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

I SEPTEmntOI7, 1853. TO CORRESPONDENTS. TO ADVERTISERS. The abolition of the Duty on Advertisements enables lamer, at the prire IV . Three Nhillanys the Atirertisementa for which we hare hitherto charged Far. ; 0.4,1 Adrer ti.e►. generally will re, wire the full benlit of the change in the law. It is introssilile toaektiowledge the mains of letters wr receoe. Their insertion is often defrayed, owing to it o f mNttrr awl when omitted, it is frequently front r. quite inde• pendent of the merits of the cnuuuuuira ion. We cannot undertake to return com . •ations f hi , hwe do nut avail lielves. t,l In hl Id always be legib•ly uriiteii. mei aide of thi' papt.E..nly. If long n In••rra.••. Old ditti• itify of finding voxe for them, Whatever its intended for inserthat mart be anthentieated by th« 1 1 / 4 111C tnd athiretta of the writer, not lit , ehrotrll) tea• public*• Lion, but it • guarantee of his paid It etv _ll)ritiog. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEmBER 1553. POSTS(' 11 I 1"1'. FRANCE. The Moaiteur publishes a decree redwing the ditties on the importat . of cattle anti meat. The duties are to he—for oxen or hulls, 3f. per head for cows and young cattle, if. ; for calves, sheep, goats, and pigs, 15c.; for lambs and sucking-pigs, 10e. ; for fresh meat, 50e. per ItNI kilogrammes, and for salt meat, 10f. The reductions thus elfectool &revery considerable. By the laws of 1522, and Ls 26, the duties were fixed as follows:—For oxen, not per head, 15f. for cows, 14f. for hulls and steers, 121 50e. for heifeirs, :11. for calves, 41'. for sheep, 12f. for pigs, If. Me. for goats, :10e. for lambs ' 2 bc. for kids, and We . for sucking pigs. Fresh butchers' meat paid IMf. per 104 i kilogrammes, salt pork 3:1f., and other salt meat 81W. The above measure has given great satisfaction. The duty on oxen was previously excessive, while with regard to salt meat it amounted to absolute pro . The excursion of the Emperor to the north of France is not to be of a private character, like that to Dieppe ; but of a public and °tibial kind, like that last year to the south. It is stated that orders have been despatched to the commanders of the corvette tirriruxc and the brig Mereure to proceed to the Levant to reinforce the sgnadn►u there. PRUSSIA. Several of the German Governments have opened negotiations with the Cabinet of Berlin to obtain permission for young men intended for officers in the army to enter the military schools of Pnissia. A convention to that effect has already been entered into with the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Omer Paella, in a despatch to the Porte, speaks highly of the disposition of his troops. He uses these words—" My army, like the Romans of 01/1, do not ask what is the strength of the enemy, but where he is to be found." OVERLAND MAIL. The steam-ship Calcutta arrived at Trieste on Thursday in 1011 hours, from Alexandria. RomisAy, July :12.—Dealers had come forward to purchase chiefly on speculation. CitA:urri, August s.—The lion. Company's steam frigate Mozujrcr has been lost on a quicksand near Rangoon ; no lives lost. The present crop of indigo is expected not to exceed I 15.1MM1 maunds. Much activity exists in the import trade. There was a great famine in Burma), and the country was overrun with dacoits. Cholera k committing great rmages in the upper provinces of India. In China the " patriot " army retains its position. The Tartars had attempted to retake Amoy, hut without success. The old King of Delhi ix dying. The American commodor►• has bought in the inland Itozian, in the Japan Seas, grounds for dep►n%ita of coal. THE contract for taking out the bi-monthly mails to Australia on the .4th of /vlolier hits been given by the Postmaster-General to the ship Nr DEATH or SIR eHARI.rs APAR, ERNolt IiREEI4 I InCH HOSPITAL—We regret to announce the decease of this gallant officer. We understand he never recovered the shock occasioned by the sudden death of his brother, the late General Sir F. Adam. about a month since. B his death a vacancy is created in Greenwich Hospital. Sir Charles was born in 17t40; entered the service in 1790; and married the sister of the late Countess of Minto, who survives him. THE PRESS. THE CHOLERA. Tills much-dreaded disease, in its Asiatic nit... has at length appeared in England, where it seems to have commenced precisely at the Sallie port s hero its ravages were earliest and most fatal in Is ts--- nantel, Newcastle-on Pad) reports Inito the local board of health have announced a intirtalit :10 to 50 per them from the malady ; the total up to Thursday being '214 deaths. At ttateshead, to the same day, 1.1:1 deaths had been reported. 11.:xtra medical assistance had been pnieureil in Newcastle, amd house to house ‘isitation set afoot. with the result of detecting an enormous amoun t o f diarrhwa. In almost all cases puvm onitetr% 4 11 4 E01.'14 has existed. There is great difficulty in enforcing early attention to it although great emmlwrs of hand bills have been circulated pointing out the danger of neglecting any disorder of Walls. The l oc al m obil ritiets an. active in co-operating sith each other. A sum of NOW was voted on Weiluesilit the town council, and placed at the disposal of a committee for sanitary purposes. At the same meeting a resolit lion was passed bringing the town of Newcastle under the provisions of the HMV !Aging license Act. Through Lancashire and the manufatiltring dis (nets, in Liverpool. Manehester, Birmingham, some alarm has been felt, aunt man) precautions taken, thought the ntalemb has not hitherto shown it self to any extent. In London several cases, and three or four deaths, have oceurred, leading in one instance to a coroner's inquest, as detailed elsewhere. Abroad, the visitation of cholera has almost ceased in Denmark, there hieing no cases announced in Copenhagen on the 10)1i. In Sweden, however, it continues to spread most alarmingly. In Stoekholiti, on the Ist, there were 101 new cases, and 06 deaths; total, 900 attacked, and ill! acad. lu l'arlskr Ina 111 e local journal has been stopped, by the death of the compositors, it c. At Christiania M)s hail been swept off, and deaths from chtileni were still wear ring, at the rate of 60 a day. The local authorities and titnernment seem tiantestruckomil have' adopted a twist stringent quarantine sy Stein, Whit+ Ile.seithe less avails nothing to check the progress of the plague. Those towns which have barricaded them selves against all corners are attacked as rapidh as those which are open. At Stockholm four criminals in the cell-prison have been attacked, although they had no communication with tither:, or with each other. The Royal Swedish College of Commerce has officially declared "London and all other harbours situate • along the Thames, or at its mouth, infected with cholera, and all English harbours Iwtween the mouths of the 'Thames and the Tweed, suspected of the disease." English commerce will be treated tee • cordingly. Among the deaths at Christiania was that of an Englishman, the well-known Mr. Bradshaw, who had come over to collect data for his new Continental Guide, and hail only been in the town three days. lie was, however, nervous. and had been ineessantly taking preventives, and died after an illness of only six hours. The following appeared in last night's Gazette : " Whereas, I' an set, 11100WI1 us OW SCA/lisill of Parlia ment, held in the eleventh and twelfth years of her Ma jesty's reign, intituled ' An tu-t to renew mad amend ins set 'of the tenth year of herpresent l'ollijo•sty. for the re siwelly ' removal of eel lain nuisances suet thy• prevention of roue tagiesna and epidemic diseases•• after recitingnit it is expedient • that when any part of the 'tiled k Minions shall appear to la• threatened with 101• atreeteil by any for initial de epioletnie, etiolemie,o ir contagions diseaseoneastires pn•eaution should la• taken with proomptitmle, w coming to the exigency /tithe case ; it is enacted, that in Great Bri tain. the lords ntlll otla•tx ot her Tel MOOIIIIIOII. .0111161, or any thu•ee or 111.44• of align lOW Isord Presi dent of the comtscil, sir one of her Majesty's priocipal Secretaries of Stoke, being mous, by order or 'orders to be by them frino time to tint • made. obvert that the provi sions in the Wald Hut contained tin the pre% idiom of 111414111 k, and contagions diseases Is• lola in nlll4' in tin•at Britain, or in such ports thereof, or in snub places therein respectively, as iu such order or oiders respectively may la- express/11; aml may, from f • to t/o all or any of the parts or place,' 10 whirls any such order or orders may extend, and in like manner retok'• or renew any ands order. moll, 10111i4.14 to rwss•stio't I n-news) as aforesaid, every sitels order shall lw in force for six calendar months, or four such shorter potion! i.e ue -itch oilier shall be expressed. "And whereas the ITnited Kingdom iipiwara to lH threat ened with a tormitishly epidemic ditwoute, and a Pam. has for putt am; in (MCCthe proVisisitis of the mull wet ; " Now. therefore, it is hereby ordered by the [Jolla and 141111.114 of her .Mujeot y's Meet Ilimonrablu Priiy 4'unneii4 of whom the Eight lln undue Viscount l'almeninon. unu of her Moneitt Pritiendil Secretaries of State, is now 1, in luminance and excreilie of the 114r011.114 mls Vf.'Nif'd ill them as aforesaid. that the pn.iil4l,lllll el MINIMA in 1114. •aid herein before recited art for the prevention 44 ciddi rine, endemic, and contagiituoi 'blowout, lw put in force throngltiiiit the whole of I:rest Itritain initiwiliatel from amid idler the date of this order. And it is further ordered that thin ',Her shall t•••tit• in furee fur ail calendar munths from and after the (late herevf. " C. C. tiaLtit.u.." 471 THE RELATIVE POSITION OF AUSTRIA AK 1' RUSSIA. semi °tibial Zeit of Berlin Las a leading amide on the above subject, of which the following is a tv'siosi.:— -.lniongst all the vesertions of the pn.ss lately mole relating to the prevailing great question of the day. eeee e is more groundless and absurd than that Austria. Is.ing in a NtatAs of depen deuce rn Itussia, is thereby deprived of all freedom of tietion and resolve. It this Wen , this Cams. we sh Id certainly deplore. that a IniVisninient rsawl 1110 Mid Whose history i,, intimately coo netted with that of tierniany, should have fallen into a position as link honourable as creditable; still. wo would consider it imprudent to real a blotch which is equally taunting the whole of iienuany. The honour of .tustria—this is our intimate belief—is our honour; Austria** welfare is our own ; unit whatever ullia is one Or the Othisr Can never lie other than an object or eon eern to Its. But for the assertion that Anstria is dependent on Russia in s o me way or other, so tew arguments caul be adduced. that it lie comes curious to think how any serious vermin eot ild entertain it. It is just the posit . which Austria assumes at this moment that is the sunlit proof of its intlepetulenee, although the opposite party would tell us this contrary. It is at Vienna that at this 11111 l lent 44444114'M of this orient KM derided. in as far as iliplionaey can decide thistit. It is this nilliplis Ind Which gainsays the assertion of a dependence on Is there any probability for lm.liet ing that England and France would empower their representatives to treat with show. of Austria and l'nimmis eat **Mini by which their omit welfare is mo t .initiently concerned, if there. wen. 11111 ',tangible ground for the alisertiesti that the Vienna Cabinet receive% for atm actions th e order. from St. l'ett.raburg, or that the whole pr eue nt drama lois lawn previously eoneterteti and arranges' betwts.n the. two Comets of Austria and 'lnsets? Or could any one Im.lieve that the choice of the place w lien. important imitative' affairs am Inuneacted Was oue. 01 chance, gild that Vienna has only INNitgi selected on account of its geographical petition, placing it at a convenient dlstanoo, On One side, between Conatan tinople. mill St. l'eti.nellitrg, anti on the oilier between the. Turkish capital and Perim and !Amami? The reason, lielive%er. why has been selected as the .eat of the 'fitign.,o4 for settling the affitini of the Eu. 4 is, then. can IN. no doubt, none other than because it is felt on all sides that Austria has the power lind v1141164)11 to place the turning weight in the ~eales of the future destinies of Europe." Osmium?.two+ SioNelo BY Loki) I.IIr.urrNANTL (Fronk lest Metre Muff& I.) Itl•K' lit of itoyal Surrey Militis--Hobert Minton!, to h• t'ettitesta. lattleioltiry 11111•1111".- .. In I sll.llllllllllt llorbord Lord BuMeld to 1)1'11011 Nlilitot—.lolot Elliott to be Second Lieutenant; .Inhot Cave N 14. 1w tiva•aitHl Liruttmant. lld I;ll't111 ItVgiMellt •r AiMa—Thomas Hogg to be Efinign. lod or m 1,014411 Regiment of Militia—William Knoell ( . ..icridge to lie F:iiitiget. :trot or 1111 l otter Light Infantry Regiment of Partsoup, Clout., to hi Lii.iiti•tiont. _ . ...... kt or Royal Eamt!Memel Regiment of Militia— Ilutoy !sea too Brown. ivot latr Lientetilllit of the Ist Regiment Loyal !malodor.. Mslitle, to 1w Enaigit. Ilh or Royal tiontll llehtl.•n.•i Regiment of Militia.— Edward holly, late aril Legtment Midollevet !tidal*, to he Lwatenuot I.llwaril I hiesiemiglitoors. Lovett, tient., to he I.wotennot • liarlea 16.0t0n, lieut., till be Lieu blood : Jolitt 1 icor, I lost loloY. (lent., to be ; I is...rge Fnuo•lN 104 per M.D., Aesintluvt , IN . 1.1.1111114/11. FE‘ INI 'F li E LONDON DAZETTE. Tuesday, Nepf. . In. 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Hratott Norris, LaiwaAltire, parr? euktiufacturrr. 'I h. !hake Itflito..oark ham oirt•re-rd that hencelurtb brfitlitieli oar, Alia in a elated phe pi I•. 1 111 . .• a the public prvereuter. a deputation thr e ',rte.!, the prisonfer cutusesi, Mid t, % ••1‘,. 1 .•• r ."014 fruits outing the repreetmtatives a/ file A tegtilur 4.1 . %tram roultnuiticatiuU is to be .Mail. ho w l 1,, twe ,. /1 t ;tuott and North and South Antatiett.