The Press. — London, England, 1858-02-20 00:00:00

jatign AO (colonial ]nttiligente. FRANCE. Th e appointments to the new military commands bee been officially announced in the Moniteur this week. Marshal Magnan remains at Paris, and Marshal Castellan at Lyons. Marshal Canrobert i s a ppointed to the Nancy command, Marshal Boa. net that of Toulouse, and Marshal D'Hilliers that of 'fours. Marshal Pelissier holds the command-in.. c hief. The trial of the conspirators is said to be fixed for the 25th. The Due de Montebello has accepted the embassy to St. Petersburg. M. de Persigny has arrived in Paris from London. It is not believed that the report of the European Danubian Commissioners will be ready for some weeks. "The reports," says a Vienna letter in the Cologne Gazette, "are looked for with considerable anxiety. It is affirmed that the French commissioner has proposed a constitutional form of Government, and that Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia approve of his views. On the country, Austria and the Porte are of opinion that the constitutional form should not be insisted on. England is said to admit the French views, bat with some modifications. Opinions differ gewise on the point of hereditary right for the Prince at the head of the Government. Persons who are well informed think that in the end a hospo. dar for life will be decided on." SWITZERLAND, BELGIUM, AND SARDINIA. The Federal Council has decreed that the refugees in the Cantons de Vaud, du Valais, de Neufchatel, du Tessin, de Soleure, and de Bale-Jura, shall be located in the interior. Belgium has receded to the demands of France relative to refugees, as also has Sardinia. SARDINIA AND NAPLES. The Cagliari question is not yet satisfactorily settled. The Neapolitan Government have declined, politely, but firmly, to accede to the demands of Sardinia. TURKEY. The Porte has sent a circular note to its represen tatives abroad, in which it supports the demand of France and England that the recent treaty on the navigation of the river Danube must be laid before the Paris Conference, saying that the Conference would be justified in enforcing alterations of the sti pulations of that treaty. The note bears the date of the :26th of January. AMERICA. The Lecompton constitution has been sent, with a message, into Congress by Mr. Buchanan, who advo. cates the admission of Kansas as a State. Great excitement existed in Congress, and an animated debate ensued. The debate was adjourned. The House of Representatives had received tha reports of the Naval. Committee upon the action of Commodore Paulding in capturing the filibusters. The majority reported his conduct as a grave error, which called for the disapproval of Congress. The subject was referred to a committee of the whole house. Advices had been received from the headquarters of the army at Utah to the Itith. Brigham Young bad delivered another warlike sermon in the Taber nacle, and enjoined the Saints to " stick by " bim. Colonel Johnstone anticinated the troops would have to light in the spring. 6otrt anb ,faspa. Her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family have passel the week at Buckingham Palace. Ou Thursday her Majesty held a levee, which was very numerously attended. Her Majesty received up wards of fifty congratulatory addresses upon the marriage of the Princess Royal. The confirmation of his Royal Highness tbe Prince of Wales will, it is reported, take place this spring at Windsor. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred will shortly take his first cruise at sea on board R.M.'s screw fngste Earyahm, 51, Captain J. W. Tarleton. The Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone have arrived in town for the season. Volitual. ACABINET CouNcn, was held on Satnrday at the official residence of the Premier in Downing-street. All the Ministers attended. PUBLIC MEETINGS denouncing the Conspiracy ,8 1 11 have been h e ld thi s we ek at the Freemasons' l'ivcrn and in Lambeth, and at each the popular Minister's " treacherous and humiliating policy " Nits denounced. AL the Freemasons' Favern meet ng Lord Palmerston and his colleagues were, by esolution, declared " unworthy of public confidence." I T 1 - 1 E 1? RES 5, FFBRUARY 20, 1858. Petitions to Parliament were agreed upon at both meetings. A great meeting is to be held at Liver pool next week, and another meeting is reported to be convened in Hyde•park for to-morrow. THE reported resignation of Sir J. Potter, M.P. for Manchester, is denied by the Manchester Guar. dian. THE ARMY ESTIMATES for the ensuing year 1858 59 amount to 11,538,3871., against 11,443,2351. of last ear. The number of men required is 130,135, against 126,796 of last year. THE MONTHLY TRADE AND NAVIGATION RETURNS for December last have been issued. The British exports returns of the three last months of the three last years 1855, 1856, and 1857, show an enormous falling off in the latter. Thus in 1855, 180,000/. ;in 1856, they rose to 288,000/.; and in December last they fell to 107.0001. Mtimplitan. Da. LIVINGSTONE was entertained at a farewell public dinner on Saturday evening last at the Free masons"ravern. The occasion was marked by the presence in the Great Hall of upwards of three hun dred gentlemen distinguished in art and science. Dr. Livingstone was sensibly affected by the warmth and good feeling exhibited towards him. He said that in the new expedition he neither expected to make a great fortune nor to explore any large portions of a new country, but he did hope to find a pathway by the Zambesi to high lands, where European commercial settlements could be established. He was not san guine as to any speedy, but of an ultimate result I feel convinced that if se can establish a system of free labour in Africa it will have a most decided influence upon slavery throughout the world. Success, however, under Providence, depends upon us as Englishmen. I look upon Englishmen as perhaps the most freedom loving people in the world, and I think that the kindly feeling which has been displayed towards me sine,: my return to my native land has arisen from the belief that my efforts might at some future time tend to put an end to the odious traffic in slaves. England has, unfortunately, been compelled to obtain cotton and other raw material from slave States, and has thus been the mainstay and support of slavery in America. Surely, then, it follows that if we can succeed in obtaining the raw material from other sources ;than from the slave States of America we should strike a heavy blow at the system of slavery itself. I do not wish to arouse expectations in connection with this expedition which may never be realised, but what I want to do is to get in the thin edge of the wedge, and then I leave it to be driven home by English energy and English spirit. The Duke of Argyll and the Bishop of Oxford also spoke on the occasion, and several other toasts were drunk before the meeting separated. A SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the East India Proprietors was held on Wednesday for the purpose of agreeing to a vote of thanks to the Governor- General, the Governors of Madras and Bombay, and to Mr. Halliday, Sir John Lawrence, and Mr. F;ere, for the energy and ability they have displayed " in employing the resources at their command" to sup press the revolt in India. An amendment excluding Lord Canning from the vote was rejected, and the original motion carried after a brief discussion. A second vote of thanks to Sir Colin Campbell and Generals Outram, Wilson, and Inglis was the subject of an animated discussion, the Directors at first refusing to add the name of Sir William Peel to the vote. The opposition to the Board was so unanimous that they ultimately gave wad, and the name of Sir W. Peel was added after that of General Inglis. Other votes to the naval and military services gene rally were agreed to. 3rtlaa THE TRI %I. or FATHER CONWAY commenced on Tuesday in Dublin. The Attorney• General made a speech of three hours' duration. The trial is ex pected to last for some days, as the evidence is most voluminous. The case for the Crown was completed on Wednesday. On the following morning Mr. O'Hagao, Q.C., opened the defence. rim ABOLITION OF THE VICEROYALTY was discussed at a great meeting at the Rotunda, on Monday. The Lord Mayor presided. Lord Howth proposed the first resolution, to the effect that Mr. Roebuck's motion, coupled with Mr. Horsman's attack on the office of Viceroyalty, made it a duty on the part of the meeting to resist, by all constitutional means, this effort to insult the Irish people, and to compro mise the interests of the Crown itself. Colonel Taylor seconded the resolution, which, with others of a similar tenor, were adopted, and a petition drawn up. LIMERICt ELECTION.—The High Sheriff officially declared the state of the poll on Monday, at one o'clock, as follows :—Gavin, 7ts•2 ; Ball, 733 ; ma jority, 49. Two MEN have been committed for trial for the recent murder of Mr. Ellis in Tipperary. SECOND EDITION. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE morning papers express various opinions on the debate of last night. The Times coun sels the resignation of Ministers unless a paramount sense of duty should compel them to remain in office ! The Post thinks that the division must be regarded as " a menace and " a threat on the part of the Commons of " England to a loyal and faithful ally," and considers that the inevitable result must be to embroil this country with France. The Daily News, on the contrary, believes that Mr. M. Gibson's amendment is " one to which the whole heart and soul of the country, as well as of the majority in the House of Commons, has responded ;" and observes that " a considerable number of Lord ➢erby's fol lowers consented to vote for the first reading rather than displace Lord Palmerston on the general question whether some modification might not be made in our municipal 1:w which would convince the French Emperor of our national unwillingness to see him personally harmed." It is quite clear that those who attempted to confound the bill itself with the resolution of Mr. M. Gibson are wilfully perverting the truth, and endeavouring to alarm the country by a danger which does not exist. The Con servative support of the bill sufficiently proves that that party will support the dignity of the French Emperor. Their support of the amend ment proves that they will support equally the dignity of the English Government. A support that was not endorsed by the English people must have been worthless to the Emperor, and far more likely to embroil us in ultimate hos tilities than the declaration of last night. By a singular instance of retribution, the gentlemen whom the Premier expelled from Parliament a year ago have become in turn the instruments of his own downfall. The spell is now broken, and whether he resign or not, must abandon that high tone which he has heretofore adopted towards Parliament. FOREIGN REFUGEES IN THE SARDINIAN DOMINIONS. Tußnr, Feb. 19. The Sardinian Government has presented to the Chambers a projet de loi relative to conspiracies against the lives of foreign Sovereigns. The news appears to be confirmed that Hodge has bean arrested at Genoa. He is charged with having been compromised in the late attempt, and it appears that he was in regular correspondence with Orsini. LATEST NEWS. BOMBAY, Jan. 24. I have just learned a painful piece of news. Cap tain Montgomery, chief commissioner of police at Ahmednuggur, started towards Cbandore, on the road to Malhgaum, in pursuit of a gang of Blieels, whom be found at Kudkur, on a hill covered with jungle, about twelve miles. S.S.E. of Chandore. The force at his command was composed of detachments from the 4th Rifles, 19th and 21st Native Intaittr), and some police. Three times he assaulted the posi tion of the Bheels, and three times he made his way m. On each occasion he was repulsed with loss, and on the last, being severely wounded in the thigh, and having lost three officers, dangerously hit, and fitly men killed and wounded, he was forced to retie. The names of the officers hurt on the occasion are Lieutenant Stuart, Nizam's Infantry, severely, since dead of his wounds; Lieutenant Davidson, of the 19th Native Infantry ; and Lieutenant Chamberlain of the 21st Native Infantry, both severely. The Bheels are again concentrated about Konnour, near Aurungabad. CITY, Eleven o'clock. Consols for Account THE TRIAL OF THE BRITISH BANK DIRECTORS was commenced on Saturday last, before Lord Campbell, at the Court of Queen's Bench. The Prince of Vales was present on this day on the bench. The trial has continued throughout the week, the whole period of which has been taken up in the examination of Mr. Paddison, and one or two other witnesses. The whole proceedings have been of the most uniu teresting character. The trial will last, in all proba bility, for several days. 163