The Press. — London, England, 1856-11-15 00:00:00

1094 TO CORRESPONDENTS. It Is impovalble to acknowle , Lte the mass of letters we receive Their insertion is often delayed owing to a press of matter and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite intl.) pendent of the merits of the cotumunicatiou. We cannot undertake toreturn communicationsof which we do not avail ourselves. Communicationsshould always belegibly written, and on one side of the paperonly. if long it increases the difficult) of finding space for them. Whateveris intended forinsertlon must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publics. Lion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements seutfroin the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION /Olt ' ebe 3rrSo: (STAMPED.) Per Annum .. .. .. LI 8 0 Half-Yeatly .. .. .. 018 0 Quarterly .. .. 0 6 6 Pamnble in advance. lubsoribersare requested to send their Orders through the News Agent: It direct to the Office. accompanied by a remit s ince. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittal: ce Monet orders to be wade pa)sble to Mr. ALIMED lye, 110, Strad London. vtx Vvrxfg+ LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 15, 1856 POSTSCRIPI Intelligence from Constantinople, Nov. 7, states as follows : Redschid Pacha has already presided as Vizier at a State Council. Mehemet Pacha will retain his post of Minister of Marine in the new Ministry. Find Pacha remains Minister of the Interior. The Persians, who had taken Herat, have been expelled by au Affghan army. The Paris correspondent of the Times k see ,nd edition), in his letter dated Thursday, says : It is rumoured that the French Government is in cum• plete accord with England relative to the Neapolitan ques tion; and is prepared, if neceisary, to assume a more energetic attitude. The Marquis Antonini, King Ferdi nand's representative here, was yesterday informed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs that there was no chance of his staying in Paris, and that he and the whole of the Legation will have tc retire. Ile expects to leave tomorrow or the day after for Brussels, though I believe his passports have not yet been delivered to him. A telegraphic despatch from Cherbourg announces that the Russian squadron, which had been expected in that port, arrived there on Tuesday evening. It was believed it would remain at Cherbourg a fort night or three weeks. A letter from Vienna states that Sir Hamilton Seymour, our ambassador, is to accompany the Emperor of Austria to Italy, and that he is the only member of the diplomatic corps who is to accompany his Majesty. The King of Denmark is suffering from a severe attack of erysipelas in the head. He lies at the Chateau of Fredericksburg. Intelligence from Spain to the 9th inst. bas arrived. The Estina says that the Queen, as a mark of especial esteem, had presented the Duke de Valencia (Narvaez) with the finest horse in her stables, and had at the same time written him a flattering auto graph letter. The Queen ordered the equerry charged to present the horse to tell the duke that if he did not like the animal, he might exchange it for any other she possessed. The Hoja Autografa says, that the Civil Governor of rilatirid has forbidden the discussion of politics in coffee-houses and other places of public resort, and has made the owners of such establishments respon sible for the execution of his orders. LEGAL APPOISTMENTS.-It is reported, and there is every reason to believe correctly, that Sir A. Cock burn will accept the Chief Ju-Aiceship of the Common Pleas, and that Sir Richard Bethel! will succeed to the office of Attorney-General. No arrange ment has yet been made with respect to the appoint ment of Solicitor-General. MR. BRIGHT, M.P.-31r. Bright, it is stated, has left home for the Continent.. It is probable that be will he absent for several monthq. and that, after pay ing a short visit to Algeria, he will spend the winter in Italy. THE PRESS. 4rtlant. THE GREAT CASE OF " O'FLAHERTY T. M 4 DOWELL" is set down for argument in the Court of Chancery on Monday next. Mr. Whiteside, Q.C., leads on the part of the plaintiff. VISCOUNT DE VESCI is a candidate for the vacancy caused in the representative peerage by the death of Lord Hawarden. Lord de Vesci is connected by marriage with the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. MR. T. DE Morryss, Q.C., of the Munster Circuit, hss been appointed Crown Prosecutor at Limerick, vice Mr. Michael Barry, promoted to a judgeship at Perth, Western Australia ; and Mr. Denis C. Heron has been appointed to a Crowu prosecutorship for the county of Clare, vice Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald, Q.C. MR. ALEXANDER SWANSTON, agent to the Duke of Devonshire in Bandon, has become a candidate for that borough. Mr. Wheeler, already mentioned as a candidate, has just put forth an address, so that it is not likely that the seat will be disposed of without a contest. Mr. Wheeler protesses himself to be a friend of civil and religious liberty, and to wish for a fair adjustment of the landlord and tenant question. None of the Earl of Bandon's family has yet come forward. THE DEATH OF MAJOR WILLIAM NUGENT MAC NAMARA, who for many years has represented his native county (Clare) in the Imperial Parliament, is this week announced. The gallant major's name is long associated with one of the most memorable events in the career of the late Mr. O'Connell. In the latter's fatal duel with Mr. D'F,sterre, in 1815, Major Macnamara acted as second to Mr. O'Connell. The extensive estates of the deceased devolve upon his son, Lieutenant• Colonel Macnamara, formerly of the Bth Hussars, and now Lieutenant-Colonel of the Clare Militia. MR. SMITH O'Bnir.x, in the course of his letter pleading inability to attend a public dinner given to Mr. Kennedy at Louth, stated his views with regard to the question of Ministerial patronage:— I am not insensible to the force which lies in the argument of those who say that the Irish are entitled, as long as Ireland shall be connected with England, to a fair share of the administrative patronage of the empire ; but it seems to me that this legitimate object can be obtained without degrading the representatives cf Ireland by ren• dering them factors or brokers for the acquisition of situa tions for their constituents. Let the Irish nation advocate and maintain the principle, that all offices ought to be bestowed, not as rewards for political tergiversation, but as the honourable recompense of services rendered to the State, and charge their representatives with the task of enforcing this principle, rather than with that of trafficking for the benefit of influential individuals, and it will soon be seen that Ireland will obtain her lair share of all situa tions of emolument in the empire. SratlanW. THREE MEN WERE DROWNED IN THE CLYDE on Saturday night last, under suspicious circumstances. An Irish schooner had neglected to comply with certain harbour regulations, and the constables took the ferry-boat to board her, in order to ascertain her name to institute a prosecution. Suddenly cries were heard. The constables on shore launched a boat, and, pulling into the middle of the river, found the ferry-boat floating down without a soul in her. After an hour's dragging the bodies of the men were recovered. The captain's crew of the schooner have been arrested. They say the boat capsized, but as she is a heavy ferry-boat, and was found floating righted, and with the oars in the rowlocks, that at least appears improbable. THE FLOOR OF THE BRIDOEND SAYINGS•BANK fell in on Saturday evening between eight and nine o'clock, when the room was crowded. Thirty persons, with the banker, his desk, books, chairs, &c., were swallowed up in the region beneath—a lumbar and coal cellar. No one sustained any serious injury. titrtion alutelligtur. litax.—Mr.Edwin James, Q.C., addressed the elec tors of Hull on 3lon lay last. The learned gentleman said that he came there as an independent Liberal. He had no wish to oppose Mr. Clay, if he could sit; but grave doubts existed as to his eligibility to be elected in the present Parliament, in consequence of his having been unseated on the petition presented against his return. Mr. James then briefly stated his political opinions. He was for an extended fran chise, for a comprehensive system of education with out sectarianism, for the abolition of Church rates, and for vote by ballot : The extension of the franchise would be comparatively useless without the vote by ballot it may be said that vote by ballot is un-Et.glish, and so is intimidation. The elector, in recording his vote, must be protected from inti midst ion ; and, without vote by ballot, the extension of the franchise would be; ounity and a farce. SATURDAY, The question of our foreign relations must come before Parliament next session. He approved of the Freudi alliance—with us it was cordial and sincere ; but with respect to the late note of the Moniteur, if the alternative be presented to this country of a rup- ture of the alliance or the subjection of the press, that man would be a traitor to his country who did not prefer the former. Mr. James then passed a high eulogium on Lord Palmerston, augured that political and social progress would not be retarded under his Government, and concluded with a brief summary (1 the reforms—steady, sound, social, and political—wllich must be carried out The franchise must be extended—the masses must be educated. All distinctions which interfere with civil rights on the ground of religious opinions must be removed and swept away The government of our vast empire in the East must be ameliorated. Our colonial dependencies must be administered in a more liberal and enlightened spirit—the vast increase in crime and the reformation of the criminal must be dealt with in a comprehensive and statesmanlike manner—the restrictions on commercial enterprise must be done away with—the revenues of the English and Irish Church must be fairly adjusted to the spiritual wants of the people. Measures such as these are not, l believe, dangerous innovations, but are calculated to strengthen the security ►f property—to unite more closely the ties which bind the two great orders of society together—to attach the peopl , i to a love of order, to Par liament and the Crown, and to render yet b►ighter and more glorious the future and the destinies of this great empire. LANCASTER.-Mr. W. S. Garnett, of Bleasdale Tower, who has addressed the electors of Lancaster with a view of succeeding Mr. Thomas Greene in the representation, declares himself a conscientious member of the Church of England. SOITTHAMPTON.-Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., it is be !ieved, will relinquish his pretensions to the repre sentation of Hull, and offer himself as a candidate for Southampton. Obituarg. THE RIGHT HON. NATHANIEL CURZON, Baron Scarsdale, died at Farnab-hall, near Derby, on Wed nesday last. The late Lord Scarsdale was born on the 9rd of January, 1781, and was consequently in his seventy•sizth year. The Rev. Alfred Curzon, of Kedleston, second son of the late Hon. and Rev. Alfred Curzon, born in 1801, and married, in 1825, Sophia, daughter of R. Holden, Esq., succeeds to the title. SIR EDWARD SHERLOCK GOOCH, BART., M.P., died at his residence, Benacre hall, Suffolk, on Sunday las t. The baronetcy of the Gooch family was instituted in 1740, and the late baronet succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1851. The bon. baronet was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge, which he left in 1819, to enter as cornet in the 14th Dragoons; he sold out, however, as captain, in 1837. In the following year be married a daughter of Sir G. Prescott, Bart., but was left a widower in 1838. In 1839, he married, secondly, a daughter of J. J. Hope Were, Esq., of Craigie-hall, county Linlithgow, by whom he has left a youthful family. His eldest son, Edward, has succeeded to the baronetcy. The deceased baronet for the last ten years has been a representative of the Conserva tive interest for the eastern division of the county of Suffolk. In 1851 Sir Edward was installed Provin. cial Grand Master of the most ancient and honour able Order of Freemasons, which office he held to the time of his death. MR. HUMI'HREY BROWN, M.P., AT TEWKESBURY. ON Monday last the members of the Tewkesbury Corporation dined together, pursuant to annual cus tom, on the election of a new Mayor. Mr. Humph rey Brown, M.P., the ex-mayor (the gentleman who is supposed to be capable of otr-ring 70,000 good reasons why he became a director of the Royal British Bank), was also present, and on rising was loudiy cheered. He said that he was one of the best abused men in the country : He (Mr. Brown) had, as they all knew, been lately placed in a situation of excessive difficulty and extreme peril ; but it was an old saying, " that it was a long lane that had no turning." He was in this unpleasant position, that (for the sake of others, not for himself) he was core- pletely tongue•tied; he was bound, as a director under the Charter of Incorporation, not to divulge any secrets of the Royal British 13ank until he had obtained the permission to do so of some competent tribunal, and he was expecting to see in the Times every day some report from the official manage' as to his position in regard *co that establishment, which report he was sure would falsify the first very unfair statements which had been made respecting it. But he was happy to say that he was now on the verge of explana tions which would enable him to place his conduct in its true light before the world ; and he could assure his friends that he should be able then to show, on the most indis putable evidence, that he had " been more sinned against than sinned " Referring to some local attacks, he said : He had instructed his solicitor, by the advice of 3lr. Solemn Wilkins, to apply for a criminal informati3n against the proprietor of the one•sid€d peAny publication which had indulged in these gross Mande!! kgainst