The Press. — London, England, 1853-06-25 00:00:00

176 telligenoe that Nankin had been taken by the insur gents on the 21st of March, although they were afterwards compelled to abandon it. The insurgents are said to have lost about 2,00 X) killed, and 1311 wounded. The British Consul at Shanghae had informed the inhabitants that Sir George Bon ham "could hold out no promise whatever of assist ance in the defence of the city if attacked by the in anegest forms r but that unquestionably he "would deka the property within the foreign settlement, if way &Meek epos it were made." The insurrection, which had aseemed so formidable an aspect, was, hemmer, hai■S everywhere put down. The United States Government seem determined to relieve liesked of a portion, at least, of her Eastern trade. A direct steam communication i 4 to be opened immediately between California and China, and a line of railway is to be completed in two years between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the termini being at San Francisco and New York. This, with an American settlement at Japan, and the ports of that kingdom open to the ships of America, will very Noon form a second Anglo-Saxon empire in the East.. Two Bombay mails arrived in London vid Mar seilles on Monday. This circumstance has arisen from the early despatch of the mail usually sent home on the :3rd of the month, in the anticipation of the moonsoon, and the very slow passage of the Precursor to Suez, which enabled the mail of the 23rd of May to overtake that of the 10th of May ; consequently we may be nearly a month without any further intelli gence from India or Burmah. The celebrated Parsee merchant, Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, has made over 10,0001. to Government for the purpose of endowing a school of design in Cal cutta; and a large donation is forwarded by the last steamer by Ramlal, the famous banker, to the funds of the London East India Reform Society. dout ant lastiot On Monday her Majesty gave her third State eon• cert. On Tuesday, though all the world went to Chob ham, they notwithstanding returned in time and sufficiently fresh to appear in large numbers at the balls given by Lady Hume Campbell and Mrs. George Hanker. This last festival was announced as in honour of the King and Queen of Hanover and the Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg, who arrived early, and remained till long past twelve. On Wednesday a magnificent ball was given by Lady Clanticarde, in Carlton-terrace, for which up- wards of eight hundred invitations were issued. The ball was kept up with great spirit, and concluded with " God save the Queen "at half-past four. The house is an excellent one—the rooms large ; and the ball may be reckoned as one of the most successful of the season. On Thursday the order of the night was Lady Wodehonse's ball, in Bryanston-square; and this evening the Duchess of Montrose gives a ball in Belgrave-square. There was a large attendance on Thursday at the bazaar in aid of the Cambridge Asylum Fund at the Knightsbridge Barracks. A most excellent and artistic luncheon was given by the "Blues " to the ladies who visited the sale. The only thing to be regretted was the absence of so many of the officers, who were on duty at the drawing-room, leaving only two or three of their comrades to wait upon the numerous fair dames, who did ample justice to their good cheer and hospitality. In eonikmation of what I have before had occa sion to say relative to the bad constantly observable amongst the young men of the present day, I take occasion strongly to reprobate a practice far too prevalent of retaining the hat whilst engaged in dancing. In former days the hat was an im portant element in the stately minuet; but no person can possibly maintain that my modern namesake is any addition to the grace of the owner. To see a man dancing with his hat in his hand shows a want. of respect for his partner, and seems as if he danced from necessity rather than choice. In the days when Rome was a lounge for English fashionables, and boasted her pack of hounds and " hunt ball," there was a lively Italian cavaliere who was said to live upon the produce of the English hats which he nightly purloined. Can there be in existence at the present day any similar cormorant for beaver whose presence, real or sup u se d, causes the breach of etiquette we are now ca upon to condemn ? ay Night. OURTS. The last drawing-room of the season was held by lief Majesty on Thursday, at St. James's Palace. It wagr attended by the King and Queen of Hanover eii several members belonging Lathe Royal Families of this and other countries. The diplumatic corps manners THE PRESS. was numerously represented, and the following pre sentations were made:— By Madame Fario—Madame Read, a native of Peru ; Mlle. Read, her daughter. By the French Ambassador—Mr. Frederic de Billing, flans-Directeux du Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres de France. _ By the RU118141114 Mu it--Mr. Barkoff, Gentilhomme de laChambre de H. M. l'Emperenr des Hussies; M. Etienne Guedesnoff, (ientilhomme de la Chambre. By the Hanoverian Minister—Captain Lammers, of the Royal Hanoverian Army. By the Spanish Minister—Lieutenant Luis de Ariategui, R.A., Military Attache to her Catholic Majesty's Lega tion. By the Sicilian Minister—Le Comte de Monte can Angelo, Prince de tlerace. _ . By the Austrian Mixister—te Comte de Choleck, Se cretaire de la Legation de S. M. 1. and R. A. I Loucks.. By the Minister fre* the United Stales General Sumner. _ _ The following ladies had the honour of being pre sented to her Majesty:— Mrs. Henry Ames, on her marriage, by Lady Lovable — Mr. Btufield, !Idle I/nches:4 of Argyll—Miss Barfield, by Mrs. Bartleid—Hon. Mrs. Proctor Beauchamp, on her marriage, by Lady Radatock—Hon. Jane Bickerateth, by Lady Langdale-411 ism Constance Blakiston, by Mrs. Blakiston—Mrs. John Bourne, by Lady Northcote—Mrs. Brooke, by Lady Londesbomugh—Miss Buller, by Mrs. Edward Huller—Miss Mary linrdon, by Lady Lovaine— Hon. lotabella Calthorpe, and Hut. Olivia l'althorpe, by Lady Calthorpe—Miss Margaret Cardew, by Mrs. George Carpenter—Miss Carter, by Mrs. John Carter—Miss Catherine Chichester, by Lady Clifford Constable—Mrs. Cleobury, by Viscountess Palmerston—Mr...lames Craw fund, on her marriage, by Lady Charlotte Copley—Lady de L'lsle and Dudley, by the Marchioness of Ely—The Hon. Mrs. Edgeumbe, on her return from Hanover, by Visommthas Palmerston—Mrs. William Eyre, by Lady Charlotte Copley—Miss Fano (of Wormaley), by Lady Bailey—Mrs. Spencer Follett, by Lady Stuart—Lady Garvagh, by the Dowager Lady Garvagh—Miss Goff, and Miss Eliza Goff, by Lady Adele Goff—Lady Margaret Leveson Gower, on her marriage, by Lady Rivers—Lady 011iffe, by Viscountess Palmerston—Miss Granville, by Lady Rivers—Miss Gertrude Marian Gregory, by Mrs. Thomas Gregory--Miss Elizabeth Handley, by the Hun. Mrs. Handley—Mrs. John Humpherv, by Lady Oldie— Mrs. Theodosius Boughton Leigh, by Mrs. Cotterell—Mrs. Oliver Lloyd, on her marriage, by Lady Eustace—Miss May, by Lady Kinnaird—Mrs. Hugh Mitchell, by Lady Raglan—Mrs. Greed, by the Marehionees of Ely—Mrs. Powell (of Hurdeott), by the Hon. Mrs. Herbert—Hon. Edith Powys, by Lady Lilford—Miss Puleston, by Lady Bailey—Mrs. James Ramsay, by the Dowager Viscountess Galway—Mrs. Alexander Cuningham Robertson, on her marriage, by Lady Louisa Moncrieffe—Mrs. Samuel Severne, by the Viscountess Forbes—Miss Severne, by Mrs. Samuel Severn—The Hon. Mm. Silvertop, on her marriage, by Lady Canioys—Mrs. Tollemache, by the Hon. Lady Middleton—Mrs. J. Tuite, by the Countess of T)esart—Miss Mary Turnbull, by Mrs. Alexander Adair— The Hon. Mrs. Edward Twisleton, on her marriage, by the Hen. Mrs. Twisleton— Lady Vassal!, lry Lady Rad stock—Mica Wade, by Mrs. W. H. Macintosh—Mrs. James Wartllaw, on her marriage, by Lady Arabella Hesketh—Mrs. Colonel Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, by Viscountess Palmerston--Mrs. Drummond Wolff, on her marriage, by Viscountess Mn. Admiral Ayscough. Woodruffe, by A Chapter of tho Thistle wa.; held by the Queen on Saturday last, for the purpose of enrolling the Earl of Eglinton with the customary ceremonies among the Knights of that most ancient and most noble order. Monday, being the sixteenth anniversary of her Majesty's accession, was signalised by the usual dis play of flags and sound of bells and guns. The Queen visited the Princess's Theatre on Saturday night to see Sardanapalus, and on Monday witnessed Planche's extravaganza at the Haymarket. The Cologne Choral Union went to the Palace on Monday morning and sang several pieces before her Majesty. The Royal christening is fixed to take place on Monday next. The infant Prince will be christened by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London, in the names of Leopold George Duncan Albert. The sponsors will be the Princess of Hohenlohe, the Princess of Prussia, and the King of Hanover. The Prince and Princess of Prussia are expected to arrive in England on Sunday evening. The King of Hanover held a diplomatic levee on Wednesday at the residence of the Hanoverian Lega lion in Grosvenor-place. The Foreign Ministers, with their ladies, almost without exception, attended to pay their respects to his MAjesty. The alleged conversion of the Duchess of Hamil ton to Romanism is contradicted on authority by the Glasgow Constitutional. THE v: of an immediate communica- tion between the Houses of Parliament and Brussels, by means of the submarine telegraph, WAS inaugu rated on Monday in the Electric Telegraph Company's office in the lobby of the House of Commons. At two o'clock the announcement was received from SATURDAY, Brussels that the Duke de Brabant was momentarily expected at the office in that city. Shortly afterwards a message, excusing the absence, on the English side, of the Duke of Cambridge, was transmitted to Brussels, the time of transit being only 2 min. btl sees., and in an almost equally short space of time an answer was returned to the effect that his Royal Highness the Duke de Brabant presented his felici tations to the directors, and congratulated them upon the success of the event which had then taken place. The instrument was afterwards made to perform its duties in carrying on various little correspondences of minor importance. And thus the mode of instan taneous communication between the houses of the Imperial Parliament and the throne of Belgium is established as firmly and satisfactorily as if it re quired nothing more than well-ordered postal regula dons or the punctuality of a letter-carrier. The STATE of the REPRESENTATION for the Cm of LONDON was discussed on Monday at a private meet ing of some of the leading City Liberals. A petition was agreed to, urging Parliament to pass a measure to enable Baron Rothschild to attend to City business in the House of Commons. An EXTENSIVE FAILURE, involving the house of Messrs. Wrampe and Co., was announced in the City on Saturday evening. The firm has been heavily engaged in the foreign and Baltic trades, and their liabilities are variously estimated at from 341,000/. to 80,000/. Messrs. Wrampe are understood to have had on hand a large contract for coals with the French Government. The MANCHESTER OPERATIVES will probably not go out on strike like their fellows elsewhere. Most of the employers who have yet been appealed to have assented to give some advance upon the prices they were previously paying. THE ADVANCEMENT OF NEGRO EDUCATION has formed the object of a society which a twelvemonth since succeeded in establishing the Berkeley College in Bermuda. The first anniversary meeting of this society took place on Monday last, when Lord Harrowby, the chairman, recapitulated the inten tions and described the success of the association _ . It was, he observed, the custom in England to think that by carrying emancipation everything had been done for the negro. But entaneipation was only One step, others must follow. In order that the negro might make a good use of his freedom, lie must be trained up to use it well, and fulfil hue duties in his new condition. One of the greatest steps towards elevating the colottred race was to give them a higher kind of education, so that they might have the meant; of fitting themselves to rise in the scale of society and show that they were in no way inferier to the whites. Something has been done in this direction by the establishment in Barbadoes of Codrington College, and in Sierra Leone of the college of the Church Missionary Society, and it was seen that the mind of the black man was adequate to the highest attainments. It was now believed that by planting a college in Bermuda, by beginning with a grammar education, and gradually extending it to the university lona, more than had yet been effected would be done for the improvement of the coloured race. Ile was not ignorant of the difficulties that pre. seated themselves in the carrying out of this scheme of the Berkeley Bermuda College, on account of the struggle with re• spect to caste, for while the college invited those of dark shade it did not exclude the white ; but when he saw how, when in the West Indies, brown men had sat even on the judicial bench, he perceived that this prejudice was not insuperable. The report stated the number of students in the new establishment, which, though now only a grammar school, would it was hoped eventually grow into a university. Resolutions tending to consolidate and advance the institution were afterwards moved by the Earl of Shaftesbury, Mr. Justice Haliburton (Sam Slick), and the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, of Harrow, and carried unanimously. Az THE INDIA HoUSE a special general meeting of the directors and proprietors was held on Monday, and again atkjourned over until Tuesday, in order to consider the measure now before Parliament for the future government of India. Many speeches were made in the course of the two days' proceedings, in which the Ministerial propositions were severely cri ticised, and much offered in defence of the Directors anti the existing system of Indian administration. Mr. Hume, Mr. Sullivan, Colonel Sykes, and Sir J. W. Hogg, were the principal speakers, and the meeting terminated in the almost unanimous adoption of a resolution moved by Mr. Sullivan, to the following effect : That having considered the correspondence and the proposal of the (ioveniment, this Court, confining itself at present to the question that affects the constitution of the court of directors, and confiding in the seal and judgment of that body, deem it right and necessary to declare their full concurrence in the opt. Mon that the presence in the administration of Indian alfolrs of a body independent of political party, and exclusively devoted to the discharge of the duties entrusted to them, is essential to the good government of India. That some of the changes proposed to he made are, in the opinion of this Court, not calculated to improve it; and, especially, that the proposal to substitute six directors to be elected by the Crown for twelve of the body elected by the proprietors is calculated, by impairing the hide. pendenee of the court of directors, to weaken the principal check now imposed upon the power of the Board of Control. That the court of directors he authorised and requested to urge these views upon the Board of Control and upon Parliament, at such time and in such manner as the court shall deem to be most expedient. THE number of persons charged to the Iscout: TAX in the year ended the sth April, 1852, under schedule 1) was 140,062, and under schedule E 49,026. The net amount of the property and income tax, in the same year, was 5,664,1911.—in England and Wales, 5,191,0531.; in Scotland, 407,536/. ; and in Ireland, 0,1211.