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

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Subscribers are requested to send their Orders throughtheir News Agent; if direct to the Office. accompanied by a remit tance. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittauce Money Orders to be made payable to lir. ALrazo Strand London. - T;tx 21-;_ Tog. LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1856. POSTSCRIPT. A letter in the Nuremberg Correspondext says : It is not unlisely that the proFosed interview between the Emperor Napoleon and the Emperor of Austria will take place next month. The interview, however, is not to take place at Edenkoben (the ilia of the King of Bava ria), but at some other place, whither the various Sove reigns of Southern Germany will also repair. The Grand Vizir, Aali Bache, left Vienna on the 22nd for Trieste, where he embarked for Constanti nlple. On the 20th he dined with the Emperor at Luxembourg, and Count de Buol paid him a visit before his departure. The heads of the two Cabinets, the Augsburg Ga zette says, are perfectly in accord on the question of the principalities, and adds:— • It is positively stated that the Emperor will go to Trieste about the end of this month, and thence by Venice into the Lombardo-Venetian provinces. It is thought that his Majesty intends to have himself crowned at Aldan, to extend on that occasion the amnesty which has been granted, and to open personally the central congrega tions. Extensive military nituimuvres are also talked of as likely to take place between Milan, Como, and Varese. A letter from Milan, dated the :Ist instant, says : Au unusual movement of troops is ♦isible in Lom bardy. General Count °inlay who was on the eve of his departure for Carlsbad, has been ordered to remain at his post. A letter from Vienna, in Votis Gazette, says Although no definite result has been come to respecting the question of the union of the two principalities, several other points of importance have been arranged. It has been decided, in the first place, that the tribute paid by the principalities to the Forte shall not be augmented. The second point settled concerns the organic rules that have been the primary cause of so many abuses. The Powers have recognised the necessity of a radical revision at these rules. A third point concerns the consular estab lishments. With respect to the question of rendering the rule of the Hoepudars hereditary, it is hoped that the negotiations now pending will Lave a satisfactory result. A despatch from St. Petersburg, June 23, states : An Imperial ukase of the 16th announces the revision of the Customs tariff of 1550. The duty on coffee im ported by sea is reduced to seventy copecks per pound (about four centimes per twenty kilogrammes). A telegraphic despatch from Trieste states that Redschid Pacha arrived at Alexandria on the 19th from Constantinorle. The occurcnce which took place at her Majesty's levie on Wednesday, with reference to Mr. Dallas, the American Minister, and his countryman who presented himself in a black stock and frock-coat, and was refused admittance by Sir Edmund Cust, the Master of the Ceremonies, has, we believe, been saiisfactorily arranged. The Post of yesterday says, "We have now reason to believe that the United States Minister lost no time in offering apologetic explanations, and that these have been accepted." The Daily A nus also stated that her Majesty, so soon as she heard of the occurrence, ordered Mr. Dallas's countryman to be admitted. The fourth annual report of the directors of the Crystal Palace Company is published, and will be presented at the general meeting on Monday. The Mort is of some length, but the following sits its Pfig. principal points :—The management of the exhi bition department has been made apart of the duties of the general manager; the salaries of the secretary, the accountant, and treasurer, and the superinten dents of the interior and exterior gardens, have been reduced by about one-third of their previous amounts ; and by these and other arrangements the fixed working expenses of the establishment will in the current. year be reduced by about 5,000/. The experience of the later concerts has shown that the money paid for admission at the doors is sufficient to pay the current expenses of each concert. The capital account shows that the ulti mate expenditure will amount to 1,355,5961. 12s. 2d., of which there has been raised and paid 1,225,1811. Bs., leaving to be provided 130.4151. 4s. 2d.; but of this the net sum payable on land (39,0391. 19s. Bd.) is deferred by the existing arrangement until the year 1850. If this be deducted, there will remain 91,3751. 4s. 6d. to be raised at present, to meet which the existing borrowing powers of the company are amply sufficient. These powers are as follow : Balance of debentures authorised but not yet issued, 73,7611 las.; further issue of debentures, fur which a resolution will be submitted to the meeting, 33,3331. Os. 81, extending to the amount of 107,0001. The directors do not recommend that any immediate formal declaration of dividend on the original capital should be made, but that it should be left to the directors to declare a dividend of 2s. per share on the original shares, as soon as they can see their way to making the payment from the above sources. The season tickets for the current season sold up to the present time under the three classes, would be as follows :—Twa-guinea season tickets, admitting on all occasions, 4,836 ; one guinea season tickets, ad nutting on all occasions except the concerts, 13,351; two-guinea transferable tickets, admitting to the con certs and flower-shows only, 666—in all 18,853, re presenting 25,572/. The West-ecd railway will open from the Crystal Palace to Clapham in the month of August, and the whole line, to the Sloane-street sLtion, will be completed next summer. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. FACTORIES-POLICE. The Factories Bill, and the Police (Counties and Boroughs) Bill, were respectively read a third time and passed. OATH OF ABJURATION. The house having gone into committee on the Oath of Abjuration Bill, Lord LYNDHURST criticised the measure, which be declared imi osed a practicallytnovel oath. The learned lord intimated his intention of moving the !omission of the whole latter portion of the proposed oath, in cluding the words " on the true faith of a Christian." The Earl of Dxsav denied that he had formu larised a new oath in his bill, or created any new disqualifications against the Jews. He had but ex punged from the existing Oath of Abjuration those passages which, by the lapse of time, bad been ren dered obsolete and unmeaning. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH recommended the withdrawal of the bill, which he considered likely to provoke a collision with the House of Commons .vi a question whereon the two branches of Legislature notoriously differed in opinion. The bill was passed through committee, Lord Lynd hurst reserving the discussion of his amendment until tho measure was brought up for third reading. The Sardinian Loan Bill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships adjourned at eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--FRIDAY. _ 'THE AMERICAN QUESTION. In reply to Mr. Moore, - Lord PALMERSTON refused to name a day for the discussion of the controversy which had arisen with the United States on the enlistment question. Under the existing position of the relationship between the two cow' . ..ries, he considered any debate on the sub ject ine .pedient, and would do nothing to facilitate such a proceeding. Later in the evening Mr. MOORE reverted t 3 the subject, and declared his resolve to bring it forward on tho earliest opportunity afforded by the course of discussion iu this house. APPELLATE JURISDICTION. On the motion that this house on rising should adjourn until Monday, Mr. CURRIE urged inquiries touching the course which the Government intended to pursue with regard to .the Appelate Jurisdiction Bill, lately brought down from the Upper House. Lord PALMERSTON promised to bring the measure forward for second reading on the earliest available dad•. CHL'ItCH RATES. Sir W. CLAY inquired whether the Government would give any facilities for the progress of the Church Rate Abolition Bill. The CHANCTLLOR of the EXCULQLT.R stated that in the wasting statelof business he did not see any possibility of making a night for the bill, which, he added, the Government had never adopted. Sir W. CLAY thereupon announced his intention to abandon the measure for the present session. THE NATIONAL GALLERY. On the motion for going into Committee of Supply, Lord ELCHO moved an address to the Crown, praying for the appointment of a select committee to determine the site for the new National Gallery, and to report on the desirableness of combining with it the Fine Art and Archaeological collections in the British Museum, in accordance with the recom mendation of the Select Committee on the National Gallery in 1853. Mr. MONCETON MILNES believed that the subject had undergone ample examination, and advocated the plan introduced into the bill already before the house, as combining in the greatest attain a bl e d e gree all the objects which it was desired to secure in the site for the new National Gallery. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER also defended the bill. He argued, first, that it was expedient to remove the national collection of pictures from Trafalgar-square ; secondly, that pictures should be placed somewhat beyond the range of metropolitan smoke and dust; and thirdly, that the proposed site at Kensington Gore was in all respects the best that could be selected. The ground at the disposal of the nation was, he observed, ample in extent, and b a d been bought very cheap. The bill now brought in would, moreover, in no degree pledge the house as to the plan or the cost of the edifice which was to be erected in the chosen locality. Enteiing at large into the question of art-collections and their disposal, as forming an item of public property, Sir G. C. Lewis announced the gilt by the Earl of Ellesmere, of the celebrated picture known as the " Chandos Shakespeare," as a first contribu tion to the National Portrait Gallery. If the house empowered the Government to proceed with the plans for the new gallery, it was, he added, their intention to throw open the competition for the structure to the artists of all nations. Mr. TrrE enforced the necessity of delay. Mr. LABOUCHERE supported the propositions em bodied in the Government bill. Mr. SPOONER strongly objected to the locality at Kensington, and demanded some more definite in formation! as to the plan for the proposed gallery, before he could assent to the expenditure of public money on the scheme. Lord J. Russets. thought that, after the subject had undergone investigation, more or less prolonged by thirteen committees and commissions, there bad been quite inquiry enough. Comparing the various sites which had been suggested lid found cause for preferring Kensington Gore beyond the rest of the numerous series. Mr. HARCOL - RT VERNON supported the motion for appointing a commission. Mr. DISRAELI said that by universal consent it was agreed that a new National Gallery was neces sary. It was also necessary to find a new site, the present locality being much too restricted in space and subject besides to otber objections. In search of such a site minute and prolonged perquisitions had been made, and the result was to show that no position could be discovered so eligible as that at Kensington. All other localities were either incon venient in themselves, attainable only at an enor mous cost, or involving the destruction of some royal palace, and the appropriation of a public park. Mr. Disraeli proceeded to contend that the proposed Kensington site was good for the purpose of a National Gallery, and that, at all events, it was im possible to find a better. He dilated on the im portance of furnishing galleries of art and schools of design, for the improvement of public taste, and called on the house to exercise a wise liberality in accomplishing that object. Lord PALMERSTON contended that the present building should be given up to the Royal Academy, for whose purposes it was not too large, while for the national collection of works of art, be arrived by an exhaustive process of reasoning, at the conclusion that not one of the many suggested sites offered so appropriate and convenient a locality as that at Ken sington Gore. The practical alternative, as the noble lord insisted, was reduce' to the choice between transferring the National Gallery to the proposed spot, or retain it where it was. Mr. Loci supported the motion, and after a few words of explanation from Lord ELcao, the house divided. For going into Committee of Supply, 145. For the amendment, 153-8. The address was then put and agreed to. Supply being postponed by Lord PALMERSTON until Monday, the other orders of the day were pro ceeded with. The Exchequer-bills (4,000,0001.) Bill went through committee. The Scotch and Irish Removal Bili, and the Juvenile Offenders (Ireland) Bill, and the Education (Scotland) Bill, were withdrawn for the session. The Parochial Schools kScutlitu4l) Bill went through committee. The house adjourned et a quarter to two. 111