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THE PRESS, JANUARY 23, 1858.

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Volittral.

Tax WAR Coll in= or ram CABINET met on Setur
day last, at hall past twelve o'clock, at the office of
the Secretary of State for Wa-, in Pall-mall.
Present--Lord Panmure, his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, Lord Palmerston, Earl Gran-
ville, Sir George Grey, Sir Charles ood, and the
Clianct Ilor of the Exchequer.
AIR. STAFFORD JERNINGHAN has been appointed
Chargé d'Affaires and Consul General to the Republic
of Peru. Mr. G. A. Grattan has been appointed
Consul at Antwerp, and Mr. F. Lonadale Consul at

Boston.
A DEPUTATION had an interview with Sir G. Grey,
at the Home office, this week, and presented a
memorial from the Lord's Day Observance and
Metropolitan Committees against the recent resolu-
tion of the Crystal Palace Company to admit visitors
on Sundays. Among the deputation were the Bishop
of Winchester, Archdeacon Sinclair, the President of
the Wesleyan Conference, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird,
M.P., Rev. C. R. Alford, Admiral Vernon Harcourt,
General Winces, Hon. Captain Maude, R.N., Mr.
Robert Banbury, M.P., etc., Ac.
EARL Gaievms, as President of the Committee
o (Privy Council on Education, has been pleased to
appoint the Rev. Morgan Cowie, M.A., Rector of St.
Lawrence Jewry, Gresham-street, City, and one of
the minor canons of St. Paul's Cathedral, to the office
of inspector-general of training institutions, in suc-
cession to the Rev. Frederick Temple, MA., pro-
moted to the Head Mastership of Rugby School.
Mr. Cowie, who was formerly Fellow of St. John's
College, Cambridge, and senior wrangler of his year,
and was for some time Principal of the College of
Civil Engineers at Putney, acted last year as mathe-
matical examiner for the appointments to the East
Indian civil service.
Sta Gamma GREY received a numerous deputa-
tion on Thursday from the United Kingdom Alliance
for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic. The
Horn. Secretary, having listened to the statements
and statistics of Mr. Pope, replied, generally agreeing
in the views of the society as to the evil of drun-
kenness, but pointing out the difficulty of legislating
effectually and at the same time against the feelings
of the people.
Tax How. CELUILES C. CavErtnuirt, whose elevation to
the peerage as Lord Cheeham we recently recorded,
is a younger son of the first Earl of Burlington, and
consequently a cousin of the late Duke of Devonshire.
His lordship was one of the oldest supporters of the
Whig aristocratical party in the Lower House of
Parliament, in which he held a seat for some five-
and-twenty years previous to his retirement in De-
cember last., having represented Youghal, East
Sussex, and other constituencies, besides Bucking•
hamshire, for which be bad sat in the last two Perlis-
monts, and in the representation of which be has
just been succeeded by his eldest son.
THE HAVELOCK Batoiccrev.—Tuesday's Gazette
announces that the Queen has directed letters
patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting
the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland unto Henry Marshman
Havelock, Captain in the Army (eldest son of the
late Major-General Henry Havelock, of Lucknow,
K.C.8.), and to the heirs male of his body lawfully
begotten, with remainder, in default of such issue, to
the heirs male lawfully begotten of the body of his
father, the said Major-General Henry Havelock.
The Queen has also ordained that Hannah Shepherd
Havelock, the widow of the late Major-General
Henry Havelock, K.C.8., shall have, bold, and
enjoy the same style, title, place, and precedence to
which she would have been entitled bad her said
husband survived and been created a baronet, and
for which creation her Majesty bad given instruc-
tions, as notified in the London Gazette of the 27th
of November last. And also to command that the
said royal order and declaration be registered in her
Majesty's College of Arms.
Panusiretrrsitv REFORM Mxzvrwos have been
held at Worcester and Norwich during the week. At
both places the ballot and the abolition of the
property qualification were advocated. A resolution
was carried approving the principles enunciated in
the late address signed by thirty-one members of
Parliament ; and it was also agreed that a reform
demonstration should be held in Norwich in the last
week of the month, which the city members should
be invited to attend. In the course or conversation
it was stated that the address signed by thirty-one
members of Pediment was carried at the meeting
in London by a very narrow majority —A meeting
was also held at Huddersfield on Wednesday, when
the ballot and triennial Parliaments were proposed.
AT A MEETING of the newly•constituted Binning-
ham Reformers' Union, held on Monday night, one of
speakers (Mr. J. S. Wright) said be would etite

s few facts relative to the health of their esteemed.
member Mr. Bright :

A paragraph had appeared in the Daily Pres►, intimating
that Mr. Bright would not, perhaps, enter Parliament at all.
What he (Mr. Wright) had to say he had authority for
saying. Ten days ago be had seen Mr. Bright, and, there-
fore, be could speak with certainty u to his health. He
was the same John Bright as during the corn-law agitation,
possessing the same energy and power of mind; and Mr.
Bright intimated to him that if he ( Mr. Wright) were with
him for three months he would see no d ifference in his health.
Sir James Watts, Mayor of Manchester, bad also told him
that Mr. Bright would soon be able to take part in public
matters. He had likewise seen the brother of their es-
teemed representative, with a view of ascertaining if the
latter could attend a meeting in Birmingham. His
brother said that Mr. Blight would not like to plunge at
once and so boldly into public business. [Mr. Wright
afterwards went to Rochdale, and there saw Mr. Bright ;
he described the anxiety evinced by that gentleman to
return to public life.l The time authorised by Sir James
Clarke and other physicians as necessary for his restoration
to health had nearly expired, and no doubt in a few weeks
Mr. Bright would be found in his place in Parliament—oot
to remain there like a slave till two or three o'clock in the
morning, bat, as he himself had said, he would take an
early opportunity of expressing his views upon any ques-
tion. Mr. Bright had desired him (Mr. Wright) to express
the great pain and regret he felt at not being able to attend
the first meeting of the Reformers' Union. There was,
however, no doubt he would scon be restored to public life,
to take his seat in Parliament, and afterwards come among
his constituents.

Aletmolitan.

IN THE SECOND WEEK OF THE YEAR the total
number of deaths registered in London was 1,289,
of which 637 were the deaths of males, 852 those of
females. In the ten years 1848 57 the average
number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with
last week NM 1,232 ; but, as the deaths included in
the present return occurred in an increased popula-
tion, the average, to admit of comparison, should be
raised in proportion to the increase, in which case it
will become 1,355. The returns for last week are,
therefore, so far satisfactory as to show that the
deaths were less by 68 than the number which the
average rate of mortality in the second week of
January would have produced. The births for the
same period amounted to 1,763. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of 1848-57 the average number was
1,571.
Tun COURT of Amens:en at the court on Tuesday
eto an address to the Emperor and Empress
:trrtill French, expressing the gratification of the
Court of Aldermen at the recent wonderful escape
of their Imperial Majesties. At a Court of Common
Council, on Thursday, this proceeding of the alder-
men was condemned as "exclusive," and a general
address from the whole corporation agreed to.
A BATCH OF OCTOGENARIANS died last week. The
obituary of Tuesday included a list of twelve elderly
persons, recently " gathered to their fathers," whose
united ages amounted to no less than 1,005 years,
thus giving an average of 88f years to each. The
lowest age was 80, and the highest 90; three of the
deceased persons were 84 years of age ; three, 83;
two, 82; one, 81; one, 80; one, 89 ; and one was as
old as 90.
THE ORGAN-GRINDING NUISANCE was discussed at
a meeting held at the Prince of Wales Hotel,•Pad-
dington, on Monday evening. Mr. B. C. Jones, of
141, Westbourne-terrace, presided, and the meeting
was numerously attended by the gentlemen of the
neighbourhood. Several resolutions in acoordance
with the object of the meeting were passed, and a
committee appointed to consult with the parish au-
thorities and to appeal to the Legislature to put
down the nuisance.
A Mintriso of the friends and admirers of the
late Lord Mayor of London, T. Q. Finals, Esq.,
alderman, was held in the City on Saturday, Mr. W.
S. Lindsay, M.P., in the chair, for the purpose of
considering the propriety of presenting a suitable
testimonial to that gentleman for bis able and de-
voted discharge of the public duties of his office
during his year of mayoralty, and more particularly
for the support given by himself and bis Lady
Mayoress to the charities of the metropolis, and for
his zeal in bringing to light the commercial frauds
in the City, and in devising and establishing the
India Belief Fund. A committee of leading gentle.
men was appointed to carry out the general design
of the meeting.
THE LEVIATHAN, it is now understood, will be
finally launched on Friday the 29th, or Saturday the
30th. On Tuesday the vessel was publicly exhibited
and visitors flocked from all parts of London to what
has been not inappropriately termed " The dirty
Island of Dogs," to inspect the monster ship, about
which there have been so many conintures, and so
many anxieties. An admission fee of half a crown
was charged. For the present all admission except
on business is atoppec. The bill of the Eastern
Swam Navigation Company, for which an Act of
Parliament is to be applied for in the ensuing session,
seeks to enable the company to extend their powers

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of trading, to increase their capital, and to alter and
amend their charter and deed of settlement. The
company seeks an addition to its original purpose of
establishing communication' by steam and other
vessels, between the United Kingdom, India, China,
and Australia, the colonies, porta, and places con-
nected with the Eastern trade, as well as for lend
carnage or transit of goods and passengers, to be
autboriaed to trade with any port or place in the
Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. Powers are also sought
to increase the original capital of 1,200,0001.,
by the
creation and issue of preference shares, with borrow-
ing powers. Exemption is also sought to be ob-
tained from the previsions of the Passengers' Act,
1852. which it is proposed shall not apply to ships
and vessels built by the company, and unpellod by
steam, of a registered tonnage exceeding 10,(100 tons.

THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY SPECIAL SERVICES were
continued last Sunday evening. An immense crowd
had assembled, as on the two previous occasions,
long before the time fixed for the commencement of
the service, and though fully a thousand persons
failed to gain admittance, there was no inconvenience
felt in entering the sacred edifice, owing to the ex-
cellent arrangements adopted. From the com-
mencement to the close of the service a sharp, steady
breeze blew through the nave, and many persons
covered their heads with pocket handkerchiefs and
shawls, thereby giving a somewhat erctesque al -
pearance to the congregation. The Dean of West-
minster, Dr. Trench, read the lessons, and the
sermon was preached by Archdeacon Sinclair, who
took as his text the 2nd verse of the 122nd Psalm—
" I was glad when they said unto me let us go into
the house of the Lord." The sermon was exhorta-
tory in its nature, the preacher inculcating the ne-
cessity of regular attendance upon public worship as
an evidence of pare godliness. He spoke in a loud
and clear tone, but much that he said was not
heard beyond the narrow circle of worshippers in
the neighbourhood of the pulpit, owing to the great
extent of the nave. The following, we believe, will
be found to be a correct list of the preachers at these
services for the remainder of this and the whole of
the ensuing month :—Jan. 24th, the Bishop of Ox
ford; 91st, the Rev. C. J. P. Eyre. Feb. 7th, the
Rev. Dr. Moberley, bead master of Winchester
School ; 14th, the Bishop of Lincoln ; 21st, the
Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol ; 28th, the Rev.
Dr. Thomson, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford.

Vrolinrial.

THE Roxan CATHOLIC CONY-OEM of Doncaster,
whose recent application to the commissioners of the
Doncaster Cemetery that a portion of the cemetery
ground should be set apart for the interment of
deceased members of that body exclusively was
refused, applied to Sir George Grey for his support.
Sir George declined to interfere officially, but when
the application was, for the second time, brought
More the commissioners last week, it was granted.
ELEVEN oe ran Ittitomangas in the recent militia
riots at Ashton have been tried and sentenced to
various terms of imprisonment, not exceeding three
months with bard labour.