The Press. — 1856-10-11 (London, England)

OCTOBER 11, 1856.  dence to treat for the purchase from its present owner of Kenilworth Castle, Worcestershire, at a cost of 5,0001. All these expenses, horses, dog-carts, wife, •and women, could not have been kept much under 5,0001. a year; and the manner in which he contrived to elude detection so long says a great deal for his ingenuity, but more for the stupidity of his employers. The mere fact of a man living at such a rate and yet retaining a place of 1501. a year, should have been sufficient to excite suspicion, for newly-estab• lisped ohemioal works do not generally pay too well or so rapidly.  THE COURT OF BANKRUPTCY and the Court of Chancery have come into lively antagonism in the case of the British Bank. On Thursday an adjudication of bankruptcy was granted by Mr. Commissioner Evans against the bank, when Johnstone, the messenger of the court, with several of his assistants, proceeded, under instructions from Mr. Lee, the official assignee, and Messrs. Linklater, to take formal possession of the bank premises in Threadneedlestreet. They arrived there at 12 o'clock, and forthwith posted up the adjudication in the bank ; but it was immediately removed by the officers of the interim manager in Chancery. Mr. Wintle, one of the assistant messengers, proceeded to seize the cash bags in the hands of theiclerks, but was immediately made to surrender them. The messengers were then generally confronted by the interim manager and his solicitors, and peremptorily ordered, in the name of the Court of Chancery, to refrain from touching any of the books or effects of the bank. The messengers of the Court of Bankruptcy deemed it expedient to comply with these expostulations, but refused to retire from the premises. Mr. Harding, the manager, then explicitly told them that he refused to recognise the order of the Court of Bankruptcy, and said be would only allow them to remain so long as they continued passive. An armistice having been agreed upon, the interim manager immediately proceeded to serve copies of the order of the Court of Chancery on the Court of Bankruptcy and on the official assignee, and also proceeded to the various branches of the bank in different parts of the metropolis, in each of which, to the surprise of the previous occupants, be found a messenger of the Court of Bankruptcy in possession, with whom he dealt as he had done with those in Threadneedlestreet. The question was referred back to the Bank ruptcy Commissioner yesterday, when his Honour (Mr. Commissioner Evans) expressed his marked disapproval of such "lawless proceedings," said he considered it a mark of contempt on the part of Mr. Harding, and at once issued a summons against that gentleman. THE GASWORKS NFISANCE at WhitefriUS was this week again brought before the City Commission of Sewers. A number of police officers gave evidence respecting the effects upon their health of the exhalations, 11,:c. The effluvium of the works when the wind blew from the river was described as peculiarly offensive, and productive of sickness and general ill. health among the officers on the beat. Some of them had been removed in consequence. Mr. Gray, on behalf of the company, stated that a complete answer to the imputation would be ready in a few days. The proceedings were then adjourned. THE ROBBERY AND MURDER of the bead gardener, one Reid, of Hillsborough -hall, near Sheffield, is reported in the local papers. Hopenssom, the chemist in Broad-street, who cut so disreputable a figure at the Thames Police Court last week in connection with his wife's attempt to poison herself, burst a blood vessel and died this week from the effect of his habitual drunkenness.  THE NUMBER OF SUICIDES by drowning and other causes, reported to the Chief Police-office, Great Scotland-yard, within the last week, is twenty-one, and the attempted suicides that have been taken cognisance of by being brought before a magistrate numbers upwards of fifteen. Notwithstanding that the magistrates are very severe with persons charged with the offence, the crime is greatly on the increase. A QUESTION involving the liability of railway companies came before the Doncaster County Court on Monday. An action was brought by a horsedealer named Thompson, against the Midland Railway Company, to recover the sum of 501., as com• pensation for the loss sustained by hiai in consequence of the alleged neglect of the plaintiffs in not having forwarded, according to contract, three valuable horses from Doncaster to Manchester. The horses were booked for a train, but the company refused to take them, as it was a fast train. Ultimately the horses were allowed to go by the train, but at Swinton, about nine miles from Doncaster, the boxes in which they were conveyed were detached from the train and left behind for the night. When the horses arrived next day, they ha I got cold, their legs were swollen, and they had " staring coats." For the defence, it was contended that the horses had been booked by the 3.30 p.m. train by mistake. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with 301. damages, and Cl. 10s. costs.