The Press.
London, England, 1854-09-02 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

A letter from Odessa, published in the Cologne
Gazette, says that trade is at at a standstill, and
that very many of the working classes employ their
time in picking up cannon balls lately fired from the
English and French vessels while bombarding that
place, for which they receive fifteen kopecks each
from the commandant of that fortress. Mercantile
advices received in the city of London state, on the
other hand, that no blockade was in force, and report
sundry transactions m linseed and other articles.

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announces that the King of Bokhara was menaced by
20,000 Persians, who ha .1 entered into an alliance
with Russia.

WEST INDIES.
The August mail from the West India Islands
and Brazil reached Southampton on Tuesday in the
Atrato steamer, together with seventy-five passen-
gers, and specie in dollars from the Pacific, worth
325,0001.
The news from Jamaica is of slight importance.
Cholera was abating generally throughout the island,
although it still lingered in some parishes, picking off
a victim here and there. The island was otherwise
healthy.
The first shipload of immigrants from China had
arrived in the ship Epsom. The number embarked
at Hong-Kong was 312, all of whom continued to
enjoy good health until about fourteen days before
the vessel arrived at Kingston, when a disease ap-
peared amongst them which was believed to be scurvy,
from which no less than forty died before the Epson&
reached Jamaica, and upwards of twelve subse-
quently. Immediately on the vessel's arrival such of
the Chinese as were affected were removed to the
public hospital, where every attention was paid to
them, but it was found impossible to save many of
them. The disease which has been thus fatal is
found to be an Asiatic one, caled " berry berry," a
dropsical disease which speedily destroys life. The
ship was 118 days from Hong-Kong.
The healthy immigrants had been forwarded to
their destinations. They appear happy and con-
tented.

From new Granada we learn that there is every
prospect of a revolution. Bogota, the seat of Go-
vernment, was in the hands of General Melo, with
4,000 troops, well supplied with munitions of war.
The constitutional Government, under General
Herrera, were at Honda, and the troops were slowly
progressing towards Bogota to dislodge General Melo.
General Lopezlh ad succeeded in pacifying the southern
provinces, and, with '2,500 men, was marching to
Honda to join Generals Herrera and Mosquera.

DISPOSAL OF RUSSIAN PRISONERS.
THE Moniteur of Wednesday publishes a decree
regulating the disposal and distribution of Russian
prisoners of war, according to the provisions of a
convention negotiated between Lord Clarendon and
Count Walewski. The chief articles of this conven-
tion are the following :
" Art. 1. The prisoners who may be captured in the
course of the present war shall be, as far as possible, di-
vided between the two countries in the following wanner :
" In case one of the two countries should have had to
maintain a greater number of prisoners, or shall have had
a certain number during a longer time under its charge,
there shall be drawn up, every three months, an account
of the excess of expense resulting from such charge, and
the repayment of the half of such excess shall be made by
the Government of the other country.
" Art. 2.. Instructions shall be subsequently arranged
between the two Governments, in order to make known
to the military and naval officers the places or ports to
which the prisoners are to be sent.
" Art. 3. If a place of depot for prisoners should be
fixed upon out of the possessions of one of the two coun-
tries, the expense of it shall be supported by the two Go-
vernments, but the advance shall be made by the Govern-
ment which may have appointed its officers to the care of
the establishment.
" Art. 4. Whenever the two Governments shall agree
with the enemy to make an exchange of prisoners, no dis-
tinction shall be made between the respective subjects who
have fallen into the power of the enemy; but their libera-
tion shall be stipulated for according to the prim ity of their
capture, except under special circumstances, of which the
two Governments reserve to themselves the natural right
to judge."
This convention is dated May 10, and to it are
appended the signatures of the Emperor Napoleon,
Lord Clarendon, Count Walewski, M. Drouyn de
l'Huys, and M. Abbatucci, French Keeper of the
Seals.

PRESERVED MEATS.
Is annsequence of the war in the East, and the difficulty
of obtaining good supplies of animal food, several experi-
ments have been made in Paris for improving the mode of
preserving meat. A nephew of M. Payen, the celebrated
chemist, has submitted to the Uovernrnent some dried
meat, but it was objected to by the War department. The
Minister of War is now trying some remarkable specimens
supplied by MM. Delabarre and Bonnet Their meat,
dried nearly five months ago, has resisted all the changes
of damp and heat to which it has been subjected. It is
dried by natural means ; and in preparing it nothing is
used that is not furnished by the animal itself. When the
water which forms so large a proportion of the component
parts of fresh meat is removed, a varnish composed of the
pure osmazone of the animal is applied, and this, entering
the pores, augments the nutritious properties of the meat,
which has undergone no process of cooking, or been ex-
posed to artificial heat of any kind, and, covering the
surface, the meat is protected alike from damp or heat,
and exposure to the air produces no effect upon it. The
ineat, although raw, may be eaten in that state, and is
highly agreeable to the taste. It is reduced by desicca-
tion one half, so that half the expense of carriage is saved;