The Press. — London, England, 1854-07-22 00:00:00

I" JULY 22, 1854. which the Church has a right, and declares that the conduct of the Archbishop of Friburg relative to ecclesiastical property is quite in conformity with his episcopal duties. ITALY. The ship Persian arrived at Genoa on the 17th, having on board the submarine cable for La Spezzia, where it was expected to arrive on Monday last. The Prince de Carignan, the Ministers, and the corps e liplomatique, were to be present when it was laid down. TURKEY. Omer Paoha issued a proclamation from Oltenitza on the Bth inst., addressed to the inhabitants of Wallachia, in which he calls on them to remain tran quil, promising an amnesty to all those who were compelled by circumstances to act in the interest of the Russians. "You will soon," says the proclama tion, "be freed from your oppressors, and return to the rule of your rightful Sovereign, who has never ceased to care for your welfare, rights, and freedom." Grand preparations were being made in Constanti nople for the marriage festivals that were to take place on the 15th inst. All the magazines in Salonica containing wool and cotton, as also the new crops of corn and tobacco, were completely destroyed by the tire of the 28th. The loss is estimated at 45,000,000 or 50,000,000 piastres. Salonica is completely ruined by this mis- THE PRESS. Majesty. Be severe—severe, Sir Baron, to these lawless Walleehians—the more severe the better. This is the will of his Majesty the Czar. " Receive the assurance of my highest regard, " NESSELRODE, imperial Chancellor." General Aurep, who had been disgraced by the Czar on account of his ill-success, has committed suicide, and the event is said to have made a deep impression on the Russian troops. A report published in the Vienna Prase, but requiring con firmation, states that Prince Petskiewitsch, who has also fallen out of favour from a similar cause, has died while on his journey to his estates. fortune. The organisation of the troops which the Bey of Tunis was to send to Constantinople has been nearly completed, and the first portion, under General liechid, was to embark on the 15.1 inst. Ilhamy Pacha, son of the Viceroy of Egypt, whose intended visit to Europe has been announced, is to leave at the end of the present month for London, and from that city he is to go to Paris. He will also, perhaps, visit Germany. Letters from the coast of Abasia dated the 25th ult. state that Schamyl had forbidden the sale of women in all the tribes that recognised his authority. 679 many years. The over-issue amounts to about 19,000 shares of stock, the par value of which is 1,900,000 dollars. The culprit is Mr. It. Schuyler, the president of the company, and he is said to have swindled also the Haarlem Railroad Company, though to a less amount. He has escaped, as it was believed, to Canada. The anniversary of the establishment of the Re public had been celebrated with the usual ceremonies on the 4th inst. At Dorchester, Massachusetts, on that day, the Roman Catholic church was blown up with gunpowder. At Manchester, New Hampshire, on the same anniversery, a dreadful riot occurred be tween Americans and Irish, when the latter were defeated, fifteen of their houses gutted, and their furniture destroyed. The Roman Catholic church was attacked, but saved by the police. Several persons on Loth sides were dangerously wounded. RUSSIA. Letters from St. Petersburg state that not alone in that city but throughout the whole empire the Government has rendered the new loan obligatcry. Each town is obliged, according to its importance, to bear a certain portion of it, and such of the in habitants as should venture to refuse their share are to be considered enemies to the Emperor. The Vienna Presse states, on the authority of travellers arrived from the Russian capital, that more than three hundred young men—nobles, stu dents, and merchants—have been arrested. They have been told that there is no charge against them, but that their opinions were known, and that the Government was resolved to omit no salutary pre • caution. The Government is apprehensive of some explosion of popular discontent. According to the lest. Deutsche Post the Empress of Russia had written a letter to her brother, the King of Prussia, of which Col. Manteuffel was the bearer, and which produced a great impression on the King. The imperial writer, who addressed her brother " from the bed of sickness," says that she is likely to be one of the sacrifices to the war, as she cannot take the German baths, which are so extremely necessary for the restoration of her shaken health. She further affirms that it would break her heart if the Prussian army should take the field against the power which had rendered such great assistance to her father when he was in peril. Baron Budberg, Russian Governor of Wallachia, before departing to the head-quarters of Prince lion schakolf, summoned the principal Boyards to wait upon him, for the purpose of communicating a despatch just received from the Russian Minister. As the majority of the parties summoned were, how ever, too ill to appear, copies of Count Nessel rod. e's missive were transmitted to them. It is cer tainly a rather fiery document, and takes the form of a letter dated June 22, addressed to Baron Bud berg himself : " Sir Baron,—His Majesty the Czar wishes that yon should opportunely make known to the Wallachians his displeasure at their strange conduct, particularly the Boyards, in regard to the Russian troops which have entered into the principalities, that they may free them selves for ever from the unbearable Turkish yoke. His Majesty the Czar considers it improper, at the present posture of affairs, that the associates of his Majesty in the true religion should meditate subjecting themselves to other than a Christian Government. If the Wallachians do not understand this, because they are too much under the heretical influence of the powers of Western Europe, his Majesty the Emperor cannot leave unfulfilled the task entrusted to him by Heaven, as the supreme head of right "elieving Christians, namely, to rescue the members of the true Christian Greek religion for ever from Turkish dominion. His Majesty will carry out his task in spite of the interference of the other powerless States of here tical Europe. We are with God—God with us, and the victory is ours. His Majesty the Czar commands that Po, Sir Baron, shall strongly rebuke the Boyards and higher Wall ac hi an f unc tionaries for their illoyal conduct towards our troops. Soon will the time come when these F 66140 11 Wallachians will sorely repent that by their illoyalty they have to such a degree raised the ire of his Two railroad trains came into collision on the Susquehanna road, near Baltimore, on the 4th, when twenty-eight persons were killed and thirty•three wounded ; ten more e expected to die. Neer Detroit, on the 3rd, owing to a similar collision, a farmer, his wife, and child were killed. The ships Olympus and Trade Wind, trading be tween Liverpool and Mobile, came into collision on the 26th ult., at sea, when both sank, and twenty four persons were drowned ; the rest of the passengers and crews being rescued by the Belgian barque Stadt Antwerpen. A terrible conflagration broke out in Philadelphia on the sth inst., which destroyed the National Theatre, the Chinese Museum, with its noble halls, and about twenty houses and stores. An actor, named Shepherd, perished in the flames, and several firemen were seriously injured. The loss of pro perty is estimated at half a million of dollars. The authorities at New York had thought it neces sary to issue the usual notice respecting the prevalence of cholera. The two Operas were closed, in conse quence of the indisposition, from slight attacks of cholera, of Mesdames Anna Thillon and Maretzek. At Boston, Philadelphia, and at St. Louis, especially, where 207 deaths occurred in a week, the epidemic was spreading. Accounts from the plains state that the disease was creating much havoc amongst the emigrants. The Atlantic has brought to England 202 passen gers, and 800,000 dollars in specie, besides the usual mails. !. BUIIMAH. The news from Burmah brought by the last over land mail possesses little political interest. Rangoon advises are come down to May 22. Hopes had previously been entertained that the boats lost in the late hurricane might have been wrecked near Kyotyas, and that many of the missing soldiers may have reached Sitang and Shoay Clyeen, but definite intelligence had reached Rangoon that eighty men of all ranks, native and European, in cluding Lieutenant Stapleton, Madras Native In fantry, perished in the gale. The convicts on board the Clarissa had risen and killed the captain, the mate, and a portion of the crew. Several of the sailors escaped in a boat, and reached Rangoon on the 18th of May. Two days atterwards the vessel ran ashore, and was found and taken possession of by the ship Elizabeth. A number of escaped convicts had captured the village of Assam, and slain twenty of the inhabitants. Dacoity still continued, but not to the same extent as formerly. A police force is being organised for the protection of life and property in Iturmah. Part of it will consist of river police for the Irrawaddy, and for the creeks and rivers of the Delta. THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES.—For the purpose of furthering an effort now in progress to effect a large and permanent increase in the income of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, a public meeting was held on Wednesday in the Mansion-house, undqr the presidence of the Lord Mayor. The meeting was very numerously attended. The Rev. E. Hawkins read a statement of the society's operations. It appeared that the society's general fund amounted last year to 594411.; and 20,0001. a year more is considered to be the lowest necessary increase. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of New Zealand, the Bishop of Natal, Mr. Hubbard, governor of the Bank of England, and other gentle men, spoke in support of resolutions, which affirmed that the rapid growth of our colonial empire, and the vast amount of emigration to British settlements abroad, have created a demand on the society which cannot adequately he met without a large augmenta tion of its funds, and that the connection into which this country has been brought through its commer cial and political relations with vast numbers of the heathen affords to the society the opportunity, and imposes upon it the duty, of labouring to impart to them the light of the gospel. A liberal subscription in aid of the society's funds was entered into, and a large number of gentlemen gave in their names as annual contributors. GREECE. The Porte has consented to open its ports to Greek vessels, but demands an indemnity fur the expenses of the war, and for Turkish subjects who have suffered from the depredations of the Greek sympathisers. The Paris Moniteur prints some despatches written by the late Colonel Soutzo, Greek Minister of War, which leave not the least doubt of the com plicity of the late Cabinet of Athens in the insurrec tion. In one of these, the Minister, addressing Grivas as his brother, says, " 8,000 talari are at your command, and will be paid to whom you may nominate." SPAIN. Notwithstanding the continued perseverance of the official despatch-writers in Madrid to represent the insurrection as an affair of no importance, and the insurgent forces as few in number, perpetually defeated by the loyalist troops, and destitute of all sympathy among the population, the fact can no longer be concealed that imeute has become a revo lution, and is attaining full success with almost un exampled rapidity. After spreading through cities and provinces on all sides, the flame has reached the capital itself, where, as we learn by the latest ac counts from Bayonne, under date of the 20th inst., the troops and population made a unanimous pro nunciamiento on the 17th. The Count of San Luis (Sartorius), President of the Council, then fled from Madrid, and the Ministry were dissolved. Saragossa had previously "pronounced," as had the whole kingdom of Valencia, the Balearic Isles, and the towns of SL Sebastian, Vittoria, Valladolid, Burgos, and Barcelona. At the latter place some rioters, taking advantage of the disturbed state of affairs, plundered and burnt several manufactories and other edifices. The insurgent chiefs, however, restored order, shot two or three of the rioters, and proclaimed that every attack on person or pro perty would be punished with death. Espartero is now recognised as the head of the movement, and is fi.rming a central army. General Zabala, who had already left St. Sebastian in order to march upon Madrid with a force collected in the Basque provinces, will join Espartero with his troops. The rallying cry of the insurgents has been " The Queen and the Constitution !" varied in some places as " The Queen and Morality !" General O'Donnell on the 7th instant issued a proclamation designed to rally, on behalf of the movement, the whole Pro gressista party. This document appears as a " Bulletin Extraordinary of the Constitutional Army," and was dated from the head-quarters at Mania Imre& The purpose of the insurrection is thus set forth in it:— " We desire the preservation of the throne, but without a camarilla which dishonours it. We desire the rigorous practice of the fundamental laws, improving them, par. ticularly the electoral law, and that of the press. We desire a reduction of taxation founded on strict economy. We desire that in military and civil employments antiquity and merits may be respected. We desire to wrest the people from the centralisation which devours them, giving them the local independence necessary to preserve and increase their own interests ; and, as a guarantee of all this, we desire, and will plant on solid bases, the national militia. Such are our intentions, which we express frankly, without imposing them on that account upon the nation. The juntas of Government, which will have to go on con stituting themselves in the free provinces; the general Cortes, which will soon assemble ; the nation itself, in fine, will fix the definitive bases of the liberal regeneration to which we aspire. We have consecrated our swords to the national will, and we shall not sheathe them until this be fulfilled." UNITED STATES. By the Atlantic steamer New York dates to the Bth inst. have arrived. The treaty with Mexico had been ratified at Wash ington, and General Almont received a check for seven million of dollars. Congress was to adjourn on the 4th of August. A new catalogue of crime and disaster reaches us by this mail. On the sth inst. there was an intense excitement in Wall-street, caused by the discovery that there had been a large over-issue of stock in the New York and New Haven Railroad Company. The extent of the fraud, the respectability of the party concerned in the swindle, the position occupied by the suspended house, and the effect of its innumerable contracts be coming null and void, all make it one of the most de plorable events that has occurred in Wall•street for