The Press. — London, England, 1857-10-31 00:00:00

1062 TO CORRESPONDENTS. It Is impossible to acknowle Igo the mass of letters we receive. Their insertion is often delayed owing to a press of matter, and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite aide pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Communications should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authentioated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publics. tion. but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference fur payment in town. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION FUR Zbe li-rtss: (STAMITIO Per Annum .. Half Yearly.. Quarterly .. PAYABLE IN ADVANCI. tl 6 0 .. 01: 0 .. 0 6 6 Subscribers are requested to send their orders through News ♦ggents; if direct to the Otlice, accomnanied by a remittance. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALYRED IV!, 110, Strand, London. trip :IP rtg6o+ LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 31, 1857. POSTSCRIPT. DEATH OF GENERAL CAVAIGN %C. The second edition of the Times yesterday pub lished a telegram from its Paris correspondent, dated Friday morning, nine a.m., announcing that General Cavaignac had died suddenly. The Illoniteur contains a report, addressed to the Emperor by M. Magne, relative to the budget for 1858. There is an excess in the revenue of 4 millions of francs ; 10 millions of which are applied to the liquidation of the debt. The financial review of the country is of an extremely favourable character. The reduction of the floating debt is assured, and all loans paid. PERSIA. CAMP IttiSIIIEE, SEPT. 10.—Captain Graces, with the head-quarters of the 3rd Cavalry, embarks on the Arthur the Great the day after to•morrow, and Captain Moore, with Lieutenant Stephens, on board the Caduceus, on the same day. Lieutenant Spens, with another detachment. will embark on board the Mirzapore on Monday or Tuesday next. Then there will be lett here about 200 troopers, with Captains Oldfield (commanding' and Wren, Lieutenant Le Geyt, Cornet Currie, and Dr. Bruce. Mr. Murray, onr Ambassador at Teheran, has written officially to Captain Jones, the Resident, to say that our rear• guard here may be attacked by the Tangistanee tribe, which has created a great alarm among the Arme nian merchants and others here. The Chiki Basha has come down from Shiraz, and is close here, ready to take possession on our evacuating the place. In consequence of the above-mentioned report, General Jacob has determined on staying till last of all. There is a report here, of which Mr. Malcolm, the Armenian merchant, is the originator, that Mr. Murray and the Shah have had a row, and that the former has struck his flag, but it is to be hoped that this will prove mere gup. The rear-guard here is to consist of two guns, 200 sabres of the Std Cavalry, and the whole of the 20th Native Infantry.— Bombay Gazette, Sept. 20. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. NEW YORE, Saturday Morning, Oct. 17.—The Asia arrived here this morning after a protracted and very stormy passage from Liverpool. NEW ORLEANS, Oct N.—S . OIS of cotton to day, 8,000 cr 7,000 bales, at irregular prices. . . _ The run on our banks has subsided. No further failures were reported to day. Antonio Salvi, charged with the murder of Mr. Robertson, was brought up for trial yesterday. The judge disallowed the plea of uutrefois acquit, and the prisoner was tried and found guilty of man- slaughter. Sentence deferred. It is rumoured in well-informed circles that the Lordship of the Admiralty vacant by the resignation of Sir lattrice Berkeley has been offered to Lord Clarence Paget. THE PRESS, OCTOBER 31,1857. Coat sat las4tan. Her Majesty the Queen and Court continue at Windsor. ..... Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and Princess of Cambridge have visited her Majesty during the week. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have arrived in town, from Broadlands, Hants. Lord Panmuro arrived at Brechin Castle last week from London. On Monday his lordship pro ceeded to Taymouth Castle, on a v:sit to the Marquis of Breadalbane. Lord Aberdeen has been seriously ill during the week. On ruesilay night the noble earl was much better. The Siamese Ambassadors and suite arrived in London on Thursday. They are at present residing at Claridge's Hotel. Their Excellencies held an interview yesterday with Lord Clarendon at the Foreign office. son and Sir Benjamin Hall will come to town to in vestigate this unfortunate affair. One of two results is inevitable—either the bell will be melted down and recast, or a new bell cast of the same or different make and metal. The diameter o . Ben is nine feet two inches, his thickness nine inches, his weight fourteen tons, and his tone is, or rather was, E flat. THE PURCHASE OF HAMPSTEAD HEATH 11/1.2 dis cussed at a meeting of delegates from a number of metropolitan parishes, held on Wednesday in the Marylebone Court-house. It was resolved to take proceedings in the next session of Parliament to secure Hampstead-heath and the adjacent ground fur the benefit of the public. THE REV. J. N. BELT.r.w delivered an interesting lecture upon the past and present state of India, on Tuesday evening, at the Assembly-rooms, St . . John's. wood. The roum was crowded to excess, and numerous parties having been unable to obtain admission, the rev. gentleman has consented to repeat the lecture on Monday evening next at Exeter. hall, the proceeds of which will be handed over to the Indian Relief Fund. THE HEALTH OF LONDON continues favourable and under the average. The deaths of last week were only 988. The births amounted to 1,582. Vrobintial. THE BLACKBURN PUBLIC PARK was inaugurated OR Thursday with great ceremony. There were up wards of 5(1.000 persons present. The park has been laid out with great taste, with lakes, waterfalls, fountains, and noble plantations. It is in every way worthy of the people of Blackburn. THE RECEIPTS of the Manchester Exhibition amounted to 98,5001., the expenditure reached 99,5001., but against this must be placed the value of the building, which, when sold, will leave a hand some surplus in hand. THE BOROUGH BANK, Liverpool, one of the oldest, and generally supposed to be soundest, banks in the county, has suspended payment. The failure of its American creditors to maka their remittances is the cause. THE HEAVY RAINS last week caused very severe floods over Hackney and Stratford, and generally throughout Essex and Kent. Some fatal accidents have been reported, and much serious destruction of farm and mill stock and property. A GREAT STEAM PLOUGHING EXPERIMENT took place at Shirley last week, on Mr. Forrester's farm, at Stewart-hall. Mr. Fowler's steam plough was the machine tested. In heavy soil the plough drove to a depth of seven inches, at the rate of seven acres 330 yards long, in a working day of ten hours, at a cost of 9s. an acre. In lighter soil it worked at the rate of forty-eight acres a week, at a cost of 6s. an acre. In deep trenching, twelve and a half inches, it performed at a rate of twenty-two acres a week, at a cost of 13s. 9d. an acre. _ _ A GARDENER NAMED BAKER, in the service of Mr. Maisters, of Register's•house, Beverley, in a tit of jealousy, last Saturday, nearly cut off the head of the housemaid, with whom he was in love, and then attempted to cut off his own. He was discovered in time, and, though the poor girl was dead, her mur derer, who, we are told, was "a mild, inoffensive man," is being carefully nursed for future execution. BLACKLAND-HOUSE, near Plympton St. Mary, was broken into by robbers last Friday week, and Mr. Brillion most severely beaten and robbed. Two men have been arrested on suspicion. SIR CHARLES MORGAN'S Great Cattle Show at Tredegar-park is fixed for the 15th December next. Velittcal. A CABINET Couxcir. was held on Thursday after noon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. It was attended by Viscount Palmerston, the Lnrd Chanct•llor, Earl Granville, Earl of Harrowhy, Sir George Grey, Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, the Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. TUE REV. , DR. CaoNyN has been consecrated as Lord Bishop of the new diocese of Huron, North America, by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. THE SE C RETARIES TO THE BOMBAY RELIEF FUND represented to the Lord Mayor, as head of the national subscription in aid of the sufferers from the mutinies, tho extent of the calls likely to be made upon their fund, and the slight means at their dis posal. Their letter arrived this week while the general committee were sitting, and they immediately and unanimously directed that 7,0001. should be transmitted to Lord Elphinstone, Governor of Bom bay, for the relief of sufferers in that Presidency. THE NEW COURT FOR DIVORCE AND PROBATE will not 'oe constituted until there is an order of the Queen in council, which will enable her Majesty to fix the opening of the court for business at any time after the Ist of January next. The rules to be framed for the conduct of the judicial business of the court will be looked for with much anxiety. FROM THE TRADE AND NAVIGATION RETURNS published this week it appears that the total declared value of articles of British prodtne exported in the month of September last was 11,068,0001., as compared with 10,216,000/. in the same month of 1836, and with 9,0742,0001. in that of 1855. During the first nine months of she present year our exports amounted to 95,735,000/. ; in the corresponding period of 1856 to 81,906,0001.; and in that of 1855 to 69,226,0001. The increase in 1857 over 1836 is therefore, for the month, 852,0001. ; for nine months, 10,829,0001.; while its increase over 1835 is, for the month, 1,990,0001.; and in nine months, 26,509,000/. WE are gratified to be able to state that there is no foundation for the reports in some of the Indian papers, to the effect that Sir Colin Campbell WAS suffering in health. Under date of the 25th of September we have the best authority for saying that the gallant general had never enjoyed better health than since his arrival in India. Dlttravalitan. THE Lotto VACATION ended on Saturday, when the several offices of the common-law courts were opened, as a z' note of preparation " for the forthcoming Michaelmas Term, which commences on Monday next, the 2nd proximo. The only new appointment expected to take place is with respect to the new Court of Probate, and in the event of one of the learned judges of the superior courts being named there will be a vacancy on the bench. ARRANGEMENTS have been made for the convey ance of additional mails to and from Jersey and Guernsey, by Weymouth. The mails from London forwarded by this route will be despatched on the evenings of Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, ou which days there is no mail by way of Southampton. A BENGAL TIGER, en route on Monday from the docks to the Zoological Gardens, broke loose from his van in Ratcliffe highway, dashed out into the open road, struck down one boy, and seized another. The brute, after some trouble, was mastered by his keepers, and re confined in his den. The boys were both severely lacerated. Bto BEN, we regret to say, has met with a fatal accident. A huge crack has been discovered rising from the lip half way up its side. Mr. Becket Den.i- alrelanli. A DREADFUL. MURDER IS this week reported in Tipperary. Mr. Ellis was shot dead near Temple more on Thursday week. He was on his way home to Dobea, when the road became blocked up, and a man deliberately fired a blunderbuss from behind a bush at the road side. Mr. Ellis was shot through the heart, and dropped dead. A Roman Catholic journal tthe Cork Reporter) observes, it is to be feared but too truly, that there are circumstances connected with this murder which indicate unques tionably the presence of the old association for the use of terrorism : The road was blockaded, the agent was killed with a deliberate aim ; there was not the least effort to take from his body a large sum of money which he carried, and his servant was allowed to escape. All these facts uoint to the inevitable conclusion that he was killed merely to satisfy revenge; and the deliberation with which preparation was made would seem to indicate that it was not the work of unpractised hands, but was under taken under the direction of some hired assassin. That such men are to be found among our country people, in• credible as it might seem, we have unfortunately evi• dance only too conclusive. Ryan Pack was well known to the people of a whole district, and vet he committed, we believe, fourteen murders, many of them in open dap