The Press. — London, England, 1857-05-30 00:00:00

MAY 30, 1857. A signal of distress was hoisted on a prominent point of the island, and the sail came so near that they were enabled to read her name on the stern, " Lydia." It was thought she was bound to Bombay. Instead, however, of her heaving too, she bore away on her voyage. On the same day, providentially ( for the circumstance of two vessels coming near the island so close after each other was almost unheard of among the settlers), another ship bore in view. She proved to be the Nimroud, Captain H. Tilman, from London, for Kurrachee. Seeing the boat that had given chase after the Lydia she bore down to it, and received Captain Elmston and one passenger on board. Captain Tilman, on learning their sad tale, at once, without the least hesitation, offered to take the whole of the shipwrecked people on board. The Nimroud was brought to and received the passengers and crew on board, and, having gone several hun dred miles out of her course, safely landed the whole of those belonging to the Joseph Somes at Table Bay on the 20th of March, when the Govern- ment authorities took charge of them, and a public subscription was opened for their relief. Captain Elm ston attributes the fire to spontaneous combustion among the cargo. The ship is understood to be in sured. jortign antr lotunzai ]ntelligente. FRANCE. THE NEUFCHATEL QUESTION. The plenipotentiaries appointed to arrange the Neufchatel dispute met in conference on Monday and Tuesday. The result of their deliberations was announced as follows in the Moniteur of Wed nesday : The plenipotentiaries of France, Austria, Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, and Switzerland assembled yesterday at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and signed a treaty regu• lacing in a definitive manner the Neufchatel question by the renunciation on the part of the King of Prussia of the sovereign rights which treaties had given him over that Principality, and by engagements entered into by the Swiss Confederation, which are of a natare to respond to the deep solicitude of King Frederick William for the inhabitants of Neufchatel. The text of the treaty will be published after the ex change of the ratifications, which is to take place within a delay of twenty-one days. The Imperial Court, accompanied by the King of Bavaria, will leave the Tuileries for St. Cloud to morrow. The Emperor will shortly proceed to Lyons, and from thence accompany the Empress to Biarritz. With respect to the elections, the Republican party has resolved on putting forth in Paris &certain number of candidates. These belong to what used to be called the Blues, or Moderate Republicans, and are General Cavaignac, MM. Havin, Goudchaux, Bethemont, Lasteyrie, Carnot, Gervais (de Caen), and Gamier Pages, several of whom were members of the Provisional Government in 1848. M. Gamier Page will also be proposed at Valen ciennes and Douay, M. Jules Favre and Dr. Henin at Lyons, and M. Maillard. It is not said whether all or any will, in case of election, take the oath of allegiance to the Emperor. M. D'Argout, the Governor of the Bank, has re signed. M. Magne, it is believed, will fill the post. AUSTRIA. An imperial decree has removed the order of con fiscation pronounced by the Councils of War against the property of persons condemned by those tribu nals during the revolution and the Hungarian war, and restores it to tbe originals owners, or to their heirs. The exiles who are abroad may, on petition, return to their homes. The Emperor and Empress resumed their journey through Hungary on the 23rd. The text of the petition prepared by the Hun garian nobility for presentation to the Emperor has transpired. The petitioners request that the use of the Hungarian language shall be officially estab lished in the schools and public administrations ; only Hungarians be admitted to exercise public functions; the Woiwodine and the Banat be reunited Hungary ; the constitutional regime be again brought into operation ; a national representation be restored to Hungary, and the taxes be better divided. It has been signed by upwards of 600 notabilities, among whom are all the Hungarian episcopacy. The only two important personages who have refused to sign the petition are Prince Esterbazy and Prince Batthyani. The festivities at Vienna on the 18th June will be of the most brilliant character. The British Knights of the Order of Maria Theresa, viz.—the Earl of Westmorland, Lieutenant-General A. B. Clifton, the Earl of Strafford, Colonel Sir Robert Hill, General Sill Alexander Woodford, Lord John Seaton, the Earl of Cadogan, Admiral Moresby Fairfax, and Admiral Sir C. Napiet—have been invited by the Emperor to Vienna on the occasion. THE PRESS. ITALY. The Russian Minister, Count Kakoschkin, and the Austrian Minister, General Martini, have left Naples on prolonged leave of absence. The Empress Dowager of Russia was received with great state at Turin on the 23rd by the King of Sardinia. Her Imperial Majesty spent two days in the Sardinian capital, and on the 25th took her de parture for Switzerland by Mount Cenis. RUSSIA. The Gazeta Redowa, or official gazette of the kingdom of Poland, publishes the text of the imperial ukase, spoken of for some time past, con taining certain provisions in favour of Polish poli tical offenders and refugees. Article 1 restores to such of them as had returned to Poland before the coronation of the present Emperor, the rights of nobility or citizenship which they possessed before their judicial condemnation, but their confiscated property is not restored. Article 2 extends the same provisions to those who have been incorporated in the army. Article 3 extends them to those who had obtained permission to return to their country before the promulgation of the ukase of 1850. Article 4 admits those whose conduct has been exemplary to the right of filling administrative situations. The remaining three articles relate to details. None of these provisions seems to apply to the case of Polish exiles who have not previously solicited permission to return. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 17th says : Count do ➢corny, who is about to leave, will probably carry to Paris the new treaty of commerce concluded be• tween France and Russia, and which, being signed, only requires ratification. Further letters say that a certain coolness has lately arisen been Count Morny and the Russian Government, and that the commercial treaty will not be so advantageous to France as was anticipated. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. News from Jassy, under the date of the 7th of May, states that the Kaimakan had refused to post pone the period of the elections, which he had fixed for thirty days after the completion of the lists. A Constantinople letter of May 15, in the Patrie, says that the Porte has expressed great dissatisfac tion with the conduct of the Kaimakan Vogorides in regard to the elections, and that but for the inter ference of the Austrian Ambassador the Sultan would have dismissed him. THE WAR IN PERSIA. Telegraphic news received at Vienna states that Nerim Khan arrived at Bagdad, from Teheran, on May 4. He had an interview with Colonel H. C. Rawlinson, the British Consul-General, the next day, and the ratifications of the Treaty of Peace between England and Persia were exchauged. It is stated in the most positive manner in this correspondence that the Shah has ratified the treaty without any reserve. The Vourrier de Paris learns that the ratification of tho treaty between England and Persia arrived at Constantinople on May 22, and that it contains no reserve. According to the Journal de Constantinople the Shah, although not completely satisfied with the conditions of the Treaty of Peace, was nevertheless happy at the termination of the war, and bad ratified the treaty in full. The Noniteur de la Flotte announces the definitive occupation on the 14th Feb. by British troops of the Island of Perim, at the entrance of the Red Sea. AMERICA. Intelligence to the 15th states that the rejection of the Dallas-Clarendon Treaty by the British Govern ment had created consideranle dissatisfaction at Washington. Meanwhile, the affair is to be left over until next session. The Washington Union, of the 9th, says : We learn that the Cabinet have acquired considerable insight into the motives which prompted Lord Palmerston to reject the Dallas-Clarendon Treaty. His lordship pro. fesses only to desire certain very limited protection to the Indians and to resident British subjects, and the modifica tion of the treat}• to that extent. This position, which has been semi-officially assigned to the London Cabinet, is by no means comprehensible by the President and his Cabinet. Indeed, if we consider the assumed attitude of Lord Clarendon since the rejection of the treaty, it will be impossible to comprehend whet in reality is the of ject of her Majesty's Government in Central America. The Union also announces by authority the fol lowing:— The Governments of England and France have notified to the Government of New Granada that they cannot approve its position towards the United States. Lord Clarendon has written to the British Envoy here, apprising him of the attitude of her Majesty's Cabinet upon this question, and we have reason to know that the contents of Lord Clarendon's despatch have been communicated to the State Department. INDIA AND CHINA. The following telegraphic despatch from Trieste, May 2N announces the arrival of the usual monthly Overland Mail on the 28th. 529 The news of the conclusion of peace with Persia reached the camp at ➢Muhammerah on the sth of April. On the Ist of the same month a force of 300 men had taken possession of Ahwaz, a place situate ninety miles up the river Karoon, seizing its stores and ammunition. Regiments were returning to Bombay from the Persian Gulf. The Jemadar of the 34th Bengal Native Infantry, the ringleader in the late disturbances, has been hanged. Fuzul Ali has been killed in an attack made upon his band to avenge the murder of M. Boileau. M-etings have been held at Singapore to congra tulate Sir James Broke on his just severity. The position of affairs in Canton River remains unchanged. Great distress is said to prevail at Canton from the high price of rice. _ The Raleigh, 50-gun frigate, Commodore Beppel, had run on the Five Mile Rocks, below Macao, and was beached to save her. The Bittern had gone to receive her guns. _ _ _ It is asserted that an imperial duty upon opium bas been imposed at Shanghai. The exports of tea are estimated at about 57,000,0001i:1s., against 73,000,000165. last year. Coutt 11110 lasOon. Her Majesty and the Royal Family continue at Osborne. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Con stantine of Russia is expected to arrive at Osborne from Cherbourg this afternoon. Her Majesty and the Royal Family will arrive at Windsor Castle from Buckingham Palace on the 9th of June. The state balls are fixed for June 24th, and July 9th. Concerts will be given on June 19th and July 3rd. Lord and Lady John Russell have arrived at Far.. rance's Hotel in Belgravia, where they purpose stay ing during the present season. The Caledonian Ball is fixed for Monlay, the 22nd of June. On Friday, the 3rd of July, a grand fancy-dress ball, under the patronage of her Majesty, will take place at the Hanover-square Rooms, for the benefit of the Royal Academy of Music. plitztai. CABINET COUNCILS were held on Saturday and Wednesday last at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Earl of Har rowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines. MR. HENRY SINGER KEATING, M.P. for Reading, has been appointed her Majesty's Solicitor-General, in the room of Mr. Stuart Wortley, whose ill-health has caused him to resign that appointment.—Globe. MR. HENRY A. HERBERT has accepted the office of Chief Secretary for Ireland. Mr. Villiers and Mr. Fitzroy had previously declined the office. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, the Bishop of London, and other prelates have forwarded to her Majesty's Government a memorial pressing for the immediate creation of three new bishoprics in India— one at Agra, in the northern provinces, to be formed out of the present diocese of Calcutta ; one at Lahore, in the Punjaub, to be formed out of the present dio cese of Calcutta; and one for the missionary pro vince of Tinnevelly, to be formed out of the present diocese of Madras. LORD EBRINGTON made his appearance on Satur eay last, at the meeting of the Marylebone Repre• scntative Council, and was well received. Having apologised for interraring the business, he said he could not return to England without taking the earliest opportun;ty to express, through the vestry of Marylebone, his thanks and sense of grati tude to the constituency for re-electing him in the handsome manner they had done during his absence, and for the forbearance they had shown to him during a long and trying illness. He entreated the electors not to identify him with any opinions or measures of which he had not expressed himself in favour. His health was now so much improved that he hoped to be enabled to give his best attention to the important duties confided to him as the repre sentative of that great borough, and generally as a member of Parliament. Sir James Hamilton replied that be was only expressing the feelings of the entire body of the vestry, as well as his own, when he said they were highly gratified at seeing Lord Ebrington restored to something like his usual state of bout' 'h, and again able to resume his duties. A