The Press.
London, England, 1853-12-17 00:00:00

I'oI.ITICAL NIoN ENIENTs.

THr. EARL AiIt:IZOVEN 1.011111141 to town rid South-
ampton esti 1.,111 cwiling from ‘i%iiittig hrr 31Ittesty
at thtloortte. llr reached Powitiligodtvet mltortly
after et: o'clock. moil *11•4 1111111eilligeb waited on by
the !hike of who hail II short einiferetier
with the noble Premier.

The Right lion. W. E. I ilatistene, she t'lsiusealor
of the Exchequer, tool wilily. arrived at his ottleidl
residence in I)ot sting .1119.1 e.l.4toplay afternoon. at
four o'cloek, from visiting Lord and Ludy Lytteltost
at Ilagley.
The Lord President of the emitted. Earl Gran
ville, who has quite recovered from Ills slight Mills.
position, and who, with his countess. is visititig the
Earl anti Countess !truce at Slit ertigkelibilge, near
Marlborough, Wilt., is expected in town this fore-
noon, in order to attests! this meeting of the Cabinet.
For the same purpose the Right lien. Sidney lire
berg comets to town this morning from Wilton-house,
near Salisbury ; and Lord John Rummell, from lean
broke lodge. Richmond, where the noble boll has
Iswvl Stlilotsriting since his return from Nhorti,..
The Duke or ArStA is summoned to attend the
Cabinet Colwell this afternoon. Ills grace. with Lists
Duchess of At gyll, and the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland, had rev iiiiiiiiii trout Tretithant to visit
the Marquis and Nlarchisstiess of Statford at !wills-
hall, Shropshire.
The night lion. Sir
.1151514'M
6114,111111 returned to
his olliciul residence at the shuirally 4111 ThisiNday
night front tiritiesby , t ork.hll'e, hating 444'11
from town only tweet) ban. hems,.
The Lord Chancellor, the Right lion. Sir W.
Molestvorth, and the Light Mai. sir tinniest %Vista,
been staying itt town for wl
by her lady •
ship, left town on Thus stlay te join the distinguished
circle visiting the Marquis of Lansdowne at Ito
womi, Wilts. The noble viscount retunis to Caritots•
(Israelis this afternoon, and early in the eveitisag his
lordshiquits London for Brotellaisils.
The Marquis of lettisslowite will, it is ►siill, not be
in town to day to jolt' the meeting of the Cabinet
Council. Immediately after the Earl of .%hertle
left town en Thursday, on a visit to the Queen, sit:st•
mousses were 1.4%11141 fur Ir enhlllet (*.nitwit for this
aftern.4.4ll SI thus Foreign office, in Downing street.
The meeting is itimsaincell for 11114. Weloll%.
Last evening the Earl of Aberdeen gave audiences
til/ several of his Viillettgi's in till' eal.itict at present
in town.
At a late boor the I'11.111114•1', thus !Mks. of New
castle, the s'intileillor of the Exchequer, and two
other menthe's of the Cabinet, assentl4ll44l nt Sir
James Graham's official resioleaue at the
and were in consultation until peat midnight.

772

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF
ENULAND.

THIS society held its half-yearly meeting at the rooms
iu llituover-square on Saturday. Mr. Pusey presided.
The finance account fur the previous half year,
eliding July 1, showed a gross receipt of 6,3241.,
including cash balances of 1,1201. Thu disbursement;
included 416/, for prizes, 200/. chemical investigations,
:Mi, veterinary investigations, 7001. on account of
the Journal, and WU. expenses of country meetings.
Polo/. had been invested in stock; and the cash be-
lanees in hand had besides increased to nearly 2,3001.
Ituring the proceedings the Duke of IticilmoNn
took oeeasi .n to offer some details regarding the
conduct of the Peruvian Government iu relation to
the guano trade, and the elforts which successive
Ministers in England, and especially the late Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs, had made to place the traffic
upon a fairer footing towards the British agriculturist.
lie observed :
" With retard to the question of guano, he for one
thought it a matter of the greatest possible importance to
the fanners of the empire. lie did think that the 'wive
they went now ',eying for guano was a great deal more
than they ought to be cloargssi. lie knew there went very
considet•alole difficulties in the way of elfeeting a reducti aaaa
in the price of that article. The Government of Peru was
not coinposed of men whom it was so easy to treat with as
it was with tionn, Other I iofilinnents, for it was emit inually
creating or suggesting diflirulties ; and, although every
means had been tried Hp to the present mismo•nt, they had
lwen tried iu vain. When Lord Malmesbury W.Ol at the
Feireignsiffiees ho procured an analysis of the ditlerent inte
noires, and sent copies of the analysis, with mania in-
structions, to the governors of • colonies and our consuls
iu foreign nat. . They were also transtuitted by the
Board of Admiralty to all the captains of our mewed-war,
oho were informed that, if they discovered any island
where guano sir other tontiont•e existed, the Admiralty a wild
consider that the surgeon or awastrint•surgis on who mettle
the discovery of the existence of such manure would have
a very just claim on them for mane Malin!. lie believed
that in more than one instance our ernisers Intel culled at
various islands, and gained a good deal of information.
lie had hoped that betOore this tine• more of these manures
would have beau discovered. lint, at all events, the great
object was to show the Peruvian Govet•maient that it NUN
their interest to deal fairly awl hurt •ably with Its, and not
to insist tipson alargoa• profit than they were entitled to ;
and he had no doubt that Lord Clarendon, or any other
Foreign Secretary, would do his best to settle the question
in ft satisfou•tsory Manner. Still he thought , we could by
auy means discover any other munuir, it would be a very
ottani stick fisr us to hold in kro sore m sic er the heads of the
ittosayiaa thoverninsait. near, hear,' used a hough.) lie
believed, if the price or :_titalio Were 10111444 I2Vell to 01. per
ton, more thout double the quantity would be used in thus
country; and he fo•It esolailleed !here Was not a practical
farmer iu England also wow laid out 1001. in that article
who would not in future boy suit if he could procure
the additional quantity at dial price. (War, hear.)"

The principal lottsine!..s of the 'fleeting was, how-
ever, the presentation anti otoloption of the periotheal
report. The following are thtt inure important para-
graphs of this document :-
1 hiring the past lialryear the t•oeiely has lost by 41vatlia or
resignation,. 41 of Its memiterr, while IAU new ilielnlierd lia.e,
doting the tome perlo.l. been ctirolle.l on 11% lisl, Which it now
Cullrlltllled 111/4 :.--1414 lire ipoertioris, IIS annual go% ertior,.,
764, life members, 4,m;3 4011111d1 141violiers. and 211 11.0noritry ment•
bers. The society at present voildisl44 of 1,44:1i members re.
siding in England. 2154; troolatel, 4I iu Ireland,
i . in the Channel Islands, and 29 abroad, untking a total of
3,009 members.
The country generally Ir well aware of the great ser% iee the
society has rendered, in linviim raked up, ,by its prizes on the
one hand, and iir t ctleetive t..rti oil the other, a 144 issly
of agrietiltural talent 111111 workinatt•
ship new aurae' general attention. The c.•toecil have spared no
41111Idy of money, nor their ineuthera either personal 'cal or
anxtrty, to auxin Ibis grest 01,01 ; soul, toeing ottatnord 11. they
feel it their doily to &Ilse means by uhlel. the some result.'
maybe 11101111111111441 ill a lesr summit of animal expenditure.
The tilouceater meeting, notwithstanding the Very nitfavour-
able state of the %ember on the principal day of the show, folly
satimie.l the expectation...if the ....until. The -.mini• sho% ink Of
intiaeineetti nod lice %dock tome drawn ap remoi4vonneeted with
their rodpealrie ileparlinciata for publication in the hociety'a
journal.
The eon. 111;Ye derided oil Ille following '4010,11110 Of cattle
1.014.% lo le 01Ter...11.v the ..oekty nt the Unroll!' meeting. hi
the week rommisiteing, Monday, the 1; ter of dilly next :—short-
home, !NU.; I lerefords, Pad.; other breeds, ;Ill.;
honer. 1 6:4, ; I xi..., AviN, 1211 i. ; 5011i11410W144, or other short.
woolled sheep, : I .ong•moolled sheer (not I .eieester4), I !. ;
improve,' I.lneolii mit.; $Ol. ; total, 1,..!•;:ti.
The prlimm for implements 11101 for polars will be devided on
the reports of reipective committees,. on the lit of February
u. %1, when the emniitions 141141 general regulations :uf the priz.e•
sheets will he arranged.
'floe 001111411 14ilmesawith 11111011 Plitidfdetion the steady support
wind. the society reesi%l.4 111 111111 11,011118i1i1111 new 11101111.ers
1111.1 Z 14110114 eo•opernlors, Ilid 114 ely interest created in the dis-
trlrts 440.14.914N1 for the sti.,se..4%e country tneoliii7,., and the in-
ereak'ng intelligence which distiteutishes the agriettltural eon'•
iiktinity of the country. treienee is no longer re:!ardeti 114 an
1111411111indi4le nrgnirenlent, bill 11114 become 1111 114•11 e
which, like the titagnetie 1114.1111., 1101111 M (1111 lie 4.11111 111 he
steered when All Armin,' 144 dark and uncertain; it has. indeed.
been found to be that knowledge while), is power.

Tnr. foundation-stone of a new Roman Catholic
cathedral was laid on NiMiolny lasi, at shrewsbuty,
by the Hight Her. Dr. Brown, Resisted by about
thirty clergymen. amongst whom were several canons
of the Homan Church. The ground chosen for the
site is situate at the north side of the town. anti over-
looks the Severn. The present Earl of Shrewsbury,
who only attained his majority on Sultda, has giyen
15,000/, fry the erection of the cailive.

THE PRESS.

NEW 131 RIAL.OROCND REGULATIONS.

LORD I'vt.mEnsroN has issued an o.;cial series of
regulations which are to be rigidly observed iu aU
new burial-grounds hereafter established, as also in
all, whether new or old, which come within the scope
of the Metropolitan Burials Act, passed last session.
The following arc the titles, a; appointed by the late
Home Secretary : _ -

" 1. No interment shall take place within ten yards of
any part of the boundary of the cemetery, and the space of
ground intervening between the boundary and the ten-
yard limit above described shall be planted with shrubs,
evergreens, and trees, iu such manner as, while it will pro-
mote the absorption of any deleterious emanations, stall
not interfere with a free circulation of air.
"2. The area of the cemetery shall bo under-drained to
retch depth and in such effectual manner as shall be suffi-
cient to prevent the accumulation of water in any vault or
grave therein.
Tle,re shall be a sufficiency of roads and pathways
within the burial-ground to afford every access to the seve-
ral graves without walking over other graves; and such
roads and pathways shall be constructed of hard materials,
and be properly guttered and drained in such wanner as to
carry away surface-water.
" .4. The whole area of the eemetery, which may from
time to time be used for interments, shall be divided into
gravc-spaees in such manner that the position of every,
wave-space may be readily distinguished.
" 5. A plan of the cemetery shall be provided, on which
every grave•space shall be marked.
" 6. A register of graves shall also be provided, in which
shall he reg►stered every grave-space, together with the
name, the age, and the date of interment of every occupant
of stu•h gray,
7. Every grave•space in the cemetery shall be desig-
nated by letters ur numerals, or by some other convenient
mark, which shall correspond to similar marks designating
such grave-space in the plan of the cemetery and in the
register of graves.
" S. The gray.•spece allotted to each person of the age
of 16 and upwards shall be at the least 9 Let 6 inches
long and 1 feet 6 inches wide.
" 9. The grave-space allotted to each young person from
7to 16 years of age shall be at the least 7 feet 6 inches
long anti 3 feet 0 inches wide.
" 10. For children under 7 years of age the grave-space
shall be at the least 5 feet U inches long by •!, fret 9 niches
wide. _ _

" 11. Each grave shall be dug as near as may be in the
middle of the grave•spaee.
" 12. With the exception of purchased vaults and graves,
interments shall take place in eve►y alte►nate grave•space
until the whole urea of the cemetery devoted to interments
shall have been buried in ; and thereafter the alternate
grave•spaces, which have thus in the first instance been
left vacant, are to be buried in till they shall all have been
used.

is. Nu more than one IH►dv shall )w► buried in any
grave, except in lottrehas4 d vaults taut graves, under con-
&Wis hereafter stated.

11. The 4114111 of graves, excepting purchased vaults
end graves, shall he as follows :—For of 10 years
of age and upwards the depth shall not exceed 0 feet, and
in no (4141' shall the coffin have a covering of earth of leas
depth than 31 feet, measured hum the tipper surface of the
coffin to the level of the ground. For persons betweeu 7
and 10 years of age the depth shall not exceed 1 feet
; and the covering of earth over the coffin Audi in no
ease be less than ;1 feet, measured from the upper surface
of the coffin to the level of the ground. Fur children un-
der 7 years of age the depth sindl be 3 feet 9 inches, as
near as may be.
" 14. Nu grave in which a burial has taken place, except-
ing purchiewd vaults and graves, shall be reopened for
another burial until after the lapse of the following periods
of time. that is to say :—No grave in which a person of 10
votes of age and upwards has been buried shall lie reopened
hir another burial until after the lapse of •.21 years from the
when soda person was buried. No grave in which
any young perms' between the ages of 7 and lti yearn has
been buried shall be reopened forfora second burial until
after the lapse of 14
years Brim the time, when such young
person was buried. No grave in which a child under 7
years of age has been bnrled shall he reopened for burial
within a shorter period than 10 years from the time when
such child was

lit. l'urelialted vaults and maws are excepted from
the preceding regulations ; butt, when more than one body
is 1141 Is 101161.11 in such graves anti vomits, each body must
be enclosed in an air-tight leaden coffin, and 110 coffin is to
be deposited in any such vault or grave nearer the slitiliee
than 4 feet 11 inches, incoming front the upper surface of
the (Nan to the level of the ground.
" 17. Whenever a burial has taken place (except in a
private vault) the grave shall be forthaith filled up with
earth, and the am-thee shall be immediately covered, either
with a suitable stone, if such shall have been provided, or
with fresh turf, or the surface shall he suitably planted;
but in no case shall the bare earth be left exposed.
" U. fare shall be taken that the grave-spaces, monu-
ments, walks, buildings, ci‘e., and the whole surface of the
cemetery, be kept in a proper state of neatness.

" PALMERSTON."

THIC London Corporation Commissioners will
resume their sittings after Christmas, when they
will proceed to the examination of witnesses favour-
able to the existing system, and desirous of rebutting
evidence previously given.
Ar a general meeting of the members of Lloyd's,
held on Wednesday-, the sum of 501. wag voted in aid
of the subscription for the monument to Lieutenant,
Bellot,