The Press.
London, England, 1857-11-14 00:00:00

THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 14, 1857.

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THE EXETER•HALL SERVICES have been " vetoed "
by the Rev. Mr. Edouart, the incumbent of St.
Michael's parish, Strand, who has addressed a letter
to the Bishop of London, with a view to vindicate
the prohibition of the Sunday services at E xeter-
ball. The rev. gentleman declares that in protest-
ing against "public preaching" within his parish by
"strange clergymen," and in "an unconsecrat..d
building," he is only upholding the parochial system
and the discipline of the Church:—
In thus protesting against public preaching within my
parish by strange clergymen, and in an unconsecrated
building, i am only upholding the parochial system which
for many centuries has been maintained inviolable
throughout England, and am setting my face against a
proceeding altogether irregular, and which, if permitted,
would prove thoroughly subversive of all discipline and
order in the Church, and would tend, beyond all concep-
tion, to destroy that form of sound words so essential to
the purity and power of our branch of Christ's Church.
In conclusion, Mr. Edouart, " acting under the
advice of counsel," supports his argument with legal
precedents, and hopes the bishop, " b 3 the interposi-
tion of his authority," will relieve him from the ne-
cessity of "further proceedings." It is understood
that an appeal to the courts of law, it' the bishop re-
fuse to interfere, will be made.
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY has consented
to preside at a general meeting, which is to he held
on the '26th inst., to take into consideration the sub-
ject of the extension of the Church of England's
missions in India.
THE BRITISH BANK SHAREHOLDERS on Wednesday
evening held a meeting at Guildhall, Mr. Wyld, M.l'.,
in the chair. The chairman said that if the arrange-
ment to pay 6s. 6d. in the pound were carried out
by the shareholders it would finally put an end to
the affair. In reply to a shareholder, Mr. Linklater
said that each shareholder who paid the 6s. 61 in
the pound would receive his release. Mr. Harding
said that he had received promises to the amount of
85,8991. 2s. 4d., to which there were offsets, leaving
about 65,0001. He thought 113,000/. might be got
from persons who had made no offer. Mr. Humphrey
Brown alluded to the approaching trials, but was
called to order. Before the meeting separated, Mr.
Harding announced that fresh offers to the amount
of 11,7001. had been made.
THE COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS have dis-
covered that the Board of Examiners in its constitu-
tion and proceedings are illegal. The board has
been established for ten years, and this discovery
has given rise to a lively discussion between the
board and the council, resulting in the suppression
of the Board and the resignation of Dr. Booth.
THE REGISTRAR GENERAL'S RETURNS exhibit that
increase in mortality usually looked for in November.
The deaths have risen from 988 and 1,017 in the
two preceding weeks to 1,160 in this week. The
greatest increase is observable among persons of the
ages of sixty and upwards. The births for the same
period amounted to 1,682 children.

Vrahintial.

A FOURTH VICTIM has been added to the cata-
logue of persons killed by the collision of the pas-
senger trains on the South Wales Railway, near
Pyle, on the 14th ult. John Lawson, the driver of
the down passenger-train, which, it will be remem.
tiered, was travelling at the time upon the wrong
line of rails, under written orders from the station-
roaster at Stormy, is the fourth victim. He received
severe injuries, besides having a leg broken, and he
died at Swansea, whither he had been removed after
the accident. The inquest on the bodies of Mr.
Ashman and Mrs. Israel was resumed on Tuesday.
Colonel Wynn, Government inspector of railways,
has visited the spot, and instituted a strict inquiry
into the circumstances, the result of which he will
duly report to the Government.
SHOP AND HOUSE OF A CHEMIST, a Mr.
Ince, near Wigan, was blown up last
evening by gunpowder. A large quantity
blasting gunpowder was lying loose in the
the fellow hail the imprudence to light his
the powder in this exposed position. Of
spark from the piece of lighted paper fell
powder. Two children were killed, and the
his wife most seriously injured.
PERSONS, Williams, and two brothers,
, in the employ of the Government, at, their
itory, Birmingham, have been arrested on
of being connected with the late robbery of
lent firearms.
;DEN CHURCH 15 to be restored. Sir S.
.he Rev. Mr. Glynne, and the Right Hon.
Gladstone, M.P., have presented 2,0001.
the 4,0001. required to restore the church,
i the parishioners agreed to raise 1,0001. by
A resolution approving of the plan was pro-
seconded, and carried unanimously.
In
ing a resolution, proposed by Archdeacon
lam, that subscription lists be forthwith opened,
ladstone, referring to the fire, said :

• The calamity we have suffered has excited a great feel-
ing even in remote parts of the country; and I can say of
my own knowledge that it has everywhere given birth to a
sense of shame that so base a crime should have been
committed. There are some sins criminals would not
commit. I verily believe if you were to turn all the
criminals out of Chester Castle to•morrow, you would not
find one among them who would have condescended to
burn a church in any parish ; you cannot find a motive in
heaven or earth, you must go elsewhere to find a motive
which could induce a man to perpetrate such an act of
unkindness and cruelty to his fellow-creatures, and shame
and dishonour to his God.
A reward of 1501. has been offered for the apprehen-
sion of the incendiary.
A SINGULAR SERIES OF CASUALTIES has occurred
within the past two or three days on the Tyne. A
barque, the Magna Charta, struck on the insand in
going out of the
shortly after c
Northumberland Dock, struck on the ground, and
her back is also broken. On Saturday the Pioneer,
iron screw steamer, ran over a heavy coal lighter,
and sunk her. A brig that was coming down after
the steamer unfortunate:y struck on the lighter and
was impaled there. The barque George Fife, from
Quebec, drove on the Herd Sand, and on Sunday
evening there was every prospect that she would
become a total wreck.
THE TIGER which recently broke loose in Rat-
cliffe-highway has now rendered himself famous.
The tiger was the property of Mr. Jamrach,
and lie sold it a day or two after its escapade in
London to Mr. Edmonds, the successor of Womb-
well, for his well-known travelling menagerie, which
it joined on Monday at West Bromwich. It was
placed in one of the ordinary carriages, one of two
compartments, the adjoining den being occupied by a
very fine lion, six or seven years old, for which Mr.
Edmonds gave 3001. three years ago. suddenly a
tremendous uproar was heard in the menagerie.
The tiger had broken through the "slide," or parti-
tion, dividing his den from that of the lion, and had
the latter in his terrible grasp. The combat which
ensued was terrific. The lion acted chiefly on the
defensive, and having probably been considerably
tamed by his three years' confinement the tiger had
the advantage. His attacks were of the most fero-
cious kind. The lion's mane saved his head and
neck from being much injured, but the tiger at last
succeeded in thrcwing his antagonist, and seizing the
lion by the belly, in the twinkling of an eye ripped
him up, and the poor animal was dead in a few
minutes. The brutes in the other dens are said to
have been much excited by the conflict, and their
roaring and howling might have been heard a quar-
ter of a mile distant. Of course Mr. Edmonds and
his men could not interfere while the conflict lasted,
but when the tiger's fury had partly subsided they
managed to remove the carcase of the dead lion.
THE Bisuor OF OXFORD this week delivered his
triennial charge to the clergy at Newport Pagnell.
In the course of his charge his lordship took occa-
sion to refer to the Matrimonial Causes Bill :
Our duty under these painful circumstances (said the
bishop) seems to me to be plain. We cannot let the
matter rest where it is. For whether or not we think
that the innocent parties ought to be set free from an
adulterous union and suffered to marry again is not the
question. It is whether for ourselves and our children we
can permit the Church of this land to be degraded from
being a witness for God to be a mere earthly machinery,
and to speak the 'words which the State may put into her
mouth. And against this we ought to protest, by requiring
that those marriages which the State resolves to legalise
against the Church's law should be contracted before the
civil magistrate without the profanation of our appointed
prayers.
THE FIRST PORTION OF THE EAST KENT RAILWAY
(from Chatham to Faversham) was opened on Wed-
nesday last with great klat. In a few months the
whole line to Canterbury will be finished.

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Wrrs respect to the present monetary crisis, the
Dublin papers are generally using every endeavour
to calm the apprehensions of the public. A panic
has nevertheless broken oat in Belfast ; the mills
are working only half time, and a vast amount of
labour is thrown out of employ.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRF.I.AtiD has filed
ex officio informations in the Court of Queen's Bench,
Dublin, against the Rev. Messrs. Conway and Ryan,
against whom the House of Commons ordered pro-
ceedings to be taken in reference to the late Mayo
\
election.
MR. CONNELL, a farmer in the county of' Meath,
whose barbarous beating by a party of Ribbonmen
was announced last week, expired of his wounds on
Friday week.
WHILE the Roman Catholic priests—and a large
number of the laity also, it must be said—are hold-
ing aloof from the national subscription for the
Indian Fund, the Protestant public of Ireland have
, displayed the best spirit in the matter. The Dublin
contribution now amounts to within a few pounds of

12,00 W., and this is exclusive of funds yet to accrue
from denominational collections made by Dissenting
bodies in corporate capacities, which have not yet
been handed to the treasurers. A movement has
been set on foot in Galway, under the auspices of
the Marquis of Clanricarde, who, in a speech made
at a meeting on this subject this day week, vigo•
rously defended Lord Canning against the criticisms
passed upon his acts by a portion of the London

press.
Hts Gr..tcF. TILE Anesarsuor, OF DUBLIN deli.
vered an interesting lecture on Tuesday, at the
Rotundo, on the social life of Egypt. The object of
the lecturer was to contrast Egypt with our own
country ; and his observations were quite apropos of
the state of feeling which exists among a class of
the Irish population who are continually, in their
journals, libelling the institutions of England. In-
deed, Dr. Whately seems to have intended the appli-
cation of his remarks to such, since he closed thus,
alluding to the home sepoys and the exaggerating
press. In conclusion, he remarked upon the prac-
ice of some writers of exaggerating every evil they
could find in the British Constitution, and of passing
over all that was good and praiseworthy in it :
An Eastern despot, reading the productions of one of
these writers, would say that, with all our precautions, we
are the worst-governed people on earth,and that our law
courts and public offices are merely a complicated machi-
nery for oppressing the mass of the people ; that our
House of Lords and Commons are utterly mismanaged,
our public men striving to repress merit, and that our
best plan would be to sweep away all those, as with less
trouble matters might go on better, and could not go on
worse. Charges of this nature cannot be brought pub-
licly forward in the Turkish empire. In Cairo a man was
beheaded because he made too free a use of his tongue.
He was told not to he speaking of the insurrection in
Syria, and had dared to be chattering about the news.
There are other countries, also, where, because elicit
charges are true, it would not be safe to circulate them.
But those writers do not mean half what they set forth.
They heighten their descriptions to display their elo-
quence; but the tendency of such publications is always
towards revolution, and the prac:ical effect on the minds
of the people is to render them incredulous. They un-
derstand that these overwrought representations are for
effect, and they go about their business with an impres-
sion that the whole is unreal. If one of these writers were
visited himself with a horrible dream that he was a pea-
sant under an Oriental despot—that he was taxed at the
will of the Sovereign, and had to pay the assessment in
produce, valued at half market price—that he was com-
pelled to work and receive four-fifths of his low wages in
food consisting of bard sour biscuit—let him then dream
that be hail spoken against the Ministry, and that he finds
himself bastinadoed till he confesses that he. brought false
charges; that his grown-up son has been dragged off for a
soldier and himself deprived of his only support, and be
would be inclined to doubt whether ours is the worse
system of government after all.

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THE ACCIDENT AT MILLWALL.
THE coroner's inquest upon the body of the man
Donovan, killed last week at the recent attempt to
launch the Leviathan, was held on Monday last,
and was remarkable for the explanation given by
Mr. Brunel of the cause of the accident which killed
the man. [t will be remembered that Donovan and
four others were struck heavily by the handle of a
winch, which a sudden strain from the ship's rapid
passage down the slides caused to revolve with great
rapidity. Mr. Brunel, who was examined at the
inquest, said :
It is a common thing to launch ships in this way, and
there is nothing new in it. The machinery that was used
principally on that occasion consisted of two hydraulic
presses, one at each launching way—by them I mean the
cradles. One was a ten-inch press and the other
twelve-inch. The pressure could not have exceed.2d wals
3090
tons at one, and 150 at the other, but I do not think o
great a pressure was put on. At each launching way was
a powerful chain and tackle, with a double sheet purchase
block. The chains weighed about 500 cwt. to the fathom.
They were made for the purpose. These chains wero
wound round large drums eighteen feet long and about
eight feet diameter. There were powerful breaks; besides
this, there were chains front the ship, fore and aft, from
barges moored in the river. These chains were brought
back to the shore and worked by steam engines. The
chain was brought back to the shore to an ordinary w
lass worked by machinery. There were four barges with
powerful chains and purchases worked by hand. These
were to assist it' required, but were not used for the purpose
of easing the launch. Attached to the great drums were
checking chains with some ordinary wheetwork
and
handles, which had been used for winding the chain
un on
to the drums, and were kept on for the purpose of -
winding the drum, so that the ship should move easily.
To each drum there was at some distance behind it an
ordinary " crab " with rope tackle to assist in overhanlinatg
the great chain in the event of the ship not moving. Th
was the tackle to which the witness Rosa referred, but it
had nothing to do with the starting of the ship or the
machinery, and his business was merely to unhook it if
not wanted. The rope he alluded to was not a thick
rope, but a small one, as thick as a luau's thumb. The
ship was not affected by it, nor was the signal alluded to
by him of any importance, but he was in a very good

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