The Press. — London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

680 Coat ant faskirrn. Volta! anb Onurai. • ''• TFIR SICcOND DRAMATIC ENTERTAIRMLNT of the semen was given by the Queen at Windsor on Thursday. The Lyceum Theatre furnished the actors, and the pieces were The Game of Speculation and Little Tothilekins. . _ _ THE 'HIM AND DOCHLINS OP BRABANT left Windsor on Monday for the west of England. They pm. castled first to Plyntouth, where two days wore spent in viewing the port, shipping, and neighbourl u General Sir harry Smith, as officially entitled, played the part of guide on several °caudate+ as well as of host. On 'Tuesday evening the liike anal duchess went on to Torquay, where apartments had been engaged for their a.•eommodalion. UNIVERSAL ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. To extend the system of telegraphic communication through a far wider range of localities in England, and at the same time to render its vast services available to the general public, by a very consider able reduction in the charges for transmitting mes sages, are the important objects for which a new com pany, under the above title, has been lately or ganised. The mechanical means by which these purposes are to be carried out embrace of course the best and most recently-invented methods, both for the indica tion and the transmission of the required comtnitni cations. For the former, a machine presenting an improvement upon Mr. Morse's telegraph, so extol - sively used in America, has been patented by Mr. Wilkins, and will be adopted by the company. Several of these instruments were shown at work on Wednesday last, before a numerous body of gentle men connected with commerce or experienced in practical science, who were specially invited to the offices of the company on Ludgate-hill. The prin ciple is this ribbon of tissue-paper is drawn along by clockwork in contact with a wh ee l covered with "carbonised " paper, such as is used in main fold writing. Upon the surface of this ribbon a pointer is caused, by the magnetic current, to touch or press lightly, at the pleasure of the operator, pro_ during a series of dots or zigzag lines, which con stitute the characters of a telegraphic language, wry intelligible to practised readers, and at the same time very rapidly inscribed. By a duplicate arrangement of the apparatus, it is easy to produce two facsimiles of every message, one of which remains with the mender, and enable« him to be sure that his des patch is transmitted correctly, without the trouble and delay of repeating. The system of transmission has been projected upon a most comprehensive plan. There are about $OO cities or towns in the United Kingdom, contain ing respectively more than 2,0011 inhabitants. Many of these are at present entirely out of the circuit, of telegraphic communication ; but to nearly all of them the new company purpose to establish a line of wires. This is to be accomplished by a judicious scheme of "radiation." Six "trunk" lines are to leave London on the north bank of the Thames and Ave on the south, which are to be extended in va• rimy; directions, reaching in most instances to the coast, and stretching along it. The principal towns will be embraced in these telegraphic chains, while branch lines will radiate from certain selected cen tres to the smaller plow in their vicinity. By these mechanical contrivances, by general ar rangements upon a well-organised system, and trust ing to the vast extent of business which a cheap tariff of charge will certainly command, the rem- Pan,' Promise to transmit messages of twenty words to any one of their many stations at an uniform rate ett 1141. each, with an extra halfpenny for every ad thtional wend. The capital required is estimated at only 300,0n0/., which is to be raised in :21. shares, and a charter of incorporation will be applied for next session. THE 11101. T, OF SHERIFFS fin' the ensuing year was settled by the I Ands of the Council at a meeting held ',easily for that purpose in the Court of Exchequer es Saturday last. Commisstosmui will be appointed in a few days to inquire into the general state 44 the Post-Alen, and also to take evidence, with a view of establishing an uniform rate of oceanic p4w4tage. Tun GOVERNOR Or Niar ZeAt.vsn, Sir G. Grey, will alertly return to England, on leave of abvenee, for a period of twelve months. It is stated that he intends to resign his governorship, and will not go back to the colony. THU TYNUMOUTH BRITIERV COMMISSION was opened on Wednesday last. The commissioners aro Mr. Henry Davison (chairman), Mr. James Vaughan, and Mr. John Harrell. Mr. Hugh Taylor, the last . sitting member, was returned at the general election In 102 by a majority of eleven votes. THE PRESS. THE STRIKES IN LANCASHIRE &Mantle to a con siderable extent. Except some apprehended dis turbances at Bury during Thursday, there has been no interruption to the public tranquillity on this ac count. At Preston a genera delegate meeting has been held, at which a lengthy memorial was adopted, and will be forwarded to the Home Secretary. The colliers of Wigan seem to be gradually returning to their work. The seamen have held a meeting at Hartlepool, which was attend...4l by delegates from other ports, and efforta were made to concert a meet ing with the owners. This conference, it is expected, will come off on Tuesday, the 2mth inst., and may had to some arrangement of the mutual differences without a strike. THE TWELFTH PUBLIC DRAWING OF THE CONSER VATIVE LAND SoEIETY teek place on Thursday night in Freemasons' Hall, Viscount Riutelagh in the chair. Explanations of the plan and working of the gaiety were given by the noble chairman, and Mr. Lewis, the solicitor. It was stated by the secretary that the shares already taken up had reached the extraordinary number off 1,117:1, representing a sub scribed capital of 35:1,6511L, on which ti you/. l i ed been paid up. Mr. Lewis gave some interesting de tails relative to the society us an investment. In one ease a member bought an allotment and a half, which cost him 5 81. B*. Ile paid up at, the instant la Ws., and borrowed the balance, sm/. 165., from the society at 5 per cent. interest. Tina amount was repayable by instahnents of 15s. a month, and would la all paid off in 7 1 1 years. During these years he would have received within IM!. 155., as ground-rent at it. 10s. a year, of that which he hatl paid in monthly instalments, wail thus, at the end of die period, the account would be as follows :—Cash paid on allotment, 111/. 125.; interest thereon for iI years, i/. 55.; difference between the ground rent and the payments to the society, Is!. 15s. ; interest thereon to end of le years, 4/. 25.; total, 49/. its. Fur this sum o nly, paid by himself, he would have aequired Ills. a year for 99 years, mat at the e nd of that time his family would possess a very valuable reversion. _ 14Ammiuttir ELEcTiort commenced on 31ondity with the oumivaLiiru ilf two candidates, 11Aj4or-tieneral Buckley and Captain Roherts. Tuesday was ap pointed for the polling, which accordingly opened at eight, o'clock ; but in the afternoon the contest. ab ruptly closed by the resignat of Captain Roberts, the poll standing at the time (two o'clock), for General Buckley, ; for Captain Roberts, NS. Some rioting took place in the evening. The suc cessful candidate, on attempting to address the multiunit., was hooted and obliged to discontinue his speech. Ile was afterwards pelted while taking his departure from the city. The mob pet everett in various sentllings and disturbances tot some time, and quiet was not restored until an advanced hour of the night. AN interview took place on Tuesday between Lord Clarendon and certain eminent English merchants engaged in the Russian trade, whose object was to gain th o u his lordship the expression of maw decided opinion as to the danger of this trade being inter ruptnil by possible .political changes. It was repre sented to his lordship that English merchants are in the habit, at this period of the year, of making heavy contracts in St. Petersburg for Russian produce, such as hemp, tallow, deliverable next season, upon which goods very heavy advances, amounting s‘atietitnes to the entire roaring, are made to the Russian dealers. The reply of Lord Clarendon was to the etlis.t that, whilst her Majesty's Government are using their utmost exertions to avert war, caution in relation to these transactions is nevertheless ad visable ; and a hint was given that it would be as well tOr the Russian merchants to avoid risking their money under present circumstances. A INquistrios y signed by neatly one hundred of the electoral body, has twit presented to the Lori Provost of Glasgow, to call a public meeting to con sider the aggressive policy of Russia in relation to Turkey and other European powers. Ills lordship, in compliance with the requisition, has agreed to call the meeting for Wednesday, the '2;tril instant. Silt Roman. lisninsvit, &inventor of Gibraltar, published a proclamation on the ;:ed, by w hi c h all vessels coining from tireat Britain and the northern ports, with clean bills of health on board, will he aulmitted to free pratique; all vessels with touched bills of health, but which have hail no sickness on hoard during the voyage, will be subjected to a qua ramtine of observation of seven days ; and all vessels arriving with any cases of epidemic or contagious disease on board will be subjected to a strict quaran tine, with a guard-boat astern, until the inspector of health reports to the Board of Health, which will decide on the duration of the quarantine or des tination. Titt: KIN.: or HANOVER has appointed the Rev. Daniel Charles Delafosse, A.M., rector of Shere, Sur rey. one of his domestic IT is stated that the Prussian Government has resolved not to allow private despatches, giving poli tical pima, to be forwardcd Ittan.l3erliu. SATURDAY,' Tut: DEATIib REGISTERED IN THE METROPOLIS in the week that ended on Saturday rose to 1,192, having been in the previous week 1,11 . 2. This number shows an excess of fifty-one beyond the corrected average for ten preceding years. The deaths in the bepresent return show an increase on the weekly num rs of October, wising apparently from greater coldness of the weather, and also in part from cho lera. Bronchitis grows more fatal. The rate of mortality from cholera has been nearly stationary during the last three weeks ; the number of fatal cases last week was ninety-eight. Of these sixteen occurred in the west districts, fifteen in the north, twenty-two in the east, and forty-five on the south side of the river. None occurred in the central dis tricts. Cholera continues to be most fatal in the lower parts of the London basin. In the districts at an average elevation of less than twenty feet above Trinity high-water mark the mortality from this disease has been thirty-eight in 1.00,00 inhabitants; in the districts of an average elevation of twenty feet and below forty feet, twenty in 1010,000; at an eleva tion of forty to sixty feet the mortality has been thirteen in Mom° ; and at sixty feet of elevation and under 110, eight in 100,004 At Hampstead, where the elevation may be put at 850 feet, there has hitherto been no death from cholera. LADY CHARLOTTE 13 PEST, Of 1/oalaili, has promised to supply the whole of Dowlois with water at her own expense, involving an outlay of The sanitary condition of the town is extremely wretched. Tun Commtrma for erecting the Peel City statue met at the Mansion-house yesterday week. The site east of the Exchange was negatived, and the former resolution of the committee confirmed— viz., to apply to the Commissioners of Sewers to permit the statue to be placed on the site indicated. It was also resolved, "That it should be left to Mr. Tite, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Relines, and Mr. Hay wood to re arrange and lower the proposed pedestal, anti to have a fresh model prepared under their di rection, so as to enable the committee to have another examination before a final decision was come to on this important subject." The statue is in bronze, and the pedestal will be of red and grey Aberdeen granite. MANY COPIEN OF A REVOLUTIONARY ADDRESS have been seized in some departmental post-oilices in France. These manifestoes have been printed at London, but were posted in Basle on the :Ird inst. They are dated Sept. 22, 1145:I, and bear for title " 'Him against Tyranny." At the foot is inscribed, " Mine au tyran," with the signature, no doubt forged, of M. Ledru AN GENTLEMAN, lately holding a situation in the Russian dockyard at Cmnstadt, has arrived at Portsmouth, anti brings word that the whole of the British artisans employed in that and other govern mental establishments in Russia, of whom there are a large number, have been discharged. This step is supposed to have been taken in reference to the present relations between the Governments of the two countries. THE DUKE AND DI`enESS D'AVIIIALE and Suite have arrived at Claremont from Germany, to meet her highness's mother, the Sicilian Princess of Salerno, who has just arrived in England from Italy. Mn.JAMES HonaEs, hanker, brother of the late Mr. Alderman John Holmes, of Liverpool, died at Douglas last week. The family property, which is said to be worth noionot., has been left to the deceased gentleman's two grandnieces. Almon HERBERT EDWARDES is Spoken of in India as the pmbable successor to Colonel Mackeson, lately assassinated at Peshawar. T►►E AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR at St. Petersburg, Count Mensdorti Pouilly, now at Vienna, will, it is said, shortly return to St. Petersburg for the purpose of delivering an imperial letter of recal. Count Valentine Esterhazy, at present Austrian Ambassador M Munich, is spoken of as the probable future Austrian Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburg. A Plume MEETINO is announced to be held in the Manchester Corn Exchange on Monday evening, to express the sympathy of the inhabitants with the Turks in their present struggle for independence against the aggressions of Russia. The meeting will bu addressed by Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., and Mr. Urquhart.. A SPECIAL COVET of the Corporation of the Trinity house was held yesterday for the purpose of swearing in the Karl of Aberdeen as an elder brother. Ills 'loyal Highness l'aince Albert, Master of the Cor poration. presided on the occasion, and was supported by Sir .1. Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, Captain Shepherd, Deputy Master, and the other elder brethren. COrNT WA LEWSKI, the French Ambassador at this Court, has been summoned to France to attend the Emperor at Fontainebleau, but will return to London in a few days. THE N.VTIoNAL FREEIIOI.IO LAND SOCIETY has 26,000 shantholders, holding ttkiinn shares, and its income is 11511. per day, or 36,500/. a year. The society had purchased 113 estates., or about 1541,0(101. worth of land.