The Press. — London, England, 1854-03-11 00:00:00

230 manifestoes were addressed rather to the subjects of the Porte than to those of the Czar—a direct insti gation to revolt. During the contest Mahometan fanaticism had been quiet; no spirit, but a national one, had been shown. The manifestoes of the Czar were servile copies of those revolutionary addresses which the Czar himself had so often denounced. He contrasted the licence of Protestant worship and in• terment in Turkey with the reoent difficulties in Spain. The Porte was about to grant civil as well as religious privileges to the Christians ; and he read an extract from a late despatch, which stated that a measure admi:ting Christians to give evidence before the tribunals was actually prepared, and only wanted the formal sanction of the Sultan. He admitted that civil reforms were yet wanted, but they were not to be obtained by insurrection, or the phantom of a resuscitated Greek empire. The four powers were determined to obtain for the Christians in Turkey full civil and religious immunities, and those improve ments in their condition which would be the best shield against insurrection. Earl GREY pointed out the bigoted laws still in force in Turkey, those especially which forbid Ma hometans to embrace Christianity on pain of death. [Here several voices exclaimed that the law in ques tion had been repealed.] Perhaps this law had been repealed, but too much credit must not be given to Turkish toleration. It was evident that much op pression still existed. Allowance should be made for the effects of four hundred years of injustice, and no one could wonder if the Greek population took their opportunity of vindicating their wrongs. He hoped that England would not coerce the Greeks in defence of their just rights, or in any way interfere between the Pone and his Christian subjects. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said that if England became guarantee for the Christian insurrection in Turkey it would be an endless source of interfe rence and difficulty, and would end by placing us in the same position now occupied by Russia herself. It was quite possible that the late tolerant laws might practically fail of the effect in consequence of Mahometan ascendancy. Yet insurrection would not give equality to the Greeks, and might, in the event of Turkish success, be productive of downright persecution. If the Greeks desired relief, let them now join with the Turks in defence of their native land, and there earn it. Earl Fixzwusaam contended that the present was not the time to demand religious concessions from Turkey. Such a demand would only create difficul ties in the contest, and diminish the ardour of the Turks in their own defence. The motion was agreed to, and the house adjourned soon after seven. . . HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FIUDAY. Colonel HARCOURT gave notice that on Friday, the 24th inst., he should call attention to the condition of the wives of soldiers who have been sent on foreign service. PRIVATERRINO. Mr. M. GinsoN inquired whether the Government had yet come to any decision regarding neutrals and privatesring Lord PALMERSTON said that the subject required some previous understanding with other countries to be arrived at before it could be definitely settled. Next week the Government hoped to be able to make some announcement respecting it. MINISTERS' MONEY. In committee of the whole house, Sir J. YOUNG asked leave to introduce a bill which he had promised and described on the previous even ing, for amending the law relating to ministers' money in Ireland. Mr. FAGkN moved as an amendment for leave to bring in a bill totally abolishing the rate in ques tion. After some discussion a division was called, when there appeared — For the original motion For the amendment Leave was given and the bill brought in. The Marine Mutiny Bill passed through com mittee. The Exchequer Bills (1,750,0001.) Bill was read a second time. On the motion of Mr. SPOONER, a select committee was appointed to consider of the best means of im proving the ventilation of the house, the lobbies, and the libraries, and to report thereon to the house. Adjourned. WE regret to have to announce the death of Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., which took place yester day morning. By the death of the alderman a vacancy occurs in the representation of Westmorland. THE RIGHT HON. SIR JOHN P'.KINOTON, 8.U1T., M.P., has announced his intention of resigning the office of chairman of quarter sessions for the county of Worcester. He has found the functions of that post incompatible with his parliamentary duties. LADY BLAYNEY expired on the 4th inst. at Kings town, near Dublin. Her ladyship was wife of the last Lord Blaysity, and the daughter of the first Earl of Caledon. THE PRESS. THE GREEK INSURRECTION. A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, Thursday evening, says : " Despatches brought by Turkish and English messen gers, who arrived here to-day from Constantinople, are said to contain the notification of an insurrection in Western Turkey, with the cause of the same, and the draught of a convention fur securing the future position of the Christians in Turkey. The Oest. Correspondent states that fortifications are to be formed at Gallipoli, under the superintendence of English engineers. The citadel of Arta has a garrison of 2,000 Albanians, with provisions and ammunition in plenty. Strong reinforcements are arriviving at Epirus. 5,000 men under Z.mel Pacha will enter Albania. Seven steamers have gone to Egypt to fetch 10,000 fresh troops for Albania. An English steamer has gone to Prevesa, and a French one to Volo. A French and an English schooner were in the Piraeus. The Wasp has followed the other two steamers from Corfu, and the frigate has gone to Prevesa." It is said that, should circumstances require it, the French force for the East will exceed 100,000. The first corps, that is, the one intended to be first on the ground at the opening of the campaign, will be from 48,000 to 50,000 men, with successive reserves, which will complete the amount mentioned. The French Senate met on Thursday, and dis cussed the report on the loan of 250 millions, which was voted without the least hesitation. Advises from various parts of Germany state that the speech of the French Emperor on the opening of the Chambers bad produced the most favourable effect, more especially that portion of it in which he emphatically disavows all intention of aggression upon neighbouring countries. An extraordinary supplement of the Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 3rd contains an exposition of the progress of the Oriental dispute, and the con duct of the Western powers. This document extends to the length of three folio pages, and a clever piece of special pleading. It contains also the Russian answers to the circulars of the French Cabinet. The Sardinian Minister of Finance has presented to the Chamber the budget of 1855. He proposes a loan of 35,000,000. The English Government has sent instructions to its agents in Hamburg to charter and send back to England all British steamers which may be dispos able in that port, for the purpose of transporting troops and ammunition to the Baltic. HER MAJESTY, Prince Albert, the Prince of \Vales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Mary, and Prince Alfred, accompanied by Earl Mulgrave, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Waterpark, Colonel Grey, Captain the Hon. De Ros, Viscounte-s Jocelyn, Lady Frances Bruce, Lady Fanny Howard, and the Hon. Matilda Paget, left Buckingham Palace yesterday morning for the South-Western Railway, en route for Spithead. The royal party and suite occupied four carriages, and was attended by a company of lancers. Upon arriving at the new statien in the Wandsworth-road, the Queen was received by Sir W. lleathcote, M.P., the chairman of the line, and the other officials. Mr. Lock, M.P., the engineer, having examined the engine which was attached to the royal carriages, and a telegraphic message been passed to keep the line clear, the train proceeded on its way at a quarter to eleven o'clock. Frutat Brrimit, so long distinguished and exemplary as a jockey, is dangerously ill, and it is stated that under no circumstances will helever again appear as a public rider. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, March 7. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.—WILLIAM HOULDRWORTII, Liscard and Liverpool, common brewer—WILLIAM Snail and THOMAS SNOWDON, Leeds, tar distillers. BANKRUPTS.--Grotton JONES, Baker-street, Lloyd-square, Clerkenwell, manufacturing jeweller—WlLLlAM GILBERTSON LEo, Portland-street, Walworth, salt merchant—Jmass Srivna, Stratford, Essex, grocer—CitmtLEs JOHN BASKIN CAMPBELL, College-street, Camden-town, builder—FRANCIS PAUI. Bacann, Stationers'-hall-court, engraver—Hmtav Gaoox, Bray, Berk shire, miIIer—THOMAS HARVEY, Tryford-street, Caledonian road, builder—JoszPm Musoax, sen., Netherbury, Dorset, flax spinner—JOHN Asnwoarn, Litchurch, Derbyshire, hotel keeper--Jonx ELLia, Manchester, Joiner—RICHARD LYNCH, Manchester, bootmaker. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—A. G. LANG, Glasgow, mer chant—J. WALLACE, Glasgow, writer—J. MILNE, Glasgow, merchant. Friday, Merck 10. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.—WILLIAM BENNETT, Foster Mill, near Hebden-bridge, Yorkshire, cotton spinner. BANKRUPTS.—WILLtAm JOHN WATSON, Upper Holloway, builder—WlLLlAM CLOT? Human, Putney, grocer—WILLIAM Joule HICKS, Waltham Abbey, draper—THOMAS Bourn, Halifax, innkeeper—JAMES Porre, Stoke-upon-Trent, confectioner— CMRISTOPRER JAMES TATLO/t, Birmingham, coal dealer— FREDERICK BIiZAE, Lombard-street, hotel keeper—EnwiN SmAw, Birmingham, pocket-book maker—DAvto Countas, East Stonehouse, Devon, cab proprietor—HENßY JOHNSON, Turn - wheel-lane, Cannon-street, City, machinist and engineer— THOMAS MCKENNA, Belfast, draperJOHN HARRISON, Sunder land, licensed victualler—Hamax JAMES ROGERS, Csllington, Cornwall, surgeon. SCOTCH SEQUFSTRATIONS.— SAWTET.t, Munn, and DasosAmn, Paisley, manufncturers—OAvax lavtao DICEPION, Glasgow, merchant—H. and J. BAIED, Paisley, manufacturers— TiLanTsx, eons, and COMPANY, Glasgow, Titular manufacturers. SATURDAY, RUSSIAN OFFICERS IN AMERICA.. THE New York Courrier des Etats Unig of the 18th ult. states that there were several Russian officers in different parts of the United States endeavouring to engage vessels and enliit men for privateering pur poses; and on the 21st the New York Herald pub lished the following on the same suhject " The Russian officers who are here now came over for the ostensible purpose of superintending the construction of the screw-propellers ordered by the Emperor of Mr. Webb, one of our most eminent shipbuilders, during a re cent visit paid by the latter to St. Petersburg. There is reason to believe, however, that that object forms only one, and that the most unimportant, part of the mission of these gentlemen, for facts have come to our knowledge which leave no doubt upon our minds that they are sent here to effect the organisation necessary for fitting out Russian privateers in our ports. There were three of those officers at the Astor-house—namely, Messrs. Grumwald, Ferstine, - - and .o 1 Lockoloff—and three at the Clarendon, and other ho tels, and they have sub-agents scattered through this and other cities of the Union, busily engaged in endeavouring to carry out the objects of their instructions " The Boston Commonwealth of the 22nd says : " Several Russian officers visited the Portsmouth (Vir ginia navy-yard, and the United States ship Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, the 15th inst., and were received with the usual honours and a salute. The object of their visit to this country is to examine our ships and to purchase vessels for their navy." Caituarg. THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY. OUR sincere regret at the decease of the late Lord LONDONDERRY is tempered with the recollection of the great age to which he attained, and that his de parture from amongst us has been neither untimely nor unhonoured. We felt pleased at seeing his fine soldierly qualities, and his many personal virtues, cordially attested by journals without any sympathy for his politics. His name will live in military re cords as one of the most eminent, dashing class of cavalry officers, of which Murat amongst the French and the Marquis of Anglesey amongst our own troops were such signal examples. The exploit of crossing the 'fumes, and engaging and defeating the renowned Imper al Guard, made the name of Charles Stewart justly conspicuous amongst Peninsu lar heroes. Kind, hospitable, and genial, the late mar quis had a host of personal friends amongst all par ties, and to the joys of the world of fashion and social pleasure he contributed by the baronial splen dour of his living. His generous sympathy with Abd-el Kader was in unison with the gallant spirit which he had manifested through life; and it hart been well said that there will be mourning at Broussa on the tidings of his death. Amongst his other meritorious acts was his collecting for publica tion the records of his famous brother's career, and enabling the future historian to form a proper esti mate of the statesman who gave European celebrity to the title of Londonderry. The late marquis died at Holdernesse house, Park lane, on Monday afternoon. The event was caused by a sudden attack of inflammation of the lungs, which, after two or three days' severe suffering, terminated fatally In addition to the prominent part which the deceased peer took in all the leading events of his time, he was marquis, earl, viscount, and baron in the peerage of Ireland, and earl, viscount, and baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom. He was also a knight of the Garter, a general officer in the army, colonel of the 2nd Life Guards, knight grand cross of the Bath, knight grand cross of Hanover, and knight of the principal foreign military orders of Europe. His lordship had just completed his 76th year. Viscount Castlereagh succeeds to the marquisate and Irish titles, and his second son, Lord Seaham, to the earldom of Vane, in the peerage of the United Kingdom. The Right Rev. EDWARD DENISON, D.D., Bishop of Sarum, died at the palace, in the Close of Salis bury, on Monday evening, after only six days' illness. The death of Dr. JENKYNS, Dean of Wells, and Master of Balliol College, took place at Oxford on the 6th inst. The name and character of Sir JOHN Co?molt are so well known in English society that the announce ment of his death will be received with feelings of general regret. He was a native of Wales, having been born on the 21st of October, 1786, at Cuerhyn, in Carnarvonshire. We are sorry to announce the death of the Hon. Lady WILLIAMS WYNN, wife of his Excellency Sir Henry Williams Wynn, and sister of the present Lord Carington, which event took place very unex pectedly on Sunday last, at Wynnstay. Sir Henry Wynn, her ladyship's husband, was thirty years English Minister at Copenhagen.