The Press.
London, England, 1854-07-29 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY remains at Osborne-house, where
the principal incidents consist of frequent short
cruises in the Fairy to various spots on the shores of
the island. On Saturday last the Queen landed at
the Needles and inspected the new works in course
of construction for the purpose of fortifying the
entrance to the Solent.
THE EARL OF ABERDEEN arrived at Osborne on
Thursday. The Duchess of Sutherland is expected
to return to town to-day (Saturday) from a brief visit
to her Majesty.
THE DUCHESS OF KENT VMS tO leave Frogmore at
the close of this week for the Isle of Wight, where
her Royal Highness has taken a marine villa for the
season, not far distant from Osborne.
A CABINET COUNCIL was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street.
THE marriage of Colonel Carleton with the Hon.
Charlotte Hobhouse, daughter of Lord Broughton,
was solemnised on Thursday at St. George's,
Hanover-square.
A MARRIAGE is stated to be arranged to take place
between Mr. H. A. Bruce, M.P. and Miss Napier,
daughter to Sir William Napier, k.C.B.
THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CLEVELAND gave a
grand banquet on Wednesday evening to a select
party of friends at their mansion in St. James's-

square.
THE VENERABLE DUKE OF RUTLAND, who again
sailed from Cowes on Monday, on a cruise in his
yacht, the Resolution, after visiting Guernsey and
Jersey, and some of the French ports, intends to
close his aquatic trips the first week in the ensuing
month, and then proceed to his shooting quarters,
Loughruoor, on the borders of Derbyshire.

V alitual anb 6tntral.

THE total number of deaths registered in London
last week was 1,008, n early the same as in the pre •
vious se'nnig bt, and about 100 less than the decennial
average. The deaths returned as caused by zyrnotic
diseases show an advance on the previous week.
Diarrheea has also increased, and cholera has sud-
denly sprung into activity. The deaths from the
former rose in the last two weeks from 46 to 58 ;
those by cholera from 5 to 26. The easter► dis-
tricts, especially Limehouse, are the chief field of its
earliest operations.
THE consecration of the Bishop of Sodor and Man
took place on Tuesday morning. The ceremony was
performed by the Archbishop of York, assisted by
prelates of the northern province. 'Fhe diocese over
which Dr. Powys will have jurisdiction consists of
the Isla of Man, the population of which at the last
census was 52,387, the number of benefices being
only twenty-seven.
A FREEHOLD ESTATE in the county of Cornwall,
Jamaica, comprising 3,507 acres, with buildings and
stock, was sold on Tuesday at the Auction Mart for
3,0001., or considerably less than 1/. per acre. The
Falmouth (Jamaica) Post, in a leading article on the
condition of the island, says :—" The two great wants
are labour and money, and until these are satisfied
there is no hope whatever that the land will be again
brightened by the sunshine of prosperity."
THE LONDON 'VEGETARIAN SOCIETY held their seventh
annual banquet on the 20th inst. The society is said
to number 1,000 members, and the attendance was
tolerably numerous. A great variety of vegetarian
delicacies furnished forth the feast, and the occasion
was improved by a vegetarian speech from Mr. James
Simpson, the president.
ACCORDING to the official returns there were 113
new cases of cholera and forty-six deaths from the
epidemic a', St. Petersburg on the 14th inst.
THE Tudor arrived at Penzance on Tuesday night
from Port Phillip, bringing home forty passengers,
and a quantity of gold. She sailed on April 16th.
THE KING OE THE SANDWICH ISLANDS has issued
proclamation of neutrality as regards the pending
European war.
LIEUT.-COLONEL FREEMAN MURRAY is appointed
Governor and Commander••in-Chief of the Bermudas,
or Somers Islands.

SATURDAY,

THE establishment of diplomatic relations with
Rome is announced by the Dublin Weekly Telegraph,
on the authority of a correspondent who "hears from
Florence that it is expected Lord Normanby, who
has been long residing in a beautiful villa near that
capital, will shortly be appointed to succeed Sir Henry
Bulwer as English minister for Tuscany, and that
the sequel to that nomination will be the accrediting
of our representative at Rome. Lord Normanby, it
is asserted, may be in Rome, thus officially recognised
as early as the ensuing winter."
THE ANNUAL RETURN OF CIVIL LIST PENSIONS
granted between the 20th June, 1853, and the 20th
June last, on account of literature, appears in a par-
liamentary paper. The highest pension is 1001. and
the lowest 401. There a e fifteen pensioners in the
list. The widow of " Delta" has 1001, and the widow
of " The Ettrick Shepherd" 501. The last was
granted in April of 501. to the widow of Mr. Bow-
ditch, the celebrated African traveller.
THE REV. DR. JACOBSON, Canon of Christ Church,
Oxford, and Regius Professor of Divinity, has had a
portion of his plate seized by Mr. Pratt, one of the
overseers of the parish of St. Aldate, in consequence
of his having refused the payment of a poor rate
levied on some portion of his premises at Christ
Church not extra-parochial. The plate was re-
deemed, and the proceeds applied to the payment of
the rate.
THE season of the Royal Academy Exhibition
closed on Wednesday evening by a soiree, which was
attended by nearly 700 of the nobility and gentry.
THE directors of the South-Western Railway Com-
pany have resolved to recommend, at the general
meeting on the 10th of August, that the dividend for
the half-year, ending 30th June, 1854, be at the rate
of 4} per cent. per annum.
THE vacancy created by the death of Captain Hyde
Parker has been filled by the promotion to post rank
of Commander Houston Stewart, of the Modeste, and
his appointment to the Firebrand. The name of
the officer to be promoted to the rank of commander
is not known.
THE barque Lima, of London, nine days out for
Hobart Town, put in to Falmouth on Thursday with
six cases of cholera on board. One death has taken
place. There are emigrants on board, but the sick-
ness is chiefly among the crew.
THE CHOLERA has been very fatal in a colliery vil-
lage named Trinidon, near Hartlepool, in Durham.
It broke out very suddenly, and fourteen deaths have
taken place. Between forty and fifty persons have
been attacked. Some of the deaths have been
awfully sudden, and without those premonitory
symptoms that have previously marked the early
stages of this disease.
THE member for Beverley, the Hon. F. C.
Lawley, who has lately been acting as private secre-
tary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been
appointed lieutenant-governor of South Australia, in
the room of Sir Henry E. F. Young, now governor of
New Zealand. For the vacancy thus occasioned in the
representation of Beverley, the only candidate
hitherto announced is the Hon. Arthur Gordon,
third son of the Earl of Aberdeen. Mr. Gordon ad-
dressed the electors at a public meeting on Tuesday,
and was favourably received.
AT a meeting of the executive committee of the
Ballot Society, held on the 21st, it was resolved to
promote in every way the return of GEneral Thomp-
son for Hull, on the occurrence of any election for
that borough.
THE laying down of the Mediterranean submarine
electric telegraph cable took place on the 21st with
great success, under a salute of twenty-one guns.
THE number of persons who visited the Munich
Exhibition of Industry on the and second days
is given at an average of 1,400 first ;
and the receipts at
710 florins.
SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.8., late Governor of New
Zealand, is appointed Governor and Commanderin•
Chief over her Majesty's settlements at the Cape of
Good Hope.

sporting.

GOODWOOD RACES.
The magnificent meeting of Goodwood was inaugurated
on Tuesday last. The weather was most propitious, and
the attendance of aristocratic and fashionable visitors little
short of previous years, notwithstanding the absence of so
many of the accustomed assistants in the East.
The events were decided as follows :
CRAVEN STAKES (handicap) of r) sous each, with :.')0 added.
Sir W. Booth's Protest ( Plumb) 1
Mr. Greville's Adine 2
MATCH, It 01.: T Y.C.
Duke of Bedford's Diomedia S. Rogers) I
Lord Eglinton's Bianca .....................01d5.
The LAVANT STAKES of 50 soya each, f.)r two-year-
Half a mile. 20 subs.
Mr. Merry's Lord of the Isles (W. Day) I
Captain Lane's Paradigm
Seven ran.
Betting : 2 to 1 on Lord of the Isles, 5 to 1 against anY
other.