The Press. — London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 12,1853. Saturday night, quarrelled and fought. During the conflict a woman SaW Lawson pull out a knife, and tried to prevent him using it he opened it with his teeth, however, pushed her ou one side, and dashed at Clarke, whom he stabbed in several places. The wounded man was taken to the infirmary, where he lies without any hope of recovery. Lawson was re• mended to await the issue. THE public loss through the acts of fifteen pick pockets, whose careers have been traeed by the Rev. Mr. Clay, chaplain of Preston gaol, amounts to no less than 25,000/. For 751. per annum, during three or four years, these culprits, says Mr. Clay, could have been trained in an industrial school, and many of them doubtless sent forth into the world as honest and productive members of society. SECOND EDITION. LITURILIF EVENING. LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. RUSSJA AM) TURKEY. Yesterday's Berlin Moniteur, in its account of the affair of the 2nd, says that the Russian cavalry could not act in consequence of the marshy nature of the ground. Prince Gortschakoll had congratulated the troops on the gallantry they displayed. A despatch from Vienna states that the Turks, having at first been driven out of Oltenitza, returned to the charge, continued the action for twenty eight hours, and remained masters of the field of battle. The defeated Russians retired on Bucharest. According to the last news received in Paris from Constantinople, the Sultan has positively rejected all the proposals for an arrangement which the diploma tists submitted to him. The members of the Wallachian Council appointed by Prince Stirbey, before his departure from the principality, have paid their respects to Prince Gort schakotf. The Prince addressed them with great haughtiness, anti told them to be careful lest they incurred displeasure of the Czar. He added, that whoever was guilty of spreading false rumours would be banged at once, and without trial. Orders have been issued to transport all provisions, AT., from the frontier at least six miles into the in terior. The Augsburg Gazette had announced, on the alleged authority of the British Consul at Thessa Tunica, that great outrages had been perpetrated upon the Christians, as many as fifteen hundred having, it was added, been massacred by the Turks. The New Prussian Gazette has Leen authorised by the English Minister at Berlin to contradict that report, no British agent in Thcssalonica being cognisant of any such acts as were stated. The French Government are stated, on good authority, to have decided in council that 25,000 men shall be sent to Turkey, if the Emperor of Russia should persist in his course of aggression, or demand pecuniary indemnity as the condition of his discon tinuing it. No order has, however, been given by the Minister of War on the subject. The sending or not sending the troops will depend partly on the state of affairs on the Danube, and partly on the despatches from General Baragusy D'Hilliers. THE NEW GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA. Sir Charles Hotham was selected by Lord :11almes bury, in 1852, for a special mission to the States bordered by the river Plate, the chief object being to conclude a treaty of commerce with the republic of Paraguay. He was afterwards recalled by the pre sent Ministry, on the plea that in his hands the mission (which meantime had been successfully ac complished) held out no prospect of success. In announcing his appointment as Lieut.-Governor of Victoria, the Ministerial Chronicle now finds reason for a special eulogy of the discrimination evinced by the Colonial Secretary in their treatment of this dis tinguished other. It says:— " In no instance have that discernment and that strict sense oqustice to the colonies which have marked the Ministerial career of the Duke of Newcastle been unkre ..trongly exemplified than in the selection which he has now made ; and whilst Sir Charles Hotham will thus receive a new mark of distinction, and obtain a wide field for the exertion of his talents, we feel justified in con gnitulating our distant fellow-conntryinen in the colony of Victoria on the expected services of a governor who unites within himself a rare combination of enterprise, zeal, and discretion--qualitications which will be highly prized in a community which has risen, both in numbers and wealth, with unexampled rapidity, and which has become second in importance to none of her Majesty's colonial posses. sions." CAPTAIN HASTINGS (brother Of Sir Thomas nest lings) has been appointed secretary to the Master- General of the Ordnance, vice Lord Clarence Puget, resigned.—Army Despatc h. Lrrrtne for officers and men serving on board the Enterprise, Rattlesnake, and Plorer, in Behring Straits, are to be sent to the Admiralty on or before the JUth No ember. THE PRESS. Tus CAstrox Curs is about to be completed, under the direction of Mr. S. Stuirke, with all its three fronts finished as the wing lately built, using polished granite shafts for the columns anti pilasters through out. Mr. Belk has taken the contract, and has tin dertaken to complete it early in MI Mr. Thomas is to execute the carting of the exterior. The club in the meantime will occupy the Duke of Bucking ham's house enjoining, the present coffee-room of the club being temporarily connected with it, so that the members muy continue uninterruptedly to use that room. —The Builder. THE REV. Ma. MAURICE lax addressed a letter to the council of King's College, which was read at yesterday's meeting. The late professor enters into some details respecting his dismissal by the princi pal, and then appeals to the council to intneate in a more formal amt definite shape the particular grounds upon which his functions were so summarily super seded. He concludes tints : •' I think it due to my own character as a clergyman. to the interests of the college, and to the lib e rties of the English 1:111M:1101W 1 should tall upon the council, if they pronounce a theological sentence upon me at all, to declare what article of our faith condemns my teaching. I conjure them not to use any phrased in condemning me which they would reject as loose and vague, if the property or the life of a tt•llow•eitizen were in question. Whether I have unsettled the faith of my pupils, liy giving an interpre tation of the a ord ' Eternal which I had maintained to be true land especially important for students in divinity be. fore I was asked to join the Theological department, the after lives of those pupils must determine. But if I have violated any law of the Church, that law can be at once pointed out—the nature of the transgression can be defined without any reference to possible tendencies and results. It is this justice, and not any personal favour, Tin lord. tuid gentlemen, which L now request at your hands.' ; After reading this letter the council decided that it was not necessary to enter further into the subject, but declared the two chairs held by Mr. Maurice in the college to be vacant. THE ADMIRALTY Cotar.—The Daily News of this morning gives prominence to the following significant paragraph : " A journal (the Timex), sonietinies used as a channel for Ministerial purposes, gave yesterday the following curt paraSn•aph :—' Henry Catlogan fiuthery, Esq., has been ape pointed Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty• in the place of Henry Birehtield Swabey, Eaq., who has resigned that °dice.' It would have been well if the journal or its informants had allowed the public to know why Mr. Swabey has left the Admiralty Court. His departure from Ake is an event about which the public is entitled to the fullest information ; and the more so, as all reforms of the Colitis, to one of which► Mr. Swabey was attached, have hitherto been studiously refused. 'tin• present fitiveniment may win golden opinions by a retOnnat ion of all the Courts that sit in Doctors' Commons ; but meanwhile we ask for a public explanation of the circumstances attending Mr. Swabey's retirement. Why has NI r.lZiithery been appointed Registrar of the High court of Admiralty In the ',love of Henry Birchtleld Swabey, re.igned !'' CITY, Two oVlook. Very little business is doing to-day. The Consol Market is rather firtner,owing to the more favourable Bank returns. The following are the closing prices: Consols, 041; Spanish Three per Cents., 441 rit ; ditto Deferred, 211 22 ; Mexican, 251 ; Birming hams, 1021 3; Leeds, 641 f ; Midland, 61 1; Great ; Nortberns, 201 rightons, 481 ; Dovers, 181 1 ; South-Westerns, 361 71; North of France, 331 4 ; Lyons, 151 1 pm.; Strsabourgs, 37/ ; Russian, 112 114. Onituart. ADMIRAL CFIRTcTOPHER JOIIN TirItTIAMS 7•Tesrust died on Saturday last, at Exmouth, at the advanced age of 85 years. The gallant admiral had resided for the last twenty years on his own property in that part of Devonshire, and was universally venerated for his benevolence to the humbler claims. He entered the navy in January, 17m2, on board the Juno frigate, and in June in the following year was present in the action fought between Sir Edward Hughes and M. de Sutfrein, off Cuddalore. While still a midshipman, the deceased officer, travelling in France, was at .:rnon iu 17P+9 ; and during an infente the mob were about to hang a wealthy man, a Mon sieur Planter. The British middy, passing accident ally, inquired what they were going to do ; bring in formed by some persons in the crowd, ho rushed forward and expostulated at the inhuman act of the frenzied populace, but was derided and pushed away. Nothing daunted, and when the rope was already round the neck of their victim, he once more sue ceeded in getting to M. Planter, within a moment of an ignominious death. He clung to hint with devoted grasp, and reproached the assassins in their fury. " They might as well hang one innocent man as another, and if they hanged M. Planter they should hang hint " The heroic act and the energetic observation of the youthful Englishman appeased the infuriated throng. He was carried about in triumph as a brave fellow, and M. Planter's life was saved by an instantaneous escape. The following is an extract of the proves vcrbal of the General 09 Assembly, on January 13, 1790 :—" A innuerous deputation of the principal inhabitants a th e t ow n of Vernon (among whom was Mr. Neshani piv• stinted themselves to the .Isseinl.l, to v‘i.tv. , 4 did interest in the cause of M. Mere*, anti how greatly they were satisfied with his eontinet they availed themselves likewise of this occasion to make known to then► the young Fnglishmtin and hip► generous prut•eetlings towards M. Planter. One of the mem bers of the Assembly then mounted the tribune, and, Laving observed that in ancient Rome they decreed a rive• crown to be given to him who %mot the life of a eitieen, it was aubmitted that one might he offered to Mr. Nesham, by the President, and Unit there should be. at the same tune, offered to him a uniform sword of the National G u ard of Paris. At • subsequent sitting, two days atteroards, the Pres" • dent having announced that the civic crown and the national sword deemed to Mr. Nesham were ready to be presented, the young Englistimau was introduces) to the committee. The President, in placing the crown and giving him the sword, prenouticed (hie discourse :—' Young stranger, you have merited much from the capital of the French empire, in saving, at the hazard of your life, a citizen who is dear to it. The Assembly of the ltepreseutatives of the Commons of Paris owe you their gratitude, and they are now going to acquit themselves of it to you. Following the example of the Senate of )tome, iu the happy time, of its glory and liberty, they decree you a mit. croon as the price of your virtue. They arm you with this sword of the Notional Guard. It will be the instrument of your courage—paw parents will not be able to read without emotion the enserip• tient of the generous aeuou for which you merited it s When, on your return uniting them, you receive the paternal regards of your countrymen, you may tell them that you have seen ou the river Seine a brave, generous, but too long U1%141011,4 people, who have, iu fine, conquered their liberty, and are delighted when they find opportunity of recompensing virtue. You may tell theta that free people are brothers ; that Frenchmen uud Englishmen owe each other reci procal esteem: a n d that the object most worthy of their ambit iiiii is to secure the happiness of man " The proceedings were ordered to be prieted, and distributed in the sixty districts. Admiral Nesham received the war medal in isle, with two be s for Camperdown and Martinique. THE commercial world has been deprived of one of its most enterprising and successful members by the U death of Mr. ANIEL Comte, who, after having, ou the previous evening, received and perused his busi• ness letters from various parts of the OAR', WAS found dead in his bed on the morning of the :ird in stant, at an hotel in Brighton. Mr. Cooper was a mist extensive Sydney land proprietor, and may ho regarded as a millitimeire connected with that putt of cmr Australian dependencies. The initst valuable hinds in the immediate vicinity of Sydney belonged totem. These lands are comprised i n w h a t is 0461 lhu ' i inelitiOestate,and termed an tine :I,OIIOIICM, which arc now daily selling to the market gardener* at the high price of 150/. per acre; to which may be added the Point Piper estate, with its water f ron tage, a prolierty forint:lly granted tAo Colonel Piper. Some portions of this estate have lately been disposed of at the price of 4011/. per acre. In the enumeration of Mr. Cooper's possessions in the Molly may be included the Royal Hotel—an establishment as large as the London Tavern and the Albion in Aldersgate-street put together; and his tine stores, called the Waterloo Stores, which, in point of mag nitude, may be compared to the bolialiouse in Leadenhall street. Ills acquisitions eia a prehendad, beyond these, several freeholds, innumerable berms and other lands, which swell the amount of his Aus tralian wealth to an extent of which it wont'', in the present rising combine' and growing importance of the colony, he most difficult to form nit 4.4timate. Mr. Cooper died at the by no means extreme age of about sixty-tive, and, since ho commenced life with so other sleek in trade thew the mutt indefatiguble in dustry, the proof is made apparent that, with perse verance and those other attributes which may be said to be the essential basis of commercial prosperity, mttch may he achieved even in a country which, at the commencement of Mr. Cooper's career, had scarcely been subject to the impress of the foot of man. The deceased wits ma r ried, but died without issue. Two of his nephews have somewhat recently been united in marriage with the daughters of an Australian capitalist of Birmingham, who had with drawn Irian the cottony. The latter also, who lied about eighteen months since, was not only the holder of very extensive town property and of the must superb merchants' villas in the favourite retreat of Wool lomoloo, in the Olt irons of Splney, but had for the last twelve years lawn profitably mmps' in business operationa in the neighbourhood of Birmitighiun. He had there been adding to his previously acquired riches sonic hundreds of freehold.. This gentleman, Mr. Wailful' Macdonald, is sell known to have died very wealthy ; and, as the nephews of Mr. Cooper succeed to his birtune iu virtue of their marriage, the united accumulation secured by these two gentlemen will be beim:thing enurniutte.