The Press.
London, England, 1853-08-06 00:00:00

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The oyster season commenced on Thursday last, the
opening of the market being announced at Billingsgate, at
the stroke of six a.m., with the customary formalities.
The supply was tolerably abundant, and the new arrange-
ments, rendered possible by the completion of the market-
house, obviated the crowding and confusion which have
prevailed in previous years at this season.
An old iron cannon, a 24-pounder, supposed to have be-
longed to the Amphion, which was blown up and sunk
towards the latter end of the last century, was brought up
by the divers i►► Plymouth hardo►ur last week.
A miser's horde was discovered at Goole, lately, on the
death of an old woman, named Hudson, who, singular to
say, was a native of In-land. Some years since, being left
a widow, she sent fur a brother who had settled in America,
but shortly afterwards turned him away, saying she could
not afford to keep him. On the 20th ult. she died, and,
the house being searched by the brother, one bag was found
containing iOO sovereigns, and another with I Mt sovereigns,
concealed in the bottom of a closet; one butter-pot con-
taining MN) sovereigns; in the fire-grate, cheques and bills
amounting to 2001.; and in a box, promissory notes, one
for 50/., one for 40W., and another for 2,0001., lodged with
the Aire and ('alder Navigat' Company, making a total
of 1,250/.; also a large quantity cif linen, dresses, and other
valuables.

Billingsgate Market is now completed ; the whole of the
intended alterat. being entirely tinislml, and the vast
improvement effected over the former building is very evi-
dent. Altogether the improvements effected are an orna-
ment to the City, independently of the facilities they will
afford to the fish trade.

Reports from the different wine districts in Portugal
represent the disease in the grapes as most destructive.
The price of brandy is consequently exorbitant-341. per
The completed route of railway communication from
Fenchurch•street lilackwall terminus to hew, being lmi
miles, was publicly opened for passenger traffic on Monday
last.

Five Andalusian stallions and four small black Spanish
ponies arrived at Bayonne on Saturday last, on their way
to the imperial stables at St. Cloud. The ponies are
almost wild, and endeavour to bite any one who approaches
them. They belong to the. Empress, who, when in Madrid,
frequently drove theta herself, though they are vicious and
unbroken. The horses are a present to the Emperor from
the I hike of Alba.

The first funeral at the Chobham encampment took
place on Thursday week. The deceased was a private of
the Nth Hinman, and had been twenty-two years in the
service. He died of bronchitis, and was interred in the
churchyard at Chertaey.
Mr. Tennant, late farmer at Girvan Mains, Ayrshire,
one of the last surviving contemporaries and personal
friends of Robert Burns, died in Ayr on the '2,sth ultimo.
He was born about the same year as the poet, MO,
and had, therefore, attained the patriarchal age of ninety-
four.

One thousand dollars have been subscribed in the
United States for the monument which his► been for some
years in contemplation to erect in lAnidon to the memory
of Dr. Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination.
Nu: vomica, which in 1840 was imported only in the
trifling quantity of 550164., reached the English market
last year to the extent of as many tons. The drug is one
of the bitterest and nand poisonous articles enumerated in
the Materia Medico.

Major Gordon Cumming, jun., lately killed with the
rod, in the Spey, tifty•nine grilse and salmon in six days.
During one of the days he killed bixteenfish.

Mr. J. Brett arriv►il at Turin on the :10th ultimo, on him
way to La Spezzia, where he is to commence operations for
laying down the submarine telegraph to Sardinia and
Algeria.
Four hundred and fifty pound expenses have been
granted by the Court of Bankruptcy to the officers who
lately captured the absconding bankrupt, Steward Steven-
son Spriggs. He had escaped to Australia, whither he
was followed and brought back, together with some
considerable property, which has been rendered available
to his creditors.

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During the celebrated railway contest waged between
the North•Westent and Great Western Companies, for the
possession of the Oxford and Birmingham line, a large
number of shared were passed into the hands of children;
and, when an officer was sent down to Manchester to
execute writs enforcing the payments of calls there was
amotembled before him, from one establishment in that city,
quite a shoal of factory boys and girls, all shareholders in
the opposing company.
'file dead body of a soldier, with the name E. Russell,
:glop Regiment, marked on his clothes, was found among
the bales when the ship Columbus, arrived from Liverpool,
was lately unloaded at New York. It is supposed that he
secreted liimsellaniong the cargo for the purp om. of deser•
Lion, and that a number of bales had been stowed away
alter he had got into his hiding-11 We. As the hatch wax
secured and caulked, and the ship crowded with emigrant
passengers, his cries could not be heard on deck. The
body was much decomposed, and appeared to retain none
of its original features.
Mr. Fitzroy's regulations for the London cabmen are
outdone in stringency and minuteness by the Berlin
police, in relation to the domelike-drivers of that city.
These are now all decently and uniformly dreamed in a
black glazed hat, a blue single-breasted cloth coat, with
metal buttons, and coarse Week cloth downbelows. At six
o'clock one mounting, lately, the President of l'olice re-
viewed the whole force of L2tK/ &middies, so as to
examine the dolma of the drivers, the capacities of the
horses, and the state of the vehicles. The result is said
to have been very satisfactory. The uniform is decorated
in some cases with embroidered stripes on the ann, like
our non-oommiasioned officers, one stripe indicating rive

years service under one insulter, two -ten years', three
fifteen, and so on. It is a very rare thing to meet with in-
civility or an overcharge from a droschka•driver.
A novel railway parcel arrived at Cheltenham front Bir-
mingham last week, when there was tOund, lying com-
fortably asleep on one of the seats, a little girl about two
years of age. A label was pinned on the front of its dress,
" Margaret Williams, passenger to Bristol." On its reach.
ing Bristol it was met by its mother--the wife of a work.
ing man—who was anxiously awaiting ita arrival.
Tit., portrait of Mr. l'itt, by lloppuer, bought a few
months back by Mr. Moffatt, M.l'., has been presented by
that gentleman to the Nati I t ;eatery.
M. Arago, who had commeneed his journey towards
Paris, has antlered a relapse•. Ili, shoat' has become
such that it was eonsidered necessary to send a telegraphic
despatch requesting his son to join him. The news has
caused a very painful sensation in the wealth. world.
A iterambulating lsok•store hate been set up by a spirited
bookseller in Manchester. A spec' caravan, like those
i►► which itinerant lions and deletions are wont to traverse
the country in search of fairs, has been constructed with
shelves capable of holding 2,00 volume's, and stowage ter
a considerable quantity extra. The owner of this truly
" circulating " library provides a tent for his customers,
which lie spreads in shady and retired parts of the town.
Another sad occurnmee is reported by the last American
journals to have taken place at the Faust of Niagara. A
boat, in which were three men, got adrift and floated into
the current, where it upset, and two of them were imuue•
diately carried over the Falls. The third caught at a
stump in his passage near the brink. Thousands of cal-
zees assembled on the banks, and every possible attempt
was made to rescue him. A raft was floated to hin►, but
from this he was swept, and went over the Falls after a
struggle for life protracted through many hours.

Disease, assuming the form of a white blight, lately
attacked the grape vines in Greece, and threatened total
destruction to the crop. Suddenly myriads of small green
insects, hitherto unknown, and which came no one knows
from whence, settled on the vines, and devoured the white
substance with the greatest avidity, restoring the fruit to
its natural colour. Naturelista may easily explain this
phenomenon, but the inhabitantm set it down as a direct
curd ntino•ulous int....posit of Providence.
The Munileur we. irols with evident delight tho unprece-
dented event of a Freud. horse having won the cup at
tioodwood. The names of the sire and dam of the winner,
Sting and Currency, sufficiently betray, however, the
~axon lineage of Jouvence, add gh she was burn upon
Fmneli

M. Corti's resignation of the management of the Italian
()peril ham been accepted by the Minister of the Inlet Mr.
Mont Mane was ascended, for the first time this season,
on the 21st ult., by Mr. Sal 1, of Waterlo', Cumber-
land, and Mr. Arthur Wit!sham, Ito)al Artillery, with the
usual staff of guides and porters. thi their return t►
chamouni, the patties were received with bouquets of
flowers, salvos of artillery, and hearty congratulations by
the inhabitants and visitors.

Some cases of cholera have made their appearance at
Flendsburg and tionderbum but the persons attacked had
either come from Copenhagen, or been in contact with
linch persons. A letter from Copenhagen, 25th ult., says:
" Yesterday 230 111. W cases were declared, and It I deaths.
Up to this time' there have been in all 3,5:11 cases, 2,041
deaths, and $4B cures. Among the new victims are nino
physieians, one of whom. I tr. %%Inhume'', formed part of
the. medical establishment of the Kings looneehold ; our
celebrated painter, M. d'Eckeitherg ; Baron de Holstein,
intendant of the Theatre Royal of Copenhagen ; and M.
hence, a lieutenant in the. navy." The Mt. Petersburg
journal states that cholera is at present raging in the
governments of Kiew and Tolyw, and that it has burst out
in the great commercial town of Iteryezew.

PROFESSOR GEMINI'S, already so much persecuted
for his " Introduct' to the History of the Nine-
teenth Century," has now been also deprived, by an
order of the Radish Ministry, of his title of honorary
professor, and of his right to deliver lectures at the
University of Heidelberg.

TO ADVIBTISIBB.
S'h• abolition of the Duty on Advertise+
insert al the prise of Three Shillings the
Jo► which we have hitherto charged Five ; and Adner•
users generally will receive the full benefit of the change
in the law.

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TO CORlZorunmara•..
It is Impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive.
Their Insertion Is often delayed, owing to a press of natter;
and when omitted, it Is frequently from reasons quite inde-
pendent of the merits of the communa.-
We cannot undertake to return euttununication.
not avail ourselves.
Cuttounlcations should always be legibly written, and on one
side of the paper only. If long, it increases the difficulty of
finding space for them.
Whatever is Intended for insertion must be authenticated by the
name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication,
but u a guarantee of him good faith.
♦ COUNTRY Susumu and W. J. M.—Froto both of three
correspondents we have been obliged by communications of
which we desire to avail ourselves wholly or in part here.!
after.
A WOULD•PE CONRINTENT FRTE•TRAMIR is longer than usual
and, at all events, too long for insertion tide week.

of which we do