The Press. — London, England, 1856-10-11 00:00:00

OCTOBER 11, 1856. dence to treat for the purchase from its present owner of Kenilworth Castle, Worcestershire, at a cost of 5,0001. All these expenses, horses, dog-carts, wife, •and women, could not have been kept much under 5,0001. a year; and the manner in which he contrived to elude detection so long says a great deal for his ingenuity, but more for the stupidity of his em ployers. The mere fact of a man living at such a rate and yet retaining a place of 1501. a year, should have been sufficient to excite suspicion, for newly-estab• lisped ohemioal works do not generally pay too well or so rapidly. THE COURT OF BANKRUPTCY and the Court of Chancery have come into lively antagonism in the case of the British Bank. On Thursday an adjudi cation of bankruptcy was granted by Mr. Commis sioner Evans against the bank, when Johnstone, the messenger of the court, with several of his assistants, proceeded, under instructions from Mr. Lee, the official assignee, and Messrs. Linklater, to take formal possession of the bank premises in Threadneedle street. They arrived there at 12 o'clock, and forth with posted up the adjudication in the bank ; but it was immediately removed by the officers of the in terim manager in Chancery. Mr. Wintle, one of the assistant messengers, proceeded to seize the cash bags in the hands of theiclerks, but was immediately made to surrender them. The messengers were then generally confronted by the interim manager and his solicitors, and peremptorily ordered, in the name of the Court of Chancery, to refrain from touching any of the books or effects of the bank. The messengers of the Court of Bankruptcy deemed it expedient to comply with these expostulations, but refused to retire from the premises. Mr. Harding, the manager, then explicitly told them that he re fused to recognise the order of the Court of Bank ruptcy, and said be would only allow them to remain so long as they continued passive. An armistice having been agreed upon, the interim manager im mediately proceeded to serve copies of the order of the Court of Chancery on the Court of Bankruptcy and on the official assignee, and also proceeded to the various branches of the bank in different parts of the metropolis, in each of which, to the surprise of the previous occupants, be found a messenger of the Court of Bankruptcy in possession, with whom he dealt as he had done with those in Threadneedle street. The question was referred back to the Bank ruptcy Commissioner yesterday, when his Honour (Mr. Commissioner Evans) expressed his marked disapproval of such "lawless proceedings," said he considered it a mark of contempt on the part of Mr. Harding, and at once issued a summons against that gentleman. THE GASWORKS NFISANCE at WhitefriUS was this week again brought before the City Commission of Sewers. A number of police officers gave evidence respecting the effects upon their health of the ex halations, 11,:c. The effluvium of the works when the wind blew from the river was described as peculiarly offensive, and productive of sickness and general ill. health among the officers on the beat. Some of them had been removed in consequence. Mr. Gray, on behalf of the company, stated that a complete answer to the imputation would be ready in a few days. The proceedings were then adjourned. THE ROBBERY AND MURDER of the bead gardener, one Reid, of Hillsborough -hall, near Sheffield, is re ported in the local papers. Hopenssom, the chemist in Broad-street, who cut so disreputable a figure at the Thames Police Court last week in connection with his wife's attempt to poison herself, burst a blood vessel and died this week from the effect of his habitual drunkenness. THE NUMBER OF SUICIDES by drowning and other causes, reported to the Chief Police-office, Great Scotland-yard, within the last week, is twenty-one, and the attempted suicides that have been taken cognisance of by being brought before a magistrate numbers upwards of fifteen. Notwithstanding that the magistrates are very severe with persons charged with the offence, the crime is greatly on the increase. A QUESTION involving the liability of railway companies came before the Doncaster County Court on Monday. An action was brought by a horse dealer named Thompson, against the Midland Rail way Company, to recover the sum of 501., as com• pensation for the loss sustained by hiai in conse quence of the alleged neglect of the plaintiffs in not having forwarded, according to contract, three valuable horses from Doncaster to Manchester. The horses were booked for a train, but the company refused to take them, as it was a fast train. Ulti mately the horses were allowed to go by the train, but at Swinton, about nine miles from Doncaster, the boxes in which they were conveyed were de tached from the train and left behind for the night. When the horses arrived next day, they ha I got cold, their legs were swollen, and they had " staring coats." For the defence, it was contended that the horses had been booked by the 3.30 p.m. train by mistake. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with 301. damages, and Cl. 10s. costs. • r.-!' THE PRESS. Two Mew WERE KILLiDI by a collision between two cattle trains at Salisbury on Monday evening. The jury, at the inquest, passed a censure on the Great Western Railway Company for employing as night men engine -drivers unaccustomed to the line. A serious collision also occured on the South Wales Railway on the same night from one coal train running into another. Three men were seriously injured. A Monsr, HuseAlin, one Edmund Wayne, a disso lute•looking man, was brou g ht b e f ore Mr. Hammill at Worship-street on Monday, under the following circumstances :—The prisoner's wife, whose face on the left side was bruised from the temple to the jaw, stated that while at home the previous evening he entered, the worse for liquor, and because there was only bread in the cupboard. struck her with his fist on the head. She did not wish to imprison him, but was desirous that he should be compelled to main tain his three children and separate from her : CM. HAMMILL : Why, has he ill-used you before this occasion 2 Complainant ( reluctantly) : Yea, sir, he has ; but I don't wish to hurt him. Mr. IlsismiLL : So you have said : what is the matter with your right eye? Complainant : I have lost the sight of it, sir. Mr. HAMMIILL : Now, how was that? Complainant: Well, he struck me in the eye six years ago, and blinded me. I don't think he would behave so if it was not for the drink. I am sure he would be a better man. Mr. Hammitt, : No doubt of that. Who supports the fhmily?-4 do, sir, principally. He is a brushmaker ; but I see very little of the produce. I cannot live with him again, but do not hurt him. He only hit me once. Mr. HAustiu.: And a very frightful blow it manifestly WAS. You have lost the sight of one eye, and the other is visibly affected. Your husband shall go to prison for two months, and find good bail for six months afterwards. THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY were mulcted in 2,7201. damages, to one Allen, a confec tioner, for injuries sustaine d by an accident on 7th December last, on the North Kent line. A collision occurred between two trains, and the unhappy plaintiff was deprived of both legs, besides receiving other injuries. He was placed on the table in court, and gave his evidence. The company did not dis pute his claim. A HINT FOR LORD PANSIIIRE iS given by the cir cumstance that the French prize cannon brought from Sebastopol are at this moment being placed on the bronze gun-carriages before the railings of the Invalides. Ma. J. 111‘GREGOR, M.P., has addressed a letter to the Glasgow papers : Sir,—Finding that during my absence injurious and unfounded charges have been made against me with refe rence to the Royal British Bank, I have now only time briefly to say that I will soon and fully refute those charges. I was neither the projector nor founder of that bank. I was, it is true, deluded into the imprudence of becoming a director of it; but, after my election in 1852 for Glasgow, I resolved to have no connection with any joint•atoek com pany whatever, and I have carried my resolution into effect. Meantime, I am your obedient servant, J. M`Gamort. Athenaeum Club, London, Oct. 2. DR. TAIT, late Dean of Carlisle, now Bishop of London, preached his farewell sermon on Sunday afternoon last. Although the weather was unfavor able Carlisle cathedral was crowded. The mayor and corporation attended in their official capacity, as a mark of respect to the dean. Dr. Tait took his text from the 3rd chapter of Malachi, 16th and 17th verses : Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord harkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name. And they shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts, in that city when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serreth him. The dean began his discourse by referring to many passages of Scripture which show the uncertainty of individual position in this world, as well as of human life generally. He then alluded to his ap pointment as Bishop of London, and assured his audience that he was deeply impressed with the great responsibility of that important office, and besought them to continue their prayers on his be half as a minister of Christ's gospel ; ho also ad verted to his recent family bereavement, and, in con elusion, entreated his hearers to support the schools he had established for the education of the children of the labouring poor —to direct their attention towards making provision for the religious instruction or pastoral supervision of the hundreds of poor who were inmates of the work houses in the city—and to give their aid in support of the Scripture Readers' Society. The discourse, which was both able and eloquent, occupied nearly an hour in delivery. THE REV. RICHARD CHENEVLX TRENCH, M.A., rector of Itchin•Stoke, Hants, has been appointed to the deanery of Westminster, vacant by the decease of the Rev. Dr. Rockland. The rev. "*" 971 gentleman graduated at Trinity College, Cam bridge, without obtaining classical or mathem tical honours. After leaving Cambridge he wa4 ordained, and was appointed to the curacy of Curdridge, in the diocese of Winchester, which he shortly after resigned and became curate to the Rev. Samuel Wilberforce (now Bishop of Oxford), vicar of Alverstoke. In 1854, when Mr. Wilberforce was preferred to the Deanery of Westminster, Lord Ashburton presented Mr. Trench to the rectory of Itchin-Stoke, a benefice which he has held up to the present time. When Mr. Wilberforce was raised 10 the bishopric of Oxford he appointed Mr. Trent h his examining chaplain; in 1845 and 1840 he was Hulsean preacher at Cambridge, and in 1847 he became theological professor and examiner at King's College, London. He was married in 1832 to his cousin, the Hon. Francis Mary Trench, sister of the present Lord Ashtown, by whom he has a family of six sons and five daughters. The new dean is the author of several of that class of works which show rather a perception of the niceties of literature, and a refined mind, than original views or pro found thought. Mr. Trench belongs to the High Church party, by whom, in 1852, his name was put forward as a candidate for the office of proctor, in convocation, for the archde acon of of Winchester, but he was defeated on a poll, the evangelical party suc ceeding in returning their nominee, the Rev. J. Haygarth, M.A., rector of Upham. MR. GEORGE HUDSON'S pecuniary losses and his peculiar position therefrom have long been known in certain circles. The fact was first made public on Tuesday last at the Bankruptcy Court, in the case of Mr. Tingey, proprietor of the Bedford Panopticon, Tottenham-court-road. Mr. Johnson, for the assig nees, applied for the sanction of the court to a com. promise which the assignees proposed to make with reference to a bill of exchange for 1,0001., bearing the names of Mr. George Hudson and Mr. Mould, railway contractor, and for & which they had been offered 1501.: The COMMISSIONER: Hudson! Hudson! What Hud son is it ? Mr. JOHNSON: Tho celebrated George Hudson, the late Railway King. The Commisioner looked incvdulons. Mr. Jonnson assured the court that it was rightly in formed. The COMMISSIONER: Is it to come to this, that his accep tance for 1,0001. is to be compromised for 150 i. ? Mr. JOHNSON : The assignees consider themselves very fortunate in getting that sum. Him Hosourt: Well, if the official assignee and the trade assignee concur in thinking it a beneficial compro mise, let it be so. Mr. JOHNSON: That is really the opinion. LIEUTENANT MASSEY, Of the 19th Regiment, has written a letter this week protesting against an article in the Globe, accusing him of a desire to become an object of hero-worship. He denies seriatim every charge preferred against him by the Globe, and asserts that, so far from wishing to appeal to the sympathy of the public against being left "to shiver under the cold shade " of the aristocratic element of the army, he is quite content with his present position, and has always expressed in the warmest manner his gratitude for kindness received from the aristo cracy far beyond his deserts. CONVOCATION was further prorogued on Wednes day till Friday the 14th of November. M. DE MORA, the Spanish converted Protestant, lately arrested in Madrid, has been liberated, and is now en route to England. A SHEET OF IRON PAPER was lately produced by Bessemer's process. The sheet was much thinner and of a finer quality than that exhibited by Prince Demidoff, in 1851. THE LABOURS OF • COLONIAL GOVERNOR are re corded in the statistical summary of the Registrar- General of New South Wales, for the year ending 31st of March last. During that period, the Go vernor-General has written 582 despatches to the Secretary of State, 407 messages or speeches to the Legislative Council, and 13,600 letters, notes, or me moranda, on a host of topics, public or private ; de livered 49 addresses on various subjects—religious, charitable, scientific or literary ; and held 1,766 in terviews with as many different people. THE Tay, West India steamer, was reported this week as lost in a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico on the 30th of August last. The report is entirely with out foundation. AN ECLIPSE OF THE MOON, visible at Greenwich and nearly total, will take place next Monday night. It will commence at twenty-one minutes past nine p.m., and end at twenty-seven minutes Not midnight. THE PRACTICABILITY OF TELEGRAPHING by electric current through a great length of cable has this week been satisfactorily settled by a series of suc cessful experiments in London, by Messrs. White house, Bright, and Morse, upon a continuous length of 2,000 miles of cable. Signals were telegraphed at the rate of 210.'241, and at one time of 270• per minute with perfect success. The experiments were undertaken with the view of testing the anticipated operation of the telegraph between Newfoundland and Ireland.