The Press. — London, England, 1854-01-07 00:00:00

Votituat au Omni. THE REVENUE. The Quarterly Returns showing the net produce of the public revenue, with the increase and decrease thereof, for the quarter and year ending on the sth instant, were issued on Thursday last. The items are as follow Quarter ended Year ended Jan. 8, Jan. 5, Jon. 5, Jan. 6, 853. 1854. :853. 1884. X X Customs 4,541,384 4,441,578 18,695,382 18,978,223 8,539,648 3,495,876 13,368,981 13,829,103 Stamps Taxes Property Tax Poet Office Crown Lands Miscellaneous BB,OOB 26,121 293,729 176,376 Total Ord. Rev. 11,988,176 11,668,881 48,802,833 49,505,611 lin_prest and other Moneys 149,938 2 79 , 477 634,063 870,089 ltepa) inmate of Advances Total Income The Awount ap plied to Consoli dated Fund, ex clusive of Ad -11411068 Ditto applied us Advances Do. as part of Waysivad Means of Year 4,458,592 1,189,376 19,610,033 19,781,578 Total 19,608,111 119,310 060 50,488,193 51,184,118 Total COM PARATIVF , STATEMENT. I Year ended Quarter ended Jan. 5, 1851. Jan. 6,1861. ~....--_—t...---, „....---...... 1 ---..., Increase. Decrease. Increase. Decrease. ----- i 2 2 2 Customs Excise /Ramps 219,727 75,101 Taxes Property Tax Post Ottke Crown Lauds .... 142,868 Miscellaneous 17,354 --- -- -- Total Ord. Rev. 902,137 250,329 63,000 802,207 1 m_prest and other Moneys 215,020 136,539 Repayments of Advances Total Income .. 1,575,254 250,329 190,539 492,590 Deduct f Deduct 259,325 i vecreas. increase 109,539 { Increase 1 Decrees 1,315,025 on the Quarter t 293,051 Year. Qter ) IN A MEMORIAL to LORD CLARENDON, now under course of signature in the city of Chester, the in. habitants of that place thus address the Foreign Se cretary :-- " Your memorialists would not on light grounds have presumed to trespass on yonr lordship's attention, but that for so doing they will be deemed to possess an ample jus tification in the events which have recently occurred, or are now in progress—viz., the invasion and occupation of two Turkish provinces by a Russian army, combined with the plunder of the public treasury, and the conscription of the militia of those provinces ; the destruction of a divi sion of the Turkish fleet under circumstances that have crested a deep and earnest sentiment of indignation in this and in other civilised countries; the active and unrelenting prosecution by the Russian Emperor of these and other measures of alFressive war, in the presence of the fleets of England and 1~ ranee, in open defiance of treaties, and in violation alike of the law of nations, and of the dictates of humanity. That the highest interests of this country, as well as its national honour, are indissolubly connected with the maintenance of the Turkish empire from the un principled encroachment on its dominions now in progress, and with the repression of the lawless designs of Russian ambition. And that, by his noble and heroic refusal to vio late the laws of good faith and hospitality (by betraying the Hungarian and Polish refugees), the present Sovereign of that empire has obtained an imperishable claim to be ranked among the most illustrious defenders of the princi ples of freedom, civilisation, and humanity—a claim which should ensure to him the firm and consistent protec tion of the Governments of England and Prance, which they trust will be extended to him henceforward." THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY have determined on adopting a system of quarterly contract tickets between the principal towns upon their line. AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT just issued shows that in the course of last year there were 1,115 wrecks off the shores of the United Kingdom, of which 500 were total wrecks. THE INCOME OF THE CHURCH OF ENOT.AND, as reported in the census tables, somewhat exceeds 5,000,0001. a year. TIM PRUSSIAN MINISTER OF COMMERCE has authorised the opening in the spring of a regular has of stem conununiestion between lAnatz.io l and London. THE PRESS. 'Da indictment against Williams and others for a conspiracy U) defraud in connection with the Leman Estate Fund, in the Court of Chancery, has been removed by certiorari to the Court of Queen's Bench. THE NATIONAL FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY have just issued their fourth annual report. The receipts of the last year were 50 per cent. more than those of 1852, and nearly equal to the total receipts of the previous three years. The land sold to the members during the same period was 150 per cent. more than in the year preceding, and exceeded by 9,0001. the amount of all the land that had been previously wild from the formation of the society. The new shares issued in the 17 months ending Oct. 31,1850, were 5,010 ; in the year ending Oct. 31, 1851, 9,831; in the year ending Oct. 31, 1852, 22,251 ; and in the year ending Oct. 31, 1853, they were 29,742. The sums received in the same four periods of time ascend in the following consecutive and progressive order :-21,2571., 96,1371., 102,071/., and 295,1541. The society has issued in all 66,843 shares, and re ceived 601,6201. Its lots sold amount to 229,672/. The balance available for dividend is ascertained to be more than sufficient to pay the usual rate of profit ; and consequently, for the past year, a divi dend of Si. Ss. 4d. per cent. per aunnr has been carried to the account of all uncompleted shares not advanced. The balance of profit realised from estates, and which forms the guarantee fund, is now estimated at the amount of 1'2,448/. THE GLASGOW AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY have offered a prize of 501. for the best essay on the most effective and economical means of collecting, storing, convey ing, and distributing the sewerage of Glasgow, so as to adopt it for manure. FROM a return of the emigration vessels which have left Liverpool under Government inspection during the past year it appears that 59 ships sailed for the various Australian ports. These were dis tributed over the four quarters of the year GS follows :—For the three months ending March, 19 ships, 17,948 tons, 7,267 passengers; for the three months ending une 16 ships, 15,304 tons, 5,740 passengers ; for the t hree months ending August, 12 ship s, 13433 tons, 4,164 passengers ; f or the three monthsending December, 12 ships, 14,015 tons, 3,015 passengers; total number of ships 59, tonnage 60,700, passengers 21,080. Of these 20,318 were steerage passengers, of whom 10,634 were English, 3,846 Scotch, 4,064 Irish, and the remaining 1,870 were foreigners. The number of vessels which have taken their departure, under Government inspec tion, for the United States, British America, and the East Indies, during the year, were 480, of 531,987 tons burden, and carrying 203,720 passengers. The gross total of emigration is, therefore, for the year 1853—T0 Australia, 21,067 ; United States, British America, &c., 203,720; total, 224,787. In the con veyance of these emigrants a fleet of 539 ships, of an aggregate tonnage of 531,087 tons, has been em ployed. PAALIAidENT was on Tuesday again prorogued with the usual formalities. The Lord Commissioners who officiated were the Lord Chancellor and the Duke of Argyll, and the new term of prorogation was ordered to extend to the 31st inst., when the Legisla• ture is to meet " for the despatch of divers urgent business." THE Independence of Brussels states that no Belgians or other foreigners can now enter France from Belgium without having their passports visid at the French Embassy at Brussels. Several travellers who have lately neglected this formality have been compelled, on reaching Valenciennes, to return to Brussels, the orders on the subject being imperative. AN IMPORTANT REPORT AND TABLES concerning re ligious worship, as exhibited by the census of Great Britain in 1851, have just been issued in pursuance of the order of Parliament. The volume has reference to England and Wales. It appears that there are in England and Wales thirty • five different religious com munities or sects--twenty-seven native and indi genous, and nine foreign. The latter include all the bodies which have assumed any formal organisation. There are, it is stated, in addition, many isolated con gregations of religious worshippers adopting various appellations, but it does not appear that any one of them is sufficiently numerous and consolidated to be called a " sect." Taking the population of England and Wales at 17,927,009, there was present at the most numerously-attended services on Sunday, March 30, 1851, the number of 2,971,258 members of the Church of England, 3,110,782 Protestant dis senters, 249,389 Roman Catholics, and 24,793 of other bodies. Of all denominations the number re turned as present on the Sunday mentioned is 6,356,222. THE English merchants who have entered into contracts for the supply of coal to the English squadron in different points of the Black Sea have received notice to prepare themselves to execute their contracts within a very short delay. The depots of coal are to be established at Sinope, Trebizond, and Varna. SATURDAY, AT ROME, on the 21st of December, the novel cere mony of consecrating an English abbot was per formed by Cardinal Wiseman, at the Church of St. Gregory. Dr. Burder, the abbot elect, abandoned the Church of England about eight years ago, and entered the new Trappist monastery of St. Bernard in Leicestershire, where he rendered himself so ac ceptable to his brethren thatat the end of three years they elected him their superior. The provincial general of the order, however, would not ratify the election on account of the short time the doctor had served in the monkish ranks, and he was therefore obliged to content himself for four years more with the secondary dignity of prior. On the day above named, however, Cardinal Wiseman installed him in his full rank, as Abbot of St. Bernard's, whilst a full choir repeated an impressive Te Deum. Another English Trappist monk took part in the ceremony, acting as the cardinal's deacon. Dr. Manning preached upon the occasion. THE DEATHS IN LONDON registered in the week that ended last Saturday amountod to 1,650. The mortality has been raised principally by the severity of the weather. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52 the average number of deaths was 1,160, which, if raised in proportion to increase of population, becomes 1,276. There is an excess in the number actually returned above the calculated amount of 3MO. AN ALARM Nu Murnev occurred on board the Winchester, the flag-ship of Sir Edward I'ellew, admiral on the East India station, upon the oth of November. The Winchester was then lying at Hone- Kong, and the crew asked for some hours' leave to L•a given them on shore, as they had not had any for a long time. This, it is stated, the admiral re fused, and a mutiny ensued, for on piping the hammocks down not a man obeyed; and the drum was beat to quarters with the same result. The marines and officers were then armed and sent between decks, where the utmost confusion pre vailed, the seamen rolling shot about and throwing missiles. Before any kind of order could be re stored, seventeen of the crew had been wounded by the officers ; ten of the wounded were sent to the hospital next morning. The captain, Fitzgerald, re ceived a wound over one eye, which was supposed to to accidental, as he was very popular with the crew. MOST energetic efforts will be put forth imme • diately by our dockyards to create and tit out a powerful North Sea squadron, to be ready for service as soon as the ice breaks up. The push will be for steamers, of which the supply in harbour is getting rather short, so many having been commissioned in 103. THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT has refused a con. cession to a company of English shareholders for tl•.e construction of a railway from Hamburg to the Hague. THE REV. W. 11. ANDERDON, M.A., lately vicar of St. Margaret's, Leicester, was admitted into the priesthood of the Church of Rome, on Saturday last, at St. Mary's College, Oscott, by the "Bishop of Birmingham." One other priest was ordained at the Fame time, and eleven persons were admitted to the diaconate and inferior orders of the ministry. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON has addressed a letter to the lords lieutenant of counties on the subject of the mess expenses of subaltern officers in militia regi ments. His lordship is of opinion that the mess charges in the militia should not exceed the average charge in regiments of the line, which does not ex ceed 2s. 6d. per diem. The Home Secretary recom mends that the same limit should be applied to militia messes, with a view to enable subaltern officers the better to meet their mess expense. THE parliamentary estimate of Mr. Remington, the engineer for making the proposed new dock, basin, and other works at Greenwich, is 200,0001., including purchase of land and contingencies. SERIOUS APPREHENSIONS exist that any long con tinuance of inclement weather will entail a total failure in the supply of gas for the metropolis. The condition of the river below London-bridge has been such that the colliers could not discharge their cargoes, the barges being frozen in or so jammed up as to render it impossible to carry on the ordinary operations. The directors of several of the leading gas companies met on Wednesday for the purpose of determining what was best to be done under the cir cumstances. No decision was arrived at, and the only hope expressed was that the severity of the weather might moderate. The price of coals continues to be enormous. THE Edinburgh Advertiser mentions a report that Rear-Admiral the Hon. George Crofton will hoist his flag at Leith in a station-ship, as it is expected he will procure a great number of young Scotebmen for the service. Is accordance with the law enacted last May, all the Prussian manufacturers and proprietors of work shops who employ children of under sixteen years old are required to prove before the authorities that they oblige each of such children to attend school . for at least three hours a day.