The Press.
London, England, 1858-10-09 00:00:00

THE PRESS, OCTOBER 9, 1858.

in the colours of the " red, white, and blue," dropping
a courtesy, answered, "Yes, sir, if you please."—Mr.
Hammill : Nay, it is not as I please at all. You have
brought this on yourselves, and I hope that such a
bad beginning will not prove an omen of the future.
You were both tipsy, I suppose, the first day of your.
marriage ?-officer : Yes, sir, they were both so.—
Mr. Hammill : Pray what are you, Mr. Wilkins ?
Mr. Wilkins : Dust, your worship.—Officer : He is a
dustman, your worship.—Mrs. Wilkins : Yes, sir, and
I'm his wife ; a'int I, dear ?—Mr. Wilkins : Yes,
Mary Anne.—Mr. Hammill : You must pay 20e., or
fourteen days' imprisonment, and your husband 10s.,
or seven days.—Mrs. Wilkins paid her own fine, and
left her spouse in durance vile, until, by pledging
her wedding ring, she was able to effect his release.
THE NEW DIVORCE ACT has besn appealed to, at
the Thames Police-court, in the case of Mrs. Matilda
Rainbow, an eating-house keeper, of No. 17, High-
street, Shadwell. Mr. Waller, who appeared in support
of an order to protect her goods and chattels, gave
the following history of the circumstances. Mrs. Rain-
bow was married to her husband in 1845 ; and some
days after the marriage her husband said that be was
compelled to go to America on business. Mrs. Rain-
bow said she would accompany her husband across
the Atlantic, on which he said it was impossible, and
that be intended to take with him to America a
woman with whom he cohabited before marriage,
and who lived ten miles from London. Mrs.
Rainbow still insisted on accompanying her hus-
band to America, when be told her that his concu-
bine would tear her to pieces if she met with her,
and that he would only be away six months.
The husband proceeded to America, and did not
return until 1848, when he saw his wife's father, but
did not visit his wife, end had never contributed a
farthing towards her support. Mrs. Rainbow, who
was a very respectable and industrious woman, had
established herself in business, and effected an
insurance with an office in the City on her goods and
chattels. A fire broke out on her premises, and the
insurance office objected to pay the money to which
she was entitled until she obtained a protecting order
under the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act. In
reply to questions, Mrs. Rainbow stated that she bad
paid the premiums out of her own pocket, and that
her husband bad deserted her, as stated. Mr.
Yardley granted the order.

girtibtuts anb Chas.

A CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD FOREIGN GOVERN-
MENTS, by forgery, has been discovered in London.
Besides the persons—two Frenchmen and a Greek
merchant--in custody on a charge of conspiracy to
coin false Turkish piastres, three men, Richard and
John Webster, brothers, and Moses Barnet, are in
the hands of the police, suspected of being concerned
in the forgery of plates for the issue of Russian ten-
rouble notes. It is stated that other parties, in a
higher position, are implicated.
A DARING ATTEMPT was made near Woolwich
Dockyard on Wednesday afternoon to murder Mr.
William Budd, inspector of police in the dockyard.
A pistol was discharged at him by a fellow who was
formerly employed in the establishment, but had
been dismissed and punished for robbery.
A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT occurred at the Surrey
Theatre on Monday night. A man who had got a
front seat in the gallery, and was leaning over the
rail, overbalanced himself and fell headforemost into
the pit, driving in his skull. The unfortunate suf-
ferer expired in a few hours.
A VERY Pens Fur. INTEREST has been excited at
the Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, by a ca.se of
death from chloroform. An inquest was held on
Monday; but the evidence went to show that it was
one of those cases where no previous precautions
could have been of use. The post-mortem examina-
tion, which was conducted by an eminent Vienna
surgeon, Dr. Bader, was also attended by the officials
of the hospital, Dr. Kidd, Mr. Lloyd (who adminis-
tered the chloroform), and Dr. Hawkins. The cause
of death was the same, it is believed, as in the recent
case of a similar kind at Towcester—asphyxia. The
jury returned a verdict "that the deceased had died
from the effects of chloroform."

AN ACCIDENT, which might have been attended
with fatal consequences, occurred to the Hon. Misses
Langley, daughters of the Right Rev. the Bishop of
Durham, on Saturday. They were driving through
Auckland-park, when the horse took fright and gal-
loped off, upsetting the vehicle and throwing its oc•
cupants out. The carriage was smashed to pieces,
but fortunately the ladies escaped without material
injury.
A SHOCKING MURDER AND SUICIDE are reported
from Preston. Mr. Robert Bond, aged twenty-five,
shot Miss Wainman, to whom ho had been paying
his addresses, causing her instant death. He then
walked home, and with his father's gun literally blew
off the top part of his head. No cause is assigned.
AN AWFUL CATASTROPHE, involving, it i 8 feared,
the loss of 500 lives, has occurred at sea. The P.
Pendleton, which arrived at Southampton on Sun-

day from Virginia, reports the destruction by fire of
the steamer Austria, from Hamburg and Southampton
to New York, on the 13th of September. The ill-
fated vessel was a fine screw steamship of 2,500 tons
and 600• horse power. She was built last year at
Greenock, and has made three or four voyages. She
belonged to the Hamlotw g and American Company,
and, with the steamers Borussia, Saxonia, and Ham-
monia, formed a fortnightlier communication between
Hamburg, Southampton, and New York. She left
Hamburg on the Ist of September, and arrived at
Southampton on the 3rd, with upwards of 400 pas.
sengers, consisting chiefly of German emigrants, who
belonged to the better class of the agricultural popu-
lation, and left that port on the 4th ult. for her de-
stination. She had been out nine days when the
fire, which is said to have been caused by fumigating
the ship between decks, broke out. A French bark
bad rescued sixty-eight persons from the Austria's
boats and pieces of floating wood, &c. ; and on the
14th of September, in lat. 44.18 N., long. 40 W., the
P. Pendleton supplied provisions to the English bark
Lotus, having on board eighteen persons who had
been transferred from the French hark, and would
be taken on by the Lotus to Halifax, whither she
was bound from Liverpool. The other fifty persons
rescued were still on hoard the French bark, name

and destination unknown, but intended to land pas-
sengers at Fayal. There is no accounting for the
remainder, who, in all human probability, have
perished. Independent of the passengers, the crew
and officers, with the parties composing the engine
department, comprised about 100 persons ; and, it
the whole of the ship's boats could have been made
available, they were insufficient to bold one-half of
the people who were on board. Captain Heydtmaon,
who commanded the steamer, jumped overboard, and
was drowned soon after the outbreak of the fire. Two
vessels, which arrived on Thursday, saw what was
left of the vessel at sea, and one of them perceived a
number of dead bodies in her immediate vicinity.