The Press. — London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 12, 1853. various witnesses. Enough has already transpired t..) prove the reality of the plot; though all the at tempts to link the atrair with certain distinguished msmbers of the ()demist party, who were suspected of being secretly implicated in the conspiraq, have altogether failed. Besides the prisoners present there are seven others included in the charges, who have succeeded in escaping arrest, and are tried par con tamer. The Monitear contains a decree convoking the Cmneil-tieneral of the department of the Seine for the 15th of November, and the councils of the or- for the oth of December. The inauguration of the bust of the Emperor, and the ceremony of administering the oath to the em . p/oyis and agents of the administrati tttt , took place on Monday at the Prefecture of Police. M. I'ieui, the Prefect, resided, who read a very impressive and appropriate speech, which was replied to by loud cries of " Vive l'Empereur !" " Five l'hupera • trice :" The linssian Ambassador is amongst the number of personages invited to meet the Emperor at Fon tainebleau. A deputation of English gentlemen waited on Wednestlay upon Lord Cowley to express the wish of the English Protestants in Paris that an English church should be built in that city for public wor ship. At present there is only the private chapel at the Embassy, which is necessarily of limited extent, and the English church built by the late Bishop Luscombe, and now in the hands of the Rev. M. Chamier, but at which a franc is demanded for ad i t tame. The French troops in Algiers have obtained a vic tory over the Arabs. They captured 16 standards, 4,000 sheep, and 150 camels. The Count de Paris, the eldest son of the late Duke of Orleans, is said to be indisposed at Eise nach. BELGIUM. The session of the Legislative Chambers was opened by King Leopold on Tuesday. his Majesty returned from England on the previous Sunday. In the speech from the throne he congratulate(' the Chambers upon the expanding productiveness of the revenue, the progress of education and agriculture, anti the results of various recent measures affecting the essential interests of the country. AUSTRIA. The Wanderer of 'Vienna says that the injury which is inflicted upon Austria by the present state of things in the East is enormous. The commerce of Austria with Turkey, in imports and exports, amounts in quiet times to nearly 134) millions of frames per annum. SPAIN. _ . The Marquis de Vibutta, Spanish Minister at Paris, has been appointed to the presidency of the Senate at Madrid, a post which he had before oc- cupied. The Madrid Gazette of the 4th publishes a royal decree uniting the general superintendence of finance of the colonies with the attributions of the President of the Council of Ministers. The conferences in reference to the settlement of the boundary between France and Spain were opened at Bayonne on Monday last. It is stated that the Spanish Government have, in conformity with the petition of the provincial depu tation of Navarre, given permission for a commission o (French engineers to examine, at the cost of the deputation, the point most suitable for connecting the French lines of railway with Navarre. M. Mendizabal, who held a prominent place in the Spanish Govenunent during the regency of General Espalier°, died at his residence in Madrid on the morning of the and instant of a pulmonary catturh. His funeral was to take place on Sunday last. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The last despatches from St. Petersburg state that the Czar refuses to admit the new proposition of the four powers respecting the Eastern question. lle again insists on the 'Vienna note. A manifesto has been published in the (official .horns( of St. Petersburg, dotted ()et. some dai s before any intelligence that the Turks had crossed the Danube could have been received by the Czar. This document is, however, of a very bellicose cha racter, and concludes with iese words:— - - " Russia is goluled on to war ; nothing remains for her but in have reelotrse to arms to compel the ra.slllßll Vill• to resity, t. treaties, to atnitt reparation f o r t h e insults A% ith which the latter has replied to our most moderate demands--to our legitimate soilieitiale for the mainteinuice of the orthodox faith in the East. Prince Paskewitsch has returned with his family to Warsaw. The statements so authoritatively made of his visit to St. Petersburg, and appointment as com mander-in-chief ot the tinny in the principalities, turn out to be unfounded. • , '4,nsideral•le reinfioreementm baN• e been vent to Ite•oiarabilt and 11 where the and and 4th corps &armee are stationed. The army of the aucatitta has alb(' received large rvinfvrcement.:. THE PRESS. The Emperor Ni c holas has sent a message to Prince Itaniel. the N . lalika of Montenegro, requesting his support. The war against the Turks, he urges, is a sacred and patriotic eontest, and it was the duty of the Montenegrins to take part in it. In the principalities the Russian commander is consolidating his oeettpation of the country. At a review of the Wallachian militia held by Prince Stirhev on the t!stli tilt. am intimation was rtveiveal from Prince Gortschakod . of his wish that the militia should join the Russians in their operations against the Turks. Prince Stirbey replied, that the Walla chitin militia had to perform the duties of a garrison and police in the country. and that they could not be expected to tyke part in the campaign. Subsequently it is stated that the Wal!seinen troops, probably upon the arrival of a new " Minna tion in some more forcible shape, took refuge in the Carpathian mountains. where they have organised themselves as guerillas. and obtained supplies of arms and ammunition from Omer Paella. Prince Stirbey quitted the principality and has arrived in Vienna. His departure was officially unnaiunced to the repro %connives of the foreign powers in Bucharest on the 19th nit. The Government is carried On by a coin. mission, anal the Russians have seized all the public funds anal treasuries. The other liospodar, Prince I ahika, has also left his principality, and was expected ill Vienna on Wed. nasality. Before quitting Moldavia he haul wished to entrust the Government to a council of notables, but was told that this could not Is' allowed. The Rus sians have taken possession of the palace, the Go vennuent tallices, the archives, anal the exchequer. The two Princes having been got rid of, Russian agents traverse the country, carrying on a sort of canvass for the Czar, and preparing a list of his sup posed adherents. The people are promised a remis sion of three fourths of the existing taxes, besides the construction of railways anal telegraphs. The Russian conionouler has notified that, "to protect his army from the cupidity of mercenary dealers, - the price of supplies will iu future be fixed lay the Russian military authorities. The commo dities are, moreover, tat be paid for in bills instead of cash. This order Melilla that the military authorities shall fix their own prices on whatever they choose to buy. Very low rates are of course adopted in this compulsory tariff, and if any dealer ventures to ale • mend more he is seized and dogged by the soldiers who superintend the public markets. From Odessa it is stated that the Turkish declara tion of war had made a very deep impression. For three days business was totally at a standstill, and even at low prices there were no buyers for grain, so that the country people returned home again with their stocks. There were immensely large stocks of grain lying at. Odessa, partly in granaries, anal partly heaped up in the streets. Upwards of 150 velowls were hauling in the harbour, and in the roadstead; but the means of transporting the grain to the ships are at present. very insufficient ; so that a vessel of 2140 tons requires eight days to complete her ship ment. It was considered impossible to ship the whole of the stock on hand this year. A new screw line-of-battle ship of 100 guns, called the Piiki-Zql . er, was launched on the Vogl nit. at Constantinople, in presence of the Sultan, the Minis term, and several high functionaries. The Sultan was afterwards present at the laying down of the keel of another steam ship of al gnus, to be called the Fetie. According tat the Journal de Constantinople of the 2-Ith of oet., Turkey has six corps &armee which, with Imperial the Impeal Guard of Constantimapie, Roo tuella, Anatolia, Arabia, and Irak, will give a force o f 800,000, without reckoning the reserve, the WOO irregulars, or the auxiliary contingents due from the Itusso-Polish frontier. The Porte has decreed that Austrian refugeer shall not be employed in the army operations in Europe. This measure is said to have been insisted upon by Austria, as the price of her continued neu trality with regard to the Russian question. Lord Worsley, Colonel Buckley, and other British officers had left the capital to %kit I li m ier P ae lla at his head-quarters. The enthusiasm of the Sultan's subjects is not confined to the Mussidmans, it also extends to the Christians. The Bulgarians of Kisglise, having been invited by the Pacha of Adrianople to furnish sup plies to the army at the current prices of the day, offered to give them gratis, and begged of the Paella to accept of them as a gift from those w in, w ished to oppose the enemies of the Sultan. The shoemakers of Adrianople requested to be allowed to fabricate the shoes required for the unity, but declined the. price of their own labours. l•pwarals of a thousand shoemakers at Adrianople placed their services at the disposal of the governor. M. Aethimos, the new Greek upatriarelt at Con stantinople, a ccompanied by at great number of the clergy and most respectable of his coreligionists, proceeded on t h e evening of the 2lth ult. to the residence of Rolsehid and handed to him an Adam* full of of sympathy and devoted- 655 0f.04 to the Ottoman Porte, in the name of the whole tireek community. Namik Paella had at length left Constantinople on his financial mission to Paris and London. Itis im mediate objeet is to obtain a loan of about 2,000,000 L sterling, which will, it is said, be employed in re purchasing some at the vast mass of paper money now issued by the Porte. dust before his departure) another mill lllllllCs worth of paper was thrown into eireulation in Con s tantinople. The combined fleets of tireat Britain and France were to take up their positions near Conatantineple. at the entrance of the Parttimelles, at Oathrob, at d at Helens, in the Bosphorus, oft"Therapia. A singular tragedy has taken place in the Frank q uarter a Constantinople. A number of Italians, some, but not all, refugees, were a s sem bl e d at a l ow cabaret, drinking and making merry. Becoming very uproatraous, a I ireek, who lived next door, re quested the watchman to desire them to make less noise. The watchman did so, and was stabbed ti death tat the spot. Some camases, or policemen, were now called, and entered the room to take the offenders into custody. The Italians, being tinned with sword canes, ilaggerS, mid other urns, attacked the Turks, and killed two or three. The house watt now surrounded by soldiers, and the of sum moned to surrender by the racha in command of the guard. They answered this summons by firing through the windows upon the ',Others, and a ( ava i ls chose by the Pavlof fell dead. on this th e so ldi e r s were ordered to fix bayonets and storm the house, whereon the Italians defended themselves with firearms and daggers. A short and bltssly struggle ensued; most of those in the house were taken 11erisonen4; but about five of the number were bayoneted, while an equal number of Turks wete killed, anal ten wounded. The Frank quarters of i'mistantinople, Perm and f :slats, are tilled with desperadoes, the scum and afitcouting of Europe; and it is supposed that this event will assist to keep out for the future many such who now final a nest there. It is now considered that Persia will remain strictly neutral. It appears that to bribe her to act against, Turkey the Czar went so far as to offer Persia srVe• ral of the principal provinces of Asiatic Turkey, and to pay the expenses °fill." war. The Court of 'retie. ran was mu c h tempted by the offer, and hesitated for a long time, but, mows arriving from Europe of the decided attitude of France Rail England, the English eliarge-d'afikires made the Shah acquainted with the true state of the case, and gave him to understand that by taking part against Turkey he would run g reat risk, while by remaining neuter he would lust safe in any event. The Alighting are stated to have tient an mahatma dor to the Shah, entreating him to take the part of Turkey, and threatening, in ease of non compliance, to march upon Miamian. ATTACK ON TUE ltlllTl.ll CO SULATE AT Tnrutzooso. The last Levant Mail brings accounts of a tumult at Trebizonol, and that the British consul, Mr. Francis Iliff Stevens, to whom the protection of lonian anal tireek subjects is likewise confided, had been com pelled to call upon the Paella of the plop to furnish him with a military guard to repress a contemplated attack upon his dwelling by an infuriated Mahome 'lan Mali. It appears that a I;reek, the director of a commercial firm of that city, had had criminal rela tions with a Turkish married woman, whose husband having suddenly disappeared, suspicions of foul play 1'4.11 upon the I ins.k, who, fearing for his life, fled to, and souk refuge in, the lititooli to wh i c h flight the tircek'a dom e stic had been ar. rested, and having deposed that his master had enticed the Turk to his house, and there murdered him, a mob collected rental the British consulate to insist upon the immediate surrender of the alleged delinquent, which of course, miller such circum stances, the consul refused. On the departure of the steamer from Treloizond the consulate was still guarded by the military, to avert any act of violence on the taut of the nook The population of Trebi zond bears at all lilacs uo friendly feeling towards Christians, and this OCCIIITCHCP has 1144 by any memo& tended to improve matters— The British consul had sent away several Of the female members of his family to Sounsoon, where the people are more tweet:- Ale and less bigoted. NEW NOTE oF THE For It PoWERS. A LAST project of accommodation has been prepared with much care by the representatives of Englund, France, Austria, and Prussia, and was ou t 151 t ire ultimo communicated to the Plait! by M. ale Bruck. This scheme is entitled a " Confidential Project," and has since been published in the Paris Debuts. It runs as follows *— " I u unanimously wh ding the Soblitoe Porte to ailsopt the prujeet of notes agreed t.. at Vienna, the Courtstof Austria, Frauee, }:nglaval, a n d Prussia arc petietraiell w i th the V. onvictiun tient this 111.414 hill in say stay violist'. the sovereign rights and the dignity of hies ioijcouy the soothe,. "'This conviction is f Ira ou the positive assurancts that the Cabinet of St. l'etersburg has given with respect to the iutrulivue which ataisnak his Majesty the Mutterer