The Press. — London, England, 1856-09-06 00:00:00

that battleof which the Duke himself declared that, though he had read many an account of many a battle, he had read none of any battle in which more ability, more energy, or more experience was dis played." Sir Harry Smith said in reply:— - - 1 owe my all to his Grace the Duke of Wellington, in my military career, as well as his country owes to him the honour ana the long peace of forty ' , eats which his sword achieved for it. Gentlemen of Manchester, lam proud to see this statue erected to his immortal memory. There is no man on earth who has desired to exist in the hearts of the people as he did, and he proved it by that undaunted courage, sagacity, disinterestedness, and honesty, which he ever manifested. THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE IMPROVEMENT COM MISSIONERS AND THE INCUMBENT OF WEST HARTLE- Poor, reached a disgra:eful point last Sunday. The commissioners deny that there is any such district as Christchurch, West. Hartlepool, and have given formal notice to the lit • Mr. Burges, the incumbent, to cease performing burial services in the local cemetery. Mr. Burges declines to recognise their authority, and insists upon the right of the bishop only to withdraw the license to preach. On Sunday last a funeral took place in the cemetery. Mr. Jack son and another commissioner locked Mr. Burges up in the sexton's house, and a discreditable squabble ensued, Mr. Burges ultimately escaping and carrying out his point. THE PREMIUMS FOR PRIZE FARMS, given by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at Stanwich, in North Yorkshire, were awarded last week. Five competitors appeared on the list, and after a careful survey, Mr. Ray, of Forcett valley, and Mr. Dent, of Caldwell, were the successful candidates. THE MANCHESTER MECHANICS' EXHIBITION INAU GURAL MEETING, at which Lord Palmerston was to have been present, has been postponed in conse quence of the death of Sir W. Temple. The ex hibition itself will, however, be opened as originally arranged on the 9th. THE COLLIERS' STRIKE AT BARNSLEY has ter minated, after a ten weeks' struggle, many men having returned to work under the present manager. The loss to the proprietors has been very heavy. A BLAST at the Pendyun limestone quarries, last week, brought down some 12,000 tons of stone. grtlant. THE SINTENCE3 ON THE TIPPERARY MILITIAMEN, tried by court-martial for their late outbreak, were promulgated last Friday at Nenagh by Major- General Sir James Chatterton, B.H. Her Majesty was pleased to commute the sentences of the court martial. The prisoner Burns, found guilty of "murder," is transported for life, while the remaining nine prisoners, four of whom were sentenced to transportation for life, two to twenty-one years, two to fourteen years, and one to two years' imprison ment, have had their sentences commuted to terms of penal servitude varying from four to ten years. On Monday the regiment was formally disembolied. The men were drawn up in square, and Sir James Chatterton addressed them upon their late conduct., and promised that if they then returned to their homes quietly and in good order, he should have much pleasure in asking for a further remission of sentence from the Government for the convicted men. Ma. Join; O'CotiriEts. has been sworn into his office as Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper for Ireland. COLONEL HAMILTON of the Guards - had a narrow escape last week. Coming out of the barrack-square in Dublin his horse took fright and bolted head i►remost against the wall, literally knocking his own b sins out. Colonel Hamilton fell with the horse and was much bruised, but escaped any serious injury. _ . _ THE POLICE are actively searching for Mr. Ja nes Sadleir, who it is believed is still lurking abaut Coolnarnuek. THE DUBLIN CRIMEAN BANQUET promises to be ♦e:y successful. Subscriptions are rapidly coming in, and it is anticipated that the 2,000 Crimean men in and about Dublin will be entertained in a manner wartby of the liberality of Ireland. THE ANTICIPATIONS of a good harvest in the north western counties are not likely to be realised. The loss by blight has been severe, and as regards wheat, the crop is rot anticipated to reach the pro duce of last year. The potato crop will also be be low the crop of 1855. Ma. JAMES BARRY of Rockfield, one of the magic• testes of Limerick, and an extensive land agent, fell into the Shannon last Tuesday night, and was drowned. gabal anli Dilitarg nttiligentt. • Major-General Sir George Buller, K.C.8., who commando,' a brigade of the light division in the Climes, and had previously been very actively en• gaged at the Cape, hu been appointed to command THE PRESS. the troops in the lonian Islands, in succession to Sir H. W. Barnard, K.C.8., nominated to the com mand at Sliornclitre. Major General J. Bloomfield Gough, C.B.,lately in command of the Belfast district, has been ap pointed to command a brigade at the Curragh. General Gough servod on the staff under his distin guished namesake in most of the Indian campaigns of late years. . _ The following officers have just been placed on the list of those receiving rewards for distinguished services—viz., Major-General Dupuis, C. 8., of the Royal Artillery; Colonel Collingwood Dickson, C. 8., and Lieutenant-Colonel Adye, of the same corps ; Colonel H. D. Townshend, commanding the depot battalion at Temolemore ; Colonel John Napper Jackson, of the 99th Regiment; Colonel William Parlby, or the 10th Hussars; and Colonel F. G. Shewell, of the Bth Hussars. An Admiralty return issued this week states that 206 Russian vessels were captured by British cruisers in 1854 and 1855. All the captured vessels appear to have been unarmed, but it should be observed that the return contains but a small portion of the vessels which were captured from the enemy. Many were captured both in the Baltic and Black Sea, of which there are no particulars, as they were at once destroyed or otherwise disposed of. The Lords of the Admiralty concluded their official inspection of Portsmouth on Tuesday, and in the evening entertained the heads of departments at the George Hotel. Their lordships promoted Lieu tenant Fenwick, of the Rolla, to the rank of com mander. On Wednesday morning they took their departure for town, and Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour left in the Black Eagle Admiralty steam tender for the Channel Islands. The command of the fleet at Portsmouth during Sir George's absence devolves upon Rear-Admiral Martin, superintendent of the dockyard, who has shifted his flag from the St. Vincent to the Victory, pro tem. Sir George Seymour will return about the 154.11. Obituarl REAR-ADMIRAL SIR JOHN Ross, C. 8., died on Saturday last, at his residence in Gillingham-street, Pimlico. This gallant Arctic voyager entered the navy as far back as 1786, was constantly engaged, and wounded no less than thirteen times during the French war. His most important services, however, were rendered in the Arctic regions, whither in 1818 he sailed, together with Sir W. E. Parry. The results of his investigations are detailed in his " Voyage of Discovery," published in 1819. He was afterwards, from May, 1829, until October, 1833, employed in the Victory steamer, on a fresh expedition to the Arctic regions, equipped at the expense of Sir Felix Booth, and for his services he received the honour of knighthood, together with the Companionship of the Bath, in 1834. In March, 1839, he was appointed consul at Stockholm, where he remained until 1844. He was presented by the Patriotic Society with a sword valued at 100/. ; and for services performed by him in the Baltic he was nominated a Knight Comrnmander of the Swedish Order of the Sword. Sir John was also a knight of several other foreign orders. Among other works, he wrote " Letters to Young Sea 01; cers," " Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral LIM de Saumarez," and a " Treatise on Navigation by Steam." Sir John Ross was in his 80th year, and the immediate cause of death was the excessive fatigue induced by a recent trip to the country. By his death a good service pension is placed at the disposal of the First Lord of the Admiralty. GENERAL SIR HENRY F. CAMPBELL, K.C.8., G.C.H., died cn Monday, in his eighty-seventh year, at bis residence in Lowndes•sauare, after a long and pain ful illness. Sir Henry served throughout the Pe ninsular war in command of the second brigade and of the first division of Guards, and he highly distin guished himself. He was twice married, and nu merous families are placed in mourning in conse quence of his death. Among them is his son, Colonel Campbell, the Hon. Colonel Stanley (brother of the Earl of Derby), Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P., and Colonel Moorsom. MR. GILBERT A BECKETT, one of the magistrates of the Southwark Police-court, died on Saturday last at Boulogne from typhus. The learned gentleman had lately been on a continental tour, and on arriving at Boulogne a few days previous to his return to Eng land, was seized with an attack of typhus fever and died in three days. Mr. aßeckett was well known in town literary circles. He was one of the founders of, and contributors to, Punch, and for some period was a regular writer in the Times. His "Andover Union" articles are among the most masterly and vigorous leaders ever published in the Times, and secured for him the metropolitan magistracy, which be held with high credit for the last seven years. SIR RICHARD WEST3IACOTT, It A., aged 82, died on Monday, at his town residence in South Audley street. Richard Westmacott was born in London, in SATURDAY, 1775, and, showing early signs of his future vocation, adopted the profession of a sculptor when he was quite a child, and received the first rudiments of instruction in the studio of his father, who was a sculptor of some little eminence in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square. In 1793 he visited Rome, where he is said to have studied for a time under Canova. In the following year he received from the Academy of Florence their first premium for sculpture, and the medal of his Holiness in 1705, and was also elected a member of the Academy of Florence. Some years after he returned to England, and estab • lished himself in the west-end of London, where he soon gained an extensive reputation. In 1805 the Royal Academy of London elected him an associate of their body, and in 1816 he became a Royal Acade rnecian. The works of art by which he was best known, are his statues of Addison, Pitt, and Erskine, his statues of the late Duke of Bedford and of Cherie a James Fox, in Bedford and Russell squares, and his monuments to Sir Ralph Abercromby, Lord ,Jolling word, and others in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral, together with the elegant and classical figure of Psyche. Besides these be designed the colossal statue of Achilles in Hyde-park, and the statue of Nelson at the Liverpool Exchange, and, together with Flaxman and Bally, a portion of the figures on the frieze of the marble arch originally erected at Buckingham Palace, but now standing at Cumberland-gate. His latest work, we believe, was the sculptured pediment at the British Museum. In 1847 lie succeeded Flaxman es Professor of Sculpture in the Royal Academy, and held that appointmeht until his decease; he had not, however, exhibited since 1839. In 1837 he received the honour of knighthood. His artistic works are all strictly classical in their style, but partake far more of the Roman than of the Greek character. They are not abstract and ideal, or of the highest order of concep tion, but living and breathing realities, executed to the life in a bol.l and severe style. Among the best known of his productions are "The Distressed Mother" which he executed in 1822 for the Marqu's of Lansdowne ; " The Houseless Traveller," a copy of which is in Westminster Abbey; his "Euphro syne," for the late Duke of Newcastle in 1837 ; his two statues " Cupid " and " Psyche," in possession of the Duke of Bedford, together with a large alto relievo, "The Death of Horace," which he executed for the late Earl of Egreniont, and which we believe is still in the gallery at Petworth. Sir Richard West macott married, in 1798, Dorothy Margaret, the daughter of Dr. Wilkinson, and leaves a son. 'SAW anb Volta. A PETITION for an adjudication of bankruptcy against the Royal British Bank was filed on Thurs day at the Bankruptcy Court. ONE OF THE GROSSEST CASES OF BRUTALITY TO WO'. MEN made public for some time was brought before Mr. Hamtnill at Worship-street Court on Saturday. Joseph Lazarus, a thick -set fellow of thirty, was charged with the following conduct. Caroline Runge, a wretched-looki g creature, who was manifestly en during extreme pain, stated that she had been living with the prisoner for the last four years as his wife, awl had been subjected to such constant cruelty and brutality that she would repeatedly have left him had it not been for his threats of wreaking a fearful ven geance upon her if she did so : Formerly he did obtain a living for them both, but for a long time past he had not only not done so, but refused to look for work, and compelled her nightly to seek an infamous living in the streets, while he sat at home in laziness, and made her bring home the wages of her shame to him. On the preceding niAbt he forced her out in this manner, and she obtained is. tid., which she hastened home with and hauled to him, but instead of expressing satisfaction at the amount, he grumbled at the smallness of it, abused her terribly, and drove her out again. This time she was not so successful, for she paraded the streets uselessly for hours, and feeling herself at length so footsore and exhausted at three in the morning that she could scarcely stand, she was reluctantly making up her mind to go home penniless and chance his ill-usage, when the prisoner suddenly met her and demanded how much more she had received. She told bun " Nothing more," and that all she had obtained she had given him when she went home before. This so disappointed Dim that he flew into a violent rage, loaded her with the most disgusting language, and having threatened her with an oath as he left her that he would murder her before the night was out, she became fearful, and tried to get hon e first and bolt him out. The prisoner, however, followed her so sharply that he got there as soon as she did, fastened the door upon both, and then struck her in the face, and upon her dropping to the floor continned furiously kicking her upon the head, legs, and body, until her screams at length attracted the notice of a constable, who forced his way in and rescued her. The witness added that this was not the worst even of the prisoner's conduct to her, for upon one occasion she was too ill to earn money in her usual manner, and he therefore forced her out to steal, the result of which was that she was caught and detected at once, and sentenced to two months' imprisonment. She felt ill, neirly the whole of her person wds covered with bruises, and she asked for protection.