Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1861-11-22 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE ORDER OF THE GARTER.—There is yet no talk of an Investiture of the Order of the Garter,  _ although the number of vacant Blue Ribands is unprecedented during the present reign. There are some four or five vacancies in the order, and, if an investiture is notihortly-held at Windsor Castle, there seems every probability that this august ceremony must take place at Buckingham Palace, shortly after the opening of the season. On Saturday, Dr. Lushington pronounced sentence in the case of the Rev. Mr Heath, vicar of Brading, who was charged by the Bishop of Winchester With having published sermons containing doctrines repugnant to the Thirty-flue Articles. The rev, gentleman was not prepared to make the retraction required and the learned Judge pronounced sentenced of deprivgion, with costs. Notice of appeal to the Privy Council was given. The robbery of bank notes from the Wolverhampton post-office by a "sorter" employed there, revealed some singular particulars before the magistrates on Saturday. Besides being a sorter the prisoner was an auxiliary letter carrier, and his wages were 16s. a.week ; yet one of the notes which he had stolen, a £O-one, together with another note and some gold, he paid away on Wednesday 13th inst. in u bet lost on horse-racing. There are several other cases against him, as might have been expected. Dishonesty of this kind is not acquired in a day. Miss Margaret E. Collis, the daughter of a magistrate of the county of Kerry, was burnt to death, a few nights ago, at Mount Trenehard, the residence of Lord Monteagle, where she was staying on a visit. On retiring at night, she placed the candle on the toilet table, which was in the recess of the window, and stretched out her hand across the table to close the window curtain. Her sleeve caught lire from the candle; she endeavoured to raise the carpet, that she might extinguish the flames by rolling herself in it; but, finding it nailed down, she ruffled out of the room, calling for help. Assistance was soon at hand, but unhappily her injuries proved fatal. TIIE Lock 00NTROVERSY.—There is now in course of manufacture, at Wolverhampton, a new patent keyless lock, having 244,140,6'25 combinations. This lock is the invention 'of Count Kersolon' a Frenchman, but is now the property in this country of aMr Loysell. It has five rollers, and each roller is marked with twenty-five letters of the alphabet. If the letter at which it is set should not be discovered, the exhausting of all the variations necessary in that case to the opening of the lock would require an immense expenditure of time. It is intended to place one of these locks upon some iron safes that are being made for exhibition at the forthcoming World's Fair. In one of the safes it is proposed to place the sum of £5OO, which is to fall to the lot of the person who may be fortunate enough to effect an opening of the safe. Waller, the poacher, who is accused of having murdered Mr Horefall's gamekeeper, at Ilawksworth, near Otley, was apprehended at four o'clock on Sunday morning last, in a barn belonging to Mr Holmes, a farmer, residing at. a lonely place, called Birks, near Eldwicli, and at a short distance from one corner, of Rumbald's Moor. He;iwas there found by a group of officers, nine or ten in number, who were patrolling that part of the country in pursuit of him. Ile was in a cowering position between one corner of a haystack and the wall. He still remained in the place, and had to be dragged out. He appeared pale and haggard, but he afterwards talked cheerfully. Ile was removed to the lock-up at- Keighley. The county had been patrolled by groups of officers, and the barn had been previously searched, without the murderer being found, as had scores of other barns between that place and Barden, near Skipton. .