The Press.
London, England, 1858-02-06 00:00:00

THE PRESS, FEBRUARY 6, 1858.

Campbell, and a petition to Parliament ultimately
framed in support of the views put foi th.

AN IRON GIRDER used in the construction of ft new
bridge across the North-Western Railway at King's
Langley, and weighing some fifty-three tong, sud-
denly broke on Weanesday morning, and fell in two
pieces across the line. All traffic was stopped for
upwards of five hours, from half-past nine a.m. till
three p.m., and the ine for miles blocked up with
passenger trains.
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT will cease to
hunt his own hounds at the close of this season. The
new chief of the Badminton kennel will bo Clarke, of
the Old Berkshire (Mr. James Murrell's) hounds—a
huntsman second to none, not even the renowned
Jim Hill, his near neighbour. After this )ear his
grace will give hack to Sir Maurice Berkeley what
used to be the Berkeley Hunt country—Thornbury,
Almondsbury, &c.

A COLLIERY EXPLOSION occurred at Bardsley, near
Aston, last Tuesday evening, by which upwards of
forty lives are supposed to have been lost. Up to
the present time no definite explanation of the cause
of the explosion has been arrived at.
MR. H. BROWN, Surveyor-General from the Board
of Customs in London, has been engaged for some
days in holding an investigation at Southampton
into all the circumstances connected with the recent

case of embezzlement of the light dues by one of the
junior &mks in the Customhouse at that port. The
investigation has exposed a very loose system of
bookkeeping and accounts.

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THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE has fixed Tuesday, the
16th of February, for the trial of the Rev. Mr. Con-
way. The Crown solicitor and the attorney for the
defendant were furnished on Wednesday with the
list of forty-eight names of jurors drawn by ballot,
and yesterday the parties met in the Crown office
with a view of reducing the list to twenty.four. The
first twelve answering to their names will form the
jury to try the case. A defence fund for the priest
is warmly recommended by the Roman Catholic
journals. His expenses, however, will, after all, be
limited to the payment of fees to counsel, as the
heaviest item in the bill, the coat of fifty or sixty
witnesses from Mayo to Dublin, has been under-
taken by the Crown as a recompense for the change
of venue.
sate anb Volta.

A NEw GOVERNOR of Whitecross-street Prison will
be appointed in a few days, when some new regula-
tions as to persons practising for insolvents will be
adopted, with the view of confining the business to
bonit-fide attorneys and their clerks.
THE FEBRUARY SESSION OF THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL
COURT was opened on Monday last by the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor and Aldermen. The first
edition of the calendar contains the names of seventy
prisoners, and about fifteen more will probably be
committed to take their trial before the grand jury
are discharged. A number of gentlemen, sum-
moned to serve on the grand jury, were fined 101.
far non-attendance.

THWAITES, a millowner at Euxton, near
Chorley, has been arrested on a charge of having
wilfully caused his mill to be burned down in Nu-
vember last. There were suspicious circumstances
attending the fire, which caused inquiries to he in-
stituted at the time as to its cause, though without
any definite result. The mill was insured in the
Manchester office for the sum of 2,6701. It now
appears that a person nam .d James Holden, a
carder, in the employ of Mr. Thwaites. has made a
statement to the effect that his master instigated
him to set fire to the mill, and that he was to receive
100/. for the deed. Both prisoners haze been ex-
amined before the local magistrates and committed
for trial.
THE inquiry into the conduct of the Rev. Mr.
Gent, curate of Dr. M‘Neile, has concluded in the
acquittal of the rev. gentleman.
ALDERMAN HUMPHERY WaS fined 55., and 2s. costs,
last Wednesday, by Mr. Burcham, at Southwark
Police-court, for permitting sixty-eight oil-casks to
remain for some hours on the public way, thereby
compelling foot-passenwers to pass out into the road.
THE TRIAL OF THE BRITISH BANK DIRECTORS will
take place on Saturday next, the 13th instant, before
Lord Campbell, at the Guildhall.
DAMAGES to the extent of 7801. were obtained on
Wednesday by a boot-closer, named Collins, against
the South Eastern Railway Company, tor injuries
sustained in the accident at the Lewisham station on
the 28th June last.

THE CONVICT, CHRISTIAN SATTLER, whose appeal
was rejected by the judges, is left for death. Sir G.
Grey refused to entertain any appeal for recommend-
ing a reprieve, and the wretched man will be banged
on Monday next.
THE BANKRUPTCY CASE OF HENRY AND CHESLYN
14.4,L0ame on again on Wedneede,y, before blr.Com-

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missioner Fane, when the case of Mrs. Dalgleish was
examined into. It appeared from the affidavit of
that ]qtly, that the bankrupt, Cheslyn Hall, had
induced her, under false pretences, in January, 1856,
to trust him for mortgage investment with 1,0001.
of her 2,0001. Three per Cents. These moneys it
appeared had never been invested, and Mrs. Dal-
gleish had never received a farthing, either of interest
or of capital. Mrs. Dalgleish, examined, deposed
that all the statements contained in her aftdavit
were true. The facts of the case were, indeed,
stronger against the bankrupts than therein set
forth. They were not made stronger in the affidavit,
as to do so must render the case one for a criminal
court. Her husband still remained in the unhappy
position of unsound mind. She had never recog-
nised the bankrupts as her debtors, and would never
have parted with the stock but for what she believed
to be Cheslyn Hall's kind offer to arrange the
matter, as she had stated, for nothing, and his ex-
pressing towards her the greatest sympathy. Re-
ferring to the unhappy position of her husband, he
(Cheslyn Hall) had said—" Poor Alex., I will do
anything for his poor wife." She was led to employ
the bankrupts, and to take the course she had, on
being informed that the bankrupts were persons in
good position, riding in their carriage.
THE HAMMERSMITH POLICE-COURT will remove
from Brook-green, Hammersmith, to Vernon-street,
Fulham, on the 15th inst., in pursuance of an order
in Council published in Thursday's supplement to
the Gazette. The division assigned to its jilriadieti9n
will remain as at present circumscribed.