The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality

ATTEMPTED MUllttliR AMP SUUTI'E AT EEniNAL-GREliN". On Saturday afternoon considerable excitement was created among the inhabitants of Beihnal-green, in consequence of a determined attempt to murder, and the suicide of Mr. Alfred Pi in, aged 38 years, ropemaker, &c., of o. 51, Church-street, Uethnal- green-road, under the following shocking circum- stances: It appears that the deceased had been placed in bu-' siness by the tind interference of his uncle, but for some tioce past he had lived on very unhappy terms with his wife. A short time since he borrowed £ 160 of his uncle, and the same day he absented himselt from home, and it was ascertained that the deceased was quandering the money away in reckless dissipa- tion. 011 Thursday last he went to the shop in Church- street, in a state' of great excitement, with a shoe- maker's knife, which he held in his hand, and threatened to take the lite,of his wife, The police con- stable on the beat and several ofthe neighbours inter- posed, when he left the place. On Friday he repeated his conduct, and on Saturday afternoon last at the time above named, deceased ran into the shop, where he found his wife engaged behind the counter. He spoke to her in very violent lamruage, and said, "What are you going to do with me ?" She replied, I believe that no arrangement has been maae yet." He then pulled a razor from his coat pocket and said, "r v. iil kill you." She ran* terrified into the back parlour, followed by the deceased, who was brandishing the weapon as he pursued her. ShE succeeded in reaching the workshop, made her escape and raised an alarm, when several persons entered the shop and met the deceesed, who walked to the front door, where he held out the open razor, and exclaimed to a man, "Will you come and cut my throat ?" The man replied, "Mo! do it yourself." The next moment he walked to the front of the house of Mr. Potier, the extensive dealer in garden implements, residing in the adjoining premises, whcr" he ddiuerately inflicted a frightful gash across the front of his throat. The wound was I of a most fearful character, and divided the whoie of thearterifs and other branches of the neck. A police constable of the H division, who ¡¡,¡r] been attracted to the spot, c.iUght the deceased as he was about to fill upon the pavement. The deceased never spoke after- wards, and became tntally jusemibp., while the blood flowed copiously fl'om the wound. The constable called for a cloth to check the hemorrhage, and assist- ance being procured, the deceased was placed on a shutter and conveyed by two officers ana two civilians to the London Hospital, where he was immediately examined by \1r. I^rtwhistle, the house surgeon, who pronounced life to be extinct. He was of opinion that • he deceased must have died immediately after the wtl,ctlon of the wound, which had nearly didded the head from the body.

A GIRL KILLED BY HULT BROTHER. A frightful occurrence, arising out of the careless use of firearms, took place at P<1iIdi"gtou, the dreadful affair par- taking in a very distressing manner of the tragic, from the painful fact that a brother was the occasion of the almost instantaneous death of his sister a" 8, W eilitol1 mews, Westbourue grove, in a family of the name of Handy. The family consisted of a father, mother, son, and daughter, the son being twelyc years old, the dauhrer sixteen. They were about emigrating to New Zea- land, and every preparation was inude for the voyage. The father, amongst other articles, had purchased a gun, which he had leaded, for the purpose, as it is conjertured, of testing it but he unfortuuately left it within reach of his son, who took it up, and then carelessly carried it into another room, whee his sisrer was engaged about some domestic duties. Immediately afterwards an explosion of fire arms was heard in the room. Some person rushed in to see what was the matter, and a pitiable spectacle met their view, as the sister lay on the floor, bathed in her blood, one side of her head having been entirely shat- tered, while her wretched brother stood with the discharged gun which had caused the frightlul catastrophe in his hand. The poor girl presented a truly appalling spectacle. The right side of her face was literally blown away, leaving only the left eye and part of the left cheek, and a portion of the mouth on that side, d,sc"rltible. Strange to ray, potwithstanding the horrible nature of the injury, the sufferer still breathed, but sensibility and all consciousness was gone. The wounded girl was conveyed to St. M?rv's Hospital, but, before arriving at that institution, she expird. The brother w is taken into custody, and, when charged with causing the death of tii. sister at the station. house, Paddington.green, he appeared deeply moved, as did r.1so his wratched father. The body of the deceased remains at the hospital, awaiting a coronal's inquiry. On Saturday, Nir. Waklev, coroner, held i.n inquest at the Bank of England Tavern, Plied-street, on the body of Rebecca Handy, who met with her death -it the hihds of her brother, under circumstances which arc narrated ahove. The inquiry was of a painful character, the principal witnesses being the deceaseu's father and her brother, who had been the cause of her death. Tiie former expressed his strong assurance that hio sou wi s uM aware that the nun was loaded, aud stated that the lad was on the most affectionate terns with his sitter. The fol. lowing is the version of the shocking affeir given by the accused :—rhillip Handy, the son, was elIed, and the poor youth was eying during his examination. He said that ha did not knoar that the gun wai loaded, and he took it up to show his sister, observing, as ho entered the room, Rebecca, here's a nice gun." He told his sister that if the gun was loaded he would have tried it, and with that he put it to his shoulder, and pulling the trigger it went off, am1 his sister fell. Witness was here much distressed, and wept bitterly. In reply to th" coroner, the witness said that he did not see that the ami had a cap on at the time, the cap being black. His father did not see him take the gUll out of the shop, as he (the father) was stooping, picking up "ome caps at the time with his back towards him. lie had not seen his father losd the gun. Mr. Coulson, house surgeon at St. Thomas'3 Hospital, said that, dreadful as was the nature of the injuries, shu hul breathed three or four times after admission. The whole of the right side of the h.ce appeared to h.9 been carried away, as his. the nose and jaw. The coroner, in snmming up, commented upon the melancholy nature of the case, and it having been proved that the family lived on the most affectionate terms, the jury returned a verdict of "Death by Misad- the ( kironer at the same tie seriously warning the YOllth, Phillip Haudy, as to his conduct in future.

THE SHAM ITALIAN CONFERENCES. The Count (V) Borromeo, who was committed for trial at the Middlesex Se.-sions, for having obtained money from Mr. J. Baxter Langley, manager of the Morning Star," in payment for reports of Italian Conference meetings which were proven never to taken place, was tried on Thursday and Friday. After heaving the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the assistant Judge sentenced the prisoner to twelve months' imprisonment.

FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS D'ORLEANS. The funeral of the late Duchess D'Orleaus, took place on Saturday last. Her remains were interred in the family vault at Miss Taylor's chapel, Weybridge. The procession consisted of mourning coaches, filled with the relatives of the deceased, ad mauy memuers of the Engli, h aristocracy. — 1-_ —

The minutes of the Select Committee, to whom the Bhl for reformiu the Corporation of the City was referred, have been printed. They show that great difference 0 opinion prevailed in the committee relative to the details of,tlie measure, for several divisions took place. "JUDICIAL DIGNITY IN LOUISIANA.—Speaking of grand juries reminds me that the Parish Court is now in session here, his Honour Kiah Rodgers presiding- old Kye, or Ky, they usually call liiin. Old Ky was passing sentence on a criminal, and delivered him- self as follows:—"Prisoner, staud III, I Mr. Kettles, this Court is under the painful necessity of passing seutence of the law upon yuu, sir. This Court has no doubt, Nlr. Kettles, but what you were brought into this scrape by the use of intoxicating liquor. The friends of this Court all knows that ef thar is any vice this Court abhors it is intemperance. When this Court was a young man, ir. Kettles, it was consider- ably incliticd to drink and the friends of this Court knows that this Court lias naturally a very high tem- per, and ef this Court had not stopped short off, and stopped the use of intoxicating liquor, I have no doubt, sir, but what this Court, sir, would have been in the Penitentiary or its grave, sir!" Another case was before the Court. An overseer who had been dis- charged brought suit against his employer for the whol e year's wages, alleging that he had been dis- charged without sufficient grounds. Old Ky charged the jury its follows The jury will take notice that this Court is well acquainted with the nature ot the case. When the Court first started out in the world it full owed the business of overseer, and ef there is any business which the Court understands its bosses, mules, and niggars—though the Court never ovcrseed in its life for less than 800 dols,-atid t',Iil Court in hoss racin: was always naterally gifted; and this Court in running a quarter race whar the bosses was turned could allers turn a hoss so as to gain 15 feet in a race and that on a certain occasion in the parish of West Feliciana it was one of the conditions of the race Ihal Ky Rodgers shouldn't turn nary one of the !losses." Another case was up, and two lawyers got into a fiuht -one of them a preachei of our church. Old K,, called hastily for the sheriff; "Mr. Sheriff I Mr. She riff! Take them mea to gaol. This Court shan't have her dignity insulted in this ilialliler.11-11 New York Tribune."

GREAT FIRK AT THK CHARLTON V.'HARK, KENT. The most extensive fire that has occurred in this part of the county of Kent for a considerable time past happened about seven o'clock on Saturday morniiu', and continued its ravages for nearly ten hours, destroying i" its progress property of great value. The scene of the misfortune is the well known range of preiaises termed Charlton Wharf, the property of Sir J. Wilson and Messrs. lloare, the brewers, but let to Mr. W. Ayler. the great rope manufacturer. The premises were situated at the water side, and two of the buildings in which the ropes were spun were each from 800 to 1,000 feet long. They were adjoined by a brick building about 70 or 80 feet IOll, and 30 broad. It was three floors high, and was used as the store house, in which an enormous amount of Manilla hemp and other articles were de- posited. A quantity of the hemp, it is stated, were re- moved from the F warehouse at St. Katherint's Dock, shortly after the fire that occurred in that establishment a few week, ago, but whether the fire had cot entirely extinguished, or whether the hemp was reuiaved in a damp stete, and by overheating h sd ignited spontaneously, and thereby caused the disaster, is at present unknown. One tiling, however, is certain, that the fire when first dis- covered was spreading furiously through the stores; but the exact spot where it covrmenced could not be ascer- tained with any degree ot accuracy. The moment tbe fire was tound out intelligence was sent off to the Dock- yard for ;he aid of the police and fire engines stationed therein. In the course of a few minutes a poiveiful body of the R uivision of police arrived with one of the engines, but so fearfully was the fire extending that it wt:s found necessary to Send a telegraph menage to Lndon for the assistance of the London Fire Brigade. As soon as the news reached the chief station in Walling street, lr. Braidwood despatched Swa..ton, an engineer of the establishment, wiUi an engine, and also .\1r. Henderson the chief officer of the D district, to the scene of' conflagration. li pun reaching the, pot a fearful scene presented itself, for the whole of the store houses from the base to the roof were enveloped in one tremendous sheet of lIame, and at one time it wa& apprehended that the destrucliveeiement would have laid in ruins the other two buildings, extending in length iiear y two thousand feet. The first thing sought to be accomplished was to get the enines into the dry bed of the river Thames, and then to cut an opening between the stores and twisting houses, aud fortunately this elpedieJJI was crowned with success; and had it not been doue the consequences that xnusi have followed would have been fearlul to contemplate, tor, gre,t as the loss unfortunately is, it would have been at the least fourfold more, as the shops contained a great deal of machinery, ropes and blocks with bobbin, and, indeed, a stock of everything used in the business.

ATTEMPTED MURDER AT PRESTON. Oil Mjnday morning a butcher, named Robert Fronk- lind, living iu Bolton's court, Preston, attempted, while 111 a state of intoxication, to murder his wife. He sent one of his children up stairs for his skinr.ing knife," and when he received it fruin the child, he sit.zed his wife by the hair, and swore he would take her :ife, asking her whether she preferred her throat being cat, or her abdomen ripped open. She screamed in terror for assistance, when he made two orthree blows with a kniie at her throat. She received these blows on her arms an hands, which were dreadfully cut. At this moment, and before he could eífert his murderous purpose, some of the neighbours burst into the house, and the wretch was secured and given into custody of the police. He was brought before the magistrates on .Monday, when, in the absence of a material witness, the case was

A SCOTCH t:¡l'ACK'S HISTORY. John Glan, an illiterate young man, who can neither read or write, and who for soaie years past seems to ha-je travelled the couutry as a cleaner of clocks, bethought himself, in the month of August, of last, bettering bis declining prospects by turning doctor and vendor ot medicines. Gtcu, however, uot being a sufficiently eupho- nious or attractive name, he assumed that, of Willoughbv. He caused a Ji1!lnor of lia-idbilis to be printed, in WLici1 it Was announced thut Dr. Willoughby and So.is, hte of the Royal Navy, and from tU" Botanical College, Balti- more, United States, ad two medical e::tabEs¡!UH;¡1LF, !bt one in Kuiuburgh. The bill?, of course, announced teat the ciu-es performed by these eminent phy,ician> were almost without pHrd;e1. It W,IS aonoULced t!i:t thtir medic i ti'. s contained riu deleteiious minerals, bat were formed from '• the gums and balsams of where the trees drop balsam, and health si: s and m. k'.s lr sovereign as if flows." Glen came on a professional em to the little village of Guirdbruige, in Wleehire, AND WJS- there consulted by tne family of au old pensioner named Siuclair, who>< daughter, Jean, hdd been ailing fo, som- t iWe. Tne result, was, that Jean Sinclair hactkd over to hiui one guÜ.(:i1, in return for which she received two sous, water buttles filled with ««! flutJ. Tria paiieut got better, as it !U¡ppeIleJ, iu the eour:e of a wed; (If two. In the llleantitue (ne docioi's vh-its were anything but few and far bev.e2ü-iutleed, he we.s a d,u;y visitor; aud :uL:h fšood use did he nuke ot hit rime ti:t in three wetks l, liati asked '.he hand of his ¡ai; p.t c- and she bad consented to become his wi'e. lit, aati o doubt learned that she was a lass with a 'tocher." ll. fore this, however, another actor, or rather sctres-s, ap- peared "pOll the stage, in the shape of a young isdy w hom the doctor brought with him one day to tne Sinclair's house. As he had Hot deemed it necessary to tell his intended-wife that his real name was Gleu, no m"re did he think it requisite to mention that this ycma- lady's nam was Je;sie iJuc!nnall, and that he and oLe Itaulived together as man and wife for the prectding soven years. lie introdneed lu-r to the Sinclairs, as his Sl>ter, Miss Jessie Wiiloughby. A week after this Jean and tiie doctor drove to St. Andrews, in order to get the marriage baims proclaimed. They were accompani d by Jean's brother, Daviu Sinclair, and the so.-disant Miss Wiiloughby. They drove to the Cross K. inn, where, perhaps, not the least eitraordiuary pr,rt of this eventful history occurred. Jean and Jessie Buchanan having gone shopping, the doctor suggested to David that he should marry his sister at the same time that he married Jean. David seems to have assented, for when the ladies re, turned the proposal was made and agreed ta, and :he whole fcur were in due time married. From tc is time the two newly marrieu couples resided in Mr. Sinclair's house until the end of December, when the doctor and his wife (we mean Jean) removed to Dunfermline, where they established tL public-house. Djvid and Jessie re- mained ut Guardbridce, until one fine day Val id Sinclair Was wait d upon by a certain Mr. Allsop. This gentle- man too, travelled the country as a doctor, and somewhat oddly, his advertisements bear that he too was" late of the Royal Navy, and from the Botanical College, Balti- more, 1;.S," I t appeared that formerly Allsop had been a friend 01 Glen's, and they travelled together from place to place for some months, until a dispute arose between them, and Glen gave him a sound beatinir, on which thcy parted company. Auxious, no doubt, to repay this trifling debt, AlUopnow told DiviJ Sinclair what he knew of Glen's puat history, and his connexion with Jessie Buchanan. The news led to hih words between David xiid Jessie. Reproached by her new husoand, she bethought hersell of claiming her first love aud with this view, proceeded to DUfJfcrm}ille. But the doctor woilid have nothing to say to her, and Jessie, to be revenged on all parties, went to the session cleik 01 St. Andrews, and coinmuatcft'td the fraud they had committed. The result was, that the worthy pair were apprehended, and were tIied "d con- victed of the olfenceof causing false entries to be made in the register of marriages, and received sentence, he of eighteen months' and she of twelve months' imprison- ment.

A BRIG TIl.'N DowN IN THE THAME?.—Ou Tuesday morning, about seven o'clock, a serious catastrophe nhien r, sultect in the destruction of a vessel and the loss of two lives occurrcd in the river Thames immediately opposite the Coast Guard station at Charlton. It bppears that the Arab brig a collier vessel, with a full cargo of coals, was laying at her moorings in the ceatre of the strtam, when, at the time stated, the iron screw steam vefst! Juhnllowe and the steam vessel Black Diamond proceeded op the river at full speed, the two vessels beiig apparently engaged in racing. Johil ilowe was foreicosr, and on the bi- ig ibe crew on board each sieam r were observed to be shouting to each other, evidently occupied with the exdc¡ment of the race. When eio-e to the brig the pilot on board the illack Diamond perceived the immincut danger, and r,i1Jdled to the John Hswe to) pnt bRk. It Wll, however, too late, for the latter vessel dashed into the bead of the brig with a tremendous force, literally toplitting her in two. The brig went ,10.n head foremost immediately, and such was the force of the collision, that the iron steam vessel had some tficalty iu getting clear of the wreck. On observin the tearful occurrence Thomas Sands, John Shouse, and John Parks, the coast gu»rd neii 0 1 this station, put off in their boat, to render assistance, but their efforts were unavailing. The whole of the crew of the hrig, consisting of ilio wptain four seamen, aud two boys were asleep in tLeir berths when the vessel went down, and the five men efcrotd in a state of nudity, in a manner almost miraculous, fron the, stern of the vessel, which was uppermost as she ssui, and swam to a small boat hauled to a collier laying BCRr. Two bois were at the time berthed in the fere part of the brig, and f{"1n the fact that the bow of the steamer enered into the timber of the former vessel at least three jards it is preaumed that tliey were crushed to atoms.

S!{G1JLAR CASE OF OBTAINING MONEY BY BEGGING LETTERS. At the Rochda'.e Petty Sessions, on Monday, a perscn from Manchester, calling himself John Snip, was charged with going about the neighbourhood of Rochdale, and, by means of begging letters, obtaining money under false pretences. Superintendent Calender said he was tailed to the counting house of Mr. Edmund Leech, machine maker, Castle Wtrks, on Vi-iu's Moss. The prisoner had led at the counting bouse, and presented ihn following ucrrurnent- Tpu llev. Canon Raines respectfully presents his comphmtDtB to Edmund Lrecb, Esq,, and begs to state that be Las been requested fo forward the enclo-ed 011 be ialf of the Vv idow Mills, a ^erse-o truly worthy of sympathy and whose disaster is sadly deplored. Should :llr. Leeeh feel disposed to attach his signature to the list of subscribers, NIr. Leech may rest assured that any conation towards the completion of this undertaking will be most gratefully appreciated. The bearer—son in law to Mr. Mills—will gladly afford anv o'her information may be considered requisite, "^arsona&e» Milnrow, 19th May, 1858" The handwriting of the above document was exced. IDly good, idong with the letter there was the fcllowiug Qocument, written in a lawyer's s'yle- in xtkiiwoRTjj.—We the undersigned, being the minister and churchwarden, do hereby cèrtÏfy toat Jane Ilills, widov, has for upwards of four years creditably supported hrself and family by the produce of a dairy, consisting of eight milch cows, but, unfortunately for her, silic,, March last the whole of them had died of that fatl epidemic disease of late So prevalent among cattle, ,iz. phira pneumonia/ 11 The loss Mdls hr-.s sustained, icclllding the loss °, miU and cost cf medicine, cannot be estimated at less thall the serious sum of £ 150. Knowing Mrs. Mills to be a person of good character and industrious habifs, and feeling deep sympathy for htr young family and serious loss, \<oe do therefore respectfully beci to recommend her case to the benevolent, trusting that by their aid a sum fuffieient may be raied as will enable her to rtnew her stock, or the greater portion thereof. Given under our hands the 14th. day of May", 1S58. F. R. Kaines, minist .r, £Z; J cn:es Leech, church- ward:m, .£1; Contributions in the township in small ¡urn¡, £0 17;. GJ.; J. and J. Si.honeld, £ 2 paid James Wkitworth, paid XI Ciiarles Millp, X] W. and J. Heap, £2; A.nonymon, paid 10, John Eastwood, 10, H. Kelsall, kl James Kershaw, 10s Win. Leigh, fl A Friend, 10s.; ditto, ditto 10s James Watmough, 10s. Thomas Fielding, £1; Mrs. Richardson, 10s., paid; M. A. Sagar, 10; Mrs. Staley, £1; :lIrs, Hoyle, 10, All these signatures were varied, the angular hand being inserted for ladies, and bold writing for gentlemen, some of them, as that of lslr. Kelsall, btiog good imita- tions. Jane Wrigley, companion to Mrs. Hoyle, deposed that the prisoner presented a similar note of compliments at Lark Field House, on Wednesday last, aud he there got ten shillings, which she gave him at the request of Mrs. Hoyle. In addition to the note of compliments, the document and list of subscriptions w^re also enclosed in the envelope. It appeared that Mr. Leech, en., was satisfied ef the genuincss of the case, and gave his son, John, 10s. for the prisoner; but on returning into the counting house, and putting certain questions to the prisoner, the thought struck him that he would go and see Mr. Kelsall. His suspicions were roused, aud he went to Mr. Callender, superintendent of the liorough pol.ee, and they returned to the counting-house together, but found the prisoner gone. Police-officer Stead on Wednesday afternoon went down to Maackester with a prisoner, aud having read It good description of the prisoner, saw him at Blue Pits station, persuaded him tv ge: into the same carriage as he wi.s if, aud on arriving (.! Manchester apprehended liim. Tne Rtv. Mr. Raines was prtse tud deposed that he (knew nothing of ,the prisoner, ard that the hand- writing in the documents was not h.:6. There was a person named Mills, whom he knew, at Milnrow. but she resided in her ovn house. 1',v0 or three weeks ago s person went to Mrs. Ne'.vall, of Littleboroiuh, gnd by the aid of similar documents got 7,.6.1. He then went te the house of Mr. John Moleswortli, Lm Mrs. Moles- worth refused to give anything, as she knew the hand- writing was not Mr. Raines's. These tubseriptions were solicited for a widow Milis. Three or four ye:ir-c ago a tÏmi]ur use was made of his "aIm lor a widow Mills, and ;1;5 was yet from Nfr. James Dsardeti, lord of the manor, "he rev. gentleman went oil to narrate several other attempts for a widow Mills, all in hii name. Mrs. Jane Mills was called, nd said she had only wo '.cws, snd hsd not suffered any loss such as de s'iribed. She had no family of yo.irig children, and knew nothing of Ibe prisoner. The prisoner said he did not write the documents. Another person did, and he took them for him. Of the 10.J. from lfrs. Hoyle, he got only h. Police-officer Stead said ihat '.vlien lie ^.pprekeiiJcJ the prisoner, he said he had never been in Rochdale, and he supposed be (Sterd) knew the consequence of taking him on a false charge. When brought to Rochdale he had uh.al:ted the charge, ar.d said he had foolishly been led iuto it. fIe hù now nothing to say but that the mall ot the public house saw the other man write the letter. The bench committed him for trial at the sessions.

EXTRAORDINARY ASSAULT IS A RAILWAY CAKRIAGE.— At the Liverpool police court, Oil Monday, a man and woman named Braud, and a man named White, were charged with assaulting a cattle dealer named Thomas Townshcnd in a carriage on the East Lancashire Railway on Sunday night. The complainant said that on the Sunday evening he iv&s going from Blackburn to Liver- pool, alld that at Walton Junction the female prisouergot into the same carriage. He had with him at the time £ 120. When going through the tunnel the prisoner began to scream and pull his hair, and otherwise assault him, and when they reached the end of the tunnel the male prisoners pulled him out of the carriage, and struck him. He could assign no cause for the attack on him. The three prisoners were each fined £5, the woman being mulcted in a similar penalty for an assault on the station master at Walton. In the course of the hearing of the case Ir. Mansfield severely censured the company for not having lights in the carriage. A DRUNKEN IAD}L\ At the Bradford Borough Court, on Monday, a man, 2G years of age, named Elias Marsden, was charged with cutting and wounding John Hustler, with a knife, early on Sunday morning. He was i-'oing home drunk at the time stated, and as he passed up Leeds road, towards New Leeds, he endeavoured to fight with several persons, out was ttencrally refused, and on hearing a noise Hustler, a youth about 18 years of age, went from the door of his bouse to learn the cause, but had scarcely reached the street before he ws struck by the prisoner with a knife oil the left arm, which made a wound extending along a short way above the wrist, two inches in depth. He also aimed a desperate blow with •he Itnife at the head of another young nian, nameu Thomas Kin, but fortunately misssd him. lie was ulti- mately apprehended by police constable Maude, andlodged in the station, and Mr, J. N. Terry, surgeon, stitched up the wound in the arm of the complainant. The prisoner declined making any defence, aId was duly committed for trial. SCUTTLING A SHIP.— A despatch has been received at the Board of Trade from the British Consul atStralsoud, enclosiug a deposition taken before him of James Rose, late mate of the Journeyman, of Burgliead, from Sttttiu for Wick, abandoned in the Baltic on the 30th ult., and atterwards seen to founder. The mate and the rest of the crew left the vessel on the 18th, leaving the maeter Oi!lrtin) on bUÐrù, as they alleged, in a state of delirium tremens, and positively refusing to leave. The water was over the cabin floor at the time, and they suspected she must have sunk soon afterwards. The Journeyman, how- ever, kept afloat till the 30th, when the master was taken -IT by the schooner Laura, ot Caernarvon. The mate, in his deposition, makes certain allegations that the vessel was wi'fully scuttlcJ but he, with the rest of the crew, a^me-i W. H alteu and Dougal M'Tavish, were, on account of so:i:e suspicious circumstances, arrested by the British COUSI, and were detained until the 21 at instant, when they were placed on board the Dunedin (steamer) for Luth, in charge of the master of the steamer, to be dis- pojtd of in such way as the Board of Trade may direct. The master, in his report of the los. or the ship, states that his crew deserted her wh. n they found she was leak. ing, taking with them his sen, who bad got into the boat to bale out the water. NARRUW ESCAPK < Y EIGHT PKBSOXS FROM FIRE.— On Tuesday morning, at half past six o'clock. a fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Jackson and Co., hatters, 28, George street, Blackfriars road. The inmates, smelling the smoke, jumped out of bed and made for the stairs, but a huae body of flames could be seen rolling upwards, clearly indicating that the egress by the usual means was cut off. They therefore rail to the front windows and screamed for help. Tbe neighbours procured ladders, a ,d rescued Nlr. Jacksoii, Mrs. Jackson, <lged 43 years, Mary Jane Jackson, aged 23 years, William, aged 15 years, Joseph, aged ten years, Alfred, aged seven years, Alice, aged four years, and Amy, aged three years. llad it not been for the perseverance of the neighbours, the whole eight persons rescued must have been suffocated, The engines from Southwnrk bridge road, Waterloo road, West of England, and Watling street, with Mr. Richard Hendersnti, the district foreman, engineers Flynn, Hol- iowav, ltuight, and Perryer, and a powerful body of firemen, were shortly on the spot, and with a good supply of water the fire. wa, after great exertion, subdued, but not until considerable damage was done to the work. shops and stock. Cause unknown. Contents insured in the Unity Fire Office. 1

PUBLIC DIN-'KR TO THE CHANCELLOR OF TIlE FX(:¡¡E(UER. Ihe Chanc-l.or of the Kvcheqim- a:u! Mr. Dupre, one of bis colleagues in r|,e represent,tiun ,.f Buck- inghamshire, were entertained on Wed-esd ,v tap.iblic dinner, in a large tent erected i„ i!ie gardens if tl.e Royal Hote], *.lough. The chair was occupied bv Colonel H yse, ou« l, se right and leftsat Mr. Dup/e a:,d the Chancellor of the- Exchequer, The follon iag toasts were gi%-eil-, ril. Qtleeli, The Prince Contort, the I'r nee of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family," The Army and Navy," "The Bishop and Clergy Of ihe Diocese," and" House of Lords." The Chairman then !,rop,e,j the healths of Mr. Dupre and the Chancellor of the Kvciiequer. A Yoicc—Don't thow the white rher. (Laughter). The Chairman next proposed i Queen's Minis- ters." (Cheer-). Ir. Disraeli, on rising to return thanks, was received with loud cheers. lie might be permitted on thn* occa,ion-the lirst, he believed, tua* anv member of the Government bad had an opportunity of n tetini a large body of his fellow subjects—of recalling to them for a moment the circumstances u.ilcr which the Government had acceded to oiffce. (Hear, hear). They would, perhaps, remember that a Government, sup- posed to be omnipotent, suddenly fell to pieces with a collapse unprecedented (cheers). And they would recollect that the Qoeen, in the exercise of hc" COlla Stitutioual prerogative,appeateuto hii. nob'ehiendthc Prime Minister of Engiand,and reques'ed him touti- certiike the great responsibiliiy of directing public affurs. Ihey would also, perhaps, ncolhc' that, with a frankness which becmie him, Lord Derby, under these circumstances-not eagerly grasping tor ofifce, represented as became Irm, to the Q.ieen the position of himself and his friends in tin- House of Commons. The Queen expressed her conviction that itnva-sthetliity of Lord Derby to undertake the trust, and thereupon Lord Derby did not shrink, v illi all its difficuliiee, to become the First Miuister of the couuiry. The heritage of difficulties to which the Government succeeded was not a slight one, and it ould have baen difficult ta en- counter them, even if they were supported by an over- whelming majority in the House of Commons. (Hear, hear.) It was well now to thiuk luutly of those perils and to forget them, but when he toid them seriously that the question of peace or war, when the Goverament ac- ceeded to office, was not a tpiestion of weeks or days but even of hours, they vi-o,,i d reiiieinbcr tlia' it. I beei, preserved by the Government, while the honour of the country è ad been vindicated. (C?er".) Let them also remember that at the same moment two of their fellow rt:mt!r?ber that at the we nic)iii '?'- t"" ')I.t h(,?;? iig,ri. and had iii i.reig?? dungeon, and that the e1f"rts of a Government which boasted of being irresistible in its domestic strength and in its foreign policy had not succeeded in aiiti^atiun- thtir miseries aud in vindicating the hor our of the country, but that in a few weeks, he might almost say in a few days, the present Government succeeded in freeing those two neglected and suffering Englishmen (cheers), brought them back in triumph to that country who long felt in- digna!ion at their unmerited suffering, and shame for the weakness of the Governm>ut that so long had permitted them to endure it. (Hear.) During all that time the arts of faction were hara>8;ng the Government 011 every sidr, and w..r between Naples and Sardinia, which would have set the whole world in flames, were nearly precipitated, in order to inconvenience, and perhaps upset a Govern. ment which was the choice, alter due niljetion, of the Queeu of this country, not formally, but sincerely and cor. dially, because it was the only party that could come for- ward and undertake the responsibility of carrying on the (lovernment. (Cheers.) These wcre Lut till) only Ôilficulties to which the Government sticcecdcd. The finances of the country were in a position of grent and extreme diffi- eutty, but the difficulty was encountered, and he, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, proposed measures to meet the emergency, which met the singular and onpre. cedeuted fortune of being passed, he mi^ht sav, with general acclamation. (Cheers.) The Government haj also to consider the state of India, and the principles on which they proposed to reconstruct their empire in India wouid contribute to the happiness, welfare, power, and gl '.ry of Ihe country. (Cheers.) Trey declared them- selves in favour of a discriffiinatiuc aiatustv, 8,d resolved that the manners and customs of the people should be respected. Three great subjects had been arrauged by Jiein since they entered office, acd they had only been in ofiue three mrmhs. (Caeers.) They were told rhat they were a weak Government, and f ad done nothing. (Laughter.) Why, they had vindicated the honour 01 E'1 g'and-tbey had l'resnHd peace-1 hey bid assisted their imprisoned and suffering countrymen—they hud met an immense deficiency in the finance, and reduced taxa. tiou—arid laid down prineiplts for the reconstruction ot the Indian Empire (cheer.) which Eugland approved, which Europe admired, and which, if acoeJ upon, would maintain the greatness and glory of their country. Whcu it wa proposed to mak", t:ie imprvYCmeut8 which the spirit of the demanded— whether they be social, financial, or constitutional, and the settlement of which was the first duty and most precious task of real states- men, they would have their attention distracted fiom Conservative progress by incomprehensible wars—carried on in distant parts—commenced for no earthly purpo- o nd terminating probably in the wasting of their re- M?rceS and perhaps of their rCjiMation. The ccautrv had to choose b,t""?i the policv of the Government aud the policy of the cabal, and he rsked the people of Buckinghamshire and of Enlan,J, would they support the Government against the cabal ? (Loud choers.) So deluded was the cabal,-s. completely did they believe their own leading articles (laughter)-so entirely did they think that the pcopltcf jLngland would go agiiirst those, who, in a moment of considerable difficulty', at the Queen's twice expressed wish, came forward to assist the Queen, that thinking the occasion W;JS ripe—having, as tliey believed, a packed House of Com moos—having every advantage iu their favour, they broug" ht foiward a vote of censure upon the Ministry that, in three mootiip, had effected those great results to which he had all- luded. It was arranged to gain a number of me.nbeis to the ccbal—the signal was given by the leader of the cabal—solemn and piuus tool., (t?ud ch",rz and ]aLight?,), ?, :e -Iwa:?.,tt!!?! oim?..d of the c?bat—thcthingwMtobe done f'ti?arni.sndjtixing upon India, for an examp:e, by which to settle their tactics and which revealed their 1)urpo?es, thoe e",le' men were resolved to hot the Treasury (laughter and cheers). A gentleman of linimpeacbed reputation brought forward the resolution ill the House of Commons. (Laughter.) The cabal, which had rather a tainted character, chose its instruments wiih ph.irasaical accursev. (Laughter.) When Mr. Cardwill rose to impeach hiro) he was terrified with bis own short coming's. He listened to his m.-i prius nanative, ending with a reso. klion which he thought i-iust have been drawn by a conveyancer. (Cheers.) And in the ether House of Parliament a person of still greater reputation con- descended to appear upon the human singe. Gamaliel himself, with file broad I)Iiylictcrie, of fiction or, his forehead, called to God to witness, in I) ollq accents of majestic adoration, that he was not. like other men—that he was never influenced by 1),trty motives. (Laughter and cheers.) The cabal were not connected with the Government in politics-they did not profess the sme general principles, but they saw through the flimsy weh of the Opposition and despised the authors of etieh perfidious and pernicious matice.ivres.' (Chters.) The danger had been overcome by no unworthy cancessioa on the part of the Government, It had not be, n overcome by the nnited (:fi?rts of their frienas On a division—but cn the contrary, it bad been cverco ne by the iitri.s we.k« ness, by the lU!ernd sense of wrong doine, that aplJeMeG in the ranks of the enemies. (Cheers.) There was nothing like last Friday evening in ihe history of the Hoiibe of Commons. (Loivi cheers.) He cam" down to the House expecting th.-t it would <iivide at futir o'clock in the morning, aud with his armour buckled on to address them two hours after midnight, and even with the cnnsciousnGss of a good c??,se that was no mean effort. TUty were all assembled, and on th oppos;te barh s were the serr;ed ranks of their opponents, when there arose a wail of distress. (Hear, hear.) Ile could oiiI,, compare what then occurred to the muti.iy of the BCII,d army; regiment after regiment—corps after corps- general alter gentral-zill acknowledged that they could not march thruunh Coventry. (Cheers and laughter.) It was more likea convulsion of nature than an ordinary transaction of human life. He could liken it only to au earthquake in Calabria or Peru- I here was a rumbling murintir-a groan-a shriek-3 noise like distant tbuu- der-he knew not whether it came from the top or bot. torn of the House; there was a fissure on the land, (hen a village disapeared, then a tower toppled downJ and then the whole of the opposition benches be- came a great dissolving view. (Cheers and laughter.) He expressed his satisfaction at beholding that trowded mteting, and promised that, if the people stood by the Government, they would in due season propose measures, which, in their opinion, would meet the necessities of the State, and be conductive to the best interlslsofthe people. By confidently and temperately addressing themseves to the difficult question that had so long agitated and dis- unltod the commonwealth in which they lived they hoped the measures they would bring forward would be fo md satisfactory, whether with respect to legal reform—and it that their measures were prepared or social reform, which demanded the attention of every Ministry; or those eonstltutioLal reforms which all wise men who are lovers of their country should wish to effcf. (Hear, bear). ?, "Stever might be the character of these qUtstiom, they would not shrink from bringing mea,urtS that would meet the too long perplexing difficulties they had to en- counter with the conviction, determination, and espec* I tation that they might bring abjut a happy to'ut o i of them all. (Cheers). Some other toasti were drunk and the company retired at eight o'clock.

COMMISSION OF LT-NA( Y AGAINsr A CLERGYMAN. The llev. Mr. Leach, having been fnquently in s lunatic asylum, claimed to be set at liberty on the irro ird of being of sane mind. Very extraordinary facts w<re elicited in evidence. nr. Wood deposed tbht hed an interview with the alleged lunatic at the private ho-ise ol the latter, by all artifice, and gave an cpinioa tha* Dr. Leach wa. a dangerous lunatic. Dr. Leach however, maintains that his mother issued a commission ef lun: cy agaiust him, merely because he was in love with one of his servant girls and wanted to marry her Iud it appeare that he had been in the habit of wearing h's beard, and having his servants to dine at his table. The following is Dr. Leach's evidence, who on behc- nersona'v examined answered the qu.-tires put to him vtry reidily, and mad e a long Slat"mert, nn por:ion of wh'ch appeared to ,-xiiibit .he s'i^t incoherence. lie Ibe c;.¡¡1d not deny th. upon „vo occasi n. name v, in 184L and 1 S _—tee hall. been very properly put under restraint, and be was much obliged to hisfrie:; !s fo. the course they had adopted respecting Li,n. As to the year 1853, when it was alleged he had "other attack, he denied that he wis ill at the time, and said that it w"s q rite unjustifiable to plane kirn under restraint; and the list time that he was placed in an asylum, in IS.)7, he considered it a most cruel and iinjnstifi .ble proceeding, aud he said he considered it a mysterious proceeding that, upon the cer'.iliea'e of any two medical men, an Englishman could be s.'iz >d u'ld p1aceJ il a l inati" ,fO.y>t!, whioh he (bought was q ;e as bad as tiie Inquiriiioit. He was shut up for nearly a yenr in a box, nn,l not allowed to cOffilllUnic1!e with anybody, und it was ùldy a; Ls. through the interference of the commissioners of lunacy, who, he kno. were 8cÜ:fild that he Vias perfectly sane, that he was allowed to leave the ayhlln, and o to a piivcte IU'l¡;hg:, in the care of a keeper. lIe (I red th?t the prS. ce<,ling: of n.inking out that he was insane would never have b:en attempted if he had not expressed h;i determination to marry his servant maid, and Lis fRmi1y evidently thought ir wss a lesser evil that he should be incarcerated for life in a as" y him than that l,e should lost; caste by marrying a person so m ieh beneath lit's oxn condition. He then proceeded to de- clare that a great many of the notions he entertained, and the expressions he had made use of, had been very much misrepresented, and he denied ever having expressed an opinion that the Millenium bad arrived and on the contrary he was satisfied that it had not, although he ceitainly did believe that it was approaching. He then proceeded to argue very ingeniously that there Was no harm in having his servants to take meals with him, and he said he w:.s first induced to do so in order to annoy his mother, who had insulted Ivm, and he merely <1esired to show 'bat lie was determined to bo master in bis own house. He ad- rnitted that he really believed that he was conveited by the appearauce of our Saviour upon the Cross to him twenty seven years ago, and that since that period he had been under the peculiar influence of the Holy Spirit, and that every act of his life was performed under its <1: tation. lie considered this was merely the result of his earnest prayers to the Almighty, and he believed that a,) other man might obt.in the same gift who prayeJ w;: equal earnestness and sinceriiy, and he said be hoped thst ill the nioetrcnth century this would not be considered a proof of iasanity. The proceeding s in this case were resumed OJ Moadsy by Mr. Commissioner Billow. The following cddiiional evidence was a,lducd on beo half of Mr. Leach. Dr. G. Johnsou d posed that he was one of the phy- si. cians of King's Col'cge Hospital, and bad had a go^.d deal af exptrienee in cases of insanity and ae ute rnauia. He had had three "ri"'e interviews with Mr. Leach; the first was on the Stli of April, wh-iu lie conversed with liiin on the subjects supposed to form the !i,1'O':u<1 f".r considering that he was iurane. The result of the whole of his conversations with Ir. L ach was that he was of sound mind, aDd perfectly competent to manage his own affairs, and he did not discover that he was labouring under any delusion. With regard tv the vi-ioa iu tee pulpit, Ilr. Leach only proceed to have had a me,1 vision of our Saviour, atil h; said that he nc.cr i itendel it to be understood that lie he hid cen our S vioor cor- porally at the time in question. With rceard to the \til}¿uíUIJl, Mr. tr;:cà said be did not believe it had arrived, but that it was dawning, and would s eon nniv. Ile .!so ?,ia he consider'. d be was obeying tbe Divbe !¡ st 1I::rJ1L;:r':a¡, :i\\¡iI{h= c;i: extent, he felt it was a point of couscieuce. Ie said he had bought the pistols to protect his person and his pt). perty, and lie did not titter a word that induced wi.ucss to believe lie was at u1l1ihd, to commit an act of vioiettee cither upon himself or mhe's, but on the cüutrdry, i.e seemed to be a remarkably quiet and inoffensive men. M-. Fuller, a general practitioner fit St. Johiis Wu, gave s-milar evidence to that of Dr. Johnson. Ill wit- ness's opinion it was a cruelty to leek up such a man ;18 Mr. Leach. His attention was first culled '0 the case by Mr. Clirk, Mr. Leaeh's bootmaker, and it was in J..S.4 quence of his humane interference that he went 10 see him upon the first occasion, I I hi. opinion Mr. L, A'e.s a man of great piety, soun i judgment, and gr eat learning, and it was a pleasure to converge .¡r.r. him Numbers of tradespeople Came !(Irwütd, aud ÚlpoeJ as to the perfect sanity ot Dr. Liacli. The following letter, addre^S'-d by Mr. L ach b is brother'io-law, Mr. Sidder, while in couiÏ!¡e,t at Dr. Wiuslow's, was then put in and r. ad :—" Why Siddin I What a man yoti arc to act ólS y' ou have done t ew tids rr.e I am really annoyed at yoj, hardly k¡¡,v hoe; :> wrítc from lITIl¡3ticl1(;e and fÎ6Ut. ;r!j:H L;¡. to IK t under restraint Taking such a cowardly adv i t g my isolated position—a marvellous toii;g itide I, th .1 should have sueh power in this l'ne co'M'ry. li t i my projected marriage, such a 1j!'o';e'dí:H( r{)11,3 „e.< rh iee enterédyour head. Why, it was eniy oil t'e >'aii<.ay previously that I bad tbe I01.2 couve.s-nion wi.h L.<. when I ,va;ted for yen till };a!f";ja five j'cleck thai we might talk tIlt. matter ove-. What was there in try manner or lancuage that would indicate the \1.d)' of a taint uf insanity. I c;,nI assert—isothiti/ n-J so wo'ild Laun. But it stems sile thinks it lc-s disgr .^e to live with a woman without rnarrl.nte, or to visit ho -s.e where men are iu the habit of ^rathying their p. ssit s, than tù contract a lawful 11:trriaje with a pcr50 of different station from my elf. I 1 e l 11 opposite op i.i n, and for that I am deprived o! my liberty—a most creel a'd \I ieked step oil jour part, for wliicu you will one ley have to answer, to your sharne. Tocre is a Power :bo> e who will sP:i Utter right the op'pressed, ;:ed in that rig h teous Power, I ;itit mj uni- licittrus'. This hoa<e is not intended to hold persons Lotvi offensive to their mother an i sisters, but 1 o' V.. -e unfortunate ones who, under delusion, thhk iotlr ri-dit hand their I ft, or fancy ther.ist.ivcs empressss and ki -gs, &c., k<i. No ho ly ever thought, of impti-oiiog Chir '.eS M .thenes when he married iiladame Ye fi-, or A fted Montague when lie united himself to one 0: the same sert of women. And though there is a religious mu'.tve associated with mijle, ii that wo.ill iodic 'e ii sinity, YOil might 33 wt11 imprison the whole 1)f (l tsV-rs, of Mttliodists, of Swedenhorgiatis, of Moraioiiites, aad I knovnot bow many more who act according to their consciences, and believe that they act more or less under Dirine influence in fhsir eeery-day proceedings, feink: of the Qu k,.rs w ho beJievc i.i wh; tliey caii the io.rd pirit, and lL'er spe"1k at their pualic m t.:if}¡;( unless tley are, or think they nr' moved by the Holy Spirit. Women are ¡¡!lowed thus to sjJe.k as well as men. How ridiculed th"y are, and have been, and persecuted, everybody knows; but we have lived to see the day when they, and all rehgiOIH see's are freely to'erated. It is grievous to find that but for my temper on the Friday previous, and my divuking my iutended marriage, which, by the way, It I haJ chosen, 1 could have contracted secretly, neither pu nor any ene else would have cerod more ihau vera han: ver cured for my religious opinions, orco iduct— tnat is to say, not a twopjnny»piece. I do hope and pray that bote, Wins!cw and Bart'.ctt will be veiv co., need of my perfect sanity, and that, as Englishmen and vtiristians, tnty will hasten to wash their hands of this matter. If not, and it were possible ih it you could succeed in keeping me here, why, then, I might as well be Rome, and imprisoned in tLe for denying the supremacy of the Pope or tratiSttbsti-atutioi!, save sol except that there is no iuek or torture, but, nn the contrary, much comfort, aud evecjone tryi-ig to do ti," best they can for us. Sidden, cease, I beseech you, from this unmanly conduct, and she v yourself.. ura:, aud somewhat worthy to live in such a country as this, where Sabbaths, and ckrgr, attd bibles, compel almost every man to know right from wrong, where responsibility is taereicre greater, and retribution in cases of injury must be most terrible." Mr. Garth the. proceeded to s .ni ua the case of t:ift alleged lunatic, and Mr. Bovill, having replied on the ctse, The Commissioner addressed very 10; observations to the jury, and at ha!i.pa5t seven ihe room was cleared, a,1 ti.ev proceeded to deliberate upon their verdict. in a very few moments the Court was rc-opened, when the foreman announced that, by a majority of 113 to 4, they were of opinion that Mr. Leach W.1E of s^und mind, and perfectly competent to manage his affairs. There wes a burst of applause when the verdict Til ¡;rOaO\lUceJ.

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