The Press. — London, England, 1853-10-29 00:00:00

OCTOBER 29, 1853. running into a passenger train preparing for its departure. Fortunately the passengers had not taken their tseats, or the result would probably have been frightful. As it wax, the damage was confined to the total destruction of three carriages. Three tradesmen were convicted on Wednesday by the Tribunal of Correctional Police for having ex hibited and sold seditious emblems—one of them, Tihy, a manufacturer of imitation pearl, was tined 300 f. ; Martoret. a statuette-maker, was fined 21 . 10 f. ; and Itochet, a glass-manufacturer, 100 f. The Nantes journals announce that several of the persons recently arrested have been set at liberty. The hidependance Beige was seized at the l'aris post for a letter which it contained on the subject of the political arrests of the last few days in Paris and other parts of France. GERMANY. The Emperor of Austria has remitted to Count Michael Esterhazy, senior, the remainder of the term of imprisonment to which he was sentenced for par ticipation in the Hungarian insurrection. It is said that the Austrian Government has ad dressed a circular to its representatives abroad, as suring them of its strict neutrality in the Eastern question, and of its intention to continue its media tions, even after the outbreak of hostilities; The increase in the price of provisions in Vienna has awakened the solicitude of the Government, and it is about to diminish the cost of the conveyance of corn. It will begin by lowering the tariff on the state railways. The bakers of Vienna are so much embarrassed by the want of money, that they wish to borrow 100,000 florins from the municipal council without interest. The financial necessities of Aust►ia are stated to become every day more urgent. Since the failure of her recent attempt to raise a loan in London she has been obliged to obtain further assistance from the Vienna Bank, and consequently to authorise an in crease of pal er issues during the past month to an amount equal to half a million sterling. The Customs► Conference of the States of Germany, now assembled at Berlin, have decided that the sus pension of the import duties on corn and other arti cles of food in the States of the Zollverein shall be extended to the Ist of October next year. l'rince Adalbert of Prussia is about to visit St. Petersburg. The Prince Royal of Prussia, who had been also invited by the Emperor, is said to have excused himself, on the score of his health. The waters of the Lower Danube are rising, and the voyage as far as Rustehuk will he resumed by the company's boats on the 20th inst. ITALY. Orders of recal were forwarded by the Emperor Napoleon to the French Envoy in Naples in conse quence of an insult offered to three French officers sent officially to be present at the reviews lately held in the neighbourhood of Turin. One of these officers had formerly published some brochures of a republican character, and the King refused to allow either that officer or his companions to enter the Neapolitan dominions, under a pretext that the vessel they came in contained some English goods, and must undergo several days' quarantine for fear of cholera. Pursuant to his instructions the French Envoy demanded his passports ; but such apologies and reparations are stated to have been offered to hint that in all probability lie would consent to resume the diplomatic relationships. The editor of the Republican • journal, the Voce della Libertit, whose paper was seized lately for false representation of some convicts in Turin, has been condemned to a month's imprisonment mid •2410 f. fine 14 a series of attacks upon the Emperor of the French. Mr. Brett was expected to arrive in Turin on the ,!Ist, and would immediately proceed to lay the lines of telegraph along the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia. The submarine line connecting the former island with the mainland at Spezzia will not be laid down until the ensuing spring. The Russian Ambassador has left Rome. The Tope sent to some Polish monks for information about a Polish martyr just canonised. The monks communicated the particulars directly, instead of through the Emperor, and have been sent in conse quence to Siberia. To this severity the Pope alluded in his harangue, and wept• as he deplored that Catholics in Russia had no other course left but to sutler and die. SPAIN. The new Minister of ibei'nite , l States, Mr. Soule, w•ax received by the Queen on the 23rd. A recent article of the Nacion, on the Protestant cemetery question, has drawn forth another intole rant article of the Espana on that subject; while the Clamor Publira and Tribtoto, which have repeatedly advocated the liberal view of the question, have been denounced by the Bishop of Barcelona in a pastoral letter. This letter is very long, hut its spirit is shown in the following lines, in which the bishop gives a definition of a Protestant, lie says THE PRESS. " God our Lord has spoken to us in these last times by means of his only begotten Ron. after having done so in old times in many and divent manner% by the Prophets. The !Whited of the Nat* , tiert and true Man, couvemed with men, and formed His Church. He placed in it, as His vicar. the most High Pontiff, centre of unity, rector, doctor, and universal master. Whoever its not with Him is not in the Church; and whoever has not the ('hutch for mother, has not tier( for father. Without necessity of prolix explanations, what is a Protestant ? An 'inform. nate, spurious. without faith, without father or mother, and consequently without God, k deAgruleidthi. as esparee, site Sr sea padre , al ,sajrr, y de rosoigttenfe sift lines)," As for allowing any reliti a eeremonies to be per formed at Protestant funerals, the writer says : " Ales for the day in which there should be seen among us a religious act of these discredited sects ! We trust, in the pnaedion of Heaven, and in the enlightened piety of her Majesty's Government, that this will never happen in the classic soil of Catholicity." The ('lamer observes that the bishop has a very poor idea of Catholicism when he fears that the per formance of a single religi act by another sect would cause its abandonment and the ruin of its votaries. It was feared that this pastoral might hamper the Government on the cemetery question. The Bishop of Barcelona, Don Domingo c os ta, of Borras, was a partisan of lion Carlos during the civil war. GREECE. The Ministers of iinanee and War were dismissed on the plot inst. The free introduction of corn has been determined upon. A loan of five million drachmas has been proposed. RUSSIA AND TURKEY Namik Pmhaha; been despatched by the Forte to Paris and London, as Extraordinary commis_ sioner, to contract a loan for 4,000,000/. sterling. The answer of Prince Gortschakotr to Outer Paella has been considered as a refusal, and orders have been sent to the Turkish General to commence boa A despatch from Bucharest, of the 15th of October, announces that the Turks had already occupied an island in the Danube, near Widdin. The army of timer l'acha is represented as full of enthusiasm. The combined fleets entered the Dardanelles on the 19th, but were not to proceed to Constantinople. For the present they remain at the island of Marmora, about fifty geographical miles from the Golden Born. An important change has taken place in the Turkish Ministry. The celebrated Muossa Safetti l'acha has been named Minister of Finance, and his predecessor, Mouktar Bey, member of the Brand Council. The dervishes of Constantino!)le have unfurled their flag for recruits among their own body at the Turkish quarter called Sarrateh lime. They num ber about non in all, and will proceed to Schtunla. The flag of the Softas, it is said, will be unfurled after the 15th of the moon. They will number, however, upwards of twenty thousand. The exportation of corn is forbidden by procla mation at Constantinople. It is stated that the monk Anthems, the new Greek patriarch at Constantinople, in a circular addressed to his coreligionistm, on taking possession of his post, declared himself very energetically against the rights which the Czar pretends to claim in the name of the Greeks. The term fixed by Omer Podia for the with drawal of the Russians from the principalities was to expire on the '.4th. According to the best estimates of the force with which each party enters upon a state of war, Russia has about 1811,11110 men in the Danubian provinces, the centre of operations of this army. Prince Wor►nzotf, who commands in the Caucasus, has demanded reinforcements, and his army is to be raised to 2110,0110, Scarcely the half of this force can be employed against the Turkish anny, as Caucasus will be like an immense chain of fortresses in the rear of the Russians. On the side of the Turks the regular army amounts, according to the declarations of the Minister of War, Mehemet All p ae l k a, to 217,n0ti men, without counting the irregular corps and the volunteers. These troops altogether are estimated to amount to :11111,11011 men, and the new levies to 2INyMNt. Omer Paella at pre sent commands 111yNMI men, distributed on three lines—the I bumbe, the line from Varna t►► Chomula, anal a third line which guards all the passages of the Balkans, and closes the road to Constantinople. On his side Alsli Pacha has under his orders :►II,INN) regular troops, and 00,1ssi irregulars, who are en camped on the banks of the Black Sea in Asia. Otner Paclia has addressed a proclamation to the i n h a bitants of Mohlo-Wallachia, informing them that, in case the ottoman army should enter the princi palities, they would have to apprehend no harm. The Paella is said to be preparing to cross the Danube, near Ibraila and Widdin. Bridges have been constructed to the islands nearly opposite those places which Turkish corps already occupy. Letters from Bucharest state that the benediction of the colours, usual in the Russian army before a battle, took place on the lUth. The hospital* were full of sick *Mien. The Russian generals have left Bucharest, and proceeded to the head-quarters of their corps. Prince Gotischakoff alone remains there. lie has received instructions as to the course he is to pursue in case of war. The Russian troops in the vicinity of Bucharest muster to the strength of MOM. Strong reinforcements of cavalry had entered Walla chia. Prince tiortsehakoff passes all his time with the troops, and has several times ordered the alarm to lie sounded to convince himself of the alacrity of the troops. UNITED ST AT ES. The last aeCtinnts from New York, dated to the 11tIt inst., bring no politieal news. The new Minister to France, the lion. John T. Mason, purposed leaving New York upon his mission on the 19th, in the llwasduldt► for Havre. The Irdskington .Slur %totes that tiovernment has received advice% of serious troubles in the Cherokee nation. A portion of the nation was in arms against the authorities, and had murdered two of Roos's pally. It is stated that the director's of the New York Crystal Palaee have received official notice from the principal of the household of the Emperor of France that the tiobelitt tapestries on exhibition at the Palace should he returned forthwith, being required for the decoration of one of the impend palace's. A despatch from Boston announces the death of !lamellas Bates, the great advocate of the cheap rootage systivin. Ile was formerly assistant pewit toaster of New York. The widow of Professor Wel►ster, who wan executed in New York about a year ago for murder, died tm the 10th inst. _ _ The schooner Oneida was run down by &steamer on Lake Erie, on the night of the and the cap tain and three of his men were drowned. I.ouls Wakelee, the only surviving member of the crew. clung to the wreck, during a terrific gale, for a period of twenty hours, and when taken ott waa completely exhausted. _ _ _ ~t►ver ItM► buildings were burned in Buffalo on the sth. They were mostly frames erected upon the ground recently burned over by the great fire, cover ing an area of four or rive acres. AUSTRALIA. The Argo reached Plymouth on Thursday , after a run of only sixty-four days from fort l'hil ip. She belongs to the lieneral Merew Steam-ship Company, is the first passenger-ship that has made the passage home rid Cape Horn, and has accomplished the quickest voyage ever known either to or from Aus tralia. Her average rate was 240 miles per diem. The Argo brings 140,000 ounces of gold on freight, and an immense quantity is brought home by the passengers, who number eighty-six, and among them Is tieneral Wynyanl and staff, from Melbourne. A person named Harrison, a native of Yarmouth, who left England in July, 11+52, a poor man, has re turned in the Argo in possession of 3,000 ounces of gold. Two new and productive gold-fields have been dig covered,---one on Jones's Creek, the other at tionl burn, to the eastward of Mount Alexander. The yield is described as most wonderful. A Melbourne paper says :—" The Anglo Australian hanks have been in the habit of getting blank forms of their notes from England. The ship Strathedeit brought out a case of these notes for the Union bank on the 24th of June last, which was stolen from the wharf. lln the Ist of July two of the notes fin. 1111. ea.+ were passed in Melbonnw. Of course they were not regularly signed, and the person who passed them was apprehended. Int the 4th July another of the note% for MN. was parsed by a ra" who aUended a dinner to celebrate American Ede. pendence in Melbourne. An American gentleman gave immediate notice to the police, and the passer of this note was also apprehended; and he gave such information that a great portion of the stolen notes were recovered. The value of the notes stolen was aIsoutIIIIMNOII/., and about itloNlll/. worth have been recovered." INDIA ANT) CHINA. The Bombay mail of Sept. 214 has arrived at Trieste and Marseilles, bringing !long- Kong dates to Sept. 9. The telegraphic despatches state that our Hurtnese acquisition% were in a state of war, being ovet run by large bodies of armed men, said toexceed 11,0110 in number, who occupied fortified positions, whence they attacked our posts with occasional suc cess. They were said to be instigated by the King of Ava. The resumption of hostilities was considered inevitable. a Colonel Mackeson had been assassinated by an Afghan, at l'eshawtar. Captain I'arke'r and Ensign Bosworth had been killed in an affair with Arabs in the Nizam's conntry. The revolution in China still progressed. At Amoy the Imperialists had had some success, but the patriot army had invested Khailting-foo, the capital of llonan, on the Yellow Ilirer. The whole country was in g titian of anarchy, and trade at a stand.