The Press. — London, England, 1855-07-21 00:00:00

JULY 21, 1855. Court and lasOon. ROYAL VISIT TO PARIS. r The following letter appears in the Brussels Ina pendanee, from a Calais correspondent:— I am able to inform you, in a manner almost official, that her Majesty Queen Victoria and his Royal Highness Prince Albert will disembark here on the morning of Friday, August 17; that they will sleep in this city, and leave the following morning for Paris. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort will pass the Sunday in private, and will not receive officially until the Monday. The English Admiralty has already sent one of its officers to take the necessary steps for the disembarka tion. It is believed that the Emperor will be here to re ceive the august visitors, as, in addition to the Imperial Palace, which is being prepared fur the Queen and her suite, a hotel has been retained for a high personage. The city of Calais, proud of the preference which Queen Victoria shows in choosing that port, is preparing to give her Majesty a worthy reception. Captain Fendall, courier of the English Cabinet, landed yesterday morning, bearing the portrait of her Britannic Majesty to the Emperor. His Highness Prince Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte em barked yesterday morning for Dover, on board the steamer Imperairice. Her Majesty remains at Osborne, taking, however, frequent cruises in the Royal yacht to some neigh bouring sites of interest. There was to have been a Privy Council on Wed nesday, but the arrangement was countermanded at the last moment, and orders given for the Council to assemble this (Saturday) afternoon at Osborne. Prthce Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Louisa, who have been attacked with scarlatina, are progressing most favorably. Her Majesty will, on going north next year, honour Lord I'anmare with a visit at his mansion of Panmurt house. By that time the renovations and alterations in that residence are expected to be com• pleted. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston gave a magnificent banquet on Wednesday night to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, the buke of Cambridge, an d the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg•Strelitz. The dinner was followed by a grand ball. A "Sussex wing," erected from funds subscribed for a testimonial to the late Duke of Sussex, is to be added to the Rojal Free Hospital. Sir M. Montellore, Bart., Lady Monteflore Mr. and Mrs. H. Guedalla, Mr. Kursheedt, and Dr:Lowe embarked from Constantinople on the sth instant for Jehisaletti in the Austrian Lloyd's steamer fibeperatrice. QUEEN VICTORIA has sent 501. to the Mayor of St. Germain, as a subscription towards restoring the chapel which contains the remains of James 11. CAPTAIN JOHN M‘Douoms, R.N., has been ap pointed Admiralty superintendent of the Southampton mail packet station. The officer was made captain in 1836, and will probably be an admiral before long, when he will cease to hold his appointment. MIL ARNAUD, the collector of Customs at Liverpool, who succeeded Mr. Swainson in that office upwards of thirty years ago, has just retired, it is stated, upon the large superannuation allowance of 2,2001, a year. PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS have been made towards forming an association to promote tne obser vation and classification of meteorological phenomena in Scotland. The Duke of Argyll has been nominated as president, the Marquis of Tweeddale as vice-presi dent, and Mr. A. K. Johnston as honorary secretary, with a numerous council. THE accounts of the harvest prospects in Ireland are favorable beyond all precedent. The crops of all kinds are stated to be advancing rapidly to ma turity, and promise an abundant as well as an early return. The potato cr. p looks exceeding healthy, and the supply of young potatoes in market is be coming more abundant. Almost every part of the country has been visited by thunderstorms within the last few days. fHE Comanistoatas OF METROPOLITAN SEWERS have resolved that the health and welfare of the metro polis require that the sewage and drainage, instead of being allowed to flow with daily increasing pollution into the bed of the Thames, should be transferred north of the river to Barking•creek, and south thereof t or below Plumstead marshes. Tnt census of the city of New York just taken shows the population of the island to amount to about 750,000. Five years ago it was only 517,000. Foreign emigration will do much to account for this increase, great as it is ; 250,000 or 300,000 foreigners a year having arrived since 1850, and, although the larger proportion have passed through on their way to the West, or to other cities, or even to California, many have rested in New York. Brooklyn, on the opposite bank of the East River, numbers about 200,000, and Jersey city and Hoboken, on the North River, will carry up the town population of New York, without taking in the surrounding villas, to over a million. THE PRESS. Qiuxion ntelii~cn~e. THE CHELTENHAM ELECTION terminated on Satur day in the return of ➢lr. G. C. L. Berkeley. The numbers declared at the close of the poll were :—For Mr. Berkeley, 700; for Mr. Ridler, 178. IN THE CITY or LONDON, a meeting of some of the most influential gentlemen who have for years past taken the most prominent part in the return of its re presentatives, was held yesterday week for the purpose of considering the present position of matters in con nection with two of its members. Among the gentle men present there was an unanimous feeling that Lord John Russell had forfeited all claims to the continued confidence of the constituency, and that a requisition ought to be got up, calling on him to resign. With regard to Baron Rothschild, the adverse feeling was not quite unnanimous, but very nearly so. The probability is believed to be that two vacancies will very shortly occur in the City represen tation. THE ELECTORS OF CASIERLDOE UNIVERSITY have cause to suspect that Mr (Joulburn will not be a can didate at the next election, the right honourable gentleman proposing, in consequence of failing health, to retire from public life. Mr. Cowling, the barrister, will in all probability be a candidate in the Conserva tive interest. Mr. Cowling was senior wrangler of his year. _ Mn. STRLCEY (Conservative) was, on Tuesday, elected M.P. for EAST NORFOLK, without opposition, in the room of Edmund Wodehouse, Esq., who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. TO; and Volta. DAVID ABRAMIVITCH RZIMIENSICT, who described himself as a Polish Jew, but who, it was discovered from his papers, was a Russian agent, was brought up again at the Dover Poliee-court yesterday week, on the charge of endeavouring to induce men to desert from the British Swiss Legion. The defendant was fully committed for trial. Fon the last three weeks a case of great importance has been pending in Scotland before Lord Ardmillan, in the shape of a petition of service between Alexan der, nephew, and claiming to be heir-male, of the late Admiral Sir Thomas Livingstone, and Mrs. Fenton, claiming to be the heir upon the failure of heirs-male. On the part of Alexander, the stake is the entailed estate of Bedlormie and others, with the baronetcy thereof, and also the dormant peerages of Callandar and Linlithgow. The objection raised by Mrs. Fenton to the claims of Alexander, the heir male, is that his mother was the sister of his father's first wife. This Alexander meets, Ist, by the plea that his domicile being in England, the question must be ruled by the law of England, and that his parents having been married by the law of England, he must prevail; 2nd, that although at one time the marriage might have been avoidable by the English law, under Lord Lyndhurst's act it could not now be inquired into there, and that the same rule must apply in Scotland; 31e1, that the relationship of his father's two wives is not proved; 4th (and this brings out the question which gives the matter public interest in Scotland), that although the two wives were full sisters, there is nothing in the law of Scotland to illegitimatise him in respect thereof. The case has been depending for several weeks, and the arguments of kith, r counsel for the claimant Alexander are even now only just concluded. THE BANK OF ENGLAND have purchased for their West-end branch establishment the mansion of the Marquis of Anglesea,( Uxbridge-house), in Burlington • gardens, Piccadilly, for a sum of 45,0001. or guineas. THE EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR CIVIL SER VICE IN 'Nina commenced at King's College on Mon day. One hundred and thirteen candidates presented themselves. THE CARLTON CLUB, says the Builder, is a purely political club, and was founded by the late Duke of Wellington, and a few of his most influential political friends. It first held its meetings in Charles street, St. James's, in the year 193.1. In the following year it removed to larger premises, Lord Kensington's hou-e, in Carlton gardens. In 1836, an entirely new house was built for the club, in Pall-mall, by Sir Robert Smirke, small in extent, and plain arid inex. pensive in its architecture. As the club grew in numbers and importance, the building soon became inadequate to its wants. In 1848, a very large addition was made to it by Mr. Sydney Smirke ; and in 1855, the whole of the original building was taken down and rebuilt by Mr. Smirke, upon a sumptuous scale ; and it is now the largest, although not the most costly, club-house in London. The club con sists of 1,300 members, each paying an annual subscription of ten guineas, with an entrance fee of fifteen guineas. The business of the club is managed by a committee of thirty members and the five trus • tees, viz.—the Duke of Buccicu. h, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Itedesdake, and Lord Verulara. Volitual anb Otntral. ON SATURDAY, (lilting a thunderstorm, a boy named Samuel Stopherd, residing at Abbey Hey, Gorton, Lancashire, was killed by lightning whilst closing a bedroom window. His body was after wards found in the room much scorched, and it is supposed that his death was instantaneous. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY have issued the legal year's notice, reducing, from the 21st July, 1856, the Interest on India Bonds from the present rate of 4 per cent. per annum to 3i per cent. Tax BANE Or LONDON have received their charter of incorporation, and have taken premises at Charing cross (late the New Equitable Life Office), which, with their city establishment, will be ready for occu pation in a few weeks. °fumes were issued on Wednesday to the com manding officers of the several battalions composing the household infantry brigade to hold in readiness, for immediate embarkation, the rtiufurcemeuts of volunteers which have been told off to proceed to the Crimea. The troops for service are 000 volunteers from the Ist and 2nd battalions ef Grenadier tivards, and 280 volunteers from the 2nd battalion Soots Fusilier Guards, making a total of 880 rank and file. The reinforcements will proceed, in the first instance, to Malta, from whence the reserve at present there will embark for the seat of war. THE OFFICE OF BUPERINTENDENT OF MEDICAL Srertsries, under the new system of registration of births, deaths, and marriages in Scotland, has been conferred upon Dr. James Starke, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. THE FIRST PRIVATE HALL AT OXFORD UNDER THE NEW ACT will be opened by the Rev. E. A. Litton, M.A., Vice-Principal of St. Edmund-hall, and formerly Fellow of Oriel College, for the reception of students. After a careful consideration of the probable expenses, 801., for the academical year, consisting, practically, of three terms, each containing eight or nine weeks, has been fixed on as the lowest sum compatible with prudence. This includes all the student's expenses, except fees paid to the university for matriculation or for degrees. The hall will be opened next term. THE BISHOP OF LONDON consecrated on Tuesday the new and beautiful church which has been in course of erection for the last two years in the Bays water road, near the new carriage entrance to Ken sington-gardens. The edifice has received the name of Christ Church. CAPTAIN LUSHINOTON having been promoted to his flag rank, Captain the Hon. H. Reppel has been ap pointed to the command of the naval brigade serving on shore with the army in the Crimea. Capt. Keppel of nurse resigns the command of the St. Jean d'Aere, and Captain St. Vincent King, formerly of the Leander, succeeds him in that post. THE SWISS FOREIGN LEGION at Dover now consists a thousand men ; of these, five hundred are perfectly ready for service. Many of them are soldiers who have seen service in the field. THE Rev. MR. SCOTT, of Cambridge, has been ap pointed to the Head Mastership of Westminster School, vice the Rev. Mr. Liddell, appointed to the deanery of Christ Church, Oxford. JAN HANJIK, postmaster at Amsterdam, a few days since absconded from that town with Dutch securities to the value of 8001. He proceded direct to Liver pool, and on Monday succeeded in cashing the bills at the office of Mr. Came, money-broker,in Waterloo roan, who, however, before giving him the money, had made some inquiries at, the office of the Dutch consul. On the same evening the police authorities of Liverpool received information of the robbery from Amsterdam, with a description of the absconding postmaster, which led to his apprehension on Tues day by Inspector Murphy, of the detective department, He was taken to Bridewell, and in the e‘euing was found suspended by the neck from one of the bars of his cell, and although immediately cut down, life was extinct. The whole of the money has been recovered. THE WIDOW OF COUNT BATTBTANT, after ceding all her fortune to her heirs, end distributing 20,000 florins to her domestics, has entered the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, founded by her at Vinkafeld, Upon the frontiers of Hungary. She assumes the name of "Sister Fanny." AN ALLOTMENT or ESTATES took place on Thurs day at the offices of the Conservative Land Society, when the Hounslow property was offered, and taken long before the list of rights was gone through, several members being disappointed in obtaining hots on this valuable estate. The Round Hill Park estate, Brighton, was offered at the same time, and all the leased lots and a considerable Dumber of others taken, as well as lots on the Reading, West Malvern, and Weybridge estates, making a total sale of land of upwards of 6,0001. Tris sum of 1,0801. was paid to Messrs. J. J. Lonsdale and C. S. °reeves (8401. each) as remune ration for drawing nine bills on the criminal law of England, and 31151. to the Hon. G. L. Elliot for pre paring the Bribery and Controverted Elections Bills of the session of 1854. York;without taking in the stuTotteding villas, to I Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwick°, Lord Itedesdaka, and j I paring th e Bnbery ana tAlutuayeKtou WNW.= 41.4. over a million. Lord Verulam. of OP session of 1854. 687