The Press. — London, England, 1854-04-15 00:00:00

Aliiiti'ls; '1854. ~._..~.. tortign Alit' Cothnial FRANCE. The Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by Lord Raglan, Lord De Ros, Colonels Steele, Tyrwhitt, and Somerset, and Majors the Honourable James Mac donald and `Wellesley, crossed from Dover about midnight on Monday, and reaching Calais a little after one a.m., proceeded at once to Paris, where they arrived about nine on Tuesday morning. His Excellency Lord Cowley and Marshal Vaillant, the Minister of War, were in waiting at the station to re ceive them. A guard of honour was stationed at the terminus, and Court carriages were in attendance for the Prince and his suite, who were conveyed at once t) the British embassy. At one o'clock three impe rial state carriages were in waiting to conduct them to the Tuileries, under an escort from the regiment of Guides. They were heartily cheered during the passage by a considerable crowd assembled in the streets, some of whom cried "rive les Anglais !" On leaving the Tuileries the Duke of Cambridge, Lord Raglan, and suite proceeded to visit Prince Jerome at the Palais Royal. In the evening the Royal Duke, Lord Raglan, and the principal officers of their respective staffs dined at the Tuileries. On Wednesday the Emperor, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, reviewed in the Champ de Mars the army of Paris, the effective force of which amounted to 25,000 men. Prince Napoleon left Paris for the East on Sun day, and Vely Pacha, the Turkish Ambassadoi, ac companied him to the place of embarkation. The Prince arrived at Lyons on Monday evening, and left next day for Valence. At the last Cabinet Council held at the Tuileries orders were issued for the formation of a fifth divi sion of the expeditionary army, to be placed under the command of General Renault. The total of the expeditionary force to the East will not be limited to 50,000 men. Before the war is brought to an end it will probably be augmented to more than 100,000, some think to 150,000. It is officially announced that a corps de reserve will be stationed in Marseilles, and the adjacent de partments. The corps will be composed of 12,000 men : the head-quarters is to be Toulon. To meet the exigencies of the Baltic fleet a new regiment of marines is in course of formation at Brest. There are at present three regiments cif ma rines, consisting of about 3,000 men each. The 4th regiment now to be created will be drafted from the Ist and 2nd, and will comprise the flower of the force in the depots. The new 100-grts ship, the Turenne, will be launched at Rochfort to-day (15th). The Emperor on Sunday received in private audience M. Mavrocordato, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Greece, who presented to his Majesty a letter from his Sovereign. Rear-Admiral Dundas, brother to Vice-Admiral Deans Dundas, the commander of the Black Sea fleet, has arrived in Paris. The French Government has taken advantage of the war in Turkey to get rid of a considerable num• ber of Polish and other refugees who have long been a burden upon it. All refugee volunteers are allowed a passage gratis to Constantinople. Those who go as common soldiers get a present besides of 100 f., the subaltern officers get 500 f., and the superior officers I,ooof. A farewell dinner was given on Monday evening at the Trois Freres PrOYellc&III to Mr. Sandford, late Charge d'Affaires of the United States in Paris, by his countrymen, on the occasion of his return to America. More than 100 Americans from all parts of the Union took part in this festivity, which was presided over by Mr. Mcßae, the Consul of the United States. DENMARK. All the Ministers of the King of Denmark have resigned, excepting Bluhme, 111, and Scheel, who are absent. This fall of a Cabinet which was favourable to Russia is stated to have been owing to the ap pearance of the British fleet in the Baltic, and the impossibility of carrying out a Russian alliance. PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. A despatch was forwarded from Berlin on Satur day last to St. Petersburg, announcing that the King had used every exertion to induce the continental powers to enter into new negotiations;, but that be had failed, and could obtain nothing till the Russians should have evacu ated the principalities. On Monde/ a commissionsft appointed to settle the details o the military nvention entered into between Prussia and Austria. The following mem bers composed the commissione—The Prince of Prussia, Generals Bonin and Reyher, and Baron Hess. By subsequent accounts we learn that the conven tion has been refused by Austria. The cause is not t k n own, but it is said tha t a paragraph too favoura troop. INN THE PRESS. to Russia had been inserted by the Prussian Mi nister. Mr. Moseley's pamphlet in favour of Russia has been translated, into French at St. Tytersburg, and forwarded to Berlin for distribution anti sale. 200,000 Austrians, under Archduke Albrecht, have been ordered to enter Servia. The Porte consents to this movement. The Hamburg Senate has by decree prohibited the exportation of contraband articles of war. Similar decrees will be issued at Lubeck and Bremen. The representatives of the four powers signed a protocol at Vienna on Sunday last, containing a re capitulation of the principle of the integrity of the Ottoman empire, and comprising the evacuation of the principalities. ITALY. The Dechess Regent of Parma has issued a decree, dated the 3rd, restoring to the civil hospitals of l'arma, and to the patrimony of the State, the pro perty which had been taken from them by a decree of 1853, and annexed to the domains of the royal household. The tinchess has also suspended the forced loan, and limited the civil list to 500,000 sena The Official Verona Gazette contains an order for bidding the exportation of arms and ammunition for the Turkish provinces. On the oth inst. the Duke de Valentino* Prince of Monaco, presented himself in the town of Menton, the capital of Monaco, attempting to re establish himself as sovereign. About twenty persons joined him, but the body of the population gathered round him and cried, " Down with the Prince! long live the King !" (of Sardinia). The carabin eers of the King of Sa rdinia, who have occupied the town since its incorporation with Piedmont, made their appear ance and took the duke into their care, when the popular feeling subsided. The principality of Monaco was long under the control of the King of Sardinia before 1848, when it was annexed to Piedmont. The prince spent nearly all his time in Paris, and was chiefly known to the world by the heavy tax he levied upon travellers passing through his petty State. The duke has since been confined in the fort of Villefmnche at Nice. Several arrests have been' made at Menton. Madrid journals of the oth state that the agitation' at Barcelona had ceased, all the workmen having returned to the manufactories and shops on the Bd, in obedience to the proclamaticn of the Captain- General. RUSSIA. The Czar has formally conveyed to the Austrian and Prussian Governments assurances that the passage of the Danube was purely defensive. The St. Petersburg journals officially announce the appointment of Prince Paskiewitsch as Com mander-in-Chief of the armies of the Danube. The ukase orders that Prince Liortschakoff shall act under him as chief of the staff, except when he is not present, and then Prince tiortschakotf is to exercise the command in chief. Prince Paskiewitach arrived at Bucharest on the sth inst. The Emperor has ordered a line of telegraph to ' be constructed from St. Petersburg along the Finnish coast up to Hango Point, between Helsing fon and Abo. In Helsingfors there are ton and in the rest of the ship-building yards on the Bay of Finland there are forty gun-boats building. The movements of troops continue in the Baltic provinces and in Finland. A St. Petersburg letter of the 31st says :—" Whilst the guards were setting, out on their march, the battalion of chasseurs of the reserve of Moscow and the battalion of sharp shooters of Helsingfors were arriving here. The Emperor reviews the troops as they arrive." TURKEY. The first convoy of French troops, consisting of 1,100 men, under the command of General Canrube rt, arrived at Constantinople on the Ord inat. The declaration of war by France and England was known at Constantinople, and had caused great excitement. A deputation from Sebamyl to the Sultan arrived in the Turkish capital on the 31st of March. A despatch of the sth inst, vie Marseilles, an nonnces that Constantinople had been illuminated for a victory over the Russians. The Porte, on the 3rd inst., ordered all the Greeks in Constantinople to leave within the next fifteen days. Fatma Hanouni, a Curdisli lady of distinction, at the head of about five hundred eavalierA, had made a sort of triumphal entry into Constantinople. This motley band was decked in every variety of costume and armed with sundry antediluvian implements of war. The streets were thronged with spectators to witness this novel and exciting spectacle. The guards turned out and presented arms, the multi tude cheered uproariously in passing along the Curdish Joan of Arc, and she distributed various sums on her way to the quarters at Daont Path*, destined for the reception of herself and warrior 343 THE SEAT OF WAR. The accounts of engagements in the Dobrudschs and elsewhere are frequent and not less conflicting than usual. On Saturday last it was reported in Paris that on the 4th instant a great battle was being fought, whose result was still uncertain. No thing authentic has, however, since arrived respecting this battle, although vague boeonnts were received in Vienna on Sunday that the Tarks in the Dobrudscha and Schamyl in the Caucasus had gained greet victories over the Russians. On the other hand, the Mottiteur of Sunday mentions the report of a Russian victory on the banks of the Danube, but adds that the Government has received no intelligence through an official channel of this alleged victory, nor even of a battle having been fought. The latest itecoutits from Bucharest state that large bodies of Russian troops continue to pass the Truth. Between the 30th of March and the Ist. of April 100,000 Russians are said to have entered the principalities. On the :flat General Luders stood with the right wing of his corps before Tschernawoda, his left before Karassa,• in front of Trajan's Wall. At the same time a brigade of General Osten Sacken's corps was about to enter Kustend.je, and so oomplete the line of occupation from the Danube to the Black Sea It was said at Bucharest that the Turks a‘. Kustendje could not reckon on the help of the allied fleets because the port was too shallow to admit of anything larger than a boat. The Russian gunboat, flotilla had passed up the Danube beyond Hirsova, and was near Tschernawoda on the 20th ult. That fortress has since been evacuated by the Turks, sad the Russians are said to have forced the intreneh ment at Trojan's Wall and marched on ltassove. According to the best authorities the Russian in vading force was on the 23rd ult. :10,000 strong, and had since been considerably reinforced, not from the principalities, so as to weaken the army there , but from Bessar abia. A direct communication between the Dobrudscha, below Hirsova, and Wallachia, has been secured by means of a pontoon bridge across the Danube. From Kalaraseh it is stated that 40,000 men and 130 guns are preparing to attack Silistria. General Schildor was ou the spot directing the operations. The heavy siege guns anti the rocket batteries had arrived. The garrison of Silis tria is stated to be 10,000, including two Egyptian regiments. The garrison of Kalafat, according to intelligence which has reached Vienna, made a sally on the 30th ult. 10,000 foot, 2,000 horse, and 00 guns advanced against the Russians, who were posted in force at Skripetz. After a sanguinary engagement, which lasted four hours, the latter were routed and pursued to a considerable distance. The loss of the Turks is given at 200, and that of their alversiusee at 600 men. From the 28th of March up to the 2nd of April there were engagements of greater or less severity. l'he Turkish corps at the command of Muetapha I'acha, who at the last dates stood at Karassa, con sisted of 45,000 or 50,000 men. Advices from Orsova of the oth April state that Omar Pacha has received instructions from Constan tinople to undertake no important operation until the arrival of the allied forces. 'l'he English arid French declaration of war against Russia was read to the troops at Kalafat on the oth, and was received with tremendous applause. At the date of the latest advices from the Black Sea the combined fleets were before Kavarna. The English brig Anne, from the Danube, while in tow of the Crescent steamer, was fired on by the I. Russians. Both brig and steamer were damaged. A barque (English) had also been sunk by the Rua • ,r shuts while leaving the Lambe Wks Her name was not known. Advices from Athens of the 7th April state that the insurrection is making no progress. Armiro has e not been taken. Turkish reinforoemsata had arrived. at Prevesa and Volo. The news of the defeat of the Greek insurgents.. near Janina is confirmed by accounts received in'' Vienna on Tuesday. °rives was retreating with hitt followers in disorder. The whole Greek force in Epirus, as well as Thessaly, does not amount to more than 7,000 of 8,000 men. Of these , about 1,200 went from Athen , 1,500 from the Peloponneitsus, 1,000 or 1,500 from, • Missolonghi and its environs, 00 from Salonas, Lauda, Chaleis, Negroponte, su er ther Greek di Uicts adjoining Thessaly. To these must be tulded.. about 1,000 Greeks from the Turkish territory under various petty chiefs. AMERICA. The Cuban authorities have surrendered t steam-ship Black Warrior, whose detention caused much excitement in the United States, the payment, under protest, of a fine of 8,000 d and was to leave Havaunnah on the 24th for he York. Her cargo was released at the same The excitement in the Union had almost died airs e respecting the seizure. - T,