The Press. — London, England, 1855-08-18 00:00:00

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Money Orders to be wade payable to Mr. ALYEZD PM, 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 not avail ourselves. Ccmmuoications 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 flame and address of the writer, not necessarily for publics. tion, but as a guarantee of his gOod faith. Advertisements sent from the country• must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. ( - "tx 1 rtgg+ LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1855. POSTSCRIPT. RENEWED BOMBARDMENT OF SEBAS TOPOL. The subjoined announcement was issued from the War-office at a late hour yesterday evening : Lord Panmure has received the following in telligence from General Simpson, dated Crimea, 18th August . General Pelissior and I have decided on opening fire from the English and French batteries at dawn to-morrow morning. Advices from Konigsberg state that when the at tack on Sweaborg began the Grand Duke Constan. tine, immediately informed by telegraph of the event, demanded leave to go out and attack the reduced fleet before Cronstadt. The Emperor refused. A bill is to be presented to the French Legislative Body at the opening of the next Session, by order of the Emperor, which provides that all pensions to widows and orphans of soldiers who have died in war shall be henceforth doubled. General Canrobert arrived yesterday in Paris from the Crimea. On Saturday evening the 4th battalion of the Austrian infantry regiment of the Grand Prince Michael left Vienna by the southern line in a special train. After having run a distance of about sixteen English miles a terrible concussion took place. Seve ral carriages were broken to pieces, six men killed, and thirty more or less severely wounded. The accident was caused by collision with a luggage train. News reached Paris yesterday from Turkey that a strong Russian division is marching on Erzeroum, and that all the disposable Turkish forces in Anatolia are hastening towards the same place. We regret to announce the death of Henry Colburn, Esq., the late eminent publisher. The sad event took place on Thursday at his residence, 14, Bryan stone-square; THE PRESS. By a telegraphic message received in town it appears that Mr. Patrick Park, the sculptor, died on Thursday morning at Warrington. The deceased was celebrated for his portrait sculpture. He was a native of Glasgow, and studied under Thorwaldsen at Rome. He was remarkable for the vigorous and faithful expression of his busts. Among those who sat to him were the Emperor Napoleon 111., the Duke of Cambridge, Mr. Layard, M.P., Sir Harry Smith, the late Sir Charles Napier, Lord Dundonald, &c. Mr. Park was in the prime of life, and was warmly esteemed by a large body of friends. Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing-park, died suddenly on Tuesday last. This much respected lady, so well known in fashionable circles, was, up to the moment of her death, apparently in excellent health. The Count and Countess Persigny will not leave London during her Majesty's visit to France. THE NEW BEER ACT, which received the Royal assent on Tuesday, will take effect to-morrow. It is entitled "An Act to repeal, alter, and amend the Act of the Seventeenth and, Eighteenth Years of her pre sent Majesty, for further regulating the Sale of Beer and other liquors on the Lord's-day, and to substitute other provisions in lieu thereof." It contains five clauses, and declares that as the recited act has been found to be attended with inconvenience to the public, the said act is repealed, and the hours for publichouses to be open are now on Sunday, Christ mas-day, Good Friday, or any fast or thanksgiving day, from Ito 3 and from sto 11. The houses are not to be opened before 4 o'clock on the morning following the days mentioned, except to a traveller or lodger therein. Constables are empowered to enter publichouses. A penalty not exceeding Si. may be levied for every offence against the act, and every separate sale to be deemed an offence. The expres sion "bon& fide traveller" has been left out of the new law. Tim EAGLE ASSURANCE COMPANY held their annual meeting on the 10th instant at Badley's Hotel, Joshua Lockwood, Esq., the deputy-chairman, occu pying the chair. The report which was then pro. sented to the shareholders exhibited a considerable expansion in the business transactions and in the income of the Company. The total receipts for the year ending on the 30th of June last were 139,7131., and the surplus left, after paying all expenses, claims, ttc., was 49,162/. In the previous year the receipts had been 130,0051., and the surplus 18,287/. only. During the twelvemonth last past 9,2841. was received as premiums upon new assurances, and 95,492/. for renewals. The claims on decease of lives amounted to about 57,0007., to which very nearly 4,000/. was added on account of' the bonuses declared by the Company at different periods. On the general balance-sheet there was shown a gross amountof assets exceeding 1,786,0007., against which the liabilities, including the estimated aloe of all the assurance policies granted by the Company, exhibited a total of 521,0001., and left a surplus fund of not less than 265,0001. The report was adopted unanimously. THE ANNUAL. Accouters of the Chamberlain of the City of London were issued on Saturday. The duties raised under the Metropolitan Improvement Acts amount to 162,5541. 14a. 4d. ; the expenditure under the same head was 23,2051. 18s. Bd,; leaving a sur plus of 139,3451. 15s. Bd. The expenditure of the year in connection with Blackfriars-bridge reached 2,6831. 15s. 10d., which is defrayed principally out of the surplus rents and profits of the Bridge-house estate. The receipts of the Bridge-house estate were 26,3831. ls. 3d., cf which sum 21,5501. was paid in liquidation of the 431,0001. advanced out of the Con • solidated Fund towards rebuilding London-bridge. The receipts incidental to the Thames naviga tion were 7,6041. 11s. 3d., and the expenditure 11,3061. 17s. 7d., the difference being made up out of former balances. The receipts under the head of police were 47,6441. 2s. Bd., and the expenditure 42.3271. ss. 4d. The sewerage receipts were 120,1551. 2s. Ild., and the duty on coals produced 17,9171. 10s. 9d. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCTETY.—The twenty second purchase of land for allotment amongst the members, has just been made in the centre of the town of Guildford, West Surrey. THE sale of the furniture and other effects of the house, No. 34, Hill-street, Berkeley-square, lately in the occupation of Mr. Strahan, was concluded on Thursday last. The property comprised a service of beautiful Sevres and Dresden porcelain, the cellar of wines, an extensive library, a choice collection of pie tutes, vases, pianofortes, &c., and was divided into 630 lots, for which severally the competition wasvery spirited. The entire sale realised about 4,0001. The house was sold by the same auctioneers for 8,9001. which, with the house, &c., in the Strand, will bring in for the creditors about 35,0001. It is stated that the Ashtead estate, which was knocked down for 27,0001, was bought in at that sum. glutton Intatigttut. 787 3 _ THE HERTFORD ELE C T ION came off on Tues day and resulted in the unopposed return of the Hon. W. F. Cowper, the newly-appointed President of the Board of Health. AT KIDDERMINSTER on Tuesday Mr. Lowe, Vice- President of the Board of Trade, was re elected without a contest. Some opposition had been threa tened by Mr. Boycott, who addressed the electors on the day of nomination, but declined to go to a poll. A VACANCY has been created at TOTNESS by the death of the Duke of Somerset, and consequent re moval of Lord Seymour to the Upper Houhe. The election will, it is said, be warmly contested, each party having declared their attention to bring forward a candidate. THE Portsirolth Guardian mentions a report that Sir Francis Baring is about to accept office under the present Government, and wil consequently be obliged to appear again before his constituents. MILITARY SPECTACLE AT CREMORNE. TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS." Sir,—l consider it a duty I owe to myself, to the patrons of the Wellington Fete, and to my very libe ral patrons the public, to address you on this sub ject, as censure has been prematurely and unjustly cast upon me by the reporter of the Times in regard to the accident which occurred during its portrayal, and strictures made which I conceive to be quite un called for, either by intentions, the fete itself, or the unfortunate casualty which attended it. For the accident, which I much deplore, and which marred the final tableaux, neither I nor any of my establishment are in any way responsible. Every pre caution was taken to prevent any, even the slightest, disaster; and had the soldiers, during a momentary enthusiasm, not acted contrary• to previous directions and positive orders given at a rehearsal and repeated at the time, neither this casualty nor any other would have occurred. In conclusion, I am happy to inform you that the injuries sustained by the soldiers have been much exaggerated, and that the sufferers are fast re covering.—l am, sir, your most obedient servant, T. B. Snarsox. Cremorne-gardens, Aug. 15, 1855. THE Nord, the journal lately started at Brussels for the advocacy of Russian views, having applied to the Societe des Gens de Lettres of France to be per mitted, in the same manner as other home and foreign publications, to conclude a treaty for the re production of the works of French writers members of the society, a special meeting was called to con sider the proposition. After due deliberation, the chairman was directed to send a reply that "the so ciety refused to have any kind of intercourse with a journal in the pay of Russia." THE festival of the three choirs of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, comes off at Hereford next week. The arrangements in the cathedral and con cert•room are nearly completed. The concerts will be held at the Shire-hall, which is being appropriately fitted up for the purpose. The musical portion of the festival will be brought to a close on Friday morning, as usual, with Handel's Messiah ; and, for the first time at Hereford, a grand dress-ball will be given on Friday night, under the patronage of the nobility and gentry of the county. THE LATE MISS MITFORD.—It is proposed to erect to the memory of Mary Russell Mitford, authoress of "Our Village," ite..tc., some memorial which shall testify the respect entertained by many, not only in England but in America, both for her literary talents and her private virtues. It is hoped that funds may be provided for erecting a plain monument over her grave, in the churchyard of that village which she has made famous by her presence and her writings ; and for building, if possible, a school in the same parish, to be dedicated by name to her memory. THE UNIVERSITY OF KONIGSBERG intends to erect a monument to the philosopher Kant, once the great ornament of that institution. It is to be a statue in bronze, and will be placed on the daily promenade of the great man, which, after him, has been called " der Philosophensteig " (the Philosopher's Path). THE receipts of the theatres and other places of public amusement in Paris considerably diminished during the last month. The amount received was 1,180,249 f. 34e., being 120,057 f. 05c. less than in the month of June. THE last season of the Italian Opera at Vienna bee been a complete failure in a financial point of view. The expenditure amounted to no less a sum than 300,000 florins (i.e., about 30,000/1 ; snd although the performances were well attended, the receipts did not amount to half that sum, leaving a deficiency of 128,000 florins—say 12,8001. DTHE Lycztra.—Mr. Anderson, the celebrated Great Wizard of the North, is to open this theatre in Sep tember. We understand that he is making extra ordinary preparations for the new series of enter tainments he is about to produce for the winter season.