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      The Case Of The Rev. Alfred Poole. Sever...

      THE CASE OF THE REV . ALFRED POOLE . Several long and tedious documents relative to the suspension of the Rev . Alfred Poole , curate of St . Barnabas , Pimlico , for practising auricular confession , have been published in the daily papers . The pith lies in a very small compass . From a protracted correspondence between the Bishop of London and Mr . Poole , it appears that the former justifies his suspension of the latter on the ground that the curate had questioned women on the subject of violations of the seventh commandment—a practice -which his Lordship conceives has a dangerous tendency ; and that he had encouraged a systematic admission of his people to confession and absolution" going beyond anything contemplated by the services

      or teaching of oar church . " These practices , he conceives , are likely to produce scandal . The Bishop , at the same time , discredits the worst of the accusations brought against Mr . Poole , and expresses great personal respect for him , but adds that , under the circumstances , he feels compelled to suspend Mr . Poole ' s license . Under date the 18 th of May , his Lordship cites the curate to appear before him , and show cause why he should not be suspended ; though the option is open to him of writing his defence previous to that date . Mr . Poole chooses the latter course ; and , in various letters to the Bishop ( some of them -written before the citation , and one afterwards ) , he respectfully submits that his Lordship ' s charges are vague and general , and therefore not

      easily answered , and , while denying the disgusting questions imputed to him , lie maintains that , by the laws of the Church of England , he is empowered to put questions to persons coming to confess , even to women on the subject of adultery , if lie has reason to believe them guilty of it . He asks the Bishop for a more precise statement of his views on this point , and of the charges made against him ; but his Lordship simply reiterates his original assertions . One of the documents nowpublished i * a copy of seven resolutions agreed to at a meeting of laymen , communicants of the church of St . Barnabas , held on the 17 th uU . These resolutions

      uphold the course taken by Mr . Poole , and express great indignation at the aspersions thrown upon certain charitable ladies of the parish at the St . James's Hall meeting , in answer to these resolutions , the Bishop expresses participation in the views there set forth with respect to the ladies , but does not-withdraw from his position as regards the curate . The framers of the resolutions again address the Bishop , taxing him ( though in respectful language ) with various contradictor statements , and boldly affirming the propriety of confession . The Bishop does little more than acknowledge the receipt of this communication , without reopening the points at issue ; and so the correspondence closes .

      An open-air demonstration of the Protestant inhabitants of Belgravia and its vicinity was held on Monday in the grounds of the Pavilion , Sloane-street , "to adopt a memorial to the Queen and to petition Parliament to take such measures as may be deemed advisable for the immediate suppression , of the confessional system now attempted to he introduced into the Church of England . " About 10 , 000 people are said to have been present , and the proceedings were presided over by the Hon . C . S . Vereker , M . P ., who was supported by the Earl of Arran , Major-General Powney , Colonel Knife , Mr . Tite , M . P ., the Rev . J . Alexander , and a great number of clergymen and gentlemen . The chairman , in addressing

      the meeting , gave a history of the struggles which the locality had made against the Roman Catholic practices alleged to have been introduced by the Puseyites into the Church of England , and said that a decisive step must be taken to put an end to the proceedings of the Tractarians . A resolution , moved by Mr . Harper , seconded by Mr . Paul I ' oskett , and supported by Mr . Charles " Westerton , that a memorial be presented to the Queen , waa then passed amid loud cheers and the waving of hats and handkerchiefs ; and a petition to Parliament against the practice of the confessional was adopted on the motion of Mr . James Beal , seconded by Mr . L . D . Berry . This closed the business of the meeting .

      Naval, And Mil1tauy. Fkaui> In Pontsmout...

      NAVAL , AND MIL 1 TAUY . Fkaui > in PonTSMouTii Gariuson . —An infamous fraud has just been discovered in Portsmouth Garrison . The beam of the scales used at tho meat stoic of the Cambridge Barracks had been lengthened by being put in the lire . The result was that a difference was caused of six ounces in tho balance of tlie scnlcs , of course in the favour of tho contractor . By experiment * miido subsequently , it haa been nscsrtniiied that a fraud has been perpetrated on tho regiment ( the 47 th ) to the extent of Coz . in every 141 b ., making daily about Mlb . Mr . Moncrief summoned the contractor , Mr . Chcesemnn , before tho Portsmouth magistrates , when thu evidence fully convicted him of tho fraud on tho troops . llu was Bcvorcly lectured , and fined 67 . Tiiumsit von Smv-DviiAnsa . —In consequence of the increasing sc-nrcity of good oak timber for ship-building , tho use of Honduras ninhogany m a substitute has lately very much increased both in England and other parts or Europe . l < . xperim « nts tried at Uordenux prove that this wood w much tougher and stronger than cither oak or tenlc . Sir John Pakinqton , M . l \ , tho First Lord of the Admiralty , arrived at Portamouth on Wednesday , and

      went out in the Fire Queen steam yacht , Master Commander W . F . Paul , to Spithead , and visited Admiral Lord Lyons on board the Royal Albert . On leaving , he was saluted with nineteen guns , and the crew manned yards . The Fire Queen then proceeded to Osborne with his Lordship . Rear-Admiral Alexander Milne , Third Lord of the Admiralty , visited "Woolwich on Wednesday , and inspected the ships under fitment for the coast of Afri ca . He was accompanied in his tour of inspection by Commodore Shepherd , Superintendent of the yard . The Queen at Deptfoud . —In accordance with a request from the authorities of Deptford Dock and Victualling Yards , those localities will henceforth be called " The Victoria Dock and Victualling Yards , " in commemoration of her Majesty's recent visit .

      Criminal. Record. Murdeb And Surcide.—Gr...

      CRIMINAL . RECORD . Murdeb and SurciDE . —Gravesend was horrified on Tuesday by the committal of a double crime . For the previous ten days a man had been living with a woman whom he called his wife at a beer-shop in Terrace-street . They appeared to be on good terms ; but , eariy on Tuesday morning , the landlord , who slept in the next room to them , heard a scream , followed by a strange scratching noise at the door . He got out of bed , opened the door , and saw finger-marks of blood on the outside . Entering the adjoining room , he found , the woman lying in a pool of blood , and the . man lying on the bed with , his throat cut . The woman , it appears , had knocked at the landlord's door , and had then staggered back to her own room . Medical assistance wa 3 immediately sent for , l ) ut both the man and the -woman speedily expired . At the inquest , it was shown that insanity prevailed in the family ; and a verdict to that effect was therefore returned . Ciiakck of Drowsing a Seaman . —The crew of the Schiedam , of London , which has just arrived at Shields , have accused the master of the vessel ( Mr .-Fox ) and Mr . Maynard , the master of the Reliance , of Sunderland , of throwing into the Elbe , and drowning , William Barron , a seaman belonging to Sunderland . Barron belonged to the . * Reliance , * and the statement the men have made is this : —On the 22 nd of June , the vessels were at Hamburg , moored alongside of each other , wlien Barron came from the shore yery drunk , and common ced quarrelling with the crew of the Schiedam . He struck at the master of the latter vessel , and a light took place . Mr . Fox called to the crew of the Reliance to come and take their man away ; but only the master came on board , when Barron attacked him . A lad , called Jarnes

      Nesbit , and another lad , named Forrester , state that board , " and that they then placed him on the rail , and Maynard dropped him into the Elbe . They state that the Maynard then said to Fox , " Let us heave him overmate of the Schiedam threw a rope over Barron's h « ad as he was floating in . the water , * but that he was too drunk to lay hold of it , and that he was sucked under the-vessels and drowned . His body wes recovered the next dtiy . The British consul has made inquiries with regard to the man ' s death , and taken the depositions of the principal portion of the crew . It was his opinion ¦ that the man had been accidently drowned , but ho has sent the papers to the Foreign-office . The borough magistrates at Shields conceive that they have no jurisdiction , and decline to interfere .

      The Dagentham Muki > ki :. —George Blewitt -was again examined last Saturday , when Mrs . Smith added to her previous testimony the fact that she saw Mrs . Blewitt , and Henry Blewitt , tho son of the accused , at their cottage on the night of the murder . Inspector Whichcr said that , when he apprehended Blewitt , and told him the nature of the charge , he said , " I -will go with you , for I ' m quite sure that Mrs . Smith cannot say anything to hurt me . " Ho now denied his guilt , but Avas committed for trial .

      Gatherings From Law And Police Courts. A...

      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . A man who lost hia eye in a singular way brought nn action for damages last Saturday in the Court of Ixchequer . He was going along Sun-court , Shepherd ' sinarket , May Fair , on tho 9 th of last March , when his eye was caught by a meat-hook hanging on the iron bar cf t ho blind of a butcher ' s shop , lie was literally suspended in thin way , and it was necessary to lift him up before he could be got oil " . Ho was obliged to go to ? St . ftlnry's Hospital , and to have an operation performed ; and the sight of both eyes has been injured , though thore are good hopes of a jiurfect recovery . The defence was ( lint ( lie plaintiff lnul not taken duo care ; but the defendant ( the muster of thu shop ) haa had to pay f > OJ , duma ^ us . John Winter and Charles Wollbelovod , described as commission agents , were charged at tho Bow-strcot police-court last Saturday with causing nn obstruction in Great Qucon-street by betting . There nppoircd to be no doubt of their having stood for some time betting on tho pavement , and the olliecr who took them into custody luid warned them earlier in tho day . When they were brought before thu magistrate , they complained of tho tyrannical conduct which had been pursued towards them , « nd of tho neediest * violence resorted to by tho

      officer in apprehending them . It was impossible , they observed , that two persons standing together in a wid * thoroughfare like Great Queen-street could create an o bstruction . The police complained of large numbers assembling there ; but the magistrate thought the charge then before him could not be sustained , and so the defendants were dismissed . Captain William Oman , the dock-master of the St . Katharine Docks , and Thomas Jones and John Triton , watermen and lockmen in the employ of the Dock Company , appeared at the Thames police-office last Saturday , to answer a complaint lodged by a clerk to the City Solicitor , which charged them with throwing offensive matter into the Thames , by which they had rendered themselves liable to a penalty not exceeding 20 L each . The company were of course the real defendants ,

      and it appeared that a habit had prevailed in the dock of throwing the filth and refuse into the river . Mr . Selfe , the magistrate , convicted the defendants , and said the only question was as to the amount of penalty . Mr . Stuchbury , the solicitor who prosecuted for the Board of Conservators of the River Thames , said he would rather that the magistrate would suspend his Judgment for a month , and , if the practice now complained of were not discontinued , he should then call upon his worship to impose the full penalty . Mr . Selfe , after some remarks on the practice of gas companies discharging their poisonous refuse into the Thames , said the proposition of Mr . Stuchbury was a very reasonable one , and suspended his judgment until Saturday , the 7 th of August . Tlie after term sittings of the . Court of Queen's Bench came to a close last Saturdav .

      An action was concluded in the Court of Common Pleas on the same day , which . 'had' been brought to recover damages from the defendant ( a Mr . Dawson ) for not having used reasonable care and diligence in effecting a policy of insurance , on behalf of the plaintiff ( Mr . Cahill ) . The action had been tried on a previous occasion , and been sent down from the superior court on certain points . 3 Ir . Cahill is a merchant at Liverpool , and he had employed Mr . pawsoh to effect insurances for him . Mr . Dawson , wherever it was found most advantageous to effect insurances in London ,. * employed * a

      Mr . Lewis ,- a merchant in the City , for that purpose ; and the present insurance ' -was effected by Mr . Lewis through an insurance broker named Nail . Mr . Nail by some mistake entered the ntimc of Mr . Lewis instead of that of Mr . Cahill in the . policy ; and hence the action . The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff , and gave their opinion that Mr . Nail , when lie effected the insurance , was shown a letter by Mr . Lewis , which sufficiently informed him that air . " Cahill was the principal in the transaction . The verdict was accordingly entered for the plaintiff , with liberty to move to enter a verdic for such sum as the court should think fit . The action

      spread over two days . A suit has been instituted before Vicc-Chancellor Stuart to set aside the sale of lands by a client to his solicitor , executed so long ago as 1837 . Mr . Mousley , deceased , of Derby , was , long prior to and after the year 1837 , the solicitor of Sir Thomas Gresley , and received the rents of and managed his real estate , including the rents of the property in question . Sir Roger Gresley was in great pecuniary embarrassment , and Mr . Mousley became the purchaser from him in fee of the manors or lordships of Gresloy , and other manors in the county of Derby , together with the coal , ironstone , and other minerals , at the sum of 69-40 / . He also prepared the conveyance , and no other solicitor was employed . The

      plaintiff charged that the sum paid was a grossly inadequate price , . and that Mr . Mousley knew tin . * , for that ho had in hi * possession a valuation of the property far exceeding the purchases money , which information he did not give to his client . Shortly after the sale , Sir Roger Grcslcy mnrio his will , devising his property to trustees in trust , to pay the rents to his wifo for life , and after her decease to Sir William Nigel Gresloy , his cousin ( since deceased ) for life , and after his decease to Sir William ' s first and other sons in tail . On Sir William's death , in 1817 , the plain tin " , the present baronet , became first tenant in tail , subject to the life estutu of tho testator ' s widow , und lie attained his ago of twenty-ono in 1852 . Mr . Mousley , the solicitor , died in January , 1853 ,

      having by his will devised his real estate to the defendiints . This bill was then tiled in 185 . > , against Mr . Mousloy ' s devisees nnd executors , tho trusteed under Sir Koger Greslcy ' a will , nnd his widow , seeking to set aside the conveyance of 1837 as fraudulent , and for other consequential relief . Tho Vico-Chancellor has sot aside the sale to Mr . Mousley , and has ruled that tho parts of tlie property remaining unsold must bo re-conveyed to the plaintilf upon repayment of what ( if anything ) remained duo to Mousloy ' a estate in respect of tho purchase money of 6 JMO / ., with intorcat at four percent , per annum , after charging tho estate with the prices of curtain parts of it which had boon sold , with like interest . The costs of all parties to be paid out of Mr . Mousley ' s estate .

      An elderly man , named Isaac Champion , has boon charged , together with his daughter , a young girl , with stealing some Hour from Bull Wharf , Quconhithc . He was employed there , and List Sunday acted as a watchman . In the courso of the aftornoon , ho was scon to coma out of tho warehouse , whoro he had no business , and his daughter was afterwards found carrying home about bix pounds of flour , which waa stolon from the

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17071858/page/9/