The Press. — London, England, 1854-08-05 00:00:00

7" ter. 728 Don Enrique to Valencia was revoked. The Junta had also abrogated the prohibition laid on the circu lation of certain foreign journals, and decreed an amnesty for political offences. On the 29th, at Barcelona, a decree of the local Junta ordered the suppression of a machine in the manufactories which was calculated to throw a nttinber of hands out of work. Subscriptions continued to come in on all sides towards relieving the wounded and the families of those who died in the late conflict. The Queen subscribed 30,000 reels in her own name and that of the King Consort and the Princess of Asturias. The Bank of San Fernando has given 6,000 reels ; the Duchess de la Victoria, 4,000 ; the Duke of Osuna, 4,000, Jo. Queen Christina was still in Madrid on the 3rd inst. She had not decided what route she should take to get out of the country. I M. Salamanca has been arrested and imprisoned at Albacete. Generals Lara, Mata-y. Alos, and Que sada, who commanded the troops in the late struggle, have their choice either to retire to a fixed place of residence or to leave the country. The ex• Ministers are hiding in different places, and the foreign embassies are reported to abound with them. The houses in all parts are mostly decked out with coloured silk and other hangings. Many have done so voluntarily, out a general order was subse quently issued to that effect. TURKEY. With the exception of the fears of the cholera, which have become very general, and the very great heat, there is little of interest in the last letters from Constantinople. All who possibly can were seeking cool breezes on the banks of the Bosphorus. General Ney (Due d'Elchingen), one of the youngest generals in the French army, and second son of the celebrated Marshal Ney, died on the 19th ult., at Gallipoli, of cholera. Constantinople itself, and Pere and Galata, the Christian suburbs, have not as yet been visited by the epidemic. In the arsenal of Constantinople many gun-boats are being fitted out. RUSSIA. Letters from St. Petersburg state that they are or ganising at Cronstadt two battalions of skating infantry, an arm of the service already known in pre ceding wars. These skaters are intended to operate in the winner on the ice against the islands occupied by the enemy. Battalions of skaters will be also formed in the other garrisons. It is rumoured in Paris that the British and French Cabinets have laid down conditions on which they wculd treat for peace, defining what they under stand by guarantees against a renewal of attacks by Russia on the Turkish empire, which would mainly consist of the free navigation of the Danube and the Black Sea, with a free port in the latter. GREECE. M. Mavrocordato arrived at Athens on the 21st, and next day had an audience of the King, which lasted four hours. The sanitary state of the occupation troops is good. There had not, been a single eisse of cholera at Athens. PERSIA. A despatch of the 21st ult. from Constantinople states that the Persian Prime Minister had just sent a special envoy to Georgia to propose the conclusion of a secret convention between the Shah and the Czar, on the following terms : " 1. That Russia should restore to Persia the province of Erivan as far as Lake °oche., the whole of Karsbagh, and the portion of the territory of Taulish usurped by the Autocrat. " 2. That Russia should annul the Persian debt. " 3. That Russia should, if necessary, assist Persia to recover the districts of Kutur Dambet and other encroach ments wade by Turkey in the province of Agerbijan. " 4. That Russia shall grant a monstrous bribe of two millions of ducats► fur the benefit of the Prime Minister and his family." UNITED STATES. The last New York advices are of the 22nd ult., brought by the Baltic. The treaty between the United States and Japan was confirmed by the Senate on the 15th of July. The fishery and reciprocity treaty was still under consideration. Ou the 21st the bill from the Senate authorising the construction of a railroad through Washington has passed. It is stated - by the New York Tribune that a treaty for the annexation of the Sandwich Islands to the United States is under consideration at Washington. The only question is whether the islands shall come in as a territory or as a state. At New York the weather has been extremely hot : the thermometer stood at 05 in the shade, and several cases of sunstroke have occurred. On the 18th Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher com mitted a violent assault ou Mr. James M'Master, editor of the Freeman's Journal, knocking him down in the street, and beating him about the head. Mr. THE PRESS. WMaster fired a revolver at his assailant, the ball passing over Mr. Meagher's shoulder. The police apprehended the belligerents, who were both held to bail to keep the peace. The casus belli was an article in the Freeman's Journal reflecting on Mr. Meagher. A destructive fire occurred at the village of Astoria on the 20th, which had rendered forty or fifty fami lies houseless. Property to the value of about 15,000 dollars had been destroyed. The mail steam-ship Franklin was still aground at Morriche, Long Island, and expected to become a total wreck. The Hon: George C. Washington died at Washing ton city on the 18th of July. His death was sudden and unexpected. Colonel Washington was one of the few remaining relatives of General Washington. He was about fifty five years of age, and resided at Rockvillle, in Maryland, about fifteen miles from the city of Washington. AFRICA. Cape of Good Hope papers to the 24th June have arrived, but they contain no political news. Sierra Leone was healthy, although the rains had set in. The chiefs of the bordering territories had threatened suspension of commercial interccurse, the intended imposition of duty being obnoxious. A brisk trade was springing up with Lagos. By this mail we learn that cholera prevailed in the Mauritius to a most alarming extent, the deaths averaging 125 a day. The troops had suffered little by the epidemic. Among the victims were Mr. Shelly, assistant auditor; Mr. S. Childebank, clerk; and Mr. Lacoste, manager of the theatre. Trade was in a great measure paralysed, and privation and misery were the necessary consequences, WEST INDIES. The Royal West India mail-packet Tamar arrived at Southampton on Wednesday. Advices from Barbadoes state that the cholera had nearly disappeared in Bridgetown, but was still very prevalent in many parts of the island. The mortality has already reached near 13,000. The other islands were pretty healthy. The French commander•in-chief, Admiral du Quesne, died at Ilavanna on the 3rd of July. THE GREEK PIRATES. THE following account of the pirates who lately committed so many atrocities on the shores of Greece is given in Wednesday's Moniker, on the authority of a letter dated Athens, July 22: — The chief of the pirates who murdered the crew of the English vessel Harriet has made on board of the steam corvette Chaptal, where he was interrogated, the following deposition " In the course of the month of March last T left Con. stantinople for Syra on board the Ga laxid. On our arrival at Syra, the Under Commissary of Police, Angerinos, advised me, as well as another Samian, to go to Athens. The next day the Commissary of Police, Strati, ordered me to come to his house. I told him I had no money, and that T wished to serve as a sailor on board a merchant vessel. He replied that there was then no work for sailors, but that if I would come and see him again in five days he should have an important affair to propose to me. " One day when I was with Strati he showed me a letter he had received from Stamati. The first page of this letter was addressed to Strati, but the other side was di rected to me. Stamati advised we to do whatever Strati told me, and he added that I should one day become great, and my children also. Strati forbade me to reveal anything he told me. He advised me to go and make war in Thee saly, and to visit Chalcis. He recommended me to go in the direction of Cape Douro, and to seize and sink all the French and English vessels, as those two nations were opposed to the enterprise of the Greeks. " Strati hired a schooner, manned by five men, in which I embarked with twenty-eight persons, of whom twenty-five were Samians. The captain of this schooner was from Styhda (Gulf of Zeituni). Strati gave me thirty drachmas to pay for the freight of the schooner as far as Chalcis; but none of the men received any pay. All they had was pro visions for two days. 1 was appointed chief of the expe dition, of which I alone knew the secret, but I did not reveal it to my companions till after we left the port of Syra, whence we sailed three hours after sunset. After heating about all night and the next day, we found our. selves towards evening at four or five miles from Gabrios, on the coast of Andros. " At that point we were becalmed till midnight. A breeze then sprang up, and at three hours before daybreak we perceived an English brig. I was asleep at the time, but they awakened me. I ordered my twenty-eight men to follow me, and I went with them towards the English vessel, which we all boarded. On hailing the vessel, we discovered that she was English and that her crew belonged to the same nation. When we got on board we forced the men to go down to the captain's cabin, and then demanded the money they had on board. The English delivered up to us three sovereigns. three crowns (thalaris), two watches, a telescope, two compasses, a cask of rum, a sail, and four oars. We then forced the sailors upon deck, where we murdered them all with knives, and threw them into the sea. " I did not give any order to assassinate these men, and I did not kill any of them. We wished to sink the brig, but we abandoned this idea, from the fear of being seen by other vessels. After the massacre we sailed towards Chalcis, where I landed with my twenty-eight companions, and we SATURDAY, , • - went to the house of our countryman, Colonel Stamati Giorgiadea, but he was not at home. The next day we went to Bourgi, where we found Stamati, his son, and another person. On the same day we returned to Chalcis with Stained, in a bark belonging to the latter. We re- mained a month with Stamati, to whom we related the murder of the English sailors. He approved of our con duct. " Of those who accompanied me eighteen left Chalois for Stylida. " Stamati advised me to turn pirate, to make for the coast of Anatolia, and to wait there till the time came to attack Samos. "We left Chalois in a perame. We touched at Tsourat, Tinos, and Mycone, and thence we went to Samoa. Having repented of my conduct, I made my submission to the governor of the island, to whom I detailed all the circum stances connected with the assassination of the crew of the English brig." EL HHAAII PACHA, THZ only son of Abbas Pacha, late Viceroy of Egypt, ar rived at Portsmouth last Saturday evening m his splendid steam-yacht the. Feih Djehad. His intention had been to pay a visit of some length to this country, and afterwards to make the tour of Europe, but the melancholy tidings of his father's death, which first met him upon arriving off our shores, have necessarily put a atop to this plan. When the settlement took place between the Sultan and the Egyptian Viceroy, in which the European powers par ticipated, it was stipulated that the viceroyalty should be, inherited by the eldest living descendant of Mehemet Ali, in order to avoid the troubles of the government of a minor. Thus Ibrahim Pacha, who succeeded Mehemet Ali, left sons : but as Abbas Pacha, the late Viceroy, and who was a grandson of Mehemet Ali, was older than those children, he. became Viceroy, and the sons lost their rank immediately after their father's death. Said Pacha, the present Viceroy and Ibrahim Pacha's sons, are all older than El Hhami Pacha, and, of course, entitled to the throne before him. El Hhami Pacha, however, being the only son of Abbas Pacha, was while his father lived the next most dis tinguished person in the kingdom, and as Abbas Puha WAS, just previous to his death, in the prime of life, there was every probability of his son filling that position for a long series of years. He was made Minister of War in Egypt, and was betrothed to the Sultan of Turkey's daugh ter, a child six years of age ; and according to the custom of the East, and the rank of such a powerful vassal as his father was of the Sultan's, El Hhami Pacha visited his in tended father-in-law in great state, with a present of 100,1 001. sterling in English sovereigns. After his betrothal he obtained permission from the Viceroy and Sultan to make the grand tour of Europe, and commenced that tour under the brightest auspices and a style of great magnifi cence. His father had made him immensely rich, and given him the famous steam-yacht the Feih Djehad to travel in. This yacht was built by Mare, of London, a few years ago, for Abbas Pacha, at an expense of 110,0001. El Hhami Pacha left Alexandria on the 13th ult., after taking leave of his father, who was then in good health, and ur posed touching at Malta, Gibralt ar, and landing in England at Southampton. The prince had upwards of thirty persons forming his suite, some of them distin guished Egyptians, and a retinue of Nubian, Abyssinian, and Circassian slaves. The whole of the persons on board where nearly 4110. Amongst these were thirt3-one pils and two m asters from the E g yptian naval school. T up he chief persons of the suite were Suliman Pacha, Com mander-in-Chief of the Egyptian army ; Khairedden Pacha, Minister of Commerce in Egypt ; Abdullah Pacha, Director-Genend of Egyptian Transit and Railway; Ali Bey and Murad Effendi Bey, aides-de-camP ; and Dr. Lauder. the prince's physician. Suliman Pacha is the well known French officer, Colonel Say, who has spent a life. time in the Egyptian service. It is to him that Mehemet Ali and Ibrahim Pacha were indebted for the superior or ganisation and successes of the Egyptian army. He is a bale and fine old man, above 80 years of age. He was on board the Bucentaur at the time Nelson received his death wound from that ship at the battle of Trafalgar. His delight at visiting Europe in the Feih Djehad was un bounded, and at every spot he passed which was remembered by him in connection with any historic event he celebrated it by drinking a glass of champagne. Amongst these places Cape Trafalgar was not forgotten, and he and Captain Mackenzie sat and talked over the terrible scenes that oc curred there. The news of the death of the late Viceroy of Egypt reached England by way of Malta and Marseilles, partly by means of the electric telegraph. It reached Malta aftet the departure of the Feih Djehud, and of course the prince could not hear the disastrous intelligence until his arrival at Southampton. Soon after the yacht anchored on Saturday night, a small steamer left Southampton pier,. having on board Mr. Larkin. the Egyptian political agent, and other officers. On reaching the Feih Djehad Mr Larking and his party stepped on board, and the former im mediately went below. In less than five minutes, all persons who were crowded round the state cabin on the main deck started hack, for the prince, convulsively sobbing, was carried into it by his attendants, and slaves stood around outside, to prevent any one approaching it. El Miami Pacha had heard of his father's death, and had learnt the precariousness of earthly greatness. He had sunk to a private station under an Eastern despotism. Orders were issued for immediate preparations to be made to return to Alexandria. The prince had lost a royal parent ; all his suite had lost their rank, situations, and a princely benefactor. The consternation on board can scarcely be imagined. This young prince, it may be added, is shout 17 years of age, speaks French and English with great fluency. He was educated at Grand Cairo under the csre ?f Europeans and at great expense. It is not likely that his