The Press.
London, England, 1855-02-03 00:00:00

THE PRES

ARRIVAL OF THE DUKE OF

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cam
rived on Tuesday at Dover from the Crimea. The
Princeee Alice steam-packet had been despatched to
Calais, expressly to convey the noble and gallant
duke across the channel; and long before the hour of
his expected arrival the pier and surrounding quays
were crowded with persons anxious to obtain a
glimpse of a personage whose name has been so
honourably connected with the sanguinary but glo-
rious struggle that has been waged in the Crimea. A
guard of honour of the Staffordshire Militia, under
the command of Major Inge, was in attendance, besides
the Mayor, William H. Payn, Esq.
Notwithstanding the extreme severity of the wea-
ther, a great number of ladies had assembled, and
their greeting formed not the least interesting of
the demonstrations that were so generally displayed.

The Duke of Cambridge was accompanied by the
following members of his staff :—The Hon. Colonel
Macdonald, and Colonel Tytwhitt ; and Dr. Gibson
(his Royal Highness's physician) and suite were
also in attendance upon his Royal Highness.
The Mayor and corporation having presented an
address to His Royal Highness, expressive of their
gratification at his safe arrival, the Duke replied to
the following effect :
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,—l thank you for the gratifi-
cation you hare rendered me in presenting me with the
present address. I assure you that any inconvenience or
discomfort which I have experienced in the Crimea has
been amply repaid by the bravery of the troops. All a
general can do is to lead, and my humble services have
been given cheerfully; but it has not been a war of gene-
ralship—the campaign has been a soldiers', and nothing
but a soldiers' campaign. Led on as they have been by
their indomitable courage, these troops have performed
prodigies of valour; and I can assure you a finer set of
fellows do not exist in the world than the men who are
fighting the battles of Britain in the Crimea, and who have
done everything in their power to sustain the honour of
their country. Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I again thank
you. (Loud cheers.)

The deputation then withdrew.
His Royal Highness arrived at his residence in
St. James's-palace abont half-past six o'clock the
same evening.

Obituttl.

DR. ANDREW CRICHTON died in Edinburgh last
week. As an author and member of the periodical
press, the deceased had long been before the public.
His "lives of Converts from Infidelity," " Translation
of Koch's History of Revolutions," published in
Constable's Miscellany—his " History of Arabia,"
published in the Cabinet Library—his "Lives of
Blackadder and Colonel Gardiner"—his edition of the
" Life of John Knox "—his " History of Scandinavia,"
may be taken as examples of his Eterary labours.
Before his death, Dr. Crichton was engaged upon,
and had nearly finished, a work on Russia, stow pass-
ing through the press. He was long an office-bearer
in the church of Scotland, and sat repeatedly in the
General Assembly.
We regret to have to announce the death of the
REV. R. JONES, for nearly twenty years Professor of
Political Economy and History at the East India
College, Haileybury. After having been mainly in-
strumental, conjointly with the late Mr. Drinkwater
Bethune, in constructing the scheme of compromise
for the commutation of tithes, which has conclu-
sively settled the tithe rent-charges throughout
England and Wales, the deceased was appointed one
of the chief commissioners for carrying out the pro-
visions of that important measure. Mr. Jones sub-
sequently held for a short time the office of secretary
to the Capitular Commission, until his administrative
talents were again required by the Government for a
more responsible office. He was lately appointed
one of the chief commissioners of the Charitable
Trusts Commission, which office he retained at the
time of his decease. As an anthor, Mr. Jones is well
known in the science of political economy by his
" Treatise on Rent"

IN consequence of representations made to the
Government of the great suffering and inconvenience
experienced by the troops before Sebastopol from the
absence of all convenience for cooking the rations
served out to them, several hundred cooking-stoves
of a novel yet simple construction were on Tuesday
shipped from the Tower wharf for conveyance to
Balaklava. The manner of using these stoves can
be discovered at a glance; Compartments are in each
for boiling, baking and stewing, the upper sur-
face may be used as a hot plate for frying, &c., while
over the furnace space is left for broiling. The
entire apparatus stands about three feet high, and is
about thirty inches square ; round its sides are hooks
whereon to hang coffee and tea boilers ; and it is
calculated that, with regular order, each stove will
eook for forty men.
M. ALPHONSE DE ROTHSCHILD, eldest son of Baron
James de Rothschild, has been nominated one of the
regents of the Bank of France.

A wnitsan of colliers of Also money and notes escaped
in September last from the fortress of Rcenigstein, iu
Saxony, and established themselves in Saxon-Switxerland
on the summit of a mountain, 1,300 feet in height, called
the Pfatienstein. There they worked incessantly in fabri-
cating Wee paper money iu a cavern sixty or eighty feet
from the summit of the rock. To this cavern access
could be only obtained by descending a rope—a perilous
operation ; but one man was always left on the summit to
keep watch and let down provisions. The notes which
the gang forged, and which purported to be dale Austrian
and Hessian banks and of the Governments of Kcethen
and Dessau, were put into circulation by accomplices in
the adjacent villages. A few days ago a detachment of the
Saxon gendarmerie climbed up the mountain, and at the
peril of their lives succeeded in arresting the whole of the

gang.
THE COST OF PLAC►NG ♦ MONUMENT IN

ABBEY depends on its size. The following is a list of the
expenses of putting up statues to the eminent persons
named :—Sir Wm. Follett (13ehnes), 3101.; Francis Hor-
ner (Chantrey), 2101. ; Sir note! Buxton, 2201.; Sir S.
Ratites (Chantrey), 2101.; S. Wilberforce, 2101.; George
Canning ( Chantrey), 2101.; Lord Holland (monument by
Bally), 9001.; Telford (monument by Bally), 3001.; T.
Campbell (Marshall), 210 i.; and others In proportion.
HIGSWAY ROBBIRY is perpetrated in Australia under the
slang name of " putting up,' and is thus described in a
recent letter from the colony :—" The ' old lags ' juin, and
form a party of four or more ; one watches up the mid, one
down the road. When the intended vtetini reaches a point
between the two armed men who have been ' planted ' to
keep a good look-out, he is met face to face by a ruffian
armed with a ' revolve r.' Perhaps a whistle or some other
signal gives the victiM a painful conviction that lie is stfr-
rounded by unseen revolvers. The rtrMaft tells him to hold
up his arms, or he will have his ' nob scalded.' He is
further threatened with having his brains blown oat
s (or tins). A low whistle
pockets of the rigtim are
cite. Sometimes robbery is

.. great hopes .
and on the vast number of strangers
to Paris by it.
Tine Baton Atlas proclaitni the fact that America Is re-
presented in Spain by a Frenchman, in Portugal by an
Irishman, in Italy by an Italian, at the Hague by &German
Jew, and at Naples by a Scot.
A New Esrantisnatzwr has been opened in Neuwied,
on the Rhine, which is ocenpied exclusively in slaughtering
cattle for the eventual consumption of our troops in the
Crimea.
THZ cutting down of dead trees on the inner and outer
boulevards of Paris, and on the roads of the department of
the Seine, and the planting of others in their stead, has
been of late going on rather actively. On the boulevards
alone upwards of 2,000 are to be replaced.
Ix the Champ. Elysies lately, an elegant sledge, drawn
by two large dogs, *as driven up and down several times,
and attracted great attention. The dogs had been brought
from the Crimea by an sneer on sick leave. They have
long ears like the Danish dog, and a sharp muzzle. They
carry the head high, have large eyes fall of ire, and seem
very intelligent.
THERE are living in the small village of Leyton, Essex,
four persons of the name of John Swan, not at all related,
and all with wooden legs, although not one has been in
the army_ or navy.
THE RESULT 011 THE SEPTENNIAL ATERAOES /OR CORN,
&c., to Christsttes last, as deduced frota the tetutus pub-
lished in the Gazette, is as follows :—Whest, aid. per
imperial bushel • ' barley, Ba. ijd.; and oats, 2a. 6d. On
each nominal 1001. of the tithe rent-charge, accordingly,
the net payment for the year 1855 will be 891. 15s. Bfd.
REMARKING on the German fondness for decorations, the
writer of a letter ' • Berlin '-"
" The other day a
old, asked a German
slice of ribbon

replied, ' You
garters are cut
worn by gentler
my wife
child; '

g. 117.
CAMBRIDGE. I risttlianta.
Cambridge ar-

if he attempt to lower his arm-. (or fins). A low whistle
brings up the ' and the poets of the vietim are
rifled. TM, 11 the mildest cite. Sometimes robbery is
accompanied by violence."
THE ENORMOUS Nuunta OF RIBTAMIATIpritS constitutes
at this moment one of the most noticeable features of Path.
It is a regular invasion, more agreeable than one of Cos-
sacks to be store, but still one which menaces a formidable
revolution in domestic habits. The rage for building—
the beautiful structures that hare risen on the, ruins of
gloomy and tottering edifices with such rapidity—the
large space produced by the sweeping away of filthy lanes
and courts, at once the hotbed of disease, the repeir of
crime, and the centres of insurrection—bat, above all, the
coming Exhibition, are the causes of this extraordinary
movement in the rictitilling department. Hardly a
can be found in the " good city of Paris," as the C.:ekire
of
France loved to call their capital, in which thole are ant
two, three, or tsar restaurants, and the Boufsvard des
Italiens and Montmartre may be traversed without seeing
a single house in Which the res de shames& has not been
converted into an eating-room. It seems seta" the pre-
mature advent of the happy days predicted Fourier,
when for the domestic hearth, or rather the dothestlebY_
room, was to be substituted one general refectory, at whose
tables were to partake of equal rations the htitilp=zens
of Harmony. A stranger worth/supposethe
establishment of an many eating-hotnies the domestic
hearth was but poorly provided, or that a total change had
taken place in the habits of the people. All this, however,
is explained by the great hopes founded on the Exhibition,
and on the vast number of strangers that will be attracted

a letter from Berlin tells the following story :
her day a little English girl, some eight years
ed a German councillor whet the party-coloured
ribbon in his button-bole indicated; to which be
' You must know that in our country ladles'
we cut up in shreds on their marriage night, and
gentlemen as talismans. This is a remnant of
s garter.' Dear me, how funny,' replied the
that accounts for your lady's stockings always
loose." A Prussian lady observed, on the same
that " persons without decoration' looked so coil
ed, it wiui positively indeetid:6.