The Press. — London, England, 1857-11-28 00:00:00

AMERICA. Intelligence from New York to the 11th inst. announces that despatches had been received by the State Department from Chief Justice Echols, of Utah, dated at " Camp on Sweet Water, 21 miles east of South Pass, October the 13th, 1857," showing that an overt act of treason had been committed by the Mormons, who had seized twenty-six waggons of stores belonging to the American troops sent to Utah. The President of the United States sum moned the members of the Cabinet for consultation upon the intelligence, but no definite action was determined on. The Secretary of War thinks it would be hopeless to send reinforcements or supplies so late in the season as this. Despatches are anxiously looked for from Colonel Johnson, who is in command of the army for Utah. Financial matters at New York still showed symp toms of progressive improvement. MEXICO. Late and important advices from Mexico bad reached New York. The new constitution had been suspended, and President Comonfort declared Dictator. Campeacby bad surrendered to the Government forces. Advices from Yucatan state the whole people of that district were in arms. CHINA. " The latest accounts from Hong Kong, Oct. 5," says the Paris Pays, " mentions a report which un fortunately appears to be correct, and according to which persecutions have by order of the mandarins recommenced against the Roman Catholics in several of the provinces of China." Lord Elgin was still at Hong Kong. Cart ait* jras4ion. Her Majesty the Queen remains at Windsor. On Wednesday the Siamese Ambassadors arrived on a visit to her Majesty, and remained till the following day. Their Highnesses dined with the Queen on Wednesday evening. The Duke of Leeds has arrived at the Clarendon, from Hornby Castle, near Catterick, Yorkshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde are expected in town early next week, from Ireland. Lord and Lady Burgbersh are staying on a visit with the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at Badmin ton-house, Gloucestershire. The Right Hon. R. Disraeli M.P., and Mrs. Disraeli have arrived in town, from Torqaay. Cheriff Achmet, Envoy to tho Queen from the Sultan of Mocha, has arrived in town from South amption. Volittral. THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. THE following circular has been issued by the noble Premier to the supporters of the Government : Downing-street, Nov. 20. Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that Parliament having been called to meet on Thursday, the 3rd of De cember, business of great importance will then imme diately be brought forward, and I trust that it may be con sistent with your convenience to attend in your place in the House of Commons on that day. I have the honour to be, sir, Your obedient servant, :Signed) PALMERSTON. Her Majesty has signified her gracious intention of opening the session of Parliament in person. CABINET COUNCILS have been held on Tuesday and Friday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury. IT IS UNDERSTOOD that the Address, in answer to the Speech from the Throne, will be moved in the Commons by Mr. Wykeham Martin, member for West Kent, and seconded by Mr. Akroyd, member for Huddersfield. THE TOLL REFORM ASSOCIATION held a meeting on Wednesday to consider the measuresto be adopted in the ensuing session for the abolition of toll gates within a certain radius of London. A resolution was adopted to the effect that Mr. Byng, M.P. for Middlesex, should be requested to move in the House of Commons for certain information as to - -- ---- the Turnpike CI districts. of the metropolitan MR. CONINGHAM, one of the borough members, ad• dressed a meeting of electors at the Brighton Town. hall, on Monday Evening. Attiropolitan. THE NEW COMMISSION OF LIEUTENANCY FOR THE CITY has been opened by the Lord Mayor. The attendance of the Commissioners was numerous. THE PRESS, NOVEMBER 28, 1857. Messrs. Bosanquet were appointed agents to the City Militia, and much routine business transacted. „, • LHE BOARD OH WORKS continue to ” discuss " the main drainage scheme. One gentleman proposes a motion on the main question, which not being seconded falls to the ground ; then another moves a second resolution on a principle, and is defeated by the previous question being carried. Another hon. member, differing from the previous speaker in some points of detail, but agreeing with him as a whole, proposes another resolution ; to that an amendment is moved, and not being seconded, falls to the ground. A second amendment follows, and being seconded, leads to discussion and ultimate rejection, when the original motion, referring the whole question of the drainage scheme to referees, is carried, and after a few further remarks the meeting adjourns. EXETER-HALL has fallen into the hands of the Dissenters. Last Sunday evening the first of a series of religious services was commenced. We quote a contemporary, who appears to have been represented on the platform : Mr. Brock took his seat on the platform shortly after s►x, accompanied by Mr. A. Kinnaird, M.P., Mr. S. Morley, and several other gentlemen, and the service commenced at the half hour. It is a noteworthy circumstance, and creditable to the minister and all concerned in the arrange ments—as indicating a desire to divest these ministrations as much as possible of everything like sectarian feeling, and to make them a substantial continuation of those which had gone before—that the hymns and ritual used in the service were precisely those adopted at the Sunday evening services of the Church of England held there in the present year. It is, perhaps, the first occasion on which a Nonconformist minister—except among the Wes. leyans, where the practice is not uncommon—has used the Litany of the Church of England, and several of the prayers contained in its ritual, in conducting a religious service. THE UNEMPLOYED SILK-WEAVERS of Bethnal-Green held a meeting on Tuesday, to consider the great distress now prevailing in the district. From the statement of one of the leading men, it appeared that great destitution existed among the weavers, some 3,000 looms having stopped, owing to the present commercial crisis. The speaker detailed many instances where whole families were starving. A committee of weavers was appointed to collect sub- - scriptions. THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S RETURNS show a de cidedly unfavourable state of the public health. The deaths have risen trom an average of 1,000 a week in October, to 1,382 last week. This increase is con fined principally to persons above the age of sixty. The births of 1,750 children were registered for the same period. 1159 Mr. Hawke was thrown over the rails, while the horse turned a complete summersault, and fell upon him. The hon. gentleman when taken up was bleeding profusely from his mouth and nostrils, and a carriage was procured for the purpose of °Away ing him to Doncaster, but on the road the hon. gen tleman was found unable to sustain the journey, and was taken to Mr. Newsome's, Barmby Dun, where every accommodation was afforded him. Several ribs were found to be broken into the lungs, and serious internal injuries had been sustained. The hon. gentleman grew worse, and expired during the same day. NORFOLK has subscribed to the Indian Relief Fund a sum exceeding 6,0001. The Norwich com mittee's fund alone amounts to about 4,1001. At Woodbridge, Suffolk, nearly 3001. has been collected, and at Ipswich the subscription has increased to 1,1701. In Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire the fund continues slowly to increase. The eastern counties' return is altogether satisfactory. V.roirintiai. THE REV. S. G. OSTIORNE, at a Dorset county meeting, to organise a subscription to the Indian Fund, said that you cannot go into a coffee-room, you cannot travel in a train, and you cannot meet five people in the street, but what three of them at least will tell you how this mutiny arose : Some will tell you it was because the regiments had their officers taken away to be made civil servants; others tell you, preaching the Gospel with want of judgment ; others say it was the greased cartridges, and so on. What is the real fact? I will defy any one, after having read everything and having studied every report from the seat of war, after having carefully considered all, to form any really satisfactory opinion of how this great judgment upon us has come about. All that we know is this—that this vast judgment is an us, and that it is our duty to endeavour to bear it in that spirit which Englishmen and Christians should ever show. After setting aside the different suppositions above referred to as to the errors alleged to have provoked this mutiny, he asked : Why, then, should we go to look for the cause ? Let it be sufficient for us to know the real condition of the present state of things, and let us buckle on our armour and stand up like men to contend against those foes by whom we are beset, and rightly to employ the vast powers which God has placed in our hands. THE REV. - SANDFORD CONNOR, late assistant chaplain to the Royal Artillery garrison at Wool wich, died very suddenly on Sunday last at his quarters. The medical evidence was to the effect that the deceased, who bad long suffered from con stipation, had died from congestion of the brain. The jury returned a verdict accordingly. A YOUNG DRAGOON OFFICER, Comet Echalaz, of the 7th Dragoon Guards, racing home to quarters at Canterbury, last Sunday evening, put his horse at the turnpike-gate on the Sturry•road. The horse caught his foot in the top bar, turned head over heels, and came heavily to the ground on top of its rider. Cornet Echalaz experienced severe internal injuries, as well as concussion of the brain, and died in a few hours. THE HoN. MARTIN HAWKE, brother to Lord Hawke, while out hunting on a fine spirited animal last week, passed through a field. belonging to Mr. Newsome, and, coming to some rails, the horse jumped short and came upon the rails with his chest. (Elution itttiligente. FINSBURY.—There is no foundation in the report of the retirement of Mr. T. Duncombe from ill health. NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—Mr. Ward Hunt, of Wavenhoe, has issued an address, seeking to succeed the late Mr. Stafford in the representation of the county. EAST KENT.—A new writ for East Kent is to be moved in Parliament on the 3rd December. Mr. W. Deedes has issued an address to the electors, in which he says :—" With regard to the two promi nent questions of the day, viz., the state of affairs in India and the monetary crisis of this country, I shall approach the consideration of the remedies proposed in both cases with an anxious desire to do justice to the important interests involved, and to place on a permanent and satisfactory footing as well the future government of our vast Indian empire as the establishment of our commercial relations at home and abroad." PAISLEY.—The Hon. Leveson Gower, brother of Lord Granville, has issued an address, in which be declares for an extension of the suffrage and in favour of the ballot. READINO.—There have been names mentioned in the event of a vacancy, but it is not yet certain whether that vacancy will occur. THE ENGLISH ENGINEERS IMPRISONED AT NAPLES. A VERY large meeting, composed principally of the artisans from tho extensive engine factories of the town, was held in the Lecture-room, Newcastle-upon- Tyne, on Monday evening, to petition Parliament to adopt active measures for the release of the two English engineers who had been seized on board the Cagliari, Neapolitan steamer, and were now confine(' by the police of Naples in the prison of Salerno. The Mayor, Mr. Nichol, was in the chair. Sir John Fife moved the following resolution : That it is the opinion of this meeting that the imprison. ment of the two English engineers, Messrs. Watt and Park, by the Neapolitan Government, and the refusal of that Government to allow the English Consul at Naples or any of their friends to communicate with them, is en insult to the British nation, and requires the prompt and vigorous interposition of the British Government. The resolution was seconded by Mr. Joseph Cowen jun., and was unanimously agreed to. Other resolu tions Gf a similar character were passed, and a peti tion to Parliament was also adopted. The following letter from tha Foreign•office, on the part of Lord Clarendon, in answer to a memorial presented by Mr. Ridley, M.P., from the workmen of Messrs. Stephenson and Co., engine -builders, was read to the meeting : Foreign-office, Nov. 16. Sir,—l am directed by the Earl of Clarendon to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th inst. inclosing a memorial numerously signed by workmen in the employ of Messrs. H. Stephenson and Co., relative to the case of the engineer Henry Watt ; and I am directed to state to yon, in reply to the memorialists, that Watt is amenable to the law of Naples, as it appears that he was taken prisoner, being at the time in company with other persona who were attempting to excite a revolution, and that the acting Consul at Naples, under instructions from this office, has retained the best lawyers to be had in Naples for his defence. Lord Clarendon has instructed the acting Consul to demand that he shall be allowed to see Watt and the other engineer named Park who is ooufined him, and that no unnecessary delay shall take place in proceeding with their trial. And his lordship has also taken measures for enabling Mr. Park, senior, to see his son if he is willing to proceed to Salerno for that pur pose. And I am to request that you will assure the memorialists that no effort on the part of her Majesty's Government shall be omitted which can properly be taken on behalf of Watt and his unfortunate fellow prisoner Park. The meeting, which was very orderly, broke up about ten o'clock. I 4