The Press. — London, England, 1853-05-28 00:00:00

MAY 28, 1853. The marriage of Prince Henry of the Netherlands with Princess Amalia, daughter of Duke Bernhiud of Saxe Weimar, and sister of Prince Edward, was solemnised at Gotha on the litth. Among the documents laid before the united Coburg-Gotha Representative Chamber, on their meeting last week, was a message from his Highness the Reigning Duke, dated May 1, containing a de claration on the part of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, chief of the ducal agnates, relative to his ac knowledgment, or rather refusal to acknowledge, the general constitution agreed to by the Coburg-Gotha Government and Chambers, and assented to by his Highness the Reigning Duke. Prince Albert de clares that the arrangement of the domanial question in such manner as not to infringe the incontestable rights of agnates must be the preliminary of his withdrawing his protest. The Senate of Frankfort has submitted to the Legislative Assembly an organised law for the regu lation of the rights of the Jews, who, according to this law, will have the right of voting in the election of; and be capable of serving as, deputies. They are to have four deputies in the Legislative Assembly, but they are excluded from the Senate, and front certain other functions and dignities. The reigning Duke of Brunswick has authorised the establishment of a discount bank, ►us proposed by the commercial community of Brunswick. The ca pital of the bank will be three millions. SWITZERLAND. Austria has notified the reeal of her envoy from 'Berne, and the cessation of diplomatic relat . with Switzerland. The Federal Council has instructed its envoy at Vienna at once to cease his functions. The Swiss journals say that the misunderstanding will lead to no serious consequences. SPAIN. ...... Bermudez Castro, brother to the Minister, has been nominated ambassador to Paris. The ar►ival of the King of Bavaria is looked for very shortly. lie comes to Spain, it is said, in order to negotiate a marriage between Prince Albert of Bavaria and an Infanta. The official Gazette publishes the text of a re formed built The reforms extend to 4541 articles •which will for the future be admitted free of duty. It is announced that the Queen is in an interesting sit nation. 1 TALI% A very painful discovery has been made in the Basilica of the Lateran, where Pope Martin N . . hesltn tied in the nave. The hotly having to be removed, in consequence of certain architectural repairs in pro gress, the coffin was opened in the presence of the chapter. To everybody's surprise, nothing was found but the hones of the dead Pope ; the rings, gold and silver chalices, the tiara, all studded with previous stones, had disappeared. Their existence in the coffin had been verified about fifty years ago. TAHITI. An unhappy circumstance has occurred at the Isle of Anita. The European and American residents are Protestants, and it would appear that. an attempt to force a so-called Mormonite to become baptised 1141 to a collision, in which two priests were killed. This act brought. down the French in three, and, after some hanging and shooting, order was restor e d. TURKEY. The position of affairs continues to be exeeedingly critical. From among the efoitra4 heti •ry reports which are transmitted daily through Vienna and Paris. these facts may be counted upon as certainties. On the 6th inst. Prime Mensehikoff sent in an nitimatton respecting the protectorate which the Emperor of 'Russia claimed, as head of the Greek Church, over the Christian population of Turkey. To this he demanded a formal answer in six days. The Ihitish, French, and Austrian 'Ministers were con sulted on the subject of the answer to be retuned, and all of them sent home despatches to their Government', and the two first mentioned are said to have communicated with the commanders of the Mediterranean fleets belonging to their respective countries. Subsequently Prince Mensehikott con sented to prolong the period of , and meantime a change of Ministry took lamp, Itedschid Pacha being appointed to the Foreign Affairs, Mahomed Ali to the War Department. and Mustapha l'aeha, Brand Alzier. On the 17th the Porte defini tively rejected the ultimatlvire, and the Prime quitted Constantinople but took up his Mamie at the slimmer residence of the embassy at llnyukdere. 'l'eh'gra phie announcements of his having actnally left Turkey continue to reach Paris; lint according to the most credible statements the Prince still remained on the 19th, and, although the diplomatic relations were interupted, he still continued to interchange commu neatit 1114 with ltedsrhal l'acha. The Russian tromps on the frontier are said to have been strongly rein forced. ....... UNITED STATES. The last intelligence from America comprises the THE PRESS. record of new catastrophes. The steamer Jemmy ' Lind, formerly plying between San Francisro and Sacramento, exploded in San Flautist.° Bay, blowing out the plate of the boiler, and arattecing ;Leath anti destruction among all on board. Eighteen dead isalies were recovered, and thirty persons were so dreadfully scalded that not one of them is ex pected to live. Among the scalded were eight ladies. The steam-ship St. Lewis, one of the Nicaraguan line, went ashore in a fog near the same spot as that on which the Tenneuee struck, anti shortly after became a total wreck. Her passengers, 111110untiog to 355, were all saved. A dreadful calamity had occurred in llntthlo by the falling of a building, occupied as it banking. house, by which upwards of twenty the peewits were killed and wttantled. The coroner's jury, in the recent railway seei dent at Norwalk, after sitting several days, had returned a verdict that the necident was mused by the wilfnl negligence of the engineer. The survivors of several of the victims who hail prudently insured their lives will receive the amount of their policies from the several insurance companies, and it is un derstood that the latter will sue the New Haven Railroad Company for the amounts. 'rho whole subject of railway anti steam navigation accidents has excited due attention at Washington. and there can he little doubt that Congress will take an early opportunity of legislating upon the matter in a severe but proteetive spirit. It was rumoured in Washington that the lion. James Buchanan had resigned, or would resign, his ambassadorship to England. Accounts front Texas deeltuvli that gold mines of a very productive character had been discovered in that State, and that at least 4(I diggers an+ now at work in the Hamilton Valley of the Colorado, each averaging front five to ten dollars a day. It is said that the country has been examined, mil found to contain gold for a distance of PIO miles around. The commissioners appointed to draw the boun dary line between Mexico anti the territories of the United States have been, ever since their organisa tion, in a state of extreme penury. The head of the commission has been robbed by the Government escort, and abandoned by them among the Indians on the frontier. 31 EXI CO. The latest arrivals from Vera:Crnz give a splendid aceount of the inauguration of Santa Anna as Presi dent of Mexico. In his speech ho declares his in tention to eultiv ate peace at home and with foreign nations. His Ministry is thus composed :—Foreign Affairs. Maroon ; Justice, Lams ; Treasury. T. Teri nel ; Minister to the United States. Almonte. Santa Anna lout proclaimed a new arbitrary law with re gard t►► the press, requiring all the papers to be licensed by Government, and the proprietors to de posit large sums as securities, and copies of every article to be submitted to Government officers before publication. Political discussions are strongly pro• talked. Severe penalties attend the infringement of these rides, and also as to publishing matter de nominated subversive, seditious, libellous, immoral, and calumnious. In consequenee sit' this law, several of the most prominent Nlexican journals, including the Nonitur, bad been disenntinneil. INDIA AND CIIINA. arrived at Trieste on the with the India mail. The news from Minna'', to the 1:111i of April, is mifityourable, soul more troops are wanted. There is no prospect of !WIWI! Short of A%a. The Bur mese commissioners had refused to sign the treaty. The latest dabs.; from China are to the I Ith of April. The American, French, and English ships of war on the cosoit of China have, on the urgent requisition of the Chinese authorities, consented to g 11 Nankin, Shanghae, and the mouths of the great canal against the rebels. AUSTItALI.I_. In the district of Belfast, on the 314 of January, hundreds of to of wheat were, ripe for the sickle. The harvest was plentiful. hnt the labourers few. Though 3:is. an acre was the price for cutting, many a field 111114 fall CM a 11011 k Pialhi he pat Ilan it. Three diggers, nanu.sl (lough, `alley, and Itrktiee, 11 1 . 11 in 1;4 . 1•Iong in February, from the Ballarat diggings„ Winging with them a 'HA efilitaining two masses of gt•hl, one of which actually weighed 771 b. Soz., and the other 11111 b. Hoz., the proportion of pure gold being more than eight.nintha. They were both fionull at eanadhui gully, between 311 and 10 yards from the bed of the great 13.1111. nugget, and within some :01 feet of the surfaee. Aecomits hail also been received of the finding of a It/lb. nugget in the same golden locality. The fortunate MAHN of 11 1 .mmense nugget, at. Ballarat are four new comets', three of whom arrived in the colony in August last, and the fourth came in the steam-ship arca Britain. The three tint seeded to I%endigo diggings immediately after their landing, where they remained for some two or three months, and made nearly 1,0001. worth of gold. They r 9 then ,joined the fourth person, and we, to Willa diggings. Out of ono hole in the cluiadion fenny they obtained the large lump, weitnmg 1 3 4 11 ). soz.• another weighing Mb. tioz., so/ 21 b. 402 . of small wild —making altogether 1.12 m bor. Out of one hole. They then *gild their claiiit for :MI., and went to Melbourne. They went peered f 4,000/. for the one court anti fashion. Iler Ifikjesty anti the Court tenninatea their sojourn at Osborne-house yestenlay, returning to London, r u t the) Southampton Hallway, for the rest of toe season. The Royal party readied Ducking bam-house in safety at teeven o'clock in the even. lug. The Duchess of Kent and Princess Adelaide of Holtenlohe took leave of the Queen on Wednesday, awl returned front the Isle of Wight to Clarence house, St..lametes. thine Albert was re-elected Master of the Trinity Brethren at a special general court held at the 'l'►iuity -Ismse, on Monday, Captain John Sheplwrd being at the same time rechosen as deputy master of that ancient corponttion for the ensuing year. The court then proceeded to the church of it. Olive, Hart-street, where divine service was per formed, and a sermon preached by the Rev. Henry Melvill, ILL). Thursday, being the :I4th auttivertary of her M►tieaty'a birthday, was celebrated w►th the ►►anal salutes and illuminations in London, and all the public. harbours, dockyards, and garrison toens. All the principal ministers gave banquets mid held romp titans in the evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and P►incea+ of Prussia, attenthsl by a brilliant suite, are exl►ewted to arrive in London, from Germany, on a visit t►► her Majesty, ott the :loth ur 21st pr►xitno. In the third week in July, it is said, the Prince and Princess will aecon►pa►►y the Queen and Prince Conso►t to Dublin, to inspect the Kxhibiti tttt in that city. The present week, which, as the Epsom race week, is usually reckoned ono of the dullest periods of the year, has been singularly fertile in gaiety, and scarcely a night has passed Without a ball or party of some importance. On Monday Lady Bradford's ball in Itelgrave-square. Tuesday, being her Majesty's birthday, was celebrated by the various Ministerial dinners, and also by a magnificent ball given by Lord and Lady Weidaname, in Parttime, which was honotired with the presence of several membera of the IhsYst Family, and a eibmpany numbering upwards ,if 1,1011. A ball-room was erected over the gimlets in the rear of the mansion, affording accommodation fur I several hundred lawsuits. The walls and roof of this apartment are formed of corrugated and galvanised sheet iron, the roof being supported by light iron ties and braces, after the most elegant of our railway sta lions. The great feature was, however, the "flooring," which is laid nisei anew a n d greatly iinproved principle. No wooden joists are used, and the Wants being laid upon grooved iron, supported by connecting vertical istetalm, the advantage gained over the ordinary plan is not only increased strength, but, it degree of elas ticity unattainable by any other plan. The order fur the fulfilling was only given in the first week of the present month, since which time the foundation has been laid, and the larger portion of the iron used in its erection rolled. The Earl lie(prey, as President of the Institute of British Architects, gave a conversazione the same night at his mansion in tit.Jaines'a-sonswe, at which a very large circle et' the meinbers of the different scientific institutions of the m e tropolis co ngregated, as well av a numerous assemblage of less learned On Thursday a large party was congregated at Mrs. Leslie's, in Berkeley. square, to meet his ltnyal Highness the I of Cambridge ; and the same evening Madame (Akre& gave a ball at Chandoa house, which was most fully attended. Last night Mr. and Mrs. Talbot Clifton gave a hull to inaugurine their new house in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, which has just been ; 113114 a ball was also given by Colonel and Lady Louisa The Comte de Paris will receive continuation in the Roman I ; utholie 'lmre!' on the 2nil of June; and at the same turn(' his brother, the line de Chartres, will Ise a d m itted to the Holy Communion. The Princess and the Duclwms of Orleans are expected at Clare mont sit the end Of this month, front their residence at. Kitley, near Plymouth. Mir Charles Young, Garter King.at-Arms, visited St. George's Cha p el, Windsor, on Monday, when the h a rmers of the late Dukes of Wellington and Hamil ton were removisl, and the achievements of the new Knights of the limier, the Duke of Northumberland and the Maroons of Londonderry, were placed over their respective stalls. Mr. Laiard has left Constantinople on his return to England, where he expects to arrive by the end of the month. Ii