The Press.
London, England, 1857-06-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1857.

POSTSCRIPT.

The Spanish Government has named the Duke de
Rivas Ambassador at the Court of the Tuileries.

The Emperor has despatched one of his orderly
officers, C0'.0,-.91 Faye, of the Engineers, to Chalons,
in order tc hasten the preparations for the camp. It
is said that it will open on the 25th of August, and
break up ou the sth of October.

A despach from Weimar says the Court leaves
the Chateau d'Estershourg for Wilhelmsthel, near
Eisenach, where the Emperor of Russia is expected
during his visit to Germany. The city of Eisenach
will this year receive the members of the Society
called "Gustavus Adolphus," and the Protestants
regard the meeting with great interest, as many
active measures are to be suggested.

Advices from St. Petersburg state that the cholera
is gaining ground as the weather becomes warmer.
The average number of deaths there at present is
seventy per day.

The Royal Commissioners have presented their
report on the site of the National Gallery. The
report has not yet been made actually public, but as
its general tenor is notorious, there can be no harm
in anticipating by a few days the conclusions of a
document which are everybody's secret. The Com-
missioners recommend that the National Gallery
shall be left whera it is.

THE MEMBERS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY
met on Monday evening at the Corn-exchange,
Maidstone, to celehtate their fourth anniversary.
Mr. George Wickham presided, and after the usual
loyal toasts, the health of the sitting members,
Viscount Ingestre, and the Conservative members of
the House of Commons was drunk. Mr. Lewis, in
responding, said that he was in favour of a Reform
Bill, but be wanted to have a fair one. He did not
want one by which 41. or 51. householders would be
entitled to vote, and which would take the franchise
away from the freemen. That was not justice. Of
late days some persons who arrogated to themselves
the title of " Liberals," while professing to extend
the franchise, would attack that species of the fran-
chise which was the most ancient, the most honour-
able, and the most satisfactory. " Success to the
Constitutional Society," "The Conservative Land
Society," and several other toasts having been drunk,
the meeting separated.
NETLEY HOSPITAL, in consequen'e of the debate
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, the nth inst.,
respecting its site and the alleged unhealthiness of
its position, has become quite an object of interest
to the good people of Southampton. The local
Medical Society have held a preliminary meting, to
adopt measures for counteracting the mischievous
tendency of such a statement, " so much at variance
with the salubrity of the neighbourhood, the nature
of the sail upon which the hospital is to be erected,
and the health of the inhabitants," and have for-
warded the following resolution to the mayor :
The Medical Society of Southampton having been re•
quested by the mayor to make a report on the salubrity of
Southampton and its neighbourhood, with special reference
to the site of Netley Hospital, agree unanimously that the
public statements in reference to its unhealthiness are
entirely opposed to their experience, and that ague and
other forms of malarious disease are unknown in the dis-
Wet, excepting when imported. They affirm further, on
the authority of Mr. Cooper, the officer of health, borne
out by their own observations, that the mortality of South-
ampton and its neighbourhood is below the average of
other towns of equal population and extent.

A general meeting of the medical profession of the
town and neighbourhood was held at the Audit-house
yesterday evening, at the request of the mayor, to
take into consideration the statements respecting the
site of Netley Hospital, and a meeting of the town
council is called. for Monday next to receive the
report of the methcal,,profeesion,

THE PRESS.

LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
EPISCOPAL RESIGNATION S.
Lord REDES DALE called attention to the circum-
stances attending the resignation of the late Bishop
of Norwich, and urged the necessity of defining by
some legal enactment the conditions under which a
prelate might resign his see, and the status he
should hold afterwards, especially as regarded the
privilege of sitting as a peer of Parliament.
The Lonu CHANCELLOR explained the bearings of
the present law on the question, which, he said,
fully enabled any bishop to resign his see, and after
resignation left him without any title to sit in the
house of peers, since he did not hold his seat of
personal liglit, but as exercising the episcopal office
over a certain dioce:e. The late Bishop of Norwich
had in resigning made no stipulation fur a retiring
pension, but the Lord Chancellor intimated that a
general bill on the subject of episcopal resignations
had been prepared by the Government, and would
have been introduced but for the interruption to
public business caused
.by the dissolution of Par-
liament. _ _

Some further discussion ensued, in which many
noble lords took part, after which the subject
dropped.
The Smoke Nuisance (Scotland) Amendment Bill
was passed through committee.
The Transportation and Penal Servitude Bill was
read a third time and passed.
Their lordships adjourned at half-past seven
o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
TIII: PUBLIC OFFICES.
Replying to Lord ELcno,
Sir B. HALL stated that the report of the judges
appointed to select the prize designs for the new
public offices would, he believed, be promulgated
before the close of the current month. The designs
to which prizes might be allotted would be after-
wards exhibited in Westminster-hall.
CUBAN SLAVE TRADE.
In answer to a question from Sir G. PECHELL,
Sir C. WOOD stated that the squadron of British
cruisers stationed off the coast of Cuba was to be
reinforced with the view of more effectually sup-
pressing the slave trade.

ELECTIGN.

General THOMPSON presented a petition complain-
ing that one Peter Johnson had attempted to bribe a
witness named Abraham Rothwill, whose testimony
was required before the committee on the Rochdale
election petition, by offering him 501. to leave the
country.

The question being one of privilege was immedi-
ately taken into consideration. The petitioner and
Rothwill were called to the bar, and having confirmed
the allegations in the petition, Peter Johnson and
a man of the name of Lord were ordered to attend
forthwith.