The Press. — London, England, 1857-06-27 00:00:00

JUNE 27, 1857. fully alive in past times to the fact that " water was money " in their country, and had undertaken vast works to supply it. When we spoke of the wants of India, the answer of the Indian Government was simply, " We know all this; we know how desirable are the works you speak of ; but where is the money to come from for their con struction?" He believed the question of roads and water might be detached from every other, and that to be dealt with effectually it must be dealt with by loans. Loans in curred for war were losses to the country, but it must be borne in mind that what in one case was a dead loss, was in the other case an investment. And although he knew that financiers had great objections to such a plan, he thought that loans fur such a purpose, it being certain that they would yield a return which would more than pay the interest, ought not to be charged on the community for ever, but converted into terminable annuities, and paid off at the end of a reasonable time. If the Indian Govern• ment were to wait to open up the resources of India till it could be done out of the year's income, it might wait for ever. SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY has been presented with a handsome piece of silver plate and an address, signed by 7,000 ladies and 6,000 electors, with a view to soften his recent defeat for the borough of Lei cester. THE DESTRUCTION OF GROUSE, through a dis graceful traffic in moorfowl eggs, which calls for immedive investigation, is reported to an alarming extent this year. Whole districts of country have been swept of the entire nests. A COAL MINE, at Cobridge, Stafford, was last week worked up to within five feet of the bottom of a large and deep pond. Suddenly the roof of the coal mine gave way, and the water fell through like a cataract, and although the men working in the pit rushed up the levels at once, one was struck down and unfortunately drowned. Saba aub Vein. AN AcrioN OF CAIN. CoN., brought by a solicitor, Mr. Armitage, against the Hon. Colonel Macdonald, was tried at the Court of Common Pleas on Monday. The damages were laid at 5001., and the case was simply this. Mr. Armitage married his wife in October, 1847, and in March, 1848, the young lady left her husband, and declared " she would rather die first" than live with him or allow him the privileges of his position. For two years they corre sponded in the most affectionate tone, but she steadfastly refused to live with him. In 1850 she suddenly disappeared, and could neither be found by friends or husband. One night Mr. Armitage saw her in a theatre in London : Mr. Armitage was in the theatre, and he went to the box she was in, and he called the gentleman out of the box, and the gentleman assured him that the meeting was purely accidental. Mr. Armitage said to the gentleman, " Are you aware that that lady is my wife ?" and the gentleman said he was not. Mr. Armitage demanded his address, and the gentleman gave a card with the name of Mr. Lloyd engraved on it. Mr. Armitage demanded the address, and the gentleman wrote in pencil, " Palace chambers, St. James's-street." During the conversation the lady escaped altogether, and Mr. Armitage could find no trace of her. He found she had left in a cab with an elderly gentleman. He gave the waterman some money to find the cabman and send him to me. We found the cabman who had taken her to Lord Aberdeen's house in Argyle-street, and she went in at one gate and out at the other. Lord Aberdeen's porter told me so. I insisted on seeing Colonel Gordon, and having the whole matter in qnired into. In my own mind I acquitted the earl. In July, '5l, it was discovered that she was living in Gloucester•place, Hyde park, and was on terms of great intimacy with Colonel Macdonald. Several witnesses were called to prove that she never went less than twice a week to the colonel's chambers in the Albany, f om four p.m. to six and eight p.m., and remained there three or four hours. In 1852 the lady changed her lodgings to Hill-street, Knights bridge, and Colonel Macdonald was a frequent visitor. Two or three "cousins" also came to see her fre quently. The identity of the persons beingiproved, Serg. Shee for the defence maintained that no injury was inflicted upon Mr. Armitage, as it was impossible to prove on the part of the defendant knowledge of the previous marr►age of Mrs. Armitage. The jury re turned a verdict for Mr. Armitage, with 1001. damages. ESSEX has been the scene of two horrible murders this week. At Chingford Hatch, near Woodford, on Sunday last, the farmhouse of a gentleman, Mr. Small, while the family were at church, was entered, robbed, and the old housekeeper, seventy-two years of age, most brutally murdered. The murderer was tracked to the railway station, but there all trace of him was lost. The police are out in every direction, and it is to be hoped that before long the villain will be hunted down. In the other case, the police were more fortunate. Michael Crawley, an Irish labourer, living at Stratford, upon his wife refusing to give him Is. (id. to spend in drink, deliberately beat out her brains with a billhook. The poor woman, when found a few minutes afterwards, was still breathing, and lingered some hours. The villain has chopped at ber in seventeen different places, He was ar- THE PRESS. rested next morning at Ilford, contessed his crime, and was committed for trial. THE GAMBLING CASE OF CULVERWELL AND SIDE BOTTOM was again brought before the public this week, in the shape of an action by Mr. Sidebottom against a Mr. Adkins, a confederate of Culverwell, for 6,5281., as money lost at play. The facts of the case were again detailed, as to how Mr. Sidebottom came to town and lost 25,0001. at the Berkeley, in Albemarle-street. There was no defence, and a ver dict for the sum in full was returned. THE APPEAL IN THE CONDEMNED CONVICT MAN SELL'S CASE was heard this week at the Queen's Bench and re used. The execution of the prisoner should take placa on the Ist of July. THE DIRECTORS OF THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK are gradually making their appearance. Mr. Esdaile and Alderman Kennedy have arrived in London and found bail, and Mr. Cameron has made that ap pearanee at last which his friends have anxiously anticipated so long. Bail for 8,0001. was asked and given in the cases of Mr. Esdaile and Alderman Kennedy, but for Mr. Cameron Mr. Justice Erle demanded bail to the extent of 24,0001. Mr. Cameron was unable to obtain bail to the amount and was yesterday taken to the Queen's Bend; prison. - - THE ACTION "Roux v. WISEMAN," in which the plain tiff, the Abbe Roux, sought to recover a security for 25,000 f. which he alleged he bad deposited with the defendant, Cardinal Wiseman, has not yet been con cluded. At the trial, which took place at Gloucester at the last assizes, the plaintiff obtained a verdict, with 5001. damages, but a rule was subsequently granted for a new trial upon the ground that the verdict was against the evidence. Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Mr. Griffiths (with whom was Mr. Huddle ston) showed cause against the rule last week before the Caurt of Queen's Bench, when the further hearing of the case was adjourned till yesterday, when the rale was made absolute for a new trial on payment of costs. AN ATTORNEY AT LIVERPOOL, one Shattock,of Dale street in that town, has been charged before the local police-court with forging the acceptance of Messrs. Little and Murray, builders and contractors, West Derby, to a bill of 301. 10s. 6d., which was dis counted in Bristol, by Mr. Jacques, through the agency of Mr. Coles, a personal friend of the prisoner. The prisoner was committed for trial on that charge, and other cases which are to be brought against him were adjourned. MRS. Dyes SOMBRE'S APPEAL against the taxing of the bill of costs, on the ground of additional and unnecessary expenses being allowed, was adjudged at the Court of Privy Council last week. Dr. Lush ington delivered their lordships' judgment, which dismissed the petition with costs. MR. ALFRED ALLEN, a great Sussex mister, has been convicted of infractions upon the excise laws, and mulcted of 100,0001. to the Crown. The details are these. At each of his great malting establish ments at Worthing, Mulsey, and Horsham, Mr. Allen bad fitted up in underground vaults malting cisterns and couch frames, so constructed that be could carry on an illicit trade at the same time that he was car rying on a perfectly legal one upstairs. It was im possible to say to what extent the revenue had been defrauded, but thus much was found out—that, be tween the 3rd of January and the 3rd of April, Mr. Allen had, in his sales to customers, exceeded his quantity of malt surveyed by the excise officers by 7,000 bushels. The Lord Chief Baron said "he bad never in till his experience met with so flagrant and so extensive a system of fiscal dishonesty and unfair trading." The penalties were laid at 375,0001., but the Crown accepted a verdict for 100,0001., with the forfeiture of all the malt, 41:c., belonging to defendant. ROBERT TRIPP, the old soldier charged with the murder of his landlord, James Scott, on the mornin g of 7th April last, at 28, Gifford-street, Islington, was tried on the 18th, acquitted of murder, found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. THE EXAMINATION OF Mn. SMITH, the lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, in the bankruptcy case of the convict Robson, is fixed for the 30th. 627 THE Cumberland, 70, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wallis, has left St. Helen's on her voyage to the Brazils. DETACHMENTS of the Bth, 32nd, 35th, 53rd, 60th, and 75th Regiments are held in immediate readiness for embarkation for India. Cabal ancb Ltlilitarg THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE has issued a general order to the army, directing that — For the future every soldier, after being dismissed from drill, shall attend school as a duty, until he is reported upon as sufficiently advanced in reading, writing, and arithmetic. With the concurrence of the Secretary of State for War no fees are to be required for this attendance at school. It will be desirable that commanding o cers should so arrange the duties of the men as to give, if possible, at least four hours' attendance each week to all men of the above class. Lrj SECOND EDI'T'ION• SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. INDIA. REVOLT OF THE NATIVE INDIAN ARMY. MASSACRE OF ENGLISH AT DELHI. The steamer America arrived at Trieste yesterday, with dates to Bombay May 27, Calcutta May 18, and Madras May 25, bringing serious and important intelligence. The mutiny in the Bengal army had spread in a most Rimming manner. At Meerut, the 11th and 20th Regiments of Na tive Infantry had united with the 3id Light Cavalry in open revolt, After some bloodshed, they had been dispersed by European troops; but they bad fled to Delhi, where . they were joined by the 38th, 54th, and 74th Native Infantry. Delhi was in possession of the mutineers, who had massacred almost all the Europeans without regard to age or sex, plundered the bank, and proclaimed the son of the late Mogul Emperor as King. Disturbances had also broken out at Ferozepore, but had been suppressed. The Rajah of Gwalior bad placed his troops at the disposal of the British Government. Government was taking active measures to sup press the revolt, and concentrating troops around Delhi. The 34th Native Infantry was disbanded on the 7th of June. The Nizam of the Deccan died on the 19th of June. UNITED STATES. The Ariel has arrived at Cowes, on her way to Havre. She has brought the United States' mail for England. She left New York on the 13th inst. There is but little news by this arrival. The California mail has arrived with nearly two million dollars. Gold is still plentiful. No news of importance. Santa Anna, the ex•director of Mexico, is eng aged in getting up another revolution. Advices from Havannah to the Bth state that his arrival there was daily rooked for. The elections were coming on in Mexico. Comon fort was the principal candidate. The Government of Mexico was making prepara tions for a war with Spain. General Walker arrived at Washington . on the 12th, and was quite lionised. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald says the State Department denies that any new proposition has been made by England tou.:hing Central America, as announced by Lord Clarendon in the British Parliament. The Indipendance Beige contains the following paragraph Our Paris correspondents have upon different occasions spoken of an intended visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French to Queen Victoria. According to informa tion which is transmitted us from London, but the au thenticity of which we by no means guarantee, the recent visit of M. Fould to Windsor had partly for its object to settle certain details relative to this journey. Their Im perial Majesties would, as we have said, repair to Osborne, and then would proceed to visit the Manchester Exhibi tion. There would not be any official reception of them in London on this occasion. The news from Persia is that Prince Melikoff, the Russian Envoy, had left Teheran on the 18th of May. He had been received by the Shah with marked attention and great honours. A private letter from Vienna says, the Prince Kaimakan in Moldavia had caused the electoral lists to be closed on the 15th. TIIE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL, intelli• Bence from Berlin states, is fixed for the 18th of January. Originally, the Prince's own birthday, October 18, was selected, and subsequently that of the Princess, Nov. 21, when she will have completed her seventeenth year ; but at present, the 18th pf January remains offs Tally appointed.