The Press. — London, England, 1855-06-02 00:00:00

Have thy years nothing taught Save the heart-hollow laughter, And exile of all thought To some remote hereafter? From Time's unchanging laws Thou cans't not be exempt, The tyrant will not pause 'or even thy contempt. Then make of him a friend, Retrieve thy errors past, There yet is space to mend, Tho' years are crowding fast. TERNS OF SUBSCRIPTION 1011 rlje Press: Per Annum .. .. .. .. £1 6 0 Flalf-Yearly .. .. .. .. 013 0 Quarterly .. .. .. .. 0 6 6 Payable in advance. Subscribers are requested to send their Orders through thei• News Agent; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a Remit tattoo. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. AI..IIIZU LYE, 110, Strand. London. TO CORRESPONDENTS. it is impossible to acknowledge 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 inde pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do nut avail OW selves. Communications 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. Ativertisealenta sent from the country must be accompanied by s remittance or a reference for payment in town. - Trtx 1:1ri gg+ LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1855. POSTSCRIPT. THE WAR. An order of the day from General Canrobert, dated May 19th, appears in yesterday's Paris papers, announcing the appointment of General Pelissier as commander-in-chief. In descending from his high position, General Canrobert tells the troops whom be had lately commanded that he was not about to separate from them ; ou the contrary, he should have the happiness of more closely sharing in their glorious fatigues and labours in discharging the fresh duties now assigned to him by his Imperial Sovereign. Nothing has been heard lately of the Emperor's intended visit to the Crimea. His Majesty's cam paign furniture sent to Constantinople has been brought back to France, consequently it may be inferred that the journey has been abandoned for the present. A letter from St. Petersburg in the Patrie says that the number of troops in that capital was not great, as every available man had been sent off to Finland and other places where their services were more likely to be needed. It is rumoured that the Grand Duke Constantine has resigned the office of Grand Admiral of the Bus sian navy. The peace party in St. Petersburg has regained the ascendant, and it is said that a new note is to bo sent to the German Powers. Accounts from Constantinople of the 23rd ult., state that the Ministry of Ali Pacha was not likely to be of long continuance, when Reschid Pacha would no doubt be replaced in his former office. The Sardinian Ministry has been modified, at the head of which is M. Cavottr. The nee► Government is thus composed :—President of the Council, Cavour ; Foreign Affairs, Cibrario ; Public Instruc• tion, Lanza ; Interior, Ratazzi ; Justice, De Foresta; War, Durando ; Works, Faleveassa. The quibble and the jest, The hollow, heartless mirth, The sneer at what men hold most dear, The scorn of honest worth. The power to feel no shame— To laugh at it instead— No pride in England's fame No sorrow for her dead. THE PRESS. Nnibusiti flttiligentt. OXFORD. The following gentlemen were on Wednesday appointed Masters of the Schools ;—Rev. F. Meyriek, Trinity; Rev. George Ridding, Exeter; Rev. William Salter, Bklliol. - - The following degrees were conferred : Af.A.—Rev. Thomas C. Baring, William Yates (fellows), Robert S. Wilson, William K. Macrorie, Rev. Roger Kent, Brasenose ; Rev. Thomas G. Mortimer, Jesus ; Rev. Charles Palmer, Henry P. Wolrige, Exeter ; Rev. F. Cox, Rev. John Maskery, Wadham ; Rev. Charles J. Le Gert, Magdalen; Rev. John S. Sidebotham. New College; Rey. William Bashall, Rev. Henry A. Daniel, St. John's ; William L. Lewis, Robert B. Bartlett (fellows), and Rev. Peter Pe Jersey Trinity. B.A.—William Poppa Crotch, New College ; Rev. George Ogill'ie, Wadham. MERTON COLLEGE. —Mr. G. C. Broderick, 8.A., of Balliol, was on Wednesday elected Fellow of Merton. CAMBRIDGE. The undermentioned degrees have been conferred : B.D.—W. W. Harvey, King's. M.A.—J. J. Dent Dent, William Hughes, F. G. Lugard, Trinity ; E. A. Newton, Pembroke. B.A.—..Stair Andrew Agnew, Charles Alexander Baynes, Francis Westby Bagshawe, Edward Cu rteis Graham, Trinity ; Philip Windsor Curtis, John Robert Legh, Frederick Smith, St. John's; G. St. Alban Godson, Pembroke ; G. Frederick Adley, Edmond Thomas Butler, Fretkirick Watson, Caius; Joseph Barthorp Tweed, Corpus Christi ; William Edmund Cater, Queen's ; Horace Meyer, St. Catharine's Hall; Thomas Backhouse Sandwith, St. Catharine's Hall; Samuel Edmund Bengough, Christ's; Henry Cumberland Stuart, Thomas Slater, Emmanuel; John Henry Bullock, Downing. The following gentlemen were also successful, but did not proceed to their degree:—Baugh, Queen's ; Eldin, Trinity ; Pyper, Downing ; C. H. Smith, Cath. The following gentlemen have been elected University Travelling Bachelors :—C. A. R. Browning, 8.A., and H. F. Sheppard, 8.A., St. Catharine's Hall. THE POSTMASTER• GENERAL has instituted a series of pecuniary fines, varying from half a crown to half a sovereign, to be inflicted on his sub ordinates who are guilty of errors that endanger the safety of regis tered letters while passing through the post. THE FRIENDS OW THE LATE MR. LOCKHART are raising a subscription sufficient to erect a monument at Dryburg Abbey over his remains. The chief sub scribers are the Earl of Ellesmere, Dean Milman, Mr. Richard Ford, Mr. John Murray, Dr. Ferguson, and the Rev. Dr. Wellesley. MRS. THoMSoN, the Jessy Lewars of Robert Burns, died in Dumfries on Saturday last at the advanced age of nearly fourscore years. Up to a recent date Mrs. Thomson enjoyed excellent health, but some months has been gradually sinking. 'ran TWENTY-NINTH HALF YEARLY MEETING of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Ziavigation Company was held on Thursday. The report stated that two new ships, the Ava and the Alhambra, will be ready for sea in a month ; that eleven of the company's ships, amounting to nearly 18,000 tons, are now em ployed in the war transport service ; that the direc tors are prepared to make proposals to Government for the renewal of the Australian postal service, as soon as the release of their vessels from the trans port service shall give the means of carrying the plan into effect; that it is expected the railway from Alexandria to Cairo will be completed in October next; and that the continuation of the railway from Cairo to the Red Sea has been decided upon by the Viceroy of Egypt, who intends that the line shall be completed by the summer of next year—thus afford ing a cheap, easy, and quick means of transit between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. The directors recommend a dividend of 3i per cent. for the half-year, clear of income tax. 7 4 4 4 ~ i-.. :1 .,1 .11iFilli A hoary jester's name Be thine no more to bear, Leave us a statesman's fame To honour and revere. Thou pinest for thy youth— Recal its better part, Its loyalty and truth, Its warm and gen'rous heart. flgtet the lessons learned In those more honest days While yet thy bosom yearned For good miens' love and praise. Let not the people think " The pilot at the helm, When our good ship is nigh to sink, And storms to overwhelm, Sits down with folded hands, Laughing with senile glee, ' These planks will last till my time is pas{, And that's enough for ma.' " FEW( THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tvesciay, Mar 29. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.—JoEN HOSKIN, Blackburn, Lancashire, currier. BAN KIIIIPTS.—GronoE Slf Mit STNEnnen, Lancelot-place, Knightsbridge, buiIder—HZNRYCOX, Reeding. Berkshire, grocer Douritra, Sunmer-terrare, Brompton, apothecary— CHARLES MABBINDHAII, Birmingham, wholesale jeweller—Wm. litrieflEE, Lichfield, Staffordshire, coarhbuilder—PENEcisiNN JOYCE, Worcester, commission agent—JOHN M'Currny, Aston, near Birmingham, publican SAmush WARREN, Gloucester, licensed victualler THOWAs HAM, F.xeter, furrier—Joss CHRINTIE, Arrington, Lancashire, ironfounder—Jorm Barron and Gmonou Baspon, Broughton, Lancashire, copper roller manufacturers—BENJAMlN GREOOIIX, Sheffield. builder. SCOTCH SEQUBSTRATIONS. JogN Pot:muffin and RoEERT MILWAIN, Glasgow, plasterers—ANGUS MACDONCLI,, Keppoch, Eitmonivaig—Wm. RIDDELL, Glasgow, carter—DAVlD Dovoirs and Jong LAIRD, Edinburgh, and Bradford, grocers. Friday, June 1. BANKRUPTS.—Fasscia Burrta, Berkeley-street, Clerken well, baker—WM. SKIPP Pkenuts, •East Dereham, Norfolk, builder—Ozosom GEST, South-row, New-road, grocer—THomss itourtAnos and Josses Hourtzpom, Lambeth, saw•mills pro prietors—THomAs PEMLErr BROWN, Woolwich, licensed sic tualter—Ozonox JOWS HUMPHREYS, Crown-court, Old Broad street, City, underwriter and insurance broker—PIREORINI JOYCE, Worcester, commission agent—JOHN PARKINSON the elder, and JOON PARKINSON the younger. Leicester, hosiers—. WALTZ' Baerrett., Little Marlborough•etreet, Middlesex, pnuter—RomEttr BI.ACIU,OCK and DonoLs* BIACKLOCK, New road, Whitechapel, drapers—JoHN Lz.xcE, Sarum:len, Kirkbur ton, Yorkshire, woollen rnanufacturer—JAMS[ MEADOWS and RICHARD EDWIN BIBBY, Manchester, lime merchants—THOMAS DAVIES, Narbeth, Pembrokeshire, currier—loom LUPTON, Brad - ford, innkeeper. SCOTCIi SEQUESTRATIONS.—HonEwr JACKSON. Douglas street, Gloorpw, wood merohoot--D.tvw AIa:KANDER, Kirki.lD tilloch, victualler and lime merchant. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant visited on Wednesday two extensive Roman Catholic ragged schools in Dublin, and in each school heard the children examined, expressing his satisfaction at the progress which they evinced, and at the system on which the establishments were conducted. THE NOTORIOUS Tom PROVIS, alias Sir Richard Hugh Smyth, died on Sunday week in Dartmoor Prison, whither he had been removed, on account of ill health, from the Milbank Penitentiary. THZ Conference brig, Peter, of and from North Shields to Carthagena, was attacked by pirates, on the coast of Riff, on the 2nd ult. The master and crew escaped in their boats, and afterwards fell in with the British brig Lively, totally abandoned, which they took charge of and brought safe into Gibraltar. A QuisT COUNTRY LAD in Argyllshire, who held three silver medals from the Highland Society for ploughing, having heard that his brother was killed at Inkermann, threw up his situation at Mid Term, joined the Argyllshire Militia, got trained for six weeks, and then volunteered into the line, and is now on his way to the Crimea, to be revenged on the Russians for the death of his brother. THERE are now three Colonelcies at the disposal of Lord Hardinge.--those of the 3rd Light Dragoons, vacant by the death of Lord Charles S. Manners; the 23rd Fusiliers, by that of Sir George d'Aguilar; and the 92nd Highlanders, 14 Sir William Macbean's demise. Yesterday morning a fire of a very destructive character, and attended with great loss of property, happened on the extensive premises of Messrs. Penns, the engineers, at Deptford. The wind blow ing fresh greatly increased 'the conflagration, which speedily caught the paint and pattern stores. These stores with their valuable contents were totally de stroyed before the flames could be subdued. A strict investigation has been made for the purpose of ascertaining how the fire o ccurre d , but nothing satisfactory could be elicited. The property is nsured in various fire offices. LIEUTENANTS DAVID ELLIOT AND HENRY STEWART, R.N., have been appointed Admiralty agents on the Southampton station. SATURDAY,