The Press. — London, England, 1853-07-30 00:00:00

JULY 30, 1853. SECOND EDITION. SATURDAY ErENING. LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. (Frou► our own Correspoutlons.) VIENNA, Friday.—News has arrived from Constan tinople that the Porte and the mediating powers have approved the arrangement proposed by tl►e Austrian Ambassador, according to which the fleets would leave the Bay of Besika on the seine day as the Rus sians would evacuate the principal cities. Lord Westmoreland, on the 25th of July, had an audience of an hour from the Emperor of Austria. The Second Chamber of Holland has adopted the law reducing to one per cent. ad valorem the duty on machinery and agricultural implements. The Dutch bishops have presented an address to the King, setting forth their objections to the law which places all matters rel•itiug to the public wor ship, kc., of different sects under the control of the State. The augmentation of the federal military forces decreed by the tiennan Diet amounts to one-sixth of the population. Austria is fortifying Cracow. The celebrated Kos ciusko Mound is covered with entrenchments. The Austrian correspondence contradicts formally the statement that an important conspiracy against the Emperor has been discovered at Vienna. The arrests at Ischl took place among the Rongians. The Bavarian paper Lion was confiscated for an article entitled "The Catholics in Russia." The Queen and young Princesses of Hanover, who have suffered from an attack of measles, are now convalescent. News from Stockholm of July 22 states that the King has renounced his intention of an excursion to the baths at Soero. The concentration of a Russian army in Finland is looked upon as a demonstration against Sweden, whose policy brings it nearer to England. Russia is said to be negotiating with Denmark the cession of the island of Bornholm, an important station in the Baltic. The letters from Rome state that the Pope has entirely recovered from his recent indisposition. He visited on foot the Via Appia and the iron bridge an nexed to the ancient Pons Sanatorius. The National Council of Switzerland have decided that the debate on the collision with Austria shall be secret. The Greek Chamber of Deputies adopted on July 19 the budget for the year. The Porte has given orders that no vessels from the Black Sea shall enter the Bosph orus by night, excepting such as have cargoes of wood. The commanders of the batteries have been ordered to fire upon any vessel which may attempt the pas sage in defiance of this prohibition. The Austrian lnternuneio has opened negotiations for the purpose of obtaining a modification of this order, at least in the case of bad weather. The despatches anticipating the overland mail, of which a telegraphic summary had already been received from Trieste, reached London this morning. There is little news from Bnrmah. Two steamers had arrived thence in Calcutta since last mail, but bring no intelligence of interest. The war is at a standstill, though hardly at an end. A kind of sullen peace is preserved with the Burmese, and it was believed that the envoys of the King would return to Rang►on and renew the negotiations. Meanwhile the Burmese were busy fortifying positions between Meeaday and their capital. The most southern of these posts is commanded by Meatoon, and, being situated cl►se to Meeaday, had been reconnoitred by some of our light steamers. it is said that Meatoon boasts his intention of driving us into the sea, and that the Burmese Government have still faith in his promises. Sickness was still rife among the troops. Accord ing to official returns, 54 officers, 1,353 European soldiers, and about 2,00 sepoys have fallen victims to disease during our occupation of the country. Several officers have died there recently—Lieuten►uit- Colonel Coote, her Majesty's 18th Royal litish; Lieu tenant It. I'ilmer, her Majesty's 51st; Lieutenant It. H. Montgomerie, her Majesty's 811th; and Lieutenant H. Vaughan, Madras Engineers. India generally was very quiet. A fatal affray with pirates had occurred in the Chinese seas. Her Majesty's screw sloop Rattler Commander Mellersh, had a desperate engagement with Chusan pirates. The affair was a brilliant and successful one, hut the loss to the Rattler was severe. George A. Pidcock, second lieutenant; George Rider, quartermaster ; and John Phillips, A. 8., were killed, and seven seamen wounded, one very dangerously. This mail was brought to Men by the Company's steam-vessel Ajdaha, which did not reach that place until the evening of the Bth of June, having been eighteen days from Bombay. She had consumed all her coal, and kept steam up with spars, hawsers, d:c. THE PRESS. Though only just out of dock, she was ►o leak• that all her pumps were obliged to be kept going con tinually. As at present arranged, the Queen will prorogue Parliament in person, coming to town for two days for that purpose. The four younger children of her Ma jesty, the Princes Arthur and Leopold, and the Prin cesses Helena and ' A buts*, who are staying at Wind sor Castle in charge of Lady Caroline Barrington, are convalescent. Dr. Locock has been iu daily atten dance at the Castle on their Royal Highnesses. Lotto Iturnves died on Wednesday morning at his seat in Perthshire. The event was sudden, as the deceased was walking in his garden on the pre ceding evening. He was in his 7fith year, and leaves no issue, the estates being inherited by his only sister, the Hon. Mrs. Hore, of Harperstown, Wexford. TILE STRIKE or THE CAB-OWNERS is 110 W apparently at an end. The "committee of the Metropolitan Hackney Carriage Trade" late last night passed a resolution earnestly recommending their fellow tradesmen to return innuediately to their usual avo cations. The amendments in the Hackney Carriage Act passed by the House of Commons, though at first considered insufficient, are now accepted, and a large umnber of the metropolitan cabs are this morning to he found at their usual stands. Some of the masters still hold out, but the strike in its com prehensive sense is over. Possibly this change of opinion was wrought by a short notification issued from the officers of Inland Revenue stating that for five shillings each the authorities were prepared to grant to all parties applying short licences to be in force until next ,lattuarv. THE Loss ow THE BARQUE Argyle, Captain Young, master, mil the greater part of the crew, off New foundland, while bound to Quebec, was reported in London last night. The ship sprang a leak on the 19th of May, in terrible weather, and the exertions of the crew of nineteen men to reduce the water by pumping were thrown away. Recourse was then had to the boats, lint the jolly-boat went adrift, in launch ing. Having obtained as much provisions and water as could be got at, all hands took to the long. boat. They numbered in all seventeen—three passengers (two of whom were females), first and second mates, eleven seamen, and the master. Within an hour after their leaving they saw the ship go down head foremost. They made for a westerly course, but by the third tidy their situation became alarming, the water and provisions being quite exhausted. The master did all he possibly could to cheer the men on, and one and all laboured to make way by pull ing at the oars, Sze. The succeeding eight days and nights, however, passed without a sail appearing in sight. During that time many miserably perished. On the sixth day two of the crew died from want. On the seventh Captain Young lost his two mates ; the male passenger died also on that day. The eighth, several hands became delirious from drinking sea water to quench their thirst, contrary to the earnest appeals of the master not to touch it. One seaman, whilst in this state, leaped overboard and was drowned. The female passengers possessed extraor dinary constitutions, otherwise they must have quickly sunk under their awful privations. A heavy sea was continually running, with strong westerly gales ; and it. was as much as three men could do by baling out the water to keep the boat afloat. On the evening of the ninth day their frightful situation was at length discovered by a French brig called the Har mony, beloir,fing to St. Maio, Captain Preville, who bore down to its assistance, and picked up the wretched people in hats. 51) loam. 32 W. Their condition when brought on board was truly awful—some insen sible and in a dying state. The master of the Har mony placed every comfort he possessed at their disposal. Two, however, never rallied, but shortly expired. The survivors were landed at Quinton, a small port on the coast of Newfoundland, when they were taken on board the Government cruiser Charles, to be conveyed to Quebec. In all, the number who perished amounted to fifteen persons. lirtiatlll. TIIE Si lIISAI rx TIIEAItD of NATIONAL EIRTA TIoN has crone to a crisis by the rekignationm of the Archbishop of Dublin, Mr. Blackburne, and Baron Greene, the most active and influential, if not the only Protestant, members of the board. The C a tholic party and delegates of the Romish See will now, as the Evening Mail remarks, "have an opportunity to assume the supervision of the entire secular educe • tion of the country, and the unchecked control of at least lif,(sXot. of public money." Two of the vacan cies have been already filled up, it is said, by the appointment of 1)r. Knox, Bishop of Down and Con nor, and Mr. Abraham Brewster, the Irish Attorney- General. Dr. Knox has been for many years a sup port( r of the national system. Mr. Brewster has never taken an active, or indeed any, part in the Irish education question. Meanwhile, the aufortu nate nature of this embarrassment is proved by the evidence aecumitlatiug on all hands that the systtm has been successful. At a meeting of the clergy of the diocese of Dublin, held ou Wednesday morning, the archbishop for mally announced that he war nu longer a member of the National Board, his grace having received a letter which he could regard in no other light than as a "dismissal" by the tioverument from the office which he had tilled for a period of over twenty years. This anuouncetitent created great surprise, not un mingled with indignation ; and, after the archbishop had retired, the clergy present came to a unanimous resolution to prepare a strong memorial, o r remon strance, condemnatory of the whole proceeding, to be forwarded for immediate presentation to the House of Lords. Tux Loren LIEUTICNANT took his departure for London on Sunday evening, to be present at the debate in eommittee upon the Succession Duties Bill. THE Ataucrurea.u. Bs:yours continue as favour able as could be hoped for; and it is calculated that the harvest will become general about the middle of the next month. An early harvest is of great im portance under existing circumstances, on account of the comparative scarcity of labourers, and the de parture of many of the best of them for England. The potato crop is still safe, and the farmers rejoice at the prospect of the escape of this favourite root, which would give 11111111141111 V in the humblest dwel lings. At this time last year the blight was very general, and considerable alarm prevailed. Fur many years past, says the Kilkenny Moderator, there has not been at this season so cheering a prosiwet in this part of the country of an abundant cereal harvest, and at plentiful potato crop. Tzu Dem Ase you FLAX Is ULSTER is considerably greater than the people of that province have been in the habit of supplying to strangers. A Newry paper states that as "many as 13 tuns of flax were shipped front Newry last week for the Isle of Man." Any 111110111 a of flax Ireland can produce will he taken up, and inere required, provided the present demand contintie. WILLIAM Tummy, a man of gentlemanly appear ance and respectable connections, has been eon victed of shoplifting at Cork, and sentenced to ten years truneportation. He carried ou a most exten sive system of plunder, the articles found iu his pos session at his arrest being almost sufficient to set up a bazaar ; and at the time that he perpetrated thee., depredations he visited, and was visited by, many highly respectable persons in the neighbourhood. Returns of the number of accidents on the United States railways show that in the seven weeks ending May 10, this year, seventy-three persons were killed and 101 wounded. In contradistinction to this fearful return appears that of European railways :—llelgium Railways, three years, six killed ; French railways, two years, none ; English railways, two years, twenty-eight. The number of passengers carried on the English roads during the two years was 109.317,2:13. Notwithstanding this display of national recklessness, the number killed by their own careleraneioi in the United States is no greater than in Great Britain. 'l'he directors and shareholders of the Surrey Oita Con sumers' Associtif have prese•utael Mr. Sherid'Croll with a costly 014 c of plate in CollllllollOrdtl 4l ll of the valuable services ire had rendered to the company. The militia of Moldavia, according to a Berlin journal, are to be united to the Russian army, In issusequence of this determinati tttt several of the militia officers have wished to resign, but have nut been permitted bide so. No less than tr.:,21{.1 pilgrims entered Aix•la-t !impede on the lith, in order to visit the relics. Mr. Jeremiah Davis, l'obuid-street, Oxford-street, while riding in an / onissibin4 towards the City, suddenly tell bae•k and expired. Medical assixtbnce was instantly procured, but life was quite extiiwt. Cholera, aceonling to the latest accounts from St. l'eteraburg, was committing conaiderable ravages among the Ituesian troops, especially those concentrated for the isistorou,s. Official rep 451104 trout the I►a n nbisn principalities stab. that the Missions pay rawly 000000 ley for all supplies. Another immense delselit of guano has been discovered in the Indian Ocelot, between filauritiont and Calcutta. The island containing this depelit is forty miles long by seven broad, and tlins forty timer the site of lehahoe. M. 4billicti wits among the loassengers who left Liver• pool on M'eflilesilay fur the United Mates by the n►ail strainer Kullu•. Ike:gulfs coat 81111 NOW will be rowed fur on Monday neat by s►x young 'litanies waternien. The great Australian gold nugget lately exhibited has been melted and sold for 6,6:41/. Its weight before melting was 10114 ounces, and it yielded 1,:119 ounces of fine gold. e•epual to 1,1'13 ounces standard. A first divith.nd of tni. in the pound was this week de• dared upon the estate of Messrs. Ewhank and Gray, who failed in 1046 I . It is expected that a further dividend of •Is. tki Ailey pt be realised. The health of M. Aragu, the astronomer, is w much im• proved that he lilts left the south of France for Paris, se compauied by Mme. l.augier, his niece. I