The Press. — London, England, 1854-10-14 00:00:00

970 Two thousand French and all the English troops in the Pirteus have been ordered to the Crimea. Others from Marseilles replace them. TURKEY. By the treaty of commerce between France and Turkey it is enacted that the tariffs on imports and exports shall expire on the Ist of March, 1855, pro vided that in the six months preceding the Govern ment of either country shall demand the revision of them ; but in case no such demand shall be made they are to remain in force for seven years longer. The Chamber of Commerce of Paris calls on merchants and traders to make known any objec tions they may entertain to the tariffs, in order that, if necessary, they may be submitted to the Govern ment. The committee appointed in Constantinople to carry out the last hatti houmayoun is completed. Prince Stirbey made his entry into Bucharest on the sth inst. He was received with due solemnity by his Excellency Lieut.-General Count Coronini and his staff, as also by the Wallachian military and civil authorities, and escorted to his palace, where Austrian and Wallachian guards of honour were drawn up. A Vienna letter in Voss's Gazette of Berlin states that on the sth the Turkish Ambassador at the Court of Austria had a long conference with Count Buol on the intended operations of the Turks against Bessarabia, and received the most positive assurances that no obstacle should be placed in the way of them by Austria. The running of the steam-boats between Braila and Galatz recommenced on the 26th of September, after nearly a whole year's interruption. RUSSIA. A Russian report of the battle of the Alma was issued by Prince Paskiewitsch at Warsaw on the 3rd inst. It ran thus : On September the 20th an encounter took place be• tween our troops and those of the allies on the banks of the Alma. Prince Menachikoff, realising his plan of cam paign, to engage only in a combat with the advance guard of his army, and to fall back on Sebastopol, has led the troops under his curlers to the neighbourhood of the for tress, and has there taken up a strong position. It was thought that other combats would take place in a few days. 'We have lost a thousand men, killed and wounded ; but the enemy, having attacked us in our entrenchments, and un der the fire of all our batteries, must have successively ex perienced much greater losses. UNITED STATES. A conference of American Ambassadors is now assembled on the Continent. Acting under the directions of the President, the representatives of the United States at the various European Courts are as sembled to exchange information, to consult, and to report to their own Government on the state of affairs on the Continent. Subsequently to the last great European war American interests have been so far developed that they may be regarded as the creation of the intervening period. American trade is now carried to every part of the world ; and the conference has in view the due protection and ad vancement of those interests in any new arrange ment of treaties that may be made in Europe. Mr. Buchanan left London on Saturday last, and has already been met by the American Ministers from Paris and from Madrid. Ostend is the place of meeting, being neutral ground. The latest New York dates are of the 30th ult. Three thousand passengers arrived in that city from Europe in a single day of last month. The Irish and American riots at New Orleans have again been renewed, and two men and a woman killed. During the last six months 25,110 persons have been arrested for criminal offences in New York, in cluding 11 for arson, 94 for assaults with intent. to kill, and 46 for murder. Captain M'Seavy, of a vessel trading from Glasgow to New York, passed a hull, which he supposed to be the missing City of Glasgow steamer, on the 18th ult. The wreck seen was of iron, and had had all its woodwork burnt out. A terrible storm commenced on the coast of Texas on the 18th ult., and raged with terrific fury for four days. An immense amount of property was destroyed, and several vessels and many lives lost. The town of Matagorda was totally destroyed, with the exception of three houses. The crops, both of the canes and the cotton, were nearly ruined. CANADA. The session of the Canadian Parliament opened favourably to the new Conservative Ministers. The Opposition were defeated by large majorities on several questions connected with the address. On the passage referring to the " adjustment" of the clergy reserves an amendment wag moved to sub stitute the word "secularisation ;" but the original para graph was carried by 70 votes against 33. The Opposition then changed their tactics, and sought to delay business by repeated motions of adjournment. This attempt was baffled by the persistency of the Government members, who won six divisions on this point, and fairly wearied out their opponents by pro- THE PRESS. trotting the sitting from 3 p.m. on Tuesday, the 19th, to 2 p.m. on the following day-23 hours, with but an hour's interval between nine and ten on Wednes- day morning. The reciprocity treaty was confirmed by the Canadian Parliament on the 20th ult. Mr. Sidney Webster, private secretary to President Pierce, was on the floor of the house when the vote was taken. The Legislative Council has appointed a committee to inquire into the charge of undue speculation by some of the late Ministers. Lord Elgin and suite arrived at Detroit on the 29th ult., where a dinner had been given his lord ship by the Common Council. It is estimated that the Canadas will raise the present season a surplus of 12,000,000 bushels of wheat, which of course will look abroad for a market. The city of Quebec is about to be supplied with pure water from the lake at Lorette. The lake is about ten miles distant, and sufficiently elevated to enable the water to be conveyed to the top of the highest houses in the city. The water has hitherto been carted from the river, and has proved a fertile source of disease, being full of impurity, and with a large percentage of saline matter. INDIA AND CHINA. The overland mail reached Trieste on Thursday. The dates are—Bombay. 11th Sept.;• Madras, 10th; Calcutta, 6th; Hong - Kong , 22nd Aug.; Canton, 21st. India throughout is tranquil. At Calcutta trade is depressed. Shanghai is still in the hands of the rebels. Canton continues in a state of siege. Ningpo, Fuhchan, and Amoy were quiet. No tea has arrived at Canton, and business is quite stopped there. Much tea will be exported from Fuhchan. A great fire broke out in Canton, outside the city wall, on July 23rd. More than six hundred houses were burnt down. The conflagration was said to be ordered by the mandarins, who believed that a large number of rebels were living in that quarter. (Saud arils lastion. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort left Balmoral 1 at nine o'clock on Thursday morning, and reached Edinburgh in safety at seven in the evening. The royal party spent the night in Holyrood Palace. Yesterday morning they proceeded to Hull, which was reached at six p.m., and where, at the Station Hotel, the Queen purposed sleeping last night. This morning the royal yacht was ordered to be in readi ness to convey the Queen and Prince Albert to Grimsby, her Majesty wishing to inspect the new docks there. This evening her Majesty is expected to arrive in London by the Great Northern Ra►lway, and will at once proceed to Windsor Castle. The younger royal children who have been left at Osborne during the sojourn of the Queen in Scot• land are to travel from the Isle of Wight to Windsor to-day. The Premier arrived at Balmoral on Tuesday to wait on the Queen. Sir James Graham had left on the previous day for town. Lord Burghersh reached Balmoral early on Wed nesday morning with despatches from the Crimea. His lordship, together with the Earl of Aberdeen, accompanied her Majesty in her journey southward. THE MINISTRY.—Lord Aberdeen is expected to return to town this evening from Scotland. Lord John Russell has returned to Scarbcrough from a visit to the Earl of Carlisle at Castle Howard. Sir George Grey remains at his seat at Falloden. Lord Palmerston continues at Broadlands. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is residing at Hawarden Castle. Sir W. Molesworth arrived in London last week. The Duke of Newcastle has been staying in town. Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P., has visited Southampton to examine the extensive operations going on in that town for sewering it, and supplying it with water. Lady Raglan and suite arrived at Dover on Monday afternoon by the South-Eastern boat from the Conti nent. Lord Dudley Stuart has gone on a tour to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. His Excellency James Buchanan, the United States Minister, accompanied by his niece, Miss Lane, has left town on a continental tour. Daniel E. Sickles, Esq., Secretary of the Legation, is accredited Charge d'Affaires ad interim. The Lord Mayor gave a splendid banquet on Tuesday evening to the members of the corporations of Norwich, Halifax, Bradford, and Banbury, Among the guests were the representatives of several of the foreign legations and many members of Parliament. The Duke of Buccleuch having obtained a fresh lease of Montagu-house, Whitehall, from the Crown, an eminent architect, by his grace's orders, has pre pared plans for the construction of a new mansion on the present site, which will shortly be commenced. SATURDAY, The noble duke has taken the Countess Brownlow's mansion in Belgrave•square during the rebuilding of the new edifice. On ituarg. THE RIGHT REV. JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT, provisional bishop of the diocese of New York, died at his residence in that city on the 21st ult. The deceased prelate was born at Liverpool, during a temporary visit of his parents to England in the year 1793. His father was an Englishman by birth, but became an American citizen immediately after the revolution. His mother was a Miss Mayhew, a daughter of the distinguished Dr. Mayhew, who was the descendent of Sir Thomas Mayhew, the first governor of Martha's Vineyard, and one of the earliest settlers in America. It is a circumstance worthy of notice that the grandfather of Dr. Wain. wright was a stanch opponent of episcopacy. GENERAL JOSEPH CHLOPICKI, well known during the Polish revolution, died after a long and painful ill ness on the 30th of September at Cracow. At the commencement of the revolution he was placed as dictator at the head of the movement. GENERAL SIR GORDON DRUMMOND, G.C.8., died on the 3rd inst., in the 83rd year of his age. Sir Gordon Drummond served in Holland in 1794 and '95, and was present in Nimeguen during the siege and at the sortie. Accompanied the expedition to Egypt in 1801, and was present in the battles of the 13th and 21st March ; also at the battle of Ramanieh, and at the surrender of 'Grand Cairo and Alexandria. Sir Gordon saw much service in the American war, and commanded in the action near the Falls of Niagara, where he was severely wounded. He re ceived the silver war medal with one clasp for Egypt. By his death the colonelcy of the Bth (King's) Regiment is placed at the disposal of the War office. LADY HARRIET DRUMMOND died on the 7th inst. at Albary park, county of Surrey, the residence of her husband, Mr. Drummond, M.P. for West Surrey. The fatal disease was effusion of the brain. The deceased was a member of the noble house of Rutland. Siorion, FRANCISCO FERRARI, the eminent Italian banker of Madrid, died on the 3rd. It is rumoured that he has left upwards of 300,0001.—an instance of a large fortune acquired by one who began life penniless. Coma Rossi, who married in 1838 the Duchess of Lucca, daughter of the Duke Louis I. of Parma, and mother•in-law of the present King of Saxony, has died suddenly at Venice, it is believed of cholera. In addition to the six light-draught-of-water screw steam gun-boats ordered to be built at Dept ford, and now launched, and the four built by Mr. Pitcher, at Northfleet, of the Pelter class, Mr. Pitcher is to build twelve more, which, with the two ordered to be immediately proceeded with at Deptford, will make a total of twenty light-draught-of-water screw steam gun-boats, to be ready early in the ensuing spring for any service they may be required to un dertake. Government has resolved on placing Orkney in a state of defence, by the erection of a fort of sufficient size in the neighbourhood of Kirkwall. The work will be commenced forthwith, and is expected to be finished in a few months. The Moniteur publishes a notification, issued on the 12th of August last by Captains Ommanney and Hubert, commanding the allied squadron in the White Sea, declaring the ports of Archangel and Onega, and all the other ports, harbours, and creeks from Cape Sviatornos to Cape Kanin, in a state of blockade. Three copies of the Extraordinary Gazette con taining the official despatches, list of casualties, la., relating to the battle of the Alma, were forwarded, by order of Mr. Rowland Hill, to every country postmaster, with instructions " to affix one of such copies to the office window, or in some other conspi cuous place, to cause a second copy to be posted at the town-ball or market place, and to deliver the third copy to the chief magist rate or clergyman of the town." The same course is also ordered to be pursued, without further instructions, on the arrival of any Gazettes which may hereafter be transmitted under similar circumstances. THE SOUVENIRS SENT HOME BY MARSHAL ST. ARNAUD by the Fury, and which he himself bad gathered on the shore of the Crimea, have their r, interest mournfully en hanced for his daughte Madame Preysigur, by her father's death. The first stone on which his foot stepped, and the first flower plucked by his hand, were the missives by which the chieftain spoke to his child of his landing on the Tartar peninsula. THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF BRISTOL have been invited by the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort to a grand banquet at Badminton-house& Ills gm" is Lord iiigh sieword of the eitf. __..iil