The Press.
London, England, 1855-09-22 00:00:00

fort and lastiol.

The Braemar Highland meeting came off on
Thursday week. The morning was wet and misty,
but towards noon the sun shone forth, and a finer
day could not have been desired for witnessing the
games, and admiring the wild and romantic scenery
of the Braes of Mar. About twelve o'clock the clans,
numbering nearly three hundred, commanded by
their respective chiefs, assembled in front of the old
castle. Her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, and the Royal Family, arrived at
three o'clock, and were received by Mr. Farquharson,
of Invercauld, at the castle gate ; and the clans, who
had previously been drawn up in lines on both sides
of the approach to the castle, gave the royal party a
true Highland welcome. The games were contested
throughout with the greatest spirit and agility, and
handsome prizes were, through the liberality of
her Majesty and other visitors, awarded to the suc-
cessful competitors. Altogether a more successful
gathering has not been held for many years in Mar.
The Queen sent a cheque of 501. to Mr. Middleton,
station-master, at l3anchory, of the Deeside Railway,
as a reward for his exertions in " expressing " the
news of the fall of Sebastopol to Balmoral on
the 12th.

The queen has signified her intention of granting
a life pension of 301. per annum to the widow of
William Haigh, who lost his life while endeavouring
to grease the axle of one of the carriages during the
royal journey to Scotland on the oth inst. The un-
fortunate man was an old servant of the Great
Northern Railway Company, and had attended the
royal progresses over this line on several former
occasions.

Her Majesty has already signified her intention of
returning to the south over the Great Northern Rail-
way. The train is ordered for the 13th of October.
When it was reported in September last that
Sebastopol had fallen, a large quantity of timber was
colleckid on the summit of Craig-gowan, the moun-
tain which rises immediatedly to the south of Bal-
moral Castle, with the intention of kindling a bonfire
as soon as the news might be officially confirmed.
The report having turned out false, the fire was, of
course, not kindled ; but the fuel having remained in
expectation that it would still be used for that pur-
pose, it was kindled on the night of the 12th, and
illumined the country for miles around. Thus,
within a few days of a year, had this pile remained,
its dry and dead-like appearance being, perhaps, one
of the most suggestive sights which the queen wit-
nessed when, a day or two previously, her Majesty
stood beside it on the mountain.
The following are the fees due and of right pay-
ble upon the nomination of a /Wight Grand Cross of
the Most Hon. Order of the Bath :
£ d.
To the Dean of the Order
To the Genealogist 2't 0
To the Bath King of Arms
To the Registrar 22 0 0
To the Seormary 22 0 0
To the Gentleman Usher
To the Messenger
To the Bath King of Arms, fur the book
of the Statutes
To the Secretary, for notice of election 013 4

t 164 6 14

Wentworth Blackett Beaumont, Esq:, new
on his voyage in a pleasure yacht to the Mediterra-
nean and Black Seas, is accompanied by Mr. King-
lake, the celebrated author of " Eothen." _

The intended meeting of the members of the
Orleans family at the Chateau of the Count de Cham•
bord was postponed, according to the Pnustan Ga-
zette, in consequence of the intervention of Queen
Victoria. That journal adds that the Emperor of
Austria, out of consideration for the Emperor of the
French, notified to the princes and princess es of the
house of Orleans that he could not desire to see
such a meeting take place within the Austrian do-
minions. The preparations for the proposed journey
were laid aside in consequence, and the Duchess of
Orleans, with the Count de Paris and the Duke of
Chartres, left Ala on the 12th for Ostend, ex route for
England.

Prince Frederick William of Prussia arrived at
Aberdeen yesterday week, whence the Prince pro-
ceeded by the Dundee Railway on a visit to the
Queen at Balmoral. He was received at Banchory
by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who had posted
thirty miles, accompanied by General Grey, and pro-
ceeded up Decside for lialmnral at three o'clock. A
letter from Berlin of the 10th instant, in the Hem-
bury News, referring to this event, states .—" Prince
Frederick William, son of the Prince of Prussia, has
left this city to pay a visit to the Queen of England
at Balmoral Castle. The object of his visit is to
renew his acquaintance with the eldest daughter of
the Queen, who is hereafter to become his wife. The
marriage is fined on between the parents, but it will
not take place for the resent owing to the pwlit
We Plitntigi."

902

Valitual an titittral.

THE prospectus of a new joint-stock association,
to be called " The London and Western Districts
Cemetery Company," which is introduced under the
new Act of Limited Liability, has been issued. The
site secured by the promoters of the undertaking is
at Parkhill, Isleworth. The capital of 50,0001. will
be distributed in 5,000 shares of 10/. each, with a
deposit of 21. per share, pursuant to the provisions of
the said act, by which means this company will have
obtained the advantages of full incorporation, with a
seal, independently of the expensive process of going
to Parliament for a private act.
Faom the Ist of January to the Ist inst. the
number of vessels which sailed from the port of
Limerick to Quebec was but ten, and the number of
emigrant passengers 1,135. During the same period
in 1854 forty one vessels left for the same destina-
tion, and the number of passengers was 5,796,
showing the striking decrease this year of no less
than 4,461.

THE sales of blood stock at Doncaster last week
realised 10,309 guineas. A yearling brown colt
(brother to Lord of the Isles) was sold for 1,800
guineas, and a brown filly, by Touchstone out of
Marian, for 810 guineas. These belonged to Mr. A.
johnstone's lot. The colt was bought by Stirling
Crawford, Esq.
IT is said that on a certain occasion the Earl of
Aberdeen (confidentially) confessed to Sir James
Graham that he "knew not how to manage the
Irish members." "Doas I do with the corporation
of Carlisle," said the Knight of Netherby. "How's
that ? " asked Aberdeen, "Oil them well—oil them
well," was the reply of Sir James.—Kendal Mercury.
A NEW Cutraca is to be erected in Coventry-street.,
Haymarket, between Rupert-street and Princes-
street. Her Majesty has subscribed 500/. ; Mr.
Egerton, M.P., 301.; Viscount Sydney, 251.; Bishop
of London, 1,000/. ; besides several other noblemen
and gentlemen.
Two TROOPS are to be added immediately to every
Cavalry regiment in the United Kingdom ; and
besides the British cavalry depot already formed
near Constantinople, another cavalry reserve is to be
stationed at Genoa. The officers from the 10th
Hussars and 12th Lancers, as the Indian " break,"
will have their augmentation appointments in the
reserve Dragoons.
THE GOVERNMENT intend to send on foreign service
a few more of the Scotch militia regiments. Already
there are no regiments in the lonian Islands, save
militia, and last week the Forfarshire Militia, on
being asked to volunteer for foreign service, did so
almost en mane, more than five hundred men having
stepped forward. The destination of the regiment
will he Gibraltar, for which place they will embark
from Fort George in the course of a month.

INTELLIGENCE has been received in Birmingham
of the death of Lieut.-Col. Unett. This distinguished
officer was reported " severely wounded " at the late
assault upon Sebastopol; and on Saturday night his
family in Birmingham received information of the
fatal result. The gallant colonel was much beloved
by his regiment.
THREE MONSTER SHELLS have been landed on the
Arsenal Wharf at Woolwich, from the Lowmoor
foundries, each having a diameter of three feet nine
inches, and weight one ton six cwt.; an experimental
gun, it is said, has been founded at Liverpool for
projecting these enormous missiles.. It weighs no
less than twenty tons. _ _

THE New York Picayune has the following :—" It
is said that Long Island, in the neighbourhood of
Northport, is sinking at the rate of four inches per
day. We do not wonder, when we recollect how
many delinquent subscribers we have in those parts."
MR. SYLVESTER, who was Second Wrangler at
Cambridge in the year 1837, and who had already
made for himself a name in the world of science,
before he entered at the University, has just been
appointed Professor of Mathematics, at Woolwich.
Mr. Sylvester, some years back, obtained much cele-
brity by disquisitions on abstruse branches of
mathematical analysis, and has a passionate love
for the science, which he has cultivated for so many
years.
Az the Exeter Police-court, last week, the mayor
said he bad received a communication from New
South Wales that the heir-at-law of Johanna Lot
Whitfield, who left Exeter in 1790, and went to
Australia, was entitled to 1,200 acres of land if he
would claim it.

.. _
THE MORTALITY OF LONDON, as shown by the re-
turns for last week, differs little from the average for
the second week of September, or from the mortality
that has prevailed in the previous three weeks. The
number of persons who died in the week that ended
on Saturday is 1,033, of whom 523 are males, and
610 females. About a half of the entire number
died under twenty years of age; forty had lived
eighty years, or had attained a greater age ; and one
person, a female, is reported to have reached the ego
of 1016