The Press. — London, England, 1854-04-15 00:00:00

APRIL 15, 1854 _ AN bruitEsnito SCENE took place on Monday at Gravesend, on the occasion of Mrs. Chisholm deli vering an address to her fellow-passengers, who are emigrating to Australia on board the ship Ballarat. The emigrants numbered in all 280 souls, the ma jority of whom are about to sail under the auspices of Mrs. Chisholm, who has been busily occupied for some time past in making arrangements for their Comfort and convenience. The address was listened to with much interest. THE WILL OF THE LATE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY, which was proved on Saturday at Doctors' Commons, consists of a few lines, giving all his estates, real and personal, to his marchioness, absolutely and at her entire disposal, appointing her also sole executrix. 'the will bears an endorsement in his lordship's own handwriting, recapitulating its contents in terms of affectionate endearment. The personal estate in the province of Canterbury has been sworn under 45,0001., which, when added to that within the province of York, which is under 250,0001., and in Ireland under 40,0001., makes an aggregate of personal property left by the deceased amounting to 335,0(X)1., exclusive of all the vast settled estates and ,collieries of the Vane and Londonderry families in England and Ire land, in the former of which he is succeeded by Lady Londonderry, and in the latter by the present mar quis. A NEW CATTLE STATION has been opened on the London and North-Western Railway. This station is conveniently situate, being scarcely one hundred yards from the entrance to the new cattle-market in the York-road, at the top of Maiden-lane, Battle bridge. It is replete with every necessary conve nience, having a good supply of water ; and pens are provided in order to secure the cattle, should the owners, or their representatives, not be present on the arrival of the trains. THE office of Counsel to the Admiralty, rendered vacant by Mr. Crowder's elevation to the Bench, will, in all probability, be filled by Mr. Phinn. THE GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND DINNER took place on Monday night at the London Tavern, pre sided over by Mr. Monckton Milnes, and attended by about 160 gentlemen. Subscriptions were announced during the evening to the amount of about 5001., whereof the Queen contributed 1001. According to custom, Mr. Buckstone backed up the chairman's appeal on behalf of the charity by an amusing speech. Mr. T. P. Cooke responded to the toast of " The Army and Navy ;" Mr. Edwin James spoke on behalf of the bar; Mr. Albert Smith appeared as The Stranger, and crowned the part with a comic song. The proceedings, which were protracted to a late hour, passed off very agreeably. MR. CHARLES CAVENDISH CLIFFORD, D.C.L., has succeeded Mr. R. W. Grey as private secretary to Lord Palmerston. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND Socrxrv.—The seven teenth public drawing for seventy rights of choice on the society's estates took place on Saturday at the offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand. The numbers drawn belonged to members in various counties. The Rev. Dr. Worthington (chairman) announced that the allotment of the St. Margaret's estate would not, according to the surveyor's plan, interfere with the beauty of the grounds, as ornamental gar dens would be laid out with the villas. This an nouncement gave great satisfaction to the meeting. THE balance sheet of liabilities and assets of the firm of the Messrs. Le Roy and Chabral, the great Parisian bankers, whose failure we announced last week, has been drawn up. The document shows their assets to be 39,884,474 f. 30c., against liabilities of 38,352,301 g. 03c., and c Insequently leaves a balance in favour of the firm of 3,332,172 f., or about 133,3281.; but it will require time and a prudent course of action to realise the assets as set down. It was understood that the result might be even more favourable, but much would depend upon the pro gress of political and other events. A RUSSIAN INDIAMAN, the Vesta, Captain Sandman, laden with a valuable cargo of East Indian produce from Bimhpatam, came up the river into the West India Docks on Saturday, being the first ship of the enemy's country that had arrived in the Thames since her Majesty's declaration of war against the Czar. The appearance of the ship in ho Channel with the Russian flag freely flying excited some atten tion at Portsmouth, when she was hailed to bring to, and an officer and a boat's crew were sent on board to examiner her papers. The examination satisfactorily showed the bona fide character of trade,. and her right to the liberty prescribed in the declaration. She ac cordingly proceeded to the Thames, for the purpose of discharging her cargo. Attempts are being made to sell her to a neutral power. THE Himalaya, with the India msssenail, r eachedhd Malta on the 7th, and landed her pge mails to convey troops. As the Indus had broken down, and the Vectis gone to Marseilles, the French steamer Bosjhore was engaged to take on the mail. The disappointment of the 152 passengers on board was extreme. The Malta hotels were so full that no accommodation was procurable for half the number requiring it. THE PRESS. THE EARL or HARDWICKE'S SON, the Hon. V. Yorke. has just entered the navy as naval cadet, and will join the Hannibal ship-of-the-line, Captain the Hon. Frederick Grey, ordered to the Baltic. The NUMBER or SHIPWRECKS last year of vessels belonging to the United Kingdom was 581, of which 5439 were sailing-vessels and 12 steam-vessels. The tonnage was 120,714. THE VACANT CoLoNELCIES are thus appropriated: — Major-General W. L. Darling to be colonel of the 168th Regiment, vice Henderson, deceased ; Lieutenant General Sir Willoughby Cotton removes from the colonelcy of the 98th to that of the 32nd Regiment, vice Armstrong, deceased; Major-General Sir Wil liam L. Herries to be colonel of the 98th Regiment. THE ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT have given permis sion to the Electric Telegraph Company to build a station close to Hiirst Castle, which guards the en trance of the Solent Sea, to enable the company to telegraph the arrival of vessels and mail-packets off the Isle of Wight bound for Southampton, Cowes, and Portsmouth, from the west and south. THE TILBURY FORT IlArtwAv was openedon Tues day morning in connection with the Blackwell and Eastern Counties lines, and the steam-ferries at Gravesend. The line branches off the Blackwell at Stepney, and is carried on to the Eastern Counties at the Bow station, where it takes the main line nearly as far as Ilford. It then shapes off to the southward, to the oast of Purfieet, and, passing through Grays, directs its course to West Tilbury and Tilbury Fort, where the terminus is erected. Small steamers coo vey the passengers across the river to and from the trains. ANOTHER week has passed without rain, and agriculturists are complaining that the crops are suffering from want of moisture, but, although some of the wheats are thin, the plant has a healthy appearance. It is not unlikely that the long dry spring may produce a regenerative action in the potato crops, fur amongst all the theories relative to the disease the most probable appears that which ascribes the epidemic to a succession of wet seasons. The surface of the land is now very dry. Perhaps a finer seed time was never witnessed, nor was the land ever in a better condition to receive it. THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE PROFESSOR WILSON took place on Friday, in the presence of a large number of mourners. The ceremony was a public one, the leading public bodies taking part in it as a tribute of respect for the memory of the departed. The students of the University headed the funeral cortege, followed by the directors of the Philosophical Institution, the members of the Royal Academy, the Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, the High Constables, and the Lord Provost, Magia Vales, and Town Council. A number of private friends of the deceased followed the coffin—the mournful procession numbering in all about 400 persons. HER MAJESTY'S congi &Hire to the Dean and Chaper of Salisbury, empowering them to elect a bishop in succession to the Right Rev. Dr. Edward Denison, has been received, and a special chapter has been summoned for this day (Saturday), in which the Queen's recommendation in favour of the Rev. Walter Kerr Hamilton, M.A., will be read to the assembled dignitaries, and the rev. gentleman will be unanimously elected by them to fill the vacant see. THE SOUTHAMPTON EI.ECTION came off on Wed nesday, when the Attorney-General was again re turned without opposition. Sir Alexander, in a speech of some length, spoke of the many times he had been chosen one of the representatives of South ampton, after which be alluded to the many mea sures of " reform " which had been brought into existence by the present Government—an Admini.s tration which (he said) for efficiency and ability had not been equalled for the last half-century. Atter speaking of the very careful manner in which the present Government had entered upon their responsible duties with regard to the Eastern ques lion, and challenging any ono to deny that he had at any time carried out his previous promises and pledges, a vote of thanks was given to the mayor, and the proceedings terminated. THE alleged seizure of property belonging to the late British Ambassador at St. Petersburg is thus explained in a letter from Sir G. H. Seymour himself : —"The question affecting my interests appear; to be not whether certain cases which I left at St.. Petersburg, and which contain pictures, ornamental furniture, hooks, linen, and other articles of value are to be seize.) and confiscated, but whether their shipment on board the Anne M'Alister, the only English vessel re maining at Cronstadt, is to be permitted. According to the last advices the question has been determined against Tlle ; hut, as I am bound to infer that the deci sion must have been taken upon erroneous grounds, I still entertain the hope that it may be reconsidered and revised." The subject has been alluded to in the House of Lirds, when the Marquis of Lans downe, who of course had received no official infor mation, doubted the accuracy of the report, because he believed that the Czar could still claim the title of a civilised sovereign. 345 Tux 48th Regiment, according to the Dublin Ex press, is under orders to proceed to the disturbed dis tricts in England, and all the out detachments have been called in. FROM the statement of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer on Tuesday it appears that the Government contemplate during the present session, and most pro bably before the approach of the next quarterly divi dends, to adopt some plan that shall render it unne cessary for them to have recourse to the Bank for temporary advances, it being considered desirable in war time to keep up a handsome balance for all con. tingencies. The mode in which this is to he carried out remains to be explained, but it yen, of course, consist in nothing else than an addition in some way to the funded or the unfunded debt. It must be borne in mind, however, that a loan raised simply for the purpose of augmenting the Government de posits at the Bank can have no effect on the money market analogous to that which would resnit if it were for the purposes of increased expenditure. The pressure that would be created by the withdrawal of the amount trom the hands of that portion of the public who might subscribe for it woaldlitirthvrith be compensated by the correeposil= m inisra in the assets of the Bank available he gurposes. It is therefore not to a loan of this iisture, but to such as may be ultimately necessary tomeet a foreign outlay, that the public mast look for any permanent influence on general prices.—Timiee. THE NATIONAL. INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION or LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK held their annual meeting on Wednesday at their offices, John-street, Adelphi, Capt. Shepherd, Deputy-Master of the Trinity house, in the chair. The annual report then read stated that life-boats on Mr. l'eake's design had been placed during the past year by the institution at. Lyme Regis, Barmouth, Sennen Cove, Dungeness, Ardrossan, Dundrum Bay, and Skerries. Life-boats on the same plan had also been built under the directions of the committee for the Prussian Government, and for the Aberdeen Harbour Commissioners, and several of them had already proved useful in saving the crews of wrecked vessels. The life-boats of the society during the year had saved the crews and passengers of twelve ships. The destruction of human life from shipwrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom had been very large in the past year, 800 shipwrecks, with the loss of 870 lives, having occurred in that period. In the awful gale of last January 257 wrecks occurred, an companied by the sacrifice of 48.8 lives. In addition to one gold medal, fourteen silver medals, and ten honorary rewards, nearly 2001. had been voted by the institution during the past year for savintf 678 lives. Since the first establishment of the society nearly 11,00(1 lives had been saved by the use of its life boats and other means; and it had granted seventy-nine gold medals and 539 silver medals, besides pecuniary re wards amounting to nearly 0,0001. Tne receipts of the year had been 1,8851., including a donation of 1001. from the Queen, and 2101. from the corporation of London, whilst its expenditure on legitimate objects was 2,4821., beside liabilities for life-boats amounting to 570/. The committee earnestly appealed to the public for additional support to enable them to carry on successfully the operations of the institution. The report was adopted unanimously, and resolutions pledging the meeting to support the institution were carried. Xab3 ant Vo litt. FREDERICK MARSDEN was brought up at Maribo. rough-street on Wednesday, charged with cont. mitting a somewhat novel fraud upon several pawn brokers. From the evidence, principally of Mr. Attenborough, it appeared that the prisoner was in the habit of bringing tickets for goods he had either pledged himself or which were another person's pro perty, and requiring to inspect the property on payment of the interebt. When the goods were brought to him he took the opportunity, while the assistant was making out a fresh ticket, of substi tuting a paicel similar to that in which the property was placed, containing a similar article, but of little or no value. Several cases were brought forward to prove that the trand had been practised to a consi derable extent. The prisoner was remanded. THE DISCOVERY PERTY the proceeds which have taken last two years day last. It plate, watches, silks, satins, lei of all descriptions, impossible to ' two previously man, of Cary-,~ quantity of wool house was in Monkwell street, !TRY or AN 1145111:N8E AnoUNT OT PRO• roceeds evidently of many burglaries iken place in the metropolis during the was effected by the police on Wednee- consists of every variety of jewellery, :s, brooches, bracelets, chains, rings, eather, barege, linen, Manchester goods ions, alp a ca s --in fact, it would be almost name any article not found. A day or y the police were informed by Mr. Bate- y-lane, that he had discovered that a wool which had been stolen from his Di the possession of Mr. Chadwick, of yet, City. An officer at once procee d ed took Mr. Chadwick into custody, and of wool the property of Mr. Bateman. examined before the Lord Mayor, Mr. thither and seized 871 b. Upon being MI . - alai