The Press. — 1855-12-22 (London, England)

SHERIDAN. Only a few days before SHERIDAN'S death, MOORE conveyed to him a cheque for 1501 from the generous poet who survived him so long. The chief foible of ROGERS seems to have been a tendency for " tuft-hunting," and one or two diverting stories on this subject are told at his expense. His house at 22, SL James's place, which he inhabited from the year 1808, has long been well known for its treasures of art; and, u Mr. ROGERS was never married, we suppose the dispersion of them will not long be delayed. We have also to record with regret the death of the gallant, generous, and amiably eccentric member for Lincoln. Colonel SIBTHORPE expired last Saturday, in the seventy-third year of his age, and tweutyninth of his representation of his county town. His politics are too well known to need our explanation, and his honesty to need our praise. He adhered resolutely to the principles which he advocated on his first return to Parliament. His influence at Lincoln was immense ; and the only candidate who ever succeeded in unseating hint was Sir E B. LYTToN, in 1833.  Clincher : Well, the news, dear Captain. You sailed a bravo squadron of men of war to the Baltic. Well, and what then, eh? Fireball : Why, then—we came back again ! What a prophet was Farquhar, when he wrote Sir Harry Wildair Little did he believe that the day would come when fine British fleets should sail up the Baltic and—come back again ! But we are accustomed to it now, and when this amiable mode of carrying on warfare is changed for something a trifle more effective—when the fleet really accomplishes the object it has in view in spite of shot, shell, and splinters, our suprise will know no bounds. Meanwhile, Admiral Durms, like old Fireball, has been up the Baltic and come back again with his fine fleet of ships safe and uninjured, save a little bumping now and then on unknown rocks. Without entering into any comparison between the results of the two campaigns, or ill-natured remarks on the sum total of both, we may safely say that never in the history of this country did we cut so ridiculous a figure as up the Baltic iu '54 and '55. The operations of the fleets have been contemptible in extent and unworthy of the nation The hereditary British Lion, it would seem, under the care and feeding of ABERDEEN, PALMERSTON, and Co., loses his daring, and, with the spirit of a degenerate poodle, contents himself with hunting rats and mice in preference to more noble game.  Even had the public been disposed to forget the poisoning mystery at Burdon, the fresh occurrence at Rugeley would effectually have roused them. The second case adds weight to what has been repeatedly urged about the first, i e., that poisoning being a crime which so readily eludes detection, it is impossible that it can ever undergo too searching an investigation. Here are the deaths of two persons coming close upon one another, whom it is pretty clear have been murdered by some one—whose murderers it is equally clear; stand an excellent chance of escape. No excuses whatever can possibly palliate this. Dr. HAZLEWOOD'S letter, though not indeed penned with all the discretion we could have wished, inasmuch as he still continues to throw out hints against an injured person, is still all the more evidence of the necessity for a searching inquiry, while the appalling rumours which are rife concerning the antecedents of the prisoner PALMER, must compel the public to demand that more stringent steps be taken for their safety than have hitherto been devised.