The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

A Brrrrit Dzsemr-rtoN Omxterses Axe Cuts
is expected to be prepared for the public. after the
Ist of next month. It is enacted by the 16 and 17
1 ie., c. 33, that persons, from and after the Ist of
October, desirous of obtaining • licence to keep, use,
or let to hire any metropolitan stage or hackney car
riage, are to apply in writing to the Pollee Commis
sioners, in order that they may cause au inspection
to be made of the vehicles, and, if found to be in a
proper condition for public use. are to grant a eerti-
&ate, on which the Inland Revenue Board is to
grant a lieence. No licence is to be granted with
out such eertificate. The Police eommissitafers
may came an inspection to be mule of the vehieles
and horses, and if they are not in a fit condition
the licences may be suspended, and the Stamp office
plate recalled. Penalties are to be imposed for di.
obeying the act.
FOR THE CI.OsINO Or PrMSC-fIOVSTS ON THE. SAR
IiATH 1142 petitions, hearing 51,1167 signatures, have
born presented since IS-15 to the House ofcumulous.
Since the same year 1,1511 petitions have been pre
sented for the better ebservance of the Lord.a.day,
bearing 219,256 signatures.
THE Dowt.ms Ino• Wonss are now in activity
again, the whole of the colliers who remained upon
the spot having resumed labour. They do not, how-
ever, number more than 300 men, whereas the force
that struck for the advance was fully 1,100. The
others have gained employment elsewhere. A number
of the best men have emigrated tee Australia; and see
great. has hewn the emigration from Merthyr that it
exceeds the influx by :111 per Cent. The iromme.ter,
cannot depend upon all In.it supply, as the Ilink
the sister isle prefer Allteriea or Australia, and labour
is scarce in all the Welsh markets. The work. at
Dowlais have been put into a state of thorough re-
pair, new brickyards having been tweeted.
Tile GREAT WESTERN COMPANY have agreed to
offer terms of amalgamation to the Shrewsbury fuel
Birmingham and Shrewsbury and Chester Company.
They propose to give an interest of 31 per cent. on
the capital stele+, with a moiety of the surplus profits,
and to have these terms secured by an act. This
a:Moment was adopted by the shareholders of the
Great Western Railway, at a general meeting held
in London on Wednesday, with the view of termini'
ring all the disputes which have so long prevailed
respecting the policy of the several companies.
A T El,Eeift %rim, 'TIME-BAIT., similar to that in the
Strand, has just been erected near the docks in Liver
pool ; and when it falls at one o'cloek, indicating the
Greenwich time, every ship leaving the Mersey will
adjust its chronometer accordingly.
THE Losno• Conayaeosnrwr of the Gaierny Vim
dicatny states that the Government have it in con-
templation to meal the present Governor of Aus-
tralia, and to divide his duties into four district go
vernorships, to one of which, it is stated, one of the
present members few Galway is to be appointed.
'Tor PeoensAt. for removing the shipment of the
Cape mails from Plymouth to Sonthampton is still
the subject of communieation between the Post-office
ant hornless and the Admiralty. It is believed, how
ever, that the Hume.) is decided upon, and that the
only question now at issue turns upon the days on
*lnch the mails should be made up.

'rn NAVVIATTON of the Sublet )1)4,11111 of the
nube is getting more Micah from 411 to 4149. The
water im 140 low that sailing-ships eannot pass M. all.
The dredging-steamer which was to remove the sand
does not work ; it only pretends to work. Thu Petrie,
however, announces that in eolo4lllllooleo of recent
negotiatinns it has been &sided that a mixed coin
mission of engineers shall be charged to determine
the plan of the works to be performed in the channel
of the Sulina; and that M. de Iteddiker, a Berman
engineer in the Austrian service, is to lie president of
the commission, which will consist of three members.

AT A (*HITT I tntreroas held at the East India
Tlonse on Wedne,day, .lames Thomason, Esq.. at
present Lieutenant I i..‘ernor of the North West
Provinees, was appointed Governor of 3lailrax, and
the Bight lion. Lord G.C.11., Governor
of Bombay.
Ar the General Court of Proprietors of the Bank
of England, held on Thursday, a dividend for the
half year, at the rate of 1.4 per cent., was declared, free
of deduction on account of income tax, out of clear
net profits for the past six months of 5,41,55; I. is. 111.,
after payment. of which the rest will remain at
:1,014,55/4/. 9s. 2d.
Is Anurnos to the many modern agricultural itniole-
meats in use on the Norflalk Farm, Prince Albert has in-
troduced one of Ilustrey's latest iniproved reaping.
tnachities. This instrument was first noodle use of on the
farm last week, in cutting a Crop of oats, whirl, it per-
forrnc.l most aatioofortorily It is worked with a pair of
horses shrewd, requires one man to drive the horses, or
ride as postilion, one to sit on the machine to regulate its
working, and to rake the eon, off for the labourers who
follow to tie up the sheaves, the corn for which is as neatly
laid as that cut by the hand-reaper. The machine per-
formed its work altogether verry smoothly, awl len
ground very clean. It is calculated that it will itop au
acre au hour.