The Press.
London, England, 1854-07-08 00:00:00

Court anll cfastion.

HER MAJESTY held a Court at Buckingham Palace
on Saturday last, at which his Highness the
Maharajah Duleep Sing was presented to her Majesty
by Sir Charles Wood, President of the Board of
Control. On Monday the Queen held a Privy Council.
On Thursday morning her Majesty, accompanied by
Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice,
visited the Sydenham Crystal Palace. Today the
Queen will probably be present at the last Chiswick
fête of the Royal Horticultural Society.
PRINCE ALBERT presided on Tuesday evening at a
meeting of the Society of Arts in the A delphi, and on
the following day went to Cambridge to attend the
meeting of the Archaeological Institute at that
University.
LAST week the Queen visited Albert Smith's enter-
tainment of Mont Blanc, and has since sent him,
through the hands of Coldhel Phipps, a diamond pin
as a mark of her royal gratification.
• THE KING OF PORTUGAL returned to London from
his provincial tour at a late hour in the night of
yesterday week. His Majesty, accompanied by his
brother, left England on Monday afternoon, embark-
ing at Woolwich for Ostend on board the Portuguese
steam-yacht Minde/o. It is rumoured that theyoung
King is not unlikely to offer his hand to the Princess
Charlotte of Belgium.
HER Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
gave a grand assembly on Tuesday evening at her
apartments in St. James's Palace.
COUNT BERNSTORF has left Berlin, yid Paris, to
assume his functions as Prussian Minister at the
Court of St. James's.
LORD HOWDEN, British Minister at Madrid, is ex-
pected to arrive in town early in the ensuing week from
the Continent.

A CABINET COUNCIL was held on Saturday after-
noon at the Foreign-office in Downing-street. The
Council sat two hours and a half.

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER bas been in-
disposed from au attack of chicken-poi for some days,
but is now recovering.

Valituai and Ottani.

THE REVENUE.
The Quarterly Returns showing the net produce of the
public revenue, with the increase and decrease thereof, for
the quarter and year ending on the Bth instant, were issued
on Thursday last. The items are as follow :

Quarter ended

July li,
1u54.

4,576,843
3,024,098
1,705,638
1,435,927
1,101,594
879,000
G 5,000
55,8138

112,942,893

139,716
305,971

113,388,8A40

8,022,479

210,452

5,155,649

113,388,580

45k1,524
435,936

33,004

132,8m8
26,967

1,079,617

102,470

1,149 Od7

707,718

474,389

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THE PRESS. SATURDAY,

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THE total number of deaths registered in the
metropolitan districts last week was 1,290—an excess
of 201 above the estimated amount. Scarlatina ap-
pears to be gaining ground, the deaths referred to it
numbering 72. The births of 920 boys, and 844
girls, in all 1,764 children, were registered in London.
In nine corresponding weeks of the years 1845-53
the average number was 1,453.
THE HALF-HOLIDAY MOVEMENT has been joined
by the merchants and brokers engaged in the tobacco
trade, who have agreed that business shall cease in
future at two o'clock on Saturdays.
IT was stated in the House of Lords last week, on
the authority of Lord Coke, that a marriage had
once been set aside because the husband had upon
one occasion stood godfather to the second cousin of

THERE are 136 newspapers in the United Kingdom,
a portion of which is published without stamps, viz.,
106 in England, 23 in Scotland, and 7 in Ireland. Of
the English papers mentioned 34 are published
monthly in London, and not liable to duty ; and 25
in the country, and exempted for the same reason.
THE sixth annual report of the Poor law Board was
published on Monday, and forms an interesting par-
liamentary volume. The amount expended for the
relief of•the poor during the year ended at Lady-day,
1853, was 4,939,0041., being an increase of 41,3791. as
compared with the sum expended fur the preceding
year. The year ending Lady-day, 1853, is the first
since that ending March 25, 1848, which shows an in-
crease in the expenditure. The Poor-law Board
believe the increase is mainly attributable to the
higher price of provisions, and not to an increase in
the amount of pauperism. The number of persons
of all classes in receipt of relief on the lst July, 1853,
was 743,639, being a decrease of 56,532, or 7.1 per
cent., as compared with the number in receipt of relief

his wife!
THE LATE THOMAS KANE, Old Brentford, London,
deceased, having died intestate, and without known
relatives, his property was claimed by Mr. Maule for
the Treasury. A poor family in Skibberoen have,
however, just succeeded in establishing their title to
the estate, which is worth 1,0001., after much opposi-
tion in the English Chancery Court.
THE LAST FLORAL SHOW OF THE BOTANIC SO-
CIETY took place on Wednesday in their gardens in
the Regent's Park. The unfavourable state of the
weather prevented the attendance of visitors ftom
being so numerous as usual, scarcely more than
6,000 or 7,000 persons being present, but it is stated
that upwards of 24,000 visitors had passed the gates
on the occasion of the preceding exhibitions. The
collection in the great tent was one of exceeding
beauty, and the general effect produced by the con-
centration and grouping of the choice flowers exhi-
bited excited universal admiration. The bands of
the Royal Blues and the Ist and 2nd Life Guards
were in attendance.
THE EARL OF BANTRY has been chosen by a
majority of votes to be the Irish representative peer
to sit in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom
in the room of the late Viscount Doneraile.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL THE HON. GEORGE ANSON
was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the East
India Company's Forces on the Fort St. George
establishment, and second member of council at
that presidency, at a Court of Directors held on
Wednesday at the India-house.
MR. JOHN HILL BURTON, advocate, is to be ap-
pointed Secretary to the General Board of Directors
of Prisons in Scotland, in room of the late Mr.
Ludovic Colquhoun.
THE REV. THOMAS A. POPE, M.A., incumbent of
the church and district of St. Matthias, Stoke Newing-
ton, has resigned his benefice, for the purpose of
joining the communion of the Church of Rome.
VERY great improvements are in progress in
Chatham dockyard. A. spacious new slip has been
completed, with the exception of laying a few massive
blocks of granite on the wharf wall, which has been
carried out a considerable distance into the Medway,
and will give a great depth at high water. The slip
has also been carried further inland than was
originally intended, in order to meet the requirements
for the great length of modern screw steam-ships of
war. An hydraulic crane has been put up on the wharf
wall on so simple and powerful a principle that ahoy
can manage it, and remove a piece of timber of four
tons from a ship in the river to the waggon for convey-
ance to any part of the yard. On the north-east side
of the new slip a spacious tunnel has been made, extend-
ing its entire length and beyond into the mast•pond.
Another powerful hydraulic crane, capable of raising
ten tons, has been put up on this side of the wharf
wall to remove the masts and other heavy timber from
the ships in which they may arrive, previous to being
taken into the mast-pond. There is also a large
convict prison being built, capable of containing 1,000
convicts for the heavy work of the yard.
A PUBLIC MEETING to discuss the present war with
Russia was held in Camden-town on Wednesday
evening. Mr. Urquhart addressed the assembly for
two hours, and denounced the war as unnecessary,
rash, and inconsiderate. It had already in one year
cost ten millions, and the people submitted to it like
sheep led to the slaughter. It was palpable that the
people of England in 1854 were as stupid as they
were in 1806. Resolutions were adopted to the effect
that, all treaties being abrogated by the fact of the
war, the continuance of the payment of the Russo
Dutch Loan is a treasonable offence, to be visited by
impeachment, and condemnatory of the whole of the
arrangements with respect to Greece and the
Ottoman empire, the schemes of Russia having been
adopted in all their movements. A petition to Par-
liament and an address to the Queen were also agreed
to. _ _

on the Ist Jtily, 1852.
THE MEMBERS OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
held their last meeting for the session on Monday, at
the Trafalgar, Greenwich, Sir Roderick Murchison
in the chair, supported by Lords Sheffield and Over-
stone. The annual grant of 5001. to the Royal Geo-
graphical Society was also voted by the House of
Commons on the same evening.
THE CENTENARY FESTIVAL OF THE SOCIETY OF
ARTS was celebrated on Saturday last in the Crystal
Palace at Sydenham. Nearly 800 guests sat down
to dinner, under the presidency of Lord Granville.
Among iem were the representatives of 355 affi•
listed institutions scattered through the whole coun-
.

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ALL the European Governments, according to the
Moniteur, are unanimous in proscribing the public
negotiation of the Russian loan. The reprobation is so
great in Germany that the house of Bentham has
intimated that it took part in the loan merely on as
count of the correspondence in which it was engaged
with the St. Petersburg house charged with the affair.
The authorities at Hamburg, the Dutch and Belgian
Governments, have declared that they will oppose, as
far as they are concerned, everything connnected
with the loan. In England the advocates of the Crown
have declared that all participation in the loan
would be considered as treason. The Moniteur adds :
" In presence of such unanimity it is useless to add
that the new Russian loan has been from the com-
mencement struck with discredit, and regarded in
itself as an operation without solidity."
THE REv, W. G. WARD, who was formerly fellow
of Balliol College, Oxford, and who was stripped of
his M.A. degree in 1844 on account of the Romish
tendencies of certain passages in his "Ideal Church,"
has been engaged for three years as one of the pro-
fessors of dogmatic theology in the Roman Catholic
College of St. Edmund's, near Ware. The Pope,
besides creating Mr. Ward a M.A. of Rome, has re-
cently conferred upon him the cap and ring of a
doctor of philosophy, with which Mr. Ward was
solemnly invested a few days since by Cardinal Wise-

man.
THE anniversary dinner of gentlemen educated at
Harrow took place on Saturday evening at the
Freemasons' Tavern, under the presidency of the
Lord Bishop of Ripon, formerly head master of the

school.
A TREASURY WARRANT published in Tuesday's
Gazette establishes the sixpenny rate of postage for
half-ounce letters, the book post, and various other
advantages to the colony of Newfoundland.
FROM THE BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS it appears
that the declared value of the exports for the month
ending the sth of June was 8,422,1901., being an in-
crease of 1,300,0001. over the corresponding month
of last year. For the five months ending the sth of
June the amount is 40,425,6891., or 5,330,0001. more
than in 1853.
THE QUEEN has appointed the Hon. John Henry
Thomas Manners Sutton to be Lieutenant-Governor
of the province of New Brunswick.
LORD GRANVILLE, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, was on Monday appointed a member of the
Committee of Council on Education.
A PzTinox against the admission of Dissenters
to the Oxford University has been unanimously
signed by members of the Convocation, and will be pre-
sented to the House of Lords in a few days. The pe-
titioners " implore the house not to alter by compul•
sory legislation the relations which have litherto
subsisted between the University and the Established
Church."
THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER has ac-
knowledged the receipt of ball a Bank of England
note, value 2(01., from "A. 8.," for unclaimed in •
come tax ; also the receipt of 13s. 2d. in postage
stamps for unpaid armorial bearings, from "T. M. C."
DURING the last fortnight eight thousand letters
for the English fleet have passed through Dantzic.
A LONG LIST OF INTESTATES' EFFECTS which hr s
been administered in the course of last year ate
curator at Adelaide, the parties having died at various
periods between 1851 and 1854, appears in the colo-
nial Gazette. The most considerable sum unclaimed
is 1,0001. left by Hugh Rankine, from Ayrshire, in
Scotland, who died on the 13th June, 1853. Among
the other amounts are 1501., Alfred Hownam, for-
merly of Rouen ; 301., William Simms, formerly of
Ascot ; 501., Robert Herrell, of Dartmoor ; 1501.,
Fred. Retch, a German, who died in October, 1852 ;
4001., Robert Monteith, from Dublin ; 721., Henry
Billington, of Southport; 1501., James Colman; 33/.,
Nicholas Thomas ; 701., R. Dagger, formerly of Leith.
AT THE SYDENHAM CRYSTAL PALACE the numbers
who paid on Saturday last, a ss. day, were 1,390.
During the present week, although the weather has
been showery and disagreeable, the number of shilling
visitors maintains a fair average. On Monday there
were 12,888; Tuesday, 14,810 ; Wednesday, 13,006 ;
and Thursday, 14,040. Total for the tour days 53,710.
The number of season tickets now sold is 20,352,
of whose holders some 1,200 or 2,000 visit the palace
daily. Mr. Deane, to whose energy much of the
success of the Dublin Exhibition may be ascribed,
has been appointed head of the exhibitors' depart-
ment. Her Majesty honoured the palace with a visit
on Thursday morning.
A DEPUTATION, consisting chiefly of gentlemen in-
terested, more or less, in the trades of artificial manure
makers, manufacturing chemists, tanners, size and
glue makers, tallow melters, soap makers, animal
charcoal makers, bone crushers and boilers, varnish
makers, vitriol manufacturers, horse slaughterers,
&c., waited upon Lord Palmerston on Thursday, at
the Home-office, for the purpose of inducing his lord-
ship to make some alterations in the Nuisances
Removal Bill which would relieve them from the in-
justice with which they were at present threatened by
the said enactment.

try. The banquet was followed by the customary
speechmaking, in which compliments were copiously
interchanged between the spokesmen for the society
and those for the palace, which two institutions,
was confessed, stood somewhat in the relationship of
parent and offspring. Lord Granville in courtly
terms acknowledged the patronage of royalty to the
latter undertaking, and trusted that the Crystal
Palace would assist in the education of the Prince of
Wales. Mr. Laing, for the Palace Company, hoped
that the edifice would tend to modify the habits of
London life, " and that the introduction of the best
part of continental habits would be effected by the
presence of a continental climate, which their glass
roof now assured them." In proposing the toast of
the day, "The Society of Arts," Lord Granville eu-
logised it as a powerful instrument for education.
Many plans, he said, had been devised fer the pur-
pose of making education universal, but the Go-
vernment found it impossible to overcome the re •
ligious scruples which stood in the way of their
adoption :
" He feared that they must be content for the present
to pursue their great object, education, through every ave-
nue they might find open, and he believed tbatthe Society
of Arts would be most useful for that purpose. That so-
ciety contained among its members some of the most dis-
tinguished men in every line of life in this country ; but
what he admired it most for was the energetic, bustling
manner in which, iu a good cause, it thrust itself into
corners in which it had no business at all, and where, if
Government attempted to follow, the most sturdy resist.
ance would ensue. At one time he almost regretted that
the society had mixed itself up with the vexed question of
strikes, but the beneficial results that followed the attempt
quite reconciled him to its prudence."
Amongst the subsequent speeches was one from Mr.
E. Barnes, on behalf of the 355 mechanics' institu-
tions in union with the Society of Arts; and another,
in excellent English, from M. Milne Edouard, for
"The Foreign Visitors."
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROYAL WEST-
MINSTER OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL for the relief of poor
persons afflicted with diseases of the eye took place
on Saturday, the Marquis of Westminster in the
chair. The number of persons admitted to the
benefits of the charity during the year was 5,650.
Of these 137 were received into the hospital, and
5,522 treated as out-patients. Since its first establish-
ment in 1817, 08,859 had availed themselves of the
benefits of the charity, of whom 2,137 had been re-
stored to sight. The hospital had been supported
for the past year at an expense of 1,6231., leaving a
deficiency of assets for the current year of 661. Os.
MR. PARK, the sculptor of Manchester, member of
the Royal Scottish Academy, was presented last
week to the Emperor of the French, at the Palace of
St. Cloud, and exhibited his bust of Sir Charles
Napier, with which his Majesty expressed himself
much gratified, being well acquainted with the charac
teristic features of the gallant admiral. Mr. Park has
been entrusted with the execution of a bust of the
Emperor, the first sitting for which took place on
Thursday week, after which his Majesty invited him
to lunch with the imperial circle. Two other sittings
have since taken place, and already the likeness pro-
mises to be a striking one.
THE misunderstanding which occurred between
the Earl of Erroll, of the Rifle Brigade, and his
colonel, at Varna, has been amicably arranged to the
satisfaction of all parties, and Lord Errull has re-
turned to his duties.

MR. EDWARD AUCHMUTY GLOVER has issued an
address announcing himself a candidate for the re-
presentation of Canterbury, whenever it pleases the
House of Commons to permit a new writ to be issued.
This gentleman was an unsuccessful candidate for
Beverley in 1852, when he came forward as a Liberal
Conservative, in opposition to the Hon. F. Lawley,
now secretary to the present Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer.