The Press.
London, England, 1856-09-27 00:00:00

Irtlanti.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE LORD LIEUTENANT, in a
general order through the Commander in• Chief in
Ireland, has expressed " his marked thanks" to the
disembodied militia for their late services. His Ex-
cellency has left Dublin for Lismore Castle. His
Excellency is expected to arrive in London in the
course of next month, immediately after a visit to
Belfast.. The Crimean Banquet Fund steadily
augments.
THE DOWAGER MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY
entertained 255 of her Antrim tenantry at a public
dinner last week. Her ladyship was present, and
returned thanks for her health, which was drunk
with tremendous enthusiasm. The marchioness
alluded to the progress made of late years in the
district :
The works that have been undertaken here and in the
neighbourhood, and the large sums of money spent both
by Government and by individuals, have entirely changed
the face of the country. Poverty has disappeared, and
this poor little village is rapidly growing into a small
thriving town. I wish I could speak as strongly as to
the advance of agriculture, but, alas, it is still in a very
primitive state ; and although I believe many of you are
making great exertions, much, very much, is still to be
done. I regret to find that my attempt to get up a flower.
show has not been so successful as I could have hoped,
and I am told I ought to look after pigsties before gardens.
On the other hand, I am glad some little emulation has
been shown in competing for the premiums for the best
farms. I hope in another year the whole scheme may
work better, and eventually produce good. It is always a
great matter to make a beginning—time, patience, and
energy must complete the result. Paul may plant and
Apollos may water, but we must not forget that it is God
who gives the increase. We can only do our best to ask
for a blessing on our endeavours.

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DEATH OF LORD HARDINGE.

FIELD-MARSHAL VISCOUNI HARDINGE, G.C.8., died,
in his seventy-first year, on Wednesday morning at
half-past eleven, at his seat, South-park, Penshurst,
near Tunbridge Wells. On the 7th of July last the
noble Viscount, while atending the Queen at
Aldershott, and at the moment of explaining the
details of the Crimean Chelsea Report to her Ma-
jesty in the Royal Pavilion, was seized with an
attack of paralysis and fell to the ground. His lord-
ship was scarcely expected to live through the night,
but he rallied in the course of the ensuing day and
was removed to town. The noble Viscount at once
resigned his post as commander-in-chief of the army,
and in the ensuing week was succeeded by the pre-
sent Commander-in-Chief, his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge. Lord Hardinge, so soon as his
health permitted, retired to Penshurst, and till
within the last few days appeared to be recovering
his health to some extent. On Tuesday his lordship
was seized with a second attack, and it was soon
apparent that death must ensue in a few
hours. On the following forenoon the gallant old
soldier breathed his last, surrounded by most
of the members of his family—Colonel the Hon.
Arthur Hardinge, his son, being absent with the
Earl Granville's mission to Russia.
Lord Hardinge's services extend over a length-
ened period, and entitle their late distin-
guished owner to take a prominent position
in the cluster of Peninsular heroes. Indeed,
few men have achieved so brilliant and so fortunate
a career. The third son of a Durham rector, he
was born at Wrotham, in Kent, in 1785, and at fifteen
entered the army as ensign in 1708. Joining his

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regiment, the Queen's Rangers, on active service in
Canada, he displayed every quality for the career be
had chosen. With happy fortune he was soon after at-
tached to Sir John Moore's Spanish expedition, and at
the evacuation of Comma, by his zeal, unselfishness,
and indifference for his own safety, in striking con-
trast to the conduct of others, he attracted the atten-
tion of Marshal Beresford, who with a keen eye
detected the capacity of the young officer. At a
subsequent period, when a second invasion of
Spain took place, Hardinge obtained from Beres-
ford a Portuguese brigade, and served through.
out the war as deputy quartermaster-general
to the Portuguese army. A record of his services
includes every action, siege, or battle of consequence
in the Peninsula. At Vimiera, Rolica, Busaco,
Torres Vedras, Albuera, Badajoz, Ciudad Rodrigo,
at the great battles of Salamanca and Vittoria, at
Pampelana, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, and Orthes,
the young and gallant soldier followed the standard
of the Great Duke. In 1815, Hardinge, decorated
with honours and advanced in rank, hastened to join
the campaign of Waterloo. At the "crowning
grace," indeed, he was not present, having lost his
left hand at the battle of Ligny.
Eight years after peace was concluded, in
1823, the successful and distinguished young
general took his first step in a new career,
as Clerk of the Ordnance. In 1826 he enured
Parliament. On the accession of the Duke
of :Wellington to the Prime Ministership he was
offered and accepted the post of Secretary cf
War. In 1830 he was made Secretary of In -
land—an office to which he was reappointed
during the brief Ministry of Sir Robert Peel,
in 1834.35. When Sir Robert returned to power,
in 1841, Sir Henry Hardinge resumed his pre.
vious post of Secretary of War, and held it till
1844, when he went out as Governor-General of
India. Most readers are familiar with the history
of the eventful four years—from 1844 to 1818—of
his Indian administration. Few passages in our
recent annals are better known than the brilliant
period of the great Sikh wars. Moodkee, Aliwal,
and Sobraon are imperishable names ; nor will
it be readily forgotten that throughout the
whole campaign the Governor-General of India,
though virtually superintending the conduct of the
war, was content to act as second in command.
Though the contest was terminated by the pacifica-
tion of Lahore, the Governor-General of India was
munificently rewarded. He was created Viscount
Hardinge of Lahore, the East India Company
granted him a pension of 5,0001. a year, and Parlia-
ment voted an annuity of 3,0001. for himself and his
next two successors. On the death of the Great
Duke, in September, 1852, Lord Hardinge was ap-
pointed commander-in-chief, and on the 2nd of
October last year was advanced to the rank of Field-
Marshal. In this post the noble Viscount continued
up to the day of his attack in July last.
Lord Hardinge is succeeded in his title and estate
by his eldest son, the Hon. Charles Stewart, men,-
ber for Downpatrick.

GENERAL SIR COLIN HALKETT, G.C.8., Governor of
Chelsea Hospital, died on Wednesday at hie official re-
sidence. The gallant deceased was in the eighty third
year of his age. H• entered the army as ensign in
the 3rd Buffs, and served subsequently in othtr
regiments until he obtained a lieutenant-colonelcy
in 1803. He was then ordered to take part in the
struggle in the Peninsula, and was appointed to the
command of a brigade of the German Legion, and
during that command took an active part in the
battles of Albuera, Salamanca, Vittoria, and the
passage of the Nive, and for his services at which be
received a cross. The gallant general was also at
Waterloo in command of the second division of the
second corps d'armee, under the command of General
Lord Hill. The gallant general was appointed by
the Duke governor of Chelsea Hospital, on the death
of General Sir George Anson.
MAJOR-GENERAL J. JONES, K.H., another Penin-
sular officer, died on Monday last at his residence in
Jermyn-street, St. James's, in the seventy-fifth year
of his age. The gallant officer was formerly in the
15th Dragoons, from which he retired on half-pay in
August, 1815. Besides numerous minor affairs, be
was engaged with his regiment at Talavera and Bar-
rose, for which he was granted the silver medal. He
was a Knight Companion of the Hanoverian Guelphic
Order.

CArrias MOUBRAY, R.N., one of the captains cf
Greenwich Hospital, and a gallant officer who bad
seen much service from 1789 to 1815, died on Satur-
day last at Greenwich, at the advanced age of eight,-
four. He was first lieutenant of the Polyphemus, 641
in the battle of Trafalgar. Succeeding to the con.:
mand of the ship immediately after the actioi
Captain Moubray during the gale that followed re-
gained possession of the Argonauta, a Spanish rte,
which had slipped away during the night, and
delivered her over to Admiral Collingwood off Cadiz.
He afterwards took in tow the Victory, with the body

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of Lord Nelson on board, and conducted ber to the
in,uth of the Straits of Gibraltar.

ALDERMAN HUNTER, alderman and magistrate of
the city of London, and member of the corporation
f .r the long term of thirty•two years, died at four
o'clock in the afternoon of Monday last, at his
residence, Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, at the
lvanoed age of seventy-five years. He was born at
Bury St. Edmunds, where he was educated in com-
pany with the late Bishop of London, Dr. Blomfield,
which right rev, prelate was, at the time of the
mayoralty of his early companion, afrequently-invited
guest at the Mansion-house. The deceased alder-
man was celebrated for his humanity to the poor,
his upright and straightforward conduct as a magis-
trate, and as a kindhearted, liberal, devoted, and
loyal citizen. Alderman Hunter was elected a
member of the ward of Coleman street in 1823; in
1843 he was elected alderman of the said ward; he
was made sheriff in 1844; Lord Mayor in 1851;
aid his death has consequently left a vacancy in
t ie ward.
ruE VENERABLE COUNTESS LAUDERDALE died last
IY ,ek in her ninety-fifth year. Her ladyship was the
widow of James, eighth Earl of Lauderdale, whu died
S iptember 13, 1839, by whom she had surviving
is tie the present earl, the Hon. Sir Anthony Mait-
land, Lady Eleanor Balfour, and Lady Mary Stanley.
Numerous families of rack are placed in mourning
by the event.

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FORTUNE proverbially plays a man a great many
freaks, but not more than some men play with for-
tune. Among the night charges at Lambeth on
Monday was one against a burly gentleman, en-
veloped in the ample folds of a huge skyblne
dressing-gown, for being drunk and disorderly on the
preceding night. From the statements of Inspector
Silver and of the constables of the district, it appeared
that for some time past the inhabitants of Hilt-street,
Peckham, bad been subjected to considerable an-
noyance by the eccentric and extraordinary conduct
of the prisoner, who had a short time since come
unexpectedly into great wealth. He had been in
the habit of inviting women to his house, and, after
drinking to excess, quarrelling with them, turning
them into the street, and making a disgraceful riot.
At other times, after indulging freely, he would give
vent to his passion by coming out into the street and
smashing his own windows, so that his residence
bare a most dilapidated appearance. On the evening
before he behaved himself in so violent and disor-
derly a manner that it was found absolutely neces-
siry to take him into custody. In reply to Mr.
Norton, the prisoner said his name was Darnell, of
Harlweston, and that he had let his house, and
should start at once for Huntingdon. The prisoner
was fined five shillings fur being drunk and disor-
derly, and discharged.
Mies. GRILLS, a Tavistock farmer's wife, was last
week charged before the Tavistock Bench with
cruelty to her servant girl, a child of fourteen. From
the evidence of the child, it appeared that her mis-
tress was continually ill-treating her. She had
several contused wounds on her head, caused by
blows from a heavy stick : one of her arms was per-
manently injured from the same cause ; she had
several cuts on her arms and fingers inflicted by her
mistress with a penknife, and a short time since
her mistress forced her to sit bare on a hot " brandiz,"
a tbree-legged iron stand used to place milkpans on.
Mr. Cornish, surgeon, corroborated the girl's
.evi-
dence in every particular, and described the serious
nst.ire of the wounds inflicted. The magistrates at
t ice fully committed Mrs. Grills for trial.
HUSBAND•BEATING iS not common, but a case
&lairs now add then. Jane Smith, a dissipated-
1, 'Lint! woman, was brought before Mr. Yardley at
Taames-street, on Monday,charged with beating her
husband, Henry Smith, an industrious and sober
man. It appeared that the prisoner was in the habit
Of spending her husband's earnings and pawning his
Flumes for gin, ot' getting frequently drunk, of beat-
ing her children, and lastly of heating her lawful
1 iril. Previously, it must be mentioned, he had
b 'aten her, and had been sentenced to three months'
imprisonment and bard labour. However, since he
had left prison the wife avait changie tout cela.
On Saturday night, instead of laying out her hus-
band's earnings in food for the family, sbe spent
the greater part of them at a public-house, came
home drunk, and beat her children. He interfered,
and she took up a knife and threatened to stab him.
He took the knife from her, and she then fell upon
him with the fury of a tigress, tore his hair from his
head, scratched his face, and beat him severely.
Fined 405., or fourteen days' imprisonment. Mr.
Yardley recommended the husband not to pay the
fine ; and hoped the wife would come out of prison
• sober and a better woman.
FORGERY UPON THE CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY
NM discovered last week. A Mr. Robson, a clerk in
the transfer-office, in the absence of the accountant