The Press. — London, England, 1855-06-16 00:00:00

doubt prove of great advantage to those sending stock early for sale or keeping them over from one day to another. North of the market, two taverns—the Queen's Arms and the City Arms—are erected, between which will be placed a fountain. Northwards of the taverns and foun tain will be a building intended for the annual cattle-show, which, when not used for that purpose, will afford ample standing for butchers' carts. No arrangement has, how ever, yet been made as to the removal of the show from Baker-street. \Vest of the market lairage is provided for 8,160 sheep, on an area of six acres and three perches, rather more than half of which is covered. Water and racks for hay are placed in each lair. South of the market lairage is provided for 8,000 bul locks, on an area of Ba. Or. 11p., provision being made for supply of water snd hay to each bullock. At the north and south ends of these lairs four depots for hay are pro vided. East of these lairs some private slaughter-houses are built, and on the west side two public slaughter-houses, in which 600 bullocks can be killed weekly. South of the public slaughter-houses a meat-market is being constructed. Ample space, it will be seen, for the future extension of the public and private slaughter-houses is provided. A publichouse is placed at each corner of the market, and these are named " The Lion," " The Lamb," " The Black Bull," and " The White Horse." The publichouse, " The iiutchers' Arms," stands at the south-west corner of the New-road from Caledonian-road to Maiden-lane, for the accommodation of the slaughtermen. It ought not to be forgotten that the corporation, not unmindful of the change which has of recent years taken place in the habits of these men and of the drovers, has made it an express condition in the leases that coffee as well as intoxicating drinks shall be supplied on reasonable terms. CRYSTAL ARCADE ROUND LONDON. MUCH interest has been caused by the publication of a plan projected by Sir Joseph Paxton for establishing a novel means of communication between different central points of London traffic and the different railway-stations. Sir J. Paxton first explained his magnificent scheme to the Committee of Inquiry on the Metropolitan Communications at a recent sitting. The proposal embraces a carriage arcade of the same breadth as the transept in the old Crystal Palace, starting from the Mansion-house towards Southwark Bridge, crossing the river, running to the South-Western Railway-station, and thence again across the river near Hungerford-bridge to the Regent-circus, the communication by this route being nearly the same in point of distance as that by the Strand. At the same time a line of similar character would branch from a point near the South-Western Railway to the Houses of Parliament and Victoria-street by a bridge at Lambeth, and, as at the back of the houses on each side atmospheric lines of railway are to be constructed, the transit between Belgravia and the Bank would thus be reduced to about eight minutes, and between the Bank and Charing cross or the Regent's-circus to about five or six minutes. This railway would be at an elevation to enable it to pass across the various streets which it would intersect without interfering with any of the existing roads, and the system would involve a constant succession of express trains as well as of stopping-trains at every half-mile or less, so arranged as to be perfectly noiseless. The carriage-way of the arcade, it is contemplated, should be closed against waggons between nine in the morning and nine at night, to insure the facilities for quick passenger traffic, as well as for increasing the attraction of the costly shops on each side ; and among the prominent recommendations of pro perty on the line would be the protection afforded to all kinds of goods by its cleanliness, equable temperature, brightness of light, and immunity from weather as a pro menade and drive in summer and winter. The estimated cost of this improvement, which Sir Joseph Paxton con siders would be the largest thoroughfare in the world, and such as to make London the most magnificent and convenient city in existence, is 11,300,0001., and the calculated returns from rents and railway revenue are 938,0001., or between eight and nine per cent. To insure its completion, however, in the best manner for the interests of the nation, it is contended that the co-operation of Government should be obtained, and that this should consist in a guarantee of four per cent. interest for sixty years, on condition that a half of one per cent. should be set aside annually to redeem the capital within that period, and that all receipts above four per cent. should be equally divided between the State and the com pany. Under this it would appear that, if the property were to yield the anticipated return of eight per cent., the transaction would result in the nation receiving an annual payment of more than 2.10,0001. for sixty years, and at the end of that time being put in possession of the entire pro- perty without ever having incurred an expenditure of a shilling, while the public would gain three free bridges and the removal of delays and obstacles which have been estimated to cause an annual money loss of upwards of a million sterling to the trade of the kingdom. The ultimate extension of the undertaking as a boulevard encircling London, and connecting all the railway•stations, would increase the total cost to 34,000,000/., but the grand point of bringing the City and West-end into rapid commu nication will be the first to command attention, and this ob ject can be accomplished by itself, leaving the remainder to be carried out as a necessary consequence of its suc cess. THE WORKING MEN'S COLLEGE, Cambridge, is now fairly established. The number of students already enrolled on the books amounts to 112. The most popular subjects are English grammar, mathematics, Latin, French, drawing, and vocal music; and the list of names includes persons engaged in almost every occupation. It is intended, ere long, to estab lib as adult school in connection with the college% THE PRESS. REWARDS FOR SERVICES IN THE CRIMEA. THE following is the list of the general off►cers who have been employed on services in the Crimea, and still survive the perils of the campaign, together with the distinctions and rewards that have been granted to each : Lord Raglan—Order of Medjidie, and Field• Marshal. Lieut.-General Sir J. Burgoyne—Order of Medjidie. Lieut.-General Sir G. Brown—Order of Medjidie, and transferred to older regiment. Lieut.• General the Duke of Cambridge—Order of Medjidie. Lieut.-General Sir De Lacy Evans—Order of Medjidie. Lieut.-General Sir R. England—Colonelcy of the bOth Regiment. Lient.•General the Earl of Lucan—has obtained no re• cognition of his services. Major-General lientinck—Colonelcy of the 28th Regi ment. . — Major-General Sir C. Campbell—Colonelcy of the 67th Regiment. Major-General P Regiment. Major-General the Earl of Cardigan—lnspector of Cavalry. Major General service. of the 40th for distinguished Major-General Airey—made a Major-General, and reward r distinguished service. Major-General Eatcourt—made a Major• General, and ward for distinguished service. Major-General Rose—made a Major-General. Major-General Scarlett—made a Major-General, and ward for distinguished service. Major-General Sir J. Campbell—made a Major-General, id reward for distinguished service. Major-General Torrens—made a Major-General, and !ward for distinguished service. Major-General Buller—made a Major-General. Major-General Eyre—made a Major-General. FIRE AND FARMING STOCK INSURANCES. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT of the amount of stamp duties paid during the past year by each of the Fire Insurance Companies of the United Kingdom has just been published. From a condensation of this document it appears that the proportions paid by the London offices stand in the order subjoined : t. t. Sun • 190,9181 Anchor 7,U39 Pho3nix Royal Exchange 77,631 County Imperial Alliance Atlas British Empire 5,475 Church of England 4,038 Equitable National Provincial 2,343 Law Union 1,471 Times Globe 36,822 Guardian Law 26,789 Athenaeum National Guardian 4OO Cambrian and Uni- London versal .. 276 Westminster London and County 232 Union Unity Monarch Royal Farmers' General British Provident lO6 Era Protestant Preserver 2B Hand•in•Hand .... 9,841 Eclipse Defender Returns are also given of the sums insured at each office on farming stock exempt from duty. Under this head the totals insured at the London offices are as follows : Sun 7 924,677 County 7 064,936 Royal Farmers' —4,402,112 Royal Exchange 4,333,941 Phcenix 4,316,266 Monarch Westminster Defender Anchor National Provincial 52,197 Law Union 36,885 Alliance Atlas Times . 34,116 U, lobe 1,073,129 Imperial unity Guardian Athenteum 43 9BO Church of England 25,391 Hand-in-Hand -.... 19,136 London 110,306 Union Law General British Empire .... 9,430 London and County 8,950 British Provident .. 2,700 Era Cambrian and Univ. Protestant Equitable 900 200 A BOHEMIAN CATHOLIC PRIEST, who had lately re• sided a short time in Prussia for the purpose of en tering the Protestant Church, and had complied with all the requirements of the Austrian law on the sub ject, has been treated with an amount of cruelty and injustice which will go far to eclipse the Madiai case. He was fetched by po ice agents at night out of bed and out of his parents' house at Prosnitz (in Moravia), and escorted back to his former monastery in Prague. As neither promises nor threats were effectual in prevailing on him to return to the "true " fold, his sufferings in his prison there were gradually but regularly increased ; this torture being equally ineffectual, the monks at length pronounced him in sane, and confined him with divers madmen in a dungeon close to the sewer of the building, where he still lies. FIVE YOUNG MEN, accused of taking part in poli tical "assassinations" in 1849, have been executed at Fimo (Roman States), after undergoing an impri stiomtut of BIZ /SAM SATURDAY, Unihrsitg nitiligtntt. OXFORD. It is in contemplation to raise a subscription for the purpose of founding a prize, to be called " The Gaisford. Prize," to perpetuate the memory of the late distinguished scholar and Dean of Christchurch. The Rev. the Master of Balliol, Dr. Scott, has been nominated a delegate of the University press, in the room of the late Dr. Usisford. The judges of the Denyer theological prizes have awarded the one on " The Sufficiency of Holy Scripture for the Salvation of Man " to the Rev. Benjamin Charles Catlin, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Worcester; the other, on " The Effect on the Human Heart of the due Dis charge of the Duties of Christianity in a Family," to the Rev. John Smith liilderdale, M.A., Oriel College. The Mathematical Class List appeared on Tuesday : First Class. —George Charles Bell, Worcester College ; Charles Joseph Faulkner, Pembroke College. . . Second data.— Charles Theodore Ms o, Pembroke College. Third Class.—Wm. Purton, Trinity College. Fourth Class.—John Burrough, Queen's College; Basil Tudor Craig. Magdalen Hall; Francis Charles ldingstoo, Exeter College; Henry Arthur Martin, St. Mary Hall; Henry Adair Pickard, Christ Church; Arthur Christopher Thynne, Balliol College. The following degrees have been conferred : B.D. and D.D. by Accumulation.—Rev. William Abiah Newman, Trinity College. B.D.—Rev. James Hughes (Fellow), Jesus College. DX; L.—Francis Compton, All Souls College. M.A.—Rev. Henry Hughes Still (Grand Compounder), Exeter College ; Rev. George Cuff, St. Mary Hall; Robert William Howell I Fellow), Jesus College ; Rev. John Skin ner Jones, Jesus College; Rev. Edward B. Smith, Brase nose College ; Rev. Robert Hawker Kingdom, Pembroke College; William Henry Goddard, Pembroke College; Rev. Henry Macdonald Maugham, Oriel College. ..... B.A.—John William Lace, University College; Henry Frederick Phillips, University College ; William Henry Hitchcock, University College • John Coker Banow, University College ; Hemming Robeson (scholar), Balliol College ' • Alfred Blomtield (scholar), lialhul College ; Arthur Christopher Thynne, Balliol College; Edward Bradford Medlycott, Merton College; James Adey Birds, Exeter College; Henry Stone, Exeter College; Charles Daniel Cave, Exeter College ; Thomas Hayley, Exeter College; Charles Turner Wilton, Exeter College; Francis Charles Hingston, Exeter College ; Charles Lewes Dash wood, Oriel College ; Arthur William Frye, Oriel College ; George Kimbell Borrett, Oriel College ; William John Ewins Bennett, Oriel College; John Burrough, Queen's College ; Frederick William Quilter, Lincoln College ; Lewis William Cave, Lincoln College ; Reginald Carlisle Kemp, Magdalen College; George Branson, Magdalen College ; Edward Powell Nichol!, Brasenose College ; Augustus William Henry Langford, Brasenose College •, Frederick Binley Dickinson, Brasenose College; David Gilbert Birds, Brasenose College ; Septimus Barnes, Christ Church; Charles John Hampden, Christ Church; Herbert Barnes, Christ Church; Henry Adair Pickard, Christ Church; Robert T. Crawley, Christ Church; William Mouro Wollaston, Trinity College ; Forster Lewis, St. John's College ; William Henry Crawhall, Wadham College; Harry Holdsworth Minchin, Wadham College; Frederick Philip Phelps, Wadham College; Henry Julian Bigsby, Wadham College; Robert Bowden, Wadham College; John Lee, Pembroke College; Frederick Shep herd, Worcester College ; Frederick Charles Skey, Wor cester College; Thomas Langford, Worcester College; Ebenezer Anderson, Worcester College ; George Brown low (scholar), St. Mary Hall; William Barlee, St. Mary Hall ; Henry A. Martyn, St. Mary Hall; Elford Copeland, Lethbridge, Magdalen Hall; William Coxon Daniel, Mag dalen Hall; Ebenezer Smith, Magdalen Hall; Arthur Hoskins, Magdalen Hall; William Joseph Baugh, Mag. dalen Hall. CAMBRIDGE. The following degrees have been conferred : B.D.—Rev. Stephen Parkinson and Rev. Henry Russell, Fellows of St. John's College ; Rev. Robert Herbert Cooke, Fellow of Sidney College ; Rev. Philip Bretton Dennis, Fellow of Emmanuel College. Licentiate in Medicine.—Thomas Trollope, Pembroke College. Bachelor of Medicine.—Charles Izard Beard, Trinity College. B.A.—Benjamin Sharp, Queen's College ; George Gur ney, Emmanuel College. Erratum.—ln the list of candidates who passed their examination at Cambridge, as given in the Pauss of the 2nd instant, the name of " V. Edlin " of Trinity, was mis printed " Eldin." REAR-ADMIRAL EDWARD BoxER, C. 8., who died of cholera at Balaklava on the 4th instant, was midship man of the Doris, and assisted at the cutting out of a French 20 gun corvette from Camaret Bay in 1801. He was a lieutenant of the Tigre, and commanded a detachment of seamen landed in Egypt in 1807, and a division of boats at the destruction of a convoy at Rosas in 1809, and also had the direction of the gun boats at the siege of Tarragona in 1813. He was also captain of the Pique in the operations on the coast of Syria and bombardment of St. Jean d'Acre in 1840. He was a lieutenant in January, 1807, a commander in March, 1815, a captain in June, 1823, and a Rear-Admiral of the Bide in 1863, subsequently having been promoted an Admiral of the White ► 231