The Press. — London, England, 1854-11-04 00:00:00

P"' gap NOVEMBER 4, 1854. Cnrt ad laskirm. Her Majesty remains at Windsor, where the Conrt proceedings during the week offer few incidents - worthy of record. Prince Albert goes out shooting in the Home park almost daily. Un Monday there was a dinner party at the castle, at which the Belgian Minister, the Austrian Minister and Countess Colloredo, Lord and Lady John Russell, the Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert, and Mr. Gibbs, were invited guests. Lord Aberdeen returned to Argyll house on Monday afternoon, from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle. Lord Haddo, according to the last letters from Alexandria, continues in precarious health, 'and has postponed his journey to the upper provinces sine die. The Right Hon. Charles A. Murray, Envoy-Extra ordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary in Persia, has arrived in town from Berne, and intends remaining for three weeks, previous to his departure for the East. Lord John Russell will pay a visit to Sir J. P. Boileau, Bart., at Ketteringham, in Norfolk, during next week. Arrangements arc making for a meeting of the friends of the educational institutions in Norwich, and his lordship will be invited to attend. The accounts of Captain Buncombe Buckley, of the Fusilier Guards, are favourable ; the wounds re ceived at the battle of Alma which were severe, are going on well, and the ball has been extracted. Fa vourable accounts of the Earl of Errol are also received from the seat of war. A marriage will shortly take place between Lord Kingsale, Premier Baron of 'lreland, and Miss Brown Westhead, only daughter of J. P. Brown Westhead, Esq., of Lea Castle, Worcestershire. Sir Edmund Head, the newly-appointed Governor- General of Canada, has arrived in New York, accom panied by Lady Head and his femily. THE FRENCH GUIDES BAND have met with a warm welcome in England, and occasioned in return much excitement by their performances in various places. On Sunday they played on the " slopes" at Windsor Castle, in the presence of the Queen and a very numerous andience. Two of the officers after wards dined with her Majesty, and the men were entertained in the steward's room in the castle. The Queen subsequently sent a present of 100 guineas in token of her gratification. During the week the Guides have visited the Bank, the Tower, and other sights of the metropolis, playing also in different quarters atmost daily. Thursday they assisted, by permission of the Emperor, at a concert given in Exeter-hail, for the benefit of the French Charitable Association. To-day (Saturday) they will again per form in the Crystal Palace, in aid of the Patriotic Fund, and to-morrow are under orders to return to Paris. ALEXANDER SMITH has been appointed assistant to the Astronomer Royal for Scotland; her Majesty, during her late visit to Edinburgh, being graciously pleased to signify in this way her approbation of the young poet's astronomical descriptions. MR. DONALD Nicola, intends to petition against the return of Viscount Dungarvon for the borough of Frome, on the ground of certain acts of bribery and intimidation alleged to have been committed. ON the subject of agricultural statistics, a circular has been addressed by the Poor-Law Board to the officials of unions in the several counties where the collections of facts are to be made. They state : The experiment for IKM will embrace the whole of Scotland and the following counties of England and Wales —viz., Norfolk, Suffolk, Southampton, Wilts, Leicester, Berke, Worcester, Salop, West Riding of York, Brecon, and Denbigh. In Scotland the proceedings will be con ducted, as in 1853, under the auspices of the Highland Society. In England and Wales it is intended to put in motion the machinery which worked, upon the whole, so satisfactorily iu Norfolk and Hampshire. There it watt found that this object was best promoted by the formation and co-operation, in every union, of a joint committee of owners and occupiers, called " the Statis tical Committee," with the chairman of the union for its chairman, and by employing, with the concurrence of the guardians, the clerk of the union as classifier, and the relieving officers as enumerators. The countenance and support which a committee so constituted affords, by the mere fact of its existence, as well as by the employment of the union officers under its directions, go far to ensure success, and I trust you will find no difficulty in organising such a committee among the leading agriculturists of S our union. The duties of the committee are not of a nature to subject its members to much personal trouble. All, or nearly all, they have to do may be summed up under the two following heads :—To induce, by their example and influence, their neighbours to fill up their schedules before September 311. To superintend the labours of the officers engaged in the inquiry, and to examine and verify the re /whs. Or the 1,100 killed at Alma, no less than 750 ailed were Irish. The 23rd Welch Fusiliers were almost to a man natives of the sister country. THE PRESS. LORD PALMERSTON AT ROMSEY. ON occasion of the annual meeting of " The La bourers' Encouragement Society," at Romsey, last Tuesday, Lord Palmerston addressed some observa tions to those assembled which might have come not. inappropriately from a chair of moral philosophy, had his lordship happened to fill so grave a position. He commenced by laying down some " general principles ": Although it has been the pleasure of our Maker, in a world which is a world of trial and transition, and not the ultimate destiny of mankind—though it has been the plea sure of our Maker to subject a great portion of the human race to trials and privations—to enable them to qualify themselves for the future state that awaits them, yet Pro vidence has not been niggardly in the distribution of those qualities which are calculated to secure happiness to those who conduct themselves well upon this earth. (('heers.) All the good qualities of human nature—the qualities of mind and of heart—everything that tends to dignify our species and to enable men to distinguish themselves in the condition in which they have been placed—these qualities have been sown broadcast over the human race, and are as abundantly dispersed among the humblest classes as they are among the highest classes of the land. (Renewed cheers.) You will find that all children are born good ; it is bad edu cation and bad associations in early life that corrupt the minds of men. It is true that there are now and then ex ceptions to general principles. As there are men who have been born with club feet, born blind, or with other personal defects, so also it will happen that children will be born with defective dispositions, but these are rare exceptions. Be persuaded that the mind and heart of man are nate.- ' rally good, and it depends upon training and education whether that goodness implanted at birth shall continue to display itself, or whether by bad associations it shall be corrupted and destroyed. Then came the practical application from what his lordship termed this " truth ": It is the duty of all parents to see that their children are well and properly educated—that they are early instructed not merely in book learning, in reading and writing, and acquirements of that kind, but instructed in the precepts which indicate the difference between right and wrong, and that they are taught the principles of religion and their duty towards God and man. Now, the way in which that can he done is by the father and mother building up their house hold upon that which is the foundation of all excellence in social life—l mean a happy home. (Applause.) Now, no home can be happy if the husband be not a kind and affec tionate husband and a good father to his children. Bearing this in mind, he must avoid two great rocks on which too many men in the humbler ranks make shipwreck—the tobacco-shop and the beer-shop. The lecture against tobacco which ensued is needed yet more by urban than rural populations. It wasted a man's strength, said his lordship, and ruined his health, by leading to all manner of diseases. At the dinner in the afternoon his lordship was still the chief speaker. He spoke of the war as inevitable, and dwelt on the advantages of the French alliance : There never was in the history of the world a more honourable spectacle than that which has been exhibited by the British nation. We have embarked in a war, and are fighting side by side, in honourable ambition, with a power that in former periods we were only wont to meet hostilely in the field. (Cheers.) We tniat that that new companionship, cemented by the blood shed in action. and confirmed by those laurels which will he intertwined in victory, will long endure ; and that the two great nations which are at the summit of civilisation, not only in Europe, but of the world—two nations most worthy of the esteem of each other—will, as the result of the resolution of the G(.vernment and the country to engage in this contest, be for ever bound together in ties of friendship and affection. (Tremendous cheering.) Anticipating that whatever may be the difficulties and dangers of the conflict—whether it may be long or whether it may be short—the result can be one—that is, that the arms of England and France, reared in combat for the cause of justice and truth, for the cause of liberty and of national independence, not seeking con quests for selfish objects, but for those of the most noble and generous character—l cannot but feel confident that the result, come when it may, will be such as will gloriously crown the efforts which the nation has made, and will place the honour of this country, will place the character, dignity, and well-being of this country, upon a surer and firmer basis even than that on which they have hitherto stood. (Great applause.) As the Mayor of Romsey had proposed "Her Ma jesty's Ministers," eulogising Lord Palmerston as one of the " most talented and important," his lordship returned the compliment by proposing the health of the mayor. "No corporation in the kingdom," said his lordship, " can boast a better mayor. You love and esteem him as I do." Subsequently he ex pressed his satisfaction that, in the government of men, progress had been made from the lash to the medal : In former and in less civilised times of the world man kind were to be governed entirely by punishment. The only idea that man had, from the highest to the lowest, on general government, or local err social order—the only idea men had was to punish fur offences. Good conduct was considered to be, like virtue, its only reward; and the only thing men had to study was to avoid coming under the lash. Now, it is the greatest possible improvement in political and moral science to find that, most especially in this kinvdom—more so than in any others—men have turned their thoughts to a different method of swaying human actions. It is a discovery, I may say, of later times, that it is more easy to govern men by encourage• 1047 went and reward than by fear and punishment ; and that great principle of modern philosophy is the foundation of the institution of which I have the honour to be the pea. dent. I hail it not only from the advantages locally sure to follow from it, but as one of the numerous indications of the great march of human understanding, the great spread of practical philosophy, and iu one instance among among many others that we are now, from the diffusion of enlightenment through every class of the country, bitting upon the true means of obtaining an influence over the conduct of men, of touching the heart, and of holding out inducements which kindness and rea ards offer, and instead of occupying ourselves, as our ancestors used to do, in driving, we are at last endeavouring to govern the country by leading. Something was said, later, on the progress of agri cultural improvement, and, towards the close of the evening,Miss Nightingale was mentioned. Dr. H. Tay lor proposed her health as a native of Romaey, casting some rays of her fame on her female servant, who, with rare magnanimity, had " refused an available offer of marriage" that she might accompany her mistress and remit her wages to her parents. The festivity passed off pleasantly, and Done the less so, perhaps, that wheat is at 70s. per quarter, though nut a word was said on that subject. gain MR. CHARLES KEAN, manager of the Princess's Theatre, summoned a musician, named Pickard, to the Southwark County Court, for a penalty incurred by his breach of contract. The defendant had been engaged for the plaintiff's orchestra, and the agree ment set forth that he was to attend all rehearsals and performances, and not to perform at any other theatre or place of entertainment. Both of the con ditions, it seems, he had broken, having made a pro fessional tour in Scotland, without first obtaining leave of absence, and also engaging with M. Jtißien for his concerts. The court gave judgment for the plaintiff, and ordered Pickard to pay 101. damages by wsy of penalty. A PETITION FOR ADJUDICATION IN BANKRUPTCY has been presented in the Court of Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque against Mr. George Hndson, M.P., described as a merchant of Half Moon-street, Pitta• dilly. No adjudication has yet taken place. Mt. Hudson entirely denies the validity of the alleged debt, amounting to 1,1001., upon which the petition is founded. A RULE NISI FOR ♦ NEw TRIAL in the case of Mr. Boyle against Cardinal Wiseman was obtained in the Court of Exchequer on Thursday. The plaintiff, it will be remembered, brought an action for libel against Cardinal Wiseman on account of some letters published first in the Univers, and then translated into the Tablet and Catholic Standard newspat ers. At the former trial he was nonsuited, and the appli cation for a rehearing was based upon the plea of mis-direction, and that the Chief Baron had impro • perly declined to admit the defendant himself to be sworn in order to give evidence to make out the plaintiff's case. IN ♦ FEROCIOUS ASSAULT UPON A POLICEMAN, Frances Knipe, a prostitute, was tiled and found guilty before Mr. Witham at the Middlesex Sessions. The judge sentenced her to imprisonment, with hard labour, for nine months. After receiving sentence the prisoner became insolent, and the following bit of dialogue is taken down by the reporter: — The prisoner (impudently): Oh, I can do that on my bead without any trouble. Mr. WITHAM : Come back. I will see, then, if you can do 12 months, to which I now sentence you. The prisoner accordingly is sent to prison for a year, nine months for maltreating a constable, three for being impertinent to a judge. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, October 31. BANK ItUPTS.—Jo FIN Haltom Laurence Pountney-lane, City commission agent—Joaurn Tuoitesos, Jun., Terrace, Kensing ton, draper•-•WILLIAN Goss TDca►L, Threadneedle•street, City, sharenroker—Enwtors WILLIAM TOSON, Harley-street, Cavendish-square. boartiing-lioneekeeper—HANlßT Hairr, Port- Sea, Hampshire, MiIer—PETER SMITH, Bridport.place, llottou, licensed victualler—NATHANlEL MAGNUS, Jun., Yore•street, City, shoe manufacturer—Jamas WRIGHT, Wendover, Buckingham shire, surgeon—Lyn'' , WOOD and CHARLES HENRY WooD, Willow-walk, Bermondsey, carpenters—H RIMY BOLEN° MASON, WindmWStreet, Haymarket, licensed victualler—Jolla BAT. THEWS, Newent, Gloucestershire, BICILLET, Soke-upon-Trent,lStaffortishire, draper—laws s Wit ITN ET, Wor. center• draper—Jous MIDOLLT, Nottingham, soda-water mann facturer—Wmt.tsw H VINT BARLOW, Leeds, hatter JOSEPH Hawks, Salford, Lancashire. grocer. SCOTCH sEgu EST RAT l ONS.—WILLIAMBEWAIL Glasgow, post-horse hirer—Rositur if /ANDERSON BOBERTSON, Glasgow, manufacturer. Friday, November 3. WILLIAM ANDREW BEYER, Hartford, Kent, licensed victnaller --itoisenr Grmitos lioserorth Brlxton,draper Jolts THOMAS. Upton•upon-Yevern, Worc.•ater, draper BICHARD CURTIS, Soutlisea, corn merchant—HENßY JANNI NON, Westwinster•road, ironmonger—ROWLAND BOSWORTH, Leicester, oil IDSEehitot— JOH tg Duuni.c, Sunderland. commission agent and ship chandler —SAMUEL Bei.t., Liverpool, confectioner —Hussy THWAITES BAILEY. Canterbury, linendraper—WlLLlAM Trims. High-street, Mitrylebone, butcher— EDWARD CAISTENDIICK, ship agent and merchant. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.— Gionoz WILSON, bookseller—Twouss leLsonto, East Friarton, Fileshire, farmer —Levant and Gwynn, Edinburgh, painters.