The Press. — London, England, 1856-05-31 00:00:00

II.'" MAY 31, 1856. Austria, which in the most trying and dangerous times of external and internal confusion found means to retain possession of p erfe ct ly Ilian Cown lands, has the conscious n e s t i of being wel l . able to defend both her terri tory and the position which is hers by right of treaty against any attack. The power of Austria is based on her internal strength and on European treaties, which are recognised and respected by all the powers. As to the polic cqu y o ired f the Rust trian empire, it is based on a respect for a ll a ri. T r ue to its " principle "—regard for the independence of all sovereignties—the Imperial Royal Government can never recognise the right which is claimed by the Sardinian Court to speak in the name of Italy. Although regarding t hings from a point of view entirely different, we cannot but agree with the opinion expressed by that Minister, that duties,n the there eption is an of international relations, rights, and impassable gulf between Austria and the present Sardinian Cabinet. Wh ere ver Austria has intervened in Italy she has done so in the most disinterested manner; she has intervened at the request of the different sovereigns ; and, as soon as one or other of them has declared his ability to maintain public peace and order without foreign assistance, the Im perial forces have been withdrawn from his territories. Prudent and judicious reforms, freely emanating from the respective sovereigns, may conduce to the wished-for peace and quiet of the Italian States; and the Imperial Govern ment has never failed to give its advice in that direction, though always with that consideration which is due to the dignity and independence of foreign States. Austria is ready to give her approval to all advantageous changes which may emanate from the free and enlightened will of the ludian Governments, and she wishes nothing more earnestly than that the time may soon come when the Italian Sovereigns, to whom she has afforded her dia. interested support against the revolution and its agents, may be able to dispense with the assistance of the Austrian troops; but she will firmly repel any unjustifiable attack which may be made on those Italian States that are allied to her, and will do all in her power to counteract the ma chinations of the anarchists, and to prevent revolutionary agitation. The brilliant reception the Archduke Ferdinand has met with at Paris is said to give considerable satisfaction to tt:e Court of Vienna. The Archduke, it is rumoured, is the bearer of the expressed wish of the Emperor Francis Joseph to meet the French Emperor. Munich is mentioned as the city where the interview will take place in the autumn. A new Austrian loan is rumoured on 'Change at Vienna. PRUSSIA. The Emperor Alexander arrived at Berlin on Thursday evening, attended by Prince Gortschakoff and a numerous suite. The Empress-Mother of Russia arrived on the 25th. The Emperor of Russia's stay will, it is believed, be brief. The interference of the Prince of Prussia against the new Rhenish Communal Law has caused some excitement in Berlin. It is believ,d that the Go vernment will ultimately modify the law. On the reassembling of the Chambers it is said various projects connec:ed with commercial policy, the institution of a new import tariff, &c., will be proposed by Government. The Triennial census taken in Prussia in the month of December, 1855, has given the following results :—Civil population, 16.990,282 souls; military, 211,741 ; making a total of 17,202,013. The census of 1852 gave a total population of 16,935,420; the in enase has, therefore, been 266,593, or 1.57 per cent. on the population of 1852. i his increase is less con s derable than it was from 1849 to 1852, when it was 537,572, or 3.30 per cent. RUSSIA. The Emperor Alexander reached Warsaw from St. Petersburg about 11 p.m. on the 22nd. His re ception by the inhabitants was very warm. On alighting at the Belvedere Palace his Majesty was received, among others, by General Grey, charged by Queen Victoria with her acknowledgment of the Emperor's notification of his accession to the throne. The next day his Majesty reviewed the troops and gave audience to the nobles and officers of state. In his reply to their congratulation the Emperor is reported to have observed : My line of conduct towards your country is—absolute forgetfulness of the past. I am content with the Poles, not merely because, in spite of revolutions and wars in which all Europe has been entangled, they have not for g men their duties to their sovereign and to themselves, but still more because those of them who have fought in the ranks of my soldiers have displayed a bravery and fidelity which have been proof egainat all temptation. I have them all in my heart, and shall not cease to love the Poles as my own children. Tell this, messieurs, I pray you, to your fellow-country men ; but tell them also that the time for idle dreams is at an end. No more of reveries. Gentlemen : I wish Poland to be happy, and she can only be so by her anion with Russia. A new loan, it is confidently stated at Hamburg, will very shortly be concluded. The loan, it is said, will amount to a hundred millions of silver roubles —equal to nearly fifteen millions sterling. The in terest is fixed at four per cent., and a portion of the bonds will be redeemed every year by means of a sinking fund formed by an additional one per cent. reserved annually, with which will be combined a number of money prizes, as in a lottery. THE PRESS The object of the loan is principally for the con struction of railroads in the interior of Russia, and partly for the indemnification to be paid to Denmark for giving up the Sound dues; although it is whis pered that a considerable part of it will be placed at the disposal of Admiral the Grand Duke Constan tine, for the purpose of converting the whole Russian navy into screw -steamers, as befitting the requirements of the present day. The receipts from the customs are, it is affirmed, to be given as security to the contractors, and the interest and sink ing fund of the new loan to be charged on this branch of the revenue of Russia. Baron Steighlitz, charged to negotiate this loan, has failed at Paris, and has summoned the leading German bankers to a conference at Berlin. Herr Oppenheim has already started for St Petersburg to confer personally with the Ministers there. TURKEY. Fresh disturbances in Roumelia have taken place between the Christiana and Mussulinans, and at Jerusalem an attempt at revolt had been suppressed with severity. The Prase d'Orient announces that four Christians and an Israelite have been appointed members of the Council of the Empire. Letters from Constantinople of the 15th say that M. Thouvenel, the French Ambassador, and Lord Statford de Redcliffe, the representative of England, had, in conjunction with Fuad Pacha, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, signed a convention for prolonging the departure of the Anglo-French forces for six months, dating back from the 30th of March, as it was found impossible for the evacuation to be completed so early as was originally stipulated by treaty. From Moldavia we learn that of 17,000 more Tar tars about to emigrate to the Dobrudscha 9,000 were to be employed on the lateral canal of the Danube, and many were expected to enter the Turkish army. The Circassian deputation is about to return, the Divan having refused to recognise their nationality in consequence of the treaty or Paris. The General Divan of Moldavia closed its session on the 24th inst. It offered its congratulations to Prince Ghika, upon his having demanded of the Con gress of Paris the union of the principalities of Wal• lachia and Moldavia. This man►festation of opinion had occasioned great satisfaction at Jassy. ITALY. M. Manin has addressed from Paris two letters to the Turin papers denouncing the doctrine of " poli tical assassination," and calling upon the national party to give their co-operation to the Piedmontese Government, in event of its entering upon the way which conducts to the common end, " the inde pendence and unity of Italy." - - A feeling that the permanent settlement of the Italian question could not possibly be arrived at without an appeal to arms is becoming general throughout Italy. The Austrian organ, the Corriere Italian°, predicts for Piedmont a repetition of the reverses of '4S ; - - . The days ( it observes) of Davids and prodigies are pas.. Children cannot overthrow grown men, bat the most robust man. wearied by the continued vex 'dons and mo lestations of the weak, may forget the usages of generosity, and be induced to inflict on the petulant boy such a cor• rection as he will remember for a long time. The Berlin Cabinet is reported to have authorised its Minister at Turin to state that Prussia will pre serve a strict neutrality on the Italian question. Arrests still continue at Parma, and " torture" is said to be practised upon the unhappy prisoners to extract from them the details of the conspiracy sup posed to exist. Marshal Radetzky is concentrating his troops at Somnia. AMERICA. Intelligence from Washington to the 15th has arrived. In the Senate, on the 14th, Mr. Clayton had declared that the statement made by Mr. Crampton in his letters to Lord Clarendon, March 31, 1850, that before the Clayton Bulwer Treaty of 1850 was signed, Mr. Clayton was informed that Ruatan was de jure and de facto a British possession, was utterly untrue in every particular. Mr. Crittenden corro borated Mr. Clayton's statement. Mr. Clayton's denial of Mr. Crampton's allegation made a great sensation in the Senate. A despatch from Washington, of the 15th inst., states that Secretary Marcy sent for M. Marcoletta, the Minister from Nicaragua, and informed him of the determination of the Administration to reseive the Padre Vizil as the Minister from the new Go vernment of Nicaragua. M. Marcoletta complained of it as violating the laws of God and of nations, entering his solemn protest against the proceeding, and informing Mr. Marcy that he should prepare an expose of all the facts, to be communicated by him to the members of the diplomatic corps. Another despatch send a message to' the recognition giving his reasons . A messenger from _ reported that Colonel Schlesinger had been recap tured, and would be shot. INDIA AND AUSTRALIA. Intelligence from India up to the 28th April con tains little but news of another outburst among the Moplahs on the coast of Malabar. The tribes num ber about 70,000. Troops had been ordered up to suppress the revolt. In Burmah all was quiet. The King of Oude and Ali Moorad, chief of Khyrpore, were both en route for England to claim redress for their deposition. The King had reached Benares. General Sir James Outram, from ill health, was about to start on six months' leave of absence. Letters from Melbourne to the 4th March state that the diggings continue to yield an average of 00,000 ozs. a week. 511 itch states that the President would to Congress on the lath, announcing of the Walker Government, and is for that step. from Nicaragua arrived at Aspinwall FOREIGN MISCELLANEA. GENERAL WILLIAMS, it appears, was warmly re ceived in St. Petersburg, and made quite a lion of. A letter in the Indipendance Belie alludes to the circumstance, and the writer would seem to be amazed at the attention paid to the gallant general : A brave and valiant Russian warrior like General Williams (says the writer) would doubtless be well re ceived in England, but we may be permitted to doubt whether the first ladies of the English aristocracy would hasten, as I observed ours do at the Princess Youssowpotcs ball the other night, to present themselves to the stranger, in order that he might feel as much at home as possible, and receive the tribute which was his due. THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE BAPTISM OF THE FRENCH IMPERIAL PRINCE IN NOTRE DA NE are proceeding rapidly. The ceremony is fixed for the 14th of June. The church will be richly redecorated for the occasion. The Emperor, Empress, and the Imperial Family will be seated in the centre of the church. The altar will be placed at the extreme of the choir, and the vase of St. Louis used to hold the water. The diplomatic corps, Senate, and all the officers of State will be present on the occasion. COUNT ORLOFF, who is about to leave Paris On his return to St. Petersburg, has been presented by the Emperor Napoleon with a diamond cross of the Legion of Honour, an unusual mark of favour. A JOURNAL similar to the Nord of Brussrls it is said will be shortly established in London by the Russian Government. THE KING OF NAPLES, it is said, when lately granting an audience to some newly-appointed " In tendants," remarked to them that of course they had seen the Minister of the Interior : I know (continued his Majesty) that Bianchini has ad vised you to be mild and just, but you must recollect that, although Bianchini is a good man, he knows nothing about the Administration, and that you ate called to govern a country which is only to he ruled by the slick. The " Intendants" made a bow and departed for their provinces with the firm resolution to carry into effect the policy suggested by their Sovere gn. THE VISIT OF THE EMPRESS DOWAGER OF RUSSIA TO BERLIN has of course recalled malty anecdotes connected with her early life. A letter from Berlin gives the following account of the young princess's engagement to the Grand Duke Nicholas in 1816. The Princess Charlotte was given to understand by her parents that if the Grand Duke (luring his stay at Berlin should take a fancy to her they would have no obje 'Lion to her returning the penchant : The time originally fixed for the expiration of the Grand Duke's stay had come, and he was seated at slipper on his last evening next to the Princess Charlotte, when he abruptly told her that he must leave Berlin the next day. He hoped to surprise her into some demonstration of feel ing on the occasion, but her maidenly pride withheld her from making more than some ver, say-nothing remark in acknowledgment. The Grand Duke thereupon soon assumed another plan of operations; knowing that., how- ever little the eyes of the company might he actually fixed on him and his feir neighbour, they were, nevertheless, the ol ject of general observation, he commenced telling her, but in an apparently unembarrassed manner, and playing with a ring of his the while, that he had devoted himself during his short stay there to making himself ac• quainted with her character and disposition, &c., and that he had found in her every quality that he believed best calculated to make him happy in wedded life, &a.; but, as they two were at that moment the object of scrutiny to many present, he would not press her for any reply to his overtures, but if it were agreeable to her that he should prolong his stay at her father's court, she would, perhaps, have the goodness to take up the ring he had in his hand. This ring I.e then, apparently while playing with the two objects, thrust into the roll of bread lying on the table before him, and went on, seemingly in all sangfroid, with his supper. With an equal appearance of unconcern, the Princess presently put out her hand, and took up the roll, as if mistaking it for her own bread, and, unnoticed by the company, withdrew the ring, and put it on her own band. The rest requires no narration.