The Press.
London, England, 1856-10-11 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

Two Mew WERE KILLiDI by a collision between
two cattle trains at Salisbury on Monday evening.
The jury, at the inquest, passed a censure on the
Great Western Railway Company for employing as
night men engine-drivers unaccustomed to the line.
A serious collision also occured on the South Wales
Railway on the same night from one coal train
running into another. Three men were seriously
injured.

A Monsr, HuseAlin, one Edmund Wayne, a disso-
lute•looking man, was brought before Mr. Hammill
at Worship-street on Monday, under the following
circumstances :—The prisoner's wife, whose face on
the left side was bruised from the temple to the jaw,
stated that while at home the previous evening he
entered, the worse for liquor, and because there was
only bread in the cupboard. struck her with his fist
on the head. She did not wish to imprison him, but
was desirous that he should be compelled to main-
tain his three children and separate from her :
CM. HAMMILL : Why, has he ill-used you before this
occasion 2

Complainant ( reluctantly) : Yea, sir, he has ; but I don't
wish to hurt him.

Mr. IlsismiLL : So you have said : what is the matter
with your right eye? Complainant : I have lost the sight
of it, sir.

Mr. HAMMIILL : Now, how was that? Complainant:
Well, he struck me in the eye six years ago, and blinded me.
I don't think he would behave so if it was not for the drink.
I am sure he would be a better man.
Mr. Hammitt, : No doubt of that. Who supports the
fhmily?-4 do, sir, principally. He is a brushmaker ; but I
see very little of the produce. I cannot live with him
again, but do not hurt him. He only hit me once.
Mr. HAustiu.: And a very frightful blow it manifestly
WAS. You have lost the sight of one eye, and the other is
visibly affected. Your husband shall go to prison for two
months, and find good bail for six months afterwards.
THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY were
mulcted in 2,7201. damages, to one Allen, a confec-
tioner, for injuries sustained by an accident on 7th
December last, on the North Kent line. A collision
occurred between two trains, and the unhappy
plaintiff was deprived of both legs, besides receiving
other injuries. He was placed on the table in court,
and gave his evidence. The company did not dis-
pute his claim.

A HINT FOR LORD PANSIIIRE iS given by the cir-
cumstance that the French prize cannon brought
from Sebastopol are at this moment being placed on
the bronze gun-carriages before the railings of the
Invalides.

Ma. J. 111‘GREGOR, M.P., has addressed a letter
to the Glasgow papers :
Sir,—Finding that during my absence injurious and
unfounded charges have been made against me with refe-
rence to the Royal British Bank, I have now only time
briefly to say that I will soon and fully refute those charges.
I was neither the projector nor founder of that bank. I
was, it is true, deluded into the imprudence of becoming a
director of it; but, after my election in 1852 for Glasgow,
I resolved to have no connection with any joint•atoek com-
pany whatever, and I have carried my resolution into effect.
Meantime, I am your obedient servant,
J. M`Gamort.
Athenaeum Club, London, Oct. 2.

DR. TAIT, late Dean of Carlisle, now Bishop of
London, preached his farewell sermon on Sunday
afternoon last. Although the weather was unfavor-
able Carlisle cathedral was crowded. The mayor and
corporation attended in their official capacity, as a
mark of respect to the dean. Dr. Tait took his text
from the 3rd chapter of Malachi, 16th and 17th
verses :

Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to
another: and the Lord harkened, and heard it, and a book
of remembrance was written before Him for them that
feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name. And
they shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts, in that city
when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a
man spareth his own son that serreth him.

The dean began his discourse by referring to many
passages of Scripture which show the uncertainty
of individual position in this world, as well as of
human life generally. He then alluded to his ap-
pointment as Bishop of London, and assured his
audience that he was deeply impressed with the
great responsibility of that important office, and
besought them to continue their prayers on his be-
half as a minister of Christ's gospel ; ho also ad
verted to his recent family bereavement, and, in con
elusion, entreated his hearers to support the
schools he had established for the education
of the children of the labouring poor—to direct
their attention towards making provision for the
religious instruction or pastoral supervision of the
hundreds of poor who were inmates of the work-
houses in the city—and to give their aid in support
of the Scripture Readers' Society. The discourse,
which was both able and eloquent, occupied nearly
an hour in delivery.

THE REV. RICHARD CHENEVLX TRENCH, M.A.,
rector of Itchin•Stoke, Hants, has been appointed
to the deanery of Westminster, vacant by the
decease of the Rev. Dr. Rockland. The rev.

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gentleman graduated at Trinity College, Cam-
bridge, without obtaining classical or mathem
tical honours. After leaving Cambridge he wa4
ordained, and was appointed to the curacy of
Curdridge, in the diocese of Winchester, which he
shortly after resigned and became curate to the Rev.
Samuel Wilberforce (now Bishop of Oxford), vicar
of Alverstoke. In 1854, when Mr. Wilberforce was
preferred to the Deanery of Westminster, Lord
Ashburton presented Mr. Trench to the rectory of
Itchin-Stoke, a benefice which he has held up to the
present time. When Mr. Wilberforce was raised 10
the bishopric of Oxford he appointed Mr. Trent h
his examining chaplain; in 1845 and 1840 he was
Hulsean preacher at Cambridge, and in 1847 he
became theological professor and examiner at King's
College, London. He was married in 1832 to his
cousin, the Hon. Francis Mary Trench, sister of the
present Lord Ashtown, by whom he has a family of
six sons and five daughters. The new dean is the
author of several of that class of works which show
rather a perception of the niceties of literature, and
a refined mind, than original views or pro-
found thought. Mr. Trench belongs to the High
Church party, by whom, in 1852, his name was put
forward as a candidate for the office of proctor, in
convocation, for the archdeacon of of Winchester, but
he was defeated on a poll, the evangelical party suc-
ceeding in returning their nominee, the Rev. J.
Haygarth, M.A., rector of Upham.
MR. GEORGE HUDSON'S pecuniary losses and his
peculiar position therefrom have long been known in
certain circles. The fact was first made public on
Tuesday last at the Bankruptcy Court, in the case
of Mr. Tingey, proprietor of the Bedford Panopticon,
Tottenham-court-road. Mr. Johnson, for the assig-
nees, applied for the sanction of the court to a com.
promise which the assignees proposed to make with
reference to a bill of exchange for 1,0001., bearing
the names of Mr. George Hudson and Mr. Mould,
railway contractor, and for &which they had been
offered 1501.:
The COMMISSIONER: Hudson! Hudson! What Hud-
son is it ?

Mr. JOHNSON: Tho celebrated George Hudson, the late
Railway King.
The Commisioner looked incvdulons.
Mr. Jonnson assured the court that it was rightly in-
formed.

The COMMISSIONER: Is it to come to this, that his accep-
tance for 1,0001. is to be compromised for 150 i. ?
Mr. JOHNSON : The assignees consider themselves very
fortunate in getting that sum.
Him Hosourt: Well, if the official assignee and the
trade assignee concur in thinking it a beneficial compro-
mise, let it be so.

Mr. JOHNSON: That is really the opinion.
LIEUTENANT MASSEY, Of the 19th Regiment, has
written a letter this week protesting against an article
in the Globe, accusing him of a desire to become an
object of hero-worship. He denies seriatim every
charge preferred against him by the Globe, and
asserts that, so far from wishing to appeal to the
sympathy of the public against being left "to shiver
under the cold shade " of the aristocratic element of
the army, he is quite content with his present position,
and has always expressed in the warmest manner
his gratitude for kindness received from the aristo-
cracy far beyond his deserts.
CONVOCATION was further prorogued on Wednes-
day till Friday the 14th of November.
M. DE MORA, the Spanish converted Protestant,
lately arrested in Madrid, has been liberated, and is
now en route to England.
A SHEET OF IRON PAPER was lately produced by
Bessemer's process. The sheet was much thinner
and of a finer quality than that exhibited by Prince
Demidoff, in 1851.
THE LABOURS OF • COLONIAL GOVERNOR are re-
corded in the statistical summary of the Registrar-
General of New South Wales, for the year ending
31st of March last. During that period, the Go-
vernor-General has written 582 despatches to the
Secretary of State, 407 messages or speeches to the
Legislative Council, and 13,600 letters, notes, or me-
moranda, on a host of topics, public or private ; de-
livered 49 addresses on various subjects—religious,
charitable, scientific or literary ; and held 1,766 in-
terviews with as many different people.
THE Tay, West India steamer, was reported this
week as lost in a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico on
the 30th of August last. The report is entirely with-
out foundation.

AN ECLIPSE OF THE MOON, visible at Greenwich
and nearly total, will take place next Monday night.
It will commence at twenty-one minutes past nine
p.m., and end at twenty-seven minutes Not midnight.
THE PRACTICABILITY OF TELEGRAPHING by electric
current through a great length of cable has this
week been satisfactorily settled by a series of suc-
cessful experiments in London, by Messrs. White-
house, Bright, and Morse, upon a continuous length
of 2,000 miles of cable. Signals were telegraphed at
the rate of 210.'241, and at one time of 270• per
minute with perfect success. The experiments were
undertaken with the view of testing the anticipated
operation of the telegraph between Newfoundland
and Ireland.

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