The Press.
London, England, 1853-07-23 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

The Pope has just recovered front an indisposition
brought on by ha►i►►g scalded one of his feet.
Mrs. Caroline Chisholm, the celebrated female emi-
gt•ants' pmtevtress, arrived at Rome on the evening of the
Nth inst., being anxious to pay a visit tee her son, who is
educating as a priest in the Propaganda College, previous
to embarking for Australia.
A rumour, which the Exeter t7a:etl.• circulates and corro-
borates. is extensively prevalent of the elopement of the
young and beautiful wife of a North Devon baronet with an
utileer of the 35th Regiment.
Elliot. a betting-I se keeper at Manchester, has bolted.
after having pocketed 1,500 t. the produce of the experi-
ments lee has made upon the cupidity of the people of

that city.
A royal decree, prohibiting the export of wheat, oats,
and barley, was published at Naples on the 12th inst.
This measure created co►siderable alanu ; the more ►o
as there was every prospect of an abundant harvest.
A ease of selling a wife actually and &mei fide happened
in a provincial town in which I reside about eighteen years
ago. A man publicly sold hie wife at the market cross fir
151., the buyer carried her away. and she lived with him till
his death. The woman is still alive, and now claims some
property belonging t o ht.!. first husband ( the seller), her right
to which is questioned in consequence of her supposed
alienation by sale ; and I am informed a lawyer has been
applied to in the case.— tiles and Queries.
The customs revenue in 18, was •21.312,t01:ii., and the
total coat of collection 1:201,4'21/. The number of customs
officers was 11,091.
An old anchor was lately fished up in Galway Bay. From
its appearance it is supposed to have belonged to a vessel
of the Spanish Armada, which found shelter in Galway
during their slight by the north-west coast of Ireland.
Accounts received from various parts of the country all
more or less speak of the damage done to the growing
crops by the heavy rains. Much grain has been laid, and
a large portion is described as being in some places under

water.
Gold has beenfound at Port Sorrell, in Van Diemen 's
Land. and it is also alleged to have been met with in large
quantities near Port Frederick, both these places being on
the northern coast of the island.
The great canal from the Mame to the Rhine will have
the water let into it on August 1:►. and will be inaugurated
on Sept. 1. The completion of this important work will
open direct water communication between the 'thine and
the Seine.
The London Joint-stock Rank directors' declared on
Thursday a lull-year's dividend, at the rate of eight per
cent. per annum, leaving 7,i•1OI. to be carried to the credit
of the profit and loss account. The reserve fund has been
flied at 150,000/., it now amounting to 115,512/.
A strange story is told of the disappearance of the Bishop
of Orleans from h►s diocese. The Presse Religieuse says
he has not been seen since June 2iud, and none of his
vicars can give any account of him. This journal suggests
that he may have undertaken some pious pilgrimage ineug-
nit°, but personal friends of the prelate think it more
likely that he has gone to La Trappe to seek temporary re-
tirement, if nut permanent seclusion.
A dramatic piece, entitled the Moutons de Punwrgr
just produced at the Delassements Combines in l'aria,
the produce of the joint labours of no less than twenty-
five authors, whose names are all printed in the playbills.
Fifty years ago France employed at the most 2,0001 work-
men in spinning 2.000,000 kilos of cotton, Now she every
year uses in spinning and weaving 71,000,01X1 kilos, em •
ploying more than 6110,0 IN) persons.
The workpeople at Glossop and the neighbourhood have
turned out for an advance of wages.

Doug, Vadat an City I,nitilignat.

FRIDAY EVENING
THE funds have been favourably affected by the
increased probability of peace being maintained ; and
the investments on the part of the public, and the
rise would have been still greater had the weather
been more propitious; in fact, the Consol Market is
almost as much affected by the state of the atmo-
sphere as it is by politics.
Large quantities of gold continue to he remitted to
the Continent, doubtless for the purchase of wheat,
and likewise for the supply of the Russian armies.
The effect of this continuous drain would have been
very pernicious, bad it not been counteracted by the
arrival of large quantities of gold and bullion from
Australia and the United States, and the very favour
able accounts from these gold•proNlucing regions.
As the abstraction of gold, and the consequent
reduction of the circulating medium, were the true
causes of all former commercial panics and monetary
convulsions, we are not apprehensive that any drain
will now occur that can affect our present commer-
cial prosperity : nor do we think that any great
harm has at present been done to the crops,the pur-
chase of corn being principally on French account,
which we look on as a matter of precaution on the
part of Louis Napoleon's Government.
The fact of the navigation laws of France being
suspended in favour of corn and flour imported fry n
England is probably a beginning of relaxations in
favour of an extension of trade with this country,
which would tend more to cement the happy political
understanding existing between the two countries
than aught besides.