The Press. — London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

AUGUST 27, 1853. The show will be repeated in September next, and will probably attract a fresh influx of spectators. Oae fact more before closing which may have interest for your lady readers. The bridal dress of the Duchess of Brabant, worn on going to church, is a masterpiece of Belgian lace manufacture. It is of moire antique, covered with lace of spun gold (tili grane), worked as point de Bruxelles. Her headdress was the diadem of diamonds presented to her by her cousin'the Emperor of Austria, resting on a crown of orange flowers most tastefully arranged. The Prin cess Charlotte, daughter of King Leopold, wore a gown of light blue moire, covered with %-olants of Brussels lace. The royal bridegroom wore the uni form of a major of grenadiers, with the order of Leopold, the Golden Fleece, just sent to him by the Emperor of Austria, and the Prussian Black Eagle. [From our otcm Correspondent.] PAtets, August 't 5. Paris, that queen of pleasure, has abdicated for a moment. Her votaries have deserted her, lured away by the syrens of the sea and the zephyrs of the open country. Dieppe holds pre-eminence. The Emperor and Empress continue to enjoy health and as much retirement as is permitted by the all invading public to crowned heads at this delightful Norman seaport. The Emperor invented a residence here for himself. He took possession of the Town hall, and made himself at home. The authorities, delighted, dreaming already of eclipsing Boulogne, which, under the auspices of the English, has arrived at so much importance and prosperity, offered the Mite' de Ville, and all the ground sloping down to the sea, to the Emperor, as a gift for ever ; and also a separate bathing establishment for the Empress. The "parvenu" declined with many thanks. The civil list he declared did not per►►it of the expense of more imperial residences. The Empress had no occasion for any separate bithiug-place. Dieppe is , ;elebrated for its carved ivory. The Emperor takes great interest in this industry of art. He visits the workshops quite privately, and buys anything worthy A notice. The Princess Mathilde has arrived there; and the Duke de Bassano. M. de Persigny, Minis ter of the Interior, and Marshal Valliant, Grand Marshal of the Palace, are expected. The Prince Jerome is at Havre, and, accompanied by Queen Christine, inspected the imperial yacht La Reim! Hortense. It is thought that the Emperor may em bark on board this vessel and go by sea to Calais, and thence to the camp at St. Omer; but he is not a good seaman, and it is more likely that he will re turn to Paris, and go by the Northern Railway, leav ing the Empress at Dieppe. Major-General Steins, Aide-de•Camp to the King of Holland, and Major Kock, on the staff, have arrived in Paris to compli ment the Emperor, and to be present at the reviews of Helfaut. Lieutenant Steinbergh, of the Artillery of the Netherlands, has also arrived in Paris, to study the improvements brought into that service by the Emperor of the French. The Prince Jablonowski, Field Marshal Lieutenant, and Colonel Baron Leykam, brother•in-law of the Prince Metternich, Colonel Baron Smola, and Colonel Aubin, are sent by the Emperor of Austria to represent the Austrian army at the camps of Satory and Helfant. Doubt less many English officers will avail themselves of this proximity of St. Omer to our coast to visit the scene of these military manteuvres, h ightened in their interest by the presence of the Emperor, and of so many distinguished foreigners. Lord and Lady Cowley are at Dieppe, also the Duke de Glucksberg, the Prince Galitzen, the Count Basilewski, chamberlain to the Emperor of Russia, and Doctor Conneau, the friend and fellow-captive at Ham of Louis Napoleon. The Minister of Public Instruction has published a circular to the Archbishops and Bishops of France, observing that sacred music had lost its former re ligious character, and had assumed the operatic style, owing to the necessity of employing theatrical singers and performers, because the Church had no school of her own. The Minister institutes such an establishment in Paris, the superintendence being assigned to M. Niedermayer, under the patronage of the Archbishop of Paris. A circular of the Minister of the Interior, dated the 17th of this ►month, announces to the Prefects of the departments that the Government has re nounced for the future the cellular system in the prisons, but insists the more on the classification and separation of the different categories of criminals. The Monittur continues silent on the Oriental question. The acceptation of the note - of the four powers by the Ottoman Porte is eagerly expected. In the meantime the pulse of the Bourse beats very feebly. Your Belgian correspondent will have given you the accounts of the ceremony and fetes attendant on the marriage of the Duke and Duchess de Brabant. THE PRESS. The absence of the French Ambassador, or of any one to represent France, on that o ccasion has been much remarked upon in Brussels ; but I know, front good authority, that the Emperor has lately con veyed to King Leopold the wannest assurances of his friendship and congratulations on this event, so auspicious for Belgium. FRANCE. The Emperor and Empress left Paris for Dieppe on Saturday, arriving at that seaport aftor a journey of two hours, and being received with much enthu siasm. On Sunday, Lord Cowley, the British Ambas sador, reached d►ieppe, and hail an interview on the same day with the Emperor. The Princess Mathilde arrived on the day following. The Moniteur has published a decree pmmitlgating the treaty of friendship, eketnnerce, and navigation concluded at Santiago between France and Chili on the :10th of June, lss'!, and ratified at St. Cloud on the Nth of August, 1$5:1. The sessions of the councils-generalwere opened in every department of France on the :22nd, w►th the exception of the department of the Seine. Accounts have been received of the proceedings at the first sitting of several of those councils. In all of them the prefects have delivered speeches in which, as a matt, r of course, the warmest encomiums were passed on the Emperor Napoleon 111. and his ad ministration. The intended journey of the Emperor to the north is said to be postponed for the present. An article appears in the Constitution!►rl of Wed•- nesday upon the marriage of the Belgian Prince with the Austrian Archduchess. The object of the writer is to show the advantage of annexing Belgium to France. General Montholon, who shared the Emperor Napoleon's captivity at St. Helena, has just died in Paris. Ile leaves a widow (who is an Irish lady) and a son, who cannot, however, it is believed, suc ceed to the title, in consequence of the circumstances connected with his birth. General Month°lon must have been more that seventy years old, and had antlered occasionally and severely from a wound which he received in battle under the Empire, and which had never been thoroughly healed. The general was with the Emperor Napoleon from a very early age, and was a great favourite. He had at one time a large fortune, but lost it in commercial and manufacturing speculations. For some years his 111311118 must have been very limited. The circus ordered by the Emperor to be built in the camp of Satory for the amusement of the troops will very soon be finished. The construction is con fided to M. Souhart, a chef-de-bataillon of engineers, who on Friday last summoned to his aid M. Anima, the director of the Hippodrome, with whom he passed three hours in consultation. The Emperor himself furnished the plans. The circus of Satory is intended to emulate the vast Roman amphitheatres. There will b►e eighteen rows of turf benches capable of accommodating 15,000 spectators, so that the whole army of Satory will be able to see the games at the same time. The Hippodrome company will perform there by the Emperor's orders. AUSTRIA. The Emperor of Austria was betrothed on the 19th instant, at Isehl, to Princess Elizabeth, second (laughter of Maximilian 11., King of Bavaria. The princess was born on the 24th of December, 1837. She has three brothers and four sisters. She is granddan2hter of the l►►te King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, cousin of the Emperor of Austria, and nearly related to the Queen of Prussia. The Emperor will proceed to the camp of Olmutz on the 15th of September, and remain there for a week, immediately after which the Federal Military Commission will inspect the Austrian contingent. The invitation given by the French Government to send Austrian officers to the camp of Satory has been followed by a polite reply, accompanied by a similar invitation for French officers to be present at the camp of Olmutz. A memorandum has been communicated by the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Minister( of the several Foreign Courts with regard to the events at Smyrna. The Government, it is stated, will be compelled to resort to a new loan in October next, notwithstanding the palliatives lately employed to mitigate their financial difficulties. IT .1 IX. The Gionuzle di Ronu► announces the arrest of certain Roman emigrants who had clandestinely landed at Civita Vecchia, as well as that of their accomplices who had given them shelter. Twenty nine persons had been already arrested, and among the number was the advocate I'etr►ni of Bologna, a man devoted heart and soul to the republican cause, and late president of the Mazzinian committee in Rome, but removed from that office by the republicans themselves, after the events of Milan, which pro duced a split between the liberal parties. A con siderable mass of correspondence with Mazzini and other leading men of his party was discovered in his moms, besides papers calculated to reveal the whole plans of the republicans and to implicate a vast number of persons throughout the Roman Staten. In the apartments of Signor bepri in the Poll Palace, besides three of the foreign emissaries who lodged there, the gendarmes seized upon a quantity of papers, circulars, and the printing-press itself, whose mysterious existence has so long puzzled the autho rities. Other arrests were expected to follow from the revelations which the papers thus discovered would bring about. 'the fe're of Napoleon was celebrated at Nice with great kiat. ATe Defeat was celebrated in the church of St. Dominique, and in the evening the French Consul, Baron do Maussion, gave a grand ball to the principal inhabitants There was a display of fire works given in the course of the evening. The quantity of specie which is now leaving Pied- mont for purchases of corn in foreign markets has caused the national bank of Turin and its branch establishments to raise their raw of discount from 4 to 5 per cent. The Tuscan Monitore announces that fifty-eight vessels buten with corn. from Oreece, the lowan islands, Turkey, and the tllack Sea. eeiteied the port of Leghorn between the Ist and 14th instant, that seventeen vessels more from the Black Sea entered on the 14th, three more on the 15th, and eight were within sight on that day. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 17th publishes a decree, signed by the Minister of Public Works, ratifying the concession of several lines of railway. M. Salamanea has arrived in Paris with the object, as it is stated, of bringing out the project for making a railroad from Madrid to Bayonne. It was that project Which occasioned more than one Ministerial crisis at Madrid. PORTUGAL. The session of the Cortes was closed on the 15th by royal decree. The prospects of the country were very unfavour able, owing to the rapid and general spread of the grape disease. The grape shipments by the packets would not, it was expected, reach more than ten per cent. of the usual quantity. The price of wines had risen considerably in consequence. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Great excitement has been caused among the boyards of the Danubian Principalities by a tirman of the Sultan disn►issing the Hospodar for having received the Russ►ans with too much favour. This tirman having been read to the Assembly of Boyards, they petitioned the Hospodar to retain the govern meta. The Hospodar consented. Upon this the Consuls of France and Great Britain untnediately suspended their relations with his Government. The French Consul placed his countrymen under the pro tection of Greece, while the British Consul declared to the English residents in the principality that he could not any longer protect them, ►►ince the Hoepo• dar opposed his Sovereign's commands. General Osten-Sacken, the commander of the third corps of the Russian army, has crossed the Pruth with his forces. A Russian commission has arrived at the Sulina mouth of the Danube to investigate the condition of the river, and advise as to the means of making it navigable. A letter from Taganrog of the 3rd inst. states that the result of the harvest m o st favourable. Lame purchases of grain and breadstuffs are said to have been made there and at Hosted' for exportation, and the transactions would have been still more exten sive but for the want of vessels. The Russian Consul at Adrianople, who had left his post, has received orders from the Consul-General to return forthwith to his duties. Explanations have been offered by the Austrian Government to the Porte respecting the proposed transmission of an Austrian force into Servia. M. io Bruck, in the presence of the Ministers of Great Britain, France, and Prussia, assured the Ottoman Ministers that, in proposing to occupy Scrvia, Austria had no desire to make the slightest attack on the in tegrity and sovereignty of Turkey, but merely to aid in the maintenance of order ; and that, if the Porte did not consider this aid necessary, the Austrians would not cross the frontier. Advises from Belgrade announce the outbreak 0 4 a rebellion in Servia. The insurgents propose tab lishing the son of Prince Miluath on the throned the principality. A conspiracy has been discovered at Aleppo. The conspirators are Mussultimn fanatics. Their object was to plunder and kill the Christian inhabitants of the towns. The ringleaders bad been arrested and transported to Rhodes. Two British vessels had arrived at Malta on the 15th with stores for the naval establishment of Sinope. The Inflexible frigate was preparing to return to Besika Bay.