The Press.
London, England, 1854-06-10 00:00:00

CATTLE TRAFFIC OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM.

AN interesting summary of the cattle traffic occurring on
all the lines of railway iu the United Kingdom during the
year 1853 has been compiled by Mr. Ormandy, a function-
ary of the North-Western Railway
988,537;ENG AND.—Oxen, sheep, 3,502,445 ; calves,
160,538 ; pigs, 704,037: total, 5,335,r)57. Amount received
for carriage, '299,9751. 16s.
IREL•ND. Oxen, 104,148 ; sheep, 208,048; calves,
17,732 ; pigs, 22:1,499: total, 553,427. Amount received
for carriage, 31,1791. 18s. 3d.
SCOTLAND.—Oxen, 180,668; sheep, 830,745; calves,
3,655; pigs, 28,1-22: total, 843,090. Amount received for
carriage, 30,3281. 19s. 4d.
TOTAL.—Oxen, 1,253,353 ; sheep, 4,341,238; calves,
181,926 ; pigs, 955,558: total, 6,732,074. Amountreceived
for carriage, 301,4791. 13s. 7d.
The want of agricultural statistics for Great Britain
prevents any comparison being drawn as to what proportion
the cattle carried by railway bears to the quantity in the
country ; brit a comparison can be made as regards Ire-
land, and the result is as under :—Oxen, of all ages, lin
25} ; sheep and lambs, 1 in 124 ; pigs, 1 in 44.
The value of the cattle conveyed by the railways of the
United Kingdom during the year may be estimated as
follows :—Oxen, 13,780,8831. ; sheep, 6,511,8571.; calves,
308,2931. ; pigs, 2,808,6471.: total, 23,475,7071.

SOME remarks on penmanship, as an element of
popular instruction, are contained in a letter which
the Home Secretary has lately caused to be addressed
to the Secretary of the Privy Council Committee on
Education. In this communication Lord Palmerston
expresses his belief

that one great fault in the system of instruction in the schools
of the country lies in the want of proper teaching in the art of
writing. The great bulk of the middle and lower orders write
hands too small and indistinct, and do not form their letters ; or
they sometimes form them by alternate broad and fine strokes,
which make the words difficult to read. The handwriting which
was generally practised in the early part and miedle of the last
century was far better than that now in common use; and Lord
Palmerston would suggest that it would be very desirable that
the attention of schoolmasters should he directed to this subject,
and that their pupils should be taught rather to imitate broad
printing than tine copperplate engraving.

THE PRESS.

CROWN LAWYERS IN IRELAND.

THE first vacant Irish judicial appointment has been
given by the Coalition to Mr. JOHN HATCHELL, once
member for Windsor, and Attorney- G en eral for Ireland.
It is something new to have a barrister who filled the
office of Attorney-General accepting any post below the

place of a puisne judgeship. The Commissionership of
the Court for the Relief of Insolvents is thought ade-
quate to the pretensions of Mr. HexcHELL, and he ap-
pears to be of the same opinion himself. Impartial per-
sons must pronounce that of late years " Liberal"
Ministries have not upheld the honour of the bar in
Ireland. When in the House of Commons, as
Attorney-General, Mr. HATCHELL was often derided
for his incapacity in debate. On one occasion Sir
JAMES GRAHAM actually offered him his commisera-
tion, saying, " I feel for him ;" and the mirth excited
by some of the liberties he took with the Queen's
English more than once brought down a joyous roar.
We have no doubt that Mr. HATCHELL will till
respectably a subordinate office, but we must condemn
the Whig practice of selecting lawyers not of the
first class to fill the great Crown offices connected
with the Executive. We could wish to see an end
put to the system under which men who cannot
speak at all, like Mr. HATCHELL, and those who can
do nothing else, like Mr. KEOGH, are placed above
their superiors.

THE DUKE or WELLINGTON having announced his
intention to give annually a gold medal of his illus-
trious father as a reward for historical proficiency in
Norwich Grammar School, it has this year been
awarded to Mr. O. St. John.

A PUBLIC MEETING, to consider what measures
could be adopted to prevent the passing of the bill
for abolishing a number of City churches, was held
on Wednesday at the London Tavern. Mr. Hubbard,
Governor of the Bank of England, presided, and
resolutions declaring the regret of the meeting and
its disapproval of the bill were passed almost unani-
mously.

THE HAY HARVEST has commenced in the neigh•
bourhood of Southampton and other localities in the
southern counties. The grass stalk is not long, but
on the best lands the crop is very thick.
A NEW ENGLISH CHURCH WRS opened in Berlin on
Sunday last (the 4th inst.) by the Rev. Mr. Bellson,
officiating minister of the English Episcopal Church
in that capital. The new church is situated in the
Montbijou Palace. Divine service for the last eight
years has been performed in a chapel fitted up
adjoining the Hotel du Nord, Unter den Linden ;
but, on application to his Majesty for permission to
build a church, he generously offered to allow a por-
tion of one of his private palaces (Montbijou) to be
altered, and made subservient to the use of the
English. Lord and Lady Bloomfield, an aide-de-
camp of the King, and a large congregation, consist
ing of the ilite of the English resident,: and visitors,
and a sprinkling of the Prussian nobility, more
than filled the chapel on the occasion of the opening
service.

GENERAL SIR LOFTUS OTWAY, C. 8., colonel of the
84th Regiment., died on Wednesday last, at his resi-
dence in Grosvenor-square. He was a gallant and
distinguished officer, and in the late war saw a great
deal of sharp service. The deceased officer entered
the army as cornet, 17th May, 1796; became a lieu-
tenant in September of that year; captain in 1798 ;
major, 1803; lieutenant colonel, 1805; colonel, 1813,
major-general, 1819 ; and general, November, 1851.
He succeeded to the colonelcy of the 84th, December
30,1840. Sir Loftus Otway served in Ireland during
the rebellion in 1798, and Was; present in the action
at Vinegar-hill. He proceeded to the Peninsula in
1808, as a major in the 11th Hussars. Sir Loftus re-
ceived the war medal with three clasps for Sabagun
and Benevente, Busaco, and Albuera. The colonelcy
of the 84th Regiment becomes vacant by the death of
Sir L. Otway.
SOME DECIMAL COIN. have been struck by the
Stockholm Mint on trial. The Swedish royal medal-
list and mint engraver is a lady, whose talent is uni•
versally admired.
As ACCIDENT of a frightful character happened lately
near Calais to M. A. Leroy, the inventor of a locomotive
carriage for running on common roads, in the perfecting of
which he has expended a large sum of money. M. Leroy
was about to carry his invention to England, where he
hoped to dispose of it, and left Paris with his carriage for
that purpose. By getting the assistance of some horses up
some of the very steepest hills, he arrived as far as the
wood of Guines, in the l'as-de-Calais. Unfortunately, in
running down a steep descent, the carriage, by some acci-
dent to the machinery, ran off the road and turned over,
and a quantity of the boiling water falling on 14. Leroy, he
was scalded in a very dreadful manner, although hopes are
entertained that his injuries will not. be attended withfatal
consequences. The inhabitants of Guinea, on hearing of
the accident, immediately opened a subscription for the
benefit of the sufferer.

SATURDAY,

6rtitsiastital.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Brent on Rev. Edmund du
. Boisson, 8.A., to the Incumbency of
, erefordahire
near
The Ite
Leominsterv. Oetaviuo Goodrich, M.A.,
to the Rectory of Humber,
The Rev. T. H. 0. Wright, M.A., to the Vicarage of Wolferton,
near Clifton-onqeme.
The Rev. Henry Thomas Whateley, MA., to be Lecture Secre.
tary to the Society for the Propagation of the Goopel in Foreigu
Parts.
The Rev. Henry G. Bunsen, M.A., to be Lecture Secretary for
the Church Missionary Society.
The Rev. Richard liarton, hi.A., to the Sub-Deanery of Christ
Church, Dublin.
The Hon. and Rev. George Thomas Orlando Bridgentitn,M.A.,
to the Rectory of Blymhill, near Shiffnal, Shropshire.
The Rev. Cohn Campbell, M.A., to the \georgic of Stkeorge's,
Wolverhampton.
The Rev. William Philip Mackesy, M.A., to the Incumbency of
LangeWe, near Giggleswick, Yorkshire.
The Rev. John Lloyd, to the Perpetual Curacy of Llanstephon,
in the county of Radnor.
The Rev. John Bayldon, M.A., to the Curacy of Hope Mansell,
near Mitcheldean, Herefordshire,

The Rev. Itichtird Chapman, ALA., to the Rectory of Norman.
ton, near Grantham.
The Rev. Woodthorpe Collett, MA., to the Incumbency of
Brightwell and Rengrave.
The Rev. Jame. Grenville Smyth, MA., to the Vicarage of
North and South Elktngton.
The Rev. John Banbridge Smith,M.A., to the Rectory of Totby,
Lincoln Aire.

The Rev. H. B. Farmer, M.A., to the Rectory of Rathaaran.
The Rev. H. Maclean, M.A., to be Chaplain to the Caistor
Union. _ _ _

_
The Bev. Herbert Plater, MA., to the Head Mastership of
Newark Grammar School.

VACANCIES.
The Vicarage of Dedham, near Colchester, diocese of Roches-
ter ; worth 2001. a year, iu the giR of the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster.
The Curacy of Klrkbyin•Malhamdale, near Settle, in the die.
cede of Ripon ; in the gift of the Bev. Stephen Bland, M.A.
The Vicarage of Kirkby Fleetham, near Bedale, Yorkshire, die.
cese of Ripon; worth 2501. a year, iu the gift of the Lord Chan-
cellor. _ _ . . .

The Incumbency of Oswaldtwistle, in the parts hof Whalley,
Lancashire; worh about 2001. a year, in the gift of trustees.
The Incumbency of klardsea, near tilverstoue, diocese of Ches-
ter; worth 1201. per annum, iu the gift of the representatives of
the late incumbent

The Incumbency of St. Mary's Church, Edgehill, Liverpool;
worth 2001. a year, ui the gilt of trustees.
The Chaplaincy to the Illaby Union, in the parish of Enderby,
Lincolnshire; worth D2l. a year.
The Mastership of tit. Andrew's House, near home; open to
clergymen in priest's ordere.
The Curacy of Barrowby, near Grantham, Lincolnshire; in the
gift of the Res. George Earle Welby, M.A.

Eta Saki.

ADMIRALTY, JUNE 2.
The following promotions, dated the %Alt May, 1864, have this
day taken place consequent on the decease of Vice-Admiral of
the White Hyde Parker, C.B.:—Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir
William Henry Dillon, Kt., K.C.H., to be Vice-Admiral of the
White ; Rear-Admiral ou the Reserved List Edward Wallis
Hoare to be a Vice-Admiral on the Reserved List; Rear-Admi-
ral of the Red John Coode, C. 13., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue;
Rear-Admiral of the White Fairfax Moresby. C. 8., to be Beat•
Admiral of the Red ; Rear-Admiral of the Blue James Haulm),
Pluturidge to be Rear-Admiral of the White; Captain Michael
Seymour to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue.