The Press. — London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

I Stir. 20, 1856. poor man must have been sane because he had long declared his intention to destroy himself, returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. A LAMENTABLE CASE OF POISONING BY MISTAKE occurred last week at Weymouth, Dorset. A child of Colonel Broughton, residing at Chickerell, com plained of headache. Mrs. Broughton sent her maid to the chemist's, requesting " a black draught for a child eleven years old." The servant gave the note to one of the assistants, who handed it to a lad named Barrett, about thirteen years of age. This lad, it appears, was subsequently directed to get the aperient," black drauOtt," and proceeded to mix a proportion of " olack drop," a strong preparation of opium. The girl took the draught home, it was administered to the child, he became comatose, could not be awoke, and shortly after expired. The lad who put up the " black drop " is only about thirteen years of age. An inquest was held on view of the Jody. The surgeons, Messrs. Lit hgow and Tompson, stated that the reFult of their ex amination of the contents of the body led them to conclude positively that the death of the de ceased was caused by the administration of a prepa ration of opium. The chemist and druggist, Mr. Barling, and his assistant, John M'Connochy, made statements on oath, from which it would appear that the former was absent at the particular time, and that the latter knew nothing of the execution of the order in question. The only other persons who could have executed it were James Barrett and John Lundie. The former is about twenty years of age, aid has been apprenticed to Mr. Barling about four y ears; and the latter is thirteen years of age, and hti been in the service of Mr. Barling just over four months. The jury, after along consultation,returned t to following verdict : We find that the deceased, Augustus Broughton, came to his death from the effects of a preparation of opium being administered to him instead of black draught, the mistake having occurred through the want of care on the part of John Lundie and James Barrett, two servants in the employ of Mr. Barling, chemist and druggist; and the jury also wish to express their disapprobation of allowing young persona in the employ of druggists to dispense medicine until they are properly qualified by ex perience to do so. Two BOYS, at Bristol, Crewe and Watkins, were throwing stones at one another. Crewe threw a stone which cut Watkins on the bead. The boy wont home, feeling ill, was sent to the General Ho4pital, and died in a few hours. Crewe was ar rested, but on examination it was proved that the deceased threw the first stone, and Crewe was dis charged. Ma. ROUPELL, of Lambeth, died in his bed last Thursday week from an attack of apoplexy. An inquest was held, and a verdict of " Natural death " rat ►reed. _ _ A Mits. Nimes, a person of independent property, reel hog in Thomas-street, London bridge, po;soned hnrself last Sunday morning with oil of almonds. Since the great fire at the Tower some years since, Mrs. Philips, who was suddenly and seriously alarmed at the time, bad suffered severe pains in her head, and in a fit of insanity, brought on by intense suffering, she put an end to her life. Verdict, " Temporary insanity." A CABMAN, one Wigmore, on Tuesday summoned Mr. Broad, the eminent woolstapler of Leicester, for passing a bad shilling. The case came before Mr. Norton at Lambeth. The cabman detailed the tir o 'instances. Mr. Broad had hired him on Monday ev !ning from Bermondsey•street to Peckham, gave hi n a bad shilling, and refused to take it back. On cr %A-examination he swore to the shilling, because he said he had only 4s. 6d., two shillings and five six pences, besides in his pocket. On the other hand, Mr. and Mrs. Broad and her nurse swore that the cabman, when paid, declared that the two shillings Mr. Braid paid him were all the silver he had about him. Mr. Norton, after a careful summing ur, de tided that the cabman had been guilty of perjury, and deprived him of his badge. Mr. WAKEFIELD, a farmer, of Bedminster, near Bristol, has been committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter for causing the death of one Rowland, a tenant. The deceased before death deposed that Mr. Wakefield on the 19th July met him and struck him several times on the head because he could not pay his rent, THE MELANCHOLY COMPLAINTS OF HOUSEHOLDERS upon the subject of " burglaries," and the detail of their nightly sufferings, must be very diverting to the men of violence who prowl about the streets and rob with impunity. One or two will be shot some night, as husbands are becoming irritated beyond endurance at the present state of affairs. "Revolver " Writes from Kensington this week : Continually have our domiciles been pillaged, and our condition is as beyond a joke as are our spoons and forks beyond our power of keeping. Only recently my amial la spouse despatched me downstairs, in the dead of the night, on the plea of being sure there was "somebody in the house." On entering my drawing-room the light of . my farthing dip disclosed a professional gentleman re• alining gracefully on my wife's newly upholstered sofa. THE PRESS. However great my usual desire to run away, in order that 1 may " live to fight another day," there was nothing left fur me but to close with my fiend, which I did with all the power of one animated by the horror of the foe getting the upper hand and "settling my business," as he termed it. To avoid such settlement I stuck to him, and, having in the outset of our embrace obtained com mand of his throat, I treated only with instant strengula tion as the alternative. lily wife and serving damsels, yon 'nay be assured did their parts t o ra i se th e neighb o ur. hood, and in a twinkling our good butcher arrived, cleaver and other deadly instruments in hand, by terror of which and his mighty strength our midnight visitor was cons eyed to the wstchhuttse cella. Only two nights since a gentle man residing within a few houses of mine had a visit from one of the many gangs around here. The fellow entered by forcing the trapdoor on the roof. As he came downstairs, his shoes being slung over his shoulders, my friend's wife (none but married men dare live in these regions), with the natural acuteness of her sex, heard the stocking footstep, and roused her slumbering lord. He rushed downstairs, and was instantly at deadly strife with the distirber. They wrestled and fought des perately for a long time; my neighbour, however, with the extra power of a man defending his own castle, a young wife, end first baby, was too much for the Notting hill burglar, and, after a long and fiery struggle, the fellow gave in. He concludes : We are tired of contending with these desperadoes. We are martyrs to rheumatism through exposure in our front gardens when in bloody strife with the foe; the voices of our wives are hushed through fearful hoarse ness in screaming, and we have resolved to fall back in future on our well known prowess with Adams' revolver. We cannot trouble the magistrate in future, however frequent may be our calls for the coroner. Jolts Com . , the gardener indicted for shooting with intent to murder Emily Luker, the maid servant in Howley-place Villas, on the 7th of July last, was tried at th 3 Old Bailey on Wednesday, be fore Mr. Justice Williams and Baron Bramwell, found guilty, and sentenced to twenty years' trans portation. THE BILL AGAINST MR. SHAPE, the surgeon of the Wandsworth Lunatic Asylum, charged with causing the death of a patient by subjecting him to the " asylum shower-bath," was thrown out by the grand jury on Monday, at the Central Criminal Court. glisttliantous. Da. TArr, D.C.L., who has been nominated to the Bishopric of London, to be formally vacated by Dr. Blomfield at the close of the present month, was edu• cated at Balliol, Oxford, graduated in 1833, took a first class in classics in the same year but not in the same term with Mr. R. Lowe, M.P., Dr. Jackson, Bishop of Lincoln, and Dr. Liddell, Dean of Christ church. Dr. Tait became a fellow and tutor of his college, Lnd a select prearher of the University. Upon the death of Dr. Arnold, Dr. Tait was elected his successor as Master of Rugby. In 1849, on the death of Dr. Cramer, he was nominated by Lord John Russell to the deanery of Carlisle, and has been in possession of that dignity up to the present time. In 1852 he voted for Mr. Gladstone as the represen tative for the University of Oxford, when he was opposed by Dr. Marsham, the Warden of Merton College, and again for the right hon. gentleman on his acceptance of the office of Chancellor of the Ex chequer under Lord Aberdeen's Government, when he was opposed by Mr. D. M. Perceval, recently deceased. Immediately alter Dr. illomfield's resig nation is completed, her Majesty will direct a congh dl•lire to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's Cathe• dral, emrowering them to elect Dr. Tait to the bishopric, and his "confirmation" will shortly after wards take place in the pariah church of St. Mary le-Bow, Cheapsile. He will be consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in whose province the cbooese of London is situate. The new bishop holds what are usually called via media views on the doc trinal questions wh.ch agitate the two great parties in the Church, sympathising however, rather than otherwise, with the evangelicals. Dr. LONOLEY, who succeeds to the bishopric of Durham, vacant by the res;gnation of the Right Rev. hdward Maltby, P.D., was educated at Christ church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1815, taking a first class in classics. He is a younger son of Mr. John Longley, formerly Recorder of Rochester, and for some time one of the magistrates at the Thames Police court. He was born at Rochester in 1704, and having gone through the usual course at West minster School removed to Oxford. In 1829 he was presented to the rectory of West Tytherley, near Stockbridge, Hampshire, and in 1831 resigned that benefice on being elected to the head mastership of Harrow School. On the formation of the see of Ripon in 1830 he was appointed by Lord Melbourne, then Prime Minister, to be its first bishop, and has presided over that diocese up to the present time. His theological views are moderate, with a slight leaning to tt.e evangelical rather than to the high church party. Dr. Longley's confirmation to the ace 899 of Durham, after his election by the dean and chap ter, will take place in the parish church of St. James, Piccadilly. It has not yet transpired who will succeed Dr. Longley in the bishopric of Ripon or Dr. Tait in the deanery of Carlisle. THE CLERGY OF DURHAM AND THE NORTH OF ENO LAND generally have addressed a remonstrance to the Archbishop of Canterbury upon his grace's judgment in the case of Archdeacon Denison, which appears to the undersigned " fraught with conse quences " disastrous and detrimental to the best in terests of the Church," and to impose limitations and burdens upon the conscience un..uthorised by Scrip ture or doctrines of the Church universal : We have only to add (concludes the address) that, as Archdeacon Denison impugns none of the doctrinal state ments of our Articles, but merely vindicates the co-existent truth of another set of statements, which cannot be shown to be theologically incompatible with the former, we cannot regard a sentence which would condemn him, on the ground of his contradicting what he dues not contradict, otherwise than as repugnant to equity, as establishing a most dangerous precedent, and on all accounts to be seri ously deprecated. THE REV. Dn. LIVINGSTON, the celebrated African traveller, has arrived safe at the Mauritius. This gentleman has completed in his last tour a journey through southern tropical Africa from Loando to Quillemain in the east. A Suomi Copy of the earliest edition of Hamlet, printed in the year 160:3, hasrecently been discovered, wanting the titlepage, but otherwise perfect and in good condition, and of importance beyond its exces sive rarity and curiosity as completing the text of the only other known exemplar of this edition, also imperfect, which has for so many years been the chief and unique ornament of the matchless Shakespearian collection of the Duke of Devonshire. It will be remembered that this edition is not a copy of the play of Hamlet in the form now lead, but a transcript of the tragedy as originally written; in other words, the author's original sketch. It ex hiuits, to use the words of Mr. Caldecott, "in that which was afterwards wrought into a splendid drama, the first conception and comparatively teeble expres sion of a great mind." The Duke of Devonshire's copy is imperfect at the end, but the deficiency is fortunately now supplied by the discovery o: the present one, which is understood to have been purchased by Mr. 3. 0. Halliwell, for the sum of 1201. THE IMPERIAL RESIDENCE AT BIARRITZ, according to Court gossip, is not favorably regarded by the ladies in waiting. The Emperor, it is reported, was greatly amused at the confusion and dismay exhibited by the ciinolined ladies of honour when they were tirrst ushered to the room.. alloted to their use in the little palace. "Mon Dieu! " cried one, " not so large as the cell in the convent where I was brought up." " Good gracious ! " exclaims another, "we shall never be able to squeeze into these cabanaus, for they are nothing better." The consternation of the ladies' maids was even more loudly expressed, and amid it all the general belief that the Emperor him self had superintended the design of this wing of the palace has rendered the warfare against this State imprisonment one of the chief diversions of Biarritz. The Duchess de Bassano has increased the merri• went of the party by a clever petition. put into rhyme, and placed in the hands of the Imperial Prince, purporting to be written in the name of all the bussels, crinolines, tourneurs, and agacantes of Paris, who, cramped and squeezed beyond endurance in the hermit cells of their unfortunate owners, were gradually losing all the elasticity and vigour which rendered them so redoubtable in Paris. The "hermit cells" of Biarritz are scarcely ten feet square, containing a small iron bedstead, a couple of chairs, and a dressing-table ! FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, September 16. BANKRUPTS.—JosncA POOLEY, Brighton, milliner—WlL- LlAM I'•AwcErr, Kidderminster, carpet manufacturer—Et:owns DENBY, Stow•ou-the-Hold, GI ineester; chemist and druggist— WILLIAM BERRY DUMPER, PROM. Somerset, wine and spirit merchant—Joserit lir Evens, Leeds, engraver, lithographer, and dyer—ROBERT SAUL and Thom ts KIRBY, PreSLOR, joiners and huildeis—MlCHAEL BYERS end TROBAS BYERS. Motikwear m. ut t. Sunderland, shipbuilders and rope manufarturers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. —. 1 tMES GRMAI4, High. street, Edinburgh. duper, hosier, and shirtn , aker—SAmult. B9AZ LANULCK, Broomielaw, Glasgow, wholesale druggist and ship chandler. --- - - Friday, September 19. 13AN1illrPTS.—FREDEltiCk 11EIGHINGTON WARD, High street, Whitechapel, tallow•chandler—HOßEßT FExer. Finsbury pavement, and Little Moorflel.is, City. oil and Italian warehouse man—EDWAßD HENRY HAYES SHORT°, Exeter, jeweller DAVID Tito ‘IAS, Bed selty, Monmouthshire, innkeeper—RlCHAßD MAY, Tees Tiler, Yorkshire, builder—Tnowas SWINNSRTON, Nun• eaton, cordwaiuer—JOHN LEE, Coventry, watch manufacturer— JottENt Mayon, Northampton, innkeeper—Louis ExsoLL, Great Tlebtteld•street, draper—WlELtax HOOll RUSSELL, Strand blitekilig•lDElllthlettlrer —FREDERICK MOUNTPORD, Hunt ingdon•street, Barnabury-park, commission agent. stOTC II SEQUESTItATIONS.•-•WILLIAll DOUGLAS, Glas gow, wool spinner---Jamits WALJUIII, Partlek, pasti7 baker and spirit dealer.