The Press. — London, England, 1856-08-02 00:00:00

AUGUST 2, 1856. lishing the main outfall sewer to Long Reach, was car ried on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Board of Works by 18 to 12. A second motion, that the proposed low level sewer from Hungerford to London-bridge should be constructed in conjunction with the embankment of the Thames, was also carried. Mr. Bazalgette's report on the southern outfall will be laid before the board next week. SIR WILLIAM WILLIAMS, DART., M.P., was on Thursday presented by the Court of Common Coun cil with the freedom of the city of London, together with a magnificent sword of honour. Sir John Key, the chamberlain, addressed General Williams in a highly complimentary speech, and the gallant general, in his reply, once more alluded to the armed state of Europe, and to the necessity for Eng land preserving in efficiency her military establish ments:—" Whether I shall ever use the sword in active welfare is beyond the power of any man this day to decide. The nations of Europe take breath after the conclusion of a sanguinary struggle, but they do not disarm. On the contrary, they are ready to meet each in deadly combat at a week's no tice. My lord, this state of things cannot be re• garded with indifference by the people of England. They will, I feel sure, insist upon the preservation of their present military establishments, and thus avoid the repetition of those dreadful losses and deep mortifications which the decay of those institutions, and the depression of our military spirit anterior to the late war, brought upon the nation." MESSRS. YOUNG'S DISCHARGED SHIPWRIGHTS be longing to the Union, and now on strike, have made several serious assaults during the week upon the Jersey men who have returned to work. The origin of the disagreement is that a half-hour's rest at eleven and four has been taken away by the em ployers, and one half-hour added to breakfast time, and another taken off at the close of the day's work. The men, refusing to give up their " livener and fourer," have been superseded by fresh hands, and hence the riots. Strong bodies of police are still kept n the of ighhourhood of Limehouse. THE CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES have at length con sented to the examination in London of the baggage of passengers from Paris. The examination in London of baggage from London to Paris has been permitted for some time past. A SIB rEM OF DECIMAL COINAGE has been suggested for the adoption of the Government by Mr. Arthur Bowes, M.A. (Cantab), of Upper Clapton. Mr. Bowes proposes that the present farthing (the 060th part of a pound) be circulated (till replaced), as the I,otJOth part, and the penny made to represent a value of five farthings. The rest of the coinage might remain in state quo, with the addition of one new coin, to be called a " decime," and the substitution of the old name of "tester " for what is now called the " sixpence," a term which would, under the new system, be obviously a misnomer. Thus —Ten farthings would make one decime (of which the penny is the half and the half penny the fourth) ; ten decimes would make one florin (of which the shlling is the half and the tester the fourth), and ten florins would make one sovereign (of which the crown is the fourth and the half-crown the eighth). Mr. Bowes apprehends no serious loss to the Government worthy of comparison with the great convenience of the proposed change. AS ALTAR-PIECE said to be (for Mr. Eastlake's pur chases are sometimes of doubtful origin) by an early Florentine master, Benozzo Gozzoli, has been added to the national collection. It represents the Virgin and Child, surrounded by angels and saints, and was purchased from the Rinuccini collection for the National Gallery. THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S QUARTERLY RETURN, from January to March, gives 66,776 marriages, 173,204 births, and 100,310 deaths, being a net daily increase of population of 801. Of emigrants, 60,370 left the kingdom, a number less by 6,000 than the first three months of 1835. The mortality is much below the average of former years, a change attri buted by the Registrar-General to improved sanitary measures. In concluding his remarks, he observes that England is the healthiest country in Europe, and France next. In London the mortality is 25 in every 1,000, while in continental cities it is seldom lehs than 30 in every 1,000, and frequently rises to 49 per 1,000. The weekly returns show 995 deaths. Diarrhcea has increased from 29 in June to 71 for the last week. The number of births were 1,608. VroVintial. Sir EDWARD LYTTON, ALP., Batt, presided at the late annual festival of the High School, at Bishops Stortford, and delivered an admirably suitable ad dress to the boys. Impressing upon them the value of the two great English virtues—application and perseverance—he pointed out the wide distinction between envy and emulation, and in a few telling sentences spoke of the motives animating boys and men in all their efforts, placing the desire of dis- THE PRESS. tinction in the foremost rank. At the evening dinner Sir Edward Lytton, in proposing the toast of the Head-Master, the Rev. Mr. Goodman, insisted on the necessity of improving the education of the middle classes, and spoke highly in favour of the Bishops Storttord school. MAJOR-GENERAL WINDHAM C. 8., was entertained on Tuesday at a public breakfast at Leamington. The gallant general, in reply to the congratulatory address presented to him, paid a noble compliment to the services in the late war of the regimental officers :—" There aro scores of regimental officers that I am acquainted with, whose services, I am per fectly convinced, were quite equal to mine, simply , . . . . . . with this difference, that I was an older officer, and therefore had more men under me. I served chiefly on the staff, but I had also a good deal of duty to perform in the trenches, and, therefore, know remark ably well the difference of the two services. Ido think that those officers who went through the whole campaign in the trenches of Sebastopol deserve the thanks of every individual in this country. It is all mighty fine to canter down to the trenches for a few minutes, as I did before I was made brigadier-general. It is very well to expose oneself to a sudden danger, which is soon over and soon forgotten ; but it is a differ entthing to go day after day, night afternight, through dirt, wet, misery, destitute of comfort, yet always to have sufficient moral farce to say that, because it is my duty, I will not give in. That is precisely what the unnoticed regimental officers did during the siege of Sebastopol." With respect to his own ser vices General Windham spoke briefly, and declined to enter much into detail. He said lie landed in the Crimea on the 14th of September, 1854 ; was present at Alma, where he had nothing to do; was present at Balaklavb, where he had almost as little to do; was present at the attack of the 25th October, where again he had nothing to do ; and lastly came down to the battle of Inkermann, where he had a good deal to do. As to the Redan attack, General Wind ham entirely disclaimed any desire to have led the attack on that day, and said that in doing what he did he did no more than he was ordered. The gal- lant general met with a most enthusiastic reception. LIEUTENANT MASSEY, better known as " Redan Massey, was specially invited to the public dinner given last Tuesday by the inhabitants of Sheffield to the officers of the 4th Dragoons. Many speeches were made by the Earl of Cardigan and other officers, but the few simple words of this young hero excited the greatest enthusiasm. In reply to his health, he only said Ido not know that I deserve such a compliment. lam sure I simply did my duty, and only what any other officers, placed in my position, would have done, for we all felt that the honour of old England was in our keeping, and that we would have died a thousand deaths to have preserved it untarnished. THE INQUIRY INTO THE COLLIERY EXPLOSION in Glamorganshire has been adjourned till the 11th of August. From the evidence already given, it appears that the explosion of fire-damp was com paratively slight, and that the majority of the men I were suffocated at their post by the rash of after damp. THE ANCIENT CATHEDRAL OF ST. MAGNUS, in Orkney, has unluckily lately fallen into the hands of the civic authorities of Kirkwall, who, with true Presbyterian fervour, in an endeavour to turn this fine old relic into a Presbyterian chapel, have knocked out windows, built walls, cut holes for hot air pipes, and otherwise barbarously defaced the structure. Sir Henry Dryden has called the atten• tion of the Edinburgh Archeological Institute to this specimen of civic tastes. THE BUCKINGHAM STOWE ESTATES were put up for sale once last week, but only two lots, a farm at Aylesbury, and a few houses at Buckingham, sold. A COLLIER, lying off Swansea, was blown u_p_ by s elf-combustion of the coal, on the 25th ult. Three of the crew were blown into the water and most seriously injured. A SERIOUS ACCIDENT occurred on the North- Eastern Railway, at Church Fenton, yesterday week. A special excursion-train, while shifting off a horse box, was run into by a heavy goods-train from York, and two persons killed on the spot, besides seven seriously, and tan or twelve more or less dange rously, wounded. An inquest was held, when a verdict of " Manslaughter " was returned against George Spivey, the signalman. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, at the opening, on the 10th ult., at Tavistock, of the British Schools, erected at the sole expense of the Duke of Bedford, spoke strongly in favour of spreading education, and in sisted upon the duty of all classes to aid in the cause now that the Legislature has decided that for the present no further effort should be made by the State. Sin CHARLES BURRELL, M.P., who on the 14th inst. will have completed his 50th year in the house a-; the representative of New Shoreham, will be en tertained at a grand dinner on that day in West Grinstead-park. !NW NO Volta. THE CASE Ole ARCIIDEACON DENISON has been adjourned. On the reassembling of the court at Bath, on Monday morning, Dr. Lushington, as legal asae.sor of the Archbishop of Canterbury, read a paper to the effect that his Grace, considering the great importance of the questions discussed, tl e abstruse nature of the very learned arguments of counsel, and the many authorities which had been adduced, deemed it proper to take further time for deliberation, and therefore would adjourn the count till Tuesday, the 12th of August, when, unless some unforeseen impediment should arise, his Urrce would declare the decision to which, with the advice of his assessors, he might have come. 1)r. Phillimore banded in a copy of a charge delivered by Lord Auckland, the present Bishop of Bath and Wells, which contained some remarks bearing on the case, and also called the attention of the court to the fourth volume of Bishop Cosin's works, page 149, as his authority for attributing a work to Bishop Poynet which had been disputed by Dr. Bayford. The court then adjourned till the 12th inst. ROGUES are sometimes very clumsy in their roguery. Two men, Simos and Stacey, en route to Goodwood races, on Tuesday morning took secone: class tickets for Brighton by the eight a.m. train, and paid for the tickets with a forged 51. note. The clerk gave them 4/. 4s. change, but looking at the note some time afterwards, thought it an odd colour, and ultimately took it off to the Bank where "Forged" was stamped upon it. He hurried back, telegraphed to Brighton to stop second-class tickets 656-7 by the train then coming in, and the two gentlemen instead of going to Goodwood were walked off to the police-office, returned to London, and committed for trial. _ . MR. CORNELIUS EVANS, late manager of the Tew kesbury branch of the Gloucestershire Bank, hss been committed for trial on a charge of having embezzled 3,230/., money:belonging to the bank. THE INQUIRY into the late collision on the Mersey terminated on Wednesday, when the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the pilot (Bewer) and the mate (Shaw) of the Excelsior, with a severe reprimand to the captain for not maintaining gteater discipline on board. THE Two MEN, RAYNE AND CAIN, charged with the murder of Mr. Robert Stirling at Burnoptleld on the Ist of November last, were tried last week at Dur ham before Mr. Justice Willes, and acquitted. The jury were not unanimous in their verdict, which was taken on the majority of the eleven. • THE PRISONER DOVE continues to exhibit a stolid, callous indifference to his approaching fate. He will be executed on the 9th inst. THE REV. PATRICK 'Cu°, late curate of Aston, near Birmingham, some time since charged with feloniously attempting to drown a child a month old, supposed to be his own, was tried on Thursday before Mr. Justice Cresewell, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Ma. Thomas GEORGE Gomm°, a gentleman of fortune, residing at 15, PGAland-place, was on Thurs day charged before Mr. Broughton, at the Marylebone Police•court, with indecent conduct in the Regent's park on the 9th ult. The case was sent to the ses sions, Mr. Gosling being held to bail in 4,0001., and two sureties of 2,000!. each. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE Tuesd4y, July 29. - - BANKRUPTS.—WM. DUNCAN and THOMAS Hair's, Tooley street, Southwark, hop merchants—CaArmies MAROLRISON and ERNEST Banzaurra FORT, Savage-gardens, Tower-hill, wine merchants—nuncio DAVY, St. Paul's-street, New North-road, builder—Fakeers BUIODEN, Arundel, Sussex, saddler—Pavan ALLYN, Huntaworth-mews, North Dorset-square, horse dealer— Murrain BABSTOCE lertswcm, Winchester, Hampshire, corn merchant—Josh Geoaos BiLrosa, Upper King-street. Blooms bury, importer of fancy goods—SAMUEL ADAMS, Ware, Hertford shire, banker—Jonx Box, Beckenham, Kent, brickmaker—JAS. Busnortnow, Coventry, Warwickshire, haberdasher Joss Planta, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, bolt manufacturer— , DANIEL Gnioo , West Bromwich, Staffordshire , grocer—Ma- I RIETT LEONARD, Bristol, baker—EDWlN PEEKS, Torquay, De v °nab ir e, builder Geonoit Trion', Liverpool, shipbroker— JORICPX WRIGHT, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, cotton spinner—. JOHN Rontirsow, Manchester, silk manufacturer—WM. Hoven- TON FISHER, Preston, Lancashire, coal proprietor Samoa% HOWARD, Manchester. machine-broker. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Wit. A ITEM (deceased) Glasgow. writer—JoHN BARCLAY', Glasgow, merchaaa—Josinix Loxes, Glasgow, machine maker. Friday, Arrest 1. - _ BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.—DAuncL DAMIEN, audit, provision deaIer—WILLIAM NOaroLE, Dunkeswieh, Yorkshire, tanner. BANKRUPTS.—JoarPR Ems and Mauna Wntrraor. George-yard, Milton-street, carmen—Wimum Burrow, ErMk, builder—JAMES GATRERCOLE, Eltham, Kant, envelope mann- WHIM—THOMAS STERNBERO, Northampton, wile nonahaat— FREDERICK W. Moss, Vauxhall -walk, veterinary surgeon— JONATFIAN BIRCUMSHAW, New Lenton, lace manufacturer — BENJAMIN BROWN, Bruton, Somerset, grator—BLUßT PEARD REED and RICHARD IVENS, Bristol, albrokerill—BUNCAM HAIR, St. Martin's•larie, seedsman and !to st—Hzwar domes SMITH Rnd BENJAMIN CRANE, City, dealers sad &suntan. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—JOHN CAMERON. Edin- burgh, prpermaker—JOHN PHILLIPS, ulaspow, sewed muslin manufacturer —Joaw GARDINER, lately at Moukton-hall, Ayr shire. 731