The Press. — London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

462 The story of the tin boxes prepared by the Belgian Government for conveying to Antwerp State papers and money, in case of an invasion from France, as announced by the Globe, in a letter from Brussels, has given great amusement here. Our Government is unhappily not so farsighted as was supposed by the Globe corrrespondent; and we are almost con vinced here that, in case of war, we must blot out of the list of our allies the King of Holland, who con tinues to be coquetting with his good friend at Paris. _ Serious fears appear to be apprehended in Holland fur the day when the new law on public creeds will be published. It is said that a great Protestant and anti-constitutional manifestation is preparing at Utrecht. A impular song is circulated all over Holland, reminding the King that the de vice of his ancestors ran, "My sword is ay right," and pressing on him► to overthrow tic constitution. The Moniteurhaa published a mood note deny ing that We French tiovenqoant ham been buying corn. It admits, however, that it entered into arrangements in England six weeks back for 4111,1100 hectolitres of wheat, intended for the annual supply of the army and navy. The note further declares that it. has no intention whatever of interfering in any way in an operation relative to corn. Notwith standing this official declaration, the Sthle has since announced that the system of head-tickets which was employed in 10411 is to be again used in l'aris for the second fortnight of September. ntelligenee front Marseilles announced on Monday a fall of about :If. the hectolitre of wheat, in consequence of the great number of vessels which had arrived. That port communicates by railway only with Avignon. The navigation of the Maine and Sainte has, however, of late years assumed so considerable a development that the corn which arrives at Marseilles may be tnutsported without any very great delay to the centre and north of France. There are not less than twenty steam companies on the lthime and Sainte, in possession of ninety four boats, of 14,3111 horse-power. Owing to the receipt of warlike tidings front the East, the price of corn has since risen again 20. per hectolitre in the Marseilles market. During Ins residence at Dieppe, the Emperor ap pointed a commission to examine and submit to him the improvements of which the harbour was sus ceptible. His Mkiesty approved the plan proposed by that commission, and ordered the works to be im mediately commenced. They are to be completed in three years, and to cont 2400,000 f. Orders have been issued by the Minister of Marine for the building of a new ship in the port of Roche• fort. This vessel, which is to be called the Intrepid, will be constructed entirely on the model of that fawns ship, the Napoleon. A decree in the Ilioniteur suppresses the additional duty (surtax') imposed by the decree of March 17, 045:1, on ir►n ore imported into France in foreign vessels. A decision of the Minister of Finance fixes, from September 11, the interest on Treasury bonds as follows per cent. for bonds of from three to five mouths to run ; :1 per cent. on those of from six to eleven months; and at 3i per eeut. for those of twelve mouths. The Gazette de France states that the hopes which were entertained of a fusion between the two branches of the Bourbons are at an end. Ac cording to that journal, an attempt which had been made at Claremont by seine distinguished Orleanists to induce the members of the family of the late King to take the only steps for fusion which would be agreeable to the other branch has entirely fails t. The last news from Algiers is to the sth instant. The whiny was perfectly tranquil. All the infor mation received from the interior declares that th e cotton cr►p of this year promises to be exeeedingly due. t RMAN Y. The Austrian tiovennuent has published the follow% inu notification in the Vienna Gazette : " A telegraphie despatch bats reached the Government ?tm Lieutenant Field Marshal I 'ul onini. tknertior et the Sento' Woiatsisehaft. stating that the litingarian regalia hate been dis vet ered near brsoN 11. *here they lay buried. 'ow i•pm. II of St. Stephen, with the orb. cross • sword, And sceptre• are Walking's'''. The Governor has taken measurer for vont...yin); hither thew• insignia, under titling escort, by the steamer Albrreht." The precious relics are uninjured; and thus the Austrian Goveniment itself vindicates the Hungarian insurgent leaders from the charge of having con verted to surreptitioua uses the ancient regalia of the kingdom. The harvest is good thr►ughout Austria. The rice crop in the Italian provinces is magnificent. The grand military manoeuvres in Pnissia, favoured Ll• most auspicious weather, commenced on the I tth inst. at and aroluid the defiles of Tapslorl, on the high road from Berlin to Frankfort on Oder. The police of Berlin paid domiciliary visits on the Eth mbt. to about twenty persons who had Aetna as THE PRESS. brokers in transactions in the funds and in corn without being licensed. Their papers were seized. In the afternoon the police expelled from the Ex change all unlicensed brokers, &nested several, and sent some, who had no fixed domicile at Berlin, away from the capital. The Minister of Commerce has approved of these measures, and a new regulation of the Bourse is about to appear. Great excitement has been occasioned by the proceeding. The King of l'russia has dissolved the Municipal Council of Elbing. That town will for the present be governed by a commission nominated by the Crown. _ _ _ HOLLAND. The session of the States-timers! war for►nally closed ea the 11th inst. by the Minister or the inte rior, M. van Reetten. The Minister exprionsi the thanks of the Govermatest te the Chamber for the support it I afforded to the law on religious likesay. 'The Royal assent to the law is looked upon as certain. ITALY. Count Tampieri, gonfaloniere of Faenzi, has died of the wounds which he received in the bread riots. At Tend the governor has been killed by the mob, infuriated by the increasing dearth of bread. The unfo►tunate man was reported to have said that when there was no more Hour the people might eat straw. The account given of his death k that four persons having tossed him out of a window into the street, the people ill-treated him, an►d stuffed his mouth with straw. EMitt Csrabinieri, who came to his assistance. mare seriously wounded, and obliged to seek safety in flight. A strong detachment of soldiers has been sent from Rome to Tend, to re store order. Several arrests have taken place at Forli, in con sequence of attempts against the Vice-Legation of Ravenna. The Roman Treasury bonds, value one crown, will no longer have a forced currency after the end of September. The measure which threatened the liberty of the press in Turin has been abandoned : the present laws are recognised as being sufficient for its control. A number of Italian ensignis, who attempted to re enter Italy by the eastern frontier of the Sardi nian States, have been seized by the police near Sarzana. SPAIN. M. I/oral, Minister of Marine, hag resigned, and Estevim Collantez is to act pro try e. It is understood that the Cortes will be convoked for the latter end of October, or the Ist of November. PORTUGAL. M. Silva Pereira has been appointed Minister of Justice. The Government has adopted very stringent regulations respecting foreign vessels touching at any of the Portuguese ports. The steamer Bratileira left Lisbon for Rio on the :It►th ult. This splendid vessel is the first of a new line of steamers which will enable Portugal hence forth to have intercourse with Brazil twice every month. A grand entertainment was given on board the Braziletra before she sailed from the Tagus. The accounts respecting the vine disease continued gloomy, and in the fruit market there was not a bunch of grapes to be seen. There were no hopes of the hfe of the Pope's Nun cio, who bad suffered a relapse. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Final intelligence of the rejection of the Turkish modifications by the Czar was received in London on Wednesday. That rejection is said to be par et simple; but a despatch from Vienna adds that the Emperor consents to abide by the original note, and promises to evacuate the principalities if the Porte will accept it also. The Emperor Nicholas is to arrive at Warsaw on the 20th, and at Olmittz on the 23rd, of this month. His Majesty will be accompanied by Comte Nesset rode and Baron de Meyendortf. The Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia will also arrive at the camp of Olmitz about the 21st instant. Many speculations are current respecting the probable re sults of this meeting of sovereigns at the present juncture. The Wanderer of Vienna announces the departure of the Consuls of France and England front Jassy, and states that that circumstance had produced great alarm through the whole of Moldavia. Prince tiortschakoff, after a grand review at Bu charest on the 4th instant. issued an order of the day, complimenting the troops on their tine ap pearance, and concluding with these words : Russia is called to annihilate Paganism ; and who ever shall hesitate in performing this holy mission shall Ise annihilated like the Pagans themselves. Long live the Czar! Long live the rood of the Russians'" The Danube steamers run only o nce in rin e e o f twice a week, and all other enterprise is curtailed in an equal measure. All the merchants (if ail anti tialatz are ruined. In consequence of the news from England in the early silting they had bought vast quantities of the standing crops in the interior. SATURDAY, Since there are no vessels to ship off the corn which is daily arriving, and no granaries in which to deposit it, immense heaps are lying in the streets uncovered and wasting. The Russian party at Constantinople speak of a probable change in the Turkish Cabinet, with Riza Paella, the ex-Minister of War, instead of Mehemet Ali Paella, the present Seraskier, who has incurred the displeasure of Russia in a higher degree them any of his colleagues. M. Argyropoulos, first Dragoman et the Russian embassy, arrived at Consterstroople on the 81st ult., accompanied by several steam•ships, from Odessa. This circumstance created a great sensation. All regular communication between Constantinople and the Russian ports is interrupted. The last mai steamer which went to Odessa has not returned.. The publication of a new manifesto of the Porte has been delayed, it is said, in deference to the wishes of the Ambassadors, who desired to receive the instructions of their Governments respecting the conduct to be observed by them before the document, which was expected to produce an immense excitement, was published. It is said that in its &erecter this document differs entirely from the first manifesto it is, in fact, an appeal to the nation, conceived in the plainest and most bellicose terms. The State Gazette, which bad already printed it in its official columns, received orders to suspend its publication until further orders, although its office was besieged by thousands of Turks anxious to procure a copy. The Porte has contracted for 300,000 fur cloaks for the army. It is again stated that Lord Stratford de Bedell& has sent in his resignation to the British Govern ment, and that he expects an answer by the ISth of September. The English are said to have become very unpo pular at Constantinople, and caricatures and satirical compositions in prose and verse were very freely cir culated. From Besika Bay Admiral llesfosses has returned to France. Sickness prevailed among the seamen of the two fleets. The English admiral has concluded contracts for supplies of coal. Some brawls had taken place between French sailors and the Turks. The fanaticism of the latter was increasing. Almost all the English sailors who were suffering from fever, anti sent to Malta to be cured, have re turned to the Bay of Besika. Their health is com pletely restored. A letter from the limns. dated the 2nd inst., gives information of the arrival in that port of an Austrian flotilla, composed of the Novarra, the Hazard, the Bellor►a, and the Artemisia. The two latter were to return to Smyrna, while the two first maned were to cruise on the coast of Syria, near Malta. AMERICA. The latest accounts from the United States report a considerable alleviation of the mortality from yellow fever in New Orleans. The deaths daily had de clined to 100. The 2nd instant was observed as a day of fasting and prayer, in accordance with a pro clamation from the mayor. The total contributions for the relief of the suft'erera reach nearly -15,1KX) dollars. William Calder, who was arrested at New York under the Ashburton treaty on a charge of forgery and grand larceny, had been released. Calder had been in the employment of the British Government as a surveyor in the Sappers and Miners, during which time he forged the names of the men under him to the pay-roll, and put the moneys into his pocket. I7ltimately he decamped to America, taking with him a number of surveyor's instruments to the value of nearly :11 . K) dollars. The American Court ruled that the evidence of his guilt was not sufficient to justify his being given up to the British authori ties under the treaty above mentioned. A terrible explosion of gunpowder had occurred at Wheeling, near Baltimore. One man was killed, and another seriously injured ; two steamers were da maged ; a war-boat sunk ; and thousands of dollars' worth of windows destroyed. BUENOS AYRES. _ _ The arrival of the Great Western at Southampton with the South American mail has brought the im portant intelligence that General Urquiza, having met with a series of reverses, hastily tied from Buenos Ayres to Entre Bios, and the siege of the former town was hereupon raised; peace was re established, Don Pastor Obligade was elected Governor, and commercial affairs were proceeding most satisfactorily when the mail steamer left that port. CANADA. The Earl of Elgin, - 6O;ernor-General of Canada, accompanied by his countess and family, has re turned to England in the royal mail steam-ship Anicriea. Previous to his departure his excellency visited several interesting portions of the colony. He spent st vend days on the Ottawa, examining the timber tracts and the splendid public works which have been built in that section of the country. On his return to Quebec be crossed over to the Chew