The Press. — London, England, 1856-08-09 00:00:00

754 return had been withdrawn, is contradicted on the part of Mr. Nicoll. MALDos.—Five gentlemen have already announced their intention of contesting this borough at the next general election, namely, Mr. Peacocke and Mr. Bramley-Moore, the present members both Con servatives), Mr. Thomas Sutton Western, of Kelve don, Mr. J. J. Mechi, of Tiptree-hall, and Mr. WEnteer, the barrister, Liberals. gabal 10 Blititarg nttiligtnct. THE QUEEN TO THE ARMY OF THE EAST.—The fallowing general order was issued on Wednesday : Hum Guards,Augus b. The Queen, haringeompleted the review of the regiments which served in the army in the East, has commanded his Royal Highness the General Cummanding-in•Chief to welcome their return from that arduous service. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased :Ai express her admiration of their good order and discipline. Victorious when opposed to the brave and enter prising enemy with whom it hai to contend, the army has earned the gratitude of the country. The patient endurance of evils inseparable from war, and an instinctive determination to overcome them, are characteristic of the British soldier, and the events of the war have proved that those national virtues have not degenerated during a long previous peace The Queen deplores the loss of many of her best officers and bravest men, but history will consecrate the ground before Sebastopol as the grave of heroes. By order of his Royal Highness the General Com manding-in-Chief. G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant• General. The Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry were dis • embodied last week. Major Sir J. Pakington ad dressed the regimen; thanking them for their services, and expressing his satisfaction at their high state of efficiency, after which the men were dismissed. The troops to be permanently encamped at Alder shott, it is stated, will consist of a brigade of cavalry and two divisions of inlantry. The first division, under the command of Lord Rokeby, will comprise three battalions of the Guards (Ist of the Grena diers, 2nd of the Coidstreams, and 2nd of the Scots Fusiliers), in one brigade, under Major-General J. R. Craufurd; and the three battalions of the Ride Brigade, in another, under the command of Colonel Lawrence, the senior regimental officer, who will have the rank of major-general. The second divi sion will consist of six battalions of the Line, of which the 7th and 23rd Fusiliers, the 88th, Connaught Rangers, and, it is understood, the 19th and 33rd Regiments will form a portion. Sir James Yorke Scarlett will command the cavalry. With artillery and land transport, the total number of men on the ground will generally be about 14,000. Sir Colin Campbell's command at Shornecliffe will com prise three regiments of cavalry and six battalions of infantry. The Inniskilling Dragoons, with the 41st and 44th, and the 42nd, 79th, and 93rd High landers, will be among the corps encamped there. In Dublin there will be a cavalry brigade of four regiments, and six infantry regiments in two brigades. At the Curragh the force will be of similar strength. Fermoy is destined to be the principal military station in the south of Ireland ; but we do not hear what precise arrangements are yet made respecting the forces to be quartered there. In the four principal camps above enumerated accommoda tion will be provided for thirty battalions of infantry out of the forty-one constituting the home establish ment, and for fifteen of the twenty-two regiments of cavalry not employed in India. Major-General Sir W. F. Williams, Commandint of Woolwich, having deferred Ills intended visit to Nova Scotia, has reassumed the command of the garrison. General Commanding-in-Chief his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge held a levee, at the Horse Guards, on Monday. There was a numerous attendance of officers. Lieutenant-General Sir William Codrington, K.C.8., will, it is believed, succeed General Lord Seaton, G.C.8., in command of the troops stationed in Ireland. A supplement to the Gazette of Friday last con tains the names of the officers and men in her Majesty's service to whom her Majesty gives royal licence and permission that they may accept and wear the insignia of the several classes of the Impe rial Order of the Legion of Honour, attached to their respective names, which his Majesty the Emperor of the French has been pleased to confer upon them as a mark of his Imperial Majesty's approbation of their distinguished services before the enemy during the late war. General Commanding•in-Chief his Royal High ness the I)ukc of Cambridge, accompanied by Sir G. Wetherall and Sir Colin Campbell, inspected the 12th Lancers and Pith Carabiniers, at Canterbury. last Saturday, previous to their leaving for India. The regiment, eight hundred strong, embarked in the course of the week from Gravesend. THE PRESS. Sam anb THE LIABILITY OF HOTEL-KEEPERS for the safety of the property of persons stopping in their houses was decided this week at Manchester. The case, " Cashel v. Wright," tried some months since, is this. Mr. Cashell, in June, '55, while stopping at defendant's hotel, was robbed in the night, from his bedroom, of a gold watch and four sovereigns. The thief was caught and convicted, an action brought to recover the amount lost, 401., and a verdict given for 301. damages. A new trial was moved for and granted by Mr. Justice Erle, on the ground that the plaintiff had not used proper precaution in fastening his door, and took place on Monday, when the jury confirmed the previous verdict by granting the plaintiff 351. damages. The question is now defi nitively settled. THE SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY were mulcted last Saturday, in the Southwark County Court, of 91. 3s. and costs, in six separate actions, for committing a breach of contract on the day of the late naval review at Spithead, by not starting their steamer from Portsmouth harbour to see the review before one p.m. The steamer was delayed for a train from town. The review began at eleven, and a; the delay or the boat was solely for the purpose of the company, his Honour decided that the de fendants were guilty of gross negligence and breach of contract, and awarded damages and C 3SIS to the plaintiffs in each action. A RAILWAY COMPANY is not responsible for trains keeping their time. A case was tried at Basingstoke last Saturday on an action for 14s. 9d., against the South•We'tern Railway Company, money expended in the hire of a horse and chaise, by a Mr. Malford, to drive him from Woking to Godalming, on the Bth May last, he having taken a ticket from Winchtield to Woking, in order to catch the 11.3 R.M. train to Go.lalming. The train Mr. Malford travelled by arrived at Woking twenty minutes behind time, and the 11.3 a.m. train had started. The company proved that the wet weather and heavy north-east winds retarded the engine between Southampton and Woking so much that it was impossible to be in time, and obtained judgment with costs. A PRIVATE IN THE SCOTS GREYS, Robert Lock hart, died suddenly last Wednesday while on the march between Farnham and Wokingham. Lock hart's horse having a sore back, the man was com pelled to walk, leading his horse, the whole dis tance of seventeen miles. After passing Alder shott he stopped and drank a great quantity of water, soon after behaved in a wild, inco herent manner, and suddenly fell down. He was put into a plantation hard by and left while an ex press was sent on in advance to Wokingham for the regimental surgeon, who reached the spot in about an hour to find Lockhart dead. A post-mortem examination proved that he bad died from suffoca tion caused by excessive drinking. The jury, how ever, returned a verdict, " That, though he died from suffocation, it was brought on by over-fatigue, being compelled by his superior officers to march a very long distance under a burning sun." MR. M‘LinEx, who in 1852 unsuccessfully con tested the representation of Ediuburgh, and the firm supporter of Mr. Douglas, the Public house Act can didate, against 51i. Black in the election last February, brought an action for libel against the Scotsman, Edinburgh paper, for having charged him, on account of his support of Mr. Douglas. with having "deserted bis principles, traduced his friends, deceived his enemies, and acted only for selfish and malignant purposes." The damages were laid at 1,0001. The Dean of Faculty, in his speech for the plaintiff, contended that these articles were not only unjustifiable, but exceeded even the license that could be allowed at an election period. The Lord Advocate replied for the defenders that Mr. M‘Laren was the last man who should have ccme into court with such a case, he himself being generally regard less as to his language respecting political opponents, anti that the articles of the Scotsman, if not moderate and well founded, were certainly within the limit of electioneering debate, and only such as were used by th press and even in Parliament every day. The jury, after twenty minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict for Mr. M•Laren with damages 4001. A DOrBLE WADER OF Two GIRLS was committed on Sunday morning, about five miles from Dover, by Dedea Redanies, a Servian and native of Belgrade, in die 4th company of the 2nd battalion 2nd Regiment British Swiss Legion, now stationed at Shornecliffe. Redanies, it appears, had for some time been paying his addresses to a young girl of eighteen, named Caroline Back, living with her mother and sister at Capel•le•Ferne, a village two and a half miles from Folkestone. On Saturday evening Redanies called at the house of her parents, who are working people. It appears that during the evening Redanies quar relled with Caroline, and accused her of carrying on a correspondence with a sergeant of the same regt- SATURDAY, ment. He, however, prevailed upon her to consent to go with him to the camp the next morning and spend the day. The mother reluct an tly gave her consent, on condition that the younger sister, Maria, should accompany them. Redanies astreed, and it was arranged they should start at three i n th e morn ing. The poor girls left home for the last time, in company with Redanies, who was seen proceeding with them upon the road to the camp by a police officer named Herd, whose attention was rather par ticularly called to the soldier from the fact of his having, some time before, been in custody for assault ing another member of the force. This policeman is therefore certain of his identity, and, as the de scription Herd gives of him corresponds exactly with that afforded by the girls' parents, there is no doubt whatever that the sisters left Dover in this man's company. They were subsequently seen with him about five o'clock, passing a roadside public-house about three miles and a half from Dover. Nothing further appears to have been heard of them until about eight o'clock the same morning, when their bodies were discovered by a railway employe, one Curling, who, walking along by the edge of the sea, observed what he supposed to be two females lying asleep on the grass, beneath the spot on which he was standing. Out of curiosity, he proceeded there, and was horror-struck on finding that the first female he came up to had been murdered, and the second also. The bodies were about twelve paces apart. He immediately ran for assistance, and by eight o'zlock Superintendent Steer, of the Folkestone divi sion of the Kent constabulary, and other parties, were in attendance. Upon the bodies being ex • amined by Mr. Bateman, a surgeon, it was found that each had received !our stabs about the breasts, and that three on each body were fatal. The eldest had also received a cut right through the hand, as if she had resisted the murderer's attack, and her clothes were also disarranged. The bodies were removed to the nearest publicliouse, and an inquest opened before the coroner, and subsequently ad journed. The superintendent constables of Folke stone, Wingham, and Canterbury, and the police immediately commenced a vigorous search after the murderer, and he was traced to Hardres, about five miles from Canterbury, where he posted two letters, one addressed to the mother of the deceased, and the other to the captain of his company. They were both written in German. In the former he alluded to the intention of the girl (Caroline) to go to Wool wich, and expressed sorrow for what he had done. About five o'clock on Monday morning Redanies was seen near Canterbut7, and soon after apprehended by a constable and some labourers who were working in the neighbourhood. Finding that he was pur sued, Redanies stabbed himself in the breast three times with a knife, and then fell. He was conveyed to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, where his wounds were dressed. A black mantle, supposed to have belonged to one of the girls, was found upon him. Since his confinement in the hospital, Redanies does not appear inclined to say much in reference to the murder. He merely alludes to it in general terms, and states that he " did it out of love." During the first night, when he was quite composed and sen siole, one of the nurses in attendance asked bow he could have done it' Redanies replied that he stabbed her, and she was dead in a minute. When asked by Dr. Rhost if he wished to make any volun tary statement, or was desirous of communicating with his friends, he replied, " Not at present; I am too weak to speak yet." About eleven o'clock on Monday evening it was expected that he was near his death, and upon being asked if he should like to see the priest, Redanies replied in the affirmative. The Rev. Mr. Siddens, the Roman Catholic priest of the district, was therefore sent for. Upon the ar rival of the rev. gentleman the usual questions were put to the sufferer, and subsequently the rites of the Roman Catholic Church were administered to him. At a later period, however, be asked for his knife, as he wished to finish himself. He is watched by a constable. in case he should make any further attempt upon his life. He has not shown any kind of delirium. On Thursday the adjourned inquest was renewed. Several witnesses were examined. The identities tion of the bodies, and of Redanies as the last person seen with the girls, was clearly proved. and two letters written by Redanies to the mother of the murdered girls and to the lieutenant of his company in the Swiss Legion, and in which he confesses t: murder, were put in and read. The first, to; mother, was as follows : Dearest Mother,—On the first lines I pray to forgive the awful accident to the unlucky Dedea Redanies, which I committed on my very dear Caroline and Mariah Back yesterday morning, at five o'clock. Scarcely lam able to write by heart-break for my ever memorable Caroline and 3lErioh. The cause of my deed is -1, as I heard that Caroline is not in the family•way, as I first believed : 2. because Caroline intends to go to Woolwich ; 3, as I cannot stay with my very dear Caroline, it made my heart so scattered that I put into my mind at last that Caroline rather may die from my hands than to allow Caroline's love being bestowed upon others. However, I did not intend to murder also Maria, her sister, but