The Press. — London, England, 1854-03-18 00:00:00

MARCH 18, 1854. an affidavit giving a false statement as to his property ; and that the Simpsous male a similar offer in the case of the other surety, with a view to get sworn au affidavit (in Gethin's hand- writing) containing false statements respecting the surety's pro perty, with a view to showing that he was nut worth the requisite amount. The committee report " that the conduct of these three persons is deserving of the serious attention and animad version of the House;" but they state " that Mr. Sadleir does not appear from the evidence to have been personally implicated in or cognisant of these proceedings." HIGH TREASON IN IRELAND. Mr. WiarrEsint, on Tuesday, obtained leave to introduce a bill for assimilating the law and practice existurg In cases of high treason in Ireland with those observed and admitted in England respecting similar charges. The distinctions now to be found between the systems of the two countries were, he contended, useless and inv►dious. . Lord PALMERSTON, on the part of the Government, signified his assent to the measure. ortign dolnial 4nttifigeitte. FRANCE. Subscriptions to the new loan of ten millions opened in Paris on Tuesday, the 14th, amidst much excitement and enthusiasm, especially on the part of the middle class and working population. There are some novel features in the mechanism of this financial operation which appear equally bold and successful. The subscribers have the choice between Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Rents and Three per Cent. Rente. The Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Rents will be given at 02f. 56c., with enjoyment from 20th March, 1854; the Three per Cent. Rents at 651. 25c., from the 22nd December, 1853. One tenth is to be paid down on subscribing, and the remainder in fixed periods. Discount of 4 per cent is allowed for payment in anticipation. The chief novelty, how ever, consists in the very moderate scale at which the minimum amount of subscriptions is fixed, and which enables the possessor of even so small a sum as 100 f. (41.) to inscribe his name in the book of rentiers. This honour has been eagerly sought by the workmen, employks, and small shopkeepers of Paris. On the first day of subscribing the numbers who flocked to the bureau at the Treasury were far beyond the capacity of the officials to attend to within the hours of business. A queue was formed, and applicants were served in turn, many of them having to wait several hours, and multitudes being obliged to postpone completing the transaction until another day. On Wednesday fourteen additional bureaux were opened, and the operations proceeded with increased rapidity. The public enthusiasm still continued, and the applications were as nume rous as ever. Nine-tenths were for inscriptions of Rentes of from 201. to 501. The letters from Rouen, Havre, Blois, Tours, •Stc. ' state that there was the same eagerness displayed by the middling classes at these places. It is not improbable that the whole of the loan will be taken by persons subscribing I,ooof. and under. -- The Prelim announces that its employes, wishing to set the example to its readers, had subscribed towards the national loan a sum of 05,250 f. The Corporation of the Notaries of Paris have subscribed 1,600,000 E, and the avoids 350,000 f. The loan has been already quoted at a premium of 11 per cent. The Emperor and Empress visited on Saturday the new hospital for poor children lately estab lished in the old Hospice Ste. Marguerite, in the Faubourg St. Antoine. Nearly the whole popu• lation of the faubourg seemed to come out of doors on the occasion, and their Majesties were received most warmly. The French budget for 1855 has been presented to the Legislative Assembly. The receipts are estimated at 1,559,914,440 francs; the expenses at 1,653,022,075 francs; leaving an excess of receipts of 5,992,305 francs. The Moniteur contains the composition of the army of the East: — Commander-in-Chief, Marshal St. Arnaud; Head of the Staff, General de Martinssrey; Commander of the Ist division, General Canrobert; Ist and 2nd brigade, Generals Espinasse and Vinoy ; Commander of 2nd division, General Bosquet; 13t and 2nd brigades, Generals Dantemarre and Bonet; Brigade of Cavalry, General Dallonvile ; Corps of Reserve, Prince Napoleon ; Head of his Staff, Colonel Desmarets ; Reserves and Park of Artillery, Lieut - Colonel Roujouz; Reserves and Park of Engineers, Chef de Bataillon Guerin. The Government papers say Prince Napoleon's reserve division will be brought into action at the v.?,Ty beginning of the campaign. Marshal SLArnaudleavesPaiis, as now arranged, on the 24th inst. General Canrobertleft on Monday, and it is said he takes with him the commission of Com mander-in-Chief in the event of anything occurring to the marshal, whose health is still delicate. Prince Napoleon will embark on the Bth of April. The 2tlonituer publishes a decree nominating Marshal Vaillant Minister of War, in the place of Marshal St. Arnaud, appointed Co mmander-in -Chief of the army in the East. THE PRESS. The Turkish Ambassador left Paris on Wednesday for Brussels, to . present his letters of credence to King Leopold. . . _ Prince Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen arrived on Sunday in Paris on a confidential mission from the King of Prussia. It is stated by the Presse ,—" During the last fourteen days very large remittances in gold have passed the Russo- Polish frontiers. Not less than six or seven millions of tinders, in ltalf•imperials, have been despatched from the capital to large commercial houses iu Berlin and Ham burg ; and still larger sums, it is affirmed, are already lying in readiness to be transmitted. A military escort had, for security, been despatched with it as far as the Prussian frontier. What the particular object is for which these large sums of money are being sent out of the country is not clearly known to us, but we conclude that it is designed to buy up the Polish and Russian paper now so seriously depreciated throughout Europe." SWEDEN. A Stockholm journal publishes a letter of Lord Clarendon to the Swedish Chargé d'Affaires at Loudon on the subject of the declaration of neutrality of Sweden and Denmark. The letter expresses the satisfaction felt by the British Government at this declaration, and states that England is ready to support the neutral position of Sweden by every means in her power. A similar declaration has been made at Copenhagen. DENMARK. In the sitting of the Folksthing on the oth, Bishop Monrad asked the Ministry if they intended to grant the constitution without the co-operation of the Diet? The Prime Minister declined to give an answer. In the evening the deputies, having again assembled, presented an address to the King, demanding the maintenance of the existing constitution and the dis missal of the Oersted Ministry. On the 13th the two Chambers, united, adopted the address almost unanimously. PRUSSIA. The position which Prussia is about to assume with regard to the controversy between the Russian Emperor and the great powers of Europe had be come a matter of much uncertainty. Rumours of Russian intrigues in Berlin and of weakness on the part of the King of Prussia were rife in London and Paris, and the language used both in the English press and Parliament in commenting upon the anti cipated conduct of Prussia asssumed a tone of high censure and indignation. Meanwhile the King has despatched on special missions on the Oriental ques tion Count Groeber to London, Prince Hohenzollern• Sigmaringen to I'aris, and M. Bismark to 'Vienna. But, without waiting for the result of the communi cations which these envoys are instructed to make to the respective Courts, an official statement on the subject has been issued in the Preussische Corre spondenz. In this paper the Berlin Cabinet says : " The nearer the decisive crisis of the conflict in the East approaches, the more reason have we to congratulate ourselves that Prussia, thanks to a policy as honourable as it is independent, is placed beyond the immediate influences of a dispute which, in spite of every attempt at mediation, threatens to increase in importance and extent. _ _ " Whoever has followed impartially the progress of the late negotiations cannot deny that the policy of Prussia — and this ensures her the national sympathy—has been characterised by an independence against which all pres sure from without has been powerless. But Prussian policy, however national it may be, has not escaped the suspicion of foreigners, because it proclaims openly its object and its tendencies. To preserve the interests of Germany and the equilibrium of Europe—those are the two objects which she cannot lose sight of, but, on the contrary, she must consider them as intimately con nected. " However sincere may have been the intention of the four Governments, so far as relates to the basis of an honourable compromise between Russia and the Porte, the protocols of Vienna do not compromise any engagement respecting an armed intervention in the Oriental quarrel. On the contrary, they leave to each of the Governments interested the liberty to employ the means most appro priate to its position, with the end of maintaining that line of policy which it had traced for itself. According to our opinion, the great German powers are, above all, not bound to acquiesce entirely in all the active measures which the two Western Governments have put in execution from their own decisions, whether in the course of the con ferences at Vienna, or when those conferences failed in their object. " In spite of their attachment for a Government which has been their ally for many long years, the German Governments did not hesitate to defend with all the weight of their moral influence the independence of the l'orte against the great pretensions of that ally. But it is allowed to them to leave to the powers whose influence is decisive at Constantinople and whose fleets command the Black Sea the charge of giving armed assistance to the threatened Ottoman empire, while by their attitude they reserve to themselves the right, when circumstances may be more favourable, of making the words of conciliation heard by both sides. " As regards Prussia in particular, under present circum stances, her neutral attitude between the disputing parties is alone capable of preserving the peace of Central Europe. From the moment that she might raise her arms, either for the East or for the West, she would infalliby create war on the banks of the Danube, the Rhine, or the Vistula. 247 This is what neither Germany our the rest of Europe can desire. For these reasons we hope that the Government of his Majesty will recollect the duties it has to fulfil us a great European power, as well as the responsibility which the private interests of Russia and Germany i ni. pose upon it." The main object of the Prussian missions of General Count de Groben to the Queen, and of the Prince of Hohenzollern Sigmaringen w the Emperor Napoleon, is to state that, while Prussia adheres at present to neutrality, it never can nor will assent to measures of any kind which may tend to disturb the status ante, either as regards the Ottoman Porte or configurations of territory on one side or the other. The report that the envoys have authority to make any propositions on behalf of Russia is not correct. Count Pourtales, who has for some time been associated with M. Manteuffel in the duties of the Prussian Foreign-office, and who not long since came to London on a special mission, has just sepa rated himself from the Government. The moderate Conservative party, which is decidedly anti-Russian, and has of late supported the Government, has also declared itself in opposition. The following is the answer made by M. de Man teuffel to questions put to him in the Prussian Cham ber : " The Government will hereafter make communications to the Chamber, which will see that it has not deviated from its policy. The fleets which have entered the Black Sea belong to powers with which Prussia lives in peace and good intelligence." The Pretusische Correspotuienz of Wednesday contains an article directed against the organs of the press which urge an alliance with the Western powers, and vindicates the independence of the Ministerial policy, which has already silenced the voiceswhich clamoured for an alliance with Russia. The I'atriotic Association of the Women of l'russia, established in IN4B for the purpose of building a man-of-war schooner, has completed the work. The ship will be named the k'inain Gabe, and she is about to be placed, fully armed, at the disposal of the Admiralty. The association will also create a fund for pensions to the crew and their widows. The King of Bavaria has named a commission to devise and settle upon the measures necessary for the defence of Munich in the event of war. AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter of the 13th states : " Austria was invited to join the Western powers in an alliance against Russia. Austria forwarded the pripoot• lion to Prussia, with modifications to the fAlowing effect:— " She does not feel herself called on to join the Western powers in a declaration of war against Russia, but is pre. pared to sign a convention for securing the integrity of Turkey in the spirit of the treaty of 1811. " Austria will maintain peace in Servia, Montenegro, and Bosnia, leaving it to the Western powers to care fur Greece and the Greek provinces in Turkey. " It appears from an article in the Oat Correspondens of yesterday that Prussia approves this." The subscriptions to the new loan on Saturday have been very considerable, and the general opinion is that the whole 50,000,000 florins will be taken in a few days. The conditions of the loan are unusually advantageous, but the moment is a most unfavoura ble one for raising money. ' The Lloyd, which has lately distinguished itself by advocating an Austrian policy, and proclaiming the necessity of opposing Russia, if need be, in the field, has suddenly been suspended by the Government for eight days. The event has produced a great sensation. A desire to please Russia is the motive for this proceeding, the Lloyd having in a recent number exposed the Czar's Government as not being at all conservative, but essentially revolutionary in its character. _ _ ITALY. Several earthquakes have just taken place in Cala bria, and have excited great alarm. The damage done is immense. The number of persons killed ex ceeds 2,000. The Piedmontese budget brought forward by Count Caveur shows that the expenditure amounts to 137,100,322 f., and the revenue to 128,182,503 f. The deficit, which last year was 21,000,000 f., is thus reduced to 0,000,00te. SPAIN. Advices from Madrid of the 9th state that M. Isturitz had made no complaint to the British Go vernment before he left his post. Senors Rances, Roberts, Galilee, and Bustamente, directors or editors of the Tribuno, Noredarles, and Diario Espanol, arrived at Cadiz on the 2hith ult., and were sent to the Castle of Santa Catalina. Senor Galilee has had a passport offered him for any place out of Spain. The Tribuno was condemned in a line of 6,000 reels and seven months' imprisonment for its recpon sible editor ; and the Epoca in 5,000 reels, and six months' imprisonment. PORTUGAL. At Lisbon, on the 11th, after a protracted debati in the Chtunber of Peers, the address was voted by a _ _ ~....ai1i~