The Press.
London, England, 1855-08-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1855.

POSTSCRIPT.

RENEWED BOMBARDMENT OF SEBAS-
TOPOL.

The subjoined announcement was issued from the
War-office at a late hour yesterday evening :
Lord Panmure has received the following in-
telligence from General Simpson, dated Crimea, 18th
August .
General Pelissior and I have decided on opening
fire from the English and French batteries at dawn
to-morrow morning.

Advices from Konigsberg state that when the at-
tack on Sweaborg began the Grand Duke Constan.
tine, immediately informed by telegraph of the event,
demanded leave to go out and attack the reduced
fleet before Cronstadt. The Emperor refused.

A bill is to be presented to the French Legislative
Body at the opening of the next Session, by order of
the Emperor, which provides that all pensions to
widows and orphans of soldiers who have died in
war shall be henceforth doubled.
General Canrobert arrived yesterday in Paris
from the Crimea.

On Saturday evening the 4th battalion of the
Austrian infantry regiment of the Grand Prince
Michael left Vienna by the southern line in a special
train. After having run a distance of about sixteen
English miles a terrible concussion took place. Seve-
ral carriages were broken to pieces, six men killed,
and thirty more or less severely wounded. The
accident was caused by collision with a luggage
train.

News reached Paris yesterday from Turkey that a
strong Russian division is marching on Erzeroum,
and that all the disposable Turkish forces in Anatolia
are hastening towards the same place.

We regret to announce the death of Henry Colburn,
Esq., the late eminent publisher. The sad event
took place on Thursday at his residence, 14, Bryan-
stone-square;

THE PRESS.

By a telegraphic message received in town it
appears that Mr. Patrick Park, the sculptor, died
on Thursday morning at Warrington. The deceased
was celebrated for his portrait sculpture. He was a
native of Glasgow, and studied under Thorwaldsen
at Rome. He was remarkable for the vigorous and
faithful expression of his busts. Among those
who sat to him were the Emperor Napoleon 111., the
Duke of Cambridge, Mr. Layard, M.P., Sir Harry
Smith, the late Sir Charles Napier, Lord Dundonald,
&c. Mr. Park was in the prime of life, and was
warmly esteemed by a large body of friends.
Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing-park, died suddenly on
Tuesday last. This much respected lady, so well
known in fashionable circles, was, up to the moment
of her death, apparently in excellent health.

The Count and Countess Persigny will not leave
London during her Majesty's visit to France.

THE NEW BEER ACT, which received the Royal
assent on Tuesday, will take effect to-morrow. It is
entitled "An Act to repeal, alter, and amend the Act
of the Seventeenth and, Eighteenth Years of her pre-
sent Majesty, for further regulating the Sale of Beer
and other liquors on the Lord's-day, and to substitute
other provisions in lieu thereof." It contains five
clauses, and declares that as the recited act has been
found to be attended with inconvenience to the
public, the said act is repealed, and the hours for
publichouses to be open are now on Sunday, Christ-
mas-day, Good Friday, or any fast or thanksgiving
day, from Ito 3 and from sto 11. The houses are
not to be opened before 4 o'clock on the morning
following the days mentioned, except to a traveller or
lodger therein. Constables are empowered to enter
publichouses. A penalty not exceeding Si. may be
levied for every offence against the act, and every
separate sale to be deemed an offence. The expres
sion "bon& fide traveller" has been left out of the
new law.
Tim EAGLE ASSURANCE COMPANY held their annual
meeting on the 10th instant at Badley's Hotel,
Joshua Lockwood, Esq., the deputy-chairman, occu-
pying the chair. The report which was then pro.
sented to the shareholders exhibited a considerable
expansion in the business transactions and in the
income of the Company. The total receipts for the
year ending on the 30th of June last were 139,7131.,
and the surplus left, after paying all expenses,
claims, ttc., was 49,162/. In the previous year the
receipts had been 130,0051., and the surplus 18,287/.
only. During the twelvemonth last past 9,2841. was
received as premiums upon new assurances, and
95,492/. for renewals. The claims on decease of
lives amounted to about 57,0007., to which very
nearly 4,000/. was added on account of' the bonuses
declared by the Company at different periods. On
the general balance-sheet there was shown a gross
amountof assets exceeding 1,786,0007., against which
the liabilities, including the estimated aloe of all
the assurance policies granted by the Company,
exhibited a total of 521,0001., and left a surplus fund
of not less than 265,0001. The report was adopted
unanimously.

THE ANNUAL. Accouters of the Chamberlain of the
City of London were issued on Saturday. The duties
raised under the Metropolitan Improvement Acts
amount to 162,5541. 14a. 4d. ; the expenditure under
the same head was 23,2051. 18s. Bd,; leaving a sur-
plus of 139,3451. 15s. Bd. The expenditure of the
year in connection with Blackfriars-bridge reached
2,6831. 15s. 10d., which is defrayed principally out of
the surplus rents and profits of the Bridge-house
estate. The receipts of the Bridge-house estate were
26,3831. ls. 3d., cf which sum 21,5501. was paid in
liquidation of the 431,0001. advanced out of the Con •
solidated Fund towards rebuilding London-bridge.
The receipts incidental to the Thames naviga-
tion were 7,6041. 11s. 3d., and the expenditure
11,3061. 17s. 7d., the difference being made up out of
former balances. The receipts under the head of
police were 47,6441. 2s. Bd., and the expenditure
42.3271. ss. 4d. The sewerage receipts were
120,1551. 2s. Ild., and the duty on coals produced
17,9171. 10s. 9d.
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCTETY.—The twenty-
second purchase of land for allotment amongst the
members, has just been made in the centre of the
town of Guildford, West Surrey.
THE sale of the furniture and other effects of the
house, No. 34, Hill-street, Berkeley-square, lately in
the occupation of Mr. Strahan, was concluded on
Thursday last. The property comprised a service of
beautiful Sevres and Dresden porcelain, the cellar of
wines, an extensive library, a choice collection of pie-
tutes, vases, pianofortes, &c., and was divided into
630 lots, for which severally the competition wasvery
spirited. The entire sale realised about 4,0001. The
house was sold by the same auctioneers for 8,9001.
which, with the house, &c., in the Strand, will bring
in for the creditors about 35,0001. It is stated that
the Ashtead estate, which was knocked down for
27,0001, was bought in at that sum.

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THE HERTFORD ELECTION came off on Tuesday
and resulted in the unopposed return of the Hon. W.
F. Cowper, the newly-appointed President of the
Board of Health.

AT KIDDERMINSTER on Tuesday Mr. Lowe, Vice-
President of the Board of Trade, was re elected
without a contest. Some opposition had been threa-
tened by Mr. Boycott, who addressed the electors on
the day of nomination, but declined to go to a poll.
A VACANCY has been created at TOTNESS by the
death of the Duke of Somerset, and consequent re-
moval of Lord Seymour to the Upper Houhe. The
election will, it is said, be warmly contested, each
party having declared their attention to bring forward
a candidate.

THE Portsirolth Guardian mentions a report that
Sir Francis Baring is about to accept office under the
present Government, and wil consequently be obliged
to appear again before his constituents.

MILITARY SPECTACLE AT CREMORNE.
TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS."

Sir,—l consider it a duty I owe to myself, to the
patrons of the Wellington Fete, and to my very libe-
ral patrons the public, to address you on this sub-
ject, as censure has been prematurely and unjustly
cast upon me by the reporter of the Times in regard
to the accident which occurred during its portrayal,
and strictures made which I conceive to be quite un-
called for, either by intentions, the fete itself, or the
unfortunate casualty which attended it.
For the accident, which I much deplore, and which
marred the final tableaux, neither I nor any of my
establishment are in any way responsible. Every pre-
caution was taken to prevent any, even the slightest,
disaster; and had the soldiers, during a momentary
enthusiasm, not acted contrary• to previous directions
and positive orders given at a rehearsal and repeated
at the time, neither this casualty nor any other would
have occurred.

In conclusion, I am happy to inform you that the
injuries sustained by the soldiers have been much
exaggerated, and that the sufferers are fast re-
covering.—l am, sir, your most obedient servant,
T. B. Snarsox.
Cremorne-gardens, Aug. 15, 1855.

THE Nord, the journal lately started at Brussels
for the advocacy of Russian views, having applied to
the Societe des Gens de Lettres of France to be per-
mitted, in the same manner as other home and
foreign publications, to conclude a treaty for the re-
production of the works of French writers members
of the society, a special meeting was called to con-
sider the proposition. After due deliberation, the
chairman was directed to send a reply that "the so-
ciety refused to have any kind of intercourse with a
journal in the pay of Russia."
THE festival of the three choirs of Worcester,
Hereford, and Gloucester, comes off at Hereford next
week. The arrangements in the cathedral and con-
cert•room are nearly completed. The concerts will be
held at the Shire-hall, which is being appropriately
fitted up for the purpose. The musical portion of
the festival will be brought to a close on Friday
morning, as usual, with Handel's Messiah ; and, for
the first time at Hereford, a grand dress-ball will be
given on Friday night, under the patronage of the
nobility and gentry of the county.
THE LATE MISS MITFORD.—It is proposed to erect
to the memory of Mary Russell Mitford, authoress of
"Our Village," ite..tc., some memorial which shall
testify the respect entertained by many, not only in
England but in America, both for her literary talents
and her private virtues. It is hoped that funds may
be provided for erecting a plain monument over her
grave, in the churchyard of that village which she
has made famous by her presence and her writings ;
and for building, if possible, a school in the same
parish, to be dedicated by name to her memory.
THE UNIVERSITY OF KONIGSBERG intends to erect
a monument to the philosopher Kant, once the great
ornament of that institution. It is to be a statue in
bronze, and will be placed on the daily promenade
of the great man, which, after him, has been called
" der Philosophensteig " (the Philosopher's Path).
THE receipts of the theatres and other places of
public amusement in Paris considerably diminished
during the last month. The amount received was
1,180,249 f. 34e., being 120,057 f. 05c. less than in
the month of June.
THE last season of the Italian Opera at Vienna bee
been a complete failure in a financial point of view.
The expenditure amounted to no less a sum than
300,000 florins (i.e., about 30,000/1 ; snd although
the performances were well attended, the receipts did
not amount to half that sum, leaving a deficiency of
128,000 florins—say 12,8001.
DTHE Lycztra.—Mr. Anderson, the celebrated Great
Wizard of the North, is to open this theatre in Sep-
tember. We understand that he is making extra-
ordinary preparations for the new series of enter-
tainments he is about to produce for the winter
season.