The Press.
London, England, 1854-10-14 00:00:00

Court int 'as ton.

Her Majesty and the Prince Consort left Balmoral
at nine o'clock on Thursday morning, and reached
Edinburgh in safety at seven in the evening. The
royal party spent the night in Holyrood Palace.
Yesterday morning they proceeded to Hull, which
was reached at six p.m., and where, at the Station
Hotel, the Queen purposed sleeping last night. This
morning the royal yacht was ordered to be in readi-
ness to convey the Queen and Prince Albert to
Grimsby, her Majesty wishing to inspect the new
docks there. This evening her Majesty is expected
to arrive in London by the Great Northern Railway,
and will at once proceed to Windsor Castle.
The younger royal children who have been left at
Osborne during the sojourn of the Queen in Scot•
land are to travel from the Isle of Wight to Windsor

to-day.
The Premier arrived at Balmoral on Tuesday to
wait on the Queen. Sir James Graham hadleft on
the previous day for town.
Lord Burghersh reached Balmoral early on Wed-
nesday morning with despatches from the Crimea.
His lordship, together with the Earl of Aberdeen,
accompanied her Majesty in her journey southward.
THE MINISTRY.—Lord Aberdeen is expected to
return to town this evening from Scotland. Lord
John Russell has returned to Scarbcrough from a
visit to the Earl of Carlisle at Castle Howard. Sir
George Grey remains at his seat at Falloden. Lord
Palmerston continues at Broadlands. The Chancellor
of the Exchequer is residing at Hawarden Castle.
Sir W. Molesworth arrived in London last week. The
Duke of Newcastle has been staying in town.
Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., has visited Southampton
to examine the extensive operations going on in that
town for sewering it, and supplying it with water.
Lady Raglan and suite arrived at Dover on Monday
afternoon by the South-Eastern boat from the Conti
nent.

Lord Dudley Stuart has gone on a tour to Denmark,
Sweden, and Norway.
His Excellency James Buchanan, the United States
Minister, accompanied by his niece, Miss Lane, has
left town on a continental tour. Daniel E. Sickles,
Esq., Secretary of the Legation, is accredited Chargé
d'Affaires ad interim.
The Lord Mayor gave a splendid banquet on
Tuesday evening to the members of the corporations
of Norwich, Halifax, Bradford, and Banbury,
Among the guests were the representatives of
several of the foreign legations and many members
of Parliament.
The Duke of Buccleuch having obtained a fresh
lease of Montagu-house, Whitehall, from the Crown,
an eminent architect, by his grace's orders, has pre-
pared plans for the construction of a new mansion on
the present site, which will shortly be commenced.

SATURDAY,

The noble duke has taken the Countess Brownlow's
mansion in Belgrave-square during the rebuilding
of the new edifice.

011ituarg.

THE RIGHT REV. JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT,
provisional bishop of the diocese of New York, died
at his residence in that city on the 21st ult. The
deceased prelate was born at Liverpool, during a
temporary visit of his parents to England in the year
1793. His father was an Englishman by birth, but
became an American citizen immediately after the
revolution. His mother was a Miss Mayhew, a
daughter of the distinguished Dr. Mayhew, who was
the descendent of Sir Thomas Mayhew, the first
governor of Martha's Vineyard, and one of the
earliest settlers in America. It is a circumstance
worthy of notice that the grandfather of Dr. Wain•
wright was a stanch opponent of episcopacy.
GENERAL JOSEPH CHLOPICKI, well known during the
Polish revolution, died after a long and painful ill-
ness on the 30th of September at Cracow. At the
commencement of the revolution he was placed as
dictator at the head of the movement.
GENERAL SIR GORDON DRUMMOND, G.C.8., died
on the 3rd inst., in the 83rd yea/ of his age. Sir
Gordon Drummond served in Holland in 1794 and
'95, and was present in Nimeguen during the siege
and at the sortie. Accompanied the expedition to
Egypt in 1801, and was present in the battles of the
13th and 21st March ; also at the battle of Ramanieh,
and at the surrender of -Grand Cairo and Alexandria.
Sir Gordon saw much service in the American war,
and commanded in the action near the Falls of
Niagara, where he was severely wounded. He re-
ceived the silver war medal with one clasp for Egypt.
By his death the colonelcy of the Bth (King's)
Regiment is placed at the disposal of the War-
office.
LADY HARRIET DRUMMOND died on the 7th inst.
at Albary park, county of Surrey, the residence of
her husband, Mr. Drummond, M.P. for West
Surrey. The fatal disease was effusion of the brain.
The deceased was a member of the noble house of
Rutland.
SIGNOR FRANCISCO FERRARI, the eminent Italian
banker of Madrid, died on the 3rd. It is rumoured
that he has left upwards of 300,0001.—an instance
of a large fortune acquired by one who began life
penniless.
COUNT Rossi, who married in 1838 the Duchess of
Lucca, daughter of the Duke Louis I. of Parma, and
mother-in-law of the present King of Saxony, has
died suddenly at Venice, it is believed of cholera.

In addition to the six light-draught-of-water
screw steam gun-boats ordered to be built at Dept-
ford, and now launched, and the four built by Mr.
Pitcher, at Northfleet, of the Pelter class, Mr. Pitcher
is to build twelve more, which, with the two ordered
to be immediately proceeded with at Deptford, will
make a total of twenty light-draught.of-water screw
steam gun-boats, to be ready early in the ensuing
spring for any service they may be required to un-
dertake.
Government has resolved on placing Orkney in a
state of defence, by the erection of a fort of sufficient
size in the neighbourhood of Kirkwall. The work
will be commenced forthwith, and is expected to be
finished in a few months.
The Moniteur publishes a notification, issued on
the 12th of August last by Captains Ommanney and
Hubert, commanding the allied squadron in the
White Sea, declaring the ports of Archangelael and
Onega, and all the other ports, harbours, eeks
from Cape Sviatornos to Cape Kanin, in a state of

blockade.
Three copies of the Extraordinary Gazette con-
taining the official despatches, list of casualties, &C.,
relating to the battle of the Alma, were forwarded,
by order of Mr. Rowland Hill, to every country
postmaster, with instructions " to affix one of such
copies to the office window, or in some other conspi
cuous place, to cause a second copy to be posted at
the town-hall or marketplace, and to deliver the
third copy to the chief magistrate or clergyman of
the town." The same course is also ordered to be
pursued, without further instructions, on the arrival
of any Gazettes which may hereafter be transmitted
under similar circumstances.
THE SOUVENIRS SENT HOME BY MARSHAL ST.
ARNAUD by the Fury, and which he himself bad
gathered on the shore of the Crimea, have their
interest mournfully enhanced for his daughter,
Madame Preysigur, by her father's death. The first
stone on which his foot stepped, and the first flower
plucked by his hand, were the missives by which the
chieftain spoke to his child of his landing on the
Tartar peninsula.
THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF BRISTOL bare
beau invited by the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort
to a grand banquet at Badminton-house' His grace
is Lord High Steward of the side