The Press.
London, England, 1854-09-02 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1854.

POSTSCRIPT.

M. Benkendorff was expected to arrive in Berlin
yesterday (Ist) from Stettin, and would proceed
direct to Putbus, and present the B" In answer to

the e King.
The subscription to the Austrian loan is closed for
a month. It amounts to nearly five hundred million
of florins.

As the cholera is very violent at the Plums, the
French commander has proposed to remove his men
to Athens. This has caused a most unpleasant sen-
sation in the capital.
Half the stamp duty on newspapers has been
taken off in Sweden.
According to the report on the financial condition
of Spain, the actual deficit amounts to 6,000,000•

The Count San Luis (Sartorius), the late Spanish
Prime Minister,has succeeded in leaving the country,
and has arrived at Bayonne.
The Royal Danish Railway has been completed,
and a direct communication is thus opened for pas-
sengers and merchandise from the North Sea to the
Baltic. An experimental trip was made on the 21st
ult., and the official inauguration of the line is
expected to take place in the course of a few weeks.

The reports of the state of the harvest contained
in our provincial contemporaries are of an uniformly
gratifying character. They state that throughout
the country the weather continues to be all that could
be wished, and that the grain crops are universally re-
ported to be such as the oldest living person has
seldom or never seen, the quantity and quality being
alike excellent. The potato crop, notwithstanding
partial blight, is very little below the average, and
the quality was never liner.
Viscount and Viscountess Canning have sailed in
his lordship's yacht, the Fair Rosamond, on a cruise
in the Baltic, where the noble Paymaster-General
will vi-it the English and French fleets, returning
to England at the close of the month, when
her ladyship will go in waiting to the Sovereign at
Balmoral.
Mr. It. W. Crawford is appointed to succeed the
late Mr. Aglionby as chairman of the East Indian
Railway Company.
Mr. Alderman Walker, editor and proprietor of
the Gloucester Journal, has been unanimously elected
to the mayoralty of that city, the office having
become vacant a few days since, by the death of Mr.
Wm. Washbonrne.
The marriage of the Lady Burghersh with the
Marquis Caracciolo St. Teodoro was solemnised on
Thursday at St. James's Church, Piccadilly. The
ceremony had been previously performed according
to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, at the
chapel of St. Mary, in Cadogun-terrace•

A most destructive fire broke out yesterday
morning on the premises of Messrs. Drew, Heyward,
and Barron, wholesale druggists, Great Bush-lane.
The flames were discovered in the stoke-hole of the
extensive laboratory, spreading with amazing rapidity,
owing to the combustible materials on the premises,
and were not extinguished till the laboratory was
burnt out, a building 60 feet long, 20 feet broad, and
30 feet in height. The (muse of the lire is unknown.
The proprietors are insured.

THE Oxford University Commission appointed
under the new University Reform Bill met on Wed-
nesday in Spring-gardens, when the Earl of Elles-
mere was appointed chairman.
THE half-yearly meeting of the Charing-cross
Suspension-bridge Company was held on Wednesday,
Mr. R. Few presiding. The report was submitted to
the meeting, in which, under existing circumstances,
the directors could not recommend a dividend for
the present half year.
A Dicpurerrox from the parochial authorities of
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields had an interview on Thurs-
day with Sir Benjamin Hall, the President of the
General Board of Health, at his office, Whitehall.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY in Trafalgar-square, and
the Vernon collection, Marlhorough-house, Pall-mall,
will be closed for the annual six weeks' vacation the
second week in September. During the recess a
great many additions will be made to the National

Gallery.
THE HAMPTON MAGISTRATES have decided the
"traveller" question in favour of the hotel-keepers•
Mr. Luce, landlord of the King's Arms at Hamp-
ton Court, attended before the bench on Monday to
answer the charge of having served customers during
illegal hours on Sunday week, but their worships
decided that the "travellers' book" kept at the hotel
in which his customers had entered their names
was sufficient evidence to exonerate him from 1111
consequences, and the ease was dismissed.