The Press. — London, England, 1858-10-16 00:00:00

JUNG BAHADOOR. A very unpleasant quarrel with Jung Babadoor has just terminated. It arose apparently in this way:—About two years ago Jung, in a fit of dignity, made his brother, Deem ahadoor, Premier, retain ing only the command of B the forces. He wished to be regarded as something higher than a mere Minister. As he retained all substantive power, he perpetually interfered, and at last grew seriously a ngry because Colonel Ramsay, the Resident, accord. ing to the precedents of seventy years, looked to the Chief of the Durbar for replies. Instead, however, of frankly expressing his dislike, Jung, when at Allahabad, suddenly produced a list of some thirty charges aga:nst Colonel Ramsay, the least trifling of which was that the colonel did not vene rate the Hindoo religion enough. The Governor- General, perhaps taken by surprise, ordered words to be said which meant, or which Jung understood to mean, that the Resident should be recalled. Col. Ramsay was accorlingly recalled to Allahabad to answer for his conduct, and Jung returned to his hills, boasting loudly that he had done what no Indian prince had ever succeeded in doing. Col. Ramsay, on his arrival, explained the charges so completely that there was no alternative but to re store him, and he was ac.iordingly sent back. On his arrival at Patna, however, he received a letter from Jung Bahadoor forbidding him to enter Nepaul. In explanation, the Nepaulese reiterated his charges, and pleaded the Governor General's promise. A long correspondence followed, and at length the Governor General, while, as he said, fully exonerating Col. Ramsay of all blame, would not force on the Nepaulese Durbar an envoy personally distasteful. CHINA. THE CAPTURE OF NANTOW. By a Government telegram the capture and sack of Nantow by General Straubenzee is confirmed. The troubles at Ningpo continued. The Earl of Elgin was at Japan, but Sir Michael Seymour had returned to Hong Kong, weak, we are sorry to say, from the effects of fever. CUBA. THE YELLOW FEVER. Letters from Cuba state that the yellow fever was ravaging the island, which was otherwise in a pro sperous condition. The planters complain of the heaviness of the duties of all kinds, which make the price of transport of sugar to the United States amount to sixteen dollars the arroba (26 lb). The Chinese immigrants are said to be well treated, but the number of suicides among them, averagine one per week, awakens suspicion upon this point. The writer of this account ascribes this melancholy cir cumstance to their not having been converted to Romanistu. AFRICA. THE MAIL. The African mail brings news of the ordinary cha racter, and again points to conflicts among the natives which European steel is interposed to settle. The Inlet bad been seen at Teneriffe, and had been frightening the natives ; and we further learn that an American vessel, the Anglo-Saxon, lay at Bathurst, with her crew all dead of fever. (Sort nub lasiltatt. THE QUEEN, the Prince Consort, and the juni'r branches of the Royal Family are at Balmoral. It is understood that her Majesty and the Court will leave Balmoral on Monday next, arriving in Edinburgh in the evening and proceeding to town next morning. THE PRINCE OF WALES will attain his seventeenth birthday on the 9th of November next, when Mr. F. W. Gibbs, C. 8., will retire from the office of tutor to his Royal Highness, which he has held since February, 1852, and Colonel the Hon. Robert Bruce will be appointed Governor to his Royal High ness. The Rev. C. Tarver will act as chaplain and director to the Prince's studies. The future Equer ries to his Royal Highness will probably be appointed at the same time. W e un d ers t an d that they are Major Lindsay, Scots Fusilier Guards ; Major Tees dale, C. 8., Royal Artillery ; and Captain G. Grey, Rifle Brigade; and as Extra Equerry, Lord Valle tort. THE MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF MALAEOFF WITH MLLE. SOFIA VALERA DE LA PANIEGA was cele brated on Tuesday evening in the chapel of the Palace of St. Cloud, in the presence of their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, of his Imperial Highness Prince Jerome, his Imperial Highness Prince Napo leon, her Imperial Highness the Princess Mathilde, their Highnesses the Princes and Princesses Lucien and Joachim Murat, and a numerous and brilliant Assembly, consisting of the grand dignitaries of the State, of the ministers, marshals, great officers of the Crown, of the officers and ladiss of the households of their majesties and of their Imperial Highnesses. THE PRESS, OCTOBER 16, 185 R. The nuptial bonediction was bestowed on the hlus - trious pair by his Greatness Monseigneur the Bkho p of Nancy, first almoner. After the religious cere mony, all who had been invited assembled in the saloons of their Majesties to offer their congratula tions to the newly-marriPd couple. The civil marriage was previously celebrated. THE EARL OF MALMESBURY, accompanied by the Countess, will leave Achnacarry, near Fort William, early in the ensuing week, for the south. The noble earl and countess will visit the Earl and Countess of Derby at Knowsley, and will return to town on the 22nd inst. _ _ GENERAL PEEL took his leave of her Majesty on Saturday at Balmoral, and retires from his official residence at Court in the Highlands. The gallant general was succeeded in this duty by Lord Stanley, who will remain at Balmoral until the termination of her Majesty's stay. THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN PAKINGTON has arrived at his official residence at the Admiralty, from West wood-park, near Droitwich. LORD LYONS, we regret to hear, is lying dangerously ill at Arundel Castle. The Hon. Mr. Lyons arrived on Saturday from Florence, to be in attendance on his father. AT THE MARRIAGE of the Hon. Julia Duncan to Lord Abercromby, which took place at Camperdown house last week, Lord Panmure proposed in feli citous terms the health of the young couple. Lord Abercromby, who spoke with a Rue❑cy, ease, and correctness remarkable in a nobleman who is not yet in his twenty first year, rose and acknowledged the toast as follows :—" I desire to return thanks for the honour you have done me in so cordially responding to the toast which my uncle, Lord Panmure, has so kindly proposed. After the very able manner in which he has described the merits of her of whom I am so proud, for the first time, to call Lady Aber cromby, it would be superfluous in me, who am not a practised speaker like him, to say more thanithat I cordially concur in the praise he has bestowed on my bride. (Laughter and applause). I feel she must be a favourite among all who have the pleasure of her acquaintance, and that she possesses every quality which will make me a happy home and a proud husband. I am glad to have this opportunity, in presence of so numerous an assemblage, of saying how much I feel indebted to my wife's relations for all the kindness and affection they have shown me since they adopted me as a member of !heir family." The Earl of Southesk proposed, "The health of Lord Camperdown." Lord Camperdown, in acknow ledging the toast, said,—"l certainly upon this occasion feel most proud. I feel proud that my granddaughter now bears a name inscribed in the proudest pages of our country's history. I am quite sure that my noble friend here—l may call him my grandson now—will recollect what he has to do to support the honour of that name. I know that in whatever situation he is placed he will support it ; and I confess the few words I heard him speak to-day in this company give me great hopes that in the Senate he will yet do honour to that name which is already so celebrated on the field of battle. I again repeat that I feel most proud of this marriage. I have only heard one single breath against it. lam told that my noble friend is too young. All I can say on that point is, that I married three months younger than he is at present—(laughter and applause)—and all I can wish for him is that he may enjoy for fifty-four years the same comfort and happiness which has fallen to my lot." (Applause.) The Earl of Airlie proposed the health of Lord and Lady Duncan, the father and mother of the bride. Lord Duncan returned thanks. He said,—" 1 have in the course of my life been present at several marriages, but at no marriage that I was ever present at have I witnessed so much genuine good feeling and joy as I have witnessed on the present occasion. lam proud to stand here and say that during the course of my acquaintance with my new son-in-law every day has increased the good feeling between us. Considering him as I do as one of my family, I have felt proud on the present occasion at the manner in which he returned thanks when his health was proposed. My noble friend in the chair, far more ably than I could presume to do, has alluded to the deeds of his ancestors . but there was one ancestor whom my noble friend omitted to name, but whom I cannot banish from my memory. I have sat twenty years in the House of Commons, and during that period I recollect one of the name of Abercromby who, with distin guished ability, presided in that assembly. I trust that my son-in-law, born as he is to a hi g h station in this land, will recollect that these are times in which every man must be dependent on himself for occu pying with credit the station to which he is called. I trust that among his ancestors he will not be un mindful of my noble and late lamented friend Lord Dunfermline; for, in connection with this marriage which we have this day celebrated, if there is one thing more than another which I reflect upon with joy, it is this, that the late Lord Dunfermline, on giving his blessing to my noble son-in-law, said that the marriage he had contracted in every way met with his views." 1)011110 1. THE CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL SCIENCE. THE meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science was opened on Monday in St. George's-hall, Liverpool. Lori J. Russell, the president for the year, and the following noblemen and gentlemen were amongst those who took part in the proceedings :—Lord Brougham, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Sir J. Pakington, Lord Sandon, Lord Ebrington, the Right Hon. W Cowper, Sir James Stephen, K.C.8., Mr. R. M. Milnes, M.P., the Bishops of Cheater, Manchester, and Pennsylvania, Sir A. Elton, M.P., Mr. S. Whit bread, M.P., Mr. T. Barnard, M.P., the Hon. and Rev. W. H. Lyttelton, the Rev. Canon Girdlestone, Mr. Sergeant Woolrycli, Mr. Horace Mann, Mr. Jellinger Symons, Professor Pillans, Mr. H. J. Smith, Rev. 1)r. Begg, Sir C. H. Hastings, Rev. J. G. Lonsdale, Rev. D. Melville, Mr. Garnett, M.P., Mr. Ayrton, M.P., Mr. Adderley, M.P., Archdeacon Allen, Mr. J. A. Smith, jun., Mr. H. G. Bohn, Mr. J. P. Gassiot, &c. Letters of apology for absence were read from Lord Stanley, who was prevented from being present by his attendance on the Queen at Balmoral, from Lord Goderich, Mr. J. S. Mill, the Rev. C. Kingsley, Miss Nightingale, and others. The Mayor of Liverpool, Mr. J. Holmes, had made extensive pre parations for the reception and entertainment of the distinguished visitors, but owing to the death of his wife his Worship took no personal part in the pro• ceedings. The proceedings commenced on Monday afternoon by a private meeting of the Council in the library of St. George's-hall. At half-past three there was a special service in St. Nicholas Church, when prayers were read by the rector, and an appropriate sermon was preached by the Bishop of Chester. LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. The first general meeting was held in the evening in the noble hall, which is capable of accommodating 3,000 people, and which was crowded in every part. Lord Jons RUSSELL proceeded to deliver the inaugural address, which he opened by stating that the departments into which the business was divided were-1. Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law ; 2. Education; 3. Punishment and Reforma Lion ;4. Public Health ; 5. Social Economy. Having dwelt at considerable length on the first and third topics, entering into details of proposed amendments in the law of bankruptcy and insolvency, the noble lord urged the importance of A GENERAL CONSOLIDATION OF THE STATUTES, and thus referred to the judicial labours of the First Napoleon and his celebrated code : The splended victories of Napoleon, the rush of armies, the roar of cannons, the masterly decision, the instant obedience have passed away. The pride of empire, the king's waiting in the ante chamber, the sway of a mighty will from Rome to Hamburg, from the Manzanares to the Elbe, has vanished as the baseless fabric of a vision. But the transactions between man and man, the trial of the offender, the adjudication of prcperty throughout the French empire, are still regulated, and probably will long be regulated, by the statutes of the immortal legislator. CRIMIN.tL REFORM. After touching on the difficulties connected with the law of real property, the noble lord came to the question of criminal reform, expressing his satisfac tion with the results of the system introduced under Colonel Jebb in England, and Captain Crofton in Ireland, and quoting a number of facts and statistics illustrative of the subject :-- From the returns presented to Parliament I am about to quote the results of the trials which have taken place on several subjects of criminal jurisdiction. Those are the offences of-1, shooting at, stabbing, or wounding; 2, robbery ; 3, burglary ; 4, housebreaking ; 5, larceny in a dwelling-house; 6, forgery, and uttering forged instru ments. The returns show the numbers convicted, sentenced to death, and executed for these offences in one year in every ten from 1817 to 1857, or, in other words, the changes which have taken place in torte years. I give you the results :-1817, 911 convicted, 911 sentenced to death, and 78 executed; 1827, 1,113 convicted, 1,113 sentenced to death, and 41 executed ; 1837, 1,061 convicted, 405 sentenced to death, and none executed ; 1847, 1,49 8 convicted, 18 sentenced to death, and none executed; 1857, 2,0.57 convicted, 21 sentenced to death, and none ezeontA3d. The population of Great Britain has increased, from 1811 to 1851, in round numbers from 12,000,000 to 21,000,000; and in England and Wales from 10,000,000 to 18,000,000. You will perceive that convictions have increased in a greater proportion. Upon examining these returns more in detail there is a further result — namely, a great increase in the crimes accompanied with personal violence. fbns the number convicted of shooting at, stabbing, or wounding has increased between 1817 and 1857 from 26 to 208, and of robbery from 154 to 378 ; while larceny in a dwelling-house has only in creased from 143 to 246. Burglary has increased from 374 to 473 ; housebreaking from 152 to 568 ; forgery, &0., from 62 to 184. There is one conclusion to which I think we must all come. If high treason and murder are 997