The Press. — London, England, 1854-07-22 00:00:00

JULY 22, 1854• latter especially) were most admirably performed. As interludes, there were Ethiopian serenaders, &c., and pieces performed by the splendid band of the ship. The audience, which consisted of some 200 officers, were greatly delighted with the entertain ment, more particularly as it was concluded by a most excellent and substantial supper. A concession of the Turkish coal-mines in the valley of Kozlou and Zangeldek, near Heraclea, has at length been obtained by the English Government. Lord Stratford, finding that the private interests of several of the Pachas were opposed to the measure, had an audience with the Sultan, and, after some difficulty, succeeded in convincing him that the interests of the Turkish Government would be best served by permitting the mines to be worked by English capital, directed by English skill. The Porte will receive a high rent for the mines, and the French will be allowed to share in the benefits of the con cession. The mines, it is believed, will yield about 60,000 tons of coal during the first year, a quantity amply sufficient for the fleets in the Black Sea, and produced at an estimated cost of IL per ton. Eng lish coal cannot be furnished to the fleets under 31. 10s. or 41. per ton. On the occasion of the visit of the Emperor to the squadron off Calais, an incident occurred which caused some amusement to his Majesty and others who were looking on. The tide running up very strong, the small boat which was to convey his Majesty from the yacht to the Hannibal was let go too much to windward, owing to some delay in get ting the visitors on board, and drifted a considerable distance astern of the squadron, despite all the efforts of the sailors. The boat, with his Majesty and the general commanding in chief, General Valliant, anti several others, would soon have reached Dunkirk, had not the Fire Queen steamed after it and arrested its flight. Le Corae, French corvette, soon after took her in tow and brought her alongside the flag•ship. The only inconvenience experienced was a plentiful dash of spray over the splendid green and gold uniforms, but the Emperor shipped his salt water like a man, laughed heartily at the rather novel position in which he found himself, and jocularly consoled Marshal Valliant, who got rather more than his fair share of the wetting. THE following narrative of French enterprise is given by the Southampton correspondent of the Daily News :—One of the richest men in France, and who associated in that country with those distinguished for rank and fashion, left Parisian gaiety a few years since, and took to farming, He had his estates in Normandy farmed after the English fashion, bought a steamer, and established a communication between Carenton and Southampton, to convey horned cattle, sheep, poultry, and all kinds of farm and daily pro duce from France to England. The captain and crew are all English. The steamer makes one or two trips a week, and realises an immense profit. A large es tablishment, French and English, is kept employed by the farming operations and the steam traffic. Carenton is a small town, where Norman manners exist in per fection. It has a church nearly a thousand years old. Amongst native farmers in the neighbourhood agriculture is carried on with primitive simplicity. Their horses are harnessed by coarse ropes and heavy chains, as in the days of William the Con queror. TEN DEATH Or A NATIVE INDIAN Of some mark is announced by the Calcutta Englishman received by the last overland mail. His name was Baboo Russomoy Dutt, and he was the first native of Ben gal ever appointed to the bench of the Petty Court, where he sat for about sixteen years, having retained his post when the jurisdiction of the court was en larged, and its title altered to that of Small Cause Court. The experiment of employing a native has completely answered, for it may be safely said that no judge who ever presided in that court has given more general satisfaction. The Baboo had not the advantage of a legal education, but his habits of bu siness, and knowledge of the people, particularly qualified him for disentangling the conflicting state ments of the great majority of suitors who appear in that tribunal. It is reported that he will be suc ceeded by the present junior magistrate, also a na tive, Baboo Hurroochunder Ghose. It is farther stated that it is intended to appoint a native as his successor at the Police Court, and that Baboo Loke nauth Bose is the person likely to be selected, he having filled the post of Suddur Ameen for some years. AN ADDRESS has been presented to Mr. G. P. R. James, her Majesty's Consul in Virginia, numerously signed by tho leading merchants, lawyers, physicians, and other respectable inhabitants of Norfolk, in that State. It says :—" As this is the anniversary of her Nity's birth, we have selected it as a time likely agreeable to you to receive from the merchants, less men, anti other citizens of Norfolk, an ex ion of their good will, and of the high apprecia which your official and personal intercourse has ved from our entire community." THE PRESS. dotal And "scion. THE QUEEN held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Monday morning, at which the new Prussian Envoy, Count Bernstortf, presented his credentials. He was introduced by the Earl of Clarendon. IN the afternoon of that day her Majesty left Lon don for Osborne•house, where the Court will remain until after the prorogation of Parliament. IT is reported that the first royal cruise this season in the Victoria and Albert will be a visit of the Queen to the Channel Islands. Captain Lefehre, in the steamer Dasher, is ordered to Portsmouth, to be in attendance on the royal yacht. H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester will leave Gloucester-house, Park lane, early in the ensuing week, for the White lodge, Richmond-park, for the season. Miss Bußprrr COUTTS gave a grand banquet on Monday to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, the Maharajah Duleep Singh, and a distinguished circle, at her mansion, Stratton-street, Piccadilly. There was an assembly in the evening. LADY ROIEEBY gave her second ball at Montague house on Monday evening. THE Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir W. Molesworth gave Ministerial banquets on Monday last. THE COUNTESS CRAVEN had her second ball of the season on Thursday in Charles-street, Berkeley square. A MARRIAGE was celebrated•on Tuesday last at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, between Mr. King, grandson of Viscount Lorton, of Rockingham, county Roscommon, and the Honourable Augusta Chiches ter, sister of Lord Temp lemore, of I)unbrody-park, county Wexford. The service was performed by the Rev. Alfred Peel. CABINET COUNCILS were held on Saturday and Wednesday last at the .Foreign-office in Downing street. His Excellency Count Bernstorff, accompanied by the countess and family, arrived at the Prussian Legation, on Saturday night, from Berlin, in order to assume his diplomatic duties as Prussian Minister in this country, in the room of Chevalier Bunsen. Volitual an 6tutral. THE receipt of some considerable sums for con science-money has been again acknowledged by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. On Wednesday the , Treasury was enriched by 1201. in notes and postage stamps for 6s. 4d., from " C. E.," for unpaid taxes ; 51., from "S. V.," for "unpaid customs duty " ; and 251., from "W. A. C." for " unpaid income tax." ONE thousand and fifteen deaths were registered in London in the week ended last Saturday, a num ber which greatly exceeds that of the previous week, but is still in a trifling degree below the decennial average. Five deaths from cholera were registered during the week, and diarrhoea preyed fatal in forty six cases. AN ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN praying for the closing of public-houses and beer-shops, except to travellers and lodgers, during the whole of Sunday, has within the last few days been transmitted to the Home-office, from upwards of 10,000 women of the working classes of Bristol and its vicinity ; besides petitions to the House of Commons, bearing between 8,000 and 0,0(X) signatures, mostly of working men, for the same ob ject and from the same locality. A BALLOON fell in a field near Faversham last Saturday evening. It was without an occupant, and with nothing in the car but a jacket, a tobacco box, and 2d. The gas was nearly exhausted, and the grappling-irons were gone, raising fears that some fatal catastrophe had occurred. THE NEW BISHOP OF BATH AND WELLS has been formally enthroned in Wells Cathedral. The oaths were administered by the Very Rev. O. H. Sacheve rell Johnson, M.A., Dean of Wells, and the bishop was then inducted into his stall. In virtue of his bishopric Lord Auckland has ecclesiastical patronage at his disposal worth 15,0001. per annum. THE annual country meeting of the Royal Agricul• tural Society commenced on Thursday, the 13th inst., at Lincoln, and has been proceeding during the pre sent week with full success. The collection of agri cultural instruments and machinery is spoken of in the highest terms of praise. The best and largest makers were in the field. A deputation from France of twelve French manufacturers have been on the ground from morning until night. They have been sent to report upon the general features of the show, preparatory to the formation of a similar society in France. There is a new corn-reaping machine exhi , biting by a French doctor of medicine, which was tried in a field of rye on Monday. It is small and • inexpensive compared to Hussey's reaper, and per formed, according to the accounts of the trial, very satisfactorily. 681 AN acceleration of the overland India, &c., mail is announced by the Post-office, consequent upon the completion of a further section of the Marseilles Railway. The letters sent via France will accord ingly now leave this country one day later—viz., on the oth and 25th of every month. When those dates fall on a Sunday the mail will not be despatched until the following day. THE directors of the London and North-Western Railway Company have, after most careful investiga tion, decided on adopting a plan introduced by Professor Gluckman for establishing a communica tion between the guards and drivers of their trains. Definite arrangements having been completed, the apparatus will be applied to all the trains of the company as rapidly as the necessary machinery can be provided. AN ENORMOUS SHIPMENT OF SPECIE was (188- patched by the E uxine, which sailed from Southamp ton to India, &-c., on Thursday morning:—To Malta, 2001., sovereigns ; Alexandria, 25,0001., sovereigns ; Calcutta, 5,2001., dollars; Singapore, 8,721/., dollars, and 6,8111, doubloons ; Hong-Kong, 52,1831., dollars, and 11,0201., gold ; Canton, 175,0391., dollars, and 1,0001., doubloons; Shanghae, 7,1251., dollars; total, 300,0991., in 971 boxes. THE Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford, acting under the sanction of their visitor, the Bishop of Winchester, and in conjunction with the Warden, Fellows, and Head Master of Winchester College, have determined that the election of ►cholars into Winchester will henceforth be determined by open competition, the most promising candidates being taken, after examination, with due regard to the circumstances of parents, as prescribed by the foun der's statutes. Under the same authority, it its in tended for the future to receive commoners at New College, instead of gentlemen commoners, as here tofore. PROPOSITIONS for closing Lloyd's establishment at two o'clock on Saturdays were submitted to a meet ing held on Wednesday in the underwriters'-room and carried almost unanimously. Next week the matter will be definitively settled ay a ballot. THE fine steam-ship Golden Fleece arrived at Spithead on Wednesday from the Black Sea. Her machinery turned out very defective on the voyage home, breaking down and involving much troubles and loss of time in its repair. Her passage from C,,nstantinople was, from this cause, protracted to twenty-one days. She brings home a number of invalids from the fleet and army in the East. —•— THE arrangement for the establishment of monthly mail service between the Mauritius and Ceylon, proposed by the General Screw Steam Com pany to the colonial Government, has been adopted. The payment agreed upon is 10,0001. a year. The mail will commence running on the 10th of August next. AT A MEETING OF THE WALLINGFORD TOWN Cons en„ held on Saturday last, the Earl of Malmesbury was unanimously elected to the ancient office of high steward of the borough, in the room of the late Thomas Duffield, Esq., deceased. His lordship has consented to accept the appointment. AN INGENIOUS IMPROVEMENT has been made in artificial hatching by Mr. C. Minasi. By the use of a small naphtha-lamp without wick, and burning with an equal flame continuously fur weeks together, seventy eggs are hatched at the top of the apparatus, ' and the young are reared by the assistance of an at tificial mother at the bottom. The first cost of the whole affair being trifling, the apparatus admits of the application of gas. Two MORE SUPPLEMENTAL. ESTIMATE! have just been laid before the House of Commons. One is for 10,0001., the charge which will probably be incurred during e year in earning into effect the recommen dation of the commission on promotion in the army, under the head of retired full pay. The other esti mate is from the Ordnance Department, and amounts to 95,6011. AT the close of last year the British statute-book, commencing the enumeration from the oth Henry 11I.,contained 16,579 public general acts, 9,285 local and personal acts, and 14,208 private acts. The public general acts have been thus classified:— Acta repealed virtually repealed obsolete expired or virtually expired of a merely local or personal application relating exclusively to Scotland relating exclusively to Ireland relating exclusively to the Colonies 403 relating, some to the United Kingdom ge !ovally, others exclusively to England, others to Great Britain, and some few to England and Ireland 16,879 THE adaptation of Harwich 8.8 a harbour of refuge is actively proceeding. The celebrated diving cutter Wideawake has for some time been engaged, by submarine explosions, in removing rocks etc., which render the anchorage and approaches d ifficult and dangerous. • I 1 1 ti I j Majest to bee busine pressi( tion w receive 11