The Press. — London, England, 1856-03-29 00:00:00

302 IENTS. It to Impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive. Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter ►nd when omitted, it ih ftequently ftom reasons quite mile pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Crmmunicatious should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publica tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION foil Per Annum .. Half• Yearly .. Quarterly .. Ebt MS (STAMPED.) .. 41 6 0 .. 0 13 0 .. 0 6 6 Payable in advance. Subeeribersare requested to send their Orders through their News Agent; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a remit tance. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr.ALTHICD iVE, 110 Strand. London. _lmrxig+ LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1858. POSTSCRIPT. Intelligence from Paris, of yesterday, states that an order had been issued to the commanding officers in the Baltic and in 013 Crimea, not to recommence hostilities without further instructions. A letter from Bucharest of the 14th, in the Austrian Gazette, says : The resolutions concerning Wallachia and Moldavia, agreed to in the Conference at Constantinople, continue to product- considerable agitation here, the more so that Prince Stirbey had, before the opening of the conferences, embodied the general wishes of the populations of the principalities in a statement sent in, and containing the following four points:—l. Moldavia and Wallachia to be united into a single state ; '4. The succession to be here ditary ; 3. All kinds of protectorate to be abolished, and the guarantee of the great powers substituted instead ; 4. Moldo.Wallechia to be a neutral territory. Prince Stirbey has now protested against the points agreed to at Constantinople, which destroy the independence of the principalities. Letters from Constantinople state that it will be a matter of difficulty to execute the late Hatti-Sheriff reform. The resistance proceeds as much front the Patriarchs as from the Ulemas, and the former dis play even greater obstinacy than the latter. A letter from Vienna of the 23rd, in the Cologne Gazette, says : The Russian Councillor of Legation, M. de Balabine, had yesterday a rather long conference with the Under- Secretary of State, Baron de Werner, and delivered to him a note of Count de Nesselrode, containing the reply to certain propositions made a short time ago to the Court of St. Petersburg by Austria, and which had for object measures to facilitate the commercial relations between the two countries. It is said that the reply of the Russian Chancellor has not satisfied our Cabinet; this reply de dines the Austrian demands in a very polite, but also a very decided manner. Our diplomatic circles see in this fact a new proof of the coolness which exists between Russia and Austria, and of the difficulty there will be to cause its disappearance. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 18th March, in the Debats, says : The Emperor hat published a ukase which permits serfs to demand their liberty of their masters before the law courts. Previous laws endowed the serfs with this faculty, but it was almost impossible for them to make use of it. In future. nobles can no longer transfer their serfs into another district without being authorised at least by a civil tribunal. The differences which existed between the Papal Nuncio and the Archbishop of Vienna, M. Rauschere, relative to the conferences which are to take place on the settlement of the Concordat, have been arranged by a declaration from Rome. It is believed that the differences which have of late existed between this country and Persia will soon be terminated, and that, owing to an amende honor able having been made, Mr. Murray will shortly re turn to his post at Teheran. A grand review of 150,700 men is believed likely to take placo iA Vniis upon tbo rgtilleation of pow, THE PRESS. Intelligence from America to the 15th inst. has men received by the Baltic. No political news of any importance. There were no tidings of the Pacific. Her Majesty's ship Styx arrived at Falmouth yesterday from Singapore, the Cape, and Madeira. She has on board the crew of the Russian frigate Diana, wrecked at Simoda. The Crimean Army Commission did not hold their first meeting on Tuesday. The room at Chelsea Hospital is prepared, and it is believed that the first sitting will take place early next week. Lord Dalhousie is suffering from cancer in the throat. A private letter from Lord's Canning's medical attendant, Dr. Leckie, dated Madras, Feb. 15, states, " Lord Dalhousie is improving in health, though still feeble in body." This letter is quoted in the Scotsman as having been received in Edin burgh. Cabinet Councils were held last Saturday and Mon day afternoons, and were attended by Viscount Pal merston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. It. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and (on Saturday only) the Duke of Argyll. The Council sat three hours and two hours respectively. A Cabinet Council will be held this afternoon. Some important changes in the East India-house are in contemplation in the Examiner's Office, con sequent upon the retirement of Mr. Peacock and Mr. Hill, the chief and deputy examiners, whose duties will devolve upon Mr. J. S. Mill and Mr. F. W. Prideaux, while the assistant examiners will be Mr. Hawkins, at present Secretary to the Indian Law Commission ; Mr. Bourdillon, Mr. W. Thornton, and Mr. J. W. Kaye, the projectorof the Calcutta Review, who is spoken of as likely to undertake the Public Wnrk , ; Dh partment. ue luaus to the Indian Government from the King of Oude appears iy a parliamentary return issued last Saturday to amount to—At six per cent., 2,08,50,000 rupees; at five per cent., 2,12,40,000 ; at four per cent., 53,00,000, making a total of 4,73,90,000 rupees. There has been repaid by cession of territory to the Nabob Vizier, under treaty of May 1, 1846, 1,00,00,000 rupees; in notes of the Four per Cent. Public Loan of 1854-55, 36,00,000 rupees; in cash, 1,57,82,765„5„4, making the total repaid 2,93,82,765„5„4, leaving an amount outstand ing in Lucknow rupees of 1,80,0 7 ,234„J0„8. These loans extend over a period from 1811 to 1855. Lord Worsley has accepted the invitation of the electors of Grimsby to stand for the borough at the next election. M. Kossuth delivered a lecture this week upon the Austrian Concordat, wkich be observed presaged certain troubles and oppressions for Hungary, and possibly even for England. The consecration of St. Saviour's Church, Padding. ton, by the Bishop of Oxford is fixed for Saturday, the 12th of April. The Rev. J. M. Hopkins will be the first incumbent. Mr. COLE has addressed a report to Lord Stanley of Alderley, upon the management of the British portion of the Paris Exposition. The document is of great length, and reports in a highly satisfactory manner of the position taken by the English exhi bitors. Towards the conclusion of his report, Mr. Cole examines the question of the utility of juries in deciding upon the merits of exhibitors, and recom mends that, as it is impossible in a universal exhi bition to render their working satisfactory, they should henceforth be abolished : The work of a juror (observes Mr. Cole) is excessively laborious and irksome. To begin work as early as eight in the morning, to wait for companion jurors who are not punctual, to pace literally over miles of exhibiting ground, to examine stalls and cases, and meet with no exhibitor or agent present to show or explain them, or to find the glass- case locked and no key producible, to haunt committee rooms, and get no quornm for business, and to do this day after day, is what most of the British jurors did scrupu lously for many weeks, and one at least throughout the whole period of the Exhibition without missing a single day or a single meeting. But to expect that judgments can be satisfactorily formed with justice by 400 persona of all nations, subject to all be difficulties enumerated, virtually irresponsible, liable to numerous accidents beyond control, and impeded somewhat • the difficulties of - - in . by —. language, a universal exhibition. is to expect what human nature cannot perform. The work becomes impossible. In conclusion, he remarks : This, at least, appears to be certain, that the judgment of imp so-called international jury practically becomes a national judgment of the country wheru the exhibition is bold, eud that U would be laugh cello* in principle to SATURDAY, recognise this fact, and to leave the judgment and appoint. ment of jurors entirely in the bands of the country which holds the exhibition. , FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuemday, March 25. BANKRUPTS.—THOMAS SMITH and ELIJAH HEAPIELD , Stainsby-terrace, Stainsby.road, Poplar GEORGE WILLIAM KNIGHT, St. Andrew's-road, Limehouse, builder WILLIAM ASHTON, Sloane-street, Chelsea, chemist, druggist, and surgeon dentist—TrromAs JoHN COMBS, Lake-lane, Portsea, baker and grocer— BENJAMIN COOPER, Spring-gardens, Frome Selw oo d , Somerset, clothier—Bee: MIN WOOD, Sheffield, boiler maker— WILLIAM SHIPMAN. Deansgate, Manchester, baker and flour deaIer—SAMUEL GREENWOOD, Deptford road and Castle-street, Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, engine builder, grocer, and beer seller—Jona BEST, South Shields, spirit and porter merchant, SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—Cnstuxs GOODFELLOW, Dunfermline, grocer and spirit merchant—J. WILsoN and Co., Leith, merchants and shipbrokers—JOHN Mum, Glasgow, com. mission merchant. Friday, March 21. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.—HENRY Panto, Old-market, Bristol, baker. BANKRUPTS. Hh:NRY ERMANNI FILLINOER, late of Regent-square, flour merchant—Maximmus LASKER and GCs. YAWL Birriss, New Basinghall-street, merchants—Jonx Buck( Toss R, Manchester, manufacturer of malleable cast iron—kl A !I Le BAILEY, Wood-street, elleapSide,lllerChalll—JONATHAN THOMAS OWEN, Swansea, mathematical instrument seller—Roses-1. LINCOLN, Mortimer-arms, Tottenham-court-road, licensed vie tuallei —THOMAS EVANS, Wood-street. Cheapside, City, umbrella and parasol ukanufacturer—JAMES COOPER. Ryde and Wootton bridge, Isle of Wight, grocer---WILLIAM BARKER MOSS, Stain ford, butcher—Melissa Bowen, Haven-banks, Exeter, ship. budder—HENßY COLLINS, Ashford Kent, carpenter and builder —JOSEPH HIPKISS, Tipton. ironmaster. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—Ronzur Laws, Glasgow, and 13allycastle, Antrim.commission and iron merchaut—roux Citou., Glasgow, blackstuitb— Rosz • THU.. Glasgow, bookseller, stationer, &c.—Joni HENRY ARCHER, North lianover•street, Edinburgh, insurance broker and dealer in shares. Sir HYDE PARKER died on the 21st inst., at Govern ment house, Devonport, shortly after his arrival from Lisbon in H.M.S. St. George. Sir Hyde, who was born in 1785, was brother of the late Sir William Parker, whom he succeeded in 1830, and grandson of the Admiral Sir Hyde Parker who defeated the Dutch at the Doggerbank in 1781. The baronetcy, we be lieve, is inherited by Colonel Richard Parker, who commands the Ist Life Guards, cousin to the late baronet, and eldest surviving son of the late Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, who distinguished himself during the American war. Captain G. Goldsmith, who has been appointed captain superintendent at Chatham dockyard, on the promotion of Rear-Admiral Wyvill, has arrived and assumed the command over the establishment. Orders have been issued for every dispatch screw gun-vessel, as well as the screw gun-boats, to be ready by the 16th of April, so that it may be taken for granted that on the 16th or 17th of the next month the Queen will review the fleet. The gun-boat squadron, it is said, will be formed into a coast blockade, should their services not be required with the fleet. The last coast blockade was abolished by Sir James Graham in 1831. Rear-Admiral Robert L. Baynes, C. 8., hoisted his flag, blue at the mizen, as second in command of the Baltic fleet, on board the steam-frigate Retribu,' tion, '2B, Captain Thomas Fisher, at Spithead. An extensive military hospital has been com menced at Sheerness, in the south east quarter of the Ordnance land, within the present line of fortifi cation, and entirely detached from any other build; ings of the new barrack department. Two screw men-of-war, Gibraltar, :21, Captain H. Dunlop, and the Desperate, 8, Commander White, were despatched from Spithead on Tuesday night to the westward, well stocked with provisions, water &c., to look after the missing steamer Pacific. A QUEEN IN THE ISLAND OF CELEBES.—She has with her a suite as numerous as would have sufficed for half a dozen queens in Europe, And more than thirty girls and women, the latter attended in their turn by their husbands. These ladies all represented women of the bed chamber, maids of honour, &c.; but many of them were so ragged and so extremely dirty, that I did not like them to come near me, as I thought if they did I should make some disagree able acquisitions. The illustrious company had with them such a quantity of luggage, that it seemed as if they were about to emigrate, instead of making merely a visit of a few days. The whole large boat was full of boxes, bags, and baskets, great and little as well as of mats, cushions, and pots and pans ; so that we could hardly find room to sit down, but were packed like herrings. It was a most unpleasant journey. The girls were employed the whole way in making up ski, which is here done up into the form of a cigar. The whole courtly company went on chewing and spitting, without ceasing, into little brass pans, which they carry with them for this delicate purpose, and politely hand to one another, and the Queen at the same time bad the vermin taken out of her head, while her ladies amused themselves by performing this office for one an other.—lda Piciffer's Second Journey Round tho World,