The Press. — London, England, 1858-10-30 00:00:00

ITHE PRESS, OCTOBER 30, 1858. an d a light punt lsy on the shore. The young girls o ff w hen the boat upset, and they were thrown into deep water. The elder succee ed in ching the side of the punt, but her sister , Helen , ealiftt:r clutching vainly at an oar for support, missed her hold, and sank to rise no more. Loch Kemph is far from any human habitation ; no eye witnessed the disaster, and there was no answer to the cries of the poor young ladies for help. How either of them esc aped drowning is a miracle. For an hoar and a half Miss Gentle clung to the boat, and when at last it drifted ashore she sank quite exhausted on the beach. The accident occurred about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and it was about three o'clock before she reached home. Helen Gentle was about sixteen years of age ; her body had not been recovered, though every effort was made by her friends and the people of the district. The loch, though small, is very deep, and the bottom is filled with large roots and jagged rocks, which prevent its being dragged with nets. AN Iseuesr was held on Tuesday, by Mr Wakley, the coroner, respecting the death of John Gayton, aged tifty, a carriage-coupler, who died in University College Hospital, on Saturday, from the effects of injuries received whilst at work among the carriages. It appeared from the statement of the man himself before death, and which was confirmed by other testimony, that on the night of Monday, the 19th inst., about eleven o'clock, the deceased was employed in his usual business, uncoupling chains at the station in order to break up the train, when, no me thinking he was there, the train was put in motion. The deceased stepped from the coupling chain on the buffer, and thence on the step-board of the carriage, but, in leaning back, he was caught against one of the pillars supporting the roof, and knocked from his standing, the wheels of two carriages passing over him, completely crushing his feet. He was immediately removed to the hospital, where am putation was performed. He only survived the ope ration twenty-four hours. In answer to the coroner it was stated that the deceased had been told before. hand that there was to be no uncoupling done at that time, and to let it alone. He had been nineteen years in the service of the company, and was well acquainted with the regulations connected with his duties. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," in accordance with the suggestion of the coroner. A Fast. ACCIDENT has occurred in Cheapside. For some time past an elderly man, named Jeremiah Underwood, has had the charge of an unoccupied house, situate at No. 4, Bread-street. The shutters being down at a late hour on Tuesday' excited the suspicions of a polioeman, who broke open the door, descended to the basement, and there found the unfortunate man lying on the floor in a pool of blood and quite dead. From the examination made, there is no doubt that the deceased had got upon a sky light that lighted up the whole of the lower floors for the purpose of cleaning it, and that by some mishap he must have lost his equilibrium and fell to the bottom, a distance of between fifty and sixty feet. The poor fellow's skull was frightfully fractured. A FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE happened at Cyfarthfa Iron-works, South Wales, a few days since, to a. young girl, fourteen years of age, named Thomas, In the course of her work her clothes caught fire, and with her burning dress she ran to the rolls where water is always running, in order to put out the ton es . In doing so her dress was caught by the spindles, and in an instant the poor cteature was dragged between the revolting rollers and literally crushed to pieces. in 1829 ; a member of the Royal College of Physi cians in 1831; fellow of the Royal College of Physi cians in 1814 ; senior assistant•physician of Guy's Hospital in 1853 ; late physician to the Surrey and South London Dispensary ; and member and late president of the Hnnterian Society. He was author of " A Clinical Introduction to the Practice of Aus cultation, and other modes of Physical Diagnosis," and a contributor of various essays in Guy's Hospital Reports, the Medical Gazette, and the Edinburgh Monthly Journal. SIR ROISERT PRESION, BART., died a few days ago at his residence, Sydney-place, Bath. The baro netcy was a Scottish one, created in 1637, and Sir Robert was the eighth baronet. He succeeded his father in 1846. He was formerly a colonel in the army, and was appointed a deputy-lieutenant of Lin colnshire in 1849. The sixth baronet died in 1834, and the male line of the first baronet being extinct, the title reverted, according to the patent of creation, to his nearest male collateral relative, the late baronet's father, who was representative of the first baronet's next brother. Sir Robert Preston is suc ceeded in the baronetcy by his brother Henry, who entered the R,yal Navy in 1801, and became a com mander in 1830. Obituarz Sra EDWARD Brrt-Eu, Knight Bachelor, who some tine since contested Southampton on Conservative prinaples, died a few days since. The deceased gentleman was the fifth son of the thirteenth Lord Danboyne by the daughter of David O'Connell, Esq. He was born in 1811, and married, in 1839, the daughter and heir of Arther Bailey, Esq., of Town HAI, Hampshire, and secondly, in 1844, the second daughter of the late Admiral Lord Henry Paulet, and granddaughter of the twelfth Marquis of Win chester. Sir Edward was lieutenant of the corps of S entlemen.at-Arms, hut retired in May, 1815. In• 1855 he served the office of High Sheriff of Hampshire. SIR JON'S POTTER, M.P. for Manchester, died on M °°daY, at Beech House, Pendleton, after a pro. longed illness. For several days Sir John bad been Rradually sinking, the progress of his disease being i.ueh . as to preclude any hope of recovery. Sir John was in his forty-fourth year. He is the first M.P. fur . Manchester w h o h as d i ed while enjoying the dis- Unction. Ds. Iletrav Maastuu, Huouis, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and physician to Guy's died at Brighton, on the 21st inst., in the ;:r th d year of his age. Dr. Hughes was a member g 'Royal College of Surgeons in England and lAnabate of Lb* goeloty of Apotbschriai in London Pisuitantous THE OUTWARD AUSTRALLiN MAIL, which leaves Southampton on the Ist proximo, will not call at the Cape of Goad Hope, and the only ship mail she will carry will be for the Australian colonies, Tasmania, and New Zealand. THE TREATMENT OF Gour is referred to in an article in the Abeille Medicate on the use of the oil extracted from the horse-chestnut. To extract this oil, the horse-chestnuts are first ground to powder, and then treated with sulphuric ether, which dissolves the oil, resin, and saponine contained in the mass ; the oil is then obtained pure by evaporating the ether. Ten kilogrammes of horse-chestnuts yield ten grammes of oil. It must be applied with a fine hair brush on the part affected ; if the pain is very intense the unction should be effected circularly, so as to arrive gradually to the centre. When the first application is absorbed a second one is effected after the lapse of a few minutes, and then a third and fourth if necessary. The oiled part is then covered with blotting-paper, cotton, or flannel, and then with oilskin ; the patient must be kept in perfect repose. In some cases the application of the oil causes an increase of pain for the first half-hour, after which the sedative action commences, but generally the pain gradually disappears without any aggravation. CARDINAL WISEMAN may take a lesson on tolera tion from the first Jewish mayor ever elected in the provinces, Mr. L. S. Magnus who has been recently elected to the mike of chief magistrate for the ancient borough of Queenborongh. At the conclu sion of the Quarter Sessions, on Tuesday, the mayor gave a sumptuous dinner to the recorder, members of the corporation, a number of influential gentle men connected with the county, and a large circle of his private friends. The usual loyal toasts having been given and responded to, the mayor gave that of " The Church," coupling with it the name of the incumbent, the Rev. R. Bingham. In proposing this toast, the mayor, in an able speech, pointed out how persons of the Jewish persuasion could consistently, not only respect the Church, but lend their aid in support of it. The Rev. Mr. Bingham responded to the toast in a clever and happy speech of consider• abLe length, dwelling upon the bane of exclusiveness, and trusting that their worthy mayor would prove himself a true " Israelite." Sra JAMES Bwoorz recently suffered a rather serious paralytic seizure, but we rejoice to hear that he is steadily, though slowly, progressing towards recovery. MORTARA, the poor little victim of Popish bigotry, is very ill, and it has been found necessary to remove him to Allegri, from the College of Catechumens, where he was kept. A REMARKADLE PHENORENON OF NATURE has for some time appeared on the shore from Whitstable to the Reculvers. At the foot of the beach is to be seen an unparalleled quantity of oyster brood. This mollusc resembles a small drop of tallow, and gradually increases in size to the magnitude of a penny. It adheres to stones, pieces of wood, broken bottles, and even tobacco-pipes. The oyster is of the "Native" species, and will be collected by the sea faring population to replenish the grounds of Whit. stable and Faversham. A BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN of that very rare bird, the cream-coloured courser (Cursorius European), was shot a few days since in the Hackney Marsh, near the Victoria Station. It was found in the open marsh, and ran with incredible swiftness, so as to render it very difficult to make it take wing, and thus secure a better aim. The 164 of this species kuovna to have bean killatl waa &be: Ou the 15th Of October, 11747. 1055 THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF GRAPE, says an article in the Moniteur, owing to the development given to agriculture during the last half-century, is now very considerable. Cato, in his work, "De Be Rustled," only reckoned eight, and Virgil only speaks of fifteen. Colamella enumerates fifty-eight, and adds that there are many more, but of which he cannot fix the number or give the names with any certainty. Pliny, who must:have assisted the labours of his contemporary, since his name is several times quoted, speaks of eighty-three varieties. In the thir teenth century, Petrus de Crescentins, a senator of Bologna, and the author of a car i ous Latin work on vines, mentions forty Italian species, and gives some account of each. Towards the close of the seven teenth century, Cupani published, in the same lan guage, a brief description of forty-eight kinds. growing in the garden of Misilmeri, in Sicily. Olivier de Serres had already published his " Theatre de l'Agriculture," one chapter of which, devoted to the vine, gives a description of forty varieties, and most of them still retain their names, notwithstanding what has been said by Calms. Garidel, at the commencement of the eighteenth century, briefly described forty-six provincial varieties. Chardine, the traveller, mentions sixty as the number cultivated in the neighbourhood of Tanris. Basil Hall, in his "Voyages," states that there are fifty different kinds cultivated in the island of Madeira, and an Hun garian author points out forty-six in the Comitat of Zemplin. The Spanish writer, D. Sirc.cn, describes one hundred and twenty kinds cultivated in Anda lusia. Among German writers, Kerner has given coloured drawings of 143 varieties—the names are half French ; the pastor Frege has described 205; Councillor Vongok nearly 200; and Metter about the same number. Chaptel and Bose have also mentioned a great number, but the last exami nations of which the vines have been made the object, particularly by the learned writer M. °dart s allows the number of varieties to be fixed at 1,000. _ WHAT AMERICAN WINES ARE MADE OF is disclosed by Hiram Cox, M.D., of Cincinnati, who has made the following startling statement .—During the summer of 1856 I analyzed a lot of liquors for some eon scientious gentlemen of our own city, who would not allow me to take samples to my office, but insisted on my bringing my chymicals and apparatus to their store, that they might see the operations. I accord ingly repaired to their store and analyzed samples of sixteen different lots. Among them were port wine, sherry wine, and Madeira wine. The distilled liquors were some pure and some vile and pernicious imita tions; but the wine had not one drop of the juice of the grape. The basis of the port was diluted sul phuric acid, coloured with elderberry juice, with alum, sugar, and neutral spirits. The base of the sherry wine was a sort of pale malt, sulphuric acid from the bitter almond oil, with a percentage of alcoholic spirits from brandy. The basis of the Madeira was a decoction of hops, with sulphuric acid, honey, spirits from Jamaica rum, Ic. The same week, after analyzing the above, and exhibiting the qnslity and character of the liquors to the pro prietors, a 'sexton of one of our churches informed me that be had purchased a gallon of the above port wine to be used in his church on the next Sabbath for sacramental purposes, and that for this mixture of sulphuric acid, alum, and elderberry juice he paid 2dols. 7k. a gallon. THE LATE MR. ASSHETON Stara, says a correspon dent of the Wiltshire County Mirror, " was the first, I hale heard stated on good authority, to bring to this country intelligence of the overthrow of Napo leon at Waterloo. It reached him when cruising in his yacht on the coast of France, and he immediately set sail for England, and was the first to proclaim the glorious news." THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES at the Newmarket Houghton Meeting on Tuesday were won by Eury dice, Beacon second, and Underhand third. The betting at starting was 40 to 1 against the winner. The favourite, Zonave, came in fourth. Taz UTILITARIAN Sawn has rewired the fol. lowing handsome offer from a Highland proprietor, who incloses his name and address to a eontemporazy who publishes his letter :—" I am open to let four thousand acres of good, sound, average moor on a lease of twenty-five years, at a fixed rent of ten shillings per imperial acre yearly. I must of eourse have undoubted security for my rent for that period. The heather and the game shall be entirely in the power of the tenant, to do as he will with it. Ido not speak of rock and bog, on which nothing can live, but good sheep ground. Should any one of the philanthropists feel disposed to practise what he preaches, I will ascertain how soon any of my leases will be out, and communicate with him on learning his address. None of the ground in question would be above three miles from excellent roads. I have now made a fair offer; the rent named by me is far below that which tie are seemed of wasting on our selfish amusements, and the term will tumble the tenant to reap the fall benPfit of any outlay, Let Du, traducers now a.m. Al'. '. tar SYN t toetos• say bee INNO•ss a i h ressoat 846•81. yoi any giro to ibtqf *Wale I