The Press. — London, England, 1856-09-13 00:00:00

1 874 ._ _ >.~,_ This was the subject on which he could freely express himself. as he differed on it from many of his political Mends in the House of Commons. The consumption and production of wheat in this country was not really known. Men wise men thought they knew, but calcula tions differed to the extent of twenty-five per cent. The people of this country ought to know what quantity they required for their support — which was, in tact the con sumption of the country—and they also ought to know what suppply they could reckon upon. The farmers were interested in knowing what must be the value of their agricultural produce, and thereby be able to sell it to the best possible advantage. He therefore candidly told them, had the Government measure called the Agricultural Sta tistics Bill been proceeded with, he should have felt it his duty to vote for the second reading, though in committee he would have proposed that certain clauses should be ex punged, which would have done away with its inquisito rial character. Mr. Tollemache briefly referred to politics. Ho said : As a Conservative he would never be a party to any move for upsetting the present or any Government, unless he was first of all/satisfied that there were materials ready on his own side to form a better and more efficient one as a substitute. TILE BIRMINGHAM FOLKS have been cruelly vic timised within the last few days. A Mr. Wyndham, soi disant agent for the Queen of Oude, arrived at the Clarendon Hotel last week, having been preceded by a lady and gentleman, who had resided there for some days. The lady and gentleman and Mr. Wyndham claimed relationship. The two then de parted, Mr. Wyndham remaining and taking the re sponsibility of their bill. The next day paragraphs appeared in the papers, announcing that the Queen of Oude and suite were about to visit Birmingham, and that Mr. Wyndham, their representative, had arrived to make arrangements. Communications were opened with the mayor, and his worship, anxious to do suitable honour to his august visitors, postponed a prearranged visit to Paris, in order that he might be present to receive his guests the next Monday. A magnificent suite of apartments was engaged at the Queen's Hotel, and at some of the principal manufactories intimation was given, through the agency of the indefatigable Wyndham, that a visit from the illustrious Asiatics might be ex pected. Mr. Wyndham was introduced to the authorities and invited to dinner; but, failing to get a 201. cheque cashed, suspicion became excited, a telegraph was sent to town, the, truth soon discovered, but Mr. Wyndham had fled, leaving a couple of shirts and a long bill behind him at the hotel. The police were set instantly in pursuit, but as yet with no result. ME. LEWIS MORGAN, a gentleman of property near Merthyr Tydvil, yesterday night week dined with some friends in Merthyr. He returned home on horseback. On reaching the Taff Vale Railway at Brandy-bridge as a train was coming up, Mr. Mor gan, excited with wine, endeavoured to get over the line first; his horse refused, he forced him over, the animal became restive and plunged, and before they had quite cleared the rails the engine struck them, threw down horse and rider, and dragging them up the line literally mangled both to pieces. The inquest has been adjourned till the 25th. A STUD FARM is about to be formed at Newmarket. The committee consist of the Duke of Wellington, Lord W. Powlett, Mr. C. C. Greville, and Mr. W. J. Goodwin, of Hampton-court, besides many leading gentlemen of the neighbourhood ; and the Hon. E. T. Yorke, M.P., as auditor, and Mr. Alfred Dyson, of Hambledon, as manager : The soil and climate of Newmarket (says the pro spectus) are most favorable to blood stock. It is the fountain source of racing. The best horses in the world are to be found there, and it is the regular resort many times in the year of that class most interested in pro rooting and encouraging the breeding of thorough-bred horses. It is also easy of access by rail to foreigners and colonists who visit England for the purpose of purchasing blood stock. Such establishments are of the utmost importance in preserving our national breed of horses, and are well deserving of public support. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN has consented to lend to the Manchester Art Exhibition, for next May, portions of the Windsor and Buckingham Palace collections. The list includes works by Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Paul Potter, Gerard Dow, Ostade, Cuyp, and other great artists. THE POOR-LAW BOARD is in hot wnter now with St. Thomas's Union, Exeter. It appears that the guardians, on the death of one of their relieving officers, did not wish to fill up the vacancy, but to pay the remaining three better salaries, so as to en able them to keen good horses and do the work efficiently. The Poor-Law Board sent their assis tant-commissioner, Mr. Gulson, to confer with the guardians, and the result is that a peremptory order has been received, requiring the St. Thomas's guardians► to proceed to the election of a fourth re lieving officer, notwithstanding their request to be allowed a trial of three for six months. Mr. Keko wich, the chairman of the board, has resigned ; mule THE PRESS. but the guardians have signified their intention to resist the order of the Poor-Law Board to elect a fourth officer. THE MANCHESTER MECHANICS' INSTITUTE was opened on Tuesday, as arranged. Viscount Palmers ton was unavoidably absent. Mr. Oliver Heywood, the president, in a brief opening address alluded to the circumstance, and said the society hoped that the visit was only postponed. _ ... THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL was celebrated at Sheffield by a festival in their Vauxhaltgardens. In the evening the Crimean men of the 4th Dragoon Guards were each presented with a handsome knife, and addressed by Mr. Roebuck, M.P., who expressed his pleasure in beholding them again in times of peace • " not that he regarded the peace with very great pleasure, though he was a man of peace, and knew full well the blessings of peace; but he appreciated men of war, for it was by their efforts that those blessings were maintained." The hon. member further alluded to the public confidence in soldiers as protectors of freedom, expressed his love for the 4th Dragoons as "men and brethren," and concluded his brief address amid:loud cheering. THE NORTHUMBERLAND FISHERMEN complain that the French coasting luggers have lately been fishing within a mile of the south coast, and have inflicted much injury upon our men. The Government have or • dered a man •of-war steamer to cruise off the coast, and protect the fisheries. THE SITE OF A ROMAN VILLA has been discovered at Linley•hall, in Shropshire. Two of the smaller rooms, strewed with tiles and pieces of stucco, have been opened up, and, so soon as harvest is over, the excavations will be continued. THE BUCKS AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION will hold its annual exhibition of stock and roots at Bucking ham on the 30th instant. The entries are reportsd as very numerous. His Grace the Duke of Bucking ham will preside. THE PORTSMOUTH BANQUET TO THE CRIMEAN AND BALTIC OFFICERS AND MEN promises to be a brilliant affair. The funds are very handsome, and the intentions of the committee extend to 2,5(X) men and 200 officers, among whom are the distinguished of the high ranks of the army and navy, as the Duke of Cambridge, Sir Fenwick Williams of Kars, Sir Colin Campbell, Sir Harry Jones, Sir R. Dacres, Sir John Burgoyne, Sir William Codrington, Generals Windham, Rokeby, Scarlett, &c. THE DISTANT PROVINCES of an empire are, we know, usually below the average civilisation of the capital, but in England we were scarcely prepared for the following, which is given in the Manchester papers as the copy of a placard extensively circulated at the recent races at Wilmslow : Wilmslow Races, September 2nd and 3rd, 1856. JOHN FLETCHER, King's Head Inn, feels great pleasure in announcing to his numerous friends and visitors to Wilmslow Races, that he has secured the services of JOHN SMITH, of Dudley, the executioner of the late WILLIAM PALMER, at Stafford ; and also been fortunate, through a friend, of procuring from Liverpool a CAST OF HIS FACE AND FEATVRES, forming an exact model of the culprit, dressed in cor responding clothes, as he appeared on the morning of exe cution. There will be the SCAFFOLD AND BEAM. with a company of trained officials, who will perform and go through the ceremony of _ _ HANGING Twice each morning of the races; performance com. mencing at ten and twelve o'clock. Admission, Is. each ; 6d. to he returned in refreshments. FOUR MEN were drowned on Monday, at Blyth, on the Northumberland coast. They were engaged at the time in swinging a barge, the barge capsized, and carried thirteen men into the water ; but few of them could swim, and these four sank before they could be rescued. grdant. A BANQUET TO THE CRIMEAN SOLDIERS NOW IN IRELAND is definitely determined on. An influential meeting took place at the Mansion-house on Monday to settle the necessary preliminaries. Lord Gough, in a spirited address, promised his cordial co operation. His lordship, alluding to a suggestion that some of our gallant elliet- should be asked to the dinner, said : It so happened that yesterday I received a letter from Marshal Duke de Malakoff, whom you lately knew as Marshal Pelissier, and, among other things, he stated that he proposed to fulfil a promise be made to me when in the Crimea, that he would come to visit me in Ireland. I thoughtit would be gratifying to you to hear this. I sin cerely hope that he will come, and I am convinced my warmhearted countrymen will give him a truly cordial wel come on his arrival in this country. A subscription of 501. was announced from his Excel lency the Lord Lieutenant, in addition to a long list from the noblemen and gentlemen of Ireland. It was resolved that the invitations to the dinner should SATURDAY, not be limited to soldiers natives of Ireland, but should include all Scotch and English soldiers at present serving in the country. THE COMMITTEE OF THE CHURCH EDUCATION SOCIETY have issued their annual report, to which is attached an address upon the present position and prospects of the association. The committee resolve to adhere staunchly to their system. GENERAL SIR COLIN CAMPBELL has arrived in Dublin, and was entertained at dinner on the 9th by his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, at the Viceregal Lodge. THE REV. T. O'MALLY, a Roman Catholic clergy man, suggests that the chaplains, Protestant and Roman Catholic, who had accompanied the army at the seat of war, should be entertained at the ap proaching Crimean banquet. THE sixth and concluding part of the census of Ireland, for 1851, has been issued this week from the office of the Census Commissioners. The report to the Lord Lieutenant is brief but pregnant with important facts. The number of people in this year 1856, in Ireland, is lower by nearly half a million than it was in 1851. On tha 30th of March, 1851, the population amounted to (1,552,385; on the Ist of January last they numbered but 6,077,283, The falling-off is attributed to emigration : From table 37 it appears that the inhabitants of Ireland have, by emigration, decreased 475,102 persons from the 30th of March, 1851, to the 31st December, 1855, so that at the present tune the population does not much exceed six millions, and it is probable that this number is still diminishing—owing to the emigrants from this country continuing to be greater in amount than the as sumed excess of births over deaths. In these computations we have taken the number of emigrants from Irish ports only, as returned by the enumerators, because the returns received by us from the Emigration Commissioners include the Irish emigrants from all parts of the United Kingdom, many of whom had been previously settled in England. In reference to the famine and emigration of 1845 and the following disastrous years, the commissioners set down the total decrease of the rural population from that double cause at 19.85 per cent., or exactly at 1,022,739. The commissioners state : We beg to call attention to the extraordinary decrease in the rural population, which resulted from the famine and emigration of 1845 and following years. In the whole of Ireland there has been a general diminution of the rural population of 53 persons to the square mile of the entire area; and of 104 to the square mile of arable land. The decrease in the province of Connaught was so high as 60 persons to the square mile of the entire area, and 145 to the square mile of arable land ; in Munster the decrease was, to the entire area, 57 persons, and to the amble land 114, to the square mile. Ulster decreased at the rate of 4b to the square mile of the total area, and 126 to the square mile of arable land, and the province of Leinster decreased 45 persons for every square mile of its general area, and by 58 for the square mile of arable land. In some of the counties the proportionate decrease is very high, partly caused by the increase in amble load, but principally by the diminution in the numbers of the people. All the counties have decreased in population except Dublin, which shows an increase of 91 persons to the square mile. The commissioners conclude their report : In conclusion, we feel it will be gratifying to your Ex• cellency to find that although the population has been diminished in so remarkable a manner by famine, disease, and emigration between 1841 and 1851, and has been since decreasing, the results of the Irish census of 1851 are, on the whole, so satisfactory, demonstrating as they do the general advancement of the country. We have shown in the course of our observations that the extent of arable land and the value of farm stock have increased since IR4l— the worst class of houses is being replaced by a better —that a smaller proportion of families is dependent on their own manual labour for support—and that the educa tion of the people has favorably progressed. - - i The commissioners engaged n the census of 1851 were W. Donnelly, Esq., LL.D., and W. Wilde, M.D., who were ably assisted by the acting secretary, Harry Wilkie, Esq. Sat anb Volict. A MONEY-LENDER'S PROFITS are about as enormous as they are iniquitous. This week a bankruptcy case at the Liverpool Court presents a curious in stance of folly upon one side, and—" profit" on the other. The bankrupt, one Tyson, a corn-merchant, failed for some 50,0001, and it appeared that, while in five years and a half of business his profits amounted to 3,6351. 2s. Ild., he had during that period paid to one Pemberton, a money lender, no less than 4,0721. 17s. 4d. for interest on loans. He had been paying in fact 72 per cent. per annum, and in one instance had paid 120 per cent. The result of course was inevitable. In Pem berton's account appeared a series of entries such as these : April Ist, 1852. Lent you till Pith inst. 1001.; my charge, Sl. May 18th. Tent you till Ist June 1001.; my charge, :11. 10s. The bankrupt was then called and examined at length by Mr. Bateson