The Press.
London, England, 1858-10-02 00:00:00

THE PRESS, OCTOBER 2, 1858.

with great violence against the wheels. He was
insensible
state extricated and conveyed in an
state to the hospital, where ho expired from the
frightful injuries he had received. A verdict of
Accidental death " was returned at the inquest,
which was held on Monday.
A CASE OF MATRICIDE was brought before Mr.
Burcbam, at Southwark, on Tuesday. The prisoner
was named William Hill, a ticket-porter of the
Borough market, who, while in a state of intoxication
on Saturday night, struck his mother a blow on the
forehead with his fist, when she fell down, and soon
after expired. The unfortunate woman, also, it is
stated, was drunk at the time. The prisoner was
remanded to await the result of the coroner's in-
quest, which was adjourned for further evidence.
JOHN OWEN, a shoemaker, was charged at West-
minster Police-court, on Tuesday, with having ad-
ministered oxalic acid to his daughter. It was,
however, urged that she knew the nature of the
potion, and took it of her own accord. The woman
was removed to the hospital, when antidotes were
used, and she is in a state of recovery. Mr. Arnold
remanded the defendant until his daughter should
be able to attend.
THE FORTUNE•TELLING PROFESSION is decidedly
in a flourishing condition at present. A swarthy
middle-aged woman, who gave her name as Anne
Williams, but refused her address, was brought be-
fore the magistrate at Worship street by a servant-
girl, who stated that she had received a visit from
the prisoner, who, after assuring her of a speedy
marriage and all the desirable etceteras, carried away
30s, worth of apparel, " that it might be covered with
mould in the churchyard, and receive a blessing."
The prisoner was remanded.
A CASE OF POISONING has occurred in Gloucester-
shire, the victim being Thomas Taylor, a railway
labourer, who died under circumstances raising a
strong suspicion that he had been poisoned, and that
his wife and brother were concerned in his death.
The deceased had one child by his wife, aged about
four years, and an illegitimate child, aged seven
years, also lived with them. About six months since
the deceased's brother, Charles Taylor, a returned
convict, came home, and went to reside in the same
cottage. The deceased and his wife had frequent
quarrels about the illegitimate child, and since the
brother's return they had lived more unhappily than
before, the brother taking the part of the wife. It
was shown from the evidence of various witnesses
that the wife had expressed a strong partiality for
Charles Taylor, and her wish that her husband was
stiff and dead, and that about a week before his
death the deceased, who was previously in sound
health, was seized with violent pains in his stomach,
which continued at intervals until the evening of the
4th ult., when death ensued. After death the house
was searched, and remains of poison found, and the
brother, Charles Taylor, has absconded. At the
inquest evidence tending to criminate the wife and
brother of the deceased was adduced, and the jury
returned a verdict of " Wilful murder " against Anu
Taylor and Charles Taylor. 'The woman was forth-
with committed for trial, and a warrant was issued
for the apprehension of Charles Taylor.
THE CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER at West-
minster has resolved itself into an accusation for the
capital crime. Isaac Hammond was on Thursday
again brought up before Mr. Paynter at Westminster,
charged with the wilful murder of Sarah Farrell, by
throwing her out of a window of the house iu which
they lived, in York-street, on the night of the 16th
ult. An important piece of evidence, in addition
to that already elicited, was furnished by a woman,
who swears to having heard the prisoner threaten
to murder the deceased only about an hour previous
to his actually doing so. After some further testi-
mony, the prisoner was fully committed for trial on
the. charge at the Central Criminal Court.
THE CORONER'S INVESTIGATION into the facts con-
nected with the melancholy catastrophe at the
Sheffield Surrey Music-hall, was brought to a close
on the 24th ult., when the jury, after a long consul-
tat'ion, returned a verdict to the effect that the
deceased died from injuries received while escaping
from the Surrey Music-hall during a panic, but
whether such panic was caused by the firing of a
pistol or an explosion of gas there was no evidence
to show.

THE ADJOURNED INQUEST on the bodies of thirteen
of the persons killed by the collision of two excur-
sion trains on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton Railway, on the 23rd of August, was resumed
on Thursday, at Brettle-lane, belore Mr. Phillips, the
district coroner, and was again adjourned. The
Government inspe-tor, and several engineers, ex-
pressed an opinion that if the break had been duly
applied the carriages could have heen stopped, and
the collision prevented.
4rtibtnts .anb Offtrats.

A DISTRESSING ACCIMINT has happened near
3aiiii!mry. Mr. William Fawcett, of Longford, was out
partridge shooting with his ion, Mr. beery Vawcet4,

and having fired at a covey of partridges, he hastily I
turned and discharged the contents of a second barrel
at a bird which separated from the rest. Unfortu-
nately his son was standing at no great distance,
and received a portion of the charge in his chest and
face. Singularly enough, there were only two shots
which reached his face, and they, after breaking
the glasses of the spectacles lie wore, entered his two
eyes, completely destroying, it is feared, the sight of
one, if not both of them. Much sympathy is telt
for the sufferer, who is a young man of great promise,
having already obtained a fellowship at Trinity Hall,
Cambridge, and standing well for high University
distinction.

A RAILWAY COLLISION, which might have been I
attended with very serious loss of life, occurred at
the Preston station on Saturday night. The 9.35
p.m. train from the north, carrying a portion of the
night mail, was leaving the station, when it came
into collision with a luggage train, consisting of an
engine and seven or eight waggons, which was being
shunted on to a siding. The shock was a severe
one ; three of the waggons were smashed to atoms,
the persons in the passenger train were a good deal
shaken, and the smoke-box of the engine attached to
it was knocked in. It had, of course, to be replaced
by another engine, which occasioned a delay to the
train of one hour. The driver of the engine to the
passenger train acknowledges that he was to blame,
as the proper signals were displayed, and unattended
to by him ; but he says that after he saw the danger
he did all in his power to avert the collision. The
train left on its journey south at eleven o'clock.
A FEARFUL CALAMITY occurred on Thursday
morning at Page Bank Colliery, six miles west of
Durham. At eight o'clock the shaft of the pit was
found to be on fire, and one of the overman was
killed by portions of the burning brattice. The fire
has consumed the whole of the brattices, and ex-
tended to the coal in the return-drift. The fire
raged the whole of Thursday. Sixty men and boys
are in the pit; no hopes of any of them being
saved.
THE SUICIDE OF MR. GERARD B. SMITH, Warwick-
square, Belgravia, and proprietor of the well-known
Pimlico Wheel Works, has been the subject of the
coroner's inquiry. Evidence was brought to prove
that the deceased deliberately threw himself across
the tramroad when the Hampton-court train was
approaching the Wandsworth station, and before the
driver of the engine could stop the train the whole
of the carriages went over him, causing instantaneous
death, and mutilating the body in a most frightful
manner. The jury returned a verdict of "Tempo-
rary insanity." The deceased has left a widow and
young family to lament his premature and awful
death.

Ohituarg.

THE COUNTESS OF CLANWILLIAM, sister to the Right
Ron. Sidney Herbert, M.P., the Marchioness of
Ailesbary, the Countess of Dunmore, and Viscountess
De Vesci, died unexpectedly a few days since. The
Countess bad been staying with the Countess of
Dunmore in the north of Scotland, and was taken
seriously ill while on her return southwards. The
relatives of the Countess were telegraphed to, but
before they could reach her she died. The Countess
was the eldest daughter of George Augustus, eleventh
Earl of Pembroke, by his second marriage, with the
Countess Catherine, only daughter of his Excellency
Simon, Count Woronzow. Her ladyship was born
on the 31st of March, 1809, and married the sth of
July, 1830, the Earl of Clanwilliam, by whom she
had issue, a daughter, Lady Selina Vernon, married
in 1851 to Mr. Granville Edward Vernon ; and four
sons, the eldest, Viscount Gilford, a lieutenant in the
Royal Navy, and who gained his promotion by his
gallantry in the recent operations in the Chinese
waters, born in October, 1832.
LADY BOWRING, wife of Sir John Bowring, her
Majesty's Plenipotentiary in (Mina, died at Taunton,
on Monday, aged 6-1.
THE DUCHESS OF MONTMORENCY has died in Paris,
after a long and painful illness.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL HENRY THOMAS, C. 8., died
on the 21st ult., after sixty years' service, having
entered the army as far back as April, 1798. The
deceased was colonel of the 20th (or East Devon-
shire) Regiment.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JOHN MARSHALL, late of the
91st (Argylesbire) Regiment, died on the 21st ult.
Ths gallant colonel entered the army at a very early
period of life, in 1808, as ensign in the 91st Regiment,
and after serving in the expedition to Portugal, and
being engaged at the battle of Roleia and Vimiera,
accompanied his regiment into Spain, under the
command of Sir John Moore, with whom he covered
the retreat of the army through Galicia to Corunna.
Me was in the action of Lugo, and at the battle of
Corunna, and subsequently embarked with his regi-
ment. on the expedition to Walcheren, where he was
present at. the siege of Flushing, and remained in
that country until evacuated by the 13rittsb in 1810.

955

During this expedition the gallant officer contracted.
ague and liver complaint, from the effects of which
he suffered during his life. Colonel Marshall re-
turned with his regiment to the Peninsula, and was
engaged at the battles of Vittoria, the Pyrenees, in
front of Saroran and the neighbourhood of PBmpe-
luna, on the 20th, 27th, and 28th of July. He was
wounded un the 28th. He was in the battles of
Nivelle and Nive on the 10th, 11th, and 13th of De-
cember, 1813; at the investment of Bayonne; and
ut the battle of Orthes on the 27th of February, 1814,
where be was again severely wounded. Colonel
Marshall for his services received the war medal with

seven clasps. In 1819 he married Rosahints. Ellen,
the only daughter of the late Lord Dunboyne, who
survives him.

SIR CHARLES DES Vaunt died on Tuesday last, at
Sellwood•house, Brighton. The deceased, who was
the second baronet, was born in 1779, and married,
first, 1801, a daughter of the late Richard Ilurd, Esq.,
of Rawdon, Yorkshire (she died in 1841), and second,
Lady Cecilia, daughter of the thirteenth Marquis of
Winchester. He succeeded his father in the baronetcy
in 1814. He served in Holland under the Duke
of York, and at Alkmaar lost his right leg from a
cannon•shot wound. The first baronet was a member
of the Irish Parliament, and had passed many years
in India. Sir Charles is succeeded in his title and
estates by his son, Henry William, who was born in
1809, and who married in 1839 Lady Sophia,youngest
daughter of the seventh Earl of Coventry, and relict
of Sir Richard Gresley, Bart.
MR. SAMUEL GARDNER, who for more than twenty
years filled the responsible office of her Britannia
Majesty's Consul at Jassy, in Moldavia, died on the
29th of August. During his long residence at Jassy,
Mr. Gardner had endeared himself to all classes of
society. The Prince himself, and all the Ministers,
as well as the civil and military authorities, wero
present at the funeral. The four corners of the pall
were borne by his colleagues, the Consuls of Austria,
France, Prussia, and Russia. The body was received
at the churchyard by Mr. Colquhoun, her Britannic
Majesty's agent in Wallachia, and Consul• General,
who read the English service over the remains of
his old and much-respected friend.
MRS. EDMUND HAYES, wife of the Solicitor• General
for Ireland, died on Wednesday morning at Killin-
carrig-house, county of Wicklow. Her death resulted
from tetanus, and arose out of an accident which the
lamented lady met with about a month since, when
her clothes caught fire, and she was dreadfully burnt
before any effective assistance could be obtained.
The deceased was about forty years of age.
Mn. CHARLIER, secretary to the Royal Humane
Society, died on Wednesday, after a short but very
painful illness. Mr. Charlier had seen in his earlier
days considerable service in the army. Throughout
the Peninsular campaigns he had been engaged as
Deputy Assistant Commissariat-General, and was
at the battle of Waterloo. His medal has ten or
eleveu clasps attached to it.

MR. BRIGHT will visit Birmingham in the last
week of this month and address his constituents in
the Town-hall. The new Reform Bill, it is said,
will be the principal topio of his address.
MR. DAVID ROBERTS, the artist. was presented
with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh on Wed-
nesday last.
THE ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH
COMPANY'S new submarine cable for connecting
England with the Continent has been successfully
laid. It contained four wires, weighed upwards of
1,260 tons, and was submerged at the rate of four
and a half knots an hour.
LINCOLN'S-INN FIELDS afford an illustration of
what may be done by a gardener in London. Under
the judicious management of Mr. Morgan, the head
gardener, it has become the most attractive of all the
metropolitan squares. He has succeeded in training
a great number of whet is technically called pcnnpones,
or dwarf chrysanthemums ; some of these are on
single stems, three feet in length, with a perfectly
flat head upwards of four fast in circumference;
others are of a pyramidal form, nearly seventeen feet
in circumference, and only two feet in height; another
is twenty feet in circumference and only eleven inches
in height. This degree of excellence in the growth
of chrysanthemums, one of the last of our autumnal
flowers, is only attainable by great patience and
industry. Another interesting fact in connection
with these gardens is deserving of notice. Mr.
Morgan does not possess the organ of destructiveness
observable in so many gardeners, of destroying any
rare birds visiting him ; the consequence is, that for
the last two years a fine hawk takes his breakfast
early every morning in the spring season, and great
numbers of starlings regularly feed there until
disturbed by the children. A pair of rooks also
appear inclined to take up their abode in the sardine,
. and would meet with every encouragement, •

retort
Taylo
with c
for th
TH
minst
capita
again
charg
throw
they
ult.
to thi
who
to mi
to hi
mon!
the c
TE
Deets
Shef
on tl
tatio
dece
from
whet
piste
to si
of tt
sion
ham
on 1
dist
Goy
pre
app'
the
A
itl
par