The Press.
London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

Ittihad% anb Oftentts.

THE EQUIMKTIAL GALliii commenced on Sunday
last, and have been characterised by unusual severity
and fatality. From all parts of the coast accounts of
numerous, and in too many instances calamitous,
accidents arrive. The passenger transit across the
British and Irish Channels has experienced consi-
derable interruption, and on Sunday and Monday the
Mersey, the Downs, and the settlioards generally,
were scenes of incessant disasters from drifting ves•
sets, &p. Altogether the damage done to shipping
has been very extensive. The American packet-ship
Neva, which sailed from Liverpool Oil Thursday, put
back through stn.- weather, and arrived in the
river on Sunday evening. During the gale she
dragged her anchors, and went. ashore near the Sun-
don Dock-basin. She bad on board 101 passengers,
and when she went ashore several attempted to jump
from the ship to the pier head, but tell into the river
and were drowned. While the gale was at its wildest
two small vessels, whose names are unknown, were
seen to go down off the North-west Light-ship, and it
is presumed all on board perished.
As TED! STF.AMER which conveyed Lord John RUs.
sell from lloseneath to Greenock was passing the
quay, she fired several guns, when the wadding front
one struck the skipper of a tug steamer on the kg,
and so fractured it that it was found necessary to
convey him to the infirmary, and amputate the limb.
Lord John did nut hear of the accident till next day,
when he immediately proceeded from Itoseneath to
the Greenock Infirmary to inquire into the condition
of the sufferer.

ON Saturday fourteen rick% of corn and other
agricultural produce were destroyed by tire on Sher-
field Court Farm, five miles from Itiisingstoke, the
result of childish thoughtlessness in making a bonfire
in the road, from which the burning straw was blown
into the farmyard. Although Mr. Butler, the pro
prietor, was insured, it is believed that he will be a
great lobes' by tine conflagration._

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THE LATE FATAL. CATASTROPHE nt THE STRAND
has been investigated btiore a coroner's jury, who
returned their verdiet on Monday la.st. The evidence
taken Was exceedingly voltuilmous, and in some
respects pt‘rple..iug, hut the jury tinally auxibutod
the death of the tour victims to gross negligence on
the part of Mr. Abraham, the surveyor employed by
the Duke of Nortoik and the Mystirs. Smith, in not
causing the party-wall to be sudktently shred up
and UnderinUnesi erten, the excavaumis for the new
building were cutunienced. 'lnc coroner stated that
this verdict amounted to a finding et manslatighttm,
add, though tile lortinitu declated that they had not
couwmpiatod such a result, the jury refused to re
tract or aiwr tu..tr judgment, and a warrant for Lilo
appreheubioh of Mr. Aorahatus on that charge nas
forthwith issued.

AN ACCIDENT from presumed carelessness, with
fatal cousequeuces, occurred un the oi ill Kent
Hallway uu Saturday. Chamberlain, guard to a
train un the line, was found lying ou tun top of a
carriage severely wouuded. It is supposed that he
missed the braaa-van, and was mak►ul; his way to it
along the carriages, when the train passed under a
br►tiso, against which he was dashed. lie was token
thu hospital, but died before ass►stancewuld mach
him.

A BLIND MAN Wall found early on Thum'.lay
morning in l'ye-street, Westminster, 1)1144 on
pavement bleeding profusely wit tusetisibie. It was
ascertained that he had luubed at the house a Mrs.
Etienin, 8, Old l'ye-strutt, and pave suspiuun
exists that he was thrown uut ut a thud dew ainuow
in that house. lie was conveyed to the Westuonstor
Hospital, but from the severe mimes he bad received
he shortly expired.
A VERY DARING ROBBERY has been committed at
Knowsley-hall, the sea. of the Larl of Derby. An
entrance is supposed to have b en effected about
8 cialock in the morning, and the thief ur tidevts got
clear away without beissr; perceived by any one cue
fleeted with but lordship's residence. Many arueles
of yemillery, ornaments, ite., were carricit oil by the
deprcd at ors, for winse capture a rtwuril of 51. has
been uttered.

Ste 'lVit.i tem Ilvmusiow, the distinguished lire
fess'''. of I.ogic in the University of Edinburgh, re
ceived a fracture of his aim on Saturday evening,
from a fall nt Largo It is undetatood, however, that
he is progressing tavourably.
A Swat:SlM) CASE or WITIC•SIAUGHTZR occurred
in I.e.eis on Sunday, when a young woman, ail
months advanced in pregnancy, tell a victim L 4.1 her
husband's brutality. Ho was an Irishman named
Michael Reynolds, a hawker of mats, and lived with
his wife in Shephertea-yarti, Ebenezer street. (In
the previous evening they w. et to a neighbour's
house, where then. was dancing going on, anti sub
sequently found their way to the Fleece gun adult
cent, and there Michael liecanw the worse for liquor
and stniclt his wile. lit:tweet, 12 and 1 o'clock in the
Morning .die went home, followed by her husband
and an acquaintance. Hero the husband matte some
advances towards a reconciliation, lint, receiving
some slight provocation, his brutality appeals to have
been at wive aroused, and be struck her in the lace,
and then, flinging her upon the door, kicked her with
terrible leree, rupturing inii.ortaiii vessels and tear
ing open the flesh leighUtilly. She sank upon the
floor, and died before the arrival of medical aid. Ihe
brutal huslaunl escaped, and Is still at large.
jury who sat upon his victim's body contented them •
selves with finding a v. rib,t of " Manslaughter."
Ax ExetosioN ow Nsrirou killed three men in the
empky tit Messrs. Smith, elientists., at Norwich, yes.
terduy week.
THE SHIP h'iugara arrived at Now York, front
Liverpool, on Wednesday, the 14th tilt, having lost
thirty eight of her passengers —one-eiglith of the
whole number—by ship-fever.
Tire Cameron, an iron screw steam ship, of :El3
tons regibtcr, running between Hull and Rotterdam,
was totally lust on Sunday last. She hunt on boattl a
large cargo of cotton and woollen goods, manufac-
tured iron, oil, earthenware, coma', wool, &c., twelve
passengers' and twenty rem. 'I he dilated vessel
encountered a terrific gale, which scut bur on shore
about fourteen nudes from (inert c, at tlae month of
the Masse. The bouts acre got out, istel IMMO,
excepting Captain Cross, the second malt-, and
Henry Jubb, a seaman, were 101VVII. N. itht r the
ship nor cargo was insured.
A lloardu lilassat et: has hien perpetrated eti
board the brig Arratoon .Ipcar. on her voyage to
Singapore and Calcutta. She anchored m the ,L,rama
Channel, and about n.idnight the (713ineAc port of
her crew, six to eight, and ten Chinese pameopers.
supposed to have come Irvin Hong Kong to Join the
rebels, rushed down to die cabin and murdered the
captain, both talkers, and a passeegt r ; another pas
senger jumped overboard. 1 bey then took about
6,000 dollars. and left ui the blip's boats. The ship
wan brought into harbour by the remaining Lcaear
crew. .

PALACE THEATRICALS.
[EXCLUSIVE.]

THE Palace Theatricals will, it is understood, be given this season
with unusual magnificence. Mr. CHARLES KEAN has already received
the Royal sanction for his programme, and several of the finest plays
of SHAKSPEARE and other writers are in rehearsal. Among the more
remarkable features of the series will be an original drama from the
pen of the Right Hon. Lord JOHN RVSIELL, whose Don Carlos has
obtained for him a celebrity in the theatrical world only paralleled
by that which his Reform Act and " Durham Letter " have gained for
him in the stormier arena of politics. We have not, of course, been
favoured with a copy of the play ; which, indeed, will not be printed
until after it has received the approbation of the illustrious audience
fin• whom it is designed, but the director has kindly allowed us to
glance over the prompt-book, and to make a few selections from some
of the scenes. lVe are sure that our readers will be interested in
perusing them. The drama is founded on an Elizabethan model, and
is called The Premier ; or, Aye before Honesty. We will not attempt an
outline of the plot, beyond saying that it is modern, and has a l►ulitical
significance, and that the characters, whose names are slightly, and
we might ahnost say clumsily, disguised, will easily be recognised.
The following dialogue gives a good idea of the author's style :
Cia.tino :
Resign! said'st thou? My gentle Stoneypalm,
Thou know'st our comrade well, nor art thyself
What vulgar men (like jesting Ralpho yonder)
Call verdant, or, in meaner lingo, green.
And yet thou askest if he will resign.
Where are thy u ual keen and lucid wits?
Thou art no lawyer, and you sack which bears
►ur Cranny (he's not much of one, men say)
Can have no charm for thee, or I might deem
Those wits were gone wool-gathering.
SU/EMMA :
Burly James,
Waste not thy mocks on me, or thou may'st find
Abu (which is Latin, James, for presently)
The game is one at which two men can play.
I tell thee, Griemio, that on Wednesday last
The rumour spread through every part of town
That he was out; ay, that the Earl was out.
Gizmo :

How fell the news upon the hearts of men?
STONETTALM :
How on the thirst• tongue descends the gush
Of a long draught of bright and sparkling water?
I do not take the liquid ; but I take
Thy meaning.
In the next act there is a very fine scene in which three of the
Premier's colleagues urge him to go out. They represent his unpopu
lurity thr►ughout the country, his unfitness for office, his known
leaning to Russian views. and the dtuu►tge which his adherence to
place causes to the Cabinet. He finely replies :
I bear you ; yes ; but though, sirs, I say hear,
"l'is not the " hear" of appr►bat' , sound
So dear to all of you, so seldom raised
For you, my Jonnio, you, my glazing ;lames,
Or you, my Lignum, save when faithful I )%nr,
With whip in band, stirs up the dozing nun,
t'ompelling cheers by virtue of his office.
Itosign! And why ? Hut few brief months have past
Sine'. all of ye came crouching to my door,
And in most urgent and resistless terms
I►id pray me head you. True, I sin no boy
But still my memory serves " Honoured Thane,
" Our vessel is but frail, an awkward tub ;
" But, so that. thou wilt be her figure-head,
" She'll ride, a tub which 'twill ha' safe to throw
"(Mt to that whale, the million ! 110 ye dare
" Deny your won's ? "
They admit that they were glad to have a head about whom people
knew and eared but very little, but they urge that they mould not have
expected he would have proved so utterly useless at first, and latterly
so actively mischievous. But the old Iiu•l is resolute, and prophesies
in at magnificent poetic burst :
Away ! "fill driven from hence Ido not stir,
1 swear it ! Well, I see my time is come,
And all men's eyes desire that I should fade
Into a distance they would hid me keep.
Hut, till by force eject►d, 1 remain.
The hour is come ; but 0, my colleagues, list !
List to your Premier. Jimmie, bold in tongue
But weak in act. List. helium. who didst wrong
soft India worse than ever she was wronged,
In thy five 1 rs of dreary balderdash.
And then big lirn•mio. list, who twistest round,
For all thy size, as quickly as the toy
Walled a teetot►nn, whose alternative
Threatened the Senate that, unless they pissed
Law vote, our gallant troops
.eutiny—who things't foul scorn
Sovereign, and in briefest time
• pie named from humility.
• lease hath long sun ivorship
Scotia, and by all the thistles
'A
ye deem) are but your brothers
I am your arch's key,
your tumble is not distant.

GRA.:allo :

room for many other extracts. but our
however, man ge to afford place for a brict

but a most effective bit which cannot fail to produce a sensation.
JOSNIO has, it seems, pledged the Earl's Cabinet to bring forward a
certain large measure affecting parliamentary representation. To
SvoNyveatm, who demands why he is so anxious to get rid of the
Premier, he replies, in confidence
A dodge, a dodge, my friend ! Hast thou forgot
That I am called the Artful Dodger?
STONEYPALM :

JONNIO :

\o:
Thou tak'st good care all +.hall remember it,
By frequent re-deserving of the name.

Why, so. 'Tis well. Ifackens, and gramercy,
So please ye we'll &sole it once again.
We've promised a Reform Bill. Is't not so?

ST(INFATAIN :

JONNIO :

Or else my memory and my Hansard lie.

Well, but who promised it ?

STONEII'ALM :

Why, we.

JOSSIO :

Who's " we " ?

tiroxr.vr.u.m :

What needs this catechising ? "We " implies
The Cabinet of which that ancient Earl
Is now the head—to which he gives his name.
JON I 0 (poking him):
Why, so. Thou always had'st a ready tongue
At making up an answer, but did'st never
Answer more tidy. True, you say, we promised
The Cabinet of ancient Aberdonio
Should issue its Reform Bill. But, my friend,
If Aberdonio's gone, there is no Cabinet
Of Aberdonio. Who to keep the promise
Another Cabinet exists, unbound
By Aberdonian promises—dos't twig ?
STONEVPAI.3I (with contempt) :
The dodge is all unworthy of thee. No.
I do retract—'tis worthy of thee, just,
And I despise thee, et jr coupe neon triton.

1- Exit, angrily.

From the above passages, with which we have been. so kindly
Etvoured, our readers will be enabled to judge of the character of the
interesting dramatic production which is shortly to occupy an important
share of attention. The catastrophe is calculated to be exceedingly
popular, and we believe that the only difficulty is, to induce any person
who acts with ordinary decency to take the part of the Premier.

LORD PALMERSTON'S FIRST BUSHEL
OF CHAFF.

It k phiin that the range of observation of a thwernment must always be, to a certain
degree, limited : and that they must derive the greatest poss►ble assistance from sugges-
tions 11111111 t to them, 111111 1 know thud among a gnat number of 11/1111111 kkk t %dons there
may be many which ant founded in el ror—in mistake of facts, or in a miseoneept. of
the power to remedy them. There may be a great deal of chaff in that which is
►eceived—bit if in a bushel of chaff sent he shall find a pint of good corn, that bushel of
chaff will be well worth winnowing, and ho Cllll hint that pint of con► to good purposes.
—l,un Pabacralaa'm Speeches al Giaxgair and ATM.

WE believe we are justified in stating that the following " sugges-
tions " will be found (in his Lordship's waste-paper basket) amongst
the first instalments of "advice gratis " sent in to him :

" A Member of the Peace Society " suggests that, now that the
Sultan has refused to sign the Vienna note, our army, navy, marine,
militia, and all our other warlike preparations, should at once be set
aside. He does not see that we have anything more to do with it. If
people want to tight, why, let them. The Danubian Principalities are
many hundred miles away from Manchester, and therefore why should
we pay taxes to keep the peace so far from home? Peace is a good
thing of course, but so m cotton-spinning. Even if the Russians
conquered the whole of Europe, they would want clean shirts; so why
should Manchester care who employs her looms ?
" The Hermit of Vauxhall would respectfully suggest that, if
Lord PALm macros wishes to know the future destiny of England, he is
ready to tbretel it, for the small charge of one shilling, in the form of
an acrostic.

" A Man about Town " would be happy to put the Ministry up to
s good thing or two for next year's Derby.
A Literal Individual suggests that, as the British ships oft Con-
stantinople are under a French Admiral, Lord CLARENDON should in
the same undisguised way put himself directly under the orders of
Baron Barxow, to make the subordination complete.

" A Descendant of the original Irish Undertaker" suggests to
Lord P. that. in his general closing of graveyards, he should keep a
spacious cemetery open against the impending demise of the Porte ; and
that, in his projected crw,ade against " smoke," he should begin with
certain mists that envelop the " Eastern Question."
Wide-awake " thinks that a London " Detective " might with
advantage be sent down to a certain seat in Wilts, as he understands
that there is a social gathering there of Russian connections of the
War Minister.

•
" Anti-Gallivan" suggests that Talleyntnd's maxim, " language
•' was given man to conceal his thoughts." should be banished from
the mind of a Minister when making Hll after-dinner speech.
A gentleman who signs himself " Latimer " says that. am the
Eeclesiastical Titles Bill has become a dead letter, he shall be particu-
larly obliged by being informed in what department of the Post-office
it is to be found.

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