The Press. — London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

ferent kind manifests itself in the expenses, which have increased 5,6151. 16s. 6d. above those of the first half-year of $57. However, the traffic has not diminished; on the contrary. In 1857 we carried in the six months about 16,000,000 passengers ; in 1858, about 16,800,000 pas sengers, i.e., an increase of 700,000 passengers. In 1857 we had—omnibuses running daily (average), 560 ; days of omnibuses, 103,600 ; miles run, 5,680,023. In 1858 we bad—omnibuses running daily, taveragel, 581 ; days of o mnibuses, 106,904 ; miles run, 5,815,036 ; i.e., an increase et 21 omnibuses, 3,304 days of omnibuses, and 126,013 miles. Thus have our industrial operations developed themselves, and the service rendered to the public means of transit been greatly increased. Our business has therefore augmented ; and, under this first view, we are evidently in a prosperons situation. But on the one hand the amount received hos been less, because it has become reentsite to reduce the fares; on the other, the proper tioncte expenses have increased, because it was necessary to maintain our position against our opponents at any coat. During the half-year the company have put in cir culation 74 new omnibuses, and 2 . 2 others have had their roofsraiaed and ventilation improved. On the 30th of J me the company had 6,383 horses, being 288 more than in December last. The correspondent s 3 stem, it is ascer tained, is not appreciated in London as it is in Paris ; only 10,000 passengers resort to it weekly. The gerants strongly recommended the transformation of the French company into an English one in the following terms:— " It becomes necessary (proceeds the report) to choose between the maintenance of the present situation ; that is to say, the severe struggle with reduced profits—perhaps one day an actual loss—and the conversion, which may suppress all the evil causes from which we now suffer. As for ourselves, the choice is not doubtful. We have therefore to propose to you to authorize your gerants in the manner and under the conditions which are about to be explained, to effect the transformation of the company into an English company under the law of limited liability." THE PRESS, OCTOBER 23, 1858 the Established Church, 402 were Roman Catholics, and 439 Presbyterians and other Protestant Dis senters. On the present occasion 70 successful candidates appeared for diplomas, of whom 20 won medals and other honours, which were distributed, on Saturday, in St. Patrick's-hall, Dublin Castle, by the Lord Lieutenant, in the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Lady Agnes Graham, Lord Chancellor Napier, and a long array of all the high notables at present in the metropolis. THE INSPECTOR-GENERALSIIIP OF IRISH CONSTA-- atm/am has been conferred on Mr. Henry John Brownrigg, C. 8., in the room of Colonel Wood. resigned. Mr. Brownrigg has filled the office of senior deputy inspector for the past ten years. AN EXTRAORDINARY ABDUCTION CASE, having for its object the carrying off of Miss Arbuthnot with the view to marriage, has been brought to a termination by the decision of the Kingstown police magistrates. The charge of conspiracy involved Mr. Carden of Bautane, in the county of Tipperary, where he pos sesses large property. It will be remembered that two years ago this gentleman was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, a portion of which was remitted on the grourd of ill health, for a forcible attempt to abduct the same lady. The defence was, Mr. Carden never intended to break the law, and that he had only adopted the course which had brought him before the court from a belief that Miss Arbuthnot was coerced by her family to reject him. This was denied in the most emphatic terms by the fair object of the suit of this gay Lathario, who has been bound over in his own recognizance of 5,0001. to keep the peace. V robintial. TUE ELOPEMENT of the daughter of a banker in the East Riding, who is Deputy-Lieutenant of the county, and, in her own right, possessed of 10,0001., with her father's groom, has caused considerable sen sation in Yorkshire. Determined not to marry a widower, with a small family, for whom she was de• stined by her parents, the young lady, who is about twenty-three years of age, left home on horseback. At Beverley she left her steed, and, with the groom, proceeded in a chaige to York, and thence by the mail•train to London. LIST, SAVILLE, AND BRETT, charged with being eoncerned in stealing the copper coffin which had contained the body of Mr. John Taylor, from the vaults of the Church of St. John, Stratford, were finally examined before the magistrates at Ilford Petty Sessions on Saturday last, and committed for trial. THE QUEEN having been informed that a poor woman, named Jones, the wife of an industrious ar tizan, residing in a court at Bristol, gave birth to three children, which give promise by their unusual vigour under such circumstances of being all reared, has sent the mother a gift of three sovereigns, one for each child. The infants have been christened Faith, Hope, and Charity. A Hop DUTY MEETING took place on Monday afternoon at Maidstone, to consider a proposal for endeavouring " to obtain a remission of one-half of the Excise charge leviable in respect of the crop of 1858." There were between 200 and 300 planters present. Major Scott, M.P., was in the chair. After some discussion a committee was appointed with the view of presenting a memorial from the growers in the several districts for a remission of the war duty. THE ARMY CONTRACT COMMISSIONERS resumed their inquiry respecting the defalcations at Weedon in a committee•room, No. 11, of the House of Com mons, on Thursday. Mr. John Calvert, of the firm of Cox and Co., army contractors, was examined, with the view of refuting a statement made by Mr. Ramsey, that, under the old clothing system, the colonels received the benefit of the surplus clothing in the event of their regiments being reduced after its issue. Mr. Calvert positively stated that such an instance had never occurred in his experience, and he had acted for col one l s i n suc h matters f or a period extending over thirty years. C donel Hoare then put in a long statement detailing the various delays, mistakes, and vexatious proceedings that had attended his applications to the War-office respect ing the clothing and e qu ip men t o f th e battalion under h is own command. Other witnesses were ex. awned, and the inquiry was adjourned. rtlnitlL THE QuEEN's COLLLGE6 are making steady pro press, the number of candidates for degrees bein g in excess of any former year. The number of matn eidated students iu the three colleges is now 361, and of nan•matriculated 84, making a total of 445. From the opening of the colleges upwards of 12,000 have matriculated, of whjoh utpuber 877 belonge4 to? Eire Clurril. THREE NEW COLONIAL BISHOPRICS are to be formed without delay—namely, Kingston, Upper Canada; Brisbane, Moreton Bay; and Goulburu, New South Wales. Towards each of these new sees the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts has contributed 1,0001. Arrangements are also in progress for the erection of a bishopric in the new colony of British Columbia. It is also intended to form three new bishoprics in India as soon as tran quillity is restored—one at Agra, for the North• West Provinces, one at Lahore, for the Punjaub, and one at Palamcotta, for the missicnary province of Tin nevelly. When these arrangements are completed, there will be forty-four colonial bishoprics in connec tion with the Church of England. Mn. LIVINGSTON has communicated to the dean and chapter of Carlisle that while he his willing to continue to officiate as precentor should they desire it, he is equally ready to resign the post should it be their wish. The expenses which be has incurred in obtaining the reversal of their sentence amount to nearly 3001. The bishop had no power to award costs. About 501. have been subscribed towards a defence fund, chiefly by sympathizers at a distance ; but, singularly enough, says the local journal, nut withstanding the strong feeling in his favour, only a very few contributions have been made by the people of Carlisle. A SEPTUAGENARIAN VICAR writes as follows :—I am a clergyman of a nervous temperament, upwards of seventy years of age. I live on the borders of Oxfordshire and Bucks, in a very beautiful part of the country ; my parish is small, my house good, my income approaching to 170/. a year. Judge of my feelings when I read this morning in your advertising columns the following :- 1 ° Fof sale, the next presentation to a living in a most beautiful part of the country, on the borders of Oxfordshire aad Bucks. There is a superior parsonage.house and grounds, and the income amounts to about 1701. per annum. Population small. Incumbent seventy years of me, and a bad life. Apply to Mr. W. H. Hewitt, auctioneer, etc., 23, Hart-street, Bloomsbury square." With much force the Septuagenarian asks what right has any auctioneer to say that his life is a bad one, either morally or physically, and whether there is no redress against sinh brutality. TIIE REV. J. DITCHER, the opponent of Aro hdeacon Denison, has just been presented with a testimonial, consisting of a Bible, Prayer-book, and the Book of Homilies. Cabal ant glilitarg ntelligenct. A WAR-OFFICE MEMORANDUM announces that the next competitive examination of candidates for ad. m.ssion to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich will be held in London on the 3rd of January, 1859. The qualifications remain as heretofore; and all gentlemen who desire to obtain commissions in the Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers ate required to pass through the course of instruction at the Royal Military Academy. THE DEATHS OF THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS are announced by the overland mail :—Lieutenetit- Colonel Alexander Cameron, 42nd Highlanders, at Pereillh August ti; Surgeon W. li. Pigou, Bowbay 1025 medical service, at Poona, September 10 : Lieute nant W. T. Anderson, 25th Bombay N.I , at Gwelior, August 24; Lieutenant W. 11. Cowburn, 71st High. landers., at Gwalinr August 31 ; Lieutenant W. M. Mules, Bombay Fus ilier=, killed at Mooltan, August 31 ; Major H. S. Mills, sth Bengal NJ., at Murree, September 3 ; and David M'Culloch, Esq., at Bombay, September I'2. AT ALDERSHOTT two buildings for schools are to be immediately erected for the especial instruction of the children of soldiers who may be quartered in the encampment. THE LAUNCH of the screw steamship Edgar, 01, at Woolwich, is now fixed to take place this day. The principal entrance to the dockyard will be thrown open to visitors indiscriminately about one o'clock. THE LORDS OF TILE ADMIRALTY have it in con templation to effect a very considerable •augmentation in the coastguard. Twenty ships of war now in com mission are ordered home from foreign stations, and a very considerable portion of their crews, numbering upwards of 4,0(N) men, will be employed in this service. sportiug. A COVEY OF PARTRIDGES, six or seven brace, was surprised the other day by a gentleman passing through Leeds-park. They flew towards a wire fence, unfortunately for them too close at hand, as four were picked up dead and one wounded. The gen tleman had no weapon with him more formidable that his walking•stick. He returned to dinner, bear ing with him two brace of the partridges, which had fallen victims to their precipitous retreat. THE MARQUIS or BRISTOL, who is in his ninetieth year, enjoyed the sports of the field at lckworth on the 15th inst., and bagged six pheasants in a few minutes. Xab3 an Volitt. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE, in which the principals are the son of the French Consul and the editor of one of the local papers, has created considerable eh. citement at Newcastle. It appears that, in antici pation of the municipal elections in Newcastle on- Tyne, a great deal of popular excitement exists, especially in the Westgate Ward. Mr. Wm. Dunn, a Roman Catholic gentleman, represents that ward and a strong feeling of antagonism has been aroused against him on account of his faith. The Daily Express took up the case in this sense with great vehemence, and letters and articles have appeared commenting with unqualified severity OD its oppo. nents, and the means adopted by them to further their electioneering purposes. On Tuesday morning the letter appeared in the Daily Express, attri buting to the French Consul, the Count de Mari• court—the agent, as it called him, of the arch-traitor and plotter against his country's liberty, Louis Napo leon—an interference with the canvass in the ward. The son of the consul, lately an officer in the French army, who was staying with his father at the time, called at the office, and left the following card for the editor of the Daily Express:— F. DE lIARICOKRT, llth Dragoons, Will do the editor the honour to wait for him at the smoking-room of the Exchange-hotel to-morrow morning at eight o'clock. If the editor does not come, he will hate the pleasure to chastise him at his own house. Of course the appointment was not kept, and M. de Maricourt returned home. Shortly afterwards be obtained a copy of the Daily Express of Wednesday, and found an article in it reflecting on the count in the most violent manner. " Now," says the journal in question, " there are two kinds of F-ench counts. If a professor of anything from language or leger demain comes from America, the chances are that he is a major, or something between *at and a general ; if, on the other hand, your necromancer or dancing-master comes from France, he is pretty certain to be a count. There are no doubt real counts as well as pinchbecks, but whether M. de .Maricourt belongs to the one class or the other —whether his affinities connect him with the Count Montalembert or Count Borromeo, the most impu dent impostor on the treadmill—ite is equally pre. chided fiom interfering with the course of an Eng lish election." The article concludes with this advice—" Monsieur must follow madame." To understand the last allusion, it is necessary to explain that " Madame" was the keeper of a notorious house in Newcastle—so notorious that she was handed ou,t of the town by the police. OD the publication of thi; article, M. de Maricourt, the son of the consul, proceeded to the office of the paper, demanded to sco the editor, and on the hesitation of the people to tell hire where he could be found, the young than pulled out a pistol, and threatened them if they would not inform him. On learning the place where the editor could be found, he drove thither in a cab, *ld eato.r.O. the e‘litopal suotilig. 1O is44o