The Press.
London, England, 1853-12-24 00:00:00

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The satislaction of the Emperor at the receipt of
the accounts of the success of the Russian arms may
be seen from the following autograph letter to Prince
euschikotl:—

" St. Peteniburg,:ov. 29 (Dee. II).

Prince Alexander Sergejcwitsch,— The' victory of
Sheltie proves evidently that our Black Sea fle.t has shown
itself worthy of its destination. With hearty joy I request
you to communicate to my linty, rt amen that I thank them
for the success of the Russian Hag, on Is half of the glory
sad honour of Russia. I !tercet itlt satistaci that
Tschesun hes not ken forgott, n in the Rimini, navy, and
that the grandsons hay. 'inset' tlientst.lveN worthy of tht it
grandsires.
" I remain dway tioalterably
" Your and grateful,
Ntcua-vs."

Baron Bi 'berg, th, new Russian Cemmissioner,
is much disliked by the of tie Princi-
pality.
The Empertr Nichola., has grunted a pension of
1,0(K) ducats p.r month to the Princes (Mika and
Stirbey. Prince Ghikti'., debts, to the amount of
50,000 ducats, have loom prod 1, tho Czar.
frini and solo. Btitioli talkers arrived in
Constaotinopl, 11th irat. from (hoar I'acha's
head quart,rs.
An Austrian war steamer lift on the balllo day fur
the Black Scr.. It is said she is humid for Sinope,
though tom what purpose was not known.

Yesterday's Moniteur contradicts tho rumour of
disturbances at 140118.
'lllO Vauban !team-frigate, now at Toulon, has
been ordered to join the French squadron at Con-
stantinople.
The Baden Government has decreed the expulsion
of the Jesuits from Frieburg.
From Madrid, on the 20th instant, it i 4 announced
that M. de Turgot, the French Ambassador, was re-
covering from the &teas of the wound received in his
duel with M. Soule. M. Sextorins is now quite well.
The I►ue de Montpensi4 r has arrived in Madrid.

THE EA•il- (; LOI•cI:STL Rs I'IRE ELECTION (will
take place on stiturdtty, the 7th, or Monday, the nth
of 3antetry. Both candidates, Mir .liiehal Hicks
Beach, on the Consei vative side, and Mr. I:olland, in
the Liberal interett, will, it is confidently- stated, go
to the poll.
YESTERDAY (Friday) thb• town council of bones-
ter resolved to memorialise Lord Aberdeen, 'braying
that in guy measure fur Parliamentary Reform Lon-

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caster bit include4l to send one or mare igtettircrs to
Parliament. Sir Isaac Morley statoo that th* IC %%vie
more 101. householders in Doncaster thun in any
other 1,0*('0 in the kingdom tit ..dual I %idation.
Tnt: SEcIit:TANY 'Olt IkELANy. sir John
Young, has arrived in Cork, on a tour of nil cction
into the condition of the convict prisons.
A Srmirs or PotsoNisos By Al4t.iitt% which has
plunged several of the leading county taittilics 1, to
alarm and grief has occurred in •
lit the second week of Noiember tit*. I. 'moles
annually celebrated in connection with the I',ta 101.11
Hunt took place, as usual. '1 he Taco ball at the
Bear Hotel, In Col% k.ridge, was attended by 0 !ar, 0
and distinguished assembly, and had puss,( tit with
greater brilliancy even than ortlitttuy. lit
days, however, the greatest eonstermition was ocea-
sionett by the circumstance that scieral ladies
and gentlemen who had been pr arnt weld
attacked by a fel er of most ditlisecolls Ola-
meter, the symptoms of which, it is sided,
are precisely similar to those of the cp acme,
fearfully celebrated as the " Croydon Forel.-
The number of the stiderers is varion.ty reported
from 20 to 40. It is believed that this distress
ing affliction has been occasioned by the necidentel
breaking into on old dram during some alterations
Carried till ill the Vitinity of the hall-rooni, and which
it is said had 1144 been opened toy upwanis id twenty
years. The Rev. (ivorge Tighe:lie, a clergyman
greatly et.teemeil in his neighbourhood, and
Itieliards, of Runt It, a young lady of most amiably cha •
racier, cut down 111 life WOOlll4ll ) 'want.% , hays
fallen Viet lies to the terrible malady. lit ud.Uuou, a is
stated dad members iI 'warty all the !wal-
lies in the district, who attended the bull, arc stitlenag
in the taillll3 way, many of them not expeete-t to re-
cover; among those ate members of the families of
Sir It. Tyler, M.l'., Mr. Booker, M.P., Dr. Cum',
and others. Even the serf wits and other inmates of
the house have been attacked.

('ITY, Two lel 104 •

Consols, 911 ; :Mexican, 211; Spanish, 461
ditto Ileterrell, 111 21; Russian Five per Cent+, 112
114 ; ditto Four-mid-a-half per tents, 104 II; ltii
mitightutis, 163/ 4 ; Leeds, 1171 t ; Midland. 631
1; t;rt at Western, 8:11 4 ; Caledonian, 271 6 ;
Yorkshire, 111 ; North of Franet, 8U ;i1 ;
bourg, 311 3; 161 j; Exchequer 3 11
premium.

THE CoNsenveriv e I.ANe Soeiery held their Ora
annual meeting on the Mile inst. at the Freemasons'
Tavern. Viscount leanelagh preside L. Ihe report,
which was read by Ins lordship, stated that the
society was first started for the ►ssuu at sbw•es en the
7th of September, 1552, and that such was the re-
mailable progress made, that in the first year, ending
sevembe r 29, 1 Keil, 41,131 wet c issued, 511,4175/. ss. see
was received thereon, mid 2,271 no minis. (welled.
Since the 29th el September 1,11:12 additional shares
had been issued, and 19,2351. received, making the
bead number 7,796, representing a subscr►bed capital
of ilism,3oo/., on which 75,310/. 13s. has been paid up.
The balance sheet showed a net vent of 1,9141. 12s.
Cal. in favour of the society eta the 211th September;
and all the liabilities of the society had been die--
charged or provided for up to that. date. That sum
is in addition to the 7,511/. Ills. Id. balance of profit
realised on the Alarktield estate, which stands to the
credit of the society as a reserve fund. The el nil Mit tcc,
therefore, proposed that a burins, at thereto of W. per
cent. per annum, on all subscriptions paid on uncom-
pleted shares up to the 29th of September last, in
respect of *lnch allotments have not been taken,
should be declared. They have also resolved that
the interest on completed shares and payments in
advance shall receive a per rent., in addition to the al.
already guaranteed, se as to make evety payment into
the society on existing shares realise lg. pt r cult. fur
tl►e past year. Dwing the past year sixteen estates
have been purchased and eight estates allotted. The
number of shares which have been placed on the order
of rights by the three different methods of completion,
drawing and seniority. up to the 14th inst., was I,$U4,
of which Mil were completed, 791 drawn, and 3b2 by
seniority shares. The number of rights exercised
out of this list is SOO. The system of seniority has
been found to work well. The report concluded ma
follows :—" In respect to the increase of tbu franchise,
it is necessary to repeat that the society was pri-
marily established as a defensive measure, and they
have reason to be proud that the main principle,
that of co-operation and mutual assistance, will be
amply proved, inasmuch us the artisan, the opera-
tive, the tradesman, medical professors, memberts
of the legal pmfession, clergymen, officers of the,
army and navy, men of science, tae mbt•ra of the fine
arts, members of universities, awl the song of peels
will be enabled, through the instimeentality of this
society, to obtain the most ancient mode of suffrai„e
in this country—the freehold fianchise, the pin:
eipal object of• the foundation of the society being
the support of that constitution to which Luglauct
owes its prosperity.'

CUPID'S INGRATITUDE.
(Freely translated front ArturoN by a Noble Lord in a high official station.)
'Teas in the hour when night had shed
Her noon of darkness o'er my head.
And gleamed ascendant in the air
My own bright star, the Northern Bear,
When, now no more in Senate bored.
My weary colleagues soundly snored ;
'Then to any dour, subdued and tame.
My old opponent Cupid came.
Who's there, 1 cried, whose modest Etp
Disturbs an ancient l'remier's nap''
Fear nut, he :aid, my wanderings o'er
Suppliant for place I come unee more.
A docile child, to learn of thee
The ways of foreign policy.
Then, pityinl Cupid's humbled Ante.
lit my rushlight, oiled may gate.
With logs blazing hearth I piled,
And introduced the silk cling child.
t plied Inv diplomatic art.
1 wrung the Briton from his heart,
And ivrapped his frozen limbs with ears
In fur supplied by Russian bear.
But, dried and warmed, the wanton boy
Began to work me fresh annoy.
Mine host. he cried, I fain would know
If damp has harmed my English bow ;
Exposed awhile to cold and wet,
In Coalition Cabinet.
The urchin drew the bow and laughed.
Full well I knew that fatal shaft,
Whose venomed point, a year itgone,
So sorely wounded Little .lonx.
Farewell, mine host, he cried, and shot ;
My string, thou see'st, is injured not,
And sore my arrow's point, I woes,
Shall gall the heart of ABERDEEN.