The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

Volitteal nub Central.

A PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIoN took place at Lynn last
week, in honour of Lieutenant S. Gurney Crewmen,
the bearer of the despatches from ('apta►n 11‘Clure,
relating to the expedition in search of Sir John
Franklin. In the afternoon a public meeting was
held at the Guildhall, where a congratulatory address
was presented to the gallant young officer. In the
evening a dinner was given to him at the Assembly-
rooms by h►s friends and the principal inhabitants of
the town. Lord Stanley, who had visited Lynn ex-
pressly to do honour to the hero of the occasion, re-
mained in the town on the following day, and took
occasion to visit the Athenaeum. His lordship after- '
wards took steamer, and pawed through the new cut
of the Norfolk Estuary, and made himself as much
as possible acquainted with the details of that great
work now in progress.
Tut: ANst•Al. DimsEn given by the Duke of North-
umberland to the tenants and suitors of his grace's
manorial court of Tynemouth took place in North
Shields on Wednesday week, Sir Walter B. Ridden,
Bart., steward of the manor, in the chair. The
party was numerous.
A CAmv, on a similar plan to that which was
adopted with the home regiments during the past
summer at Chobham, is about to be formed in the
western portion of her Majesty's dependencies in the
East Indies.

TEE QUARTERLY RETURN or MAMMIES. BIRTHS,
AND DEATIIN, fill' the dime months ending Sopt. 31.4
IP+53. has just appeared. The marriages exceeded
the average in the quarter ending in Jut.. ; the births
have also been above the average number, while the
deaths have been fewer than is usual in proportion
to the population. The mortality of the population
has experienced a marked diminution during the
summer, but one town (Newcastle) has suffered
severely. and others are threatened by Asiatic
cholera _ _

illerriages,4o,33s marriages were celebrated in
the quarter that ended in Ante, 1M53, a number ex-
ceeding by :t2s the marriage's in the corresponding
quarter of the previous year. The marriages in the
spring quarter have thus gradually risen from 30,04$
iu 1542, to 40.335 in 1553.
liirths.-147,581 births were registered in the
quarter ending September 3tl. This is above the
average number; but it is less by 3,012 than the
numbers registered in the corresponding quarter of
1552. The decrease i.e observable in every county
except Middlesex, Surrey, Cornwall, Stallbrdshire,
Rutlandshire, Cheshire', Lancashire, Cumberland, and
Monmouthshire.
Population.—As 147,531 births, and only 92,331
deaths, were registered, a balance of 55,24 e remains
in the population. The births and deaths are not
registered in Scotland and Ireland, so that the total
increase of poptilanon cannot be aseertained ; but if
the excess of births in those divisions of the United
Kingdom bears the same proportion to the popula-
tion as it does in England anti Wales. the increase by
natural causes must be shout tei,uom Hui $7,107
emigrants left the country in the quarter ending
September 80, 1,453 ; sic that it is probable that the
population of the United Kingdom has declined
rather than increased during the summer. As a
large proportion of the emigrants are natives of Ire-
land, it follows that the population of England is
slowly increasing.
The prices of the chief articles of food are much
higher than they were in the corresponding quarter
of the last year : the rise in the price of wheat is 20,
mutton 23, beet' 21, potatoes 31 peer cent. The rate
of wages has also been raised in several treats; ; and
at the Same Ulue the labourers and artisans have been
more fully employed.

THE WEEKLY lirrelt,4 ov THE nronerain
NEnAL states that the nutuloer of death's from all
causes registi.notl in the week that ended on Saturday
was 1,141, exhibiting an increase of about a lout
tired on the first three weeks of October, and an ex-
cess on the corrected average for the past ten years.
This increase has arisen chiefly from the epidemic,
whose progress has been recorded during the last two
months, and which has now attacked many parts of
the metropolis, widely distant, between Hammer-
smith and Whiteehapel. The deaths from cholera,
which were about 16 weekly in the beginning of Sep.
(ember, rose last week to Mt, of which lit occurred in
the westdistriets, 3 in the north, 1 in the central, '24
in the east, and 52 on the south side of the Thames.
Three is a very general impressionlin naval circles
that the discovery of the North West Passage by
Captain M'Clure will be followed tip next year hy
tee oespatch of two steamers, the Plum': and
mother of about equal power. When two 'dement
proceed through the ice near to each other, the for-
ward :notion of the last %iossel prevents the ice
closing twain so 140011 Its it is otherwise liable to do
when there is only one vessel, and consequently it is
much safer to proceed when two are employed in•
stead of one. The Officers awl crews of booth vessels
would also have more confidence, when entering
unexplored channels, when two vessels are near to
each other, owing to the hope that there would he
one to fall back upon in the event of any unforeseen
accident occurring to the other. The ice of the
Artie regions is the accumulation of ages, and it is
surprising the small thickness that is formed in some
years, and certainly not to such an extent that would
render it difficult for steam-vessels to keep a passage
open by repeatedly breaking through the newly-
formed ice ; anal the further the vessels proceed
beyond the trite magnetics pole the wanner the water
is found to pre‘ail, anal it requires a remarkably low
state of temperature too form ice on the surfare of
the deepest parts of the linter seas. Some remark-
ably fine lava was brought home by the officers of
the Phoenix from Banks' land, far finer and closer
than the porous pumice-tone of the lava of Munn
Etna. The ',lumbago, is also of a fine description
anol a number of mineral stones front Melville Islan d
are remarkably heavy, whatever may be the nature
of the metal or which they aro composed, anal appear
to be worthy of being investigated as to their value,
OA they might be found worthy of becoming a subject
of commercial enteria+4c.
1':x• ELLEscY THE. TEIMAN A)1 it Axi ADO R has
been suddenly recalled from England by his royal
master the Shah. lie ceased on Tuesday to occupy
the diplomatic residence in Cumberland-place, and
loft I,ofolon on Thursday for Constantinople, en rout&
fur Persia.

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A Puente Meru'o in aid of the early-closing
inoventent was held on Tuesday night, at the
Cadogen Institute, Sloane-street, Mr. S. C. Hall in
the chair. Several clergymen and a number of em-
ployere were present, but the majority of the audi-
tory consisted of ladies. The chairman, the Rev.
Richard Burgess, the Rev. Dr. Morison, the !ter.
J. H. Hamilton, the Rev. T. Alexander, and Dr.
Pettigrew, severally advocated the t arty-closing sys
tem, and resolutions were adopted to the effect that
the continuance of late-hour trailing was detrimental
to the best interests of both employers and em-
ployed, opposed to the prosperity of the Christian
Church, and at variance with the progressive spirit of
the age, and pledging the meeting to assist in the
formation of ladies' committees, as one of the most
effective agencies that could be employed in promoting
the object in view.
Ter: bakers throughout the metropolis have again
raised the price of the 41b. loaf. The first-rate
bakers at the West-end now charge ls. to Is. Oil for
the best wheaten breoul. Many of what arc called
"cheap bakers," m Whitechapel, Spitaltields, West-
minster, Am., only charge Mid. to lid. for good whole-
/tome bread.
Is is stated that Mr. Leeman, of York, has just
purchased Newby Park from Mr. Umbel'', fur
1110,000/. The purchase is made on behalf of
Viscount Downe, already a large hauled proprietor in
Yorkshire.
THE works for the. London Necropolis and Na-
tional Mausoleum are about to be begun at Guildbird,
the commoners having been arranged with and paid
IS,OINV. for their rights, liming claimed 11,01011/.
lewd Midow has also lass' arranged with for '2,1 IN
acres for the cemetery.
Puoreeson Mennen: has beets dismissed front his
chair by the council of King's College, in eimse•
quietist of doubts respecting his orthodoxy suggested
by a recently-published volume of "'Theological
Essays."
Tut: commission appointed to inquire into the
state of the corporation of the city of London cone
mowed their investigations on Tuesday, at the ',likes
of the Treasury in Downing-street. The commis-
sioners present were Mr. Labourhere tchainniut).
Mr. Cornewall Lewis, and Sir..lohn Pittieson. The
entire sitting was occupied with the examination of
Mr. James Adana, secretary to the City of London
Municipal Reform Association. The investOttiiin
has been continued on the subsequent days, and pro-
'niece to be very protracted.
1117811NEMS tar Ceueonsyties Iteriete has been
commenced by the Court of Aldermen, by entering
that the clothes of the Mansion-horse and Guildhall
officers shall lie made by the prisoners confined in
Holloway Gaol. The officers have been already men-
surest by the I lellowity bailors, upon whom they waited
for that purpose within the last fee days, by the di-
rection of the court.
Tile projectors of a new trunk railway to Hastings
held a meeting on \bettiey to tirgitnise a VI 'inputs.
and explain their scheme. The hue presents some
singular features at its metrepolitan terminus, the
design being to carry the railway Mb, the very heart
of London, so as to end almost under the shadow of
St. Paul's Cathedral, with subterranean brunches to
the General lost office, for the more convenient
cc-
ipt and despatch of the el itaineittal It is
proposed to enter the City over a new bridge to lie
erected between Bliwkfriar4 unit Sinithwark. In it
course out of London the new line will traverse the
miserable localities lying between Bankside and the
Elephant and Castle—where the first stiliurlian sta-
tion will be formed. Passing through the densely
populated districts ling between Walwitrtlt and
Brixton, hitherto unsupplied with railway romninni.
cation, the line will pewee(' direct to Tunbridge,
where a junction will he formed with the Mesh's:
branch of the South-Eastern Railway. importnnt
feature in the undertaking is a shies branch to the
Crystal Palace at Sydenhion, by which that edifice
will be brought within it nearer distance of the City
than by any other railway, with the great advantage
of a direct river approach. The meeting, which t: tok
place at Hastings, was attended by seteral intinen
dial teem and the project was receivi d in me manner
which promisee favourably for its future ne,.„l"o„th.
went.
A Protse MEETINII was had on Tuesiley at the
Lentloti Tavern, for the purpose of promoting a sub-
scription to supply the funds requisite for the erec-
tion of a ►place of worship and schist, for the ragged
poor of Mile-end New Town, in Spitaltiehls, which is
rogarded as one of the most degraded localities of
the metropolis. The cost of the ',reject is estimated
at within 1,500/., of which sum Mall. tuts already been
raised, leaving 1,00411. still to be collected. The
meeting was presided over by the Right lion. the
Lord Mayor.
A LETTER FROM MARREII.I.E:4 states that Cardinal
Wiseman, who alighted at the Hotel des Amlitts,e.
dents, after receiving the members of the Cathohe
clergy of that city, had embarked for Rome in the
Jlortgibelio, and not for Lireeee, as has been re-
ported.

THE PRESS.

ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES, says the Meek,
are placed at the head of tl.e great outlets for our
manufactures. England furnishes us to the amount
of about 13:1,000,000f. of different articles, among
which stand in the first place raw and floss silk,
wool, coals, copper, and wuNen goods, which we re-
export for the most part, as they are charged with a
heavy import duty. Out of these 14000,00 K of
imports, 90/110,000L at the utmost enter into our
own consumption. With England, contrary to what
is the case with Russia and the northern states of
Europe, our exports far exceed our imports. Silk
and woellen goods occupy the first place in the arti-
cles with which we supply our neighbours. These
two articles alone represent a sum of 123,isayaa1f.
out of a total amount of 2110,01)0,010111., or •21tlymon,titior.
more than that of the English merchandise which
we consume.
Tile Woonnutor Itfroc, CoNxEcrterr, collapsed
about a year ago, by fore-ordination, and its bills
lay:! since been quietly bought up at 1.5 to ;At cents
on the dollar. That accomplished, the hank is ready
to resume payment.
AT a meeting of the Great Indian Railway Com-
pany, held on Monday, the directors were authorised
to raise 1,00,1141/. additional capital, by the issue of
new shares, and such further sum as may from tune
to time be necesaary for extension purposes. The
new shares will be divided pro rata amongst the
present proprietors.
'Tot: first annual meeting of the Irish Beetroot
Sugar Company was held this week, when a very
satisfactory report from the directors was read and
unanimously adopted. The works have all been
erected, and operations have commenced. The
sitgar produced has been pronounced extremely
good, and the prices obtained in Lo.elon, Dublin,
and Belfast, according to the report, "have proved
beyond question that the sugar obtained from
beet can compete successfully with the colonial pro-
due of the cane."
VISOWNT I'ALHEINTON arrived in town on Tues-
day, from Broadlatels, and left the same afternoon
for Windsor Castle, on a visit to the Queen.
A Cmitser Corset'. will be held at the Foreign-
office on Tuesday next, at two o'clock.
'Fur heralds and pursuivants made proclamation,
on Tuesday, at the Cross, Edinburgh, with the usual
formalities, for the election of a representative peer
at Bolyrood, on the Ifith inst.
Toe Ru.rine arrived at Southampton on Wednes-
day with the heavy portion of the East India and
China mails.
Toe NoTuDIOUS SLAVER, the Lady Suffolk, has
been condetnned by Mexican authority, and is to be
converted into a Mexican sloop•of war.
Aeconnititi to the North British Daily Mail some
of the shippers at Leith have obtained information
that their vessels lying at Cronstadt have received
notice from the British consul to be in readiness to
put to sea at four or five hours notice, with or with-
out cargo.
TwENTv.six 44 REFORMED ClumiNAts" have been
heal out to America as free emigrants by the London
Itel,witiatery institution. tln Wednesday there was
a ceremony of leave-taking. Speeches were made,
and Lord Shaftesbury shook hands with each of the
emigrants.
Toe Gtuirdian states that a clergyman who was
amongst those who seceded to Rome has lately
returned to the English Church.
THE VArANT SeoTell Juoeestne has been formally
declined by Mr. Inglis, Dean of Faculty. The post
is to be taken by the Solicitor-General, Mr. Handy-
side. The new Solicitor-General will be Mr. Cratt-
furl, Sheriff of Perthshire.
'IIIE I'IWULATION or PRUSSIA in December, ls';r2,
was 10,9:15,420 souls, giving an increase, during
three years, from 1549, of 537,972 souls, or :1.2s per
cent.
Tut: Terms, or Spero between American and Eng •
lisp clippers engaged in the China trade has again
been decided in favour of the latter ; the English
clipper ship Stornoway, which left Canton on the
Toth of July, having reached the Mersey. while the
American clipper Challenge sailed for London on
the Nth, and has not yet been reported.