IN MEMORIAM.
The heroes of Lucknow, under the presidency of their old commander, General Inglis, dined together at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, to keep in remembrance their final deliverance from the foe on the 23d. No- vember 1857. After dinner General Inglis said- " Comrades and friends, we have met here tonight to commemorate the events of the past in a perfectly private manner, but there is one toast, and one only, which I must call on you to drink in solemn silence before we part—' The Memory of Henry Lawrence,' but for whom every man here would also be sleeping in a bloody grave ; with 'The Memory of Henry Havelock,' who, in the emphatic language of Scripture, laid down his life for his friends;' and The Memory of all the honoured Brave who fell be- side us in the Defence of Lueknow.' In solemn silence, all standing, com- rades and friends."
"When the silence occasioned by this affecting appeal had been some- what broken, General Inglis again said, — "Comrades and friends, I have received the thanks of Perliament ; I have been invested with the insignia of the Bath by the gracious hand of Her Majesty I have received the thanks of the Government of India ; I have received the thanks of the Government of Nova Scotia, my native couutry, and have bee a presented with a sword by that body. All these great honours and distinctions I owe to no merit of my own; I owe them all to the match- less courage and endurance of those I see around. me, and not to them only, but to our surviving comrades now serving in the East and to those who fell in the struggle. I -have brought the sword with me tonight in the thought that those who earned it for me might like to see the trophy. And for this and for all my honours I thank you from my heart, my friends and com- rades."
General Inglis showed that he felt like a soldier, and his comrades cheered him like one.
Major Dinning, the senior military-officer present, then said- " On the part of the garrison, I feel bound to disclaim the merit which General luelis with that rare self-abnegation which always characterized Inn, attributes to them, and not to himself. Every man here knows that to the incessant and untiring personal supervision of General Inglis is to be attributed the final success of the defeuce; and to him, therefore, as much as to any other man he has named, those present are indebted for their lives. I therefore call upon you all to drink the health of our gallant com- mander, with three times three." The health was drunk in the spirit in-which it was proposed ; and after a reply from the chairman the proceedings terminated.
At a meeting of the Convocation of the University of London, in Burlington House, on Wednesday, it was resolved to appoint a com- mittee to confer with the Government respecting the claim of the University to two seats in the Legislature, a claimi mode on the ground that the graduates form a numerous constituency, and that Paz liament is pledged to place the University of London on a footing of equality With the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. A committee was also appointed to inquire into the principles upon which the University of London ought to confer degrees in arts. The Roman Catholics have complaints against the present system. The Medical Council met for the first time on Wednesday at the College of Physicians. Sir Benjamin Brodie was -elected president ; and several committees were appointed to work the Machinery of the act. They sat again on Thursday. The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's propose to open the cathedral for i'Peeial evenine services, as an experiment, from Advent Sunday, No- vember 28, to'Easter in the following year. The service will commence at seven o'clock. The public will be admitted at the two western side doors from the area facing Ludgate Hill. The north door will be closed, in order to give a fair trial to the warming process, not yet completed. The south door will be open to the Lord Mayor and the authorities of the city, the clergy of the cathedral, and the committee with tickets. The choir will be admitted with tickets at the south-cast postern door, oppo- site to Watling Street. The sermon on the 28th of November will be preached by the Lord Bishop of London; that on December 0 by the Dean of St. Paul's.
At a meeting of the Court of Common Coumil on Wednesday, the question of building an asylum for the city lunatics was again revived. At present the pauper lunatics are cared for by the peer law guardians. One party desires to keep them in the workhouses, another to make arrangements with the proprietors of private, and the manegers of county asylums for their reception, a third to build an asylum for the city. This last course is said to be the legal one. The question was mech disenswd, but no decision was arrived at.
Au extraordinary suit for Judieial separation has occupied the attention of the Divorce Court during the week. The suit is promoted by the wife of Mr. Henry Marehmont on the ground of cruelty.
The marriage took place in October 1857. Mrs. MarCb/LIJII WUS the widow of Locket, (keeper of an hotel, " the Cock," in Threadamalle Street,) and she had at her own disposal 00,0001. left her under her -first .husband's will. She was a Ito:nan Catholic. Mr. Mandel:mit, aged 3.3. was the minister of an Independent congregation ia ielineton, but he proposed for the widow, and according to her counsel's a,-count, threatened to destroy himself if not accepted. He was accepted, and the marrinem took place in the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Se George, Southwark. Before the mar- riage the wife lent the husband's father 000/., and gave the husband himself 100/., mid shortly after another 1001. In a month after the marriaee, (we now follow the account given by the wife whose evidence woe given first) he began to insult her , told her she might go and hang herself or drown herself. Some time after he wished to be "separated," and esked for 10,000/. as the price of his consent. Quarrels continued up to December ; the exchange of very coarse epithets seemed to be frequent on both sides ; the husband occasionally insisted on a cheque for 100/., and sometimes asked for the loan of 14s. A few days before Christmas Day, the wife, frightened by threats, ran away for a day or so, but returned to prevent an exposure. But the quarrels continued; almost always referring to the hus- band's desire for money. After a quarrel in January, he struck her a vio- lent blow on the face with his hand.
" I spent the evening in the kitchen," continues Mrs. 31as chmout, " and slept in the servants' room. In- the course of that quarrel, he said he wished cod might strike hint dead if ever he kissed ma, et me if I kissed him again. Afterward she wanted to make it up, but I told him of the speech, anti would not. Subsequently to this he desired me to take opera tickets, which I did. Soon after a (parte) oc- curred about a Newfoundland dog, in consequence of which he slept several nights on a sofa; and he refused to go to time opera after all. Some days later he told me to go to my solicitor and make an andetible tirrangesuent for our separation."
The next day when she declined to go out with him in the carriage he said he should not mind "swinging for me." This alarmed the wife ; she left the house and took refuge with her married niece, Mrs. Walmsley. Mrs.,Marchmoat—" My husband came to me at my niece's. Sonia words took place between Mr. Walmsley and his ; and he then dragged me doem wit Imoot bon- net or shawl to the cab he hod brought with hitn. He was in such a state that he could scarcely articulate, and he shook with passion."
He abused her in coarse language and put his hand on her mouth to stop her screaming, but the " row " was so great that the police interfered, and both were taken to the station-house. She relented and declined to give him in charge. They returned home ; she made him a present of 220/. and he gave a written promise to " curb his temper " and ' renouece all other women." New quarrels shortly arose ; he demanded 2.5,0001. es price of a separation ; she again left the house and he again prevailed on her to come back. In a few months more there was another quarrel : she left the house but was induced to come back on hearing that one of her hushand's children was ill : and she tended the child. In the next quarrel he threat- ened while shaving to cut his own throat. The quarrels continued ; he threatened to tear her tongue out and on one occasion he threw her over a ,garden wall. [Mr. Marchnumt denies both statements.] Der friends were called in after a few days more quasrelling, amid the husband was bound over to keep the peace towards his wife. This, in June of this year, WaS the ending of their married life.
The letters of the husband were read. They were full of eccentric ex- pressions of tenderness and repentance, and discussed in some places the propriety of suicide. On cross-examination, the wife said her income on marriage was 2000/. a year ; her husband had said that he had 2001. a year. There was no arrangement as to household expenses, but the husband was to keep a carriage and a pair of horses. She was questioned as to having used several coarse passionate expressions towards her husband, but she answered invariably in the negative. She said, in answer to questions :— " My husband often remonstrated with me on the subject of the wino I had at dinner. I used to take two or three glasses of wine and water at dinner. I cannot remember exactly when I threw the wine and water at icy hus- band, but it was when he was saying somethieg very bad of inc.".
The husband, Mr. Henry Marehmont, was examined on Wednesday. On his marriage he rave up, he said, at his wife's request, a chapel bringing him in au average income of 3001. ; in 1855 he earned 1200/. by his pen ; and the year before his niarridge he earned 7001., and he has property worth 400/. At my desire all my wife's property was settled on her.' Speaking of his wifc. after marriage he said, "She was extremely irritating, ::ggra- vating, and suspicious, and exacting as to the attentions she required." When she got better after an illness-- 4. I rendered to her an account of the moneys I had disbum wit ant titer, was a mistake of a cimilhing. She said, It is just like you. You married t.to for my money
and here you are elMating and thlibing " "On the 17th of November she called me a" damned fool." In the course of his evidence the husband repeated similar epithets repeatedly hAqi by his wife. I never said damn ' but once in my life.
"I IleVer said anything about throwiag either myself or her into the sea. The (gib thing I ever said Elie it was once ivlien I was playing with my little boy ttiidney, on the pier, and Whets I Kett:tried to thnew him ever the balusttade. - I then said, 'Mamma, shall I thvow you into the sra One evening when it was too dark to write further, he asked for n candle, she refused, a quarrel ensued; he said She must be either "mad or drunk." She struck him with a book or kind of ledger in which she was noting down what he had called her. He gave the following account of the occasion on which as she deposed he struck her. " i thought she was going to strike use again, and taising my hand. I put it open on her forehead, to keep her from advancing. If I lk:1:1 siruck Ma she would have fallen off the step. I said, ' Olt, you insolent little creatute.' she ra a down iato the kitchen, calling hut, 'Now, be's struck me; that is wbat I rained.' lu another minute I went after her. She appealed to the two sere:nos whether there was riot a mark on her forehead, but they said um That night she refused to sleep with me. I offered to give Iter up the bed; but she in,isted on going- into the servants' ruten." As to threateniug. to " swing for her," he depored- " After she had called me and my children dogs, I said,' Caroline, you wont a blackguard to talk with you—a man who wonld say to his wife, mint hm II a cotter- monger say in Shoreditch today, " I don't mind if I swing for you."' I never used the phrase in any other way."
He denied having used any violence to her in bringing her away from Mr. Wahnsrey : "lie past his arm round her waist because he was so fond of her." As to the charge of threatening to cut his throat, he said-
., While I was shaving, I said I would strive to suppress all passion, and, as Job said, would • put a knife to my throat, She exclaimed, • Oh, for God's sake, don't
talk. so I said, 'You understand me; I was only using a figure of speech with reference to the subjugation of the passions '; but I added, that ' if Ilobbes's idea were true, what pain and misery it would save if I were to draw may razor across my throat—that was, if there were no sin and no hereafter.'"
The case is not yet concluded. The trial will be continned today.
The Court of Queen's Bench has granted a rule calling upon the Arch- bishop of Canterbury to show cause why a mandamus should not issue com- manding him to make or cause to be made an inquiry into the matter of an appeal of the Reverend Alfred Poole against the decision of the Bishop of London revoking his license as stipendiary curate of St. Barnabas, Pimlico. The ground for this demand was that the Archbishop had without hearing counsel or witnesses, or Mr. Poole himself, decided at once upon Mr. Poole's appeal. The question is have the provisions of the 1st and 2d Victoria c. 106, providing for appeals of this hind been complied with.
An action for breach of promise of marriage was tried in the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday. Miss Amy Havnes, a young woman, went to live with Mr. Thomas Haynes, a relative of her family, as housekeeper. When she first went to his house his father and mother were alive. They died and she continued to reside there. It was an old-fashioned farm- house, and the road to the girl's bedroom lay through that of her kinsman and employer. He took advantage of her isolation and youth and seduced her. In the presence of witnesses he repeatedly promised to marry her. He failed to perform his promise. The Jury found for the plaintiff: Damages 150/.
Corurooden Tyabjee, a Mahomedan, who has regularly served his articles to an attorney in London, was on Thursday admitted to practice as an at- torney, and took the oaths before the Court of Queen's Bench. The net of last session released him from the necessity of taking the oath of abjuration, and he took the oath of allegiance, and the oath to demean himself as an at- torney, in the manner most binding on his conscience, namely, by placing the Koran between his hands with his right hand uncovered, and then raising with both hands the book to his forehead and kissing it. Lord Campbell wished him success in his profession.
The Court of Exchequer gave judgment on Thursday in a dispute arising out of the Succession Duties Act. Mr. Elwes, an infantry officer, claimed to be allowed certain deductions, which were refused. These were income-tax paid on his estate, and 5 per cent agent's charges for collecting rents. The Lord Chief Baron laid it down that the Commissioners of Inland Revenue were right. In ascertaining the annual value of land, the income-tax ought not to be deducted, nor the agent's charges. They are not necessary outgoings.
At the sitting of the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, William Lemon Oliver, stockbroker, pleaded guilty to the whole of the charges of forgery, fraud, and misdemeanour brought against him.
Isaac Hammond, the bricklayer who, in a fit of drunkenness, flungor pushed out of the window a woman with whom he was living in one of the low streets at Westminster, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to penal servitude for life. In this case the strongest evidence against the culprit was given by a prisoner locked up in the same cell with him.
Sentence of death was recorded against Mark Edward Council. This criminal was an old man, labouring under the impression that he had been aggrieved by Inspector Budd. The grievance consisted in the fact that Budd had detected Council in stealing Government stores from Woolwich Dockyard in 1854. Council said he would be revenged. In October last Council carried out his threat, and shot, without killing Budd. Ile was found guilty of shooting with intent to murder.
On Thursday three severe sentences were inflicted by the Court. Lewis, a bankrupt draper, was condemned to six years' penal servitude for carrying off his money and books to America, thereby defrauding his creditors. Lewis had given up the money in New York in the belief, fostered by some American lawyer's opinion that he had thereby freed himself from liability to punishment. Ile returned to England and found out his mistake. Zacker, a jeweller, was sentenced to the same punishment for making false entries in his boas and giving false evidence in the Bankruptcy Court.
Finally, William books, Oliver, stockbroker, whose case is mentioned above, was sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude.
Aime Antoine Hugon and Hugon Reverde were tried for unlawfully at- tempting to coin Turkish monies in this country. The Sultan has been en- raged in redeeming a base currency. He offered a premium on coin brought an. The design of the prisoners, acting with one de Boiserolles, not in cus- tody, was to fabricate coins in order to obtain the premium. Their guilt was fully made out. Aime Hugon was sentenced to six, and Hugon Re- verde to twelve months' imprisonment.
The trial of Mr. Roper on a charge of setting fire to his house at Green- wich has been postponed. As his friends have a strong belief that he is not guilty, and as his wife is alone and suffering, an appeal is made to the public for subscriptions to enable Mr. Roper to meet the heavy legal ex- penses. The Greenwich branch of the County Bank will receive subscrip- tions.
John Webb, the master of a ship trading between Calcutta and London, has been committed for trial on charges of :moulting Lascar seamen. He forced them to eat pork, thrusting it down their throats, compelled them to grease the mast with hog's fat, cut off their beards, flogged and pricked them with a bayonet.
A murder, apparently without intelligible motive, was perpetrated in Gloucester Street, Queen's Square, on Tuesday. Edward To =es, a com- mercial traveller, became possessed with the idea that the house was full of detectives. He called and told his old acquaintance the landlady so, and she said he was mad. He came the next morning to "apologize," walked into the house, went down stairs ; finding one Charles Gently sitting there, seized him and presented 21 pistol at his head. A woman who was present ran away calling for police. It was too late ; the pistol missed fire, but before a policeman could arrive, Cantly had been killed with a razor. Of course Toomes was arrested. He has been examined before the Clerkenwell ma- gistrate and remanded. In the Police Court he admitted that he "murdered the man "; and his only anxiety was that everything should be correctly stated.
A meeting will be held at the Mansionhouse on the 1st December to discuss a project by Mr. Charles Pearson. He proposes to relieve the traffic of the streets by constructing railways, and to enable the working classes compelled to work in the city to reach college homes to be built for them in the suburbs.