The Press.
London, England, 1857-07-25 00:00:00

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A SOLICITOR AT LIVERPOOL, a Mr. Gaskell, and his
clerk, were drowned in the Carr, a mill-dam, last
week, under peculiar circumstances. It is assumed
from the position of the bodies that, Mr. Gaskell
fishing at the time, a pike dragged his rod into the
water; the boy undressed and went to recover the
rod, having a strong line fastened to his wrist, and
held by Mr. Gaskell ; getting near the centre, the
boy must suddenly have plunged overhead ; Mr.
Gaskell rushed in to save him, when he got his arms
entangled with the cord, and thus both were drowned.
The coroner's jury returned a verdict of "
acci-
dental death."

MR. GORDON CUMMING WAS brought up at one of
the Liverpool police courts this week, charged with
assaulting a Mr. Griffiths at the Grand Junction
Hotel. From the evidence, it appeared that the
gentlemen were in the coffee-room when Mr. Griffiths
provoked the assault, by first making insulting re •
marks about the English flag, and when they were
resented challenging Mr. Cumming and his friends
to fight, saying that if they would get upon the floor
" he would take the bounce out of all three of them."
In common politeness, Mr. Cumming said, he ac-
cepted the invitation, and as he did not do those kind
of things by halves, lie gave the man a sound thrash-
ing for his impertinence. The magistrate considered
that the complainants had drawn the chastisement
on themselves, and dismissed the summons. _

THE AFTERNOON EXPRESS TRAIN from Cheltenham
to London a few minutes atter starting was run into
on Friday week by a down train. The pointsman
had forgotten to set the points, ant the express was
running up the down line. Several of the passen-
gers were severely cut and bruised. Both engines
were thrown off the lines.
THE NEW YORK MAIL STEAMER Persia made her
last trip from New York to the Rock Lighthouse in
9d. 2 h. 15 m., the quickest passage upon record.
Last year she rau the distance in 9 d. 2 b. 40 m.
THE BATCH OF CONVICTS now going to Western
Australia includes some remarkable men. Amongst
the 400 will be found Sir John Dean Paul, Strahan,
and Bates, the fraudulent bankers ; Robson, the
Crystal Palace forger ; Redpath, who committed the
forgeries on the Great Northern Railway Company ;
and Ager, who committed the great gold robbery on
the South-Eastern Railway. The notorious bank
forger, Barrister Saward, alias Jem the Penman, the
putter up of all the great robberies in the metropolis
for the last twenty years, also goes out in this ship.

A TOISHOP-KEEPER at Gloucester, named Morley,
in a fit of depression drowned himself and his two
children last week in the Gloucester Canal. He had
for some time been in indifferent circumstances, and
laboured under the belief that his family would one
day come to want.
THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN were discussed on Tues-
day evening at a public meeting held in the Town-
hall, Leicester, to consider the several measures now
before Parliament relative to the social position and
political rights of women. The meeting was nume-
rously attended, and Mrs. Woodford was voted to the
chair. Mrs. Watts moved the first resolution :

That this meeting, entertaining a deep sense of the
many personal wrongs, social injustices, and legal itiequa•
hties to which the women of England are subjected, it
hereby testifies its high appreciation of the several efforts
which are being made to obtain for them protection and

redress, and it most cordially supporta the measure intro-
duced before Parliament by Sir Erskine Perry in their
- -

A Mrs. Cockayne seconded the resolution, and a Mrs.
Wigfield then proposed that an address, advocating
the rights of women, he adopted by the meeting, and
be circulated. Mrs. Wigfield said woman was only
inferior to man in physical power :
God created woman as a helpmate to man. Man was
not a zit) short through the creation of woman, as was
generally supposed. In both sexes there was an equal
number of ribs. Woman was not a part of man because
the Scriptures said she was taken from his side ; but that
was intended as a sign of equality and of ccmpanionship
between them. If God intended her to be the slave of
man, why did He not take her from his foot, that man
might kick her away when he thought proper, or from his
fist, that he might knock her down at his pleasure. If
they read the several accounts of the woman in Scripture,
they would find that woman was acknowledged in various
scenes and transactions as equal and sometimes superior
to man. Equal provision was made for her in the ark.
There was no shutting out there because they were women,
as there is now•s.days. Then Miriam accompanied the two
great leaders of Israel out of Egypt. She was mentioned
as a prophetess, too. She went out with timbrel in hand,
and the women followed her. There was no privacy about
that, but women were not allowed to speak in public now.
Women were in these days very much crushed, but no
man was master of her.

She at some length denounced the law of primo-
geniture, and concluded by moving the adoption of
the address, which, on being seconded by Mrs. King,
was carried.

BSAXKSEA CASTLE was put up for sale on Wed-
nesday, at the auction matt. The competition com-
menced at 25,0001. bid, and continued with much
vigour until the figures bad reached 100,0001. A
pause ensued, when the strife was renewed, and in a
few minutes the bidding of 110,0001. brought down
the hammer. The property had been bought in.
Two PRISONERS, well known desperate characters,
escaped from the borough gaol at Newcastle on
Wednesday. Nothing has since been heard of them.
A l olicetnan on duty in Great Cheetham-street,
Higher Broughton, Manchester, on Thursday morn-
ing met two men, who were there under suspicious
circumstances. After putting some questions to
them which they did not satisfactorily answer, one
of them fired a pistol at bim, lodging ten shots iu
bi. 4 right temple. The men ran away and escaped.
The wound, though serious, is not considered likely
to be fatal.