The Press. — London, England, 1855-07-28 00:00:00

JULY 28, 1855. Slin ad Volitt. Mr. JOHN DALTON, an architect, charged with forging the name of the Marquis of Waterford on bills amounting to 1,8501., pleaded guilty yesterday week at the Tipperary Assizes. Several witnesses were produced, who spoke most favorably of his cha• racter, and he has made an affidavit in mitigation of punishment, iniwhich it is understood that he has set forth some heavy losses which he sustained by con tracts with the Board of Ordnance as the primary cause of his misfortunes. He hoped to be able to repay the bills in question before a discovery was made, and was actually taking steps for that purpose. Sentence was deferred. THE EARLDOM OF SOUTHESK, with its subsidiary titles, has been revived in favour of Sir J. Carnegie. The last Earl Southesk was deprived of his dignities by attainder for having taken part in the Rebellion of 1715 in support of the Pretender. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to give her assent to an act reversing this attainder, and the House of Lords having been satisfied by evidence as to the question of pedigree, the ultimate decision was given on Tuesday, and the claim of Sir James Carnegie fully allowed. Sir James is henceforth accordingly Earl of Southesk and Baron Carnegie of Kinnaird and Leuchars in the Peerage of Scot land. DAMAGES for injuries received in a recent railway accident were recovered on Saturday by Mr. Hall, a barrister connected with the Northern Circuit and Recorder of Leominster, against the Great Northern Railway Company. The accident occurred on the 3rd of January, when a train was backed out of the Leeds station, and, owing to some imperfection in the " points," several carriages ran off the line, and one in which the plaintiff was seated was thrown over a viaduct and precipitated down a height of many feet. Upon being extricated, Mr. Hall was found to be severely crushed, both legs and arms being fractured, besides other injuries to his head and body. He lay for many weeks unable to move, suffering great pain, and was even yet very imper fectly restored to health. His counsel urged, in augmentation of damages, the pain he had endured, the heavy expenses he had incurred, and the loss sustained in his profession, from which his income was estimated at 2,0001. per annum. For the defendants, it was pleaded that they had not in curred any liability by negligence, and could not be made answerable for the casualty, however disastrous to the sufferer. The jury disallowed this plea, and found a verdict for Mr. Hall, with 4,5001. damages. ANOTHER MEETING took place on Thursday at the Court of Bankruptcy for the examination of Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Bates. The total debts and liabilities of the bankrupts were estimated at 680,0001.; the assets are still somewhat uncertain. An adjournment was ordered to the 9th of October, and it was announced that there would be a dividend meeting on the 12th of October. The three partners were again brought up on Wednesday at Bow-street, but once more remanded for another week. SUITS have been brought in the Consistory Court against the Rev. Mr. Liddell, by Mr. Westerton, the churchwarden, and Mr. Brae, a parishioner of St. Barnabas, for a faculty to issue in order that certain articles of church furniture should be removed from that church. The articles, it is alleged, were in consistent with the canons, laws, and constitutions of the United Church of England and Ireland. They consist of an altar, or high altar, of carved wood, raised on a dais or platform, within the chancel, a wooden cross thereon of the height of two feet, two massive gilded candlesticks, with candles of at least a yard high, a credence table or preparatory altar, and five different coloured altar coverings, embroi dered in a fanciful manner, and varied at different times of the year. The promoters likewise com plain of sundry formalities and ceremonies, toe in toning of parts of the service, and other matters which have already given rise to so many disturb ances in the district. The case was opened on Tuesday, and the arguments have occupied the Court for several hours of every day since, the case being yet uncompleted. A CHARTER, with favorable conditions, is stated to have been obtained for the proposed Bank of Egypt. The capital of the undertaking is to be 250,0001., in shares of 251., with power of increase to 1,000,0001. Its objeet is, under the sanction of the Viceroy, to promote the development of the resources of the country and to increase its commercial intercourse with England. M. Pasquale, an Egyptian merchant, who has been for some time in business in London, is to be the local director. THE PRESS. garihnts and eftruts. THE PREMISES OF MESSRS. BARBER ♦ND CO., jewellers, of No. 56, Cheapside, were burglariously entered by thieves on Monday, and a large quantity of gold watches and other jewellery, amounting to upwards of 2,0001., was carried away. The thieves succeeded in gaining an entrance by passing through the adjoining house, in the occupation of Messrs. Cunningham and Allen, the hatters. A LARGE PORTION of the cliff between Kent-terrace and the Augusta-stairs, Ramsgate, containing about 250 tons' weight of chalk, fell, on the 18th inst., with scarcely any warning sound, and buried beneath the dibris four outhouses used by the men of the Coast Guard station for culinary purposes. Fortunately there was no one at the time passing the road. Some heavy pieces of chalk fell upon the inhabited houses of the station, but no damage was done. FOR several hours on Tuesday morning a most de structive fire raged in Milton-street, Fore-street, Crip plegate, exciting the utmost consternation throughout that neighbourhood, which is principally inhabited by very poor persons, and causing a very great de struction of property. The premises in which the flames were first discovered were very extensive, and in the occupation of Messrs. Gibbs, soap-manufactu rers. These premises were almost totally destroyed, and several houses in Hanover, Butler, and other courts severely damaged. Artlank BY the death of Mrs. Ferguson, Lady Mary Christopher, or her topper, M.P., in her right, will the rental of which was last year topher has also in Lincolnshire of 14,0001. in right of his wife, f name of Christopher. His original deal and he will now havete take' THE weather in Ireland is reported to be gloriously tine, and it does not appear that any of the crops were injuriously affected by recent rains. The appear ance of the potatoes is most luxuriant, and no well authenticated account of the potato disease has yet been received. An appalling thunderstorm visited the central counties on the night of Thursday week. At Carrick a woman was killed by lightning at her own door, and a man was severely burnt. Several sheep were killed by the electric fluid near Philips to brn. THE Dublin papers announce that Mr. Duffy is about to retire from the Saxon Senate and emigrate to Australia. The hon. gentleman is member for New Ross andfounder of the once formidable Nation newspaper. The report has been long current in Dublin. Two ATROCIOUS WIFE MURDERS have been perpe trated in the county of Donegal within the last few days. In both cases the brutal husbands were under the influence of drink. THE tenantry of Mr. Langley, of Coalhrook, Tip perary, have subscribed for a reward to discover the parties who fired into that gentleman's house a few days since. Jr is understood that Mr. Guthrie, the retired Deputy Inspector-General, will be appointed Presi. dent of the Medical Board. THE SUPPLEMENTARY NAVY AND TRANSPORT ES TIMATES for the year 1855.56 were issued on Monday. The sums required for the naval expenditure beyond the amount already voted gives a total of 1,141,1681., and the transport service 1,584,803 i. THE possibility that a Siamese ambassador will next year visit the Court of St. James is dwelt upon in a recent letter from Sir John Bowring. The writer adds : The gorgeous splendour of the Court of Bangkok (as we have seen it) exceeds belief. When I can find time I propose to write an account of my visit and of Siam. It it a country of wonderful beauty, great resources, various productions; and Bangkok will, I trust, become again what it once was—one of the largest empo. riums in the eastern world, following only Calcutta and Canton. TIM ARCTIC COMMITTEE has come to a determi nation to recommend that 10,0001. should be given to Captain M'Clure and his men, of which a moiety will be allotted to the commander himself. It is also proposed to give medals to all who have served in the Arctic Expedition. THE BANKING PREMISES OF MESSRS. STRAHAN, PAUI, AND BATES were sold by auction, by Messrs. Rushworth and Jarvis, on Monday last. The pro perty consists of two freehold houses, Nos. 217 and 218, Strand ; the lower part having been for nearly two centuries occupied as banking premises, and the upper part lately the town residence of Sir John Dean Paul. The purchasers were the London and Westminster Bank, at the sum of 20,0001. The sale of the furniture and effects was afterwards com menced, and is still uncompleted. Mr. ARNAUD, the collector of Customs at Liver pool, who succeeded Mr. Swainson in that office of forty has just retired promote the development of the resources 01 LIM 8510 Ul WO tuLuautazo MM. caa,aa v..., cam.us Iv UM l•Iii v...•••• us aestruction 10 tue emit's' mamma ....... • -s --- country and to increase its commercial intercourse menced , and i s still uncom p leted. tion w as p erformed in Birmin g ham lut week. At first IN I with England. M. Pasquale, an Egyptian merchant, Mr. ARNAUD, the collector of Customs at Liver- chloroform was administered to make the animal insensi- who has been for some time in business in London, pool, who succeeded Mr. Swainson in that office ble, and in this condition large doses of prussic acid and is to be the local director. upwards of forty years ago, has just retired upon strychnine were given, but without producing any effect. f Br the death of Mrs. Ferguson, in East Lothian, superannuation allowance. Mr. Pope, the projector The only known means of destruct:o tt u ted lef th w e ere . th . e Lady Mary Christopher, or her husband, Mr. Chris- and editor of the " Yearly Journal of Trade," we beor the ballet . lo The form d er th w e as carotid artery fully divided. topher, M.P. in her right, will succeed to an estate, understand succeeded Mr. Swainson, as Principal the rental of which was last year 38,000/. Mr. Chris- Secretary to the then Chairman of the Board of L )1 In in a g f c ew ° m m inures the huge sinmal ceased to live, having died without a struggle, or evidencing the slightest feeling topher has also in Lincolnshire estates to the value Customs, Mr. Frewin, who consolidated the Customs o f a u, ) of 14,0001. in right of his wife, for which he takes the in 1789, during the Ministry of Mr. Pitt, and which Kew 1 011 K , rti . name of Christopher. His original name was Dun- cogeolidation laid the foundation of all the modern was intense, Over a dozen deaths took 'phew by slur on Saturday, the 30th June, the heat I deal and he will now havete take the name of Nisbat systems of trade). strokes. ) eb ituart The Emu. OF ANTRIM died at Glenarrn Castle on Wednesday night, the 18th inst. His lordship, who was only in his forty-third year, is succeeded in his title and estates by his brother, the Hon. Mark Ker, Commander R.N., who was born in 1814, and in 1843 married Miss M'Cann, by whom he has several sons. The deceased earl was much esteemed and beloved by his numerous tenantry over the whole of his large estates, which cover the lower portion of four baronies in the northern part of the county of Antrim. JAMES CHEVALIER DE COLQUHOUN, who died on Tuesday last, was the only son of Dr. Patrick Col quhoun, at one time Lord Provost of Glasgow, and one of the first authors who applied himself to the statistics of the British empire. He founded and carried out gratuitously the present system of Thames police, and suggested in his work on the metropolitan police the adoption of an improved sys tem for the protection of public property, subsequently carried out by the late Sir Robert l'eel as an original idea. In addition to this, he was one of the founders of the present savingshanks. His son, the death of whom we have now to announce, was born on the 7th June, 1780, at his father's estate of Kelvin-grove, in Lanarkshire, and was entered a student of St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1797. In 1800 he became the private secretary of Mr. Dundee, then Secretary of State for the War Department; three years later he received the appointment of deputy-agent-general for the payment of volunteers. In 1817 the Han seatic Republics constituted him their representative in England, and the legislatures of St. Vincent, Dominica, St. Christopher's, Tortola, Tobago, Nevis, and the Virgin Islands, at different times nominated him to watch over their interests, in consequence of the great benefits his father had conferred on the West Indies by his powerful advocacy. His valuable services to these islands were acknowledged by several handsome donations of plate. In 1827 he was ap pointed Consul-General of his Saxon Majesty, at whose legation here he bad the charge during fre quent and long periods. In 1848 the late Grand Duke of Oldenburg, in recognition of his services to the neighbouring Hanseatic Republics, appointed him his chargé d'affairs. Two successive Kings of Saxony conferred upon him the knighthood corn commandery and star of a commander of the first class of the Royal Saxon Order of Civil Merit con tinued by royal license. On the signature with Reachid Pasha of a treaty of recognition between the Hanseatic Republics, as their plenipotentiary, he received the Order of Iptihar of the first class; in brilliants from his Imperial Highness the Sultan ; the Hanseatic Republics, in token of their apprecia tion of his long and faithful services, conferred by special decree of the respective senates the honorary diploma of citizenship, the first ever granted, to which the senates of Lubeck and Hamburg added their honorary medal. The University of Glasgow also conferred on him an honorary diploma of LLD., and the Royal Antiquarian Society of Athens con stituted him an honorary fellow of that society. As llanseatic plenipotentiary he signed commercial treaties with Great Britain, the Ottoman Porte, Mexico, and Liberia, and negotiated several others; he also signed a treaty as Saxon plenipotentiary with Mexico. He leaves a family of two daughters and three 80138, the elder of whom, Dr. Patrick, the author of a voluminous work on Roman Civil Law, lately signed, as Hanseatic plenipotentiary, at Constanti nople and Athens, commercial treaties with the Sub blime Porte, Persia, and Greece. A Raz broke out a few nights ago in the stables of the Hotel de la Poste at Emus lionnes. The stables were consumed, and unfortunately a young man was burned to death. The Empress Eugenie, though in delicate health, arrived shortly after the commencement of the conflagra tion, and by her presence encouraged the inhabitants in their efforts to extinguish it. A LETTER TROY Moms, in the PielllolllB of Turin, states that Father Becks, the General of the Jesuits, has had a narrow escape from the hands of an assassin. The writer says that the whole matter has been kept as secret as possible, but that it is a general topic of converse tion at Rome, and that the culprit is believed to belong to the order. Tun LARGE ELEPHANT, 120 years of age, late the pro perty of Mr. Wombwell, being incapable of locomotion from diseased feet, the present owner gave directions for its destruction in the easiest manner possible. This opera tion was performed in Birmingham last week. At first chloroform was administered to make the animal inland. ble, and in this condition large doses of prussic acid sad strychnine were given, but without producing_ %Asst. . - 715