The Press. — London, England, 1856-07-26 00:00:00

JULY 26, 1856• Dean, in Shields Harbour, and the dock i s the Coble gill principally be used in shipping coal from the Hartley tield. Da. WILLIAms, of Nottingham, on returning in his carriage on Sunday night from dining with Lord liliddleton, at Wollaton-hall, became alarmed at a little Testiveness of the horses, jumped out, tell on his head, and died in twenty-four hours from concus sion of the brain. THE officers of the 4th Dragoon Guards will be entertained at a public dinner by the Mayor of Sheffield (their head-quarters) on Tuesday next. The Earl of Cardigan, Sir Harry Smith, and his Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief, will be present on the occasion. The private soldiers will be entertained at a public dinner on the following Thursday. Two ENGINEERS, Parkinson and Slater, at Messrs. Herrocks and Miller's factory, at Preston, were scalded to death on Monday by the bursting of the throttle valve of the steam feed-pipe. In the first case a wife, and a wife and three children in the latter, are left destitute. ANOTHER Errioenci or FIRE•DAMP, from taking a naked light into the pit, occurred last Saturday, at the Strafford Colliery, Stainbomugh. One man was killed on the spot and a boy seriously injured. For tunately the rest of the men had left the pit. A LIVE SPECIMEN of the Australian duck-billed platypus was found in a pond last Sunday near the bea•bridge Road. It is now in possession of Mr. Morris, at Leyton. - - Tax MAGGOT is reported to have appeared in dif ferent counties, and to be destroying the wheat with rapidity and certainty. In Essex, Sussex, and Surrey, its ravages are beginning to be seriously felt !),:ate an Volta. THE CAtE OF ARCHDEACON DENISON was opened at Bath on Tuesday. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided in person with Dr. Lushington. Dr. Phil limore appeared for Archdeacon Denison, and Dr. Bayford for the prosecution. The first day was taken np with technical proceedings. On the second day, after hearing the evidence of different witnesses, the court decided that the printing and publishing of the sermon dated August 7, 1853, by the authority of Archdeacon Denison, was proved ; that the publishing only of the second sermon, dated November 6, 1853, VMS also proved ; but that there was no proof to satisfy the court of the preaching, printing, or publi cation of the third sermon, bearing date Sunday, May 14, 1854. The question whether those sermons contaihed doctrines contrary to the articles and prac • tices of the Church of England, remained to be proved. On the third day Dr. Bayford proceeded to show that the doctrines propounded by these ser mons were to the effect, that the body and blood of Christ were present not in a corporeal but in a spiritual manner in the elements of the sacrament, and that this was effected by the act of consecration to such an extent that all who receive the bread and wine necessarily receive the body ant blood of Christ. This interpretation of the 25th and 28th and 29th Articles was wholly opposed to that held by the Church, for it followed that adoration must be paid to the elements, and that the person so worshipping worshipped not the bread and wine, but what was con tained in the bread and wine. Dr. Bayford, in con clusion, quoted largely from the Homilies, from Latimer, Ridley, Cranmer, and the early Reformers, to show that this doctrine was unsound, and called upon the court to pronounce in ilia favour. Dr. Phillimore's reply will occupy some •days. MR. FRIEND, of the pin-factory, Borough-road ; Tucker, of the wheel-works, Newington cause way; Mr. Shaw, japanner, and Mr. Nash, brush manufacturer, both of Bermondsey ; and Mr. Clemow, fur.cutter, of Long-lane, were summoned on Thursday before Mr. Combe, at Southwark, and fined from 101. to 21. each, for not having the fur naces of their works so constructed as to consume the smoke. A CASE OF BREACH OF PROMISE was tried at Exe ter, before Mr. Baron Martin, on Wednesday, in which some emu-dug specimens of light love litera ture were brought out. The plaintiff, a Miss Cooper, was the daughter of a tradesman at Ply mouth, and the defendant, a Captain Trader, was the master of a merchant vessel, the Constitution, b!longing to Messrs. Walton. In November, '54, Captain Trader made an offer to and was accepted by Mims . Cooper. The engagement lasted till the present year, when, finding an opportunity to marry a richer girl, he most unceremoniously broke off the match. 'The present action was the result of his not re . membering the old a d ag e, "Ls best to be off ,pld love, before you are on with the • nefr- o tb vecal letters were, put in on behalf of the plaintiff, not only to prove the promise—which wits virtn4lly i ailmitted—but to show the terms.upon "I , Leh ‘ cords ?Roiled. Mr. Collier, Q.C., for the ! • 'EA • Anicreapondence, as. the Most 6ond ~+6 en s 7Tavoitt of his client i THE PRESS. My dearest Mary,—l am busy getting ready to go on board. Miss Walton will go most likely, but, dear Mary, your sweet smile is always before me, and my heart is fixed for ever.—Y3urs ever affectionately, GEORGE F. TB.ADER. In another epistle the defendant wrote : Tell dear Susan that Emma Smith and all the Smiths had made np their minds that she had only to whistle and I would run to her; they aro dreadfully disappointed—l hardly notice her. The next epistle was highly expressive : Dearest Mary,—My darling, how much my love has increased for you since my laQt note you cannot imagine. At times there is such a thrill passes through me when thinking of you, that I am sure can only be caused by pure love, and I never felt it before, although I have, as you know, had what the world calls courting, but that, dear, is too cold a name wherewith to express the growth of my love towards you. I very much wish you will take to liking Dissenters. GEORGE. The learned counsel, as a proof that the defendant moved in a position above that of a mere captain of a merchant vessel, read the following : My dearest Girl,—l am every evening in gay circles amidst beauty and accomplishments of various shapes and forms ; but your dear image dwells with me, and to think that youlove me is my greatest treat. Write your thoughts; they are all I could wish. Your last note was one of the most ladylike and pretty that I ever read. The next letter was a lively specimen of amatory im pulsiveness : I wish we were married. Cheer girl, cheer. T have managed to do away with kissing Miss Walton at night note, and have told the younger brother of our engage. went. He is extremely pleased. I cannot write more, my darling,for want of time. It is quite possible we might be married in eight months and a half from this date. Cheer, girl, cheer. Write, girl, write, and maintain your womanly rights, and love your parents. We all have our weakness. (Roars of laughter. )—Believe me, darling, yonr ever affectionate, GEORGE. PS.—I took a look at your portrait this morning, and I do assure you, Polly dear, you look as jolly as ever. Another letter, after he had sprained his ancle, was to the following effect : Friday evening, Tulse•hill. Dearest Mary,—T am much better. I hope, dearest Polly, that Susan will write and thank the Miss Wa'tons for their unremitting personal attendance on me, for when I tell you that they have pat me on at least a dozen poul tices and fifty fomentations you will think they have been kind to me. (Laughter.) Recollect you will always be in my thoughts as ever. GEORGE. PS. Our engagement is known to all but the governor. Now all right. I did it capitally. The learned counsel remarked that it was not the way to please a girl to tell her that another girl had applied fifty fomentations to his ancle. (Laughter.) All the while he was writing like this to Miss Cooper he was flirting with another lady. He then pro ceeded to real several other letters, in which expres sions of this kind abounded: " My sleeping thoughts are yours, and so are my first on waking." In another letter he displayed a desire for her spiritual welfare as well as physical comfort hope, dearest, y.)ti will not slave for me. Will you, dearest, kindly get a little book called "James's Anxious Inquirer." I erasure you will like it. (Laughter.) God bless you. Pray for me, as I for you. In another he says : I shall send you my portrait. Rejoiced am I that lam going to have a good one—too pretty it cannot be. Mary, you know you are pretty. Girls always know. Oh, you little rogue. I want a kiss very badly. I send you one inside the portrait. Yon won't see it of course, but send one back the same way. The defendant wrote several similar letters from Australia, and then after a short time came this extraordinary effusion : March 8, 1356. Miss Cooper,—My long silence is solely attributed to the tenor of your letters to me. They contain the moat extreme jealousy without any cause in the world; not one of my relations but what you would set me against, and I thought you had ench a kind, affectionate heart, but you actually mention with the greatest levity the sickness and death of your ever to be respected uncle. Therefore such being your disposition, I have made a mistake, and I feel assured I never could make you happy, or you me. 'Tis a pity we ever met, or, having met, did not know each other's disposition better than we did before we parted. The music you have learnt on my account will never be any injury to you, but perhaps it has been expensive—if yon will let me know what it cost l will forward the money most willingly.—l am your true friend, GEORGE S. TRADER. P 3. When I have more leisure I will send your por traits and letters, but business is extremely urgent. - - The learned counsel, in conclusion, said there was no reason whatever for breaking off ;Ile engagement on account of jealousy, it was a mere pretext to get rid of a girl of beauty to marry a girl with money. Mr. Sergeant Kinglake addressed the jury in mitigation of damages. The jury then retired, and ultimately returned a verdict for '2OOl. damages. MARIA TARRANT, under sentence of death for mur dering her child at Abingdon, has heft reprieved. She will suffer penal punishment for life. 707 THE PRISONER DOVE was found guilty on Satur day last, with a recommendation to mercy on the ground of " defective intellect." Mr. Baron Bram well, in summing up, said : Assuming the case against the prisoner to be ipl repre• sented by the witnesses for the Crown, the prisoner had meditated the death of his wife, and had imparted his opinion to his friends that she could not recover, in order that her death, when it occurred, might not excite sus picion. He gave her poison four or five times, that she might appesr to be subject to fits, and he evidenced an extraordinary desire to suppress a post-mortem examina tion. He (the learned judge) put it to the jury whether all the circumstances connected with the conduct Of the prisoner during what one of the witnesses had termed the fatal week " did not in themselves speak loudly lor his sanity? If they believed that the prisoner committed the murder, he did it with as much deliberation as could , well be imagined. If they believed the case as represented by the prosecution the elaborate nature of the plan and preparation adopted by the prisoner was wholly inconsisten with the testimony of the medical witnesses who came for ward to depose to his unsoundness of mind. With regard. to the medical evidence called for the pritoner, it was cets tainly of a scientific and speculative character; and, with all respect for the profession to which those gentlemen belonged, he declared without affectation that he placed more confidence in his own opinion upon a matter of fact than he did upon their speculative conclusions on abstract propositions. In all professions persons were to be found with extreme notions, especially on the subject of insanity, and it would be in the last degree datigerous to society if I were to be held that a erintinal was to escape the hands at justice, because well-meaning individuals, with extreme notions of responsibility, were willing to come forward and express an opinion that the prisoner was driven by uncap-. trollable impulses to commit the offence with which he was charged. The learned judge, in passing sentence , s,lemn' relornmended the prisoner to prepare for death, tied by no means to cherish hopes which might proN delusive. If not respited, the prisoner will be exc. cuted on the second Saturday in August. FOUQUIN SILVILLA, charged with forging eeres‘AU, documents purporting to be liquidation bonds of tin internal debt of Peru and compensation bonds foe' , the manumission of slaves by the State, with intent , ' to defraud the Government of the Republic of Pere", and others, was fully committed for trial by Sir Geom.,: Carroll at he Guildhall, on Monday. Mr. ROBERT JOHNSTON, a member of the Army and Navy Club, was charged before Mr. Beadon, at Marlborough-street, on Tuesday, with an assault and conspiracy against Mr. Kay, a gentleman of fortune, residing in Hill-street, Berkeley-square. The ease presented some carious features. Mr. Kay, who is only 22 years of age, has inherited some 8,0001. a year. When 18 he contracted the acquaintance of Mr. Johnston, who appears to have " shown him life," at home and abroad, for the trifling considera tion of bills and bonds to the amount of 50,0001. or 60,0001., to be paid when Mr. Kay came of age. Happily this became known to Mr. Kay's friends, and his active solicitor at once tiled a bill in Chance and obtained two decrees whereby all such bills a bonds were set aside. On the evening of the inst., as Kay was walking home frotn the Wyndbole Club, he was suddenly arrested on a false chow* debt, and permitted himself to be taken to a privaile house in Park-street Mr. Johnston soon lent abuse, made r of the Court of Ch, to comply with, and, hours, he was at last no mention of the a. the charge of assault prisoner entering the peace, and a him in court. Mr. 25,000 T., wl it% he THE ACTION OF _ SMITH, the proprietor having on the 2 Anglesea of corrupt . .4 adjudicating case of Cannobie and Saraband, two horses running• for the Burwell Stakes at Newmarket, was tried bu Tuesday before the Chief Baron, when Mr. Smith admitted his error, and a verdict was at once taken for Lord Angleses, with five guineas and costs. ELIZABETH BROWN, of Broad Windsor, ram Dor. chester, was tried on Tuesday before Mr. Sergeant Channel', and found guilty of murdering her husband on the Bth inst. The defence set up was that the man had been kicked to death by his horse, but the medical evidence went to prove that the injuries in flicted on the deceased were such that he must have become immediately paralysed, and could not have walked from the field where it was admitted the horse was left to the house where he was found dead. The horse's hoof, moreover, did not corre spond to the shape of the wound. Sentence of death, without hope, was passed. It was proved in evidence that the prisoner was extremely jealous of the dir ceased, who was her junior by twenty-one years. I MR. JAMES RAELTOM,A steekbreker, was' OH TAP; day fully committed forltial by the Lota Mliref for forgery' and WWI; itt eflittiffewallb transfer of e,ertifin stoekisoltb iiuent te) tietAltiP 1111# Bank. Itreet, and .leck4, up ) in a room. ion after cane end, after vio- . overtures to set aside the decree Thancery. This X.r. Kay refused lorl, after being locked up for three last let out, on a promise of making the affair. After some dismission, assault was disposed of by tie. into his own recognisanbes td kee p summons of conspiracy served on Ir. Johnston is reported to be worth ie has settled on his wife. F TFIE MAMMIES OF AVGLESEA v. M. prietor of the Sunday Times, for 20th of April last accused Lord rapt motives in adjudicating on the