The Press. — London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

, lif 162 One of the officers in passing down the street, cried out " Viva Echinique," which no sooner came out of his mouth than he was knocked down, and his brains beat out in the street. Then the cry was "Viva Castilla," the mob taking possession of Lima immediately, as it was expected that Castilla would arrive in the city that evening. The news from Lima arrived at Callao the same evening, and it raised a mob there, which increased rapidly, until they were strong enough to parade the streets, which brought out the police, who fired into the crowd to disperse them. The mob seemed to diminish, but they soon returned armed to the teeth. About nine o'clock in the evening they made an attack on Guadalupi, a place where they intended to supply themselves with arms and ammunition, but were repulsed with a loss of seven or eight killed, and a number wounded. The next day the Intendente of Callao caused to be arrested some twenty of the leaders, who were put on board one of their men-of-war. About two o'clock in the afternoon Echinique arrived with 500 cavalry. Soon after, twelve pieces of artillery arrived, belonging to the Government party. The Ocean Chief, one of the Black Ball line of Australian packets, arrived in the Mersey on Sunday, from Melbourne, whence she sailed on the 7th of September. She has brought, besides 104 passen gers, upwards of 42,000 ounces of gold, and 14,000 sovereigns on freight. Her news have bean already anticipated. The steam•ship Indus, of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, with the usual Indian mail, in charge of Lieut. Fuge, Admiralty agent, arrived at Southampton on Monday. Among her 122 passengers is Brigadier-General Torrens, from the seat of war. Her freight consists of 49 packages of specie, in value 119,6051.; 62 packages of elephants' teeth, 7 casks of wine, 31 serons drugs, 11 tierces beeswax, 2 boxes orang es, 516 bales silk, 49 cases ditto, 36 boxes dates, and 200 packages sundries. lb. (Loud ant lastion. Her Majesty, after opening Parliament in person on Tuesday next, will, it is expected, return to Wind sor Castle for the Christmas holidays. The usual royal visit to Osborne at this season is postponed, in consequence of the necessity arising out of the con tinuance of the war for the Queen to remain more accessible to her Ministers. The venerable Duchess of Gloucester, by the ad• vice of her physicians, will not quit Gloucester-house during the winter, owing to her infirm state of health. Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, accompanied by Prince Ernest of Leiningen, went to London on Monday and visited the exhibi tion of the prize cattle and implements of the Smith field Club. The royal party returned to the Castle in the evening. The Queen has appointed Lord Dufferin one of the Lords iu Waiting in the room of the Marquis of Ormonde, deceased. The Marquis of Londonderry's youthful step-son, Viscount Powerscourt, has just entered the House hold Brigade as cornet and sublieutenant in the Ist Life Guards. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are expected to take possession of Mr. Blackett Beaumont's man sion on the Terrace, Piccadilly, early in the ensuing month. We are glad to learn that the Duke of Somerset continues to go on favourably. The coming of age of the Hon. Rowland Clegg Hill, eldest son of the Viscount Hill, Lord Lieute nant of Shropshire, has been celebrated during this week at HawksWne with a series of brilliant The Earl of Erroll, on sick leave from the Crimea, and his countess, are at present staying at Lyming ton, Hants. The noble and gallant earl's wounds are progressing favourably. Lord Charles Lennox Fitzroy, of the Coldstream Guards, Equerry to the Queen, who was wounded at one of the late conflicts in the Crimea, has arrived in London. The Earl of Euston, M.P., who accom panied his gallant relative to the seat of war, has also returned. The Hon. Hugh Annesley is progressing rapidly towards recovery from the severe wounds received in the battle of the Alma. The following Ministers were present at the Cabi net dinner given by the Earl of Aberdeen on Wed nesdAy evening at Argyll-house, viz. :—Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans downe, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. THE PRESS. Cabinet Councils were held on Monday and yes terday at the Foreign-office. The Speaker of the House of Commons and Mrs. and Miss Shaw Lefevre arrived in Eaton square on Thursday from Brighton. The United States Minister at our Court, his Excellency James Buchanan, Esq., according to the latest despatches from Washington, has been re called, and will be succeeded by Mr. Marcy. Election uteltigtutt. BEDFORD.—On Tuesday the nomination took place, when Captain Stuart was proposed as the Conserva tive candidate, and Mr. J. S. Trelawney by the Liberals. The show of bands was declared to be in favour of the latter, but the poll on the following day resulted in the triumphant return of Captain Stuart, by a majority of 422 against 331. COVENTRY.—On Saturday last Sir Joseph Paxton was returned without opposition to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Geacb. AntNonoN.—The nomination for this borough is fixed for Monday next. The candidates, Major J. Haythorne Reed (Liberal) and Mr. J. T. Norris (Liberal), are both confident of success, but the number of unpledged Conservatives makes the result a matter of uncertainty. ANTRIM.—The Belfast Newsletter announces that Captain Pakenham, of the 30th Regiment, who has just returned to this country , having been severely wounded at the battle of the Alma, is about to offer himself as a candidate for the representation of this county, in the room of his lamented brother. EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE. —Mr. Grantley Berkeley has issued an address to the electors. He says : By the deeply-lamented decease of your late representa- tive, the choice of a member of Parliament is again before you, and I have little doubt but that you will be desirous of selecting one resolute to bring about a glorious and speedy termination to the war, an end to ruinous taxation, and to the almost famine prices at which provisions now stand. In short, you will wish to return a representative who will be firm for Lord Derby or any other Minister whose measures will mete to all classes a fair share of those blessings, which cannot be blessings unless shared universally. You have a triumphant registration against those prin ciples which have placed Lord Aberdeen at the head of affairs, and by that act occasioned to the country so much misery and such tearful mourning. I therefore pledge myself to open the poll, and to seek your suffrages, rather than let a report which has reached me be verified—" that the field is to be abandoned to your opponents, the supporters of the friend of the tyran nical Czar." Ready, then, gentlemen, to be your leader, if you require one. I remain your faithful servant, GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY. Beacon Lodge, Dec. 2, 1854. R. S. Holford, Esq., of the Regent's park, and Wes ton Birt, near Tetbury, is also spoken of as a candi date on Conservative principles. FERMANAGH.—Lord H. Loftus is the only candi date for the representation of Fermanagh, vacant by the decease of Sir Arthur Brook. The Hon. Colonel Cole has announced his intention not to persevere in a contest. LIMERICK. Mr. Stephen De Vere, of Curragh Chase, has addressed the electors, avowing himself a friend of free trade and of tenant right; Captain Dickson is the Conservative candidate for the county. MARYLEBONE.—Frequent meetings of the electors have been held for the purpose of selecting a suc cessor to Lord Dudley Stuart, as member for Mary lebone. Among the numerous candidates suggested are Sir C. Napier, Lord Ebrington, and Mr. Jacob Bell, of St. Albans notoriety. Many of the gatherings have been somewhat stormy, the constituency ap pearing to be much divided in opinion as to the re spective eligibility of the gentlemen to be honoured with their choice. MR. NEWDEGATE AT RUGBY. ON the 30th ult. the Rugby and Dunchard Annual Cattle Show was held in a field near the former town, the performance of the day being closed by a dinner, at which Lord John Scott presided, Mr. Newdegate, M.P., and Mr. Spooner, M.P., being among the guests. In acknowledging the toast, " The Members for North Warwickshire," Mr. Newde gate touched on the question of the war, and keenly criticised the conduct of the Government in sundry matters of detail. Alluding to the ccntroversy between the Ordnance Department and the manufac turing gunmakers, the hon. member said : I own that I had special reasons for ♦iewing with dis trust the conduct of the present Government as regards this war. The circumstances which led to the appoint ment of the Small Arms Committee, that cost me so dearly in health last session, afforded a warning that I could not overlook. At the opening of last session the Government of this country declared that it had not, and could not, procure improved arms for the army from the English arms trade, although, if illustration of the 'haw SATURDAY, dity of this assertion were necessary, it is to be found in the fact that a committee of the House of Representatives for the United States had recently described England as the centre of the arms trade of the world; and in the fact that no failure in the supplies of arms to the East India Company has occurred, although their army is much larger than that of the Imperial Government, and their demand has been of late years much more irregular. Nor has there been any failure proved in the supply of the numerous, and, of course, uncertain demands of foreign Governments. But there was a very cogent reason why the army of England should not be supplied by the arms trade of England. That reason was, that the permanent staff—the subordi nates of the Ordnance—did not choose that they should. They meant, and I fear they still mean, to have an enor mous Government arms factory, with all its patronage, pay, and appliances • and that if they are not to have this, they seem determined the army of England shall not have English arms, though they are the best in the world. We are accused of having perpetrated a Birmingham job because we opposed a vote of 100,0001. to establish a Government factory for manufacturing small arms. If I, for one, had been guilty of a Birmingham job, I should not have come to Rugby to parade it; 1 know you too well. When that proposal was first announced, Mr. Muntz, the late Mr. Geach, my honourable colleague, and myself, consulted whether it was not our duty to vote for that pro posal, well knowing the lamentable deficiency of improved muskets which existed for the use of the army. Had we thought that the establishing of that factory would have ac• celerated the supply of these arms, we would willingly have sacrificed any interest our constituents might have in the supply of arms, in order to assist the Government in the emergency created by the wilful delay and misconduct of their own officers in not having a sufficient supply of arms; but we were convinced, and we proved to the satisfaction of a committee of the House of Commons nominated by the Government, and to the satisfaction of the House of Commons itself, that if the vote for the enormous Govern ment factory which was proposed had been granted on the very night it first stood upon the votes, and if the bu lding had been commenced the next morning, it was impossible that any number of muskets could be turned out of that then unfounded factory for a year or eighteen months; whilst the fact of the Government having undertaken to supersede the trade would at once paralyse the immediate production of arms by the trade, because no prudent man would venture his capital largely in an undertaking with a prospect of being entirely superseded by the Government in a year or eighteen months. Now, I do not wish to be un just on these subordinates. The chief criminal among them (the late inspector of small arms) is dead ; but I fear that the spirit which actuated him survives, and if it does it would be prudent in those who have been its tools to be ware how they subject themselves to the heavy charges for which the foundation has been laid in the evidence taken before the Small Arms Committee of last session. It was proved that the late inspector of small arms rejected in some cases eighty per cent. of the musket barrels sent in by the trade ; and when the same barrels were sent in a second time, without his knowledge that they were the same, he passed many of them. It was proved before that committee that he rejected locks which were afterwards sent to the Great Exhibition, where, as one of the judges, he awarded a prize for those very locks. It was proved that Mr. Lovel, the late inspector, marked the barrels of the 20,000 Minis rifles now in use in the Crimea, and marked them so that the sights should be put on crooked, and when warned of the fact by the workmen, refused to correct the sights, and when warned by Mr. WestleY Richards, said, " Well, if the sights are crooked, they (the soldiers) may hold them on one side." There could he no greater crime than that man attempted, for he attempted to send our soldiers into action with unserviceable arms. (Cries of " Shame.") Those whose duty it was to pro cure arms prevented the supply, and even where the ob stacles to the supply, which they interposed , were pertly overcome, they wilfully mutilated and rendered useless the e arms which they placed in the han ds of our troops. Ih t seen a paragraph in the papers intimating that the ism. muskets are not manufactured fast e nou g h in Birmingham. The answer is, that by no human agency can either 60,000 or 100,0(X) stand of arms be manufactured in a day; and that the orders for them, or the patterns for them, which are as necessary as the orders,though now given, have been withheld until it surpasses the powers of the centre of the arms trade of the world to have all that are required finished now, as they might have been had the Ordnance chosen to issue the orders and patterns as they ought to have done, not last May or June, but in the autumn of last year. Gentlemen, I have dwelt upon this subject, for it concerns the safety of the country, which depends upon the prestige which was so dearly purchased during he thirty years' war, and has manifest ed its power by securting us forty years of peace. These are ques ti o ns which n do,ow concern every Englishman, whether he dwells, as we here close upon the centre atone of England or in our mot distant colonies. A MAN named Flanchin has been tried in Paris for robbery. it appeared that he was accustomed to wear one of those cloaks to which hoods are attached, when visiting jewellers' anti other shops, and whilst examining different articles to raise his hand repeatedly to his neck, a s if to scratch it. It subsequently turned out that each time be did this he slipped into his hood some article which ho had contrived to take unobserved. He carried on his ingenious system of robbery for some time with conside eight er able success. When at last he was detected, there w.te found in his hood, which was of vast dimensions, watches, three chains, fourteen rings, two parcels of lace , t en tooth-brushes, several pots of pomatum, some several books, a quantity of fruit, and other " unconsidered trifles." All that the man could say in his defence was that the things had been put into his hood by way of but when asked by whom, he was silent. Ha was sentenced to two years imprisonment,