The Press. — London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

514 TIC LAM:, 0Y THE ADMIRALTY have ordered a return of the number of non-commi‘siored otheers and men of the Woolairh divisions of Ito:. ill laline, tit for duty and for embarkation ;1 regnirckl. THI: TI aNs fnr the iiiiini• r ending the 10th of ()moiler next will :;how, it k a com parative ine vase inueii liQond anything r•vently attained. THE CHANcEI.I.oIt 10 pay a visit to 3111111C11...ster on or about the 10th itio. It is understood that his visit is entirely of a private nature. THE Siirittrts I.ONnoN AND MII)14.!::;EX were quietly sworn in lit Guildhall on IVednestlay, and on the day following Alderman Sidney Wll4 just all quietly elected Lord Mayor. ANoTHER rise of Id. in the llb. loaf too!: place in the metropolis on Wednesday. 'fur 1:10:NisII CHANNI.I. St/CAIntoN, eonsisting of three line-of-battle ships and three steamers, were entitling and exercising between Dover a n d Calais on Tuesday in the heavy-blowing weather that pre vailed. Pratte 311.1:TINGs to discus ; ilit. Eastern question are shout to bo held in London, Leicester, 3latt -I%olverhampton, anti other places, during the, next week or two. Tin; immediate transmission of the Channel s•ptadron, and a large I lefitelimeitt. of vessels from it, to the Meditelvattean was announced in Portsmouth tat Wednewlay, and eanved nitwit excitement. 'rim Ss . Est: or 11' u: s% ‘ss vric Truscv.—Au officer emplort4l on the Turkish shill' mites as fol lows :—" lif site the I:se:silos, Issive sent try ops in sill haste front Selsastsspisl to the ports of Astaklia, l'ati, and Nicolnya, for tin. salss. of strengthening therein the corps of I irusisos troops stations:ll ast Acitalzich. It is known that the Turks have pushed fir•waard from Trapstruni and Eriermit st detached corps. towards the Torko-Ilitssian frontier. soul there fi►re forced the Russians to a similar step, ler the sake of resuming, in Ihe case of war. the plat of •porution pue.n...l by Primp Puslo.witselt in !slit agninst Erzersito. which has the sinful strategic im ports:tee on the Turkish territor as Tiflis on that of Flossie. Thess. twit places form this chief points of c‘ery military operntissn, ils there converge Ilse three only rio.ulsprsteticable in that Issontry. The northern most. line of OpOra 111 'a psis,es the valley of this liar, a nd is pnitectesl by the fortresses of Azehttr, sin) Atistssyltoss. whirls have only ls•longed to Russia •inee the 'wises. of Adrianople. The second line of operation lesuls from Tiflis over the fortified Russian silicige I;ren►isi, or over• 'l'mlisilka and Achnl l;ale+ki, to Turkish fortress The third line is that which passes from Erivan over the Turkish esestle Ts sprakable. Kvs.nts storing the late war of I $ IS 111,54. shoWll the strategic importance o f these 11bliei , :. Whirl 11114. thuragire. •It °Neel. of similar attention at the present juneture." Tom St:tut:T Posies: sir 1;171:M tNN.—For several year; past. the I ;erimis luq•e {wen astonisheil by the rumours of some congresses or meetings of the members of the secret Tito enitgress of "Higher I iermatt Pollee t ttlieinls " is fixed this year for the 19th of September, at Stuttgartlt. 31. de Hindelky, the eltief of the Prussian pollee. often makes Ins rept►rts in persona to his Majesty king I•'rwtlerick William IV. _ - ArnTlll% ANI) THE UNITEIi STATE , .—We stated last week that eonferences had taken 'Alive at the Vienna foreign-office relative to the lioszta affair and its interpretation loy Latter necoamis state that, at a sillostlttilit vo ailerons.. the atnlonssiulers present had agreed to elortaito resolutions in regard to the position A% 'IAA t h e Fartlrell Ill‘WelN I' in liSSiiine i n t h isini7nr. Ii i`, loonie‘er, not mentioned whether England wa" rt . lll . l . Meint'll I'4 tit fertme4-4. 1.11,01 it return just published it appears that towns have asked for the advantage of the 14)11e Jlealth Art, and that 'sit of them lune had the Net applied. Ni'.,: 111 . sinnit AVII SIXTI•\ INF: I)EATIIA were registered in I wittiltm during the week ending the 1.11.11 of September. In the cor:vspoittling week of ten 'we% iotts ye ate. 1543_:11. the 4 . 01 - n yt e d inerag ,, j 4 LION. The &MIN in the present return are Illereriore 1004 than the average hr 194. Cholera wits falai to IWl'llly nine personi in sixteen ea s es coming finder the .%siatir type of that In the previous Week the &nth% rettin this cau,e were only si‘li , ell. 1511111111.31 was fatal to SO pvison., being an increase of eleven on the previous return. A 1'1: ict: t: will sh or tly be held in Edinburgh. I'mafrations for the tN Mit are procera ing most satisfactorily. Mr. l'olslen, Mr. Miall. 31.1%, )Ir. llrig,ht. M.P., Mr. Oeorge Wilson, of Man chester, and other influential persons, have signified their intention of being prosent. M %vett SW I.lf Luria n. Mr. S. llohne, will entertain the Earl of Iterby and a distinguished party at n grand private banquet, at the Town-hall, Liver pool, on Wednesday next. Tin: BANK of ENtiI.ANI) has again raised its dis count. minimum is now fire per rent. THE PRESS. THE CAST: or• MT !•;S CUM:INC:NAME has been taken up in the proper quarter. Every etliirt that can be made by the diplomatic agents of the English Go %trnment to obtain her release will be tried in the first instance, and, if these do not succeed, it will be time enough to consider the most appropriate method of bringing the refractory Sovereign to reason. The instant the intelligence reached England the cause of the young lady was taken up in earnest by the Foreign Minister, who has described the violence of which she has been made the object as being "not only contrary to the principles of the Gospel, but to the spirit of the age." The most energetic directions have been forwarded to Mr. Scarlett to procure the young lady's instant release. Such was the result of the conversation on Thursday between the Foreign Secretary and Lord Shaftesbury, who accompanied a deputation of the Protestant Alliance to Downing street, to request the interposition of Lord Clarendon in this outrage upon a British subject. The public may rest assured that the dignity of England will be vindicated in a suitable manner, and Miss Cunning hame shortly restored to liberty. THE DISTANCE TAHLEs, compiled by the police from wind admeasurement of the metropolis, are at length fixed on all the hackney-carriage standings. Each table gives the exact distances in miles, fur ' longs, and yards from the particular standing to all parts of the metropolis and suburbs within the four miles radius in a direct line front l'huling•eross, and the amount to be paid. This day the police attend ants on hackney-canine standings commence their ditties. A UENEUAL EVICTION of the Irish population inhabiting the rookery near Portman-square was accomplished on the quarter day. Eighteen months ago notices were served, under the seal of Lord Portman, the ground landlord, upon all the families who inhabited this sink of filth and misery, but no attention was paid by the people to the repeated warnings they received on the subject. Everything was left till the last minute, and on Thursday morning the process of sminnary ejection was carried out tinder the orders of Mr. Hardwicke, the surveyor mid agent to Lord Portman. FIFTY-THREE Pres°Ns have renounced the errors of Popery in St. Paul's, Bermondsey, since the last üblished account of the Blth of last July. Many of these converts are highly-respectable persons, and some of them rank .y amongst the gentry . •__ _ THE ELEVATION or SIR .1. MATHESON, M.P. for Rohs. to the I'tti•rage, is announced as being highly pr o bable by the I d li►►burgh 11"ituciw. He is to receive the title of Lord Stornoway, and is to be suc ceeded in the representation of the county by the burgh member—Mr. Matheson, of Artiross—who, it is said, is to be created a baronet. It is further reported that. in the event of these changes taking place the Master of 'Lova will step into the Inverness district of burghs. Facitarrs To Tim AusTRATJAN Cot.oNaN have fallen considerably, arising from intelligence that the inn rket s were glutted with most descriptions of goods. [ ma thus causing shippers to pause for further aceounts before making additional consignments. A HAILWAV IX PRO.IECTEI) FROM LEWES To TUN mtiDnE and an influential meeting of land owners, traders, and others was held on Tuesday, at %trestlel.l. park, the seat of Sir J. V. Shelley, Hart , M.P., for the purpose of promoting the construction of the line. Mr. Giles, the engineer, lies already surveyed the eountry. and reports favonrahly as to the cost and facilities of executing the requisite works. Yalu antt Tot: I.‘w At; ‘t NsT "TRADE e oNsPIIII4 - IES" has beets invoked against three printers, mutual Francis Friend. :lames Friend, and Robert Blind, who were summoned to tluildhall to answer a charge of con spiring, with other persons, on the lath of September, to prv►enn' the dismissal of Frederick Spence from the serviee of Mr. Peter Jackson, publisher, of ,tngel. street. St. 31artin's.le-1 inual. Mr. Hi - nrintEvs, the solicitor for the prosecution, said " that there was at combination ttintelig the printers in I 1 1:• emphoyment of Mr. -lateksian. arising from at strike that rteently took pima , antssug the men in Mr. Tailli,'s estab lishment. Mr. Tallis employed at ovoter number of apprentices than the journeymen in the trade approved of, nod his printers necordingly ntrurk t but ultimately the greater portion returned to work without aeltieving their object. The other . isaurneymeu in the truthe passed a resolution, to the effect that none of those Melt who n•t;Hued, or amy who worked for Mr. Tallis thenernarward. nhould he employed iu retry other house in the trade. It no happened that the complainant Spence was nut in Mr. Tallis's employ either at or anteeetlent to the strike ; hot. M.ls engaged after the meu ram-nisi to work, and while everytl.ing was progressing smoothly. t►u tin , 111th sat' Septetulwr. bstwevcr, the esnuplatmant from Airline- .4 of work, discharged Ilan Mr. Tallis's service. land on the I:ith he applied ut Mr. Jaekson's establishment. and was taken on. He remained thaw three days, and tot the fourth day he wag told there was t>tt► more work for him ; and. on SATURDAY, asking why he was discharged, was informed that it was on account of the complaints of the men, who had resolved not to work e ith an; journeyman that had worked for Mr. on the d.e day previous two consultations, termed in the trade ' chapels,' were held by the men in the room where complainant workol, but he was excluded—and on the following morning before he received his dismissal he inquired what the chapels were held for. and Franeis Friend said they were concerning complainant and his having worked for Mr. Tanis since the strike. Mr. Humphreys concluded by observing that men have a right to meet and arrange what hours they will eork, and for what amount of wages, but the law does not allow them to combine with the view to control a workman, either to his own injury or that of his mater.' The evidence of the complainant Spence and other men employed iu the establishment having been taken, the case was adjourned, and summonses is,ued against several others of the printers employed by Mr. Jackson, who are alleged to have joined in the supposed "conspiracy." SONE RELtcs or TIM CONGREOATION who deemed Johanna Southcote a prophetess still meet to cele brate what they term wor,hip, in King's-row, Wal worth, where they call their house of assembly the " Royal Manger." On Monday the leader of this sect, one Peacock by name, and described us a strange-looking person, with small, ferret-like eyes, and whose hair was srlit off in the centre of the head and combed back so as to give him a singular and sinister appearance, appeared before the Lambeth magistrate to complain of a boy named Treaville, for having thrown stones at the windows of that house, and disturbed their religious services. The com plainant gave his statement, in a solemn, drawling voice, to the following effect:— From conviction we imbibe the doctrines of Johanna Sontheole, and, without °tiering inky person the slightest ()Uwe, we are sub. jected to the greatest annoyance, and an annoyance, I am sorry sny, langhtsl at and cueourzmed by persons iu the neighbour howl calling themselves Chrisnims. Yesterday evening we were sitting together quietly, when we were lunch alarmed by a crash the root of the house by a large stone. I honied out, and, seeing the prisoner in the fo,nt of the house and about to run away, I fellowed mid secured him. Mr. Er.taorr : Did you see the prisoner throw the stone? Witness : I did not; but I have very little doubt ho did it ; and there were limn fourteen to fifteen of them creating a con. siderable disturbance, and seriously annoying the nelsons u sembled at my house for religious purposes. Statements made by some witnesses on the other side showed that the charge of disturbance applied with greater truth to Mr. Peacock and his disciples : A solicitor, who attested on behalf of the prisoner, t aid that. the house was the 11104 intolerable nuisance to the entire neigh bourhood that cs.uld la. conceived ; and it was a matter of lists,• nislititent that the psdice should have pet untied it to exist tOr a single meek. The Wet wits, that the complainant, who styled himself "The l'rophet," had some mouths ago married tut aged wrauan, fancied herself to he it second Johanna Solithessic, or, as the complainant described her, a" " standing in the light and those persons drew 'about than a few followers, whose con duct was of the most sitwitlar description, and from four o'clock oil the Smislay evening until eleven at night the neighbourhood wale kept 111 a continual uproar. They Were in the habit of rlaeing a multherof llso!s and haunters in the front of their house, and playing music omen sorts,and this was the imams of lainging together of some hundreds of idle boys anal eirle, to the great annasynnee of the inhabitants '1 hey bad also Ism in the habit of collet:lingo crowd by besting a drum through the neighbour lewd, and, when they got them assembled, called on the police le disperse them. The complainant denied this. awl said it was till hall that they should be subiectral tissue,' atitiovilliet , t, sent by the Lortl as they were to preach the principles of.lishanna Southeide. Solieitor; 1/two lint your wile descr.he herself as Johanna Soittlicote? l'eactsek : Well, she stands itt the sante light as her, and, if tie. eessity compels us to perform God's will. it is too bad we should be annoyed. 1 have written to loud I'olml-stun for protection. for the pollee does not effssttl its lunch. Police-essustable Cole said that every istinslay eve g consider able slisturbanees took place in front of tile house, in colitseglielle.• of at displa i v of flags, b bails. music, mid preaching, mid the its- ettildiage ill consequence of at windier orb' yv anal rods. Soheitor: Have you 'wool a drum played about the street by these people for the plirpoNe of getting ter„ether a crowd to al On" . 1 111 '4 11 prelle11? l'esit•o 4 •k : That sous 1110 011111 U of the Lord. A respeetable woman, residing next door to the parties. said the nuisance erode., by them was of the worst description; when they culleeted u mob in front they ceimitenced preitehitw- - as they called it—at parcel of nonsense, filial were 11114Welell 1.; the NT., anal persona assembled, so that the Peelle 111101 laugnage were of the lutist obscene, blasphemous, and uisgusting descrip tion possible. indeed, so bad was it that she could not allow her children to he withhn hearing. There being no evidence to show that the defen dant had thrown the stone complained of, he was discharged. On a subsequent day an application fin• a summons against Peacock. for creating a nui sance and disturbing the neighbourhood, was duly made to the magistrate. It was then intimated that the police had reeehed instructions to look after the abode of the " Prophet," who would promptly inter fere in case of any renewal of the obnoxious per form alums. CArtica In-ought up his son, only tcn years of age. at the Worship-Frreet Court. charging him with an inveterate propensity to thieving. MI that edu cation could do, he said, had been done for the boy, who had received instruction of every sort. moral and religions, and was lately placed at an expensive boarding-sehool at Wolverhampton. Thence he had contrived to escape•. and returned to London. and his predatory habits, which it appeared that nothing could eradicate : For A long time he had hn n in the !Obit nhonst every niOtt of visiting an nnlicein., d penny theatre, which was the insert ut the most abandoned chnmvtert•, mad, not satisfied With purloin•