The Press. — London, England, 1857-03-21 00:00:00

MARCH 21, 1857. and Turin, the Cabinet of St. Petersburg disapproved highly of the tone assumed by Austria, and which did not elicit either Russian sympathy or coopera tion. M. Villamarina has also been charged by the Emperor of the French to state his dissatisfaction at the note of M. de Buol, and to assure King Victor Emmanuel of his determination to resist, with energy, any attempt at Austrian intimidation. This refers more particularly to the assumed dictation of circumscribing the extent of the Alessandrian de fences. General Todtleben, of Sebastopol fame, is now at Turin, and has gone to Alessandria to inspect the fortress, and to suggest improvements in the vast works that are progressing with rapidity. The de bates in the Chambers on this subject commenced this week, and by a majority of 100 to 14 the Chamber of Deputies has voted the sum of five million piastres towards defraying the expenses of the Alessandrian fortifications. A delay has occurred in the Swiss Conferences at Paris. Fresh instructions were required by M. de Hatzfeldt from his Government, and the third con ference will not be convened until their arrival. This has caused a slight irritation in high quarters. Powers, sufficiently ample, were accorded to recon cile fact with justice—and, having been acted upon, an " ad referendum " would almost raise a fresh question. MM. Piaget and Humben quitted Neuf chatel for Paris a few days since armed with all the documents and plans relative to the princely rights, both manorial, feudatory, and political. It is not easy for these Republican delegates to conceal their mortification at not being received as the representa tive Ministers of a sovereign State. In the Danubian principalities there is a steady opposition to the monopoly by Austria of the advan • tages of riverain communication with the Black Sea. The lesser powers of Germany are now in concert with Prussia, and have expressed themselves in favour of a Moldo-Wallachian union. Finding the spirit of the Parisian Congress to be against her, Austria now asserts boldly and roundly that the Congress of Paris did not intend to submit to the deliberation of the Divans the question of the union of the Princi palities ; that the question does not belong either to the Divans or to the congress of European Govern ments ; that Turkey alone, the suzerain power, possesses the right of decision ; that the congress has no authority to act against the remonstrance of Turkey on the subject; and that Austria will sup port with all her influence the authorised resistance of the Porte against the tyranny of the European Congress. C. A. H. t °reign anb' (Colonial 3nttiligtntr. AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA. The relations between Austria and Sardinia do not improve. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, Thursday, the 19th, states that— Count Paar, the Austrian Ambassador at Turin, has re. eeived orders from his Government to withdraw from Turin if he cannot obtain from the Sardinian Government the full satisfaction demanded. The Austrian Gazette confirms this news, and states that the recall of Count Paar would only be a satisfaction Austria owes to herself, and would be attended with no other consequences than the cessa tion of diplomatic relations between the two countries. CHINA. Intelligence from Hong Kong to the 31st January confirms the fact of the retirement of Admiral Sey mour from Canton and the Dutch Folly Fort to the Macao Passage Fort. The burning of the suburbs of Canton on the morning of the 12th January was followed up the same day by the bombardment and firing of that portion of the city within reach of the guns of the Dutch Folly Fort. The fire when lighted was "kept in trim" by red-hot shot and car cases from the ships at anchor in the river. Up to the Vd January the fire raged within the town, and some 7,000 houses wero reported to have been destroyed. The Chinese were fitting out a powerful squadron of war junks, and contemplated an attack upon Hong Kong. Admiral Seymour had anchored the fleet in line down the river, so as to intercept and keep clear the passage. Great anxiety existed at Hong Kong and Singapore, and troops and gunboats were eagerly looked for. The Chinese baker, Allum, charged with poisoning the bread at Hong Kong, had been captured, tried, and, with three other men, shot by sentence of a c )uncil of war. There is no intelligence from India or liushire of special importance. The troops at Bushire were healthy, and had experienced no attacks from the Persians. A Dutch journal, the Nord Brabandcr, in a letter from Batavia of the oth January, states that a conflict has taken place between the English and Japanese. Two English vessels of war are said to have forced the entrance of the port of Nagasaki, where they remained at anchor. Nothing is known rif the causes which led to this conflict. One of them, THE PRESS. a steamer, broke the chain across the entrance. Although the town is well fortified on the side of the sea, the Japanese authorities do not appear to have resorted to force to repel the two English vessels. FRANCE. A modification of the French Cabinet is antici pated. M. de Persigny, it is rumoured, will be recalled from London to occupy a high post about the Emperor. The Emperor has decided that the tax of the sth June, 1850, upon shares, shall he raised from 5 to 15 centimes npon every 100. Nothing is changed in the mode of collection. A new regulation will deter mine the mode of the application of the tax to foreign shares negotiated in France. The Second Division of the Ecole Polytechnique has been disbanded on no political account, but for a wilful breach of discipline. The Neufchatel question, upon the whole, pro gresses. M. Water/ski gave separate audiences on Tuesday to M. de Hatzfeldt and Dr. Kern, for the settlement of certain preliminary points before the meeting of the third conference. The Berlin Zeit (13th instant) denies that Prussia has bound herself by any previous engagements. A conference in June upon the settlement of the Principalities is rumoured in Paris. SPAIN. The Espana states that General de la Concha will most probably be the Commander•in•Chief of the Mexican expedition. A royal decree published in the Gazette orders that an agricultural exhibition shall be held at Madrid in the month of September in the present year. General Prim has been sentenced to six months imprisonment at Toledo. The Mexican Ambassador has arrived at Madrid. NAPLES. Letters from Naples, dated the 14th, state that a Muratist party is rapidly forming and consolidating. An invitation to the army is in circulation, call ing on the troops no longer to countenance the Bourbons. THE EAST. Despatches from Constantinople, dated the 14th instant, announce that the ship Kangaroo had landed troops and arms in Circassia. M. de Boutenieff had demanded the appointment of a commission to inquire into the nature and origin of this expedition. The Circassians had repulsed 4,000 Russians on the frontier of Ahasia. Then bad been terious disturbances among the population of Tibris, in consequence of the scarcity of provisions. On the sth instant a council of Ministers had been held at Constantinople to deliberate on the choice of a new Kaimakan of Moldavia, but no decision had been then come to. AMERICA. Letters from New York, to the 4th instant, state that the greatest excitement and expectation existed as to the tone and tenor of Mr. Buchanan's inaugural address. Mexico, it is reported, has sold to the American Government for 25,000,000 dollars a tract of land in the province of Oaxaca, for the purpose of cutting a canal through the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan was completed, though not officially announced. It is said to be composed as follows : State Department Lewis Cass, Michigan. Treasury Department Interior Department Jacob Thompson, Miss. . . War Department Navy Department Aaron V. Brown, Tenn. Postmaster-General .. Attorney• General .. . The New York Herald says :—" Mr. Buchanan will expect every American Minister abroad, every Chargé d'Affaires, and every Consul or special com mercial agent, to send in their resignations respect without delay, for that they will all be dis placed, with probably not a single exception from the operation of the rule. From Mr. Dallas, at Lon • don, to Major Cass at Rome, cnd from the Consul at Liverpool to the commercial agent at the Sandwich Islands, new men will take the places of the present incumbents. gad anb fastion. Her Majesty the Queen continues at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty held a Court on Monday, and received the Spanish Minister, M. Gon. Bravo, and the Earl of Elgin. The Countess of Derby had an assembly on Thurs day evening at the family mansion in St. James's. square. The Corps Diplomatique were fully repre. tented. The Countess Chreptowitch is about to renew the hospitalities of the Russian Legation, so long ren- 275 dered famous by the lady of the late popular repre sentative of the Imperial Cuurt in this country— Baron Brunnow. The saloons of Crush:int-house will be re-opened for the first time on the 25th instant, with a grand dinner and evening patty, which will be repeated on the Ist of April. Volitztiti. Csiniar Couscn.s were held on Saturday and on Thursday afternoons, at the official residence of Lord Palmerston, in Downing -street. All the Ministers attended. A Court of Privy Council was held at Buckingham Palace, on Friday afternoon. ... His Excellency Feronk Khan, Envoy Extraordinary from the Shah of Persia, has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Paris. The Earl of Burlington it is r6ported has been appointed Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, in the room of the late Earl of Ellesmere. We hear on good authority the Right Hon. Ver non Smith and Sir George Clerk, on Thursday, paid a visit of courtesy and had a long conversation with her Majesty the Queen Dowager of Oude, relative to her Majesty's presentation to her most Gracious Majesty the Queen. EARL AMHERST expired on Friday night, at Knowle Park, near Sevenoaks, Kent. He was born in 1773, and early in 1816 was appointed Ambassador Extra ordinary to the Emperor of China. The incidents of the voyage and mission are familiar to the public. In 1817, on his return to England, Lord Amherst visited the Emperor Napoleon at the Island of St. Helena, and was honoured with several interviews by that illustrious captive. He subsequently was ap pointed Governor-General of India, and for his ser vices there was in 1826 created Earl Amherst and Viscount Holmesdale. He is succeeded by his only son, William Pitt, Viscount Holmesdale. whose eldest son, Captain Amherst, of the Grenadier Guards, becomes Viscount Holmesdale. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, Marc% 17. BANKRUPTS.—JowN NoRToN, Norwich, corn merchant— JAMES STEEN HARVEY, Birmingham, grocer and oruggist— ',lONlC!. CREASY, and JOHN JACKSON CREASY, Turnhamgrer *, butc ion—JANES CURTIS, Gresham, Norfolk, tailor and drup r THOMAS H mass, Sheffield, scale cutter—THOMAS JOHN CI E WICK, Sheffield, electroplated goo 's manufacturer—Wit.; LM TILBURY, Great Titchtield•strect, Marylebone, brass workt.— WILLIAM SMITH, Nottingham. grocer-141011%8 CHARLES NI D• wIN , and CRESWELL HALL, Blackfriars.road, englneers—TuoNAS SMITH, Nottingham, licensed victualler—JOHN COLEMAN, W verhampton, theatrical bookseller—JAnss Cis trrzaroN, end MOSES CHATTERTON (and not Catterion, as advertise I in last Friday's Gazette). Ilorncastle, Lincolnshire, millers and bakers. SCOTCH bk.:QC ESTRA I lONS.—J. FL Coupar-Angus, inkeeper—C. CRICHTON, Fort William, surgeon—E. SLACK, Glasgow, manufacturing chemist--D. Roosts, Glasgow, lactman COCPLAND, Dumfries, hairdresser. Friday, March 20. BANKRUPTCIES ANN I; LLE D.ALEXANDER SYME, Ton bridge Wells, Kent, stationer—Bs:ma DEritsus, Liverpool, money scrivener. BANKRUPTS.—Joint HERTER, Nottinghamplace, Stepney, draper—GEoßGE GOODWIN, Manchester, woollen merchant— JOHN WRIOOLESWORTH, Halifax, Yorkshire, linendraper—Jowx SAMUEL GRIEVES, Greystoke-place, Fetter lane, printer and publisher—EVAN LEWIS, Llantrissant. Glamorganshire, NM tualler—HENßY I'dAßLow, Walsall, Staffordshire, iron-founder— JOHN WILDING CLARKE, Whittlesea, Cambridge, seed merchant —SAMUEL COULDREY, Flower's•wharf, Limehouse, lime mer chant—WlLLlAM HOWARD Church-street, Bermondsey, timber merchant—GEOßGE CONSTANTIN FRANOHIADA, Gresharmhouse, Old Broad street., merchant—CHAßLES HIGGINS, Salibbllry, brewer—TlLDEN CHRISTMIs. Chatham, coal merchant. SCOTCH SEQUESTHATIONS.—PETER GALLACHER, Glas gow, grocer—ALExysosa MACDONALD, Portree, merchant. BIRTHS. FRASER—On the 18th instant, at Woolwich, the wife of Copt. G. H. Fraser, t+ A., of a son. HAYES—On the Srd of FeLruary, at Luckiww, the wife of Captain Hayes, of a son. MARRIAGES. LLINGS—DICKENS—on the 13th instant, at Paris, Sainne 1 Mußings. Esq., to Mary Ann, daughter of Major Dickens, of Tours. MUNRO—BELL—On the 13th instant, at Southsea Munro, Esq., M.D. ' 93rd Highlanders, to Dora Laidlaw, daughter of the late James Bell, Esq. DEATHS. AMHERST-0u the 19th instant, at linole-park, the Right Hon. the Earl Amherst, aged 84. CRAUSE—On the 15th instant, at Brixton, Major Crause, un attached, aged 67. ERSK I N E—At Brighton, the Hon. Margaret Erskine, datnhter of the late Thomas, Lord Erskine, aged 61. LAPSLIE—On the 17th instant, at Park-lodge, Streatham. William Forster Lapelie, Esq., son of the lat 3 Lieut.-Cobalt/ Lapalie, 39th Regiment, aged SS. LEITH—On the :let of February, at Gibraltar, Lieut. James Wellesley Leith, 92nd Highlanders, aged 22. LF.SLI On the 15th instant, William Loslie, of Warthill, Aberdeenshire, aged 87. MELLADEW —On the 11th instant, in Ledbroke-square, Frances Anne, wife of Thomas Melladew, daughter of the late Admiral Sir Ross Donnelly, K.C.B. TALBOT DE MALATi IDE—On the 13th instant, Anus Suab, Dowager Lady Talbot de lislehide, aged 02. TURNOUR—On the sth instant, et Tatterford Reat‘7.ry, Norfolk, the Bon. and Rev. Adolphus Augustua Tumour. agM 66. WHINYATES—On the 15th instant. si Nortkplaise, cAelimpe him, ReipAdmiral Thomas Wbinyttei, rod 77,