The Press. — London, England, 1853-07-02 00:00:00

asleep on the premises unconscious of their r.sorw Eleven escaped with much difficulty through die ay ; the other five retired to an upper room, mai were happily rescued at the last extremity by the arrival of a fire-escape. Duals(' A SEVERE GALE, blowing at Portsmouth on Monday, a heavy block fell from a yard while the Ansphion was striking topmasts, and struck Captain Patey so as to fracture the skull. He has somewhat recovered since, but is still in a dangerous state. — Lieutenant Lambert and Surgeon Muirhead, of the Edinburgh, were drowned about the same time by the upsetting of a boat. THE FALLING IN OF A TONNE!. in Ilolywell-street buried two workmen, one of whom was suffocated. At the inquest the jury appended to their verdict an injunction " that greater caution be taken on the part of the surveyors of the contractors to see that the lives of the men employed be more carefully at tended to for the future." A CONFLAGRATION of melancholy consequences broke out on Saturday evening at a warehouse for indiarubber fabrics in Hatton-garden. The fire travelled so rapidly over the inflammable contents of the place that it cut off the escape of a woman aimed Carter, who was burnt to death. Another body was discovered among the ruins next day. A woman living in the upper story threw herself out of window, and was hopelessly injured by the fall. A CHARM: or CRUELTY has been laid against the governor of Birmingham gaol. Several prisoners have lately committed suicide in consequence, it is alleged, of his severities. A report on the subject is now under the consideration of the Home Secretary. YELLOW FEVER broke out on board the merchant. ship Annie Fisher on her voyage home from Bahia. All the crew, fourteen in number, were attacked, and the second matt; and a seaman died. The rest had recovered before the vessel arrived at Plymouth. A SINOGLAR DEATH occurred in a bath at Molt wich on Monday. A gentleman named Loyner being, it is supposed, seized with faintness while the hot water tap was open, the 'scalding fluid continued to pour in until it killed him. 1 ;~ Obituarg. THE member for West Cornwall, E. W. PEN bAItVES, Esq., died on Sunday last, at his meat near Cainbourne. The deceased gentleman had repre sented the county in Parliament uninterruptedly for the last twenty-seven years. 1)r. FAUSIWTT, Canon of Christchurch and Mar garet Professor of Divinity in the University of Ox ford, expired on Tuesday at his rooms in college. He was in the seventy second year of his age. In the year 1801, while a scholar of Corpus Christi Col lege, 1)r. Fatuotett took his first degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1805 he was elected a fellow of Magdalen College. In 18'20 he was elected Hampton lecturer, and in 1827 succeeded the late 1)r. Septimus Cot linson, Provost of Queen's College, as Lady Mar garet Professor of Divinity, which he enjoyed for the space of twenty-six years. In WO he preached a sermon in %indication of the history of the Jews, against certain representations of the present Dean :Ullman. Again, the sermon of Mr. Faussett on the revival of Popery, May 20, 1838, drew forth in reply a well-known " Letter on certain Points of Faith and Practice," by J. 11. Newman, then in the height of his feverish ascendancy. In DM additional promi nence was given to his course of lectures, when the censure of the I T niversity was passed on Dr. Hampden, then Regius Professor, on the part of sonic of the heads of houses, who went the length of forbidding some of their junior members to attend the lectures of the latter professor. He Was also vicar of Cropthom, Worcestershire, having been appointtsl to that living in 18,111 by the Dean and Chapter of Wor cester, the patrons. The Margaret. Professorship was founded in September, 1502, by the Lady Mar garet, Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry V I I. In 1027 there was annexed to the pmfessomhip by King Charles 1. a prebend in Worcester Cathedral. but this has, by an act of Parliament passed in 1840, been commuted for a canonry of Christchurch. An immense quantity of rain has fallen in Paris during the last few days. Th, provincial journals also contain accounts of bad weather. The Halm of Northumberland has eontributed 2,00(W. towards building a new church in the populous parish of Isleworth. The Plymouth Sailors' Home has received from the Admiralty the present of a library consisting of :il;) volumes, for the use of the inmates. A shark funr fe:t long was caught in the Clyde, near floaeneath Castle. a few dues since. White trouser.; tire tube discont finned by the general and staff officer% of the I uards, according to a cirenlar from tha AttUntant•tieneml. Blue and Oxtsordinixttuvs are hence forth prouibal fur the whole year round. THE PRESS. New swimming baths and washbouses for the labouring classes were opened on Monday in Eudell street, St. (Aless. Charges for bathing, from Id. to Od ; tOr washing, &v., lid. Counterfeit sovereigns and shillings are now made of electro-plated iron. The false coins will nut bend, and, standing either of the ordinary tests, are auceessfally passed in considerable numbers. A huge warehouse in Dowgate, City, fell to the ground on Saturday. It was occupied by Messrs. Nicoll as a warehouse for chemicals. The soap duty expires on Tuesday evening next. Twenty decores of the Legion of Honour have been deprived of their ribbons on being found guilty of theft and other dishonourable acts. Bonding warehouses, after the London model, are to be established at Leipsie. The Danish penny-post system has been extended to the whole monarchy, so that the penny stamp will now frank a letter to either Schleswig or Holstein. Madame Sontag will retire, after the completion of her American tour, having realised about 4141,00) dollars in the States, and distributed 6,IKM in private charities. A grand naval review is contemplated with the powerful screw squadron now assembled at Spithead, should the Russian cloud blow over. The King of Hanover is an author, having published anonymously, in Deis, a book entitled " Ideas and Reflec tions on the Properties of Music." The magistrate at Bow-street was applied to on Tuesday to get back the bride of a respectable-looking young man. She had thrown the wedding-ring in his face atter the ceremony, and run away to her friends. There was no help for the husband. By the new Assessed Taxes Bill a tax of twelve shillings a year is to he levied on all dogs. A money-order office, for issue only, has been opened at the House of Commons. A thousand pound damages were sought than Mr. Duffy, editor of the Dublin Nation ' for a libel on Mr. F. Wyse, brother of the British Ambassador in Greece. The jury gave the plaintiff a farthing, and sixpence costs. No submarine telegraph will be laid down just yet avroas the Solent to Hyde and Osborne, the project having failed to attract funds sufficient. The young crops have suffered much in the north of Scotland for want of rain. The first rib of the great transept of the Sydenham Palace was raised on Thursday. The transept is 200 feet high and 120 feet span. A testimonial piece of plate, value 600/., was pre. sented on Thursday, at Tavistock, to Mr. Hitchins, of mining celebrity. The testimonial consists of candelabra, emblazoned with a Cornish motto and miners' devices. The prices of wool in the north continue remarkably high, though they have received a slight cheek during the past week by the rumours of war in the East. Richard Dunn, celebrated as the persecutor of Miss Coutts, is now a prisoner in Whitec►Ysss.street, for debt. He has obtained permission to file his own schedule, pleading poverty as the reason for not employing a solicitor. The opening of the New York Crystal Palace is fixed to take place on the 15th July. Wednesday's storm blew down some portions of the lofty seaftblding over the transept at the new Crystal Palace, but the building itself withstood the gale 1111- damaged. Stonecutters, anti those engaged in thrashing wheat, tic., may prevent the particles of dust getting to their lungs by wearing a damp aponge over the mouth and nose. 'rhe workmen in the Scotch gunnies find mustachios very careful for the like purpose. The electric telegraph line (through Denmark) has now reached Flensborg. It germs that the plan of selling butelters meat in !'aria by auction, in the market, increases in popularity. During the first fortnight. the quantity sold wax 2714,000 kilogrammes, or, on an average, about 18,533 a day. Eleven skeletons, supposed to belong to as many lady abbesses, were discovered in the vaults of a house standing on the site of the ancient convent of the Temple in The relies were taken in charge by the authori ties, and reinterred with fitting rites in a cemetery. Table-turning has been turned by a M. Pujos into an agent of political trickery. De obtained signals prophesy ing the &mural of the Empire, and the proniotion to dig nity of his own son. The prefect has sent him out of the department of liess, in which be resided, potting an em bargo on the table at the sumac time. Four hundred navvies" struck work on Monday on the Deeside Railway. They had received twelve shillings week, anti wanted fourteen. The employers stood out, and in three days the nien gavt in. Terrible ►lisasters have occurred in I'e►sia. A dread. ful earlltquake visited Chintz and liashau on May 2, and destroyed both of those flourishing cities. Upwmtile of 0,000 pe►sons were buried in the ►wins, and the stench was so great that a plague broke out afterwa►ds, and the mo►tality averaged f►om MO to •ItXl a day. The cholera was very violent at Telmui. mu►d an i 1111 l nlation had eaused immense damage to that. city. Locusts had devastated the whole of the flourishing plains of the province of Is- pahan. The new Prefect of the Seine is a Protestant, and his wife hears the character of being a warm admirer of the Society for the nn of the tiospel. The Rev. Mr. Barker, whose housekeeper was •- dered at Phaeton Rectory sonic time since, has had his mind so shaken by the tragic event as to compel his re. mescal to a private asylum at Norwich. The proofs of guilt against Slack, the labourer, now in custody, are be coming more eomplete. - Th.. South Australian Ranking Company declared a dividend of It pir cent. at their mutual meeting on Monday. with a bonus raising the whole sum divided for the current twelvemonth to 12 per cent. SATURDAY, The council of the Royal College of Surgeons have resolved to receive certificates of attendance on lectures delivered at the Royal Caroline Medico•Chirm'gieid Insti tute and at the Royal Serapheiner and l.ying•in Hospitals of Stockholm, iron► all candidate' for diploma. Certificates of attendance on lectures delivered at the following medical schools in other foreign countries have been ac knowledged by the college authorities for some time past— namely, ['aria, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Berlin, Vienna, Bonn, Heidelburg, Gottingen, Leyden, Liege, Pavia, New York, and Philadelphia. Dissatisfaction among the Kidderminster weavers is increasing. On Monday evening the operatives, to the number of OM or NO, walked in procession through the town, having in their front a board on a pole with an in. scription, Rules of Conference, The Penny a Yard, and No Surrender•." They have resolved now to give ou• lice to the employers that they will " st►ike " unless they get immediate compliance with their terms. THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM. Draiso: the week the military evolutions have been reiterated, with very little variety from those which we have already described. The only drawback to the per formance is the wet weather, which on several occasions has caused the maineuvring to be postponed; in addition to which the London sight-seers find themselves much puzzled in their efforts to discover the times when the camp is best worth a visit. This uncertainty is indeed inevitable, and, as Lord Palmerston said the other night in t he House, intentional on the part of the authorities. The result has, however, been to baffle the acuteness of all the ordinary sources of information, and to leave the field most clear when the most important evolutions were in progress over its expanse. Lord Seaton is far more satisfied with this circumstance than the disappointed Cockneys. Thus on Monday no Freon came to the camp. though there was a grand field day; Tuesday the heath was crowded, hut there was nothing done; Wednesday was a field day, with few present; while on Thursday there were fewer still, though her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Royal Family , with a large and brilliant circle of distinguished foreign princes and general officers, were present. There was a sham fight at %%shot on that day, and pre parations made for more extensive maweuvres, but the rain stopped them prematurely. On the same account an inspection of the camp, intended to include its more do mestic arrangements and contrivances, which had been commenced, was precipitately abandoned, and her Majesty compelled to take refuge in the royal pavilion. The drenching rain, however. gave some opportunity to the ar tillery brigade, while exercising, to show their skill at over coming difficulties. The obstacles to the passage of the heavy guns over the soft and soaked ground were immense, and it was interesting to see the men dismount from the carriages, and with spades and shovels set to work to dig out trenches for the wheels, or to fill up some wide rut in order to allow them to be dragged over. In many parts the ground VMS marshy, and the guns sunk axle deep in the swamps. Some of the light infantry brigades also marched some distance almost knee deep in mud. Zte ;tin. Ir( Prom the London (kozettr.) Commtssious mimed by I.orits Lieutenant. Surrey—Major M. Palma and E. Bray, Esq., to be Deputy I.tettumatits. Warwiek4hire-2d Regiment of \Vitra iekshire Militia—Eusigus Beatuuout, not, and ',rake, to be Lieutenants. Babg. Commander John Twisden 01423) died on the 22d nit, He was the senior commander on the retired list of ISIB. He entered the navy in 17N), and served with Admiral liempenfehlt. in his flag-ship the rirlury, and Lord Hood, in his flag-ship Queen Char 100. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENT`►. ....... CiommANDEßs—Philip de hatuwarch and Charles F. Newland to the Vomit. M%smits—tio•orize Willtatus to the Brisk, Perew-Floop. Port ; It. 0. White to the Mit-midis, serew-eorvette • John Parsons to the Sabine ; N. J.. (let - eland to the Terrible; D. Switzer to the Horatio :4E4 .i:s D AlAsTr it—.llllllPM 11. Hymn. tee the Sybille, 40, Devonport. LIEI TEN. NTS—Hein. John J.Ketiliedy to he First Lietitelitint lit the Lottibm, 911, at Portsmouth, iii the room of Lieut. Welles ley P. Chapman. who nag killed on board that vessel when she was beitig towed by the /wirer/ease screw stemr-frigate. PAymee , ..e . t:R—uharles F. 'limier to the nature, 6, at Devon. port. Mvers—G. M. Temple ((h•tober, IsTat), of the Veer:bold, guti• nett' ship. has Ewell promoted teethe rank of Lieutena n t; Henry E. Crolier, from Excellent, g ship, at l'ortsmouth. tee the Tribune, 311, at sheerness; Franeis li. Hartwell, from the Vub.iiii, 11, to the Tribune : Gooldeu to the remnrinit, a, , Leant sloop, Portsmouth; IL S. Chishohne, to the Sybille, 40, Devon -140. .‘IISISTANT SenotoNs—Gilbert I. Kivu (acting) tee the Fess rites ; John Itolwrtelon (acting) to the 'Tribune, :111, screw, Sheerness. Mt e.stttrwLx—W. 1). I). svlby, to the Ajar, SS, at Portsmouth ; A. F. Tighe. to the Lopard, ett Portstuoutle ; 11. R. AruistMig tee the resurins, 6, at rortmnionth ; Daniel O'Connell tee the Trample. 1 . . WOOtillltfe to the AatltrleauNON, ill, screw , Spithelid. Noble to the Wineheider, sn, deg-ship, on the East India station ; John 11. Swann, to the l'esteiii*. AssisTANTs—Jolux K. Parker, and U. J. M. Kenos, to the Ili itehMer. ; . . V