The Press. — London, England, 1857-05-30 00:00:00

530 titttion 3nttilignut. READING.-Mr. Keating, Q.C., the member for this borough, who has received the appointment of Solicitor-General, as successor to the Right Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, will probably be re-elected without opposition. LEEDS.—Mr. W. E. Forster, of Burley, has issued an address, dated from the Reform Club, offering him self as a candidate for Leeds in the room of the late Mr. Hall. Mr. John Remington Mills, the defeated Liberal candidate at the late election, has also issued an address. In all probability Mr. Beckett will represent the Coasetvative interest. FALMOUTH AND "TENRYN.—Mr. T. G. Baring was re-elected on Wednesday without opposition upon his acceptance of office under Government as Junior Lord of the Admiralty. _ eARMARTHENSHIRE.—it is not probable that Mr. Lloyd Davies will be put forward for this county. glttravalitan. THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY held their anniver sary meeting on Monday, when the report of the council was read and adopted, and the society's gold medals awarded to Colonel A. S. Waugh, Surveyor• General of India, for his valuable geodetical opera tions in that country ; and to Mr. A. C. Gregory, for his extensive and important explorations in Western and Northern Australia. The President prefaced the latter presentation with a brief description of Mr. Gregory's expeditions and their results, observing that it may now be fairly inferred that nearly all the central portion of the vast continent of Australia is an uninhabitable desert, probably the dried-up bottom of a sea ; and that hence all interchange between our different colonies in that region must take place either along what may be termed the coast ranges, or by sea. The united journeys performed by Mr. Gregory (he added) extended over 6,450 miles, and while they bad determined many hitherto unknown points of latitude and longitude, they had also clearly defined the character of that fine basin of North Australia which might at no distant day become a British colony. The President next delivered an address on the progress of geographical research during the past year. Commencing with an eloquent and feeling tribute to the memory of the two deceased ex•presidents of the society, Admiral Beeches and the Earl of Ellesmere, he proceeded to pass in rapid review the labours of geographical inquirers in all parts of the world. In the course of a very length ene I and interesting discourse Sir Roderick succes sively descanted upon M. Kleghorn's theory of the wear and tear of our coasts, the projected trans atlantic telegraph, the discoveries of Dr. Livingston and Dr. Barth in Africa, the proposed final Arctic search, and various cognate topics, winding up his address with a reference to the growing utility and acknow ledged importance of that society, and to the inade• quacy of its present accommodation to its steadily increasing numbers. A NEW EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENT, over which his Royal Highness Prince Albert has consented to pre side, will be inaugurated in London on the 22nd of June, and will be supported by the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, Lord Lyttelton, Lord Stanley, M.P., the Right Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., Sir J. K. Shuttleworth, Sir T. Phillips, the Deans of Westminster and Salisbury, Archdeacon Sinclair, Mr. Edward Baines, and other gentlemen well known for their exertions in the cause of education. The first m•eting will take place at Willis's-rooms on Monday, June 22. It will be presided over by l'rince Albert, and the question which will be submitted for con sideration is, " The early age at which children of the working classes are taken from school." On the following day (Tuesday, June 23) the conference will be divided into four sections—l. To inquire into the fact, causes, and results of the alleged early removal of children from school. 2. To institute slimier inquiries in respect to the education of foreign countries. 3. To consider the expedients which have been proposed for keeping the children of the working classes longer at school; and 4. To inquire into the merits of such other expedients as shall be proposed for the consideration of the con ference, and particularly those known as half time schemes. The reports of these sections will be laid before a final meeting on Wednesday, June 21, over which Prince Albert will again preside. THE ADJOURNED INQUEST in the case of the Tot tenham court-road houses was resumed on Tuesday. Mr. Taylor, the builder, atates it as his opinion that the cause of the accident arose from the holes being cut in Mr. Hunter's wall, which was old and in a weak state. The inquiry was again adjourned, and resumed yesterday. THE ANNUAL MEETINGS of the Royal Naval School at New cross, and the Asylum of St. Ann's Society, have been held this week. The reports of both of these excellent institutions were highly satisfactory. THE PRESS. THE PROPOSED TOLL FOR NEW BATTERSEA BRIDGE will meet with great resistance. A public meeting has been held in the ueighblurhood, and another is to be called in St. Martin's-hall. The point contended for is that, as the bridge was being built out of the public money, and the public conse quently would pay first for its erection, it would be highly improper to tax them again for its usefulness in enabling them to get to a park constructed pur posely for their recreation and enjoyment. THE ADJOURNED TRANSPORTATION AND PRISON DISCIPLINE MEETING WdS held at the Mansion howie on Tuesday, the Lord Mayor presiding. The leading feature of the meeting was the reply of Mr. Pearson to previous speakers. As soon as Mr. Lemaitre, Mr. W. K. Ball, and Sir J. Tapered had concluded their addresses, Mr. C. Pearson rose to reply, sketching the details and estimates inci dent to his scheme as submitted to the committee of the House of Commons six or seven years ago. He computed that the total cost of erecting by free labour a prison for 1,000 prisoners, according to his system, including land purchase, buildings, and inclosing wall, would not exceed 80,00 W., or 80/. per prisoner : The cost of Pentonville Prison was 1701. per prisoner; that of Reading Gaol, 2001. per prisoner ; Millbauk, 51'21. per prisoner; and York Prison even as high as 1,201 1 1. per prisoner. Colonel Jebb, Inspector General of Prisons, had admitted the accuracy of this calculation, while Colonel Chesterton, who had been governor of Colduath•tields Prison for twenty-five years, also bore strong testimony to the inertia of the scheme. Moreover, one of the first eon tractors of the day was prepared on his own responsibility to buy the lard, construct the wall and building, and also to manage the prison, subject to Government on condition that he received 61. per annum for each of the prisoners in additicn to the profits accruing from their labour. Mr. Pearson estimated the annual charge of food and clothing for 1,000 at 0,5501., while a further sum of 4,0001. would provide for the salaries of 101 officers to watch over them. The earnings of 1,000 prisoners would average about 16,0001. per annum. Htving dilated upon the salutary influence of labour sentences in making convicts the voluntary instru ments of their own maintenance, reformation, and release, and avowed his belief that our various colo nies would actually compete with each other for a class of emigrants who had undergone such an or deal, Mr. Pearson concludetl by moving a resolution affirming that the Secretary of State for the Home Department should be empowered to substitute in certain cases a proportionate number of hours of work instead of fixed periods of imprisonment and transportation. This and other propositions em bodying Mr. Pearson's views were unanimously adopted, and a committee appointed to take mea sures for subjecting them to the test of experiment. A DEPUTATION from the Board of Guardians of the West London Union waited on the Lord Mayor on Wednesday to confer on the subject of practically carrying out the provision of a central receptacle or ward for the casual poor of London. The Lord Mayor promised his hearty support to the proposi tion. THE COLBERN COPYRIGHT SALE was concluded on Tuesday, when the valuable copyrights of 1, "The Crescent and the Cross "; 2, " Evelyn's Diary and Correspondence"; 3, " Pepys's Diary "; 4, " Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England''; 5,6, and '7, Sir Bernard Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionaries, were sold respectively,--1, 420 guineas for copyright and 58/. 10s. for the stock (Hurst and Blackett) ; 2, 1101. for copyright and 3501. for stock (Bohn); 3, 310/. for copyright and 5101. for stock (Bohn) ; 4, to Mr. Kent, 6,9001. for copy right and 227/. ss. for stock; 5,6, and 7, to Mr. Forster, at 4,900/. for copyright and 5001. for stock. 1 hese few copyrights realised about 14,0001. THE EXHIBITION OF DESIGNS FOR THE NEW PUBLIC OFFICES will be closed on Saturday, June 6, according to a notice affixed to the entrance of Westminster-ball. The models for the monument proposed to be erected to the memory of the late Duke of Wellington in St. Paul's will be received cn or before Monday next, the Ist of June, from artists residing within the United Kingdom, and on or before the 25th of June from other artists. West minster-hull will be open to the public for the exhi bition of these models early in July, and those designs for public offices which shall have been selected by the judges to receive the premiums will be exhibited at the same time. THE CHARITY CHILDREN OF LONDON assembled on Thursday, according to annual custom, at. St. Paul's, and attended service in the cathedral. The children of each school went in procession through the metropolis, with the incumbent of the parish and the churchwardens at their bead, and on arriving at St. Paul's took their places on raised seats on the floor beneath the dome. Full choral service was performed, and the sermon was preached by the Bishop of London. The Lord Mayor and corpora tion were present, and the ceremony was graced by the presence of the Duchess of Sutherland. SATURDAY, THE NEWSVENDERS' BENEVOLENT AND PROVIDENT INSTITUTION held their annual meeting on Wednes. day evening, at the Freemasons"ravern. Th e report was adopted, and the company adjourned to a very elegant supper, presided over by ➢lr. John Walter, M.P. The chairman, in proposing the toast of the evening, " Success to the Newsvenders' Benevolent and Provident Institution," said that without the aid of newsvenders in distributing the results of the printing machine the trade of the newspaper proprietor would be of little worth. If one class of society was properly called licensed victuallers, the newsmen might be designated the unlicensed victuallers of human knowledge. He assured them he felt it a great honour to be present that evening, to be thus enabled to testily hi s feelings in favour of the institution. The health of the chairman and a variety of other toasts followed. The subscription list amounted to upwards of 1001. THE PUBLIC HEALTH continues in a very satis factory state. The deaths of last week—in all 948 were less by 160 than would have occurred at the average rate. The births amounted to 1,633. Vrobintzal. THE EARL OF YARBOROUGH'S yacht Zoe Way wrecked on the night of the 24th on the Heisborough sandbank, off the Norfolk coast. The wind tailing light, the Zoe was drifted by a very strong tide on to the sands, struck the bank with great v,olence several times, and after some little time, rolling over, became washed by the sea ; sufficient time, however, elapsed to enable the noble owner and his friends, together with the crew, to betake themselves hurriedly to the boats, and thereby to save all hands. Fortunately for the boats the water was smooth and the weather fine, which enabled them, after about three hours' hard pulling against a strong tide, to reach the Coast guard station of Haisborough. The yacht, which was most magnificently fitted up, has become a total wreck, and nothing on board has been saved. The noble earl has written to the Times exonerating his sailing master from all blame. _ _ THE Mks°Ns' STRIKE at the Royal Victoria Hos pital, Netley, Hants, still continues. It has already lasted ten weeks. The strike originated in the demand of the masons, who were in the employ of Mr. Smith, the Goverurneut contractor, to leave work at four p.m. on Saturdays, and to be paid a full day's work notwithstanding. Netley Hospital is at a ili‘- tance from any town, and the men declared they had no time to send home money to their families on Saturdays, unless they left work early, and moreover that masons were always allowed such a privilege as they demanded under similar circumstances. It is expected the Government will not limit the contrac tors to time, and that consequently Mr. Smith will be able to hold out, a number of masons having been obtained from Yorkshire to work at the hospital on the contractor's terms. AN OFFICER of the 85th, Ensign Bowles, was drowned in the river Ribble at Preston, on Saturday last. He was out on a boating excursion, and on his ieturn from Lytham to Preston. The servant of a friend in attendance on the unfortunate officer was drowned also. The boat was supposed to have been capsised in a squall. FRAUDS UPON THE DUKE OF RUTLAND, the Cam• bridge and Suffolk papers state, have been discovered during the last few days, iu reference to the manage ment of the estates of the Duke of Rutland at Cheveley, near Newmarket. Deficiencies and irregularities extending over a series of years have been exposed ; and it has been ascertained that tradesmen's accounts—some of them very heavy— supposed by his grace to have been paid, are still duo. The books, which were submitted from time to time to the duke's inspection, were so managed as to avert all suspicion. By the frauds perpetrated the Duke of Rutland will sustain a loss of many thousand pounds. His grace is at present at Cheveley super intending the arrangement of his affairs. SHOLIDON COURT, HEREFORDSHIRE, the seat of Lord Bateman, was on Monday last the scene of a terrible accident. A number of workmen have been employed for some time past in making extensive alterations on the premises. Among them were certain arches, to be constructed underneath the mansion, and as a number of masons, carpenters, and others were em ployed on these on Monday last an arch just com pleted, but which had been built upon old foundations, gave way, burying the workmen in the ruins, killing two on the spot and severely injuring the others. Every aid was rendered by the inmates of the court, and the Hon. and Rev. A. Henbury particularly exerted himself. A PUBLIC RECEPTION on a very extensive scale is to be given to his Royal Highne s s the D u ke of Cam bridge on the occasion of his visia. to Birmingham on Monday next. The whole of the houses along Ills Royal Highness's route to Calthorpe•park will be gaily decorated, and three triumphal arches are to span the road, one near St. Luke's Church, another at Wellington road, and another at the corner of