The Press. — London, England, 1853-10-29 00:00:00

OCTOBER 29, 1853. grants of Bibles and Tesuanents to prisons, schools, miss sles. and other charitable and benevolent institutions in this eouutry ; and special grants to Ireland, in such ways as might hereafter be determined upon. They also Iwo. p to make special efforts in India, Australia, and other British colonies, by agencies. grants, and otherwise rid special grants to Chins, and such other parts of the world as might appear open to special operations. Lastly, they proposed the establishment of a special and separate fund, from the annual produce of which pecuniary aid nuiy bt granted, at the discretion of the committee, to persons in the employ of the society, including the colporteurs abroad. and to their widows and children when in eireutu stances to repute such aid." The Earl of Shaftesbury, in addressing the assembly. remarked that the existence of the Bible Society hail conferred the greatest possible honour on this country - , and had produced results which the boldest man in former days would not have conceived possible. lie considered that the founders of this society had a greater claim to the honour and grati tulle of mankind titan any who had ever existed. It was a great thing to have invented the electric tele graph, the steam-engine, or the railway ; but the idea of sending the Bible into every land, and to ob tain for that purpose the active co-operation and assistance of all sects of professing Christians, differ ing as they did in minor details, was a tar greater conception, with a view to its moral and spiritual results, than all the material and physical inventions which hail ever contributed to the contfort and ad, vancement of man. The labours of the society had also been the means of vastly increasing the intellee tual power of the nation. For, while the number of languages in which the Bible hail been printed by the society amounted to 170. not less than 100 of them had never before been reduced to print, while 23 had not previously a written language, and the society was therefore compelled in those cases to compound not only an alphabet, but a written language. The circulation of the Scriptures had also been attended with many valuable political results, for the Bible invariably brought with it order, peace, self-control, free institutions, and civil and religions liberty ; and he might add that the Bible also was the chief defence of nations. THE NORTH SHIELDS SHIPOWNERS' SOCIETY lately addressed a letter to the Foreign-office calling atten tion to the nnmber of British vessels trading with ports in the Baltic and Black Sea; and requesting to he informed whether, in the event of hostilities be tween this country and Russia, sufficient notice would be given to enable British vessels to clear out of Russian ports in time to avoid capture ; and also inquiring whether Lord Clarendon considered the present state of affairs so critical as to render it. expedient for the Society of Underwriters to prohibit the chartering and sailing of vessels for Russian ports. To this letter an official reply, signed H. A. Addington, has been transmitted to Shields on the part of the Foreign Secretary. The writer says " 1 am to state to you in reply that there does not exist any treaty or stipulation between this cuttutry and Russia by which the giving such a notice as that to which you refer is made obli. gatory on either Govennuout ; and that, with respect to the general questions, whilst it is of course impossible for her Majesty's Government to answer for future contingencies. which might depend on the conduct of others, her Majesty's Govern ment will neglect no step in their power which way conduce to the security of the trade of this country. " With regard to the last point referred to in your letter. namely, the question of the amount awarded to ltritialt ships of war in cases of recapture of a British vessel from an enemy, tin' to state to von that this is a grave question of law and apse which Lord Clarendon does not feel called upon to express ally opiniou." IlEsrEcriNo the forthcoming inquiry into the state of the London Corporation, Mr. Coleridge, Secretary to the Commissioners, has written a letter to the Lord Mayor, giving the following programme of the investigation : " Downing-street, Oct. 22. " Nly Lord.--T am directed by the commiasiuners fur inquiring ito the state of the corporation of the city of London to inform your lordship that at their first meeting, which they have held this day at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, they have taken into consideration the course of their future proceeding. " As full documentary evidence with regard to the constitution of the city of London, up to a very recent period, already exists hi an authentic form, the commissioners pttrpo: , e to commence their investigation with receiving the evidence of persons who may have complaints to make, or alterations to suggest, with respect to the present Mate of the corporation. At a future stage of the itvphry the commissioners will be prepared to examine the officers of the corporation. " With a view to afford the requisite information as speedily as possible to the persons more particularly interested in the pro. (Testi:mg of the commission, the commissioners will take steps to communicate to them printed copies of the evidence tnkeu before them from time to time." On Thursday the commissioners assembled in Downing-street, and held a preliminary meeting, to arrange the course of proceedings for the inquiry, which will commence on Tuesday next. THE MST SMY RNA DvspArcnEs state that Martin Kossta had at length actually left for Boston. Thrust)Ay lust was observed in Gateshead as a day of solemn thanksgiving for the deliverance of that town from the devastating effects of cholera, which has laid so many of its townspeople with the dead. Considerable subscriptions have been rained for the widows and orphans left by the pestilence. THE PRESS. LETTER% FROM Sr. BETERSHURO state that the principal British merehanta have had internees with the Minister of Finance, respecting the protec tion of British priverty and iiersona in the event of a war between Russia ant Turkey, the result of which was that the minister assured those gentle men, by command of the Emperor, that both the property and the persons of British sultiects would be strictly protected; and that it was not his Makiesty 'A intention, in the eveut of hostilities, to detain British A 04SUIS ill his ports, provided that the British Govern ment did the mune by Russian vessels. Tin: emmo.owiso APPOINTMENTS have been made in the Science and Art Department of the Board of ']'rasps: Mr. Norman 111•Leod, late Assistant Secretary to the !flogger& of Convict Prisons, to be registrar ; Captain Owen, ILE., in spector ; and in connection with the Committee of Council on Education, Mt. J. J. Mayo, to be assistant accountant. Till: !AMOS OF Tlir ADMIRiLTA have signified to Captain Ingietiehl, of the Phonix, their m• great satisfaction "at his preeeedings. "My lords highly approve of the firmness, energy, and good judgment with which you have carried out their instructions, and of all the steps you have taken it, the execution of their orders." Their lordships also signify " the deep regret with which my lords have heard of the untimely death of an otlim•er so much esteemed by them as Lientemun (tenet, of the Fr e nch nav y." .. —1 A Pruett. M eunNo of the trades of Edinburgh Total .. .. 3el 1 Total .. tae and Leith was held last week to promote the slugs,: THE EASTERN QeesTioN Wail disclissed HI a of the movement f or a Saturday half-holiday and Friday payments. The meeting, which waslargely crowded meeting of the inhabitants of Piml i c o and attended, was presided over by Mr. John llope, W.S. Westminster, held, OD Tuesday, id the Athemeeum statements were made showing the progress which Lite y institution. Resolutions were unanimously had been made in obtaining file half holiday. Already passed to the following effect : the building tootles enjoyed the lorivilege, and a hope ""Phut the conduct of the t /lir Nicholas, 111Nainbamionlers. and armies, is (plumed to i ju b tiwo, nit ynational law, and Wits eXpressisi that, by the countenance and summit • •ersal right." of the influential inhabitants of the city, it would " That the want of energy and in 1111 l sliate decision evidenced i ticisitile universal. by the .Aberdeen Administration is descrying of riblie eiseoire." Tee KARL OF EOLINToN has eonsented to preside The inhabitants of the Tower Ilamiets held a over a public meeting which is to be held in the meeting on Wednesday to discuss the same question, mnisn, hall, Edinburgh, sin thisi evening of wnibusis. and passed resolutions to a similar purport. day, November 2, for the vindieation of Scottish THE ANNUAL CONGRESS OF THE MIDLAND Asso- r i g h ts . (lentos oe Meemosers' INSTITUTIONS was held at Tim EmNimenon, I'i:mern, AND DUNDEE RAHWAY Tamworth on Tuesday, attended by about fifty dole- cosmessv have just entered into an arnmgement gates from Birmingham, Derby, Wolverhampton, with the Electric Telegraph Company by which the Stafford, Worksop, Grantham, Lutterworth, Lincoln, telegraph from Edinburgh to Dundee and Berth will he completed immediately. A submarine eable will Leicester, Chesterfield, Nottingham , and other places in the midland counties. The Earl of be carried across the Forth, as well as across the Yarborough presided at the commencement of the Tay ; and it is expected that Edinburgh will he in proceedings, but was afterwards succeeded by Sir direct telegraphic communication with Perth and Robert Peel, Bart., the presidentelect for the en D un d ee i n o„ it , s i x wee k s. suing year. Suggest• sof a practical eintracter THE CoRPORATE BIGIVERTY OF THE BOROUGH or were discussed, some of which it walls thought ewe Tomes, which fur many years has been in dient to adopt in the conduct of the carious institit- I 1 .'„iancery, has been conveyed by the karts of the dons, with the view to increase their efficiency and Treasury to charity trustees. in order that the income usefulness, and a very general concurrence of accruing therefrom might be applied towards the opinion was expressed on the subject of the advan- establishment and support of a free school, and to tages which had been Roma to result from this certain other charitable purposes. ' annual congress. In the afternoon the delegates Tut: Rev. Mrsses. I'm i:T4 nee ANTI Weer, link visited Drayton Manor, on Sir Robert Peel's invite pendent ministers, wits are about quitting Meuiches- Ron, the celebrated gallery being opened to public ier in order to arrange an d , iim , r i n t em l t h e missions view. A conrersuzione took place at the Town ball in South Australia, intend to carry with them an in the evening—Sir Robert Peel in the Oman. iron chapel, fitted with every accommodation for THE " BRIoIIT " TESTIMONIAL, which Was PoM• worship, as well as several horses. The chapel, it is menced in Rochdale on the successful termination said, w ill cost I,mm/. of the Anti-Corn Law struggle, has been brought to AT the last meeting of this , Royal Cork Yacht a close. The subscriptions amounted to fs,Olsi. ass. Id., Club, John Carter, I•:sq., of her Majesty's cutter and the committee decided that a library would be Poilyer, was unanimously admitted au honorary the most appropriate offering. An o a k bookcase member of the elute--a compliment which has was designed by Mr. Monis, and executed by Mr. seldom before been paid to any one. Mr. Carter has Gardener, both of Chester, at a cost Of 400!., the been for several years stationed on the coasts of Ire carving consisting of a complete representation of l an d. the leading features of agriculture and commerce. Tut: BUILDINGS at Clubletelen Theological Semi A silver plate affixed to this piece of furniture bears nary are in so advanced a state that the Bishop of the following inscription :—" Presented IT time Oxford hopes to be able to receive candidates early Friends of Free Trade to John Bright, Esq., M.P: next year. as an acknowledgment of his great services in the Tim Nsw REcono Rrroseronv is progressing to- Cause of Free Trade, in connection with the wards completion. In time year ended the sth of National Anti-Corn-Law League." The library. con January NM/. was allowed for it out of the public sisting of more than 1400 volumes, was selected by mone y. Mr. Bright, at a cost of 1,:t151., and tbe balance IN the year ended time sth of January last the (after deducting expenses) has been paid to that home secret service rest the country 111,4100/., time gentleman. foreign secret service 31,30 W., and the secret service THE FREE-TRADE FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY lial a ( Ireland) 4,015/. meeting on Wednesday at the Whittington Club, Mr. Itouver Doross, Eso., is appended goteen's Ad Wyld in the chair. The president said the soviet)* vocate at Sierra Leone, in room of the lute Joseph had adopted the designation of "Free Trade," not (rNeill, Esq., of Limerick. The situation is worth with any view to the political dogma, but only with a 1,51,,t1. a y ear , view to its promotion in matters of land, so that. the AT a late meeting elf the brewers of Burton-11nm middle and working classes in this country, by the Trent it was unanimously resolved, in consequence possession of a right to the soil, might be the better of the great advance in malt and hops, to raise the able to evince their attachment to its government prim of mile mile u s . per h ar m. and constitution. Mr. Martineau stated that. the Tile ( &he iT NIORTHF.scs Come isv have offersgll.4mrd subscribed capital of the society since August last vim di; & ...zw....am .inosio/. a year for his coal mines, on a had amounted to 40,0001., and t hat two estates had lease for fifty years. A considerable portion of the been purchased,—one at Anerley, Hear the Crystal co als s upplied to thy Great Northern come from time Palace, and &nether near Caeterbury. These would pits of his lordship. • be divided into lots of a quarter of an acre, and THE annual proceedings of the EvANtalic it, allotted to the holders of fort) shares. ALLIANCE were (opened on 'Tuesday Hight with a THE expense of the Houses of Parliament, the soirie in the Freemasons' Tavern, at which from officers, tkc including printing and time Speaker's 200 to : 100 ladies KO gentlemen attended. The salary of SAO/., amounted lust year to 100,7101, • Rev. Dr. Morrison presided. Tun Rmotsrsim•LiENEßAl:a WEEKLY RETURN shows that a thousand and fitly-four deaths were registered in London in the week that ended on Saturday. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1543-5:: the average number was 955, which. with a correction for increase of population, becomes exactly the same number-1,054. The deaths from cholera, which had declined in the two previous weeks from fan to 45, rose again last week to pet. 40 males and 43 females perished by this disease. The districts on the south side of the river still assert their fatal pre-eminence. 49 out of the whole number of cases having occurred there : Bother hithe, Battersea, St. Saviour, St. tieorge, are the parts of that division which suffered most. The deaths from cholera in London in the corresponding week of Is4S were 34. The following is a compara tive statement of the mortality from cholera during twelve weeks of the present year and the comes' l ing period in Peatlua In 1853. Week tinting Aug. .. LI .. 19 t.. 11 1 0 I . 2; .. SePI. .1 10 If 17 .. lit IP 24 .. 2V IP L 1 .. 48 NO 8 .. lb .. Ileedint in Is&'. Week ruling 19 13 11 .2(11 7 91 rr 27 rr sci.t. .. 7 161 17 .. 7 •21 . . 4 „ Oct. 1 .. 13 au .. JA 99 21 .. 31 d