The Press. — London, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

o.:trati an la4ion. Her Majesty the Queen and Royal Family continue in the Highlands. On Saturday last her Majesty gave a ball at Balmoral. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred has arrived at Balmoral. His Excellency the French Ambassador and the Countess de Persigny are expected in town, from Paris, this day. Their Excellencies will shortly go to St. Leonards-on-Sea for about six weeks. The Earl and Countess of Hardwick° and the Ladies Yorke have left Sidney-lodge, Hampshire, for Wimpole-hall, Cambridgeshire. The coming of age of Viscount Royston, eldest son of the noble earl and countess, will shortly be celebrated at Wimpole. Lady Howard de Walden and the Hon. Miss Ellis have returned to England from the Continent, and are staying on a visit with Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley, at Alderley-park, Cheshire. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town on Saturday, for Broadlands, Hants. A matrimonial alliance is arraupd to take place between Mr. Somerset, only son of the late Lord John Somerset, and cousin of the Duke of Beaufort (who succeeded to the fortune of the late General Martyn), and Miss Pechell, daughter of Admiral Sir George and Lady Brooke Pechell. The marriage will take place at Sir George Pechell's seat in Sussex. Lord Panmure is enjoying the sport of deer stalking in the Highlands. plitttal. HER MAJESTY held a Court of Privy Council at Balmoral on Thursday last. THE MEMBERS FOR NORWICH, VISCOUNT BURY, M.P., AND MR. SCHNEIDER, M.P., met their consti tuents on Saturday last in the large room at the Royal Hotel, Norwich. The meeting was well attended, and both hon. members were well received. A PARLIAMENTARY PAPER, containing the answer of Sir John Bowring to the accusations brought against him in reference to the Chinese question, has been issued. Sir John Bowring justifies the bom bardment of Canton as *glows : I repeat that whether the Arrow was entitled to protec• tion or not, the Chinese had no jurisdiction. The expiry of the lease did not make the lorcha a Chinese vessel. If, then, the fact of the expiry of the licence, of the right of the lorcha to its renewal, did in no respect concern the Chinese, bat the British alone, my action was a necessity ; at all even s as far as placing the question in the hands of the naval authorities when I could obtain no redress. THE BIEHOP OF SIERRA LEONE was consecrated on Monday last. The Bev. G. Bowen, LLD., of Trinity College, Dublin, is the third bishop ap pointed within the last few years. Dr. 'Vidal died in 1855 and Dr. Weeks in 1857. Bishop Bowen will leave Eagland in a few days. CAPTAIN Garrom has issued his annual report upon railways for 1856. The total amount of capital raised reached on December 31st, 1656, 308,776,000 i. Of this amount, 77,359,419/. have been raised by loans, 57,057,1711. by preference shares, and 174,359,3041. by ordinary share capital. Among the many items of interest given in the voluminous report is the proportion per cent. which the receipts, less working expenses, bear to total capital. We select a few of the more remarkable railways as they figure in these two columns : Ordinary. Preferential. North-Western Brighton and South Coast Midland South-Western 5Y4 .... 5.0 A Great Northern 4.54 .... 4.63 Great Western timolitan. THE EAST INDIA QUARTERLY MEETING was held on Wednesday. In reply to Mr. Dent, as to whether the Court of Directors intended to subscribe to the Relief Fund, the chairman said " the court had not come to any definite resolution on the subject." They had written to India "to take care that nobody was allowed to perish." The chairman also announced that the court would not enjoy their usual " annual dinner " this year. THE AGRIcULTURAL FRIENDS OF MR. SHERIFF MECHI entertained that gentleman at a dinner, at the London Tavern, on Monday, and presented him with a handsome 500.guir ea epergne. Mr. Sheriff Mechi, who was loudly cheered, expressed his deep gratitude for the toast and the testimonial, although the latter he looked upon as applied to the sentiment rather than the man : THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 2(3, 1857. So far as he himself was concerned, he took no credit for what he had done. He had bought farms as an invest. ment, and be had merely endeavoured to make them pay as a man of business. Mr. Mechi then proceeded to ex• plain his well-known views on liquid manure, steam ploughs, and the general waste of sewage, and complained that, as regarded the heavy lands of this country, there was as much room fur improvement as when, fifteen years ago, he had first called attention to their backward condition. He strongly recommended an outlay of 25/. an acre on all such lands. THE USUAL CEREMONIAL ORATIONS were delivered at Christ's Hospital, on Monday, in the presence of the Lord Mayor, the Governors, and a distinguished company. The four orations on the benefits of the royal hospitals were delivered by the four senior scholars—that in Latin by Smith Wild Churchill ; in English by William Wake Smart ; in Greek by Matthew Mortimer Flinch ; and in French by St. Arnaud Wilton. • • THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW WESTMINSTER BRIDGE recommenced on the works abandoned since the bankruptcy of Messrs. Mare, the contractors. on Monday last. The new bridge, we believe, will be built on the site of the old one. MR. LEGREW, the sculptor, blew out his brains last Saturday. The deceased was unmarried, in affluent circumstances, and no possible reason could be given for the act. A verdict of " Temporary insanity," was returned. VroVintial. A LAMENTABLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT occurred on the Great Northern within two miles of Tuxford, on Thursday last, to the express train from Manchester to Londcn. The train was running at the rate of fifty miles an hour, over the viaduct crossing the Newark and Tuxford road, when suddenly something cracked, the coupling irons of the engine broke, the carriages became detached, the three first ran down the embankment, while the remainder fell over into the turnpike road; three of them were smashed to pieces, and four of their passengers killed on the spot. The following is a list of the casualties Killed—The lion. W. M. Windsor Clive, brother to the Hon. Robert Clive, M P., who was also in the train ; Miss Letitia Paget, Gorton-lodge, Garston, Liverpool ; Mrs. Heaton, 18, Queen square, Lancas ter; Mrs. Pitman, wife of one of the Great Northern Railway Company's officers, who sat next to her when in the train. The head of one of the ladies killed was crushed quite flat ; the face of another was cut in two from top to bottom. A gentleman's boot, wet with blood, was seen on the road, as if it had been cut off. A newspaper, smeared with blood, was also found. Numerous articles belonging to the passengers were picked up, and forwarded to Retford. Of the rest of the passengers, fifteen were more or less injured, of whom three are not expected to recover. THE CATTLE DISEASE, says the Galashiels Adver tiser, has made its appearance this summer with considerable fatality in our district and in the town. Mr. P. Brodie, of Clarilaw, has lost almost the entire cattle stock on his farm. The Montrose Standard adds :—A great many farmers about Arbroath are losing their cattle, the disease being plenro pneumonia. BOILER EXPLOSIONS are very frequent. One oc curred at the Trendon Grange colliery, Dublin, last Sunday ; two men in attendance and a child in the street were killed. Another occurred the next day at Bradford, at Messrs. Johnson's ironworks ; no lives were lost, but ten men and a boy were severely scalded and otherwise injured. ANOTHER PIT ACCIDENT iS recorded this week, at the Rough Way colliery. It was the old story, once more repeated. The men descended with a naked light, an explosion ensued, and two men and a boy were killed. A COTTON MILL, the property of Messrs. Hopwood, at Blackbury, and containing 13,000 spindles, was burned down last week. The fire is believed to have been the work of an incendiary. The damages, es timated at 10,000/., is covered by insurances. THE CLOSE OF THE MANCHESTER EXHIBITION is fixed to take place on the 15th of October. We be lieve that it may now be stated on good authority that her Majesty and the Prince Consort are expected to be present at the closing of the Exhibition, and will proceed thence to Wentworth-house the same evening. DR. LIVINGSTONE waft presented with the freedom of Edinburgh on Monday. A brilliant audience were present on the occasion. rtlaitb. THE BELFAST RIOTS' COII3IISSION continues its sittings. Mr. M'Laughlin, proprietor of the Ulster man, has been examined this week. He gave evidence respecting the religious placards which had been posted up in the town, and which, he said, were calculated to exasperate the Roman Catholics. Margaret Jane M'Ponnell, a Catholic, stated that as 913 she was going to her work on the 9th of September she was assailed by a lot of Sandy-row people, who flung stones at her, and cried out " Tear the Popish entrails out of her ;" she complained to a local con stable, who took no heed of her complaint. The Sandy-row people used to sing a song : Up with the ladier, And down with the rope, Up v. ith King William, - - And to hell with the Pope. There are a number of other witnesses to be ex amined on the Catholic side. Four Protestant police men have been committed for trial. THE Freeman's Journal, the leading Roman Catholic journal in Ireland, has denounced in strong terms the abominable attempt of a political sect to arouse " a pro-sepoy murder and rapine spirit in Ireland." SOME RIOTS took place between the police and the militiamen, in Limerick, last week. They threatened to be severe at one period, but were eventually sup pressed. gate nub Volta. AN ITALIAN NAMED ROSARIO, last Sunday night, in a squabble about a woman in the neighbourhood of Wel'close•square, near Tower•htll, stabbed a fellow seaman, one Matras, a Greek, who died shortly after wards. Rosario has been arrested, and stands re- mended until next Monday. THE BODY OF THE WOMAN found murdered in Leigh Woods has been identified as that of one Charlotte Pugsley, recently head cook in the service of the Rev. Mr. Bythena, of Freshford, near Bath. She left his service a few days since to be married to a man named Beale, who accompanied her to Clifton and has since disappeared. The police are hot in pursuit of him, and 1001. reward has been offered by the flomenffice. It is feared that he may have sailed for America. A CHILD eight years of age has been cruelly mur dered in the neighbourhood of Nottingham. A gipsy was seen enticing the boy out of the town. He is supposed to have cut the boy's throat for the sake of his boots ! Two men have been arrested on suspicion. Mn. HUMPHREY BROWN made his appearance at the Bankruptcy Court on Saturday the 19th. The meeting was adjourned for three months. The offi cial assignee of the Royal British Bank said that Mr. Brown's pass-book with the Royal British Bank was the most extraordinary thing he ever saw in his life, and that some very serious explanations must be given by the bankrupt. THE FLIGHT OF MR. DEAN. solicitor in the City, has at length brought to light what was early last week whispered only in the City. The facts of the case (observes a Sunday contemporary) appear to be that for years past Mr. Dean has been in the habit of obtaining large sums of money from his bankers and from capitalists, on the deposit of forged deeds, purporting to be mortgages of freehold pro perty. To such an extent has this system been carried on, that for several years it is stated he has been in the habit of paying as much as 3,0001. a year in the shape of interest on the advances which he had obtained. Already, forged deeds to the extent of 60,0001. have been discovered. The de faulting solicitor lived near Barnes common, and the whole of his goods and effects have been seized under a bill of sale, and will be sold in a few days. The proceeds will not, however, it is expected, cover the amount for what the seizure has been made. Since his disappearance he has been adjudged and declared a bankrupt as a "money-scrivener,' and it is not improbable that the validity of the bill of sale may he disputed by the assignees under bankruptcy. Warrants for the apprehension of Dean have been placed in the bands of Inspector Field, and there is no reason to doubt that, aided by his colleagues and assistants, be will very shortly succeed in sup plying another partner to the firm of " Paul, Red path, Robson, and Co." Printed copies of a photo graph of the defaulting solicitor have been made in large numbers. On leaving his home he had but a comparatively small sum in his possession, not more than 2501., which it is said was advanced to him the previous day by a friend, in order to enable him to meet an acceptance then due. Dean has for nearly thirty years practised as a solicitor. He has left a wife without any apparent means of support. The husband of his only daughter is among those who are the sufferers, he having advanced several thou sand pounds on one or more of the numerous forged deeds prepared by the defaulter. FRENCH AND ENGLISH NAms.—The present effec tive force of the French Imperial navy is 317 sailing vessels, carrying 0,170 guns, and 220 steam vessels, carrying 4,001 guns. According to the Navy List for 1556 (July) the effective force of the navy of Great Britain was at that period, 2G9 sailing vessels, carry ing an aggregate of 0,362 guns; 258 steam vessels, carrying an aggregate of 4,518 guns ; total, 527 vessels, carrying an aggregate of .13,88 U guns. Karat Returns.