The Press. — London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

17, 1533. labest. iltittiEss SHIPPIN4I.—The lion. J. H. Manners Sutton, t7aptain Bethune. R.N.. anti Mr. Cohn Blackburn. barrister, commissioners appointed by her Majesty, have coneluiled three days' inquiry on the Tyne into the local burdens on shipping. They have visited Newcastle. Tyne th. and South Shields, and have held open courts at that places : " As there are no less than 23.0410 e n tries o f vesse l s i n . ward to the Tyne yearly, and as the freight on the pin- Opal article of export. coal, bears a large proportion t o the cargo, a revision and reduction of lo c al p or t ,•h ergi .,, en , o f great importatice to the shipowner, the eonsumec, an d th e merchant, more especially whim Neights are low, as then splitting one lialflienny per ton is a consideration. The revenues of the Kiwi. Tyne C •ssioners consist of a charge of td. per ehaldron upon coal exported, a tax c h a rged upon ballast brought into the harbour in vessels, harbour dues on ships and boats, ballast-office dues on shir4.l4lNbitialage and plankage dues, qua) and town dues, and ballast warrants. •24,7011/. is thus collected annually by the eenitnitodonees, of which 5,4110/. is paid to the prporat ion ill Newcastle. The vessels of the Illvemen ant exempt from these local burdens. The Trinity-house of Newcastle mien primage on all vessels from Holy Island to Whitby. and the brethren of that ancient 1411110r/a .. have the management of the burl • lights, from % hid ' the house derives a considerable plait. The chairman of the Shipowners Societies of North and South Shields. and other persons engaged in the carrying Huh. of the port, were examined at Shields, and took a general objeetion to the manner in which the dues were levied, and the way in which they were expended. and laid it down as a principle, Hutt the dues for river purp,ses should be rofsolWaled into a tonnage rate, and slitutht be levied for no other purpose than the imprin einem of the navigati o n o f th e river. They also iihieet to the dues of the 'l6l'4y-house. Resides the imposts above awed there is a pier rate and a Hier and mooring's rate, which iv collts•ted on the t 'image of the vessels frequenting the harbour, and which 1M: approved by the shipowners. Another branch of the inquiry pursued by the commissioners was the question of passing toll. It seems the Harbour Commisaiouent of Whitby, Bridlington. Itamsgate, and !toyer (Barns ate on all vessels under 300 tons). exact a toll from Tyne vessels passing their harbours, to Maintain these places as harbours lif refuge. Thu shipowners who were examined denominated those harboun+ traps. snares, delusions.' It seetus by no possibility eolthi vessel get into Whitby as a place of refuge in a high sea : and Mr. Joseph Straker, a shipowner of great experience. said, that if twenty vessels wen. caught in a gale of wind on' the other harbours he would take one-hall risk upon those vessels that kept to WA, in lorcn.relme to thi,s4 , Mat made for the harbour. The commissiomela, who nee pursuing their inquiries with regard to local taxes on shipping in the principal ports along the coast, besides those r•irti PINT ex* iii iii Atkins, submit a aeries of questions to the ru and maritime societies itt the towns they visit as no the operation of local dues, so that in the end a vast body of well-digested infortnation will be col lected together for the information of the Legislature." A MENTINo To OBTAIN TIM 111 PUBsENTATIoN op GRAVItsEND IN PAREIANIINT Was hell on Monday evening at the Town-hall in that place. The chair was taken by the Mayor, Thomas Saddington, Esq. Several gentlemen addressed the meeting, pointing out the great importance of the town of Gravesend, its increase of business, ready transit from Loudon by rail and boats, and the acentnulat . of the number of inhabitants, from the extension of build ings (Wring the last two or three years. Various suggestions and resolutions were adopted, and the meeting separated after the usual vote of thanks to the chairman and committee. AT THE LATE ELECTION OF A ScoTTISH 12.11PREgEN TATIVE PEER. the Earl of Dundonald wore on his breast a profusion of foreign orders. The noble earl has since published the following letter on the subject : "My Lords,—l feet it a duty to assure your lordships that my motive fur not presenting myself this day as a candidate for the la ..... aur of beeoutihtf a representative of the peerage of my na tive eritmtry does not proered front feelings experietteed on it banner oecnsion4 but from a supposition that a minority of your lordships may still entertain unfavourable impressions of my ea anduct, otighniting in or et insequent tan my attempts to reform abitscs—then denied. but since acknowledged and redressed, to the great contentment of the naval nervier, and nature security of our country. The foreign orders I wear (for the first time hi thirty years) 1 subtuit to your lordships in test' that abroad, as at home, 1 have enaleavonrcal to 'trot -note good tiro. vernmerit, awl in so doing vast advantages have accrued. by imp • g w civilisation, to manufactures. and to co Tee, o n e . fourth part of the globe front which they were pre% ly ev eluded. I alit aware, toy bards, that this is not all umwartmaity for further explanation, but I bops' I may thus briefly avert any suspicion of vanity in exposing theme tokens, by assuring ,our lordships (though I have (loyal authority to wear them) that I have merely viewed them as pledges of promised reward,' which, had they been fulfilled when their objects were attained, wottld have ambled roe to have frequented society, idol thus have oh. viated oblivion and dispelled the misapprehension incident to seclusion. •• A BATH for the resuscitation of persons recovered from drowning has been erected in 61n..g0w by the Clyde trustees. The novelty of its construction con sists in the application of ordinary gas as the heating agent; and at the first trial the water was raised to 100 degrees Fahrenheit within ten minute , . The expense of the bath complete is trithofz. and the value of the gas consumed each time about ts (pence. THE ConittssioNratt appointed to inquire inti , the Mate of the Leicester county gaol will open the com mission at Leicester on Monday next. THE PRESS. A Brrrrit Dzsemr - rtoN Omxterses Axe Cuts is expected to be prepared for the public. after th e Ist of next month. It is enacted by the 16 and 17 1 ie., c. 33, that persons, from and after the Ist of October, desirous of obtaining • licence to keep, u se , or let to hire any metropolitan stage or hackney car riage, are to apply in writing to the Pollee Commis sioners, in order that they may cause au inspection to be made of the vehicles, and, if found to be in a proper condition for public use. are to grant a eerti &ate, on which the Inland Revenue Board is to grant a lieence. No licence is to be granted with out such eertificate. The Police eommissita f ers may came an inspection to be mule of the vehieles and horses, and if they are not in a fit condition the licences may be suspended, and the Stamp office plate recalled. Penalties are to be imposed for di. obeying the act. FOR THE CI.OsINO Or PrMSC-fIOVSTS ON THE. SAR IiATH 11 4 2 petitions, hearing 51,1167 signatures, have born presented since IS-15 to the House ofcumulous. Since the same year 1,1511 petitions have been pre sented for the better ebservance of the Lord.a.day, bearing 219,256 signatures. THE Dowt.ms Ino• Wonss are now in activity again, the whole of the colliers who remained upon the spot having resumed labour. They do not, how ever, number more than 300 men, whereas the force that struck for the advance was fully 1,100. The others have gained employment elsewhere. A number of the best men have emigrated tee Australia; and see great. has hewn the emigration from Merthyr that it exceeds the influx by :111 per Cent. The iromme.ter, cannot depend upon all In.it supply, as the Ilink the sister isle prefer Allteriea or Australia, and labour is scarce in all the Welsh markets. The work. at Dowlais have been put into a state of thorough re pair, new brickyards having been tweeted. Tile GREAT WESTERN COMPANY have agreed to offer terms of amalgamation to the Shrewsbury fuel Birmingham and Shrewsbury and Chester Company. They propose to give an interest of 31 per cent. on the capital stele+, with a moiety of the surplus profits, and to have these terms secured by an act. This a:Moment was adopted by the shareholders of the Great Western Railway, at a general meeting held in London on Wednesday, with the view of termini' ring all the disputes which have so long prevailed respecting the policy of the several companies. A T El,Eeift %rim , 'TIME -BAIT., similar to that in the Strand, has just been erected near the docks in Liver pool ; and when it falls at one o'cloek, indicating the Greenwich time, every ship leaving the Mersey will adjust its chronometer accordingly. THE Losno• Conayaeosnrwr of the Gaierny Vim dicatny states that the Government have it in con templation to meal the present Governor of Aus tralia, and to divide his duties into four district go vernorships, to one of which, it is stated, one of the present members few Galway is to be appointed. 'Tor PeoensAt. for removing the shipment of the Cape mails from Plymouth to Sonthampton is still the subject of communieation between the Post-office ant hornless and the Admiralty. It is believed, how ever, that the Hume.) is decided upon, and that the only question now at issue turns upon the days on *lnch the mails should be made up. 'rn NAVVIATTON of the Sublet )1)4,11111 of the nube is getting more Micah from 411 to 4149. The water im 140 low that sailing-ships eannot pass M. all. The dredging -steamer which was to remove the sand does not work ; it only pretends to work. Thu Petrie, however, announces that in eolo4l l lllooleo of recent negotiatinns it has been &sided that a mixed coin mission of engineers shall be charged to determine the plan of the works to be performed in the channel of the Sulina; and that M. de Iteddiker, a Berman engineer in the Austrian service, is to lie president of the commission, which will consist of three members. AT A (*HITT I tntreroas held at the East India Tlonse on Wedne,day, .lames Thomason, Esq.. at present Lieutenant I i..‘ernor of the North West Provinees, was appointed Governor of 3lailrax, and the Bight lion. Lord G.C.11., Governor of Bombay. Ar the General Court of Proprietors of the Bank of England, held on Thursday, a dividend for the half year, at the rate of 1.4 per cent., was declared, free of deduction on account of income tax, out of clear net profits for the past six months of 5,41,55; I. is. 111., after payment. of which the rest will remain at :1,014,55/4/. 9s. 2d. Is Anurnos to the many modern agricultural itniole meats in use on the Norflalk Farm, Prince Albert has in troduced one of Ilustrey's latest iniproved reaping. tnachities. This instrument was first noodle use of on the farm last week, in cutting a Crop of oats, whirl, it per forrnc.l most aatioofortorily It is worked with a pair of horses shrewd, requires one man to drive the horses, or ride as postilion, one to sit on the machine to regulate its working, and to rake the eon, off for the labourers who follow to tie up the sheaves, the corn for which is as neatly laid as that cut by the hand-reaper. The machine per formed its work altogether verry smoothly, awl len ground very clean. It is calculated that it will itop au acre au hour. BRITISH AsSOCIATIoN. 1 1 1'111\,i the early 4 the past week 111,`•sec tions were eagerly 444 , 4.1104 A lit ll Ills ‘lniocc.4 1 1 *1>er4 read in different laranclie.4 ~r inlittity and the discussions which ill man) instances were elicited. Some possessed c on siderable 1 411,1 thcsie upon the subjects of the (VIP:n4. ethnology. railway Heel dents, still Irish emigration. On Wednesday ills, eommittee meeting came oft, when the following programme of scientific business prepared for Attrtro years was considered mid adopted : P.AOLVINti tiltOglS That .:00/. ls• placed at the disposal of tioo. r.sint it Air the maintenance. of the rstalokel lit of the I a t lie•u—.ll/. to obtain phooteogntples of t h e 1115.51, (suet telegeopt.l4 of the largest sires-- f o r t h,. „ t ~, r f idet thermometers, oometntetist fur the inquiry on eon. oluctooto of heat, by Protfoossor Foorbes—'4l/. to Dr Hooolgrs to continuo. his investigations on at N. Of to NI. Itemktito•, lot . . lloolnotson. Poofessor lloolgkillsont, 511,1 Mr. %%NM to pr0,..4.11t0 thew unitary rt•speetistg the voiding Of Ml' tit hot o•I 1111 l too Mr. hut-horn to. preppie,• it s i n th„ o•th.o.tso trintot•attire on wrought: Oslo :ow, t o m i .. Mallet to continuo. his o.ottoo•rintritts .qt rattliotooko. sVele-- 10 Dr. Istelerste.r, l'ivfo-,or Irani, 100 Ito.. Pig' kir, U. draw tip whirs for t h e rogooto ion pernsiiesil phenonto.tia-1411. to Dr. lattike,ter. Professor Forties, and lor e et• ow . o r Hell to nod,' lir. Williams 111 111115'111;4 lop a report on Wilts!' knn. liotu. Mr. Ilpoolianto, Ur. Palto.e . .on. Itr I hrki. And Mr. we. sially on of dredging on the 11.511 1 and .i st p.t i s i i, lin t h s o . Mr. 11. E. Strteklatatt, I tr. Iheothesoy. Lindley, snot Professor Iletioolow,areo rospirstool to voontinuo t ,Ato,•t•oino•olis on tier %utility of /will,. pt ith Ills, at their olispoool for the totot•pooso.- The c ono m it t oo f o r pr y. %idiom; a largo. ontliae mato ot world is rrappoottesl, with ill.• addition of Sir dames lbws and lir. Latham, with 14. /It theirdiax,wl I . ol' the purpose. hut' IS% ol.VINti APPLICITIoN Tu tOO% ERN NI I: Vl' on I'l'lfl.ll' Al I Jelit.•intiot • (*. done) Port lock. Professor .1 stiles Forla••, r. SI :11101 r. Phillips, lit. IlnLinwln , I ,4,,..,4 and l'n.fessor Sinks . were 1111 nled 111 1 , 11144 I I11,„11 11%441 form of Appankitis tOr regislering the dit eet ion 11 ad ainonni .4* earl heinake vibration,' —I It. I • ladstone t.. eontit n te 1.1.4 in •Inories on the ital....Hee of light 1111 the Vitality 1.1 phnt« - Sir. Hobert 1 I nut to eont inns. his investigations .4 the eltetniettl ail ion of the solar ra)m —The following groins met. to reisoi on the bent no of proeuring p.t ribt/14 and .OWl' M 11 5 .4.11111.1111 41r HIV habit' Ills dee. amposit vii., .1. S. I towerlsoilt I ',...1;•••••••r .1 "lit...ton, .1. E. 1.".', Esq., II E. Strickland. and .1. Calvert F....1.—M r. ttpene.• I tot, 1.. repoo .11 the purl ...IN out ktoOVltstlur floe luwor ho Itts st 111 - it Pill env. Mr. Foltieltrit'ol si t 1 .4 experimental 11'44.111141PN to delennnle the Mtrviigili of Inv tire hollers. Mill the elitins..: whit.). lead. to explosions, to Ise 1 , 6111,11, ....long the reports-- .1111111t1t1/11 to 1 1 11111 4 1 alel/1 1 11• 01l Illo• 111 I . llllllll l t I'l' ge I..gy— NI E. .14ohn Fre• .I.•l•iek 1 lawman, ', I.; ~ S., to report on the state of sollt* knowledge on the supply of wider to 'owns- The 1 hanky. of the 'issue int ion were 111 1111' 111111i11.11 1. 111111) 1 . 11 1111 l 111641 fur the nueru.itug attention the) lint 1.1114 b. line ielerests of Sels•llei., I«dh in 1.0111 1111 l atholm to t h e I OOVIIIIIII'III. i in proeve4litlit4 in the Hons..% of Pori innietil --Tho members 4.% press their mot isfaet ton that it is 111 O . intrnlintl for I ii)I1 . 11111 I I to daily ineleoroli•ver!.l olawrra• time,. 1.. 1..• mail.. sit sea, in eorreais indoor'. wall the plan adopted by file I i si% ern client of the 1 'mica Ststi .11 the suggestion of I .....alutelint , awl 1.. take ...eh Welker steps, its rave-ems. to I 11.• inerrant. le Illuu lUI of Ii teat lint sin, its may he hest insl to stilt...late and rne..... - itge the nowters of Mit ish moll+ ant ships to liik.• illtull,l in investigation,' I.y wide). the .5 of passiege Is dif ferent ports hate its ninny he. I s two., rially • d. and •,t bid. uu.t 1.1111 In ocher F. At. of the greatest imp. .rt tinee to priwileitl susivigistinn. 1NV401.% IN'S A1 4 1.1.1rAT144%i 'l'4o fieIVIP.IO4OIFSI. That AM thy' greatcst *llll, awe is kismet, 11 % ocensionest by the injury or sleistnietion of instrument s mill spew omens 1 011% l og from foreign ports, sit ming from ems Im M Is•perk lug Mt i lie I . IN•Iaii•INNINN. 1411110' striking a uitui Is whirl' r111111•Ntly 4•111.16• to light, it IN• Trost In II u • voluted the MIMIC represciititig this is. Ihr I ill- The lisineas, returns, 111141 pecuniary result. of this year's I _Looting of the association are unusually gnitifying. The total number of papers trod in the ditli.retit sections has been 171. 'Phis number i 4 nialk up of papers on chemical science, 21; sat Ina theiviaties and physics, 4ii ; geolisg), ; 7 rw ilogyand botany, with physiology, 28 ; ge o graphy uml elbow I.4gy, 22 ; statistics, 11l ; mechanics, 2:5. 'l'loe atten 'knee has been-111 44111 lite number , , 1:1 new life member+ ; 0141 annual inenils•r, :00: new, rim; jihhll. I' ihtteS, 36 4 ; %NU; ; allii ioi ; making a total or sm. The amount r.•cei‘cil iv 9114 /., PX4III - of 22/. for ',wok,. Theve receipts PlCeer4l the expenditure, fend leave a handsome s urplus of :rot TOY. 1'Iq:1; ir. oN Ttt►: TYNE Weill, recently repot-tell as bee.. • g anti during the last few 11ays 1141 el even reached a more exorbitant pitch. Tl.• a lm" n r, fitlmlous rites of 12s. 141. alnl 1311. per ton Imre heess ob oained for coals fur l.lnnluu ; IKI. Ilk. per k.. l for Ilani• burg. Such freights as i 11."..• hatt• to.v.•r 1a...1. hurl hl oho shipowner since the mu. the sat It smoke wul•in tisitt li. ofloe of frvig h t , t,,, 1„,,,,1 011 .1.0. M 11 , 4 stisr trntre the In ps•ly .if the 101111011 11011 fl Wit` Iry our English ship. owrier.a. but rather trt,m s sem...Ay of errayel.s, al the th ug . burg real arc high in proportion. 4415