The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

THE STRIKES IN LANCASHIRE &Mantle to a con-
siderable extent. Except some apprehended dis-
turbances at Bury during Thursday, there has been
no interruption to the public tranquillity on this ac-
count. At Preston a genera delegate meeting has
been held, at which a lengthy memorial was adopted,
and will be forwarded to the Home Secretary. The
colliers of Wigan seem to be gradually returning to
their work. The seamen have held a meeting at
Hartlepool, which was attend...4l by delegates from
other ports, and efforta were made to concert a meet
ing with the owners. This conference, it is expected,
will come off on Tuesday, the 2mth inst., and may
had to some arrangement of the mutual differences
without a strike.
THE TWELFTH PUBLIC DRAWING OF THE CONSER-
VATIVE LAND SoEIETY teek place on Thursday night
in Freemasons' Hall, Viscount Riutelagh in the
chair. Explanations of the plan and working of the
gaiety were given by the noble chairman, and Mr.
Lewis, the solicitor. It was stated by the secretary
that the shares already taken up had reached the
extraordinary number off 1,117:1, representing a sub-
scribed capital of 35:1,6511L, on which ti you/. lied
been paid up. Mr. Lewis gave some interesting de-
tails relative to the society us an investment. In
one ease a member bought an allotment and a half,
which cost him 581. B*. Ile paid up at, the instant
la Ws., and borrowed the balance, sm/. 165., from
the society at 5 per cent. interest. Tina amount
was repayable by instahnents of 15s. a month,
and would la all paid off in 711 years. During these
years he would have received within IM!. 155., as
ground-rent at it. 10s. a year, of that which he hatl
paid in monthly instalments, wail thus, at the end of
die period, the account would be as follows :—Cash
paid on allotment, 111/. 125.; interest thereon for iI
years, i/. 55.; difference between the ground rent
and the payments to the society, Is!. 15s. ; interest
thereon to end of le years, 4/. 25.; total, 49/. its.
Fur this sum only, paid by himself, he would have
aequired Ills. a year for 99 years, mat at the end
of that time his family would possess a very valuable
reversion. _

14Ammiuttir ELEcTiort commenced on 31ondity with
the oumivaLiiru ilf two candidates, 11Aj4or-tieneral

Buckley and Captain Roherts. Tuesday was ap-
pointed for the polling, which accordingly opened at
eight, o'clock ; but in the afternoon the contest. ab-
ruptly closed by the resignat of Captain Roberts,
the poll standing at the time (two o'clock), for
General Buckley, ; for Captain Roberts, NS.
Some rioting took place in the evening. The suc-
cessful candidate, on attempting to address the
multiunit., was hooted and obliged to discontinue his
speech. Ile was afterwards pelted while taking his
departure from the city. The mob pet everett in
various sentllings and disturbances tot some time,
and quiet was not restored until an advanced hour of
the night.
AN interview took place on Tuesday between Lord
Clarendon and certain eminent English merchants
engaged in the Russian trade, whose object was to
gain thou his lordship the expression of maw decided
opinion as to the danger of this trade being inter-
ruptnil by possible .political changes. It was repre-
sented to his lordship that English merchants are in
the habit, at this period of the year, of making heavy
contracts in St. Petersburg for Russian produce,
such as hemp, tallow, deliverable next season,
upon which goods very heavy advances, amounting
s‘atietitnes to the entire roaring, are made to the
Russian dealers. The reply of Lord Clarendon was
to the etlis.t that, whilst her Majesty's Government
are using their utmost exertions to avert war, caution
in relation to these transactions is nevertheless ad-
visable ; and a hint was given that it would be as
well tOr the Russian merchants to avoid risking their
money under present circumstances.
A INquistriosy signed by neatly one hundred of
the electoral body, has twit presented to the Lori
Provost of Glasgow, to call a public meeting to con-
sider the aggressive policy of Russia in relation to
Turkey and other European powers. Ills lordship,
in compliance with the requisition, has agreed to call
the meeting for Wednesday, the '2;tril instant.
Silt Roman. lisninsvit, &inventor of Gibraltar,
published a proclamation on the ;:ed, by which all
vessels coining from tireat Britain and the northern
ports, with clean bills of health on board, will he
aulmitted to free pratique; all vessels with touched
bills of health, but which have hail no sickness on
hoard during the voyage, will be subjected to a qua-
ramtine of observation of seven days ; and all vessels
arriving with any cases of epidemic or contagious
disease on board will be subjected to a strict quaran-
tine, with a guard-boat astern, until the inspector
of health reports to the Board of Health, which
will decide on the duration of the quarantine or des-
tination.
Titt: KIN.: or HANOVER has appointed the Rev.
Daniel Charles Delafosse, A.M., rector of Shere, Sur-
rey. one of his domestic
IT is stated that the Prussian Government has
resolved not to allow private despatches, giving poli-
tical pima, to be forwardcd Ittan.l3erliu.

SATURDAY,'

Tut: DEATIib REGISTERED IN THE METROPOLIS in
the week that ended on Saturday rose to 1,192, having
been in the previous week 1,11.2. This number
shows an excess of fifty-one beyond the corrected
average for ten preceding years. The deaths in the
bepresent return show an increase on the weekly num-
rs of October, wising apparently from greater
coldness of the weather, and also in part from cho-
lera. Bronchitis grows more fatal. The rate of
mortality from cholera has been nearly stationary
during the last three weeks ; the number of fatal
cases last week was ninety-eight. Of these sixteen
occurred in the west districts, fifteen in the north,
twenty-two in the east, and forty-five on the south
side of the river. None occurred in the central dis-
tricts. Cholera continues to be most fatal in the
lower parts of the London basin. In the districts at
an average elevation of less than twenty feet above
Trinity high-water mark the mortality from this
disease has been thirty-eight in 1.00,00 inhabitants;
in the districts of an average elevation of twenty feet
and below forty feet, twenty in 1010,000; at an eleva-
tion of forty to sixty feet the mortality has been
thirteen in Mom° ; and at sixty feet of elevation
and under 110, eight in 100,004 At Hampstead,
where the elevation may be put at 850 feet, there
has hitherto been no death from cholera.

LADY CHARLOTTE 13 PEST, Of 1/oalaili, has promised
to supply the whole of Dowlois with water at her own
expense, involving an outlay of The sanitary
condition of the town is extremely wretched.
Tun Commtrma for erecting the Peel City
statue met at the Mansion-house yesterday week.
The site east of the Exchange was negatived, and
the former resolution of the committee confirmed—
viz., to apply to the Commissioners of Sewers to
permit the statue to be placed on the site indicated.
It was also resolved, "That it should be left to Mr.
Tite, Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Relines, and Mr. Hay-
wood to re arrange and lower the proposed pedestal,
anti to have a fresh model prepared under their di-
rection, so as to enable the committee to have
another examination before a final decision was
come to on this important subject." The statue is in
bronze, and the pedestal will be of red and grey
Aberdeen granite.
MANY COPIEN OF A REVOLUTIONARY ADDRESS have
been seized in some departmental post-oilices in
France. These manifestoes have been printed at
London, but were posted in Basle on the :Ird inst.
They are dated Sept. 22, 1145:I, and bear for title
" 'Him against Tyranny." At the foot is inscribed,
" Mine au tyran," with the signature, no doubt
forged, of M. Ledru
AN GENTLEMAN, lately holding a situation
in the Russian dockyard at Cmnstadt, has arrived at
Portsmouth, anti brings word that the whole of the
British artisans employed in that and other govern-
mental establishments in Russia, of whom there are
a large number, have been discharged. This step is
supposed to have been taken in reference to the
present relations between the Governments of the
two countries.

THE DUKE AND DI`enESS D'AVIIIALE and Suite have
arrived at Claremont from Germany, to meet her
highness's mother, the Sicilian Princess of Salerno,
who has just arrived in England from Italy.
Mn.JAMES HonaEs, hanker, brother of the late
Mr. Alderman John Holmes, of Liverpool, died at
Douglas last week. The family property, which is
said to be worth noionot., has been left to the
deceased gentleman's two grandnieces.
Almon HERBERT EDWARDES is Spoken of in India
as the pmbable successor to Colonel Mackeson, lately
assassinated at Peshawar.

T►►E AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR at St. Petersburg,
Count Mensdorti Pouilly, now at Vienna, will, it is
said, shortly return to St. Petersburg for the purpose
of delivering an imperial letter of recal. Count
Valentine Esterhazy, at present Austrian Ambassador
M Munich, is spoken of as the probable future
Austrian Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburg.

A Plume MEETINO is announced to be held in the
Manchester Corn Exchange on Monday evening, to
express the sympathy of the inhabitants with the
Turks in their present struggle for independence
against the aggressions of Russia. The meeting will
bu addressed by Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8.,
and Mr. Urquhart..
A SPECIAL COVET of the Corporation of the Trinity
house was held yesterday for the purpose of swearing
in the Karl of Aberdeen as an elder brother. Ills
'loyal Highness l'aince Albert, Master of the Cor-
poration. presided on the occasion, and was supported
by Sir .1. Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty,
Captain Shepherd, Deputy Master, and the other
elder brethren.
COrNT WA LEWSKI, the French Ambassador at this
Court, has been summoned to France to attend the
Emperor at Fontainebleau, but will return to London
in a few days.
THE N.VTIoNAL FREEIIOI.IO LAND SOCIETY has 26,000
shantholders, holding ttkiinn shares, and its income
is 11511. per day, or 36,500/. a year. The society had
purchased 113 estates., or about 1541,0(101. worth of
land.

NOVEMBER 19, 1853.

THE EI.ECTIoN OF Lou) tot; in 611i.!:,,iv
University took place on Tuesday. The result of
the voting is as follows :
Lord Eglinton. Tents) u.
OlotUana

Loutionians
Troutsfurthium
liothesituak

222 179
The votes were equal in the houtloniana nation, but,
as the Procurator gave his casting vote in favour of
Lord Eglinton, his lordship was placed on an equality
as to the number of " nations " with Mr. Tennyson,
The Vice. Rector, Dr. Rainny, then gave his casting
vote for his lordship, giving him a imkjority of one
nation. Lord E•glinton was aeeonlingly re-elected.
AT THE PUBLD; EXAMINATION of the students of
the Inns of Court, held at Lincoln's-inn-hall, on the
7111, ith, and 11th inst., the studentship of fifty
guineas per annum, to continue for a period of theee
years, was awarded to Mr..lames Charles Mathew, of
Lincoln's-inn. The certificate of honour, as having
passed the second-best examination, was obtained by
Mr. Herbert Coleridge, also of Lincoln's-inn.
Tan PROJECT of forming extensive docks on the
Surrey side of the river, at or near Rotherhithe, to
be entitled the Wellington Docks, is being proceeded
with. The trade of the port of London requires
much more dock accommodation than at present
exists. The site of the new docks will be about a
mile from London-bridge, on an area of about 1511
acres, where it is intended to fern, in addition to
import and export docks, others for the accommoda-
tion of steamers and colliers engaged in the coasting
and general local trade of the kingdom. It is also
intended to construct dry docks, for repairing and
overhauling vessels. To carry these objects into
effect a capital of 1,000,000/. is required, which it is
proposed to raise in '_:►l. shares.
AT THE ANNUAL lIIRINo or I•'AIRM SERYANTs at the
Doncaster statutes, on Tuesday last, the number of
persons of both sexes seeking places was much more
limited than usual. Good fanning men readily
obtained engagements at from 161. to 22?. per annum,
and women servants at from 9/. to IV. The scarcity
of farm servants is attributed to extensive emigra•
tion.
MR. Ful•:I:BoRN IN Boni:, and Mr. Moore in
Ancona, have succeeded in obtaining tion► the
Government an abrogation of vexatious quarantine
regulations lately enforced against British vessels.
THE HEAVY PORTION or THE INDIA MAIL arrived
on Thursday at Southampton in the Wits.
THE ANN oAL MEI:Tito& of the Manchester Auxiliary
of the British and Foreign Bible Society took place
at the Friends' Meeting-house, Manchester, on Tiles •
day evening. The Earl of Shaftesbury occupied the
chair, and descanted upon the great blessings con-
ferred upon this country by its being made a well-
spring of God's truths upon earth. Ni nation had
ever been truly civilised except by means of the
Bible. His lordship stated that he had recently
learned that of the :150 pickpockets and burglars, at
a meeting of whom in London he some nine since
presided, only fifty were now pursuing those callings.
'l'l►e refor►nation of the remainder had been effected
by the Bible in the hands of a very ignorant man.
THE LoNDoN CorrEE.HOCsE KEEPERs object to
the unfair attempts of the Commissioners of Inland
Revenue to extort from them 9d. instead of fid. in the
pound on their business premises. The claim is
founded on a decision of the judges having decided
that houses occupied as coffee-shops are liable to
assessment to► the inhabited house duty of 9d. in the
pound. Against this the coffee-house keepers remon-
strate, declaring that their establishments ought to
be rated at the lower amount fixed upon shops and
places of business. Meetings have been held, anti
subscriptions proposed among them, with the view of
bringing this question to an issue.
it is stated that a proposal has recently been dis-
cussed at the Bank of France for making all their
payments, as far as possible, in gold, and refusing to
issue f►ve-franc pieces, so as to check the continued
exportation of silver.
A STATer. Is about toeing erected in Glasgow to the
late Mr. James Oswald, of Anchinenfire. Baron
Mamchetti has undertaken to exeeute it.
CABINET CotNCILS were held on Saturday and
Wednesday last. After the latter the Premier enter-
tained his colleagues at a Cabinet dinner at his resi-
dence in Argyll-street.
EmeTtes ttf a Scotch Representative Peer
took place on Wednesday, at noon, within Holyrood
Palace, to till the vacancy left by the death of General
Ltvnl Sahonn. Ten peers were present, namely, the
Dukes of linceleuch and Atholl, the Earls of Morton,
Haddingten, Lauderdale, Selkirk, Seatield, Stair, and
Rosebery, and Lord Reay. Signed lists were received
from the Earls of Crawford, Galloway, and Kintore,
and Lords Gray of Kinfauns, and Colville of Culross.
All the peers present voted for the Earl of Scofield,
and flair of the signed lists were in favour of the
Name peer; the only exception being that of the Earl
of Crawford, who voted for the Earl of Perth. The
Earl of Seafield was then declared duly elected a
representative peer of Seuthutti.