The Press. — London, England, 1857-10-17 00:00:00

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The Emperor was yesterday to preside at a Council of Ministers at the Tuileries. The Bank of France raised its rate of discount to six and a half per cent. on Tuesday. The Moniteur has published a table of the revenue, from which it is seen that the income derived by the country from the indirect taxes for the nine months of the present year, amounts to 781,083,000 f., which represents an increase of 81,294,04X)f. over the first nine months of 1855, and 20,805,000 f. over the cot. responding period of last year. The difference in favour of the receipts from direct taxation for the same time against those for 1856, is 3,888,000 f. The expenses for collecting the said revenue amounted to 1.26 per mil., or .03 per mil. less than in 1856. and the other powers who were parties to the treaty—finds itself absolutely necessitated to maintain ita resolution iu this respect. PRUSSIA. The King is slowly recovering his attack of apo. plexy. The following is the latest bulletin of hii Majesty's health received by telegraph : SANs Souci, Oct. 7. p.m. The health of his Majesty the King this evening continues in the same favourable state as this morning. (Signed) SCHONBEIN. GRIMM. WEISS. AMERICA. EseooL, Friday Morning. The screw steamship City qi Baltimore has arrived, with advices from New York to the Ist of Octobt.r. The California mail steamer was overdue at New York. A despatch from Philadelphia says : The Pennsylvania bank refuses for the present to come into an arrangement with other banks, fearing that her largest depositors will remove their balances to other banks. Arrangements are making to place her on a firm basis. The other banks are at variance, refusing to receive certified checks of each other. It was in contemplation at Philadelphia, on the part of the banks or their friends, to ask from the Legislature at the extra session authority to issue one-dollar bills. Crart 4110 rfas4ion. POSTSCRIPT. THE SPANISH MINISTRY. General Armero has been named President of the Council of Ministers. Don Alexandro Mon is expected to arrive from Rome. The Under Secretaries of the Ministers have, in the meantime, been charged with the ordinary despatch of business. AUS LTA GIA. The screw steamer Royal Charter arrived off Cork yesterday morning, in sixty-two days from Melbourne. All well. She has 84,000 ounces of gold, and 24,000 sove reigns. BUCHAREST, 12th. The opening of the Wallachian Divan has just taken place. TIER MAJESTY'S RETURN. BERWICK, Friday Morning, The Queen left Edinburgh at a quarter to eight this morning, and crossed the Tweed at a quarter after nine. All well. The weather at first was cold and rainy, with an oast wind, and has settled into a dense fog. The time was kept to a minute to Berwick•on- Tweed. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at Lord Palmerston's official residence. MR. BERESFORD HOPE, M.P., ON CHURCH EDUCATION. THE eighteenth anniversary meeting of the Diocesan Board of Education was held on Friday last at Maidstone, in the College schoolroom. There was a very large attendance of the nobility, clergy, and gentry of the district. The chair was taken by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Mr. Beresford Hope, M.P., in moving a formal resolution for the reappoint. ment of auditors and lay members of the board, explained the objects of the society. The hon. member said:— This Diocesan Society and the National Society, and other like useful institutions which are associated under the patronage of your Unice the Archbishop of Canterbury, have undertaken a peculiar department of work—f mean the moral elevation of the peasant class of this kingdom— a Mass about which greater delusion has existed than about any other branch of the community. Mr. Hope then touched upon the nature of the education given, making some apposite suggestions. He said, in conclusion : I should be sorry to advocate lowering the standard of our teaching, but I do advocate a greater adaptation of it to the peculiar circumstances of those wa have to train np. We want something more like what is called indus trial training —a more familiar, common•aenso grappling with the necessities of the case. You may now meet a girl coming out of a school—ay, and her instructress, too —who may be able to state the weight of every mountain in Europa and the specific gravity of every mineral, and yet be unable to boil a leg of mutton or hem a pocket handkerchief; able to pass a first•claas examination, but unable to perform the duties of a domestic servant or of a domestic wife. AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA. A letter frcm Vienna, in the Bourse Gazette of Berlin, says : The conference which has lately taken place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between the Baron de Boor• queney and Count Werner had for object the Sardinian question, and we learn that the resumption of diplomatic relations between the Courts of Turin and Vienna may be shortly expected. ITALY. The Duchess of Parma has just put forth two decrees relative to the cessation of the league between Austria, Modena, and Parma, which will expire on the 31st inst. These decrees re-establish the regulations that existed prior to the League SPAIN. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. A despatch from Madrid, Oct. 14th, states that the Queen has positively expressed her desire to pre side over her Cabinet, and she has wished to intro duce into it the principal statesmen now out of office. The Captain-General Armero was detained in the south by the bad state of the roads. RUSSIA AND CHINA. The Russian naval division destined for the Chinese waters has quitted Cronstadt. It consists of three corvettes and three steam-clippers. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Paris correspondent of the Times, writing on Thursday evening, says : A report current this week, but which obtained no credit, that the British and Austrian Ambassadors at Constantinople had protested against the second Molda vian elections, on the ground of illegality and malpractices, was founded, as it now appears, on the fact that M. de Prokesch received from the Austrian commissioner in the Principalities a communication concerning the elections, painting out a great number of irregularities. This docu ment was submitted to the Sublime Porte, and is to be sent to Paris to be laid before the Congress when it as sembles. That there is abundant foundation for the complaints it contains is perfectly well known here, and by none better than by the French Government itself. The Porte has addressed a circular despatch to its diplomatic agents at the Courts of London, Paris, Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, with a view to point out to the powers parties to the Treaty of Paris, and sureties for the integrity of the Ottoman empire, how greatly the idea of the union of the Principalities is contrary to the maintenance of that integrity and the sovereign rights of the Porte : If we frequently return to this subject (says the de spatch) it is simply because we, being most directly inte rested in the subject, wish to enlighten our allies, and not to leave them in ignorance of the determination (l'opinion arritee) of the Sublime Porte Oil a matter which tends to inflict a severe blow upon its legitimate rights—rights which are consecrated by ages pnd unexceptionable docu ments—and to endeavour to destrcy any unfavourable im• pression which some hundreds of publications which have been disseminated by the opposite party may have pro duced on the minds of the governments or of the nations. Consequently, at the same time that it keeps within the limits of the Treaty of the 311th March, the Imperial Government considers it a duty to renew the aforesaid de claration of the 11th October, and frankly to declare tha t whatever may he the wish expressed by the Divans ad hoc relative to the union of the two Principalities, the Subihne Porte, relying on (a'appeyant sue) the text of the Treaty of Paris—a text, in virtue of which the final settlement of the definitive organisation of the Principalities is to depend entirely on an understanding between the Sublime Porte Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, left Balmoral on Wednesday morn ing, and travelling by Deeside to Ballatee arrived at Haddo-house at 4.20 p.m. The Royal party were received by the Earl of Aberdeen. Her Majesty passed the night at Haddo-house, and left on Thursday for Aberdeen, where her Majesty arrived atone p.m. After a short stay the Royal progress was continued for Edinburgh. Holyrood was safely reached at six p.m. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bertstorff have returned to the residence of the Prussian Legation on Carlton House-terrace, from Brighton. The Duke of Bedford arrived in town on Thurs day. His grace has since returned to Woburn Abbey. Lady Graham is in a very precarious state of health. Faint hopes of her ladyship's recovery are entertained. Sir James Graham is in constant attendance. Obituarg. THE EARL FITZHARDINGE died on Sunday last. By the death of the noble earl Berkeley Castle and the other family estates have passed to his lordship's next brother, the Right Hon. Sir Maurice Frederick Fitzhardinge Berkeley, K.C.8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and late M.P. for Gloucester. It is stated in " Burke's Peerage " for this year that there is a Barony of Berkeley, alleged to be derived from the feudal tenure of Berkeley Castle since the reign of Henry 11., and to belong of right to the possessor of that ancient fortress, created by writ, June 23, 1295; and we hear that it is not impossible on the meeting of Parliament the gallant admiral may present a petition, claiming a seat in the Upper House on that ground. A precedent is to be found in the fact that the Duke of Norfolk's successors, even should the dukedom expire, could claim by right a seat in the House of Lords as Earls of Arundel, tho earldom being absolutely conferred on them by the tenure of Arundel Castle. 'DIE REV. MATTHEW IRVING, D.D., died last week, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. The rev. deceased was one of the chaplains in ordinary to the Queen, vicar of Sturtninster Marshall, near !'Vim borne, in the county of Dorset and diocese of Salisbury, with the chapelries of Lytchett Minster, Corfe Mullen, and Hamworthy annexed, to which ho was instituted in 1822. Tho living is worth about 1,0001. per annum, and is in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Eton College, Windsor. The rev. gentleman has been a canon residentiary of Rochester Cathedral since 1824, and has also held the perpetual curacy of Chatham, Kent (of the annual value of nearly 0001., and in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester Cathedral), for a period of twenty-nine years, THE RESIGNATION OF THE LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT JUDGE, Mr. Pollock, was marked on Tuesday by the presentation to his honour of a resolution from the Liverpool Law Association, expressing their high sense of Mr. Pollock's conduct and ability in his judicial position. Mr. Pollock's successor is Mr. D, K, Blair.