The Press.
London, England, 1853-07-16 00:00:00

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Ttts Qt•Ert.t has appointed George Benvenuto
Mathew, Esq., now Consul at Charleston, to be her
Majesty's Consul at Philadelphia. The Queen has
also appointed Robert Bunch, Etol., now Consul at
Philadelphia, to ho her Mttjety's Consul at Ciliate,-
too.
Tnt QtrEEN ha.: appointed Frederick Hamilton,
Esq., now First Paid Attache to the Legation at.
Vienna, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation alt
Stuttgardt.
THE DEE•RR lAL DECLARATION of the poll :it tint
Liverpool election wa'i made on Monday, when the
numbers wore announced by the Nleyor
6,034 ; Liddell, ;'),:4:1; Perry, 4,61:1; Moote,
In the evening the candidates, their proposer,.
seconders, and principal friends Vivre entertained by
the Mayor with a banquet ut the Tuwu•hull.

JULY 16,1853

Mn. SEROICANT MI•IIPHY has bet`il appointed DO the
vacant Commissionership of the insolvent Debtors'
Court. The salary is 1,5001. per an►um, Mr. Law
becoming Chief Commissioner at 2,010. A vacancy
is thus created in the representation of the city of
Cork.
TWEINE HUNDRED TENANT-FARMERS have appealed
this year against overcharges under the Income-tax
Act. The number allowed was 756, and the amotuit
of relief granted 3,419/. ss. 41.
A Btu. "to amend the laws which regulate the
mode of voting for members of Parliament has been
laid before the Peers by Lord Shaftesbury. The
principal object of the bill is to provide that the votes
should be taken in the ease of a poll by mewls of
voting papers, as in the case of election for the
guardians of the poor, &c.., instead of at p►lling-
looths. The papers are to be left at the houses of
the electors to be filled by them, and called for by
the proper officer.
THE BIRTHS registered in London during the week
ending Saturday, J July 9, were—Males, 709; Females,
735; total, 1,444. Deaths during the same period—
Males, 478; Females, 447; total, 925. The return
includes the whole of the metropolitan districts.
THE I.tNi►ON AND BRDIHToit RAILWAY AveDITNTS
for the half year warrant the directors in recom.
mending a dividend of :Ms. per cent. on the stuck of
the company for the past six mouths. This dividend
will accordingly be proposed at the ensuing meeting
of the shareholders.
Tim Ormeriori or TILE LATE SMOKE-CONSITMTNO
AI•T was shown in some interesting evidence given
before the }louse of Lords' committee on the White-
chapel Improvement Bill. Professor Mande, super-
intendent of the coining department of the Mint, de-
posed that the furnaces there were supplied with the
smoke-consuming apparatus, and that the volumes of
smoke that formerly annoyed the neighbourhood were
now done away with. Carbonic acid gas was evolved in
invisible smoke, but not to an extent deleterious or in
jorions to health. A material saving resulted in the
lower price of the coal burned. One or two of the
breweries in the city of London, the smoke from
which used to be a great nuisance, now consumed it
entirely, and the saving effected in the fuel was calcu-
lated to pay the first cost of apparatus in the course
of three years. Mr. Leicester, foreman to Messrs.
Easton and Amos, engineers of the water-works that.
supply the Houses of Lords and Commons and Tra
falgar-square, stated that the operation of the system
in the neighbourhood of the National Gallery was
found very effective, and he was of opinion that it
might be used advantageously in preventing the
smoke nuisance in all parts of London, and so give the
metropolis a comparatively clear sky. Mr. Perkins,
engineer, said there had been a ilittieulty in carrying
out the Smoke-consuming Act in the City, arising
from the necessary alteration of the works in the
time prescribed by the act Smoke was not quite
abolished in the city of London yet, but it was quite
time that it should be.

THE COLONIAL LAND ANT) EIDORATION COMMIS -
SIoNERS have just presented their annual sheet of
statistics to Parliament. Since the conclusion of the
war, thirty-eight years ago, there have left this coml..
try 3,463,292 emigrants, of whom 1,791,446—m0re
than one-half—have emigrated in the six years com-
mencing with 1647. The average annual emigration
during the last six years has been 29H,544, but the
number who left in 1852 was :1111+,7414, being 23i per
cent.. above the average, and 111 per cent. above the
emigration of 115►1—the largest that had before
occurred. The comtnissimiers remark that the great
hulk of the emigration from the linited Kingdom has
for many years consisted of Irish, and in the last six
years the number was about 1,313,126. In 1651 the
emigration to Australia was 87,661, of which 53,527
VON spontaneous, and :14,354 by aid of Goventment.
For the first quarter of the present year emigration
has decreased. The commissioners conclude by ob-
serving, that they regard the decrease in the emigra-
tion as a proof that the labouring classes of the
United Kingdom, and especially of Ireland, are in a
state of unusual comfort, and prosperity.
As SHERIFF of LoNooN for the ensuing year, Mr.

Alderman Wire was on M44ntlay elected at a Common

Hall of the Livery, in the rooni of Mr. Shepperton,
previously chosen, hut who has been excused from
serving on account of ill-health.
THE INDIA PATRONAGE at the disposal of the
Leadenhall street Board during the year 1852-53 is
thus set forth in a return just obtained by Mr.
Bright :
civil A f-glAtmat

14011111111111.1011 a. reiletsf. tittrgeolii
Chairman .
Diptits•elnniul
22 Directorn (2 each)
President of Board of
Control

I'6 196 ...!:4
The number of proprietors holding Intlia Stock on
the 3rd ult. was 1,7H5, COVISItitiIIV I,f 1,374 1i1414, and
411 females. Of the males, 1,1154 were entilled lA, 1
vote, 235 to 2 votes, 50 to 3 votes, and 31 to 1 votes.

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Of the females, ;120 were entitled to 1 vote, 72 to 2
votes, 12 to 3 votes, and 7 to 4 votes.
THE TURKISH QUESTION is to be made the Sub-
ject of discuss' at a isultlic in of the in-
habitants of Marylebotie, which is to be held with a
view to test the state of publie opinion upon the
aggressive course Russia is now pursuing. it. is ex-
pected that other constitueneies will also meet- for a
similar purpose should Ministers sutler any longer
doubt exit with regard to their Intentions.
AN Aorr \Tuts is organising, according to the
Jetrixh Chronicle, for the purpose of enabling Baron
Rothschild to take his seat in the Ilouse of Coto
Once et 1111 l 'towed, the vment, it is said,
will not. rest until this importeun object is fully
attained.
A MiwTist; of persons interested in the atlininis
tration of savings banks took place on Thursday, al
which resew,' , were passed objecting to the
clauses in the new Government- measure proposing
a rednetioll in the rate of interest, the transfer of
surplus funds to the aceount of the National Debt.
ComurissioneN, said the, unlimited responsibility
thrown upon trustees and managers.
THE I)Ecisw, CotsmeK Comisirryil have eon •
eluded the examination of witnesses, and it. is under
stood the result will he a unanimous report in favour
of the adoption of the decimal system, making the
pound sterling the integer, and dividing it. into 1,000
miles, or farthings. Br. Bowring was the last witneves
examined, and gave most. satishietory evidenee as to
the extraordinary accuracy, rapidity, and facility with
which all caleulatt• . are InadOs and all aCCOMIta
kept, under a decimal system, throughout the vast
Chinese empire, with its 4011,1,00,04iti of dependent
subjects.
LIEUTENANT TICKELL, R.N., has been appointed
Admiralty agent on the Southampton station.
THE NORTH DERBYSHIRE ELECTION is fixed for
this day (Saturday). Mr. T. W. Evans, son of the
retiring member, is the only candidate.
Some. Crßluos Comwsroanyttict: between the Earls
of Shaftesbury and Mornington has just been pub
fished. It arose out of a quotation made by Lord
Shaftesbury in the House of Lords from a deeree of
Lord Chtmeellor Eldon, which the Karl of Morning
ton considers offensive and tdatidenam The last-
named peer, on Saturday last, sent a long letter
to bond Shaftesbury, inviting his lordship "either to
explain and retract the offensive remarks with which
you introduced my name in your speeeh on time rah
inst., or to say whether you will give me that alterna
Live that 1 am entitled to, and which I trust that. you
will not refuse." To this missive the Earl of Shaftes
bury returned on Monday the following reply :

" My have time I to acknowledge the receipt of
a letter f your lordship datisl the nth of this month. In my
speech in the Mingo of Lords 1 sin ily ooh el II judgment of
Joni published iu a iaw 114141 k. This I 1114.1
a right to do, whether in Parliament or out of It ; and e•ve•ry sine
has the Immo right. Visor lordship is good enough to amid mil
what is technically called ' n challenge.' 1 refer you ter a reply
to this, mill any future rottuuuaieati,sl, either to the tolice
imagist rail in flow-street, sir to my solkiliirs, Messrs.
l I Harnett, Is, Corey-street. -Your ols•-
dient servant, of liliornington."
The Earl of Mornington subsequently despatl•hed a
letter, in which he says :
"Your referring Mg either to ' police magistrate ' of Ilow.
street, or your solicitors, is Your original
mid is very absurdly itupertillPilt, , 1 11111,t eohabler roil 04
neither having the good feeling to e‘plaite the unfounded impu-
tation made In the Mouse of I.orils ton have passed upon me, or
the spirit ho meet whet you have vnnrself poivolost in the man-
ner wide!' regulates thii conduct sit geutlrun•n.--Your obedient
tierviUlt, MottattociON.--Til., Kai Of tilinfieshury.'