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

grstefal country with that heartfelt warmth to which their noble deeds justly entitle them. " To you, general, I am indebted for being able to per form, with the dignity due to the occasion, the pleasing task confiled to me ; and I pray you now to convey to your noble comrades, and to accept for yourself, my warmest thanks for the cheers which have greeted and honoured my name, which I aocept as an assurance of goodwill to wards me, and as proof of my having during a long career earnestly and faithfully performed my duty to my country." By order, C. A. WINDHAM, Chief of the Staff. Despatches from General Codrington and Marshal Pelissier recount the principal events of the day. Before Lord Gough took his departure on the 11th Marshal Pelissier entertained him at a grand dinner and a review. The French officers are said to have been exceedingly pleased with the order granted them by the Queen. The Times correspondent having no further oppor tunities of describing to us the " roar of artillery," the " wreaths of light smoke curling up," nor the "dense masses of men and glittering bayonets," (tc., &c., at present expends his energies and his bile in a series of philippics against the distribution of rewards. His letter of the 7th—lOth of June contains little else. First he complains of the hardship of the regimental surgeons and assistant - surgeons being denied all promotion, except by seniority, after going through the two years' campaign. Then he sneers at " the attempts made in high places to cast a fictitious glory round departed memories," and details the cGmforts of Lord Raglan's domestic life while in command of the army. Wine, fresh meat, poultry, vegetables, snow - white table-cloths, with silver and covers, &c., never failed him—as if it were indispensable to the proper management of an army) that the commander in-chief should have to grind his green coffee with a thirty-two pounder. Then he touches lightly upon the injustice of giving a K.C.B. to Lord Rokeby and Sir H. Barnard, while Major-General Garrett, an officer who has seen as much active service from the days of the Peninsula to the present as any man, who, in the Sebastopol trenches, almost from the commencement of the siege to the capture of the place, never missed a turn of duty, is left undeco rated plain Robert Garrett. Then the cases of certain brigadiers not obtaining a confirmation of their rank is alluded to, and the letter concludes with a complaint of the general hardship of permit ting officers to exchange commands, such as in the case of the Rifle Brigade, when Colonel Bradford and Colonel Hill etlected an exchange whereby Colonel Hill takes the brigade home, although he never came out till after the war was over. There is possibly some little truth in all these complaints. The services of other, and perhaps more distin guished, men than "plain Robert Garrett" have been—forgotten (?) The quantity of property recovered by the Rus sians in plato and money from the ruins of Bala klaya and its environs is greater than could have been supposed : The Chief l'riest of I3alaklava has succeeded in finding a quantity of church plate and silver spoons, forks, jewellery, and pearls, which were hid in a well choked up with butcher's offal. The pearls alone were discoloured. Ano ther Russian waited on Colonel Hardinge, the Comman dant of Balaklava, and requested leave to look for same things he had left in his house; and on receiving it he entered the half-ruined mansion, and, removing the stone window-sill, behold ! there was an iron box full of geld and silver, which, he informed the Commandant, was the portion of his daughter, who was just about to be married. He said be could not trust his wife, and so he had hidden the money lest she should make away with it, and be was delighted beyond measure when he got permission to take away his treasure as soon as he had proved his right to cor., June 10. lth the troops are withdrawn from the Crimea, the bost3 of scoundrels who have hitherto been kept in awe by force of arms have begun to exercise their avocation, and robbery, with violence, are on the in crease on the outskirts of the camps:— As Colonel Walker was quietly sketching the other day near the Fednkhine heights a bullet whistled by him, and on looking up he saw the smoke of the discharge, and immediately afterwards observed a Greek running off at a considerable distance over the broken ground, where a horse would have had no chance. Another officer was fired at from one of the deserted French camps on the Tscher nays, as he was riding homewards after dark. An officer of the 19th was attacked by four men on the high road from lialaklava to the front, robbed and beaten, but the patrol came up before the ruffians could commit murder, as they threatened. Horses are stolen wholesale—nine were carried off from the light division camp in one night. The French suttlers and canteen people et Kamiesch have been informed by the authorities that the evacua tion of the Crimea must be accomplished by the nth of July, and that thew can receive no protection for their property or themselves if they remain after that date.—Th. The Turkish jlurnals confirm the demolition by the Russians of the fortifications of Real and Ismail. The Engineer °dicers employed on this duty havo 2,000 workmen under their orders. The att.tes taken from the ramparts are planed on board WO craft, which convey them to Odessa. THE PRESS The town of Sari has been restored to Turkey. The fortress of Redout-Kale has been evacuated by the Turkish tzoops. The last of the rurkish contingents has arrived at Constantinople from Kertch with General Mitchell. patign 6orresponttutt. BnussEr.s, June 25. THE editor of the Nation, has been condemned at the "Cour d'Assizes" of Brabant to a year's imprisonment and a fine of 1,000 f., for a libel against her Imperial and Royal Highness the Duchess of Brabant. The libel was contained in the following words : We shall not be advancing anything new when we state that Austria is urging and assisting France in her pro jects against the liberties of Belgium. But what the country ought to be made acquainted with is, that Madame the Duchess of Brabant is the most active instrument at the Court of Belgium in favour of this Austrian policy. The Nation states a fact respecting Austria which is true, and connects this fact with the Duchess of Brabant, which is not true. In the latter statement consists the libel, leaving the first unanswered and Anything more stupidly weak and superlatively unjust than this attack on the Imperial Princess can hardly be conceived, excepting always her defence by the Procureur du Roi. The Duchess of Brabant is in her "premiere jeunesse "--handsome, amiable, and accomplished— and wherewithal gifted with a freshness and be nignity of disposition that attracts by the force of its truth, as it wins by the suavity of its grace. Edu cated far from the turmoil of a Court, and taking pleasure in pursuits appertaining to a country life, the Princess has happily escaped the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the dark subtleties that warp, and the darker deeds that deface, the charac ter of political intriguers. One glance at that radiance of youth and beauty in its joyous candour would have satisfied the most suspicious of the malice and preposterous folly of the libel. And this is what the Procureur du Roi should have said, but did not say, the sum total of his panegyric on this bright and handsome lady being, "Mme. la Duchesse s'occupe d'autre chose que de questions constitu tionnelles." The gallantry of an Attorney-General of England would have treated the matter in a far different manner. But there were topics in the speech of the Pro cnreur du Roi that require notice. When in April, 1855, it was stated in THE PRESS that Belgium was "a hotbed of republican conspiracies," the truth of the assertion was indignantly denied by Belgian journals of every shade of politics. It is now ad mitted officially by the Procureur-General in a Bel gian court of justice that the Nation is, and ever had been, the organ of the Red-Republicans in Belgium ; that it is in immediate relation with the " Marianne " conspirators in Brussels, London, and France ; that it publishes, by authority and directly, the notices and orders of the London triumvirate, Felix Pyat, Rongee, and Jourdan ; and that an active corie-• spondence exists betwixt the Red-Republicans of Belgium and the London Committee of Democracy, presided over Mazzini, Kossuth, and Ledru This is a tardy, albeit conclusive, acknowledgment of the correctness of THE PRESS in its former state ments ; yet the existence of these conspirators and conspiracies would have been pertinaciously denied, had it not consorted with Belgian interests to avow them. The present prosecution was a proper act of severity. At the same time it must be rememb 'red that if the Belgian Government is keenly olive to the indignity of a froward insult upon the Duchess of Brabant, other Governments, when the graver de linquency of assassinating a reigning monarch is counselled by the same Belgian journals, may have just reason to be offended. . The Procureur du Roi quoted with honest pride the declaration of M. Vilian XIV. that any organic change in the Belgian Constitution would be firmly resisted ; and this Ministerial determination, lite rally adhered to, would be as unpalatable to the "parti pretze" as to the Red-Republicans. The clerical party have openly adopted the principles and the language of the ultramontane Univers. In connection with the project of the "etablissements de bienfaisance," or convents; the following sanctifi cation of mendicity has been set forth and accepted as an act of faith : The Church (of Rome) sees in mendicity a rare virtue leading to perfection, and approves, honours, and sancti ties those who make a vow of poverty. The venerable servant of God, Benoit Lazare, was a beggar, a voluntary and determined beggar —young, able-bodied ( valide), and capable of gaining his livelihood instead of begging his bread ; but he obstinately refused to work (refusait obstine ment de travailler) and would only hold out his hands to beseech fur alms; yet by begging he was pursuing the path of tree holiness (la voie de lit saintete ), an action of grace that is repugnant to • the political philosophers of ATURDAY, the nineteenth century (qui rcpugnc it la sagesse du di:. neuvieme siècle.) Further : This good saint Lepeaking of a mendicant friar, after wards a canonised bkhop) was the same who demanded, insisted, and executed (faisait executer) those laws against heretics [by fire and faggot] which wrongly seem to per- sons of the present day to be so hard, so excessive, and to some even so odious. And this clerical party in Belgium, in the teeth of sly.ch an avowal, claims the exclusive education of youth. The Indiperulance thereupon justly re marks, "11 s'agiraitd'un pari contre la raison." At Jassy an association has been formed consisting of the rich boyards, the high functionaries of Government and persons of property, to concert measures for the union of the Moldo-Wallachian provinces. It is called the Moldavian Society, and in the meeting of the 6th June the following proposi tions were adopted : That, as according to the stipulations of the treaty of Paris, a European committee has been appointed to inform itself of the wants and desires of the people of Moldavia and Wallachia, and to report thereon, and which said com mittee will shortly assume its functions in this country, the present meeting, convened by general consent and authority, adopts the following resolutions as expressive of the desires of the Moldavian people : 1. That the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia should be united under the government of a prince belonging to one of the reigning houses of Europe, and that the capital of the country be hereafter decided upon. 2. That for the promotion of this object it is expedient to establish newspapers and journals,—to issue pamphlets she w ing the advantages of such union—to send delegates into the several districts to circulate such journals and publications, and to establish local committees to ascertain the names of those favorable to the measure. 9. That the Provisional Government about to be named shall be appointed in conformity with The organic regulations of the state, and that any departure therefrom is hereby declared to be in violation of the rights and privileges of the country. 4. Tll4 in respect to the Divans convened for the purpose of collecting the opinions and wishes of the country, the Molda vian Society proposes that the said Divans shall be elective, and to arrange the mode and details of election a committee shell be formed consisting of M.M. the Vornik Kostaki Harmuaaki, the Vornik Demetraki Italet, Beaade Nicolai Suzo, Colonel Kogolniezan, and the Vornik Kostaki Rolla, to draw up regale tkns, and the said committee shall submit its report to the Moldavian Society. 5. That as the interests of the society demand that a direct communication with the Roman population of Wallachia. M. the Postelnik Alexander shall be depute.' by the society to pro ceed to Wallachia for this specific purpose. That at the next meeting of the society on the 11th of June, the president, secretary, and other officers of the society shall be appointed. In his speech to the bishops at the termination of the Synod, the Emperor Francis Joseph formally promised a literal obedience to the Corcoraat. But the prelates themselves are not agreed with the Government upon the interpretation of the eccl. sias tical treaty, neither are they of one accord amongst themselves, and have therefore referred the case to Rome. The Hungarian bishops are firm in their resistance, for the " Curate nieces " have exercised an influence that will in the end set the Papal Con cordat at defiance as regards their peculiar position in the ecclesiastical arrangements of Hungary. It has been determined by the Synod, at the instance of Archbishop Rauscher, with the approval of Cardinal Viale Prela, that the universities of Vienna and l'esth are to be under the immediate control of Government, that they shall be absolutely Roman Catholic to the exclusion of non Catholics, that no professor shall oe appointed or pupil admitted to the privileges of the university unless he belong to the Roman faith, and that the present professors and pupils not belonging to that creed shall be dismissed. Against this act of intolerance Count Leo Thun, Minister of Public Justice, has strongly and indig nantly protested. Not less obstinate are the ultra montane bishops in their resolve to persecute and root out Protestant heresy in the Austrian dominions, to which they attribute the origin and the success of revolutionary doctrines. Unceasing anxiety is evidenced by the Gazette Autrichienne and the Ost Deutsche Post to persuade their readers that the journeys of Princes and Ministers are mad.', solely stud simply, for the sake of amusement. On the arrival of the Archiluki Maximilian at Hambourg, two hundred telegraph • despatches awaited his arrival. The classification of this correspondence, asserted to be non-political, into scientific, gossiping, and amatory pigeon. holes, must be amusing. The circular of Count Buol on Italian affairs, is treated with little respect by the Governrcents of Europe, and least of all by the German principali ties, upon whom it was intended to produce a strong effect. With an instinctive dread of Prince Gum chakoff, Count Bowl has given the Russian Minister to understand that the tripartite treaty of the 15th of April had for object, not to secure Austria against Russia, but to bind France and England especially to a maintenance of the pre sent state of Europe, whereby the preservation of the Austro - Italian dominions became an immediate corollary. England has been trammelled CI arendonially, and however ardent be the aspirations of the people in favour o Italian independence, they will be confined to parliamentary expression without any possible result. France is bound to Anstria l and ■.I