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London, England, 1853-08-13

THE PRESS.

SATURDAY,I

SENATORS AT SEA TO LADIES ON LAND.
WRITTEN ON BOARD H.M.S. " BULLDOG," TUB MORNING BEFORE TUE GREAT
NAVAL BATTLE or SPITHEAD, Auovsr 11, 1863.

To all you ladies now on shore,
We men at sea indite,
To own your absence is a bore,
Our conduct impolite ;
But you must scold Sir JAMES, the screw,
Who would not find a ship for you.
With a fal lal la, etc.

'Tis not our fault you stay behind,
Nor grace the boat and train ;

Big GRAHAM would not raise the wind—

The Irish call him mane—
And e'en JOE HVME complains that he
Was not allowed his passage free.

Some voices at the Council Board
Desired your presence here—

The Premier urged his long First Lord
To bring each Dowager :
" Were she the sourest ever seen—
Ask her," said egoist ABERDEEN.

The gentle GLADSTONE thrice appealed
For you, to stern Sir J.
For when our ill-built vessel reeled

He hoped to hear you say :
" Others, beside that artful fox,
Can make sad blunders on the stocks."

SO GRAN-VILLE urged (who always goes,
Where he leaves word he'll go)—
" For if they're with us, I suppose,
For once, at least, they'll know
We're on no naughty errands bent ;"
Remarked the grave Lord President.
London, England, 1853-08-13

Ikt glrama.

Autintt TnEAyttr.—The farce What! no Cab?
produced here on Monday last, is a mere vehicle for
the exhibition of what we presume Mr. Webster
would term the " genuine " Adelphi humour of
MOWN. Paul Bedford, Honey, and Co. The piece
itself is a wretched production, very indifferently
acted.
LYCEUM THEATRE.—Mr. Allcroft commences a
short opera season on Wednesday next, Mr. and
Mrs. Sims Reeves being the principal singers en-
gaged. We shall be glad to have au opportunity of
again hearing Mrs. Sims Reeves' whose absence
from the concerb•rooms this season has been a great
loss to lovers of good musie.
PutscEss's.—Sardanapolux still continues to draw
great houses. Mr. Kean, it would seem, has decided
upon keeping his theatre open for some time longer.
It is reported Ord The Honeymoon is to be revived
again next week.
London, England, 1853-08-13

Let us now observe the influence of the
principle of coalition on our foreign affairs.
Bound to the Emperor of RUSSIA by ties of
ancient, and perhaps unconstitutional, confi-
dence, and mixed up, from the first, with
Orleanist intrigues, Lord ABERDEEN had no
sooner acceded to power than our cordial un-
derstanding with France melted away. Whis-
pers to M. BacNow, and private letters to greater
persons, conveyed unmistakably the axioms
of the new Cabinet. What happened ? The
Emperor of RUSSIA, assured of a combination
of circumstances which he had long awaited,
seeks one of those quarrels with Turkey which
are always ready made at St. Petersburg.
Lord ABERDEEN is sounded, and approves. The
wise English statesman is even in the habit of
declaring that the prolonged existence of the
Turkish empire is in his mind a public evil.
The overt conduct of Russia, long privately
encouraged by the English Minister, begins
to excite not only the attention, but the alarm,
of his colleagues. There are two parties in
the Cabinet. Whether the English fleet shall
quit Malta—whether the invasion of Turkey
shall be considered war by the Porte—whe-
ther we shall act cordially with France—whe-
ther we shall insist on the evacuation of the
principalities—these are all questions of con-
troversy in the Coalition Government, and
apparently on all of them the chief Minister
has been virtually defeated. Peace is to be
preserved by an union with that France which,
only four months ago, Lord ABERDEEN spoke
of with contempt, and ahnost with hatred.
It is possible that peace may he preserved,
though that is by no means certain ; but are
six months of political and commercial agita-
tion no evil ? What millions have been lost,
and what passions have been excited ! As for
Turkey, even if her shaken frame survive the
storm, she has been deprived of a quarter of
a century of existence. And these are the
deeds and consequences of coalition—of the
London, England, 1853-08-13

THE PRESS.

Mexican Bonds have risen fully 1 per cent. in conse-
quence of a rumour that the United States are about
to purchase a large quantity of the Mexican terri-
tory, and to give the holders of Mexican Bonds
American Four per Cent. Bonds in lieu at the rate of
501. American Four per Cent. stock for 100/. Mexican
Three per Cent.
It is very desirable that the Mexican committee
should exercise the greatest vigilance while such
transactions are going on.
London, England, 1853-08-13

AMERIC.I.

Thu 7 n ited States
.1(1111'110s reveived by
the Fra►►kli►t
to the :10th ult. contain no political news,
Yellow fever continued to prevail at New t►rlean►a.
but it was prineipally ronlined to the lower orders.
The number of tit aths ranged tniin 30 to 40 per day.
.1 slaw had been publicly bum in Pettis county
(Missouri), tin• murdering a wv►mau. llis master
was ordered out. of the state ti►r conniving at the
murder. _ .

Some of the ‘isitors to the New York Exhibition
Inning complained of the mule statuary, the dirtetors
Lad lwen compelled partially to screen the figures.
Dates from Dm 1111111111 state that a well-known
mlii‘edettler had been arrested at lielize, lionduras,
for shipping Indians from Yucatan to Cuba us
slti es.

The steun►-.hip Northern 1.4/hi had brought
adviees from California to .111ly I. together aith
4110,000 dollars, anal reports 1,045,71►9 dollan4 having
been shipped front FratlelNet► in the Metall ship►
Oregon.

'll'wo more destructive conflagrations have visited
the towns of Shasta and Rung!, and Ready, ono
of which destroyed property in the lot tiler city
to the amount, of •!:11,000 dollars, and in the latter
only fifteen houses of all descriptions wen' left
standing.
A horfible murder loot been committed in Sarni-
Meta() by a man minted Strible upon his brother's
wife, and an attempt, also to kill his brother, and to
end his own existence sit the same time.

I lOwn-stuttggling has become quite a business
amongst the Chinese iiiissetigeN who arrive ut,
fume' quantities of the article hall)
been seized by the Olio rs of the custAnns, who IMO
been on the look out for the smugglers for some tituo
past.
London, England, 1853-08-13

AUSTRALASIA.

The Legislative Council of New South Wales has
appointed a committee of ten to prepare the new
eeettitutioa. The produce of the Victoria gold-fields
is increasing. There le great destitution among the
newly-arrived emigrants at Melbourne. Rents are at
extravagantly high prices. The American steamer
Monsessital City was wrecked on the 15th May, on
her passage from Port Phillip to Sydney ; 35 persons
perished. Price of gold at Sydney, 765. per ounce.
London, England, 1853-08-13

Until Mr. HATOHELCK elevation to the office of
a chief educator in Ireland we never suspected
that Lord ST. GERMANS Wail a practical joker.
Those who have heard the Viceroy attempt
the part of an orator will readily believe that
he could not have much as a wit ; but
as practical jokes are within the powers of
any man, from a GILBERT GURNEY to Lord ST.
GEntaANK, and as fun is "racy of the soil" in
Ireland, he has succeeded in amusing the Dub-
lin public by substituting Mr. HATOWILL for
Mr. Ilt.AeasuasE. Of course the mote' of Mr.
HATCHEI.L,any more than that of JOE Minium,
cannot yet he forgotten by our readers. He
was that admirably comical Attorney-General
for Ireland who used to amuse parliamentary
critics by his great industry in macadamising
the English language. One night he con-
vulsed the Senate, during a discussion on
Law Reform, by saying, " I am not here, Mr.
Spaker, to mitigate the evils of the Coort of
"Chancery in Ireland." To the Conservatives
his rising to address the House was always a
source of amusement ; while to the Liberals
it was "th 3 signal for flight," according to
our eontetni orary the Examiner. In plain
words, he fell so kw in Parliament that be
was an objeet of Sir .IAsiES GBAHAm's pity! " 1
" feel for him," said Sir, .1 AMES, in alluding to Vats
floundering style of the Irish barriste!. who,
London, England, 1853-08-13

THE SMOKE NUIMANCE.

IT is stated that Lord PALmEturros has been peremptory in this
matter, for reasons founded on experience. " Time was," he says,
" when this innocuous OSBORNE at n►s side poured forth a cloud of
sooty sparks upon his neighbours. I got him fitted with the Minis-
terial appa►atus, and now no one would imagine him to be the same
BERNAL. However foul he may be, 1w consumes his own awoke, and
is now an example to the rest of the n►ctropolia,"

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London, England, 1853-08-13

CANADA.

Several of the members of the. Colonial Ministry
have be►•n going over ditlerentparts of I 'viler Canada
attending public dinuer4 to Which they ha►e been
invited. They have made the important declarat►on,
that it is the intention of the Government to "seen-
'arise" the clergy reserves during the next session or
l'arliament.

The harvest prospects are very WWII, but prices or
produee are unsettled, in consequence of the uncer-
tain nature of the accounts front England. Land in
all parts of Upper 4 'militia is ve y much raised iu
value, as, indeed, are all kinds of labour and every
article of commerce. Building is proceeding with
marvellous celerity in Toronto and many other places.
Everybody is prosperous, and feels well assured that
the magnificent natural resources of Canada are
better thorn auriferous depoNits.

A large meeting had been held in Newfoudland,
at which it was resolved that unfettered commercial
relations with the United States were necessary for
the 'so:ginned success of the province.
London, England, 1853-08-13

INDIA AND eIIINA.

The Calcutta mail of July 2 arrived at. Tries,te uu
Wednesday, with the t•hina mail of th.• 23rd Juno,
and intelligence from hurrah to June •!.1, Sydney.
May 31, Bombay .lull•
The King 4,f .t II has become more submissive;
he has issued orders that the British troops are not.
to be molested • that Meandel and Tounghon are P.
remain in ant• imissession, and has released all the
prisoners, but will not yet sign a treaty. Trade in
India is dull.

The Imperialist tinny in China was preparing ti,
retake Amoy, but without much chance of success;
the rebel army was within four (lays' march of
Nankin. Canton has not yet been attacked.

The Arab ship Flue Karen', on her passage from
Aden to Bombay, with the Bombay portion of the
India mail which left London on the 24th June,
foundered at sea twenty miles from Aden ; the mails,
consisting of Os boxes, were lost, and 179 out of 190
Arabs and Lasears who were on board, and Mr. Nan-
kins, in charge of the mails, perished.
London, England, 1853-08-13

A comPuAtEN.r.

Tut: Russian Prineesmes give the Alinistry credit for intending R
delicate compliment by the review of Spithead. " How great," they
say, " must you allow that nation to be against whom you were afraid
to use this mighty armament." They regard Auminims as the Curs-
TER FIELD of diplomacy, and they curtsey their acknowledgments for
the leaders in the Timex.

A NEW LEGEND OF MoNTROSE.
[von Junsn.Es.]
Jotoirti asked 14 a rctunL ticket.
Did JOSEPH ask for a return ticket?
IfJosEen asked for a return ticket,
Where's the return ticket? &e., &e.

A SPANISH BALLAD
OMIT'I'EI► IN LoCKHALT's coLLECTIoN.

(Wyman, 01.1vmaA,
From the olive-grounds of Spain
Thought til►ithend, like Talavera,
On the mainland, not the main.

Therefore, said that Caballero
"If you'll let nie I would fain
Offer Mrs. OLIVEIRA
A ride there and back again.'

Said the House, "Good 01.tvEtn.t,
Just as well with horse and wain
You could cross the Straits at Pent
As get there by railway train.

Therefore, gentle OuvionA,
You and yours must not complain,
In this geographic a.ra.
If your tenderest Wish is vain."

850

The abolition of the Duly on Advertisements eatables au to
insert at the price of Th►ee Shillings the Advertisements
for which we have hitherto charged Five ; used Adcer•
tisers generally will receive the fall benefit of the change
in the law.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
A CONSERVATIVE (I.lVerpOol).—We make uo additional charge
beyond the ordinary scale prioes. An advertisement of the
usual length would cost three shillings. We have four
agents in Liverpool—Mews. Pearson ; Willmer and Smith ;
C. Willmer ; and Aylward.
-
London, England, 1853-08-13

wand has ruled heavy, at a decline in the quotations of from ps
to 411 per quarter, and clearances have not been effected.
Foreizn wheats, the imports of which have been liberal. have
moved off slowly, at from 1* to 2s per quarter less money.
Floating cargoes. however, arising from the advaneed quotations
paid in Italy, have realised Is to 2s per quarter advauee. lied
Polish Odessa has changed hands at 4lis; white do., 51ii to 52*;
Ilarianopoli and (Mirka, 47s to 525; Galati, Its to 475; Ibraile
45. to 47s ; %imitate, 41. to 42s ; and Egyptian, :his tki to :17g
col per quarter, all charges included. A small panel of new
English barley has made its appeartinee and offered at ius
per quarter. Foreign parcels have moved off slowly on former
terms. The sale for malt has continued steady at late rates.
Oats have met a dull inquiry, and prices have given way ls per
quarter. Beans have fallen Is per quarter; but peas and dour
have realised full quotations.
ENGLVIII—Wheat, Essex and Kent white. 4** to 58s red,
40s to Hs; Norfolk and Lincoln red, Vis to 51a. Malting barley,
30s to sirs; grinding ditto, 29* to 31s; distilling. V,* to :ti..
Malt, 53. to 67.. Feed oats, 2tli to 23s ; potato, 228 to :Ws.
Rye, Ws to 395. Tick beans, 37. to 40s; pigeon, 3o* to 45*.
troy peas, 33. to 31s; maple, 36. to 39e ; white boiler*, 40s to
43s per quarter. Town•maile dour, 45. to Ws; country marks,
33a to 44. per 280Ibs.
London, England, 1853-08-13

Valittal zntb. tfitntral.

THE Duar OF NEWCASTLE will be the Secretary
of State in attendance on the Queen during the stay
of the Court in Dublin.
Tun Nsw COMMISSIONERS of National Education,
in the room of Archbishop Whately, Mr. Blackburne,
and Baron Greene, are Dr. Higgin, Bishop of Lime-
rick; Mr. Longfield, Commissioner of Encumbered
Estates; and Mr. Hatchell, late Irish Solicitor.
General.
MAJoit-Geseum. Asses will leave London by the
next overland mail for Calcutta, where he takes the
command lately vacated by Sir Joseph Thackwell. It
is said that General Anson does not intend to dispose
of the whole of his racing stud.
Tin: ELECTION Foil SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE is
fixed for Monday next, the 15th, and will take place at
Lichfield. The Hon. Edward Littleton is still the
only candidate in the field.
THE NUMBER, OF PUBLIC ACTS hitherto passed in
the present session is only sixty-three.
Tan Quites has appointed the Earl of Wemyss
and March Lord-Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of
the county of Peebles.
TILE "IiATTEIO4EA-TARN AcT" is the title of a short
hill which lately received the royal assent, and is de
signed to provide for the purchase and extinguish-
ment of all rights of continua and lemmas and other
commonable rights over the site of Battersea-park,
in the county of Surrey. These rights are valued at
1,5001., which the set directs to ho paid to the church-
wardens of St. Mary's, Battersea.
Tan KINO or PRUsSIA has granted the great gold
medal for science to M. Leone Levi, for his work on
the commercial law of the world.
GOVERNMENT have just purchased, for .1,0010., the
tight of the patentee in a machine for perforating or
making holes round the penny-postage stamps.
THE TEMORAPHIC CONVENTION between England,
France, Belgium. and Prussia is now supported by a
vote of 99,000/., just granted by the House of Com-
mons. This stun is intended to defray the expense
of laying down an independent line of telegraphic
wires front London to the Continent, and to enable
her Majesty's Govenunent to join the convention for
regulating the transmission of messages by electric
telegraph.
THE NI*MBEII OF DEATHS registered last week in
the metropolis was 991; in the previous week it was
Ln corresponding weeks of the years 18.43-
52, exclusive of that in Isl 9 (when cholera raised
the total mortality of the week to 1,900), the numbers
raned Pram $Ol to 1,135. With the exception of
the infant part of the population, who suffer as usual
at this season, the health of London appears to be
comparatively good.
London, England, 1853-08-13

commencement of its career a coalition of
Whigs, Peelites, Radicals, and Irish Papists,
destroyed the Derby Government on the
ground that, in a large scheme of financial
reform, Ministers proposed to raise a sum,
not amounting to a million sterling, by the
extension of a tax unohjectionable in its
principle, though hitherto too limited in its
application. The Parliament then transferred
its allegiance to a new Ministry, formed out of
these heterogeneous sections, which not only
proposed the old income tax without any
mitigation, and with a large extension of its
area, but saddled the settled capital of the
eountry with a tax of two millions sterling per
annum, a tan oppressive in its operettas, and
false and injurious in its principle. The Par-
liament was greatly induced to sanction these
measures—some of them highly unpopular in
the country—by the prospects held out to
them, at the same time, of a large reduction of
the interest on the public debt by means of a
showy financial project, which is already con-
signed to Limbo.
The carrying new taxes, and especially of
the old income tax in its odious form, is, then,
the great feature of the session ; for no one
will claim that character for the new Indian
constitution. That strange arrangement was
passed by a large majority amid universal
condemnation. Whig and Tory, East India
Directors, and East India Reformers, alike
denounced it. But the infliction of new im•
posts does not, at the first blush, appear to be
a very sure source of strength and popularity.
What, therefore, mainly attracts to the stan-
dard of Lord ABERDEEN the motley legions
that gather round him ? It is his yielding to
the peremptory condition of Sir JAMES GRA-
nAu that the existing Government shall make
a new assault on the aristocratic constitution
of this country. For a " large measure of
" Parliamentary Reform " means that, or it
means nothing. It means more power to the
towns which have already an excess of power,
anti more dominion to fluctuating masses of
the population, or it is a mere place hunting
cry, which latter even the not unequivocal
career and the not unsullied conduct of Sir
JAMES GRAHAM could hardly induce MS to
credit.

Whether the Aberdeen Administration may
be able to agree on " a large measure of Par-
liamentary Reform"—whether, if they do, the
country will accept this device of faction—are
questions for the future. Let us see, now,
whether the antecedents of the Coalition
during their brief tenure of office have been
such as to inspire us with much confidence in
a sincere and sustained cordiality among
themselves.

There have boon tw•o significant incidents in
relation to this point during the present sus-
London, England, 1853-08-13

fortign Yittrani anb rtistic Qsossip.

Tim Pr Kr.. or SAXE Coet:ao has just completed a
new opera, under the title of Santa Chiara, the
translation of which into French has been entrusted
to a young Belgian littkatear.
Da. V HJ.ENEUVE. member of the Academy of
Medicine at Paris, died some days ago.
THE NESTOR OE FRENCH JOURNALISTS, M. JACQEES
COSTE. formerly director of the Constitutionnel, under
whom M. Thiers, and most of the present French
statesmen, made their debuts in politics, has recently
resumed his long-relinquished pen, and writes for
the Estafrtte financial articles, apropos of which he
indulges in long excursions into the domain of
polities.
Tut: I.rninvav t'oxEnt r at Spa has dissolved. Jules
Janie has returned to Paris; is travelling
in Germany; and the numerous satellites of the two
states are scattered to all the winds.
Miss Emmy VANDEamr.Eascii is now at Spa, and
proposes to visit successively all the bathing-places
in Germany.
M. SCRIBE has just returned from the German
Spas to Paris. Before leaving for his estate of Ler--
court he was present at the last rehearsal of his
Nabob, with lialevy's music, which is to be produced
at the end of the present month. M. Scribe fur-
nished also to Meyerbeer the libretto to the opera
combine• of which the celebrated master wrote the
principal part for 3lme. Charton Demeur. The
piece will have for its title The Star of the North.
M. Scribe is occupied with finishing several produc-
tions left incomplete by his nephew, the late M.
13ayard.
M. Cotat abandons decidedly the direction of the
Italian Opera at Paris. This is the third failure in
a very short time. He took the direction amidst
many drawbacks, among which was the circumstance
that he did not speak a word of French.
Al.►%oNi, recently married, has decided on quitting
the theatre with a moderate fortuue, though she

SATURDAY,

does not seem to have encountered iu America the
productive successes once hoped for. Will Mario
and Grisi, whose speedy departure is announced for
New York, be more fortunate ? Jenny Lind and
Sontag have considerably exhausted the generosity
of the Yankees. and America begins to become quite
as much an artist-ridden place as any country of old
Europe.
THE THEATRE FRANcAIR seems to seek success in
a collection of pretty women. This is perhaps the
best way to restore to comedy and tragedy a portion
of the vogue which has abandoned both these many
years. To Mlles. Denali and Merie, the director,
31. Arsene Houssaye, has recently added Mlle.
Valerie, from the Varietes, and Mlle. Savary.
London, England, 1853-08-13

11A(;KNEI•CAR1tIMIES DITTIES HILL

This bill passed the Commons on Tuesday..
Among the latest amendments suggested with the
view of finally settling the great eab question was
one moved by Colonel Surnone, bi this effect:—

"That no omnibus or public carriage of that description
shall be per►nitted to take op or set down any passenger in the
middle or ....titre of any ',tibiae street, road, or thoroughfare, but
am each aide of the street, road, ur thoroughfare itaksuitittag the
pet .maent ratmealty when going tir hag to or fru; penalty
tor each ottenee, forty shillings air imprisonment, for one month.
That the name and residenee of a 1401 proprietor, as well Be
driver, of each carriage, be printed ant each card atr ticket that la
to be delivered by each driver to the 'semis or parties* requiring
such card or ticket at the time of hiring; penalty fur oinisaluia,
forty sbillitiv, ur tine month'. Imprkohnient. That le, driver ur
other person connected alth such public carriage shall occupy
or ill withinable of any suet' rah or public carriage dttring the
time sleds eels or public carriage Is on the public stand, or
during the period that at ay such alma tar hired ; penalty, each
"genet., forty *billings, or one moitUa's imprisonment. That the
pain, °Myers on duty in each street ur district be authorised and
hate tall power to take eogilleatace of any tuiseoluluet on this
part of any driver of any public carriage, or other person con-
Heeled therewith, sir for tieglert or deviation from the enact.
etiente of the bill, and either to rectify at the time or make
special report thereof ha eavh ease, and act as referees as to only
complaint by any person ur party euneeruel-

Mr. Lowy objected to the amendment, first, that
it hardly came within the scope of the preamble to
the bill ; and, secondly, that it war badly and in•
definitely framed. A penalty was imposed, but it
was not said how or where it could be recovered; in•

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London, England, 1853-08-13

ITALY.

The Roman pollee, having licen informed that a
number of young men with British pas-ports had
landed at Chita Vecehia, and had left that place for
Rome, caused them to be followed, and two of them
were arrested. It was said that the new comers
were revolutionary agents, and that they value with
the object of mediating between the various chiefs of
the secret societies of Italy. Their passports turned
out to he forgeries.
Marshal Radetzky has forbidden the exportation
of emu from Lombardy and Votive.
The King of Saxony arrived in Turin on the ;th
instant.

iramul ►nametwres of the Pieihnontese army are to
take place in the plaint; of Marengo, under the three
tion of the Duke of tienon.
SW ['UK RLAND.

The Ikrne Gazette announces that the Federal
Council bus decided upon not making further eon.
cessions to Austria.
I'ORTU6AI..

The accounts from Lisbon of the •2ml instant state
that the House of Peers had thrown out, by 41
against 11. the bill of the Chamber of I)eputics
which went to suppress the pension allowed the
Count de Penatiel. The disease in the vines was
fast spreading through the country.
London, England, 1853-09-03

Price 2s. 1411.,

THEORY OF POLITICS, &c.
fly 1111.1)111.111. Amino. of "The History of
the Uttiteti States of Antilles, " White Slave," &e.
"The inquiry is 1111111 and searching, not checked by any pre-
judices, nor limited by factitious respect to existing authorities:
and we believe. to lie the parent of further inquiries. • • •
With reference to the present prime object of all . 1 politica--
that of providing for the welfare of the ltittule—Mr. Hildreth
has some very sound observations. lie justifies the instinctive
exert. that the hulk of every society is now making to increase
its wealth, and enforces on attention the great fact which he
points out—tlint it is far near important to pr.sluce wore wealth,
he which all nifty he satisfied, than to tvilistrihate that which
exists. bY which ottly seine will be rubbed or injured to enrich
or benefit othera."—Eeoffeiniet.

London : (.I.ARKE, BEI: I ON, AND CA., 1 IS, Floct•street.

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CLUSIVE 5110 W of Iron and Brats Bodsteuda and Childrena
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arranged and claasitied that purchasers way easily and at once
:mike their 'elections.

catalogues, with engravings, Kent (per post) free. The money
returned for every artiele not approved of.
aa, OXFORD STREET (eorwr or Newman street); Nos. 1
and 2, NEWMAN STREET ; und 4 and 5, PERRrs PLACE

DEAFNESS.—The only medal awarded at
the Great Exhibition of (for Acoustic lustrunients)
was to E. C. REIN, tiir his new ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENTS
for the DEAF. They arts made of different power, to suit ex-
treme and every degree of Deafness. To be procured only of the
sole inventor and maker, F. C. Rein, 108, Strand, nearly opposite
Exeter-hall, where the Instrtuaent can be tried, and multerous
testimonials seen, amongst many one from the Hight lion. Sir
John Catteson, one of her Majesty's Privy Councillors.

Loin Pniited and Publishoi nt. 110. Strived, iu the Preeiutt
Of OW SaVOy, in the County of Middlesex, by ALFRED !VII:,
Printer and Publisher, of 17, lledfotrl•+treet, Covent-gartirn,
at 110, Strand, aforesaid, on Saturday, the ard day of septrin-
ber, 1853.
London, England, 1853-09-03

dultsiastical.

The general meeting of the Society for the Revival of
Convocation for the Province of York was held on
Wednesday. The chair was occupied by the Ley. T.
Collins.
The plans for the internal renovation of Glasgow Cathe.
deal, which have formed a subject of discussion in that
city fur the last quarter of a century, have now been finally
decided upon. The expenses will be considerable, but,
with the exception of reseating, which is to be borne by
the corporation, all the charges are to be defrayed by a
grant of about 4,0001., voted in the last session of Perlis•
anent. On the lst of March next the operations will coin.
mence, and the work will probably be finished during the

summer.
Ou Sunday last the Episcopal church which is called
(*lariat Church, and situate on the southern side of the
town of Selkirk, was opened for divine service. This
church has been built by the free-will offerings of the Epis•
copalian ladies and gentlemen in the neighbourhood, has
cost between 111N►1. anti 7001., anti will accommodate about
1311 individuals.
Thu Right Rev. Augustns Short, D.D., Lord Bishop of
Adelaide, South Australia, formerly student of Christchurch
College, Oxford, has, after a voyage of nineteen weeks, ar•
rived in this co►udry with his lady and three daughters,
and is now staying with his brother-in-law, Hugh Ham-
mendey, Esq., at Pyrtou•house, near Watlington, Oxon.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
The Rev. J. R. Thaekery to the Curacy of St. Peter's, Preston.
The 11ev. Edward Evans to the Rectory of Eccles St. Mary
next the Sea, Norfolk.
The Her. Richard Ihrmisle, A. 8., to the Perpetual Curacy of
Cruse ►' by. Cumberland.
The Rev. James W. Wenn to the Vicarage of Wickhambrook.
The Hon. and Rev. J. 11. Nelson to the Rectory of Trtu►ley St.
Mary, Suffolk.
The nay. 11. Campbell, M.A., has beer► appointed to a Canonry
In Perth Cathedral, a►d Principal of the Diocesan Model School.
The lie•v. F. W. Colliatai, to the Rectory of Menvood,
Dexutt.
The Rev. H. 11. Hawks, M.A., to th►e Vicarage of Mullyon,
Curie wall.
The 11ev. Frederick lfockin, M.A., to the Rectory of Phillack
and owithlan, Cornwall.

VACANCIES.
The Vicarage of &omit&11, Weatineath, by the death of the
Rev. John Young, in the gift of the Rev. Noah Hickey, Incum-
bent of Tattinuon.
The Vicarage of Rathronsu, by the death of the Res. IIr.W nn,
in the gift of the Duke of Devonshire.
London, England, 1853-09-03

THE IRISH POOR LAW.

TILE Report of the Irish Poor-law Commis-
sioners is so far satisfactory that it places, if
possible, in a more striking point of view than
before the vast social revolution fraught
with temporary suffering to individuals, but
productive, as we firmly believe, of the best
results in the long run—which the last few
years have brought about.

We know not that we can better illustrate
the truth of our words than by the simple
and sure test of officially authoritative sta-
tistics.

1
London, England, 1853-09-03

THE PRESS.

UNFOUNDED ALARM IN THE CABINET
THERE was a time, immediately after Prince MENSCHIKOFF'S ultimatum
had excited general indignation, when every despatch received at our
Foreign Office was opened with eager haste and trembling uncertainty.
It was a critical period. Might not some of our Ministers at Foreign
Courts say too much, and, mindful of our national character, be
oblivious of Cabinet fears? At that time some despatches (printed
with the parliamentary papers this week) are said to have occasioned
great alarm to our Foreign Secretary, as he hurriedly glanced through
their contents.

A certain manly spirit—a degree of vigour that always accompanies
the bold expression of truth—pervaded the correspondence, which
seemed ill-suited to the timid, wavering policy of the Cabinet at home.
The Ambassador not only expres,ied to Lord CLARENDON his belief
that,

" when once a nation, like su indivi•lual, sets at nought the opinion of the whole
civilised world, it is perlectly idle to hope that any ropresentations can avail ;"

but, addressing the 11ini ter of the Government to whom he was
accredited, '6 renounced all responsibility," and eoncluded

" I hasten to finish this communie dims, as it is impossible to make it without &
feeling of irritation."

The apprehension: crewed by such a tone may be conceived.
The startled Secretary communicated with his colleagues, a Council
was summoned, and, at lust, there seemed a probability that the
Government, c'►mmitted by the high language of its representative,
would be compelled to net with vigour ; or—dreadful alternative!-Lto
resign. How great, then, was the relief of its members when, the
despatch being preducel, it was found that the plain, free words with
which our Ministers at Foreign Courts were accustomed to meet the
artifices of deceitful intrigue were addressed, not to the Minister of the
Autocrat of all the REMUS, but to the Spanish Secretary at Madrid.
Oh !" e xcla.med delightedly the relieved CLARENDON; " sets the wind in
that quarter? it may putt' us an insult, but there's no fear of its coming
to a any .o**
London, England, 1853-09-03

THE PRESS.

and a poet should know that a swan does not
" prune" but plume its wing. The verse is suffi-
ciently good to deserve the removal of such blemishes.
Sot even great is vets can afibrd to be careless, and
much less is it tolerable among those who can only
be classed among the minors.

John at Home. A Novel. By Stanley Herbert.
London : T. C. Newby.
SEvEnti. professional authors who have worked their
way into eminence tirst made their Whitt under the
auspices of Mr. Newby; and we might expect that
the publisher of the writings Of Miss Ellen Picker
ing, Mrs. Grey, and " Ellis and Acton Bell " would
be more careful about the typography of his works.
There is a piquancy in the title of "John at
llome," but all we are enabled to say for it is, that it
is a novel m which dull people are described by one
who feels a genuine sympathy with them, and illus
trates the fact in three unreadable volumes.

Catte it( the Rev. l'ieree Connelly. A Pamphlet.
London ; Maynard.

Tuts remarkable statement appears to have been
published in furtherance of the views of a committee,
over which his tirace the Duke of Manchester has

undertaken to preside, in order to enable Mr. Con-
nelly to pay the costs already incurred by Roman
Catholie ecclesiastics in his wife's name, and so to
place him beyond the reach of further persecution
and in a condition to compel the prosecution of his
appeal. The facts of his case are set forth with
great distinctness, and are, as far as we can judge,
very properly commended to the notice of the public
by the committee of noblemen and gentlemen to
whom Mr. Connelly refers.
London, England, 1853-09-03

THE PRESS.

then resigned the appointment and returned for the
last time to England.
Sir Charles Napier, among other performances,
was a rather voluminous author. Besides the many
manifestoes and proclamations to the army, and the
controversial writings in which his disputes with the
Company and other opponents entangled him,
which of themselves constitute no small pile of
literary matter, he wrote at various times such pam-
phlets as " The Colonies ;" "Colonisation, with
Remarks upon Small Farms and Over-population ;"
" Military Law ;" "An Essay on the Stew of
Ireland;' "The Roads of Cephalonia;" and "Notes
upon De 'Vigny's Lights and Shades of Military
Life."
London, England, 1853-09-03

THE PRESS.

TO ADVERTISERS.
The abolition of the Duty on Advertisements enahks us to
insert at the prier of Three Shillings the .4dvertisements
for which we hare hitherto charged Five ; and :Mi er.
tillers generally will receive the full benefit of the change
in the law.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
It is impossible to iteknowleilgo the aosss of letters wo reeeire.
Their insertion is talon delayed, owing to a press of uo►ner :
and when omitted, it is frequently front resound plate nude.
pendent of the merits of the eo • •atioll.
We outwit lertake to reu►rn corn • •atlona of %Welt we do

not Rvoil onn4olves.
iniolos should &way', legibly written, Nita
able of th e paper only. If lung it increases the liitnellit M
of
finding $llOl.ll for them
WhateVer is intended tOr insertion must be authenticated by the
tome and address of 1110 writer, not necesstuily for rubbed-
thin, but as a guarantee of his geed faith.
London, England, 1853-09-03

etc (rmg.

COMMISBIONf4 RIONKD BY LoRD•LIRCTEMAItTII.
County of tiloutwater, and of the City and County of the City
of Gloucester, and of the City and County of the City of Bristol—
The lion. Ashley tieorge John l'unsonby to be Ileputy•Lieute•
won.
Qllool'l4 Own Light Infantry Regitnent of Tower Hamlets—
iiiiii t George Fleury Money to be Captain, vice Sayer, who
retires, retaining his rank ; Lieutenant Charles Bruce to be
Captain, wire is, who retires, retai ll ill g his rank; Lieutenant
Saint Pierre Moiler Hook to be Captain, vice Mortimer, who re-
Nicene; Frederick tbdge,ticut., to be Ensign, vice Brush, pro-
moted,
arti.de is substituted for dist wideh appeared in the Ga.

mg:. of the ult. I
Ititle.4--tieurne Drummond, Emu., Due de klelfort, to
be Major: Willman Whitaker, b:iai„ to be t'apunu atxl Adliitant.
Ith ur Puke of Liineaater'e Oitu (I.lnlit lubuitry) Royal Lau.
emigre-0(.0mi? Barlow. Gent— t lie

flit Boil.

Captains Edward Chappell 11833) and John Monday
(1,4381 have accepted the retirement under the order in
council of 13111, thereby reducing the active list, but not
creating any vacancies for ►promotion.
All the 'Elisions of the channel fleet are now at sea, en•
gaged in trial railings and exercise. Both Admiral Curry's
and L'onimodore Martin's squadrons will touch at Bantry
Bay occasionally, and anchor for a day or night ; but the
fleet will rendezvous at Queenatown on the 17th instant,
to meet the Admiralty. The screw-frigate Trtsune, 31,
Captain the Hon. S. I'. Carnegie, will join Commodore
Martin's squadron after her escort attendance on the
Royal Yacht Squadron.
The London, IR), Captain C. Eden, sailed on Wednesday
to join the fleet.
Captain !Almond Heatheote (Is3i). who recently coinnunided
the ifigkriyer serew eicam.sloop, b appoiuted to stilly steam at
the factur) at Woolwieli Doeltyard.
I.lkt•icaANrs—Frederick A. B. Craufurd (1843), to the IRoyal
Nat al College : John F. 1:ors (1;46), to the stombojj ovule.
wheel steanpsloop at Portsmouth ; Hugh Hatboro erc2), to the
reef/voice. 44, on the Mediterranean station John Lawrence,
SCUUff lieutenant since tier. 0, 1852, to the Ntrumhdi.
AestaraNT.srnozoN—James N. Dick (1$58). to the President,
50. at Chatham, for service ou the Pacific station.
CRIEF Eximikto—F.iiward W. Baker, to tie Dragon, 0,
paddlewheel steaupfrigate, at Portsmouth.
MloatliPtiVt—J. H. Spahling, to the Vietwy firgihlp at Ports.
mouth; Hoo, F. Amherst, to the London, 90, at Falmouth,
London, England, 1853-09-03

SATURDAY,

Voittg Valid altb tit' getilignut.

PRAT Evesmos.
Tim continued diminution of gold in the coffers of
the Bank of England, coupled with the apprehen-
sions relative to the harvest, to which we drew special
attention last week, have induced the directors to
raise the rate of discount to 4 per cent. We have for
the last month so often drawn attention to the causes
which would in all probability compel the adoption of
this measure, that it is needless to recapitulate
them.
The future of the Money Market will depend on
two causes—the harvest, and the amount of gold we
shall receive from Australia ; in fact, all depends on
the increase or diminution of gold in the coffers of
the Bank.
We believe the immediate cause which led the
Bank of England to raise the rate of discount yes-
terday was the apprehension of an Austrian loan, to
which we alluded last week as being on the tapir.
Most assuredly no new loan could, in the present
aspect of the Money Market, be brought out, and all
operations of this kind must be suspended.
The Consol Market during the week has been
heavy; no doubt in anticipation of the Bank raising
the rate of discount, and also because the Bank have
sold stock. The price of Consols, which on Monday
was 94, has fallen to 971, and the closing prices are
Sid a.
The rate of continuation for Consols from account
to account is 1 per cent., equal to 11 per cent. per
annum. No doubt a large amount of stock will be
continued at these low rates by the bankers and
other holders, in order to re-lend at higher.
The Lombard-street houses have raised their rates
on deposit loans to 31 per cent., and to-day a con-
siderable demand for money exists in the Discount
Market, preparatory to the 4th of the month. The
exchanges are a shade higher this afternoon; and
the Corn Market may be quoted Is. higher. Exche-
quer Bills 2 dis. to 1 prem.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
TheVntelligence from Mexico is rather more fa •
vourable for the bondholders. Orders are given that
the 25 per cent. of the customs duties assigned to
them are in future to be respected; and orders are
given that all bills accruing for duties since the Ist
of May are to be handed over to their agents in the
various ports. The British Minister in Mexico was
to have an interview with the President on the 3r4
of August, to support the bondholders' claims. The
remittance brought by the present packet amounts
to 21.530 dollars.
No new feature has arisen in regard to other
foreign funds ; the market for which, however, has
been heavy during the week.
RAILWAYS.
The Railway Market has been very heavy during
the week, and prices have fallen considerably. The
fluctuations in the market will be found below.
PRICES CURRENT.

BRITISH Ft
OFF 1C

3AI. I
lumf/.

'Tues.!
London, England, 1853-09-03

[SATURDAY, S:

3, 1853.

WATERLOO LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
CAPITAL, 1,400,000.
CatninisAx—Rev. Euvixan JOUNSTONZ, Vicar of Hampton,
Middlesex.
DLPUTY CHAIRMAN —Joseph Ilisuop, Esq., of 5, Crescent,
Laurie's, and 2s, Bedtord.square.
Annuities and Endowments granted uu advantageous terms,
Assurances effected against t. asualties. No extra charge for
residence in Australia.
Prospectuses and every information on application at the
Offices of the Company, a 56, strand.

PROFESSIONAL PROTECTION.
so c ITORS, MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS, AND OTHERS.
Secured a Provision in the event of permanent Sickness, or
Disability from following their ordinary Occupation, by payment
of a trilling Annual Premium to the
LAW 1' It 01'E T Y ASSURANCE AM)
TRUST SOCIETY.
easi- Healthy and DUSEkbED Myatt Aaeured on advantageous

WILLIAM Iii1S1), Actuary and Secretary,
3t), Ewa-street, Strand, Loudon.

AGENTS WANTED.

VOLOSSEUM, REGENI"S
Adndasion One Shilling. The original Panorama of
LONDON BY DAY is exhibited Daily from liall-past Teu till
Five. The extraorilinary l'anorwila of LONDON BY MOUT,
Every Evening, from Seven till Ten. Music from Two till nu.,
and during the Evening several favourite Songs by bliss A.
Poole. CYCLORAMA, Albanyareet.—Liabon and Earthquake.
—Thia celebrated and unique moving Panorama, repreeenting
the destruetiou of Lisbon by earthquake, in 1756, is exhibiteu
for a short time in all its original splendour, and by the aid of
new machinery, with increased startling effects. Daily at Three,
Evening at Eight o'clock. Athuission One Shilling. Children
and Schools I lalf'•price to either Exhibition.

MONT BLANC will CLOSE on SATURDAY
EVENING, September to, and REOPEN on Mr. Albert
Smith's return from the Continent. During the ensuing week
the Entertainment will be given EVERY EVENING at Light,
and on Tumidity and Saturday Mornings at Three o'clock.
Stalls, Bs.; Area, 25.; Gallery, la.
EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.
London, England, 1853-09-03

UNDER ROYAL PATRONAGE

(ILE N N I'S BALBRIGGAN COTTON
u sToCKINGS are superior to every other make of hosiery,
combining the beauty of silk with the desirable qualities of soft.
Riess, elasticity, usid strength.
N.B. Sold only at Balbriggan House, 33, Loinburd.street.
" These productions are superior even to our own celebrated
Nottingham nitutufacturea. Their elaatieity, beauty, and softness
of texture were evident at mice. A dozen of these stockings,
full ladies size, Nvi4lt only seven ounces together."—Aforsia9
Chronicle, August 23.
London, England, 1853-09-03

Sporting.
LINCOLN RACES.THVISDAY.
THE BROWNIAN, STAKES Of 5 SOYA. each, with 25 added.
Mr. J. Dawson's Young England ........(S. Rogers) 1
Captain Skipworth's Magic 2
Mr. Morris's King David
Won by a length.
THE GRANBY STAKES of 10 144 MS. each, with 50 added, for
two-year-olds.
Mr. C. Sprnee's Trump Queen (Simpson) 1
Mr. Osborne'r Brown Brandy 2
Won by half a neck.
TILL LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP STAKES Of 10 SOTS., with 100
added. 44 subs.
Mr. T. Cunningham's Ann Eliza (F. Bates) 1
Mr. L. W. Holmes's Little Davie
Mr. W. Smith's Mayday
Mr. J. Inman's Moses
A good race, won by a neck.
Tux TRIENNIAL STAKES of 10 sovs. each, with 50 added, for
four-year-olds.
Mr. Osborne's Merry Bird (T. Osborne) I
Mr. Goodwin's Apostate
Mr. W. E. Hobson's Barbet&
Betting : 5 to 2 on Merry Bird, who won cleverly by a
length.

HUNTERIi. STAKEM.

Honesty 1
Mmugglor Bill

FRIDAY.
QuEEN'S PLATE.
Yotmg Engloud
.... 1

Six ran.
TYRO STAKEN.

Hotebpot
Ratan colt

Five ram
STAKEI4.

Scarcity
Seven nut.
Itnocasxmly STAKES.
Captain Cornish
Mix ran.
London, England, 1853-09-03

►['HE AZTEC LILLIPUTIANS, Marionette
I Theatre, Lowther Arcade, Strand. WILL SHORTLY
CLOSE, the Exhibition of these wonderful Beings, arrimge
monis having been made for their provincial Tour. To the Public :
There is no time to be lost: " We shall never look upon their.
like again." Open every Pay and Evening, from Eleven till Ouei
Throe till Five, and Seven till Ten. Admission, One Shilling
Reserved Seats, 2s. lid.
London, England, 1853-09-03

THE PRESS.

ment ; the latter did so, and, to his amaze-
ment, found himself opposed at the hustings,
not by Mr. O'FLAHERTY, but by Mr. GREGORY,
his old opponent having in the meanwhile
become a placeman ! This transaction has a
very ugly look about it, and Captain GREENE
has not much improved matters by writing a
letter, saying that " Mr. O'FLAHERTY has been
justified (?) in any step he took by the advice
of men of the highest honour." It appears,
further, that there is a threat made to upset
Mr. MAGUIRE'S triumphant re election, on the
ground of his having compromised the pre
vious petition with Mr. O'FI.AIIERTY. But we
may doubt whether the Brigade would have
the temerity to put in force a ruse that would
stamp with disrepute all persons profiting
by it.
His friends must find a seat for Mr. GRE-
GORY by some other means than the " sharp
practice" of forcing Mr. MAGUIRE to a new
contest, and then impeaching the act of com-
promise to which Mr. O'FLAHERTY had been a
consenting party. We are opposed to Mr.
MAGUIRE'S politics, and strongly disapprove of
some of his speeches and votes ; but we can
say that, while he has given promise of be-
coming effective in debate, his bearing in the
House of Commons has been that which, even
in an adversary, commands our respect. What-
ever his defects as a politician may be, his in.
dependence at least creditably distinguishes
him from those low-class Irish " Liberals"
who look to St. Stephen's as a market for their
votes, caricaturing the parts of Trish " patriots"
with their truculence upon the hustings, and
their miserable servility in the House of Com-
mons, where they tremble under the lash of
the inexorable whipper-in.
London, England, 1853-09-03

ECONOMICAL PROSPECTS.

THE Ministers in the speech at the proroga-
tion took credit to themselves for every favour
able circumstance in our condition. Are they
prepared equally to assume the reeponsi
Linty of every adverse incident? There is
a cloud hanging over the Stock Exchange,
and the (ti its made by continental Govern-
ments to keep down the price of earn warn ns
that a time of trial, if not of scarcity, may be
at hand.

It is not our wish to exeite Marin, but it
would be folly to disguise the truth. Wt.