The Press. — London, England, 1855-08-18 00:00:00

AUG. 18, 1855. movement made by the Turkish troops. Two mem bers of the Moldavian Ministry had arrived on a special mission to the Sultan. All the disposable troops in Asia are concentrating in Erzeroum. A battle was shortly expected. 1. RUSSIA. A letter from Lemberg, in the Cologne Gazette, says : According to accounts from Southern Russia, the com missariat department has declared that it is impossible to feed a greater number of men than are now in the Crimea, estimated at 250,000 men, and that it has conse quently been resolved to send no more reinforcements there. Great efforts are, however, being made to stock the storehouses with provisions and ammunition sufficient to last through the winter. And in order to keep up the armies in the Crimea at their present strength troops have been stationed in the Governments of Bessarabia and Cherson in such a manner as to be able to proceed rapidly to the Crimea, or, if required, to effect a concen tration. Prince Paskiewitch, who had already authorised the free exportation of Russian corn into Austria, has just given similar permission for exportation into I'russia by the frontier town of Granica. UNIT ED STATES. Advices from New York to the evening of the 2nd have been received by the mail steamer Canada. The intelligence from the States is of very little importance. In New York it was rumoured that the cashier of a Wall-street bank, who is also an officer in the finance department of the city government, is a defauiter to a considerable amount, variously estimated at from 25,000 to 100,000 dollars. The particulars have not transpired. By telegraphic accounts it appears that yellow fever prevails in the seaports of Virginia, and also that Asiatic cholera has made its appearance in Port land and in Middleton, on the opposite side of the Connecticut River. Advices from the Salt Lake, or Mormon territory, give a melancholy view of the condition and future prospects of the inhabitants. The grasshoppers were destroying the crops to an alarming extent, causing the people to feel greatly discouraged. The nearest point from which they can procure supplies is San Barnarding, 800 miles distant. It is feared there will be a great deal of suffering this winter, as the emigration from the East, already on the road to the Lake, is very large. WEST INDIES. A West India mail has arrived, with dates from Jamaica of July '27 ; Trinidad, July 24 ; Barbadoes, July 28 ; Antigua, July 28 ; and St. Thomas, Aug. 1. The political news is of little moment. The Gover nor of Jamaica (Sir H. Barkly) was said by a local paper to be very unpopular, and intended shortly to leave the colony for England. A good deal of sick ness prevailed in the island, consisting principally of fevers. Trade was exceedingly dull in all its depart ments. Agricultural operations also wore a gloomy aspect. Several estates had been offered for sale, but few purchasers could be found, and those that were disposed of went at almost ruinous and in credible prices. The accounts from the mining dis tricts were very satisfactory. INDIA AND CHINA. An overland mail has arrived with dates from Cal cutta to July 4, and Bombay July 11. The fortnight's summary of Indian news is thus given in the Bombay Time. of the 10th ult.:— We have not during the last fortnight heard of any strife or contention, war, or rumour of war, from any part of India, and the ploughshare and pruning hook for the pre sent take the place of the sword and spear. Money is getting plentiful; the Four per Cent Loan, which fell to fifteen discount when the Five was issued, has now risen to seven discount, and it is believed that, had Government been able to wait to the present time, they would have got all the money they wanted at the lower rate of interest, without requiring to open a five per cent, loan at all. Since the despatch of last mail, up to within four days of the departure of the present one, has been a pericd of almost uninterrupted storm. The weather, unpleasant as it was to the European, has been most favorable for the country, moisture having been supplied just in the proper quantity and at the proper time, while the fine open showery weather at present prevailing permits the trans planting of rice to go on with the utmost vigour, and we await the last week of July and first fortnight of August, with the showers of September, to complete our usual seventy inches. The rumours of an expedition into Central Persia have on one side gained body and form amongst us, so that the names and numbers of the corps forming the army of Bagdad next cold season have been published, while the idea of anything of the sort has on the other side been flatly contradicted or loudly ridiculed. A native in Calcutta, a son of the celebrated Dwarka nauth 'T„ gore, is, it is said, to be raised to the bench of the Sudder Adawlut, or Company's Supreme Court, by far the most elevated position ever yet obtained by any but an Englishman under Government, and byl all we can learn he is likely to do honour to his high office, and this will form the commencement of a new era in our Indian judi cial administration. IlliThe Governor-General continues on the Neilgherries, and is understood to be improving iA Atli, loogl Har• THE PRESS. ris is at the seat of government, and Lord Elphinstone at Poona. Trade is dull, and freights are low at the presi dency, but as money gets abundant speculation begins to awaken, and the two cotton-spinning companies and two paper-manufacturing companies projected last autumn are calling up their deposits. The buildings of the first pro. jected cotton•mill are already twenty feet above ground, and look spacious and magnificent. Ceylon advices of the 11 th ult. state that a loan of 900,0001. is to be raised, at a guaranteed interest by the colony of six per cent. for twenty-five years, and renewable; 800,000/. being for the construction of a railway, and 100,0001. for works beneficial to the native community. The guarantee is to be raised by a duty upon exports. A suggestion has been thrown out by some capi talists of Manchester for the establishment of a cotton growing colony in the large and fertile island of New Guinea. THE TURKISH LOAN. THE Turkish Loan Bill having received on Tuesday the Royal assent, a meeting wee held ;text day at the Ottoman Embassy in Bryanstone-square, at which the conditions of the new loan were duly promulgated. A large number of City capitalists and bankers had been invited to this gathering, and among those who attended were Sir Alexander Spearman, who repre sented the English Government; M. Bandin, First Secretary to the French Legation, representing his Goverment; the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England, Barons Meyer and Lionel Rothschild, Sir J. L. Goldsmid, Messrs. T. Capel, M. Uzielli, Mullens, Charles Myer, Bischoffsheim, Fresh field, Cohen, &c. The conditions of the loan were then announced' by M. Musurus, the Turkish Ambassador, as follows : 1. The loan to be for five millions sterling. 2. The interest to be at four per cent. per annum, pay able in equal moities, half-yearly, on the Ist of February and the Ist of August in every year, until the capital is redeemed ; the first payment to become due on the Ist of February, 1856. 3. In addition to the interest of four per cent., a sink ing fund of one per cent. per annum, together with the interest on so much of the loan as shall from time to time be redeemed, will be applied in redemption of the capital. 4. The interest and sinking fund are made a charge on the whole revenues of the Ottoman empire, and spe cially on the annual amount of the tribute of Egypt which remains over and above the part thereof already appro priated to the loan of 3,000,00 W. negotiated on the 24th August, 1854, and, moreover, on the Customs of Smyrna and Syria. 5. The due and regular payment of the interest is gua ranteed by England and Franca, under the authority of the acts passed by the Legislatures of the two countries. 6. The days of payment and the proportion of the con tributions to be paid are as follow : On or before 22nd Angola lO per cent.. 12tb September 26th October 2O „ IS 23rd November If 14th December • Ist January, 185 d lO • • 25th , No discount will be allowed for any payment in anti- cipation. 7. All such payments are to be made to the Bank of England, and scrip receipts will be delivered by the Bank to the subscribers, to be exchanged against certificates, with coupons for the interest, when the whole instalments are paid in full. 8. The interest, as it becomes due, will be paid at the Bank of England. 9. The sinking fund will be applied from year to year, commencing on the Ist of August, 18;i9, either in the purchase of certificates of the loan in the public market, or, at the option of the Ottoman Government, in paying off at par such certificates as shall be drawn by lot in the presence of the chief cashier and chief accountant of the Bank of England, on some one day in the month of May next immediately preceding the Ist of August in each year, and public notice of the numbers of the certificates so drawn will be given in the London Gazelle, and in some newspapers circulating in London and in Paris. The interest on the certificates so drawn, together with the capital, will be payable on the Ist of August next fol- lowing such drawing, after which day all interest on the certificates so drawn will cease altogether. . . . 10. Parties subscribing for such low" must enter into contract with the Ottoman Minister for payment of the deposit and of the several instalments. 11. In case of failure of payment of any instalment at the time appointed for that purpose, the deposit and all prior instalments shall be forfeited for the service of the Ottoman Government 12. The Ottoman Government shall have a right to redeem at par the amount of the certificates then remain ing unredeemed at the expiration of twenty yeara from the let of August, 1859. The Ottoman Minister will be prepared to receive tenders on the foregoing conditions for the loan at the Bank of England, where such tenders must be presented at eleven o'clock precisely on Monday the 20th day of August. Very little discussion took place upon the above conditions, but in answer to an inquiry the Turkish Minister stated that the tenders for the loan must be all in one sum. In answer to further queries Sir Alexander Spearman stated that the Bonds would be got ready as speedily as possible. The general im pression appeared to be that it would be about three limas Were they could be got ready for delivery. gout ant lastion. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO FRANCE. ACCORDING to the arrangements for this visit the Queen wag to embark in the Royal y ac ht a t O s b orne yesterday (Friday) evening, and start thence this morning about six o'clock, or in time to arrive at Boulogne at about half-past one o'clock. The dis tance is about 110 knots. The passage is expected to occupy about seven hours. Allowing the Royal yacht to run the distance in the given time, she will be at Boulogne just in time to get into the harbour with the first rise of the tide. Preparations for her Majesty's reception at Boulogne, and elsewhere on the route to Paris, have been actively making. The town autho rities of Boulogne are having constructed a triumphal arch opposite the Customhouse, where the landing will take place. The Northern Railway Company is erecting another at the terminus. The terminus of Boulogne will rival in decoration that of Strasburg. Ornaments for it have been sent off from Paris several times a day. The Emperor was to leave Paris on Friday at one o'clock for Boulogne, to re ceive Queen Victoria. Their Majesties will leave Boulogne early in the afternoon of to-day. It is thought that there will be a short stop at Amiens, and that the principal authorities will be admitted to Qresent their homage to the illustrious party. The ueen will make her entrance into Paris about six o'clock in the evening, and will proceed from the Strasburg terminus to the Palace of St. Cloud. The following is the route of the royal cortege :—Boule vard de Strasbourg, the Boulevards from the Porte St. Denis to the Madeleine, the Rue Royale, the Place de la Concorde, the Champs Elysees, the Avenue de l'lmperatrice, the Bois de Boulogne, and the Pont de St. Cloud. A quantity of splendid fruit has been despatched to the imperial palaces in Paris and its vicinity from Southampton, vitt Havre, for the use of the Em peror's royal visitors. The Marchioness of Ely will be the Lady-in waiting in attendance upon her Majesty during the approaching royal visit tc the French Court. The following programme has been published of the arrangements made for each day's proceedings during this brief but memorable visit : SATURDAY, 18.—Progress through Paris and arrival at St. Cloud, as already announced in the 3fonileur. SUNDAY, 19.—Rest. At 6—Dinner en famine. At half past nine—Concert of the Conservatoire de Musique (sacred music). MONDAY, 20.—At 9—Breakfast at St. Cloud. At half past 10—Start in carriages for Paris. At 11—Visit to the Exposition of Fine Arts. At 2—Lunch at the Elyeee. At half•past 2—Reception to the Corps Diplomatique. At 3—Visit to the Sainte Chapelle and drive on the Boule- vards. At half past s—Return to St. Cloud. At 6—Rest. At B—Dinner of 00 covers. At 9—Theatricals at St. Cloud. Representation of the Theatre FlSticSiS. TUESDAY, 21.—At 9—Breakfast at St. Cloud. At half past 10—Start for Versailles. At 2—Lunch at Trianon. At half-past 3—Return to St. Cloud. At balf•past 4 Rest. At half-past 6—Dinner en female. At half-past 7 Start from St. Cloud. At $--Visit to the Grand Opera. WEDNESDAY, 22.—Breakfast at St. Cloud. At hslf-past 10—Start for Paris. At ll—Visit to the Universal Exhi bition. At 2—Lunch at the Tuileries. At half-past 4 Return to St. Cloud. At s—Rest. At S—Dinner of 60 covers at St. Cloud. At ti—Theatricals at St. Cloud by the artistes of the Theatre Ida Gymnase (Le ills de famille). THURSDAY, 28.—At 9.—Breakfast at St. Cloud At half-past 10—Visit of Prince Albert (alone) to the Exhibi tion. At half-past I—The Queen to start for Paris. At 2—Lunch at the Tuileries. At half-past 2—Visit to the Picture Galleries of the Louvre. At s—Rest. At 7 Dinner en 'milk at the Tuileries. At 9—Grand ball at the Hotel de Ville. FRIDAY, 24.—At 2—Breakfast at St. Cloud. At 11— Start for Paris. At half-past 11—Grand review in the Champ de Mars. At 2—Lunch at the Ecole Militaire. At half-past 2—Visit to the Hotel des Invalides. At half past 3—Visit to the Universal Exhibition. At half-past s—Rest. At I—Dinner en fatnilk at the. Tuileries. At half past B—Visit to the Opera Comique (Auber's Ilairlic). SATURDAY, 25.—At 9—Breakfast at St. Cloud. At 11— Start for St. Germains and drive in the forest. At 3—Return to St. Cloud. At 4—Rest. At 7—Dinner en famille. SUNDAY, 20.—Rest. MONDAY, 27.—Departure for England. At a Privy Council held by the Queen on Monday Mr. Robert Lowe, Mr. Wm. blonsell, the Hon. Wil liam Cowper, and Rear Admiral the Hon. M. F. Berkeley, were sworn members of the Privy Council, and took their seats at the hoard. Windsor Revel took place yesterday, and has re ceived the patronage of her Majesty, Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, and a host of the neighbouring gentry. Extensive preparations were made, and many of the leading men of the day contended in the games of single-stick, wrestling, hurdle racing, and jumping. In the evening dancing and fireworks formed the grand feature. An official dinner was given on Wednesday at Albert-gste Hope br his livaleacy the kotaiisador I 781