The Press. — London, England, 1853-09-10 00:00:00

SEPTEMBER 10, 1853. rious character. A lady named Mansfield, who bad been staying at Clevedon for a week, went to the station for the purpose of going on to Bath, and having a small box containing some hundreds of pounds' worth of jewels and cash, she deemed it prudent to carry it in her hand. While she was at the ticket counter, a man of fashionable exterior came and asked for a ticket, on payment of which he tendered a sovereign. It happened that the clerk had not sufficient small change, and Mrs. Mansfield, anxious to oblige, put her box out of her band and gave him silver for his coin. The train being just about to start, she went upon the platform and entered the carriage, wholly forgetting her box till the train was in motion. At the next station the telegraph was set to work, and in a few minutes the answer came that there was no box left in Clevedon. Unforinnately it did not occur to the railway officers to search the carriages, and, as there was a down train line at the same time, there is no knowing in what direction the thief went oft: ANOTHER GREAT FIRE occurred at Barnet on Thursday, on the estate of a gentleman named Smith, of Cobbett's Farm. The flames were first observed in a large hayrick, and burnt for five hours before they could be stopped. An immense stock of hay and other property was, with outhouses, live stock, &e., totally destroyed. Mr. Smith is fortunately insured. By THE FAIL OF• A hOUSE Ir TO►F: STRAND three persons perished on Thursday morning. The house was situate at the corner of Arundel-street, and tenanted by Mr. Thompson, a tailor, and Mr. Hender son, a daguerreotype it.tist. Beside the house was a vacant space where several tenements had been pulled down, and extensive preparations were making for building a new house for Messrs. Smith, the news paper agents. It is presumed that some excavations required tor constructing the foundations to this building had undermined the support of No. IS-l. The consequence was that about half-past eight in the morning in question, and just as Mr. Tho►npson's shopboy was taking down his shutters, the whole house crumbled into ►uin: with an awful crash. The consternation and excitement which the occurrence occasioned in that. crowded thoroughfare were intense. During the day the Strand at that point was thronged by a multitude of curious onlooke►s, and rendered impassable for traffic by the debris. Very speedily workmen were removing the wreck, in which, accord ing to the first alarm, sixteen or twenty persons were buried. On examination, however, it turned out that. only three lives were sacrificed—those of Mr. anti Mrs. Thompson and George Dunn, the shopman, whose bodies were found among the ruins. Mr. Henderson had a narrow escape. He did not reside on the premises, and was on his way to reach them preparatory to commencing business for the day, when the catastrophe Wok place. A few minutes earlier and he must have been among the victims. Fortunately, also, the workmen employed on the ad jacent buildings had not begun their operations, or the fatal results of the occurrence would almost inevitably have been far more serious. The Duke of Norfolk is ground landlord of the premises. airtianb. AT the weekly meeting of the North Dublin Union guardians, held on Wednesday, Mr. Hardy brought forward a motion to the etfeel that the schools of the union be disconnected from the National lioard of Education. After a protracted discussion the reso lution was lost by a majority of twenty one to twelve. AT a meeting of the council of the Tenant League, held on Monday, it was resolved that the " Tenant Conference " should take !Iwo on the 27th inst. ANOTHER CANIIMATE has come forward for the re presentation of Lisburn in the person of Mr. Jona than Richardson, of Lambee. who. in his address to the electors, merely states that he " comes forward without having consulted any party." Mr. Richard sou arrived in Lisburn on Saturday, and commenced a canvass of the electors. The Belfast News Letter states that the Liberals are most active in their ex ertions on behalf of the other candidate, Mr. Charles Rogg. ' IN Dublin, on Sunday last, two respectable Roman Catholics abjured the errors of Popery, under the in mraction of the P iests' Protection Society, and received the Lord's Supper in St. Thomas's Church. ADVANCE IN THE RATE of DISCOUNT.—The Bank of Ireland has advanced the rate of discount to four per cent. on all classes of bills. FROM several districts of Scotland a vast n►unher of fanners are said to have emigrated to Ireland. lii fact, so numerous had been the horde of emigrant , ., that their departure had created quite a new feature in modern Scottish history. It is remarkable that but few of those parties have settled in Ulster, the south and west offering stronger temptations, by rea son of superior soil and lower rents. THE PRESS. THE TRAFFIC RE TURNS on the Dublin Railway show a considerable increase for the week signalised by her Majesty's pre: ience in the Irish metropolis. On the Dublin and ifast Junction the increase on the week, as compared with the corresponding period of 1r45 . .!, was 000/. ; oil the Dublin and Drogheda, 800/. ; on the Dublin an. .1 Kingstown, 1,500/. ; on the Great Southern and W, %stern, .4000/.; and on the Midland Great Western, • 1501. THE FUNERAL. en' SIR CH tta.rs NAPIER took place at Portsmouth on Thursda y. when, although the ceremony was, strictly speakin V, a private one, a crowd of military, naval, and civil authorities seized the opportunity of paying the Iv:t t ribute of respect tothe hero of so many fields. The v. Thole of the troops in garrison, amounting to nearly 4,t ) 00, took part in the solemnity; and the presence of I %orti Ilardinge. the commander-in-chief, the Earl of t:llenborough, Sir William Napier, Lieut. Col. Napier, • and other dis • tinguished officers, gate thitational , 'uterest to the proceedings. The naval authorities also mustered in considerable force, including Sir ,Itt, yea Graham (who wore a plain black suit 1, Admirt d Berke'. y , Admiral Militias, and Captain Milne, Lo WS of the Admiralty ; Sir Baldwin Walker, the curve vor of the navy ;• and Colonel Greene, the director ( . I, * works ; all iu official costume. The mayor, alderme U. "tit neon councilmen, and other members of the ci l'Porat tion, attended in their robes of state; and a lorge number of the loyal fraternity of Freemasons, ith which body Sir Charles had long been conned t 2ll . also took part in the proceedings of the day. I In reaching the parade the coffin was borne on th shoulders of eight soldiers into the chapel, and placed on a bier. The body was immediately followed by Sir W. Gough, the Earl of Ellenborough, and I.ord liarOinge, and the other principal mourners. and the funeral service was read by the Rev. E. W. Milner, the chaplain to the garrison. The coffin bears on a brass shield the following brief inscription Lieu tenant-General Sir Charles .111111eS Napier. I Born August 18th, 1781; died August 29th, 18T41." Sir W. Napier has written a letter to correct an error into which the biographers of his brother have fallen —the statement that to the late Marshal Souk Sir Charles Napier owed his liberty at Corinna. lie says : . _ . "It was not MO. Marshal Soult treated him with great kindness, and would no doubt have cont . 41 to do ; but. he marched from Cori ut three days after the battle, leaving Sir t'. Napier to the of Marshal Ney, who pro tected hint for several months, and finally gave him his liberty. The circumstances deserve to be repeated, as showing the generous temper of Ney. His aide-dc-eamp, 'aptain Clottet, reported that a frigate had sent a stag of truce to inquire if Major Napier was living? Tell them l'es, and that he is well ; let him 1w seen.' Captain Chatet looked expressively at the marshal, and said, ' He has an aged mother, a widow.' Let him go himself, then, to tell her he is alive,' was the response. And with Major Napier he freed about twenty-tive English soldiem who had been badly wounded and left behind." ~~lzsctUanca. t►ne of the• many pretenders to the heirship of the old Bourbona died a aliort time since• in a► obscure corner of France. Thin was the Baron Itielieniont, who, of all the raWilinort Louis the Seventeenths, was decidedly the most remarkable, and whose claims. even to the last, were re eognised by a considerable number of Legiti aaa ists. T4'll memle•rs of the old imblesse were sit convinced that he was really the Dauphin of Frlllarl . , dint they clubbed together to assure• hint sin R 11111 l ity of he reguula•ly re ecin dup to the day of his death. Ilia origin remains a mystery. His partbrans may fairly assert that those• who deny that lie was Louis XVII. cannot nay wit a he was. Under the timer:anent of July hi. was twice committed ue prison for politiealdenamstrations. In INN he presented to the Provisio n al tiovernment a toe 'al setting funk his claims. lii that year. ait!ed .tibseliptions from his partisans, he founded a weekly pait 11 1,1 ca ll e d th e i n a rz e,/,, whose mission was to prove that all the otwnpants of the throne since January 22, 171 Ci, had lobbed him of his in heritance. He had an intimate acquaintance of many years' manding with several members of the Provisional tiuve•ntmcut. In lircta he was a t'llow•prieeouer at Ste. Pelagic with .I.runiial Nhinast and Flocon. They were highly amused b, the woreti with which he spoke of him• self as a non of Louis XVI., and familiarly addressed him as Capet. They fully admitted that he prasesst•d one qua lity for which the Bourbons wen• famous, a great proli cit•ne•\ gastronomy. He Wa4 caterer fur they mess. and Arnituid Marrast was heard to vial out to him in a yoke that rang through o ut the prison. " 'ap et. tray friend, let us have to•dav at thinner a capon gra : pox art 't he estate of Islay. the hin.fest and most valuable pro pe perhaps, ever sold in Scotland. was put up in Edin burgh on the :ilst ult. at the upset price of 1.1 11 ,1 Mi., and, after competition between Mr. Morrison, of the• great. 'inn of Morrison, Dillon, and Co.. London. and Mr. Jamert B a ird, of 4iartsherrie. M.P. tier t^e Falkirk burghs. was knes•ked down to the former at 1:11.11011/. The estate has been in the market for upwards of rive years, and has been repeatedly exposed to sale, both as a whole, and in three divisions, at successively reduced upset prices, the lest, in 11102, being 4119,0001. 447 In consequence of the organisation of fast being on the continental railways, the distances between the capitals of Europe are reduced as fullers* :—From l'aris to Berlin, rid Brussels and Cologne, 43 hours; London to Berlin, 43 henry.; Berlin to Vienna (after the 24th), 24 hour. Berlin to St. Petersburg. 197 hours ; Loudon to Munich. W.! hours ; London to Vienna, rid Paris, Strasburg. Munich, and Salzburg, 116 how's. By means of the *framers on the Danube, the diatom from Vienna le Constantinople is now effected in from six to eight days. California in five %ears has become a gnat state with a populatiou of 300,600. Her mines are yieldittg at the rate of 1000000 dollars a year, are increasing, and appear to be inexhaustible, The o ommeres of nos Frandsen rivals that of the largest Atlantic cities. From January to the 30th March, 1653, there entered 4A7 vessels of ':46.09'1 tons, and cleared 795 vessels of 271,20 tons. Governor Bigler reports that there is a capital of 1titt.5•22,608 dollars employed in agriculture, real estate, and impno emeets ; and, comparing her with other suites, he says :—'• In horses, she ire in advance of lb of the wawa ; in mules, of 10 states ; much cows, of 12 states ; in work oxen, of t 4; value of live Muck, of 20 states; harley, only .'gawped by New York ; potatoes, next to New York, and more than onclialf of all produced in the Union ; wheat. pester than 10 of the maces ; oats, three'- fourths of the other states ; hay, exceeding V of the states ; mining, without a parallel ; fruits. exceeding all the states in variety; and une-half of them in quantity ',minced." The number of penults. in France who have taker out game licences is 100,000. The cost of each licence is •2:if., of which WE goes to the commons. and lbf. to the state. The laying down of the large cast-inns pipe. which are to convey water to the artificial lake and river in the Bois de Boulogne, front the reservoirs. of l'haillat, has been commenced in the idols. of Passy. The excavations for the lake are almost tenuinated at the Bond du Rot, in the wood ; the arms of the river sire far advanced ; and One of the two islands ham been formed and laid out. A mountain is being ratiosi in the Grand Bond de Mortemart, from the 1p of which a eonnuanding view can be obtained. steels roads sold alley% arrive at the mountain ; and yens is will Is' laid out Oil it to enable carriages to ascend to the Th e official reports of the crops of grain in Greece prove ade tie 'lent.> of at least one•third, as compared with those „t• last rear. In tinier to make up for this deficiency, it is id that an importatiou of 600,000 kilos will be require, I. The 4i ., at railway bridge now in course of formation on the `out h Wales line at caremothen will be ready for the sliding t an 'ono in the coon«. of the present month. The iactiliarit v „, this structure arises ftom the fact that, the r'ow's ga tidal river, it became necessary to plan a bodge whi tel could admit the transit of vessels ; hence the it two openings—one of 611 feet, and the o th er of 34 feet; the larger porti will be drawn up a s li g i b i i ri i 4 l l :::i n , w s 7 o l ;o7V rails, and then, by ins own weight, fall into Owe ag A person a r o rdinary stature, and with a long greybeard descending d o wit w the waist, went late) to the police office at Havre to h rt roa slave a paaspo d. n the employ' d eman di ng the name, he was astonished at receiving as re. p l y —.l w m „i m i s Mari e Si wid e ; ue I,efort,arliefachardaars." The lady, who h. ad just landed Southampton, Wall in male attire. The millers at Wigan have given notice of a strike on the 14th inst., 1111 le" their' wages are advanced 13 per cent. Th e y l ot y e already reel, ived three advances since Christmas, making. total rime c. .f 41 per cent. ; and the mas t ers an . rese t, r d thips the till make a stand. Th e w e d nes thdd stati (((( of the London and North. Westcns Railway low been Onse t ( f, com the comtnencement Of this month. A woman named MI .11 Ilaley, forty ear's of age, has been charged at the lire, otford Petty 6 'enamel' with stealing five 1001. !tank of Engliu Id notes, the I loperty of her mai. ter, Nlv. Machin.' Daley, a gentleman upwards of eighty years of age. The robbery took place on th e 6tll of August' and the prisoner Mu' •bren committed fur trial at the Central Criminal The death 1•1• a clergymiti 1111111411 'firth' ' lln . I _, B°Usir° h 4 1 . 11 clothed a great sensation at Genoa. His une Em is. was inued great p4mple. Hot taro muted by the II 'WWII for his politics psis Imo bad been eta illy'otigregation of Hom e . Having n .r tu. ed to retract opinionshis he heroine ti idol with the Remo erat , ic P. 1111t Y• Elia booty on loving opened exhibited symptomi , 4 15. A judiciary no estigathos lied commenced into ti c """' his death. the The fo o . ‘ . uctosic I of the 2:lth tilt., puldi s Iseatierstion I,l* Fat lair John of if liritte, a Jesuit, vh°hed was .! in India in 11413. Thc tttttt !of the widow of Mr. P. M. Moir, o f Tu r i l• burgli--541 well and a idely known in the world of lett ets the •. it •I " oif the meet' 1, ) the Earl of Aberdeen for pe ns i on of 11itted a . h ' . you., and h, 1 .Majesty has been pleased to approve ce Pro * rf 1.0 mdation. The Mals ttttt litsaa population of European Turkey 110% wit cxreed 3,issi,issi. Holman' may be reckoned to eon • tail' 3,000,000 of t'liristians ; Wallachia, 2,:s00,01100; Mol• davia. 1 ifrott,o o o Albania, Bosnia, the Herzegorine, and sty%) The bulk of these Christian* pro iess the 4 r.q.k faith. There are from 700,000 to 800,00 U sireeks in European Turkey. Several experiments' have been tried in Prussia this year for the posiiiction of Manilla wheat, which have so we ll soceeeded that the tioveniment ham encouraged the eilltivitti.iti of that voila. • to Englishman. le•aring the pompous appellation of thio•ral Prine.• I'lantseenet lIMITiI6OII, with numerous onh r. so.l whole list of tints, and styling himself a ttnetln• of the !toss' lids applied to the Sersakier of Constantinople for a eotuuland to the Tuzkiela service.