The Press. — London, England, 1853-12-17 00:00:00

. • • 774 buign ant Colonial Inttilignut. `..11 the hour of ;piny to press, the letter 4 our Poi is t'orrespoittleitt hod not arrived. FRANCE, Magnificent dinner parties and evening receptions were given on Saturday last at the Tuileries, the l'alais Royal, and by the great officers of state, in order to celebrate the anniversary of the Dix be eenibre. It was in all respects a great day for the Parisians. Among other spectacles there was the formal inauguration of the new Boulevard de Stras. Bourg. At this ceremony the Emperor was expected to preside, amid some MN) lochs ems otssenilded at no. am to witness the scene. His Majesty, however, never came—the Prefect of the Seine, the subordinates of his department, and the engineer of the works, hoeing left to do the duty, which was accomplished with very little parade. The absence of the Emperor on this occasion gave birth to many rumours touching the discovery of a new plot against his life, in which the emispirators had intended, it is said, to seize the op pertimilies afforded during the inauguration of the boulevard to make their treasonable attempt. Those rumours were partially corroborated by the fact which shortly transpired, that a number of fresh arrests, including, it was stated, thirty persons, had been effected. Some of these persons were, however, charged merely with having been implicated in the clandestine distribution of pamphlets printed in foreign countries, and particularly the last work of M. Victor lingo, printed and published in Jersey. This new work, which is said to be just as violent against the existing state of things in France us any of the writer's previous publications, has been sold in Paris, it is affirmed, to the extent of I,:osai copies within a few days, the price being six francs. The police have made descents iu several houses, but without being so fortunate as to make any seizure. It is reported that the officers called on ore person who was strongly suspected of selling the work, and arrived just live minute.: after his last copy had been dispwed of. There is no positive slate yet fixed for the corona • Lion, but the preparations are going on with such ac tivity that it will probably nut be long delayed. The dresses of all the members of the Imperial household who are to take part in the ceremony are already pre pared. The carriages are also in a forward state. The Bulletin der Lois publisher a decree granting a supplementary credit of 10,1m8,90f., of which m,osayasif. arc to loe distributed as homilies OH the exportation of French merchandise. The Miele having, in its number of Dec. 9, repre sented the arrest of M. Hubbard, one of the advo cates who defended the 'pent 'omiopie conspirators on their late trial, as an interference w:th the free dom of defence usually allowed to prisoner:* counsel, whereas in reality that person was arrested under the charge of being affiliated to a secret soelety, the Minister of the Interior has given a first warning to that journal "tsar having misrepresented an act of ordinary judicial proceedings, and tended t o e xc it e hatred and contempt against the public The c o wl, of Cessation has rejected the appeal made against their sentence by the thirteen persons condemned for having taken part in the affairs of time Opera Colitigne and I I ippodrome. Placards appeared in the streets of Paris on Mon day announcing on the part of the administrators of the royal domains the sale of time chillean and estate of Rainey, belonging to the Ideal's family, in virtue . .t' the eMilkelal . decree of the 11sol of January, 15: . 2. The upset price is 1,:94:1,09m4f. 11E1.611'11. The Belgian Government has at last abandoned all hope of being able to renew, or even prolong, the commercial treaty between this kingdom and the Zollverein—it treaty which expires at the end of this n th, and which not a little favoured the cord and iron of the former. A general movement is now being made in the large iiiii infacturing towns of Belgium, pariieularly iu ‘'eniers, for the abolition, or at all events the reduction, of the duty on east iron, and in some platys for the free admission of coal. The Belgian tiovernment is said not to be indisposed to accede to a reduction of duty till both. GERMANY. Ever since the collective note Was deVidellit'il to Constantinople, the conferences of the Ambassadors at Vienna have been long anti &fluent. The export of anus and ammunition to Itosnia hag been prohibited by an order of the Austrian Govern ment. The Christian population of Bosnia is in a state of great excitement. A very severe military inspection has been carried out in Austrian Italy, not only along the line of the Adige, and in the fortresses of rescheira, Garda, and Manilla, but in Venice and CM the coast. The works in the arsenals, ordinarily uspeutictl at this season of the year, are continued, and each day materials and munitions of all kinds arrive. THE PRESS. Louis tiaj, the printer and editor of a journal, has been arrested sit Agram and brought to Augsburg. He is well known, says the Gazette of that city, for his Panslavist tendencies, and it is thought that they have already taken root iu Sen is. The Government of Baden has inlOrmed the various I;ennan tioveniments of the qualTel between the Grand I►ukc's Cabinet and the Archbishop of Freibu4. That prelate still insists on suspending the priests who refuse iml►licit obedience to his order; and the Government, in its turn, continues its coercive measures against the priests who obey the orders of the archbishop. According to the Correspundence of Berlin, it, is stated that the Dowager Princess of Hohenzollern- Sigmaringen is about to enter a French convent ut kennzheim, near Colmar. ITALY. A letter from Naples, of the 4th of December, states that new difficulties have arisen between the Neapolitan Government and M. de Mattpas, the Frew It Minister. l'tider pretence of the appearance of the cholera at Pails, all persons coming front France are subjected to a vigorous luarantine, which has excited much discontent. 31. de Manlius has addressed an energetic note on the subject to the King of Naples, threatening to return to 111111 l and, it is said, hinting that, it' the affair were not set right, he might rind it necessary to request the French Government to *tend some ships of war to Naples. It is stated on good authority that the French troops in Italy have withdrawn front the various posts where they were quartered, and are now con centrated a t Rome and Civita Veechia. On the otlwr hand, the Austrian garrison of Tuscany has been greatly reduced, and the Austrian forces in the Le gations have withdrawn from their smaller posts, and concentrated in Ancona and Bologna. These arrangements are in pmsuance of an understanding between the Cabinets of Paris and Vienna. The elections in Piedmont have terminated, and the result shows an overwhelming majority in favour of the Ministers. 4 hit of Bis members, whose return is known, 12:1 are Ministerialists ; 40 belong to the Left Opposition ; and only 15 to the priests' Party. or Right Opposition. There were only twenty-six elections unaseertained. SPAIN. The Saab wins Cabinet has been defeated upon the railway project, which was rejected by the Senate lin the st h inst. The votes were—for the project, (9 ; against, Next day the Cotes was !prorogued sine die. The meivowe is stated t►► have made a favourable impression upon the public. PORTUOAL. letter from Lisbon in the M►ulrid Herahlo of the ith says that the King Regent of Portugal in tended to demand from the tortes to proclaim the majority of his son King Pedro V.; also that it was reported that the young King intended to make a journey in Spain and Portugal. RI StilA AND TURKEY. The great news of the week front the shore s o f the Euxine has been that of it Maid viettiry obtained Ly thif I:ll , 4sians at Simpe, on the :tool ultimo, A Turkish squadron of frigates, muter Rear-Admiral Osman Patella, was conveying troops ►►ndl stores to the army I'rou► Constant no pit WIWI' it fell in with a Russian fleet of fa• superior fitter. The Pacing male for the harbour of Sinope, whither he was pursued by the enemy, who entered the roadstead, silenced the weak and ancient batteries en shore, and after a cannonade of an limn. and a half destroyed the whole of the Turkish vessels. Set en frigates, one steam-frigute, two sehooners, and three transports were thus sunk or burnt. The carnage is stated to have been immense. Osman Paella and the crew of his ship were taken prisoners arid eanied to Sebastopol. On the Russian side much loss is acknowledged, and the flag-ship of Admiral Ilachinoff, who conntuunieti, was so much damaged that it was brought into harbour with in finite d►fliculty. Immediately on receiving the tidings of this victory, Prince Menschikoff despatched an attaeliC from► 4 ►dessa to convey the news to the Emperor Nicholas. The Russian force in this en counter consisted of four ships of HO guns and four of mri. 4 Ismau► Paella is said to have succeeded in landing at Sinope the warlike stores and the crews from the transports which he was charged with es eorting to Trebizontl, and which we.e not captured by the Russians. The landing was effected while the Paella was, with much gallantry, defending the entrance of the port. The defeat at Sittope was known at 4 . 011%61114- norle tin the Irti inst., where great excitement pre vailed. A Orand Divan w►ts held, at which all the foreign 31inisters were present. The English anti French Ambassadors wt re urged to despatch the combined fleets into the Black Sea, but they had an audience of the Sultan. at which it was resolved not to send the whole fleets at once, but four frigates, to obtain more precise information. nitre was, how. . SATURDAY, ever, little doubt that the whole fleet; would shortly enter the Black Sea. The Turkish passenger -steamer, Medari Tidjaret, which was captured by Russian cruisers in the Bla c k Sea, came into the Bosphorus on the 214.1 1 , an d caused great astonishment. The vessel was taken before the expiration of the delay granted on both sides for placing merchant ships out of danger. As there were several Russian merchantmen at Con stantinople when the Medari Tidjuret was captured the Russians were unusually scrupulous in dealing with her, fot• fear of reprisals. A column of the new legion of Turkish Cossacks has arrived at Constantinople, t 4,11110 vol unteer Scoth•icns have been organised m Albania, and a new corps of 10,0410 Kurds has been formed by the sheiks of their country. Lord Stratford de Reachffe has removed from Therapia to Pera, to be nearer the French Amine:- sador. The merchants of all nations at Constantinople are signing an address to the Sultan expressing their best wishes for his cause. A letter from Berlin says :—" A piece of curious news is circulated here as authentic, but the truth of which it is impossible to ascertain at Berlin. Narvik Packet has not succeeded at Paris in negotiating a loan. This was to be expected. But what could not be foreseen is, that the United States of America ha v e (so it is said) uttered a very considerable sum to the Porte, on the condition that some small island in the Archipelago shall be ceded to them." Intelligence front the Danube of the 16th, as given in the Austrian Lloyd's, states the Mussulman army at 205,155) men, of whom 45,issi were at Widdin and Kalafat. All these troops regularly received their pay m specie. hostilities were virtually suspended. The snow was very deep in the mountains, whilst the frozen ground in the plains impeded the construction of the entrenchments continence(' by the Turks at Tama Drift iee was floating about the Danube. The Alma and other smaller rivers were frozen over. General osten-Sackers was expected to reach the Danubian principalities out the 12th inst. Entrenehments have been thrown up around Bit charest. The hospitals in that placa were full of sick soldiers. A cordon was to be formed along the line of the 'Meister. The Russians and Turks in the states of the belligerent powers have been placed, by mutual consent, under the protection of the Austri a n agents. Prince tiortschakoff has, by imperial order, de• dared the ports of Galatz and Braila neutral for exportation and importation. General lludberg, the Russian commissioner ex traordinary to the principalities, arrived at Bucharest on the 6th inst. The Boyards received him with great honours. The Prince of Servia, doubting his safety at Bel grade, has left that city for Topola. llodzewitch, late secretary to Prince Gortschakotr, arrived at St. Petersburg on the 29th ult., in custody of an escort. lie was accused, together with another Pole, of having kept up a correspondence with the Turks. Both are stated to have been shot on the spot, and privately. An officer who was said to have furnished the 111C11111 of their correspondence was publicly shot in St. Petersburg on the :25th. The St. Petersburg papers state that ill the morn ing of the tilt. the gulf of Cronstadt was covered with ice as far as could be seen. On the 27th the ice had greatly increased, but still left large open places. On the 29th the ice was so strong that men could pass on foot between emnstadt and Oranien baum. The daily service of the post-office between Cronstadt and St. Petersburg ceased from that date. PERSIA. It is stated that Persia had declared war against Turkey at the instigation of Russia, and that a com Lined Russian and Peisian force would march on Erzeroum. It is further reported that the British Charge d'Affaires at 'relicra►► had suspended his diplomatic relations with tl►e Persian Uoven►ment iu consequence of that declaration. This movement on the part of the Schaal of Persia had for some time been apprehended, as his relations with Turkey were such as to induce him to take advantage of the in creasing difficulties which encompass the Ottoman empire. UNITED STATES. _ The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald, writing on the 19th, says : " The message is nearlv finished, and the exact position of the President as regards the Pacific Railroad is known ; the message will fully reeognisc the importance of ti e road, and express the opinion that it should be con structed; it will also take tln• ground that the Govern• went should extend to it all the support which the cum• stitution admits." Fearful mortality from cholera is still reported among the packet-ships arriving in New York from Liverpool. The Roe hambeau had 11 deaths ; the Silos (imamate, tt+ the Xeiv World, 75; and the .Itorat son, OIL