The Press. — London, England, 1857-06-13 00:00:00

578 Notwithstanding the deceitful appearances of a patchad• up reconciliation, all tho world will read on the front of the Legislative Palace in Brussels the motto of Kos. ciusko--Finis Puloniie. The Moniteur Beige denies that the Belgian Repre sentative at Constantinople has urged the union of the Principalities under a Belgian Prince. SWITZERLAND. The Federal Assembly met at Berne on the 9th, The message of the Faderal Council proposes and recommends the ratification of the treaty relative to the affairs of Neufchatel. M. Escher, President of the National Council, expressed himself in the same sense. The treaty has been referred to a committee, who will report upon it shortly. PRUSSIA. Their Majesties set out frog► Berlin on the 9th for Dresden. The Queen goes to Topiitz, and the King to Marienbad. Their Majesties will return on the liith of July. RUSSIA. According to the latest accounts from St. Peters- burg, the Emperor and Empress of Russia, attended by Prince Gortschakoff, Minister for Foreign Affairs ; Prince Dolgorouki, Minister of Police ; and a suite of 200 persons, will quit St. Petersburg on the 25th inst. On the 28th of July they will be at Kiel. and sleep at Rambad, whence they will proceed by way of Gottingen to Darmstadt. A telegraphic despatch from Odessa says that the steamers in communication with Constantinople, the Crimea, Nicolaieff, Cherson, and Rostoff had corn menced running, and that those for Galati and the Sea of Azoff were to follow shortly. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. Diplomatic conferences have taken place between the Grand Vizier and the representatives of the powers who signed the Treaty of Paris. In connection with the firman for convoking the divans ad hoc in the Danubian principalities, three deliberations have taken place. Nothing certain is known about the' debates be yond the fact that they have been very animated. Some pretend that the French Ambassador, M. Thouvenel, presented to the council the ultimatum of his Government upon the question of the Princi• palities, which was expressly in favour of the union. Others say that Lord Stratford spoke very energeti cally against the scheme, and was supported by Prokesch-Osten, the Austrian internuncio, and then finally by the Sultan's alter ego, Redschid Puha. The Emperor of Austria has sent the grand cross of the Order of the Iron Crown to Prince Vogorides, the Kaimakan of Moldavia. This ostentatious token of approval at the very moment when the Ministers of the other powers which signed the Treaty of Paris are uniting at Constantinople in a very decided pro test against the arbitrary and unauthorised acts of the representative of the Porte at Jassy, is calculated to cause a great deal of scandal. Little is yet doing to advance the preparations for clearing out the mouths of the Danube. The Russian campaign in the Caucasus has com menced. THE PRESS. From China we learn that H.M.S. Raleigh, 50 guns, is to all intents and purposes lost : She was bowling along the dangerous coast in the vicinity of Macao, on the 14th inst., when she struck upon a rock not laid down on any chart, but the same upon which her Majesty's ship Cho struck long ago. Her port b..)w was nearly atovu in by the shock ; but the pumps were set going with a will, and in six hours more she was snug in the mud at the mouth of the Typa, the harbour of Macau. It is characteristic of the man that, immediately before "beaching" her, and with the water up to the lower• decks, Captain Keppel saluted with twenty-one guns the Virginia and Cutinat, French men-of-war lying in the Macao roads. From them, I need not say, as well as from the ships of the British squadron iu these seas, he has received every assistaece possible, vain as that will most likely prove to be. On the other• hand, the Portuguese are in ecstacies at the calamity which has befallen the man who of yore violated the Tlacao territory to give liberty, in a somewhat irregular way, to an imprisoned British subject. All her guns have been taken out of her and brought up to Hong Kong. Everything has been done to lighten her short of pulling her to pieces ; but there she lies, embedded in ten feet of mud at the least., with twenty feet and more of the same material inside of her, and a heavy beating sea jamming her faster and faster into the beach. She is perfectly immovable. There can be no doubt that she will be blown up. Yet Captain Keppel, they say, thinks better of her chalice, and even offers to bet pay and allowances that he will get her safe into Hong Kong harbour. 1 regret to say that he is the only naval authority who enter tains such an opinion.—Times cor. Nothing of importance had occurred up to the 25th April. The Chinese of Hong Kong were sus pected to be much under the influence of the authorities of Canton, but every precaution was being taken to secure the safety of the island. A Portuguese prisoner, lately liberated from Canton, gave an interesting account of his imprisonment:— During the whole time that he was in prison he was frequently called upon by the mandarins to inspect the heads which the" braves," some of whom he well knew as boatmen of Hong Kong, brought in from Hung Kong, Whampoa, and Cumsing•moon, and to say whether they were or• were not European heads. There were about a score of such, including " two old ones with white hair." The children used to drag them about and play with them during the investigation. If it ended satisfactorily the claimant received MO taels of silver for each head, with an order for the like sum on the arrival of the head at Canton. One of his crew having died in prison of a wound the mandarin ordered his ears to be cut off before burial, " for," said he, " I shall be able now to detect any man who may dig him up and try to impose the dead man's head upon me as a fresh one and claim the reward." There were said to be about thirty Europeans in the Canton prison, including old Mr. Cowper. It is difficult to understand by what influence the Governor of Macao obtained the release of Joze Maria. When theman himself claimed protection as a Birtuguese subject one mandarin said, "We are at war with all nations," and another, " You and the English are Christians all the same," and a third, " You are a white man." But released he is, and all his company, and by the intercession of the Governor of Macao. AMERICA. The important intelligence thatiWalker and his filibusters are at length driven out of Central America has arrived. Walker capitulated on the 7th of May, and Rivas was entered the same day by the Costa- Ricans. Walker, Henningsen, and Titus, and all the men who remained of the force, were to be sent home. Walker arrived at New Orleans on the 27th, and met with a great reception. He addressed the people and ass u•ed them that "victory was yet secure." It was freely asserted that he would be back again in a month's time with 5,0(N) men. From New York we learn that a powerful force was to be sent at once to the Salt Lake, where distur bances are anticipated. INDIA, CHINA, AND PERSIA. The most important intelligence from India by this mail is the continuance and extension of the rnutinqus spirit of the 34th and 19th Regiments among the native troops, and the discovery of a vast conspiracy for et general revolt of the native troops. At Meerut this spirit had ma nifested itself in secret incendiarism, in passive resistance to orders, and later, as we learn from a special edition of the Bombay Times, pub lished on the day the mail left, in open revolt, resulting in the deaths of officers. The announce ment referred to is in the following terms : MUTINY AT itlcent:T.—We have just received the fol lowing serious i.itelligence by electric telegraph from Agra. The 3rd Cavalry are in open mutiny. They have burnt down the lines and officers' bungalows. Several officers and men killed and wounded. At Umballah so frequent and serious were the fires about the station that the Government had offered a reward of 1,000 rupees for the discovery of the offenders, and the troops were confined to barracks after sunset. General Ashburnham and staff bad arrived at Bombay, and were to leave for Hong Kong in a few days. SATURDAY, AUSTRALIA. Parliament was prolonged by the Governor. General in person on the 18th of March, on which occasion the Speaker of the Legislat►ve Assembly enumerated the principal acts of the session in his address to his Excellency. The murder at Melbourne by the convicts of Mr. Price, the Inspector-General of the Penal Depart. ment, occurred on the 20th of March. by me Court of Farms for that purpose. .L11111611116111111111.1111.111111111111111111111.111111111111111111.11111111.1111111' The news of the rebels is important : They hive taken up a strong position at Fatshan, a little above Canton upon the same river, and are threaten ing that 'capital. Fatshan is the chief emporium of the Southern tea trade. The Northern tea trade is, according to the last news from Shanghai and Foochow-foo, so com pletely in their hands that the remittances of treasure usually made at this season to the tea-hills from those two ports have been actually brought back by the Chinese mer chants to the foreign houses from which they had received them, declaring their in ability to induce the people to trade, "so great is the panic." I am also informed on good authority that another large city in Keangsi has fallen to the rebels, and—more pregnant proof of their good estate—that the latter are retaining and fortifying with walls" one of their recent acquisitions in the maritime province of Fukien. Letters from Egypt state that Lord Elgin and suite were at Cairo. He was to embark at Suez on June 5, in the Peninsula and Oriental Company's boat Santulli', for Singapore. The Pays observes that Lord Elgin will arrive in China just about the time wher. the existing treaty between England and the Celestial Empire will come to an end. That treaty, signed at Nankin, Aug. 26, 1842, was contracted for a period of fifteen years, and will consequently expire on Aug. 20, 1857. Intelligence from the Persian Gulf states that the Persian expeditionary force will remain in the Per sian Gulf for three months after the ratification of the treaty, which is appointed to take place at Bagdad on the 4th of June, under the authority of the Hon. Mr. Murray. The head-quarters, staff, and the first division will remain at Bushire ; the second division at Mohammerah. Under this arrangement it is not likely that the troops will reach India much before the close of the year. The troops were healthy. From Herat we learn that Mohammed Youssuf, who assassinated the late Prince of Herat, has, in his turn, been murdered by the sons of the Prince. Mr. Murray, Minister of England to Persia, quitted Bagdad on the 17th ult., with all the persons attached to his Legation, on his way to Teheran. He was ac companied by Ali Khan, who bad been despatched by the Court of Persia for that purpose. 1.1 6oart ant 4as4ton. Her Majesty the Queen, attended by the Court, and accompanied by the Royal Family, has passed the Ascot week at Windsor Castle, visiting the races on the Cup day, and entertaining a brilliant circle of guests at the Castle. His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiniugen, were guests of her Majesty. Her Majesty, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, and his Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia, will visit Manchester on Monday, the 29th inst. The royal party will honour the Earl of Ellesmere by residing at Worsley-hall, the noble earl's sea!, near Manchester, during their stay. Her Majesty will pay a formal visit to the Exhibition on Tuesday, the 30th inst. On Wednes day, the Ist of July, the Exhibition building will he reserved for the private examination of its contents by the Queen; and it is expected that her Majesty will return to London on Thursday, the 2nd of July. The Secretary of State in attendance upon her Majesty will be the Right Hon. Sir G. (ire f. Her Majesty will hold a levee on Thursday next, at St. James's-palac-3, and a drawing-room on Tues day, the 23rd inst. His Imperial Highness the Archduke Maximilian of Austria is hourly expected at Portsmouth on a visit to this country. Volittral. A CABINET COT7NCIL was held on Saturday after noon at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. It was attended by all the Ministers with the exception of the Duke of Argyll. On Wednesday a Cabinet Council was again held, at which all the Ministers were present. THE RIGHT HON. SIR LAWRENCE PEEL VMS sworn in a director of the East India Cumpany, and took his seat at the board accordingly at a court of direc tors held on Wednesday. Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, K.C.8., was also appointed a provi sional member of the council of Inaia. A DEPUTATION OF MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION waited upon Lord Palmerston at Cambridge•house on Tuesday on the subject of the medical bills now before the House of Com mons. Mr. Headlam, M.P., introduced the depu tation, several of whom expressed their approba tion of the bill which Mr. Headlam has introduced as very preferable to Lord Elcho's bill. Lord Pal merston replied that the Government would be guided in the course they should adopt with regard to these two bills by the discussion on their merits. THE COMING REFORM BILL was alluded to last week at the Liberal banquet at Northampton by Mr. Vernon Smith as "not a sham Reform Bill": If it did not go so far as some might wish it, Lord Pal merston would be prepared to give his reasons for what he proposed; and he would certainly introduce nothing with a notion of deceiving or deluding any portion of mankind. Lord Althorp thought that " great changes were required in electioneering," and that " the educated classes in counties should receive a vote." Lord Henley, the chairman, in eulogising the conduct of the electors in returning Lord Althorp for the county, observed that " there was no natural tie between farmers and Toryism. It was entirely artificial, was now severed, and the counties, taking pattern by the towns, were advocating liberal measures, and bring ing forward liberal men to represent them." NCB. IV. AND V. OF THE ESTIMATES FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE are issued. No. IV. refers to education, science, and art, the total amount required for which in the current financial year is 1,000,3221., being en increase, compared with last year, of 123,3851. No. V. refers to colonial, consular, and other foreign ser vices, the total amount required therefore being 382,2151. against 320,205/. in 1850. LORD PALMERSTON, in reply to an anti-slavery deputation this week, said he doubted whether emigration treaties for substituting the free African for the slave could be entered into yet with any country. The noble lord admitted the probable success of a squadron off Cuba, and promised the deputation, beaded by Lord Shaftesbury and ad vancing these proposals, to give their suggestions I the fullest consideration,