The Press.
London, England, 1858-02-13 00:00:00

Pabst anb Dilitarg gitttiligente.

THE FIRST EXAMINATIONS UNDER THE NEW SYSTEM
introduced by the Commander-in• Chief and the Coun:
cil of Military Education, have now been concluded

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with the most satisfactory results. Of 37 candidates
for the Staff College, 15 were admitted, the full com-
plement, all of them being well up to the required
standard. Out of 33 for the junior department, for
candidates between sixteen and eighteen years of
age, the full complement of 24 were admitted, 10 of
whom showed evidences of the highest talent.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE GENERAL COMMANDING-
'S-CHIEF held a levee on Thursday at the Horse
Guards, which was most numerously attended, be-
tween 100 and 170 oftl.:ers having paid their respects
to his Royal Highness.

COLONEL HENRY EYRE, now in command of the
depot battalion et Walmer, has been appointed Com-
mandant of Chatham garrison, in the room of
Major-General W. H. Eden, who resigns on promo-
tion.

THE GOVERNMENT have issued a citcular announc-
ing that the bounty to recruits is raised from 21. to 31.
with a free kit.

BY the death of Vice-Admiral the Hon. William
Gordon, late Cominander•in•Chief at the lore, and
brother of the Earl of Aberdeen, Captain Lord
Clarence Paget obtains his flag, by which promotion
a good-service pension falls to Government.

SO; anb

A CLERGYMAN AND HIS WIFE, the Rev. S. and Mrs.
Smith, who conduct a collegiate academy at Clifton,
have been arrested on a charge of " felonious maim-
ing," under the most singular circumstances. The
evidence adduced at the preliminary examination on
Thursday disclosed some curious particulars. It
appeared that a Mr. Leach, living in Surrey, and
who had known Mrs. Smith before she was married,
and when she was a kitchen-maid at Swan and
Edgar's, on the 23rd of last month received a letter
from her, stating that she was a widow, expressing a
hope that he had not "forgotten the promise" be
had made " on the night " when they were together
at the seaside in 1849, and giving an address at
Bristol. Mr. Leach replied, and on the 28th he
received a second letter from Mrs. Smith, appointing
a meeting near Bristol, and proposing to spend the
night at Wapley, " to talk over matters together," but
intimating that there must be nothing improper.
Mr. Leach kept the appointment, coming from town
for that purpose. He met Mrs. Smith on the 3rd inst.,
on the Bristol and Birmingham platform, went off
to Yate with her, and while crossing the common was
suddenly knocked down and beaten by a man, whom
he recognised, but could not swear to, as Mr. Smith. A
struggle ensued ; assistance arrived ; Mr. Leach was
rescued, but much beaten ; Mr. and Mrs. Smith
walked off together ; and a six-barrel revolver, loaded
and capped, and which was proved in evidence to
have been purchased by Mr. Smith in Bristol the
day previous, was picked up off the ground. Con-
clusive evidence was also given to prove that Mr.
Smith had sent -one of his pupils to receive Mr.
Leach's letters at the address given to Leach by
Mrs. Smith ; and a parcel of clean linen, brought
down from town by Mr. Leach, has been discovered
in Mr. Smith's house. Both prisoners have been
fully committed for trial.
THE HALL BANKRUPT CASE came on again on
Wednesday, when Mr. Rivington asked the court, on
the evidence before it, to refuse any certificate or
protection to the bankrupts :

Lady Rushout's case brought them within the third
division of the penal section (the 256th) which related to
contracting debts, or obtaining the forbearance of debts,
by fraud or false pretences; and Sir Charles Rushout'a
complaint brought them under the second division, rela-
tive to keeping false accounts, or making false entries,
with a view to conceal the state of their affairs. Also,
under the ninth head, they were chargeable with having
omitted to keep proper books of account, and with having
kept them imperfectly, carelessly, and negligently, with
the view to deceive. Besides their general conduct, the
course of dishonesty and falsehood which the evidence
had disclosed disentitled them to any certificate whatever.
Further peering was adjourned till Wednesday next.
CHRISTIAN SATTLER was hanged on Monday in
front of Newgate. Settler, it will be remembered,
was convicted of the murder of Them, a detective
officer.

THE TRIAL of the British Bank Directors com-
mences this day before the Lord Chief Justice at
the Guildhall. Sir Frederic Thesiger is leading
counsel for the prosecution ; Sir F. Kelly for the
defence.

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AN ACTION FOR BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE,
brought by a gentleman against a lady, and in
which the damages were stated to have been laid at
30,0001., to be tried yesterday, was withdrawn. A
large lumber of persons attended the court, at-
tracted by the curious nature of the defence, and
they appeared much disappointed at finding it had
gone off.
A REWARD OF 2001. has been offered for the appre-
hension of Thomas Allsop, a well-known democrat,
and lately a member of the Stock Exchange, for
being connected in the recent attempt to assassinate
the Emperor Napoleon.

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