The Press.
London, England, 1857-10-10 00:00:00

self to manage and conduct the farm. I wish you to
speak to Colonel Davenport to know whether it cannot be
arranged that I and my brother should have the farm
instead of my father, and I will see that the rent is punc-
tually paid. If so, my father shall have a comfortable
home, and walk about as he pleases; but I should wish
him not to interfere.

The prisoner then referred to a covenant in the lease
respecting the additional rem to be paid after the
first four years, and said .

My father will not pay the additional rent, because he
does not consider that the farm will afford it ; but I am
sure it will if it is properly managed, and if I can have
the management of it I will see that it is paid.
The medical evidence having been unanimous as
to the cause of the death of the deceased " by a gun-
shot wound," and further police evidence having
been given to the effect that two exploded caps and
certain powder and shot had been found in the pri-
soner's bedroom, and thattwelve of these shot weighed
exactly against twelve shot taken out of deceased's
head, the coroner summed up with care, and the
jury returned the verdict.

THE WEEK has been rife with murder. On Sunday
night at the Dock•cottages, Birkenhead, five navvies
got into a dispute upon religious topics ; a quarrel
ensued, and a fight followed, in the course of which
one man, Drewerey, was stabbed to the heart, and
killed upon the spot, and another, Dunn, severely
stabbed in the back. The three others were arrested
the same night by the police, examined on Tuesday,
when the evidence against them was so slight they
were remanded till this day. The coroner's jury have
returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against the
three prisoners.—On Monday night, at Liverpool, a
butcher, one Jones, in a personal altercation at supper
with his brother Robert, struck and stabbed him to
the heart. Robert' dropped dead. The prisoner has
been committed to take his trial on a charge of
manslaughter.—The same day the body of an infant
was found with its throat cut, in a field near the
railway station at Sydenham. The coroner's jury
have returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder " against
some person unknown, and recommend the offer of
a reward for the discovery of the murderer.—On
Saturday afternoon last, a coroner's jury at Man-
chester returued a verdict of " Wilful Murder "
against one Aaron Mellor, for deliberately holding
his wife down and cutting her throat with a clasp-
knife.—At Islington, Thomas Davis has also been
committed for deliberately cutting the throat of his
wife—lt is remarkable that in each case here chro-
nicled the use of the " knife" is recorded.
THE ROYAL SURREY GARDENS COMPANY held a
meeting on Monday. It was excessively noisy. A
resolution removing the whole of the directors was
negatived, a motion for further investigation being
carried in preference.
THE CHARGE OF EXTORTION brought by Sir R. W.
Carden against Mr. Rose and his "'longshoremen,"
was beard by the Lord Mayor this week, and referred
to the sessions. Mr. Rose was formally committed
for trial, and bound over to appear.
BEALE, the man charged with the murder of Char.
lotte Pugsley, in Leigh Woods, has been committed
for trial. The evidence at the ad,;,ourned inquest
last week was strongly against the prisoner. Two
boys swore to him as the man they had seen going
into the woods with a woman on Thursday afternoon
the 10th of September, and that soon afterwards
they distinctly beard the report of a pistol. The boys
were up a tree picking berries on Leigh Down, at
the top of Nightingale Valley. The prisoner was
then fully committed to take his trial for the wilful
murder.

THE Cnracs MISSIONARY SOCIETY have issued a
circular upon the influence the rebellion of the Ben-
gal army will have upon missionary operations, sod
" its results upon the future relations of India with
the Christianity of this country ;" regarding the re-
bellion as a judgment of Providence upon this
country for its discouragement of the Christian con-
version of the natives of India, the society recog-
nising " a double obligation" to " evangelise the
land" if it is given to us, and recommend that the
Government of India for the future should relin-
quish its neutrality, and openly " honour God by
avowing itself a Christian Government, not neutral
or indifferent to the religion of its subjects ;" this
avowal to be accompanied with "the widest possible
proclamation " that "no compulsion will be used or
bribe given." The society further recommend that
all forms of religion be tolerated and guaranteed so
long as they are neither immoral in their practice
ncr anti social in their customs; that Government
education be religious, not secular; that a verna-
cular, moral, and Christian literature be provided for
the natives ; and that a new and enlarged effort be
made to send forth missionaries to India. The pith
of this statement is at th 3 conclusion, wherein the
society appeal to the British breeches-pocket. Their
loss they estimate at 30,000 L It is satisfactory to
find that they deprecate any special effort at this
moment, from a desire not to interfere with the
relief fund now being raised.