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

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The death of l'em-oti stir W. t' H. littrnahr, Bart., has
been rcimetml. The deceased was only eun of Om late fen-
rhaloner Hoot andgramilon o.f .Itlniin.l
hit W. lisrsaby, Itart., who sncressivels held the chi, f
command im the Leeward islands and Jamaica station.,
and died in 1777. 11e sorecoded hie tali,. rig 'bird ban.-
net is 1794.••
Two ...Mot lient Atlllll andl.tarrlncr
ipenny Itet7 accepted the rank of commander 1111
Abe retired list of IsBo. The linter is is Trafahntr othrer,
and reeeived the ..ot mention of (ireenwich Hospital fermi
the 1/lito of Ntrtiminherinnet's Mom!, whieh hewn', retain.
Lietttenstitcg'ohmi the !loyal Eniiitt"er neleer
in (+gra(' of the Admiralty works at Drompnet. hes re.
signed hiceivil odic,

Apr(livrm v.s•rm Asp pHomuTioNm. •
LiErry.riANT.--.10...rh H. wary., (tom). hif, of the
OCISW 'Ski. Rest the Area,- 'weft, tot,. tt, the
ulna as 44eshese re .1. the i'ariltr , A.. 11. 111 a
12 litt the Phiteow&p. for ClAgat 0 Pi. Airtea , Lieutenant 441111
Trevenan (POO), rerseht/y rartvieg it, the I'a64ia. ti. the Arab, t 2,
sloop, at Chattiest.
tiritnrciN —Walter Ilatarretiee 11,42), 10 'b,• ,Ntrt. mb ,ti, I,e,
• wheel .t ,t,i ..!0,1,, et Port-haorth.

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Cuinza--C. .1. Martin (1347), from the hosperietwe, bO, screw
frigate, Channel fleet, to the President, as secretary's clerk ; W.
Evans, to the flaperieuse, vice Martin; J. W. Nicholls, to the
Tribune, 31, screw, Channel fleet; Richard F. Wily (1052), to the
FL Jeestc r Acre, 101, screw steamship, at Devon port.
MtOIIIZTAIRY'S CLILIIIII—Edward Faulkner (147), to the la prep
ware, 10i, deg-ship of Admiral S. J. A. °coma:wry, K.C.11., at
Davenport.
CUMIN' H. Mould, to the Nephew, 120, glum.
ship of ordinary. at Portancouth ; C. P.l« Brockman, to the
Blrsinibell. Bryan Stratford, 11. J. Aldrick, Jelin Rivers , and F.
A. Mlles have been appointed Clerics' Assistants.

lirrat.mozwcz has been received from Tahiti to the be.
ginning of June. The situation of the country was satiie
hictory. Agriculture war gaining ground, and th,• produce
of the w,il hail led to a considerable amount of con 1111 l Tee
with California. During the preceding Ms the the
number of vessels which had arrived hail almost &sailed.

LAST week a fanner, in the commune of liersittnes
(Allier), wait overtaken when at work in his field by a vi-
lent storm. He pre/meted to a young man who wits with
bins to take shelter under a large oak, but the latter refused,
*eying that it was dangerous. " Noteseispie, replied the
fanner," the tree has mood where it is new fur a hundred
years, and the lightning has never tout-heti it ; I shall get
under its shelter." He iseciirdingly went. and hail not
been there a minute 'serer.. the tree was shivered by light-
ning, and the man kwicked senseless.
IN Yottmstutte there, are ten peeks of foxhounds. sits.'
pack of staglitoutitht, and five or six of limners, equal in all
to thirteen or fourteen packs of foxhounds. Thirteen
packs of ttttt nil*, of fifty couple each—i.e., I .:1141114 omits,
consume annually 2111) tons of oatmeal, at a rust ni 2,11400/.,
besides the eannuses of about 2,010 dead horses, worth
nothing if nit home's went kept. 'Mere are at least 11140
bunting men in Yorkshire, keeping upon* nn uverage flour
horses each ; 4,111N1 homes will (mist them 1101,114M11., to !MN.
each ; and their keep mt 51 N. per ennuis etteh itiotkem
24111,111011/.intore ; 4,111141 boners employ %LIMN) men as gnotilliN
(generally Ole sittispring of thesgiieultnrul pt opulatis on
and tooltsume allrtttelly 411,111N1 I 111:1111.N Irf •2,01001)
of benips, sod 5,1MN1 Isms tor bay and grass Eeerc Ironies-
man shut is benetiteti by hunting—titiliors. slitoeinakent,
blaeksmithm, meddlers, druggists, surget eterinary
surgeons, Sol'. if rex-hunting was given np, where would
the farmer find a market fur the alsove 01' for a
well.bred home of four sir rive years old? foxes are the
farmers' heist friends, and they ought to use evert exertion
to preserve them, and prevent them being stolen, to be
snit where mutters ior hounds are unsportsmanlike tieing)*
to purchase thetn, 110 matter trent whence they 1,01111..
THE AbI..IOPIN 111'0NNE1.11., ot't irt•lNdi, 1s HD-
noisnord in a French journal, the impartial •111,.
event took plate, suddenly, in the small town of I
John (Wonnell was N bristlier or the Libertiter. and, during
his long career as a nomitlent 'amnion' on the Isteks of the
Lakes of Killoniey, was N Mandel sof and
public spirit, truly liberal, and universally looptilitr.
many national queostiono, he took visors altogether at VA.
littliett with thoee of his late brother.
AIIONO TINE 1111111.11EANTUIPS of alli-
gators," " largest crocodiles in the world," " pa ttttt NM.,"
•' wild men," tkc., with which the New York t'rtstal Palace
its surrounded, was a vile imitation of Mathew, Wharton's'
"model artials"—a set of haggard women and some dilapi-
dated drunkard's, covered coarsely in liettlectolotired cotton,
set up to imitate the Venus and Apollo, the .luttio, !diners's,
Ajax, Hercules, ('airs and Abel, and other of the nude an-
tiques. Some Puritan fanners from New England, not
knowing the nature of the spectacle, were retrapped into
this den, and, no doubt, the proprietor eougratulated hula
pocket as he dropped ill the six unexpected quartet-dollant.
But, behold the fallibility of human hope! The Puritans
no sooner gut a glimpse of the sibontination than their
wrath arose—grim, resolute, and terrible; they deuttuttled
their money back ; it was refused, and the proprietor le-
vented; then slid the Puritans lay violent hands on that
heathen deity Apollo, and hint did they cudgel and kick
down stairs into the street, pursuing the /NNW shivering
wretch until he rushed up the steles of the ',attire, leaped
across the check-taker's seat, and literally totok shelter
among the sculpture of the Italian department, whit+ lies
immediately to the left of the entrance by which he
his unweleome visit. lirreted with roars of laughter front
the spectators, the unlneky refugee was taken by the pollee ;
and the pug of which he was a member hopelessly seat-
tared and broken up.

Considerable curiosity was, on Monday, excited amongst
the passengers by Westinitisterhridge, by the operations
of a party of divers examining the bed of the river. prepa-
ratory to the construction of the new bridge at Westminster,
the works for which will shortly commence.
The works of the Italian Central Railway have been
commenced in the section comprised between Florence
and the Roman frontier, rid Arczzo, and will he curried
on with activity. The contractor is an Englishman. Mr.
John Ciandell, who has undertaken to complete tht• hoe
within forty-two months.
The manufactures in the United States eng.iged on .tune
30, 1800,a capital of 330,000,000d011ar5. The value of the
raw material used up annually was :$50,1100.10 t ,1011.1 m.
The amount paid for labour was 240,010,000 dollars. The
number of persons employed was 1,034),n00, and the re•
suiting vane of the rnanActured articles 1.020 3 o,i
dollars.
An English gentleman is now at Naples seeking a con•
MOUS for an electric telegraph communication between
Naples and Sicily. If the King entertain* the propofiition
in a military point of view, it is considered possible that
request may prove successful ; but intercommuniestbbn,
generally, is just what the Government is snxions to
poid.