The Press. — London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 5, 1853. a Tartar was immediately despatched to Omer Paella, with directions to him to wait some time before commencing hostilities. That circumstance leads to the belief here that the note is of a nature to be accepted by the Divan. - Another letter from Constantinople, published by a Paris contemporary, says : " Three thousand 'Alas (stndents in theology) at Broussa. and the same number at Constantinople, have offered themselves to enter the army. and they are to be sent to Adrianople, after going in procession to the vene rated mosque of the Sultan Mehemet. Armenian volun teers are also presenting themselves, but in small num bers. A celebrated Circassian chief, Sefer Bey, who had been compelled to reside at Adrianople during the last twenty years on the demand of the Russian tiovern ment, has arrived here. The Seraskier Mehemet Ali, in the Sultan's name, presented him with a magnifi cent sword enriched with brilliants, and asked him to take the uniform of the Turkish army, and assist his brethren in opposing the Russian invasion. The old chief replied that he waited the hour of combat with impatience." - - ----- --- The Turkish fleet in the Bosphorus consists of the following vessels : Narih•i•bahri, 54 guns ; Mande-safer, 42 ; Farsli•ilat, 40 Missari Perak, 21; Faisi Narbou?, 20; 3lahmrediek, ; Mizharedils, 11f4; Nesimi-rater, 50; Peikee 80 Shoal rakri, tl4 : Misretieh, 74 ; Kaidi•siVer, 40; Arini• ilah, 36 ; Sheritnumar, 20; Teitiri-scfit, 2 . 2 ; 22 ; Djailerah, Naramieh, 00 ; Nei(jatiler, 22 ; Net(jini ferhati, 24 ; Naragh-i•bahri, 21 : Felhi Valent, PADDLE STFAMERS.-3/e4jidik, guns, 450 horse power; Tail, 22, 450; Fain rubel, 22, 480; Taki Shodi, ; Essen Djedid, 4, 300 ; Eregli, 2, 180; 211emeri 1 akri,l, 120; Tani rakri, 2, 180 ; Mookberi Sourour (screw), 20, 550. - • • • The crews comprise in the whole about 11,500 men. Three line-of-battle ships and two large and several smaller steamers are being fitted out in the arsenal. The armaments of the line-of-battle ships and frigates are composed of guns of :i2•lb. calibre, excepting some of the guns on the upper (leek. The Egyptian ships in the Bosphorus comprise the— sihutiolsi, 94; Aleppo, 100; 3firfi t irhad, 100. lquoirrs.--Baheroli, 04 ; Rosetta, 60; Damietta, 5t ; Meiji And. M. CORVETTEB.—Sanie.h Baho, 20 ; Tahud Ilaikur, 211 BKlo.—Sarrhar, IS. BTEAmits.—Nik, 8, 3(k) horse power; Peotrazhuhor, 1, 223 horse power. With 5,500 men. About one third of the crews have never been at sea, and the rest are far from being first-rate sailors. There is a redift; or reserve force, of 17,000 men des tined for the navy. Letters from Bucharest of the 21st ult. describe the Russians as concentrating their army in an en trenched and elaborately fortified camp at Irateschili —apparently proof of a determination to remain for some time at least on the defensive. The necessity of provisioning a numerous army would, however, render difficult any protracted inactivity. In St. Petersburg, on the 21st of October, Prince Paskiewitsch was admitted to an audience, to take leave of the Emperor on his departure to assume the command of the Russian army in the Danubian pro vinces. Reinforcements have been sent off to the Russian forces in the Crimea. The impregnability of Sebas topol is considered past question. The Cireassians have lately exhibited increased activity, and have pressed down to the coasts of the Black Sea. Forts Gortogojewsk and Tenginsk have been completely demolished, and the Russians so hard pressed that a number of their priests, who were carrying crosses to stimulate the soldiers, were left dead upon the field. JAISIAWA. The Magdalena has brought the monthly West India mail, with ativices from Jamaica to the Ilth of t)ctober. There seemed a probability of some change being effected in the state of public affairs, which, for so long a period, has been in state quo. The new go vernor, Sir Henry Barkly, arrived at Kingston on the 4th of October in H.M. steamer Brisk. He had a most enthusiastic reception. Two days after he was sworn in, in the audience-hall of the Queen's House, and forthwith issued the usual proclamation reap. pointing the various public officers to act under his administration. His excellency was received with the loudest demonstrations of joy : some of the oldest inhabitants, who have witnessed the arrival of many governors, declare that the excitement remains without precedent. After the inauguration a very large number of persons were presented to his ex cellency, and many others called subsequently to pay their respects to him. The House of Assembly had been prorogued to Tuesday, the Pith of October, "then to meet and proceed to business." Speculation was rife as to the measures that would first occupy attention. As far UM opinions could be gathered, there seemed every likelihood of the large majority still adhering to their former principles of retrenchment in the pub he expenditure, and that they would regard this as a measure of primary importance to all others. Much, however, will necessarily have depended upon the THE PRESS. terms in which his excellency may have addressed the ineml.ers on the lt4th. Business matters were most unsettled. Every article of provisions was unusually high in price, owing to their great scarcity, particularly the articles of very general consumption. The yellow fever had disappeared. AU sTIIALIA. THE itreTRALLin CONSTITUTION.—The task of con structing a constitution for Australia having iveen referred by the home Government to the colonists themselves, a select committee was appointed by the legislative Council of the colony to prepare a report upon the subject. This report was laid ut►on the table by Mr. Wentworth shortly before the last ad vices were despatched from Australia. It recommends not only that an Upper House be created, to be no minated by the Crown for life, but that hereditary titles should be conferred, together with hereditary rights of legislat: . The idea is borrowed from Mr. Pitt's bill for the better government of Quebec, passed in the year 1791. The scheme, however, is not to establish a 1 se of hereditary legislators like the British House of Lords, but to ennoble a certain number of individuals, who, in time to come, shall elect an Upper llouse from their own order. This report has naturally occasioned much excitement in the colony, and meetings were to be called all over the country to discuss its provisions. The scheme of a nominated Upper House seems to be strongly sup ported by a considerable portion of the colonists ; and by the leading journal, the Sydney Morning Herald. Most of the other newspapers, both in New South Wales and in Victoria and South Australia, are opposed to the nominee system altogether. Respecting the Lower or Representative Chamber the report pro poses to maintain the present distribution of the electoral districts ; but extends the franchise to pvl.- 1401118 receiving a salary of 1(W)!. a year, or paying 101. a year for lodging, or 401. a year for Want It also abolishes property qualification for members of the Representative Assembly, every voter being qualified to be elected. Court an lastiou. HER MAJEsn's ROYAL VISITORS, King Leopold and his family, still remain at Windsor, where a continual series of shooting expeditions, banquets, &e., are pro. sided for their entertainment. The most noticeable feature in the royal amusements during the past week has been the visit paid on Tuesday last to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. The Queen and her guests remained three hours within the building, and testitbAl abundant curiosity while inspecting various parts of its vast inchoate organisation. A handsome delkuner was provided for the party in the " Pom peii " Court. 'Tut: DUKE RE BRABANT and Cu►'\T of FLANDERs visited Woolwich on Tuesday, and were shown over the arsenal, cannon foundries, and divers depart ments wherein warlike weapons are abundantly made and stored up. THURSDAY last was the birthday of her Royal Highness Princess Sophia. (►n the 9th (Lord Mayor's-day) will be the birthday of the Prince o f Wales, and that of the Princess Royal on the ttlst. HER Rowd. HionxEss Ducnt:!s or lit.orcrs- TER continues to be seriously indisposed. The Queen and King Leopold have paid visits of inquiry to her royal highness, who has now passed her Vith year. Volitteal nub Central. A PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIoN took place at Lynn last week, in honour of Lieutenant S. Gurney Crewmen, the bearer of the despatches from ('apta►n 11‘Clure, relating to the expedition in search of Sir John Franklin. In the afternoon a public meeting was held at the Guildhall, where a congratulatory address was presented to the gallant young officer. In the evening a dinner was given to him at the Assembly rooms by h►s friends and the principal inhabitants of the town. Lord Stanley, who had visited Lynn ex pressly to do honour to the hero of the occasion, re mained in the town on the following day, and took occasion to visit the Athena e um. His lordship after- ' wards took steamer, and pawed through the new cut of the Norfolk Estuary, and made himself as much as possible acquainted with the details of that great work now in progress. Tut: ANst•Al. DimsEn given by the Duke of North umberland to the tenants and suitors of his grace's manorial court of Tynemouth took place in North Shields on Wednesday week, Sir Walter B. Ridden, Bart., steward of the manor, in the chair. The party was numerous. A CAmv, on a similar plan to that which was adopted with the home regiments during the past summer at Chobham, is about to be formed in the western portion of her Majesty's dependencies in the East Indies. TEE QUARTERLY RETURN or MAMMIES. BIRTHS, AND DEATIIN, fill' the dime months ending Sopt. 31.4 IP+53. has just appeared. The marriages exceeded the average in the quarter ending in Jut.. ; the births have also been above the average number, while the deaths have been fewer than is usual in proportion to the population. The mortality of the population has experienced a marked diminution during the summer, but one town (Newcastle) has suffered severely. and others are threatened by Asiatic cholera _ _ illerriages,4o,33s marriages were celebrated in the quarter that ended in Ante, 1M53, a number ex ceeding by :t2s the marriage's in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. The marriages in the spring quarter have thus gradually risen from 30,04$ iu 1542, to 40.335 in 1553. liirths.-147,581 births were registered in the quarter ending September 3tl. This is a b ove th e average number; but it is less by 3,012 than the numbers registered in the corresponding quarter of 1552. The decrease i.e observable in ever y county except Middlesex, Surrey, Cornwall, Stallbrdshire, Rutlandshire, Cheshire', Lancashire, Cumberland, and Monmouthshire. Population.—As 147,531 births, and only 92,331 deaths, were registered, a balance of 55,24 e re mains in the population. The births and deaths are not registered in Scotland and Ireland, so that the total increase of poptilanon cannot be aseertained ; but if the excess of births in those divisions of the United Kingdom bears the same proportion to the popula tion as it does in England anti Wales. the increase by natural causes must be shout tei,uom Hui $7,107 emigrants left the country in the quarter ending September 80, 1,453 ; sic that it is probable that the population of the United Kingdom has declined rather than increased during the summer. As a large proportion of the emigrants are natives of Ire land, it follows that the population of England is slowly increasing. The prices of the chief articles of food are much higher than they were in the corresponding quarter of the last year : the rise in the price of wheat is 20, mutton 23, beet' 21, potatoes 31 peer cent. The rate of wages has also been raised in several treats; ; and at the Same Ulue the labourers and artisans have been more fully employed. THE WEEKLY lirrelt,4 ov THE nronerain NEnAL states that the nutuloer of death's from all causes registi.notl in the week that ended on Saturday was 1,141, exhibiting an increase of about a lout tired on the first three weeks of October, and an ex cess on the corrected average for the past ten years. This increase has arisen chiefly from the epidemic, whose progress has been recorded during the last two months, and which has now attacked many parts of the metropolis, widely distant, between Hammer smith and Whiteehapel. The deaths from cholera, which were about 16 weekly in the beginning of Sep. (ember, rose last week to Mt, of which lit occurred in the westdistriets, 3 in the north, 1 in the central, '24 in the east, and 52 on the south s ide of the Thames. Three is a very general impressionlin naval circles that the discovery of the North West Passage by Captain M'Clure will be followed tip next year hy tee oespatch of two steamers, the Plum': and mother of about equal power. When two 'dement proceed through the ice near to each other, the for ward :notion of the last %iossel prevents the ice closing twain so 140011 Its it is otherwise liable to do when there is only one vessel, and consequently it is much safer to proceed when two are employed in• stead of one. The Officers awl crews of booth vessels would also have more confidence, when entering unexplored channels, when two vessels are near to each other, owing to the hope that there would he one to fall back upon in the event of any unforeseen accident occurring to the other. The ice of the Artie regions is the accumulation of ages, and it is surprising the small thickness that is formed in some years, and certainly not to such an extent that would render it difficult for steam-vessels to keep a passage open by repeatedly breaking through the newly formed ice ; anal the further the vessels proceed beyond the trite magnetics pole the wanner the water is found to pre‘ail, anal it requires a remarkably low state of temperature too form ice on the surfare of the deepest parts of the linter seas. Some remark ably fine lava was brought home by the o ffi ce r s o f the Phoenix from Banks' land, far finer and closer than the porous pumice-tone of the lava of Munn Etna. The ',lumbago , is also of a fine description anol a number of mineral stones front Melville Islan d are remarkably heavy, whatever may be the nature of the metal or which they aro composed, anal appear to be worthy of being investigated as to their value, OA they might be found worthy of becoming a subject of commercial enteria+4c. 1':x• ELLEscY THE. TEIMAN A)1 it Axi ADO R has been suddenly recalled from England by his royal master the Shah. lie ceased on Tuesday to occupy the diplomatic residence in Cumberland-place, and loft I,o fo lon on Thursday for Constantinople, en rout& fur Persia. t 1