The Press. — London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 12, 1851 Mn. BROWNE, late Secretary of Legation in Den mark, has left Copenhagen. The late British Minister, Sir W. W. Wynn, will also soon depart. The Royal Family have ordered for hint, as a souvenir of respect and a parting keepsake, a large porcelain vase, made at the royal porcelain manufactory in Copenhagen. AT a recent ordination, the Bishop of New Zealand admitted to the office of deacon one of the aboriginal natives of the colony. THE council of the Society of Arts has for some time past had under consideration the introduction of the long-haired Angora goat into the colony of tlw Cape of Rood Hope, with the view to the export of its wool to Europe. THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING of Claussen's Patent Flax Company was held at the company's offices on Tuesday. The report informed the shareholders that the company's works are now in operation, and are furnishing supplies of the patent material. It was also stated that the demand is steadily and pro gressively increasing. The shareholders appeared gratified with the prospects of the company. Inom a return just issued it appears that in 10.4re2 an increase of 1,492 persons, at an expense of 96,291/. 13s. Ilhl., took place in the various public offices, and a decrease of 30 persons, at a saving of 49,3; s/. Is. 4d. In the Post-office the increase is 1,295, at an expense of •211,662/. In the c onvi c t e s _ tablislimetit 5 . 2 officials have been added. In the Excise them is a reduction of nine eniphwi.s. A DErti.‘Tota from the Burial Committee of the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston on Tuesday at the Home office. AT Ashton, Stalybridge, and Hyde, a proposition has been brought before the Masters' Union for re. awing the hours or labour in their mills to four days per week, in consequence of the heavy stocks of some classes of goods produced there, and the present depressed state of the market. Tlw question will be taken into consideration forthwith. THE CI OIMIRSIONEES appointed to conduct the in quiry- into the practice of the Bankruptcy Courts, at the head of whom is Mr. Walpole, the lat e Home Secre tary, are prosecuting their labours with us much vigi lance as their other multifold engagements will permit. A series of questions has been forwarded to the leading professional men in these courts, as well as to the commissioners and the higher officers, with the intimation that their opinion is desired on the several points included in the inquiries. They are divided under three heads, and afro as follows : 1. newton., expenses, establishment, and business of the court. To what, in your opinion, is to be attributed the diluhln- Ulm hi the Milliners of the court, and of the fees and funds applicable to the payment of its expenses? Ito yon think, and for what reasons, that the present or 11,0 foods of the court to meet its ex muses Is likely to lie permanent or mil? 1/o you think, and for what reasons, that any 141111 what reduce' hi the establishment of the court in your district can now, iir sii a (Inure time, be safely and properly made, or not ? What 'void he the amount of animal saying effected by such reduction, if any? Would any and what other benefit arise from it? Du you iiiitmest, amid ou what grounds, any awl what rhauge in the ill% b lion of districts, or in the distribution of lapdtiess among the Oil•V1.1141 brl4ll4•ll.'S of the court, oe as seventh t . 111 ,04 11 0 ‘,l ll and oil Wilisl g1 . 1.11111k, any soil what measure other than t▪ hose already mentioned by which the expenses of the court may be diminished or its revenue increased ? tt. otheial Assignees-1 5 0 you think that there exists at present *sufficient cheek on the Meet ttttt ts of official assignees. or not! If not, do you stiimest ally, and what more efficient cheek ? Ito you reeoin• mewl. 111111 lin whin. lA*Ollllllll, the adoption of a uniform scale ter the anon Nlll.e of remuneration to official assignees in all cases, or ant ^ If so, what seale do you reeonmurnil, and lin whirl groumils? Ihi you think it desirable or not that ifteial assignees nllOlll.l be remunerated wholly or in part by fixed salary, or do you iinggri,l, 51111 011 IN hut grounds, any and what change in the mode of remunerating them, or in Ow mode of appointing them • Classifleatima of (•ertificateil--1)o you, and for what reasons, approve of the principle of elasalticaUtm, or not ? What benefits or veils, iu your opinion, hate resulted, or are likely to result. from too' r‘latitig system of elnsslfiestion ? Ito yon Mlggest, and on what grounds, any and what alterations of the system? Ito you suggest, and on wliiit vrotonla, any and what amendments of the existing system in bankruptcy other Until those already mentioned. CANINO A PAINE MINISTEII.—IIis Excellency John Daniel Louis Frederick Ilassenptiug, Minister of State of the Interior and of Justice to his 'loyal Highness the Elector of Ilesse-Cassel, has received a public caning before the doors of the theatre at Cassel, at the hands of Count Isenburg. llis offence was having prevented the elevation of the Countess of Wachtersbach to the dignity of a Hessian prin cess. Count Isenburg has fled to Gotha. His Excw.Excr SHAFEE KIIAN, late Persian Minister at this Court, took his departure for Teheran on the 4th instant, rid Paris and Vienna. All matters relative to the Legation have been entrusted, until the arrival of his successor, to Mr. Charles It. Thompson, of Winchester-house, Old Broad- street. CABINET COLICILS were livid on Tuesday and Thursday last. HENRY . ' CADOOAX ROTIIERY, Eau., has been ap pointed Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in the place of Henry Birchtield Swal,ey, Esq., who has r .signed that office. IT 1S said that Mr. Bagshawe. Shapter, and Mr. Goldmnith are to he among the earliest additions the list of the Equity Queen's Counsel. THE PRESS. THE GI tRGOW CONSERVATIVE As4netttroN. at R crowded meeting held in the college. came to a reao. Indult '&44;444 themselves to re-elect the Earl of Eglintou to the Lord Recwrship. NEw INsriTruoli, called an Infant Nursery. was opened on Thursday in St. Martin's-in the-Fields. It is designed to provide care and custody for the infant children of those inhabitants whose daily occupations prevent them bestowing the necessary anent' on their offspring. The institution is situate in Green-street, Leicester-square. Viscountess tioderielt, Mrs. Gladstone, and Mrs. Stuart Wortley, are among tile patronesses. Tur W.uics 31(1%1:mums continue in the North, though quiet is restortsl in the localities lately ills turhed. The masters maintain their `• union," bind ing themselves mutually in penalties of some thou, sand pounds not to mu-lender inaliciduatlly to the de mands of the workmen. On their side the latter are still equally resolute. The consequence is that eighteen out of twenty-one mills in or around Wigan are closed, and the Preston operatives are living upon the 1,000/. per week received by their committee from the fund sulosetibed in other towns of Lanca shire. /AM week there were serious apprehensions of a general strike among the collier seamen in the Tyne and at Sunderhunl. Better cult lee has, how ever, prevailed, chiefly, it appears, among the south Shields men. who refuse to co-operate with the Tyne sailors, Some proposals have heart thrown out respeeting eonferences to he held between the owners and the men, and several meetings of the latter have taken place, but hitherto there has been no stoppage of work on either side. On Ilflonday last upwards of eight hundred of the workers at 'Messrs. Tod and Iligginbothatua mills in Glasgow wont out on strike. The ground of dispute is coneerning the wages paid to the spinners. which are much higher than those current at Stockport, Messrs. Tod 111111 Iliggin botham wishing t.l place their tariff upon a par with the Stockport rates, to which the workers object. 'fur 31 instirs !mot Wootwn ti are a great alhtvial district containing many thousand arm of land, the poi known as the l'lnmstead Marshes being about five miles long, and at it' extreme part one and a half broad. They are intersected, accord ing to the commissioners, with some hundreds of miles of open ditches, and contain besides many ex tensive swamps of stagnant water. No provision whatever is made for drainage as an element o f health, and many of the ditches have not been cleaned out within the memory of man. Year after year weeds and other aquatic plants grow up to de ray, the same water remaining in the ditches, and thus becoming completely charged with decomposed vegetable matter. airtlanb. ON MoNDAY A DEMTATIoN waited on the bird Lieutenant with a memorial adopted at an influential meeting held last week in Dublin under the auspices of the Protestant Association. The circumstances in which the meeting originated were these. One Brennan, a vehement Itontan Catholic, in walking down Nackville street, suffered mortal effence by the " thrusting " into his hand of a tract issued by ono of the many Protebtant religions societies in Dublin, and forthwith mused the arrest of the offending dis. triluator, who was brought before one of the pollee magistrates, Mr. llugh O'Callaghan, of Copel-street office. Mr. Brenntut thou framed his charge into one of constructive assault, and, the magistrate being of opinion that llrennan's view of the law was sound, orders the distributor to put in bail, or else go to prison. Considerable agitation followed upon this decision. A Protestant meeting was held in the Rotunda to denounce the conduct of the magistrate, and to prepare a memorial to the Irish Exeettlive, praying for inquiry and redress. The deputation, having read the document to his Excellency, received the following reply frinn ford St. Germans:— " 1 have listened with much pain to your meneirial. It is a mutter of deep regret that the meeting on whose behalf you are premlut shtaild have sanctions-it the list of language which appears to tne inconsistent with Christian charity. and to be calculated to prejudice in the public mind the right of free discussion. The memoriati.ds impute to R magistrate gross misconduct in his Alec they say that he mutlaciiiietly, daringly, unconstitu tionally, and bigotedly lent himself to sustain the in tolerance of a bigot. and to crush the rights of British subjects ; they de Bribe the judgment pronounced by him as being dating, IMISic al. and intolertun—and they sag gent that in pronouncing that judgment he WAS actuated by improper motives. liming thus state,' the ease. they pray the to institute an inquiry into the farts of it. I will not advert farther to the language of this memorial. but will proceed at once to remind the memotialists that, if the charges which they prefer against Mr. O'Callaghan be well founded, his office can abed him no protection—that he is atnenable to the law, and that the Court of Queen's Bench in the proper place in which persona can inquire not only whether that ja.lonent wan righumuu, but also whether the motives by which the magistrate was actuated in pronouncing it were improper. Mat tribunal cart correct an errvr, and can 657 ptini‘h an offender. For the., rrietomi I must decline to comply with the prayer of the memorial." Mr. Martin intimated tdu►t they had been ►nlvised by competent legal authority that the Court of Queen's Bench was not the proper tribunal before which to luring the matter. His excellency, in reply, said that he did not think the Executive should be called upon in this stage of the business to interfere. an by so d o ing it would be imusinissing upon the prerogative of the l•onrt of Queen's Bench. The deputation then withdrew. Tiii: reports of damage by the extenshe flisals in this south of Irdand are extrentely serious. An estimate of thu gixiss sacrifice of property has been funned at not far short of lflo,ooo/.. and Ow loss has fallen in too many instimees upon its poorer farmers and working tenants. hulateriptions have been openoil for the relief of the atferers, to which some considerable sums have already been ecintn - Earle' howl Jr.A I tatwthaavr 1001.: the .of Ilandon. 5111.: and '2OOl. wn4 the town yowled of Cork. ASIATIC CHOLERA lids uppr,ereal in Ireland. In Dublin several cases have been reported. At Cork the disease seems to have been imported in an American sillip„ the Kessetsk. bound fr o m Li ve rpo o l with emigrants. the ba►l been out fifteen days from leaving the Met44.y, and had been v isited by cholera of a very malignant type. Fitly of the emigrants had been attacked, of whom eighteen died before treat ing Queenstown. ANA, alma has been occasioned by the event in Cork, but no serious symptom," have appeared respecting the spread of the epidemic among the native population. Tin: Mom l h ►. Moots ham accepted the see of Derry, and the Hey. Henry titittin, lisle Fellow of Trinity College, succeeds his lordship in the diocese of Limerick. It is Mated that the translation of Dr. Iliggin from Limerick to I►erry has taken place at the earnest request of the I.►ntil Lieutenant, Earl St. dennans. The object of his exce llency i n thi s einen( was, as has been already suggested, to place at the head of the clergy ol• the di,s•esc of I►erry and Itaphoe, in the I'r►testant pr►vincee o f lister, a member of the present Board of National Educat FitoM TIIE S ME% which have been elfeeteil in the Esti cant:ern EST ATE% Co WILT, Rillee the resumpti of business idler the long vacation, it would seem that. the "nut for land " this year promises to exceed that of ally former period, and that, according to pro. sent appearances, the supply, which but five years since was Irian its immensity regarded as the fore runner of a lease in perpetuity to the commission, now threatens to fall far short of the demand. Six estates were disposed of on \lowlay at rates of lair chase, and varying from twelve to twenty one p q si, according to cireumstances. The properties lay in the comities of Waterford, *Longford, Cork, Galway, Mayo, and Tipperary. Thu gross sum realised amounted to i 3,9541/. M it. .1 All Est 1 WWII, proprietor of the I n to W o rk/ newspaper, 11115 I , lotaiined a el )11111110iiiiil order for a new trial against the proprietors of the Free mapeg The ease Wits tried at the last Kildare Assizes, before Mr. 'Justice t and a spec jury, when a verdict was found ti u• the def e ndants. Gass AND O'llAnt, the engine di iver and stoker of the goods train whieli rause.' sueli deplorable residta on the Southern Hallway last month, have been ad. milted to bail by the Court of queen's Bench. A Vvary M ELAN4'IIOI.V 01. i rititE•4 1.: took phwe on the Ith inst., in the vicinity of Balbriggan, Lady Langford, alio was on a visit at Ardgillan Castle, the seat of Colonel Taylor, having been drowned on the seacoast, where she hail gone, acctimpanicil by her maid, to bathe. Tile s e a was lit the tins in R very lioistAmous state, and she WIIS carried by the waves into deep water, and drowned before any tittempt could be niade to rescue her. The body was con voyed to Arilgillan Castle, where an iuyuesl WIL`4 held 1.1? the Saturday following. Lord Langford and Colonel Taylor were absent on a grouse-shooting ex cursion in Scotland. The deceased lady was daugh ter of the late Colonel Cottony, NA'., 44 Castle. town, and sister of the present member fur tlio county Donegal. IRISH CONTRASTS. Tnt li)ll.iwing sketch of the present condition ul• Iru lad, as compared with thatof the great "AKilxtnr•r " Las appeared in the colunitim of the Belfast Mercury:— Ireland hits at length aroused henielf. The filming. point *tempt to hale panned. owl a Hew era in her Inanity is already eunnatenced. Sectarian optimality gradually then away before the workings of stietal advancement , and pm litical agitation w not (slily les. tittructlie, but far lest' prm Maisie than it was its Onto'• palmy cloys Shell the pro shots of I'oncilialiou hall were Wi Mt to Iret el the hit tare OS 'ries of 'ollege-green. The lanai of saints has also been finned as the theatre of miracles ; and certainly in no other por tion of Queen Victorneadominintis hove litteh niirarlem been wrought. or %Itch wonders peifonttell, an thole which, during the past ten years, followed in the wake of Ireland's current history. In Ig4:1 that extraordinary man, Daniel O'Connell, wielded ill this country tin amount of political