The Press. — London, England, 1854-06-03 00:00:00

514 Da. Wlmem FREEMAN DANIELL, M.R.C.S., has returned to England on his promotion of staff-sur geon. This indefatigable explorer of Africa has again enriched the natural history of that country with some invaluable specimens, and has been the first to bring home in safety living specimens of that extraordinary animal the lepidosiren annectens (Owen). AN " INFERNAL MACHINE " has been invented by an Elgin tradesman, and the inventor summoned, ac cording to the Elgin Courier, to attend at Woolwich and explain his contrivance to the military authori ties there. The instrument is denominated a "Longi tudinal Projectile ; " it is about four feet in length, may be fired from a cannon, and will " hit to a hair" any object a,: a distance of five miles. On being dis charged it expands like an umbrella, explodes the moment it alights, and causes instant annihilation to every material for many yards around. No substance beyond " inflammable matter" is used in its con struction. THE METROPOLITAN MORTALITY last week, as enu merated in the Registrar-General's return, included 1,143 deaths from all causes. This presents a trifling decrease upon the previous return, but is still 127 in excess of the decennial average. THE amount paid on account of criminal prosecu• tions in England, Wales, and Ireland, from 1847 to 1853, was 1,031,7271. ss. Bd.—in England and Wales, 1,242,5221. 128.5 d. ; and in Ireland, 389,2041. 13s. 3d. THE " PITT PRESS " in Cambridge is henceforth to carry on its business in partnership with Mr. George Seeley, the publisher in Fleet-street, and Mr. C. J. Clay, printer, of Trinity College and Tower-hill. A "grace" to that effect has passed the University Senate on the proposition of the Pitt Press Syndi cate. ARRANGEMENTS for a demonstration on behalf of Hungarian nationality are being made in Sheffield. The affair is to come off on Whit-Monday. Kossuth has promised to attend. THE sums insured in England on farming stock, which are consequently exempt from duty, in the year 1853, amounted to 56,035,7771. THE BROTHER OF CARDINAL WISEMAN, Mr. James Wiseman, died last week in Liverpool. He was at one time engaged in mercantile affairs in that city, but latterly acted as interpreter of foreign languages, being an expert linguist. His death occurred unexpectedly, following very speedily from an attack of cold, caught while attending the Liverpool Court in his professional capacity. THE ISSUE OF A BREVET is now considered a matter on which there can be no doubt. The extent to which it will reach is, however, still un certain. Our professional contemporary, the Naval and Military Gazette, believes that it will include " all the Lieutenant-Generals of 1846 to be Generals; all the Major• Generals of 1846 to be Lieutenant Generals ; all the Colonels of 1846 to be Major- Generals ; the Lieutenant Colonels, down to Brevet of 1846, to be Colonels ; the Majors, down to Brevet of 1840, to be Lieutenant-Colonels ; all Captains down to end of 1843." The United Service Gazette states that this brevet "will be the last of the kind, and, therefore, take in every officer whose position gives him anything like a claim to advancement. All vacancies will afterwards be filled up, as they may occur, on the seniority principle." THE Right Reverend Lord Auckland, Bishop of Sodor and Man, has been selected by her MAjesty as the new Bishop of Bath and Wells. THE Qtr :EN has appointed William Henry Wright, Esq., Chief Commissioner of the Gold Fields, and Frederick Armand Powlett, Esq., Chief Comthis sioner of Crown Lands, in the colony of Victoria. THE new cemetery for the parish of Lambeth, situated at Tooting, was consecrated on Tuesday by the Bishop of Winchester. The ground is most eligibly situate, and comprises thirty acres, of which twenty are set apart for the interment of members of the Church of England, and ten for Dissenters, &c. The time allowed by the Home Secretary having terminated, the burial-grounds of St. Mary's, St. John's (Waterloo-road), and others in Lambeth, were closed on the same day. A VOTE of 0,0001 is to be proposed by Government for obtaining a complete system of agricultural statistics in Scotland, to be carried out through the medium of the Highland Society. LAST year, out of 484,946 plaints in the county courts, only 863 causes were tried by jury ; in 444 cases the parties requiring a jury obtained verdicts. Ortiir eight of thirty-six persons summoned to serve on juries at the City Sheriffs' Court were in attendance on Saturday last. The judge (Mr. Gurney) expressed himself strongly on the subject, and inflicted on the absent twenty-four the full penalty of 10/. each. THE REV. C. B. DALTON, late Rector of Lambeth, has been presented by the Bishop of London to the incumbency of Highgate, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev. T. H. Causton. The rectory of Lambeth, which thus becomes vacant, is worth 1,5001. a year, and is in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury. THE PRESS. A sux of 2,5001. is to be asked for by Government for the maintenance of the royal monuments in Westminster Abbey. THE RATING OF ETON COLLEGE to the poor rate, after much disputation, has at last been conceded by the Provost and Fellows. The college buildings and demesne are assessable at 1,5001. or 1,8001. per annum, or about one-fifth of the total assessment of Eton parish. _ _ THE COLONELCY OF THE 17TH FOOT has become vacant by the death of Sir Peregrine Maitland. NEW SMITHFIELD MARKET is to be opened by Christmas next or sooner. The City Corporation are actively bestirring themselves for its completion. The contracts for works has been taken by Mr. Walker, of Bermondsey, and energetically proceeded with. The building and other erections are to be of the most substantial character, and to consist entirely of brick and iron. The bulk of the ironwork, amounting to several thousand tons, is to be galvanised by Messrs. Morewood and Rogers. THE TAPEWORM DISEASE has appeared among het grouse in our (Dundee Courier) higher moors— possibly from excessive drought. Hitherto there have been few deaths ; but we learn that its ravages are great in Glenesk and other Forfarshire moors. THE LORDS OF THE TREASURY have issued letters announcing that the consular authorities of the Emperor of Russia will no longer be recognised in her Majesty's dominions. This communication has been transmitted to the principal officers of customs at all the ports throughout the United Kingdom. THE NATIONAL SOCIETY'S ANNUAL MEETING was held on Wednesday in the National School-room, Broadway, Westminster. The Primate presided, and in his address observed that the cause% of education had been making steady progress, and that the society had fresh reason to be grateful for the success which had attended its operations. The report shcwed the extent and increase of the educational operations ef fected by the society during the past year: Since the last audit, 5,2571. out of the Queen's letter fund had been paid for school buildings now duly completed. This sum had assisted in the erection of 185 schoolrooms, affording accom modation for 22,826 children, and also of 86 teachers' residences. The total number of schools now in union with the society amounted to 10,202. Of these 182 had been added during the last year. The training institutions remained under the super intendence of the Rev. Alexander Wilson, and sixty-three mas ters and eighty-eight mistresses had been sent out from these institutions since the date of the last report to take charge of schools. The number of applications for schoolmasters during the past year had been 119. During the last three years the society had assisted in providing additional accommodation for 73.815 children in schools, either built or enlarged, and had also aided in the erection of 260 teachers' houses. By the supply of teachers from the trainiug-schoole of the society, as well as from diocesan institutions, nearly all of which have received assistance from the society by the extended sale of school-books and ma terials, and by the constant employment of the society's or ganising masters, the character of the instruction afforded in church schools had been materially improved. BARON JAMES ROTHSCHILD has contributed a fur ther sum of 50,000 f. (2,0001.) to the support of his suffering coreligionists at Jerusalem. FOR the purchase of Burlington-house, in Picca dilly, a sum of 140,0001. is included among the votes which Parliament will be asked to pass this session. NEW FARRINGDON-STREET is at length to be ex tended. Years have passed since the roadway, which could not be called a thoroughfare, has terminated abruptly a few yards above the crossing at the bottom of Holborn-hill. Legal difficulties are now, however, removed, and the workmen this week commenced levelling houses in Silver-street, Turnmill-street, Coppice-row, and other lanes and streets in Saffron hill and Clerkenwell, preparatory to the completion of the long-delayed work. M. AoosnNr, one of the most distinguished mem bers of the Roman Constituent Assembly in 1849, has died in London, where he has been residing for some years as a refugee and exile, in the 41st year of his age. THE ENTHRONISATION OF THE NEW BISHOP OF SARUM took place on Wednesday with much cere mony at Salisbury. THE MAYOR OF BRISTOL, has forwarded to Major Powys the sum of 5001. on account of subscriptions received for the soldiers' wives, &c., fund. THE ANNUAL. ACCOUNTS of the revenues and dis• bursements of the East India Company have been laid before Parliament. The revenue of India for the year 11452-53 (partly estimated) was 21,196,745/. ; the expenditure (also partly estimated) 20,557,2801. The public debt outstanding at the several presiden cies is 48,014,244/., and the annual interest 2,279,5311. A STRIKE has been threatening among a large number of the engine-drivers on the London and North-Western Railway. They demand 7s. per diem for all who have been employed one year as drivers either of goods or of passenger trains. There has been a new arrangement recently introduced, and partially worked, for driving the trains by con tract, which the more experienced hands eagerly take, and make a good thing of it, at the sam e ti me that it will save the company, if carried into effect over the whole line, not less than 100,000/. per annum. EARL FITZHARDINGE has been elected High Steward of Gloucester city, in the place of the late Duke of Beaufort. SATURDAY, THE ANNIVERSARY GATHERING of the children be. longing to the metropolitan charity schools took place on Thursday. The procession and ceremonies were of the usual description, and excited not less than the usual interest. There were about 4,000 children assembled in St. Paul's Cathedral to assist at the church service and hear the sermon, which was preached by the Bishop of Manchester. A CABINET Couwcu. was held on Saturday after noon at the Foreign-office. The Council sat three hours. Sue GEORGE GREY, K.C.8., has returned to this country on leave of absence from the government of New Zealand. CAPTAIN PETER RICHARDS, C. 8., is selected to fill the vacant seat at the Board of Ad m i ra l ty. THE EARL or ARRAN, one of the most anxious and painstaking landlords in Ireland, has been appointed Vice-Lieutenant of the county Mayo. Lord Arran is son-in law to General Sir W. Napier, the histonan of the Peninsular War. A COMMITTEE appointed by the Oxford Circuit to determine the most desirable form in which to erect a memonal to the late Mr. Justice Talfourd have recommended the erection of a mural monu ment, with a bust of the deceased, in St. Mary's Church at Stafford. SIR ROI I RT HERON, BART., died at his residence, Stubton, Lincolnshire, on Monday last, in the 88th year of his age. The deceased baronet was a son of Mr. Thomas Heron by his first wife, who was a daughter of Sir Edward Wilmot, Bart. He married in 1792 Amelia, daughter of Sir Horatio Mann. She died in 1816. Sir Robert succeeded his uncle in the baronetcy in 1805. The first baronet was Chief Se. cretary for Ireland in 1777. Sir Robert Heron was a deputy lieutenant of Lincolnshire, and for many years represented Peterborough in the House of Commons. Sporting. EPSOM RACES—TUTSDAT. The CRAVEN STAKES of 10 BOYS each, with 50 added. Mr. T. Parr's Defiance (Haman) 1 Mr. Cooper's Lascelles 2 The WOODCOTE STAKES of 10 soya each, with 100 added, for two-3ear-olds. Mr. T. Powell's Flatterer (Yates) 1 Mr. Saxon's Mary 2 Mr. Drinka ld ' s Monge . . The following abi - o ran:—Catastrophe, Kettleby, The Hind, Plausible, Scipio, Trireme, Katie Stewart. Betting : 7t04 ou Flatterer, sto I against Mary. Won easily. The EPSOM SUMMER HANDICAP of 15 SOTS each, with 100 Mr. Allen's Atwell (Wells) 0 Mr. Saxon's llazlenut Mr. l'Auson's Braxey 3 A fine race from the distance with Ilazlenut, Axwell, and Braxey, ended in a dead heat with the first two. Briuey beaten a head only. After the last race of the day Atwell walked over, Mr. Saxon receiving one-third of the stakes. The HORTON STAKES of 5 sous each, with 50 added. Mr. Clarence's Remnant.... ( C orderay ) 1 Mr. Bailey's New Brighton 2 The MANOR PLATE Of 1(k) sovs. Mr. Megson's Roebuck (Wells) 1 Mr. Saxon's liazlenut 2 Thirteen ran. The HEATHCOTE PLATE of 50 son. Captain D. Lane's Ephesus.. (Bartholomew) 1 Lord Palmerston's Austrey 2 ---- WEDNESDAY—THE DERBY. A aplendid morning and day, following upon a succes aion of mostinclement weather, tempted vast throngs to the downs on the Derby day, and the successive events passed off without an accident to diminish their eclat. The first race was the The CABEW STAKES Of 5 sews each, with 50 added. Captain Lane's Ephesus ( liartholemew) 1 Mr. T. Parr's Defiance 2 Mr. Edward's Sylvia. cciward's byl Betting: 5t02 on Ephesus, 3to 1 agst Defiance. The race throughout was between these two ; Ephesus taking the lead, ma ntaining it to the end, and winning cleverly by three quarters of a length. After came the great feat of the day, THE DERBY, for which splendid prize twenty-seven competitors came to the post. The coup d'ceil at this moment was extremely picturesque. The thousands of spectators surging up against the rails—the vast masses on the hillside—the multitude crowding the inclosures and the Grand Stand — had their eyes immediately rivetted, as it were, on one point, the starting-place. Slowly, and in a compact form, the horses proceeded towards it from the paddock, the colours of the riders having a gorgeous effect in the broad sunshine. At the very first signal a benutiful start was effected. Hospodar immediately went to the front with Marc Antony, Canute and Wild Huntsman heading the ruck, about the middle of which were Mr. Gully's two, Dervish, King Tom, Marsyas, New Warrior, and the Earls Bird. On nearing the turn, Wild Huntsman ran tip to Hospodar, and Dervish lay about sixth, Marc Antony and Canute then dropping off. At the road, both Hos podar and Wild Huntsman were beaten, and a new COE)* bination of form and colour in front added excitement to excitement. Hermit now took the lead , foll owed in close order by Andover, King Tom, Dervish, Knight of St. 1 ~~ \