The Press. — London, England, 1853-10-22 00:00:00

Ocrotrn 22, 1853._ Iltirt Cur STRErt.r..citAss:. subscription of 10 amis. each, for horses regularly hunted, .te.; geutlemeu riders. Mr. Jordiitis Fourteen-two kt'. Ito )eel I Mr. Itoberts's .handy inn Mr. tiair gtutsinumlo 3 Betting: 7 to 1 against lourtecu-tso, :1 to 1 against Quasimodo, 7 to l against Dandy Jim. IiItAND ( 1 1*L“ STIMPIX-CHASK, FIVI! 11411dielip of 1.7) WAIL each, with dart lulled. Mr. T. Mason's Oscar tS. Darling. jun.) I Mr. Veters's llonrton tz Mr..laCkPitlit'S I.4b)ritith a (letting: ti to I Against 11 N ciir, Wlttl wilt ctrl elevilly 11 ) two lengths. FUZZ RANDICAr Si Of L oiovs. each, with VI added. . Mr. Land'* Nee*Wood (Green) I Mr. ' Stewart's dEsettligiins Betting :sto I against Needwootl, to I against an) other. Won by ten lengths. THE JI'NIUS CONTROVERSY. To rim rerroa ote "TILE PRESS." Sir,—Your correspondent " Vivaldi " (whose signa ture I think I have previously seen affixed to some instructive disquisition on the authorship of Junius) states in your last number that he has some "flimsily reasinut" for thinking many of the arguments urged in the Quarterly Review (Dee., Is:11) to connect Thomas Lord Lyttelton—" bad Tout " as he is called by the family—with Junius to lee well founded. 1 ant sure he would receive the thanks of many of your readers (myself among the nuialter) if he would state what those reasons are, as probably they might throw new light on this much-discussed, yet still un settled, question. There is a passage in the letters which, though never that I recollect noticed in the inquiry, would seem to show that Junius was well aequainted witl► the local gossip of Warwickshire. In a letter signed Domitian, March 5, 11;0, ho writes with characteristic causticity :-- " The indigent circmustanees of tont Hereford's f 'ly sceonot tie• and justify their is smlnet. The some spirit of ce y which animated the father to the wile of public etnplisymelits in Ireland revives in the son, and finds the t"•st market for the siumunition of the Warwickshire militia." In a note to this passage it is stated:— " This youth goes by the !Mlle of Gunpowder OMNI thrtaigh the Oink ementy." In this allusion we have, it strikes me, one of these few 14 dprints which Junius suffered to remain him. Such a remark would not seem natural to beret t ;verge Sackville, who resided at his paternal seat, Knowle, lent; nor to the Shelburne coterie which assembled at Bowood, Wilts; nor even to Mr. Francis, who must have resided constantly in Lon don ; but it might fall appropriately enough front a member of the Lyttelton family, whose estate of llagley is in the adjoining county, and only about, a dozen miles from Birmingham. The present Lord Lyttelton commonly presides at the Warwick county meetings and festivals held in that town, and we may reasonably conceive that the Lytteltens would be keenly alive to what passed in seemly with which they were nearly connected. Sir, most obediently yours, It.,OATon. P.S.—Bas not " in his letter, confounded Lord George Carendish with Lord George Saekville I cannot call to mind the reference he makes to the former in Woodfall's Junius, though probably it may occur. But 1 tstrongly suspect, that what is said on the court martial, and on " the writer of the rim tinuation of Iltnne's History Smollett 1 inclining to acquit. Lord George Cavendish of the charge which the court-martial established," can only apply to Lord George Sackville. AMONGST the natives of foreign countries arrested for crime in Paris during last year there were only thirty three natives of Great Britain—a very small proportion when the large number of English who visited and resided in that capital i 4 Wien into Re count ; Awl which, as compared with the proportion of natives of other countries arrested for crime, gives us no cause to be ashamed of our national eharaeter. Of other foreigners arrested,. the following numbers are given :—Belgians, 441 ; Caton Germans, 311; Hollanders, 139; Prussians, list ; Seise, 101; Ita• liana, ; Bavarians, 1111; Austrians, 39; Poles, 341; Spaniarls. 19 ; Hessians, Hungarians, Danes, of each, 16; Swedes, 14; Persians, 5; Egyptians and tireeks, of each, g ; and one Turk. A tineAT CONFLAGRATION occurred on the bank of the Thames, near Dockhead, on Thursday evening. The premises burnt consist of a large and lofty series of warehouses, occupied as a granary by a Mr. 'Main. They were almost totally consumed with their con tents before the fire eould be mastered. Being situated in a narrow thoroughfare, the opposite houses were threatened with destruction if the high walls of the warehouse fell down, and all the inhabitants ree niove.l themselves and property out of harm's way in affright. The damage done is estimated at many thousand pounds. THE PRESS. SECOND EDITION. SATURDAY t:I'l•:NIX17. LATEST FOlt EIGN INTE LI GENC E. The latest telegraphic despatch from Constanti nople, dated ()molter I:I, states that the combined fleets hail not entered the DiuNianelles, but were en Peeled to do so immediately. The wealthier iniNbi tants hail chartered all sorts of small .raft, and gone down to the Straits to see the spectaele of the ens trance of the fleets. The monk .Inthinos has been appointed to succeed Germano,: in the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Three bishops aspired to the place. tine of them. a pn►tdge of litlSSia., Offered 1,1 N I pia. tit. while the two others otli.reil :tIMI,IMM.I piasters. Despatches from St. I'etersbur►; •late that the preparations for war are beim: proceeded with re piilly. The fleet in the harbour of Crotistailt. whirl► had laid up for the winter, is ordered to prepare for wit w ith all p oss itdo despatch, and to proceed at °flee to set el. The Emperor Nicholas united in St. Petersburg frotn Berlin on the I:ith. Further despatches from Turkey contii in the statement that, if hostilities ovettr, they will break out first on the Asiatic frontier. The indemnity which the eity of Paris owes to the bakers for the seeond fortnight o f s e pl o o k . t ounounts 3103,000 f. Nearly the same sum is due for the first fortnight of that month. The ditter owe between the real price of hrea4l and the sal ministrative tax amounts to If centimes per kilo gramme. Letters reeeived by Ilmtgarian of eer% in Paris state that. a free corps of I lungarians is in arms, and carrying on a guerilla warfare in the Carpathian mountains. The New York mail of the mh Illslalll has arrived. The papers c o ntain no political news. The Washington infelligescer of the 7th instant announces that. the Austrian novernment had officially consented to the liheration of Kossta, and emulition that he sl hl return directly to the I 'nil v4l StiltiN. The latest accounts from Now Orleans state that the yellow fever had almost entirely ilisappesuxst front that city. The absentees were returning in crews, and lousiness revi‘ing. In the interior, how ever, the epidemic was still raging with great vim knee. At Lake Providence, out of ninety inhabi tants, sixty had died. MoNITUFMT Ti) THE LATE LIEITTVINANT 11111.1,L0T. Lord John Russell and the Earl of Ellottmere have requested Sir Roderick Murchison to place their mottos tin the list of the committee for the purpose of furnishing the erection of a monument to the memory of the late gallant French officer, Lieutenant Ilellot, and have authorised him to Mini IMIel . thal . they are rviuly to contribute liberally to the laudable object. THE AMITIES% on the Turkish qtteation, subsisted 41 the Finsbury meeting, am Tuesday last, wits y t isttir day presented to the Foreign Seeretary. Mr. T. Ibineontlie hcuded the depilation, which wititeil upon laird Clarendon in II owning ,slu e d. 'rite disunion liming been mail, the billowing conversation till stied : The Earl of 'I.A ILKNIMN : There is 41410 plartiiiis •f y onr address ill %bids I alll sure will mit Di.' lA. VIMe car, and that is the pluisakm in which it is alleged that the charnel...4 of this country flor fair dealing ham I 11.1:41 and is in ibuigcr of Irving best. Now, that assertion, in as far as this (haven lit is VI oncotorno.d, lam isrilaued alb- gather to deny. You will not ell Mel TM' opt this moment Io enter illtl. any details as 6o the policy the 4 ; lint when the.time coon's 6.r los doling I trust (list the people of England will consider i has ill, (;..t.•risise•ist Ism I' ill one their duly, that they have flinched front tie ”I.le,sit if its, and tisst the listiiiiisl I has reiniumsl mutat-malted is. their hands. VVith respect tai Ulu question Ilion . Mime. 'timely at inane, I have no hesitation in telling you that R 114.M.4•111 I so lution of this question has I/4 'ell t h e • obi" .1 of her Ntajcatyti lit. It would i s ' highly criminal if the tioveniment sought silly othersiolution. These whop know what are the calamitira of war do not rush lightly into it, mid it is our ',Nevi. it' 111 IhM 1.11 guard "sus...ltem, but more est..stall 'turkeys fr..m those calamities lint, on the other ham'. I 14.1151.1. T that there is our. eidamity greater than war, and that Is Mitii.llll4l .1i.114 , 11.mr, a pi e r at which I can 1146Min' you peace will not be presert est by her Nbiji.st)'s 11, or, bear," anal uhr, ro .1 As I said sit first, I will net enter at wily length int.. the &WI% II( the 11 , 1 they we are pursuing. but eontent wills ssiying that we sire an fully alive 111 the British soul Eitni lwius insportousee of maintaining the (Ittoman e mpi re th a t the may rest assured that (hale is 1104 the slightest intention en the part of her Matelityi eioVerlt• Meld of abandoning Turkey. ( War, brut.) M r . in NI oolitic abseil rest that the 141,1041 W,.• in Ilse address which his It .rdlAiip bra 11,k. is exception refeiTed not par t irub,rlr 14. the 4 r..v. - r sit lint tao the @visors' iirse tiee of Itritish governments of late years. 'floe Furl of ( ' I. : 1 look it as referring to the tsovvinuieut. 587 Mr. l'ott.rrt The public judged of the prepaid from the l'hey Itinl formerly suppo"..ed that 1411 the itlVltia• WM 14 MU' (a liVl . lllllleilt Mere eanied t h e hut %%hen the toots %ere disclosed 11 Uuuevl tint that they had he'll on the isiopuoito side. Sir. 1)1 kcitio: : 'the meeting s'N.llalsial4l uu 4 14111.41 t o m 114'1'010110 of Illi• I; 1.1111411•11 t . What 111.%!. C. iilained of *as that they Welt• conipletely in the 'lark. while the foreign papyri. commuttly voistatised pieces of inhirtur• t tespeetlng Ibr Titiktrit The V:arl of : 1 iii.%vr !taw (VIII uords of truth in the foreign i , sipers on that subject. Mr. Sittk% Wlltt 111111 %hat made N stroug inirri•raion on the ("'l'' of England that foroivok 1 i,1 % v111114,111/4 rib balked document* en the aubjeet when it anNw. tea their ends, elide we only New Illit,,ugh the medium of trai1...601..11s from foreign i i ,. *111114 . 114 . The Karl of IClAni•mlieo4 : As 1111.4( of those doe 'lllB are %mien by 111.', I regret them , 11411i114(1441,1 41 ,4 1 N• than an' one else In the east. Of one , 4 1 11 0 1 e" 11. " 1 "PO". it en, films tllul.Llled 111411 I....111;11,AI into tireek, from liieek into Frenei l , then from Freneli into .1 ',mph Mr. II it wished to obtain 6,,,„ that 'timer no r owolas, 1 .„,.„,„,,,„,„.,,„ would the lillll4l 11141 1.4. vii111141(11 m co 4•11•114: the Turk• The Elul ct.tulthoos d.rhued to i11,c11..% .0 mlpro 1141111' It t•olltillgt'llCV. The deputation then CAPTAIN WII.I.IAM 1110%1:VMAN th:e1 6 1.11% 60 N, IM to sllet'et . 6l t h e 11Ill s 1 ' optaiii I . llire as otatiptr,4l, , ,. of the tstast wow& To•rtt. 1.0. a tir T 111: 1111.111 , 1 ‘+.•,..'t frOle to/IMOD Olt Ihr I . !th invlmN. Ittr Now South %% s olos, with a cargo , voltioil aI olatia Slit . 101 l the Downs tot the 'silo, and tot the folltaring morning, o'clock, it I iii)% log very hard at the tutu., thi. heavily, and ithortly 1111.41 and wont down ill (loop water, alsoit sixteen wiles nit Itoorli) - Wad. %%ith tali evreptitai of 6111. • 1111111, till the erre' whim' welt' 1.11 , 111.1 N I Mill lII,' I /11%M.111g."1 44 , sit . :111% lull Mrs. l ' ilelerasssl and Ilrs. 510'10.4 , 11 Iltl d throe 31111 Nlks wont driswooll. The captain I h a d hiv wirt, nml two Children lOn 111 WA. will WIT*. 141 . 1 • 1111111114ilying When I 111'r passtaiiiers wen' to hove jitilitsl vessel. sort km . , mono is Itissl, a Hsuiing man, Mottos thud he woo at thu wheel, 111111 111 t. s'el6llllll %al , Olt Bork gßing illislS IA I Iltattile-reutiitg the topsail", tilt itot . .aint lit the weather, %licit iso titi. Iry Lilt% Di It 111 111 the , ship, anti Itelieving mho was siiikitiv, Rossi maul(' (lie twat (If Iris way to the rigging, awl when she fititiailervil 110 Managed 111 grasp kola of silts' ails 1110 1111111%, and for len looirs *lona $ alter being washes' from lois littliling I, when 110 waspirkwl up toy thu brig :Ilitrhell fir,.,., of Arun del, 'mil bul,le , l the 5111115 'lay at !Imes'. Till. Ship wit% itisiirs.4l. it i% vented, fill' 111,1110 i., 111161 1116 , vill s gss for Rltolitt 741,1 Milt I Ines of the pa , 5 0 01.9T •4 , 1$ wits to 111111. .1661116 . 61 the iii fete,' 1111111 et iravosettd, loot pilot illentially n6011'41 that 01100 shortly the ‘essol had 1011. Ac 4 TIII. its% Eli Nlki•w.tv.--.1 frightful aerillent ..s.eurnsl on evening at Ilartlake bridge, on the river Medway, near Tint bridge, by whirl, it is supposed that nearly forty persons loos. perished. It appears that. in r 1114.41. 0111011'11 of the river Me d way o‘s.rtisswssi ity banks, the loop pi .kers in the employ of Mr. elm, a large lisspgrisaerlßing at tisiblett green, in the parish of I hollow, near Timbrislge, atter liming liiinthed their slay's work, were being essioresi tionsugh the flood its a drawn by throe horses, when, on arriving at liartlake bridge, they beranut alarmed at lle riNil of water, Iwul uttered Is Ind 11114. rally 1111!•ititril of nlell, woolen, nlel 0 1 11411'0i. Tint noise alarmist (Ito lost-sem, who riot ''win. tool mime its contact with the side of the bridge, which, Irving in a sithipiilatesi state, Isroskr ii.)wii. The eutimegtanteo was that the waggon wax precipitated into the river, and all the persons in it were tirsswits.sl, l'p to yesterday the 'Jodie,. of two women only had 'Well rye" , ‘ , .lVat bllt, Nerssr.ltsig t., the bust information that etailsl obtained tipiat tits• spot, no 111/111 thirty-seven peri4nn4 aro raising. Ito essnsespieneo of the vast body of water whirls is now flowing down the river, Keel the boas being open, the probability is that the brnlit s may be %Aisne.' .Is' dis tanee from the bridge. Numbers of persons arm engagod in endeavouring to tied them. The names of the twn women whose lisslies hate heen reemonid sin' n ot kilt's'''. The .ile •I . t. , hold an inquest upon them at 111 ow ho ills). 'IF lir: (homy! ChroteirP nays, " It has 'sten cur retitly reported that the Homan 17alloilie prelate 4 de- rifled, at the late Muriel, conclave, to isolinit of no noire 'nixed inarriaite4. They will mit iwrfonn the marriage crevisiony betwren of their f a ith iuul that of the l'sitc‘tatit Church. We giNea thin it liie.reachdd ati fretneee who was trying the ocrserhuvut:-.