Miscellaneous.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 373, 31 May 1856, Page 8

Miscellaneous.

The war, it appears, has eaten up all the spare bronze. An application to Lord Pahnerston for a contribution of metal for the proposed statue of Newton has been unsuccessful. The matter was referred to Lord Pan mine and the Ordinance Department, and an answer lias been received, to the effect that all the bronze in the possession of the Government is required for the casting of cannon.

There seems at length to be some chance of bringing the murderers of M^s Hinds, or some, aUeast, of those concerned in that barbarous crime, to justice. Seven persons have been arrested on the charge, and lodged in Cavan gaol ; and, with one exception, all them are tenants on the estate of the unfortunate lady. A man named James Murphy, from the county of Leitrim, is accused as a principal, and another named Thomas Dunn is charged as being the chief conspirator and concoctor^of the diabolical offence.

A Cork p.-iper states that the Lord Bishop of Cork is about to institute proceedings |<,r the purpose of declaring the parish of Inniscarra vacint by reason of the conviction and sentence to transportation for life for forgery of its rector the llev. W. Beresfonl. These proceedin«s it it is said, will be defended by the creditors 'of the convict. The defence, which it is understood will he set up, is a denial of vacancy, on the ground t:iat the incumbent is not dead in law as the prerogative of the Crown may at any time be exercised in his behalf by granting bim a free pardon.

Three young men named Jennings, Bailey and Allen, have been fined Xo each for 'v disorderly intrusion and attack upon a nunnery, in York road, Leeds.

A monument is to be erecn-d to the memory ol Lieut-Colonel Un«M, late of the 19th Foot, in St. Michael's Church, Birmingham. I KIVATB SQUABBLES ON THE FIF.I.D OF B.vrr,,, -I aske.l, .says » Viator," a conesponden of the Junes, a distinguished and accomplished oflicer holding a hijfh rank in ,he Artillery of ! he Guard, what a French court-martial woulu have done with those two military Earls who earned ih*j r private squabbles evJn into the battle-field, and with admirable strategic science, annihilated our Liyht Cavalry. "We should have shot one and cashiered the other," was the answer. We are less truculent; we make one Inspector-General of Cavalry, nnd confer the command of a crack regiment upon his rival ; and the Horse Guards rubs its aristocratic hands with an improving smile.

General Cannon (Bdiram Pacha) has arrived in town from Circassia.

We are informed that a boy born recently, the son of Mr. G. Johnson, of Elizabeth-street Cheetham, bus lour great grandfathers—the whole number, of course, that he could have now living.

Dv. Lusiiiiigton staled in the Admiralty Court recently, that 40 years asfo he was counsel in a cau-e relating to the very ship which brought William 111. to thiscountrv. °

Item-Admiral Sir M. Seymour lias 104 the sight of one eye, from tlie effects of the explosion of a Russian inferiiiil machine in the Gulf of' Finland, last Summer. * Eiiza Bank, a chambermaid at the White Him. Hotel, Windsor, lost her life by a sino-uhu-accident. While earning a jug of water" she fell against a wall, the jug was broken, and the sharp edge of a fragment struck her throat dividing the jugular vein. She died in a few minutes. The Hull Corn Exchange, a large and hand-.-ome edih'ce, was publicly opened on Jan S with great eclat. The hall was decorated with evergreens, flags, and coats of arms; and many of the most notable men of the East ilidinir dined therein. Some spirited speeches were made on the war topic, by Lord Hotham, Cant Duiicoiiibe, M.P., and Mr. Watson, ALP. Mi. James Cheelham, a manufacturer of Manchester, has failed f.ir£Ul,o9S ; the assets areesiimated at £51,643. This stoppage involved another—that of Newton and Scattergood ; liabilities, £21,427; assets, £ 11,2,37. An unknown benefactor has, through the Rev Chancellor James Thomas Law, presented to the Qureu's Hospital, Birmingham, a donation of £1,000 towards the formation of " a permanent benevolent fund" for the relief of accidents and acute medical cases hourly admitted from the town and country without a subscriber's note x.or.ls Lyttelton, Ward, and Leigh have accented Iheofhceof trustees, and a'deed decluriii"the trust is to be enrolled forthwith in chancery 0 in triplicate; one to be held by the trustees, one by the treasurer of the hospital, and the third to be placed in the hands oi the charity commissioners. A deserter from the Cldslreams, who had been recently working at his trade in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was threatened by his wife, who lived in service, that if he did not allow her more money she would report him at the barracks. He called oil her on the Ut Dec. On leaving he gave her a lemonade-bottle full of a whitish liquid, winch he said was milk and whiskey, and recommended her to lake some at night, and give her fellow-servant some also. When the women went to bed they both drank a little of the mixture, bin it burned them so much, and made them so sick, that they suspected something, and, seeing a powd-ry deposit at the bottom of the bottle, threw "away the liquid, and carried the powder to a doctor. Dr. Hichardson of the town, then deposed that tnere was sufficient arsenic to kill three persons. The husband who has fled to and been arrested at Hexliam, protested his innocence, and denied that he had been to the house that night. He is now in prison. Dr. Sandwith, one of the gallant defenders of ivars, has reached London, after undergoing extraordinary privations on his journey* fiom Kars to BntouiiK Dr. Sandwith was set free by Genera-* Mouiiivirff in consideration of the great attention he had bestowed on the Russians wounded in their unsuccessful attack of Sept. 29. '

The "Christian Remembrancer" slates that a charge delivered i,, 18.1-1 by Dr. Phinki si Bishop of 'J'uam, cousictinjr o f j's printed piitfygV u<, with tlie exception of about 3U lines, taken, verbatim, and wiihuut theslightest ncknowledgii.ent, from tw.. charges delivered by the Bishop of Chester, the present Archbishop of Canterbury, one 111 IB3S, the other in 1841 ! " All this cold cabbage," says the " IU-mcnibrancer," "of 7 years sialene«s. the Rij-ht Rev.-Baron nnd Bishop dishes up for the imdisuriminatinjr Irish prelate. . °

lor 30 years ihero have not been so many British ships Xin S windhonnd and for orders in Queeiistown harbour as at pnsent and for nearly a month back. They appeared to be jammed up one nprainst the oiher, Iron, Passa-e down to Camdeii Fort. 'J'hey numbered over 300, with about 2o foreign ships and 5 men-of-war, manned by over 4.000 seamen, of whom 2,700 nre British merchant sailors, 300 foreigners, and 1,000 nieu-of-wai's-men.