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and the Princes Charles and Albert, were to meet at Wildbad on Tuesday morning. The Empress will make a short stay at Weimar and at Berlin on her return home. SPAIN. Intelligence from Madrid, July 15, states that the Senate has approved the law for public instruction, and that both the Senate and the Congress have voted the Constitutional Reform as proposed by the Govern ment. The disturbances in Seville have been put down promptly, but with severe loss on both sides. Ac cording to the statement of the Civil Governor of Cadiz, the insurgents met with no sympathy from the population, and were only able to penetrate into some thinly-inhabited villages. TUSCANY AND THE POPE. A rumour is very prevalent in Florence that the Pope's visit will be signalised by the most calamitous of all events to Tuscany—by the conclusion of a very stringent concordat, and the entire repeal of the Leopoldine laws. Of the nature of such a step, few persons not Tuscan have any conception. It is not hazarding too much to say that enormous powers and privileges will be restored to the Church. The following is a summnry of the Leopoldine laws which are about to be overthrown : The establishment of a uniform administration of civil and criminal justice for blth clergy and laity, free from clerical interference and Papal usurpation ; the abolition of the inquisition ; the abolition of niortrnain; the aboli• non of the right of sanctuary; the abolition of torture; the reduction and partial suppression of conventual vows ; the diminution of monks, nuns, and convents ; the equalisation of church and lay property as regards taxa tion ; the abolition of parochial tithes ; the dispersion of pilgrims ; the restoration of the Tuscan Episcopacy to its ancient and legitimate authority ; the prohibition of non. residence ; and, as the basis and guarantee of these truly national measures, the suppression of the bull " in ca'na Domini," and the declared invalidity of all Papal monitories without the Sovereign's approval. ASIATIC TURKEY. Letters from Erzeroum of the sth ult. state that the commission appointed to settle the Turco-Rus sian boundary in Asia had arrived at Gumri on the 11th, and had commenced operations the next day. The commission, as is already known, is composed of M. Pelissier, the French commissary (accompa nied by U. Saillard, secretary of the mission), Hus sein Paella for Turkey, Colonel Simmons for Eng land, and General Tcherikoff for Russia. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The commissioners have terminated their prelimi nary labours at Bucharest, and an ordonnance of the Kamaikan has appeared, regulating the elections for the Divan ad hoc, according to the decision of the commissioners. A Paris letter, in the Nord of Brussels, says : T understand that M. Thouvenel has been authorised not to follow up the protest presented to the Porte against the acts of the Kaimakan of Moldavia. The motive of this abandonment is the measure adopted by the Porte of post poning from the P2th to the 27th inst. the elections of Moldavia for the nomination of the members of the Divan, in order that the electoral lists may be rectified conform ably to the demanda made by the commissioners of the Congress of Paris. The advice of M. Thouvenel has led to this policy of moderation. It has been approved of by the representatives of Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and M. de Prcicesch are said to have strongly opposed the concession made by the Porte. THE PRESS, JULY 18,1857. Great distress prevailed at Canton from famine. The insurgents have stopped the rice countries to the east, the locusts have destroyed all the crops ill the west, and the English and Americans are buying up the rice from Siam and elsewhere, so that Canton is literally kept from starvation by the people whom they have driven out of their factories, and upon whose heads they have set prices not always justly estimated. A severe engagement between the Imperialists and rebels at Foo chow-foo is believed to havo taken place. Captain Barnard, of her Majesty's ship Racehorse, had returned from Foo-choviloo on the 25th, and reported that some terrible fighting has occurred among the Chinese above that city. Mutilated bodies in quantities of twenty and thirty at a time floated past the Racehorse as she rode at anchor. The supposition is that the Imperialists have geined an important advantage, for the teas arc now corning down from Foochow, which would seem to show that the impediment created by the troubles had ceased. AMERICA. The political intelligence from America is of no particular importance. Full details of that terrible accident, the burning of the steamer Montreal, have come to hand. Upwards of 300 persons were lost, although the steamer was within 200 yards of the shore. CHINA. Lord Elgin and Getr4l4Ashburnham arrived at Singapore on June :3, with their respective staffs, all well. Lord Elgin remains a guest of the gover nor until the arrival of her Majesty's ship Shannon, when his Excellency will proceed on to China. The Chinese residents are reported as "quiet at present," but the disastrous news from India has had a bad effect upon their minds. From Hong Kong we hear rf the arrival of her Majesty's ships Tribune and Highilyer and of flur more gunboats. Great preparations were making for a military expedition of some sort, pack-horses were being bought up, and an efficient commissariat organised. The great question was whether Canton or Pekin would be the point of attack. The dates from the Canton river are to the 23rd inst. There is little to report thence. The junks are again appearing in large numbers, and in Fat shan•creek over 100, most of them of the largest size, were anchored, and batteries were erected on shore, the Chinese being apparently under the im pression that an attack upon Fatshan was contem plated by our forces. It was the intention, as soon as the gunboats were ready, to clear the creek s of the numerous junks. Commodore Keppell and Captain Elliott are to head the expedition. coat atm 4asllion. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by the Prince Consort and the Court, let town on Thursday for Aidershott. It is expected that her Majesty will leave the camp for Osborne this day. The Queen of the Netherlands arrived at Claridge's Hotel on Tuesday. H3r Majesty was received by the Queen on Wednesday, at a full Court. The King of the Bell,ians left London on 'Wednes day for Manchester. The King returned to Bucking ham Palace yesterday. The Earl and Countess Spencer were on Tuesday evening honoured by a state visit from the Queen and her Majesty's illustrious guests. The Count and Countess Chreptowitch have left London for Germany in attendance upon the Lm peror. plitlt al. CABINET COUNCILS were held upon Saturday and Wednesday last at the Premier's official residence in Downing street. All Ow Ministers upon each occa sion attended, and held a lengthened council. HER MAJESTY held a Court of Privy Council at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday. A MEETING of the members of the House of Commons favourable to the admission of Jews into Parliament was held at the King's Arms, Palace yard, on Thursday, Mr. Horsman presiding, and the question to be discussed was whether Mr. Dillwyn's motion for proceeding by resolution only, or Lord John Russell's legislative measure for the alteration of the oath, should be adopted. Mr. Horsman said that the late division in the :Lords had been much talked about, as the names of all the members of the Cabinet did not appear on the Ministerial list. "It could not be disguised that there was not an entire union among the members of the Cabinet—a disad vantage which could not but be deplored." Sir J. Graham came to the meeting " to speak the truth," as under existing circumstances it appeared to him. He thought it "no longer possible to wait with prudence another session " _ 1 thirk something must be done before Parliament rises. The question is narrowed to this—shall we try the House of Lords once again ; or shall we, setting aside legislation, by the exercise of our own inherent power, pro ceed by way of resolution? - - Upon the whole, he thought Lord John Russell's plan, for giving further extension to the Act 1 and 2 Victoria, an excellent one, and he should prefer another legislative effort before proceeding to the last extremity. Mr. Roebuck addressed the meeting, supporting Mr. Dillwyn's motion, but ultimately the following resolutions were passed : That Mr. Dillwyn be requested to postpone the motion of which he has given notice in relation to Baron Rothschild until the bill which Lord John Russell is to ask leave to introduce on Friday next shall have been dis posed of. That the fact that in the late division in the House of Lords all the members of the Cabinet did not support the Oaths Bill, is calculated to cause deep pain and disappoint ment to the Liberal party. That the time has arrived when the long•vexed question of the moval of Jewish disabilities should be finally settled, and, considering the repeated manifestations of opinion in the House of Commons and in the country in fsvour of this act of policy and justice, all the energies of the Liberal party should now be united towards its accom plishment. The meeting stands adjourned until Tuesday next, with the view of then proceeding to Lord Palmerston to represent to him the opinions of those present. 699 ' A DEPUTATION OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY held an interview with Lord Palmerston on Wednesday, and presented a memorial to the noble lord upon the subject of the proposed African immigration scheme. His lordship, in reply, entered at some length upon the various points that had been touched upon in the • memorial, assuring the deputation that her Majesty's Government was quite alive to the serious danger of an immigration from Africa degenerating into a new kind of slave trade, and that no scheme would be sanctioned which was likely to lead to such an evil. flit. JOHN BRIGHT, in a letter to a Manchester friend, Mr. Tildes, writes:—" I am, as you suppose, very much better iu health than when I left England in November last ; and I am sanguine that a longer period of leisure, and of absence from what is laborious or exciting, will enable me at no distant period to return to work. If I were well enough to do it, I should like to have some opportunity of meeting my friends in 31ancliester; at present, however, it would be very imprudent in me to at tempt it." THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER COMMITTEE continues its labours. 'Earls Granville and Harrowby have this week been examined. Lord Granville admitted • that he was 9,000/. in arrear- of rent to the duchy, but that during the last eigl - J eers he had expended 150,0001. upon the prop no held. When his business was transacteJ the Duchy-office he was . never present. The ••• , 'ence of .ord Belper, the former Chancellor. • o was -amined, precisely corroborated the) cP3 statement. Lord Har rowby said, that as ,:ould not get the accounts, and in consequence could not present them to Par liament until they were audited, ho gave Mr. Berto lacci notice that his appointment must terminate: — By the CHAIRMAN : It is not true that I availed myself of the first opportunity to dismiss Mr. Bertolacci, at the instigation of General Fox. I did not do so at the sug gestion of General Fox. 1 did not know Mr. Hawker was a connection of General Fax, and the gentleman in the office who recommended him was not aware of it. He (General Fox) never spoke to me confidentially about Mr. Bertolacci, but he might have said, well, how do you get on with that fellow Bertolacci. (" Hear, hear," from General Fox.) By Mr. CONINGIIAM : The dismissal of Mr. Bartolacci was from the accumulated difficulties that had arisen be tween him and the other officials. A RETURN moved for by Sir Da Lacy Evans, M.P., shows that during the laie war there were enlisted in the British service 441 German. 136 Swiss, and 160 Italian officers ; 539 German, 165 Swiss, and 195 Italian non-commissioned officers ; and 8,702 Ger man, 2,905 Swiss, and 3,226 Italian rank and file. The expenses incurred were—for the German corps, 687,8001.; for the Swiss, 235,4831.; and for the Italian Legion, 195,6551. THE ELECTION AUDITORS IN THE EASTERN COUN TIES are making great progress in the publication of the expenses of the various candidates at the late general election. At Norwich the expenses Viscount Bury, 31. P., and Mr. H. W. Schneider. M.P., are returned at 1,1851. Os. 7d., and those of S. 13ignold, the unsuccessful Conservative candidate, 1,1431. 3s. Od.; there was a sharp contest. In Suffolk the expenses of Mr. H. S. Waddington, M._ are returned at 671. 65.; those of Mr. P. Bennet, M.P., at 57/. 17s. 6d. ; and those of Mr. F. '- Wilson, the unsuccessful Liberal candidate 881. 4s. 7d. In East Suffolk the expenses of Henniker, 31. P., are returned at 551. 18s. 3d., those of Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P., at 871. 14s. there' was no contest. At Cambrige University expenses of the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, M.P. returned at 871. Os. 9d. ; those of Mr. L. T. Wir M.P., at 80/. Os. 91; there was no contest. Grantham the expenses of Mr. W. E. IVelby, are returned at 2401. Ils. 6d.; those of the He J. Tollemache, M.P., at 071. 15s. 9d. ; and those Lor I M. W. Graham. the unsuccessful candidate, . 9.851. 13s. 2d. At Cambridge (borough) the expenses of Mr. K. Macaulay, IMP., and Mr. A. Steuart, M.P., are returni I at 8101. 2s. Bd., and those of Colonel Adair and i.r. J. Hibbert, the unsuccessful Li candidates at 451/. 17s. 10d ; there was a contest. OXFORD . :LECTION.•-•—The mayor, having receiv, the writ, t appointed Monday, July 20, for the day of nomina n. Both candidates are well supported. District c,..nmittees have been formed, and vassing is pursued by both parties with a vigour which shows that the victory will not be gained without a severe contest. THE VERDICT IN MISS SMITH'S TRIAL, we from undoubted authority, was so popular in gow, that when the news was known the whot greater part of the shipping in the Clyde be: their colours in token of their approval. The verdict was snivel at by the jury in the foil manner. After deliberating, there were five vertliet of " Guilty," and ten for one of proven." On the question of an absolute acquit iversity of sentiment whatever. Italian Cove- ion of to late 3es of neider, of Sir lidate, a West , M.P. lennet, F. M., te, at f Lord 1., and is. fild. ; Sity the .P., are ,"igram, At r, M.P. Lion. F. hose of date, at cpenses t, M.P., Colonel Liberal sharp .eceived the day Dported. Id can- vigour gained re learn la n Gs- Thole or hoisted verdict pllowing ve for a I "Not Lcquittal