The Press. — London, England, 1855-01-13 00:00:00

JANUARY 13,1855. 6ourt an In ti The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Princess Royal and Princess Mice, arrived at Osborne f r om Windsor Castle on Friday, the sth, at a quarter past twelve o'clock. The Rev. George Prothero performed divine ser vice on Sunday morning before her Majesty and the Royal Family. The Queen and Prince, with the Princess Royal and Princess Alice, attended by the Viscountess Canning, Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Colonel F. H. Seymour, and the Master of the Household, left Osborne at two o'clock on Monday, and proceeded to Windsor Castle, where the royal party arrived at a quarter past five. Lieut.• General Sir De Lacy Evans had been in vited to Windsor Castle, but was prevented by in disposition from obeying her Majesty's commands. • Lord and Lady Cowley have returned to the Embassy at Paris. Dr. Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, intends taking his departure from England, for his distant diocese, in the course of a few days. The Earl and Countess of Derby, and Lord and Lady Emma Stanley, are expected to arrive in town about the 22nd inst., from Knowsley, where the noble family have been passing the holidays. Lord and Lady John Russell have arrived in Paris, where they were summoned in consequence of the illness of one of the Misses Eliot, a sister of Lady John Russell. Volama anb ftntral. THE HON. CHARLES A. MURRAY, C.B.,the newly appointed Minister to the Shah of Persia, has arrived at Teheran from England, via the overland route. AT ST. PETERSBURG Lord John Russell's declara tion in Parliament that the allies were content to leave Russia a great and powerful state has been adopted as the refrain of a popular political song, the inscription of which is—" 0 how sour are the grapes." - Is consequence of the constant interchange of communications kept up by the Government with our ambassador at the Turkish capital and the British army in the Crimea, several of the queen's messengers had been compelled by excessive fatigue to relinquish their duties. An increase in the stall' has been found necessary, and within the last fort night Captain Howath (late of the Rifles) and Major Binge Hall have been appointed. The first named gallant officer left town on the night of yesterday week with despatches from the Ministers of War and the Foreign Secretary for Lord Raglan and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe. TBE last Constantinople mail brings intelligence of the deaths at Scutari of three fine young officers — Major Glazbrook, of the 49th, who died on the 18th ult. of tetanus, consequent on a gunshot wound; Captain George H. Hughes, of the 23rd Fusiliers and Lieutenant T. Morgan, of the 63rd, who died on the 11th from cholera. Major Glazbrook bad for a short time filled the office of deputy • assistant adjutant-general to the second division, and had just been promoted to the rank of major. Like his old commanding officer, General Adams, however, he did not live to hear of his promotion. Captain Glazbrook was attended by his wife in his last moments. He entered the army in 1841. Lieute- nant Morgan entered the 63rd only a year since. Captain Hughes had been eight years in the service. ON TUESDAY the ship Shakspeare, which arrived at Liverpool, from Ner► Orleans, had on board 6,431 bales of cotton, being the largest cargo of that article ever cleared from the United States. TELEGRAPHIC COHNUNICATION WITH THE CRIMEA. —Mr. Liddell, the engineer of the new Leicester and Hitellin Railway, has obtained leave of absence for two months, in order to fulfil an important duty with which Government has intrusted him. This is no other than the laying of a submarine cable for tele graphic purposes from Varna to either Cape Cherso• nese or Balaklava. The cable. is ready, and Mr. Liddell is on the point of sailing to complete his commission of thus briditing the stormy Euxine, 300 miles across, for the flight of intelligence between the allied armies in the Crimea and their respective Govern ments, and vice versa. It is expected that by the time this work is accomplished the telegraphic line across Europe will also be ready ; and the enter prising engineer, who has already laid cables in the Mediterranean and other seas, confidently anticipates that within two months the beginning of a despatch will be received in London before Lord Raglan has ceased dictating it at the telegraph office of Balak lava or Sebastopol itself. THE LORD MAYOR AND LADY MAYORESS gave their first state dinner ou Tuesday to the gentlemen con nected with his lordship's household and a select party of friends. Covers were laid for sixty. THE PRESS.. ALTERATIONS IN THE Cl lowing gives the result of have been made for some ti Total Estimated Amount of Taxes Repealed, Reduced, or Expired. iLTSTOMS DtiTlES.—The fol the various changes that me past in Great Britain : f Total Estimated Amount o Taxes lmposod or Augmented. Year 1845 " 1d46 " 1847 " 1848 " 1849 " 1850 " 1831 Year 1845 " 1846 " 184 T " 1848 " 1849 " 1850 " 1851 " 1859 ~ 1863 " 1859 99,2t5i " 1853 Total ARCHDEACON DENISON'S CASE.—At Clevedon, on Wednesday, the commissioners appointed to inquire into the case of Archdeacon Denison met to pro nounce their decision. This was given by Bishop Carr, who said on behalf of himself and his brother commissioners that, after due consideration of the depositions taken before them, and of certain printed sermons and documents annexed to the depositions, declare their unanimous opinion— Ist. That, as respects the preaching, publishing, and making known or public the above sermons (numbered 1,2, and 3), by Archdeacon Denison, within the diocese of Bath and Wells, that there is suftleient prised facie grounds for instituting further proceedings. 2nd. The commissioners, having carefully examined the aforesaid sermons and charges specified in the commission, declare their unanimous opinion that the proposition of Archdeacon Denison that "to all who come to the Lord's table, to those who eat and drink worthily and those who eat and drink un worthily, the body and blood of Christ are given, and that by all who come to the Lord's table, by those who eat and drink unworthily and by those who eat and drink unworthily, the body and blood of Christ are received," is directly contrary and repugnant to the doctrine of the Church of England, and especially to the articles of religion, and to the doctrines as set forth in the aforesaid sermons with reference to the real presence in the Holy Eucharist, are unsupported by the articles taken in their literal and grammatical sense, and contrary to the doctrines and teachings of the Church of England, and have a very dangerous tendency ; and the commissioners are of opinion, secondly, that there are sufficientprinui facie grounds for instituting further proceedings. The commis sioners, at the same time, think it due to the Vene rable the Archdeacon of Taunton to state that, in the sermons under consideration, he has expressed his full assent and consent to the Articles of religion, and that be has ex amino condemned the doctrine of the Church of Borne, and particularly the Ronnsh doctrine of transubstantiation. The commissioners, having fully considered the subject, and now delivered their opinion, bog to state the proceedings, so far as they are concerned, at an end. A HINT FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS.—The examina tions for thirty assistant-surgeoncies in the service of the East India Company are now proceeding. These tine appointments begin with 6001. a year, and, after a time, rise to 1,00(11. There is also a retiring pen sion. Yet, strange to say, for these thirty vacancies there are only thirty-four candidates. It seems in• credible that the medical profession should have shown itself so little eager to take advantage of so splendid an opening. Among the candidates is Mr. Chtickerbuuy, a native gentleman, and some years ago a distinguished student at the London Univer- sity. EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL IN 1854.-210,742 persons have taken their departure from the port of Liverpool as emigrants during the past twelve months, being at the rate of more than 4,000 per week; and for the conveyance of this multitude of people, com posed of portions of the surplus populations of at least three European nations, a fleet of 957 ships have been employed. 194,922 of these, chiefly Dish and Germans, have proceeded to the United States ; 41,491 to the Australian colonies ; about 2,000 to the North American colonies; and the remainder, about 200, to the East and West Indies. WORKING OF THE NEW BEER ACT.—Mr. a Beckett, the police magistrate, contributes his experience of the working of this measure. lie says :—Previous to its coming into operation the business at this court was not only considerably greater on Monday than ou any other day in the week, but it consisted chiefly of cases of drunkenness, and of assaults, more or less violent, that had been committed under its influence. From the day when the act came into effect I have kept an account of the number of charges of Sunday drunkenness which have been brought before me on every Monday on which I have sat here, and I furnish you with the result :—Mon. day, August 14th, one case of Sunday drunkenness ; August 21st, not one; August 28th, one; September 4th, one; September 18th, two; September 25th, three ; October 9th, one ; October 16th, one ; October 23rd, four; October 30th, one ; November Gth, not one ; November 13th, three ; November 20th, five ; November 27th, four; December 4th, two; December 11th, one; December 18th, four ; January Ist, 1855, one; January Bth, two; making in all thirty-seven cases in nineteen days—a fraction less than two on au average for each Sunday." Mr. 8 Beckett adds his opinion that, "the best means for the diminu tion of crime, poverty, and perhaps also disease, are comprised in the prohibition of drunkenness." SOME DETAILS OF THE ARCTIC EXTEDTTION, not generally known, are communicated in a letter written by a naval officer from Hong-Kong, on Nov. 1. The writer says : To our delight the long-unheard-of discovery-ship, Enter prise, arrived this morning, forty-two days from Rehring'a Straits. You will have heard of her safety previously, vla San Francisco. All well on board ; but. 1 am sorry to say that misery and disunion have long been the tenants of the ship while among the ice. The three lieutenants and master have been for upwards of fifteen moailis, and are still, under arrest. No officer has been out of this paradise of a ship during that period. The first lieutenant has been under arrest for upwards of two years ; some of the officers have even been under close arrest, confined to their cabins, Sir James Stirling has ordered that all shall have liberty to go ashore, but declines to interfem further. She will sail about the 2Alth of this month for England, where these ex traordinary proceedings on the part of her captain will bo cleared up. A GRAND VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT MRS given at Dover on Thursday last by the hand of the municipality of Calais and the Choral Society of Saint Omer, for the benefit of the widows and orphans of British soldien who have fallen in the Crimea, and in " testimony of the sympathy and friendshiplexisting between France and England." Saba au Valitt. SUPPLIES FOR THE CRIMEA.—SINGULAR INVESTIGATION. MIL It. W. ALDRIDGE, of the firm of Aldridge and Co., of No. 24, Rood lane, appeared before Alderman Wilson, at the Mansion-house, on Saturday last, and said that in the Times newspaper of Christmas-day he had read the following letter:— Sir,-1 am sure, from the very able and zealons manner in which yon have advocated the system of voluntary con tributions to our soldiers in the Crimea, and the exertions made by your journal in pointing out their winos, and in spiring a generous sympathy for their condition, I need offer no apology for addressing you to call attention to my advertisements in your paper headed as above. lam per suaded, from the generous desire experienced by all to add their mites in alleviating the privations and adding to the welfare and comfort of our gallant troops, that any oppor tunity offered to the public to facilitate forwarding contri butions to the seat of war will be readily embraced. I have on this account chartered a vessel, which I shall ac company to the Crimea, where I shall be enabled to see all contributions, and to deliver any commissions with which 1 may be favoured. All goods, parcels, or packages to be forwarded, with lists of contents, addressed, " W. Ward roper, Esq., Export-wharf, St. Katharine Docks." Letters and communications received at the Mike, 4, Railway place, Fenchurch-street, City, where ahte a list of articles must be forwarded two days prior to the goods being sent to the doeks.—l am, sir, your very obedient servant, W. WAKDILOPER. 4, Railway-place, Fenchurch-street, Dec. Mr. Aldridge called two days afterwards at the address, and found the room on the second floor occupied by three persons. The replies from the spokesman, seated at a small table, were so incon sistent, such as representing the vessel (a sailing one) would make the voyage in about twenty-five days, when all persons acquainted with shipping well know that fifty days at the present season would not be considered a long passage—the objection to give him the vessel's name, and the still greater difficulty of explaining the nature of the security to insure a return of the proceeds of any shipment—led him to leave the place, determining to have nothing what ever to do with the concern. Two days afterwards he received a lithographic circular, couched in the same language as the advertisement, and signed "W. Wardroper." Of this no notice was taken. On the Ist of the present month a gentleman seeking an appointment, and known to applicant, called at his office, and directed his attention to the following advertisement :—" Clerk or storekeeper wanted in a vessel about to proceed to the Crimea. Salary, 150/. per annum. To a young man of good education who can command immediately 3001. or 4001. this will prove a most advantageous opening. Direct, with real name and address, W. 8., Mr. Foster's, stationer, 114, Fenchnrch-stieet." The gentleman replied to the advertisement, and received an answer also signed "W. Wardroper." The surprise of applicant had scarcely subsided when he was waited upon by another party, with the following advertisement cut fresh from the Times:— The Crimes.—To Capittilists.-2,00111. or 3,000 f. most favourable opportunity is offered to ce italista for an investment of the above sums in a saf e an d very remune rative undertaking, connected with the export of goods to the Crimea. Thirty per vent. guaranteed. (me wishing to visit the Crimea, and who would add personal services, ( preferred. Direct, with real moue and address, to }. B. W., 77, Leadenhalletreet, City.