The Press. — London, England, 1853-08-13 00:00:00

The Arab ship Flue Karen', on her passage from Aden to Bombay, with the Bombay portion of the India mail which left London on the 24th June, foundered at sea twenty miles from Aden ; the mails, consisting of Os boxes, were lost, and 179 out of 190 Arabs and Lasears who were on board, and Mr. Nan kins, in charge of the mails, perished. AUSTRALASIA. The Legislative Council of New South Wales has appointed a committee of ten to prepare the new eeettitutioa. The produce of the Victoria gold-fields is increasing. There le great destitution among the newly-arrived emigrants at Melbourne. Rents are at extravagantly high prices. The American steamer Monsessital City was wrecked on the 15th May, on her passage from Port Phillip to Sydney ; 35 persons perished. Price of gold at Sydney, 765. per ounce. tout anb insttn. Hag MAJESTY paid a farewell visit to the Chobham Camp on Saturday last. On Monday the Queen held a Court and Privy Council, and on the following day guided Buckingham Palace for the Isle of Wight. Wednesday some distinguished visitors, including the Prince of Prussia, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg, and the Duke of Cambridge, arrived at Osborne-house, on a visit to her Majesty. Accom panied by these guests and the Royal Family, the Queen on Thursday morning embarked on bowl the royal yacht and witnessed the grand naval review at Spitbead. THE BIRTHDAY 01 , PRINCE ALFRED, who has at tained his ninth year, was observed al. Windsor on Saturday with the customary honours. THE EARL u►• ELLESMERE, who went out to repre sent this country at the opening of the New York Great Exhibition, is expected home immediately. THE CONTEMPLATED ALLIANCE between Mr. Charles H. Mills, son of Charles Mills, Ea+, of Camelford house, and the Lady Louisa Ltiscelles, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Harewood, and niece to the Duchess of lluccleuch and the Countess of Caw dor, will take place early next month, at Harewood, Yorkshire. Valittal zntb . tfitntral. THE Duar OF NEWCASTLE will be the Secretary of State in attendance on the Queen during the stay of the Court in Dublin. Tun Nsw COMMISSIONERS of National Education, in the room of Archbishop Whately, Mr. Blackburne, and Baron Greene, are Dr. Higgin, Bishop of Lime rick; Mr. Longfield, Commissioner of Encumbered Estates; and Mr. Hatchell, late Irish Solicitor. General. MAJoit-Geseum. Asses will leave London by the next overland mail for Calcutta, where he takes the command lately vacated by Sir Joseph Thackwell. It is said that General Anson does not intend to dispose of the whole of his racing stud. Tin: ELECTION Foil SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE is fixed for Monday next, the 15th, and will take place at Lichfield. The Hon. Edward Littleton is still the only candidate in the field. THE NUMBER, OF PUBLIC ACTS hitherto passed in the present session is only sixty-three. Tan Quites has appointed the Earl of Wemyss and March Lord-Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the county of Peebles. TILE "IiATTEIO4EA-TARN AcT" is the title of a short hill which lately received the royal assent, and is de signed to provide for the purchase and extinguish ment of all rights of continua and lemmas and other commonable rights over the site of Battersea-park, in the county of Surrey. These rights are valued at 1,5001., which the set directs to ho paid to the church wardens of St. Mary's, Battersea. Tan KINO or PRUsSIA has granted the great gold medal for science to M. Leone Levi, for his work on the commercial law of the world. GOVERNMENT have just purchased, for .1,0010., the tight of the patentee in a machine for perforating or making holes round the penny-postage stamps. THE TEMORAPHIC CONVENTION between England, France, Belgium. and Prussia is now supported by a vote of 99,000/., just granted by the House of Com mons. This stun is intended to defray the expense of laying down an independent line of telegraphic wires front London to the Continent, and to enable her Majesty's Govenunent to join the convention for regulating the transmission of messages by electric telegraph. THE NI*MBEII OF DEATHS registered last week in the metropolis was 991; in the previous week it was Ln corresponding weeks of the years 18.43- 52, exclusive of that in Isl 9 (when cholera raised the total mortality of the week to 1,900), the numbers ra ned Pram $Ol to 1,135. With the exception of the infant part of the population, who suffer as usual at this season, the health of London appears to be comparatively good. THE PRESS. THE REPEAL OF THE WINE DUTIES was discussed and advocated at a meeting held on Tuesday at Fen dell's Hotel. Many members of Parliament and city magnates attended, and a committee was organ ised to co-operate with Mr. Oliveira, M.P., in pre paring the necessary steps for procuring the reduc tion of the present high duties on foreign and colo nial wines, and collecting the views and opinions of the various interests involved in the question of reci procity and other international advantages to be de rived from an extension of the principles of free trade to the article of wine. AT THE CRYSTAL. PALACE CoNPARY'S meeting on Tuesday, the satisfactory prospects and progress of the undertaking were the chief subject of remark. The whole of the south (or Norwood) end of the building, it was stated, is now complete, together with the ironwork of the north end; and the only operations of any great importance remaining to be accomplished in the building are those connected with covering in the central transept, which has been already commenced. THE FIRST SOD OF THE. NEW PoRTS)IOUTH RAIL WAY was cut on Saturday at Bariton, on the estate of Mr. Bonham Carter, M.P. This line is to corn mence at Godalming, by a junction with the South- Western Railway, and to terminate, for the present., at Havant, on the South Coast line, but hereafter to be extended to Portsmouth. There will be a short junction line to the South-Eastern, thus opening communication with the two termini at Waterloo and London Bridges. The intended railway will save twenty-two miles in distance, and nearly an hour of time, between London and Portsmouth. THE MIDLAND RAILWAY DIRECTORS Will recommend at the ensuing meeting a dividend at the rate of per cent. per annum. This is equal to the divi dend last declared, and # per cent. per annum more than that paid in the first half of 1552. THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY held their half-yearly meeting on Monday. The report of the directors was agreed to, and resolutions declaring a dividend of 31 per cent., and authorising the eon struction of a double line from Dorchester to Exeter, and a double lino from Southampton to Exeter, were passed with general approval. NEW CHURCH AT BROCKLET-HILL PARK, FOREST. HILL.—The Conservative Land Society has reserved a portion of land on the summit of the Brockley-hill Park estate, near the Crystal Palace, for the site of a new church. Subscriptions for the endowment have been already promised by many shareholders. The proposed church will be surrounded by an ornamental garden, with walks, shrubberies, B:c., for the special use of the allottees on the terrace, which commands one of the finest views in all Kent. A TEsTimoxi.u. To :AIRS. CHISHOLM, as a mark of " respect and gratitude for her long, arduous, and successful efforts in improving the condition of emi grants to the British colonies," was promised at a meeting held on Tuesday last at the London Tavern. Mr. Vernon Smith, M.P., presided over the meeting, at which many of the most eminent London mer chants and bankers were present, Mr. Sidney Her. Bert, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Baikes Currie, and Sir I. L. Goldsmid being the chief speakers. Subscriptions amounting to nearly 9001. were announced in the room as a foundation for the testimonial fund. THE PERIODICAL RETURNS or• THE BOARD OF TRADE appeared on Saturday last. In the month ended the sth July the declared value of our exports WKS 0,772,7331. against 5,760,090/. at the same period of the preceding year. THE NEW CHARTER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE or• PtivilictAxs, which has already been in draft before the medical profession, is not expected to receive the sanction of the Legislature during the present session of Parliament, Lord Palmerston having admitted the expediency of further deliberation ou this matter. Loan PALMERSTON'S SMOKE isiI'ISANCE BILL, as altered, hat► been printed. From the let August, 1854, furnaces in the metropolis are to consume their own smoke. Steam-vessels on the Thames between London-bridge and Richmond-bridge, from the same day, are to consume their own smoke. No person is to be liable to any penalty in respect of any furnace or engine where coke or other fuel not emitting smoke is only used. Constables are empowered to enter and inspect furnaces and steam-engines. A DErrrArtom, consisting of the Earl of Rosse, president of the Royal Society ; the Rev. Dr. Robin son, late president ; and Mr. Hopkins, president-elect of the British Association fur the Advancement of Science; and Colonel Sabine, had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen on Wednesday, to recommend the establishment of a telescope of high power in the southern hemisphere, for the purpose of increasing our knowledge of the nebula of that region of the heavens. IN THE CASE OF THE LAST LIVERPOOL ELECTION the reeognisances to the petition against the mem bers lately returned are declared to be unobjection able. Though tho petition will not be proceeded with this session, counsel are already engaged to defend the return of the sitting members. SATURDAY, IT is in contemplation to fit out another Admi ralty expedition to explore the source of the Niger, with the view of promoting civilisation in Africa, and opening up new sources of commerce. THE EARL Or WARWICK, K.T., died at Warwick Castle on Wednesday morning, after a protracted illness. The deceased peer was in hie 75th year, and is succeeded by his only son, Lord Brooke, now Earl of Warwick, born in 1818, and married to a daughter of the present Earl of Wentyss. The late earl was a Knight of the Thistle, Lord-Lieutenant of the county, and Colonel of the Warwick Militia. A vacancy in the representation of the southern divi sion of Warwickshire is occasioned by the elevation of Lord Brooke to the Upper House. Is THE NEW SuCcEbSION DUTY ACT, which has now become a law, there are 55 clauses and a eche dale of tables and rules for determining the new duties and the value of annuities. The act is to be taken to have come into operation on the 10th of May last, and imposes the following rates of duty : Where the successor shall be the lineal issue or lineal ancestor of the predecessor, at the rate of 1/. per cent. Brother or sister or descendant of a brother or sister, at the rate of 3/. per cent. Brother or sister of the father or mother, or a descendant of a brother or sister of the father or mother of the pre decessor, at the rate of 5/. per cent. Brother or sister of the grandfather or grandmother, or a descendant of the brother or sister of the grandfather or grand. mother of the predecessor, 01. per cent. Any other degree of collateral consanguinity, or strangers in blood, at the rate of 101. per cent. THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY or ENOLAND, at their last monthly council, on Wednesday, re ceived from Mr. Faulks, of Crosby, near Liverpool, and Mr. James Bell, of .dinburgh, some interesting statements concerning the important discovery of ex tensive excrementitious deposits of sea birds on islands and caves along certain ranges of the eastern coast of Africa. The immense amount of deposited guano, they remark, cannot be calculated : it is found in extensive caverns as deep as could be pierced with two boarding-pikes, lashed together, about twelve feet. It is also found covering the side of the island less exposed to rains. There is enough to supply Great Britain for twenty years. TABLES OF CAB FARES, REOCLATIONS, ke., are ordered by the police to be posted conspicuously inside and outside of all 'hackney -carriages. Forms of the tables may be seen at Scotlandyard: they contain a statement of the fares to be charged by time and distance, the quantity of luggage that may be taken, and the charge allowed for extra luggage and passengers. The Hansom cabs must carry them inside, on the offside, close to the roof, near to the front glass blind ; and outside, on the near side close to the roof, to the right hand of the window panel. Clarence cabs and others must have them inside the panel of the off-door, immediately under the window, and on the outside on the back panel in the centre close to the roof. All who neglect to supply their vehicles with these tables forthwith are to be sum moned, and the penalties enforced. The commis sioners supply the tables for Is. each on application. THE NI;3IIHER of FMB:RANTS who sailed from the United Kingdom, during the spring quarter, was 115,959, of whom 74,640 sailed from Liverpool. The countries to which the emigrants went were—United States, 75,205; British North America, 20,107 ; the Australian colonies, 17,1r)2 ; and other places, 495. THE FIRST TURF of the Peebles Railway was cut on Monday in presence of a large assemblage. The proposed line will connect Peebles with the Estbank station of the North British Railway. It is expected to be completed in twelve months, at a cost of 70,000/. J3potting. WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.—MoNDAY. TUE Timm STAXIOS (Handicap) of 5 sovs. each, with So added. _ Mr. Saxon's Calot (Clement) Mr. J. Booths May-tlay.... Eight mt. Betting: 8 to •1 against Cahn, 4 to 1 against May-day, 8 and 10 to 1 against ana• other. Won eagle. Paont-eF: STAKES of 10 goys. each, with 20 added, for three• _ .... . yearolds. Mr.Flintoff's Whalebone Mr. J. B. Minor's b. f. by Foigli-ltallagh Betting : to lon Whalebone. THE WoLvir.nnsmcvos . STAKES of '2l) sovs. each, with the ..... ........ . Tradesmen's Pure of 100 soya added. Mr. W. Palmer's I)onbt (W. Sharp) 1 Mr. Night's Mtmtagne .. The following also ran:—Black Doctor, Musician, l'lothw•orker, Pastrycook, Nerva, Trifle, Lough Dawn. Betting: 7 to '2 against Pastrycook, 4 to 1 against Musician, 3to 1 each against I►oubt and Trifle. I►onbt won cleverly by half a length. March for 30/. Mr. Goddard's Priam the Third Mr. Blow's Theorem Bettiug; 6 to 4 on Priam, who WOll easily by a Asa.