The Press. — London, England, 1856-04-12 00:00:00

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Advertisements also must have a reference or remitta.ce Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED Ivg,llo Surd London. rts 21P rog+ LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1856. POSTSCRIPT. RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY BY THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. A. letter from Vienna, of the tith, in the German Journal of Frankfort, says : The Emperor of Austria has this day ratified the treaty of peace. Despatches from Berlin, April 10, state : The smaller German States are eagerly following the example of Austria in reducing the active strength of their armies. A proposition has been laid before the Frankfort Diet formally to authorise this step. The Russian Government has already :taken steps to turn to account their late acquisitions on the Chinese frontier. Petropaulovski will probably not be re-established. The River Amour is now being surveyed, and it is in tended to be made the channel 9f vast commerce with Eng land and America. An official despatch from Madrid, which has reached Paris, announces that only an apparent tranquillity reigned in Valencia. Orders had been received from Madrid to repress energetically all hostile manifestations. According to another de spatch M. Zabala retains his portfolio. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday last, at which all the Ministers in town were present. The Council sat twu hours and a halt'. A Court of Privy Council was held on Wednesday, at which the then existing prohibitions against trade with Russia, were considered and revoked. At a Court of East India Directors held on Thurs day., the recently-elected Directors, Messrs. Astell, M'Naghten, Mangles, M.P., Mills, and Tucker Smith, M.P., took the oaths and their seats. Colonel Sykes and Donelly Mangles, Esq., M.P., were chosen chairman and vice-chairman for the ensuing year. Thomas M. Weguelin, Esq., and Sheffield Neave, Esq., have been chosen governor and deputy-governor of the Bank of England this year. An annex to the Hatti Scheriff of the Sultan has been published, from which we learn that any Ottoman subject who may renounce the religion of Islamism for another creed, is to be henceforth ex empted from all punishment. This wise determina tion on the part of the Sultan is owing to the repre sentations of the English and French Ambassadors. The Ottoman electric telegraph between Shumla and Constantinople is now open. Every despatch must be superscribed, "Vole d'Athianople." The naval review is fixed for the 23rd, and orders have been issued at Portsmouth by the Port Admiral containing the usual regulations for the day's proceedings. Four men-of-war steamers are to be placed at the disposal of the membeis of Par liament. Mr. Hancock has definitively taken the field for Athlone; the nomination took place yesterday; the contest promises to be warm. The candidates are: Mr. Ennis, Mr. Reynolds, and Mr. Hancock. The rumour of the appointment of Sir Edmund Lyons to the Embassy at Constantinople was autho• ritatively denied by the Post of Thursday. Mr. William Evans, who formerly represented North Derbyshire ou Liberal principles, died at Lie etit ! Allostreo liail l on Tuesday morning. THE PRESS. THE PEACE. The following Orders in Council and other official documents have appeared this week : ORDERS IN COUNCIL. (From a Supplement to the Loudon Gazelle.) At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 9th day of April, 1858, Present,—The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas a Treaty of Peace and Friendship has been signed between her Majesty and her Allies and the Empe ror of all the Russias, it is this day ordered by her Majesty, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, that the Order made by her Majesty in Council, bearing date the 29th day of March, 1M54, by which it is directed " that no ships or vessels belonging to any of her Majesty's subjects be permitted to enter and clear out for any of the ports of Russia until further order ; and that a general embargo or stop he made of all Russian ships or vessels whatsoever, now within or which shall hereafter come into any of the ports, harbours, or roads within any of her Majesty's dominions, together with all persona and effects on board the said ships or vessels ; " and such parts of any other Orders in Council as prohibit trade with Russia, be hence forth revoked and discharged. And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain and the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports are to give the necessary di rections herein as to them may respectively appertain. C. C. GREVILLE. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 9th day of April, 1856, Present,—The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Itis this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that the prohibitions now subsisting under her Majesty's Royal Proclamation of the 18th day of February, 18.54, and under divers subsequent Orders in Council, on the exportation out of the United Kingdom, or carrying coastwise, of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, saltpetre and brimstone, marine engines and boilers, and the component parts thereof, lead, nitrate of sods, sulphate and muriate of potash, certain descriptions of iron, and other articles mentioned in such proclamation and orders, be, and the said several prohibi tions are hereby, taken off. And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasnry, the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, and the Right Hon. Lord Panroure, one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain. C. C. GREWILLE. RAISING THE BLOCKADE. (From the London Casette of Tuesday.) Foreign-office. Notice is hereby given that, pending the ratification of the treaty of peace, an armistice by sea as well as by land has been agreed upon between Great Britain and her allies on the one part and Russia on the other, and that conse quently orders have been given for immediately raising the blockade of Russian ports. The Moniteur of Sunday contained the following notification : For the time during which they must await the ratifica tion of the treaty of peace, France, Great Britain, Sar dinia, and Turkey, on the one part, and Russia, on the other part, have concluded an armistice. It has been consequently agreed that the prizes made subsequently to the signature of peace shall be restored, that orders should be given for the immediate raising of the existing block ades, and that the prohibitive measures taken in Russia against the exportation, during the war, of Russian pro- duce, especially of breadstuffs, should also be revoked with out delay. Consular acts and the formalities required of navigators and merchants will be provisionally carried out by the agents of those powers that consented to take charge officiously. during the war, of the interests affect ing the subjects of the belligerent States. The number of armed vessels which Russia and Turkey are each to have in the Black Sea, the Morning Post of Tuesday stated would amount to ten for each power. A despatch from Berlin, April 8, states : The Russian Minister of Finance notified on the sth inst., at St. Petersburg, that a treaty of peace haring been signed the merchant vessels of the Western powers will be admitted into Russian ports. The blockade of the Russian ports has been raised. THE CONFERENCES. THE Plenipotentiaries held a sitting on Tuesday and though of course we may suppose the usua secrecy is maintained with respect to their delibe rations, yet there appears a remarkable unanimity f opinion expressed on all sides that the questions o the principalities and of Italy absorb the attention of the Congress. Le Nord believes that the rea difficulty lies in the Principalities, a view borne out by the semi-official Ost Deutsche Post of Vienna, which in a recent article argues that, while it is per fectly proper that the occupation of the Sultan's territories by foreign armies should cease with the termination of the war, the continued presence of an Austrian military force in the principalities is die tated by special considerationn, independent of those which apply to the French and English armies ; Austria desires to abridge the term of occupation, but sho cannot withdraw her troops until certain things have been done. She cannot think of so doing before Russia has fulfilled her engagements and recognised the new frontier still to be defined, nor before the interior organi- SATURDAY, cation and the tranquillity of the principalities have been established. Phis decided statement of the Ost Deutsche Post is entirely at variance with the telegraphic communica tions from Vienna, first published in Le Nord, an nouncing the actual withdrawal of the Austrian troops from the principalities. The difficulties connected with the principalities the Times Vienna correspondent solves authorita tively, stating that a commission will be sent at once to the principalities. On its arrival the commission will proceed to form two general Divans, the one for Wallachia, and the other for Moldavia, whose members are to be elected by the people. As soon as the Divans are duly formed they will proceed to draw up new organic statutes, and propose such re forms as may appear requisite and desirable. When the project of the natit,nal Divans is completed it will be sent to Constantinople, and after having been revised by the representatives of the powers the new constitution will be granted to the principalities by their Suzerain, the Sultan. With respect to Italy, the Opinione of the 3rd states that the proposition likely to be adopted at Paris with regard to Italy consists in the pontifical Legations a semi-independent Government, subject only to the sovereignty of the Pope. This arrange ment is conformable to the wishes both of England and France : We do :lot hesitate to say (continues the Opissione) that this will be a half measure, of no real service to Italy. It will only be a new edition► of the Duchies and Grand Duchies of Central Italy, with this difference, that the Duchies are under the suzerainty of Austria, and Lega tions will be under the suzerainty of the Pope. Now, as to temporal power, the Pope is under the suzerainty of Austria: we do not see then what the Italian Peninsula will gain by these arrangements. A letter from Berlin of the 30th, in the Post Ampt Gazette, anticipates the return of the courier with the ratification of peace from the Emperor Alexander by the end of next week, while Le Nord believes that the ratification will be exchanged be fore the 20th. The municipality of Paris will entertain the Pleni potentiaries at a magnificent fete on Monday, while the Emperor gives a grand dinner to them at the Tuileries to night. The Congress, it is believed, will continue to sit for some period after the ratification of peace, settling details. grtlant. ANOTHER frightful assassination in the open day has added fresh notoriety to Ireland this week. On Tuesday evening, as Mrs. Kelley of Rookwood, county Roscommon, was walking al short distance from her house, in company with her nephew, two men with blackened faces and disguised in petti coats rose from behind a hedge, ordered him to stand aside, and, deliberately placing a pistol within a few inches of her head, literally blew her brains out. The cause of this horrible murder is declared to have originated in Mrs. Kelley giving notice of her intention to raise the rents of her tenantry to the rate previous to the late abatement. An inquest has been held on the body, and a verdict of Wilful Murder returned. The police are taking the most active steps. The relative of the deceased has been arrested, and hopes are entertained that the mur derers will soon be hunted down. The correspondent of the Freeman's Journal writes:— This day (Wednesday) I visited the place where this dreadful murder was committed ; it is on the top of a bill, along way from Mrs. Kelly's house. It is said that when the unfortunate lady was walking with her nephew the two assassins, having their faces blackened, and being other wise disguised, came into the field through the gate. They walked quietly up to their victim, who at first was not aware of their approach ; but, seeing them, and apprehending their murderous purpose, she fell fainting to the ground; while in this condition one of the murderers deliberately stooped over the pros trate body and shot he through the head with a pistol. He then stepped aside, and the other miscreant did the same. The head of the deceased presented frightful spectacle, the skull being literally blown into fragments and the brains scattered about, I picked up many pieces of her skull, and saw one bullet dug out of the ground underneath where her brains lay. Mrs. Kelly, it will be remembered, succeeded to 14,0001. a year, and 200,0001. by the death of Mr. Kelly, in 1840, and after a severe litigation with the next of kin for nearly ten years, entered at length upon the full enjoyment of her property. THE KING OF BAVARIA continues his encourage ment to science and literature. Hi% Majesty has just founded a gold medal, to be called " The Maxi milian Medal," to be distributed four times in each year as a prize for eminent works of science and literature. A pecuniary gratification of from 200 to 400 ducats (the ducat is worth about llf. rioc.) will be attached to each. ■ •N-• ".43; , .