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

SEPTEMBER 9, 1854. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, September 5. BANYRUPTS.—WILLtAii PHILLIPS, Idinories. brushmaker-- Jows ABRAHAM RIPPON I.owth-cottages, Camberwell, cigar manufacturer JAMES WHITTERINO, Finedon, Northampton- shire, budder—FRANCIS BURROW, Redruth, Cornwall, draper— Tuolus GROGAN. Queen-street, Stepney, licensed victualler— Jowl( RAYDON, Barnstaple, Devonshire, draper—Ozotion E. Joint JENvev, Barnstaple, Devonshire, bookseller—THOMAS Liest,Ev, Thirsk, Yorkshire, corn merchant—JAMES STARK SKIPPER, Liverpool, corn merchant—JOHN WI Lcox, hl ancliester, coal meroltaut—JouN Firms and ROBERT Firrks, Newcastle upon-Tyne, and Gateshead, Durham, tea dealers. SCOTCIi SEQUESTRATIONS.—Joint TYRE and ROBERT CAMPBELL, Glasgow, wool men:hant,ii WILLIAM STEWART, Dumbreck, Dumbartonshire, farmer—WILLIAM GRAY, Glasgow, commission merchant—WlLLlAM DRYSDALES and JAMES WAL LACE, Alva, Stirlingsbire, manufacturers WILLIAM Dins, Glasgow, commission merchant. Friday, September 8. BARKRUPTS.—Istnotte BLOOMENTHAL,, Rodney-buildings, New Kent-road, lithographic engraver—Jottx WlLeos., Broad way, cheesemotiger—WlLLlAM HENRI BOUSFIELD, IRoughway, Kent, pipet manufacturer—CHAßLES DAVIN and JOHN 1...a . r0m, Kingston.mpou-Thames, builders—CHAßLES WALDRON, Milton, clothier—WlLLlAM BATCHELAR, Cr/don, Surrey, baker WiLuam Howem., Goswell-street, licensed victualler—SAMUEL STANTON, Birmingham, liceneod victualler—WlLLlAM JOHN NORSWORTHY, Sidmouth, baker—THOMAS WIOFALL, Sheffield, table-knife manufacturer—WlLLlAM domes, Liverpool, ship wright and boat hUdGer—ROBERT WRIGHT/tett, Liverpool, metal broker—Nl/m. l am t, Ramat, Wigton, grocer—HENHY Amos, Bath, shoemaker and licensed victualler—Hexer KERFOOT, Bedford, Lancaster, silk manufacturer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—ALEXANDER Glenluce, merchant—James HAMILTON BUCELANLN, Aberfeldy, hotel keeper—JOHN Roy, Stirling, grocer. CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The second annual meeting of this society was held ou Thursday at Exeter-hall, Lord Viscount Ranelagh presiding. Mr. C. 1.. Gruneisen, the secretary, red the report, which congratulated the shareholders on the great success the society bad met with, exceeding the most sanguine anticipations of its founders. It pro ceeded as follows :—" The returns show that the transactions of the present quarter, up to the last day of August, have been remarkably animated. The cash receipts on shares up to 31st August, 1854, are 15,867/. 9s. 5(1.; ditto for corresponding period in 1853, 13,9191. 12s. 2d. ; the increase, therefore, is 1,7471. 17s. 3d. The total cash receipts for shares up to 31st August, 1854, are 131,8331, 7s. 9d., less the amount of withdrawals up to the 31st Augu-t, 1851, 3,4201. Bs. 3d. The shares in progress or un completed, taken up to the 31st August, 1854, were 9,018 ; the shares completed to ditto were 1,181 ; total shares issued, 10,199." The allottees who are entitled to the freehold franchise by the selection of lots on the various estates bought for the society will receive, free of any expense, legal support of their claims at the approaching registration. The follow ing is the amount of land sold during the present quarter :—From June 28th to August 31st., 8,4111. Ils. The committee are happy to announce that negotia tions are in active progress for the purchase of new estates both in and out of London. The allotments of the second portion of the Brighton Round-hill Park estate (East Sussex), and of the Seven Sisters estate, Tottenham-green (Middlesex), took place on the sth and 19th of July. The Eastern Counties Railway Company will reduce their fares for annual tickets to the members who build on the Seven Sis ters estate. After some conversation the report was unanimously adopted. A drawing for 100 rights of choice took place, and fifty shares were added to the lists in virtue of seniority. IN consequence of the high price of bread at Taunton, a handbill was extensively circulated sug gesting the formation of a Bread Consumers' Com pany, 200 shares at 21. 10s. ench. The bakers, in alarm, met the next day, and reduced the price of the 41b. loaf from 71d. to 61d. THE CONSUMPTION OF WINE AND TEA in the United Kingdom is set forth in two parliamentary papers just printed. For the former it appears that, although the population has almost doubled during the present century, the quantity of foreign and colonial wine consumed has decreased during that period. In • the year 1800, 7,294,752 gallons of foreign and colonial wines were charged with duty for home consumption, but in 1853 only 8,813,830 gallons were so charged. In the intervening yea's the consumption has fluctuated •between the two amounts. The largest consumption was in 1803, when 8,228,464 gallons were charged, and the lowest in the year 1810, when only 4,057,038 gallons paid duty. Tea, on the other hand, has enormously increased. During the year ending the sth of April, 1854, 55,549,4511 b. of tea were delivered from the bonded warehouses in the United Kingdom for home consumption. The duty received on the ag gregate amount was 5,181,908/. THE last of the autumn fleet for Canada has just sailed from Aberdeen. The total number of emigrants from the north of Scotland this year has exceeded 2,000; the numbers that have gone from the county of Aberdeen alone, during the past six years, are as follows :-1849, 182 ; 1850, 293 ; 1851, 516; 1852, 5 59 ; 1853, 695; 1854, I,sso—total, 3,865. The emigrants are mostly farm labourers and small tenant-farmers. THE PRESS. Obituarg. The REV. SIR JOHN ASIIIIIIIINHAN, Bart, died on the Ist inst. at his residence at Guestling, Sussex. The deceased baronet was eighty-four years of age. He way admitted into holy orders in 1703, and, having served various cures, was appointed to the chancellorship of the eathedral church of Chichester, in virtue of which office he held the rectory of Pevensey, worth 1,0001. a year. He was also rector of Guestling, near Hastings—a living the patronage of wh ch is in his family. Sir John Ashburnham was the seventh baronet, and succeeded to the title on the decease of hts brother in 1843. He married, first, Fanny, fourth daughter of William Foster, Esq., of Hollington, Sussex ; and second, Miss Anne Horman. The sudden death of CAPTAIN MANsELL, K.H., on board the St. Vincent, 101, will be much regretted throughout the service. The loss is a public one, for he was one of the few that linked personal remem brances of the old war with the experience of modern warfare, and active powers of mind and body to take a prominent position in the threatening stirring af fairs. Captain Mansell will be remembered of late years as the second in command of the Powerful, 84, when Sir Charles Napier was captain of that ship; subsequently he commanded the Action, 26, and was for some time senior officer on the coast of Africa, and a few months since was appointed to the com mand of the Powerful, and from that ship turned over to the St. Vincent, to convey French troops to the Baltic. REAR ADMIRAL Jolla; Gotram, on the retired list, died at Gosport on the 29th ult., aged 88. This officer entered the navy in 1781, and attained post rank in 1817. He suffered much from indisposition, and was only n full pay thirty years. MISS BAILIE died on Wednesday last, of consump tion, at Westport•house, where she had been on a visit with her noble relative, the Marquis of Sligo. The deceased lady was sister-in-law to the late Marchioness of Sligo, and sister to Mr. Bailie, M.P. We regret to announce the death of LIEUTENANT GENERAL ARGUIMBAN, C. 8., Colonel of the 80th Regiment. THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY held their monthly meeting on Thursday in Hanover-square, W. J. Broderip, Esq., F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair. The number of visitors during the year was stated to have been upwards of 325,000. The additions to the menagerie during the last month consisted of various objects of more than usual interest, including a beau tiful male specimen of the wild sheep of the Punjaub, which had now been imported into Europe for the first time in a living state. His Majesty the King of Portugal had been pleased to transmit to the society a fine specimen of the true boa •constrictor of Linnaeus. The collection generally, as well as the flower *Arden, are in a state of efficiency. Among the most con spicuous ornaments in the garden are the Japan lilies, now coming profusely into flower, and an immense collection of the finest dahlias. _ . THE Dauntless, 33, screw steanarigate, Captain Alfred P. Ryder, left Sheerness on Thursday morning under sealed orders, and it is supposed her destination is to join the fleet in the Black Sea. A SAD ACCIDENT happened to Captain Clifford, of the Sphynx paddle-steamer, son of Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to her Majesty, by the snapping of a hawser, while towing the St. Vincent, in the Baltic, whereby both his legs were broken. THE various watering places of the northern counties, as well as the lake district of Cumberland and Westmorland, are full to overflowing. There never was a season when so many tourists and health seekers were in motion, inns and lodging-houses fre quently lacking accommodation fcr wayfaring people. A FARMER, who holds nearly 4,000 acres of land in South Essex, states that his crops are nearly three times more this year than he has ever before known them in the course of forty years' experience. He offers to stake 1001. to 51. that he has a field of oats that will produce seventeen quarters per acre, and be , thinks more. GOLD has been found in the north of Glenbrerachan, Kirkmichael, on the property of his Grace the Duke of Athol ; and also to the north of the Cairnwell, on the property ofJames Farquharson, Esq., of Inv ercauld. In both places the precious metal is found embedded in the detached pieces of rock which there abound. The existence of gold in these quarters was dis covered by a Mr. Lowden, a gentleman lately returned from Australia. THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF A NEW CHI:RCH in St. George's district, Hulme, Manchester, was laid on Saturday by the bishop of the diocese. This church is situate in a district containing 10,000 persons, the greater portion of whom are of the working class, and of the subscriptions obtained for its erection the ma• jority ranged from 2%. 6d. to 10s., given by wo. king people. The entire cost, including the land, will be about 3,000/. 86 Au. ►ersons who desire to attend the Voluntary Theological Examination at Cambridge in October next are requested to send in their names to the examiners, the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Margaret Professor of Divinity, the Norrisian l'rofessor of Divinity, and the Itegius Professor of Hebrew, on or before the Ist of Octo ber, and to attend at the Senate-house on Wednesday, the 11th of October, at nine o'clock. A NEW HEAPINQ MaciiiNr., which is expected to work a least as well as anyof those we have seen tried yet, is state 4 by the Stirling Olmerrer to be manufacturing by a Mr. Gardner, of Craigs. This invention may be desonhed in general terms as acting upon the same principle as Bell's niachme, the horses working behind. In every other respect the inventor pronounces it to be constructed upon different cutting principles. This process is effected by male and female eccentric-cutters, cutting on both sides, and these are set in motion by a double eccentric-'rank, which is wrought by a wheel fixed upon the side of the driving-wheel, and which works into a bevelled pinion— ' thus producing the necessary motion. The deliverer, or that upon which the grain fulls when cut, is composed of a great number of laths of light soft tirwood, about three fourths of an inch wide and fully four feet long, held to gether by means of leather straps to which they are tacked, and thus revolving in the same manner as the cloth deliverer in Bell's machine. One decided advantage of Mr. Gardner's machine will be found in its great lightness. hell's improved machine is understood to weigh when in working order about fifteen cwt., whereas this one will scarcely come up to half a ton, which must render it much easier for the horses to work. it will cost fully a fourth less money than Bell's. It cuts the breadth of six feet. THE UNITED STATES NAVY ColltEills seventy-two vessels of-war. Of these, ten are ships-of-the-line, mounting 872 guns ; thirteen are frigates, mounting 656 guns ; twenty are sloops-of-war of 400 guns; four are brigs of 20 guns; one schooner of 3 guns : fifteen steamers, mounting 122 guns ; and nine store-ships, mounting 42 guns ; giving an aggregate of 2,115 guns. This is not, however, all avail able force. Of the ships•of-the-line, four are at present Ott the stocks, earring 336 guns. Two frigates of 100 guns are also on the stocks. Deducting these 430 guns front the aggregate, the available force of the navy is 1,679 guns. Of the whole number, forty-five are now in commission, mounting 875 guns. Of these forty-five, five are used as receiving-ships, mounting 206 guns. Deduct this from the total in commission, the whole navy employed on sea service mounts 600 guns. THE ASCENT OF MONT BLANC for the first time by a woman is announced by "A Tourist," who writes to the Timer. Of course she is an Englishwoman. The lomat, states :—" On arriving here (Chamouni) I found tit• shut, village th a state of commotion in consequence ti this event. It appears that Mr. and lire. Hamilton, a gentle man and lady who reside near London, accompanied by nine guides and by a boy of the village sixteen years old, started from Chsmount to make the ascent on Sunday morning, August 20, about eight o'clock. They arrived at the Uremia Mulets at four o'clock in the afternoon, and passed the night in the hut the guides have recently erected there. At halipast three the next morning they continued their journey, and,atter meeting with difficulties of no ordinary character, succeeded in reaching the summit at about half-peat two p.m. They rested there about ten minutes, when the anxiety of the guides respecting the weather induced them to commence the descent, and they got back to the Grande Mulets at six o'clock, and passed another night in the hut. On the Wednesday morning they returned thence to Chamouni, and found this to be the most difficult part of their journey, in consequence of the descent of avalanches. They succeeded, boa ever, in surmounting every obstacle, and were welcomed on their arrival at the village by the tiring of cannon, the formica of a triumphal procession, and every other demonstratioe of enthusiastic applause. A fete was given the next even• ing iu the courtyard of the Hotel de Londres, which pro bably surpassed anything of the kind ever seen in Cho.- nioutii, not excepting that which took place after Mr. Albert Smith's ascent. Mrs. Hamilton had so far re covered from her fatigue as to be able to join the dancers, and she did so with much spirit. From a conversation I had with her upon this occasion, I found that neither she nor her husband suffered from the rarefaction of the air at the summit, although several of the guides were so utterly prostrated that they fell upon their faces as soon as they reached the top. She spoke in the warmest terms of the two guides Jean and Victor Tairray, who paid her the utmost attention during the whole route. An avalanche of immense size fell as they were passing the Grand Plateau, and in its course went over a part of the track they had crossed but a. few minutes before, and completely filled a crevasse beneath, said by the guides to be twenty-five feet wide and forty deep. This is the first time the top of Mout Blanc has ever been reached by a woman, althouflx two have before made the attempt successfully , one being a French lady of Geneva, Mlle. L'Angeville, and the other a peasant in the neighbourhood of t.,hamouni." Tin COMMISSION appointed to seek a new site for tlae city of San Salvador, destroyed a short time since by an earthquake, have selected the plain of Santa 'f eels, four leagues distant from the old site and six leagues from the old port of Libertad. The entire population would remove to the new city, which will, it is said, be in the midst of sr beautiful country, and abundantly supplied with pure Irate from the cascades of the neighbouring hills. EMIGRATION FROM GERMANY has never ( says Vas. Gazette of Berlin) been more numerous than thus year. n o number of persons who embarked during the fast WV months of 1854, from the porta of Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, and Havre, alone exceeded 120,000. Sty% thousands left last month, and more than 00,009 making preparations to follow.