The Press. — London, England, 1853-08-06 00:00:00

1 I 320 SWITZERLAND. the Turkish Ambassador, Veli Pacha. Yesterday the Emperor went a /a ehasse in the forest of St. Ger maine. A dinner was served on this occasion in the Pavillon de la Matte, at which the guests invited to the sport were admitted. The inspectors-general sent into the departments have given umbrage, by their official attributes, to the prefects. M. de Persigny has a difficult task to manage their susceptibilities, and smooth down their offended dignity. The Conseil d'Etat have taken their holidays till the Ist October. On Sunday the members took leave of their Majesties, headed by M. Rouher, their vice-president, in the absence of M. Baroche. M. Falloux, formerly minister of Louis Napoleon during the Republic, has been sought after, no one knows why, by the gensdarmes and police of Rennes, which city he passed through on the 2nd of this month, on his way to the town d'lre, where he was to be present at a religions ceremony to be per formed by Monseigneur Charhonneaux, bishop mis sionary of India. Trianon, the favourite residence of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette, is preparing for their Majesties at Versailles. The crops are getting in under better auspices than was expected; the corn is heavy in ear, and the farmers do not grumble much more than usual. The vines look very green, and promise an unusual quantity of nice sour light wine, given to the British public under the enticing name of claret, 2ris. only per dozen. M. KisselefT having demanded an explanation from the French Government, touching some state ment of the Cenetitutionnel on the Turkish ques tion, received for reply, " that once more it was explicitly declared that the Government was net responsible, directly or indirectly, for any statement appearing in the Moniteur." This disavowal of a journal considered av semi-official puts 1111 end to its authority as a Ministerial paper. It will be on Thursday, the 12th of this month, that the trial of the affair called " des Correspondanees" will take place before the Chamber of Appeal of the Correc tional Police, sent before it by the Court of Cessa tion. MM. Berryer, Odillon Barrot, Dufattre, and Hebert, of the bar of Paris, will plead in this case. Two splendid boats, destined for the imperial yacht La Reine Hortense, have arrived at Cherbourg from London, said to be a present from the Queen of England to the Empress of the French. The I'refect of the Basses Pyrinees has been offi cially informed that the journey of the Emperor and Empress to Pau has been postponed, and will not take place this season. Their Majesties have sent six thousand francs to Cherbourg for distribution among the families of the workmen who were killed by the late explosion in the dockyard at that port. The Marquis de Viluma, at an audience with the Emperor on Tuesday, presented his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Spain and Parma at his Majesty's Court. Monday's Constitutionnel announces positively that the conditions of arrangement brought by the Caradoc have not been admitted by the Cabinets of Paris, London, and Vienna. The explanations made on Tuesday to the two Houses of Parliament by the British Ministers seriously alarmed the speculators on the Paris Ex change, and all the funds closed with a decline. The Prefect of l'olicc has published an onion nance commanding that all servants residing in Paris shall, within three months, under the l►enalty of imprisonment, provide themselves with a lieret at the Prefecture of Police. Any person not provided with such a nivel, or certificate, shall be expelled from Paris, after an imprisonment of from eight days to three months. It is said that the Municipal Council of Paris is about to contract a new loan of 400,000.000 f., to be ex pended in executing various public works, among which are several public markets, according to plans suggested by the Emperor. Letters from Brest of the 29th ult. state that much activity is displayed in the arming of vessels. Rear- Admiral Charnor was to hoist his flag on board the Hercule. The French Government have instructed their Consul-General at Bucharest to remove his flag. In several of the departments the prefects have fixed an average tariff for the sale of grain, with the ♦iew of keeping down the price of bread. In Alsace, proceedings having been taken against some peasants for having sold at a higher price than the tariff; several farmers refused to send their corn to market. The price of bread at Paris is not to vary during the first fortnight of August. DENMARK. The cholera continues to make lamentable ad vance in Copenhagen. 340 new cases and 184 deaths have occurred in one day. The total number of eases reported on the 20th ttit. amounted to 4,759, and the deaths to 2,508. The National Council h adopted by sixty-five to twenty-nine votes the proposition of the commission THE PRESS. to leave the question of the differences with Austria to be settled by the Federal Council. The two chambers united have elected M. Freihe rose, President of the Confederation for 1854, and M. Ochsenbein, Vice-President. ITALY. The Pope's Government has prohibited the export of corn from the territories of his Holiness. The King of Sardinia, on returning from Spezzia, met with an accident. The steamer on board of which his Majesty was ran on a rock, and the King was compelled to pass on board another vessel. He has since returned to Turin. SPAIN. It is stated that the Queen's pregnancy was to be announced in the Gazette of the Ist of August; that there would be a levee in consequence at La Granja on the 2nd; and illuminations, the fountains playing, Sze., on the and and 4th. The dissensions in the Cabinet continue, and re• ports of a crisis, varied occasionally by positive an nouncements that all, or nearly all, the ministers had resigned, are transmitted by the electric telegraph to Paris about every other day. At the date of the last authentic advices, however, the Ministry were still in place. PORTUGAL. Reconciliation had at last taken place between the tiovernment and the bank. The railway project had received the approval of the Chamber of Deputies, and all that was required was the capital, which, however, according to appearances, was not likely to be obtained. In the Chamber on the 25th the Finance Minister brought forward the second part of his budget, which still showed a deficit of 180 contos (40,(0/.) He hoped, however, that the excess of the actual over the estimated revenue would remove that debt. The grape vines were suffering severely from disease, which threatened the most ruinous consequences. The Queen and Royal Family had removed from Cintra to Mafra, where they intended to pass the summer. GREECE. The Bank of (Treece has declared a dividend of 41d. (15c., or at the rate of 8 1-3 per cent. per annum, for the first quarter of 1853. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The occupation of the Danubian principalities by Russia has assumed a more serious character by the usurpation of all authority respecting matters of internal government and finance. The post-office had, from the beginning, been invaded and managed by Russian functionaries, and the local revenue is now transferred into Russian keeping. Five millions of piastres, which were in arrear from the Moldavian principality, have accordingly been withheld, and the reigning Prince Gliika has formally announced to the Porte that, in conformity with superior orders which he has received, all connection with Turkey is severed, and the principality considers itself inde pendent of the Ottoman empire, and will in future withhold the payment of all tribute. Wallachia was hourly expected to signify a similar resolution. Or ders have been sent to both the Hospodars com manding them to quit the principalities, and retire to the right bank of the Danube. The consuls of England and France in the pro vinces have also received orders from their respective Governments to lower their flags. Accounts from Constantinople of the 19th mention the arrival of the Egyptian fleet with 12,000 men on board. The fleet was in quarantine. The protest against the occupation of the princi palities has not produced the effect counted upon. The Porte still continues its warlike preparations, and about 15,0(X) men have lately passed through Constantinople on their way to the army of the Danube, which, including the fortresses, is about 100,0I11) strong. Ali Pacha has arrived from Smyrna. The Czar has decreed a fresh levy of recruits of seven in the 1,000 throughout the eastern ►art of the empire. These recruits are destined to reinforce the army and the navy. The Jews are to give two recruits per thousand. The levy is to commence on the Ist of November. _ The Emperor of Russia has, by a public mani festo, openly declared his intention of pushing the cause of the Orthodox Greek Church to the utmost. The Grand Duke Constantine arrived at Odessa on the 17th ult. He has been appointed Grand Admiral of the Fleets, and was about to proceed to Sebastopol to inspect the two squadrons in the Black Sea. _ _ _ In Servia, Prince Alexander was still urged by the Senate to abdicate : he refuses compliance, and has a strong party. A civil war is not improbable. The Paris Constitittionswl gives the following ac count of the Russian army from a source which it considers to be authentic : " The Russian army is divided into the troops on active service, the reserve, and the local troops. The active army, of which the headquarters are at Warsaw, is composed of 18 divisions of infantry, or from 210,000 to 252,0110 men; of 0 divisions of cavalry, or 28,000 men; of 72 batteries of SATURDAY, foot artillery, or 12,960 men and 861 pieces of cannon ; and of 6 batteries of mounted artillery, 720 men and 48 cannons. The whole force of the active army does not con sequently altogether make up 300,000 men, with 912 pieces of cannon. The reserve is composed of the body guard, the colonised grenadiers, two colonised corps of cavalry, and of the sth and 6th depot battalions of the infantry re giments. The whole force of the body guards and colonised grenadiers is 96,000 men and 320 pieces of cannon ; the force of the two colonised bodies of cavalry is 24,000 men and 40 pieces of cannon ; as to the force of the sth and Bth battalions of infantry belonging to the reserve, it is almost impossible to ascertain it with any certainty, as these bat talions are only destined in a certain measure to till up the vacancies which occur in the regiments of the line in the time of a campaign or of forced marches. The total num ber of the infantry regiments being 120, there would b e 240 reserve battalions, or about 210,000 foot soldiers, if these battalions were complete ; but, as they are constantly sending their men to the regiments to which they belong, their existence is rather nominal than effective. it would be too much, in fact, to say that this part of the reserve am ou nts t o 151,114141 men, but we put down that amount for the purpose of calculation, and then there will be a total force of the whole reserve of 2.0,000 men and 360 pieces of cannon. The local troops are the corps of the Caucacus, composed of three divisions of uffaiio7 and twelve batteries of iOot artilley ; that of Finland with four battalions ; that of Orenbourg, on the frontier of Turkestan, with tOur battalions ; and that of Siberia with four batteries, in all from 72,000 to 84,000 men and 288 pieces of cannon. The regular army of Russia, therefore, consists of thirt, divisions, or 120 regiments of infantry, and of fifteen divi sions, or sixty regiments of cavalry ; and counts, at most, with the reserve and the depots, 628,000 men and 1,540 pieces of cannon, to which must be added from 30,000 to 50,000 Cossacks of various denominations, with their light artillery, as well as the interior guard and the gendarmerie. Out of that number there can really be disposed of in Eu rope only the active army, the body guards, the grenadiers, and the two reserve bodies of cavalry, in all 420,01 K) men, 72,000 horses, and 1,272 cannon—a considerable force cer tainly, but not greater than others of the first-rate powers can bring into the field in time of war. PERSIA. Prince Dolgorouki, the Russian envoy at Teheran, demands the cession of the province of Azerbaidjan, one of the richest in the monarchy, as compensation for the nonpayment of an immense sum of money which he asserts to be owing from the Schah to the Czar. The province of Azerbaidjan is contiguous to the Russian possessions to the south of the Caspian Sea. The debt claimed amounts to eighty million roubles ; and, as the province specified is valued at something higher, Russia promises to pay the dif ference to the Shah. The Paris journals contain a letter from Schiras, in Persia, written by a Swedish physician, giving a dreadful account of the almost total destruction of that town on the 21st of April. Not less than 12,000 persons, it is stated, perished by the disaster. UNITED STATES. The latest accounts from Washington state that fresh difficulties had arisen with regard to the fishery question. It was believed that the nego tiations would be delayed, and that the subject would not be disposed of before the meeting of Congress. The New York Crystal Palace does not attract so many persons as was anticipated, and the daily attendance has not averaged more than four thou sand. The large steam-boiler in the foundry of John R. Pratt, Esq., Attorney-street, New York, collapsed on the 19th, just as the workmen were returning from dinner, blowing out the rear of the premises, fright fully scalding the engineer and three workmen, and fracturing the skull of a grocer who was sitting in front of his store in Ridge-street. Several others had hair-breadth escapes. The engineer died the night after the accident. Three ladies were drowned by the swamping of a pleasure-boat on the Delaware, on the evening of the 19th ult. Three large tobacco manufactories were destroyed by tire at Richmond, Virginia, on the 15th, entailing a loss of upwards of 40,900 dollars. William Cating, a native of Ireland, has been hung at Hackensack fir the murder of two children named O'Brien. He was at feud with their father. Another female has been thrown from her horse at the Hip podrome and killed. This makes the third victim at the same fatal place of amusement. A negro has been hung by a mob at Liberty, Missouri, tor kill ing his overseer. A murderous attack was made upon a body of Mormons in Beaver Island on the 13th of July. An accident, attended with melancholy results, had occurred in Havana at the circus on Sunday, the 10th ult., by which several persons were very seriously, and some mortally, injured. A large con course had assembled to witness the exhibition which was got up by the agricultural commission. As his Excellency the Captain-General entered, the crowds pressed to see and salute him, and the gallery, being too weakly constructed, gave way, and precipitated great numbers of people on those below. The Havana newspapers report the death of one gentle-