The Press.
London, England, 1857-08-15 00:00:00

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THE RIGHT HON. JOHN WILSON CROKER died at
Sir William Wightman's villa, St. Alban's-bank,
Hampton, at ten o'clock on donday night. The
right hon. gentleman had been in declining health
for some months past, and had removed from Ken-
sington Palace to Judge Wightman's villa within the
last week to see if change of air and scene would
have any beneficial effect on his health. The
deceased was son of Mr. John Croker, Surveyor-
General of Ireland, and was born in December, 1780,
in County Galway, Ireland. He was educated at
Trinity College, Dublin, where he greatly distin-
guished himself, and in 1802 called to the Irish bar'
Mr. Croker entered the House of Commons in 1807
for Downpatriek. He sat in eight successive I'arlia-
ments, having represented the University of Dublin,
Yarmouth, Athlone, and Bodmin in the Lower House
of the Legislature. Mr. Croker retired after the
election of 1832, when he sat with the Marquis of
Douro (now Duke of Wellington) for the disfran-
chised borough of Aldebrough, Suffolk. It will be
remembered that Mr. Croker was, from his introduc-
tion into public life, a great friend of the Duke of
York. In 1800, he was appointed Secretary of the
Admiralty, which appointment he held until 1830,
having in June, 1828, been made a Privy Councillor.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Society (1810), D.C.L.,
LL.D., a Fellow of the Asiatic Society, and of other
learned institutions. By his death a pension of
1,5001. on the Consolidated Fund ceases, which the
right bon. gentleman had enjoyed ever since his
retirement from the Admiralty in 1830. The de-
ceased gentleman married, in 1806, Miss Pennell,
daughter of Mr. Wm. Pennell, for many years
Consul-General at the Brazils, who survives her
husband.
SIR JOHN BENT, KT., died on Thursday morning,
in his seventy-first year. The deceased gentleman
was highly respected in Liverpool, and in the year
1851 occupied the high position of chief magistrate
of that borough, on which occasion her Majesty and
Royal Consort visited the port, and conferred the
honour of knighthood upon its mayor. Sir John
Bent was the head of a large brewing establishment,
and his private residence was Edge•lane, where he
departed this life. His demise is sincerely regretted
by all the inhabitants, and, as a tribute to his
memory, the national ensign at the Town-hall floated
half-mast high throughout the day. Since his
mayoralty up to November last (when he retired
through ill-health) deceased was an alderman of the
borough.
Mn. AUGUSTUS E. FULLER, late M.P for East
Sussex, died on Thursday week, after a very short
illness, from diarrho3a. The deceased gentleman
was born in 1777, and was son of the late Mr. John
Trayton Fuller, by the daughter of the first Lord
Heathfield. lie was returned for the eastern divi-
sion of Sussex at the general election in 1811, and
continued in Pariiament up to the late election, when
he was defeated by Mr. James G. Dodson, his former
opponent.
THE VERY REV. WILLIAM DANIEL CONYDEARE,
Dean of Llandaff, died on Wednesday last, at the
residence of his son, Itchin Stoke, near Portsmouth.
The rev. gentleman had been ill only three hours.
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he
graduated in 1808, being first class in classics and
second in mathematics—first in classics with the
present Bishop of Chichester and the late Sir Robert
Peel, and second in mathematics with the present
Archbishop of Dublin. In the year alluded to Sir
Robert Peel outstripped all his:competitors by taking a
double first class. The deanery, which is worth
between 8001. and 900/. a year, is in the gift of the
Bishop of Llandaff. The dean held no other ap
pointmont in the Church. His state of health is
said to have been very much shaken by the death, a
few weeks since, of his son, the Rev. W. J. Cony-
heare, the well-known ecclesiastical essayist, and
author of " Perversion."
ACCIDENT TO '1 HE ATLANTIC SUBMARINE

TELEGRAPH CABLE.
AN accident of some description has occurred to the
Atlantic telegraph cable. Up to four o'clock in the
morning of Tuesday constant signals and messages
had been received, in one of which, received some
twenty hours previously, it was stated that the ship
had arrived in the two miles' depth. At four a.m.
(Irish time) the electric signals suddenly ceased.
On testing for insulation there was found to be a
total loss, which, from the indications of resistance
coils, would seem to have occurred at a distance of
from 350 to 400 miles from Valentia. On Thursday
H.M.S. Cyclops reached Valentia with the informa-
tion that the Atlantic cable has been injured, and a
length of about 300 miles is lost for the present. A
considerable part of this, however, may yet be re-
covered.

THE PEOPLE'S PARK, the gift of W. Crossley,
M.P., to the people of Halifax, is to be opened on
Friday next with great ceremony.