The Press. — London, England, 1857-01-24 00:00:00

/'1 .82 A Damn:non composed of the rector, church wardens, and vestrymen of the parish of St. James, Westminster, had an interview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, in order to call his attention to the increasingjnumber of houses of ill-fame and betting offices in that part of London. A memorial was read entering into all the details of the question, re questing that sonic law should be framed to remedy both the grievances complained of. Sir George Grey said that he would refer the first complaint to the Attorney-General. As to the betting-houses, the complaint was rather against the administration of the law than the law itself. After replying to several statements made by members of the deputa tion, Sir George Grey intimated that the memorial should have his consideration, and that he would communicate with the Attorney-General in reference to the most effective steps for carrying the existing law bearing on the subjects brought under his notice into operation. The result of this communication was apparent on Wednesday evening, when the police made a descent on the notaious neighbourhood of Regent-circus, and carried out a regular foray among the French and Belgian prostitutes and their houses et call. Women and landlords were arrested and warned, and for the future it is to be hoped that some change will be effected. THE CITY OF LONDON UNION INVESTIGATION COH• WITTEE brought up a report at the board meeting on Tuesday, in which they stated that no tidings had yet been heard of Nanini, and therefore they had raised the reward offered for his apprehension from 601. to 2001. The committee also advised that a recommendation contained in a former report, for dismissing Eldred and Hampton, the two assistant clerks employed in Mr. Rowsell's office, should at once be carried out, and that they should be paid the amount of their salaries up to the present time. The adoption of the report was moved and seconded, but on a letter from Hampton being read, exculpat i.ig Himself on the ground of his having always, as ledger dell, posted under the instructions of Paul and Manini, and having never been permitted to see the bankers' pass book, so much of the report as related to his dismissal was struck out, and the re isn't was then carried by a large majority. A GREAT FIRE broke out in Spktalfields on Thurs. dly morning at Mr. Weston's public-house in Pearl s reet. The inmates were aroused and made their e•-cape. A strong force of fire-engines were soon on the spot, and, as the supply of water was plenti ful, N‘e..e quickly at work. About eight the back wall fell in, burying some firemen, who with some diffi. out y were rescued comparatively unhurt. The fire burnt itself out by nine o'clock. THE BISHOP OF Rim's, 1)r. Bickersteth, was presented with a handsome vase candelabrum on Monday by his late parishioners of St. Giles's-in-the Fields. Sin C. R. Liouros, Bart., Vicar of Ellastone, Staffordshire, has been appointed hon. secretary to the Society for Irish Missions to the Roman Catholics in the room of Dr. Robert Bickersteth, Bishop of Ripon. BARON ALDERSON is seriously ill. The learned judge was attacked a short time Hith determination of blood to the head, but at the commencement of the present week he became much better, and strong hopes were entertained of his ultimate recovery, but an attack of paralysis came on, which has affected his lower extremities, and rendered him completely powerless. He is described as being insensible, and as lying in a state of total exhaustion. Baron Alderson was appointed vacation judge, but it has now been arranged that Mr. Justice Coleridge shall take that duty, and Mr. Sergeant Channel will be placed on the commission for the Homo. Circuit at the forth coming assizes in the place of Mr. Justice Coleridge. In the event of Baron Alderson's recovery, he will retire from the bench on his pension of 3,5001. a year, to which be is entitled for upwards of fifteen years' service. A NEW EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM will open at the New Buildings, South Kensington, in the spring. The museum will exhibit, under a proper classifica tion, all important books, diagrams, illustrations, and apparatus connected with education already in use, or which may be published from time to time, either at borne or abroad. The public will be admitted free, as to a public exhibition, on certain days of the week, and on other days, which will be reserved for students, opportunity will be given to examine and consult the objects with the utmost freedom. A catalogue will be prepared which will contain the price lists which exhibitors may furnish for insertion. The books and objects will be grouped under the fo'lowiug divisions:-1. School buildings and fit tings, forms, desks, slates, Flans, models, &c. 2. General education, including reading, writing, gram mar, arithmetic, mathematics, foreign languages, hist wies. 3. Drawing and the fine arts. 4. Music. 8. Household economy. O. Geography and astro float . 7. Natural history. 8. Chemistry, 9. r‘gysics. 10. Mechanics. 11. Apparatus for teach ing On Pad sad iba deaf and dwub, THE P E S S. THE SOCIETY FOR THE AMENDMENT OF THE LAW met on Monday night, Mr. Pitt Taylor in the chair, when the report of the committee on the Testamen tary Bills of Sir R. Bethel!, Sir F. Kelly, and Mr. Collier, introduced last session, was rend and ordered to be printed. The committee, after analysing the measures of those hon. and learned gentlemen, re commended the establishment of a central court of probate, to consist of three of the !common-law judges. They proposed that the existing powers of construction and administration should be continued in the Court of Chancery, and that in all cases not exceeding 3001. the county courts should have juris diction. A discussion ensued, in which Mr. Collier, M.P., Mr. Pritchard, and Mr. Williams took part. TILE REGISTRAR GENERAL'S RETURNS for the week show a mortality of 1,171. The births for the same period reached 1,784 A summary of the births and deaths in London for the last fifteen years, compiled chiefly front the weekly returns, has just been pub lished. In that period 88,833 children were born, viz., 44,159 boys, and 442,674 girls. In the same period 56,786 persons died, of which 28,894 were men, and 27,892 women. h Vrabintial. A Murnot broke out on Monday morning among the crew of the ship James Bogart, lying in the Mersey. She was to have sailed that morning for New York, ostensibly, but for Mobile in reality. The crew, most of them black fellows, discovering that the ship was bound to Mobile, a slave port, struck work. The officers attacked the crew, the men resisted, and a fight ensued, in which one of the crew was shot by the second mate. The first mate was knocked down with a handspike and stabbed in the shoulder. The river police were quickly on board, and arrested sixteen of the crew and the second mate. The whole of the crew in custody are more or less injured —some of them very severely. The police took from the person of the first mate a pistol; and, on being carried to tha hospital, " brass knuckles " were found in his pocket. From inquiries made on board it appears that the officers from the moment the ship cleared commenced ill-treating the men, and that the ill treatment reached such a point on Monday morning that the men struck work, and refused their ordinary duty. The officers immediately resorted to arms, shots were fired, and a black seaman named Christie fell wounded. The men then seized whatever was at band and attacked the officers, wounding the first mate as we have stated above. The occurrence has created much sensation. The crew were brought before the bench on Tuesday and remanded. The first mate lies in a dangerous state. THE CONSECRATION or THE BISHOP OF RIPON took place last Sunday morning at Bishopthorpe. After a sermon by the Hon. and Rev. J. T. Pelham, M.A., rector of Marylebone, the bishop elect was presented to the Archbishop of York by the Bishops of Durham and Carlisle, and he then assumed the full episcopal habit. The archbishop and the assist ing bishops then laid their hands upon the head of the bishop elect, the archbishop using the prescribed form. The installation will take place in about a fortnight. The new Bishop of Ripon will not be entitled to a seat in the Lords until a vacancy occurs in a see other than Canterbury, York, London, Dur ham, or Winchester. A MEMORIAL TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE MR. BROTEERTON has been decided on by the people of Salford. A meeting was held on Monday, and up wards of 1,0001. subscribed on the spot. The Speaker of the House of Commons has, through his secre tary, Mr. Waldegrave, acknowledged the melancholy intelligence of Mr. Brotherton's death. A MONSTER BLAST took place at the Holyhead new harbour works, at twelve o'clock on Friday week, no less a quantity than eight tons of gun powder being exploded, by which it is calculated that about 100,000 tons of stone were displaced for the purpose of being taken to the breakwater now in course of formation. A most distinguished and numerous party of visitors were present to witness the blast, a battery having been erected to insure their safety. Among the party present were Sir Robert Peel, Bart., Lord Harry Gordon, Lord Clarence Paget, General Sir John Burgoyne, &e. A FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT happened on Monday afternoon, a little before three o'clock, to the driver of a Lancashire and Yorkshire Company's engine when standing at the Sough station, Over Darwen, with a ballast train attached. While another train was passing, the boiler burst, forcing out about a foot of the firebox, so as to knock the driver, Daniell Greenwood, off the emzine. He wes afterwards found on the side of the line quite dead. The guard, Henry Young, was also seriously scalded, and died a few hours afterwards. The stoker was under the engine, and escaped injury. A PUBLIC MEETINGOF MASTER 1330 T AND SHOE llsitzas was held at Stratford on Monday evening relatire W tho high pi* a leather. Anaopg those SATURDAY, present were Messrs. Bryant, Bailey, Skinner, Pres. land, Lance, Smart, Craddock, &c. The meeting was addressed by Messrs. Bryant, Lance, Abbot, Skinner, Craddock, and others. Subsequently Mr. Lance moved the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted:— That the high price of leather renders it imperative to make a corresponding advance in the price of boots and shoes ; and with a view to obtain this object, and in order to afford a legitimate protection to the trade, a committee be now formed of nine persons, with power to add to their number, for the purposes mentioned. A committee meeting has also been held during the week. and anotl er public one for the trade will take place in the ensuing week, when it will be determined as to the advance the present price of leather %Nill justify the trade to make in order to meet the pre sent emergency. THE ATTEMPT TO GET OFF THE " TYNE" is postponed until Tuesday next, in consequence of the time which must be occupied in taking the paddlewheels from her, and performing other preliminary operations. The Government authorities at Portsmouth have consented to send down powerful tugs to insure the success of her being got off next Tuesday. People have slept on board her every night since the first night after she was stranded. The surf fortunately breaks before reaching the ship. Lieutenant Fuge, the Admiralty agent who was injured in the head while attempting to save her mails, now lies danger ously ill at Southampton. In connection with the loss of this vessel, we may mention an instance of noble generosity on the part of M. Edouard Pecher, Belgian Consul General at Rio, who has handed 5001. over to the Admiralty for the benefit of Henry Bath, chief boatman of the Coastguard at St. Alban's Head. Bath was the first man on board the Tyne, and by his energy and courage inspired the passengers with confidence. The Admiralty have promoted Bath to the rank of chief officer in the service. It deserves also to be recorded, both to the honour of M. Pecher and to the credit of Bath, that he refused the 5001. when offered to him on the beach by M. Peeper. M. Pecher, however, made the offer in bond fide, and was not to be denied. ThE RAMSGATE LIFEBOAT saved forty lives a few days since, from the American ship Kilby, ashore on the Goodwin Sands. The ship was seen asnore from Ramsgate, and the lifeboat instantly sent off to the rescue of the crew, which were safely and gal lantly saved from certain death. THE MAINE LAW IN GLASGOW Was discussed at a public meeting on Friday week. Resolutions were proposed and carried to the effect that the present system of licence was "unsound in principle, and disastrous in effect, and that the true policy to be followed with regard to the sale of intoxicating drinks, was to prohibit any sale at all." THE ANNEAL SornEE of the Bristol AthenEeum was held on Wednesday evening. The attendance could have scarcely fallen short of 2,000 persons ; and amongst the celebrities present was Lieut.-Colonel Simmons, her Majesty's Commissioner in Turkey, who was made the " lion " of the evening. The public meeting was held in the great saloon, and was addressed by the Mayor, Mr. Recorder Hill, and Colonel Simmons. The gallant colonel received a very warm reception, and delivered an address upon the late war, which excited much interest. A DESPERATE FIGHT WITH POACHERS occurred at Cadlands, near Hythe, on Sunday last, between Mr. Drummond's keeper, Dean, and two men, Arnold and Blow. Dean, accompanied by a powerful mastiff, on going his rounds heard the report of a gun in Stanswood copse. He immediately went to the spot, and there discovered two men, whom he endeavoured to arrest; they resisted, and one of them had a long struggle with the keeper, during which the latter was shot through the side. The keeper fell, but bad strength enough left to get to the assistance of the dog, who had attacked one of the men, and take its muzzle off. The other poacher immediately made off, but the dog seized him by the arm and shoulder, and dragged him to the ground. The poacher began to shriek for mercy, calling out that his name was Blow, and he would surrender if Dean would take the dog off. The keeper, though exhausted from loss of blood, crawled to the rescue, and released the poacher from his dangerous situation, but the dog burst away again, bringing the poacher to the ground. Once mare the keeper muzzled the dog, and released the poor wretch, who by this time was reduced to a worse state than Dean himself. Assistance very shortly came, the keeper was taken borne, and a surgeon sent for; but before his wounds could be dressed, a second summons arrived from the poacher Blow. Both were in a very precarious state. Dean was shot completely through the side, and it was doubtful whether he would survive. The poacher Blow was frightfully mangled about the head, face and arms—more injured, if possible, than Dean. The escaped poacher has been arrested, A PROFESSIONAL BEGGAR, named Page, died in Norwich last week, and no lass a sum than 3001. discovered st his lodgings by the pcii.v.