The Press.
London, England, 1856-08-02 00:00:00

INDIA.

The usual mail, with uatxs to the 17th and 26th
June, from Calcutta and Bombay, brings no intelli•
gence of importance. The disturbances at Kimedy
were reported as suppressed. General Grant had
arrived at Madras. Sir Jamsetjee Jebeeboy, the
great Parsee merchant of Bombay, has retired from
business.

Matters were quiet in Oude. The Rajah of Kilse-
poor has been captured.

tout au lash an.

Her Majesty the Queen and Court remain at O.
borne. His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia
took leave of her Majesty on Monday for Goodwood,
and thence to Berlin. The Princess of Prussia 'eft
Osborne the following day direct for the Contineht.
Her Majesty on Wednesday visited the camp at
Aldershott, reviewed the troops, and remained at her
pavilion for the night. On Thursday evening the
Queen returned to Osborne.
The Court remains at Osborne till the end of the
month, when her Majesty will proceed to Balmoral.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
has lett Gloucester-house for the Ranger's-lodge,
Richmond-park, for the autumn.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary, attended by Baron
Knesebeck, leave Cambridge-cottage about the mid-
dle of nest week, for a tour in Switzerland, after
which their Royal Highnesses go toA the Duchess's
chateau, near Frankfort.

The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have ar.
rived at Tanderagee, the noble duke's seat in the
north of Ireland, from London.
Lord Lyndhurst has left town for Folkestone, en
route to Boulogne.
Lord George and Lady Adeliza Manners have
arrived in town from visiting the Duke of Rutland at
Belvoir Castle.

His Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame
Vi►n de Weyer have returned from Brussels.
The Marquis and Marchioness or Londonderry
arrived at Cbesham•place on Saturday night from
the Continent, after an absence from England of
eight months.
Lord and Lady Brougham have left town for
Brougham-ball. The noble and learned lord con-
tinues to enjoy excellent health.
The Right Hon. R. C. N. Hamilton, M.P., and
Lady Mary Hamilton have gone on a continental
tour.

Mr. Portal, M.P., and Lady Charlotte Portal, have
left town for Laverstoke-house, Hants, where they
are entertaining a succession of visitors.

alttropolitan.

AT THE COURT OF ALDERMEN held on Tuesday,
Alderman Finnis presented a memorial from the
parishioners of Erich, praying that the metropolitan
drainage scheme for discharging the sewage at
Plumstead may not be carried into effect, as it is
stated that matter floating on the surface of the river
will, within a limit of six miles, osc bate for a period
of fourteen days before being fairly eArried out. The
memorial suggests that the marsh-lands at Sea Reach,
some distance below Gravesend, be adopted as the point
of outfall. A motion in favour of an estimate for estab-

AUGUST 2, 1856.

lishing the main outfall sewer to Long Reach, was car-
ried on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Board of Works
by 18 to 12. A second motion, that the proposed low-
level sewer from Hungerford to London-bridge should
be constructed in conjunction with the embankment
of the Thames, was also carried. Mr. Bazalgette's
report on the southern outfall will be laid before the
board next week.
SIR WILLIAM WILLIAMS, DART., M.P., was on
Thursday presented by the Court of Common Coun-
cil with the freedom of the city of London, together
with a magnificent sword of honour. Sir John Key,
the chamberlain, addressed General Williams in
a highly complimentary speech, and the gallant
general, in his reply, once more alluded to the
armed state of Europe, and to the necessity for Eng-
land preserving in efficiency her military establish-
ments:—" Whether I shall ever use the sword in
active welfare is beyond the power of any man this
day to decide. The nations of Europe take breath
after the conclusion of a sanguinary struggle, but
they do not disarm. On the contrary, they are
ready to meet each in deadly combat at a week's no-
tice. My lord, this state of things cannot be re•
garded with indifference by the people of England.
They will, I feel sure, insist upon the preservation
of their present military establishments, and thus
avoid the repetition of those dreadful losses and deep
mortifications which the decay of those institutions,
and the depression of our military spirit anterior to
the late war, brought upon the nation."
MESSRS. YOUNG'S DISCHARGED SHIPWRIGHTS be-
longing to the Union, and now on strike, have made
several serious assaults during the week upon the
Jersey men who have returned to work. The origin
of the disagreement is that a half-hour's rest at
eleven and four has been taken away by the em-
ployers, and one half-hour added to breakfast time,
and another taken off at the close of the day's work.
The men, refusing to give up their " livener and
fourer," have been superseded by fresh hands, and
hence the riots. Strong bodies of police are still kept
n the of ighhourhood of Limehouse.
THE CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES have at length con-
sented to the examination in London of the baggage
of passengers from Paris. The examination in
London of baggage from London to Paris has been
permitted for some time past.
A SIB rEM OF DECIMAL COINAGE has been suggested
for the adoption of the Government by Mr. Arthur
Bowes, M.A. (Cantab), of Upper Clapton. Mr.
Bowes proposes that the present farthing (the 060th
part of a pound) be circulated (till replaced), as the
I,otJOth part, and the penny made to represent a
value of five farthings. The rest of the coinage might
remain in state quo, with the addition of one new
coin, to be called a " decime," and the substitution
of the old name of "tester " for what is now called
the " sixpence," a term which would, under the new
system, be obviously a misnomer. Thus —Ten
farthings would make one decime (of which the penny
is the half and the half penny the fourth) ; ten
decimes would make one florin (of which the shlling
is the half and the tester the fourth), and ten florins
would make one sovereign (of which the crown is the
fourth and the half-crown the eighth). Mr. Bowes
apprehends no serious loss to the Government worthy
of comparison with the great convenience of the
proposed change.
AS ALTAR-PIECE said to be (for Mr. Eastlake's pur-
chases are sometimes of doubtful origin) by an early
Florentine master, Benozzo Gozzoli, has been added
to the national collection. It represents the Virgin
and Child, surrounded by angels and saints, and was
purchased from the Rinuccini collection for the
National Gallery.
THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S QUARTERLY RETURN,
from January to March, gives 66,776 marriages,
173,204 births, and 100,310 deaths, being a net daily
increase of population of 801. Of emigrants, 60,370
left the kingdom, a number less by 6,000 than the
first three months of 1835. The mortality is much
below the average of former years, a change attri-
buted by the Registrar-General to improved sanitary
measures. In concluding his remarks, he observes
that England is the healthiest country in Europe,
and France next. In London the mortality is 25 in
every 1,000, while in continental cities it is seldom
lehs than 30 in every 1,000, and frequently rises to
49 per 1,000. The weekly returns show 995 deaths.
Diarrhcea has increased from 29 in June to 71 for the
last week. The number of births were 1,608.