The Press. — London, England, 1855-08-04 00:00:00

AUG. 4, 1855. Volitual an/1 6tntral. THE prospectus is issued of the British Slag Com pany, with a capital of 120,0001. The object is the application of the patent of an American inventor to the transformation of the refuse thrown out in the process of the manufacture of iron into a material suitable for paving, tiling, building, and other pur poses. This material, it is stated, can be very cheaply produced, and, besides being of great beauty when polished, is capable of artistic design by the incor poration of colour at will, and can be moulded to any shape or size. All remuneration to the inventor is to be dependent on the complete success of the test ings proposed. MR. MECHI'S ANNUAL AGRICULTURAL GATHERING took place at Tiptree-hall Farm on Saturday last. ANOTHER NEW BANK is, it is stated, about to be started in the City. The establishment will be con ducted upon the joint-stock principle, with English and French capital, and have the character of an inter national bank as applicable to the two countries, France and England. It is said also that the Government of the Emperor express their approbation of the project, and influential capitalists and financial men connected with both nations are already prepared to take part in this important extension of the existing alliance. THE EARL OW WESTMORLAND, now colonel of the 56th Regiment, it is believed will succeed Lord Rag lan as colonel of the Royal Horse Guards. Lord Westmorland entered the army in 1803. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY have just made their twenty-first purchase of land for distribution amongst the members. The estate, which is situated at Clapton, belonged to the late Samuel Berger, Esq., and consists of a family residence, with pleasure grounds, garden, &c. This valuable property is within three miles of the City, in the parish of St. John, Hackney, and close to the church and the station of the North London Railway, so that, by a few minutes' ride on this line, any part of the metro polis can be speedily reached. THE deaths of several well-known members of the Stock Exchange have occurred within the past month. Amongst these are Mr. Robert Field and Mr. John Isaac Hensley, both men of eminence and long standing in the house, in which they belonged to the class technically known as " Consol jobbers." Mr. Field was reputed a man of considerable wealth. THE ELECTION FOR THE BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE, in consequence of the office of Chief Commissioner of Public Works having been conferred upon Sir Benjamin Hall, took place on Saturday morning. There was 'was no opposition to the return of Sir B. Hall. After some speeches from the right hon. baronet, Lord Ebrington, and other gentlemen, the proceedings terminated. On Monday Sir B. Hall, together with the new Colonial Secretary, Sir W. Molesworth, took their seats on reelection in the House of Commons. LIEUTENANT JAMES IRWIN, R.N., has been appointed Admiralty agent on the Southampton station. THE QUIHENII NEW YACHT, the Victoria and Albert, has been round the Isle of Wight in three huurs, which is at the rate of 20 miles an hour. PRINCE NAPOLEON gave his last soiree as President of the Industrial Exhibition on Saturday evening, at the Palais Royal. The reception was a very brilliant one, and most numerously attended. Several of the commissioners of the foreign Governments and the members of the international jury were present, as well as statesmen, savans, artists, and literary men. M. (Stu J.?) HERSCHELL, of London, according to the Paris journals, has just been elected foreign cor responding member of the French Academy of Sciences, vacant by the death of the celebrated mathematician Gauss. THE SUSSEX MEMolUAL—Shortly after the death of the late Duke of Sussex subscriptions were set on foot and 1,4001. contributed, chiefly by the body of Masons, to found some public memorial of their late Grand Master. The committee appointed to find a suitable mode of applying this fund determined to appropriate it in extending the hospital accommoda• tion of the metropolis, and for various reasons the Royal Free Hospital was selected as the institution best adapted to give effect to these charitable designs. It was therefore agreed that a new wing should he added to the hospital, to be called the Sussex Wing, and to contain one hundred beds, as soon as the requisite amount to complete the scheme THE PRESS. Satr an Volta. IN a recent case before the Chancery Court of York, in which the point at issue was the sobriety of a clergyman, Mr. Harcourt Granville Vernon, the Chancellor said, in delivering judgment :—" It is a fact in physiology which is familiar with the expe rience even of those who are not professionally aware of it, that it will occasionally happen, in the condition of an empty stomach, or still more fully so in the condition of a vertiginous subject, that a single glass of ardent spirits will produce an effect of depriving an individual, not at all of the use of his senses, but of the steady use of his legs. My own experience is consistent with this, in one or two extraordinary cases. Probably I am capable of taking as large a quantity of wine as almost anybody, but, under pecu liar circumstances, long exposure to fatigue or exer cise, shooting, hunting, a single glass of cherry brandy has made me scarcely able to sit on horse back for a quarter of an hour. Nobody but myself was probable aware of this circumstance. I think something of the kind reconciles the testimony so largely favorable to Mr. —, and his habits and character, with the observations of some individuals very little, if at all, acquainted with him, but who may have observed gestures, at all times it appears somewhat peculiar, but very possibly and naturally exaggerated under such circumstances as to those to which I have referred." ANOTHER examination of Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Bates took place at Bow-street on Wednesday, but, owing to the absence of a material witness on the Continent, a further remand became necessary. As a final commitment is nut likely to take place till September, the magistrate agreed to accept hail for the prisoners if it should be tendered. Two securities for an aggregate of 6,0001. were required for each of them. In the course of Thursday and yesterday, the proper bail having been tendered and accepted, all three of the defendants were liberated from custody until the day of trial. ON Monday Mr. Wooler was brought up in custody before the Darlington magistrates, on a charge of poisoning his wife at Burdon. Dim:Jackson, liazle. wood, and Henzell, the three medical gentlemen who attended the deceased during her illness, were examined. An application to exhume the body was afterwards granted by the magistrates, and an analysis of the viscera was ordered to be made by Professor Taylor. The prisoner was then remanded. ISAAC PINNOCK, sentenced to death at Northampton Assizes for the murder of a farmer near Kettering, has been reprieved. It is said that circumstances have transpired to shake the belief in his sanity en tertained at the trial, and his life will consequently be spared. 3xcilltnts anb (Offnuto. THE stage-coach travelling between Minsk and Kalushin, in Russian Poland, was attacked on the night of the 10th ultimo by a band of miscreants, who first killed the horses, then murdered the driver and five of the passengers, the sixth, a young lady, contriving to effect her escape. Seven waggons laden with corn happened to he passing at the time, driven by Jews. These men were likewise murdered, as was also a Jewish family of nine persons, who inhabited a publichonse in the neighbourhood. Magistrates, aides-de-camp of the viceroy, and a strong detachment of mounted police, were sent in all haste to the spot, and it was hoped that a clue to the murderers would be very shortly found. A SMART SHOCK OF AN EARTHQUAKE occurred at Lyons on the 25th ult., and occasioned some slight damage to several houses. No. 35, in the Rue Centrale, was cracked from the top to the bottom. The bells of many houses rang, and servants ran to the doors to answer them. While the shock lasted, a noise was heard as of distant thunder, while the sky, though somewhat clouded, showed no signs of • storm. Letters from the provinces Ppeak of the shock as having been felt distinctly at Strasburg, Mulhouse, Metz, Grenoble, Besancon, Auxonne, and Dijon, but no accident is reported in any of those places. Earthquakes have been very frequent in Italy and the extreme south of France within the last twelvemonth, but this is the first time that they have been heard of within that period so far north. nuuuau 1./U inusinust, w LIO casaacu .U 0 quotations. Wit and ham Kent pockets, 141 to 1.,1; n ema Sussex Wing, and to contain one hundred beds, as north. of Kents, 101 to 121; Sussex, 01 lOs to 111 as per mt. soon as the requisite amount to complete the scheme Upwards 0(860 bale 4 have tome to hand this week from New had been collected by the committee of the hospital. THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA has recently reduced Y " t • COALS—den Main, 23.; Haswell, 235: Heugh That amount having been got together, or nearly so, the charge for the conveyance of books and 21a ae ; South Hartlepool, 22a Od ; Tees, Os per ton. Itappites accordingly the first stone of the new wing was pamphlets from station to station in India to the ate very limited. laid on Monday with due solemnity. In the absence scale which is laid down in the royal warrant for 5 POTATOES—The suppli es continue large, and the demand is of' the Grand Master, the Earl of Zetland, and of the their conveyance from England to India, and te IT I PC I ROUTL I I II TTI 4 7 II tAIT I TE The general demand has Deputy Grand Master, the Earl of Yarborough, the vice vend. Some further alleviation has now been been firm this week, and beef bas advanced 2d per tilbs. The Grand Registrar of the order, Mr. Dohie, presided. conceded, inasmuch as the weight allowed for a !applies have been very moderate for the tim e bof4ze ltdar. Beef so All the Masonic forms usually observed on such oc- single newspaper which was 31 tolas, equivalent to from Is to 82 48; mett°l3 ' 82 ad t° 82 ltd; 2111 ibsink veal, 44 ltd to be; pork, 3. Yd to tots per sto the casions were carefully and effectively carried out, about 11 ounce has been increased to 4 tolas. offal*. and in the evening the brethren assembled at the According to present arrangements, by the 7th of NFIAVOAI E AND LP.ADENHALL —_The 4 ae markets have tton Freemason's Tavern, to bring the ceremonies of the this month above 1,300 more artillerymen will have l id s tt e t a s dy lZ; f l °llo b wa t ' s — t gr to ef' t i ro l n O l d ; la ve ad al, tu ts . l:l i to m 4s u led: occasion to a convivial close. le ft the shores of England for the Crimea. pork, 3s 8d to Is fld per I by ie esteem. • Vt4roplitan Itaritts. (Reportedeselesively for "Tits Paz s." CORN - EXCHANGE—Since our last report a very limited supply of English wheat has reached us, coastwise and by land carriage. Although the show of samples has been trifling, the trade has ruled heavy, and most of the receipts from Kent have changed hands at a decline of is per quarter. There has been a falling off in the imports of foreign wheat, yet we have observed no inclination on the part of factors to get into stock, and the quotations have beau with difficulty supported. Floating (targets have ruled very dull, and easier. We have hod • dull inquiry for barley, the rates of which have given way is per quarter. The malt trade has continued dull, on former t erms . The oat trade has been in a sluggish state, at a further fall in the quota- Mons of 6d per quarter. Both beans and peas have been heavy, at late currencies. Flour has been dull, and country marks have sold rather cheaper. Enokisu—Wheat, Eases and Kent white, 76s to 85s; red, 69s to 775; Norfolk and Lincoln red, 685 to 765. Malting barley, 31s to 355; grinding ditto, 228 to 32a; distilling, 30e to Malt, Gs w 725. Feed oats, 914 to 265; potato, 278 to 30a. Rye, 408 to 43e. Tick beans, 39e to 435; pigeon, die to 465. Grey peas, N. so Site ; maple, 898 to 41s; white boilers, 40s to 46s per quarter. Town-made flour, ebe to 70e; country marks, 62s to Ne per 2801 be. ARRIVALS THIS WIIEIC. Wheat, Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English —.1190 .. 650 .. 2260 .. 870 .. 1280 Irish Foreign .. 8780 .. 2550 .. 17810 .. 60 sks. his LONDON AVERAGES DECLARED ON FRIDAY—Wheat, 5,6;8 quarters, 605 3d ; barley, 1,177 quarters, 35s 2d; oats, 4,044 quarters, 29s 6d ; rye, 46 quarters, 47s 64 ; beaus, 218 quarters, 4bs ; peas, 67 quarters, 44s 4d. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAO ES—Wheat, 77s 7d; bar. ley, 348 8d; oats, 281 9d ; rye, 435 Id ; beans, 408 4d; peas, 4h 6d. THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES—Wheat, 7Ce sd; barley, 34e 6d; oats, 296 Id; rye, 44s 9d ; beaus, 46e 4d ; pets, 428 4d. ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WENK—Wheat,lo9.B9l; barley, 6,68 e;, cant, 11,049 ; rye,lll; beans, 8;017; peas, 166 quarters. BREAD—The prices of wheaten bread in the metmpolis are from 10d to 100 ; of household, ditto, did to bed per 41bs loaf. TFA—The public sales held this week have gone off slowly, and the quotations have been with difficulty supported. In the private market very little business is doing, as follows : Congou, to 2s 6d; Ning Yong anti Oolong, hid to Is 9d; Seuoliorg, Od to 9s 84; Fiewery Pekoe, Is 4tl to 8s bid; Caper, is to is 4d; Scented Caper, is 44 to is ad : Orange Pekoe, Is 9tl to Is Od; Scented Orange Pekoe, Is tal to 2s Od ; Tivankay, 7,1 to Is 2d ; Hymen Skin, I'd to hld ; Hyson, ls std to 38 Rd; Young Hylton, fid to Sot Imperial, le toda 84; Gunpowder, is to 3a Gd; Assam, is 8d to Is 4tl per lb. SUGAR—Although the supplier; Of all kinds continue good, there has been a steady demand this wimb, and prices have ruled very firm. Barbettotia has realised Its Gd to ass 6d; St. Lucia, 34a to 37s Od ; Granada, 3Sti to :‘714 Od ; Bengal, 868 to 40s Od per cwt. Seven! cargoes of Havannah afloat have sold for the Continent., at from 92a 3d to 9:is Gd per cwt. Crushed is quite as dear as last week. 'termed gdods are rather dearer. tirosii lumps, 475; hid low to fine grocery, Itos to 63s per cwt. the total cietuunces to the 2eth ultimo were 4,1(30,939 owls, against 3,948,41 U (Atli last year. MOLASSES—The sales have been GOO puns., at from lie ild to lifs Oil per cwt. COFPLE —As the supplies continuo to decrease, our intuitet has become very Arm, sad prima show a tendency to improve, which ere as follows :—Ploutation, fine, is quoted at 711. to 82s; fine middling, 68a to 746 ; good m ddling. 65a to 68s; middling, sis to Ois ; Sue ordinary to middling, Its to his; triage, 48. to Hs. Mocha, fine te. finest, Ns to 1110 s; garbled, Goa to 77s ; ungarbled, 56s to GS s. Costa Rica, 12,141d.ing to fine, 57s to 72s ; good and tine ordinal, 50s to SOS. Java, 48s to 355. Jamaica, good middling to fine, Eta to Prs. COCOA—We have a steady sale for all kinds, at full quota • lions. lied Trinidad is selling at 41s to 475; grey, MN to 425; Grande, Xis to 42a pet cwt. SEEDS—Canary seed is in good request, and rather dearer. Linseed still moves off freely, at extreme rates. In ether ankles very little le doing. HEMP AND FLAX Most kinds of hemp rule steady, at full quotations. Petersburg clean, 441 10s to 461 per ton. The flax market is steady, on former terms. COTTON—Orest inactivity prevails In the demand, and, in some instances, prices have given way Id per lb. WOOL—The colonial wool sales are still progressing Steadily. Nearly 80,000 bales have now been disposed of, at full quotations. About 8,000 baleshave arrived this week. English wool is less active, and prices ere barely maintained. RICE—The transactions M this article have been confined to about 800 tons, pertly/ to antes, at late eurrenoies. CINNAMON—The quarterly sales have gone off briskly, at an advance of Id per lb. METALS—Scotch pig iron has sold to a fair extent, at 78s Gd. Manufactured qualities are tolerably firm. Tin and tin plates command rather more money. In the value of other metals very little °lmage has taken place. SPIRITS—Rum is tolerably firm, at 2s 4d to 2s 4id for proof Leewards, and 24 34 to 24 311 for East India. The brandy mar ket is active, at extreme imobitimm. Notprei large Kies of Malt spirit have been effected at les 104 per gallon. TALLOW—Owing to the small eupply of town tallow, our market is very firm, at bbs for P.V.C. on the spot. Town tallow is "Ms per east net cash. OlLS—Linseed oil is a Arm inquiry, at 38s per cwt on the spot. All other oils are quite as dear as last week. Turpen tihe is heavy, at eS Per cwt tot rough, and 31s to ilia for spirits. HOPS—The accounts from the plantetions continue highly favorable, and POMP parties have backed the duly as high as 2?0,e0(F. All kinds of hope are very deli, .t almost nomual quotations. mid and East Kent pockets, 131 to IN; Weald of Kents, 101 to 121; Sussex, Al les to 11l Ia per eel. Upwards 0(180 bales have tome to hand Ibis week from New - J 735