The Press. — London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

‘, , A Puente Meru'o in aid of the early-closing inoventent was held on Tuesday night, at the Cadogen Institute, Sloane-street, Mr. S. C. Hall in the chair. Several clergymen and a number of em ployere were present, but the majority of the audi tory consisted of ladies. The chairman, the Rev. Richard Burgess, the Rev. Dr. Morison, the !ter. J. H. Hamilton, the Rev. T. Alexander, and Dr. Pettigrew, severally advocated the t arty-closing sys tem, and resolutions were adopted to the effect that the continuance of late-hour trailing was detrimental to the best interests of both employers and em ployed, opposed to the prosperity of the Christian Church, and at variance with the progressive spirit of the age, and pledging the meeting to assist in the formation of ladies' committees, as one of the most effective agencies that could be employed in promoting the object in view. Ter: bakers throughout the metropolis have again raised the price of the 41b. loaf. The first-rate bakers at the West-end now charge ls. to Is. Oil for the best wheaten breoul. Many of what arc called "cheap bakers," m Whitechapel, Spitaltields, West minster, Am., only charge Mid. to lid. for good whole /tome bread. Is is stated that Mr. Leeman, of York, has just purchased Newby Park from Mr. Umbel'', fur 1110,000/. The purchase is made on behalf of Viscount Downe, already a large hauled proprietor in Yorkshire. THE works for the. London Necropolis and Na tional Mausoleum are about to be begun at Guildbird, the commoners having been arranged with and paid IS,OINV. for their rights, liming claimed 11,01011/. lewd Midow has also lass' arranged with for '2,1 IN acres for the cemetery. Puoreeson Mennen: has beets dismissed front his chair by the council of King's College, in eimse• quietist of doubts respecting his orthodoxy suggested by a recently-published volume of "'Theological Essays." Tut: commission appointed to inquire into the state of the corporation of the city of London cone mowed their investigations on Tuesday, at the ',likes of the Treasury in Downing-street. The commis sioners present were Mr. Labourhere tchainniut). Mr. Cornewall Lewis, and Sir..lohn Pittieson. The entire sitting was occupied with the examination of Mr. James Adana, secretary to the City of Lo n don Municipal Reform Association. The investOttiiin has been continued on the subsequent days, and pro 'niece to be very protracted. 1117811NEMS tar Ceueonsyties Iteriete has been commenced by the Court of Aldermen, by entering that the clothes of the Mansion-horse and Guildhall officers shall lie made by the prisoners confined in Holloway Gaol. The officers have been already men surest by the I lellowity bailors, upon whom they waited for that purpose within the last fee days, by the di rection of the court. Tile projectors of a new trunk railway to Hastings held a meeting on \bettiey to tirgitnise a VI 'inputs . and explain their scheme. The hue presents some singular features at its metrepolitan terminus, the design being to carry the railway Mb, the very heart of London, so as to end almost under the shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral, with subterranean brunches to the General lost office, for the more convenient cc ipt and despatch of the el itaineittal It is proposed to enter the City over a new bridge to lie erected between Bliwkfriar4 unit Sinithwark. In it course out of London the new line will traverse the miserable localities lying between Bankside and the Elephant and Castle—where the first stiliurlian sta tion will be formed. Passing through the densely populated districts ling between Walwitrtlt and Brixton, hitherto unsupplied with railway romninni. cation, the line will pewee(' direct to Tunbridge, where a junction will he formed with the Mesh's: branch of the South-Eastern Railway. importnnt feature in the undertaking is a shies br a n c h to the Crystal Palace at Sydenhion, by which that edifice will be brought within it nearer distance of the City than by any other railway, with the great advantage of a direct river approach. The meeting, which t: tok place at Hastings, was attended by seteral intinen dial teem and the project was receivi d in me manner which promisee favourably for it s f u t ure ne ,.„ l "o„th. went. A Protse MEETINII was had on Tuesiley at the Lentloti Tavern, for the purpose of promoting a sub scription to supply the funds requisite for the erec tion of a ►place of worship and schist , for the ragged poor of Mile-end New Town, in Spitaltiehls, which is rogarded as one of the most degraded localities of the metropolis. The cost of the ',reject is estimated at within 1,500/., of which sum Mall. tuts already been raised, leaving 1,00411. still to be collected. The meeting was presided over by the Right lion. the Lord Mayor. A LETTER FROM MARREII.I.E:4 states that Cardinal Wiseman, who alighted at the Hotel des Amlitts , e. dents, after receiving the members of the Cathohe clergy of that city, had embarked for Rome in the Jlortgibelio, and not for Lireeee, as has been re ported. THE PRESS. ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES, says the Meek, are placed at the head of tl.e great outlets for our manufactures. England furnishes us to the amount of about 13:1,000,000f. of different articles, among which stand in the first place raw and floss silk, wool, coals, copper, and wuNen goods, which we re export for the most part, as they are charged with a heavy import duty. Out of these 14000,00 K of imports, 90/110,000L at the utmost enter into our own consumption. With England, contrary to what is the case with Russia and the northern states of Europe, our exports far exceed our imports. Silk and woellen goods occupy the first place in the arti cles with which we supply our neighbours. These two articles alone represent a sum of 123,isayaa1f. out of a total amount of 2110,01)0,010111., or •21tlymon,titior. more than that of the English merchandise which we consume. Tile Woonnutor Itfroc, CoNxEcrterr, collapsed about a year ago, by fore-ordination, and its bills lay:! since been quietly bought up at 1.5 to ;At cents on the dollar. That accomplished, the hank is ready to resume payment. AT a meeting of the Great Indian Railway Com pany, held on Monday, the directors were authorised to raise 1,00,1141/. additional capital, by the issue of new shares, and such further sum as may from tune to time be necesaary for extension purposes. The new shares will be divided pro rata amongst the present proprietors. 'Tot: first annual meeting of the Irish Beetroot Sugar Company was held this week, when a very satisfactory report from the directors was read and unanimously adopted. The works have all been erected, and operations have commenced. The sitgar produced has been pronounced extremely good, and the prices obtained in Lo.elon, Dublin, and Belfast, according to the report, "have proved beyond question that the sugar obtained from beet can compete successfully with the colonial pro due of the cane." VISOWNT I'ALHEINTON arrived in town on Tues day, from Broadlatels, and left the same afternoon for Windsor Castle, on a visit to the Queen. A Cmitser Corset'. will be held at the Foreign office on Tuesday next, at two o'clock. 'Fur heralds and pursuivants made proclamation, on Tuesday, at the Cross, Edinburgh, with the usual formalities, for the election of a representative peer at Bolyrood, on the Ifith inst. Toe Ru.rine arrived at Southampton on Wednes day with the heavy portion of the East India and China mails. Toe NoTuDIOUS SLAVER, the Lady Suffolk, has been condetnned by Mexican authority, and is to be converted into a Mexican sloop•of war. Aeconnititi to the North British Daily Mail some of the shippers at Leith have obtained information that their vessels lying at Cronstadt have received notice from the British consul to be in readiness to put to sea at four or five hours notice, with or with out cargo. TwENTv.six 44 REFORMED ClumiNAts" have been heal out to America as free emigrants by the London Itel , witiatery institution. tln Wednesday there was a ceremony of leave-taking. Speeches were made, and Lord Shaftesbury shook hands with each of the emigrants. Toe Gtuirdian states that a clergyman who was amongst those who seceded to Rome has lately returned to the English Church. THE VArANT SeoTell Juoeestne has been formally declined by Mr. Inglis, Dean of Faculty. The post is to be taken by the Solicitor-General, Mr. Handy side. The new Solicitor-General will be Mr. Cratt furl, Sheriff of Perthshire. 'IIIE I'IWULATION or PRUSSIA in December, ls';r2, was 10,9:15,420 souls, giving an increase, during three years, from 1549, of 537,972 souls, or :1.2s per cent. Tut: Terms, or Spero between American and Eng • lisp clippers engaged in the China trade has again been decided in favour of the latter ; the English clipper ship Stornoway, which left Canton on the Toth of July, having reached the Mersey. while the American clipper Challenge sailed for London on the Nth, and has not yet been reported. gall) nub litt. A lisrm:ssiN6 t' came before the Thame,, (Mice magistrate on Saturday evening, when a woman named rolling applied for advice and assistance. The applicant had been charged on the previous Thursday with illegally pawning s ome c loth which had been entrusted to her to make into trousers; hut her pitiable tale of sickness and starvation, with children, and a husband at sea, induced Mr. lug• ham to discharge her with a warning. Since that day she had sought assistance from the !-tepney l• • Workhouse. but her application there had been postponed, ►ual on Saturday she came to the court seeking for a morsel o f b rea d. in. course she could get no slopseller to trust her with work alter her pre %ions conduct SATURDAY, Mr.lNotrAm : You are the sailuels wife who wab before Tliursday ? The Applicant: Yea, sir, Mr. I : Yin era WIN is all owing to your having pawned other people s goods. yuu were in distress, no doubt; but you only wade your position worse by doing so ; and 1 c.oilil, and perhaps ought, to have severely punished you for it, but 1 took your ease into consideration, and let )ott go. I stn lAA 116E01161104 st your being iu this destitute coalition, after pawning gooth that did not belong to you. The Applicant: oh, sir, I hope God will forgive uir whet 1 did All 1 could earn was list. per thiy. Wheu toy children were ery lug for bread, and I was lying ou a lied of ,•lekiless, I was tempted to raise moue; ou the things to procure lUoil for lily little ones. 1 hope you will give airs hue relief. Mr. 1 Nti said these eases were on the hies else, and there was a precisely similar one lwfore his colleague. Mr. Yarille, oat Tuesday. If lie relieved ;work who coinuiitteil Offelli.oll, or dill• bullied to them contributions sent to that c for the poor, lee should be holding out a premium to persons to counuit siwilsr The : My poor children have not tasted any f0,,,4 this day. tiir, what Hill Ito 110 ? Mr. 'Nowa': An that is all, and an you have been refused relief elsewhere, 1 will make all exception in your came, and you shall have Si. from ties poor-six Mud, but mind you roust not expect any more fr !!!!! the .41111 e source, and you must go to the relieving ottteer, aiul lie roust relieve you and your family if you HIV 111 Willa. tin being told of the number of the poor woman's family, and the depth of their destitution, Mr. Ing ham afterwards ordered the donation to be doubled. THE PitomorEn ot• A SeitEmt: for making and selling cheap beer, Mr. John Itellard Lloyd, applied at the Insolvent Court for discharge under the act : It appeared that the inselvent bawl been a commercial tra veller, and in Iste.l conceived a project called " The City of 1.4 Brewing and Mailing Company " Ile advertised and get 11&1114.8, which he set tertli in Y prospectus, and the cow pan, was provisietially registered, and nothing further was dune. The object of the c.mipany, when Ihnited, was it) übtaiu cheap liver. lir obtained 421. Pb,* plated sther articles of Messrs. Sari, which he pledge4l Within it Mrtnight 1.. ~nstain the c.olipany. Ile gut the articles fur the attended company. _ Alter some investigation the case was adjourned, in order to obtain the attendance of the late company'a secretary, and for other purposes. The insolvent was meanwhile sent back to prison. Two Mont: timunatite Houses have been assailed anti entered by the police. The Cocoa Tree was broken into on Monday, and the Little Nick, in Castle-street, on Tuesday night. In both the officers captured a large number of pemons, who spent the night in the station-house, and were brought up sub sequently at the Marlborough-street Police Court. As usual, however, sufficient delay had occurred, before the constables could in either case succeed in etti2,cting an entrance, to remove and efface all hit 'dements and traces of gambling, and the magistrate consequently dismissed both batches of defendants, forty-seven in all, for lack of evidence whereon to proceed against them. I s adjudicating upon the case of a picture-dealer, named Brooks, at, the Bankruptcy Court, Commis sinner Foubhunple alluded to and severely repre hended the practice of renewing debts to old creditor under insolvency, when the insolvent begins business again. Such transactions appeared to have taken place to a serious extent in the instance then before him, and Brooks indeed alleged these renewals as the principal cause of his new bankruptcy. The con duct of all patties, said the Connuissiuner, had been highly censurable, but especially that of the cre • ditors It had been a most unfair transaction to Mullen a Mall with old arias. creditors who thus got paid might be considered as accomplices to bankrupts getting fresh reedit under false pre tences. The Legislature had at length imerferea, and rendered the practice Una, and lie cunsiderea the recent alterat of the law in Iles respect of great valve. No assignee did his duty who did not serutonse proofs of this ►inul nio.l rigidly. Ile email not too strongly stigmatise conduct like that before him on the putt of either ilk titer or creation Pay 'nimbi of the kind were general) , m o o by the property of new erimlitora cud he must stigmati a the conduct of creditors and punish ii. colvlttet of debtors wh o thus 610141, as far as pkissible. Ile Matilda eonsiiier it the lint• dr the assignees n• t ' • the debts carefully. to oppose the pro'•f of sll r'in•wals, and, where they should have been iiiitthertently permitted W be placed on the hies of the court, to hat e them ex • punge , l. The bankrupt's certificate was suspended for twelve months, and then to be granted of the third class. THE FATAL FALL OF A HOUSE ix THE STRAND r.?.- stilted in a verdict of manslaughter against Mr Abrahams, the surveyor to the Duke of Norfolk, who was entrusted with the superintendence of the new works and excavations on the adjoining ground. On Saturday last Mr. Abrahams surrendered for trial at the Central Criminal Court—tot, though the grat d jury had ignored the bills presented to theta upon the same case, the verdict of the coroner's jury suf ficed to compel the trial of the defendant. When the case was opened, however, the counsel for the prosecution declared that the evidence placed before Ifim was contradictory. and failed to establish any ease against Mr. Abrahams. Mr. Justice Cream• well concurred in this opinion; and with a brief hint that the coroner's jury had mistaken the law cf manslaughter," and that nobody could be made fairly answerable for the catastrophe, the trial terminated in an immediate acquittal of the prisoner. Immediately afterwards. l'ardington and W.otls, tte engine driver and fireman to the express train which caused so much damage to persons and pro perty on the tireat Northern Railway, were brought up to be tried for misdemeanour. Their emplovers the company, prosecuted; and the counsel stated as j