The Press. — London, England, 1854-04-29 00:00:00

390 prepared for the reception of the Duke of Cam bridge and Prince Napoleon. A French regiment and a detachment of one of the Highland regiments bad gone on to Adrianople. From the army of Asia accounts had arrived that 4,000 men refused to march from Erzeroum to Kars on account of their arrears of pay. A firman against the excesses of the Bashi Bazouks was expected. A great many Greeks have already quitted Con stantinople, to the dismay of the mercantile world. Trade was completely stagnant. All kinds of provi sions are continually rising in price. Turkish ves sels convey the necessary provisions and coals to the combined fleets. _ _ The news of the new Turkish loan made by Namik Pacha, in London, with Rothschild Brothers, for the sum of 2,200,0001., at 85 and 86 per cent., has been received in Constantinople with much pleasure. Money was sadly wanting. The Sultan has given orders for three nishans (decorations) to mark his gratitnde—one for Baron Lionel, one for Baron James, and the other for the Baron Alphonse, the son of the head of the Paris house. RUSSIA. The Journal de St. Petersbourg contains a notice by which the Minister of Finance allows English and French vessels six weeks from the 10th of April to clear out of Russian ports in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff, and six weeks from the 7th of May to clear out of Russian ports in the Baltic. Enemies' property in neutral bottoms will be regarded as in. violable, and may be imported into Russia. The subjects of neutral powers on board enemies' ships will be unmolested. The Cologne Gazette states thas the Emperor of Russia has completed a scale of the rewards which are to be paid for the capture of French, English, or Turkish vessels by his cruisers. It appears that he is ready to pay as prize-money double their ordinary value for ships of the line, frigates, and steam cor vettes, and for smaller steamers their ordinary value. Steam vessels burnt or sunk will be estimated accord ing to the number of their guns. An ukase of the 18th directs that, before the 20th of May, a naval force, composed of volunteers for the defence of the coasts of Finland, shall be organised. All sailors on leave of absence are required to return to duty forthwith. By another ukase the Emperor orders the construc tion of telegraphic lines between Bucharest, Odessa, and St. Petersburg. Some of the Russian nobles are said to have made great pecuniary sacrifices. Count Anatole Demidoff, whose revenues are enormous, is stated to have placed them at the disposal of the State for the duration of the war, while Baron Stieglitz, the Court hanker, has voluntarily contributed fioo,ooo silver roubles (60,0001.). At Odessa as at Revel the Government have required all who could to leave the city and seek security farther inland. Women and children had complied with this request, and the men would follow the more readily as all trade was suspended, the Ex change closed, and the Bank removed to Jeka terinoslov. This stoppage of trade had made bank ruptcy a daily phenomenon. The Sulina mouth of the Danube is again the ob ject of attention on the part of the Russian en gineers. According to letters from Odessa, some monster dredging-machines had been conveyed thither in tow of British war steamers, whence it was inferred that they were going to deepen the Sulina channel. Heavy Russian batteries have for some time guarded the entrance of the Sulina channel ; but General Schilder, believing the entrance not per fectly safe, has ordered the Russian engineers to sink boats loaded with sand on the already shallow bar. It was expected that a sanguinary contest would soon take place at the Sulina mouth. The last accounts from the banks of the Danube describe the Russian army in the Dobrudscha as suffering considerably from sickness. Entire com panies were daily carried off by dysentery, and the mortality was so great in several newly-arrived regiments that they were ordered to recross the Danube. SATURDAY, the 10th ult. Calcutta is about being lighted with gas, which has afforded much satisfaction. The neutrality of Persia has been fully confirmed, and officially notified to Lord Dalhousie. The news from China, both political and com mercial, is unimportant. THE WAR. THE ARMIES. The Duke of Cambridge reached Vienna yesterday week, and left on Wednesday last en route for Trieste and the East. Lord Raglan sailed from Marseilles for the East on Saturday afternoon, on board the Curadoc, bear ing the flag of Rear Admiral' Boxer. His lordship arrived there on the previous Thursday, but was un able to leave sooner in consequence of the boisterous weather. Major-General the Earl of Lucan arrived on Sun day at the Hotel des Princes, on his way to the East. Brigadier-General Rose has also arrived in Paris. Major the Hon. St. George Foley has been appointed his aide-de-camp. Colonel Rose, so well known for the important part played by him at the commencement of the Eastern question, has left Constantinople for Candia, to organise the hospitals in that island. The allied troops have begun their movement to • wards the true seat of war. A French and a High land regiment have marched for Adrianople. On the 25th General Bosquet left Constantinople for that place for the purpose of fixing there his head quarters. 20,000 French and 8,000 English have now landed at Gallipoli. The troops to remain there, under command of General Sir George Brown, are the 4th, 28th, 44th, 50th, and Rifle Brigade. All the remainder are to leave for Scutari. Generals Evans, Ccumpbell, Eyre, and Penne father arrived at Malta on the 22nd. The 88th, 7th, 23rd, 95th, and 13th Regiments had left. Three battalions of the Guards had also sailed for Scutari. The Himalaya is to carry cavalry to the East. After taking troops from Malta to Constantinople in sixty-three hours, she is now on her way to South ampton to be fitted for the conveyance of 500 cavalry. The 38th Regiment embarked on Tuesday at Chatham on board the screw-ship Melbourne for Gallipoli. The head-quarters of the 14th Regiment and 17th (Lancers) have also embarked, the former at Cork and the latter from Portsmouth. Two more companies of the Bth Hussars have sailed from Plymouth on board the Shooting Star and Meclora transports. A fourth detachment of the 89th Regiment em barked on board the Bombay at Queenstown on Tuesday evening. They were under the command of Major Barlow, and are, as well as the 14th, bound for the seat of war. The 17th Regiment has arrived at Cork from Templemore, to embark for Malta. Drafts of the 3rd, 9th, 62nd, and 68th. are ordered to embark at Cork for Malta. The 42nd and 79th Highlanders, now in Ports mouth garrison, are under orders to embark—the 79th on the 4th proximo, in the Hydaspes, and the 42nd on the Bth, in H. M.S. Simoom, for the East. The following six sailing-vessels, which have been for some time past at Liverpool, fitting up for the accommodation of horses, are expected at Kings town :—The Glendalough, the Tyrone, the Asia, the Warelaud, the Panola, and the Paraniatta. Imme diately on their arrival the 11th Hussars, who are under marching orders, will embark for Malta, en route to Gallipoli. It is determined to send out to the East another 1,000 horses, for which steam-transports are to be provided; 400 of this number, it is stated, can be carried by the General Screw Company's 2,700-ton steamer Prince, engaged by the Government; and it is said the great 3,500 ton steamer Himalaya will come home and take most of the remainder. THE PRES S. THE CAUCASUS. Accounts from Circassia of the Ist state that the insurrection is becoming general among all the war like tribes of the Caucasus. The presence of the fleets in the Black Sea, followed as it has been by the enforced abandonment of positions long occupied by the Russians on the coast, has made a deep im pression upon those tribes who had to a certain extent acquiesced in the Muscovite usurpation. Warriors are offering themselves on all sides. Schamyl has acquired an immense accession of influence among other tribes than his own ; his agents are everywhere inciting attacks on the Russian posts; and it is believed that, as soon as the season shall permit of the movement of large masses of men, he will be in a position to attack the Russian detached army of the Caucasus in its head-quarters at Tiflis. PERSIA. Prince Dolgorouky, Russian minister plenipoten tiary to the Court of Persia, had returned to St. Petersburg from Teheran. In consequence of the turn which affairs have lately taken it is said that the prince will not be replaced at the Court of the Shah. A consul remains to take care of the interests of Russian subjects, GREECE. Intelligence from Athens of the 21st inst. informs us that the Gulf of Corinth was guarded by French ships of war, and the communication between the Continent and the Peloponnesus is almost entirely cut off. The Government had been informed that no Greek volunteers will be allowed to enter Turkey. The town of Arta is entirely destroyed. The citadel still held out, as well as that of Suli. A large insurgent force surrounds Janina. Prevesa remans tranquil. In Thessaly, Fuad Effendi had applied for rein forcements, in order to enable him completely to put down the insurrection. The Epirotes were still in arms, but all the strong places were in the hands of the Turks. Accounts from Alexandria state that the Greeks resident in Egypt are to quit that country by the Ist of May. The Viceroy of Egypt has repealed the decree pro hibiting the export of corn. UNITED STATES. New York advices to the 13th have been receive d by the Canada steamer. The proceedings in Congress present no features of particular interest. The House of Representa tives was still occupied with the Nebraska question. The Senate had carried an amendment to the Gads den treaty, making the 31st parallel the boundary. It was understood that the Mexican Minister had assented to the amendments proposed by the Pre sident. The greatest efforts were to be made to quash the treaty when the vote on its passing was to be taken. The New York Herald states that a draught of a convention has been agreed upon between the Bri tish Government and the United States Minister, Mr. Buchanan, regarding the right of search and the impressment of seamen. The United States is understood to pledge itself to strict neutrality in the present war. Intelligence had arrived from California to the 16th of March. A physician of San Francisco had been killed in a duel with a district attorney. The accounts from the mines were highly favourable. The news from Lower California is to the effect that the Walker " filibustering " expedition was totally disorganised. Fresh discoveries of gold are reported from Oregon. At Jacksonville a very destructive fire had occurred, which consumed upwards of 300,000 dollars' worth of property. INDIA AND CHINA. An overland mail has arrived with dates from Calcutta of March 18; Madras, 23; Bombay, 28; and China, 11. There is not much news of im portance by this arrival. Burmah continues to be as unsettled as ever. The King of Ava is reported to be dead—some say by poison,—and that his bro Seventy two large guns, of 9 and 11 inch calibre, cast for the Turkish Government, have been proved at Woolwich, and sent up to the dockyard, that a few describe the Russian army in the Dobrudscha as An overland mail has arrived with dates from steamer Prince, engaged by the Government; and it suffering considerably from sickness. Entire corn- Calcutta of March 18; Madras, 23; Bombay, 28 ; is said the great 3,500 ton steamer Himalaya will panies were daily carried off by dysentery, and the and China, 11. There is not much news of im- come home and take most of the remainder. mortality was so great in several newly-arrived portance by this arrival. Burmah continues to be Seventy-two large guns, of 0 and 11 inch calibre, regiments that they were ordered to recross the as unsettled as ever. The King of Ave is reported cast for the Turkish Government, have been proved Danube. to be dead—some say by poison,—and that his bro at Woolwich, and sent up to the dockyard, that a few The news from Finland continues to be very ther, of an impetuous and warlike disposition, has of each may be sent out in the transport-ships for melancholy. The whole country is nearly ruined, succeeded to the throne. This intelligence, how- their destination. These fine pieces of ordnance are and starvation stares the peasantry in the face. ever, is of very doubtful authority. The Governor- different in the calibre from the 8, 10, and 13 inch Their corn has been seized for the army; not even General is not expected to leave India for England guns used in the British service. They appear to be seed-corn has been left them; and they have been until 1856, previous to which, it is fully believed by cast on Monk's principle, or closely resembling it, paid in worthless assignats. Their horses and those well informed upon the subject, that he will with a great solidity of metal at the breech, and are cattle are employed for military transports, and order a march upon Ava, as the only means of well adapted for defensive operations. themselves fear every illegality. Prices are rising securing the peaceful possession of the province of There have arrived at, or passed, Gibraltar:—Tho every day ; no raw material exists for the Nandi- Pegu. Brigadier-General Tennant died at Lahore Niagara, paddle, with the 88th Regiment (Connaught craftsmen and manufacturers. Last year the harvest on the oth ult. His scientific attainments in the Rangers) on board, passed on the 10th.—The Royal was very poor ; this year their barns are plundered, military profession proved of great service to Lord Mail Company's paddle-steamer Orinoco, with the , • and their homes filled with Cossacks. The precious Gough during the Punjaub campaign. The electric 7th Royal Fusiliers, under the command of Lieut.- metals have been removed from the Finnish Bank in telegraph in the north-west provinces was opened on Colonel Yea, arrived on the 10th. Having taken in Helsingfors, and have been deposited " for safety" the 15th ultimo, when the Queen's speech was coals, she proceeded to Gallipoli on the evening of in St. Petersburg, the whole country being thus flashed along the wire from Sepree to Agra, a dis- the following day.—The Trent, paddle, having the made bankrupt at one blow. The inhabitants are tance of 160 miles, to the great delight and amaze• 23rd Regiment (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) on board, flying from that town as quickly as possible, fearing ment of all who witnessed the interesting and ex- commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel H. G. Chester, a bombardment. The University library is trans- perimental fact. The annexation of Nagpoor has arrived on the 10th. The Trent will return to ported into the interior, and the archives are simi- taken place without the slightest opposition. Colonel Gibraltar, after disembarking the 23rd at Gallipoli' laxly secured. • Outram resumed his office of Resident of Baroda on and take the 30th.—The City of London, with part ;