The Press. — London, England, 1853-09-10 00:00:00

latign anb °Nail! nttiligentt. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. Putts, September K. THI Emperor and Empress will probably quit Dieppe on Saturday next, the ►lay after the fetes offered them by that town. They will then retuni to Paris, and about the 15th inst. will undertake the journey so long announced to the north, to Boulogne and the camp at St. timer. In the absence of the Emperor several Cabinet Councils have been held at the Keeper of the Seals'. At the last were present the Ministers of Justice, Foreign Affairs, War, Finances, Marine, Agriculture, Commerce and Public Works, Public Instruction, and the President of the Council of State. The greatest quietude has come over the fitful spirit of the Parisians. War and unours of war no longer agitate their minds. The pacific assurances of the Baron de Mayendortf, Ambassador of Russia at Vienna, that the Czar would accept the modifications introduced into the note of the four powers by the Sublime Porte, have gained credit in Paris, everywhere except upon the Bourse. The fear of a season of scarcity has sub sided into an easy nonchalance. The political world is absent. Public functionaries are bathing and water-drinking, or paying their court to the Emperor at. Dieppe. The opening of the shooting season claims As share in the momentary abandonment of Paris to the English, for you see them everywh►rre, and hear their just though comical remarks in their native tongue on every side. M. Troplong, President of the Senate, has written a letter to the Emperor to call his attention to the hardship and vexation caused to the country people by the orders issued by some prefects in the depart mutts for the closing of public-houses and other similar annoyances. M. Troplong, with the con currence of several deputies of the Imperial party, points out the impolicy of these proceedings affecting that part of the population the most warmly attached ta the dynasty of Napoleon. The splendid hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the Qusi d'Orsay, is now taken possession of by M. Drouyn de Limp'. This fine building presents seine interior disadvantages, perhaps here after to be easily remedied. The cabinet of M. Thouvenet, principal secretary, is situated so far from that of the minister, that he will have to mount and redeseend one hundred and fifty steps every time he may have to transact business with his chief, whom he is obliged to see several times (luring the day. The architect, without malice, has applied the system of the treadmill to diplomacy. The drawing-rooms cannot be thumbed this winter. The official receptions will be, therefore, necessarily restricted to some hundreds instead of thousands of guests. Several of the " Conseils (liniTaux " have made a formal demand that a national recompense be offered of one million of francs to the person who shall find • remedy for the disease of the vine known under the appellation of °Mhos. In Algiers the growth of cotton is making great, progress. Tobacco, also, is very flourishing: the crop of Issll promises to give six millions of pounds, valued at two millions of francs. Dr. Viron's memoirs are to appear on the Ist October, and are expected with much curiosity. The following account of the origin of the emirate bonnet is given in the "Anecdotes du temps de la Restauration":—A distinguished writer, M. Latenche, one of the editors of the journal Undependant, visited one day the exhibition of pictures in the Louvre : he stopped before the portrait of a child holding in its hand a nosegay of blue flowers. His imagination is struck, and he gives an animated description of it in his newspaper of the next morning. The day after a crowd of amateurs and others rushed to see this picture; on all sides it is asked who it was meant to represent? A German present explained that the flowers signified " Forget me not." These words sufficed to typify the portrait : " It is the King of Rome !" cried they on all sides. Enthusiasm manifests itself ; the police cause the salon to be cleared, and the next day the Independout was sup pressed. This portrait, on verification, turned out to be that of a son of a counsellor of the Bavarian em bassy. A newspaper was thus annihilated through an error of the public. Some days afterwards, on the strong remonstrances of the Count de Boisgelin. Louis XVIII., struck with the injustice committed towards the journal, which, besides, he read himself with pleasure, gave to the proprietors a new autho risation, and himself baptised the new publication Le Coustitutionuet, the name which it bears to this day. A general meeting has been held of the directors of the principal railroads of France. They have come to the determination of reducing the charges of trans port for corn and Rour, Sr., to the lowest possible rate, thus joining iu the attempts of Government to diffuse alimentary produce as tyidely and generally over the 438 ..--~ THE PRESS. interior of France as possible, to come to the aid of the labouring classes. A deputation was named to wait on the Emperor at Dieppe, and otter him their loyal concurrence in his generous views. M. Charles Lattitte, who is president of the Board of the Paris and Havre itailway Company, is to bear the address. Alexan der Lefevre, who has already saved so many persons from &watery grave, was lately presented' to the Empe ror and Empress. To those who asked him t'or the Far titulars of his reception he said, " I have often looked death in the face, but 1 never trembled before. Only imagine, he took me by both my hands and presented me to his wife, saying, Here is a prodigy of courage and virtue.' How kind he was ! ' How long is it since I gave you the cross of honour, Lefevre, and how many lives have you saved since ?' Sire,' lal iswcred, ' when you gave me the cross I was at my thirty. seventh, I have saved seven more since, which makes forty-four.' When you get to fifty,' said he to me,' I will make you officer of the order.'" The Emperor has given the sma of 15,000 francs to the Fund for Mutual Succour among Seamen at Dieppe. P.S.—I have just learnt that, though the relations between Belgium and France are not on the moat amicable footing just now, and although no official dignitary was sent to represent the Emperor of the French at the ceremony of the marriage of the Duke and Duchess de Brabant, King Leopold has been persuaded to send the Prince de Chimay to congratu late Napoleon 111. on his approach to the Belgian frontier on his visit to Lille and the north. The Prince de Chimay was sent for by the King of the Belgians, and appointed only yesterday. Ilausser.s, September 9. The lower prices of corm and bread have produced a better feeling in this country, though both are yet far from having returned to their normal point. The visit of the Royal Family to the principal towns — Ghent, Bruges, Ostend, and Antwerp—has been marked by no incident beyond the popular enthu siasm and the brilliant festivities by which the people have chosen to testify their loyalty towards their Sovereign. A report of these public fetes would, I fear, oe uninteresting for your readers. , The royal sojourn at Antwerp was alone marked by a ceremony of durable utility, in the inauguration of the new Academy of Fine Arts, composed of twenty five members, of which fifteen are Belgians, and ten foreigners. The fifteen Belgian members comprise all our best painters, sculptors, and architects ; the foreigners named for the present are two French men, Paul Delaroche, and M. Bay; four Germans, Cornelius, Bauch, Schadow, and Kaulbach. Each academician is to present a work of his composition, which will form the nucleus of a new museum of modern art! The King delivered himself the diplomas of nomination to the members present. This day the King and the Royal Family returned from Lii.ge, after a sojourn of two days in that. Bel gian Birmingham. It was said for a moment that the journey would be adjourned on account of the scenes of riot of which Liege was lately the theatre. But the King exprefsed his formal will that all should go MI as had been fixed upon ; and he was right, as his presence was the occasion of the most loyal manifestations, notwithstanding the heavy rain, and the &overbid character of the Lii.geois, formed, or deformed, by centuries of opposition and warfare against the prince bishop, so well described by your own Walter Scott. The King, on Sunday next, will terminate the royal tour through the provinces at Charleroi and Namur. The King of Prussia has just sent to the Duke of Brabant, as a cadcau de noees, a splendid present, consisting of a marble pillar in mosaic, surmounted with a vase. This pillar is said to be formed of two million of pieces►. The l irst Dutch Chamber at the Hague began, in its sitting of yesterday, the debate on the project of law for regulating the control of the state over public creeds. The report of the central commission al mits the constitutionality of the law as well as its ac tual utility. The chief event of this first sitting was a speech in which M. Lightenvelt, minister of the Ca tholic creed, and the sole Catholic member of the Cabinet, declared that., though disapproving of the law, he will retain his post, and apply it, if passed, with the utmost tolerance; a curious manner of com prehending constitutionalism. The King of the Netherlands is presiding over some military maturtivres at 7.eyst, where many foreign (dicers have been sent by their respective tiovernments. Foremost are several French officers of high rank. King William 111. is said to he a great admirer of Louis Napoleon. SATURDAY, FRANCE. The Uonitettr of Tuesday declares that there is not the slightest foundation for the statement that the Government is taking measures for the purchase of corn. The result of the ha: vest is not yet correctly ascertained; but, even though there l►e a deficiency, the tiover►uuent is convinced that it way be rectified by the operations of cenmerce, if freed from restraints. '1 he Govenunent only interferes to remove these re straints by lending its aid in promoting the transit by einials and railroads. An Imperial decree has been published, granting to the radway companies which shall lower their twill's for the transport of gratin, breadstuff's, and potatoes, from this date to the 31st of December next, power to raise them after that date within the limits of the maxi►num authorised by their books of charges, without waiting for the delays stipulated therein. Another decree provides that all French or foreign vessels, loaded entirely with grain, bread stuffs, rice, potatoes, or dried vegetables, shall pass on all the rivers and canals free from all navigation dues from the present time up to the 31st of Decen►- he 1' next. The excitement in the provincial ►listricts never heless continues to be very great. in one of the country towns in the department of Ardennes a riot has taken place between the peasantry and the work ing people of the place, the latter having attempted to pillage a waggon laden with corn which was entering the place. Butchers' meat has been rising continually in price, on account of the small quantity of cattle bred by farmers after the political disturbances, the effects of which are still felt. All letters front the south of France are full of lamentations about the frightful progress of the grape disease. The claims of the vineyard pro prietors for high prices grow daily more exorbitant ; in many instances they seem not very willing to part with their stock at all, The Emperor has granted pardons to sixty-eight prisoners, and also to sixty other persons who were sentenced by courts-martial to transportation to Algeria after the insurrection of June, Is-is. Orders have been issued for improving the fortifi cations of Toulon. The engineers of the Govern ment are at present having plans made out for the forts of Tourneville and St. Adresse, which are to be erected on the coast for the defence of Havre. It is expected that the works will be soon commenced. Lord Howden, the British ambassador at Madrid, [ has arrived in Paris. The Maine of Le Mans states that M. Ledru Rollin is dying of nostalgia. Grand military operations, under the command of General Magnin, were to take place yesterday and to day on the banks of the Seine, near St. Germains During the temporary absence of their Majesties, the Palace of the 'Tuileries is opened to the public on the Friday of each week, and great numbers, principally strangers and foreign visitors to Paris, avail themselves of the permission. The Duke of Rovigo surrendered himself a day or two ago to undergo his sentence of a months impri sonment as one of the convicted " foreign corres pondents." In France, a person sentenced for a mere misdemeanour is not forcibly led off to prison from the dock, but is allowed to suffer his punishment within a reasonable period, at the time most conve nient to himself. The judgment of the Tribunal of First Instance of Rennes, in the ease of the Journal de Romeo, hold ing that the mere fact of news being untrue, if not of a nature to disturb the public peace, and published in good faith, did not upon a reasonable construction bring the publication within the scope of the penal enactment against " false news," has been overruled by the Imperial Court of that town, which has sen tenced the gerant to two fines of 50f. The Journal de Items will appeal to the Court of Cessation for a final decision upon this important question. It is said that the concession of the privilege of supplying Paris with Seine water is to be given to a mixed French and English company, of which Mr. Masterman is the head. There is some rumour in Paris of a new English Transatlantic Steam-packet Company, which is to have its head-quarters at Dieppe; but, as the scheme involves an expenditure of forty millions of francs for the improvement of the Dieppe harbour, it is be lieved that no more will be heard about it. There has lately been a prevalence of destructive whirlwinds in several parts of France. The neigh bourhood of Versailles was visited by one a few days since, which is said to have torn up by the roots, or snapped asunder. as many as a thousand trees. BELGIUM. The Brussels Moniteur announces the intention of publishing every five days the list of the imports and exports of corn and flour in such a manner as to show• the situation of commercial operations. GERMANY. Lieutenant Schwartz, the commander of the Aus trian brig nisaro, who has become notorious b• the