The Press. — London, England, 1854-09-02 00:00:00

~~: SEPTEMRER 2, 1854. . jaw And Colonial FRANCE. The Emperor returned to Paris on Monday from Biarritz. The Empress will remain until the middle of the present month. Sea air and bathing are said to have proved very beneficial to her health. The journey of the Emperor from Bordeaux to Paris was effected in eleven hours, being about thirty miles an hour, including stoppages—a rate of railway travel ling considered rapid in France. General Baraguay d'Hilliers has been made a marshal of France for his success at Bomarsund. Admiral Parseval Duchesne and General Neil, corn mandant of the engineers in the Baltic, have had grand crosses of the Legion of Honour conferred upon them. All the generals !appointed to command in the different camps have left for their destination. General Hautpoul, Commander-in-Chief of the camp of the south, has set out for Aix. Official documents collected by the Minister of Marine report that the number of men serving and liable to be called on to serve in the French navy, on the Ist of April last, was 160,014. On the same day in 1851 it was 142,040; showing an increase in the last three years of 18,000 men. The average annual increase from 1830 to 1840 was onlj from 1,400 to 1,900. The inaction of the French army in the East, it is said, has caused so much discontent among the troops that something like a remonstrance has been addressed to the Minister of War upon the subject, who views the matter in a serious light. The Constitutionnel contains the following : "It is well known that the troops forming part of the expeditions must receive warm clothing to protect them from cold in the winter. A house at Metz has, ust re ceived a large order for a sort of great-coat in sheepskin, which is to be fastened across the breast by a loop similar to that used for paletots. Large quantities of shoes with wooden soles are also being made, as well as headdresses which will cover the nape of the neck and ears." A trial of a new incendiary projectile was made at Puteaux, near Paris, on Saturday, in presence of a commissioner of the War Department. GERMANY. Accounts from Vienna state that the negotiations for the accession of Austria to the Anglo French treaty, offensive and defensive, are suspended until the receipt of the answer from Russia to the demand for guarantees. If that answer should contain a refusal the negotiations will be resumed. The reply was said to have arrived in Vienna on Tuesday, but Prince Gortschakofi (the minister) delayed its formal communication until the Emperor bad returned from Ischl. There is some question of an additional article to the Austro-Prussian convention of April which will, perhaps, place Prussia on a better footing with England, France, and Austria. The Moniteur contains a letter from Vienna stating that the subscriptions to the loan amount at present to 401,303,973 florins. DENMARK. The Danish Diet is summoned for October 2. Much opposition continues to be manifested against the new administrative scheme of the King. At a crowded meeting of the members of the Constitutional Association, held on Tuesday evening, resolutions were unanimously passed expressing dis trust in Ministers, and in favour of refusing the payment of taxes until the causes of distrust had been removed. Several thousand dollars were sub sctibed on the spot in aid of dismissed officials. The meeting is said to have been composed of men of all ranks, and to have been marked by the utmost en thusiasm, and an ominous avoidance of any allusion to the King. • BELGIUM. All the members of the Belgian Ministry tendered their resignations on Friday, the 25th ult., to King Leopold, who was then at Ostend. The cause of this break up is not stated. The determination was come to after a council held under the presidentship of M. de Bronckere, Minister of Foreign Affairs. The rumour in Brussels is that the course was adopted in consequence of the exigencies of the French Govern ment relative to Colonel Charras and other political refugees. Another report states that the Ministry expected to be in a minority on certain questions at the next meeting of the Chambers. SWEDEN. In the Swedish Diet the House of Peasants has proposed a petition to the King to take measures, In conjunction with the Diet, to prevent the Aland Islands from returning to Russian dominion. The Aftonbladt affirms that General Baraguay &Millers has offered the King of Sweden fourteen million francs fur the first month, and seven for succeeding months, as a subsidy to be paid on his actively joining the Western powers. Spener's Berlin Gazette of the 27th states:— " According to information which has reached us from a good source s there is no doubt that since the capture of THE PRESS. Bomarsund the position of Sweden towards the. Western powers is completely changed. At this moment very ac tive negotiations are going on at Stockholm between that Government and the representatives of the Western powers, and these negotiations are on the point of being brought to a conclusion. Sweden will accede to the treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, concluded between France and Eng land ; she will furnish an army of 50,000 men to co-operate in the conquest of Finland, which will be guaranteed to her ; she will put her fleet at the disposal of the Western powers, anti England will conclude with her a treaty for granting subsidies. Sweden at first, it is said, hesitated on account of the doubtful position of Denmark in her rear, but that hesitation has been removed by explanations given by the new English Ambassador at the Court of Sweden, and by the facts which have been unveiled—facts which when known will produce great astonishment." ITALY. News has arrived from Palermo of the apps' ance of cholera in that city. The Sicilians, it seems, are under the impression that cholera is a poison com municated by human means. The people surrounded the governor's palace, and shouted, " We will not have the cholera here!" The viceroy immediately issued orders prohibiting the people to speak of poison. The troops were under arms night and day, and the city in a very excited state. The cholera cases have very much diminished in Naples. A letter from Rome, in the Ami de Religion, an nounces that the Pope has just published a notice that a universal jubilee is to take place in October or November next, to obtain-Ist, peace between Christian princes ; 2ndly, the calming down of the spirit of revolt and sedition; 3rdly, the removal of the visitations of cholera and famine ; and, 4thly, the enlightenment of the Holy Ghost on the Pope in the dogmatic decision of tne immaculate conception. In addition, an invitation of the Holy Father convokes all the bishops of the Roman Catholic world to Rome, to be present at a solemn assembly relative to the promulgation of the belief of the Church on that point. SPAIN. The Government are taking measures gradually to efface or stop the access of revolutionary excitement throughout Spain. A royal decree has been pub lished suppressing some of the Juntas and annulling the changes which they had made in the territorial divisions of the country, and in civil, judicial, or ad ministrative circumscriptions. The clubs have also been closed. The members of the most powerful and active association, the Union Club, were sum moned to disperse, on the 29th ult., by a detachment of National Guards. They obeyed without resistance, and the club was broken up. Senor Olozaga left Madrid on the 27th (Sunday`, for Paris, as ambassador to France. He presented hiA credentials to the Emperor, in Paris, on Wednes day. A despatch from Bayonne of the 29th announces that the Spanish Government has obtained a loan of 85,000,000 of reals, secured on the revenue of Cuba. Madrid letters say that Marshal Lspartero had presided at a meeting of capitalists, from whom he demanded a loan of 58,000,000 reals, to be applied to the pressing wants of the State, and guaranteed on the revenues of Havannah and the Bank. A commission has been named to consider the propo- sition. Queen Christina left Madrid for Portugal on Monday, with the consent of the Government. Some disturbances occurred upon her departure becoming known, but they were quickly suppressed. It is said, however, that in order to satisfy the public feeling a decree was about to be issued ►sequestrating her property, and suppressing her pension until the pleasure of the Cortes has been taken on the matter. Two sons and a daughter of Christina had pre viously arrived at Lisbon, where it was reported they would embark in a steamer for Southampton, and thence go to Bayonne. A revolutionary paper, called La Vos de las Barri cadas, having been fined for not complying with the law of the press, has not only refused payment, in a letter addressed by its editor to the civil go vernor, but continues to make its appearance daily under a different name, as Lis Barricadas, El Grito de las Barricadas, or El Clamor de las Barricadas. It advocates the dethroning of both the Braganza and Bourbon families in the Peninsula, and the union of Spain and Portugal under a republican form of government. TURKEY. New diplomatic propositions are under discussion in Constantinople for the purpose of placing the principalities under the joint adm;nistration of England, France, Austria, and Turkey. The Ministers of the Divan have held several conferenc s on the subject. The plan, it is added, was concocted at Vienna. Said Pacha, the newly-appointed Viceroy of Egypt, has arrived in Constantinople. His Highness was received with great honours, and the Sultan's palace called the Ferie fixed upon for his residence during his temporary abode in the Turkish capital. 823 The Wallachian Council of Administration of Bucharest have ordered the confiscation of all the Russian crosses and decorations conferred on Walla chians during the Russian occupation. These cr asses will be sold by auction for the value of the gold and silver they contain, and are to be melted down. A committee has been formed to ascertain the amount of the damage caused by the Russian occupation, in order that an indemnity may be de• inanded from Russia, when she shall be called on to pay for the expenses of the war. All the decrees issued and all the nominations made by the Rus sians have been annulled. EGYPT. The treasury of Egypt is at its lowest ebb. Nothing had been left in it by the late Viceroy. The annual revenue is, however, about four and a half millions sterling, and, with careful husbanding, as there are no large claims outstanding against the Government, the finances may soon assume a healthy look. El Hamy Paella has returned to Alexandria, and was well received. The present Viceroy is most friendly inclined towards him, and the other mem bers of the family are cordially united. RUSSIA. A letter from Odessa, published in the Cologne Gazette, says that trade is at at a standstill, and that very many of the working classes employ their time in picking up cannon balls lately fired from the English and French vessels while bombarding that place, for which they receive fifteen kopecks each from the commandant of that fortress. Mercantile advices received in the city of London state, on the other hand, that no blockade was in force, and report sundry transactions m linseed and other articles. UNITED STATES. New York advices to the loth ult. have arrived. It had been ascertained that ten men were killed in the recent riot at St. Louis. Some villain fired a gun• powder•mill on the 17th at Maysville. Thirteen houses were destroyed by the explosion, but no lives were lost, except that of a lady, who died of fright. Lieutenant Bonaparte, formerly of the United States army, has sent in his resignation, which has been accepted at the War Department. He is now with his uncle in Paris. The barque Briton's Pride, at Boston, reports having passed a green chest, in lat. 41 deg. 50 man., long. 00 deg. 5 min., with the words " City of Glas• gow " and the initials "G. B." painted on it. This is probably a relic of the long-lost steamer. Information has been laid before the Secretaiy of the Treasury, accompanied by proofs, by the United States Consul at Cnracoa, that certain subordinates in the New York Custom-house have been bribed to pass false invoices of goods prepared at Curacoa, in many instances putting the merchandise at 20 per cent. below its real value. The landlord of the Market Hotel in Cambridge, Mass., was arrested on the 11th instant, and fined 350 dollars, and sentenced to four years imprison ment, for eighteen violations of the liquor law. EAST INDIES. There is no political news in the Indan papers brought by the overland mail. Some fragments of gossip and items of local interest are, however, con tained in a Calcutta letter of July 15th. We read : " Sunday next (the 10th) the Governor-General has ap pointed for a day of humiliation throughout India, on ac count of the war, following the example of the home Government. It is expected to be • remarkable day here; and there is no doubt that the whole European population will combine to make it marked. There are to be collec tions in all the churches for the wives and families of the soldiers and sailors engaged in the war. " It is understood now to be decided that Lord Dalhousie shall remain in India until IMO, unless the Russian war terminates, or his lordship's health fails. There is a good deal of anxiety about his health, for he has lately got corpulent; and his unceasing application is evidently operating upon a constitution not very strong. Lord Dalhousie's continuation in office is regarded with universal satisfaction here. "We have had a partial opening of the railway. It has been tried with carriages for about thirty-five miles, and everything has proved satisfactory. The line itself is ex pected to be opened to Burdwan about next January. It is understood that contracts for completing the construc tion of the way are taken up by English engineers as far as Cawnpore." The King of (ludo has offered to the English Government 12,000 infantry, I,t 00 horses, and 100 guns. Russian agents are intriguing at Cabul. The order for sending the 10th Hussars to Turkey has not been literally carried out—in fact, owing to the present state of the vessels of the Indian navy, it could not be. They will not leave till the end of September or later. Captain Haines, who was removed from the Resi dentship at Aden because of defalcations in the Treasury there to the amount of 30,0001., has been brought before the grand jury of Bombay, and, a true bill having been found against him on five out of six indictments for embezzlement, he was shortly to be tried before the petty jury. A private telegraphic despatch from Marseilles A I