The Press.
London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

YESTERDAY morning all the members of the ex-
Royal Family of France at present in this country
attended the requiem mass, celebrated each year in
the Catholic chapel at Weybridge, in commemora-
tion of the death of Louis Philippe.
Tan BRITISH Saw Sea, belonging to Liverpool,
was wrecked on the 31st of May last off Port Phillip
Heads, wits► the loss of many valuable lives, including
the commander, through whose intemperance the
catastrophe is alleged to have occurred. The Sea
was 600 tons burden, and sailed from Liverpool on a
three years' voyage on the 10th of last February,
under the charge of Captain M'Kay and a crew of
twenty-six hands. She reached the shores of Aus-
tralia on the 14th of May, and brought to anchor in
Hobson's Bay. On the following morning she was
got under way, and proceeded to Shortland Pluffs,
in the vicinity of. l'ort Phillip Heads, where she an-
chored and there remained till the 31st, when,
through the conduct of the captain (who, it is alleged
by the survivors, came on board intoxicated and very
much excited), the ship got ashore, when she went
to pieces and most of the crew were drowned. Her
Majesty's ship Boomerang, which came to their as-
sistance soot► after, rescued two sailors, and eight
men escaped in a boat or on spars. All the rest
perished, together with the wife of the master, who
had accompanied her husband on the voyage.
THE TOTAL Loss of another emigrant ship has
been reported at Lloyd's. She was the Charles
Clarke (Tadd, master), bound from Holyhead to
Quebec with 100 passengers. On the 27th July last,
the ship being off the coast of Newfoundland, a dense
fog came on, in the midst of which she struck on a
reef of rocks off Freshwater Point, Trespassy Bay, a
heavy sea breaking over the vessel and passengers
who crowded the decks. An attempt was made to
launch the boats, but they were stove. Signal guns
were fired, which brought assistance, and, a line hav-
ing been got out to the shore, the passengers, with
the exception of five, who were swept off the deck by
a heavy sea and drowned, were all saved. The poor
creatures lost all their baggage and effects. The
vessel became a total wreck.

A NEW RAILWAY BY-LAW.—The Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Company were the other day
mulcted in fines to the amount of many thousands
of pounds for having destroyed life and limb through
the imperfect condition of their line. They have re-
sorted to an audacious retaliation, in the shape of a
kind of ex post facto by-law, by which every pur-
chaser of a ticket is expected to conform to the regu-
lation founded thereon, in these words :—" This
" ticket is issued by the company, and accepted by
" the holder, upon the express understanding and
" agreement that the company are not to be in any
" way held responsible to the holder or his represen-
bsfives for the consequences of any accident, how-
" ewer caused, which may happen to the holder while
" %swelling in any of the company's vehicles, or being
"at any of the company's stations. It must be ex-
" hibited to the company's officers whenever required ;
" and any person using it, other than the person
" named herein, will be liable to the same penalties
"as a passenger who does not pay his fare." It is
difficult to say which is the worst feature of this pro-
ceeding—its cool defiant* of the first principles of
the common law of the land, or its suicidal exposure
of the risks run by passengers who are so unfortu-
nate as to be obliged to resort to this line as a mode
of conveyance. At the late trial, the immense traffic
was urged as a reason why the line could not be
closed for the necessary renovations. After this act
of the company, and the publicity given to it through
the press, we should imagine that the directors will
find it less difficult than hitherto to fulfil their duty
in this respect. Of course, the notification is wholly
inoperative, except to create alarm, and so to
deter passengers from making use of a railway whose
directors conceive themselves bound to claim such
protection against the danger naturally arising from
the state of the property under their control.
A VERY DESTRUCTIVE FIRE took place yesterday OD
the premises of Mr. Hill, cooper, St. John-street-road,
Clerkenwell. The flames burst forth from the ware-
houses, and spread with such rapidity that, although
several large engines were soon in operation, the
entire property of the warehouse was consumed, and
other serious loss followed. The firm is believed to
be insured.
The new Palace of the Legislature is gradually
preaching completion. The front, facing new Palace-
yard, is nearly finished as far as the entrance to
Westminster-hall. The apartments in this part of the
building are to be appropriated to the use of the Speaker,
and are on the foundation on which formerly stood the
Star Chamber. In Old Palace-yard great progress has
taken place. From the Victoria Tower a facade is in
course of erection to the entrance to the central hall,
opposite Westminster Abbey. When completed this
facade will entirely hide the exterior of the House of
Lords, as will the apartments of the Speaker in New
Palace-yard bide the exterior of the new House of Com-
mons which runs parallel with Westminster-hall.

SATURDAY,

WAROFFICE, Auousr 24.
(From Last Night's Gazette.)
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—The
Honourable Alfred Henry Crofton, Page of Honour to
her Majesty, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, August 26.
6th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant Chas. Parker Catty
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Armytage, who retires;
Ensign William Pitt Prest to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Catty; Oswald William Every, Gent, to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Prest, August 26.
26th I'o,4—Lieutenant Robert Berney Ficklin, from
half-pay 4 the Royal Canadian Regiment,' to be Lieute-
nant, Nice Dickens, who exchanges, August 26.
43rd Foot—Ensign William Stewart Richardson, from
the 51st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Mitford, who exchanges,
August 26.
51st Foot—Ensign Percy Mitford, from the 43rd Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Richardson, who exchanges, August 26.
85th Foot—Ensign John Bailey to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Bond. who retires; George Phipps
Prevost, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bailey,
August 211.
St Helena Regiment—Hospital Sergeant John Hobson
Wright to be Quartermaster, vice Miller, who retires upon
half-pay, August 26.
BnEvEr.-3lajor•General William Staveley, C. 8., Com-
manding the troops in the Presidency of Madras, to have
the local rank of Lieutenant-General while so employed,
August 26; Major-General James Jackson, K.H., Com•
manding the troops serving at the Cape of Good Hope, to
have the local rank of Lieutenant-General while so em-
ployed ; Lieutenant Henry Birch, of the 27th Regiment
Bombay Native Infantry, doing duty at the East India
Company's Depot at Warley, vice Captain Lightfoot, re-
signed, to have the local rank of Lieutenant while so em•
ployed, August 26.
MEMORANDUM.—Assistant Surgeon Vesey Agmondisham
Brown, of the 28d Foot, has been permitted to resign his
commission, August 26.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BT THE LORD LIEUTENANTS.
Pembroke--George Herbert Kinderley and William H.
Reed, Esqs., to be Deputy Lieutenants, August 24.
4th or Duke of Lancaster's Own (Light Infantry) Royal
Lancashire Militia—Charles Andrew Irwin, Gent., to be
Ensign, Angnst 13; George Arthur Crawford, Gent, to be
Ensign, August 16.
Dorset Regiment of Militia—Hubert Churchill Gould,
Gent., to be Ensign, August 20.
3rd Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia—Matthew Trot-
lope Coleman, Esq., to be Surgeon, July 2
Ist or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia—Percy
Charles Stanhope, Esq., to be Lieutenant, vice Day, pro-
moted, August 19.
Ist Regiment of West Riding Militia—Theodosius Stuart
Russell, and Thomas Sidebottom Adshead, Gents., to be
Ensigns; Thomas Sayle, Gent., to be Ensign and Assis-
taut-Surgeon, July 28.
2d Regiment of West Riding Militia—Lieutenant John
Sutton to be Captain ; Ensign George John Thornton,
Ensign Valentine Hicks Labron, Ensign Thomas Hague
Cook, and Ensign John Wormald, to be Lieutenants,
August 12.
2nd Regiment of West Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—
Cornet James Edward Norris, and Joseph Dempsey Hold-
forth, Gentlemen, to be Lieutenants; Joseph Raynor, Gen-
tleman, to be Cornet, August 23.

FROU THE LONDON GAZETTE.
Tuesday, August 23.
HENRY PARMAN TAYLOR, Queen's road, Dalston, licensed
victualler—THOMAS STEVENSON, Nottingham, printer—Euza-
LEM Mounts, Gloucester, grocer.
Friday, August 26.
WILLIAM TRANOMAR, Crawford•street, Marylebone, hardware.
man—liv.oitun WINN, Searborongh, draper—Casates WILLIAM
MATHEWS, Woolwich, draper—Juttx ANNIE°, Tiverton, linen
draper.

AMERICAN INTERFERENCE IN EUROPEAN POLITICS.
An extraordinary paragraph appears in the Paris
correspondence of the Morning Chronicle, to the
effect that " an agent of the President of the United
" States passed through Paris two days back, bearing
" to Berne a reply to a representation made by the
" Federal Directory, pointing out the hostilities with
" which Switzerland was menaced by the Absolutist.
" Powers. The President of the United States, in
" the answer which he has thus sent, promises an
" active co-operation with Switzerland in case of an
" active struggle." This statement rests on the
authority of a writer who is usually very }yell in-
formed on all matters of the kind ; yet it is difficult
to believe that so direct an act of interference can be
contemplated by the American Government. That
the people of the United States have had their sym-
pathies actively excited against Austria, and gene-
rally in favour of the revolutionary party in Europe,
cannot be doubted; nor have there been wanting
recent evidences that persons holding responsible
offices or commands in the American service have
been acted upon by similar feelings, or have calcu-
lated on their existence at home, to an extent utterly
subversive, according to our ideas, of discipline or of
the diplomatic decencies. Our friends across the
Atlantic had better stick to a homely proverb, and " let
well alone.' They have both inclination and room
enough for quarrels and conquests in their own
hemisphere ; and if there be any reverence left among
them, they would do well to bear in mind that all
their greatest statesmen, from Washington down-
wards, have deprecated, as ruinous to their country,
any interference in the politics of foreign nations
not absolutely demanded by American interests.