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London, England, 1858-03-13 00:00:00

DEPARTURE OF LORD CARLISLE.

THE EARL or CARLISLE left Dublin on Wednes-
day on the resignation of his office as Lord
Lieutenant. The noble lord's departure was not
characterised by the slightest display of public
feeling. On the previous day the Corporation
of Dublin and other public bodies presented farewell
addresses. The deputations were received with the
usual ceremonies in St. Patrick's-hall. Lord Car.
lisle in reply expressed his gratification at receiving,
at the close of an administration of rather above an
average length, so cordial a testimony of approval
from those who had had the closest opportunites of
observation. He congratulated the country upon the
unusual prevalence of tranquillity, and the most
decisive symptoms of continued improvement and
progress, and looked with confident hope to the
healing and elevating influences of equal laws and
enlightened institutions when brought to bear upon
susceptible and generous natures :
Among all the changes and chances of political events
there are eternal principles constant and uniform in their
operation. Ido not see bow the fortunes of Ireland are
to wane, if she will only persevere in the path of steady
industry, and teach her sous that there is a duty above
bating each other's creeds, which is to love each other. I
esteem it a signal favour to be enabled to close my term
of office as I began it—without one single speck of personal
animosity or bitterness in the entire retrospect or in the
crowded memories it will bequeath to me under the sane
Lion of the public prosperity and repose. I have passed
among you a period of great social happiness, and I need
not dissemble the regret with which I see it brought to an
end. I fervently pray to Almighty God that be may ever
continue to pour down his best blessings on your ancient
city and your lovely land.

MR. LEFROY is actively engaged in his canvass for
Dublin University. Mr. Lawson has withdrawn
from the contest.

THE notorious Mayor of Sligo, Mr. J. M'Gowan,
with his confederates, have been tried and convicted
of a conspiracy to procure a " fictitious majority " of
votes in order to secure the return of Mr. J. P.
Somers as Member of Parliament for the borough of
Sligo. M'Gowan, the mayor, was fined 501. and im-
prisoned for one month, while his confederates each
rs.leived a sentence of two months' imprisonment.
THE Loan CHANCELLOR has appointed Mr. William
J. Napier his private secretary, assisted by Mr.
Richard W. Gamble, barrister-at•law ; Mr. William
B. Drury, Secretary of Lunatics ; and Mr. William
Lees, pursebearer.

Z HE PRESS, MARCH 13,1858.

Sal ant Volta.

AN ACTION FOR SLANDER, which has caused much
excitement and speculation in Dorset, was tried at
Dorchester on Wednesday. It was brought by Mr.
Tucker, an attorney of Charmouth, against a Bul.
len, Esq., a large landed proprietor in the county.
It appeared that Mr. Biillen, who is a county magis-
trate, had in May last granted an information against
some person for game trespass, and the case came
before the Bench at Beamiuster on the 25th of May
last. Mr. Tucker was about to be sworn, when he
demanded 31. 3s. for his fee. This the Bench cut
down to 21. 25., which the plaintiff swore Mr. Batten
threw down, remarking, " I will give the vagabond
21. 2s. to hear him speak false" :

Mr. Tucker was then sworn, and was asked if he had
shot on certain lands. He replied, " I have, and when I
shoot I shoot like a gentleman, and do not trespassa on
the adjoining land, as other persona do." To this Mr.
Bullen replied, " You insinuate that to me, you scoundrel.
I appeal to the Bench if I am to sit here and be insulted
by that blackguard. Speak the truth, and do not perjure
yourself as you have, you d—d scoundrel. You d—d
blackguard, you have perjured yourself, you d—d black-
guard, you d—d scoundrel. If you were in any other
place I would let you know whether you would insult me
like this, you vagabond, you blackguard." The magis-
trate requested that a stop might be put to this, and the
case proceeded.

This was the slander complained of. After two day's
trial the complainant failed entirely to prove that
these words were used, while unimpeachable wit-
nesses declared that Mr. Bullen never used such
expressions. Mr. Justice Crowder took five hours
to sum up, and the jury after an hour's deliberation
returned a verdict for the defendant. Upon applica-
tion the judge agreed to stay execution till next
term, in order that the plaintiff may move the court
above for a new trial.

A WEALTHY WIDOW, Mrs. Eberhardt, of Stour-
bridge, with a weakness for auction-rooms, and a
taste for the fine arts, brought an action for breach
of warrant against one Mason, formerly partner in
the firm of Elkingtnn and Co., the well-known
electroplaters, for having sold her as " old masters"
several pictures, which, of course, turned out to be
copies, and bad copies into the bargain. The action
was tried at Worcester before Baron Channell, and
the case was this:—Mrs. Eberhardt, who "had tra-
velled a bit" and seen the picture galleries in Paris,
in Feb. '57 attended a picture sale at Kidderminster.
A Mr. Nixon, a picture dealer, was there, and in-
troducing himself to the notice of the lady patroness,
offered to take home her purchases. Nixon, being
a man of business, appreciated the opportunity.
Here was a widow, rich and ignorant, with a
"fancy" for pictures and a fondness for bargains.
The result was that he " sold " her some pictures,
and a few days afterwards confidentially informed
her that he had " a friend " whose pictures were to
be bought " cheap." That fatal love for a bargain
characteristic of ladies of a certain age with money
and without occupation seized hold of Mrs. Ebel-
hardt. She instantly got into a cab with Nixon, and
drove to the friend's house. That friend was Mason,
who shook her by the hand, called her Mrs. Eber-
hardt, and asked her to "take some dinner." Poor
Mrs. Eberhardt was too resthetical to think of
dinner, or to notice the remarkable fact that Mason
should have known her name, and should have
dinner just ready as she arrived. She rushed to
the "gallery" with Nixon. In a short time Mason
came in :
I pointed to four or five pictures which I said I should
like. The defendant called them by their names. I said,
" That is very beautiful; who is it by ?" He said, "By
Muller." I said, " Are you sure ?" He said, " Yes, his
name is on it." He said another was by Paul Potter. He
said the two at the top were by Zuccarelli. I asked him
if he was sure it was a Muller, and he said he was sure it
was. He also said the two at the top were by Zuccarelli.
I said they were unlike those I bad.

These two were so high up that Mrs. Eberhardt
could not distinctly see them. " I took her near the
door," said Mason, on his cross-examination, " and
she was in admiration in a moment." The end of
all this was " luncheon " and another visit to the
" gallery "; then tea with Mrs. Mason ; and, finally,
the purchase of certain pictures for 1,7771. This
was afterwards made up to 2,0001. Of the real value
of the pictures the evidence of Mr. Foster sufficiently
explains. Edward Foster, examined by Mr. Sergeant
Pigott, said :

lam an auctioneer in Pall-mall, London. I have had
great experience in pictures for the last twenty-five years.
I have been in the habit of selling pictures, ancient and
modern. I submitted some of these pictures to auction.
Only two were sold (by Cox). The others were all bought
in. There is no pretence 13r calling the picture produced
a Murillo. It may be worth 51. Murillo painted 2(y)
years ago. The picture produced is below criticism, and
was probably painted from a print. (It was charged 801.)
The large Muller charged 1001. I value at 20 guineas.
I value it as a pleasing piece of furniture. It is not by the
great Muller. The smaller Muller I value at 30s. (charged
30/.) It has no pretensions to be a Muller. The
Bonington (charged 301.) I value at 4 guineas. It is a

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very bad imitation. The two Van Berghems (charged
501.) are, one a bad copy of Cuyp, and the other of Berghem.
They are worth 101. The Guido is a bad picture, and I
don't think it is a copy of the master. It is worth 41.
(charged 201.) The subject is a Madonna reading. The
Palainedes is worse than bad. It is worth nothing. I put
it down at 21. (charged 151.) The next, the Angelica
Kauffman, I value at 31. (charged 201.). 1 do not think
it is a copy of that artist.. The Schiadone is not s
Schiadone, but it is worth 201. The two Synders are not
genuine. I value them at 101. (charged 851.)
Upon learning the real value of her purchases, Mrs.
Eberhardt very properly took legal advice, and now
brought an action to recover a portion, 5001., of her
expenditure. The defence of Mr. Mason was that
he had given no warranty ; that he believed the
prices to be "fair prices " ; and that l►e had originally
given as much and in some instances more for the
same pictures. The jury, without much hesitation,
found a verdict for the full amount claimed for the
JEREMIAH CARPENTER, charged with the murder
of the policeman Starkins, at Stevenage, in Decem-
ber last, was tried on Saturday week at Hertford.
The case for the prosecution closed with a curious
piece of evidence. W. Quint, the constable who
attended the prison-van to the gaol the previous
evening, swore that he overheard the following con-
versation between Carpenter and another prisoner
in the van :

Just before the van started he heard the prisoner say to
the other man, " What have you got?" and he replied,
" Ten months." The prisoner then said, " I have not had
my trial ;" and the other man asked him what he was in
for, and he said in reply, " For the murder of Starkins."
Nothing more passed until the van arrived at the prison
gates, and when it stopped the prisoner again addressed
the other man and said, " Do you know whether Shepherd
(one of the witnesses for the prosecution) has said any
?" The man replied "No ;" and the prisoner then
said, "If he has he will do me." The van was then driven
into the gaol•yard, and when it got inside the man said to
the prisoner, " Do they know who done it?" and the pri-
soner replied, " I done it, but nobody knows it."

The Crown failed to substantiate this evidence, and the
jury ultimately found the prisoner " Not Guilty,"
coupled with an expression of opinion that a strong
case of suspicion existed against the prisoner.
GIOVANNI LANI is " fully committed" for trial for
the wilful murder of Heloise Theubin, the French
prostitute living in Arundel-court, Haymarket. The
medical evidence at the coroner's inquest was en-
tirely in favour of death by forcible strangulation, ss
she was lying on her back. It was impossible, s aid
the medical men, that. a suicide with such appear-
ances could have occurred. The prisoner appears
cool and reserved.

GAROTTING IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE is becoming
a favourite amusement with gentlemen of pre-
datory habits and tickets of leave. A Mr. Waine-
wright the other day was travelling by night from
Manchester to Liverpool. Just before entering the
train, he imprudently took openly some nine or ten
sovereigns from a friend. At that moment a man
jostled past—the next the same man entered the
same carriage with Mr. Wainewright. The train
started, and, when about halfway on the journey, Mr.
Wainewright's companion presented a pistol at his
head, and in the mildest terms demanded his money.
Mr. Wainewright hesitated, when his companion
seized him by the throat and choked him into insen-
sibility. On recovering his consciousness Mr. Waine-
wright found himself lying on the floor of the car-
riage—his money, his watch, and his companion gone.
THE FRENCHMAN, BERNARD, was finally examined
on Thursday before Mr. Jardine at Bow street. Evi-
dence was given that the ingredients purchased by
Bernard were for explosive purposes, and witnesses
were produced—Orsini's housekeeper, for instance—

who swore to the extreme intimacy existing between
Orsini and Bernard, and between Bernard and Rudio.
The wife of Radio gave most important evidence,
tending directly to implicate Bernard as the insti-
gator of Radio in the attempt of the 14th. The pri-
soner will be brought up for the last time this day
at three p.m., when an application for his full corn •
mittal for trial will be made;

A CURIOUS ESCAPE FROM PRISON occurred the
other day at Holloway. Two prisoners, 'ireenfield
and Wilkes, wero severally condemned by the Lord
Mayor to three months' and twenty-one days' im-
prisonment. While being conveyed to prison,
Wilkes. by the solemn promise of a pair of boots, in-
duced Greenfield to assume his (Wilkes's) name,
and to change sentences. The bargain was made,
the prison•van arrived at the Holloway prison, Wilkes
was called and out stepped Greenfield, and to Green-
field's name Wilkes answered. The result of this is
that since Wilkes's discharge the plot has been dis•
covered, and Greenfield now stands charged with
" aiding and abetting the escape of a prisoner," a
charge which will involve serious consequences.

THE NORTH EAST GALF. OF SUNDA.
very destructive to shipping on the
Several vessels were wrecked and found,
less than eighteen helped in Lowestoft
damaged., e,,,,jigc,„

NIGHT proved
Norfoik coast.
ndered, and no
3toft seriously
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