The Press. — London, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

APRIL 26, 1856 pro ve — that forms of expression are of far more con sequence to the purity of the language than persons ar e willing to admit, and illustrated at great length this principle by contrasting as example of his mean ing many wholesome sterling old English words against the vapid modernised terms now in use; such as "neighbourhood" against "vicinity," "out skirts" with "environs," "philosopher" against philosophe, "churchyard " against "cemetery " and 6-necropolis," " child-murder " against " infanticide," kc. tko. The use of these modern terms the Cardi nal insisted was a serious injury to the English language, and not only affected the perspicuity of the language, but in such terms as related to crimes, by refining them down as we did in the present day, we divested the expression of half its horror and helped Ito deprive the crime of half its guilt. The Cardinal was received with warm applause by a c x)wded audience. Sr. MARTIN'S SAVINGS-BANK was last Monday subjected to a run, and until a Government cerufl ou3 was posted up informing the people of the s atisfactoiy state of the funds the panic continued. The origin of this affair was traced to reports pur posely spread about by lately discharged servants. H.R.H. Prince Albert is president of the institution THE METROPOLITAN CEMETERIES IN THE EAST do not appear to be any improvement upon the old intramural churchyards. Dr. Sutherland's and Mr. Holland's report to the Home-office on the subject disclose facts connected with the cemeteries at Bethnal.green, Stoke Newington, Cambridge heath, and Victoria park, which appear really incredible in a civilised city lik> London. At the Victoria-park Mr. Holland saw thirty or forty coffins thrust into graves uncovered : One quarter of the cemetery appears to be a mass of putrefying corruption, consisting of several thousand car cases, contained in coffins immediately contiguous in the same graves, and separated from those in the adjoining graves by a few inches of soil only, which are heaped up on each other partly below, partly above the natural level of the ground, and covered only by a few feet of open gravel. The quantity of putrid gas given off by such a mass of corruption must be far greater than the soil can absorb or decompose. THE REGISTRAR GENERAL'S RETURNS TOR THE 'SEEK show a declining mortality as the temperature rises. The deaths of the last week fell from 1,234 and 1,115 of the previous weeks to 1,043. The births amounted to 1,887, a number above the average. A GOOSE RACE between Mr. Herring and Mr. Garrett, the well-known clowns, took place on Mon day, on the Surrey canal. The race was for five hundred yards, in washing-tubs, drawn by four geese. Mr. Garrett got capsized at starting, while his adver sary went off and won—with feathers to spare. TUE PRINTER'S PENSION SOCIETY held its usral anniversary at the London Tavern, on Tuesday even ing, under the presidency of Sir R. Murchison, who, in proposing the toast of the evening, laughingly alluded to the typical errors sometimes imposed upon Very few were aware of the extent of distress into which he was often plunged by no fault of his own; but as the necessary result of his occupation. In the first place, as an old soldier, he wrote not very plainly; and next he wrote in an antediluvian language, which scarcely the most enlightened classes would comprehend. He believed. for his own part, that he had given more trouble to the printer than any other man in the country. M. Kossura delivered a lecture last week at the London Tavern, on the Austrian Concordat. His peculiar view of the object of this great State act is that it was concluded by Rome mainly for the pur pose of striking a fatal blow at Hungary, of all European States the one ever foremost in opposing the dangerous policy of the Vatican. Vrobintial. THE ART EXHIBITION PROPOSAL IN MANCHESTER would appear likely to be realised. Upwards of 46.0001. have been subscribed as a guarantee fund already. THE COLLIERY STRIKE IN GLASGOW still continues, and extends, without prospect of adjustment. Lp ivards of :10,000 men have struck work on the attempt to lower their wages a shilling a day, and the masters are meeting the resistance by blowing out the furnaces. So large a mass of men out of employ, and ranging about the country, has induced the authorities to take active measures in anticipation of any disturbance. Two regiments of yeomanry cavalry, 500 strong, and 254) militia are kept in con stant readiness for service. Two MEN, in cleansing out a drain in Brighton last week, b ecame overpowered with the foul air, and tell to the bottom. One was rescued, but a second !man going down for his companion also became Insensible• and both men died before a rescue could be effected. A AlEitontit OF THE LATE THONIS ATTWOOD is decided upon being raised at Birmingham. At a THE PRESS. meeting in the Town. hall last week the proposal was unanimously agreed to, and a large sum subscribed on the spot. A committee was appointed to consider the form to be taken. THE WORKING-MEN'S COLLEGE AT CAMBRIDGE under the Rev. 11. Goodwin, as l'resident,has proved so successful that an adult school has lately been opened. Mr. Ruskin's class is mentioned as the best attended. ISO) an 4 THE TRIAL OF PALMER at the Central Criminal Court was fixed by Lord Campbell on Thursday to take place on Wednesday, the 14th of May. Lord Campbell, Mr. Justice Cresswell, and Mr. Baron Alderson will be the presiding judges. The prisoner will not be removed from Stafford to Newgate until immediately previous to the day of trial. AN ORGANISED GANG OF HOTEL PLUNDERERS, who have been committing great depredations upon tra• yellers for some months past, has been broken up. Two men were arrested last week at Liverpool, and a third captured on board the Persia, New York steamer, at the moment of her leaving Southampton. For some time past the detectives have been on their track. Their plan was to put up at the best hotels as American tourists, and, in the night, by means of an ingenious pair of steel forceps, to unlock any bed room door from the outside, enter the room, ride the pockets of the sleeper, and, locking the door after them, retire to their own rooms. This plan had been successfully practised on more occasions than one, and the thieves had got a large booty, in one case as much as 565/. out of one purse. A short time since, however, one of them, Kingston, in attempting such a robbery upon the pockets of a Mr. Edden while at the Royal Hotel, Manchester, woke that gentleman; he immenintely jumped out of bed and gave chase after the thief, who fled, but happily was seen by a waiter to enter a certain bedroom, his own, for the night. Twenty five pounds in notes, with a steel morticing chisel and a lair of forceps were found in the passage. The prisoner Kingston was appre- hended, and the capture of his companion, Branch, in the hotel speedily followed. The two men were examined at Manchester on Saturday last and com mitted for trial. The third accomplice, Howard, was arrested, thanks to the telegraph, on board the Persia, at Southampton on Sunday with money and property to a large amount in his possession. Brought up to London, he was examined on Monday at Clerkenwell before Mr. Currie, and remanded for a week, on the charge of having robbed a Mr. Stani land of 5651. at the Great Northern Hotel on the 18th of March last. THE SOLDIERS OF THE GTH DRAGOONS ( Innis killings) stationed at Canterbury, on Monday last took the law into their own hands with respect to the son of their meat contractor who had furnished some questionable food, and nearly drowned him in the horse trough. The case was inquired into before the Bench on Thursday, when Lieutenant Anderson, charged with having struck the complainant and in stigated the men to commit the assault complained of, was fined 30s. and costs. A FALSE HERALD OF PEACE nearly paid the penalty of such traitors on Monday. A proclamation posted over tile streets announced that a mounted herald would proclaim the Peace at given parts in the town between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Monday. The herald appeared in correct costume, but he came only as a photographer's touter, to announce to the expectant crowd that his master would give away an indefinite quantity of portraits of Crimean heroes ! The crowd became furious, and had it not been for the police, the herald, tabard and all, would have been pulled off his horse, and possibly sent home in such a plight as would have puzzled the master to recognise his man. SORE DEXTEROUS FORGERIES have lately been committed by three brothers, John, George, and Ed ward Owen, sons of a Shrewsbury woollen-draper, who, some years since, failed. Making his bank ruptcy their basis, the sons, after successfully forging a cheque for 6001. on Messrs. Coutts, commenced a novel system of fraud. Giving out that they in tended to pay off their father's debts in full, they paid the creditors in forged cheques for a larger amount than the original debt, thus securing to themselves a certain balance. For eighteen months, more or less, this system has been carried on in even• part of the country ; and, although it was well known to the police, the offenders up to last week baffled every attempt of the detectives. On Thurs day a preliminary examination took place before Mr. Bingham, at Marlborough-street, when the prisoners were remanded for a week. CAPTAIN HARIUSS, late of the German Legion, charged with obtaining money by means of false cheques, wit..Q committed for trial on Wednesday by Mr. Henry. It was attempted for the dclince to prose insanity. THREE MEN, DOUBLE, GROUNDS, AND BRIGGS, the two former lately a guard and signalman on the line, have been apprehended at Cambridge, charged with systematic depredations upon parcels of goods on the Eastern Counties Railway. On Saturday week a boa of luggage containing a silver Jewr watch was stolen. The watch was traced to a pawnbroker's in Shore• ditch, and the pawning-tickei, to the prisoners. Com mitted for trial. A REWARD or 100/. has been offered for the appre hension of Foachini, the Haymarket assassin, who appears to have been seen in the neighbourhood during the week. The sufferers all maintain silence, and, though questioned about the unfortunate matter, refuse to give any reason fur the commission of the offence. Persons well acquainted with them state that political causes led to the act. A Mrizria RECRUIT died at Brighton last week from absolute surfeit. He had eaten an enormous quantity of beef puddings, got drunk, and, under a fit of apoplexy, died in the night. THE CITY LAND-TAX OFFICE was broken into on Tuesday evening and ransacked by burglars. The cash, however, had been taken to the Bank that afternoon. A BRICKLAYER, and a woman with whom he coha bited, were last week charged before the bench at Westgate, Lincolnshire, with cruelly beating his child of two y( ars of age, by a deceased wife. From the evidence it appeared that, while the man bela boured the child with a hair-brush till he broke a thigh, the woman beat it with a "cat" of soling leather:— She had also been known to take it up by the shoulders and " bump " it up and down on the floor until the poor thing shrieked with the pain of its broken leg, and the concussion of its bare feet with the ground. This mode of punishment she sometimes varied by catching it by the neck, and, holding it np some distance from the Ground, letting it drop with all its weight, when she would kick it into a corner or beneath the bed, vowing that she heartily " wished the young devil dead," and that she " would as lief kill it as kill a dog." The poor child presented a dreadful appearance. The prisoners were sentencad to be imprisoned for six months. THE ALLEGED POISONING CASE AT LICHFIELD has been satisfactorily disposed of by the analysis made by pr. Monckton. No traces of poison were found in the intestines of Mrs. Ashmall. A verdict was returned last week of "Died from natural causes." Mr. Ashmall left the court amid loud ex pressions of satisfaction from the audience. THE Two WOMEN, Celestine Somner and Ann Harris, under sentence of death in Newgate, have been respited during the Queen's pleasure. A ROBBERY OF PICTUB.ES to the value of 1,5001. was effected on Sunday night on the premises of Messrs. Nagboor, 144, Oxford-street. ,~.,* 3rtlaa THE MURDER. OF MRS. KELLY, notwithstanding every effort of the police, still continues involved in considerable mystery. A reward of 6001. has been offered. AN EXPERIMENT of the power of gas, made from turf peat, took place in Dublin last week, where 268 jets of gas burned for an hour at the corner of Jervis street, and at the cost only of sixpennyworth of peat. The display was hailed by an immense crowd as a great national discovery. It is calculated that six cubic feet of gas can be obtained from a pound of turf-peat at a cost of seventy-five per cent. cheaper than coal gas. _ _ AN APPEAL is about to be made before the Court of Error, in favour of Dunne, convicted of the murder of Miss Hinds, from a fresh juryman hiving been substituted for one taken ill during the trial. AN .ANECDOTE OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA iS told which speaks for his ingenuity and tact. At a dinner party in SL Petersburg a number of remarks had been made, and expressions used, unfavorable to the Emperor, his measures, and more particularly to the peace. A complete report of all that took place, the name of the host, the names of his fifteen guests, and the expressions used, was forwarded to the Empress mother in an anonymous letter. The Emperor, on receiving this document from his mother, had the giver of the party sent for, and told him what he had heard of him and his friends, and asked for the names of all the guests assembled at his table on the occasion in question. This list of names in cluded sixteen guests, and that name among them that had not been found among the fifteen named in the denunciation was, of course, that of the anony mous writer. This latter, a colonel in the Guards, was sent for. and the Emperor addressed hum as follows :—" You seem to have an inclination, as well as some talent, for service in the police force or the Gendarmerie ; if you like to enter it you can, /rut the Guards is not the place for you. If, on the other hand, you prefer to leave the service altogether, you shall find your cowgi ready for you." The giver of the party, however, came off with only a few words of retroof and sarning frotu the Emperor.