The Press. — London, England, 1858-09-25 00:00:00

926 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Cbe Prrisfs: (STAMPED) Per Annum .. .. .. .. 11 6 0 Half Yearly.. .. • . 0.. 0 13 Quarterly .. 6 6C. .. • • .. PAYABLE IN ADYANCB. Subscribers are requested to send their orders through News Agents: if direct to the Office, accompanied by a remittance. Advertisements also must have • reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALriten Iva, 11U, Strand. London. THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 25, 1858. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A SUPPLEMENT (gratis) is published with THE PRESS of This Day. Whatever is intended for insertion mnstbe authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publica tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advovisetnents sent from the country must be accompanied by remittance or a reference fur payment in town. It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we reeelve Their insertion Is often delayed owing to a prose of matter and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite lode. pendent of the merits of the communication. Connnunioations should alwsys be legibly written, and on one tide of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of finding apses for then. lit It) 3.7v401. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 25, 1858. POSTSCRIPT. THE TREATY WITH CHINA. THE following is the outline of the China Treaty, to which we have referred as published in the North China Herald, and some of the foreign journals : Ambasmadors or diplomatic Ministers to be mutually appointed by the two Empires. The British Ministers to reside at Pekin with the privileges usually accorded to Representatives of Foreign Powers in Europe. British Consuls to reside at open ports. Five new cities and ports to be added to those of Canton, Atnoy, Fuchow, Ningpo, and Shanghai, opened by the Treaty of Nanking. Professors and teachers of the Christian religion to be secured from persecution. British subjects to travel with passports. No restriction to be placed on lawful employment of Chinese by British. The tariff fixed by the Treaty of Nanking of 5 per cent. ad valorem to be revised with a view to reduc- tion. Chinese subjects guilty of any offences to be tried by Chinese laws, and punished by Chinese autho• rities. Chinese to join ii repression of piracy. British ships of war in pursuit of pirates, or peace- ably engaged, may visit all ports, and to be supplied with stores, &e. The Chinese character signifying barbarian nit to be used in any official document. aiAll communications from English authorities to Chinese to be in English accompanied by a Chinese version. THE BOYN HILL INQUIRY. THE Commissioners appointed to inquire into the charges made against the Rev. R. T. West, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, Curate of Boyn Hill, met yesterday morning at the Town Hall, Maidenhead, for the purpose of prosecuting the investigation intrusted to them by the Bishop of Oxford's Com mission. The Commissioners were Dr. Robert Phil. limore, Chancellor of the Diocese of Oxford ; the Venerable James Randall, M.A., Archdeacon of Berkshire ; the Rev. J. Austen Leigh, Vicar of Bray, the parish in which Mr. Oresley's district is situated ; Mr. Charles Sawyer, of Heywood Lodge; and Mr. Hibbert, of Braywreili Mr. Cripps, of the Oxford circuit, instructed by Mr. Gambier, of Gray's Inn, appeared for the com• plainant, the Rev. John Shaw, Rector of Stoke Poges. Mr. West was represented by Mr. J. D. Cole ridge, who was instructed by Mr. Bowland, of Reading. Mr. J. M. DAVENPORT, secretary to the Bishop of Oxford, and registrar of the diocese, r.md the Com mission, which was as follows : Samuel, by Divine permission, Lord Bishop of Oxford, to oily beloved in Christ, Robert Joseph Pliillimore, Esq., 1") C.L., Q.C., Vicar General of our Diocese ; the Venerable Arehdeneon James Rimini!, the Rev. James Edward Arsten Leigh, Rural Dean; Charles Sawyer, Esq ,an John Hibbert, Esq., greeting, Whereas the Rev. Richard Temple Vest, a clerk in holy orders of the United Church of England and Ireland, and atipendary curate of Boyn Hill, in the county of lierks, and within our diocese and jurisdiction, is charged by the Rev. John Shaw, Vicar of Stoke Poges, in the county of Buckingham, with an offence against the laws ecclesiastical in having within two years hereof, in the performance of his ministerial duty on the occasion of visiting a certain sick person named Nancy Arnold, put improper questions to her with the view of leading her to make confession to him, as is more fully charged in a certain requisition or complaint sent to us, • copy of which is hereunto Rub joined, and whereas we, rightly and duly proceeding under the authority and in conformity with the provieions of a certain Act of Parliament passed in the session holden in the third and fourth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter 88, for better enforcing clerical discipline, did on the 30th day of August last now past, being fourteen days at least before the issuing of this our Commission, send notice under our hand to the said Richard Temple West, that it was our intention to issue a commission under oar hand and seal to you the five abiive-mentioned persons for the purpose of making inquiry as to the grounds of the aforesaid charges. We therefore, by virtue and in further pursuance of the said recited Act, do, on the application of the said John Shaw, issue this our commission to you, the said Robert John Phillimore, James Randall, James Edward Austen Leigh, Charles Sawyer, and John Hibbert, for the purpose of making inquiry as to the grounds of the aforesaid charge, and we do hereby authorise and empower you to make such inquiry, and to proceed in the execution of this commission in the manner directed by the said recited Act. Given under our hand and seal on the 15th day of September, in the year of our Lord 1858, and of our con- Heoration the Lith. Dr. PHILLINORE stated that the commissioners bad come to ►he conclusion that they would first hear the counsel for the accuser—then they would hear the counsel for Mr. West. Mr. CRIPPS then proceeded to address the court on behalf of the Rev. R. T. West, who, he said, had been accused, under the Church Discipline Act, of a violation of ecclesiastical rule in reference to confes. sion, and cited the particular cases in which that rule had been infringed. The inquiry was then adjourned. COTTAGE IMPROVEMENTS. TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS." Sir,—l have read your article on the dwellings of the poor with great interest, and I beg to inclose you plans, which are only just ready for issue to the public, which will show that whatever the fate of the labouring poor in towns, there is a move in the matter as to the country which may eventually reach back to the towns. You are probably aware that hitherto the great obstacle in the way of cottage improvement has been its relegation to the realms of philanthropy— almost of charity. Certainly it is only liberal. minded men, "whose hearts are in the right place," who will build cottages at about 2001. a piece cost while all the rent that can he squeezed out of a labourer's earnings is 2s. per week. By the plans of the Cottage Improvement Society good convenient cottages, with three bedrooms upstairs, can be built anywhere in the United Kingdom at 1701. THE PAIR This movement is not only at the threshold of all sanatory improvement, but of rnoral religious pro gress. 'there can be neither morality ner religion when all the decencies and proprieties of life are outraged, or when, as at Great Norwood, every cottage was a fever nest.—Yours, faithfully, CHAS. J. CooKE, Hon. Sec. of the Cottage Improvement Society. 18, Adam•street, Adelphi, Sept. 23. THE ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE ARMY CLOTHING SYSTEM, recently appointed to inquire into the manner in which the great military clothing depot at Weedon is conducted, are now conducting the inquiry in one of the committee-rooms of the House of Commons, and continue the investigation which was formally opened towards the end of July. The commissioners are Mr. Selfe, the police magistrate, who is the chairman ; Mr. Aspinall Turner, one of the members for Manchester; and Colonel French, of the War office. The scope of their inquiry has been recently enlarged, so as to embrace not only the state of the store and clothing depot at Weedon, but those at Woolwich and the Tower. The public press is freely admitted to the proceedings. It was stated on Tuesday, by Sir Benjamin Hawes, Under. Secretary of State for War, that no accurate account of stores had been kept at Weedon. The i n t en ti on of the present Government is that the establishment at Weedon as regards the clothing department should be entirely removed to London, and the whole of the inspection of the clothing carried on in London under a new system by a mixed board of officers. Several cloth manufacturers and army cloth merchants were examined, but nothing was elicited as to any bribery or corruption having been practised. ___ ---- 110Xtip 60Irtip0H4tittt. Pormoar- circles have been somePwAhnartsmTovhendnkiduring the last few days by a dissension whichhas,:niiss t e e n r Thursday, between the Prince Napole on an d the Council of Ministers. The Prince, in his capacity roof intro of of Algeria and the Colonies, was ducing into Algeria the system of " free trade," or, at least, of making some extensive modifications in the Customs' regime ; but, when the project was m brought before the Cabinet, ov er which, in the e,ab• the Bence of the Emperor and th e Prince Jerome, Prince presides, it was energetically and e sse i• mously condemned as impolitic in itself and as likely to create profound dissatisfaction, perhaps even dis turbances, in the great manufacturing towns. A note annouucing its condemnation, or, to speak more correctly, declaring that " it had never been seriously entertained," was inserted in the Moniteur. The Prince was, it appears, exceedingly indignant at the rejection of his scheme, to which he attached great importance, from its being the first of purelya pu b . tical and commercial character which he has yet commercial proposed, and from, also, the conscientious belief (his Imperial Highness is a "free-trader," or very nearly so) that it would be really beneficial to the colony. Still more indignant was he at the some what contemptuotet tone in which the Moniker thought fit to speak of it. So, in a rage, he rushed off to Biarritz to complain to the Emperor of the conduct of his Ministers, and also, as some people assert, to insist that two or three of them should be dismissed, as a warning to the others to be more tractable in future. But, I apprehend, the matter will go no further. The Emperor will find means to soothe his impetuous cousin ; the Ministers will vow that their conduct was caused solely by a desire to do their duty to the Emperor and the nation, and they will all remain in their places; and the tariffs of Algeria will continue to repose in peace. On the situation of Switzerland, a certain degree of uneasiness is felt by gentlemen who see some thing of what is passing behind the political scenes. The extreme Radical party has, it appears, for some time past been making strenuous efforts to cause some of the principal cantons to act more indepen dently of the central Federal Government than they have hitherto done ; and if these efforts succeed, which from present appearances is not unlikely, it is feared that the Federal Government would be totally unable to keep those cantons on a friendly footing with adjacent States, and that, consequently, the gravest complications would arise. The French Cabinet has deemed it politic to make serious repre sentations to the Federal Administration on this state of things, and to require it to take precautions to prevent mischief. In addition, the French Cabinet considers that it has serious cause of complaint against the Swiss Government on account of the manner in which the arrangement come to in the early part of the year, relative to political refugees, has been and is executed. The Swiss Government professes a desire to please France, but represents that its power is but limited, and finds that it can hardly do what is required without grievously offend ing its people, and even violating the constitution of the country. But France seems disposed to be im• perious. Some sensation has been caused to-day by the appearance in the Vienna Gazette, organ of the Austrian Government, of an article which with great firmness, though in diplomatic tone, replies to some attacks on Austria in one of the semi-official journals of Paris, and in so doing not only vindicates and explains Austrian policy in Turkey, the Danubian Principalities, Italy, and Germany, but makes serious insinuations against France,—such as that it is she who keeps up the apprehensions of Europe, who endeavours to be dictatorial in Turkey, who is trying to detach lie Danubian Principalities from that em pire, who intrigues with certain Cabinets, main tein s an aimed peace, itc. Sac . The article has all the appearance of a solemn governmental manifesto; and it is an undoubted proof that the relations be tween Austria and France, which for some time have been the reverse of amical, have become extremely delicate. The opinion is general in our political circles that the English journals which ha ve denounced Russia for the Villafranca af f air, have committe,i e great mistake, it being of no polit ical importance whatever. The same opinion is enterta ined at Tun , at Brussels, and even at Vienna. The Government e has c e n publishedtl y concluded China, which contains tr.) inteinterestingfirst an announcement that China is to p a y ra tion recentlyin thet re M istF , I t ii ‘ t v e . l an ariacle h _ r au indemnity of 600,0001.; the secon d, a deollira o od that it was owing to the cordial co - oper ation and g