAS OSCROFT, Codnor, Derby, grocer—Jose °issue, Weymouth, Dorset., coal merchant—Joße DOWNY, COMO Abbas, Dorset, fellmonger—Tsomss INCILIDCW and BERNARD INGLEDEW, *dileSbOroUgh, York, coal fitters—WlLLlS,* IN lc Hots, Wiladen, York, worsted Onner—NATHLSIEL Hon- BON, Sheffield, York, joiner—JOßEPS WATIIRSTON and JAMS, WATERSTON (not Waterson, as in last Friday's Gazette), Low Elswick, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. smiths—ROßEßT H. GlEt., Hartlepool, Durham, innkeeper—SAMUEL BUCKLZT, Ashton undcr-Lyne, Lancaster, joiner—RUDEST CORDON, Heaton Norris, Lancaster, Ironfounder—llENßY WILKINSON, Newton moor, near Hyde, Chester, card maker—Thomas Enwsitns, Thomas-street, Manchester, cabinet maker—VERNON H•RDING, Liverpool, ironmonger—Jost , ' I3aw, Manchester, wholesale druggist. THE RADICAL ANTI.PALMERSTON DEMONSTRATION "came off" last Sunday, in spite of the efforts of its originators to put a stop to it, on the announcement of the defeat of the Ministers. The affair resolved itself into a riotous mobbing of some harmless foreigners, and a " hunt " of Lord Palmerston's coachman, who took refuge within the Royal Humane Society's buildings.