The Press. — London, England, 1856-10-25 00:00:00

OCTOBER 25, 1856. A RUNAWAY LocorsoTrvE astonished the South ampton people last Sunday, about four p.m., by dashing full speed into the terminus, knocking to atoms four empty carriages, and bringing itself to a stand still by burying itself in their fragments and those of the lower portion of the shed it knocked down. The origin of the escape of the engine was a concussion at Norham, between a coke and passenger train ; the coke engine was disconnected from its train, the driver and stoker jumped off, and the engine dashed on, full speed, to Southampton. The passengers in the other train were much shaken. BREAMORE-HOUSE, a fine old mansion, the seat of Sir Edward Hulse, Bart., near Fordinbridge, Hants, was entirely destroyed by fire at an early hour on Sunday morning. It is not known how the fire originated, but it had made considerable progress before an alarm was given, and the mansion is entirely gutted with the exception of the servants' wing. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the Conservative Land Society have just concluded their twenty seventh purchase of land by the acquisition of a very valuable property in Silver-street, Taunton. It is locally known as Drake's estate, and from its posi tion, close to the town, and natural features, is ad mirably adapted for building purposes. THE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD, K.T. has written to the chairman of the Manchester Exhibition Com mittee that " he will be most happy to contribute his best pictures to the magnificent undertaking in ques tion." _ _ MR. WHITTAKER, the farmer who was attacked, cruelly beaten, and robbed last week between Rother ham and Thryberg, has since died of his injuries. THE UNITED KINGDOM ALLIANCE held a morning and evening meeting at Manchester on Monday. The first was held to consider the policy to be adopted during the coming year in carrying on the agitation ; the other was merely the annual public meeting of the members and friends of the Alliance. ,Y,4113 anb ARCHDEACON DENISON. THE case of Archdeacon Denison was resumed on Tuesday before the Archbishop of Canterbury, at the Guildhall, Bath. The archbishop entered the court at half-past one, and was attended by the Right Hon. Sir J. Lushington, as his assessor. The commissioners present were the Dean of Wells and the Rev. Dr. Heurtly, Margaret Professor of Divinity at Oxford. There were also present, in their official capacity, the Vicar-General, Dr. Travers Twiss, the arch bishop's chaplain, the Rev. J. Thomas, F. H. Dyke, Esq., registrar, and F. linyvett, Esq., apparitor general. Dr. Phillimore appeared on behalf of the ven. archdeacon, and Dr. Bayford for the Rev. Mr. Ditcher. The proctor for the rev. archdeacon was Mr. Bathurst, and for the promoter Mr. Blackburn The court having been formally opened, Dr. PRILLIMORE asked leave to argue the point that the 29th article had not been settled when the statute 13th Elizabeth, chapter 12, had been passed, and therefore was not referred to by that statute. The learned counsel went at great length into his torical detail, for the purpose of proving that no book containing the 29th article, and answering to the reference of the statute of Elizabeth, was in exist ence up to the 29th May, 1571 ; that the first known edition which contained the article was an edition which, in all the books to which he had referred, was entitled copy—a quarto edition, which could not have been published before the 4th of June, 1571, and which was perhaps only in type on that day. A copy of this book (copy E) was only to he found in the library of Durham College, to which it had been presented by Bishop Cosin. The argument with re spect to this book was that it was not a book the title of which agreed with that named in the statute of Elizabeth, though it contained the 29th article. A reference was then made to the correspondence of Archbishop Parker with Lord Burleigh (Queen Elizabeth's chief Privy Councillor), for the purpose of showing that although that correspondence was as to what the Articles should or should not contain in 1571, there was no reference whatever in it to the 13th statute of Elizabeth. The learned counsel made other references to prove the same point. Among them was a chapter in Bennett's work, the title of which was "What edition of the Articles were required to be subscribed to by the 13th of Eliza beth ?" The conclusion to which that writer came, after the most diligent research, was one of two things—either that the Parliament intended the clergy to subscribe to the old translation, which did not contain the introductory part of the 20th and the 29th articles, or they must have intended them to have subscribed something which they (the Legisla ture) had themselves never seen ; and Dr. Philli more remarked, looking at the Puritan character of the body, it was not to be supposed they suffered the THE PRESS. introduction of a thing which they most strongly ob• jected to. The learned counsel, in conclusion, defied any person to look at the authorities he had cited without coming to the conclusion that it was a matter of the greatest possible doubt whether the 29th article was or was not in the book to which the statute of Elizabeth referred. The court adjourned for a few minutes. On the return of his grace and the assessors into court, Dr. BAYFORD replied : The protest blinked the real question, and made no reference to the fact that the court had deliberately expressed an opinion that the archdeacon was guilty of preaching doctrine con trary to the 28th article; but if the case were ex• actly as Dr. Phillimore had argued it, it would only amount to this—that the archdeacon was guilty of preaching doctrine contrary to one instead of two articles. He was consequently undoubtedly amen abla to punishment. Dr. PHILLINORE replied on Wednesday, arguing that the contravention of the 29th article, unless it was in the statute, was not punishable by that parti. cular statute. The argument that if even the 29th article were omitted the 28th contained all that was necessary to subject the venerable archdeacon to punishment, was a reductio ad absurdum, for in that case where was the use at all of the 29th article? Dr. Phillimore then proceeded to prove that the alte rations and discrepancies which be had pointed out between the ordinary formula and the little book printed in Parliament in 1566 without the 29th article, as well as in the fae-simile of Lamb, were in reality alterations afterwards agreed to in Convoca tion, and with the Queen's sanction subsequently made in the articles. Dr. LUSHINOTON then delivered the opinion of the court, and while carefully avoiding the ingenious arguments on both sides, proceeded at once to discuss the point—whether the doctrine propounded by the archdeacon in his sermons was contrary or not to the established religion. The conclusion the archbishop came to was as follows : The court is of opinion that the Venerable the Arch deacon has not made reference to the true issue and the sole issue in this case ; that issue being, as already re peatedly stated, whether the doctrines maintained by the archdeacon are contrary and repugnant to the articles of religion taken in their plain, grammatical sense. The court cannot acknowledge the proposition to be, whether the doctrines of the archdeacon are consistent with the articles as said to be expounded by eminent divines; and this too in quotations briedy extracted from voluminous works, and often detached from the context, which ought to have been quoted with them. The court cannot receive a disclaimer of the words employed when it is the substance and not the language only, which the court holds to be contrary to the articles. The court is most anxious that its judgment should not be misunderstood, that it should not be supposed to express any opinion, that the clergy of this realm should be restrained in their just liberty of fully discussing or interpreting what is really a subject (to use the words of Lord Stowell) of dubious in terpretatiop, or of advocating in such case their own opinions. What the court condemns is the imposition, by reference to extraneo•rs sources, of a meaning contrary and repugnant to that which the plain words of the article import, which, in fact, is tantamount to the alteration of the articles themselves. The archdeacon having declined to make the revocation required of him, and having de clared his firm adherence to the substance of that teaching which the court has declared to be contrary and repug- nant to the articles, it becomes the duty of the court to pronounce the sentence required by the statute—the sentence of deprivation. The sentence of deprivation was then in due form pronounced. An appeal was at once assented to, and the sth of December assigned as the time. THE INQUIRY into the attempt to poison witnesses at Worcester has resulted in the committal of the man Bury, the purchaser of the opium. Tipper was discharged for want of evidence to convict. THE NAN WILLETTS, committed last week at Liver pool for an attempt to murder his wife, is at present under suspicion of having lately murdered a woman he was living with. The body has been exhumed. LOVE, SEDUCTION, AND SUICIDE were once more ex emplified, last week by a maid servant at Edgbaston, one Elizabeth Barton, who drowned herself in a house cistern, in a fit of despair at her lover deserting her to marry another girl. A verdict of" Temporary in sanity " was returned. THE INQUIRY (held before Mr. Baker, on Monday) into the death of Elizabeth Gaylor, the women who last week took about an ounce and a half of sulphate of potass to procure abortion, and died in conse quence, has resulted in a verdict of " Felo-de se " upon the woman, and " Wilful murder " against her husband, who has been fully committed for trial. A DEATH FROM DESTITUTION occurred at the Strand Workhouse on Monday. it appeared that the deceased, one Louisa Regan, formerly a governess, was found in the streets at nine o'clock in the morning, in a very feeble state. It was raining hard, and a policeman, seeing that she was very ill, carried her to King's College Hospital. She was taken into the surgery, and placed upon a table, and about ten o'clock was seen by Mr. Way, the house physician, and another 1019 medical gentleman, who decided that she was suffer ing under consumptive disease, and could not be admitted into the hospital, as there was no accommo dation for consumptive patients. The deceased was removed from the hospital in a cab to the Strand Union Workhouse, where she died the same after noon. The post-mortem examination showed that the lungs were much diseased, but there was no ap pearance sufficient to account for death. The coroner, in summing up, said it was a most painful case : Here was a poor woman found at nine o'clock in the morning in a dying state, drenched in rain, seeking in vain for relief. After the unusual delay at King's College Hospital, she at last reached the Strand Union Workhouse at five minutes to twelve. in a state of complete exhaus tion. She was conveyed by two men to one of the upper wards, then removed to the bath room, and back again— and no refreshment was offered her until the dinner hour, when the ordinary soup of the house was proffered. She refused it, and it was not until after four o'clock that she received from a girl, who had known her elsewhere, a cup of tea. and in a quarter of an hour she expired, having re ceived for so many hours nothing but sympathy. Thus it was painfully demonstrated that there was a want of that care and attention which ought to be shown in our public institutions. Had that poor creature received common at tention on her arrival at the workhouse, it was his convic tion that she might have lived for months. The jury, after some consideratiln, returned a verdict to the effect '° that deceased died from disease and destitution, and that they were also unanimously of opinion that there was a great deal of blame attached to the authorities of the Strand Union Workhouse and King's College Hospital. for not showing that attention to deceased which she stood in need of." The hospital authorities have protested that every care was shown the poor creature at the hospital. A DARING OUTRAGE was committed on Monday night in Parliament-street, Westminster, at the shop of Mr. Berry, jeweller. It appears that Mr. Berry does not attend personally to his business in Par liament street, having another establishment at Pim lico, which he conducts, and left the former shop to the care of an assistant, named Cope, and it was customary for him to remain at the house in Par liament-street until about half-past nine o'clock at night, when he took away to Mr. Berry the more valuable contents of the shop. Just before the time for closing, the passers by observed Cope struggling with a strange man. The man was violently striking Cope on the head, who crouched down behind the counter, overcome by the repeated attacks of his assailant. The man then rushed from the shop, stooping to pick up, as is thought, a small parcel, and, pushing by the crowd, ran up Canon-row, across Bridge-street by the opposite court, into Palace-yard, where he was seized by a policeman, and taken to the station in King street. The unfortunate man Cope was found to be so much injured about the head, insensible, and paralysed, that he was con veyed to the Westminster Hospital. His head was trepanned, but he died on Thursday night. The prisoner Jenkins is at present under remand. THE CASE OF THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK was heard at the Bankruptcy Court on Monday, and adjourned till Wednesday, when their honours, Commissioners Holroyd and Goulburn, gave judgment. Mr. Com missioner Holroyd, in a very elaborate judgment, in which his honour referred to the principal arguments used in opposition, gave it as his clear opinion that the company had committed an act of bankruptcy on the Bth of October, before the appointment of the official manager, which did not take place until the 13th of that month ; the directors having been served with a writ of summons at the suit of a creditor, and not having complied with the Act of the 7th and tith of Vict., c. 111, which pointed out that if the directors did not within one month after the service of the summons, either pay, secure, or compound for the debt to the satisfaction of the creditor, or make an affidavit that had a good defence to the action, and having entered an appearance, it should be deemed an act of bankruptcy. Proceedings had been taken by two creditors under the seventh section of the 7th and Bth Vic., c. 111, but the directors had not com plied with the requisitions of the act. He was, on all the points, clearly of opinion that the adjudication must be confirmed, and it was to be regretted that the assignees had not been advised to take the initiatory steps, which they could have done under the fourth section of the act, and brought the case into the court. Mr. Commissioner Goulburn con curred, and the adjudication was confirmed. THE SUICIDE at Manchester of a young gentle man, Mr. W. H. Hodgson, aged twenty three, a son of a late magistrate, occurred last Saturday evening at the family house, Clara-villa, Burlington street, Manchester. Mr. Hodgson blew out his,brains. A verdict of " Temporary insanity " was returned. A disappointment in lave is believed to have been th• Cause. THE CASE OF FATAL ADMINISTRATION OF COLOSO FORM at St. Thomas's Hospital last week has resulted in the exoneration, by the coroner's jury, of the hos pital surgeon. 3 4/