The Press. — London, England, 1855-09-15 00:00:00

Court ant lastion. The Court remains at Balmoral, where at ten o'clock on Monday night the Queen received the glorious intelligence that Sebastopol " was in the hands of the allies." Her Majesty directed that this news should be generally communicated. The Prince, attended by Earl Granville, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the Hon. C. Phipps, and E. Becker, Esq., immediately proceed to the summit of Craig Cobh ain, where a quantity of firewood bad been collected. The joyful tidings had circulated rapidly through the neighbourhood, and the Highlanders were seen ap proaching in groups in every direction. The main body was led by Ross, her Majesty's piper, late of the 42nd Highlanders, playing favorite national airs. A considerable number of people was soon assem bled, and the erection of a bonfire was but the work of a few minutes, and upon the arrival of the Prince and the party accompanying him it was lighted and blazed high into the air, amidst the loud and oft repeated cheers of the assemblage. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by Mr. Gibbs, shortly after arrived. The Queen and the Duchess of Kent, with the ladies of the suite, viewed the dis tant scene from the windows of the castle. A little before twelve o'clock the whole concourse descended from the craig, and assembling before the castle windows sang " God save the Queen," and, after three hearty cheers, gradually dispersed. The weather is ezWemely fine, and Prince Albert has had excellent sport among the grouse preserves in the neighbourhood of Balmoral. The deer are very plentiful, and the Prince is expected to commence stalking immediately. The Rev. Dr. Hale, chaplain to the British Em bassy, has received from Queen Victoria, through Lord Cowley, a valuable diamond ring, as a mark of her Majesty's approbation of the manner in which he twice officiated in her presence at St. Cloud. Prince Napoleon landed at Southampton on Thurs dar afternoon, and left immediately for London. Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte, the celebrated ornithologist, who is at present in England attending the meeting of the British Association in Glasgow, has just been elected president of the " Congres Scientifique de France," a similar institution to our own association, and which is about to hold its meet ing at Pays de Dome. Prince Albert has been pleased to forward to Ser geant-Major J. Stee, and Quartermaster-Sergeant B. K. Spencer, Royal Sappers and Miners, a cheque for the sum of ten pounds " as a mark of his Royal Highness's approval of their attention and care in making the survey of Osborne." The Duke of Northumberland has been expend ing the enormous sum of 50,0001. a year in rebuild ing cottages, farm-houses, and buildings, and in draining lands on his vast estates in Northumber land, to say nothing of the splendid improvements going on in the stately castles of Alnwick and Warkworth. The Duke of Somerset has arrived in town from a cruise in the Baltic. His lordship was unable to attend the obsequies of his father, not having re ceived intelligence of the late duke's demise until he reached the north coast of Scotland. The Earl Granville will continue in attendance on the Queen at Balmoral until the week after next, when the noble Lord President of the Council will be relieved by the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, who is detained in town by public business. The Duke of Cambridge is about to visit the Mayor at Liverpool. His Royal Highness will arrive at Knowsley, the seat of the Earl of Derby, on Mon day the 9th of October. On Tuesday morning his Royal Highness will visit Liverpool and inspect the various public buildings, docks, &c. At the Town. hall, in the evening, the mayor will give a grand dinner-party, which will be followed by a ball, to which a large party will be invited. On Wednesday, the 10th, his Royal Highness will take a sail upon the river, for the purpose of viewing the great extent of the docks and harbour of Liverpool; and in the evening there will be a grand concert at St. George's hall. THE following Warrant, granting an extra field allowance to the army in the field, has appeared in the Gazette : Vic-ranTA R.—Whereas, we deem it expedient to grant a field allowance to the non-commissioned officers and soldiers of our regular army when engaged in active operations in the field against an enemy : our will and pleasure is, that from the Ist day of July, 1855, every non• commissioned officer and soldier then serving in the field, and every other non-commissioned officer and soldier from the date of arrival at the seat of war, shall be entitled to a field allowance of 6d. a day in addition to his daily pay, to be continued to him so long as he shall remain on active duty in the field. During the period of a noncommis sioned officer or soldier being in hospital his field allow ance will cease, but will be allowed from the day he returns to duty in the field. Given at our Court at St. James's, the 18th day of August, 1855, in the 19 th year of iarrsign.-71/ her Majesty's oommend, Rantuae. THE PRESS. Volitical and Otiteral. AN INDIAN PRINCESS, a ward of the Queen, resident in Edinburgh for her education, had an interview with her Majesty at Holyrood on Thursday week. THE EARL OF ELLESMERE will he the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire in the room of the Earl of Sefton, deceased. THE HON. F. Hrsocs, who is appointed to the governorship of Barbadoes, is an Irish gentleman, who has been settled for some years in Canada, where he conducted a Liberal newspaper with some success. He was elected a member of the Provin cial Parliament, and became distinguished for his financial abilities. He acquired no little fame by his correspondence with and against Sir C. Trevelyan on colonial finances. The late Colonial Secretary for Canada, the Hon. Mr. Daly, was also an Irish settler in Canada, and was promoted by Earl Grey to be Governor in the West Indies, and afterwards to be Governor of Prince Edward's Island. TEN THOUSAND ACRES OF LAND in various parts of the New Forest are about to be planted. About seventy acres of the New Forest were sold last week by the Government, and fetched about 231. 10s. an acre. The land sold is on the outskirts of the forest, and is covered with furze. It has to be fenced by the purchasers. THE remains of the late Mr. Feargus O'Connor were buried on Monday in the cemetery at Kensal green. A procession of working men, with banners having democratic inscriptions, accompanied the funeral procession. An oration was delivered over the body by Mr. Ernest Jones. AMONGST OTHER IMPROVEMENTS in course Of execution in London is a new street from the Strand to Covent-garden. It will extend from Burleigh street to Tavistock-court. The new road through Kensington and Brompton, leading to the Exhibition Museum, is now opened. THE recently circulated report, that the editorship of the Quarterly Review had passed into the hands of Mr. Stanley, is contradicted on authority. No change has taken place. A PROSPECTUS has been issued of the East India Coal Company, to be formed under the new Limited Liability Act, with a capital of 150,0001., in 101. shares, on which the deposit is to be ss. It is pro posed to work five coal mines, of which the two principal are situate within three miles of the East India Railway Company's terminus at Raneegunge, in Bengal, and 129 miles by rail from Calcutta. The seller, it appears, is to receive shares of the company in payment. It is asserted that the Bengal Coal Company, working in the immediate neighbourhood of the proposed mines, has fcr some years past regu larly paid its shareholders dividends varying from 12 to 10 per cent. THE conversion of Exeter 'Change into a large restaurant, the centre bore to be the chief apartment, and the shops side boxes, is suggested by the Building News. IN THE WILL OF THE LATE ABBOTT LAWRENCE, besides numerous private gifts, the sum of 130,000 dollars is appropriated for works of public benevo lence, as follows :—The Lawrence Scientific School, 50,000 dole.; for building model lodging-houses, 50,000 dole. ; Boston Public Library, 10,000 dols.; Franklin Library in the city of Lawrence, 5,000 dols.; American Bible Society, 5,000 dole. ; American Tract Society, 5,000 dole. ; and Home Missionary Society, 5,000 dole. One half of the net rents of the lodging houses is to be annually distributed to various chari• table institutions in Boston, and the other half is to accumulate in order to constitute a fund for keeping the lodging-houses in order. THE coal proprietors of Upper Austria are about to form a joint-stock company for the working of their mines. A branch railway, connecting it at Lam bach, is about to be made, in order to join the various collieries. ONE of the curious sights of Jersey is a vinery be longing to Mr. Tennimore, a gentleman of fortune. Throughout an immense long glass building the vines are trained along at a low height from the ground. It produces about 1,6001. worth of grapes yearly. ONE of the model balloons sent up by Mr. Gypson at the Botanical - gardens at Sheffield, last week, travelled as far as Chard, in Somersetshire, a distance of about two hundred miles, having occupied about two hours and three quarters in the voyage. Mr. Gypson states that the duration of this voyage by a balloon of five feet diameter is unprecedented, and he attributes it to the presence of a mixture of the solution of indiarubber in the varnish with which the balloon is glazed. THE candidates for the expected vacancy in the representation of New Ross are now almost too numerous to mention, but it is believed that the choice of the constituency is pretty evenly balanced between the Liberal Conservative, Mr. Tottenham, and the ex-member for Dublin city, Mr. John Rey nolds. SATURDAY, MR. JOHN SIMON, Officer of Health of the City of London, has been appointed medical officer of the General Board of Health, in pursuance of the act of last session, continuing that board, and authorising the appointment by it of a medical officer. IN the event of a vacancy occurring in the repre sentation of Armagh, W. M‘Geough Bond, Esq., of The Argory, intends to offer himself on the Con servative interest. The Hon. E. Kenyon has also been solicited to come forward. THE RETURNS OF THE LONDON REGISTRARS show that 1,015 persons, of whom 531 were males and 464 females, died in he week that ended on Saturday last. The mortality has continued at nearly the same rate during the last three weeks, and is not high for a season which in the metropolis is always more unhealthy than the early mouths of summer. The difference between September and the months of June and July as regards the effect produced on the public health is measured on an average by about 120 deaths in a week. THE PEEL STATUE, inaugurated a few days ago in Birmingham, remains unpaid for ; indeed, not half the required sum has yet been subscribed. When the commission was intrusted to Mr. Hollins, it was stipulated, says dries Gazette, that he should re ceive 2,000 guineas, but the effurts of the committee have failed to obtain a larger sum than 0001., and the sculptor is thus more than 1,0001. out of pocket. The sum already paid to Mr. Hollins will not nearly replace the money he has actually expended, and he is personally respcnsible for the pedestal, the rail ings, lamps, and casting of the statue; so that, un less the subscription should be largely increased, I will sustain a positive loss, while even the payment of the price originally agreed upon will leave but a scanty remuneration for his personal labour. WITH reference to a rumour which some months ago prevailed in this country, and found its way to India, whence it has been again received, we have authority for stating that since the return of our army from Cabul no intimation has reached the Go vernment of India of the detention of any officer of the late Cabul force in Central Asia. IT is a curious and interesting fact, says the York4hireman, that the last letter written by the late Mr. Hume was to the Queen, informing her that ho had a balance to pay into her hands, saved from the wreck of her father's property, of which the duke had made him a trustee. About a dozen persons, among whom was Hume, had subscribed to pay off the duke's debts, and Hume managed it all—he saved the duke's credit, paid off all his debts, coaxed his property, allowed him to die a popular and re spected man, and, in clearing up his own affairs in the world, had a considerable balance to pay into the hands of his old friend's daughter. This, of course, will astonish people, who could never have supposed the Radical Hume on good terms with a royal duke. But there was something more than that. He was on good terms with the Queen, who had, as a girl and woman as Princess and Queen, the highest re gard for him, and for whom he had the most un bounded respect. THE twenty-fifth meeting of the British Associa tion was opened in Glasgow on Wednesday. The general committee met in the Merchants'-hall at one o'clock for the election of sectional officers, and the despatch of business usually brought before that body. The Earl of Harrowby took the chair. THE BOUNTY TO ARTISANS joining the Royal Artil lery is now raised to 15/. ; cavalry, 10/. ; the Guards, 91.; infantry of the line, 8/. ; and the Land Trans port Corps, 51. During Tuesday last upwards of two hundred volunteers passed examination at the recruiting staff-office, Delahay-street, Westminster, for service in the army, and were drafted to Cha tham Weedon, Woolwich, Piershill, Newry, and Horfield. THE Conducta, from San Luis P otosi and Zaca tecas, has arrived at Tampico with about one million dollars, which were shipped for England per Royal Mail-steamer Wye, and it was expected she would get a still larger sum at Vera Cruz, if the Conducta from Mexico had arrived at that port. The latest accounts from Vera Cruz report it to have been cap. tured by the revolutionists. THE TELEGRAPHIC CABLE to be sunk between Cape Spartivento (Sardinia) and the coast of Africa, arrived at Cagliari on the 6th, on board the Result. THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH has honoured Mr. Jonas Webb, of Babraham, with a testimony of his regard, in the shape of a splendid silver candelabrum. It is of the most exquisite workmanship, in the form of an oak tree, containing five burners; the foliage is of frosted silver, and the acorns burnished, giving it when lighted an exceedingly dazzling appearance. Beneath the tree are figures of horses grazing, and of a mare and foal. The whole is beautifully exe cuted, and will no doubt be highly prized by its possessor, not only as a mark of distinguished honour, but as an instance of his Imperial Majesty's appreciation of the success which has at• tended Mr. Webb's endeavours to improve the breed of sheep. - gl 878