The Press. — London, England, 1854-04-29 00:00:00

APRIL 29, 1854 send very much greater numbers of men, though they pack their ships too much and have small and insufficient vessels in use. " Officers coming out here should know what they have to expect. Let them provide themselves with everything they are likely to want, for they will find nothing at Gallipoli. There is no chance of getting horses at present for love or money—indeed, comfort or necessary accommo dation is out of the question. In every respect the French can teach us a lesson in these matters. While our sick men have not a mattress to lie down upon, and are literally without blankets, the French are well provided for. Wm have no medical comforts—none were forwarded from Malta—and so when a poor fellow was sinking the other day the doctor had to go to the general's and get a bottle of wine for him. The hospital sergeant was sent out with a sovereign to buy coffee, sugar, and other things of the kind for the sick, but he could not get them, as no change was to be had in the place. After this it is annoying to visit the French hospital, and see them so well prepared. Everything requisite is nicely made up in small packages, so that they can be carried on mules' backs, and marked with labels so that one can lay his hand on what is wanted in a minute. Dr. Alexander has managed to get beds fur about '2OO patients in different houses, and he goes down to-day with Mr. Calvert to the Dardanelles to look at the building which is destined for the principal medical establishment. The French and English are generally very healthy, and the town and neighbourhood are said to enjoy great freedom from sickness and disease." tout arai lastiou. HER MAJESTY arrived in town from Windsor on Monday last, and held the second drawing-room of the season at St. James's Palace on Thursday. All the foreign ministers were present, and the following presentations to her Majesty took place in the diplo matic circle By the French Ambassadress,—Madame d'Ox holme, wife of the Danish Minister at this Court; Mrs. Thomas, wife of General J. A. Thomas, of New York, United States Commissioner. By the Greek Minister,—M. Cherilaus Tricoupi, son of the Minister and Attaché to the Greek Lega tion. By the Austrian Minister,—Le Comte de Wimp ffen, Enseigne de Yaisseau au service de sa Majesty Imperial. Her Majesty wore a train of lilac and silver moire antique silk, trimmed with white tulle and silver stars. The petticoat was white crape, with two flounces, and was trimmed with silver and silver and crape ribbons. The headdress was a diadem of emeralds and diamonds, and feathers. ON Tuesday, being the birthday of the Princess Alice, the Duchess of Kent paid a visit of congratula tion to the Queen and Prince Consort. Her Majesty afterwards visited the Duchess of Gloucester, whose birthday it also was. In the evening the Queen and Prince Albert visited the Haymarket Theatre. ON Wednesday, the day of national humiliation, her Majesty attended divine service at the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. THERE is to be a juvenile party at the Palace on Monday next, and on Wednesday the Queen holds a levee. HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY Will be celebrated this year on Saturday, the 20th of May, by a drawing room, and by numerous state banquets in honour of the occasion given by the principal Ministers of the Crown and the chief o cers of her Majesty's house hold. THE QUEEN held a Privy Council on Monday after noon. The Hon. John Duncan Bligh, Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Hanover, was presented by the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and took leave of the Queen on returning to Hanover. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER had adinner party on Tuesday evening at his official residence in Downing-street. Mas. GLADSTONE has issued cards for evening parties on the 3d and 10th proximo. THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT has arrived in Berkeley• square from Badminton Park. The noble and gallant duke retains the rank of aide-de-camp to the General Commanding in Chief, Lord Hardinge. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND and suite have arrived in Paris, en route from Genoa, to London and Sion-house for the season. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WELLINGTON have ar rived in Belgrave - stree t from Italy, where their graces have been passing the winter. The duke re sumed his duties as Master of the Horse on Thursday at her Majesty's second drawing-room. THROUGH THE LIBERALITY OF PRINCE ALBERT, whose example in contributing 2001. towards the ex tension of the electric telegraph to Aberdeen has been followed by the merchants and manufacturers of the city, there is now a certainty that the wires will be erected in the course of the present summer. The directors of the Dee-side Railway Company are to have the telegraph extended to Banchory, and, as the distance thence to Ba lmoral is only about thirty miles, it is intended to lay a wire to the palace there, so that the Court may be in immediate commumca- 11717 7 . .......... e... THE PRESS. tion with London. The new palace at Balmoral is now pretty well advanced, but, though a part of it will he finished this slimmer, the Royal Family will not occupy it until the summer of 1855. THE occurrence of a terrible catastrophe is reported from Turin. The steamer Ercolana had foundered from a collision off Villa Franca. Among the passengers lost were 15 English—Mr. T. Halsey, M.P., with his wife and youngest son, Mr. Knight and family of five, Mr. Josep h Hayes and family of three, Mr. Charles Sanson, and Sir Robert Peel's servant. Sir R. Peel himself was on board, and escaped, it is said, almost by amiracle. Four other English passengers were saved —Mr. Edward Downley, Mr George Wilkinson, Mr. Edward Knight, and Mr. Charles Boston. THE ROYAL Victoria and Albert steam-yacht has been ordered round from Portsmouth to Woolwich, for the accommodation of the Queen and the Royal Family on the occasion of the launch of the Royal Albert screw steam-ship, on the 13th of May next. Tickets will be issued to the number of upwards of 5,000 for ladies, exclusively of the nobility and gentry who will be accommodated with seats in the booths on the sides of the vessel. HER MAJESTY PAID THE CRYSTAL PALACE AT SYDENHAM an unexpected visit on Tuesday after noon, just as the weekly board were breaking up, and when, fortunately, the whole of the directors were in attendance to escort the royal party over the building and grounds. The Queen was accompanied by Prince Albert and four of the royal children—the Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred. Sir J. Paxton had the honour of ex plaining to her Mikjesty the progress of the works ; and Mr. Belshaw, the superintendent, conducted the royal visitors over the whole of the palace and gar dens. Her Majesty paused for a few minutes at the end of the nave, now cleared of all unsightly lum ber, and seemed particularly struck with its extent and proportions. The royal party then went through the narrow courts, which her Majesty minutely examined, asking several questions as she went along of the various heads of departments. A pro longed inspection was given to the Ninevite Palace, which is now nearly finished, under the superinten dence of Mr. Layard and Dr. Ferguson ; and Prince Albert spoke in very complimentary terms of the re• sults of the joint labours of both those gentlemen. After this examination her Majesty and party pro ceeded through the grounds, and visited the extinct animal models of Mr. W. Hawkins, in which the Queen is understood to take a considerable interest. The Queen on departing expressed to Sir Joseph Paxton her satisfaction at the progress of the works, and the general appearance of the building, and was pleased to accept two large photographs, an interior and exterior view of the l'alace, which Mr. De la Motto had been successful in taking during the recent sunny weather. Volitual aub 6nual. AN IMPORTANT RETURN showing the number of married women belonging to each of the regiments ordered to the East, the number residing in barracks, and the number of soldiers' children, has just ap peared. The number of women "legally married " is returned at 3,282. The number residing with their husbands in barracks, at 1,711 ; and the num ber of soldiers' children, at 4,222. The returns are made "as far as can be ascertained." In the list are six regiments under orders for special service, not in the East, and of that number 828 women are legally married, 200 residing with their husbands, and the number of children 747. Therefore there are 2,038 women legally married belonging to the regiments ordered to the East, 1,505 resided with their husbands in barracks, and 3,475 the number of children. MOST of the flax-mills in Scotland are going on short time, in consequence of the war with Russia. The manufacturers have more orders than they can execute, but until supplies of raw material are ob tained from other quarters than those hitherto chiefly depended on they cannot execute them. In conse quence of this stoppage in the supplies of flax by Russia, farmers are laying themselves out for grow ing it at home, where, at one time, it was found to be a profitable crop. CARDINAL WISEMAN returned from Rome to Lon don at the end of last week, after an absence from England of nearly live months. His eminence stayed a week in Paris en route to England, and had two in terviews with the Emperor Louis Napoleon during the course of his stay. ALARMING ACCOUNTS OF THE HEALTH OF MR. SAMEEL ROGERS, the last survivor of the poets who adorned the past generation, are stated to have been received by the Liverpool Mercury. The venerable bard is now in his 90th year. He had a fall some two years ago, the effect of which has been to confine him to his chair, in which he is wheeled from one room to another. He has of late become more feeble, and is now subject to fainting fits. ...,r.,~.,....-. 393 A Putuac DINNER, to celebrate the accession of Earl Beauchamp to the peerage, a:id to present him with &testimonial for his services as member for the county, was held at Worcester on Saturday night. The chair was taken by the Right Hon. Sir John S. Pakington, Bart., M.P. and men of all politics were present, including Lo rd Ward, Viscount Elmley, M.P., Colonel Rushout, M.P., Mr. J. H. H. Foley, M.P.,Mr. Laslett, M.P., Hon. Mr. Coventry, Hon. and tev. Thomas Coventry, Hon. and Rev. W. W. C. Talbot, Sir 0. P. Wakeman, Bart., Sir E. H. Lech. mere, Bart., &c. The testimonial consisted of a full-length portrait of the noble and gallant earl— late General Lygon—by Mr. Grant, R.A., and bore at the foot the following inscription :—"This portrait of Lieutenant-General the Earl Beauchamp was pre sented to him on his accession to the peerage, after representing the western division of the county of Worcester in Parliament for the period of thirty-six years, by his friends and late constituents of all political opinions, in testimony of their arpreciation of his consistent public character and high private worth." ExTENsrvE contracts for the supply of hay for the cavalry and artillery horses in the East have been entered into by farmers in the West Riding of York shire with the Government agents. Three persons have engaged to supply 3,000 tons. Two STEAMERS to ply between Hull, Copenhagen, and some Prussian port, are about to be started by the Messrs. Wilson, of Hull. This will certainly be an excellent speculation under present circum stances. THE foundation for the Wellington clock tower, at the entrance of the London and Brighton Railway, was begun on Saturday last. The tower will be seventy feet in height, and forty feet at the base, with four splendid illuminated clocks. REPRESENTATIONS having been made to the execu tive committee of the Conservative Land Society of the want of church accommodation in the localities in the vicinity of St. Margaret's, it has been unani mously resolved to set apart a portion of ground on the St. Margaret's Park for the erection of a new church. The piece of land thus apportioned by the committee is close to the Richmond, Twickenham, and Isleworth high road. This is the third grant of land within a year for the building of churches by the Conservative Land Society. AMONG the recent colonial appointments are the following :—Mr. William Ogle Carr, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Ceylon ; Mr. Francis Long worth, Colonial Secretary at Prince Edward's Island; Mr. John Myrie Holl, Treasurer of Prince Edward's Island ; Mr. Edward Palmer, Attorney-General at Prince Edward's Island; Mr. George Wright, Regis trar and Keeper of Plans at Prince Edward's Island ; Messrs. Francis Longworth, J. M. Holl, E. Palmer, Donald Montgomery, Roderick Macaulay, James Heron Conroy, and Emanuel M'Echan, Members of the Executive Council of Prince Edward's Island ; Mr. H. Culling Eardley Childers, Collector of Customs at Victoria; Mr. Norman Campbell, Regis trar at Victoria; Mr. Edmund Grimes, Auditor- General at Victoria ; Mr. Charles Heddle, Member of Council at Sierra Leone. THE number of steam•vessels registered in the United Kingdom during the year 1863 was 1,375, and their united burden amounted to 248,023 tons. PROFESSOR SOWERBY has just returned from our South African colonies, after a most successful tour of inspection. He has procured large specimens of coal, iron, copper, silver, galenas, and other mineral productions of the Cape, which are shortly to ho brought before the public. THE HEALTH OF LONDON has suffered from the re cent vicissitudes in the temperature. In the return for the week ending last Saturday the registered mortality was 1,193. This shows an increase on the number of deaths during the previous weeks of the month, and is more than 100 above the corrected decennial average. A BALL was given on Tuesday in aid of the funds of the Marylebone Free Library, the rapid progress of which during the abort period of its existence has been frequently nsticed. The fete took place at the Queen's Concert-rooms, Hanowr-square, under the patronage of the members for the district, Lord D. Stuart and Sir B. Hall. A WEASDRE to establish an efficient police in counties and boroughs in England and Wales will be forth with introduced by Lord Palmerston. THE OPENING OF THE NEW HOSPITAL 07 ST.MARK'S, and the eighteenth anniversary festival of the charity, was celebrated on Tuesday by a dinner at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. The Lord Mayor occupied the chair, supported by Mr. Alderman Copeland, and John Masterman, Esq., M.P. (the treasurer). About 120 guests were present. THE conditions for exhibition of French goods in the Sydenham Crystal Palace, as laid down by the directors, have found much favour in Paris. Several leading houses have already expressed their intention of contributing—such as Froment-Meurice, Rudolpbi, Marel, Tahan, Barbedienne, Paillard, Sallandrouze, fie. (~ . , 01- • . •