The Press. — London, England, 1853-07-30 00:00:00

JULY 30, 1853 \I. Isturitz, Spanish Ambassador in Loudon, M. Bermudez, and many distinguished Spaniards, are daily expected here. The Queen Christina holds quite a court at Malmaison : her reconciliation with Narvaez is entire and cordial, and his return to Spain is considered as most essential to the best in terests of that country. The Minister for Foreign Affairs will take possession of his new official resi dence on the Quai trOrsay on the 15th August: already it is beginning to be furnished. The state of the weather, generally a commonplace subject, is now an all-important one—the crops, the vines, and the people being all dependent on its effects. The few last days have been magnificent, and revived the hopes, almost extinct, of a fine harvest. Last night a thunderstorm broke over Paris, and con tinued till morning. The lightning lighted up the streets at moments during all the night. It appears certain that despatches were received from the British Government by the English Am bassador yesterday. Their contents have not trans pired, but it is supposed that they contain instruc tions for concerting with the French Government the line of acti ,, n to be taken with regard to the allied fleet, in case of the refusal of Russia to with draw from the Danubian provinces as a preliminary to the negotiations which will be opened under Aus trian mediation. Of course, all this must be better known in London than here. The verdict of the Court of Cessation in the case called " Des Correspondances des Journaux Etran- gets" has produced a profound and salutary effect on the public mind all over France. Private letters are held sacred from the police—no charge can be brought against the writer or receiver on account of their contents. We had long to contend for this in England even. . . . Any idea of taking any firm step on the Oriental question is always coupled abroad with the resigna tion or dismissal of Lord Aberdeen. They believe it would break his heart to have to act offensively against his old friend the Czar. A rumour, at first very much discredited, but which has since gained ground and taken some consistency, states that a matrimonial alliance is in contemplation between the son of Jerome Bonaparte, styled Prince Imperial, and one of the daughters of the Queen Christine by her union with the Duke de ltianzares. At first, on account of this report, the ex-King Jerome and his son kept studiously aloof from Mal maison, and even neglected to pay the customary visit of ceremony to the Queen Christine ; but lat terly they have accepted invitations to dinner, and are on ne pest mieux with her Majesty and family. Sidi Ben-Gamah, one of the most powerful chiefs of the tribes of the South, Sheik-el-Arab, and his son, the Card Ben Hassan Bourga, arrived at Marseilles on the 25th July, and started the 26th for Paris. They are accompanied by a numerous suite, and bring with them some magnificent horses as a present to the Emperor. Their visit to France is a spontaneous act of their ova:. The Monfteur of this morning contains a long postal convention between France and the Papal States, concluded on the Ist of April, 1M53, and rati fied by their respective Governments on the tlrd of June, signed by Cardinal Antonelli on one side, and by A. de Reyneval on the other. There is a curious story circulating that a French proacrit in England wrote to the Prince de Joinville to recommend his family to him in case he should perish in an attempt he was going to make on the life of the Emperor Napoleon 111., which letter the Prince sent to Lord Pahnerston, who communicated its contents to the Emperor. M. Eisseleff, being asked if he thought the Em peror of Russia would accept the propositions of England and France, answered by another question, " Would you, sir, if you were engaged in a duel, con sent to take your adversary's second for your umpire ?" The Bourse fluctuates every day with the different soi-disaut news of the day. Yesterday the funds went up a little ; to-day they are going down. FRANCE. Tuesdays Moniteur contains a decree dividing the departments i f France into nine districts, over which councillors of state are appointed as inspectors of the administrative services of the prefectures. The speech of Lord Aberdeen at the civic banquet in London on Saturday evening, announcing that the policy of the Government is a pacific one, and the few but energetic words of the French Ambassador on the same occasion, have produced a very happy effect in Paris, notwithstanding the absence of any official intelligence of the same character. THE PRESS. The Court of Cassation has quashed the judgment of the Imperial Court of Paris in the affair of the foreign correspondents of the journals, and decided that the prefect of police has no right to break open letters in the post-office. The trial of the parties accused of conspiracy, con nected with the secret society called the Commune Revolutionaire, was brought to a close on Saturday last, and the Tribunal of the Correctional Police pronounced the following sentences :--Felix Pyat. Boichot, L. Avril, Caussidiere, and Rongee, tried in their absence par continence, are condemned to ten years' imprisonment, 11,000 f. tine, and ten years' sur veillance. The following persons, present at their trial, Bardot, Bravard, Boller Genii), and Oravier, to five years' imprisonment, 5,000 f. fine, and five years' surveillance; Madame Libersalle and M. and Ma• dame (Thin, for distributing seditious papers, six months imprisonment and 100 f. fine ; Madame Fon bart, for the same offence, one month's imprison. ment ; Vigneaud, for fraud, six months' imprison ment. Merlet. Langenie, and Desenfants. were ac quitted. The trial took place with closed doors, and there was no jury. Those guilty of belonging to a s'vret society may be sent ate Cayenne if caught. The Emperor and Empress are still at St. Cloud, It ailing a comparatively retired life. They have not been seen much in public since the affitir of the Opera Comique. In the present state of the political horizon, it is not probable that the Emperor will go far away from Paris this summer. The Empress is about to take up her residence at the Trianon. On Tuesday last a funeral service was performed in the church of St. Len for the repose of the soul of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Holland, who died on the 26th of July, 1840. The Emperor and Empress were present on the occasion. General Don Manuel Blanco has presented his credentials to the Emperor as Minister Plenipoten tiary of the Republic of Chili in Paris. By the monthly return of indirect contributions it appears that in June, 1853, the receipts amounted to 11,11511,:574f., while in June, 1852, they were only 11,704,430 f. For the first half-year the return is not so favourable ; the amount for 1853 being 65,6014,6iNf., while in 1852 it was 119,001,9111 f. The construction of the railways from Rheims to Mezieres and Charleville, and from Criel to Beauvais, has been conceded by an Imperial decree to Messrs. Masterman, Laing, Hutchinsen, lizielli, and Co. The news of the crops in the south is favourable. In the Hittites and Basses Alpea, particularly, the corn is in excellent condition ; and the same may be said of the olives and figs in the vicinity of Lyons. In the Cher and Normandy the state of the crops is equally promising. M. de Persigny has purchased Maisons, the well known mansion of the Lattitte family, on the line of the Rouen Railway. Madame de Persigny is a granddaughter of M. Laffitte. Admiral de la Susse has arrived at Toulon from Besika Bay, having been displaced, as already an nounced, in the command of the French squadron by Admiral Hamelin. BELGIUM. The marriage of the Duke of Brabant with the Austrian Archduchess Marie Henrietta is now ap pointed to take place on Sunday, the 2lst of August next. The municipal authorities have already issued a programme of the Pies to be held on the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the marriage week. The colonel and surgeon of the 3rd Chasseurs, one of the regiments that lost so many men during a march on an extraordinarily hot day, have been dis missed. The report of the Minister of War to the King says that the frightful disaster was attributable, not only to the heat, but the unexampled careless ness of the colonel, and the want of prompt attention on the part of the surgeon. DENMARK. The draft of a new fundamental law, presented to the Volksthing at its last sitting by M. Oerstadt, Pre sident of the Council, contains some important modi fication of the existing constitutional system. This document consists of sixty-one paragraphs, together with three temporary provisions, and by it the fol low•ing changes will be accomplished : The right of sdf•taxation Ix aholisheil. The present free electoral law is MlNdirhPd , and a new one, it i• a 1111111 l need, will be es•trowd. The liberty of the press is abolished. Freedom of trade is abolished, and the system of dose guilds The frt.e eiquiration laa• I.; wain:4lo4lpol. The contt•uiplate.J of trial by Jury la Jame away with. The indepentlenee of the law courts, as connected with oral pleadings stud separation fr o m the Executive, is lle d. The promised organisation of the Danish Church by a free Synod, in eo n ne,•tiou with a free Parliament, he revoked. Go‘enimetit functionaries cannot accept the place of deputy, except with the assent of the Mint. The Diet to assemble every second year, not annually, as here tofore. The finance law• shall be passed for two years. 'Phis new act will not lie sul►mitted to the Danish Parliament for its sanction. The whole is octroyed. 295 It will immediately become law, and the present con stitution ceases to exist an soon as the State arrange ments are proclaimed by the authority of the King. GERMANY. A conspiracy against the life of the Emperor of Austria had been detected in Viemut and frustrated : forty-seven persons, some of them students, have been arrested. The Porte has given the Austrian minister full se tialaction for the late Smyrna murder. Three of the assassins. all of them Italians, have been arrested ; the fourth, a Hungarian, who stabbed M. de Heckel berg with a dagger, has absconded. The American Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople has written to the Austrian (iovernmentthat " Martin Costa owes no allegiance to the Emperor of Austria," and that the imprisonment of that person, after be had rendered a civil oath to the American tiovern ment, " is not only a very regretable violation of in ternational law. but an act of disrespect, which will not noon be forgotten." In Berlin three proprietors of journals have been called before the director of police, and told to be less severe in their remarks upon Russia, as the oo vernment hoped for a pacific solution of the Eastern question, and wished to prevent the publication of irritating articles on the sul►ject. M. Usener, who is known front the part he took in the so-called Kossuth rockets, has been arrested in Coblentz. lie was on his way back front Russia. The reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg has also caught the measles, and has been seriously indis posed. The duchess is convalescent. SWITZERLAND. The Council of the Nation has rejected, by 71 to 13 votes, M. Atteh's motion for interfering in the affairs of the canton of Freiburg. ITALY. The health of the Pope is stated to be daily be coming more precarious. Ho is suffering from a severe attat•k of asthma and general debility. He is sixty-one years of age. Travelling in Romagna may now, it is hoped, be resumed with some degree of safety, the retnnanta of the Passatore's band having been nearly extermi nated in a conflict with the grand-ducal troops, on the Tuscan frontier, which lasted from the evening of the Uth to the morning of the 11th inst. The scarcity of corn in the Itotnan states, owing to a very bad harvest, has engendered a bad spirit in the population. The municipality of Faenza has re signed en mane that of Imola threatens to follow the example. The people will not allow eon) to be removed. PORTUGAL. A railway to Cintra is in contemplation. It is pro posed to carry it to Belem along the river, which is to be embanked for that purpose. Such a work would be of great utility, as the northern side of the Tagus is getting rapidly choked up. The disease which has proved so fatal to the vines in the island of Madeira is spreading with great virulence through the vineyards of Portugal. Ap prehensions are entertained that this calamity will not only seriously affect the vintage, but destroy the plant. RUSSIA ANl► TURKEY. 40,0 tat troops and 144 pieces of artillery had al ready passed through Jassy on the 15th, and pro ceeded by foreed marches towards the Danube. The British Consul was not present at the "Te I)eum" which the Russians performed after occupy ing Jassy. On the 1:Ith the birthday of the Empress of Russia was celebrated by a solemn service in all the churches throughout Moldavia. Instructions have been sent to Omar Pacha order ing him to destroy the bridges over the Danube. A division of the Turkish fleet, under the corn• mend of Rear• Admiral Osman Pada', proceeded to the Black Sea on the 12th inst. lie fell in with • Russian frigate at sixty miles distance, but she put up all sail and disappeared in the direction of Sebastopol. Official intelligence had been received that the Egyptian fleet was in a forward state of readiness, and would sail for Constantinople about the middle of the present month. Fifteen thousand Arab troops under Mita Paella were shortly expected to arrive in that city. The Viceroy of Egypt has given the troops three months' pay in advance. The war enthusiasm is not confined to the Turks. A deputation was lately received by the Minister of War, in the name of :S,INK Boharalees, offering their services as volunteers. They have been admitted, and are being drilled as irregulars in the plain of Sentari. The headman of the Dobrudga Coasacks also offered the services of N,OOO men. A celebrated Derehey of Damascus, Halet Efendi, has written for permission to proceed with 12,000 Arabs to any part of the empire that may be menaced by Russia. He has offered to defray the whole expense out of his own resources.