The Press. — London, England, 1853-06-18 00:00:00

TO CORRIBPOPIDZIITL xe6e•c is thanked for his letter, which our space, however, doss not permit us to insert. Dawning—On Sir Chola Wood's Lep' Wont. for India— ooze week. ?ono--Nest week if posslWe• U , LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE Is, 1853. POSTSCRIPT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. The Marquis of WESTMEATH rose to substantiate the charges he had made against Mr. Keogh, of having used certain inflammatory language at a meeting in the town of Moate, in Westmeath, on the occasion of the Athlone election, the effect of which was to incite the mob to take vengeance on their opponents in " the dark nights " which were coming on. In support of this charge the noble marquis cited the authority of two magi Andes in whose hear ing the language was used ; and, in the teeth of such evidence, he believed the Government would not pre sume to oppose the motion with which he concluded, namely, " That a committee be appointed to inquire into the subject." The Duke of NEWCASTLE, after what had occurred in the other house of Parliament on the previous evening, thought it quite superfluous to enter into =I vindication of Mr. Keogh. Taunting the Mar pus of Westmeath with having been animated by the spirit of party, he said that he had in his posses sion a letter from a solicitor named M'Nevin, who was present on the occasion of the alleged address. and who was ready to make oath that no such lan guage as that attributed to Mr. Keogh had been held. He opposed the motion for a committee, think ing the character of the Solicitor-General for Ireland quite unassailable, " whether by the pointed shafts of the Earl of Eglinton, or the rusty bolts from the battered quiver of the Marquis of Westmeath." The Earl of EtiLINTON was fully prepared to jus tify the expressions he had used on a former evening with regard to the appointment of Mr. Keogh ; and, considering the position to which that honourable and learned gentleman had been elevated, he should sup port the motion for inquiry. The Earl f ABERDEEN observed, that, as he was chiefly concerned in this " disreputable employment," he was prepared to resist the motion, as being abso lutely preposterous, the more so as arising out of a trifling and trumpery case. Lord Ilnouomot suggested that a criminal court, and not the House of Lords, ought to be the tribunal to try the charge, if it was to be noticed at all. The Earl of DERBY denied that there would have been anything inconsistent between the offer of office to Mr. Keogh by the late Government-an offer which he did not admit to have been made—and the condemnation of language he had subsequently used. The question was whether, at the time of his ap pointment by the present Government, Mr. Keogh was a fit and proper person for such RD appointment. He thought the matter was one which demanded in quiry ; but at the same time, after the successful case which the noble marquis had made out, he might fairly throw the responsibility of resisting the motion on the Government. After a few words from Lords CAment.t. and CLAN MCARDE, The Marquis of WESTMEATH withdrew the motion. After some routine business their lordships ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY. Mr. Cosnrs, complaining that the information furnished on the subject of the Burmese war had been garbled, asked the President of the Board of Control to name the parties responsible for the selec tion of the extraets. Mr. H. BAILED:, Mr. HUME. and Mr. BRIOHT,, after impugning the soundness of all such information, enforced Mr. Cobden 's question. Sir C. Wont' said that the despatches referred to had been prepared on the responsibility of the Presi dent of the Board of Control, but deprecated further discussion in the absence of his predecessor in office from the House. In reply to Mr. Bright, he said that. considerable mortality had occurred amongst the troops at. Prim. but that at Rangoon the troops were in a healthy condition. In answer to Mr. Pr.t.t.Art, Mr. Wit,sow said it was not intended under the Customs Act to allow to the home manufacturers any drawback upon the re- Importation of home-manufactured soap. Lord PALMERSTON, interrogated by Mr. ar.BERIELEY, expressed the desire of the Government to facilitate the formation of graveyards and cemeteries in the place of the Bat graveyards ordered to be closed in lane, and of those which had still to be closed. The CRANcELLOR of the EV:Mk/REM announced Ins intention of proceeding with the stamp and ad- THE PRESS. vertisement duties on Monday, but not after ten o'clock. The house then went into committee on the Suc • cession Duty Bill, and the remainder of the evening was occupied in the discussion of the clauses. The motion for the third reading of the Excise Duties on Spirits Bill was opposed by Irish members, on the ground that the machinery by which it was proposed to work the measure had been left unex plained by the Government. After a heated and protracted discussion, which gave rise to a series of vons on motions for the adjournment of the debate and of the house, the bill, at half-past three o'clock this morning, was read a third time. ABSTRACT OF LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE. A TRVI.Y 1111%/1 DEFENCE. Says my Lord in the House, "'Twas a terrible flaw To appoint Mr. Keogh as guardian of law : The tone of his speeches last year we remember, And that very broad hint about nights in November." " Fail, my Lord," replies PADDY, " you'd best hould your tongue ; Yourself and your party are quite in the wrong; 'Tis yourselves were half ready to bid for my aid, Before ever the apaches ye spoke of were made." THE BOURBON FUSION ACCOMPLISHED. THE Frankfort Poslzeilung of the 11th ult., one of the Ger• man journals which is known for its occasional access to sources of official information, contains the following statement from a Berlin correspondent, the correctness of which there is no reason to doubt:— " The French fusion affair, which has been so long u standing phrase of the now more calm Paris coteries, attracted from its very beginning the attention of the Ger• man Courts, which, however, was not so much caused by the importance which these affairs have on their immediate interests, but rather by the very close relationship in which the Duchess of Orleans stands to several of our reigning families. Sister of the present Sovereign, Duke of Meck lenburg Schwerin, her Royal Highness is also related to the royal house of Prussia by near bonds of consanguinity. I mention this for marking out the base on which the ques tion of Bourbonic fusion proceeds now to its solution. Without entering here into those tiresome weighings of pro babilities tone way •3r other) with which this altair has been discussed for years past, I can assure you that there is no doubt entertained here that all princes of the Orleans family have consented to acknowledge the claims and rights of the Count de Chambord, and that this whole weighty affair is ready fur publicity save some minor formalities. We stand here so much nearer the treads of these family connections, that any one could wonder why Berlin should possess such news sooner and in preference to the French capital. We are in the possession of facts that one of the crowned heads of the north of Germany, on the stress of his near relationship, has made representations to the Ducheass of Orleans on account of her hitherto aversion towards a fusion with the elder branch of the Bourbons. Some few days since the Neue Prouusiche Zeitaag said also—' The influence which endeavonrs to confirm her Royal Highness in this decision loses its intensity. In legitimate circles a German Monarch is mentioned, whose relationship makes it a duty to the Duchess to listen to him, and who has represented to that exalted lady that her taking into account the principle of popular sovereignty would compel her (at least logically) to acknowledge the present order of things in France, the more so as, con sidered from this point of view, the tights of the Emperor are based on a broader foundation than those of the grand son of Louis Philippe, who has not been proclaimed but by some two hundred representatives, acting without 14 mandate.' Whether the formalities above alluded to may, after all, retard or impede the intended fusion, none can say; still they are of no great import. Already, last year, when his Royal Highness the Duke of Mecklenburg- Schwerin had sent General von Hopfgartin to Paris, for the sake of entering into negotiations relating to the Orleans property; when, subsequently, the Duke, on his return from Vienna, had paid the Duchess a visit in Swit zerland, then. already, the princely relations of her Royal Highness in Germany had entered the circle of transac t' which embraces the grave question of the fusion of the two branches of the Bourbon CIRCULAR NOTE OF THE SUBLIME PORTE, ADDRESSED TO THE REPREsENTATIIVES OF ENOLAND, FRANCE, AUSTRIA, AND PRUSSIA, AT CONSTANTINOPLE. (Translated how the Turkish.) THE question of the Holy Places, which formed one of the principal objects of the mission of Prince Menschikoff, envoy extrordinary of Russia, had been solved to mutual satisfaction, when his Highness started demands relative to the Greek Church and clergy whicl► possessed quite a different character. It is an affair of 1 for the Sublime Porte to leave intact. as well now as in future, those religious immunities, rights, and privileges which had been granted. as well by former Sultans as by his reigning Majesty. to the clergy, the churches, mu►d convents of those of his subjects who profess the Greek religion ; and, as the Sublime Porte has never thought to make in this respect the least retractation, she has also never doubted the kind and loyal sentiments of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia towards the Sublime Porte. But to stipulate with a foreign Government by a formal treaty, or by *note or detiaration of equal SATURDAY, force and meaning, about the rights, privileges, and immunities in favour of a numerous class of subjects of the Sublime Porte, even if these rights were only to relate to religion, the cadge, and church, would destroy the independence and the foundation .of g overnment of the powers entering into such stipula tions, and can by no means be compared with the concessions made by ancient treaties. This has been explained as freely and honestly as possible to Prince Menschikoff; and besides it has been stated, that we are quite willing to dispel, by the most appropriate declarations, those fears which may be entertained with respect to a faith professed per sonally by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias. It is to be regretted that this has not led to any understanding between the two parties, and the Sub lime Porte deplores very much that the Prince has gone so far as to break off official relations and to leave his post. The Sublime Porte is animated by no inimical sentiments towards the high Court of Russia, but, on the contrary, cherishes the most ardent desire to cement closer than before, by a re sumption of official relations, those ties of friendship so dear to her. She hopes, therefore, that his Majesty the Emperor, whose high sentiments of justice are sufficiently known, will not, without reason, enter the area of hostilities, and that his conservative principles, whose witness is the whole world, will not permit him to resort to steps which would be in contradiction with the formal declarations made by his Majesty to the high Courts of Europe. As, however, Prince Menschikoff has broken off the diplomatic relations, and left his post, and as since the Sublime Porte has not received the insurance that no war will break out; as, on the contrary, Russia is making armaments of an enormous scale by land and sea, in the vicinity of the Osmans' empire ; the Porte, although not har bouring by any means inimical sentiments, has found herself compelled to make certain preparations in way of precaution, and has resolved to resort, from this date, to military defensive measures. The Sublime Porte hopes that the high Courts which have signed the treaty of 1841 will assent to this line of conduct. MUSTAPHA RESCHID. 19 Safer, 1209 (20th May, 1853). " TI►E PRESS" AND THE EASTERN QUESTION.-6011 Monday we stated that the demands of Russia upon the Porte had been virtually encouraged both by Lord Clarendon and Lord Aberdeen. Our readers will recollect that we did little more than repeat, in per haps a more cautious form, the statement which had on the previous Saturday been published in the columns of the PRESS. Up to this hour no contra diction dues been given. We may now, therefore, assume, as an admitted fact, that Baron Brunow, months ago, sought from Lord Clarendon the opinion of England on the Russian invasion of Turkey's inde pendence, and that Lord Clarendon, aided by Lord Aberdeen, virtually represented that opinion as not unfavourable to the project of the Czar. If contra diction could be given we may be perfectly sure that before this it would have been so.—Morning Herald. THE Frankfort Journal asserts that the Emperor of Russia had expressed his willingness to accept the mediation of Austria. W's regret to announce the death, by suicide, of the Hon. and Rev. A. P. Perceval, rector of Little Bookharn, and one of the chaplains to her Majesty. At the inquest it was proved that the deceased cler gyman had taken a large quantity of laudanum. The evidence showed also that he had for some time past been labouring under strange delusions; and the verdict of " Temporary insanity" was returned. MR. GEORGE BIRCH, an Irish attorney, has been arrested on a charge of taking and carrying away money and valuable securities belonging to his aunt, Mrs. Kelly, to the amount of about 35,0001. The prosecuttix is the widow of the late Mr. Edmund Kelly, of Roscommon, under whose will she suc ceeded, after much litigation, in establishing her right to a fortune little short of half a million sterling. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, June 14. 13AN K PTS. —11 EN ny ASHDOWN, East Wickham, Kent, wheelwright--Tour Srutir. Catherine-street, and Buckingham. Street, strand, newspaper proprietor—Et:masa BROCK, Sackyille street, Piccadilly, tailor Joan CROW 1. - WYMAN, RIDOSIODA, RD' hOISterer—EDWARD GREEN, Cork street, Westminster, tailor — Wm. 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