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London, England, 1854-08-05 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

Lawley for losing so good a place, or the colony for
losing so good a governor :
" Mr. Lawley has not every virtue under heaven ; he has
given evidence of good talents and good qualities—and
those precisely of the sort fitting him fur a situation such
as he was appointed to. That unfortunately one of his
qualities, or rather propensities, has cancelled his claims
we regret; and we are disposed to regret it for the sake of
the colony, as well as of the gentleman principally and
painfully concerned."

THE CHOLERA.
THE deaths registered in London last week were
1,219, having been only 1,008 in the previous week,
and presenting an excess of forty over the corrected
decennial average. The increase is caused by
cholera, which has made considerable progress since
the 26 deaths occurred which were announced
in the previous report. It was fatal last week to
133 persons ; namely, to 42 children under fifteen
years of age, 78 men and women between that age
and sixty years, and to 13 persons sixty years old
and upwards. Seventy-one, or more than half the
number of cases, occurred on the south side of the
river, 35 in the east districts, and the remainder in
various other parts of the metropolis, as far as its
western extremity. Diarrhoea has increased from
58 to 84 in the last two weeks.
The Lord Auckland, which sailed from London
for Bombay on the '2lst inst., with drafts of the 10th,
26th, 68th, and 87th Regiments, comprising seven
ensigns and 187 men, under the command of Lieut.
Steer, put in at Plymouth on Monday last, cholera
having broken out on board. Seventeen cases and
three deaths had then occurred ; and since the
vessel has been at Plymouth six more cases ap-
peared, followed by three additional deaths. The
sick have been removed to the hospital hulk, and
by the last accounts the health of the crew and
soldiers was improving. Sir Harry Smith boarded
the Auckland on Tuesday, and expressed his
disapprobation of the conduct of the solders, who
were neither clean nor well-disciplined : a court of
inquiry subsequently sentenced two of them to im-
prisonment. All the water was ordered to be started,
and the ship to be cleaned, whitewashed, and
purified.
The Lima, an emigrant-ship, put in at Falmouth,
ith cholera on board, on Monday last. Several
deaths have since occurred, includii s the captain's
wife, the ship's carpenter, cook, and two passengers.
According to the official bulletin, on the 23rd July,
there were 616 cases of cholera in St. Petersburg,
to which 63 were added in the course of the day.
Of these 41 recovered and 19 died, leaving 609.

(eirtiaull.

THE VENERABLE MARCUS G. BERESFORD, D.D.,
Archdeacon of Ardagh, and Vicar of Larah and
Drung, in the diocese of Kilmore, has been appointed
to the vacant see of Kilmore, Ardagh, and Elphin.
THE IRISH MILITIA, it is at present understood,
will not be enrolled until after the coming harvest is
over, and will not be embodied until the early spring
of next year.
Tows CousCILLOTt BOYCE was on Monday unani-
mously elected to till the office of Lord Mayor of
Dublin for the ensuing year, Mr. Thomas Hutton
having declined the proffered honour. Mr. Boyce is
a Conservative.
THE TRIAL OF MR. CARDEN for the attempted
abduction of Miss Arbuthnot commenced at Clonmel
on Friday (yesterday) week. The evidence, as
given on the trial, was of a startling and extraordi-
nary character, but the principal facts have already
been published. On the suggestion of Mr. Justice
Ball, who presided, it was agreed to by the Attorney-
General for the Crown, and by Mr. Martley, Q.C., for
the prisoner, that his lordship should direct the jury
that there was not a removal of the lady sufficient to
constitute a felony, but that there was an attempt to
commit a felony. The jury then found the prisoner
guilty of the attempt to commit felony. This latter
offence is punishable with two years' imprisonment,
and a pecuniary fine at the discretion of the court.
The proceedings were recommenced next day (Satur-
day), which was spent in the discussion of legal
points. O❑ Mr. Carden, with three of his associates,
being arrraigned for feloniously assaulting John
Smithwick, the counsel pleaded that he had been
already tried and acquitted of the felony, but con-
victed of an attempt to commit a felony. Issue was
joined, and the question submitted to the jury, which
found that " The acquittal of the charge of abduction
is not an acquttal of the felony or felonies in
the indictment." The trial was accordingly pro-
ceeded with on Monday, when Mr. Carden was again
placed at the bar, charged with having committed a
felonious assault upon Smithwick, the herdsman, who
so gallantly came to the rescue of Miss Arbuthnot.
The jury returned a verdict of " Not guilty," an an-
nouncement which was received with loud cheers,
several ladies in the gallery waving their handker-
chiefs. Mr. Carden was then directed to be put for-
ward to receive sentence for the attempt at abduction

SATURDAY,

ct which he had been found guilty on Saturday, and;
having obtained leave to make a few observations,
spoke at some length in denial of his harbouring
malice towards Miss Arbuthnot or any member of her
family, or of his having any intention of using the
drugs which were found in his carriage for the pur-
pose of producing stupefying effects. Judge Ball
then, after a feeling address, sentenced Mr. Carden
to two years' imprisonment, with hard labour. The
trial of Mr. Carden's associates has been postponed
until next assizes. The Tipperary Vindicator states
that Mr. Carden's counsel would endeavour to save a
point of law for him, it' possible, to be argued in
Dublin. Mr. Carden was put to hard labour in the
county gaol on Tuesday in the prison dress.

ANOTHER CURIOUS AND IMPORTANT CASE is before
the Irish Courts, having been commenced on Tues-
day at Kilkenny. The suit is a civil one, entitled
Butler v. Mountgarrett, and involves a•elaim to the
title and estates of Lord Mountgarrett. The defen-
dant, who is the holder of the title, is son of Henry
Butler, third son of the eighth Lord Mountgarrett.
Two elder sons died without issue, but the viscounty
and property are claimed by Mr. Pierce Butler, the
heir of the fourth son, on the plea of illegitimacy.
The Hon. Henry Butler, father of the present lord,
is stated to have passed through a varied career,
living often abroad, and characterised during his
whole life by erratic habits and an indulgence in
play and dissipation. He married Miss Harisson,
the mother of the defendant, at Harrogate, in 1811,
but had previously lived, both in England and Scot-
land, with a Mrs. Colebroke, a widow lady of extra-
ordinary fascination and considerable property,
which, however, she would forfeit upon marrying
again. Notwithstanding this, it was alleged that,
early in the same year, 1811, when in Edinburgh,
Mr. Butler, in a jealous fit, uttered words before wit-
nesses which amounted to a legal contract of mar-
riage in Scotland ; and one of the auditors then
present, a servant named Hannah Stride, has been
examined as a witness at the pending trial. It is
shown that Mrs. Colebroke had at that time formed
a connection with a young man of property named
*nude, to whom she was married, according to the
Catholic rites, at Preston, in 1816, and that the same
witness, Hannah Stride, was called to substantiate
that marriage, which, however, was proved to be in-
, valid. If the Edinburgh marriage between the Hon.
H. Butler and Mrs. Colebroke could be established,
, his children by the subsequent marriage must be
, illegitimatised, and the defendant would lose all
claim to the title and estates. This is the case
attempted to be set up by his cousin, the present
plaintiff. The proceedings were unfinished at the
date of the last accounts from Kilkenny, and pro-
mised to occupy several days longer.