The Press.
London, England, 1856-08-23 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

is assiduously forced. The infant school languishes which
a paternal Government would have cherished; but New-
gate flourishes—Newgate with her thousand cells to cor•
rupt their youthful inmates, seducing the guiltless, con-
firming the depraved.
A paper on " Secondary Punishments " was also
read by Sir Stafford Northcote, and a general meet-
ing held last night, at which Lord Stanley gave an
able resume of the proceedings of the society.

THE ASTROLOGER Hkamsou has addressed a long
letter to the editors of the Leeds Mercury in vindi-
cation of his conduct with reference to Dove. He
says :

A more scandalous, unsatisfactory, and impudent state.
ment never appeared in print than that which came out in
your Tuesday's impression. It appears to me, and to
hundreds more in this town, that Dove's villanous habit of
lying followed him even to his prison, and to the scaffold.
I tell you, gentlemen, and can give you ample proof of the
truth of my assertion, that not one•tenth part of Dove's
statement in his prison is true. I have uniformly wished
him to behave well to his wife, and to go home and use
kind, conciliating language to her, and " she would then
meet him with a smile." And he admits that. The state-
ment made by Dove in June should have been in the
hearing of Hardcastle, who declares that all he (Dove)
says, is a tissue of lies that can be very soon refuted.

Harrison then observes that he has been the means
of lifting many from a sick-bed, and that if the con-
ductors of newspapers knew half as much about him
as they ought to do, they would not have treated him
in the manner they had done. With reference to
Dove's conduct towards his wife he observes :

I always told Dove that he never would be happy with
his wife until she should bring him some children, and that
it would be much better that he should separate from her
if he could not live agreeable with her ; that it was no
credit to him to be continually tormenting a woman who
could not yield him those blessings which nature forbade
her to give, viz., a half-dozen children, which he (Dove)
pretended to long for. Gentlemen, it will be of no use me
attempting to deny any one particular statement made by
that profligate and unfeeling criminal, as I declare to you,
upon my honour, that there is scarcely a sentence of it
true, and what is true is told in such a raving, incoherent
manner, that the public—ay, the public— have seen the
folly of publishing it, and that same discerning public
declare " that the document ought not to have been put

into print."
He declares that the editors have been imposed
upon, and adds :

Gentlemen, both I and Hardcastle declare, upon our honour,
thatjthe tale about the " five coppers " being thrown about
the barn to put a "spell " upon King, and thereby cause
him to re•let the farm to Dove, was a pure burlesque upon
the simpleton, made out by some wag in the neighbour-
hood, who found Dove but too credulous to believe any-
thing or anybody who could play upon his foolish imagina-
tion and "selfish propensities."
He prays God to help any man who might have
dealings with such a profligate as Dove, and says, in
conclusion :

I am preparing for the press a something which will
alter your opinion, and the opinions of those of the London
press as well, I hope, and something which will prove to
my countrymen that Henry Harrison is, and will continue
to be, not an impostor, but a real benefactor of his species.

THE DANGER OF ALLOWING CHILDREN TO BATHE
near deep water was painfully exhibited last Satur
day in the vale of Festiniog. Two of the sons of
Mr. I. W. Cunningham, the Secretary of King's
College, London, and
_grandsons of the Rev. I. W.
Cunningham, vicar of Harrow-on-the-hill—Rowland,
aged twelve, and Gerard, aged nine—obtained leave
to bathe in a shallow part of the little river Dwyryd,
which tuns past Festiniog Rectory, where their
parents have been spending their summer vacation.
Soon afterwards the boys were seen and heard by a
servant playing in the water about 200 yards from
the house. After some time, however, when they
did not come home, their father became alarmed and
went to look for them. He found their clothes lying
on the hank, but there were no signs of the boys.
After a long search the poor children were both
found lying at the bottom of a deep pool in the turn
of the river, about 100 yards below the spot where
they had been seen at play. It is supposed that they
must have been, in their play, letting their bodies
float down the stream in the shallow water, and have
drifted out of their depth before they knew of it.
When got out they were both quite dead. Four
medical men were in attendance, and rendered all
the aid in their power. The bodies have been re-
moved for burial to Harrow-on-the-hill, the place of
their father's residence. In connection with these
numerous and sad accidents, we may mention that a
M. Danduran, a French civil engineer resident in
London, has lately invented a simole, ingenious, and
invaluable apparatus, fitting under the armpits, by
which means any person will be enabled to float
securely, with the head and shoulders above water.
M. Danduran exhibits his invention daily on tho
Serpentine at three p.m.
MR. NOBLE'S STATUE OF WELLINGTON has been
placed upon its pedestal in front of the infirmary
at Manchester. The inauguration takes place on
the 30th inst.

SATURDAY,

THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH has promised to
contribute to the Manchester Exhibition next year
specimens of porcelain, tapestry, bail work, and
bronzes.

ANOTHER FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION occurred on
Wednesday, at the Hampson Bleaching Mills, near
Bury. The boiler, a high-pressure one, of sixty_
horse power, blew up about 6.15 a.m., soon after the
mill had commenced work. Nine persons were killed
and upwards of twenty severely injured. An inquiry
is pending.
THE HEAVY GALE on Wednesday night has been
very destructive among the fishing-boats off the
Sussex and Kentish coasts. Several lives were lost
between Newhaven and Porto Bello, and much
damage done at Dover.

A FIRE broke out in Shaw's alley, Liverpool, on
Thursday morning, and burnt down a block of
small houses. Six persons were burnt to death in
their beds.