The Press. — London, England, 1856-03-01 00:00:00

MARCH 1, 1856. 3ortign anb (Colonial inttlligentt. FR INCE. Count Orloff was received by the Emperor of the French on Saturday. The Moniteur, in announcing the fact, designated the Count "premier plenipoten tiara of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Rua sias." On Sunday the Emperor received Ash Pacha. On Monday the conferences opened, for the first time, at 1 p.m. All the plenipotentiaries were pre sent. The sitting lasted till half-past four, and resulted in an agreement to an armistice till the 31st March. On Thursday the second conference took place. An announcement in the Patrie of Wednesday stated that the sittings of the Conference were un certain, as the completion of the minutes of each sitting required time. The meetings, the Pays de• dares, are not fixed beforehand for certain days, but depend on the march of negotiation. The health of the Empress continues satisfactory. AUSTRIA. The Gazette des Pastes states that the despatches of Count Buol express his entire confidence in a satis factory termination of the Conference at Paris. Count Rodolph D'Appoyni, Austrian Envoy at Munich, and Count George Esterhazy, at Berlin, were about to be recalled. One or the other, it is believed, will replace Count Colloredo in London. Count Valentine Esterhazy, at St. Petersburg, has applied to be relieved on account d his health. On the return of Count Buol it was expected that further diplomatic changes would take place. PRUSSIA. The Zeit, the especial organ of the Cabinet, insists this week upon the right of Prussia to be represented at the conferences for the interest of Europe and the benefit of Germany. The committee of the Prussian Chamber of Depu ties, in their report on the bill for authorising the use of the extraordinary war-credit, express an opi nion that, under present circumstances, the reasons which require Prussia to hold her military force in readiness, have not yet ceased to exist. The mem bers of the committee recognise that the country ought to feel grateful to his Majesty's Government for having secured to Prussia, during a critical period, both peace and the right of unbiassed deci sion. The members unanimously propose the adop tion of the project of law presented by the Govern ment. RUSSIA. As a curious circumstance, the Times Berlin cor respondent remarks that the late Russian naval official documents contain no allusion to the Black Sea fleets. The marine school for the orphans of the officers of the Black Sea fleet is to be removed from Nicolaieff to Helsingfors. An official return of the Black Sea fleet of 1854 has appeared in the Wojenny Listok (military journal). The total force amounted to eighty-five vessels of all rates, mounting 2,800 guns. Nothing official has yet transpired as to the discontinuance of building ships at Nicolaieff, nor has any countermand appeared against the con centration of the marine guard on the Baltic coast. The importation of salt over the frontier of Austria, and from Moldavia, and at Odessa and the Danubian ports, is permitted by ukase during 1850, upon the payment of fifteen copecks per pound. Letters received from St. Petersburg during the week state that an Imperial ordinance has been transmitted to the Minister lor Finance, authorising the immediate issue of seven series of Treasury Bills, to the total amount of 21,000,000 roubles, to assist the Treasury. Letters from Warsaw state that deliberations have taken place under the presidentship of Prince Gorts chakotf, relative to the military reorganisation of Poland. General Lubomirski was present. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. Accounts from Constantinople, of the 21st ult., state that the Hattischeriff of the Sultan, relative to the reforms in favour of the Christians, had been read in presence of the ecclesiastical, military, civil, and Christian dignitaries. The German journals state that the Austrian troops will occupy the principalities until these re forms are carried out. The Time correspondent at Constantinople gives slme account of the conferences on a new constitu tion for the principalities:— The first proposal made by all parties was the abolition of the present constitution of the two principalities. But when it came to the question of what was to be substituted opinions were completely at variance. The English Am bassador proposed an Upper and Lower House; the first hereditary and unpaid, the second elected and paid. The French Ambassador was for a Senate and Legislative Chamber --the first named, the second elected, and both paid. Lastly. the Austrian Internuncio thought the welfare of the principalities would be best secured by con fiding the legislative and highest government functions to a consultative body composed of the highest officials of the THE PRESS. State, something in the style of the existing Divan, created by the convention of 13alta•Liman. No signatures, or any other symbol of a convention, have been exchanged, and the question remains au open one for the conferences at Paris. DENMARK. The Danish Ministers impeached for misapplica tion of the State funds have been tried and fully so. quitted. SWEDEN. The fortification of the capital has been determined upon by the King. A committee of engineer officers, under the Prince Royal, has been consti tuted, to deliberate upon the plans for the defence of Stockholm and the valley of Maalar. INDIA AND CHINA. Intelligence received by Trieste, on Wednesday, stated:— The Indian mail has arrived, having left Alexandria on the 22nd of February, with intelligence from Calcutta to the 2.lth of January ; Bombay, 2nd of February ; Hong- Kong, 15th of January ; Shanghai, Bth of January ; Canton, 12th of January. Oude is to be annexed, with General Outram u Chief Lord Canning arrived at Bombay on the 28th of January. AMERICA. Intelligence to the 15th ult. states that the debate on the Central American question had been resumed in a pacific tone. The President had issued a fresh Msssage relative to Kansas, recommending the employment of military force to suppress insurrection and repel in vasion. _ _ The prospect of peace in Europe had caused a sensible rise in all securities upon the New York Exchange. The non-appearance of the Pacific, then twenty days out from England, bad caused great anxiety for her fate. Two steamers had been despatched to look for her on the northern coast. FOREIGN MISCELLANEA. lirrzu.rozricz FROM ITALY indicates no disposition on the part of the Lombardo-Venetian exiles to avail themselves of the "amnesty" accorded by Austria. The Gazette Officielle at Turin (an organ of the Piedmontese Government), regards the amnesty as a clever trick to blind the Congress at Paris. "The sequestration of the emigres will be raised," continues the Gazette," provided the emigres submit to certain conditions. In fact, those who have so long pro tested against Austrian dominion, are now to bow their heads for a pecuniary motive. Such a humilia tion is impossible." THE RUSSIAN STEAM BALTIC FLEET amounts to eighteen line-of-battle ships and frigates, fourteen corvettes, and seventy gun-bats. Thirty thousand men are also employed under Admiral Schanz in blocking up the Gulf of Finland by means of a triple line of piles. It is near the lighthouse of Sollhaiha, nine versta (six miles) from Cronstadt. The gulf at this spot is twelve miles wide and about thirty-two feet in depth. SIR HAMILTON SEYMOUR, our envoy at Vienna, re sides at an hotel for want of better accommodation. A short time since his Excellency, on returning home in the evening, found himself robbed of all his linen, but one of each article, which appeared to have been scrupulously left so as not to put his Excellency to any immediate inconvenience. His desks and state papers were undisturbed. It is said, also, that for some time a certain Russian prince has resided in the suite of rooms adjoining Sir Hamilton's salon de reception. As Vienna doors and walls are not re markable for their thickness, the inconvenience of such a neighbour to Sir Hamilton is obvious. COUNT BI'OL, who was received by the Empress Eugenie at a private audience on Saturday last, is the bearer of the Austrian decoration—the Croix Etoilee—from the Dowager Empress Charlotte of Austria to the Empress Eugenie. The decoration, like the Spanish one of Maria Louisa, is exclusively conferred on ladies. It is further said that an Austrian Archduke will come to Paris to represent the Emperor of Austria at the baptism of the future heir to the throne of France. COUNT NESEELRODE has recently obtained a de tailed report upon the "right of fishing" acquired of late years by the Russian Laplanders on the Swedish coasts. From the peculiar nature of the report, Berlin letters suppose it to be merely in preparation for a little future altercation with Sweden, as soon as peace is settled. M. DE FONTON will certainly be appointed to suc ceed Prince Gortschakoff as Russian Ambassador at Vienna. The Prince, it is reported, has expressed a wish to retire from diplomatic life. GENERAL DE LA MARWORA left Turin on the 26th, eR route tbr the Crimea, where he will resume the command of the Sardinian army. Tux MUNICIP‘I. COUNCIL OF GENEVA has accorded the right of citizenship to the Hungarian general, Klapka. SPIRO MYLIOS, one of the Ministers of King Otho during the breach of neutrality by Greece, and who was placed on his trial for aiding the insurrection in Turkey with the money of the State, has been acquitted, to the great joy of the Court of Athens. MAJOR DRAWER; an English officer in the Austrian Engineers, has been sent to examine the Sulina mouth of the Danube, and is believed to have received orders to draw up a plan for the removal of the sand. THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER, according to the /ma. pendance Belge, has witten a letter to the Emperor of the French, in which he says !—" Without repu diating the politics of my father, I wish to prove by my moderation that I desire to give peace to Europe ; and you may rely upon it, sire, that to arrive at this, I am ready to make all sacrifices compatible with the honour of Russia." THE Rooms OF MDLLE. FEIICIE, one of the prin cipal linen warehouses in Paris, have been thronged during the last few days by ladies desirous of in specting the garments prepared for the first Impe rial infant. Although the ladies of the Court seem to take it for granted that a boy will be born, two sets of clothes are prepared ready for either event. Blue ribbons are used for the boy's, red for the girl's. THE KING OF NAPLES, in a recast drive through is capital, expressed his surprise at the quantity of beards to be met with, and observed that " one might fancy himself in Turin." The next day shaving commenced in earnest. The comissaires de police were everywhere on the look-out for a beard, and before sunset Naples had scarcely a good beard to boast of among is respectable inhabitants. RACHEL has just arrived at Havre, on her 'return to Paris from America. She is said to have re. covered the effects of her severe illness at Havana, though to be still in delicate health. THE POPE, it is confidently reported, is about to visit Avignon and Paris, should the Empress of France bear a son. The baptism of the Imperial infant will, be performed by the Pope in person. tart into lastion. Her Majesty the Queen beld a Privy Council at three o'clock on Monday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Council was attended by Prinoe Albert and the principal members of the Ministry. Her Majesty held a levee (the second this season) on Wednesday afternoon at St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert arrived soon after two o'clock from Buckingham Palace, escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards, and returned at the close of the levee. Her Majesty and Prince Albert during the week have visited the Olympic and Haymarket Theatres, and the Zoological Gardens. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert, in spected the troops at Aldershott Camp on Fridley morning, and returned to Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince, dined last night with His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at the Duke's apartments in St. huseaii Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent rams to town from Frogmore for a few hours on Thursday, and visited the Queen and the Duchess of Glou. caster. His Excellency M. Musurus, Turkish Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, has left town for Paris. His Excellency occupies apartments at the Hotel da Louvre. The Marquis of Westmiseter cease to town from Arundel Castle, after attending the funeral of the late Duke of Norfolk on Tuesday, and has since left Grosvenor house to join the marchioness and his family circle, at Motcomb house, near Shaftes bury. The Earl of March arrived in town on Tuesday, from Molecomb, near Goodwood. The Duke of Leeds has arrived at the Clarendon from Hornby Castle, near Catterick, Yorkshire. Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence is at present staying at the Bedford, Brighton. • - The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have left town for Kimbolton Castle. Madame Van de Weyer had a reception on Thurs day night. The principal members of the Corps Diplumatique were present. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli entertained at dinner on Thursday, at their residence, Grosvenor-gate, his Excellency Count Colloredo, the Marquis of Breadalbano the Marquis and Mar chioness of Blandford, Lord and Lady Harry Vane, Mr. Thomas Baring, the Countess of Glengall and Lady Mary Butler, the Bight Hon. Cecil Forestall, the Dowager Lady Cowley, Lord Chelsea, Coiry Vitzihum, Lord and Lad? William Powlett, sped ilk Marquis of Bath, ■ NI ■ ill `I A