The Press. — London, England, 1857-10-03 00:00:00

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L 1 6 0 .. 0 13 0 .. 0 6 0 Subscribers are refineSte;ito send their orders through News Agents; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a remittance. Advertises-nuts also must have a reference or remittance. Money .re to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED TVS, 110, Strand, I .un lon. Cabs _it) rtgg• LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 3, 1857. POSTSCRIPT. THE IMPERIAL MEETING AT WEIMAR. WEIMAR, Thursday, Oct. 1. The Emperor of Russia arrived here yesterday evening. The Emperor of Austna arrived this morning and paid the first visit to the Emperor of Russia. The King of Saxony is not come. The Vienna Gazette says .—" When the Emperor Francis Joseph called on the Emperor Alexander at Weimar the latter went to meet his Majesty on the staircase. Having embraced and kissed each other, their Majesties conferred for some time together." The Times correspondent adds :—" It is now generally known that Count Buol is in as great favour with his Sovereign as ever, and Baron Budberg and his suite are accused of having sent a canard to Muscovy duck) into the world, when they related that be bad tendered his resignation. It is not known to me that anything unusual is going on in Italy, but this Government evidently suspects the French Cabinet of having formed plans unfavourable to the rule of Austria in Lombardy. Many of the principal Lombard nobles went to Paris shortly be fore the Governor-General made his entry into Milan, and almost xll those who are now in the city keep aloof from the Archducal Court. Despatches have been received in Paris from the French Minister in China. They represent the situation of affairs as unfavourable, and announce positively that the Court of Pekin will not agree to any arrangement. THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter 'from Vienna, in the Nouvellate de Ham bourg, says that the Porte is about to issue a circular to the great powers refusing to consent to the union of the Principalities. It will consent to the union, commercial, financial, and military, but it will not go beyond those limits. This circular is issued, it is said, by advice of England and Austria. The cor respondent rather unnecessarily adds, that France will not make this refusal of the Porte a eases bent. A telegraphic despatch from Berlin in the Nord says :—"The Emperor Napoleon,nfter having received the autograph letter from the King of Prussia—in which that sovereign expressed his regret that the state of his health would not allow him to come in person to pay his respects during his stay in Ger many—announced to the Prince of Prussia his in tention of paying a visit to the King." General Jankowski, aide •de-camp of the Emperor of Russia, has arrived in Paris on a military mission. THE TAVISTOCK ELECTION. A correspondence between the Duke of Bedford, Mr. Allan, and Mr. Miall's committee, has been pub li4hed this week. It opens with a letter from the duke to Mr. Mist!. The duke criticises the speech of Mr. Miall at the recent election, and observes It has ever been a rule with me to leave my tenants to the free exercise of their opinions, feeling that, whatever my own wishes may he, I have no claim on their political consciences. But, although abstaining from all interferene with their votes, 1 cannot 'limit that the circumstance of my possessing property and a stake in the welfare of a oounty or borough is virtually to disqualify any member of 1 .. ' . TAE PRESS, OCTOBER 3,1857. my family from offering himself to the free choice of the electors—a doctrine that would lead to the arbitrary ex clusion of one class only, and be incompatible with true liberty. Mr. Miall replies in an obsequious tone to the duke, that possibly his grace was not fully acquainted with all the circumstances of the election, and afterwards submits al report from his (Mr. Miall's) com mittee which indicated pretty clearly that the influ ence of the duke was supreme in securing the elec tion of Mr. Arthur Russell. The duke replies that Mr. Arthur Russell acted upon a course "very natural for him to have taken." lartign aio 6ollniat 3ntelligentr. 19tb, state that up to the 10th of August Herat had not been evacuated, and that Mr. Murray had re monstrated with the Persian Government on the subject. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Divan has been convoked, and will meet at the end of next week. The European commission sitting at Bucharest has deputed two of its mem bers to represent it at Jassy during the deliberations of the Divan of Moldavia. M. 13arili, the Russian Commissioner, and Sir H. Bulwer, have been chosen for this o;.ce, and they are expected to arrive here on Sunday. CHINA. The Nereus and Moorsforth had arrived at Hong Kong with about 500 gunners, who ware to be de spatched to Calcutta. A declaration of the blockade of the Canton river was issued by Admiral Seymour on the 4th of August. Theta was a report at Hong Kong that Sir James Brooke had been assassinated. The conduct of the Mahomedans at Singapore was causing some anxiety to the 'British authorities. AMERICA. There is no political news of great importance. Mr. William R, Calhoun, South Carolina, had been appointed Secretary of Legation at Park in place of 0. Jennings Wise, of Virginia, resigned. The financial crisis in the city had in a great mea sure subsided. The Bank of Commerce consented to redeem its notes, but temporarily refused deposi tors' cheques. Brigham Young and his Mormon followers threaten to resist the presende of United States troops at Utah. FRANCE. The Moniteur has duly recorded every important event connected with the interview at Stuttgardt. The Emperor of Russia arrived on the 24th, the Emperor Napoleon on the afternoon of the next day. An interview between the Emperors took place imme diately, the Emperor of Russia paying his respects to the Emperor Napoleon. On Saturday evening the royal party were surprised by the unexpected arrival of the Empress of Russia and the Queen of Greece. The visit of the Emperor Napoleon was prolonged till Tuesday morning, when he left for Metz and Chalons. The Emperor and Empress of Russia left Stuttgardt on the previous afternoon for Darmstadt and Weimar. The reception of the Emperor from the people en route is universally reported to have been most cordial by the German population. The correspondent of a contemporary thus sums up the results of this interview : - During their stay here of four days each they have been iu each other's company at least twice a day, but in the presence of others ; what, however, is more to the point is, they have been closeted together three times perfectly alone for periods varying from one hour and a half to two hours each. The last of these interviews took place on their return from the Volksfest at Cannstadt yester• day, when they retired to the apartments occupied by the Emperor Alexander at the top of the Crown Prince's villa, and remained together for nearly two hours, at the expiration of which they took leave of each other, with the greatest apparent satisfaction at having made each other's acquaintance. On Sunday afternoon also Prince Gortsehakoff and Count Walesaki conferred together for more than an hour and a half; and, doubtless, have had other meetings of which I know nothing, since Prince Gortschakoff has in the palace made no secret of his dissatisfaction at so much time being wasted in gadding about that there was none left for business. In the matter of popularity both with the Court and the people the Emperor Napoleon has made infinitely greater progress than the Emperor Alexander. It is assumed that the Empress of Russia and her sisters•in•law were averse to the Empress Eugenie's appearing here, and from the apprehension that her greater youth, beauty, and mental attainments would throw them into the shade, and compel them to acknowleige the personal sups• riority of one on whom they look down as inferior to them. The respectable portion of the Paris journals con• tinue to evince the most marked sympathy for our disasters in India. The Patrie, in a leading article, opens the question of the French possessions in India, and commenting upon a petition of Bordeaux merchants, observes that the "miserable relics " of the ancient French posses sions in Hindostan still consist of 188 square miles of territory, containing 200,000 inhabitants, and opines that the French Government is disposed effectually to exercise in all its plenitude the incontestable right to protect these possessions, and thus to lead the way to a revision of 04 treaty with Engiand of May 80, 1814, which is "offensive to our national dignity, and leaves our establishments exposed to manifest danger." Prince Joachim Murat left the Emperor at Metz, for Berlin, bearing a letter to the King of Prussia. AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. The interview between the Emperors of Russia and Austria is reported to have been brief. A tele graphic despatch from Vienna, dated the 20th of September, announces the departure of the Em peror of Austria, at midnight, for Dresden and Weimar. The Emperor of Russia arrived at Weimar on the 20th. PIEDMONT. Baron Bourqueney, in the name of Count Cavour, has offered to the Austrian Cabinet certain concessions which Sardinia is ready to make if Austria should con sent to renew its diplomatic relations with the Court of Turin. The Piedmontese Ministry are disposed to meet the Cabinet of Vienna. SPAIN. The Queen has approved the convention agreed to between Fiance and England relative to literary copyright. The convention will take effect from Sept. 30, 1857. PERSIX AND TURKEY. _ _ Telegraphic despatches from Trieste and Mar seilles, with intelligence from Constantinople to the tort tint ,11 astron. Her Majesty and the Royal Family will leave Balmoral for Manchester on the 14th instant. Owing to the continued indisposition of the Earl Fitz william, the royal visit to Wentworth-house is post. poned. The Earl of Eglinton has been entertaining a numerous and distinguished circle of friends at Eglinton Castle during the past week, amongst whom wera the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa, the Earl and Countess of Derby, and Lady Euima Stanley. The Earl and Countess of Derby have arrived at Knowsley. Lord Panmure arrived in town on Thursday evening. Volittral. A CABINET COUNCIL was held on Thursday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R.I Vernon Smith, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and Lord Panmure. A second Cabine.; Council was held on Friday. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN held a Court of Privy Council at Balmoral on the 24th ult., at which were present the Prince Consort, Earl Granville, K.G., President of the Council, Lord Panmure, and Lord Stanley of Alderley. At the Council a proclamation was ordered appointing Wednesday, the 7th October, as a day of national fast and humiliation. THE EARL OF FIFE has been granted by the Queen the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom, under the title of Baron Skene of Skene. A PARLIAMENTARY Buie nook upon India, con taining official reports of considerable interest from Barradcpore, Rohnee, Cawnpore, and from General Barnard at Delhi, has just been published. Altiropolitan. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR. SLR R. was elected Lord Mayor of London for the ensuing year, by the liverymen, on Tuesday last. Mr. James Anderton opposed the election, on the ground that Sir Robert was opposed to the admission of Jews into Parliament. Mr. Anderton concluded his address by proposing the re-election of the present Lord ➢Mayor. The show of hands in favour of Sir R. Carden was incontestable, and a short time having elapsed the sheriffs an nounced Sir R. W. Carden, M.P., to be Lord Mayor elect. Sir R. Carden, amidst the cheers of his supporters, vindicated his conduct with reference to recent circumstances, and the proceedings ter minated.—The election this year' has been accom panied with some curious circumstances. Sir R. W. 966