The Press. — London, England, 1858-08-28 00:00:00

830 THE PRESS, AUGUST 28, 1858 SECOND EDITION. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LATEST INT ELLIG EN GE. INDIA AND CHINA. OFFICIAL DESPATCH. The following telegram from Acting Consul- Geneial Green was received at the Foreign•ofce this morning at 12.30: CORFU, Aug. 27, 7 20 p.m. ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 24, lf;')f3.—The steamer /tidos/an arrived at Suez, from Alexandria, on the 22nd inst. She left Calcutta on the 19th of July, and the delay has been caused by an accident to her machinery while in the Red Sea. The steamer Cadiz arrived at Suez yesterday from Bombay, with dates from Bombay to the 4th inst.; nothing of importance has occurred since the last mail. The British troops are chiefly engaged in harassing the rebels in Oude, wherever they can find them, and in reducing their mud fortifications. Many of the chiefs, who have not irredeemably compro mised themselves in the revolt, are surrendering to the authorities ; others who have been faithful to the British flag are being honoured and rewarded. Rebels proved to have been deeply implicated are being executed. Punjaub and the Residencies tranquil. Sir Hugh Rose has resigned the command of the Poonah di% Won. The dates from Tiensin are to the 18th June. Great progress was being made in the negotiations, and it was considered that we were on the eve of a treaty which would insure everything we can claim, and open China to the enterprize of our merchants. The Times this morning publishes the following telegram, received from their Corfu correspondent, dated Aug. 27 . ALKXANDRIA, Aug. 21 . The Calcutta and China mails leave this morning, with dates from Calcutta to the 17th of July; Madras to the 25th ; Bong Kong to the tith. The Bombay mail reached Suez yesterday, with intelli gence to the 4th inst. The troops in Oude were engaged in the pursuit of the rebels and the reduction of mud forts. Many chiefs, not deeply compromised, were surrender ing to Government; others had received rewards fur fidelity or punishment for treason. Sir Hugh Ruse had resigned the command of the Poonah The second Oude Proclamation, published in Bombay, had been declared by Government a forgery. The closing rate of exchange at Bombay for Srst•class bills was 9s. 00.; documents, 9s. to 2s. O'd. . . The Calcutta import•mat ket was active. Moneymr ^ket and freights unaltered. Exchange, 2s. O'd. CHINA. Intelligence from Tiensin was to the 18th of June. Lord Elgin had received from the Imperial Commis sioner a written promise of concession of his demands. The American and Russian treaties had been concluded. The Americans were believed to have stipulated for an annual visit to Pekin. The Commissioner at Canton was urging the people to war, and ignored the negotiations in the north. A proclamation had been issued by General Straubenzee establishing a partial blockade. Trade was at a standstill. Hong Kong exchange, 4s. 6d. to is. Old. for Bank bills. SHANGHAI, June '27. . . Import market improved. No transactions in kn. Tea unchanged. Exchange, Os. to .ss. I Id. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Aug. 27. It seems to be decided that, at the expiration of his present powers, the Prince of Prussia will be appointed Regent. RETURN OF HER MAJESTY. WOOLWICH, August 27. The Admiralty steam-vessel Banshee, Master Commanding Vincent Williams, left the harbour at three o'ct , ck yesterday !morning, under the charge of Mr. Barnes, Admiralty pilot, direct for the Con tinent, to act as tender to the royal yacht, on the return of her Majesty and the Prince Consort, from their visit to the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia. The Banshee had previously em harked fourteen of her Majesty's messengers and ser vants attached to the royal suite, and the vessel, on arriving off Flushing last evening, is ordered to embark a foreign pilot, and proceed on to Antwerp, at which port she is expected to arrive at an early hour this morning. It is stated that her Majesty and suite will embark for England on the 30th inst. THE Durum , ' POLICE FORCE.—After twenty-two years' service Colonel George Browne, it is stated by Saunders's News Letter, has resigned the Commis sionership of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. He is to he succeeded by Colonel Henry Lake (of Kars), C. 8., unattached, and one of the Queen's Aide.de- Camps. The salary of the commissioner is about 8001. a year. TO CORRESPONDENTS. ommunicationa should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Viis :1-.. rvggis LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1858. POSTSCRIPT. TURKEY. Advices from Constantinople of the 18th inst. announce a modification of the Turkish Ministry. ltuchdi Podia, Minister of War during the Crimean war, is appointed Minister without a port folio. Riza Paella, in addition to the War-office, is given the direction of the Artillery. The Grand Vizicr will, it is said, be replaced, and other changes be made. The Ministers revealed the state of the finances of Turkey to the Sultan, who reproached them for not having spoken out before. The French Ambassador has obtained a redaction of tithes, the levying of which was scandalously abused. Her Majesty, on the recommendation of Lord Derby, has been pleased to appoint Mr. James Disraeli to the office of Commissioner of Inland Revenue, vacated by the death of the late Mr. Ste venson ; and Mr. Philip Rose to the office of Treasurer of the Derbyshire district of C aunty Courts, vacated by the appointment of Mr. James Disraeli. The western Roman Catholic bishops have met under the chairmanship of Mr. M‘lialc, and agreed upon a manifesto which again repudiates the Queen's Colleges, and uses the strongest languaft regarding the present system of national instruction. In the document referred to they go further than usual in their censures of the Queen's Colleges, for they de nounce such Roman Catholics as have thought it consistent with their faith to patronize those institu tions. Imprimis, the spit it of their manifesto may be judged by the following sentence: We farther solemnly declare that no system short of an unqualified separate education for our flocks shall ever satify us; and in order to succeed in obtaining it without delay, we request again of our people to use all constitu tional means in pressing their rightful claims, in every form 01 petition and remonstrance, un the Government and Legislature. This remarkable paper, too long to be quoted in extenso, concludes as follows : You will, we are. sure, lend us every co-operation in carrying out this resolve, especially when you reflect that we have discussed this question of the national system and its mischievous consequences in obedience to the Holy See. We are alarmed at the evil fruits of its develop inent in the model schools and the Queen's Colleges, and at the probable worse fruits of its further develop ment in the contemplated intermediate classical schools. But, above all, we recommend to your zeal and solicitude the passage of the report of the commissioners of inquiry into the Queen's Colleges, which more than insi nuates that the bishops and his Holiness, in condemning the colleges, were misled by their own fears. fur which there was not any solid foundation. Whether you are to believe this insidious report that represents the colleges as harmless and safe, or trust and " obey your prelates, who watch as to render an account of your souls," "Judge ye." If your fathers evinced such heroic fortitude, with the sword im pending over them, what are we not to hope from you in far more favourable circumstances, strong in the conviction of the victories already won over intolerance by a peaceful use of those legitimate and constitutional weapons which even the laws of your country put into your hands? If you wield those weapons as become good Christians, good citizens, and faithful subjects, with firmness, wisdom, and moderation, you must obtain not only the justice of not being forced from your dwellings for not sacrificing the faith of your children, but you will even share in the public funds that, are granted for education, to which you are entitled by your numbers, by your contributions in taxes to the Exchequer ' anti by your fidelity in co-operating in every way to the defence of the State and the sustainment of all its burdens. We now further solemnly declare that no system short of an nitqualitied separate education fur our flocks shall ever satisfy us; and in order to succeed in obtaining it without delay we request again of our beloved people to use all constitutional means in pressing their rightful claims, in every form of petition and remon strance, on the Government and Legislature ; nor shall we be wanting in lending every aid in our power to them and their clergy in the furtherance of this complete liberty of education, so essential to the full discharge of our episcopal duties, and to the complete freedom of the Catholic Church. JOHN, Archbishop of TIMM. GEORGE J. P. Baowsr., Bishop of Elphin, THOMAS FERNY. Bishop of JOHN MERRY, Bishop of Clontert. PATRICK DURCAN, Bishop of Achonrv. PATRICK FALLON, Bishop of Kilmacduagh. JOHN WEVILLT, Bishop of Griway. LAURENCE GILILOOLY, Coadjutor Bishop of THOMAS D.D., Secretary. lortign anb 6olonial FRANCE. itb of nd a t l y x. depart menthe T of se ti s l s e io L n oi o r f e t w b a e s Co o t p t e n n c e il d G o e n ner; i l o y Count de Persigny, who has been appointed its pre sident. Upon that occasion the count made an eloquent and very interesting speech, of which a portion ran as follows. Count de Persigny said:— Long accustomed to dread the slightest movements of France (alternately revolutionary and conquering), Europe did not at first behold without uneasiness the re.eatab6h. ment on the French throne of a family proscnbed by the treaties of 1813. But, whatever may have been the reelect timents of the great Powers at the moment of the reel. nition of the Empire, it is certain that all now congratulate themselves on seeing in France a strong and powerful Government, respeco.d and wise, which, after a glorious war, has been able to make ano less glorious peace. Such is the universal satisfaction at beholding the strength which the re-establishment of the Empire has givrn in Europe to principles of order and to monarchical ideas that it effaces the impression which the rivalry of the Powers may have received from the new greatness of France. And to-day it may be said that never since lels have the relations of France with Europe been at once so honourable and so friendly. Nevertheless, a cloud, which might have been dangerous, has lately obscured our relations with a country whose alliance had been most happily cemented and fruitful, and it has required nothing less than all the wisdom and all the reciprocal friendship of the two Sovereigns to prevent a coldness be tween those two Powers. Happily, as was said by the Em. peror at Cherbourg, if it were sought to revive the rancour's and passions of another period, they would fall before the good sense of the public. In fact, gentlemen, the interests of the two nations are now so closely united that it would be difficult even for the blindest passions to bring them to a complete rupture. So great has become this community of interests that if to-morrow London or Paris were burnt down, we should reciprocally have to support enormous commercial losses ; and, while a catastrophe occurring to Berlin, Vienna, or St. Petersburg would excite but our sentiments af commiseration, in London, on the contrary, our interests would suffer almost as severely as in Paris itself. Now, when two nations have reached that pone, they are evidently destined daily to draw closer their present union. Let us first consider the interest of the English alliance for France. With England, we are masters of the seas, and consequently we have nothing to fear for our frontiers. No coalition against us is possible; general peace is assured. Our country can therefore devote itself, without any mental preoccupation, to the utmost development of its activity, and may pescefully complete the foundation of its institutions. We have, moreover, no longer any material rivalry with England, since she has opened to our commerce, as freely as to her own, an access to her immense colonies ; it is nut her fault if, persisting in our sy-tein of production at high prices, we do not know better how to profit by it. As to England, her interest in the French alliance is, perhaps, still more manifest. She completed in 1514 soil 1815 the conquest of the maritime and colonial supremacy which was the object of her desires, and to which she was in some sort destined by our insular position, and by the genius of her inhabitants. That supremacy she now enjoys beyond dispute, and she says to herself that if she bad another struggle with France, even if (which GA forbid') the fate of battles should reserve for us new dis asters, the only result she could obtain would be the main tenance of her possession of what she alrt tidy has, that is to say, of her maritime and colonial supremacy, and con• sequently she would have much to lose and very little to gain by a war with France. By a complete transforma tion of her interests England, then, has arrived at this — that she to-day desires the friendship of France as much as forty years ago she was hostile to her; and such is, in fact, her present repugnance to separate her inters ets from ours, that, in two grave circumstances —in determiniug to make, in concert with us, first war and then peace .she perhaps took counsel ( was influenced by) rather from our situation than from her own. How, then, in the reciprocal disposition of the two countries, shall we h account for what passed after the anent& of the 14th of January ? BY the most vulgar explanation—by a series of misunderstanding s on both sides the Channel. Already, since the peore, public opinion in England had taken umbrage at certain diplomatic incidents; but, on learning the altentat of the 14th of January, England was unanimous in stigmatizing the odious crime. At that period the true English public , that public which in reality directs and governs the State, which is accustomed to see order come out of the fllta te , st agitations, to disdain all the excesses of the press, to ta" no heed, in short, of any of the exaggerations cif liberty — the English public, 1 say, knew nothing tither of the previous attempts organized in England against the Emperor, nor of the doctrines professed by a poruon of the refugees ; it was, in all sincerity as ignorant of all that infamies as it was innocent of them. It was, moat painful astonishment that it thought it Raw, though assuredly erroneously, in the speeches made at Pat is, under the impression of the public emotion, a disposition on the pert of France to render England responsible fur . atlentat of thd 14th, and to look upon her suspicious*. From that moment public opinion in England, unanituoues in denouncing assassination, suddenly stopped in O i l s theu, with the midst of the manifestations which it on all sides the making. Then, when the change, good or bad, ie passport sj stem-80 unjusitly represented to the publieso, an act of distrust towards the English themselves, tea especially the addresses of the army—carne to r ut . 11e_ climax to the irritation amen's minds, then occuuta