The Press.
London, England, 1855-07-21 00:00:00

JULY 21, 1855.

Court and lasOon.

ROYAL VISIT TO PARIS.
r The following letter appears in the Brussels Ina-
pendanee, from a Calais correspondent:—
I am able to inform you, in a manner almost official,
that her Majesty Queen Victoria and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert will disembark here on the morning of
Friday, August 17; that they will sleep in this city, and
leave the following morning for Paris. Her Majesty and
the Prince Consort will pass the Sunday in private, and
will not receive officially until the Monday.
The English Admiralty has already sent one of its
officers to take the necessary steps for the disembarka-
tion. It is believed that the Emperor will be here to re-
ceive the august visitors, as, in addition to the Imperial
Palace, which is being prepared fur the Queen and her
suite, a hotel has been retained for a high personage.
The city of Calais, proud of the preference which Queen
Victoria shows in choosing that port, is preparing to give
her Majesty a worthy reception.
Captain Fendall, courier of the English Cabinet, landed
yesterday morning, bearing the portrait of her Britannic
Majesty to the Emperor.
His Highness Prince Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte em-
barked yesterday morning for Dover, on board the steamer
Imperairice.

Her Majesty remains at Osborne, taking, however,
frequent cruises in the Royal yacht to some neigh-
bouring sites of interest.
There was to have been a Privy Council on Wed-
nesday, but the arrangement was countermanded at
the last moment, and orders given for the Council to
assemble this (Saturday) afternoon at Osborne.
Prthce Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess
Louisa, who have been attacked with scarlatina, are
progressing most favorably.
Her Majesty will, on going north next year, honour
Lord I'anmare with a visit at his mansion of
Panmurt house. By that time the renovations and
alterations in that residence are expected to be com•
pleted.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston gave a
magnificent banquet on Wednesday night to their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the
Princess Mary, the buke of Cambridge, and the
Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg•Strelitz.
The dinner was followed by a grand ball.
A "Sussex wing," erected from funds subscribed
for a testimonial to the late Duke of Sussex, is to be
added to the Rojal Free Hospital.
Sir M. Montellore, Bart., Lady Monteflore Mr.
and Mrs. H. Guedalla, Mr. Kursheedt, and Dr:Lowe
embarked from Constantinople on the sth instant
for Jehisaletti in the Austrian Lloyd's steamer
fibeperatrice.

QUEEN VICTORIA has sent 501. to the Mayor of St.
Germain, as a subscription towards restoring the
chapel which contains the remains of James 11.

CAPTAIN JOHN M‘Douoms, R.N., has been ap-
pointed Admiralty superintendent of the Southampton
mail packet station. The officer was made captain
in 1836, and will probably be an admiral before long,
when he will cease to hold his appointment.
MIL ARNAUD, the collector of Customs at Liverpool,
who succeeded Mr. Swainson in that office upwards
of thirty years ago, has just retired, it is stated, upon
the large superannuation allowance of 2,2001, a year.
PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS have been made
towards forming an association to promote tne obser-
vation and classification of meteorological phenomena
in Scotland. The Duke of Argyll has been nominated
as president, the Marquis of Tweeddale as vice-presi-
dent, and Mr. A. K. Johnston as honorary secretary,
with a numerous council.

THE accounts of the harvest prospects in Ireland
are favorable beyond all precedent. The crops of
all kinds are stated to be advancing rapidly to ma-
turity, and promise an abundant as well as an early
return. The potato cr. p looks exceeding healthy,
and the supply of young potatoes in market is be-
coming more abundant. Almost every part of the
country has been visited by thunderstorms within
the last few days.
fHE Comanistoatas OF METROPOLITAN SEWERS
have resolved that the health and welfare of the metro-
polis require that the sewage and drainage, instead of
being allowed to flow with daily increasing pollution
into the bed of the Thames, should be transferred
north of the river to Barking•creek, and south thereof
t or below Plumstead marshes.
Tnt census of the city of New York just taken
shows the population of the island to amount to
about 750,000. Five years ago it was only 517,000.
Foreign emigration will do much to account for this
increase, great as it is ; 250,000 or 300,000 foreigners
a year having arrived since 1850, and, although the
larger proportion have passed through on their way
to the West, or to other cities, or even to California,
many have rested in New York. Brooklyn, on the
opposite bank of the East River, numbers about
200,000, and Jersey city and Hoboken, on the North
River, will carry up the town population of New
York, without taking in the surrounding villas, to
over a million.

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Qiuxion ntelii~cn~e.

THE CHELTENHAM ELECTION terminated on Satur-
day in the return of ➢lr. G. C. L. Berkeley. The
numbers declared at the close of the poll were :—For
Mr. Berkeley, 700; for Mr. Ridler, 178.
IN THE CITY or LONDON, a meeting of some of the
most influential gentlemen who have for years past
taken the most prominent part in the return of its re-
presentatives, was held yesterday week for the purpose
of considering the present position of matters in con-
nection with two of its members. Among the gentle-
men present there was an unanimous feeling that
Lord John Russell had forfeited all claims to the
continued confidence of the constituency, and that a
requisition ought to be got up, calling on him to
resign. With regard to Baron Rothschild, the
adverse feeling was not quite unnanimous, but very
nearly so. The probability is believed to be that two
vacancies will very shortly occur in the City represen-
tation.

THE ELECTORS OF CASIERLDOE UNIVERSITY have
cause to suspect that Mr (Joulburn will not be a can
didate at the next election, the right honourable
gentleman proposing, in consequence of failing health,
to retire from public life. Mr. Cowling, the barrister,
will in all probability be a candidate in the Conserva-
tive interest. Mr. Cowling was senior wrangler of his
year.

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Mn. STRLCEY (Conservative) was, on Tuesday,
elected M.P. for EAST NORFOLK, without opposition,
in the room of Edmund Wodehouse, Esq., who had
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

TO; and Volta.

DAVID ABRAMIVITCH RZIMIENSICT, who described
himself as a Polish Jew, but who, it was discovered
from his papers, was a Russian agent, was brought
up again at the Dover Poliee-court yesterday week,
on the charge of endeavouring to induce men to
desert from the British Swiss Legion. The defendant
was fully committed for trial.
Fon the last three weeks a case of great importance
has been pending in Scotland before Lord Ardmillan,
in the shape of a petition of service between Alexan-
der, nephew, and claiming to be heir-male, of the
late Admiral Sir Thomas Livingstone, and Mrs.
Fenton, claiming to be the heir upon the failure of
heirs-male. On the part of Alexander, the stake is
the entailed estate of Bedlormie and others, with
the baronetcy thereof, and also the dormant peerages
of Callandar and Linlithgow. The objection raised
by Mrs. Fenton to the claims of Alexander, the heir-
male, is that his mother was the sister of his father's
first wife. This Alexander meets, Ist, by the plea
that his domicile being in England, the question
must be ruled by the law of England, and that his
parents having been married by the law of England,
he must prevail; 2nd, that although at one time the
marriage might have been avoidable by the English
law, under Lord Lyndhurst's act it could not now be
inquired into there, and that the same rule must
apply in Scotland; 31e1, that the relationship of his
father's two wives is not proved; 4th (and this brings
out the question which gives the matter public interest
in Scotland), that although the two wives were full
sisters, there is nothing in the law of Scotland to
illegitimatise him in respect thereof. The case has
been depending for several weeks, and the arguments
of kith, r counsel for the claimant Alexander are
even now only just concluded.

THE BANK OF ENGLAND have purchased for their
West-end branch establishment the mansion of the
Marquis of Anglesea,( Uxbridge-house), in Burlington •
gardens, Piccadilly, for a sum of 45,0001. or guineas.
THE EXAMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR CIVIL SER-
VICE IN 'Nina commenced at King's College on Mon
day. One hundred and thirteen candidates presented
themselves.
THE CARLTON CLUB, says the Builder, is a purely
political club, and was founded by the late Duke of
Wellington, and a few of his most influential political
friends. It first held its meetings in Charles street,
St. James's, in the year 193.1. In the following year
it removed to larger premises, Lord Kensington's
hou-e, in Carlton gardens. In 1836, an entirely new
house was built for the club, in Pall-mall, by Sir
Robert Smirke, small in extent, and plain arid inex.
pensive in its architecture. As the club grew in
numbers and importance, the building soon became
inadequate to its wants. In 1848, a very large
addition was made to it by Mr. Sydney Smirke ; and
in 1855, the whole of the original building was taken
down and rebuilt by Mr. Smirke, upon a sumptuous
scale ; and it is now the largest, although not the
most costly, club-house in London. The club con-
sists of 1,300 members, each paying an annual
subscription of ten guineas, with an entrance fee of
fifteen guineas. The business of the club is managed
by a committee of thirty members and the five trus •
tees, viz.—the Duke of Buccicu. h, the Marquis of
Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Itedesdake, and
Lord Verulara.