The Press. — 1856-05-31 (London, England)

THE PRESS.  THE CASE or ARCHDEACON DENISON did not come on at D snors' Commons as expected on Tuesday, the Archbishop of Canterbury being ab.:eut. The Admiralty Advocate, who appeared in the case of " Ditcher v. Denison," on behalf of defendant, before retiring, addressed Mr. Bathurst, the proctor for the Archdeacon, and said that he presumed all the proceedings were abandoned. This was a highly criminal suit, and he must act en tho legal presumption that the proceedings against his venerable client were abandoned.  APooa GIRL was deliberately incited to commit suicide, last Tuesday morning, by jumping off London•bridge, by a man named William May, who was brought before Sir William Carden, at the Mansion-house, in the course of the day. Several witr esses depos.d to having seen the prisoner, about 3.30 a.m., deliberately help up the girl upon the parapet of the bridge, and heard him say, "Go on, jump in, and I'll follow you." The poor girl, either excited from drink, or insane, jumped off. How ever, tha moment she rose in the water, her senses appeared to have returned, for her cries to be saved were piteous. Boats put off at one'', but the tide was running strongly, and she sank before aqsistance could reach her. The prisoner was immediately seized by persons on the bridge. He declared he waN trying to prevent the deceased from jumping in. Alderman Carden remanded him till Tuesday next. The body of the poor girl was recovered on Wednesday. MUTINY AND MURDER ON THE HIGH SEAS was hitherto believed to be extinct among British merchant seamen, but a case brought before Mr. Yardley on Wednesday at the Thames Police Court disclosed how narrow was the escape from murder, and worse, of the passengers on board the ship Stebonheath, from Melbourne. The shit) sailed from Melbourne on the 17th February. She had several passengers on board, and 61,000 oz. of gold. Amo'ig the crew engaged at Melbourne was one William Lewis. The second day at sea, Lewis began to talk to another seaman, Boletho, about the diggings and California. One subject led to another, till Lewis recounted how, at Callao some time since, he and other men got a schooner and cruised off the Californian coast for some weeks on the look-out for a gold-ship. They caught one at last, threw the passengers and crew overboard, took out 7,000 oz. of gold, and scuttled the ship. Lewis then asked Boletho how he would like to be in a 7,000-oz. business, to which Boletho replied, Very well, if he could get clear." Lewis then touched upon the subject of seizing the Stebonheath, sailing for Peru, and disposing of her passengers much in the same manner as in the Callao case, except that the " young " women were to be kept till they reached the coast, and then left to sink with the scuttled ship. Bolethn appears to have entertained the proposal very kindly at first. The affair was talked over between these two men for some days. Kent and Whi' tington, two more mtn, were sounded and engaged. Lewis had come on board fully prepared. He had revolvers, powder and bullets, and two phials of laudanum, with a keg of brandy, with which he intended to dose the remainder of the crew until the seizure of the ship was accomplished. On the fourth day, however, and just as every arrangement was complete, the notion of murder in cold blood appears to have aroused some feelings of rem°• se among the three confederates of Lewis, and two of them went honestly to the captain and informed against him. Luckily he was at the wheel at the time, and without difficulty was seized at once, and placed in irons, till the ship arrived safely home. The evidence against the poi soner on Wednesday was olear, and he was fully committed for trial. The passengers made up a handsome donation to the three men.  sporting.