The Press. — London, England, 1854-09-23 00:00:00

902 TO ADVERTISERS. The abolition of the Duty on Advertisements enables us to insert at the price of Three Shillings the Advertisement for which we have hitherto charged Five; and Adver tisers generally will receive the full benefit of the change in the law. TERMS OF lOn Zrbt Prezz: Pre* Annum .. .. .. Half-Yearly .. .. . • Quarterly .. .. .. Payable in advance. .. £1 6 0 .. 0 13 0 .. 0 6 6 - - Subscribers are requested to send their Orders through their News Agent; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a Remit tance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED PM 110, Strand. London. TO CaIIRESPONDENTS. It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive. Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Ccmmunications should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the biune and address of the writer, not necessarily for publica tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. yijs 21!) rtgg• LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTZMBER 23, 1854. POSTSCRIPT. THE TROOPS IN THE CRIMEA: THE following statement respecting the latest movements of the troops is from the Globe of last night :—" To arrivellit Sebastopol, the allied army will be obliged to make a &tour towords the left, and then to bend to the right on Simferopol, where they may probably fall in with the enemy. The allied troops will have to cross two rivers, the Kaltcha and the Belbek, and it is not improbable that the ex istence of these two streams has been one of the causes which have determined the generals-in-chief to select Eupatoria for their landing-place, in order o ensure water for the troops; for in other parts of the Crimea there is no water fit to drink, except in wells, which the Russians could poison if they pleased. About two or three days will be required to effect the landing and entrench the position taken up. The movement on Sebastopol could not, there fore, have taken place before the 17th or 18th ; and as the distance to be gone over requires at least three days' march, it is only the 21st, or the next day, that the first encounter of the Anglo French troops with the enemy will probably have taken place, unless, indeed, the latter should have thought fit to come forward and meet them. But that sup position is not very probable. It seems more likely that the Russians, not having been in a position to oppose the landing, will await an attack by support ing themselves on Simferopol and Theodocia. The following is from Dantzlc, dated the 18th : The screw-steamer Balmoral entered the port this morning. She left Ledsund on Saturday. The French and English admirals were at that time in Ledsund, and on the point of sailing for Narga. Seven French men-of-war were towed by steamers from Ledsund, on their way home, on Saturday. The Sappers will embark in the Cumberland imme diately. Measures have been taken, it appears, to forward to Europe, as rapidly as possible, the news of the expedition. Light steamers are to transport news to Kustendje, where couriers will bp in readiness to carry the intelligence on to Kronstadt by Czernovada, Slobosia, and Plojetsehti. The intelligence will be sent on then by telegraph to Vienna. Sebastopol is about 250 English miles from Kustendje, and a light steamer can pass the distance in four and twenty hours. The couriers go at the rate of nine miles the hour, and thus the land journey can be made in from thirty to thirty-six hours, so that news from Sebastopol can be had in I'aris in four days. A letter from Compiegne, in the Journal de St. Quentin, says :—" The Emperor and the Empress are expected here towards the end of the present week, and it is said that their Majesties *ill remain here much longer than was at first supposed. If our in formation is correct, the Empress will reside here the whole of the month of October, as i the Emperor can arrive in a few hours from this place at Boulogne TRE PRESS. to direct the mmiceuvres at the camp of the army of the North." In letters received from Stockholm it is men tioned that the allied fleets had entirely quitted the Aland Islands, but that the Gulfs of Bothnia and Finland were still blockaded. It is not stated whether the allied fleets which were at the Aland Islands intend reinforcing the blockading squadron. Many more of the members of the two Chambers in Denmark had resigned, but they were ordinarily replaced by other candidates belonging exclusively to the party opposing the existing Ministry. At Copen hagen, three Liberals were elected by a large majority. The trade from Russia acrbss to the Prussian frontier was carried on with great activity, an immense number of carts being employed, and the steamers from Hamburgh every week were largely freighted with hemp, linseed, &c., bought on English account. Although this partial trade must benefit our enemies, the Russian producer will unquestionably suffer by having to sell cheaper in order to meet the extra cost of conveyance, as well as by seeing his stocks accumulate. A third private telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna yesterday, repeats the news given above, and states that the reserve at Varna, for which a division of the fleet had returned, consists of 15,000 men. The Emperor of Austria has returned, says this despatch, to Vienna. THE RUSSIAN PRISONERS. Tax Russian acid Finnish officers on parole at Sheerness were ordered on the 20th to assemble at the Clarence Inn to receive their subsistence money due up to that day. The paymaster and the com mander, in the presence of Major Gahn (as senior officer here), attended to the payment, and they all appeared much gratified at receiving the allowance granted them by the Admiralty. Thursday Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore visited the prisoners of the Jewish persuasion in both ships, and each of the Jewesses received ss. and the Jews 10s. each, to enable them to keep their coming holi. day in every respect in accordance with their reli gious duties. Cabins had been previously set apart for them during their holiday by the commander of the Devonshire, and every facility was offered for their performing all their wonted religious cere monies. Lady Montefiore presented the prisoners, through the respective commanders, St. each. Dr. Hahn, missionary to the British and Foreign Sailors' Society, and Mr. Cox, from the Merchant Seamen's Bible Society, have paid a second visit to Sheerness ; the former has been distributing reli gious publications in various languages, and the latter the Holy Scriptures. The prisoners have expressed the greatest grati tude to both those gentlemen for their unremitting attention to them as regards their spiritual welfare. The officers on parole on shore have given Mr. Hahn their assistance in every way possible. Mr. Hahn, being able to converse with the prisoners in three different languages, has had a very warm vote of thanks from the o cers for his kind and gentle manly conduct towards the prisoners. Captain Beck, of the Russian barque Carl, was granted his parole yesterday, and came on shore. He, being a merchant captain, has no subsistence money allowed him. His mate signed the parole yesterday, and came on shore, he preferring day parole for want of funds to reside on shore. His parole, on similar terms to Captain Beck's, was offered him. One of the women on board the Devonshire was confined of a fine boy a few days since. She was attended by the surgeon of that ship, and is doing well, all necessary comforts administered to her by order of the commander of the Devonshire. HE QUEEN-MOTHER OF SPAIN is coming to dwell among us, and to educate her children near the I metropolis. Her Majesty has considerable invest ments in the funds and our four principal railways. Another arrival from the Spanish Court is predicted, General Nbrvaez will pass the winter in London, if his health permits him. ESTIMATES are being elaborated for the proposal, frequently mooted, to carry the entire sewerage of the city down to the mouth of the Thames, about Shoeburyness. The covered duct is to run along the route of the new Tilbury line, and thence by the marshes on the Essex side of the river. A sewage manure company is willing to assist the scheme, and two of our largest capitalists guarantee its completion if the negotiations with the City commissioners are satisfactory. THE CORN MERCHANTS of the Black Sea may well I wring their hands at the Czar's prohibition of the transportation of grain, &c. The harvest of the whole of the south to the territories of the Don Cossacks is as abundant as our own, and wheat has been offered in vain at 103. per quarter. SATURDAY, TALL CHIMNEYS. THE Government last session passed a bill for the future Prevention of the Smoke Nuisance, which we were told at the time was to be strictly enforced, and would in some measure relieve our large towns of one source of impurity. That this bill is either in efficient in its restrictive clauses, or that the due en forcement of the act is grossly neglected by the proper officials, any person can see for himself who will take the trouble to walk over Waterloo-bridge during labour hours, when he may observe on the Surrey shore certain tall chimneys, in all about a score, vomiting forth their smoke in rolling volumes as thickly and freely as if there were no such law in force as the Smoke Prevention Act. Who is to blame for this? Why are manufacturers allowed to poison the air of London with their waste carbon, and hourly inflict upon its inhabitants an evil which modern invention has practically subdued? It is reported that the act has been found suffi ciently efficacious to compel most manufacturers to consume their own smoke, and why the owners of these score of tall chimneys are to be allowed an immunity from the law passes our comprehension. To be sure some people say that the smoke is healthy during cholera, and one lighthearted correspondent of a daily journal tells us that we ought to be very grateful to the tall chimneys for choking us with their smoke, inasmuch as their carbon absorbs those deleterious gases that issue from the gully-holes, and which otherwise would spread disease and death through out the town. He is quite wrong in his theory ; but were he right, we must be in a bad way to be com pelled when suffering from one evil to employ a second as a remedy equally injurious. Are we to go on in a sort of preventive-progression of nuisances? for one of stench taking two of smoke, and for two ofi smoke trying four of tan-pits or eight of tallow boiling establishments? If the police can enforce the Beer Bill and sum mon the publicans, why do they not enforce this Smoke Bill and summon the manufacturers? It is monstrous that these persons, because they will not incur the expense of fitting to their furnaces the smoke-consuming apparatus of Lee Stevens, Juckes, or Robertson (all of which have proved successful under different circumstances), are to be allowed daily to violate the law in a matter that so seriously concerns the healthfulness of the metropolis, without notice or restriction from the proper authorities. THE CHOLERA. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) THE CHOLERA began later than the corresponding outbreak of 1849, which by the same date had, in sixteen weeks, been fatal to 10,143 persons. Will the epidemic pursue its ravages? Will it ob serve its own times, disregard the seasons, and exact its full tale of victims? Such were the questions that were asked with no little anxiety by those who watched over the public health during the last week; and the answer, notwithstanding the losses that are recorded, is on the whole satisfactory. The deaths from all causes have fallen from 3,413 to 2,836 in the week. The deaths from cholera, instead of 2,050, are 1,549, or 501 less than the deaths from the same cause in the preceding week. The total deaths in the present eruption have been 7,669 ; in the erup tion of 1849 the deaths by cholera up to the same date, within one day, were 11,825. In both of the eruptions the mortality was highest on nearly the same day of September ; its decline commenced in the corresponding week, and we may now sanguinely hope that it will descend as rapidly as it did in the autumn of 1849. But no exertion should be spared to save the thousands whose lives are still threatened; and the dread lesson, before regarded so little, should never be forgotten—that men can no longer drink polluted water, breathe impure air, and neglect sanitary mea sures year after year, with impunity. SOME statistical retiums,just published, respecting the growth of flax in Ireland, show that there are about 160,000 acres under culture this year, against 175,000 acres in 1853. Althouh there is a decrease in the extent of land sown, the produce is not ex pected to be marked by any deficiency—last year's crop having been under an average, We may look for about 40,000 tons of fibre this year, or 10,000 tons above that of 1853, and after supplying all the Irish linen factories with home-grown fibre there will probably be a surplus of some 8,000 tons to spare for England and Scotland. At an average of 551. per ton, the fibre of the Irish flax crop this year will bring return of nearly 2,500,0001. to the agriculturist. An unusually large quantity of seed is being saved this autumn, so that no fear need be entertained of a short supply for the sowing of next year's crop.