The Press.
London, England, 1856-03-15 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCHIS, 1856.

POSTSCRIPT.

A telegraphic despatch from " Views, Thursday,"
slaws :
A despatch from Constantinople, via Semlin, states
that Halil Pacha, brother in law of the Sultan, is dead.
Omer Pacha is daily expected at Constantinople.
The armistice, throughout the Crimea, was proclaimed
on the Ist of March.

A despatch from Berlin, of Thursday, an-
nounces:—

Baron Manteuffel will leave Berlin to•morrow to join in
the conferences.

The King and Royal Princes.and most of the Ministers,
together with some Generals, attended the funeral of the
late President of Police this morning.
All the civil authorities of the town and great multi-
tudes followed him to the grave.
Herr von Hamner shot himself yesterday.
Count Canitz shot himself today.

The Journal de Teheran, received by way
of St. Petsrsburg, announces the death of the
Minister of War of the Shah of Persia, and the
arrest of the Khan of Baradschan. This journal
further announces that Persian troops, arrived from
Benderaboukir, with eight guns, bad occupied the
Isle of Kharek, in the Persian Gulf.

A bulletin issued on the 13th, of the health of
Prince Jerome, states that the situation of the
Prince was much the same.

Cabinet Councils were held on Saturday and Wed-
neslay afternoons. All the Ministers in town were
present. The Councils sat for three hours and two
hours respectively.
Au Order in Council places the Department of
Science and Art under the Lord President of the
Council, subordinate to the education department.
The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia has
ploced 150 guineas at the disposal of the Govern-
ment to present a sword to General Williams.
Sir George Goodman, the member for Leeds, died
suddenly on Thnrsday. He has long been in a de-
plorable state of health. _ _

4 Deputation from a Sunday Association waited
on Sir Benjamin Hall on Thursday to urge the dis-
continuance of the performance of the band on Sun-
days in Kensington•gardens. Sir Benjamin Hall
declined to accede to the request unless it could be
proved the performance led to revelry.
Lord Stanley has been presented by his constitu-
ents at Lynn, with an address, expressive of their
confidence in his lordship, and of their approval in
his public conduct. Lord Stanley in his reply,
Bays :

In Parliament certainly, and I suppose, also, wherever
puhlic matters are publicly discussed, the combative ele-
ment is too strung—the industrial element not strong
enough. If men would labour to remove recognised
abuses with half the zeal they show in advocating the
claims of class %anat class, or party against party, our
people might by this time be educated, our law simplified
and made available to all, our civil administration reformed
in every branch, and the spread of disease and early
death among the mils,es be greatly diminished by judi-
C Ott4 sanitary arran&,ements.

It is to objk cts like these. lather than to organic changes
in the constitution under which we live, that I would re•
speetfully direct the attention of reformers. Each may do
something, and there is work enough for all.:

THE PRESS.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY.
ROYAL ASSENT.

The royal assent %as given, by commission, to the
Mutiny, the Consolidated Fund, and some other
bills.

PRISONS.

Lord SHAFTESBITRY, in moving for returns, called
attention to certain facts disclosed in recent reports
from the inspectors of prisons, showing that many of
those establishments were in a very unsatisfactory
condition both in a moral and sanitary point of view.