The Press. — London, England, 1853-08-06 00:00:00

AUGUST 6, 1853. ANOTHER SYNOD AT THURLES is announced by the Tipperary Free Preu, a high Roman Catholic au thority "In compliance with the instructions of the Most Rey. Dr. Cullen, delegate of the Holy See, a provincial Synod, under the presidency of the Most Rev. Dr. Slattery, of Cashel, will be held at Thurles in the ensuing month. The preliminaries have not been u yet finally arranged, but in all probability the sittings of the Synod will eonanence about the Ist of September." Two LONDON MISSIONARIES, the Rev. Messrs. Dickinson and Lewis, attempted to read and expound the Scriptures to a crowd in Limerick on Sunday evening. After a few minutes a mob collected and set upon the reverend gentlemen, who were severely maltreated. It is computed that 10,000 of the canaille of Limerick were engaged in hooting, yelling, and pelting stones, where they could with safety to them selves, at the obnoxious clergymen. The next morning (Monday) a man and woman were brought before the magistrates of police, charged with as saulting the Rev. Mr. Lewis. THE GRAND JURY have found a true bill against Mr. George Birch, " one of the attorneys," for the embezzlement of 35,0001., the property of Mrs. Sarah Kelly, of •• great will case" notoriety. The trial was to commence on Thursday. IN CORK, Col. Chatterton again comes forward as a candidate, and has already issued his address to the electors. Mr. Francis Bernard Beamish opposes on the Liberal interest. IT seems that no less than three petitions have proceeded from the electors of Sligo—two against the return of Mr. John Sadleir, and the third against Mr. John Patrick Somers, who stands arraigned for malpractices in his last effort to regain his lost seat. THE EXODUS has recommenced with great vigour, although on the eve of harvest, when employment at good wages can be obtained in all parts of the country. Many of the emigrants are now proceeding to Canada, where labourers are in great request for the railways. THE LONG, CONTINUANCE OF RAIN has caused some uneasiness about the cereal crops, and farmers are becoming apprehensive that the excess of moisture might produce a revival of the potato disease. Up to this time, however, no material injury has been done to any crop, and potatoes, with some very few exceptions, are still free from the blight,. The agri cultural reports from all quarters contain most en couraging accounts of the prospects of the harvest. A PETITION from tne Protestant patrons and friends of the National system of Education, which is in tended for presentation to both Houses of Parliament, is now in course of signature in Dublin. The peti tioners say that they are " the patrons or managers of national schools, or friends of the national system of education in Ireland, having been invited to become such, and as such to submit to, or ap prove of, the regulations prescribed by the Commissioners of Education, on the faith of the body agreeing themselves to be bound by the same, and otherwise to observe, in their spirit, the provisions of their charter, contained in Mr. Stanley's well-known letter, as finally settled and sent to the Duke of Leinster. " That, although Mr. Stanley in the first draught of that letter proposed his plan as one for' combined literary and separate religious instruction,' each branch altogether to ex clude the other, the members of the then intended board objected to a scheme which should exclude all religious teaching from the combined instruction ; and, accordingly, after mature deliberation, the draught letter was amended, by describing the projected plan as one for combined moral and literary and separate religious instruction,' with the following important explanation annexed:—' It is not designed to exclude from the list of hooks for the coni billed instruction such portions of sacred history or of religious or moral teaching as may be approved by the board., " That your petitioners, therefore, submit that, of all the provisions of their commission, the provision just mentioned as having been gravely suggested and solicited is the last that either the original or succeeding commissioners can be allowed to infringe, endanger, or neglect. " That the board, having entered on the discharge of their duties, proceeded from time to time to publish and recommend certain books for the combined instruction in national schools—namely, some books of lessons on general subjects, but interspersed with much moral and religious teaching; some scripture lessons; also a work, entitled Lessons on the Truth of Christianity;' and, finally, for the same purpose, they placed on their list of ' books sanctioned, but not published,' a book entitled Intro ductory Lessons on Christian Evidences.' " That your petitioners have now to complain that the board, by a recent decision of a majority of their body, have resolved to exclude from their list the two last-mentioned books, and have further virtually deprived the children desirous to read the ' Scripture Lessons ' of all power to read the same, except out of their school hours, when it will, probably, be inconvenient, if not impossible, for those children to attend. " That in the language of the commissioners themselves in their fourth report, 'to limit in this way the time for such instruction, tends to discourage it altogether.' " 'f hat the commissioners, unless prevented, may thus proceed to further breaches of their trust, and go on to es• chide from the combined instruction, one after another, books and portions of religious and moral teaching, so as utterly to destroy the spirit of that system which they are bound to preserve and administer, by reducing the com bined instruction to a strictly secular character, essentially different from that which your petitioners were invited and engaged to support. THE PRESS. " That, in consequence of that recent decision, the mem bers of the board who dissented from it have withdrawn themselves from the commission—namely, his tirsce the Archbishop of Dublin, the Right Hon. Baron (invite. and the Right Hon. Francis Blaekburne. " That such a step on the part of men of so much weight, and of such libend views on education, hilt' greatly shaken the general confidence in the board, the public being ap prehensive lest such vital departures from the spirit of the system may become precedents for still further changes; and, in but, as an A . M. and sign of such insecurity, some patrons have already dissolved their connection with the board. " That, on the implied pledge of being permitted to use, in the combined instruction of all children whose parents should be desirous of it, all the books published or sanc tioned for that pur)ose, your petitioners were induced to convey their lands, or spend their !moneys, for the crecti and maintenance of national schools, or were content to sacrifice convenience and to incur much obloquy. "That your petitioners still approve of, and are anxious to maintain and extend, the system of national e du c ati on established in Ireland, and therefore most humbly but ear nestly pray that your lordships will take measures to have the system restored to its integrity, by preserving the reli gious element which has hitherto pervaded the combiued instruction, and by leaving the books already published for that purpose free to all children during school hour", with out being forced upon any whose parents or guardians may object to their use." glisullanta. The oyster season commenced on Thursday last, the opening of the market being announced at Billingsgate, at the stroke of six a.m., with the customary formalities. The supply was tolerably abundant, and the new arrange ments, rendered possible by the completion of the market house, obviated the crowding and confusion which have prevailed in previous years at this season. An old iron cannon, a 24-pounder, supposed to have be longed to the Amphion, which was blown up and sunk towards the latter end of the last century, was brought up by the divers i►► Plymouth hardo►ur last week. A miser's horde was discovered at Goole, lately, on the death of an old woman, named Hudson, who, singular to say, was a native of In-land. Some years since, being left a widow, she sent fur a brother who had settled in America, but shortly afterwards turned him away, saying she could not afford to keep him. On the 20th ult. she died, and, the house being searched by the brother, one bag was found containing iOO sovereigns, and another with I Mt sovereigns, concealed in the bottom of a closet; one butter-pot con taining MN) sovereigns; in the fire-grate, cheques and bills amounting to 2001.; and in a box, promissory notes, one for 50/., one for 40W., and another for 2,0001., lodged with the Aire and ('alder Navigat' Company, making a total of 1,250/.; also a large quantity cif linen, dresses, and other valuables. Billingsgate Market is now completed ; the whole of the intended alterat . being entirely tinislml, and the vast improvement effected over the former building is very evi dent. Altogether the improvements effected are an orna ment to the City, independently of the facilities they will afford to the fish trade. Reports from the different wine districts in Portugal represent the disease in the grapes as most destructive. The price of brandy is consequently exorbitant-341. per The completed route of railway communication from Fenchurch•street lilackwall terminus to hew, being lmi miles, was publicly opened for passenger traffic on Monday last. Five Andalusian stallions and four small black Spanish ponies arrived at Bayonne on Saturday last, on their way to the imperial stables at St. Cloud. The ponies are almost wild, and endeavour to bite any one who approaches them. They belong to the. Empress, who, when in Madrid, frequently drove theta herself, though they are vicious and unbroken. The horses are a present to the Emperor from the I hike of Alba. The first funeral at the Chobham encampment took place on Thursday week. The deceased was a private of the Nth Hinman, and had been twenty-two years in the service. He died of bronchitis, and was interred in the churchyard at Chertaey. Mr. Tennant, late farmer at Girvan Mains, Ayrshire, one of the last surviving contemporaries and personal friends of Robert Burns, died in Ayr on the '2,sth ultimo. He was born about the same year as the poet, MO, and had, therefore, attained the patriarchal age of ninety four. One thousand dollars have been subscribed in the United States for the monument which his► been for some years in contemplation to erect in lAnidon to the memory of Dr. Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination. Nu: vomica, which in 1840 was imported only in the trifling quantity of 550164., reached the English market last year to the extent of as many tons. The drug is one of the bitterest and nand poisonous articles enumerated in the Materia Medico. Major Gordon Cumming, jun., lately killed with the rod, in the Spey, tifty•nine grilse and salmon in six days. During one of the days he killed bixteenfish. Mr. J. Brett arriv►il at Turin on the :10th ultimo, on him way to La Spezzia, where he is to commence operations for laying down the submarine telegraph to Sardinia and Algeria. Four hundred and fifty pound expenses have been granted by the Court of Bankruptcy to the officers who lately captured the absconding bankrupt, Steward Steven- son Spriggs. He had escaped to Australia, whither he was followed and brought back, together with some considerable property, which has been rendered available to his creditors. 327 During the celebrated railway contest waged between the North•Westent and Great Western Companies, for the possession of the Oxford and Birmingham line, a large number of shared were passed into the hands of children; and, when an officer was sent down to Manchester to execute writs enforcing the payments of calls there was amotembled before him, from one establishment in that city, quite a shoal of factory boys and girls, all shareholders in the opposing company. 'file dead body of a soldier, with the name E. Russell, :glop Regiment, marked on his clothes, was found among the bales when the ship Columbus, arrived from Liverpool, was lately unloaded at New York. It is supposed that he secreted liimsellaniong the cargo for the purp om. of deser• Lion, and that a number of bales had been stowed away alter he had got into his hiding-11 We. As the hatch wax secured and caulked, and the ship crowded with emigrant passengers, his cries could not be heard on deck. The body was much decomposed, and appeared to retain none of its original features. Mr. Fitzroy's regulations for the London cabmen are outdone in stringency and minuteness by the Berlin police, in relation to the domelike-drivers of that city. These are now all decently and uniformly dreamed in a black glazed hat, a blue single-breasted cloth coat, with metal buttons, and coarse Week cloth downbelows. At six o'clock one mounting, lately, the President of l'olice re viewed the whole force of L2tK/ &middies, so as to examine the dolma of the drivers, the capacities of the horses, and the state of the vehicles. The result is said to have been very satisfactory. The uniform is decorated in some cases with embroidered stripes on the ann, like our non-oommiasioned officers, one stripe indicating rive years service under one insulter, two - ten years', three fifteen, and so on. It is a very rare thing to meet with in civility or an overcharge from a droschka•driver. A novel railway parcel arrived at Cheltenham front Bir mingham last week, when there was tOund, lying com fortably asleep on one of the seats, a little girl about two years of age. A label was pinned on the front of its dress, " Margaret Williams, passenger to Bristol." On its reach. ing Bristol it was met by its mother--the wife of a work. ing man—who was anxiously awaiting ita arrival. Tit., portrait of Mr. l'itt, by lloppuer, bought a few months back by Mr. Moffatt, M.l'., has been presented by that gentleman to the Nati I t ;eatery. M. Arago, who had commeneed his journey towards Paris, has antlered a relapse•. Ili, shoat' has become such that it was eonsidered necessary to send a telegraphic despatch requesting his son to join him. The news has caused a very painful sensation in the wealth. world. A iterambulating lsok•store hate been set up by a spirited bookseller in Manchester. A spec' caravan, like those i►► which itinerant lions and deletions are wont to traverse the country in search of fairs, has been constructed with shelves capable of holding 2,00 volume's, and stowage ter a considerable quantity extra. The owner of this truly " circulating " library provides a tent for his customers, which lie spreads in shady and retired parts of the town. Another sad occurnmee is reported by the last American journals to have taken place at the Faust of Niagara. A boat, in which were three men, got adrift and floated into the current, where it upset, and two of them were imuue• diately carried over the Falls. The third caught at a stump in his passage near the brink. Thousands of cal zees assembled on the banks, and every possible attempt was made to rescue him. A raft was floated to hin►, but from this he was swept, and went over the Falls after a struggle for life protracted through many hours. Disease, assuming the form of a white blight, lately attacked the grape vines in Greece, and threatened total destruction to the crop. Suddenly myriads of small green insects, hitherto unknown, and which came no one knows from whence, settled on the vines, and devoured the white substance with the greatest avidity, restoring the fruit to its natural colour. Naturelista may easily explain this phenomenon, but the inhabitantm set it down as a direct curd ntino•ulous int....posit of Providence. The Munileur we. irols with evident delight tho unprece dented event of a Freud. h o rse having won the cup at tioodwood. The names of the sire and dam of the winner, Sting and Currency, sufficiently betray, however, the ~axon lineage of Jouvence, add gh she was burn upon Fmneli M. Corti's resignation of the management of the Italian ()peril ham been accepted by the Minister of the Inlet Mr. Mont Mane was ascended, for the first time this season, on the 21st ult., by Mr. Sal 1, of Waterlo', Cumber land, and Mr. Arthur Wit!sham, Ito)al Artillery, with the usual staff of guides and porters. thi their return t► chamouni, the patties were received with bouquets of flowers, salvos of artillery, and hearty congratulations by the inhabitants and visitors. Some cases of cholera have made their appearance at Flendsburg and tionderbum but the persons attacked had either come from Copenhagen, or been in contact with linch persons. A letter from Copenhagen, 25th ult., says: " Yesterday 230 111. W cases were declared, and It I deaths. Up to this time' there have been in all 3,5:11 cases, 2,041 deaths, and $4B cures. Among the new victims are nino physieians, one of whom. I tr. %%Inhume'', formed part of the. medical establishment of the Kings looneehold ; our celebrated painter, M. d'Eckeitherg ; Baron de Holstein, intendant of the Theatre Royal of Copenhagen ; and M. hence, a lieutenant in the. navy." The Mt. Petersburg journal states that cholera is at present raging in the governments of Kiew and Tolyw, and that it has burst out in the great commercial town of Iteryezew. PROFESSOR GEMINI'S, already so much persecuted for his " Introduct' to the History of the Nine teenth Century," has now been also deprived, by an order of the Radish Ministry, of his title of honorary professor, and of his right to deliver lectures at the University of Heidelberg.