The Press.
London, England, 1857-02-07 00:00:00

Baba! anb Vilitarg ntalligtna.

REAR-ADMIRAL PETER RrcirAnns has been appointed
Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital. Admiral Richards
was frst•lieutenant of the Queen Charlotte at Algiers, and
has won his way to his present high station solely by his
own unwearied assiduity.
IN addition to the changes which we announced a week
or two since in the personnel of the War•offices, further
alterations, for some time past virtually determined on, are
now formally carried out. General Storks will be Secre-
tary for Military Correspondence, Colonel Douglas will be
Inspector of Militia, Sir Thomas Troubridge Deputy
Adjutant• General for Clothing at the Horse Guards,
Colonel Pakenham Assistant Adjutant• General ; Lieut.-
Colonel Pipon will shortly leave the Horse Guards staff;
Captain Caffin becomes Director of Stores and Clothing at
the War•otflce ; and Mr. Ramsay Assistant Director. The
office of Deputy Quartermaster• General will be retained for
the present.

LIEL'TENANT•GENERAL SIR NATHANIEL THORN died
suddenly last week at Taunton.

COLONEL Wysnuot dropped dead on Tuesday while
walking on the banks of the Serpentine.

cSatu an tiolite.

JOHN PAUL, late clerk of the London Union, was tried
on Thursday at the Central Criminal Court, for his various
frauds on the Union, found guilty, and sentenced to
fourteen years' transportation.
BACON AND HIS WIFE were re-examined on the charge
of murdering their two children, on Wednesday morning,
before Mr. Elliott, at Lambeth Police-court. No new
facts of any great importance were elicited, though the
evidence was strongly against the prisoner Bacon.

A MURDER occurred in Manchester last Saturday night.
Two men, Collins and White, were quarrelling on some

trivial matter, when Collins rushed with an open knife at
White, and stabbed him in the stomach. White died in
forty eight hours. Collins has been arrested and committed
for trial.

THE GREAT WEBTERTON O. LIDDELL CASE Will be finally
heard before the Privy Council Judicial Committee, at
Downing•atreet, on Monday next, at 10 a.m.
AsnEasom AND &WARD were examined on Thursday
with respect to the forgery of the Ipool. cheque upon
Messrs Kinnard. The document was proved to be a
forgery. The prisoners were remanded till Wednesday
next.

PETER M`CLEAN, convicted of the murder, on the 15th
of November, of one Maxwell, of Bathgate, was executed
on Monday at Linlithgow.
THE UNPRINCIPLED NATURE OP THE CUSTOM or
"Aoivi.o CHARACTER" TO A SERVANT TO GET RID
Or Him was singularly illustrated in the trial this week
at Westminster of " Parker v. Shadwell." Mr. Latin-
celot Shadwell, a barrister residing in Nottingham-
place, had in his service as butler from November 6, 1855,
to April 1, 1856, one James Parker. When Parker was
about to leave his service at the latter date Mr. Shadwell
went over the plate with him, and found that articles were
wanting to the value of 171. lOs. Mr. Shadwell refused to
pay the man the balance of his wages, amounting to 81. lOs.
After various discussions, one of which took place at the
station-house in the presence of the sergeant, Mr. Shad-
well offered to compromise the felony, and not press the
criminal charge if l 11. were handed to him. Parker's wife
paid to Mr. Shadwellsl. outside the station•house door, and
subsequently borrowed 61., which she also gave him.
These two sums, together with the balance due on the
wages, brought up the amount to 171. lOs., the value of the
missing plate. The action was now brought by Parker to
recover this money, and compensation for false imprison-
ment. In the course of his cross-examination Mr. Shad-
well was asked when he first believed the man was guilty
of felony. His reply was—" On the 2nd of April 1 had
consulted the inspector. lam certain he stole the plate
now, and I was quite certain when I took the money. I
believed him to be a felon. I gave him a character." A ver-
dict was entered for the defendant on both counts, leaving
it open for the plaintiff to recover the 111. by law.
THE case of " Harrison v. the Marquis of Bath," tried
in the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday, offers a
singular instance of a peculiar species of extortion
practised upon noblemen and others in town. Harrison,
the plaintiff, belonged to that peculiar class of " touts "
usually infesting great towns. In 18:74 he was caught,
convicted, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment for
kidnapping a young Belgian girl, Alice Leroy. In April,
'56, upon coming out of prison, he endeavoured to make
a little capital out of his previous experiences, and com-
mencer) a system of extortion by threatening to declare
publicly that the gentleman applied to had been in the
habit of visiting the little establishments in Pimlico.
Success emboldened him, and he resolved upon a soup
on the Marquis of Bath, Lord Somerton, Lord .Bateman,
and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. To each
of these distinguised persons he applied for the payment
of large sums of money for wines supplied at 8, Denbigh-
terrace. The Marquis of Bath being first on the list, first
resisted the claim, and an action was brought. It was
tried last Wednesday, and the plaintiff in his cross-
examination prevaricated to such an extent with respect
to the quality of the distinguished persons charged with
having ordered wine from him, and proved himself to be
such an intolerable liar, that the counsel for the defence
thought it unnecessary to address the court, and the jury
without a moment's hesitation returned a verdict for the
defendant. Lord Campbell, in a few emphatic words,
characterised Harrison as " a most dangerous member of
society." His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Lord
Bateman, and Lord Somerton, were on the bench during
the triaL

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
Tuesday, February, 3,
BANKRUPTS.—Jones Barka, 8, Dyer's•buildings, Holborn,
electro-plater and cutler—Ssmem. BAKER, Birmingham iron.
founder—Josnrn CURTIS, Wharton, Stourbridge , licensed
victualler—Wituast TYLER, King's Bromley, Staffordshire,
miIIer—GEORGIC WOODALL, Carlisle, grocer—Jot:lN ALFRED
HATFIELD, Bradford, Yorkshire, draper—Jona HOLMES, Brain.
ham, Yorkshire, builder—Jona WILES, Whitby, Yorkshire,
butcher.

Friday, February 6.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.--JouN FRANCIS DiLST, Bird
nil nghain, scrivener.

BINKBUPTS.—THomas EDWARDS, Eversholt-street,Oakley-
square, china and glass dealer—CHAßEts ASRFIELD, Home-
terrace, Hammersmith, boot•maker—WlLLxAHc PEACH, Derby,
coal merchant—CATHERINE H CMPHRZY, Baker-street, Portman-
square, bookseller— ALEXANDER OLD£IELD, 17, Devonshire-
street, Queen•square, Bloomsbury, bookbinder— FRANCOIS
PERRIN, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square, Middlesex, dealer in
foreign woods—JOSEPH Dickenson, Harrogate, lodging•house
keeper.

THE STAGE is a profitable profession. It is quite
a mistake to suppose that actors and actresses do not
get well paid for their services. It was only the
other day (Monday) that the following event in
support of our view occurred at the Lambeth
Police•court. Mr. James Rogers, the well-known
comedian at the Olympic Theatre, waited on Mr.
Elliott, and banded to his worship the sum of
13s. 4d., with the following note :

Sir,—Allow me to present to the poor-boa the inclosed
13s. 4d., being the amount I received for performing at
Windsor Castle on Wednesday evening last.—l am, sir,
your obedient servant, JAIIE S ROOEHS.
Elliott, Esq.
Mr. Rogers requested his worship would, with his
usual kindness, acknowledge his small donation in
the usual way, upon which Mr. Elliott said he would
give a receipt for it ; but Mr. Rogers replied that
that was not necessary.