The Press. — London, England, 1856-09-06 00:00:00

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Payable in advance. .. /1 6 0 .. 0 13 0 .. 0 6 6 Subscribers are requested to send their Orders through their Sews Agent; if direct to the °Mee. accompanied by a remit tance. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittal. cp, Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALTBILD LYZ, HU. Stra.vt London. 2:11T 2) rog. LONDON, SATURDAY. SEPT. 6, 1856. POSTSCRIPT. Intelligence from Paris, Friday morning, states that a despatch from Neufchatel announces the tranquillity of the canton. The insurrection has been suppressed. The Emperor of the French is not expected to return to Paris before the 15th. There is some rumour of a naval review at Toulon before the final return of the Imperial family to Paris. A despatch from St. Petersburg, September 1, states.— The Minister of Finance has been authorised to issue three new series of paper•money, amounting to nine millions of silver roubles. Intelligence from Berlin states : We have received from Vienna a summary of a note said to have been addressed by the Porte to the Western powers. The note states that a protocol of the 11th of February, 1855, announced positively that Wallachia and Moldavia wire to enjoy a separate and independent Administration, u idec the suzerainty of the Sultan. The Paris Conference settled that they were to enjoy their past privileges, one of which was a separate Admint• strat ion. To unite them would be neither to their own interest nor to that of the great powers, as the Government would be merely a prize of contention for the rival influences of the two provinces. It is continued, that Sardinia will send an Envoy to represent her in future at the Frankfurt Diet. Letters from Athens of the 26th ult. assert that perfect tranquillity reigns in that city, and add that the Greek Government has ordered the draining of several lakes, as well as other public works. The judgment of the Holstein High Court of Appeal in the impeachment of the Minister M. von S:heele has been pronounced. The court declares against the competency of the tribunal before which the process has been brought, and dismisses the ac cusation. The Constantinople journals and letters to the 25th have come to hand. _ _ Reports were current. of a change in the Turkish Ministry, caused by differenc e s of opinion relative to the questions of the Isthmus of Suez and the principalities. With regard to the former, it is an ticipated that all difficulties will be removed by the expected visit of the Viceroy to Constantinople. The return of Reschi(l Pacha to office is talked of. He would, it is thought, advocate the union of the principalities. The English Colonels Genies and Stewart, late British commissioners with the Turkish army of Asia, having terminated their mission, were about to return to Constantinople by a steamer which had been sent for them to Trebizond. Two political semi-official paragraphs of some im rortance have appeared this week in the daily j , urnals. The occupation of Greece by the allied powers is alluded to by the Morning Post : We b we shall be found correct in anticipating that the allied forces will not be withdrawn from Greece at THE PRESS. present. Intelligence in our possession makes it certain that there is no intention of taking a step which would be most unadvisable in the actual condition of affairs at Athens itself and throughout the Greek kingdom. The conclusion of the Central American difficulty is thus intimated by the Daily News : The Control American difficulty is confidently stated to have received a satisfactory solution in a convention and treaty said to have been concluded between Honduras and Great Britain. The leading features of the arrangement are understood to be a guarantee of the neutrality of the territory to be traversed by the projected Inter oceanic Railway, and the freedom of its terminal ports against our cession of Ruatan and the other two small islands, in re• cognition of the equitable claim of the main State upon those dependencies. The statement that the Portuguese Government, in the late bread riots at Lisbon, applied to her Majesty's Government for the assistance of a squad ron in the Tagus, has been officially denied. MR. ROEBUCK AT SHEFFIELD. MR. ROEBUCK, M.P., has been pros- nted by his sons stituents with a purse of 1,1(X) guineas. The pre sentation took place on Thursday in the Music-hall at Sheffield. This sum is the residue of a subscrip tion opened some twelve months since, to provide for Sheffield a memorial, in the shape of a portrait, of its honourable member. The portrait will be placed in some public hall. After the usual intro ductory speeches had been made, Mr. Roebuck rose and briefly sketched his career in the House. He claimed for himself an independent individual posi tion. He was neither Whig nor Tory, but had ever advocated the good of the people : To that rule I have adhered, and no man can say now that lam either Whig or Tory. Other men, greater in intellect than myself, have gone into the House of Com mons, but have invariably joined one party or the other. They have won for themselves power and consideration, but it has been by sinking the individual, and making themselves one of a party to which they swore allegiance. I have succumbed to neither, but have represente 1 the people of England, and thus have won my way through the House of Commons. Forswearing obedience both to one party and the other, I hold it to be my greatest pride that I have not pandered to the people, but have opposed the popular voice whenever I have thought that voice wrong, just as I have opposed the Whig or Tory party when I have thought them wrong. The hon. gentleman then imputing failure to Government by parties, claimed enormous influence for "the very small knot of organised men" which he was enabled to gather " ad a party that would act without reference to the other great parties in the realm." It was through this party he hoped to achieve further benefits for the countrj. Mr. Roe buck then alluded to his position as chairman of the Administrative Reform Association, and declared that the country could not be well governed until the House of Commons was reformed. Now this desirable end was to be attained only through the Administrative Reform Association, which was about to reform the electors, who would reform their repre sentatives, who would remember their constituents, resist social and official temptations, and by voting only fur the good of the country secure its better government. Mr. Roebuck then told an anecdote or two of the manner in which Liberal members were caught, by social aristocratic baits, or cards for Royal balls, and voted " for the party." The part a man had to play in the House he admitted was very difficult, and required a courage to resist temptation rarely found. The most blustering orators, he mostly found, became, the moment they got into the House, "sucking-doves," and "the subjects and slaves of the aristocratic element.." With respect to the future, he thought great questions were about to arise. We were far too quiet—like the Yankee going down the smooth rapid river and nearing a cataract. "He d;d not like the almighty stillness," and thought a cataract of revolution was at hand : I believe that we are on the very precipice of great changes both abroad and at home. I cannot believe that mankind, keying arrived at that point of civilisation and education at which it has, Europe can long remain rub jected to the despotism which now ovetwhelma it. God forbid that the struggles of mankind since 1789 should issue only in the base despotism I now see overshadowing Europe. I believe mankind will rise up, and I hope that they will do. I hope they will rise up against the des potism that now weighs them down ; but in so rising they will imperil much for themselves, and at the same time do much for you; for be assured that no revolution can take place in Europe but will find somewhat of an echo and exercise an influence, in England. Not that we are not a happy people. We are unlike the rest of Europe; here public opinion reigns supreme. In Europe can you find the Times newspaper? No. Can you find a plain speaking man? No. Should not Ibe shut up to-morrow ? Well then, what is good for England is good for Europe. I believe that the great mission of England is to perpe tuate, not only its generous inatitltions, but the opinions of its people We are the reigning people of the Euro pean continent, and I will be bold to say that the opinions we entertain, the example we set to all surrounding nations, will have itm effect. and that they will point to England and will say, why can't we be like Englishmen? And they I can be so. The Italian, the Frenchman, the German, SATURDAY, the Hungarian, the Bohemian, the Pole—all can be like Englishmen. 1 believe, gentlemen , that the time is coming when the great nationalities of Europe wid rise up as one man against the oppressive despotisms which now weigh them down. Pe you prepared for that change. You may set an example to the world at large by your steadfastness in well•doing, by your obedience to the law, by your self• government ; showing that liberty is safety, and that the only safety for mankind is through liberty. SELECT COMMITTEE ox TRANSPORTATION THE resolutions of the Select Committee on Trans portation which sat last session, and which will be pub lished officially in the course of next week, report in favcur " of the continuance of transportation," and that every punishment by penal servitude should in clude—first, a certain fixed period of imprisonment and hard labour on public works to be undergone, at all events ; secondly, a further period which should be capable of being abridged by the good conduct of the convict himself : That, with a view to give full effect to this principle, the sentences of penal servitude prescribed by the act should be changed and lengthened, so as to be identiehl with the terms of transportation for which they are re• spectively substituted. That the hulk system, which appears by the evidence to be already in a great measure relinquished, should be finally abandoned with as little delay as possible ; and that the scale of secondary punishment would he more complete if a shorter period of penal servitude than any now in force were enacted as an intermediate sentence between the present term of ordinary imprison- ment now usually inflicted and the former seuteoce of seven years' transportation, or its equivalent. Upon the subject of tickets of leave the committee report that it is sound in principle, but That the system has been too short a time in operation in this country to enable the committee to form a clear and decided opinion either as to the effects which it has alrescly produced, or as to its probable ultimate working. That there is reason to believe that the conduct of a large proportion of the whole number of persons dia• charged upon tickets of leave has hitherto been good, and that in other cases persons so discharged have re• lapsed into crime from the difficulty, arising from their former characters becoming known, of procuring or retain ing honest employment in this country—a difficulty, how ever, which obviously applies to all persons once con• victed, whether discharged upon tickets of leave or abso. lutely at the expiration of their sentences. The committee suggest— That to render this system of good.condnet licences adapted both for the reformation of offenders and the inte• rests of the public, the conditions endorsed on the licence ought to be enforced, and that every convict, on his release with a good conduct licence, ought to be reported to the police of the town or district to which he is sent. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesdny, September 2. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED--Joa BRosinuntsr, Langton, Stoke-upon-Trent, earthenware manufacturer. BANKRUPTS.—WM. BAINBRIDOE and ,--losspn JaxEs DALE (otherwise Dele or Dell), Southwark-bridge Road, Surrey, shoe manufacturers—J %NE ELIZA NORTON and GEORGE ZACHARIAN WHITE, 21, Wharf, Harrow-road, Paddington, stone merchants and whartingers—JOAN Ross, Brunswick-terrace, Commercial road East., Middlesex, shipowner—Joss CARPENTER, Hythe, Hants, grocer and baker—GEORGE 11ENTON, South Audit) , street, licensed victualler Joint Comicrr. Birmingham, licensed victualler—EDMUND BORERTS.Derbyjeweller—ALLEN SEARELL, Furzeley-mill, near Ashburton, Devon, miIIer—BEN JAMIN GREENING, Manchester, wire worker and agricultural implement maker—JAMES TAYLOR, Bottoms-hall Mill, Tottington Lower-end, Lancaster, cotton spinner. Friday, September 5. BANKRUPTS.—Joszrn MiLLER, Bevois-street, Southamp ton, publican—SAsrust. DAVIS, Bristol, g:otier—EDWARD PERRY. Fenchurch-buildings, merchan , —Goi , rarr GitsnottY PIPE, Birmingham, grocer—HENßY JAMES Baowx, Queen's buildings, Knightsbridge, cheesemonger—DONALl. M JOHN M'Kiat, and ROBERT LAMONT, Liverpool, merchants— Wtmasit Barrrsis Joss Birmingham, gi ocet—SAitust. Sutra, Northampton, machine maker—WiLmax SMITH, Wat ford, Hertfordshire. banker—JAMßS ADAMS, crown-wharf, shad Thames. millwright—JAMEs THOMAS, Ebbw Vale, Maanotali shire, grocer—Pm:it SCATTERGOOD, StApleford, machine maker —NATHANIEL ELl.lorr. Manchester, oigar dealer., SCOTCH sEQUESTRATIONS.—JAMES STEEL and Sows, Dundee, engineers and iron founders—Ham. and ROBSON, Glasgow, sewed-muslin warehousemen—Messrs. JAMES and THOMAS M'Ksswn, Glasgow, oil merchants. The inquest upon the bodies of those persons killed in Swan alley last Tuesday was held yesterday, before Mr. Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The evidence of the different tenants showed that the house was in a most dilapidated condition, but they had not complained of it to Mr. Crane, the landlord. The district surveyor .sid the house pre sented no dangerous appearances from without ; it fell simply from the rottenness of the ends of the joists and rafters. Mr. Crane, the landlord, said that he had never examined the main timbers of the house. He had no notion it was in dang.-r of falling. Mr Par e summed up, and the jury, after deliberating twenty minutes, returned a verdict of " Accidental death," accompanied with the following recommendation : The jury earnestly recommend to the Commissioners of Sewers that they would authorise a special survey forth with to he made of all buildings in the city of London, that from age, or other causes, may be supposed to be out of substantial,repair.