The Press. — London, England, 1856-08-30 00:00:00

82g would double the increase of their estates. He com mits evil himself, and will not permit others to do good. If once a concession of reform be made, the whole Neapolitan system will give way to make place for some other—therefore it is that the tone of the King, in his answer to England and France, has been so arrogant. The assurance of repelling force by force is only ludicrously absurd ; either the King of Naples must pursue, in self-defence, his tyrannical career of absolutism, or he will be crushed under the force of governmental changes that cannot be dis severed from the spirit of vengeance that will animate them. And this comes from a determined perseve rance in governmental wrong. The Portafoglio Maltese and the Mediterraneo contain an account of a serious outbreak at Palermo, betwixt the Swiss and Neapolitan soldiery. In the commencement of the quarrel, and after a few blows, the Italians as usual made use of the stiletto accord ing to the law of Mazzini, then swords were drawn, next bayonets were used, and lastly recourse was had to firearms, and a fierce battle commenced. The Palermitans sided with the Neapolitan soldiery. Many lives were lost. Prince Castellicala, the Governor, immediately declared the town in a state of siege, and used every precaution to stop a further effusion of blood, but the greatest excitement and ill-will still prevails. Two frigates have been sent from Naples with reinforcements, and danger is ap prehended in the latter capital from an agreement with the Palermitans in hostility to the Swiss. In fact, Naples and Central Italy are not safe for a moment. C. A. H. jortign ant Colonial 3ntelligtore. FRANCE. The Emperor has continued at Biarritz during the week, arid it is reported will make a lengthened stay. Auditors from the Council of State arrive periodically with the portfolio of current affairs. The Captain- General of Navarre had arrived to present the respects of the Queen of Spain to the Emperor and Empress. Marshal Serrano and M. Olozaga had also arrived at Biarritz, and had audiences of the Emperor. The Dibats in an article upon " Spanish Affairs," alluding to the retutn to a modified form of the Constitution of '45, and the probable assembly of a new Cortes of one assembly, elected by district, says : • The plan of the Ministry will satisfy those political parties which are sincerely attached to the monarchical system of Spain ; it will wound or will at least disconcert those who wish to abolish royalty, or to upset the dynasty of Queen Isabella, and also those who only represent past men and ideas. The Queen, who forgets nothing, recollects all the tribulations which assailed her in the years preceding the revolution of MC The constitutional rule no longer existed ; the Constitution was suspended ; the Ministers exercised a control and an authority without limit. What was the result ?. Of a sudden a protest was raised, and this protest became the signal of a revolution which ended with difficulty. The Queen is not disposed to recommence an experiment which succeeded so ill. She is well aware that, she is,.. and, must remain, the constitutional Queen of Spain, and that should Spain wish to return to the absolute monarchy, the Conde de Montemolin would be king. • The Sacle, the Presse, and the L'Estafette, are about to be prosecuted by Government for having published an address from two hundred students of Paris, sympathising with their fellow-students at Turin, in their aspirations for the regeneration of Italy. The English journals which printed M. Louis Blanc's letters on the suffering of French political prisoners were not allowed to circulate in Paris. AUSTRIA. The Austrian official organ in Italy, the Milan Gazette, contradicts the statement of Garibaldi that Ceceruacchio, his two sons, and four other indi viduals, had been shot by an Austrian detachment, commanded by an officer belonging to the Imperial family. The Gazette states that Ceceruacchio was drowned while attempting to cross the Po. It does not account for the fate of his companions. The Government at Vienna continue to display the utmost energy in strengthening and increasing the Austrian navy. A ship of the line and two screw frigates, with a powerful war steamer, have been laid down and are now building at Pola. A letter in the Augsburg Gazette says, in reference to this : It is reported that the late journey of M. de Bach, Minister of the interior, to Dalmatia, is connected with a project entertained of uniting the Government cf that province with that of the seacoast, and of placing at the bead of this Government the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian. The project is suggested by the develop ment given to the Austrian navy. The Government have given notice that the "pardon" (!) • of. the Emperor will he granted on their return to-those subjects who without perfais gen entered the British Italian Legion. THE PRESS. PRUSSIA. The King, it is positively stated in the Paris Constitutionne/, in order to satisfy the desires of the Poles of his kingdom, has resolved to create a special government fur the Grand Duchy of Posen, and to select a member of the royal family, Prince Hohen zollern•Siginaringen, for governor. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 22nd contains the fol lowing : ROYAL DECREE. Considering the reasons exposed to me by my Council of Ministers with regard to the expediency and necessity of disbanding the National Oulu* I have decreed:— Art. 1. The National Guard of the kingdom is dissolved and definitively suppressed. Art. 2. The Government will account to the Cortes, at their next session, for the adoption of this measure. THE QUEEN. Given at the Palace, August 15, 1856. The Government, in a lengthened exposition, justify the measure on the ground that, since its establish ment. except during the period of the last civil war, the National Guard has been "an element of un ceasing perturbation," "a constant opponent to every established government, and preventive to every salutary reform," and that all past experience pro claims that the institution of the National Guard is incompatible with "the normal and regular govern ment of the State." The suppression of the National Guard is to be followed by other important measures, viz., the dis solution of the Constituent Cortes, the publication of the constitution of 1843 modified, restrictive munici pality and provincial deputation laws, depriving those bodies of all right to interfere in political ques tions, the law on the press, introducing changes in the penalties and the organisation of the jury, and the establishment of the Council of State. Messrs. Bravo Murillo and Gonzalez Romero, former Ministers, have obtained leave to return to Spain, and are to reside some time in the Basque provinces. M. Manuel Bertran•de-Lys was expected at Madrid. It is said that the Government has concluded a contract with the Bank of Spain for a loan of 60,000,000 reels, payable in three months, at five and a half per cent. interest. The law of clisamortisation (secularising ecclesi astical property formerly held in mortmain) will, it is rumoured, be put in execution by the Govern ment, to supply immediate wants. The Estrella, a journal of the ultramontane clerical party says : The Junta of disamortiaalion at Madrid holds two meet ings every week, and at every meeting 1,501 of the sae 'dales filed must be disposed of. At this rate there will be :3,000 properties authorised at Madrid to be sold in each week, or 12,000 in the course of a month. Orders have been given in the provinces to sell fifty estates every day. The Messager dA Bayonne (a doubtful authority) asserts that a Spanish junta has organised itself at 'Bayonne, and is actively at work The leading members are MM. Olozaga, Sagusta, Cairo Ascencio, and General Gurrea. At one of their last meet ingsit was proposed to choose a new leader of the Liberal party in place of Espartero. A celebrated diplomatist modestly offered himself, but was not accepted. The meeting decided that secret societies should be created all, over Spain, and that a new revolution sho u ld b e provoked. The Spanish Minister at Mexico has been removed from his post. _ _ Prince Adalbert of Bavaria arrived at Madrid on the 21st, and was married to the Infanta Donna Amalia last Tuesday. The Dukes de Medina, Cceli, and D'Albe, have written public letters denying that their palaces or property in Madrid sustained any damage during the insurrection. RUSSIA. , The Indicateur OfilcieiefSt. Petersburg has an nounced the .coronation for the 7th of September. Ih6 presentation of the Cordon of the Legion of Honour to the Emperor Alexander by Count Morny took place on the 17th instant with marked ceremony. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 19th, in the Berlin Borsen Zeitung, says : This interchange of orders between the Emperors of Rns sia and France is looked on as an unmistakeable evidence of of the personal sympathies which the two Monarchs enter tain for each other. Our Emperor is known to be an admirer of Napoleon T.'s greatness as a ruler and as a general, and he transfers to the heir of his name and throne a portion of the admiration he feels for him. How generally these sympa thies have penetrated from above among the lower classes of the people may be seen in the fact that the portrait of the first Emperor was never so frequently visible as now in all public places, in the picture shops, and in private dwellings, even the Emperor's study contains a half length of Napoleon 1., the size of life, by Horace Vernet. Another semi-official writer observes It has produced great satisfaction here to find that France has not made the tardy surrender of Kars and the lighting up afresh of the lighthouse on the isle of Sepenta, •ground for a vote of want of confidence in this Cabinet. ;All the attempts are in vain to justify the want of delicacy that England has shown in reminding Russia, at the very SATURDAY, moment when an Ambassador from her to the coronation was about to show himself here, that Russian newspapers • committed a mistake in 18.55 when they affirmed that the Black Sea was a Russian Sea. ITALY. A revolutionary attempt on the Maremma, near Orbitello, in Tuscany, has been easily suppressed by the Tuscan gendarmes. Prince Flavin Chigi, Ambassador of the Pope to. the Court of the Emperor Alexander IL, left Rome,, with his suite, for Russia on the 17th. The Nord this week mentions a rumour current to. the effect that the French Government has trans-. mitted a memorandum to all the European Courts,. urging the necessity of reforms in the Papal State s , and concluding with a declaration that the Frenctr troops cannot evacuate Rome and Civita Vecchia until such reforms have been realised. The presence of Prince Murat at Aix-les-Bsins, in Savoy, has produced some sensation in Italy. In Piedmont the fortifications of Alessan.lria and Casale are advancing rapidly. The military fur lough has been suspended, and military manoeuvres on an extensive scale wera to take place during September. Baron Hubner arrived at Naples on the 10th, and left at once for Gaeta to see the King. Le Nord, in its correspondence from Vienna, asserts that Baron, Hubner is simply charged with a non-official, mission : All that our Cabinet. (that of Vienna) desires, is that King Ferdinand should make some conciliatory advances, take some step calculated to efface the depbt•able• (fdcheuse) impression produced on the Western Cabinets. by the tone of the last reply to the notes of France and. England. In a word, it is an affair that must be stifled as soon as possible, and without wounding the rights or• dignity of anybody. That is the substance of the mission, which Baron Hubner is at this moment charged to fulfil at the Court of Naples, and whose success no one is bevatr fitted to insure. The Frankfort Journal believes that, in the main,. the Cologne edition of the King's reply to the . Western powers is correct. It observes : It must not, however, be thereby interpreted that die , King has refused to adopt reform ; he has only decNired himself to be the most competent judge of the opportunity of these measures. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. Intelligence from Constantinople to the 20th. announces the arrival of M. de Boutenieff, the Itmt , sian Ambassador, at Constantinople on the 19th. Mohammed Kepresli Pacha was to leave on the 21st for Moscow. The Russians have not yet evacuated Boucora, Bayazid, and the environs of that town, but they completely evacuated Kars on the 4th of August. The fortifications of that place have been left intact, except two forts which have been destroyed. It was reported that they had blown up Toultcha on the Danube. The question of Bolgrad is not yet settled, but it is anticipated that Russia will cede the town. The project of an Imperial Bank, with a capital of: 3,000,0001., has been published. Count Coronini bad given official notice of the ter mination of his mission in the principalities. AMERICA. Intelligence from New York to the 16th state - Al:Hat the negotiations now going on in London cm the Central American question progresses satisfraterily. The Herald correspondent says:— The arrangement in respect to the Bay Tslatadli- will be in the form of a convention, and it will start from this inexorable condition—the rendition of the islands to Hon. duras. That is the point of departure, and unlessit be con ceded nothing will be done. The English Cabinet, as a whole, are ready to. paokeeed' on this basis; but Lord Palmerston, with his, usual penchant for showing fight, makes all the fuss. be can against it. Lord Palmerston naturally does no.t like to see his pet policy in South America fall without an effort,. if not to prevent it, at least to make for it the best terms. possible. The Presidential contest promised to be close tar tween Colonel Fremont and Mr. Buchanan. Walker's position in Nicaragua was very doubt Ail. Rivas, at Leon, was organising a powerful resistance to his authority. A combined movement against Walker with Costa Rica is arranged. A strong British naval force was at Greytown. INDIA AND THE CAPE. The overland India mail, with dates from Caleutta to the 17th of July, and Bombay to the 20th of July,. has arrived. Mr. Horsley, assistant-collector in the Madras. Presidency, has bren murdered. The heir to the throne of Burmah has been assassinated. Lord- Canning was indisposed. Intelligence from the Cape to the 4th of June• states that the Governor, in a message to Parliament,. had announced the intention of Ler Majesty's Go vernment to send 8,000 men of the German Legion, armed with the Enfield rifle, to be placed as military colonists upon the frontiers, and that 40,0004-