The Press. — London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

1020 Pulp anb Calanial 3nttiligenct. FRANCE. THE PRINCE AND THE EMPEROR. The Augsburg Gazette learns from Warsaw that Prince Napoleon was not more than three minutes alone with the Emperor Alexander, but the Czus tells a very different story. The Cracow paper affirms that the Czar and his guest were closeted together for an hour and a half, and that the countenance of the French Prince was quite radiant when he quitted the Russian Monarch. His Imperial Highness did not invite the Czar to go to Paris, but he told him that he had been sent by the Emperor Napoleon to return the visit of the Grand Duke Constantine. The Prince only called on one Polish nobleman, and to him he observed that he was greatly struck by the magnificence of the palaces of the nobles and by the miserable huts inhabited by the serfs. The preva lent opinion in Warsaw is, that no political impor• tame is to be attached to the visit of Prince Napoleon. WIIE PASSPORT SYSTEM. A letter from ?'aria says the papers have lately pnb. lished an official announcement of the Belgian Go vernment to the effect that English travellers will not be obliged to have their passports vise when proceeding to Belgium. "I am assured, on good authority, that the same advantage is now permitted in all the French ports, though it has not been offi cially announced ; and that every 'gentleman' enjoys the same tolerance now with respect to visas as before the 14th of January last. I further hear that the sub-prefect of Boulogne sur-Mer has trans mitted to the Commissary of Police at Calais, as at Boulogne, orders to that effect. For this modification, visitors are indebted to M. Wiener, the Minister of the Interior. There is, however, one thing a little obscure. How is the character of ' gentleman' to be ascertained? If every Englishman is to be con sidered 'a gentleman,' of course there is no more to be said." THE ABDUCTION OF THE JEWISH CHILD. The affair of the abduction of the young Mortara is still the prevailing topic of discussion in Paris. The papers give the subject very great attention, and strong hopes are entertained that the French Govern ment will not allow the matter to drop, but that the Vatican will be compelled to give up their prey. The Anzieger of Nurnberg, in Bavaria, was seized a few days since, and a prosecution ordere 1 against it, on an accusation of having insulted "the Pope and the Holy Office," in commenting on this case. THE GARRISON IN ROME. The statement that has appeared in some journals that an increase had been made in the French gar. risons at Rome add Civita Vecchia, turns out to be an error, as the troops recently sent were merely a relief for a detachment sent home. IMPERIAL BENEVOLENCE. The Afoniteur contains a decree recognizing as an establishment fm the public good the liaison Eugenie Napoleon, founded by the Empress, for the benefit of poor young girls. AN ENGLISH SWINDLER. An Englishman, named James Foot, has been sentenced by the Assize Court of the Seine to hard lsoour for life for having issued a forged piece of two francs in payment for a glass of wine in a cabaret at Grenelle. Another false piece of five francs was found at his lodgings, for the possession of which he gave no acceptable excuse. There was a count for torging the false money as well as knowingly passing it, but this the jury expressly negatived. An alleged accomplice of the prisoner's has escaped to England. MODIFICATIONS OF THE PASSPORT SYSTEM. The Constitutionnt/ of Thursday states that the Minister of the Interior, anxious to increase the facilities for international intercourse, has given orders to the Commissaries of Police at seaports and frontier towns to consider passports henceforward as a title to the aid of the authorities, and not a cause for delays, or a pretext for petty annoyances. The Minister is also occupied in considering whether, in order to facilitate foreign travel, it would not be well to allow sub-prefects on the frontiers to grant passports for abroad. PRUSSIA. OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS. The Prussian Chambers were opened on Wednesday. The address of the Regent was similar in tone to the notification which announced his acceptance of his new position. His Foyal Highness further announced his intentionof governing according to the constitution and laws, and observed The more gloomy the aspect of present affairs is, in consequence of the King's health, the higher the standard of Prussia must be raised, in the conscientious dislharge of our duty and mutual con fidence." The Prince Regent concluded the speech with 46 God save the Ring." THE PRtSS, OCTOBER 23, 1858. AUSTRIA. THE NATIONAL BANK. A decree has been published in the official gazette, according to which the National Bank of Austria is, from the Ist of November next, to discount bills and make payments on account of public loans with new beak notes. The old notes are to be taken by the National Bank at 105. NAPLES. A ROYAL MARRIAGE. A letter from Munich, in the Gazette de Cologne, states that a courier arrived in that city on the 7th, with a despatch to the Neapolitan Minister at the Bavarian Court, directing him to demand officially of King Maximilian the hand of the Princess Marie, sister of the Empress of Austria, for the Prince Royal of Naples, ordering him to sign the marriage con tract provisionally framed. The marriage is ex. pected to take plan at Naples on the 12th of January next. The princess is seventeen years of age. A FORGED DESPATCH. The pretended despatch of M. Carafis, having reference to the existing relations between the Neapolitan Government and the Western Powers, is officially contradicted. HANOVER. THE STADE DUES. It is announced that the English Government, having repeatedly insisted oo the immediate abolition of the Stade dues, the Privy Councillor, Mr. Lang, will leave for Lon don, furnished with full powers to come to a settlement. MOROCCO. THE ALLEOED MASSACRE OF THE VICE•CONSULS. Despatches from the Consul-General, up to the date of the llth inst., make no mention of the sup posed massacre of the Vice-Consuls at Tetuan. It is, therefore, to be assumed to be a pure invention. There is nothing from Morocco of more importance than news of the ordinary disturbances, which it seems are occurring in various parts of the empire. SERVIA. NEW DIFFICULTIES. Fresh complications have arisen in Servia. The Senate had decided that the Ministers had no right to sit in the Senate, and had thrown out the bill relative to elections for the National Assembly. The Ministers resigned in consequence. AMERICA. DESTRUCTION OF TUE CRYSTAL PALACE AT NEW YORK. A New York telegram, dated Oct. 5, says !—" The Crystal Palace, with all its contents, was entirely destroyed by fire this afternoon. The fair of the American Institute was being held there at the time. A large amount of property was destroyed, consisting of mechanical and agricultural implements, melo deons, pianos, steam engines, and other kinds of goods, that were on exhibition. The fire broke out in the lumber•room, which was filled with empty boxes, and a large quantity of old lumber, and wa , 3 believed to have been incendiary. When it was first discovered the palace engine was brought out, but the hose was so full of holes as to be useless. The dames spread with astonishing rapidity, creating intense ex citement among the visitor-;, of whom it is estimated upwards of two thousand were present." No lives were lost. The heat was so intense that the fire men's services were of no avail, and the whole building is in ruins. Very little of its contents were saved. Two only of the many fire-engines on exhibition were got out uninjured. The loss is estimated at over a million dollars, and the insurance was only 50,000 dollars, effected to cover the losses of foreign exhibitors. The property bad recently become the possession of the Corporation of the City. Among the works of art destroyed was Kiss's famous statue of the Amazon and Marochetti's mam moth statue of IVashington. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. A ?owder magazine had exploded in Havannah with the most disastrous results. Twenty-eight persons were known to have been killed, 100 wounded, and a large number were under the ruins when the steamer left Havannah. No less than ninety sugar houses were destroyed by the violence of the shock. THE " AUSTRIA." The Norwegian ship Cattarina arrived at Quebec, on the 3rd inst., with twenty-two additional persons saved from the ill-fated steamship Austria. The following is a list of their names :—Passengers : C. Stoepel, Andrew Lundstein, Conrad Eiffert, Jorgen Fitchen, Wilhelm Braunsdorf, Heinrich Fourier, Joach'n Pless, Edward Alters, Christophe Barcker, Sven Neilson, Peter Svensen, Winsentz,Jobannes Daumeller, Christophe Danker, Joseph Smertzeck. Crew : Martin Folize, cook ; Joseph Karze, fireman ; Frederick Thefeldc, thernan ; Johan Rohmoudt, sailor ; Johan Heinrich, sailor ; Jaht, sailor ; Heur Rieper, fireman. THE FEVER. The yellow fever continued very fatal in the southern cities. The British brig Esperanza, from Vera Cruz for Liverpool, with a cargo of mahogany, was picked up in the Gulf of kiezioo and towed into Apalachicola. One despatch ways the captain awe dead, and all the crew were sick with fever; while another reports that only two men acd a sick boy were living ; the captain, officers, and remainder of the crew having died. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. OUTR WI: ON CHRISTIANS. The execution► of three Christians at Salonica, in contempt of the amnesty of 1855, and particularly the insult offered to their remains by the Turki•ah populace, had created so great an excitement in Ma. cedonia that the English Consul had requested the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands to send some English ship of war into the Gulf of Salonica. INDIA. THE BOMBAY MAIL. By the arrival of the overland mail we are in pos- session of correspondence and papers from Bombay to the 21th ultimo, which give us details of the transactions advised in the telegrams id last week's impression. THE PUNJAUB. THE RISING AT MOOLTAN. The most stirring intelligence of the fortnight is the rising of the disarmed troops at slooltan, on receipt of the order for their disbandment, and the all but total destruction of the force, numbering 1,400 to 1,500 men. The disbanding of the troops in the Punjaub having been deoided upon, it was thought desirable to dismiss the men to their homes at the rate of twenty per regiment per diem, a route being marked out for them from each station, and the places at which they were permitted to halt on their way. At Mooltan they consisted of the 62nd and 60th Bengal Native Infantry, and a troop of Horse Artillery. On the 28th of August the 60th Regiment was paraded, and listened in silence to the order for their disbandment from the 1:t September, at the rate of twenty men per day. Nothing was said to the disarmed Horse Artillery, or to the 62nd, the fact being that the latter regiment, which was supposed to be free from disaffection, was to have been ex. empted from the disbanding order. On the 30th an unhappy report seems to have spread among the men tbat the Government, in thus sending them away in detail, was but preparing for their easier destruction. The idea that they had divined our policy in separating them, seems to have united the sepoys to resist, and as the mid-day gun fired on the 31st August they rose as one man. An eye•witness of the event narrates it as follows : On the 31st of August, before noon, in consequence of the increasing uneasy feeling, the Brigadier resolved to call out the European troops, for the purpose of compelling the 69th to go into tents on the parade-ground within range of the guns. The officers proceeded to their different companies, and just as the mid-day gun fired the men were in the act of falling in. The Royal Artillery had already fallen in close to the verandah of the barrack facing their guns, and some of the men were engaged in the lines in harnessing the battery horses, when, as they were pre paring to fire the midday gun, the whole of the 62nd were seen to rush out from their tents at the opposite side of the parade-ground and make for the quarter guard then held by the Punjaubees, for their own vacant lines, and for the battery pickets. Immediately after the gun was fired a yell proceeded from the empty Artillery Barrack, which was now seen to be full of 69th sepoys brandishing hatchets, clubs, Sac., evidently expecting to have caught the Euro pean gunners asleep on their cots. The Artillery upon this turned round, and fired a volley from their carbines into the barrack amongst its new occupants. In the mean time, fresh yells 'proceeded from the horse lines, and the unarmed gunners were seen escaping, leaving four of their number dead and four being very badly wounded. This party had been attacked by the native troop of Horse Artillery, assisted by a number of sepoys concealed with them in their huts. Since the night before, these ruffians were reinforced by the main body of the 62nd, who over powered the Sikh guard, killed some of them, and captured seven muskets. During this time a rush was made from the 69th lines on No. b Company of the Fusiliers, but seeing the " Old Toughs" drawn up ready to receive them, Pandy lost heart and joined the party then in the act of being repulsed by the Royal Artillery; No. 5 Company then cleared the 69th lines and officers' quarters in that direction, killing some sixty-six sepoys. Simultaneously with the attacks on the Artillery and No. 5 Company, a rush was made by the 62nd towards the hospital of the Bombay Fluffier', which, however, was quickly checked by a fire from the convalescents,who were armed with rites. On the first report of the firing, the Adjutant, Lieutenant W. M. Mules, turned out the band of the Fusiliers armed with their rides, and having put them at the double, pro ceeded through the Horse Artillery lines in the direction of No 2. Company barrack room, riding a long way ahead of the men, who were unable to keep up w ith him. On turning a corner of the Horse Battery lines, be sal met by a crowd of sepoys, whom he charged ; hi Colt revolver missed fire, and would not revolve, and he was seen to fling it at a fellow's head, when be was surrounded , and there killed, his death being instantaneous ; t he entire side of his head was driven in by the blow of an axe. Thus fell this gallant officer; a better soldier or a better win the glorious old regiment never had upon its master roll. The men of the band arrived too late to save, but n ot too late to avenge him, one of his murderers being bayonetted over captainfever; Whilewl saysccyy wthiteh THE PRI S S, OCTOBER 23, 1858. AUSTRIA. dead,Apala c andhie oal theO neer crew despatchwcre sick k lattiligentr. THE NATIONAL BANK. A decree has been published in the official gazette, another reports that only two men and a sick boy according to which the National Bank of Austria is, were living ; the captain, officers, and remainder of from the Ist of November next, to discount bills and the crew having died. '- make payments on account of public loans with new THE lONIAN ISLANDS. sv that blink notes. The old notes are to be taken by the OUTRAGE ON CHRISTIANS. -utes National Bank at 105. The execution of three Christians at Salonica, in NAPLES. contempt of the amnesty of 1855, and particularly A ROYAL MARRIAGE. the insult offered to their remains by the Turki.fi letter from Munich, in the Gazette de Cologne, populace, had created so great an excitement in ita. *hat a courier arrived in that city on the 7th, cedonia that the English Consul had requested the -oatch to the Neapolitan Minister at the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands to art, directing him to demand officially send some English ships of war into the Gulf of lien the hand of the Princess Marie, Salonica. -is of Austria, for the Prince Royal 'ln to sign the marriage con- INDIA. •d. The marriage is ex. THE BOMBAY MAIL. '••s on the 12th of January -o years of age. By the arrival of the overland mail we are in pos e. session of correspondence and papers from Bombay (larafli, having to the 21th ultimo, which give us details of the \etwewers,en the .) • transactions advised in the telegrams last week's o is impression. THE PUNJAUB. THE RISING AT MOOLTAN. The most stirring intelligence of the fortnight is rising of the disarmed troops at Dlooltan, ou • of the order for their disbandment, and the 'al destruction of the force, numbering 1,160 The disbanding of the troops in the • been decided upon, it was thought '-‘s the men to their homes at the 'meat per diem, a route being -otu each station, and the •rmitted to halt on their .ed of the 62nd and a troop of Horse ';9th Regiment order for at the I to •