The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-10 00:00:00

THE PRUSS.

Putissm.—A rescript by the It /Mister of the lute-
liar excludes Jews from the ritiht of voting in the
Diets of the Circles, and from Vpe office of mayor of
any village.
AUSTRIA.—The GOVerUMICY it has just published
its (Ada' reis:rt on tie resul'‘a of the harvest. The
crops are satisfactory in UJe Tyrol and in Upper
Austria; middling in Carni :lola and in Austrian &le.
sia; good in Moravia and the Bukowine, and very
fair in the Duchy of Cr wow. The reports from
Ilungary, Galicia, The isylvanitt, Lombardy., and
other parts of the emp Are, have not yet been re-
ceived, but there is lie
tertheless reason to believe
that, without being as :
slanulant as might have been
loped, the returns will be satisfactory. The price of
11"1"1 in certain Parts Bungary has doubled, a fact
which shows the Pro'gress making by agriculture in
that country.
SwITZ I.: ULAN D.— Lettell; from Geneva announce the
conversion of thi' Ay-nine persons from Roman Catho-
licism to Protes jantisin.
Int.v.—The persons lately arrested in Rome
amount to the, number of 100. The journey of the
Pope to Cast ,e 1 Gandolfo had been postponed.
SPAIN. • Accounts from Madrid are to the flrd
inst. The, King left La Granja on the 2nd for Rio
}''rip, to e Artist at a boar hunt. The railway station
between Arunjuez and Tembleque was to be opened
in a fe' 0 days. A notorious swindler, named Tillez,
who h
.sal long eluded the 'French and Belgian police,
oeen arrested in Madrid.
T .ho Royal Mail steam-ship Forerunner, Captain
Ito ,rnwell, arrived at Plymouth yesterday with mails
fr
.otn the west coast of Africa, &e. She brings news
.hat the boats of the Faith, which were supposed to
have been lost, with the purser and crew with mails,
had since been seen, and search was being made for
them by the Ferrol and Waterwitch. Admiral Bruce
was expected at Lagos on the 16th of August.
The slave trade is said to be more than usually
brisk.
The Patric contains an extract of a letter from
Canton of July 22, which says, that the Imperial
Government had sent envoys to the camp of the in-
surgents, in the hope of effecting an amicable
arrangement with that body.
THE Encounter, one of the Channel fleet, is re-
ported to have broken down yesterday off Plymouth.
The steam-tender Avon had boon sent to tow her in.
A Numnun o to WORKMEN aro employed laying down
pipes between Cowes and Yarmouth for the telegraph
wires to be placed in.
Kssnx.—The Commissioners of the Land Revenue
are proceeding to enclose the Crown allotment in
Minima Forest, under the provisions of the act of
Parliament passed during the last session. The
consequence of this enclosure will be the future pro-
hibition of holding the celebrated Fairlop fair, which
for many years has been held on the Ist of July, on
the portion of the forest now to be enclosed.
Fuom THE RETURNS submitted at the last meeting
of the Ulster Flax Society it appears that the breadth
of flax grown this year in the southern counties of
Ireland is considerably larger than that of 1552;
that the produce is, in many instances, better than
in Ulster ; and that the farmers are obtaining re-
munerative prices from the owners of local flax works.
By THE BANK RETURN of lust night it. appears that
the stock of bullion has decreased to the extent of
This continued decline, in the presence of
large arrivals front Australia, is an unexpected cir
cumstance in our financial condition, for which it is
not easy to account.

The police authmities in Paris have been recently exer-
cising the most rigid surveillance, in order to clear the
capital of numerous dangenuts Amick-N. Out of 1,4414)
Who have been interrogated, and whose pipers were found
not to la, regular. 407 have been detained in arrest.
The comet which has lately been visible has served a
priest not far from Warsaw with materials fur a very curious
sermon. Atter having summoned his congregation
together, although it was thither Sunday nor festival. and
slam!, them the comet, he intOnned them that this was the
same star that had appeared to the Magi at the birth of
our Saviour, and that it was onty visible now in the
Russian Empire. Its appearance on this occasion was to
intimate to the Russian eagle that the thin` was now come
fur it to spread out its wings nod embrace all mankind in
ono orthodox soul-sanctifying Church. lie told themithat
the star was now shuttling immediately over CI nett:lntim ple,
and explained that. the nucleus indicated its sorrow at the
delays of the Russian army iu pniceeding to its destina-
tion, tte.
The company of the Victor Emmanuel Ilailway. in
Savoy, has just eompleted its eantion-money by depositing
1,000.41011 f. Thu surveys of a great part of the line will be
terminated by the end of the month, and it is believed that
the works will la• commenced by the end of October.
For the annihilation of mosqnitoes the Chinese have
found nothing so etli.etual as the sawing of the resinous
juniper-tree, ith which they smear a bamboo, and set it
`bunting.
An immense block of marble has just been landed at
Thantes•bank, Finding), out of which will be worked the
large tay.za fur the " Alhambra" in the Crystal Palace.
The block 1111.111411 Mt hi feet by $ feet inches. and is .2 feet
thick, lis still to hue the 1artz....1 ever brought jute En-
it Qum,: livut Um; quarrio iu Cotruku.

SATTYRDAt

Al iIMRALTY, Sme.r. 1.
(Front Last Night's Gazette.)
Corps of Royal Marines—Second Lieutenant John
Cobb to be First Lieutenant, vice H. N. Oen, deceased.
ConsasstoNs Suisun BY LORD LINUTENANTS.
Norfolk Militia Artillery—Adjutant John Gilbertson to
be Captain; Edward Clough Newcome, Esq., to be Lieu-
temuit ; Charles Cory Aldria, Esq.. to be Surgeon.
Ist Regiment of West York Militia—Robert HetUey,
Esq., to be Captain; Lieutenant Thomas Nelson to be
Captain.
2nd Regiment of West York Light Infantry Militia—
William Henry Thornton Dueshery to be Ensign.
[This article is substituted for that which appeared in
the (birdie of Friday :—]
2nd Regiment of West Riding Militia—Ensign Valentine
Hicks Labrow to be Lieutenant, vice Watson, resigned.
:Ird Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Militia—
Sir James George Fitzgerald, Bart., to be Lieutenant.
Noralanntherlaunl and Newcastle Yeomanry Cavalry—
oswin Baker Crvsswcll, Omit., to be Lieutenant, vice
Cuthbert, resigned; Henry Ilind Forster, Gent. to be
Ct mut, vice Cresswell, promoted ; Caulogan llodgson
Cadogun, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Shaße, appointed to
the Royal Horse Guards.

FROM THE LONDON G AZETT E.
Tuesday, Sept.

11.1NKIII.JrN.--eltAiti.r.it CRAKE llAMn.•ror, Little Queen.
streut, Ittienbes iroonnouger--TitomAs I,AMPlarr
PoweLL Itoinsey, uplutbderer—SlNoN I,AZAIRI itpricitutaft,
Broad-street-building,t, merehaut SenTl• REN1)1,1:,
Ilrook-terrtiee, 11l l ROIL-road, 8181 BriXtBll.lBll, 1884 81141 8110.1
isunifiteturer--.IOIIN .IAII.BB RYAN, Edwuritstrett, l'ortninn-
square, milliner—WM. IlAtuutrr, stuurbridge, butcher—Jons
Itonsow, I)urbas,
. .

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—W. DARLING, EdbiburglL
nierehant-1). STEWART, I Fund...., brewer—D. AMI.IIF:T.I,,TImrs..,
merchant—J. FARRF:It, DlTlnfrit.s, loather mereltant—J. Cutup:,
Springhallquill, lioxburgladdre, farmer.
Friday, Sep/ember O.
DAN IiItUPTS.—JonN HENRY HitUl.ll ITO EREDERIcK HER-
MAN GOULD, Wilding-street, Mliolemalle lace a archousemen --
.IAMEN PALMER, Itrieldon, Wilder—WlLLl A M II 11WI.V.T1', Hove,
I Will Brighten, builder--EDWARD HENRY PARKUN, I.3.ltry•streel,
corn.4.IIIIIItII4T—WILLIAM Amoiarron, lute of Wolver-
hanipton, grocer Eolioß Boom, llialtupsweanuouth,
owner.

CIPHER ADVERTISEMENTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS."

Sir,—You seem disposed to pry into secrets, and
have given a key to open one which appeared lately
as an advertisement in the Times. I beg to hand
you another key to another series which has since
made its appearance in the same paper, with the
heading " He Blew."
By simply taking the next letter in the alphabet,
except where z appears—when a must he read—the
first for the last-1 believe pretty nearly every word
will be made out. Howls•

On trying the key suggested by our ingenious
correspondent upon the last advertisement of the
series he mentions, the following bit of enigmatical
commonplace makes its appearance :

HE BLEW. —" (itrg " (pm& " lai Gdniqx "
zinc lltMiand eho nnis szjol hake Tim lizotgezx.
- •

" Hush." Ropes. " Mr. Henry " and Eugenie
did not, take cold on Saturday."

The Sorereign of 11w Seas, a celebrated clipper ship, left
the Mersey on Wednesday for Australia. She carries out
the largest and most valuable cargo of merchandise ever
shipped in one bottom from any port in the, world. lty
mea.surtment her cargo is about 3,4100 tons, giving a freight.
list of nearly 20,t NM IL, while the estimated value of her
cargo falls little short of 300,0001. In addition to her
immense cargo she has 25 first and .10 second cabin
passengers.
The cholera has nearly disappeared in Copenhagen, 12
new eases only being reported in two days. 1 t is, however,
spreading in East Prussia and Dant/it', Eliding, and Ko-
nigsberg are more or less tdfreted. The total number of
eases at Stettin since the 13th of duly amounts to about
700, of whom about :0441 have been carried oft: At Stock-
holm. up to the 26th ult., 2144 pers.ons had been attacked
and 100 hail died. At Christiania there had been 161
eases and 102 deaths.
Imudon, metalling to the Globe, is to become quite a
model city under the administration of Aberdeen and
Molesworth. Fifty years hence, say our Whig contempo-
rary, the metropolis will scarcely recognise itself. Nay.
for all we know, the traveller who has been making; the
tour of the world, and returns after wane score of years,
will lw astonished by the change which will Lave
es ans,
over this dingy metropolis of ours. What with Lord
Palmerston at the Home Office, Sir W. Molesworth at
the hated of Works, a new board of health. 114'W sewers,
and all the other improvelliellta we Inv promised, there
is no limit to the splendour which may presently
make London the insist beautiful as it is already the
wealthiest city in the world. The stranger from New
Zealand will look not on St. Paul's in rums, and %Vest-
ntinster Abbey the haunt of beasts and birds, hint he will
see a clear sky. limpid river, steamers without smoke,
manufactories without dirt, and the unclean spirit banished
for ever from the metropolis. As tOr our sanitary condi-
tion, we shall luive no sewers breathing forth pestilence,
for the very refuse and filth, which is now mo horrible and
offensive, is to be turned into gold. Cholera will be a ter-
rible spectre of the past. a plague of which fathers will tell
their children. as the wanderers in the desert told their
deseentlants of the plagues in Egypt. In short, physicians
will have lint their occupation, and the tat vi We btiluld
Hill bt; u.s pure ua tla‘ uir vt

SEPTEMBER 10, 1853.

ittraturt.

Charles Anehester. A Memorial. l vols.
A STRANGE book, but with that memorable
strangeness which is the stamp of genius,—
tragic without horror, exciting without inci
dent; illustrating psychical phenomena in
their rarer exhibitions ; startling by its revela-
tion of ecstasies which transcend mesmoism,
yet discriminating their phases by fine shades
and natural gradations which reconcile us to
their verity—a combination of power with a
tenderness and delicacy which may be fend
nine, but which certainly is not weak : ant
analysis of aspirations; a lyrical narrative ; a
rapture chastened by artistic training ; uu
anomaly,—but nevertheless a work which, as we
remd it, acquaints us with creations never to
be obliterated ;—such are some of the descrip-
tions applicable to " Charles Auchester.-
ts immediate theme is almost identical
with that of a beautiful passage in one of those
sermons with which John Henry Newman,
then a Protestant divine at Oxford, beguiled
the wits of his followers:—" Let us take an
instance, of au outward and earthly form
" or economy, under which great wonders un-
" known seem to be typified—l mean musical
" sounds, as they are exhibit 4 most perfectly
• in instrumental harmony. There are seven
" notes in the scale ; make them fourteen, yet
" what a slender outfit for so vast an enterprise !
~What science brings so much out of so little?
" Out of what poor elements does some great
master in it create his now world ! Shall we
• say that all this exuberant inventiveness is
" a mere ingenuity or trick of art, like some
" game or fashion of the day, without reality,
" without meaning?

• • • • •
" Is it possible that that inexhaustible eve-
" lution ainl disposition of notes, so rich yet
" so simple, so intricate yet so regulated, so
" various yet so majestic, should loe a mere
" sounl, which is gone and perishes ? Cain it
'• be that those mysterious stirrings of heart
" and keen emotions, and strange yearnings
" after we know not what, and awful impres-
sions front we know not whence, should be
" wrought iii us by what is unsubstantial, and
" conies and goes, and begins and ends, in
" itself? It is not so ; it cannot be. No ;
" they have escaped from some higher sphere;
" they are the Outpourings of eternal harmony
" in the meiliuM of created sound ; they are
" echoes from our home ; they are the voice of
" angels, or the inagnifitat of saints, or the
" living laws of divine governance, or the
" divine attributes ; something are they besides
" themselves, which we cannot compass, which
" we cannot utter,—though mortal man, and
"he perhaps Hot otherwise distinguished
" above his felloiVe, hats the gift 44 eliciting
" them."
We have extracted this passage, long as it
is, because it expresses, far more eloquently
than we can cTo, . the spirit in which the
author of the book before us has set forth an
eulogy of the iiitiSieal art, in conhection with
memorials of some of its most eminent pro-
fessors. It is true that the design of the book
is so far not new that it is one of a series of
" art novels" which have been produced lately,
in sonic abundance, here and on the Continent.
Even its respects its ideal of musical devotion,
it might be at:Awned to be repeating an ex-
cursion upon the same ground which clad been
occupied by the " Consuelo" of George Sand,
and the " Viola " cif De la Motto rouque. We
mention these names to show that we have
them in our contemplation when we pronounce
the present work to be entirely original,--ori-
ginal, not so mueli in plan anal treatment as
in the distinctiire elements it owes to a creative
genius.
We are unable to infer what may have been
the tmtecedenis of the author, or in what way
they inky be associated with the name Of
liendelssohn ; but it is evident that that gifted
amposer is the object of the admiration,
amounthig to idolatry. which is elicited by
" Seraphael." We will undertake to say, though
we know not the fact, that the author has had
mime personal and intimate knowledge of his
unworldly life and habits. The midland town
where the earlier scenes of the book arc cast