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THE PRESS, JANUARY 23, 1858. majesty's desire that the whole of the weddiug materials should, if possible, be made by native Volittral. Tax WAR Coll in= or ram CABINET met on Setur day last, at hall past twelve o'clock, at the office of the Secretary of State for Wa-, in Pall-mall. Present--Lord Panmure, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Palmerston, Earl Gran ville, Sir George Grey , Sir Charles ood, and the Clianct Ilor of the Exchequer. AIR. STAFFORD JERNINGHAN has been appointed Chargé d'Affaires and Consul General to the Republic of Peru. Mr. G. A. Grattan has been appointed Consul at Antwerp, and Mr. F. Lonadale Consul at Boston. A DEPUTATION had an interview with Sir G. Grey, at the Home office, this week, and presented a memorial from the Lord's Day Observance and Metropolitan Committees against the recent resolu tion of the Crystal Palace Company to admit visitors on Sundays. Among the deputation were the Bishop of Winchester, Archdeacon Sinclair, the President of the Wesleyan Conference, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., Rev. C. R. Alford, Admiral Vernon Harcourt, General Winces, Hon. Captain Maude, R.N., Mr. Robert Banbury, M.P., etc., Ac. EARL Gaievms, as President of the Committee o (Privy Council on Education, has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Morgan Cowie, M.A., Rector of St. Lawrence Jewry, Gresham-street, City, and one of the minor canons of St. Paul's Cathedral, to the office of inspector-general of training institutions, in suc cession to the Rev. Frederick Temple, MA., pro moted to the Head Mastership of Rugby School. Mr. Cowie, who was formerly Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and senior wrangler of his year, and was for some time Principal of the College of Civil Engineers at Putney, acted last year as mathe matical examiner for the appointments to the East Indian civil service. Sta Gamma GREY received a numerous deputa tion on Thursday from the United Kingdom Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic. The Horn. Secretary, having listened to the statements and statistics of Mr. Pope, replied, generally agreeing in the views of the society as to the evil of drun kenness, but pointing out the difficulty of legislating effectually and at the same time against the feelings of the people. Tax How. CELUILES C. CavErtnuirt, whose elevation to the peerage as Lord Cheeham we recently recorded, is a younger son of the first Earl of Burlington, and consequently a cousin of the late Duke of Devonshire. His lordship was one of the oldest supporters of the Whig aristocratical party in the Lower House of Parliament, in which he held a seat for some five and-twenty years previous to his retirement in De cember last., having represented Youghal, East Sussex, and other constituencies, besides Bucking• hamshire, for which be bad sat in the last two Perlis monts, and in the representation of which be has just been succeeded by his eldest son. THE HAVELOCK Batoiccrev.—Tuesday's Gazette announces that the Queen has directed letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Henry Marshman Havelock, Captain in the Army (eldest son of the late Major-General Henry Havelock, of Lucknow, K.C.8.), and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, with remainder, in default of such issue, to the heirs male lawfully begotten of the body of his father, the said Major-General Henry Havelock. The Queen has also ordained that Hannah Shepherd Havelock, the widow of the late Major-General Henry Havelock, K.C.8., shall have, bold, and enjoy the same style, title, place, and precedence to which she would have been entitled bad her said husband survived and been created a baronet, and for which creation her Majesty bad given instruc tions, as notified in the London Gazette of the 27th of November last. And also to command that the said royal order and declaration be registered in her Majesty's College of Arms. Panusiretrrsitv REFORM Mxzvrwos have been held at Worcester and Norwich during the week. At both places the ballot and the abolition of the property qualification were advocated. A resolution was carried approving the principles enunciated in the late address signed by thirty-one members of Parliament ; and it was also agreed that a reform demonstration should be held in Norwich in the last week of the month, which the city members should be invited to attend. In the course or conversation it was stated that the address signed by thirty-one members of Pediment was carried at the meeting in London by a very narrow majority —A meeting was also held at Huddersfield on Wednesday, when the ballot and triennial Parliaments were proposed. AT A MEETING of the newly•constituted Binning ham Reformers' Union, held on Monday night, one of speakers (Mr. J. S. Wright) said be would etite s few facts relative to the health of their esteemed. member Mr. Bright : A paragraph had appeared in the Daily Pres►, intimating that Mr. Bright would not, perhaps, enter Parliament at all. What he (Mr. Wright) had to say he had authority for saying. Ten days ago be had seen Mr. Bright, and, there fore, be could speak with certainty u to his health. He was the same John Bright as during the corn-law agitation, possessing the same energy and power of mind; and Mr. Bright intimated to him that if he ( Mr. Wright) were with him for three months he would see no d ifference in his health. Sir James Watts, Mayor of Manchester, bad also told him that Mr. Bright would soon be able to take part in public matters. He had likewise seen the brother of their es teemed representative, with a view of ascertaining if the latter could attend a meeting in Birmingham. His brother said that Mr. Blight would not like to plunge at once and so boldly into public business. [Mr. Wright afterwards went to Rochdale, and there saw Mr. Bright ; he described the anxiety evinced by that gentleman to return to public life.l The time authorised by Sir James Clarke and other physicians as necessary for his restoration to health had nearly expired, and no doubt in a few weeks Mr. Bright would be found in his place in Parliament—oot to remain there like a slave till two or three o'clock in the morning, bat, as he himself had said, he would take an early opportunity of expressing his views upon any ques tion. Mr. Bright had desired him (Mr. Wright) to express the great pain and regret he felt at not being able to attend the first meeting of the Reformers' Union. There was, however, no doubt he would scon be restored to public life, to take his seat in Parliament, and afterwards come among his constituents. Aletmolitan. IN THE SECOND WEEK OF THE YEAR the total number of deaths registered in London was 1,289, of which 637 were the deaths of males, 852 those of females. In the ten years 1848 57 the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week NM 1,232 ; but, as the deaths included in the present return occurred in an increased popula tion, the average, to admit of comparison, should be raised in proportion to the increase, in which case it will become 1,355. The returns for last week are, therefore, so far satisfactory as to show that the deaths were less by 68 than the number which the average rate of mortality in the second week of January would have produced. The births for the same period amounted to 1,763. In the ten cor responding weeks of 1848-57 the average number was 1,571. Tun COURT of Amens:en at the court on Tuesday eto an address to the Emperor and Empress :t rr ti l l French, expressing the gratification of the Court of Aldermen at the recent wonderful escape of their Imperial Majesties. At a Court of Common Council, on Thursday, this proceeding of the alder men was condemned as "exclusive," and a general address from the whole corporation agreed to. A BATCH OF OCTOGENARIANS died last week. The obituary of Tuesday included a list of twelve elderly persons, recently " gathered to their fathers," whose united ages amounted to no less than 1,005 years, thus giving an average of 88f years to each. The lowest age was 80, and the highest 90; three of the deceased persons were 84 years of age ; three, 83; two, 82; one, 81; one, 80; one, 89 ; and one was as old as 90. THE ORGAN-GRINDING NUISANCE was discussed at a meeting held at the Prince of Wales Hotel,•Pad dington, on Monday evening. Mr. B. C. Jones, of 141, Westbourne-terrace, presided, and the meeting was numerously attended by the gentlemen of the neighbourhood. Several resolutions in acoordance with the object of the meeting were passed, and a committee appointed to consult with the parish au thorities and to appeal to the Legislature to put down the nuisance. A Mintriso of the friends and admirers of the late Lord Mayor of London, T. Q. Finals, Esq., alderman, was held in the City on Saturday, Mr. W. S. Lindsay, M.P., in the chair, for the purpose of considering the propriety of presenting a suitable testimonial to that gentleman for bis able and de voted discharge of the public duties of his office during his year of mayoralty, and more particularly for the support given by himself and bis Lady Mayoress to the charities of the metropolis, and for his zeal in bringing to light the commercial frauds in the City, and in devising and establishing the India Belief Fund. A committee of leading gentle. men was appointed to carry out the general design of the meeting. THE LEVIATHAN, it is now understood, will be finally launched on Friday the 29th, or Saturday the 30th. On Tuesday the vessel was publicly exhibited and visitors flocked from all parts of London to what has been not inappropriately termed " The dirty Island of Dogs," to inspect the monster ship, about which there have been so many conintures, and so many anxieties. An admission fee of half a crown was charged. For the present all admission except on business is atoppec. The bill of the Eastern Swam Navigation Company, for which an Act of Parliament is to be applied for in the ensuing session, seeks to enable the company to extend their powers 83 of trading, to increase their capital, and to alter and amend their charter and deed of settlement. The company seeks an addition to its original purpose of establishing communication ' by steam and other vessels, between the United Kingdom, India, China, and Australia, the colonies, porta, and places con nected with the Eastern tr ade, as well as for lend carnage or transit of goods and passengers, to be autboriaed to trade with any port or place in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. Powers are also sought to increase the original capital of 1,200,0001., by the creation and issue of preference shares, with borrow ing powers. Exemption is also sought to be ob tained from the previsions of the Passengers' Act, 1852. which it is proposed shall not apply to ships and vessels built by the company, and unpellod by steam, of a registered tonnage exceeding 10,(100 tons. THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY SPECIAL SERVICES were continued last Sunday evening. An immense crowd had assembled, as on the two previous occasions, long before the time fixed for the commencement of the service, and though fully a thousand persons failed to gain admittance, there was no inconvenience felt in entering the sacred edifice, owing to the ex cellent arrangements adopted. From the com mencement to the close of the service a sharp, steady breeze blew through the nave, and many persons covered their heads with pocket handkerchiefs and shawls, thereby giving a somewhat erctesque al - pearance to the congregation. The Dean of West minster, Dr. Trench, read the lessons, and the sermon was preached by Archdeacon Sinclair, who took as his text the 2nd verse of the 122nd Psalm— " I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord." The sermon was exhorta tory in its nature, the preacher inculcating the ne cessity of regular attendance upon public worship as an evidence of pare godliness. He spoke in a loud and clear tone, but much that he said was not heard beyond the narrow circle of worshippers in the neighbourhood of the pulpit, owing to the great extent of the nave. The following, we believe, will be found to be a correct list of the preachers at these services for the remainder of this and the whole of the ensuing month :—Jan. 24th, the Bishop of Ox ford; 91st, the Rev. C. J. P. Eyre. Feb. 7th, the Rev. Dr. Moberley, bead master of Winchester School ; 14th, the Bishop of Lincoln ; 21st, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol ; 28th, the Rev. Dr. Thomson, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford. Vrolinrial. THE Roxan CATHOLIC CONY - OEM of Doncaster, whose recent application to the commissioners of the Doncaster Cemetery that a portion of the cemetery ground should be set apart for the interment of deceased members of that body exclusively was refused, applied to Sir George Grey for his support. Sir George declined to interfere officially, but when the application was, for the second time, brought More the commissioners last week, it was granted. ELEVEN oe ran Ittitomangas in the recent militia riots at Ashton have been tried and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, not exceeding three months with bard labour. SECOND EDITION• SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. TURKEY. Tamara, Jan. 22. According to amounts from Constantinople of the 15th inst., the Porte is to concentrate an army on the Danube, in consequence of the agitation in the Christian provinces, occasioned by the promulga tion of the Russian ukase for the emancipation of the serfs. Feronk Khan, it is saii, will await, at Constan tinople, the definitive arrangement of the frontiers between Turkey and Persia. The Moniteur of yesterday has the following : The Belgian Government has just presented to the Chamber of Representatives a bill on the police relative to foreigners. On the following day mother bill was brought forward for modifying the Penal Code. The Government has proposed to separate from the said bill the articles relative to miens and misdemeanours attacking international relations, in order to make them into a special law which will he voted at once as urgent. Judicial proceedings have been commenced by the Belgian Government against the journala Le Draped*: and Le Cro codile. FRENCH TG PRICES. Penis, Jan. 22. 80.15. Three per Cents 1