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

JUNE 16, 1855. when his Majesty mounts the throne next September, and that the Portuguese Government will then con tribute a contingent to the allied forces. TURKEY. Letters .from Constantinople state that the dis • missal of Riza Pacha, the Minister of War, arose from a threat made by OMer Pacha that he *ould send in his resignation if Riza did not retire. Riza Pacha is appointed commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guard, instead of Mehemet Reschid Pacha, the head of the war party at Constantinople. The sultan has consented to hand over 3,000 of the Turkish troops, to form a skeleton for the Anglo- Turkish army of reserve at the Bosphorus. The Turkish officers will be replaced by English officers, as soon as the latter are able to give the word of command in the Turkish language. The Anglo• Turkish army is leaving Buynkdere for Asia. UNITED STATES. Two mails from New York itivearrived this week. The Baltic reached the Mersey on Sunday, having sailed on the 30th nit , brought besides the mails 247 passengers, and 1,880,1100 dollars in specie on freight. The Arago arrived at Southampton on Thursday night, with dates to the 2nd inst., bringing 500,000 dollars in specie, and 240 passengers. The piratical expedition against Nicaragua at tempted sailing from New York on the 28th ult., but was prevented by the authorities, and the scheme is said to be entirely abandoned. The Kane Arctic expedition was to leave on the 2nd instant. The last advices from California are dated May Ist. The mining accounts are reported favorable, but business generally dull. Mexican dates are to May 10th. A victory had been obtained by Government over the insurgent troops. Santa Anna had not returned from an expedition to Michoacan. Robberies and executions were daily taking place, and there were no signs of ameliora tion. Havannah news to the 25th ult. states that the pre. valance of yellow fever and smallpox had created great excitement. The siege of Cuba ceased on the 23rd. CANADA. The Canadian Parliament, which was prorogued on the 28th ult., adjourned without definitely con cluding a proposition to donate lands to soldiers en listing in the Foreign Legion for the Crimea. A further grant of 5,0001. for the Paria Exhibition was voted. INDIA. The overland India mail reached Trieste on Tues day, with advices from Calcutta of the 4th of May; Madras, 9th of May; and Bombay, 12th of May. The accounts states that Nepaul and Thibet are treating for peace, and that. Munglo, the chief of the Burmans, has revolted against the English. There is nothing new from British India. Lord Dalhousie's health is indifferent. Trade was very depressed and limited. THE CATTLE PLAGUE. Ix consequence of the near approach of the so-called Rinderpest, or cattle plague, which has been for a long time past committing fearful ravages amongst the flocks and herds in Russia, the authorities in Memel have taken the alarm, and considered it ne cessary to take some energetic steps to prevent the introduction of the dreadful pestilence into Prussia. They have, therefore, just published a proclamation totally prohibiting the importation from Russia of horned cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, dogs, and poultry fresh skins of oxen, and other animals; horns, un melted tallow, fresh beef, furs, manure, and stable implements that have been used. The following articles are prohibited if there is reason to believe they are the produce of infected or suspected dis tricts: raw wool, dried hides, and the hair of ani mals, with the exception of hogs' bristles. All per sons who from the nature of their avocations may be fairly supposed to have had personal contact with infected cattle, such as cattle-dealers, butchers, gra rim, drovers, tanners, leather merchants, and poultry dealers, will not be allowed to enter the Prussian territory, and should special reasons exist far making exceptions in particular cases, they must remain for some days before their admission under the surveil lance of the authorities, submitting to such regula tions as may be considered needful for the general security. In order the more effectually to maintain a control over travellers and goods arriving from Russia, they will only he allowed to cross the fron tiers at the stations of Nimmersatt, 13ajohren, Lan gallen, and Paschenkrug, all the others being for the present hermetically closed, except to goods and passehgeie going across the frontiers into Russia. A MonEr, of the monument propogrd to be erected on Windmill hill, Gravesend, to be called " The Alma Tower," is shown in the town, and the project has been laid before {be Town Council, tilg PRVSS. PRINCE ALBERT AT THE TRINITY-HOUSE. THE annual banquet, which formerly took place on Trinity Monday, was given on Saturday evening, at the Trinity-house, Tower-hill, when his Royal Highness Prince Albeit, the Master of that ancient corporation, attended the entertainment. Lord Palmerston was also among the guests at the banquet, which was of the usual sumptuous charac ter, and after dinner both the Prince Consort and the Primo Minister addressed the assembled guests. His ROYAL. HIGHNESS proposed the toast, " Her Majesty's Ministers," and said : If there was ever a time at which her Majesty's Go vernment, by whomsoever conducted, required the sup port, ay, not the support alone, but the confidence, good will, and sympathy of their fellow•countrymen, it is surely the present. (Loud cheers.) It is not the way to success in war to support it, however ardently and enthusiasti cally, and at the same time to tie down and weaken the hands of these who have to conduct it. (Cheering.) We are engaged with a mighty enemy, who is using against us all those wonderful powers which have sprung up under the generating influence of our liberty and our civilisa tion. You find him with all that force which unity of pur pose and action, impenetrable secresy, and uncontrolled despotic power, have given, while we have to meet him under a state of things intended for peace, and for the promotion of that very civilisation, the offspring of public discussion, of the friction of parties, and of the popular control on the Government and the State. (Hear, hear.) The Queen has no power to levy troops, nor has she any at her command, but such as offer their voluntary services. (Hear, hear.) Her Government can take no measure for the prosecution of the war which it has not beforehand to explain in parliament. Her armies and fleet can make no movements, nor even prepare for any, without their being publicly announced in the papers. No mistake, however trifling, can occur, no want or weakness exist, which is not at once denounced and even sometimes exaggerated with a kind of morbid satisfaction. (Loud and continued cheering.) The Queen's embalm dot can enter into no negotiations without the Govern ment having to defend him by entering into all the argu ments which that negotiator, in older to be successful, ought to be able to shut up in t he innermost recesses of his heart. (Loud cheers.) Nay, at the most critical posi• tion, when war and diplomatic relations may be at their height, an adverse vote in Parliament may at a moment de prive the Queen of the whole of her confidential servants. Gentlemen, our constitutional Government is undergoing a heavy'trial—and we shall not get successfully through it unless the country will grant its confidence—patriotic, intelligent, and self-denying confidence—to her Majesty's Governinent. ( Loud cheers.) , . Replying to the address, Lord P, served : I beg, on the part of my colleagues and myself; to return our best and sincere thanks for the honour you have done us in drinking the toast which his Royal Highness has been kind enough to propose, and for the flattering manner in which you have been kind enough to receive it. We are assembled under the roof of a body whose duties are inti mately connected with those arrangements which form one of the most important elements of our national wealth, and which also lay the foundation for one of the most im portant sources of our national strength. There is, in deed, a unity of operation between the Government that may have to administer the affairs of this country and the body which has done us the honour to receive us, which also tends to make that honour which has been conferred more agreeable to us, for it is the function of the Trinity Corporation to provide pilots for those thousands of keels that plough the waves that wash our shore ; and, on the other hand, to erect those lights which warn navigators from dangers which they would otherwise have to encounter, and which point oat to them the havens where safety is to be obtained. (Hear, hear.) The duty of Minlitters is of a somewhat similar description. It is to guide and to enlighten, and we well know, taking the example from yourselves, that properly to guide we must begin by en lightening. We are now intrusted with the command of the vessel of the State, and 1 am proud to say that that noble vessel was never ih better "trim," was never better formed, never had on board It more noble crew than at the present moment. It is full of men animated by the most exalted devotion to their duty, and determined to hear in the " battle and the breeze," with honour and safety, that royal standard which floats nobly and gloriously over their heads. (Cheers.) We have certainly up to the present moment bad storms and difficulties to encounter, but I am convinced that, with the assistance of that crew which have mentioned, those difficulties and disasters will be sur mounted, and that by a " strong pull, a long pull, and a pull altogether," we shall be enabled to bring the vessel of State safely through and anchor in the harbour of honour able and permanent peace. (Cheers.) THE MORTALITY OF LONDON IS still higher than it should be in the beginning of June, a month which is usually the healthiest in the year ; hut the returns of the last two weeks prove that the public health is approaching a more satisfactory state. Last werk 1,087 persons, of whom 565 were males and 52i females, died. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845 54, the average number was 931, and if this is raised in proportion to the increase of popula tion it becomes 1,024. There was therefore an excess in the deaths of last week of 63 above the estimated amount. ' ~➢lß. ARTFTiIt GUINNESS, the head of the great Dublin brewing establishment, known all over the world for its " double stout," died on Saturday lsit at the advanced age of fir 4. 505 OPENING OF THE NEW CATTLE-hiARKE' THE opening of the new cattle-market, whither, after so long a struggle, the glories of old Smithfield are to be transferred, took place on Wednesday last. Prince Albert attended to give éclat to the ceremonial, which in other respects presented nothing beyond the routine formalities observed time out of mind on similar occasions. There were marquees for the dis tinguished guests, and seats in the open air for those of less pretensions, balconies and windows crowded with company in all the buildings overlooking the scene, and a miscellaneous concourse of uninvited spectators in all the avenues and circumjacrnt spots where a glimpse of any of the performances could, or could not, be obtained. The ceremony began at 11 o'clock, when the Prince was conducted in formal procession round the market by the Lord Mayor, ac companied by many members of the London corpora tion and a throng of official and civic personages. 'the procession over, with some subsequent visitations and inspections, addresses were read and replied to, and then the company proceeded to luncheon, after which two or three toasts and brief speeches conch:id, d the performances. Yesterday (Friday) the new market opened for the first time for the real business of a " cattle day ; " and the ancient Smithfield, as a cattle market, is now a thing of the past. The total cost of the new undertaking has exceeded 4,000,0001., which will be defrayed out of the funds of the city of London. The following is a description of the site and structure of the new market : It is situated in Copenhagen-fields, close to the North London Railway, and theretore stauds very conveniently for stock forwarded from the kistem Countiei and from the districts traversed by the Great Northern and the North- Western lines. From the Great Western, also, animals can be conveyed here more readily than to Smithfield, and these of course are the principal sources of supply, the quantity of stock coming to town by the South-Eastern and South-Western railways being comparatively small. The site is airy, open, and well adapted fur the observance of sanitary rules ; and so far in the country as to command rather a striking view of London. Altogether the corpora tion have purchased 75 acres of land, but for the strict objects of the market itself they do not at present require more than 151 acres, and for subsidiary uses about the saute quantity. The land remaining over, however, must be en hanced in value considerably, and, if not wanted, will always be worth more than was given for it, as the 75 acres were obtained at an average price of Stitt!. per acre. The 151 acres hued up for the strict purpose of the market form a square area of Sit) feet, paved throughout with granite, capable of being flushed with water from every part, sins rounded by a very handsome railing, and having in the centre a clock-tower 150 feet high. The space is therefore larger by nine acres than that of Smithfield, and is capable of contaiuing 30,000 sheep, 6,4(t) bullocks, 1,40t1 calves, and 900 pigs. This is considerably beyond the present supply of stock on the most crowded market dais, and is quite enough to meet the present requirements. When more aceomodation is wanted it can readily be provided. Dividing the market from north to south into two equal portions, the eastern half is devoted to cattle, and that on the west side to sheep, pigs, and calves. The two last mentioned classes have excellent sheds provided for them, with an inclined plane down the centre of each, so that the animals may be taken in carts to the spot where they aro to be exhibited for sale, and the cruelties et Wont prac tised in bringing them to Smitlified and removing them can be entirely avoided. It may be considered worthy of notice at this point that the architect, Mr. Bunning, while carefully providing features in his plan by which unneces sary torture may be dispensed with, has not neglected to consult the fancies of i-ellers. For instance, the pig sales men like to show their stock in sloping pens, and this notion of theirs has keen strictly atienued to. Mr. Ban ning also deserves great credit for the convenient arrange• ment of the sheep•pens, the cattle alleys, and the numerous entrances to the market. The plan of the sheep•pens is so devised that the whole space can be filled or cleared without any of that obsttuction, waste of time, and uproar which those who have visited Smithfield on a Monday morning will not readily forget. The cattle alleys are also wider than at Smithfield, and each bullock has two feet apace instead of a foot-and-a-half. This is considered suf ficient to permit of their being properly seen and handled by buyers without giving them room to lie down, which would be deemed objectionable. Another great improve ment which the new market presents is the central position of the clock-tower, which has not only market bells and an illuminated clock for marking time in the dark winter mornings, but which has round its base the banking houses for the pecuniary transactions of the market ; the office of the market superintendent, where twice in the day the amount of cattle on sale will be exhi bited ; and an electric-telegraph station for the trans mission of messages. At each of the four corners of the indulged fidd , lrangular spice public urinals and water-closets have been constructed, and both there and in the market provision has been made for the preservation of sewage manure, should any of the schemes aflodt fur doing so be eventually realised. The railing which indorses the area of the market is well and id-minim ally set off by standards bearing in relief, according to the part where they arc placed, the beads of bullocks, sheep, calves, or pigs. The space outside of the market has been occupied by the expense of theslaughter-houses,se,ens corporation, taverns, ian ad is, moreover, ndgin-palac inndt , built te et t, to . pre vide a site for a hide market and fur a building in which to display agricultural implements and produce. The lairs are, of course, a most useful and necessary feature of such an undertaking, and ander good management *ill n