The Press.
London, England, 1857-11-07 00:00:00

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JUDGMENT in the bankruptcy case of Rbgg and
Sadgrove was delivered on Tuesday by Mr. Com-
missioner Holroyd. Ragg's certificate was refused
and Sadgrove's suspended for two years, when a
third-class certificate only will be granted. An
application for protection was refused for Ragg and
granted to Sadgrove. More, the discounter of Ragg's
bills, was refused the costs of his opposition. The
Commissioner, alluding to Ragg's proceedings,
said :
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Now, I think there can be no doubt that Ragg, by his
conduct as the principal actor in the bill transactions, has
laid himself open to the severest reprehension, if Lot to
crinvnal responsibility; for, not only is writing the ac-
ceptance of an existing person to a bill of exchange with-
out authority forgery, but writing the name of a person
non-existing is forgery, if the name was written with in-
tent to defraud in that particular instance, or for a system
of fraud within which that signature fell or of which the
forgery formed a part.
A PORTION OF LADY ELLESMERE'S PROPERTY,
stolen from a cab in June last while I er ladyship
was en route to the Great Western Railway station,
and supposed to be recently discovered in a house in
Leonard-street, Shoreditch, was—to the extent dis-
covered—fully recognised on Tuesday, at Worship-
street, by the housekeeper, lady's•maid, lace-cleaner.
and lace•manufacturer as articles purchased by,
cleaned for, and belonging to her ladyship. The
prisoners charged with the robbery are one Jackson
and wife, respectable (!) tradespeople.
SOME singular and suspected murders have oc
cuffed this week. A Mr. Isaac Butcher, of Colne
Engaine, a village near Halstead in Essex, was

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found last Saturday night lying dead, covered with
blood, but with no marks of bruises about his person,
and his pockets rifled, on the high road close to
Colne-park. The medical e:ideoce is in favour of
deceased having been " garotted" to death, and the
personal evidence of one Butler, who was close to
the spot at the time, is that be distinctly heard •
scuttle, a faint cry of " Oh, don't," " Oh dear," and
then the steps of persons running away. Other
witnesses who passed the deceased on the road
noticed that two men were following him. Their
description is but vaguely given, yet it is hoped that
it will prove sufficient to lead to their arrest. It may
be mentiont.d that only a few minutes after Mr.
Butcher's death, and the pursuit of Butler after the
assassins, a brother with a friend drove to the spot
where the body lay; the horse shied, Mr. Butcher
alighted, and lifted up the corpse of his own brother !
The coroner's jury have returned a verdict of
" Wilful Murder."—At Eastborne in Sussex
the starved body of a boy, about thirteen years
of age, carefully packed in shavings and can.
vas and inclosed in a wooden case, has been
picked up on the beach, near Langley Fort.
A blow on the temple was evident, and the medical
opinion is that a foul murder has been committed.
The police are making active search.

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DEATIv OF LORD CHARLES BUTLER.—Lord Charles
Wandesforde Butler died suddenly on Friday last,
at the residence of his mother, the Dowager Mar-
chioness of Ormond, Marley, Ratbfarnham. Imme-
diately after breakfast on Friday morning his lord-
ship complained of feeling faint, and retired to his
bedroom ; the servant hearing him call at once went
up, and found him lying on the floor, suffering from
an apoplec►,ic seizure. Medical aid was immediately
procured, and his lordship rallied a little, but in the
course of the afternoon he bad a second seizure,
which terminated life. Lord Eharles Butler was
fourth son of James, Marquis of Ormond, brother
of the late lamented Marquis, and uncle of the
present. He was in his thirty-eighth year.
TIIE ORANGE LODGES met on Tuesday in Dublin,
when a committee was appointed to take into con-
sideration Chancellor Brady's recent letter, and other
subjects, bearing on the prospects of Orangeism.
The meeting was most fully attended. Lord Dun-
gannon, at the half•yearly meeting at Antrim, last
week, in his address, referred to the Chancellor's
letter :
Was the Lord Chancellor prepared to say he could
point out one instance of a member of the Orange So-
ciety, in such a position, allowing his religious prejudices
to sway him in the discharge of his public duties—that he
had acted arbitrarily or unjustly in any case that had ever
come before him to be adjudicated upon? Something of
that kind must be made manifest, in order to justify the
course that had been adopted. It ought to have been
shown that some magistrate connected with the Orange
Society had done something of a character to make him
unfit to hold the commission of the peace; and any
gentlemen who could thus have set aside his sense of
duty, and allowed his religious zeal or party prejudice
to bias his conduct in the discharge of his magisterial
functions—be he an Orangeman or whatever else
he might—ought no longer clearly to be suffered to
retain a power he thus abused. He did not say
that individuals connected with the society bad not com-
mitted faults betimes, and been punished for them,
but he could safely venture to state that be had never
yet heard of an Orangeman being convicted of any serious
offence, or being in any way connected with sedition or
disaffection. Had the Orange institution ever been found
plotting against the existing order of things, or conspiring
against the Crown or Constitution? No; they had ever
been loyal subjects, ready to stand forward in defence of
the Crown, the laws, and institutions of the country. In
times of real danger they had been proved—and well did
one member of the Cabinet know this. He alluded to
the noble earl the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Did he not know, as a notorious fact, that nine years ego,
in the hour of difficulty and alarm, when he presided over
the Government in lreland,he had to call on the Orangemen
for support, placing arms in their hands and relying on them
for preserving the peace and order of the country ? And
he (Lord Dungannon) was firmly of the belief that, if
there had not been at that time existing such a body of
men as the Orangemen throughout Ireland, the scenes of
1795 might have been revived in all their horrors. Three
courses were now open to them—to petition the two
Houses of Parliament; to appeal to the Prime Minister;
and to lay their representations at the foot of the throne.
He could not but believe that wizen the whole case became
known throughout the country, it would do a great deal
in their behalf.
The noble lord concluded as follows :
One piece of advice he would offer to the Government.
They called themselves friends of civil and religious
liberty. Let their future actions more nearly accord with
their professions.
At the conclusion of his lordship's ad.iress he was
loudly applauded, and received the cordial thanks of
the assembled lodge.

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