The Press. — London, England, 1854-10-28 00:00:00

OCTOBER 28, 1854• DENMARK. Upon the presentation of the ant.. address, on the 21st inst., the King of Denmark issued a proclamation dissolving the Lower Chamber of Representatives. This is the third dissolution within twenty months. The new elections will take place on the Ist of December. An address has been issued to the Danish public, calling on them to support the whole State plans of the Ministry, and threatens all persons in public employment, especially the clergy, should they oppose or refuse to support the Cabiuet. After Orated had read the decree for the dissolu Lion of the house, Lindberg proposed " The Consti tution unchanged for ever !" which was rapturously applauded, with nine cheers for the speaker. The galleries then gave enthusiastic cheers for the Danish Parliament, and loud cries of "Down with the Ministry!!" GERMANY. The last Prussian note, it is said, has excited the marked displeasure of Austria, and Count Buol has replied to it in such a pungent manner as to have created a deep sensation in diplomatic circles. The Bavarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. von der Pfordten, has arrived in Berlin, to act, it is said, as mediator between Prussia and Austria. He has since proceeded to Vienna. Count Esterhasy has re turned to Berlin from Vienna, bringing the answer to the last Prussian note. The Lloyd announces that a oonference upon the Prussian note took place on the 20th at the Ministry bor Foreign A ff airs. The interview was but little alculated to lead to the hope of union between the German powers. The dissidence between Austria pd Prussia goes on increasing. Another despatch tates that Count Buol and the French and English linisters took part in the conference spoken of by to Lloyd. It is rumoured that a provisional convention is asut to be signed between Austria and the Western pryers, by which the latter engage to afford her aid imase of attack by Russia, to be followed by a foal treaty, offensive and defensive, in case of ttA failure to induce the Russian Government to en* into negotiations for peace, such as Austria has notrven yet despaired of having accepted, it being unthestoon that the bases laid down by England and \ an Fran are those which Austria retains. It stated in the Vienna journals that the line of electr t e legraph which is being established between Vieng d Bucharest will be completely terminated by the Ist of December. The Imperor of Austria has definitively signed the treat which grants to a company of capitalists, represented by Messrs. Pereire and Earnest Andre, of Paris, Ind by Messrs. Sina and Eskeles, of Vienna , the railroad constructed and worked until now by the State it the kingdoms of Bohemia and Hungary. The sum to be paid to the Austrian Government amounts to 200,000,000 florins. The concessions granted by tie Emperor are of various kinds, con sisting—lst, kf 1,200 kilometres of railway, 1,000 of which are worked ; 2nd, 120,000 acres of forest, with power to clear it certain portion of it ; and 3rd, coal, iron, and copper mines, forges, engite and cannon foundries, dm The Austrian Government guarantees to the company aminimum interest of five per cent., and, although tin contractors have been allowed several years for the payment of the 200,000,000 florins, they are to enter into immediate possession. This affair is consitered by the industrial world as likely to be highly beneficial to the company. ITALY. The export of wine from the Papal States is for bidden to the end of Se'tember, 1855. On the 12th inst. the Pope proceeded to Albano, to be present at the inauguration of the magnificent new bridge just finished there. His Holiness after wards visited the works of two other bridges now under construction, for the improvement of the Forli road. On the return of the Pope to Rome, the Portico of Raphael and the stairs of the Vatican were lighted with gas for the first time. SPAIN. The Queen and royal family returned to Madrid on the 23rd, and were received with the due salute of artillery. RUSSIA. Letters from St. Petersburg affirm that the re lations between that Court and Vienna are of the most cold and formal nature, and cannot continue long without an open rupture. At last, according to the Hamburg Correspondent, the Emperor Nicholas has made up his mind to send his two youngest sons, the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael, to see active service with the southern army. The Grand Duke Alexander has left St. Petersburg to join the Guards on their march to Warsaw. The Journal de St. Petersburg of the 15th an nounces that Prince Menschikoff is appointed Com mander-in-Chief and Governor of all the imperial forces in the Crimea. The same ukase appoints General Tcheodjeff, hitherto commanding the 6th THE PRESS. corps, to the command of all reserve infantry troops; and gives the oth corps to General Prince Gortschakoff 111., a brother of the hero of the Danube. The Northern Bee of St. Petersburg of the 14th publishes a list of voluntary contributions made by the inhabitants of Taganrog and Rostoff, to buy ships to sink, in order to block up the Kertch Straits leading from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azof. The subscriptions amounted to upwards of 20,0001. sterling. The following is given as an authentic ordre de bataille of the Russians :—lmperial guards, 41,000 infantry and 12,0(X) cavalry, with 120 cannon ; grenadier corps, 36,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry, with 112 cannon ; math infantry corps, 288,000 in fantry and 30,000 cavalry, with 720 cannon; and two reserve corps, 80,000 infantry. The army of the Caucasus numbers 30,000 men, infantry ; Orenburg, 25,000; Siberia, 20,000; Finland, 20,000. The total of the cavalry attached to these four armies is cal culated at 20,000, with 530 cannon. The grand totals are 540,000 infantry, 07,000 cavalry, and 1,482 guns. These are thus disposed. In the kingdom of Poland and on the march thither are troops to the number of 90,000 men infantry, and 24,000 cavalry, with 224 cannon, viz., the Imperial Guard, the Grenadier corps, and some divisions of the 2nd reserve corps. In Finland, Liefland, and the northern provinces, are 60,000 infantry, 15,000 cavalry, and 120 can non. These belong to the Ist corps. Prince Gortschakoff has 180,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry under his command, and 240 cannon. In the Crimea Prince Mensc)iikoff has 74,000 infantry and 15,000 cavalry, with 100 guns. Cossacks and irregular troops are not included in this estimate UNITED STATES. New York mails of the 14th inst. have arrived by the Atlantic steamer. There is no political news from the States. Business was dull and money tighter. Greater mortality prevailed on board the ships arriving at New York. The Piscatore ' from Havre, had fifty deaths from cholera, and the Harvest Queen seventy four. The loss of the Arctic continued to occupy the at tention of the citizens of New York. lOU view known to have been saved, while a late telegraphic des patch announces that Captain Luce and forty others, names not given, had arrived at Montreal, having been picked up by the ship Cambria. The steamer E. K. Collins, which left Detroit on the Bth inst., caught fire in the course of the night, when a little below Malden, near the lighthouse at the mouth of the river. The greatest consternation prevailed among the passengers, most of whom, aroused from their sleep, ran wildly about the decks or plunged at once into the water. Twenty-three persons perished by fire or drowning. Mr. Gibson has left Europe for America, with despatches announcing the result of the Congress held lately at Ostend by the American Ministers of Madrid, London, and Paris, under the presidency of Mr. Mann, Under Secretary of State of the American Government. CANADA. - _ _ Lord Elgin, the Governor-General, passed through Montreal on the 6th inst. on his way to Quebec, after having made a triumphant tour through the Upper Province. Everywhere his excellency was received in the most cordial manner, and every manifestation was shown to prove to him that it was with much regret that they had, in all probability, to look upon that visit as his last. Addresses were presented to him wherever he stopped. At Kingston a holiday was made of his arrival in that city, and a sumptuous ckjeuner prepared for bis excellency. Sir Edmund Head, the new Governor, is on a tour through the State. He is not expected to enter upon his official duties until the beginning of the new year. AUSTRALIA. The clipper-ship Lightning reached Liverpool on Monday from Melbourne, having made the run in sixty-three days, the quickest on record. The Adelaide papers report that the produce of last year's clip of wool was almost all shipped. The total quantity exported in the first six months of 1854 was valued at 142,9001., against 182,1031. in the same period in 1853, showing a decrease this year of 40,262/. The land sales continued far above the anticipated average, and the revenue for the second quarter of the year from all sources was in excess of that of the corresponding quarter by about 40,0001. The total quantity of public land sold in June and July was 48,950 acres, realising 98,000/. The Port Adelaide Railway was in a course of rapid con struction. Loans to the extent of 85,0()01. bad been taken, of which 40,0001. were secured by the Banks of South Australia and Austra lasia, at premium. The previous amounts had been taken at par. TUE REV. E. OwEN and the Rev. J. Shepherd are appointed chaplains to the army serving in the East, and have been ordered to proceed without delay to their destination. Court allh lastion. 1017 Her Majesty remains at Windsor, where a succes sion of guests have been honoured with invitations to the Court circle. The French Ambassador and Countess Walewski have spent two days at the castle during the week. Many of the Cabinet Ministers also, together with Lord Hardiuge and other military functionaries, have formed members of the royal dinner parties. The Countess de Neuilly and the Duke and Duchess of Nemours visited her Majesty on Monday. Prince Albert went to London on Tuesday, by the Great Western Railway, and visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester-house. His Royal High- nebs returued to the castle at two o'clock. M. Foucault. had the honour, on Thursday, of exhibiting before Prince Albert some experiments with the gyroscope, in demonstration of the rotation of the earth. VISIT OF THE FRENCH EMPEROR AND EMPASM—. The anticipated visit to the English Court of the Emperor Napoleon and his Empress is now formally arranged. The Queen and Prince Albert, immedi ately after keeping the birthday of the Princess Royal at Windsor Castle, on the 2lst of November, will proceed, as usual at this period of the year, to the Isle of Wight. The Court will remain at Osborne until about the middle of December. Here, at her Majesty's marine residence, and about this period, the Emperor and Empress of the French, it is ex pected, will pay their first visit to the English Court. On the arrival of the illustrious visitors her Majesty and Prince Albert will accompany them to Windsor Castle, where a series of banquets, balls, concerts, &c., on a scale of magnificenle and splendour un equalled in the present reign, will be given. During the stay of the royal visitors at the castle, which, it is expected, will he about six or eight days, the Em peror will be installed a Knight of the Garter. The three knights who have also been nominated to fill the vacancies occasioned by the demise of the Mar. quis of Anglesea, the Marquis of Londonderry, and the Duke of Beaufort—namely, the Earls of Carlisle, Ellesmere, and Eglinton—will also be installed at the same time. The insignia of the Emperor of Russia as a Knight Companion of this order retain their position over one of the stalls in the Chapel Royal of St. George ; but it will no doubt be removed before the Emperor of the French is installed. It is understood that the portiou of the castle occupied by the King of Prussia when that sovereign last visited England will be fitted up for the express use of the Emperor and Empress and suite during their stay at Windsor. Her Majesty, out of respect for the memory Captain Hyde Parker, has been pleased to adopt two little kusttankjie orphans, whose sad case lately caused so much commiseration. The little f lows are to on board the Firebrand until safe and suitable opportunity for sending them England shall occur. They are very intelligent c dren, and the eldest displays &proficiency, not me in speaking English, but also in the sword and in ket exercises. The cost of entertaining the Queen in Hull oti Friday and Saturday week amounted to 65,0001., in cluding all expenses. It is stated that one man received 8001. for the use of variegated lamps, which he let out at 4d. a piece. A patent engine -room telegraph has been fitted up on board the Royal Albert. It communicates from the conning stations on both sides of the poop direct to the engine room, by a connecting galvanised wire of sufficient strength to ensure security. The ship, in addition to this apparatus, is also fitted with Mr. Bentley's patent gulfs-perclia speaking-tubes, which, together, must give every facility for from the poop to the engine-room. THE QUEEN has appointed John Thomas Abdy, LL.D., Fellow of Trinity Hall, Regina Professor of Civil Law in the University of Cambridge. THE anniversay of the Bedford Literary and Scientific Institution was celebrated on Thursday evening last week by a soirée at the Bedford , rooms. The mayor of the town presided, and among the com pany were Lord John Russell, Sir Hamilton Seymour, Baron Parke, Lord Charles J. F. Russell, the Hon. C. C. Cavendish, M.P., Mr. Hastings Russell, M.P., Mr. S. Whitbread, M.P., the High Sheriff, Sir D. Dundee, d:c. The Duchess of Bedford, with a distinguished company from Woburn, was also present. Lord JoLi Ru,sell delivered along speech in favour of the exten sion of knowledge, and concluded by moving " That literary and scientific and mechanics' institutions have greatly tended to the benefit of the people in this country, by cultivating their minds, refining their tastes, and improving their social habits." The motion was carried unanimously. Sir Hamilton Seymour, Lord C. Russell, Mr. S. Whitbread, M.P., and some other gentlemen, also addressed the meet ing.