The Press. — London, England, 1858-08-07 00:00:00

THE PRESS, AUGUST 7, 1858. In answer to the signals from our coils they returned us this morning at 8.40 accurately to Greenwich time, u directed, the pre-arranged landing signal. The complete instruments which were on board the Niagara for speaking cannot possibly be adjusted for some days. anxious that the [exercise of this power shall b extremely large, and we may be su re that the e Emperor will carry it as far as is consistent Kith prudence—perhaps farther than his Minist ers ma y recommend. The provincial journals have hitbuto enjoyed greater degree of liberty than those of Pa r i s , and the consequence is that some of the boldest of them have obtained subscribers beyond their prop er di e. t r i c ts—even in the capital itself. lam informed that they are no longer to be allowed this privilege of freedom, for which assuredly no justifiable reason could be given. The Minister of the Interior, m. Delangle, has, I hear, in a circular to the Prefects of the Departments, directed that they shall henceforth be more strictly looked after, and that in particular they shall be prevented from telling tales of the Ern. peror's private life, and from making from hi s Majesty's published works, or histories of his uncle, extracts contrasting with his present policy; likewise that the acts of local public functionaries shall cot be made the subject of their censure. It may not have escaped your recollection that in a former letter I announced that it was the intention of the Count de Chambord to hold a reception of is followers in a German town. Since then the Prince has been waited on at Frankfort by many of his principal adherents in this country ; and more re• cently another and larger batch has been to pay lent homage at Cologne. The French Government has made one of its newspaper organs proclaim that it views these demonstrations without displeasure, inasmuch as it knows the party, of which Count de Chambord is the head, though socially distinguished, to be politically dead ; but the fact is, that the Go- vernment is really annoyed at a claimant of the throne thus giving, after years of apathy, signs of life—and it is endeavouring with some uneasiness to ascertain if the Legitimists have on foot any scheme likely to be dangerous to its stability. I even hear that it has already given a hint to certain German Cabinets that they would do an agreeable thing to the Emperor in refusing to tolerate Legitimist de monstrations in towns near the French frontier. The conferences on the Danubian Principalities have, on account of the Cherbourg affair, necessarily been adjourned for a few days. It has oozed out that in one of the most recent of them the English Plenipotentiary, supported by his Austrian and Turkish colleagues, succeeded in carrying another point to which his Cabinet attached importance — that of preventing the two united principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia from having a common flag. Each is to have its own flag, and though they are to be allowed to bear the name of " united provinces," each is to have a separate government and separate hospodar. A sort of council common to both is, to be sure, to be formed for the settlement of certain Whirs, but that council is not to be elected by the people. I have before remarked that the importance of this Moldo-Wallachian affair is not appreciated in England, but it will be when papers on the subject shall be presented to Parliament ; and then the saga. city, tact, and firmness of Lord Malmesbury will be demonstrated. French bishops in their pastoral letters, and even in their sermons, sometimes use language which is rather startling to ears polite. In one of this morn ing's journals I find a pastoral from the Bishop of Orleans. who has the reputation of being one of the most moderate and most intelligent of the whole bench ; and I see that in the midst of much abuse of political panics not friendly to the Church he calls the dead and gone Robespierre a " frightful scoun drel." The epithet may be just enough, but .s it prelate-like ? The Government has taken another step towards putting down the assumption of titles and aristocra tic names by persons who have no right to them. It has directed that no passport shall be granted to any soi-diaant count, marquis, baron, or De, who cannot, it' required, produce proof of his right to the title or the prefix. Passports have, it appears, been largely employed by the people who figure u nder false cognomens—first, because the police , and mayors, and other granters of such docum ents, readily inscribed therein any name or title that was given to them ; and next, because, when the inscrip tion was once made, the passport itself was a sort of proof that the name or title was lawful. Very great uneasiness exists amongst people of wealth in all parts of France at the manner in which the Govern ment is acting in this matter; for there are hundreds of thousands of these who, from puerile vanity alone, not with any intention of fraud, have disguised!' plebeian origin under an aristocratic name. This circumstance, by the way, is a striking proof of the extreme folly of democracies. The French are a perfectly democratic people ; they have no he House of Peers, no privileges of any attached to birth ; they adore equality," and set it high above liberty ; and yet these equalitarians are delighted when they are authorized to put a piece of red ribbon in their button-hole to distinguish theta from their fellows. These haters of aristocracy assume aristocratic designations with such milm• deuce that a law is required to restrain them. SECOND EDITION• SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. INDIA. OFFICIAL DESPATCH. The following telegram from Mr. Acting Consul - General Green was received at the Foreign•offlce' August 7, 5.10 a. m. ALEXANDRIA., Aug. 3, 1858 The steamer Bengal arrived at Suez from Calcutta, and brings the following dates : Calcutta, July 2 ; Madras, 10; Galle, 14; Aden, 26; Hoag Kong , June 23. On the Ist July the rebels were forty miles trom Jeypore, near Lallsahoont, and General Hoberts's force was only thirty-four miles distant from Jeypore the same day. The allied expedition in the Peiho has reached Tiensin, from whence the last date is June 4. No serious attempt was made by the Chinese to impede the navigation of the river, and the gunboats advanced to Tiensiu, which commands both river and the great canal, without a mark of hostility. The people supply provisions of excellent quality cheaply. The English and French Ambassadors were living on shore in a temple ; the Russians and American.; had followed the Allies up the rivet; the second officer of the emp - re, and the president of one of the six koards of Government, bad art ived in Tiensin to negotiate; they are invested with a title which the interpreter describes to convey full powers, and profess their readiness to treat on the demands put forward in the letter to tho Prime Minister of China, which bad been previously ignored. The first interview was to take place on the 4th June, after the departure of the steamer. The Cl.inese continue to consider the proceedings as something between peace and war, but not exactly one or the other. H.M. ship Princess Royal is anchored off Alexandria; the Colombo has been placed in quaran tine. Malta being subjected [have] ? to five days' quarantine, in obedience to the decision of the Board of Health of Constantinople, the Colombo obtains pratique to-morrow, and leaves with homeward mails on the sth instant. Corfu, August 6, 9.45 p.m. THE FETES AT CHERBOURG. The Mon iteur of yesterday has the following : CHERBOURG, August 5. Yesterday, at balf.past seven in the evening, salutes from all the ships and forts announced the arrival in the roadstead of her Majesty the Queen of England. Imme diately afterwards his Excellency the Duke of Malakoff came to pay homage to his Sovereign. At eight o'clock the Emperor and Empress paid the Queen a visit on board her yacht. Their Majesties did not return to the Hotel of the Maritime Prefecture till ten o'clock. _ . To-day, at noon, her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales ' the Duke of Cam. bridge, Lori Malmesbury, the Fret Lord of the Admiralty, and a numerous suite, returned their Majesties' visit, and partook of a dejeutter offered to them by the Emperor. mAt two o'clock their Majesties and their august guests drove in carriages to the heights of Roule to admire the magnificent erctacle offered at that moment by the road stead of Cherbourg, covered with Bags and lit up by a mag nificent sunshine. This evening a grand banqnet will unite their Imperial and Royal Majesties, the Princes .Lorda, Marshals, Minis ters, and other personages of ? distinction, present at Cherbourg. CHERBOURG, Aug. 6. Her Majesty, with the Royal Family and the squadron, quitted Cherborg this day at noon under a triple salute. At the dinner on hoard the Bretagne last evening the Emperor, in proposing the Queen's health, ex pressed his conviction that the visit of her Majesty was calculated to place upon a still firmer basis the alliance between the two countries. After the banquet the fleets and fortifications were illuminated. The French squadron saluted the Queen, and a magnificent display of fireworks took place. The town was also brilliantly illuminated. RETURN OF THE QUEEN TO ObBORNE. The Victoria and Albert, with the Queen and Cou►t on board, arrived at Osborne last evening, at five o'clock, from Cherbourg. Her Majesty was saluted by the squadron at Spithead and the flag ship in Portsmouth harbour. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. The following communication has been received, addressed to the Pireetoni of the Atlantic Telegraph Company VALZNTIA, Friday Morning. Electric communication is maintained perfectly. jortign doutsponbenct. PARIS, Thursday. PARIS at this moment, though containing as usual its teeming population, is little better in an intellec• tual point of view than a huge desert. The Emperor, must of the Ministers, and nearly all the diplomatic body are at Cherbourg, and when they are absent the vlitical machine stands still, or at least makes only unimportant movements. " Society" broke up weeks ago, and is still away at chateaux, or on the seaside, or in German watering•places; in the literary, thee trical, artistic, and scientific worlds there is nothing doing ; and ►he chattering, sauntering, coffee•sipping, ice•eating, and insignificant crowds who on fine even ings fill the boulevards have, by the extraordinary attractions of Cherbourg, become considerably di• minished in numbers. Nay, even the very people who remain here, though present in body are absent in spirit—their thoughts being fixed on the grand spectacle which Cherbourg must this day present, and their talk being about the manner in which the interview between the Queen and the Emperor will " come off." In London the public will be sooner informed of what takes place than we shall be here, for the London press is far more energetic and enterprizing in procuring intelligence than that of Paris. It will, therefore, no doubt, be stale news to you to be told that the Emperor and Empress, having left St. Cloud on Tuesday morning, reached Cherbourg yesterday afternoon at about five o'clock, after stopping en route for periods more or less long at Evreux, Caen, and Bayeux, and one or two other places, and that at each place stopped at and at Cherbourg their Majesties were greeted with enthusiastic acclama tions. Nor will it perhaps be new to you to learn that the Queen reached Cherbourg last evening, and was visited at once by the Emperor and Empress; that this day at midday her Majesty breakfasted with the Emperor and Empress at the Hotel of the Mari time Prefecture ; that after breakfast (which was limited to seven personages) the Emperor and Em• press accompanied the Queen on board her Majesty's yacht; and that this evening her Majesty is to dine with the Emperor and Empress on board the Bretagne line-of-battle ship, and is then to leave. But though no doubt you know all this, you will per haps not know that people here in Paris are in grave perplexity as to whether Prince Albert has accom panied her Majesty or not, the name of his Royal Highness not having figured in the list given in the official Moniteur, nor been mentioned in telegraphic despatches. It may perhaps also be well to tell you that some little disappointment is felt at Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli not having attended her Majesty as well as Lord Malmesbury : the more Ministers tnere were the more important in the eyes of the French would have been the visit. You will be glad to hear, however, that, in spite of this little drawback, the visit is regarded with profound satisfaction by the great majority of all classes of the people ; and it is so because it is felt that it cannot fail to strengthen the alliance between the two great Western nations. Although the details of it are not yet known, it has already had the effect of causing an improvement on the Bourse. The Emperor, it is understood, intends, in the course of his stay at Cherbourg, to deliver a political speech. It will naturally be of a peaceful character. It, is reported in political circles here, but whether true or not I cannot tell, that Lord Malmesbury intends to press on his Majesty, in a very decided manner, the necessity, not only of making such a speech, but of acting up to the spirit of it. His lordship, it is said, will plainly tell the Emperor that public opinion in England has been a good deal irritated by the somewhat extensive warlike prepara. tions that have lately been made in French dock yards, and that if these preparations be continued it will not be easy to maintain a good understanding between the two countries. As usual on the approach of the Emperor's fete, which takes place on the 15th, rumours are spread that a general amnesty is to be declared to political offenders, and to the greater part of political exiles; also, that the newspapers that have received " warnings," and are consequently in danger of being suspended or suppressed, are to be relieved there from. I do not, from all I hear, believe these rumours to be well-founded ; but, nevertheless, there is little doubt that the Emperor will exercise more or less extensively his power of pardoning. The Prmoe Napoleon, the Emperor's cousin, is, it appears, Fir In