The Press. — London, England, 1853-10-29 00:00:00

610 Yale aft Voila. Tnr. L►an env:es:mon has appointed eleven o'clock on Wednesday next, at his lordship's resi dence, for the reception of the L►rd Mayor and the other authorities of the city of London, on which occasion the Lord Chancellor will signify her Ma jesty's approval of the L►rd Mayor elect. The L►rd Chancellor will also, on the same day, at twelve o'clock, receive the judges, Queen's counsel, ,tc., it being the first day of Michaeltnas Term. THERE are no fewer than 131 applications to be made in Michaelmas Tenn, by 'persons who have is .rued their articles and passed their examination, to be admitted attorneys of the superior courts. It is expected that, in consequenee or the reduction in the duty on articles of clerkship by the new Stamp Act, from 1201. to 040/., the number of articled clerks will also increase. The new duties will become payable next month. Os the termination of the long vacation, on Mon day last, the law courts exhibited their arrears. These, however, are almost nominal. The Court of Queen's Bench, instead of beginning tens with 200 rules for new trials in the paper, as of old, showed but five such, with seventeen special cases and demnrrers, and ten rules enlarged. The ar•rea►s of the three courts arc as billows :—Court. of Queen's Bench, 34 ; Common Pleas, 4 ; and Exchequer, S total 44. An ACTION ON A REFORM-Ct.r•R DEBENTURE, in voking the awn of 131. Ilk. fur five and a half years' Interest on a roll. security of this description. was tried at the Westminster County Court. Sir Benjamin Hall, as one of the " general committee " of the club, was made defendant, the plaintiff being a person named Ualloway It appears that, hi the year INiIR Mr. Alexander fiallowity, an engineer, since deeearetl, advanced liNg. to the Iteform I lob, for wb hhe reeeived hair debentures of tog. reel. Two of these lir • rarities were afterwawbs pad off, att.l the remaining two (on oar of whkh the proeeediugs were founded) were given by him to his youngest daughter about twelve iiiii iglus previous to his death. she transferred then) to her hrot her, and lie sold them to the pre. rout plaintiff. 'rho Moroni' t'llth refused to limy the interest. alleging that the executors elitietted the ulebent sires, Mel the re• se at option was the result. Three of the e‘ecittors were illegiti• mate eons of the deceased original holder, and they gr.. 1111.1 1 .11 their claims upon the feel of the delientitres loss hug been assigned by mere delivery, although the bonds state that the interest should be paid to the " holder." Souse de wits raised to the daimon the ground that the dm lit was not properly .1 ea. and afterwarilis it was ',hwled for the defendant that the isliiiiies glint referred to a " rhos.• in stetion." and therefor.• toot tostutitits• able at law. The jury concurred in this slew, mill the pinintifl was nonsuite.l. The ease excited considerable interest, and the re. suit seems clearly to prove that, if the payment of a Reform-Club debenture be :resisted, sluts an instru ment is utterly worthless to the holder. Ton RESPEeTADLE CRIPPLE who has victimised many tradesmen in London, Woolwich, Windsor, and else where, by passing forged notes, came up for trial on Wednesday at the Central t'rimiiial t'ourt. Ile pleaded guilty, but entreated the court to deal 'nevi fully with him. lie declared that he had always viewed crime with " high disgust," and he had only been driven to the commission of these offenees 11 the preluture of poverty and affliction. Two previous convictions for similar otrenees were shown to be re corded against him, and a sentence of twenty years' transportation was pronounced. HANNAH 6RINNEV, who is married to a wheel. right, and lives in I'ark-street, Kennington, was nearly, if not quite, 'muttered by her hu s band 441 1 Monday last. The daughter, a girl of eightet n. heard screams at an early hour on that ima Ding. and on going down stairs found her father cutting his wife's throat with a knife. She was on the finer. and the man was kneeling upon her body and cutting at her throat in a desperate manner. The poor woman got away once or twiec, and even reached the street door, but could not open it, and was re peatedly thrown down by the ruffian, who renewed his attempt with the knife which lie still held in his hand. The daughter, according to her stateltient before the Lambeth magistrate, screamed for help. but being undressed could not do more. (In hear ing her cries from the window two neighbours count' in, but the man seized another knife and threatened to run it into them if they interfered. lit' then re sumed the onslaught on his wife. but .e help corning in he was at length stopped and gi% eu in charge to the police. Before the count the primate' declared that his act was OCCELtiOlled by jealous). saying that his wife had intended to leave him tot other men, and that he had cut her first with the knife as she was in the act of preparing to go away. He was remanded. Certificates from the hospital to which the woman was removed state that, notwith standing the numerous wounds she received, h er recovery is probable. A CA:of-Box. containing notes, gold, and propert y to the value of nearly 1,0011/., was roma in the pos. session of Mary Ann Seeley. As the police knew her to be a thief, she was brought before the magistrate at Marlborough-street to account for the article : Tolleson !Anglian' ^attl : At loapast two (It that . tootiihig kg 114'941 , 3 1 1We, Alan uvtived Wan the enema as common THE PRESS. she passed him had something bulky under her cloak. He turned bark, awl asked her what it war. the replied that was her huainesa. Winless, noticing some heaitatiou in her mower, renewed his question, and finall% took her to the statiowlimise, %%here, on opening her cloak, the cash•box wax discovered, and, (wing examined, war found to contain a large sown of looney in blink note*. money, awl securities. The prisoner, when quer• tinned as to the way in 11$ 64.11111.• p.sw•ssed of the Luc, MOW she plated it lip in Itioncelloepuire. Witness proceeded to Mak.• inquiries, and succeeded hi discovering theta burglar v had been committed the previous night in Percy-street, liedhird. square, viol that the box was part of the proceeds of the robbery. r. I 'hark it I.stwast.•r. registrar, Pereyodreet, wax tinderiihsal, to have identified the cash-box as his priqwrty. The prix offer, who was is...ogler"! by Welsh, the gaoler of the court, a s co nneensi with n notorious gang of swell ue.bstueu, in evplatiation said she kieked her foot against wonwilinic in sell-square, she stooped, ated picked up the boa, which the con. stable fonnil in her possession. She was remanded. A CASE OF li.rrnEvrair.xr inflicted on a wife was pearl before the Thames Police Court, in which the misconduct appears to be more evenly divided between the panics than is commonly the case. The defendant Was a respectable looking man named Crawley, a working cooper, and his wife was an Irishwoman. The proceedings gave a curious and distressing insight into the poor man's menage : l'olice•Scriteant Armstrong stated that about four o'clock on Sunday morning he W 41,1 )1441r001v lit the prisoner's house, v. he heard serrates and cnes of " Murder '." Ile kola kell at the door, and it was opened by a little hey, who ilireeusl his anvil his mother, who was Iv ing on the floor in the middle of a ;limn, iu a state of nudity, in It need lamentable ronditiau. tier hands, legs, and feet, were made fast by hanalkereitiers and 4•41111%, the blase! wait 11.11111 g (11.111 leer eyed, teen., ntel mouth, and 'lsere were extensive bruises and contusiona to. her face, buck. and abdomen. Ile immediately 11411111 A her, 1111 d covered her over with his greeiwoat. In answer to lain qtiestions, she said her husband had inmost her, anti that she bad latest laid tip for tier weeks. 11e, thereilire, (amok th e turn' into cilstody. The prisoner said he had been almost driven to a state of mad ness by the alniiiken and dissipated habits of his wife, who haul broken sup his home set end times. lanai was ail habitual drunkard. earnings av e rag e d if. is, per week, 41011,11. in lu etti.pert.luit and children in reattaytelaility, lam owing to her alnulken and dist arilerly habit. he had been e pletely ruined, his children were innnotly neglected, anal lie lied no platee fit to eel! a I she had repeatedly stripped her (ladder's, and Kohl ar pawned their wearing apparel in order to procure liquor. She heal been drunk almost daily for three years, a 11111S1111Ce and a terror to the people bi the eitightsnirliasel ha which she lived, a rites.. tip her children and himself, and devoid tat all feeling or shame. tni Satimlay night she wan mad drunk, anti, after creating a great disturbance, took up a knife end attempted to stab hini, and, when that was taken front her, took up a poker and threatened to dash his brains out with that. She then set to and wildly de stivivist nearly everything in the 'dace, and then stripped herself er iht•eliithing she had ion. She was ahotat to rim into the rime, 111 a state .1.1 tastily, when 14111* was 1111411011 hark by a 11111111 HUM in his employ anal by a police constable, who advised that her bagels and feet mht.itld le• Sled, Which Wls done, wool she re 111111114•11 111 that stale till the toollee sergeant took her away. The prisoner handed hi the magistrate a quantity oh pawnbrokers' thiplieate% relating to every descriptlon of property whi r l' Ida wife had quelled. 'Their her quite astounded Mr. YAIIIII.Er, What asked : Was passible the Btttttt heti pawned so malty things to indulge in her ...motel gratifications ? The Prisoner: The whole of them, air; anal lies expended the whole of the money in drink. and oieghs•teil her children. Mr. i‘ititi.Ev said if ever a turn wits Justified in tying up his wlfr alai leaving her in that state, 111h4 Wlll4 one. lie was sorry the woman was not brought before him for tieing drunk and 111/1- onkrly. The restraint plaeed on the w 1111 l an—the tying her up and leaving her on the cold floor of her risan—was an extreme but e‘tretne offences required extreme mishmehis, anal he gild not see the husband could have done ot m herwise Mier the repeated site:mate made upon his life. The prisoner Was 011.4e11a1'0141, and if lie had a complaint to make against his wife ha' would hear it. Mr. Crawley then got into the witness•hos, end requested a warrant for the proteet ion of himself and his children. After mime further evidence, she was ordered to Mid bail for good behaviour for three months. This deeision is tantamount to three months' confine ment. ptianb. THE CoMMISSIONEES OF EMI 11BERED ESTATES have resumed their sittings, and Baron Richards, the first commissioner, is now completely restored to health. The new act of Parliament prolongs the duration of the tribunal for four years from the I:ith of August last, and thenceforward to the end of the parliamentary session. The entire amount real ised by sales ordered from the commencement to the 10th instant inclusive is 10,1:10,-1011. Id. THE IVhI.TRuI. EXIIIIIITIoN will be closed on Monday next, the :11st, by his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. The occasion will ls• celebrated l•y a unisicalfitc, which promis►s to be very effective. It k tinderstood that his excellency will confer the honour of knighthood upon Mr. e. I'. Honey, the honorary secretary to the Exhibition. A balance in band of -KIM/. has been paid over during the week by the committee to Mr. l)argan. being the amount which he had advanced to them for the purposes of the Exhibition. The proposed honorary banquet to that gentleman will be given next week. 31n. 31 6 DottiH AIL, clerk to the Attorney. 6 ;eneral, has been appointed to the office of clerk of the writs and appearances, vacant by the death of the late Itolwrt Cooper. F:sq. The salary is 84NV. a year. vERV I%II.I*ENTI.II. MEETING of merchants inte rested in the Irish linen trade was held at Belfast last week, for the purpose of considering the pro pnety of communicating with the I lovenunent on the subject of procuring a change in the existing tariff of the United States ) 44 it stfeets the linen unutufsc turers of SATURDAY, THE WORKS ON: THE B►►YsE VI.U►CCT, which is to connect the Drogheda with the Belfast Junction Railway, have been stopped, in consequence of a strike amongst the workmen. As an instance of the scarcity of labourers at pre sent experienced in the south of Ireland, the Cork Examiner states that an application was made at the Cork poor-house this week for able-bodied men, to whom employment was offered at the comparatively high wages of one shilling and sixpence a day. A few of the inmates were found to answer the descrip tion, and readily embraced the offer, the first one of the kind made at the workhouse since its construc tion some twelve or thirteen years ago. THE present year has been so prosperous for the Irish farmers that a large amount of savings is said to be now in the hands of this class, whose fortunate possessors are eagerly looking for investments in all directions. 1N consequence of the age and debility of the Right Itev. I►r. Blake, Homan Catholic Bishop of I►rumore, the election of a coadjutor bishop for the diocese took place on Tuesday, in the Ronan Catho lic cathedral of Newry. The Rev. I►aniel Shaikey, P.P., Ballvtialtinch, who received five votes, is re turned as ;fignissimus, and his name, with that of the three other candidates, will he transmitted to Home for selection of the coadjutor prelate from amongst them. Fou THE IlomAN CATHOLIe l'xivEusra Suit Elm subscriptions to the amount of 1,674/. have been re. ceived and acknowledged by the committee during the past mouth. The entire sum received towards the project exceeds 441,1 N Nll. THE 110 N. 3lns. NonroN hays been staying at Lis more Castle for the past three weeks, accompanied by her eldest son. A large part of the front wall of the Killarney Bail. way Hotel fell on Thursday night. Much damage was done, but no lives were lost. EFFECTS OF " SPIRIT RAPPING " IN AMERICA. THE papers report many incidents showing the lengths to which the " rapping" delusion has run, and the terrible consequences which have too often resulted from the delusion. The following extracts will give some idea of the practical consequences of this deplorable mania : " The wife of Michael Catt, of Pecker Township, In diana, was shot by her daughter-in-law, who was much ex cited on supernatural objects at the time." " Mr. Orville Hatch, of Franklin, Connecticut, has be come insane, having devoted considerable attention to the subject of spiritual rapping& Mr. Hatch is a fanner, and has been instnunental in introducing many important im provements in agriculture." " Mr. 'Wiwi.. a deacon in one of the churches (Coup e . gat' I) in Warwick, has income insane, in conseimenee of surrendering himself to the ' spiritual-rapping ' delusion. I lin wife and other members of the family are in a similar state." " Mr. B. remissly hung himself in a barn in Grafton, Louth' eounty. He was an amiable. iutrlligeist, and re spected young man, and became so absorbed in rapping% as to unbahuiee his mind. His ease is but one of a long hat of insane. made so by modern rappings and spiritualism." " The I report id' the Ono Lunatic Asylum discloses the fact that there are no fewer than twenty-six iwrisina (thirteen men and thirteen women) who Line found their way there by means of the spiritual rappings." S •I Pole, of Warlington county, thin. was made insane by the spirit rappingm, and became possessed with the idea that lie must otter, like Abraham, a sacrifice to the Supreme. He aeconlingly proceeded to eat oft one of his own fret, w Melt lie succeeded in doing in a very seien title manner, and with heroic deka ))) ) tation. His family, reining thud some other of his limbs might be demanded in a like cause. had him conveyed to the lunatic asylum." " A young woman was removed to the as y lum at Utica, hawing - become insane in consequence of witnessing some • spiritual ' experiments in Massachustiets. She is new wild with madness." Mr. Christopher Stievely, a very worthy and lulus tritium citizen of Harrisburg. Pennsylvania, has become in 51111C in consequence of attending to ' spiritual wmlifrstu tions.' and has been conveyed to the Pennsylvania Lunatic Asylum, and is now it raving lunatic." •• Ebenezer Pope, of Milton, hung himself on the 14th instant: cause. ' spiritual millings.' He was one of the select men, and leads a family to mourn over his terrible ." _ _ _ c regret to announce that a hilly of Northampton, llassacluissetts, a holy too of great hcauty, lowliness, and intelligence, the molter of six children, has become raving mail through the influence 44 • riiiritual manifestations.' She wits conveyed to the Itattle•laaough insane Hospital in suet' n state of excittint•nt that it took two attendants to hold her. These instances are imiltiplying with fcarlid rapidity in every quarter of the country. Some of the moat sane, too, out of the madhouse, talk like madmen.' The forest of Compiegne, which is chiefly ocenpicol by very obi trees. is ebtimated to be worth. timber in chided, 19.000.00 francs. It comprises '29,11; 4 llereS ; its circumference is 12 leagues ; it c o ntains :cis roa d s of 220 leagues in length; 11 ponds; :31IJ and 11 fouuteim.