The Press. — London, England, 1853-07-16 00:00:00

JULY 16,1853 Mn. SEROICANT MI•IIPHY has bet`il appointed DO the vacant Commissionership of the insolvent Debtors' Court. The salary is 1,5001. per a n ►um, Mr. Law becoming Chief Commissioner at 2,010. A vacancy is thus created in the representation of the city of Cork. TWEINE HUNDRED TENANT-FARMERS have appealed this year against overcharges under the Income-tax Act. The number allowed was 756, and the amotuit of relief granted 3,419/. ss. 41. A Btu. "to amend the laws which regulate the mode of voting for members of Parliament has been laid before the Peers by Lord Shaftesbury. The principal object of the bill is to provide that the votes should be taken in the ease of a poll by mewls of voting papers, as in the case of election for the guardians of the poor, &c.., instead of at p►lling looths. The papers are to be left at the houses of the electors to be filled by them, and called for by the proper officer. THE BIRTHS registered in London during the week ending Saturday, J July 9, were—Males, 709; Females, 735; total, 1,444. Deaths during the same period— Males, 478; Females, 447; total, 925. The return includes the whole of the metropolitan districts. THE I.tNi►ON AND BRDIHToit RAILWAY AveDITNTS for the half year warrant the directors in recom. mending a dividend of :Ms. per cent. on the stuck of the company for the past six mouths. This dividend will accordingly be proposed at the ensuing meeting of the shareholders. Tim Ormeriori or TILE LATE SMOKE-CONSITMTNO AI•T was shown in some interesting evidence given before the }louse of Lords' committee on the White- chapel Improvement Bill. Professor Mande, super intendent of the coining department of the Mint, de posed that the furnaces there were supplied with the smoke-consuming apparatus, and that the volumes of smoke that formerly annoyed the neighbourhood were now done away with. Carbonic acid gas was evolved in invisible smoke, but not to an extent deleterious or in jorions to health. A material saving resulted in the lower price of the coal burned. One or two of the breweries in the city of London, the smoke from which used to be a great nuisance, now consumed it entirely, and the saving effected in the fuel was calcu lated to pay the first cost of apparatus in the course of three years. Mr. Leicester, foreman to Messrs. Easton and Amos, engineers of the water-works that. supply the Houses of Lords and Commons and Tra falgar-square, stated that the operation of the system in the neighbourhood of the National Gallery was found very effective, and he was of opinion that it might be used advantageously in preventing the smoke nuisance in all parts of London, and so give the metropolis a comparatively clear sky. Mr. Perkins, engineer, said there had been a ilittieulty in carrying out the Smoke-consuming Act in the City, arising from the necessary alteration of the works in the time prescribed by the act Smoke was not quite abolished in the city of London yet, but it was quite time that it should be. THE COLONIAL LAND ANT) EIDORATION COMMIS - SIoNERS have just presented their an n ual sheet of statistics to Parliament. Since the conclusion of the war, thirty-eight years ago, there have left this coml.. try 3,463,292 emigrants, of whom 1,791,446—m0re than one-half—have emigrated in the six years com mencing with 1647. The average annual emigration during the last six years has been 29H,544, but the number who left in 1852 was :1111+,7414, being 23i per cent.. above the average, and 111 per cent. above the emigration of 115►1—the largest that had before occurred. The comtnissimiers remark that the great hulk of the emigration from the linited Kingdom has for many years consisted of Irish, and in the last six years the number was about 1,313,126. In 1651 the emigration to Australia was 87,661, of which 53,527 VON spontaneous, and :14,354 by aid of Goventment. For the first quarter of the present year emigration has decreased. The commissioners conclude by ob serving, that they regard the decrease in the emigra tion as a proof that the labouring classes of the United Kingdom, and especially of Ireland, are in a state of unusual comfort, and pr os perity. As SHERIFF of LoNooN for the ensuing year, Mr. Alderman Wire was on M44ntlay elected at a Common Hall of the Livery, in the rooni of Mr. Shepperton, previously chosen, hut who has been excused from serving on account of ill-health. THE INDIA PATRONAGE at the disposal of the Leadenhall street Board during the year 1852-53 is thus set forth in a return just obtained by Mr. Bright : civil A f-glAtmat 14011111111111.1011 a. reiletsf. tittrgeolii Chairman . Diptits•elnniul 22 Directorn (2 each) President of Board of Control I'6 196 ...!:4 The number of proprietors holding Intlia Stock on the 3rd ult. was 1,7H5, COVISItitiIIV I , f 1,374 1i1414 , and 411 females. Of the males, 1,1154 were entilled lA, 1 vote, 235 to 2 votes, 50 to 3 votes, and 31 to 1 votes. THE PRESS. Of the females, ;120 were entitled to 1 vote, 72 to 2 votes, 12 to 3 votes, and 7 to 4 votes. THE TURKISH QUESTION is to be made the Sub ject of discuss' at a isultlic in of the in habitants of Marylebotie, which is to be held with a view to test the state of publie opinion upon the aggressive course Russia is now pursuing. it. is ex pected that other constitueneies will also meet- for a similar purpose should Ministers sutler any longer doubt exit with regard to their Intentions. AN Aorr \Tuts is organising, according to the Jetrixh Chronicle, for the purpose of enabling Baron Rothschild to take his seat in the Ilouse of Coto Once et 1111 l 'towed, the vment, it is said, will not. rest until this importeun object is fully attained. A MiwTist; of persons interested in the atlininis tration of savings banks took place on Thursday, al w hi c h rese w,' , were passed objecting to the clauses in the new Government- measure proposing a rednetioll in the rate of interest, the transfer of surplus funds to the aceount of the National Debt. ComurissioneN, said the, unlimited responsibility thrown upon trustees and managers. THE I)Ecisw, CotsmeK Comisirryil have eon • eluded the examination of witnesses, and it. is under stood the result will he a unanimous report in favour of the adoption of the decimal system, making the pound sterling the integer, and dividing it. into 1,000 miles, or farthings. Br. Bowring was the last witneves examined, and gave most. satishietory evidenee as to the extraordinary accuracy, rapidity, and facility with which all caleulatt• . are InadO s and all aCCOMIta kept, under a decimal system, throughout the vast Chinese empire, with its 4011,1,00,04iti of dependent subjects. LIEUTENANT TICKELL, R.N., has been appointed Admiralty agent on the Southampton station. THE NORTH DERBYSHIRE ELECTION is fixed for this day (Saturday). Mr. T. W. Evans, son of the retiring member, is the only candidate. Some. Crßluos Comwsroanyttict: between the Earls of Shaftesbury and Mornington has just been pub fished. It arose out of a quotation made by Lord Shaftesbury in the House of Lords from a deeree of Lord Chtmeellor Eldon, which the Karl of Morning ton considers offensive and tdatidenam The last named peer, on Saturday last, sent a long letter to bond Shaftesbury, inviting his lordship "either to explain and retract the offensive remarks with which you introduced my name in your speeeh on time rah inst., or to say whether you will give me that alterna Live that 1 am entitled to, and which I trust that. you will not refuse." To this missive the Earl of Shaftes bury returned on Monday the following reply : " My have time I to acknowledge the receipt of a letter f your lordship datisl the nth of this month. In my speech in the Mingo of Lords 1 sin ily ooh el II judgment of Joni published iu a i aw 114141 k. This I 1114.1 a right to do, whether in Parliament or out of It ; and e•ve•ry sine has the Immo right. Visor lordship is good enough to amid mil what is technically called ' n challenge.' 1 refer you ter a reply to this, mill any future rottuuuaieati,sl, either to the tolice imagist rail in flow-street, sir to my solkiliirs, Messrs. l I Harnett, Is, Corey-street. -Your ols•- dient serva n t, of liliornington." The Earl of Mornington subsequently despatl•hed a letter, in which he says : "Your referring Mg either to ' police magistrate ' of Ilow. street, or your solicitors, is Your original mid is very absurdly itupertillPilt, , 1 11111 , t eohabler roil 04 neither having the good feeling to e‘plaite the unfounded impu tation made In the Mouse of I.orils ton have passed upon me, or the spirit ho meet whet y o u have vnnrself poivolost in the man ner wide!' regulates thii conduct sit geutlru n •n.--Your obedient tierviUlt, MottattociON.--Til. , Kai Of tilinfieshury.' atings. THE IX6VV.RNOIIS4 OF CH ARINn-CROSR 11(ATITAT. held their annual meeting on Wednesday. The re Wirt stated that, in the course of last year, 111,..046 in digent sick persons hail been admitted on the books for relief, at a cost of 2,5531., and that of these 1452 bad been in-patients, and 15,204 ma-patients, many of whom had been visited at their own homes, and the greater part restored to health► and to their (occu pations for the support of their families. This fund for the compl e tion of the Watling and the fitting up of four additional wards for children had enabled the introduet ion of 50 additional beds, and the receipt of be t.ween 400 and toOf I snore iu pat Tents than heretofore. ( If the eases relieved, 2,42 k hail been Mies of accident and sudden injury, of which :124 had been of an ex tremely dangerous character. THE ItoYAI, HUMANE SOCTETY'S I I ALF Yl•'Altt•Y MEFTINii was held on Wednesday. It appeared from the report that the bathers in the Serpentine for the ye a r numbered 142,00 n, of whom 17 had heel' rl' , l'lll4l from drowning, while the watchfulness of the society's servants had loreyetileol eight persona from commit ting suicide. During the last six months the ►nedi cal officers of the society had tre,04.,1 apparent drowning, of which 49 had hero attended with co►nplete sotreess. 14111111111115', later 14 full ime-tigatiot► of the cases, granted nine silver medals Ga eouragcoons acts of humanity. A donation of tam 1411111141 s I • roni his Majesty the litug ul lluuuter ww, anuututcvd by the becretury. 249 THE litoN'Al. F.TV have celebrated their annual meeting during the past week, Glouces ter being the place selected for this year's exhibition. The entries of agricultural implements have rapidly and (with It exception) invariably increased at every successive anithersary. In 1S:19 t h e num ber was only •„!:), whirl had expanded last year to 1,5117, mud on the present eceasion amounted to no fewer than 103: The exhibition ground for these instruments occupied all area of I o),ltiN) square feet, and the shedding tinder which they were ranged ex t en ded to more than a mile in length. treat in ten.st Was Illallifeall4l in the implements, especially to some thrashing and leaping it of impr o v e d construction. The meeting generally was exc e ll e ntly altellaiati, and the exhibition cons id ere d 0„,,,„ t h e average. The early days were spent in preliminiul and private views. Wednesday was the first open day, and on that day the judges inspected the live stock and awarded the prizes. The usual dinner took place at four o'clock, when the awards were read, and a variety of colignittilatoty speeelies made, tinder the presidency of Lord Ashburton. Nearly SOO guests sat down, and the exhibition was vis it ( 41 by mo n. than :1,91N) persons. On Thursday and yestenlay the show yard continued open at. diminished prices of admission. The customary general meeting of mem hers of tlne society took 'dace yesterday tatouing at the Gloucester County hall. Sporting. LIVERPOOL RACES.—WvosEsnve. noXTETII *NUM dth MA's. Lord 11erby's Longbow (Tviniolettont ) 1 Mr..l. Oshorne's Sir leatstrwe tle irey Betting : 7 to 1 on loolgbow, who won ley it hoist homer': SWEEI`STAKES of 21)11 µu\µ. CAA, for two•year olds ; T.V.C. to stills. Lonl Derby 'a Sortie (Tentiblentint) 1 Isortl Cliftlett's Alerabie !Inky of Biel e by Von 'Clomp :1 I mrd liglititon's .1 ttlian Betting : 7 to 4 toll Reel visit (1,009 ill 40 against bun for the Derby), 4 to I against Alembic, A to 1 against Sor tie, lit to I against Julian (1,000 to II) 0 0314 Julia', f o r he 1)4111 ). Won by a head, with the bone distance between second owl third. mi:ltsEy STAKES of 10 NOW each, with NI addled, for Mr. Maxsin'ig llarn.l .. (.1. ('borne) Mr. Meiklain's Mt HAW Betting: 7 by 4 un Barrel. PLATE of 00 Nov's. Mr. llttrgrvave's 0141m1414141Apie M r. Saxon's ('whit . Mr. Woitter'm I3ir Eustire ilit limy.. 10 rim. THE LAN(;Atilllnft OAKR of In sollS. each, with Ito milled; The Queen Midler ) I 24trawberry Ii ill .) Miss Sarah filly Lady Margaret Won by a lengili and a half. 14:1,1.1Sift SMAUESI. 1 leaf.lite argaret. Anjou NON Ten ran. _ Turitsimv. 1 . 10110 , 11,111' 11. 1I Il Ar ior 10 50V5.1.11411, with MO lidded by the Exii of I terby. Mr. e(oppertliwaite'K The I hformed (Wells) 1 Mr. Wilmou'n 1. by thitriclony lord Poodle 3 SCV1•11 run. Tor. Fo‘t.S•rAhr.s of Inn sys. emelt. Lonl Ilerloy's 111401111-lissrme I. Holler) I lord I:litsgovil4 Ihmlolethiong 2 Betting: 3 to I on Mobby•loorse, who woo cnolik. Tor, laviotro4 if . ('UP, in 14114•Cie, VOW' 'VW ItOVA.. added to It Sweep:bikes of `t'• MIVN. each. 1 113 "Obt'• Mr. Illsekborm.'s II inorkAit ..1 AtiliMelin) I Mr..l. Shopheril'm Alp Mr. E. H. Clark s Mitotive 3 11.41'd Wltterhorll's livoltomol (Filmdom • • .... 4 %Viols hy two 1411011.4. I imprkale was objected to on do+ ground of age. _ ..... . II Elt MAJENTV . K PLAIT of I4M) gQll H •ai. Iti.ol Lion .. Allll Hita So•vell nill. SEI SwI.I.:PsTAI: Vv. Thlir•rtte Angelo (k 1 r 1.1,0'A..1111W Plottit . r E. Brother ter Nfoonitititi Iteur stiletto Si A'lttii s,•vra I MII W 4.11 iov Il 11.1.01. I AVE 1(191111 $ t0Y.4.1411 Van*!eider k ell Chilton SIANLLY STAKES. Harrell Twiialdo Four ran.