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THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 11, 1858. 878 TO CORRESPONDENTS. ommunlcatlons should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. If long It increases the difficulty of finding space for them. The religious worship and teaching is, of course, to be according to the doctrine and principles of the Church of England ; but attendance on such worship or teaching will not be required of boys whose guar dians may object on the grounds of religious dissent. Thus, then, the annual income of the college, in cluding the payments to be made by the (100) boys, will be 0,16 0 1., which is considered sufficient to pro vide a suitable staff of masters, and to cover all ex penses for 100 boys; es the funds of the college increase the boys admitted will all be placed on the foundation, and the fourth class, or non-foundationers, ultimately abolished. vtio 1!) rxxig. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 11, 1858. POSTSCRIPT. THE BOMBAY MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Cotnpany's steamship Ripon, Captain H. \V. Powell, bringing the heavy por tions of the mails from Bombay, arrived at Southamp • ton on Thursday. Her dates are :—Alexandria, August 26th ; Malta, 30th ; and Gibraltar, September 4th. On the homeward passage from Gibraltar she has had fogs, followed by a strong head wind up the coast, and north-west winds across the Bay. The .Ripon brings 25 passengers (14 first etas., 10 second, and 1 deck), acd a cargo comprising 159 bales of silk, 15 bales of flax, 13 cases of shawls, 139 packages of elephants' teeth, and 09 packages of general merchandia. Her Majesty's ship Prineem Royal was off Alexandria, and the Marlborough, Centurion, and Conqueror cruising off Malta. THE WELLINGTON COLLEGE. WELLINGTON COLLEGE has been completed. The college itself may be briefly described as a remark ably handsome edifice, in the decorated Italian or mixed style. The whole building forms, externally, one immense quadrangle, 260 feet long by 154 wide, the hides of which are the wings or main portions of the whole. Each wing is divided in the centre by a wide and lofty tower, 25 feet by 120 high. The view from the upper stories of these towers, where are placed the tanks which supply high-pressure tire mains on every floor and landing, is as extensive and varied as could well be desired. From the north side you overtook Wokingham and Windsor; the latter distinctly visible, thoegh some twelve miles distant. The south laces immediately on that part of Hamp shire known as the Harttord•bridgo flats; but over the hills which bound it can be gained a view of an immense extent of country, from Bearwood Park on one side, to Strathfieldsaye—the country seat of the great Duke himself—upon the other. There are 64 sleeping rooms on each floor, and two floors in each wing, which gives a total number• of 259 boys' rooms ; but, as it is intended that there shall never be more than 210 students in the college, the 16 rooms surplus will be occupied by the undermasters and usher.•s. The governors have wisely erred upon the side of caution in drying the building, and intend not to admit students till the middle of January, 1859. So much for the college itself. Let us look now for a moment at its objects and expectations. As our readers are aware, it is founded for the education of the orphan sons of officers of her Majesty's army and navy and the officers of the Indian army. The total amount of subscriptions received, including interest on sums invested, and donations of 25,000/. from the Patriotic Fund, and 3,0001. from Sir J. Bailey, M.P., is nearly 153,0001. Of this sum 105,0001. has been invested on mortgages at 4/. per cent., yielding an annual income of ❑o less than 4,2001. The cost of the 120 acres of land (exclu sive of the 12 acres on which the college stattds, which was presented by Mr. Gibson) was 1,2001. The governors propose to open the college with 100 boys, and as their funds increase to extend the number of admissions to 2-10 boys ; the total number for which the building is calculated to provide ac commodation. The first 100 boys will be admitted on the follow ing terms : FouxnartoxEits (i. e. ORPHANS). First Classs-2,0 boys to pay IW. a 3 - ear each, to be nominatttd by the governors ; 18 bcys to pay 101. a year each, to bo nominated by the Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund ; buys to pay 101. a year each, to be nominated by Sir Joseph Bailey, 111. P Second Class-20 boys to pay 151. a year each, to be nominated by tint governors. Third Class-20 boys to pay 201. a year each, to be nominated by the govertra-s. . NON•FOUNDATIONERS. _ _ Fourth Claas—lD boys bi pay 401. a year each, to be nominated by the governors. nut orphana, the sons of officers serving in the army, will be ialtnitted in this class. The above payments are to cover all expenses for board, education, books, washing, medical attendance, and partial clothing—that is, two suits of clothes a year for each boy. The subjects of instruction given to the boys will include 1. What is usually understood by a good English and classical education. 2. Those branches of scientific know•lo lge which have a special application to the arts, commerce, soil industry of the omititry. J. TUG modern languages, OBITUARY. LADY ISABEL ANNE Desnwoon, only surviving daughter of James, seventh Earl of Lauderdale, great grandfather of the present peer, died on Satur• day last at her residence in Seamore-place. Her ladyship married, Ist July, 1793. Mr. Francis Dashwood, of Hall-place, Bexley, Kent. Several families of rank, including Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley, Lady Eleanor Balfour, the Hon. Sir Anthony Maitland, etc., are placed in mourning. Mn. JAMES M'GREGOR, the late Chairman of the South Eastern Railway Company, expired at an early hour on Sunday morning, under painfully sudden circumstances. On Friday afternoon he called at Mr. Douglas's, the hairdresser in New Bond-street, for the purpose of having his hair cut. He inquired if the assistant who usually attended on him was disengaged, when, the words having scarcely escaped his lips, be fell in the shop, and, on being raised, was found unconscious of what was passing. The case was one of paralysis. The unfortunate gentle man remained in the same lamentable state at Mr. Douglas's until he died. He was returned for Sandwich in 1852, on Conservative principles. Mr. M'Gregor was born in 1808, and was twice married. THOMAS BONSOR CROMPTON, ESQ., of Farnworth. mills, near Manchester, died on Wednesday, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, at the llasells, the residence of T. Delarue, Esq., near Sandy, in Bed fordshire. THE Loot or LONG LIFE is exemplified in the case of the old Dowager Countess of Hardwicke, who died the other day. Her life brought points of time together which commonly seem separated by impass able spaces. She was born in 1763, and was, con sequently, only ninety-five years old; but her father, the Scotch Earl of Balcarras, having been well stricken in years at the time of her birth, their two lives extended back to before the beginning of the eighteenth century. It sounds strange that a person just dead this summer could speak of he father as having been " out in the Fifteen" (1715) with Lord Derwentwater and Forster, and having been begged off by the great Duke of Marlborough ! And yet such was the fact. And not only so, but her grandfather, having been born in 1649, the three lives of grandfather, son, and granddaughter, stretched over a period of 209 years. And when her grandmother was married, Charles 11. gave away the bride ! This venerable lady had some good company in her own time. Pitt, the younger, was four years old when she was born ; Fox, a young pickle of fourteen ; Sheridan, a not particularly clever lad of twelve, so that they were strictly her contemporaries ; Burke was turned of thirty, but the most brilliant part of his public life was passed after she was old enough to ramember him; she was twenty-one years old when Dr. Johnson died, and a well-grown girl when Goldsmith was inconsiderate enough to do the same thing, and she might have known them both, though it is not likely she did ; Sir Joshua may have painted her, and probably did, as she was near thirty when he died. Of course, all the literature of this century, running back to the birth of Scott and Wordsworth, eight or nine years after her own, was as much hers as ours. She was married and six and twenty before the French Revolution began, and the whole of our own Revolution must have been within her personal recollection. Then there was Vis countess Keith, who died within two or three years, at about the same age, who was " the plaything often, when a child," of Johnson, and who received his last blessing on his deathbed. She was the daughter of Mrs. Thrale, and was a link that directly connected us with the Literary Club at its foundation, all the members of which she must have seen, and most of who:n she was old enough to know well as a grown- up young lady. Lady Louisa Stuart, the daughter of the famous Earl of Bute, actually remembered her grandmother, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, who died in 1702. She died herself since 1850, and was the intimate friend of Scott, end one of the few original depositaries of the Waverley secret. And Miss Berry, who might have been the Dowager Countess of Orford, as the widow of Horace. Walpole, it' she had so pleased, died within a year or two. But none of them had such luck as befell the Marquis Di Mauso, who lived long enough to be the personal friend of Tasso and of ".‘ltiton, though the tir,t died more than ten years before the other was born. SECOND EDITION. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. OFFICIAL DESPATCH. The following telegram, from Mr. Acting Consul General Green, was received at the Foreign-office, Sept. 11, 12.30 a.m.:— ALEXANDRIA, Sept. 7, 1858. The steamer Oltaiva arrived at Suez, from Bombay, on the sth inst.; dates—Bombay, 19th Mt., and Aden, 29th. The steamer Nemesis also arri ve d at Suez, from Cal. cotta, on the sth inst. Our adherent, Maun Singh, being besieged in the fortress Sliagurj by a large body of the rebels, has been relieved by Gen. Grant, whose column is now Fjzabad, where it has been joined by Manning and his troops. Gen. Robertson, baying come up with the rebels near Katurea, totally defeated them, capturing four guns. The loss of the enemy in killed was very severe. The Hon. F. Bruce arrived by the Nemesia, and pro ceeded to Malta by the Peva. He is the bearer of the treaty, concluded with the Chinese Plenipotentiaries, at Tiensin, on the 26th of June. It was subsequently referred to the Emperor, and received his approval. The following are some of the stipulations of this im. portant document : Christianity tolerated throughout the empire, and persons teaching or professing that religion, whether Pro. testauts or Roman Catholics, to be entitled to the protection of the Chinese authorities. Diplomatic agents may reside permanently at Pekin. British traders protected against ex cessive transit duties. Tariff to be revised. Several new ports opened t 3 our trade, and the free navigation of the Yang Teze declared. British subjects may travel for pleasure or trade to all parts of the empire, when provided with passports from British authorities. The Governments to act in concert for the suppression of piracy. Indemnity far losses by British subjects at Canton to be paid. The steamer Lady Canning arrived at Suez yesterday, from Yombo, with the Moorish princes, who were pillaged on their way back from Medina, having a heavy ransom to pay for their release. CORFU, Sept. 10, 3 p.m. NAPLES. The Petri.; correspondent of the Morning Post (second edition) says : I have received communications from Naples, which say the heir to the throne, the Duke of Calabria, will marry before the end of the present year the youngest sister of the Empress of Austria, the Princess Mary of Bavaria. The King on this occasion is to grant a political amnesty, and those who favour a renewal of diplomatic relations between Naples and France and England believe such an event will afford material for reconciliation. A second letter from Naples, dated Sept. 4, taxes a very different view of the question, and adds :—" The Kingwil, set at liberty only a number of criminals on the occasion' of his son's marriace." THE CHARGE. OF CONSPIRACY preferred against William Thomas Barns, the son, and Lucy Barns, the wife, of Mr. Barns, the auctioneer and picture dealer of St. Paul's-churchyard, for detrauding Mr. Robert Peter, a gentleman of independent fortune.of various sums of money amounting to about 1,2001., and a bill of exchange for 11,0001., by the sale of pictures alleged to be by the old masters, assumed a new complexion on the reexamination of the lin goners at Guilhall yesterday. The prosecutor was not present, and it was stated by Mr. Sleigh, counsel for the prosecution, that there had been "a corrupt settlement " between the parties , the pictures having been taken away from Mr. Peter's house, and the whole of the money returned. Counsel and solicitors for the prisoner repudiated all knowledge of an arrangement. Alderman Wire. said he would be no party to a settlement, which would be a high misdemeanour, and it was hi s inten tion to send the prisoners for trial. He, howe ver, adjourned the case for a week, to secure t he attend ance of Mr. Peter, and required the prisoners, who had previously been at large in their own recogni zances, to put in bail to the amount of 2,0001., which they did. FROM A RETURN MOVED FOR BY MR. BARING, M.P., we learn that 1,785 steam vessels, of 408,702 tons, were registered in the United Kingdom on New Year's-day, 1858. THE FIRM OF PARDOE, HOOMANS, AND CO., CKlrt manufacturers, of Kidderminster, with liabilities reported at 80,0001. to 100,0001., have suspended. The assets, consisting of trade buildings , p lant, are large. THE BIRTHS of 800 boys and 725 girls, in all 1,5;11 children, were registered in London, last week. i r n_ the ten correspouding weeks of the years 18-18.-"," the average number was 1,609. THE CASE OF THE CONVICT BANKERS, Paul and , Strati in, has been brought under the consideration of the Government. Numerous and influentially. signed petitions.have been forwarded to the Home Secretary on behalf of the delinquents, and a strog etlort is being made to obtain a respite. S S I b