The Press. — London, England, 1853-12-17 00:00:00

DECEMBER 11, 1853. (out anb fashion. HEn MAnsTy and the royal circle have remained at Osborne throughout the week. CoNnualnoNs from the Queen of . .!:Sll. t o th e Association for Promoting the Relict' of Destitution in the Metropolis. and of 100/. to the new English Church in Paris, have been announced during the last few days. Ht:n MsJesrv's Belgian visitors, the Duke mid Duchess of Brabant, took their leave on Monday, and eml:arked in the royal yacht Fairy for Ports, month, whence they travelled by the South Coast Railway to Dover. Reaching that place by five in the afternoon, having partaken of di:joiner at an howl. their royal highnesses departed at ; p.m. for t tstend in the Ruby, a Belgian Ouvenunent steamer. Their sate arrival at Ostend by one o'clock on Tuesday morning was telegraphed to England in the course of that day. His EXcELLENcv Cot-Nr WALEWsiii, and the per sonnel of the French embassy, will shortly m au v e from the present seat of the embassy in —d; rosversie square to Gibraltar-house, at Albert-gate ; which has been taken by the French Government for a lengthened tenu. The French Ambassador and Countess Walewski leave town today (Saturday) for Rowood, on a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne. AOn tNn FusEn SE aricE took place on Thursday morning, at the chapyl of the Bavarian Embassy, in Warwick-street, for the repose of the soul of her late lamented Majesty Dona Maria, Queen of Portugal!. Tits: E. of Drunv is in a state of regular and rapid convalescence. Ills lordship was already sufficiently recovered to entertain, a few days since, party of his friends, including Lord Hardwicke, Lord Mahnesbury, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, &c., who have been spending, some time lately at Knows ley. We understand that preliminaries are arranged for a matrimonial union between Lord Bateman. Lord Lieutenant of the county of Hereford, anal the am i a ble anal accomplished Miss Kcrrison, youngest daughter of the late gallat:t Lieutenant lietteral Sir EdWard Kerrison, Ban., and sister to the Viscountess Mahon and lady Henniker. WE have great pleasure in announcing the res toration to health of the popular Earl of Jersey, who has greatly recovered since his return to Mid dleton-park. 4)o titittral. E►rt. oy Ant:abEys left London on Thursday morning for Osborne, for the purpose of taking her Mijesty's pleasure upon the political atTangements which must follow the resignation of Lord Palmer.. ton. licsxoen, member of the Court of Common Council for Cripplegate Within, has resigned his seat. It appears that the evidence thud he gave sonic time since before the Corporation Commis sioners gave great offence in the City, and exposed Mr. Ilennoch to insults, inuendoes, and denunci ations, which he declares himself unable to endure longer. " The doubtful honour," he says, "is not worth the positive annoyance ; anti so long as the Common Council is constituted as at present I am resolved to enter it no more." A " CnatsTmAs Hottn.tv " MoVLMENT. for the pur pose of affording workmen and employs throughout the country a holiday on Monday, the 'with, to replace the Christmas-day, of which they lose the henerit by its falling this year on Sunday, has been very widely and actively taken up. In London, the managers of the joint-stock banks, most of the great brewer:, and a multitude of trading and manufacturing firms, hare announced their intention to suspend operations on the 21Ith, of course without mulcting those in their employment of any proportion of their pay. At Liverpool, Exeter, and other provincial towns, the example will be extensively followed, and Monday week will be pretty generally observed throughout England as a die* non for ordinary business. A raorostrtov has been submitted to the American Government to subsidise a private steam-packet company, to establish a mail communication between New York anti Shanghai nisi the Pacific ocean, which it ie believed would open up a vast trade between the United States and China, the rasters parts of India, Japan, the Eastern Archipelago, and Australia, anti enable correspondence to anti from those parts anti Europe to be conveyed in a month's less time than at present. The subsidy named is two million anti a half of dollars per annum. Tin: submarine cable across the Firth of Forth and Tay is being laid down, so as to complete the chain of telegraphic communication between the far north of Scotland and the south. THE Silver brought by the Witmer), chiefly from Mexico, weighed tot tons s cwt. This is the largest quantity, with one or two exceptions, ever brought to England in one bhip. THE PRESS. THE GI'ANO deputation from the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of Eughinel waited on Saturday last. by appointment. on the Earl of Clarendon. Seeretary State for Foreign Affairs. The deputation consisted of Mr. Pusey, President nt the Society, and Lord Homers, the Puke of Richmond being unavoidably prevented accompanying them. After alluding to the cireumstanees under which the supply of gua n o was at present furnished by the Peruvian Government, and the exorbitant price charged to the English eonsumer for the article. the deputation hamlet' to the noble secretary a Illeawritil from the council of the Royal Agricultural Soeict,, to the effect that, being deeply sensible of t h e bard ships inflicted on the. British farmer by the excessive price of Peruvian guano, they trusted that the en• deetvours of her Majesty's Government would be directed towards the reduction of t h e cos o f t hi s important manure. lu the course of the interview tlw Earl of Clarendon entered fully into the lines Lion, which he assured the deputation had not failed to engage a large share of his attention. In midi tion to the report which had been lately received from Admiral Moresby, with regard to the extent of the supply of guano in Peru, it was intended by the Government to institute immediate inquiries with a view of asetTlailling the exact state of facts, and also as to the possibility of obtaining supplies of nitrate of soda from the :Reclean territories, which was understood to possess properties that rendered it equivalent in value, as a manure, to guano itself. It likewise appeared that many tl - sand 1011 a of fish were now annually thrown away as offal in Newfoundland, which might easily is' con verted into a rich and fertilising manure. To this also his attention should be directed, and the fullfst inquiries made upon the subject. The noble eall concluded by giving an assureince that her Mikiesty's Government would relax no ellen for the purpose of inducing the Peruvian Government to consider the question, and securing to the English fanner a large and cheaper anpply of this pow e rful elem e nt i n th e cultivation and improvement of the soil, 4lr of some other foreign manures equal to guano in utility and value. THE NEW 1;01.11-WAsIIINo: Mee HINE, of which we' gave a description in last week's ('lies., promj.es to i.e made available in England as well its in Australia. Some curious and important resultii have been elieiteil by the application of the machine to various en s from Poit ish mint a which were never before suspected of containing goblin quantity sufficient to render its extraction worth attempting. Some comparative es• periments hive been conducted by Professor Misted with Berilan's machine, with the view of testing the value of the golden deposit in different speeimens of Ore, English and foreign. The following are the stated results:-10 ewts. 1 Ir. 2:1114.4. net of hard, tough amiferons quartz from told-hill. Nevada County, California, belonging to the Ague Fria Com pany, after being cnisheil and amalgamated, yielded 1 oz'. 4 (leis. grs. fine gold to the ton of Ore, of the value of 11 /. 18s. 3d. The tailings, collected at intervals of ten minutes during the experiment, were carefully analysed, and found to contain 4 dwts. ges. of gold to the ton ; the machine therefore by one operation obtained 95.8 per cent. of the whole of the gold contained in the ore. N ewts. 1116 s. net of the oxide and mulchuret or iron, forming the gossan of the copper es at Poltimore, Neville I )evon, yielded at the rate of 1 oz. 111 dais. of gold to the tine : the tailings gave 2 awls. of fine gold to the Gm, showing the percentage obtained to he 93. The loss of mercury appeared to he small, and robbery could be prevented with great facility. Tie work an engine of 15-herie power with four basins, which would mesh about sixteen tons of quartz per day, the mean cost of enishing and amalgamating the ores is calculated not to exceed 13s. Oil. per ton in England, and in other places Ahem fuel (mil wages are itt moderate rates, and 20s. per ton 11 these ex TN - I - intents be borne out by facts ( and there appears that every reliance can be placed upon them), a new and important branch of industry will be introduced in milling enterprise, and it will be impossible to foresee what results it may lead to. Tne last return from the Registrar lieneral covers a decrease of mortality in London on the two !previous weeks, but it still indicates a not very favourable state of the public health. The deaths registered in the last four weeks were 1,102, 1,339, 1,411, and (in the week that ended hist Saturday) 1,308, This differs very slightly from the estimated average of the ten previous years. The increase in the deaths canned by diseases of the respiratory organs has been the principal feature of late returns. The number( referred to this class base been in the last flair weeks-180,'29i, 379, and :11:1. List week bronchitis was fatal in 151) eases, and pneumonia in 141. Typhus and 'looping cough predominate at present among epidemic diseases, the former num leering 94 fatal cases, the latter 541. Cholera rapidly declines : it reached its maximum in the first week of Nesember, when the deaths were 1(x1; in the five subsequent weeks they have beat 9 4 , 72, 19, 28, and Oast week) 1:1. 775 \111.3.04rn Ewtmo, who died reeentiv in the posses sion of etionnons wealth, has IteglieNtikeil 1. 1 0,0011/. to the I;l4.sglow Merchants' House. and 10,111114. to the Ito•otl'lntirinary. .%u aggregate of nearly :10.11110/. tr distributed among other charities, and 1:1.11110/. left to the funols of the Free Chitral of Seotlatl. Ni viritoo Eu 1 . .111 . % ur :11rIttsHANT VEssEl.s were enabled to reach the Pool by the change of wind to N.V. at the close or last week. Among these were a large 11111111ter of coal laden vessels. Three hundred and thirty-six were reisti tett to have arrived on hide) and Satttriloy last week, and nearly five !flunked more earl) in this. The ',rive of coals, which hid 101% iniel . 4l to All Shilost tutprereslettlisl and distressing rate, fell :is. or in consequence of this ablllitlatit supply. 1.111 TEN \T I'‘rilt•%lll', at priewill Turn niatookr in-Chief at the Cape, Isms been appointed to stieeeed tiettertil Sir tieorge ilrOWn #l4 4.;enerall of the Forces. Sir I osorge has rwaigued lots (mullions, aveording to the idob e ,f ill eowsegtioneo of sollle Illiterellre• with the other authorities at the Horse litteras relative to the leave of absence granted to certain toillitar r•. A PtAsto‘ of :041/. per alumni hits been gratittd by her Mkjesty, oli the reetootoemlottoo 44 the 1 , 1 • 4 : t om to Mrs. Hogg, the widow of the Ettriek herd. A ux to I'AIII.IAIIFN I' of the receipts as bilk trout lighthouses, &v., by the Trinity heitse, in last 111 IS $lllll apl►i•ured. Tile 1114 was I 1i1).;SII. INs. Nil. The charge of maintenance was ss,tim3/. Is. Old., leaving the ►.urplls 51,011t4/. Ills. II isl. Th., duties collected to the edict? 1.1 Is :age and beaconstge were in net I t+,11191. IMs. illl l . ' l ' l►cre Wa4 a mintlith of ;11,4100/. on this aco mot. whit+ has liven applied in part liquitluUuu of the debt unlined in the pureliese +►f the pi'; si t e li g ht,. 111111 to eharital►lc and ether uses connected with the es i n .sint I.s:trrits on 1)5 , t.t•rt nit. have 'el been r'i•- eeited by the Admiralty fro''► the .Irr►plrilr'ile, oil list return Ina.. Ilehrisig's Strait, and there is is 310 (011111s111111111 for the statement that theta Isis!, beennew. f rom t h e Enterprise. 1111i1 Isar, dipolar. The hats.-t inta.llll4cove from the hitter ship had already reached us by Ilydailt Ingletield, uud 1144610 z Howe vim kiomo sit' her until the aunt.... ul next year. 4W the Eitti-ri rime no ititylligeoce has been rereilrd. It is Oki , untrue that the 11111111! of Sir John Franklin will he struck en' the le a,ka of the Admiralty, in oilier to make room for that of Captain Clouts. It is not to be supp►►si•d 111111 OW .tslinirally would contemplate much a step while the issue even of their owls expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin is unknown. Tut: premium tittered for the bust plait for weight' - Mg Dartmoor has liven awarded to Mr. Iletny Tanner, of Exeter, who was the successful - titur for the Ituaal Agricultural Stwiety's pluo for his report on the apiculture of lie‘otishile. There are upwards of *24140,1100 acres of waste land of good quality lying in the midst of that county, the property of the Prince of \Visit s, which is now almost unproductive. THE SUN col' TIIF: ElllTlttift of ll tort bu s re ce ntly arrived in England from France, having traselltil under the nano of M. Dalval. llis object iu ‘isititig this conaitr, is solid to lie to I'IIIIIOCW his ethicatior, for which purpose lie will shortly proceed to Dawlisb, and place himself under a dello man of that plait . It is expected that il a Finpertir of Hayti himself, wills some of the members i•i the c o u r t, a m I t.,tt his son during the ensuing spr ing. THE ligterimis" of the Charter house have lately had a " mo‘ciiient " for obtaining sass in creas e of the pension of 15/ now annually allotted them. Yesterday week the governors of the imtitii tiaal took the petition into consitletat into whin they resolved that they could not, entisistei t tiy with their duty, make any increase to the pension of the r brotherhood. The Globe' t•tati..4 Hod the of Lomb,' 1 tutsixted by Dr. I.n.loington null Sir J. l'atteson, wi I ettinittenee an istipsitv into eettnitt alleged olittm connected with St. 'lank Cathedral on the 9th s January. Ti,,: petition agaitott the retort 1t..•1 . -• Ilorxfall and Liddell fur Liverpool ha, been with drawn. gal° anb A SINI.11.‘1: I wa hied at the 11 tit A , •izes on Tuesday last. The prisoner was a iolit - neytnan ristehbuilder, Ilututibell by name, yowsg, well connected, and gispdlooking. Last year he was working %nit his father at Ipswich, and a yonog woman, named Ellen eutley, belonging to Maw eliester, being on a visit to the former place, the prisoner became acquainted with her, and eventually they agreed to le married. Shortly after Miss l'utley returned to Alanehemter, the pri,oner t'ollf.wed her, and the miminge was solenttirseol at the cathedral on the nth of June, 10 4 51. Early in the present yea