The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-03 00:00:00

3, 1853.

The appearance of the comet has excited great Amin in
Madrid, as it is considered " a symptom of divine wrath.
and a presage of war, pestilence, and affliction for
humanity."
A young man threw himself before a train on the St.
Germain Railway, near Nanterre, and was crushed to
death. In his pocket were found three bits of slate, on
which were written iu chalk ;—" My name is T—, and
I was iu the service of M. Blaiset, butcher, Avenue de
Clichy. My parents reside at Verneuil, near l'oissy.
From obedience to them I abandoned a young woman,
virtuous and beautiful, whom 1. loved and who loved me.
Remorse and repentance have rendered my existence in-
supportable, and I seek in death an end to all my woe. I
pray the person who may read this my last will to go and
seek the young woman whom I loved, and whom I shall
not cease to love in another world, and to ask from her
pardon and forgetfulness."
The sale of the furniture and effects of the mansion at
Daylesford, the seat of the late Warren Hastings, has just
been concluded, the estates and manor having been pre-
viously disposed of for 30,250/. The sale was numeronsly
attended. and the furniture and other articles brought very
good prices, Among the pictures, " Colonel Mourdaunt's
Cock-fight at Lucknow " brought 11:t guineas: "An oval
Portrait of Warren Hastings," by Sir T. Lawrence, 53
guineas; " A Volume of Forty Drawings, representing the
Customs of the East," 311 guineas; " A Colleetion of
Chinese Drawings," 4•2 guineas; " A Collection of all the
Evidence against Warren Hastings, in 13 volumes," sold
fur P 4 guineas. The sale occupied six days, and prottuced
4,000/. The property has been sold by order of the
executors under the will of the late Mrs. Hastings. At the
commencement of the last century the Daylesford estate
was alienated by the Hastings family, and it was upon that
occasion purchased by a London merchant. Atter the
tapae of seventy years it was repurchased by the late
Warren Hastings, who built the house at Daylesford, and
expended 40,0001. in forming a lake and embellishing the
grounds.
Dr. Cartwright, of New Orleans, asserts, from personal
experience, that a few hours spent in a sugar manufactiny,
inhaling the saccharine fumes, is a certain cure for con-

sumption.
Last Tuesday, says the Lincolnshire Times, a friend of
ours, who is at Amsterdam, suddenly bethought himself
that he wanted a hundred pounds. He walked to the
electric telegraph and gave his message to that effect,
which was to be forwarded to Liverpool This was at
twelve o'clock. At six, when he was dining at his hotel, a
bank clerk introduced himself, bearing a cheque for 1001.,
which the London correspondents of the house had in-
structed him to pay over to the surprised traveller.
The following are the weights of the large bells of dif-
ferent churches in France :—That of Sens 10,500 kilo-
grammes ( lig tons), the next size 13,000; Paris, 13,000 ;
Rheims, 12,500 ; Bordeaux, 11,250; Lyons, 9,000; Notre
Dame de la Guide, $,500 ; Rouen, 0,000; Auch, 0,000 ;
Cambrai, 5,500 ; Lille, 5,500 ; Chalons, 4,500.
The Emperor Napoleon has given a table service in sil-
ver as a prize for a lottery which is being got up for the
benefit of the gardeners of the neighbourhood of Rouen,
who suffered so severely some time ago from a hailstorm.
Lalen, a Parisian button-polisher, aged 17, made a bet
that he would in four hours run over the 40,110) metres
(about 25 miles) of the military-way which follows the
bastions of the fortifications. lie won the wager easily in
three hours fifty-three minutes.
The front of Buckingham Palace has just received
several new coats of paint. This has been found neces-
sary, because, from the perviousness of the stone, the wet
oozed in so much as to give much inconvenience to the
inmates.
Some persons walking in the wood at Vincennes were
startled at hearing, at a short distance from them, the
report of a fireann. On proceeding to the spot they dis-
covered that a young soldier had blown out his brains with
hi: musket.
The Brighton battery is furnished with guns andctuttion
balls taken from the French in the engagement under
Lord Howe. They are what are termed French 30's.
There are no less than 131141 shot, each 421 h. weight.
A respectably-dressed female, who was leaning against
the side of the Hungerford-market pier, overbalanced her-
self and fell into the river. A boatman put off in his
skiff, and succeeded in rescuing her in a very exhausted

state.
M. Godard, n Fren fii;ronant, on Sunday week made an
ascent at Mantes in a Montgoltier balloon, He was ac-
cortnpanied by his younger brother, aged 10, who hung head
d iwnwards from the car. M. Godard remained about 90
minutes in the air, and came down io the Seine. He did
Lot lose his presence of mind, but, taking his brother
under one arm, swam with the other until a boat came and
took them both on board.
The municipality of Madrid contemplate erecting in the
cemeteries places to which dead bodies eau be at once
conveyed, and preserved until burial. The object is to
prevent premature interments ; and also to diminish the
expense of funerals, by affording no opportunity for osten-
tatious processions.
It is intended to make Hythe a deptot fur the minim
rifle practice. tioveniment have purchased two hundred
acres of corporation laud in that borough, and the neces-
sary buildings, and are already in course of preparation.
Previous to the purchase Lord Hardinge and Sir John
Burgoyne paid a visit to Hythe to inspect the site, when
his lordship pronounced it the most suitable one in Eng-
lima for that particular purpose.
The Adjutant-General of the Forces has, in an official
letter to the Commissary-General, Sir R. Routh, conveyed
the expression of the Commander-in-Chief a entire satisfac-
tion at the manner in which the commissariat arrange.
meats were carried on during the late encampment.