The Press. — London, England, 1857-09-05 00:00:00

is not to be procured in India, and I should recommend every one taking out a spare piece. Other clothes in moderation ; and, finally, a really good regulation•size sword, and not the miserable spits which it is the fashion fur officers to wear now-a-days, and which have often seen nearly cut in two by a stroke of a common native tulwar. THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1857. additional one respecting the construction of an interoceanic railway, and securing to us free of tolls the right of way by the interoceanic route. The Honduras Government agreeing that the right of way over any such route, from sea to sea, shall be at all times open and free to the Government and subjects of Great Britain. 6oltrt ant las4zon. Her Majesty the Queen and Royal Family left Edinburgh last Saturday, and continued their journey to Balmoral, where her Majesty arrived safely that evening. During the week the Royal Family have been visited by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. The principal Ministers have left town to enjoy a little relaxation. Lord Palmerston is at Brockett hail. Lord Panmure is at his shooting-box at Inver mark. The Marquis of Lansdowne is at Bowood en route to Ireland. Lord Granville has gone to the seaside, and the Earl of Clarendon is at Balmoral. Earl,Fitzhardinge is now lying without hope of recovery. Admiral Sir M. Berkeley is in attendence o.i his dying brother, at his urgent request. At present a great part of the business of the Admiralty is transacted at B. rkeley Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby have a rived in town from Florence, the noble marquis b ring en conga for a few months. Lord Brougham is about to visit Manchester. The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury are staying at his lordship's shooting-boa at Acbnacarry, in the . _ . Highlands. . The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gl a d stone, h ave left Hagley-hall, for Sir Stephen Glynne's seat, Hawarden Castle, Flintshire. Volittr 11. A CABINET COUNCIL was held on Saturday, at which all the Ministers, with the exception of the Earl of Clarendon and Mr. Baines, attended. At the break ing up of the council Lord Palmerston visited the War-office and the Horse Guards. A Cabinet Council was again held on Monday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. THE RIGHT HON. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY is to be one of the new peers, by the title of Baron Macaulay. Lord Robert Grosvenor wia take the title of Baron E bury, which is the name of one of the oldest manors in his family. MR. ARCHIBALD JOHN STEPHENS is appointed Recorder of Winchester in the room of Mr. G. A. Arney. Mr. Henry George Allen is appointed Recorder of Andover in the room of Mr. Stephens. CONVOCATION was formally prorogued last week by the Vicar-General, under commission, unto October the 9th. LORD HOWDEN AND LORD BLONFIELD left Dover last week on their return respectively to their posts at Madrid and Berlin. THE REV. HENRY DitunY, M.A., prebendary of Salisbury, and vicar of Bremhill, near Chippenbam, will be the new chaplain to the House of Commons, in the room of the Rev. Thomas Gamier, 8.C.L., rector of Trinity Church, Marylebone, who has held the appointment nine years. An announcement which has appeared in some of the papers that Mr. Gamier had resigned is not strictly correct, the fact being that the Speaker intends exercising the pri vilege which has been enjoyed by his predecessors on their elevation to the chair—that of personally appointing the chaplain to the house prior to the commencement of the next session of Parliament. Mr. Drury was appointed to his prebendal stall arid to the vicarage of Bremhill by the late Bishop of Salisbury the Speaker's brother. THE SUCCESSFUL RETURN Of Mr. Fellowes and Mr. James Rust for the county of Huntingdon was cele bi sited yesterday by a fete and banquet in the grounds attached to the Fountain Hotel at Huntingdon. THE AMOUNT granted for Ordnance Services for the year 1835 56 was 9,990,1651., and the total expenditure was 11,993,7841., leaving a deficit of 2,003,619/. A RETURN has been issued by the Board of Trade of the declared values of British and Irish produce and manufactures exported from the United King dom during the first half of the present year. Thirty per cent. of our aggregate shipments go to our own possessions, and nineteen per cent. to the United States. Thus for this year the exportations have been at the rate of 121,652,7621. per annum. A TREATY WITH HoNnunAs of trade and navigation between her Majesty and the Republic of Honduras, signed on the 27th of August, 1856, has just been printed. It is to endure seven years from the date of the ratification. The most important article is an elution 3nttiligtrat. BEVERLEY.—A petition, signed by a few mcmbers of the Beverley town council, has been presented in opposition to the return of Major Edwards, who was elected when Mr. E. Auchmuty Glover was unseated by a committee of the House of Commons. The allegations are bribery and treating. GREENWICH.-Mr. Townsend, Alio member for Greenwich, having been duly gazetted a bankrupt, all doubts are at an end in reference to the ap proaching vacancy in the representation. During the last day or two a most active canvass has been going on throughout Greenwich, Woolwich, and Deptford, all which are comprised in the par liamentary borough, in favour of Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., who represented Greenwich in the last Parliament. Mr. Chambers has not personally moved in the matter, although he has been requested to do so by many influential electors, to whom, how ever, he has stated that, whenever a requisition shall be presented to him justifying hopes of success, he will immediately declare himself a candidate, and issue an address soliciting the support of the con stituency. The friends of Mr. Alderman Salomons are active in his behalf ; and it is confidently stated that, under any circumstances, he will go to the poll. The Hon. W. F. Campbell, son of the Chief Justice, has also issued an address in the Liberal interest. MIDDLESEX.—The Hon. G. Byng was duly elected for Middlesex on Thursday. Mr. Byng, in ad dressing the electors on this occasion, referred to the current events of the day. With regard to India, he believed the Government to have been constantly forewarned, and to have neglected those warnings. He was in favour of the total abolition of the East India Company ; and while, with respect to the mutineers, he desired to see ample retribution demanded, he was opposed to the exercise of " vengeance." Turning to home measures, he was in favour of a comprehensive parliamentary reform, the ballot, the admission of the Jews, and the abolition of church rates. TAVISTOCK.—Mr. W. Russell, nephew of the Duke of Bedford, and Air. Miall, contest this e lection. _ _ _ FINSBURY REGISTRATION.-Mr. John Frazer Mac queen, the revising barrister, has appointed Wed nesday, October 14, for the commencement of the revision of the list of voters for the borough of Finsbury. The proceedings will take place in the Lords Justices' Court, Lincolns-inn. Dittra olitan. THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. A BRILLIANT field-day of shareholders was held on Saturday last at the London Tavern, Mr. E. Deni son, M.P., in the chair. The following supplemen tary report, signed by Mr. Denison, and presented by the directors, will explain the nature of the pro ceedings : Since the directors' report was issued on Friday last, the 21st of August, the Vice-Chancellor Sir Page Wood has given a decision in the suit therein referred to as pending, to the effect that dividends cannot be declared at the next meeting except on the footing of paying the preference shareholders a full dividend for a whole year, from the 30th of June, 1836. This decision would throw the whole loss on the ordinary, including the A and B stockholders, annihilating their dividend for the half-year ended 30th June, 1857, and depriving the A stockholders of all pro spect of dividend till March, 1858 ; contrary to the inten tion of the meeting of this company held on the Bth of July last, when the bill then before Parliament was ap proved by a great majority, in the full belief that, if it passed, all classes of shareholders would become contri butors to the loss ; and it is also contrary to the inten tion of the committee of both Houses of Parliament. The Attorney General has subsequently stated that he is clear in his conviction, and is so fully assured of the erroneous view of the Vice-Chancellor that he has advised the directors not to declare a dividend, as they cannot obey the injunction of the Vice-Chancellor without vio lating the Act of Parliament ; and he further advises that the meeting ought to be adjourned, so as to allow of the Vice• Chancellor's opinion being submitted to the decision of the full Court of Appeal. Under these circumstances, the only course which the directors can safely take is to abstain from presenting any scheme for a dividend to the meeting next Saturday, and to ask the meeting to adjourn. To this a rejoinder had been issued on the part of the preference shareholders, putting it to the meeting, as no notice or application of appeal against the decision of the Vice-Chancellor had been given by the directors, whether the preference shareholders should be deprived of two and a half years' dividends until it suited the directors to pre sent an appeal. Before the proceedings were formally opened by the chairman, Mr. Sainsbury made a bitter attack upon Mr. Denison, whom he accused of gross dere liction of duty. The CHAIRMAN then proceeded to address the meeting amid a number of interruptions, which, for their personal character and intensity of feeling, were probably without a parallel in the history of railway meetings, not excepting the stormy scenes of an Eastern Counties bear-garden. In a speech of great length, he justified the conduct of the directors, quoted the opinion of Sir R. Bethel! against the Vice Chancellor, and concluded by moving a resolution adjourning the meeting. Upon this, a tremendous uproar ensued. A dozen infuriated shareholders arose. Questions were put amid cheers, and groans, and general uproar, and the most offensive personalities were freely bandied about, when at length the chairman put the question of the adjournment of the meeting : Mr. HEATH : Are we to understand that the decision of the Lord Chancellor will he final, and that there is no intention of going to the House of Lords ? The CHAIRMAN: I am surprised at Mr. Heath, who is a lawyer, asking such a question. Why, it would be in the power of any shareholder —Mr. Thornton,for instance, if he dissented from the judgment, might force us to carry the appeal to the House of Lords. Mi.HEATH : But if the decision had been the other way, what would you have done? Mr. DENISON, Q.C.: You can't answer such a question as that. The CHAIRMAN : I am not such a d—d fool as to answer a question put upon a suppositious case. Hereupon a row ensued which eclipsed all that had gone before. Yells of " Shame !" groans, hisses, and indignant addresses from every part of the room, and one voice more stentorian than others exclaimed in pious horror, "For you, a magistrate and a religious man, to make use of such language, and say in public that you'd be d—d ! I am ashamed of you." To this was heard the reply, " I did not say that I'd be d—d." Another angry share holder said, " Give him rope enough, he'll hang himself." After some time, quiet was restored, a poll demanded, and, after a seven hours' sitting, the motion was declared carried. MR. CHARLES DICKENS AND MR. ARTHUR SMITH, as chairman and secretary of the Jerrold Fund, re port the results of the movement. Referring to the "untrue and preposterous statements that have obtained circulation as to property asserted to have been left by Mr. Jerrold," the committee state, "that unless they had thoroughly known, and beyond all doubt assured themselves, that their exertions were needed by the dearest objects of Mr. Jerrold's love, those exertions would never have been beard of. The audited accounts show that the various perform ances, readings, and lectures have realised, after the payment of all expenses, a clear profit of 2,00431. This sum is to he expended in the purchase (through trustees) of a Government annuity for Mrs. Jerrold and her unmarried daughter, with remainder to the survivor." _ . — SEVERAL FIRES have happened in the City during the week. The most serious was that at Messrs. Smiths, corn-chandlers, London-wall, where a vast amount of property was destroyed. LOCUSTS alive have been caught in several parts of London during the week. They have also appeared in Ireland. _ .—.-.-. THE - STATUE OF DP. JENNER is to he placed in Trafalgar-square upon a pedestal flanking the statue of Sir Charles Napier. AN ACCIDENT of a serious nature occurred about half past nine o'clock on Wednesday morning to Lieutenant Firmer, of the Royal Horse Guards. A detachment of that. regiment were going off guard from the Horse Guards and proceeding through the park, when Lieutenant Firmer's horse took fright, ran a short distance down Constitution-hill, came in contact with the Green-park rails, throwing the rider, who was impaled on the spikes. He was at least three minutes in that painful position before he could be extricated. He was then taken away in a cab to the barracks. ALDERMAN LAWRENCE AND MR. W. F. ALLEN, the Indian publisher, of Leadenhall-street, will enter upon their duties as sheriffs of London and Middle sex, in succession to Messrs. Mechi and Keats, on Tuesday, the 29th inst. AN ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH has been erected to connect the establishments of Messrs. Waterlow and Sons is Birchin-lane and London. wall. This is the first instance of the electric telegraph being carried over the houses of very large towns in England, and also the first instance of a private firm having called to its aid, for mere office purposes, this important and useful invention. The distance between the two establishments in a direct line is only about, one•third of a mile, and the whole distance is traversed by single wire suspended from poles at a great elevation above the roofs of the houses ; in fact, so much so