The Press.
London, England, 1858-11-27 00:00:00

THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 27, 1858.

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THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF ST. PAUL'S propose
to open the cathedral for special evening services,
as an experiment, from Advent Sunday (to-morrow),
to next Easter. The service will commence at seven
o'clock. The public will be admitted at the two
western side doors from the area facing Ludgate•hill.
The north door will be closed, in order to give a fair
trial to the warming process, not yet completed. The
south door will be open to the Lord Mayor and the
authorities of the City, the clergy of the cathedral,
and the committee with tickets. The choir will be
admitted with tickets at the south.east postern door,
opposite to Watling-street. The sermon to-morrow
evening will be preached by the Lord Bishop of
London ; that on Suuday next by the Dean of St.
Paul's.

THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSF.U3I was visited
during the week ending November '2oth by 0,157
persons.

SW anb Volta.

TfIE KNIGHTSBRIDGE CONFESSIONAL CASE came
before the Court of Queen's Bench on Tuesday, on
a motion for a rule nisi, calling upon the Archbi,hop
of Canterbury to show cause why he refused to bear
the B►ev. Alfred Poole's appeal from the decision of
the Bishop of London, founded upon the Church
Discipline Act of 1839. Mr. Bovill argued the case
for Mr. Poole ; and after referring to several autho-
rities it was decided that a rule should be granted.

THE SWEARING IN OF A MAHOMMEDAN as an
attorney occupied the Court of Queen's Bench on
Thursday. Amongst the applicants to be admitted
as attorneys in the Bail Court on the previous day
was Comrooden Tyabjee, a Mahommedan gentleman,
who had regularly served his articles to an attorney
iu London, and had passed the examination. As
some difficulty arose as to the oaths to be taken, Mr.
Justice Crompton referred the applicant to the full
court, and the matter stood over for decision until
the sitting of the court on Thursday morning, when
Lord Campbell said : A question has arisen respect-
ing the oath to be taken by a Mahommedan gentle-
man who has qualified as an attorney, but who cannot
conscientiously take the oath required on certain
occasions " upon the true faith of a Christian." The
question is whether it is necessary that the oath
should be taken by him. My learned brothers and
myself have considered the question, and we are of
opinion that the oath is not required to be taken by
this gentleman, because before the late Oaths Act
passed during the late session of Parliament it was
not necessary, iu order to be admitted as an attorney,
to take the oath of abjuration, but only the oath of
allegiance and the oath that the party would properly
demean himself in his capacity of an attorney. We
think that the oath containing the oaths of alle.
glance, supremacy, and abjuration, need not now be
taken by those who are not bound before the passing
of the act to take the oath of abjuration. It was
not required to be taken by attorneys, and we do not
suppose it was the intention of the Legislature to
inflict, by the late Act of Parliament, disabilities on
any of her Majesty's subjects to which they were not
previously subjected. This gentleman may there•
fore be admitted an attorney on his taking the oath
of allegiance and the oath to demean himself as an
attorney.—Mr. Comrooden Tyabjee then took the
oaths in the form most binding on his conscience,
namely, by placing the Koran between his hands
with his right hand uncovered, and then raising with
both hands the book to his forehead and kissing it.—
Lord Campbell, addressing the newly.admitted attor•
ney, said : I wish you success in your profession, sir.
—Mr. Comrooden Tyabjee thanked his lordship and

withdrew, bowing to the court.
HENRY Hattusow, a poverty-stricken-like man,
formerly minister of Ebenezer Chapel, Sbadwell, was
brought up in custody, on Tuesday, before Mr.
Burcham, at Southwark Police-oourt, charged with
threatening to stab his wife and cut his daughter's
throat. The wretched wife assured the magistrate
that she was afraid of her life, that they were in a
state of the most abject poverty, being even without
a bed to lie on, and all this misery, she added, arose
from the intemperate habits of her husband. The

prisoner admitted the truth of these statements,
but repudiated any intention to injure his wife. In
default of finding security to the amount of 201., he
was committed to prison for three months.
THURGOOD, a surgeon, and Rikey, a commission
agent, were tried on Tuesday at the Central Criminal
Court on the charge of conspiring to defraud Mr.
Christie, a Liverpool merchant, of a large quantity
of whisky. Both ptisoners were found guilty, and
sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment.
WILLIAM Lenox OuvErt, the stockbroker, pleaded
guilty at the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday,
to several indictments, charging him with having
appropriated certain stock and securities, intrusted
to him for a specific purpose, to his own use. He
was then removed from the bar.—lsaac Hermond,
alias Isaac Bandey. bricklayer, was charged with the
wilful murder of Sarah Farrell, who lived with him

as his wife, by throwing her out of window of the
room in which they lived, at No. 5, York-street,
Westminster. After the examination of a number
of witnesses, Baron Bramwell summed up, and the
jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. The
learned judge said be did not complain of the
verdict, but if the jury had returned a verdict of
murder the prisoner would have been banged; the
sentence of the Court was that he be kept to penal
servitude for the rest of his life. The prisoner did
not evince the least emotion.—Edward Mark Council
was found guilty of shooting at William James Budd,
with intent to murder him. The learned judge
ordered judgment of death to be recorded, and said
the Government would consider what punishment
should be inflicted upon him.
THE INSOLVENCY OF WILLIAM GEORGE HOWARD,
nephew to the Earl of Wicklow, and heir to the title,
is to be superseded, by raising 43,0001., to pay the
creditors by means of insurances and loans on the
insolven:'s reversionary property. The case stands
adjourned in the Court for that purpose.
A CONFESSION OF MURDER has been made by a
soldier of the Royal Artillery, named Pilkington,
while on his way to India some months ago in a
transport-ship. He alleges that the murder was
committed near Manchester about two years ago.
The statement is verified by the fact that a body was
found at the time and place named. Pilkiugton bad
an accomplice who is believed to be in America.

ANTOINE Am: Huoow, a traveller, and HUGON
REV ERDE' a merchant, both Frenchmen, were found
guilty on Thursday of attempting to make coin re-
sembling Turkish piastres, with the intention to pass
it as Turkish coin. The Court sentenced the first-
named prisoner to six, and the latter to twelve
E imprisonment.—Lewis Lewis, a fraudulent
bankrupt, was convicted of the charges brought
against him, and was sentenced to six years' penpf
servitude. He had been a draper in Exmouth•street,
Clerkenwell, and absconded to America with the pro-
perty of his creditors.

position, was seen to iced his musket, when he
deliberately pointed it to his leg and fired, the ball
shattering the limb below the knee. He was at once
conveyed to the garrison hospital, where the remain.
ing portion of the leg was immediately amputated by
Dr. Maclean, the principal medical officer. Drower
is very anxious that it should be understood he was
labouring under religious excitement when he corn.
mitten the act. As soon as he is able to leave the
hospital he will be brought to trial before a court.
martial, the mutiny act making it a serious crime for
any soldier to mutilate himself.

Obituart

DEATH OF ADMIRAL LORD LYONS.

ADMIRAL LOAD LYONS expired at Arundel Castle at
eight o'clock on Tuesday night. Some mont
e was f
Norfolk, induced
to
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visit his
Arundelam i a amiable
Castled a u h tef i ,
wtthhee
the gallant admiral was suffering from indisposition,sgo
and
Duchessh
benefit of his health. When Admiral Lyons was
summoned.. by her Majesty to command the squadron"
which visited Cherbourg, he was then in a bad state
of health ; but his love for the Queen, added to his
desire to carry out his duties as commander-in-chief,
predominated, and he accompanied her Majesty on
that visit. Since his return, his health has been
gradually declining. For some time, however, he
was enabled to take carriage drives, accompanied by
the Duke o f Norfolk or some member of the family..
but he ultimately became too weak to be removed
from his room. He also suffered severely from tic-
douloureux ; but the
.cause of disease was general
debility.
Admiral Lyons was born at Berton, near Christ-
church, in Hants, on the 21st of November, 1790,
and consequently has just completed his sixty.eighth
year. He was the second son of Mr. John Lyons, of
Lymington, who was ",a major ia the Christchurch
Volunteers. He married, in 1814, Angus:a, second
daughter of the late Captain Josiss Rogers, R.N.,
by whom be had two daughters—Anne Theresa
Bickerton, married Dec. 24, 1839, to Baron Philip
von Wurtzburg ; and Augusta Mary Minna Catherine,
married June 10, 1839, to the present Duke of Nor.
folk. He had two sons—Richard Pemell Bickerton
Lyons, attaché at Florence ; his younger son wan
1
Captain Edmund Moubray Lyons, who died of wounds
received before Sebastopol.
The public life of Admiral Lyons possesses con•
siderable interest. After completing his education at
Westminster, ho entered the royal navy at the early
age of eleven years, first serving on board the Royal
Charlotte, from which he removed in the following
year, and joined the Maidstone. In 1807 be was
serving on board the Active, 38, during the passage
of the Dardanelles by Sir John Duckworth, and was
engaged in the successful assault upon the redoubt
of Point Pesquies, on the Asiatic shore. In Poi
he was lieutenant of the Barraeouta brig ; and it was
in the next year that be achieved his first great
success. He was one of the foremost in the escalade
of the Castle of Belgica. This was accomplished
during the raging of a terrific storm. In this exploit
Mr. Lyons displayed that skill and boldness which
stamped him as a true British sailor—for the naviga-
tion was intricate and the garrison strong. The news
of this little victory was received gladly in England,
and scarcely had our hero reached his twentieth year
ere Admiral Drury appointed him as his flag lieutenant
on board the Minden, 74. Within a twelvemonth
after this appointment he sailed on the coast of Jaws,
to await the arrival of an expedition then fitting out
in India for the reduction of that island. Whilst
lying off J ava Mr. Lyons received some pnsoners,
among them hieing an intelligent person with whom
he got into conversation; from him be learnt that
the Dutch expected no attack during the monsoon.
Mr. Lyons immediately saw the opportunity
.for
action, and, with a boldness which excited
astonishment and admiration, b.: put off !wo
boats at midnight with their crews, consisting
of 35 officers and men, to attack Fort Marrselii
of 54 guns. It is said that as the boat approached,
the moon peeped out from behind a cloud, sad rel
vealed the sentinels ready to challenge. All hope of
surprise was gone, but it was not a moment for de:
liberation, and he boldly pushed on in the face of the
enemy. There was a heavy surf on at the time, but
h
he succeeded in landing his little force beneath t e
embrasures, and carried the lower battery.
was yet a good tough piece of work set out. fodir on
reaching the hill he found no less than 400 sol is
facing bim. ~I have 400 men and shall a
a dewill
quarter," he exclaimed. His men charged,
went the enemy heher-skelter. The fort wm
dawn
Lured—he succeeded in holding it, and on be daw
e
of day the British ensign was floating
Pursuing his career with the same spirit,
1,1':,
him appointed commander of the B.enaldo in 1
cle-.
in which vessel be escorted Louis X% IIL. to Fran :
on
.the wa11.!._.,
and the Allied Sovereigns to England, besides affor
ing
a passage
to
Mr.
Flan"' the bearer of the Treaty