The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

NAVAL

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ADMIRALTY, SEPT. 6.—APPOINTMENTS.—Paymas-
ter J. M. Lowcory to k. care; Clerks B. T. Colley to Bit-
tern, and J. Tomlin to Electra.
PORTSMOUTU, SEPT. 6. The Meander, 44, Com-
modore Talbot, arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon
from the Thames.—The Niger, 14, screw steam sloop, Com-
mender Heath, was taken out of the sea basin to-day.—
The Dauntless, 24, screw steam frigate, Captain E. P. Hal-
stead, was taken into dock to-day.—The Hightlyer, 21,
screw steam corvette, Captain Matson, was taken out of
dock today, and the Vesuvius was taken in.—The Arro-
gant, 46, end Encounter, 14, screw steam frigates, are
ordered to come into harbour from Spithead.

AUSTRIA AND THE ENGLISH REGENT OF PARMA.
—A Vienna journal of the 27th ult. says :—The English
journals have lately occupied themselves very much with
the Ducky of Parma, and give it to be understood that
Austria had an intention to encroach on the independence
of that state and on the governmental rights of the sove-
reign. It is scarcely necessary to refute such accusations.
By her victories, Austria has raised the petty states which
had been shaken by the revolution • and in the use which
she hiur made of her victories, she has remained faithful to
her tsaditional principles of the sanctity of treaties and of
the protection of the monarchical principle. While at Lon-
don the project of changing the map of Europe is nou-
rished, Austria, sword in hand, put in force the European
treatise, and that not only for the protection of her own
integrity, and for the benefit of the princely houses which
are allied to her, but even for the vanquished ad-
vent/try. I o attribute new to the Austrian government em-
bitteas projects of aggrandisement which it has before re-
jetted, even after the days of Novara and Mortara, isa very
idle riesupation for the English journals. Independently of
the temestic affairs of the ducal family, the English jour-
nab also discuss the relations of Baron Ward, the first mi-
nister with his sovereign. Sometimes he is represented in
his quality of an Englishman as an instrument of British
policy in Italy, and at others as a docile organ of the Ans.
trian cabinet. We think that be is neither one nor the
other, and that Baron Ward does not understand his high
mission in the Duchy of Puma either as an Englishman or
as an Austrian. We consider him rather es a faithful ser-
vant of his prince, to whom he gives wholesome counsels, in
which he has only the interest of the prince and of the
country in view. The greatservices which be has rendered
in times of difficulty suMeiently explain the confidence and
credit which he enjoys, without it being necessary to seek
the explanation of them in foreign influence.

A 11 OTAL DINNER.—Queen Christina celebrated
the concession of the railroad which is to connect France
and Spain by giving a dinner in the French style at 040 n
oa the 2.3 th ult. Pursuant to instructions M. Cheyet, an
eminent cook of Paris, left the capital for Nazaire with 22
cooks end assistants in his own carriage, and having be-
sides two vans filled with provisions, Ate., for the dinner.
There were 63 packages, consisting of meat, poultry, fish,
vegetables, fnut, wines .Ic., and the whole, including
plate, &e., weighed 11,500 kilogrammes. Among the Bak
were scarp of the Rhine weighing 37 English pounds, sad
a silurus or sheat.fish of the 'Danube, weighing 301 be. This
carp is said to have been the largest ever taken in the
Rhine ; that which was served to Charles X. on his visit to
Strasburg, and which the journals noticed at the time,
weighed only 3315 a. At St. Nazaire he found a Spanish
steamer waiting to convey him, with his assistants And pre •
dons freight, to their desunation.

A PAIIIB CABMAN went, on Tuesday but, to a
im-changer in the Psleis Royal, and offered for sale a
certain amount of Spanish stock. Having conceived soma
suspicions, the changer asked how it came into his proses-
gen. The man could give no satisfactory account of it, and
he was taken before a commissary of police. The questions
of that functionary caused him great embarrassment, and
at length he confessed that it was part of a sum of 150,000
franca in Spanish rent* which he had found some time
before in his cab, and had appropriated. He also admitted
that he bad ahead; sold part of the stock, and had been
living a life of laziness and luxury on the proceeds. He
was sent to the Prefecture of Police. The owner of the
rent, who forgot it in the man's cab has not yet been dis-
covered.

ADULTERATION OF VINEOAR.—The Lowed gives
the following result of the analysis of 28 samples, purport-
ing to be from the vinegars of the different manufacturers
and merchants by whom London and its suburbs are sup-
plied, as procured from various grocers, &c., via.: Four of
the samples were entirely free from sulphuric acid, or oil of
vitriol. Twenty-four were adulterated with that powerful
and corrosive senora acid, the amount of which was vari-
able, and often very considerable ; from 63, the lowest, to
6 02, the highest quantity in 1,000 grains. Two of the
samples contained it in very small quantity only. In three
oampies it was present in considerable amount. Twelve
cabs aid it in very considerable amount. In seven samples
it was preeent la immense quantity. The scene acid aloe
varied egg tionsiderably in amount in different samples, the
highest proportion being, in 1,000 grains by measure, 35.66
grebe, or 616 per tent., and the lowest, 2763, or only 2.76
per teat. In eight samples the acetic acid was present in
emennt over 6 per cent., which is above the standard
strength. In twelve samples tke quantity exceeded 4 per
cent. In seren it was over 3 per cent. In one the quan-
tity of acetic acid present was so exceedingly small as to be
under 3 per cent. That is, but little more than half the
proper strength.
FIRE ON BOARD THE CANADA STRAIIILL— OR
the last outward voyage of the Canada between Liverpool
and New York, the vessel narrowly escaped destruction by
Are. After leaving Liverpool it was found that one of the
was insane, and had to be put under restraint.
Vi:e;rrers
on appointed to watch him having left the cabin of
the madman for • short time, it was immediately discevered
to be in flames, end it was only by means of the most
strenuous exertions that the fire was extinguished. The
intelligence was brought in a letter sent home by the tart
American mail steamer, which passed the Canada before she
arrived at Halifax. This accounts for the news not having
reached England through the medium of the American
papers.

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NAMES OF PLACES (vol. v., pp. 196, 378, Ike.).—
At the end of " A Guide to Woburn Abbey," London Biro
18.50, is a table of the "various ways of spelling Wobura:
collected from letters and paresis by the postmaster." It
seems almost incredible, but yet it is the fact, that no leas
than two hundred and forty-four different modes of spelling,
or rather misspelline, the simple word Woburn, are there
recorded. It is worth noting that this place is always
called Wooburn. The following are a few of the ingenious
struggles of the unlearned in their endeavours to commit to
paper the name of this delightful spot :—Houboun, Hot-
bourn, Ooburn, Woabhern, WBun, Iloarbon, lloobea,
Üborn, Wubawrn, Whoohowen, Houbone, Noburn,
Whrbourn' Wolarn, Wouboareoe, Hawburn, Owburn,
Woubon, Woswrin Wwoo Burn. Sixty-one examples
have /I as the initidletter, and twenty-two have o.—From
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