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CRIMINAL INFORMATION FOR TABU., -THE QUEEN ON THE
PROSECUTION OF THE REV. HENRY J. WILKINSON T.

GARDINER.

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Mr. Pashley, Q.C., in this case, moved for a rule
calling► on the defendant, an attorney, residing near
Bowness, in Westmoreland, to show cause why a crimi-
nal information should not be filed against bim for a libel
reflecting on the character of the rev. gentleman in the
discharge of his sacred duties at a funeral. The Rev.
Mr. Wilkinson was curate of Lootan Pag,nell, near Don-
caster, and at the time of the publication of the letter in
question was stipendiary curate of Bowness, near West-
moreland, and it was with reference to the burial of the
body of a female that bad been drowned in lake Win-
dermere, that the libel in question arose, being in the
shape of a letter, published in July last, in the Carlisle
Patriot, bearing the signature of " Viator," in which the
writer charges the rev. gentleman with a total disregard
of his sacred duties at the funeral of the drowned person.
The learned counsel then read the following setter, con-
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" PRIESTLY INTOLERANCR.
" Sir,—l read in your last Friday's paper en account
of the drowning of a poor girl named Lucy Warriner, in
the Windermere lake, and of the inquest held on her
body, when the verdict was returned found drowned.
Of course this may be considered as an open verdict
and there is no doubt that the poor girl was the cause
of her own death. But would you believe it, or could
the revolting idea ever enter any person's head to ima-
gine ; but, nevertheless, it is true. When the funeral
took place and the coffin of poor Lucy was brought
alongside the grave, the stipendiary curate refused to
proceed with the service until the position of the coffin
was reversed and the head of the corpse instead of the
feet turned to the east. The parish clerk, who is also
the sexton, had to procure a hack and a spade and alter
the shape of the grave, while the sorrowing and ago-
nising relations of the deceased (who belong to the class
of `statesmen') stood by absorbed in grief and astonish-
ment,and the rev.Puseyite (altered by the editor to `gentle
man') waited until the hateful (altered to ' painful')
task was finished to his satisfaction before he would pro-
ceed with the funeral ceremony. I leave your readers
to judge and continent upon the specimen and unchari-
tableness and bigotry.—Your obedient servant,
"July 3, 1855." " MAYOR.
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The affidavits stated that the statements contained in
the above letter were untrue and without foundation,
and that what was done on the oczasion alluded to was
strictly in accordance with the canons of the Church of
England. It was also sworn that the rev. gentleman
did not perform the service, at this time having an assis-
tant, also that the sexton was absent, and the church-
warden performing his duty for him. The affidavits of
the churchwarden, of that of a byestander, and also that
of the stepfather of the unfortunate girl, stated that the
funeral service was performed without any interruption,
and in the usual manner.
The court granted the rule.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

GREGORY V. COTTERELL AND ANOTHER-JUDGMENT.

This was a writ of error from the Court of Queen's
Bench, and was fully argued on Tuesday, and reported
in Me Sun. The plaintiff was formerly member for
Dublin, residing in Park-street, and had an execution
put on his premises at the suit of a Parliamentary agent
named Baker. The plaintiff paid out the execution at
the office of Jones, a sheriff's officer, to a person named
Lewis, who levied under the writ. The money did
not reach the defendant or the sheriffs, and in conse-
quence a second seizure was made, which led to an
action for damages, tried before Lord Campbell, the jury
awarding 4001. damages. An exception was taken
to his lordship's ruling, and on arguing the case before
the Court of Queen's Bench the ruling of his lordship
was confirmed.

The question for consideration was whether the.
Sheriffs were bound by the acts of Lewis, the agent of

Jones.

Chief Justice Jervis said the Court bad fully con-
sidered the question, and were unanimous in their opinion.
The Court considered the damages were large, and re-
gretted the jury had not attended to the caution of Lord
Campbell, and ab,tained from giving damages in an ex-
aggerated form. Originally there were three propositions
before the Court for their consideration. One had
been withdrawn by the amendment of the record,
and the two remaining were, first, were the Sheriffs
liable as to the trespass for the seizure and levy
made by Lewis, the follower of Jones, and if so, had
that been made out ? and, secondly, was the payment
made by the plaintiff at the office of Jones, in his ab-
sence, a satisfaction of such seizure and levy, and such
as to prevent the defendan's from pleading the second
warrant as a justification for what they had done? The
Court were unanimously of opinion that the judgment
of the Court below was correct and must be confirmed.
Judgment confirmed accordingly.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

SOIJTHWARK.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—Edward Gray, a tall power-
ful•looking man, was brought before Mr. A'Beckett,
charged with committing a murderous assault on Mar-
garet Clack, by striking her on the head with a poker.
The complainant, a young female, whose head was
covered with adhesive plaster and bandaged up, stated
that she was unfortunate, and last night about 12 o'clock
she met the prisoner in the Borough, and he took her
into a public-house to treat her. After remaining there
a short time be accompanied her to her lodgings in
Tiverton-street, Newington-causeway, when he proposed
to remain with her for the night, at the same time giving
her half-a-crown. She told him that it was not sufficient,
and quietly demanded another shilling. The prisoner
made use of an oath and refused to give her more, and
if she did not return him the half-crosvd he would mur-
der her. She told him that he had given her the half-
crown and should not return it, when he seized up the
poker and struck her a violent blow ou the top of the
head with it. She burst from the room calling out
"murder," when her landlady came to her assistance and
prevented him striking her again. She was conveyed
to the hospital where her wound was dressed, and the
prisoner was given into custody.
The landlady of the house said she beard the prisoner
makinga noiseabout a shilling which the prosecutrix was
asking him for. He then demanded a half-crown to be
returned to him, and then a blow was struck. Imme•
diately afterwards the complainant screamed "murder
and rushed out of the room, with blood flowing copiously
from her head. She told witness he had struck her with
a poker, when she sent for a constable and gave him
into custody.
Police-constable 235 M said he was called to take the
prisoner into custody, and having ascertained that he
had struck the female on the head with a poker, he con-
veyed her to the hospital, where the wound wag dressed.
Witness produced the poker, which was partially bent
and covered with blood.
In answtsr to the charge, the prisoner said the female
robbed him of the half-crown, and because she would not
return it hire he pushed her, and, being dark, she fell
down and hurt herself. He never touched the poker.
The witnesses all denied that the female was drunk,
and the latter said she bad not robbed him.
Mr. A'Beckett remanded him until Monday, to enable
her to indict him at the sessions for cutting and
wounding.

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collision involving the
FATAL COLLISION AT SEA.LA
loss of six lives has been reported at Lloyd's by the
Dutch steamer Stadt Dordrecht, Capt. Stuit, which has
arrived in the river from Dordt. The steamer left the
Pool on her usual return voyage on the evening of the
7th inst. On the following morning, between two and
three o'clock, she was pursuing her course to the west-
ward of the Kentish Knocks the weather being some-
what misty and dark, when a fishing lugger was observed
a short distance ahead. The helm was shifted in the
hope of clearing her, but unfortunately her stein caught
the lugger and she was run down. As quickly as pos-
sible the steamer brought up and put back, and it was
discovered that the vessel bad sunk, but that the crew,
eight in all, floated on the nets which had got entangled
with the broken mast, which assisted in their buoy-
ancy. The crew of the steamer endeavoured to
rescue the fishermen by throwing them ropes and
oars ; the darkness of the morning, however, and
the sea which was running, with other circum-
stances, greatly frustrated the attempts to save
all their lives. After some difficulty the master
(William Heather) and one of the men (Richard Wells),
succeeded in laying bold of the ropes, and in an ex-
hausted condition were dragged on board the steamer,
which continued to cruise about the spot for some time
in the hopes of picking up the others. Their cries, how t.
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ever, gradually died away, and the poor creatures, six in
all, perished. Their names were—Alfred Heather and
George Heather, brothers of the master; William Bol-
ton, who has left a widow and large family ; Benjamin
Wheeler • a young man named Ball, and an apprentice..
The smack was then ascertaiced to be the Ocean Queen,'
of Worthing. At the time of the occurrence the meni
were in the act of taking in their nets ; 10,000 fish were:
already on board, and there were five nets remaining to,
be got in. To add to the loss, there was some cash o a
board the lugger. The survivors received every kind -
ness on board the steamer, and were taken on to Dordty
where they made a statement of the catastrophe to
. the authorities. None of the bodies have yet been pick ed
' up.

;VINT EXIIIBITION Or PICTURE''.

On Saturday afternoon we had the satisfaction
of attending the Winter Exhibition annually held
at tl:e Gallery, 121, Pail-mall Fast, or as they
would have described it in the old fogefied times—
‘' over ag:tinst," the Olera Colonnade. An exhibi-
tion this is, as its frequenters very well know, of
the most chequered and diversified character. It
includes, besides oil paintings, water-colour draw-
ings and engravings—specimens of sculpture, and
this season, beyond all other attractions, "A com-
plete Set" of Lithographs, Etchings, Line-engrav-
ings; and Mezzotintos "of and by" Sir Edwin
Landseer, the most popular, as he is also in his
own peculiar department one of the most illustrious,
of our Academicians. This solitary division of the
Catalogue extends, of itself, to the extraordinary
number of 278 altogether : very little short of
three hundred engravings—line, etching, litho-
graph, and mezzotinto "of or by" a single
great-master ! How many old favourites there
are, of course —be sure of that among these
exquisite and varied examples of the genius of our
eminent animal-painter. "High Life" and "Low
Life" (12 and 13)—the beautiful hound among
tapestry and fragments of old armour, and the vul-
gar cur with its congenial accessories of the clay
pipe and the pewter measure ! " Cat's paw" (130),
with its visible concert of flit !-spit 1-miaou ! ! !
" The Travelled Monkey" (141), with its leathern
little visage wizened up into so many complacent
wrinkles of superiority over the broad mass of his
fellow-apes and co-baboons ! " Napoleon's Eagle"
(15.)), with the shadow of the hero's face shining
out sadly against the descending sun, typical of so
much glory passed away !
"—A Rat ! A Rat !
Dead for a Ducat ! Dead."

(230), with that little wiry rapscallion of a dog
trembling, quivering, bristling with expectancy
"Alexander and Diogenes" (235)—the canine
cynic and the canine Lord of his Race " Peace"
and " War" (237 and 238), those wonder-
ful idealisations of an exquisite and ghastly
contrast—the smoke, and flame, and blood, and
agony of the one picture—the serenity and sweet-
ness, the sunshine and repose of the other, with
the sheep and lambs browsing on the heathery
down, hard by the rusty cannon, with the cobweb
spun across its unused muzzle ! " Tho Highland
Drovers departing for the South " (239), with its
charming groups of pastoral life in Caledonia—and
the famous " Return from Hawking " (243), in
which the artist, under the semblance of a glimpse
into the "olden time," has preserved for after times
the forms and features of the various members of
the comely family of the present accomplished Earl
of Ellesmere. "No Place like Home" (251)—
changing a miserable kennel into a sanctuary of
rest oy the mere magic of a sentiment borrowed from
the sweetest of the sweet songs of poor, dead Sir
Henry Bishop ! " Dignity and Impudence"
(26(i)—such au incongruous pair, the little yelping
puppet of a pup, cheek by jowl with the grand old,
sober mastiff I "The Stag at Bay "—with its
erected antlers, tearful eyes, and distended nostrils;
and " Eos " (278), limber and elegant, H.R.H.
the Prince Consort's favourite greyhound. Mingled
with these and other hardly less celebrated engrav-
ings "of and by " the great master—imagine the
interest of etchings such as " Heads of Sheep and
Cattle " (29), etched by Sir E. Landseer when eight
years of age ; " Donkeys" (30), etched by Sir E.
Landseer when nine years of age; "Cow and Calf"
(35), etched by Sir E. Landseer when ten years of
age, and so forth ! The collection from first to last
is, to say the least of it, wonderfully interesting.
Among the oil pictures ranged along the walls of
the Winter Exhibition are several which will, of
course, be at once recognised. F. Geo lan's masterly
" Raising of the Maypole" (342), and James Thos.
Linnell's magical "Evening " (353), the latter with
those delicious ruddy dies of the sunset glowing in
among the countless twigs and innumerable green
leaves of the woody coppice, down in the twilight-
hollow, replete with its mysterious effects
of light-and-shadow. James Sant's " Early
Morn " (370)—" It is the Lark, the Herald
of the Morn," full of beauty, poetry, and fresh-
ness • A. Solomon's "The Sailor Boy's Return"
(371), with its almost audibly-told story of love
and adventure ; Clarkson Stanfield's " Entrance to
the Zuyder Zee " (376), with its wondrous confu-
sion of dancing waves and Dutch-coast scenery ;
Frank Stone's charming illustration to one of
Moore's Melodies (378)—a1l are things to be seen,
not merely heard of, and when seen to be mused over
in admiration. Mrs. S. Anderson, in (301) "My
Last Sentry-Box," portrays an old red-coated
Chelsea pensioner in the snuggest little garden
smoking-box imaginable—a very nest of greenery
While T. Jones Barker, in a spirited commemora-
tion of the glorious but deplorable " Charge of the
L;glit Cavalry" (307), has shown to all comers
that portion of the Great Charge in which its leader,
"the belted Earl of the nineteenth century," the
heroic Cardigan, acted the poetry afterwards
written in such congenially impassioned numbers
by Alfred Tennyson, when the Laureate sang :
" Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd all at once in air,
Sabreing the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd :
Plunged in the battery-smoke,
Fiercely the line they broke ;
Strong was the sabre-stroke :
Making an army reel
Shaken and sunder'd.
Then they rode bick, but not—

Not the six hundred."
Verses so noble and beautiful all of them, except-
ing only in as far as relates to that horrid Cockney
rhyme to " sunder'd." and " wonder'd" of—ugh !
it makes one shudder—" hun-derd !" A passing
reference at least must be made by us to J. Mor-
gan's ingenious picture, " A Royal Game of Chess
—Scene in the Tuileries" (359), in which the ima-
ginary antagonists aro the Czar and our own
Monarch—the Emperors of France and Austria
being among the number of the lookers-on ! A
select collection of Water Colour Drawings by artists
such as Frederick Tayler and W. Topham, and
Mrs. M. Harrison—the last-mentioned flowerinc,
over with moss roses, lilacs, primroses, and convor-
voluses—with four " Marbles " by Alex. Munro,
complete the catalogue for this season of pictures
of the English School collected together in the an-
nual Winter Exhibition.

TRIALS OF FIRE ENGINES IN FRANC E.

A trial of twenty-three fire-engines, in the Paris Uni-
versal Exhibition, took place on the banks of the Seine,
between the Pont d'Alma and the Pont de I'Ecole Mili-
taire, in the presence of his Imperial Highness Prince
Napoleon, accompanied by the Secretary of the Impe-
rial Commission. These trials were, if possible, worse
managed than those of the English Exhibition of 1851,
the absurd and ineffectual attempt to systematise the ex-
periments on that occasion being entirely omitted in
Paris. . _ _

Little account was taken, in the French experi-
ments, of the various elements upon which superiority
must necessarily depend. Even the distance to which
the water was projected was only ascertained by stepping,
no accurate measurements being taken. The exposed
and shelving bank of the river was but ill adapted for
the trial, and a maliciously high wind blowing at the
time sadly marred the fair proportions of the perform-
ance, the best engines being necessarily the greatest
sufferers. The engines were worked by a party of Sapeur
Pompiers, who exerted themselves in a very creditable
manner.

The first engine tried, and, as the result proved, the
first also in merit, was a London Brigade Fire Engine,
named " The Emperor," on the patent principle, manu-
factured and exhibited by Mr. Merryweatber, of Long-
acre, London. This engine bad two 7-inch pumps, with
metal valves in separate valve chambers and spherical
air-vessel, the suction pipe being 3 inches, and the de-
livery 21r inches in diameter. Worked by 26 me7r2:
threw a three-fourth inch jet upwards of 120 feet, anduniti.
elegant appearance and general perfermance gave
venial satisfaction. An engine of similar copstrioui:
" The Prince Albert," in the Hyde-park trials, "r
13-16th inch jet upwards of 137 feet, the gr
Canadian engine. In
attained by any, except the large Cana:rl,B test range
engines been
fact, in no, trial have Mr. Merryweath
surpassed. eror, by Messrs.
An engine of similar power to The Emp
Was next iorder but all
Tylor and Son, of London, unavailing, and
r. M
examination,e rry w eat b e r
attempts to work it were foarislame time
it was passed by as unworkarct
uponawndh,enM
handsomely stepped for
turned off. Having put this
found the suction-cock
alled the working 7 arty, and a
matter straight rtehee
performance was much inferior
trial took place ; but
e named The Admiral, by Mr.
to that of its rival. .
A pretty ship fire-englu ,
Merryweather, could not be tried, in consequence of the
having been lost. A farmer's fire-engine,
branch-
PBiPadedeley, of London, was tried, and its perform-
l'nyci%elgra.ve much satisfaction;being far beyond what could
have been expected . from such a portable and easily-
worked machine. Mr. Lemoine, of Canada, was also an
exhibitor at Paris, and his engine worked well ; but, like
that of Mr. Perry, required too many men to work it.
g. Letestu, of Paris, exhibited several excellent en-
gines, but none of any great power. Considerable
efforts were made to establish a superiority on behalf of
M. Letestu's engines, and the Moniteur went so far as
to assert that the French engines beat the Canadian
and English ; " whereas," says the Times' correspondent,
" the fact is that its performance was the worst of the
three." The fire-engines of M. Letestu attracted much
notice in the Exhibition of 1851, and a prize medal
was awarded him, but the performances were i ot equal
to those of the few English engines that were then tried.
The perforated plate valve of M. Letestu has lately been
i
introduced, with much advantage, into the Englishse
steam fire-engines. M. Fland's fire-engines d in
Paris) gave much satisfaction ; but the
pipe, with its right-angled sharp turnings,
g metal
s: is
ob-
jectionable. Several German engines
their performances were very mediocre. (used in
but