The Press. — 1854-07-29 (London, England)

STAISES.  Helmet John Barleycorn Four ran.  THE Goonwoon Cue on VASE, won by Mr. Howard with Virago on Thursday, was modelled by M. Lami, and manufactured by Mr. Hancock, of New Bond•street. It is three feet high, in the "Cinque Canto" style, and elaborately executed in bright and hosted silver. Around the centre of the cup is a series of groups very fine in design,representing the taming of Bucephalus by Alexander the Great. The handle is partly formed by the figurefof a female, a marine deity, and on the summit is a statuette swan with outspread wings.  707  LLEWELLEN GARRET TALMAGE HARVEY was in • dicted at Exeter on Monday for the wilful murder of Mary Richards, at Little Torrington, on the 18th of May lash The facts of the murder were published shortly after it occurred. The victim was a glove maker, who was found dead in a lonely road with marks of brutal violence on her person, and her pockets and basket rifled, Prisoner, who was a chillineysweep, had been noticed following het when she was last seen alive, and afterwards was proved to have been in the possession of money, and for whieh he gave no true account, and articles resembling those missed from the body of the deceased were traced to his keeping. He had also shaved off his whiskers, and otherwise sought to disguise his proceedings. The case lasted two days and ended iu a verdict of Guilty, after which sentence of death was pronounced upon the culprit. A Ynuso 'WOMAN NAMED HILL, who Was living as housekeeper with a farmer near Brigg, was riding somewhat carelessly on a pony to market, when she passed the dour of a farmhouse in which a Mr. roster resided. Foster was in his garden and play • fully threw a rhubarb stalk at her. The stalk struck the pony, and, the animal starting, its rider was thrown off into the road. No serious harm was at the time apprehended, but subsequently it was found that her spine was much injured, and after much suffering for many months she is pronounced a cripple for life. An action for damages was brought against Foster, and tried on Tuesday at Lincoln. The jury awarded 600/. HENRY EYRE, who was charged with stealing a bank post-bill for NW., and forging an endors=ement to it, was on Wednesday re-examined at the Liverpool Police-Com t, and committed for trial. It was proved that the bill in question had been sent from Messrs. Grindley and Co., of Liverpool, to a Mr. Paul at Dundee, but it did not reach its destination. It was traced to the possession of the prisoner, who obtained cash for it. at a bank in the town, he having , previously forged Mr. Paul's endorsement. JOHN CHALLIS, an old man about sixty years of age, dressed in the pastoral garb of a shepherdess of the golden age, and George Campbell, aged about thirty-five years, who described himself as a lawyer, and appeared equally equipped in female attire of the present day, were charged at Guildhall on Wednesday with being found disguised as women in the Druids'-hall in Turnagain-lane, an unlicensed dancing-room. The conduct of the two prisoners was shown to have been very indecent and disorderly, and both were remanded, bail being refused in the case of Campbell, against whom some suspicion of having committed felony arose in the course of She proceedings.