The Press. — London, England, 1857-07-25 00:00:00

or do is looked upon as war against them, and I will not play Cassandra for the Directors to jeer and laugh. The following extract from the letter of a gentle man in India, dated June 5, will be read with interest : In the meantime, all honour to those who with strong hearts and hands manfully do their duty in front of dancer and difficulty—among whom is Henry Cockburn. The regiment of Irregular Cavalry (Ist Gwalior) has been stanch, and done well. It has rescued twenty-five unfor tunate creatures, Europeans and East Indians, who were forced to leave a station taken possession of by mutineers. A letter has been sent to me to read from an officer up in these parts, who says—" Last evening a most successful rush was made three miles off by Cockburn and 50 men. The robbers had collected in numbers of 500, and were stepping and plundering every one on the road in a most shameful manner. Cockburn sent a bul lock-cart with red curtains, such as women go in, but with four troopers, representing the weaker sex. The main body kept 400 yards in the rear, and were to rush up when the four men fired. A capital ruse—as the object was to get the robbers to show themselves. Well, the wretches mate a rush for plunder ; the four women in stantly fired, and Cockburn's party galloped up at full speed to the spot. They had rough ground at first, and the robbers broke, of course, hut too late to save them selves. Cockburn was nearly unhorsed by a man who, after making a cat at him, which he parried, seized him by the leg. Cockburn swung round his horse, and killed him with his sword. His troopers killed fifty, and made prisoners of others. A number also jumped down wells, and unless rescued must have been drowned. None of his men were touched, and the moral effect in the country round in the present crisis will be very great." We give also another extract of a letter from Capt. Alexander, commanding Ist Cavalry Gwalior Con tingent, dated Hattros, 31st Msy, nine p.m. : Intelligence was brought in this afternoon that a number of plunderers had attacked a village near to this. I sent out a party under Lieutenant Cock. burn, and several officers of the 9th accompanied him. Between twenty and twenty-five of the leaders have been cut up. The Sowars behaved admirably. Lieutenant Cockburn dismcnnted twelve men, and took the village by storm. Every praise is due to Lieut. Cockbuni—a gallant soldier, and who had some very narrow escapes. He killed four men with his own hand. lortign nn 3ntellignat FRANCE. PLOT TO ASSASSINATE THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. The Moniteur of Wednesday contained the fol lowing official statement:— For more than a month the police has had proof that a plot had been formed in London to make an attempt on the life of the Emperor. Three Italians, charged with the execution of this horrible project, were at Paris, and arres►ed. The arms also which were to have been used for the perpetration of the crime have been seized ; they consist of poniards, revolvers, d:c. Brought to justice, the prisoners had already confessed their crime and revealed the names of their accomplices. The Government not withstanding suspended the proceedings against them, in order that the éclat of the process might not be regarded as a means of influencing the result of the elections which were about to take place. The proceedings are now re sumed, and an ordinance of the Judge of Instruction has sent before the Chamber of Accusation all the prisoners arrested, with their accomplices. Their names are Tibaldi, Bartolotti, Grilli (otherwise Saro), 3lazzini, Ledru Rollin, 31azarenti, and Campanello. In connection with this we may observe that ru mours are rife of further arrests ; and the names of D'olliver, and Goudchaux, are mentioned as persons compromised by the confessions of the arrested men and women. The Constitutionnel reprints a London letter to the Austrian Gazette, in which it is asserted that Lord Cowley has already promised to Count Walewski that Lord Palmerston will apply to Parliament for a law enabling him to expel those refugees from England who took a part in the last Italian plot. The funeral of Beranger last week was the occa sion of a remarkable display of force upon the part of the Government. The affair passed off quietly. Count Nessekale is hourly expected in Paris. Ferouk Khan and Lord Cowley have both left Paris,—the first for Belgium, the second for Mar seilles and Toulon. The French journals are warm in their condem nation of Lord Palmerston's refusal to entertain the prospect of the Suez Canal. _ . The Emperor continues at Plombieres. Three out of the five Democratic deputies for Paris, Cavaignac, Goudchaux, and Carnot, decline to take the oath. The Mini'ter of War has determined that the Zouaves of the Line, as well as those of the Imperial Huard, shall henceforth be armed with rifles and sabre bayonets. This measure will increase the Light Intantry by eleven battalions of picked troops. AUSTRIA. The Emperor and Empress of Austria set out on the 17th for Mariazell, in Styria. The Emperor is THE PRESS, JULY 25, 1857. to be at Trieste on the 27th, and inaugurate the railway. His Majesty will afterwards resume his journey to Hungary. The Archduke Maximilian left Vienna on the 20th, on his return to Brussels. PRUSSIA. The King and Queen have returned to Potsdam from Pillnitz and Dresden. The indisposition from which the King suffered in Pillnitz was, in spite of its being in some quarters represented as apoplexy, only a state of exhaustion, the result of considerable fatigue undergone in great heat. The King and Queen have settled to take up their abode in the Neues Paleis at Potsdam, leaving Sans Souci for the exclusive accommodation of the Empress Dowager of Russia. The Empress was expected to arrive on the P4th, accompanied by the Grand Duke Michael and his fiancee, the Princess Cecilia of Baden, together with her mother, the Dowager Grand Duchess. The Prince of Wales is now established at Konigs winter, in the Hotel de l'Europe, which has been taken for him and his suite till the end of August. RUSSIA. The Emperor was to leavo Kissengen on Thurs day for Frankfort and Potsdam, where he is expected to arrive to-morrow. On the 28th his Majesty and suite will embark at Stettin, on the return to St. Petersburg. _ . _ ITALY. Count Caroni-, it is reported, is about to address a circular to the European powers upon the recent outbreak in Genoa. The criminnl proceedings against the prisoners will commence shortly. Letters from Naples of the 10th state that the rebels are to be tried by the Royal Court of Palermo, instead of by court-martial. The reason for this decision is that some of the prisoners of Ponza were forced to join the insurrection by threats. Several men who refused to march are said to have been shot by order of Pisacane. The second in command of the rebels, Baron Nicotera, an e:-functionary, who took part in the insurrection of 1844, and who was then banished, is among the wounded pri soners. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. At Corfu some seditious speeches were lately made in the lonian Parliament. The Philhellenic faction, on the provocation of an alleged petition praying that Corfu should be made an English colony, indulged in several seditious declarations of a desire for " union with Greece." The Government officials, together with the President, joined in the uproar. M. Arvitanachi denounced the "infernal scheme." M. Lombardo declared that "there was no one in the islands who was not horrorstruck with the idea." Many voices repeated, " There is none." " Not only," continued the speaker, " is every lonian ready to make use of every means against it, but he is willing to sign with a pen dipped in his own blood that union with Greece is our sole wish and desire." Here the President rose, and with him all the members of the house, crying with enthusiasm, " Yes, yes, yes!" "Let us, therefore, prove to the foreigner what we have already proved, that what is most grateful to us is to get rid of his protection." Then M. Curi, a member for Corfu, calls on the member of the other six islands for a demonstration, and they all rise up, shouting with enthusiasm. " Let us put a stop," cries the speaker, "to all our proceedings as a proof of our sentiments toward the Government and the protectlon." Then the house appointed a committee of inquiry, upon which Lom bardo exclaims, "We have voted to-day unanimously our national resurrection. . . Yon subscribe with your blood the union with Greece. Who dare say now that the foreigner can find any support in these Islands?" Another Deputy—" He can find none." The Advocate-General—" We are a Greek independent State, lice Greece, the only difference being that we are under British protection. . . . The question when a union with Greece and the whole nation will take place must be decided by time and circumstances " SPAIN. Intelligence from Madrid, of the 20th inst., informs us that the law relative to constitutional reform had been signed by the Queen. The Pope had also sanction the sales of Church prcperty already effected. Lord Howden had quitted Madrid upon three montbs'leave of absence. Tranquillity is partially restored at Seville. Sixty persons bad been shot, and eighty.five were about to be transported. '1 he session of Cortes closed on the 10th inst., and will not meet again before March, 1.3'. PERSIA. The telegraphic summary of the Constantinople mail of the 11th announces that General Outram has passed through Bagdad on his return from Bushire to India. Mohammerah has been evacuated by the English, but the sepoys will hold Bushire till November—the period at which Herat is to be re stored by the Persian?. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. News horn Coustan:inople, by telegraph, via Trieste, says that the Sultan has authorised the for mation of a high road from Beyrout to Damascus. At a banqiiet, at which the Corps Diplomatique was present, the Sultan replied to a speech by Lord Stratford de Redcliffe. The same despatch then observes :—" After the affronts that the English have undergone, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe on this occa sion obtained a public reprimand of the guilty persons." The elections for Moldavia, fixed for the 27th by de sire of the allied envoys, had been ordered by Vogorides to take place, and actually commenced on the 17th. The clergy are reported to have generally abstained from voting. AMERICA. There is no political news of any importance from New York. The New York street-commissioners' case is in a more complicated state than ever. Two more vic tims of the riot of July were recorded on the 11th— viz., Thomas Sparks, appointed a policeman on the 3rd, and John Myers ; the former was clubbed, and the latter shot. The British officers who took home the Panckita as a slaver from the coast of Africa were arrested on the loth at the suit of Mr. J. P. Weeks, and held to bail in 15,00(1 dols. The owners of the bark were confident they can prove a wrongful seizure. The rumoured massacre of Colonel Snmner's command received no credence at the War Depart ment at Washington. AUSTRALIA. The following despatch bas been received from Marseilles:— MALTA, July 19. The Sea mender acrew•steamer has just arrived from Alexandria, bringing 172 boxes and six bags of letters from Australia, New Zealand, Point de Galle. and Aden, which reached Suez, per Shnla, on the 12th inst. There was nothing new at Malta. No arrangement has yet been made about the sailing of the Australian mails. The present mails were brought from Malta by the French postal steamer. Caurt and laskion. Her Majesty the Queen left Aldershott on Satur day for Osborne, where the Royal Family have re mained during the week. The Prince Consort visited Salisbury during the week. Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands has during the week honoured several of the nobility with her presence in the evening. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort and suite will embark to morrow (Sunday) afternoon on board her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, en route to Antwerp, to be present at the marriage of the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria with the daughter of the King of the Belgians. The Duke of Devonshire has left Chiswick for his villa, in the neighbourhood of Sydenharn, where his grace intends residing a few weeks, previously to going into Yorkshire. The Duchess of Wellington will give a dinner to her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands at Apsley. house on Monday next. The dinner will be foll.3wed by a concert, to which a small circle of the aristocracy have been invited. VaWIC 11. CABINET Corkers were held on Saturday and Wednesday at the official residence of Lord Palmers ton, Downing•street. All the Ministers attended. During Wednesday's sitting the submarine telegraph was taken up by the Government for four hours. DEPUTATION TO LORD PALMERSTON. A NUMEROUS deputation of those members favourable to the principle of the Parliamentary Oaths Bill waited upon Lord Palmerston on Tuesday for the purpose of ascertaining what were the views enter tained by her Majesty's Government in respect to the legislative course proposed to be taken by the friend's of civil and religious liberty in consequence of the rejection of the Jewish Disabilities Bill by the House Or Lords. Between thirty and forty of the chief members at the late meeting of Thursday week were present. Mr. HOIMMAN, who acted as speaker. having explained to the noble lord the object of the deputa tion, that they came to a.'k him "either to support Lord John's bill, with a determination, in case of its rejection, to lead your party in the endeavour to seat Baron Rothschild by resolution, or that, if Lord John's bill cannot properly be suprorted this session, the Government will at once declare them selves in favour of seating by resolution," proceeded to say : 721