The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 12, 1851

Mn. BROWNE, late Secretary of Legation in Den
mark, has left Copenhagen. The late British
Minister, Sir W. W. Wynn, will also soon depart.
The Royal Family have ordered for hint, as a souvenir
of respect and a parting keepsake, a large porcelain
vase, made at the royal porcelain manufactory in
Copenhagen.
AT a recent ordination, the Bishop of New Zealand
admitted to the office of deacon one of the aboriginal
natives of the colony.
THE council of the Society of Arts has for some
time past had under consideration the introduction
of the long-haired Angora goat into the colony of tlw
Cape of Rood Hope, with the view to the export of
its wool to Europe.
THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING of Claussen's Patent
Flax Company was held at the company's offices on
Tuesday. The report informed the shareholders
that the company's works are now in operation, and
are furnishing supplies of the patent material. It
was also stated that the demand is steadily and pro-
gressively increasing. The shareholders appeared
gratified with the prospects of the company.
Inom a return just issued it appears that in
10.4re2 an increase of 1,492 persons, at an expense of
96,291/. 13s. Ilhl., took place in the various public
offices, and a decrease of 30 persons, at a saving of
49,3; s/. Is. 4d. In the Post-office the increase is
1,295, at an expense of •211,662/. In the convict es_
tablislimetit 5.2 officials have been added. In the
Excise them is a reduction of nine eniphwi.s.
A DErti.‘Tota from the Burial Committee of the
parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, had an interview
with Viscount Palmerston on Tuesday at the Home-
office.

AT Ashton, Stalybridge, and Hyde, a proposition
has been brought before the Masters' Union for re.
awing the hours or labour in their mills to four
days per week, in consequence of the heavy stocks
of some classes of goods produced there, and the
present depressed state of the market. Tlw question
will be taken into consideration forthwith.

THE CI OIMIRSIONEES appointed to conduct the in-
quiry- into the practice of the Bankruptcy Courts, at
the head of whom is Mr. Walpole, the late Home Secre-
tary, are prosecuting their labours with us much vigi
lance as their other multifold engagements will permit.
A series of questions has been forwarded to the leading
professional men in these courts, as well as to the
commissioners and the higher officers, with the
intimation that their opinion is desired on the several
points included in the inquiries. They are divided
under three heads, and afro as follows :

1. newton., expenses, establishment, and business of the
court. To what, in your opinion, is to be attributed the
diluhln-
Ulm hi the Milliners of the court, and of the fees and funds
applicable to the payment of its expenses? Ito yon think, and
for what reasons, that the present or 11,0 foods of
the court to meet its ex muses Is likely to lie permanent or mil?
1/o you think, and for what reasons, that any 141111 what reduce'
hi the establishment of the court in your district can now, iir sii
a (Inure time, be safely and properly made, or not ? What 'void
he the amount of animal saying effected by such reduction, if
any? Would any and what other benefit arise from it? Du you
iiiitmest, amid ou what grounds, any awl what rhauge in the ill% b
lion of districts, or in the distribution of lapdtiess among the
Oil•V1.1141 brl4ll4•ll.'S of the court, oe as seventh t. 111,04 110 ‘,lll
and oil Wilisl g1.1.11111k, any soil what measure other than
t▪
hose already mentioned by which the expenses of the court
may be diminished or its revenue increased ? tt. otheial
Assignees-150 you think that there exists at present *sufficient
cheek on the Meet ttttt ts of official assignees. or not! If not, do
you stiimest ally, and what more efficient cheek ? Ito you reeoin•
mewl. 111111 lin whin. lA*Ollllllll, the adoption of a uniform scale ter
the anon Nlll.e of remuneration to official assignees in all cases,
or ant ^ If so, what seale do you reeonmurnil, and lin whirl
groumils? Ihi you think it desirable or not that ifteial assignees
nllOlll.l be remunerated wholly or in part by fixed salary, or do
you iinggri,l, 51111 011 IN hut grounds, any and what change in the
mode of remunerating them, or in Ow mode of appointing them
• Classifleatima of (•ertificateil--1)o you, and for what reasons,
approve of the principle of elasalticaUtm, or not ? What benefits
or veils, iu your opinion, hate resulted, or are likely to result.
from too' r‘latitig system of elnsslfiestion ? Ito yon Mlggest,
and on what grounds, any and what alterations of the system?
Ito you suggest, and on wliiit vrotonla, any and what amendments
of the existing system in bankruptcy other Until those already
mentioned.

CANINO A PAINE MINISTEII.—IIis Excellency John
Daniel Louis Frederick Ilassenptiug, Minister of
State of the Interior and of Justice to his 'loyal
Highness the Elector of Ilesse-Cassel, has received
a public caning before the doors of the theatre at
Cassel, at the hands of Count Isenburg. llis offence
was having prevented the elevation of the Countess
of Wachtersbach to the dignity of a Hessian prin-
cess. Count Isenburg has fled to Gotha.
His Excw.Excr SHAFEE KIIAN, late Persian
Minister at this Court, took his departure for
Teheran on the 4th instant, rid Paris and Vienna.
All matters relative to the Legation have been
entrusted, until the arrival of his successor, to Mr.
Charles It. Thompson, of Winchester-house, Old
Broad- street.

CABINET COLICILS were livid on Tuesday and
Thursday last.

HENRY.' CADOOAX ROTIIERY, Eau., has been ap-
pointed Registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in
the place of Henry Birchtield Swal,ey, Esq., who has
r .signed that office.

IT 1S said that Mr. Bagshawe. Shapter, and
Mr. Goldmnith are to he among the earliest additions
the list of the Equity Queen's Counsel.

THE PRESS.

THE GI tRGOW CONSERVATIVE As4netttroN. at R
crowded meeting held in the college. came to a reao.
Indult '&44;444 themselves to re-elect the Earl of
Eglintou to the Lord Recwrship.

NEw INsriTruoli, called an Infant Nursery. was
opened on Thursday in St. Martin's-in the-Fields.
It is designed to provide care and custody for the
infant children of those inhabitants whose daily
occupations prevent them bestowing the necessary
anent' on their offspring. The institution is
situate in Green-street, Leicester-square. Viscountess
tioderielt, Mrs. Gladstone, and Mrs. Stuart Wortley,
are among tile patronesses.
Tur W.uics 31(1%1:mums continue in the North,
though quiet is restortsl in the localities lately ills-
turhed. The masters maintain their `• union," bind-
ing themselves mutually in penalties of some thou,
sand pounds not to mu-lender inaliciduatlly to the de-
mands of the workmen. On their side the latter are
still equally resolute. The consequence is that
eighteen out of twenty-one mills in or around Wigan
are closed, and the Preston operatives are living upon
the 1,000/. per week received by their committee
from the fund sulosetibed in other towns of Lanca-
shire. /AM week there were serious apprehensions
of a general strike among the collier seamen in the
Tyne and at Sunderhunl. Better cult lee has, how
ever, prevailed, chiefly, it appears, among the south
Shields men. who refuse to co-operate with the Tyne
sailors, Some proposals have heart thrown out
respeeting eonferences to he held between the owners
and the men, and several meetings of the latter have
taken place, but hitherto there has been no stoppage
of work on either side. On Ilflonday last upwards of
eight hundred of the workers at 'Messrs. Tod and
Iligginbothatua mills in Glasgow wont out on strike.
The ground of dispute is coneerning the wages paid
to the spinners. which are much higher than those
current at Stockport, Messrs. Tod 111111 Iliggin
botham wishing t.l place their tariff upon a par with
the Stockport rates, to which the workers object.

'fur 31 instirs !mot Wootwn ti are a great
alhtvial district containing many thousand arm of
land, the poi known as the l'lnmstead Marshes being
about five miles long, and at it' extreme part one
and a half broad. They are intersected, accord
ing to the commissioners, with some hundreds of
miles of open ditches, and contain besides many ex
tensive swamps of stagnant water. No provision
whatever is made for drainage as an element of
health, and many of the ditches have not been
cleaned out within the memory of man. Year after
year weeds and other aquatic plants grow up to de
ray, the same water remaining in the ditches, and
thus becoming completely charged with decomposed
vegetable matter.