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London, England, 1857-01-31 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

one of the parish officers of Islington. Mr. Hicks,
a relieving officer, attended just before the closing of
the court with Mr. Bayliss, the chief usher. Mr.
Corrie suggested that the applicants should be pro-
perly attended to and relieved, according to their
necessities. Mr. Hicks said he would attend in-
stantly to the most urgent. The applicants then left
the court to go to the workhouse.
A similar body of men, with a complaint that they
had been refused relief, waited upon Mr. Elliott, at
Lambeth, on Tuesday. Mr. Elliott at once ordered
a reference to the parish authorities, when it ap-
pearl that the Board of Guardians had consented
to hear the application of the deputation of work-
men, but they one and all declined to make any
complaint. Mr. Janet, one of the relieving officers,
also offered the men tickets for labour in the work-
house, and for which labour they would have been
paid according to their necessities and the number of
their families, but they refused to accept them, and
ma: oiled off in a body
Mr. ELLIOTT observed that he was not surprised or dis-
appointed at the result, believing as he did that the object
of the parties was more display than actual want or a
desire to seek parochial assistance.

AN ADJUDICATION IN BANKRUPTCY has been ob-
tained against John Paul, late the clerk in the City
of London Union, now charged with embezzlement.
Paul is described as a corn and seed merchant of
Bedford and St. Mary Axe. It is stated that this is
the third occasion on which Paul has been made a
bankrupt.

THE COUNTY COURT JUDGESHIP vacant by the
death of Mr. Kekewich will be filled by Mr. Charles
Dacres Bevan of the Western Circuit.

THE CLERKESWELL CURACY CASE, in which the
question as to whether the right of election and
presentation of the perpetual curacy lay with the
vestry or parishioners, was finally decided on
Monday by the Lord Justices of Appeal in favour of
the parishioners. The appointment of the Rev.
Robert Maguire, therefore, becomes null and void.
The costs of all parties. both before the Vice
Chancellor and upon appeal, were charged to the
select vestry. A fresh election will now be made by
the general body of parishioners; and as it is said
that there are a large number of candidates ready to
take the field, an exciting contest may be expected.
LIEUT.-COL. STERLING brought an action this week
against the owners of the barque James Holmes, for
that vessel having, on the evening of the 22nd of
August last, run into his yacht, the Viking, off
Beachy Head. The wind at the time was N. by W.
The yacht was close hauled, steering for Cowes, the
barque running full for London. After hearing the
evidence on both sides, and the Trinity Masters
having expressed an opinion that the blame lay
entirely with the barque, judgment was giving ac-
cordingly. The amount of damages was not re-
ported.
AGAR'S PROPERTY, seized by the police, it has been
decided by the Judges of Exchequer, should be in
part handed over to the railway company—that is to
say, as much as can be proved to have been the pro-
duce or the gold robbery—and that the remainder be
given for the present into the custody of Sir Richard
Mayne, the Chief Commissioner of Police. The
convict Agar, it is said, will receive from Sir George
Grey a full pardon, on condition of leaving the
country for ever.

BACON AND HIS WIFE, charged with the murder of
their two children, were re-examined before Mr.
Elliott on Wednesday. Several witnesses were
examined, who deposed to the conduct of Bacon
immediately after the discovery of the murder : it
was nervous, timid, and desponding. The police also
produced a pair of trousers and a waistcoat stained
with blood. The prisoners were remanded.

ANDERSON AND SAWARD were on Wednesday again
examined before the Lord Mayor. Mr. Alfred Tur-
ner, the solicitor, of Red Lion•square, whose name,
it will be remembered, was forged to a cheque upon
Messrs. Gosling for 4101. 7s. 4d., swore to the cheque
not being in his handwriting. He had lost three or
four blank cheques out of his pocketbook. The
wife of Hardwick, convicted some time since for this
very forgery, was examined as to her acquaintance
with Seward. She knew him well, and had been
"to a party " at his house at Walworth. This wit-
ness made a certain admission of some importance.
When Hardwick was in gaol at Brecon on a charge
of burglary she was sent for by him. She went
down, and bribed the gaolers, who " let" Hardwick
out of gaol. Several lodging-house keepers and hotel
waiters identified the prisoners, who were ultimately
remanded for a week.
THE SPRING CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES are settled
as follows :—the Midland, Lord Campbell and Mr.
Justice Wightman ; Northern, Mr. Baron Martin
and Mr. Justice Crompton ; Western, Sir A. Cock-
burn and Mr. Justice Williams ; Oxford, Mr. Justice
Crowder and Mr. Justice Willes ; North Wales and
Chester, Mr. Baron Bramwell. The Vacation Judge,
in consequence of the lamented death of Mr. Baron
Alderson, who was placed on the rota as vacation
judge, remains unappointed, and the death of Baron

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Alderson will create some alteration in the arrange-
ments on the latter circuits; but it is gennally un-
derstood that Mr. Justice Coleridge, who is named
for the Home Circuit, will remain in town, and in the
event of the new judge not being appointed, Mr.
Sergeant Channell will be placed in the commission
as locum tenens.