The Press. — London, England, 1856-06-28 00:00:00

JUNE 28, 185 G. England will follow France. Yet are they both equslly engaged to the integrity of constitutional Sardinia; and in this consists the difficulty with which Austria has to contend. It is the only hope of ameliorating the fortunes of Italy by the force of circumstances rather than by the generosity of allies. Count Thun has not succeeded in bringing about a good understanding betwixt the Regency of Parma and General Crenneville. The general demanded the power to arrest any one whom he might please, on suspicion. Upon this many of the chief families, friends of the Government, prepared to retire into the Sardinian territory. An appeal was made to General Radetzky, who decided in favour of General Crenneville; but the Duchess Regent held firm in her support of Prince Soragni. It is re ported that the Count de Montalembert is about to publish a pamphlet on the affairs of Italy, in answer to the speeches of Lord Palmerston and M. de Cavour to their respective Parliaments. A reply to the late observations of Lord Derby in the House of Peers would be more to the purpose, but not so easy to shape. The arguments of M. de Alontalembert are said to lay down as a primary condition the supremacy of the Pope in temporal power, and his spiritual infallibility; in fact, that the error to which, by common consent, the evils of Italy are attributed, is, in Roman truth, and no other, the foundation of her greatness, and ought to be the source of her happiness. Carrara has been placed in a state of siege. Pla cards has been distributed containing praises and vivats in honour of Victor Emanuel, and the Italian tricolor, the colours of Savoy, bad been exhibited in treasonable bouquets. This was sufficient cause for six hundred soldiers to be despatched from Modena to take possession of the town, and to place it under the rigours of military law. At Spezzis., in the Sar dinian territory, the house of a Red-Republican of Faenza was searched by the troops, intelligence having been received that lead to the beliet of Mazzini, or one of his principal agents, being con cealed there. Mazzini has no intention of selling his property in Liguria, and leaving Europe for America. That is merely a blind to cover his pre sent movements. The Capo bandit Lazzarini, who is permitted by Cardinal Antonelli to ravage the legation of Ra venna, lately seized upon the Signor Antonio Rampi, one of the wealthiest inhabitants of Solarolo. He brought him to a neighbouring wood, treated him civilly, and producing pen and paper requested him to draw au order on his "fattore " for 3,000 colon nati. The draft was carried by a peasant into the town, and after a short delay ho brought back 200 napoleons, being all that could be found in the house at the moment. Lazzarini forthwith pro duced a proper stamp "en regle," and took a note of hand for a further remittance. He then, with many compliments, and the offer of a "bicchier di vino di Madera," set Signor Rampi at liberty. There can be no doubt that the order, sooner or later, will be presented for payment, probably through a banker; and that, notwithstanding any protest or appeal to a court of law, the money will have to be paid. Car dinal Antonelli, in remembrance of his father, will not permit an interference with the paternal profes sion, and will hold that the restoration of Signor Rampi to freedom was a proper and valid con sideration. The King of Naples has again returned to his old pastime of political persecution. On Monday, the 9th of June, a special commission was issued for the trial of prisoners accused of having issued pro clamations of Mazzini, and for having in their pos session versions of the speeches of M. Cavour in the Sardinian Chambers. The accused, for the most part, were shopkeepers and persons of resnectability. As the day of trial was known to the counsel and friends of the prisoners, the court was crowded. Secretaries of legation, and others connected with the several embassies, were present, much to the annoyance of the police. An attempt was made to adjourn the proceedings with out success, since no valid reason could be adduced for such a course, and the presence of so many strangers of rank and position made this outrage on justice hazardous. The publicity painfully con founded the Crown lawyers. This fresh out outburst is attributable to the persuasion that Eng land, the only country feared, is bound to inaction. in the ca:e of Italy by the tripartite treaty of the 13th of April. This is advanced generally by the Papal and Neapolitan despotists, and has given a reaction to the Austro-Papal party that will shortly conirnit itself to extreme measures. Certain it is that the vacillating and equivocal conduct of the English Ministry is working infinite mischief. They counsel reform to the potentates of Italy, and when that reform begins to show its existence by popular movement, they call it revolution. C. A. H. THE PRESS. ( foreign anb Colonial 3ntttligtutt. FRANCE. The Emperor of the French leaves Paris for Plombieres, so soon as the bill settling 600,000 f. Rentes upon the heirs of the late Queen of the Belgians, the Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and the heirs of the Duchess of Wurtemburg, and the Modified Tariff Bill, shall have passed the Legisla tive Chambers. The new tariff changes the thirty five per cent, ad valorem duty upon woven cotton, and woollen goods, to spec'fic duties hereafter to be fixed, and for wearing-apparel fixes a duty of forty per cent. ad valorem. Under the head of "Chymical productions not classified," it is declared that products resulting either directly or indirectly from the decom position of salt will pay in addition the duty to which manufactured salts are subjected, in virtue of the decree of the 17th of March, 1852. The new duties thus proposed will, it is thought, appear amply pro tective to those branches of industry which employ the various raw materials taxed. Another bill, relative to the pensions accorded to the great functionaries of the empire, declares that the maximum cannot excebd 20,000 f. a year. The Emperor is said to have expressed his dis satisfaction at the delay that has taken place in the winding-up of the affairs of his new Ambassador to St. Petersburg, M. de Morny. _ . _ Count Orloff has returned to Paris from Mont pellier. The Duke de Nemours is reported to have written a strong letter complaining of the presumption of the Count of Paris, in disavowing the entente cordiale between the Bourbon and Orlean families. A report just made to the Corps Legislatif states that the supplementary credits over and above the budgets Noted, for the years 1854, 1855, and 1850, amount to 1,400,717,2831. 35c. Of this sum 1,229,890,278 f. 6c. were for the war. The remaining 200 millions were for "sundries." It appears that in the three years mentioned seventy-six of the extra millions have been expended "in supplying the deficiency of food, relieving the misery of the popu lations, and multiplying public works." The Uni versal Exhibition of 1855 cost 11,000,000 f. An interview between the Emperor Napoleon and the Emperor of Austria this autumn is rumoured. The Inapendance Beige, speaking of the matter, says : There is no doubt as to the constantly increasing inti macy between the Governments of France and Austria, an intimacy for the attainment of which, we must admit, the Cabinet of the Tuileries seems hitherto to have made more concessions than that of Vienna ; first of all, on the Italian question, and after that about the Danubian principalities. Doubtless in so acting the French Go. vernment is following up some object that is not yet very clearly indicated. AUSTRIA. The conversion of the National Debt into one uniform scrip at five per cent., and the ultimate reduction of the interest from five to four per cent., is said to be under the serious consideration of Baron Bruck at the present moment. The question of the Danubian principalities still greatly occupies the Government. It is confidently reported that the commission will not meet till the evacuation of the principalities is completed. Sardinia and Prussia will be represented in the commission. The reason why Austria is so averse to the union of Moldavia and Wallachia would appear in a late authoritative article in the Augsburg Gazette:— The world does not need the formation of a second and modern Sardinia between the Danube, the Pruth, and the Carpathians. On the 18th the Emperor gave audience to the cardinals and bishops of the empire. The Cardinal Prince Schwartzenberg addressed the Emperor, con gratulating him on the conclusion of the Concordat, and stating that certain additional requests would be brought under his Majesty's notice. The Emperor replied : The glory I aspire to is faithfully to discharge those im portant duties which God has imposed on me. One of the first of my duties is to do all in my power that the Con- cordat may be most exactly realised. Nlhatever you may lay before me in reference to this great work will be grJci ously received and carefully weighed. It will be most agreeable to me to comply with your wishes whenever cir cumstances permit. ( Desideriis vestris, übicunque rerum adjuncts sinant, obsecundare, gratissimum mihi erit.) Count George Esterhazy died at Berlin on the 24th, after a severe illness. The French Ambassador, M. de Bourqucney, was received by the Emperor with great ceremony on the 21st. PRUSSIA. Frince Frederick William, it has been decided, will proceed to Moscow in August, to represent his uncle the King at the Emperor Alexander's coro nation. The King has returned to Berlin from Stuttgardt. RUSSIA. Lord Wodeliouse, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis. ter Plenipotentiary of England, arrived at St. Peters burg on t.lpzi 17t11. A./ -..— Fifty thousand of the Imperial Guard are en march for Moscow, where 10 1,000 additional troops are con verging. The military fetes at the coronation will be on a magnificent scale. The reconstruction of Sebastopol as a mercantile town is designed. The Augsburg Gazette says on this subject : The treaty of Paris only interdicted the re-establishment of maritime arsenals for men-of-war, but, so far as the docks and yards were concerned for mercantile vessels, nothing interdicts their re-establishment; and the works will be restored on a gigantic scale. The Russian Go vernment knows well that, from its position, Sebastopol cannot become a good commercial port, but circumstances compel it to establish such a port there, in order to have dockyards at all. New fortifications on the south will be first constructed, as a complement to those of the north, and then the dockyards, houses, and inhabitants will follow. ITALY. Intelligence from Turiu to the 25th, states that the Austrian General Crenneville had made arrange ments for quitting Parma on the 22nd. The Duchess-Regent, being resolved to support her Minis ter, intended to abolish the state of siege on the anniversary of the birth of Duke Robert. General Broglia, Sardinian Envoy to the Court of Russia. had started for St. Petersburg. At Naples the political trials continued. From the evidence already given it would appear that the accusations are founded only on the inventions of the police. Great excitement reigns throughout Italy, and apprehensions exist of a great revolu tionary movement. At Rome a medal and a congratulatory address, testifying the gratitude of the Romans to Count Cavour for his bebavour at the Paris Congress, has been delivered to the Sardinian Charges d'Affaires, for transmission to Count Cavour. AMERICA. The usual mail, with dates to the 11th, brings no intelligence of any moment. Mr. Buchanan, in his election speech, said : Gentlemen,—Two weeks since I should have made you a longer speech, but now I have been placed upon a plat form which I most heartily approve, and that can speak for me. Being the representative of the great Democratic party, and not simply James Buchanan, I must square my conduct according to the platform of that party, and insert no new plank nor take one from it. That platform is suf• ficiently broad and national for the whole Democratic party. This glorious party now, more than ever, has demonstrated that it is the true Conservative party of the constitution and of the Union. Fighting still continued in Kansas. President Pierce, in a speech at Washington upon the nomination of Mr. Buchanan, had said:— It is cheering t) know that the action of the late conven tion places the statesmen and patriots who are to lead us now upon the identical platform which I accepted, with full conviction of my judgment and with every senti ment of my heart, and that they are to occupy it with the standard lowered never an inch, so far as the strict construction of the constitution and the vindication of the constitutional rights of every portion of the Union are concerned. INDIA AND CHINA. The usual telegraph from Trieste announces the arrival of mails with advices from Calcutta to May 17 ; Bombay, ;27 ; Hong-Kong, 10; Shanghai, 2 ; Manilla, 0. Public works in India are stopped. The Santhals are again quiet. An insurrection is on foot. There is war at Vizagapatam. The King of Onde has arrived at Calcutta. &art no 13541011. The Queen held a Privy Council and Court at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday afternoon. The Privy Council was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Viscount Palmerston, and the principal Ministers. Mr. Arthur Magenis, the Hon. Duncan Bligh, and Mr. Crampton were presented to her Majesty by the Earl of Clarendon. Her Majesty held a levee on Wednesday at St. James's Palace. The following presentations to the Queen were made by the foreign Ministers :—By the Sardinian Minister Count d'Aglie and Baron Perrone ; by the Greek Minister—Monsieur D. Haziskos ; and by the Prussian Minister—M. le Baron de Rosenberg and Baron Romberg. The diplomatic circle was fully attended, with the excep tion of the United States Minister. Her Majesty held an investiture of the Order of the Bath on Saturday last. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, and tatende4 by a numerous suite, honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminister with her presence at Grosvenor - house on Thursday evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princes Mary, and Prince Oscar of Sweden, with the corps diploma. tique and a brilliant company, were eseetAlged tg meet tier Majesty. A