The Press. — London, England, 1856-12-13 00:00:00

1190 TO CORRESPONDENTS. It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive' Their insertion is often delayed owing to a prees of matter ►nd when omitted, It lie frequently from reasons quite iude. pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot undertake toreturn communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Comnrinications should always bel egiblywritten, and on one side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Whateveris intended fort nsertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publielt ti..n, but as a guarantee of his good f a ith. Advertisements sentfrom the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION log Per Annum Half-Yearly Quarterly Ebt glr egg : (STAMPED.) .. $1 6 0 .. 0 13 0 .. 0 6 6 Payable in advance. Subscribersare requested to send their Orders through the NAWA Agent: if direct to the (Mice. accompanied by a remit tance. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALrliEn lyE, 110, Strand London. _l;)roixi+ LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 13, 1856. POSTSCRIPT. SURRENDER OF HERkT. (By Submarine and British Telegraph front Paris.) Intelligence from Constantinople to the sth states that Herat has surrendered to the Persian General Mourat Shall. . The British operations in the Persian Gulf had commenced. The Preue d'Orient of the Ist of December says : It was on the 26th of October that the town was taken. The tchapar (messenger), who was immediately sent to Teheran with the news, only took eight days to cross the vast plains which separate Herat from the Persian capital. The same journal announces the departure from Teheran of all the members of the British Consulate. Mr. Stevens had gone to Tabriz, and Mr. Abbott, with the other members of the Consulate, had taken the road to Bombay. The Ti► Res (second edition, Friday) Berlin cor respondent writes : A St. Petersburg correspondent of the Konigsberg Journal states that it is understood in St. Petersburg that General Ilirjuloff, who commands the troops on the Russo• Persian frontier, has received orders to enter Persia with 50,000 men at the first requisition made to him by the Shah of Persia. At the same time it is said that two corps•d'armie have. been set in motion towards the Austrian frontier. The correspondent then says, as a comment of his own on this statement, that Russia cannot look on a passive spectator of the bold steps the British Government is taking towards Persia, or of the tergiversations of Austria; and that it will not be Russia's fault if new warlike com plications arise. Of the Russian army, however, it is ad led, perils we dernantle pas mime than to measure its atr:ngth with the Austrians, whom it saved in 1849. The Augsburger Al!genuine Zeitung contains a communication, dated from the Polish frontier, which, in some degree, corroborates the statement of the movement of the Russian forces southward and (as'ward. It states that the entire Russian army, which has hitherto been stationed in the south, is not only to remain there during the winter, but also a considerable portion of it is to be moved farther southward to the frontier of Bessarabia and the coast of the Black Sea. PRUSSIA AND NEUFCHATEL. The Berlin correspondent of the Independance of Thursday, states that Prussia has announced in her recent note that, the negotiations with Switzerland are 'closed, and there remains for Prussia but to make preparations for active measures. Meanwhile, Prussia will be ready to receive any new proposition, but she will not make any herself. The same cor respondent intimates that a special congress to discuss this affair of Neufchatel is not improbable. The Berlin correspondent of Le Nord says, that Prussia is about to demand from the great Powers whether they have exhausted all the diplomatic mans towards a solution, and if the answer be in the affirmative, she will then be prepared to do jus tice to herself. A letter from I . i.nna, dated December 8, has the following curious paragraph : It has long been rumoured in the city that many Roman Catholics intend to join the Protestant Church, but no per. i. THE PRESS. fectly reliable information could be obtained on the subject until now The applications made to the superintendents of the Augaburgh and Helvetic ( Lutheran and Calvinist) Confessions for information and for religious instruction are so numerous " that they literally do not know which way to turn." The intense disgust caused by the new marriage laws is the principal reason why so many persons desire to secede from the Roman Church. The Rev. Dr. Livingstone has arrived safely in London after an absence of seventeen years in Africa. THE MURDER OF MR. LITTLE. (By English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.) DUBLIN, Friday Morning. A discovery, which it is hoped may lead to still further results, was yesterday made at the Broad stone Terminus, shortly after 12 o'clock. A hamper being required for some purposes in connection wish the works, one of the foremen proceeded to a store in the locomotive department, and in one of the hampers discovered a bag containing a quantity of silver amounting to 431. 17s. ed. The bag and even the running strings were dripping wet, and could only have been a very short time—probably not more than a few minutes—in the position in which it was found. The police entertain no doubt what ever that the bag was one of those used by Mr. Little to hold his money, and the suspicion before entertained that the murderer was a person con nected with the railway has received forcible confir mation. There was a large tank of water immedi ately under where the bag was found, and also some butts in one store filled with water ; but there was no trace or mark of spots such as would have been made in lifting the bag out of these. The probabi lity is, that it was carried in a pail or some other receptacle to avoid observation.—The Times (Second Edition, Friday). Obituarg. GENERAL THE HON. HENRY BUTLER, colonel of the 55th Foot, died in Paris on Sunday. He was uncle of the Earl of Carrick, but was better known as the father of three heroes who fell in their country's service within a space of six months. The Hon. Henry Butler entered the army as ensign in the 27th, in 1800; he became a lieutenant in the same year ; captain, May, 1804 ; major, May, 1811 ; lieu tenant-colonel, July, 1816 ; colonel and major general, January, 1837; lieutenant-general, June, 1854. He was colonel of the 55th in 1855, being transferred to it from the 94th. He served with the Portuguese army in 1810 and 1811, was wounded at Busaco, and received the Peninsular medal with two clasps for Egypt and Busaco. On the 6th of January, 1812, he married Jane, daughter of Clot worthy Gowan, Esq., by whom, who died in 1836, he bad issue, four sons, one only of whom (Pierce, in holy orders) survives him. His eldest son, Henry Thomas, captain 55th Foot, born in 1813, was deputy assistant adjutant-general in the Crimean expedition, and was killed at Inkermanu, Nov. sth, 1854, aged forty-one. His second son, Charles George, captain in the 86th Foot, was born in 1823, and died in India, December, 1854, aged thirty-one. His fourth son, James Armar, captain in the Ceylon Rides, was born in 1827, was the hero of Silistria, but did not live to receive the honours which awaited his colleague, Lieutenant (now Major) Nasmyth, in England, for the gallant and successful defence of that fortress. He died from fatigue and sickness in July, 1854, aged twenty seven. FATHER THEOBALD MATHEW, who died last Tues day at his residence in Kingstown, Ireland, was the son of James Mathew, of Thomastown, county Tipperary, and was born at that place on the 10th of October, 1790. His grandmother was niece of the celebrated General Mathew, of whom honourable mention is made by Sheridan in his " Life of Swift." and his ancestors trace right back to the ancient kings of Wales. Having lost his parents at an early age Theo ' bald Mathew was adopted by his distant relative, the Lady Elizabeth Mathew, who placed him under the tuition of the Rev. Dennis O'Donnell, parish priest of Tallagh, county Waterford. At the age of thirteen he was sent to the lay academy of Kilkenny, whence he was removed in his twentieth year to Maynooth to pursue his ecclesiastical studies, having shown signs of a clerical vocation. On Easter Sunday, 1814, be was ordained in Dublin by the late Arch bishop Murray. After some time he returned to Kilkenny with the intention of joining the mission of two Capuchin friars there ; but before long he re moved to Cork. By a rescript from the late Pope Gregory XVI. he received the degree of Doctor in Divinity, together with a dispensation allowing him to pcsiess property. From the moment of entering upon his missionary duties at Cork he began to show the sterling worth of his character. Ever diligent in his work of the pulpit, the confessional, and the sick man's bedside, he devoted all his spare time, not to violent agitation, but to the temporal and spiritual wants of the poor, to whom he acted as eQuuseller, friend, treasurer, and executor. When SATURDAY, he undertook the great cause of temperance, these qualities stood him in good stead, and his immense successes may be attributed more to his affability of manner and generous nature than to any higher cause. We have not the time or the space to follow Father Mathew in his temperance progresses. Some notion of their results may be formed when we state that at Nenagh 20,000 persons are said to have taken the pledge in one day ; 100,000 at Galway in two days ; in Loughrea, 80,000 in two days ; between that and Portumna from 180,000 to 200,000 ; and in Dublin about 70,000 during five days. There are few towns in Ireland which Father Mathew did not visit with like success. In the prosecution of his calling Father Mathew beggared himself and his relatives. For the last few years he enjoyed a pension of 300/. from the English Government. LIEUTENANT-GENERAL 5111.31 AN has died this week. The gallant geueral was formerly in the Guards, and received the war medal with four clasps for services in the Peninsula, having been present at Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna, the Douro, and Talavera, at which last battle he was wounded, taken prisoner, and de tained by the French until the end of the war. MR. FREDERICK C. SEYMOUR, fourth son of Lord Hugh Seymour, and brother of Admiral Sir George F. Seymour and of the late Sir Horace Seymour, was born Ist of February, 1707, and died on Sunday last. He was twice married--first, in 1822, to Lady Mary Gordon, third daughter of the late Marquis of lluntly, who died in June, 1825 ; and, secondly, to Lady Augusta Hervey, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Bristol. The deceased gentleman leaves issue by both marriages. MR. GEORGE LINDSAY, Chairman of the Russia Company, while sitting in his chair in the company's rooms on Wednesday, fell dead to the floor. He died from disease of the heart. Mn. DAVID DYSON, of Manchester, a well-known naturalist, died on Wednesday last, at the early age of 33 years, at the residence of his brother, Mr. John Dyson, Woodbine-cottage, Rusholme. The cause of his death was ulceration of the larynx. THE BISHOP OF CHICHESTER has addressed a letter to Sir G. Grey, calling for the dismissal of Mr. Blagden, the county coroner, for the course which he pursued at a recent inquest. As the bishop tells the story, a young girl, in the service of a farmer at Lodsworth, purchased arsenic on the 27th ult., and told a man, by whom she was pregnant, that she in tended to poison herself. The man does not seem to have interfered, and the girl carried out her threat. The bishop is informed that the coroner stated to the jury that it was inconceivable that a woman could be in a sane state of mind at the time of destroying herself ; in short, that the tendency and evident purpose of his remarks to the jury was to influence them not to entertain the thought of a verdict of felo-de se. The verdict said that—" as to the state of her mind at the time of taking such poison, no evijence appeared to the jury to enable them to determine therein according to law." The Rev. Mr. Clarke, the perpetual curate of the parish, wbo attended the girl in her last hours, refused nevertheless to inter the deceased with the burial service of the Church. "He believed himself for bidden, by the rubric prefixed to the burial service, so to inter her, under the circumstances, and with only such a coroner's verdict as was exhibited to him." The body was decently committed, in day light, to the churchyard-ground on the 4th instant, in the presence of one of the churchwardens, but without any religious ceremony. If Mr. Clarke is not justified in his refusal he ought to he suspended for three months, under the sixty-eighth canon of the Church, and the bishop, sympathising with him, asks that the circumstances he inquired into. " I further respectfully represent," he adds, " that if they be found—as I believe they will—to be substan tially according to the foregoing statements, they show Mr. Blagden to be unfit to be continued in the office of coroner." Ma. has munificently presented to the nation the whole of his collection of paintings and drawings for the purposes of public instruction in art. Mr. Sheepshanks, disapproving irresponsi ble management by boards like the trustees of the British Museum and National Gallery, has made it a condition that the responsibility for his collection must rest with an individual Minister—the Minister for Education. Mr. Sheepshanks considers that a •rowded thoroughfare is not a suitable site for quietly studying works of art, and has stipulated that his collection must be kept in the neighbourhood of its present locality, at Kensington. He is willing that the pictures, &c., should be lent to those provincial towns which provide suitable places to exhibit them. Upon these conditions, which we believe Lord Pal merston has accepted on behalf of the Government, Mr. Sheepshanks has signified his readiness to hand over immediately the whole of his very fine collec tion, which is especially rich in the hest works of Mulready, Landseer, and Leslie, and contains fine examples of the principal modern British painters in oil. The value of the collection may be estimated at about 60,000/,