The Press. — London, England, 1855-04-07 00:00:00

r3B O "This is a point on which I had hoped that your Excellency I would have felt it a duty to be informed," replied the Baron, gravely. "A duty, M. the Baron?" " A duty, M. the Count." And at this stage they both took snuff in somewhat large quan tities, and with emphatic action. " Permit me to reply," said the Count, " and you will accept more than the mere literal meaning of the words, that I do not understand.'" " That was my fear, Count Gortschakoff," said the Baron, " and it dates from the time when your colleague gave, with some levity, his assent to the proposition M. de Buol has read so charmingly." "It is not the only fear on the part of the allies which has been justified since the passage of the Pruth," returned the Russian Envoy. I could not stand this, you know, my dear Lord. I bore their beating about the bush and their compliments and equivoques very well; but when he took the liberty of saying that we had displayed fear, and had had grounds for it, I flew into a rage. Up I started, and though the Baron Bourqueney, who is a man of some physical strength, pulled me down upon my chair twice, and tore my left coat-tail, I in sisted on being heard. " Gentlemen," I said, addressing the Russians, " my name is John Russell, lately Leader of the British House of Commons, and going home to take the same situation again. I am intimately acquainted TERMS OF soft Ebe IPrelso : Per Annum .. Half• Yearly .. Quarterly .. .. tl 6 0 .. 0 19 0 .. 0 6 6 Payable in advance. Subscribers are requested to send their Orders through the!. News Agent; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a Hewit son.. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED IVE, 110, Strand. hoodoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive. Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter, and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Cemmunications should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. if loug it increases the difficulty finding space for them. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publica- tion, but as a guarantee of hie good faith. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment iu town. on board, had been despatched in order to repress these outrages. Lieut.-Colonel Kelly, of the 34th, who was shot on the night of the 22nd, while leading on his regi ment, was for twenty years in the army, and only attained his present rank about ten days before his death. It is only about two months since that he left Plymouth with a large draught of the :34th for the Crimea. Captain the Hon. Cavendish Browne, of the 7th Fusiliers, who was also killed in the repulse of the sortie, was the fifth son of Lord Kilmaine; he was in his 25th year, and had been seven years in the ser vice. Major the Hon. James Lyon Browne, of the 21st Fusiliers, and Captain Browne, of the 80th Re giment, are brothers of the lamented young officer. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS lately invented by Chevalier Bonelli for making trains communicate with each other while they are running, and thus preventing collisions, are being now established on the Turin and Truffarello railway line, with a view to test the utility of the invention. CONSIDERABLE excitement has been occasioned among the officials in Basinghall street, in connection with proceedings in bankruptcy against a man named White, alias Lands, lately carrying on business as a boot and shoe vender, at High-street, Camden-town, St. John's-street, Clerkenwell, and Bolingbroke-row, Walworth, owing to the report that a great quantity of goods had been previous to the bankruptcy se creted by the bankrupt, and that a search for them bad been successful. By the active exertions of several of the principal creditors, a clue was obtained and followed up, and in the course of Wednesday, under a search warrant obtained from Mr. Commis sioner Fane, no less than five tons of goods, of the value of between 1,5001. and 2,0001., were seized in a carrier's yard in Seckford street, Clerkenwell, where they were deposited in an underground kitchen hired by the bankrupt, about the Ist of January last. It is said that the bankrupt will be indicted by his creditors under the highly penal clauses of the Bankruptcy Law Consolidation Act. THE estimated population of England and Wales in 1854 was 18,617,000; the number of births, 634,506 ; of deaths, 438,239 ; and of marriages, 159 000. . _ - •IT i s said the son of a sporting peer is off—to use the Newmarket phrase, " has bolted," and left money transactions of a grave responsibility, touching all classes. This makes a great stir in the betting world.—Globe. CAPTAIN DOUGLAS, who took out the General Screw Company's steamer Bosphorus to Australia, has been appointed harbour-master at Port Philip, with a salary of 2,0001. a year, and a residence found him. AMONGST the passengers who arrived in England by the last West India packet was Captain Petre. He sold out of a regiment of Dragoons some years since to gratify his love of travelling. He has tra yelled nearly over the world. His last journey was across the American continent, from Buenos Ayres to Chili, over the Pampas and the Andes . A DEPUTATION OF YORKSHIRE NEWSPAPER PRO PRIETORS from Leeds had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday in Down ing -street, for the purpose of laying before him their unanimous views in favour of a halfpenny stamp on newspapers to free the post, and of a halfpenny stamped cover to entitle unstamped copies of regis tered newspapers to w single transmission through the post, ciT - 13T 2) vrigso. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1855. POSTSCRIPT. Upon the occasion of the approaching visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French to Her Majesty, the Emperor will be accompanied by Lord Cowley, and attended by Marechal Valliant, Minister of War; Duo de Bassano, Grand Chamberlain; Colonel Fleury, and le Comte de Montebello. The Empress Eugenie will be attended by Her Majesty's Grand Maitresse, la Princesse d'Essling (a daughter of General Massena), by la Comtesse de Montebello, and by Madame la Bedoyere. THE BALTIC FLEET. It is announced that an excursion party will be taken from Dover on Easter Monday by one of the royal mail packets, on a cruise to the Downs to visit the fleet. Telegraphic advices from Elsinore state that the passage of the Sound, closed by the ice for the last two months, has been opened by a violent tempest from the north east which raged on the 19th. The passage of the Belt is also said to be practicable. Constantinople letters of the 27th ult. have been received at Marseilles. The French having agreed with the Ottoman Government to construct in two years a barrack capable of receiving 20,000 men, have had a building belonging to the University ceded to them for seven years. The health of the troops in Anatolia has im proved since a favorable change has taken place in the weather. Despatches from Athens'of the 30th ult. state that a band of brigands had attacked a convoy carrying money belonging to the State, and took possession of the treasure. Two vessels, with some allied troops THE PRESS. SATURDAY, with history, and I can assure you that from the time of Hengist and Horsa to that of Victoria and Albert, no Englishman was ever afraid of a Russian." They looked a little astonished, especially as I was in too great a rage to speak French, and therefore gave it them in English ; but Titoff, who understood me pretty well, rapped the table, and. said— " Ear, ear, ear, Parlyment hooray, biftek, goddam." "None of your ribaldry," said I, still more furious, "but you two answer this at once, and without any humbug. Will your master destroy Sebastopol ?" " Mais," began the Count Gortschakoff. " It's no case of may, for he shall," I replied. " Vouley vous, vouley vote mate, ecrasey Sebastopol t' The Count and Titoff rose, laid their fingers to their noses, bowed profoundly, and left the chamber. Buol was, I think, angry. Bourqueney pretended to be, and abused me as much as he could for laughing. The Russians sent word that they had written home for instructions. So now you know where we are. Conference is adjourned until the 9th of April. Always, my dear Lord, Yours, faithfully, JOHN R--LL. The Lord Palmerston. PS.—Shall I go myself and take Sebastopol? RESPECTING the late earthquake at Broussa, letter from that place of the 20th ult., which is published in the Moniteur, states :—" The shocks are becoming more rare, and there is every reason to hope that we shall soon be delivered from them altogether. Everyone now begins to reckon the loss which he has sustained, and there are few families that have not some to deplore. The definitive num ber of the victims is 200 for Broussa, and 500 for the neighbouring villages. The khans, the mosques, and the bazaars, which were the ornaments of this town, and which rendered it celebrated, have been all more or less injured. All business has been put an end to, and the numerous workmen employed in the silk spinning works will be long without employ ment, in consequence of the destruction of those establishments." . vV A SINGULAR CEREMONY took place at Madrid on the 25th ult., namely, the public crowning of the Spanish poet Quintana with laurel, as a solemn acknowledgment of his genius and patriotism. The ceremony took place in the Palace of the Senate, and the Queen and the King presided over it. The ministers, the foreign ambassadors, and many per sonages of distinction, were present. THE GRAND DUCHESS REGENT OF PARMA, in order to give encouragement to agricultural pur suits, has ordered that cattle-shows should be regu larly held in her States, and that prizes shall be given for improvements in the breed of cattle, for superior tillage, &c. AN EXCELLENT COMPANY OF DRAMATIC ARTISTS Will visit Paris during the period of the Exposition, and play the most esteemed and classical dramas of the Italian stage. The artists composing this troupe are Signor Ristori and Signori Rossi, Gallinelli, Bel lotti, Tessero, Boccomini, and others. THE SEVERE ETIQUETTE OF THE SULTANS, which has already received more than one rude shock since the commencement of the present war, is destined, it seems, to experience one still more startling. Abd-ul-Medjid (says a letter published in the Gazette du Mida) has made up his mind to offer his arm to the Empress of the French when she arrives before the Palace of Balta-Liman ; to present her to the first Sultaness (there are seven who bear this title, and who take rank according to the order of the birth of their children), whose face will be unveiled! Four young ladies, chosen from the best Armenian families, and speaking the French and Turkish lan guages, will also be placed at the disposition of the Empress as interpreters and ladies of honour. Mag nificent presents, among them a side-saddle adorned with precious stones, will also be offered by the Sul tan to the acceptance of her Imperial Majesty. A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF AUTOGRAPHS is tO he disposed of at Paris in the course of this month. Among the more interesting contents is a letter from the Empress Josephine, and various curious auto graphs of Abd-el-Kader ; the correspondence of Bossuet, Fenelon, the Abbe de Rance, St. Vincent de Paul ; a sonnet of Tasso, a manuscript of Bernar din de St. Pierre, the author of " Paul and Virginia;' a dictionary of music, by J. J. Rousseau; various letters from Malebranche and Boileau, one from Poggio, and a collection of satirical poems by Bussy- Rabutin. AN ACCIDENT which occurred to Lieutenant-Colonel Commeline, while out hunting with the Warwickshire hounds, last week, has terminated fatally. The gal lant officer was thrown from his horse when leaping a fence, the ditch on the other side of which was in a rotten state, thereby causing the horse's feet to 111 p under him as be alighted, by his sudden fall jerking his rider with great violence over his bud. ~"'' 1