The Press.
London, England, 1853-07-02 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

New swimming baths and washbouses for the
labouring classes were opened on Monday in Eudell-
street, St. (Aless. Charges for bathing, from Id. to Od ;
tOr washing, &v., lid.
Counterfeit sovereigns and shillings are now made
of electro-plated iron. The false coins will nut bend, and,
standing either of the ordinary tests, are auceessfally passed
in considerable numbers.
A huge warehouse in Dowgate, City, fell to the ground
on Saturday. It was occupied by Messrs. Nicoll as a
warehouse for chemicals.
The soap duty expires on Tuesday evening next.
Twenty decores of the Legion of Honour have
been deprived of their ribbons on being found guilty of
theft and other dishonourable acts.
Bonding warehouses, after the London model, are to
be established at Leipsie.
The Danish penny-post system has been extended to
the whole monarchy, so that the penny stamp will now
frank a letter to either Schleswig or Holstein.
Madame Sontag will retire, after the completion of
her American tour, having realised about 4141,00) dollars in
the States, and distributed 6,IKM in private charities.
A grand naval review is contemplated with the
powerful screw squadron now assembled at Spithead,
should the Russian cloud blow over.
The King of Hanover is an author, having published
anonymously, in Deis, a book entitled " Ideas and Reflec-
tions on the Properties of Music."
The magistrate at Bow-street was applied to on
Tuesday to get back the bride of a respectable-looking
young man. She had thrown the wedding-ring in his face
atter the ceremony, and run away to her friends. There
was no help for the husband.
By the new Assessed Taxes Bill a tax of twelve
shillings a year is to he levied on all dogs.
A money-order office, for issue only, has been opened
at the House of Commons.
A thousand pound damages were sought than Mr.
Duffy, editor of the Dublin Nation' for a libel on Mr. F.
Wyse, brother of the British Ambassador in Greece. The
jury gave the plaintiff a farthing, and sixpence costs.
No submarine telegraph will be laid down just yet
avroas the Solent to Hyde and Osborne, the project having
failed to attract funds sufficient.
The young crops have suffered much in the north of
Scotland for want of rain.

The first rib of the great transept of the Sydenham
Palace was raised on Thursday. The transept is 200 feet
high and 120 feet span.
A testimonial piece of plate, value 600/., was pre.
sented on Thursday, at Tavistock, to Mr. Hitchins, of
mining celebrity. The testimonial consists of candelabra,
emblazoned with a Cornish motto and miners' devices.
The prices of wool in the north continue remarkably
high, though they have received a slight cheek during the
past week by the rumours of war in the East.
Richard Dunn, celebrated as the persecutor of Miss
Coutts, is now a prisoner in Whitec►Ysss.street, for debt.
He has obtained permission to file his own schedule,
pleading poverty as the reason for not employing a
solicitor.
The opening of the New York Crystal Palace is fixed
to take place on the 15th July.
Wednesday's storm blew down some portions of the
lofty seaftblding over the transept at the new Crystal
Palace, but the building itself withstood the gale 1111-

damaged.
Stonecutters, anti those engaged in thrashing wheat,
tic., may prevent the particles of dust getting to their
lungs by wearing a damp aponge over the mouth and nose.
'rhe workmen in the Scotch gunnies find mustachios very
careful for the like purpose.
The electric telegraph line (through Denmark) has now
reached Flensborg.
It germs that the plan of selling butelters meat in
!'aria by auction, in the market, increases in popularity.
During the first fortnight. the quantity sold wax 2714,000
kilogrammes, or, on an average, about 18,533 a day.
Eleven skeletons, supposed to belong to as many
lady abbesses, were discovered in the vaults of a house
standing on the site of the ancient convent of the Temple
in The relies were taken in charge by the authori-
ties, and reinterred with fitting rites in a cemetery.
Table-turning has been turned by a M. Pujos into an
agent of political trickery. De obtained signals prophesy-
ing the &mural of the Empire, and the proniotion to dig-
nity of his own son. The prefect has sent him out of the
department of liess, in which be resided, potting an em-
bargo on the table at the sumac time.
Four hundred navvies" struck work on Monday on
the Deeside Railway. They had received twelve shillings
week, anti wanted fourteen. The employers stood out,

and in three days the nien gavt in.
Terrible ►lisasters have occurred in I'e►sia. A dread.

ful earlltquake visited Chintz and liashau on May 2, and
destroyed both of those flourishing cities. Upwmtile of
0,000 pe►sons were buried in the ►wins, and the stench
was so great that a plague broke out afterwa►ds, and the
mo►tality averaged f►om MO to •ItXl a day. The cholera
was very violent at Telmui. mu►d an i 1111 l nlation had eaused
immense damage to that. city. Locusts had devastated
the whole of the flourishing plains of the province of Is-

pahan.
The new Prefect of the Seine is a Protestant, and his
wife hears the character of being a warm admirer of the
Society for the nn of the tiospel.
The Rev. Mr. Barker, whose housekeeper was •-
dered at Phaeton Rectory sonic time since, has had his
mind so shaken by the tragic event as to compel his re.
mescal to a private asylum at Norwich. The proofs of
guilt against Slack, the labourer, now in custody, are be-
coming more eomplete.
- Th.. South Australian Ranking Company declared a
dividend of It pir cent. at their mutual meeting on Monday.
with a bonus raising the whole sum divided for the current
twelvemonth to 12 per cent.

SATURDAY,

The council of the Royal College of Surgeons have
resolved to receive certificates of attendance on lectures
delivered at the Royal Caroline Medico•Chirm'gieid Insti-
tute and at the Royal Serapheiner and l.ying•in Hospitals
of Stockholm, iron► all candidate' for diploma. Certificates
of attendance on lectures delivered at the following
medical schools in other foreign countries have been ac-
knowledged by the college authorities for some time past—
namely, ['aria, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Berlin, Vienna,
Bonn, Heidelburg, Gottingen, Leyden, Liege, Pavia, New
York, and Philadelphia.
Dissatisfaction among the Kidderminster weavers is
increasing. On Monday evening the operatives, to the
number of OM or NO, walked in procession through the
town, having in their front a board on a pole with an in.
scription, Rules of Conference, The Penny a Yard,
and No Surrender•." They have resolved now to give ou•
lice to the employers that they will " st►ike " unless they
get immediate compliance with their terms.