The Press. — London, England, 1853-11-05 00:00:00

632 lon* anb tolonial PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. PARIS, November 3. Tun Emperor and Empress continue to reside at St. Cloud. On the sth of next month their Majesties will proceed to Fontainebleau. A Council of Ministers was held at St. Cloud on Monday. General Baraguay d'Hillient received his parting instructions front the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is enjoined to avoid affording any pre text to Austria for breaking away from the neutrality in which she is circumscribed. A great liberty of action is left to the general, within the sphere of cordial co-operation with England. This appoint ment ix considered to have a warlike tendency ; and it is affirmed that England also will appoint a mili tary man as her Ambassador at Constantinorle. General d'Hilliers quilted Paris on Tuesday, at se ven o'clock in the evening, for Constantinople. lie is accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel Dieu, of the Imperial Staff Corps, by Captains Foy and Melin, of the same corps, by the Major of Artillery, Beeman'', and the Lieutenant-Colonel of Engineers, Jourjon, who are attached to his Embassy. The Prince Napoleon has returned to Paris from his visit to the King of Wurtemburg. His Majesty William 1., having invited his Imperial Highness to his Court, gave him a splendid reception. At a ball offered him by the King, the Prince Royal, accom panied by his wife, the Grand Duchess of Olga, &toasted. This latter is a daughter of the Emperor of Russia. A ball was also given at the French Embassy by the Count de Beam, Minister of France. General Narvaez is to be appointed by the Spanish Government Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary charged with a mission to the northern Courts, with choice of his residence at Vienna, Brussels, Paris, or any other place he may choose except London, where the presence of M. Inturitz is considered of paramount importance ut this moment. The Spanish Minister at War, General Blamer, is accomplishing many necessary reforms in his depart ment. He has planed the commissariat under the military administration, and has done away with the " contratistas," or contractors, whose enormous gains bad excited public animadversion. Much has been said lately of a manifesto received or expected from the Emperor of Russia. The document in question is not a 44101046 C note in the ordinary acceptation of the word, but a simple cir cular addressed to foreign agents, and declares in substance that this Emperor Nicolas is still animated by the most pacific intentions, and that he will leave no efforts untried to bring the Sultan to make the rtil4oll6ollo 41011t*OtiSiOnd required. The information given in your postscript of last week is fully- cue robtirated. Yesterday was celebrated the fife of the dead. From the earliest dawn the church bells were tolling, and crowds of people were racking to the cemeteries with garlands of immortellex in their hands, to place ou the tombs of their deceased relatives or friends. Nothing could he more decorous than the conduct of this vast multitude, pressing but not pushing on to the performance of their pious pilgrimage. The cemeteries of Wire la Chaise and Montmartre pre sented the appearance of moving gardens—in sneh quantities were flowers brought there, and held over heat' to avoid being crushed. Arrests still continue, and new domicili ary pet q ui salons are being made. Dr. Watteau of Lille, the charges against whom were ignored by the Court of Accusations, has not been liberal...it from Mazes, lint. is detained on minor charges, to undergo trial before the Correctional Court, Three persons arrested at N antes—M essrs. Itoeher, 31avelin, and Davitl—hme been sent to Paris, and imprisoned at the Con- - . element!. M. le Comte de Lesser:, director of consular and commercial attains, has been promoted to the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary of the first clam. A sister of the Countess Nlonteio, mother of the Ealpiess, Married a M. lA`SSeIN, a alereitald o f B or d eaux . Many changes have taken place in the magistra ture of Paris and the departments. The farmers have been exclusively occupied in the labours of their farms, awl have not yet found time t bring their corn to market. Another cause of th e continued rise in corn is, that the quality of the gain is inferior to that of last year, that it has been purchased for sowing up to this time, and that there was not enough on hand to induce the cultivators tu make any concessions. The vintage has been very unequal in its produce as to quantity and quality. In some places the wino is abundant and meagre, in others scanty but superior in quality. The champagne wines arc very tine and plentiful this year. THE PRESS. The conflict between peaceful and warlike news continues, till no one knows what to think. The newspapers contradict theinsehes eery two or three days, and it is to be hoped something decisive may soon take place to relieve us from the uncertainty which paraly►es all serious undertakings. FRANCE. General Baraguay ice-President of the Senate, has been appointed French Ambassador at Conatantinople, vice M. de la Cour, " summoned to other functions," according u, the official phrase of the Moniteur. General &Milers took leave of the Emperer on Monday, and let). Pais on the following day l'or Toulon, en route to Constantinople. Vice-Admiral Drina has taken the command of the ocean squadron at Brest. The Minister of Marine has granted the young brother of the late Lieutenant liellot a free admission to the naval school of Itochefort. General Narvaez left Paris on Tuesday for Madrid. The following are the names of the persons im plicated in the affair of the Opera Combine, which is to be tried on Monday next, the its inst. :—Decroix de Meren, Ribault de Laugardiere, Ituault, Bratiano, Allix, Mariet, Turenne, Lallize, Follot, Lux, Jautl, Baudry, tirabat, Copinot, tierard, Banc, Matz, Com mies, Folliet, Joirun, Deuey, Thirez, Mazillo, Martin, Mailliet, and Mouchiroutl. The charge against them is " Plot against the safety of the State, and against the life of the Emperor." Prince Jerome is said to be contemplating au ex cursion into Italy. Prince Napoleon hu returned from Stuttgardt. Tuesday being All Saints'-day, which is observed as a strict holiday throughout France, the Bourse and public offices were all closed. None of the papers came out on the following day. According to the table which fixes the sale of wheat the price has advanced) considerably. By the preceding return the average for the whole of France was 261. 2c. ; it is now 27f. plc., or If. S;lc. higher. The Lorientas-Bretegne has received a warning from the Prefect of the Morbihan for having, as the notice declares, published a false statement of the prices of corn in the markets of that department, thereby causing alarm in the public mind. Two Imperial decrees, founded on a long report from the Minister of War, for the encouragement of the cultivation of cotton in Algeria, have appeared in the Moniker. By the first of these decrees it is declared, first, that cotton seed shall continue to be furnished by the Government to the colonists; second, that for three years from Isfil the Govern ment shall purchase the produce at a price to be fled each year, accenting to quality ; third, that at the expirae of those three years :►remiums shall be given for two years for the exportation of the cotton of Algeria ; fourth, that for five years from ISM premiums shall be given for the introduction of machines for the use of the planters ; and fifth, that there shall be provincial premiums (three for each province of Algeria) of t 2,0001., ;I,I N K►f., and 5,0(10f., to the planters who produce the best speei nietis and the largest quantities. By the second decree a sum of lIIO,OOOf. is appropriated from the civil list for the encouragement. of the culti• nation of cotton in Algeria, to form an annual pre mium of 20,0001' ~ to be called the prize of the Em peror. Madame de Nenilly has gone into a convent at Metz. Captain Laporte will be tried by court mar tial for the murder of lieneral de AUSTRIA. Letters from Vienna speak of the probable meal of Baron Bruck from Constantinople to take the post of Minister of Finance. In such a case, it is said M. Prokesch Osten, who has had considerable Eastern experience, would go to represent Austria at the Porte. The Cologne Gazette states that the Archdale Albert, (iovernor of Hungary, has been summoned to Vienna by telegraph. Conferences are to be held, at which it is said that the Archduke Charles Louis is to be present, previous to his depatinre for In the Ootterreichixcdr Correspondenz of the '26th ultimo the tiovernment publishes a very paeifying article on the Oriental question. The following are the material passages : We have repeatedly stated that all the great powen., Russia as much► as France, England, Austria, 611111 Prussia, regard the maintenance of the peace of the world as the ain► of their highest endeavour, and that none of them is disposed to place this precious, this invaluable blessing in danger by rash or injurious acts. We may add that this statement is MS true atter tl►e !'►rte's declaration of war against Russia as it was before that the exertions of al the powers are directed to the restoration of peace in the Rust ; and that the conviction entertained at l'aris and London of the sincere neutrality of Austria and Prussia has raised the confidence of the Cabinets, and consequently has strengthened the hope of a definite and pacific solution of the difficulty between Russia and the Porte. Notwith standing the formally-opened war in the East, and without excessi‘e tundety respecting the possible commencement of Witt/two between the two armies—which, however SATURDAY, have just been postponed—European diplomacy pursues its task. This work of union and conciliation , however, cannot be bared to the eye of party, nor visibly exposed to the discussion of the daily press. It is owing to the high moderation and the discretion of the Imperial Itussian Court that diplomacy still holds the ground which it has won; and if, on the other side, elements which cannot be brought under the influence of statesmen oppose the speedy conclusion of an arrangement desired by all Europe, yet in the presence of the material agreement of the Ca binets, and their united endeavours to avert a general conflict, the cautious attitude of diplomacy must appear justified in the eyes of every candid and enlightened person. In vain do the organs of party or private interests, under this or that colour, endeavour to undermine the re. ciprocal confidence of the European Courts ; the Cabin e t s of the great powers uphold with conscientiousness and care the good understanding which happily exists between them ; and should this, as we trust it may, lead to the ub timate establishment of a fiim and permanent peace in the East, a good will have been achieved for nations and States which is not to be brought into comparison with the gratification of curiosity or the temporary satisfaction of alarmed interests." ----- The directors of the Danubian Steam Navigation Company announce that, on account of hindrances which have suddenly ariseu, the navigation of the Lower Danube is suspended. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 211th ult. contains royal ordinances relieving M. Nebier, on account of health, from the post of Spanish Ambassador at Constantinople; appointing M. Riquelme, Under- Secretary of Foreign Affairs, as his successor; and nominating M. Caballero, Member of the Royal Council, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. PORTUGAL. - - • Three decrees of some commercial importance have been published in the Diario do Governo. By the first of these, Quiffimane, and several other ports of the Portuguese possessions in Eastern Africa, are to be thrown open to import trade, besides the port of Mozambique, at which alone there has hitherto been a custom-house. Another decree establishes a miff of import and export duties for those posses %ions, the particulars of which are subjoined. A third decree gives legal currency at the Cape de Verd Islands to various foreign coins (sovereigns included), at the same rates of value at which they are current in Portugal. The last Lisbon mail is said to have brought over a great many stars to feed the vanity of certain per sons who, it is expected, will be cajoled to lend their money to the Portuguese Government. GREECE. After the arrival of intelligence that war had been declared by the Porte on Russia, several hundred armed Greeks are stated by the Trieste Gazette to have passed the frontier, and proceeded to Aria and l'revcsca, to drive away the Turkish garrisons, and to seize on Janina. The Athens official journal of the 17th ult. con tains an article contending for the strict neutrality of Greece, and reprehending those who attempt to excite a fanatical hatred to Turkey. The Govern ment has forbidden public functionaries to become candidates for election to the Chamber. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The combined fleets arrived in the Dardanelles on the 14th of October, and anchored near Campsaki. MI the Russian officials in Constantinople had embarked for Odessa. Russian snbjects were placed under Austrian protection, and the Itus;:ian mer chant ships in the Black Sea have hoisted the Aus trian flag. The arrival of French officers in Constantinople is announced, and of English in Schumla. The Russian General Consulate of Smyrna has been transferred to Athens. The draft of a new arrangement, drawn up by the English and French Governments, has been trans mitted to the Porte. A despatch from Vienna of the :1 0 th ult. announces the arrival in that city of the new project, and that it had been forwarded to Con stantinople. It is added that the scheme consists of the Vienna note deprived of the objectionable pas sages, which, being remodelled, render the Turkish modifications superfluous, and, being conformable to the Olmiitz concessions, will satisfy Russia. Turkey is expected to accept these terms, and, if so, Russia also. From Constantinople it is reported that the Porte, having heard of the new project of compromise, had suspended the commencement of hostilities for the present. 'that orders have been sent to Omer Paella to avoid hostilities appears certain. There was, how ever. alb ,wance made for those accidental collisions which will sometimes happen when two armies come into somewhat close proximity. The Constantinople correspondent of the Dibats writes from that capital, under date ofthe :2•2nd alt. " The day before yesterday, M. de Bruck, the Austrian internnueio. had an interview with the Sultan. and handed to him a new instieet of note. w ith th e co ll ec ti ve giutran. tee, it is said, of the four 'sewers assembled anew at IVienna, that it would be accepted by Russia. I do net know the tenor of this note. At the end of the interview