The Press. — London, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

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But our sword's arm is shackled and confined by a pernicious system of Government routine, by incom• petenuy in high places, and, above all, by the apathy of the people. ERRATA.—In our last issue it was inadvertently stated, in an article on " The Whigs and Peerage Jobbery," that "the Grosvenors now have two (Peerages), Westminster and Ebury." It should have been " now have three, Westminster, Ebury, and Wilton"—the last•named noble lord being brother of the Marquis of Westminster. foreign 40 colonial 3atettigentr. FRANCE. THE MEETING OF THE EMPERORS. The Emperor left the Camp of Chalons at two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, and arrived at Luneville at balf•past five o'clock the same evening. His Majesty was received by General de Grammont, commanding the division, by the prefect of the de partments, and the generals of brigade. Oa the same evening there was a grand display in the park, iliu• minations, carousel, and fireworks. On Thursdiy, at nin e o'clock, the Emperor would review the cavalry aivision. According to a telegraphic despatch from Stntt. gardt, the Czar was expected there on Thursday evening, and the Emperor Napoleon on Friday morn. ing. They would give a grand banquet on Friday, and an evening party at the Prince Royal's country seat, near Cannstadt. This evening the Minister of Foreign Affairs would have an assembly of all the members of the diplomatic corps. The festivities will terminate on Sunday by a grand banquet at C .urt and a gala spectacle at the theatre. The Emperors will take their departure on Monday morning. A letter from Stuttgardt of the 19th says that foreigners, especially French and Russians, were already flocking into the city in considerable num bers. All the apartments in hotels had been taken in advance, and it was impossible to satisfy anything like the demands made for accommodation. The King of Bavaria and the Grand Duke of Hesse were expected. It is stated from Vienna that the Emperor of Austria will meet the Czar at Weimar, after leaving Stuttgardt. The Patrie, in a leading article, seeks to reassure certain German Courts, which appear to Apprehend that the meeting of Stuttgardt is a prelude to a Franco-Russian alliance. Important the meeting is, the Patrie admits, but only as a solemn ratification of the Treaty of Paris, and it " will not render the relations of France and Russia better than they were before." The English alliance was born of a common danger; it has survived the war, and will certainly, the Patrie assures us, not be abandoned by France at a moment when England is undergoing severe trials in the East. It is also strenuously denied that the interview is intended to render the position of Austria iu Europe more isolated than it already is. The idea that the affair of Belgium will he in any way discussed is also repudiated. M. Mania, the Dictator of Venice when it was besieged by the Austrians, and celebrated for his heroic defence of that city, died at Paris on Tues day, of disease of the heart, aged fifty-three. Irtx it) rtoo4 LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, 187. POSTSCRIPT. At the Court of Privy Council held at Balmoral on Thursday, a royal proclamation u•as issued order ing a National Humiliation and Prayer in cense quenoe of the recent events in India. The day selected for this purpose is stated to be Sunday, the 4th of October. A letter from Vienna, September 21, says :—" I am not aware whether Count Buol will accompany his Imperial master to Berlin, but certain it is that he will leave Vienna on Monday, the 28th. People already begin to talk of the probable retiretnent of the Minister of Foreign Affairs from office, and to speculate on his successor. The names of Count Rechburg and Baron Prokesch are mentioned." The Net. Prussian Gazette of the 23rd states that, " His Royal Highness Prince Frederick William will, according to arrangement, proceed to England in November, and pay a visit to the English Court on the 21s: of that month, which is the birthday of her Royal Highness the Princess Royal. The wedding day is fixed for the 18th of January, and the 3rd of February is named as the day of their entry into Berlin. His Royal Highness the General Commanding in•Chief arrived in town yesterday front the camp at Chalons. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIAN REVOL F. Tax first motion deprecating the apathy with which the Government have met the Indian revolt was brought forward on Tuesday at the Edinburgh Town Council. Mr. Gorrie, in pursuance of a notice given, moved the following resolution : That this council have observed with deep regret that the Government have not aiopted measures sufficiently energetic to suppress the revolt in India, and to form a reserve of troops requisite to meet the exigency of the present crisis. Mr. Gorrie, i❑ a most able and energetic speech, reviewed the conduct of the Home and Calcutta Government from the first symptoms of mutiny at Barrackpare in March down to the present time, and pointed out with great force the lamentable apathy of the Government, in first depreciating the danger, then refusing to send a single private soldier the shortest route to India, while nearly every officer was despatched by that route, and lastly in 'Gavin?, stopped despatching further reinforcements to any extent, and in having utterly failed to create a home reserve force. Mr. Gorrie concluded : At the present rate of recruiting, we shall not raise in • year the army we ought to have raised within a few weeks. I shall, perhaps, be told that to have taken suddenly 30000 or 40,0(X► men from their labour would have deranged the labour tnsrket and disturbed commerce. But, remember, the evil is done. What would labour or commerce be worth if the prestige of this country were destroyed? Once let our prestige be lowered, and nu nation on earth will be so poor as to do us reverence. If we show a want of power, energy, or resource now, the remainder of the century will be one long struggle with nation after nation, all eager to assail our supremacy. I have no doubt whatever of the result of this revolt, if the proper measures be adopted. It would be a reproach for any one to doubt his country's star, who bast read the noble letters of our gallant conntrvmen in India. Not cast down by the uiltlealties which surround them, but, on the contrary, positively cheerful amid dangers which might appal the stoutest heart. I have no fear of the issue. Our country is able to defy, ay, and has &dad, the world AUSTRIA. Sir Hamilton Seymour has made a communica tion to Count Buol to thik effect that, in a few days, he will recaive a note from his Cabinet demon strating the right of the English authorities to take possession of the Isle of Perim in the Straits of Bab el-Mandeb. Baron Bruck is reported to intend issuing treasury bonds to the amount of 150 millions of guldens. PRUSSIA. Letters from Berlin of th e 23rd state that the rumour in circulation relative to the French note in favour of Denmark is without any foundation what ever. Prussia and Austria have determined for the presetit not to carry the affair of the Duchies before the Diet. These two powers have agreed to await the representations of Holstein. Separate negotia tions with Denmark have been broken off. The Temp. of that day announces that the Prince of Prussia has received the order of the King to go at once to Stuttgsrdt from Carlsrnhe, in order to do honour to the Emperor Napoleon. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A Copenhagen letter in the Spectateur bays : The hostile attitude assumed by the Diets of the two German Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg towards Denmark has produced a remarkable impression on public opinion in this capital. Nobody believes here in the possibility of an amicable arrangement on the Holstein question with the two great German powers. More notes may doubtless be written, but the Govern ment of Copenhagen is decided, I am assured, on awaiting with calm the decisions of the frankfort Diet, before which the question will be definitely brought by Prussia and Austria. We learn by telegraph that the constitutional committee cf the Swedish Diet has adopted by 18 votes to 5 the proposition emanating from the King, to confide to the Prince Royal the regency of the kingdom. The Storthing of Norway have unani mously authorised the Prince to exercise the func tions of Regent. HOLLAND. The States General assembled on the 21st inst. for the session of 1857 and 1858, and the proceed. ings were opened as usual by a speech from his Majesty in person. His Majesty thanked the Chamber for their cordial co-operation in the formation and completion of the law relative to edu• cation, and alluded hopefully to the prospects of peace and prosperity. TUSCANY. A letter from Florence, in the Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, says : Fears are entertained of new disturbances at Leghorn. The garrison is constantly on the qei vine, as a rumour is current that the 17th is fixed upon for a fresh attempt. The number of persons that are to be tried amomai to about seventy; they are nearly all confined in the citadel of Pisa, but it is not known when the t►ial is to take place. TURKEY. The Snitan has nominated Omer Paella as Go vernor-General of Bagdad, a very lucrative post, the revenues of which amount to 500,000 francs per annum. His Excellency is charged with the duty of establishing a line of steamers upon the Tigris and the Lower Euphrates, and with the protection of commerce against the Arabs. The financial embarrassments of the Porte are described as not likely to cease for some time, as, in the present state of the money markets in Europe, a loan is becoming more and more difficult. The result of seventy elections in Moldavia are as follows :—The clergy has chosen five unionists and three deputies, whose opinions are dubious ; the great landlords, 22 unionists, 2 anti-unionists, and 3 dubious ; the petty landowners, 9 unionists, 2 anti unionists, 3 dubious; the inhabitants of the towns, 10 unionists and I single anti-unionist. The divan will consist of 20 members. Evan though the 20 elections, which are still to take place, should be favourable to the anti-unionist party, the majority of the divan will be, and remain, a unionist one. It is said that the Porte, under tne pressure of events, has come to the resolution of taking the initiative in the question of the Principalities. It will propose to the Courts represented at the Paris Conference that a union in civil and criminal legislation and jurisdic tion be effected, that the two financial administra tions be fused into one, at least in the most important branches, and that only one national army be or ganised for bath Principalities; but that the double Hospodarate is to remain. This is authentic ; the details of the project, which are to be embodied in au elaborate memorial, now in progress, are, how ever, not yet publicly known. 'AMERICA. Tha usual mails have arrived ; there is no in telligence of any importance beyond the announce ment that the treaty with New Granada, providing only for the appointment of a commission for the settlement of all claims against tnat Government, was signed at Wivsliington on the 10th inst. TILE SERMON PREACHED BY CARDINAL WISEMAN, and which is the subject of a controversy between the Cardinal end the Times, was delivered at Salford, Sunday three weeks, and referred particularly to the Indian mutiny and to the condition of our Roman Catbolic subjects in India. The first he attributes to the petty commercial crime of the cartridge con tractor, who for purposes of gain used a cheap grease for the paper. Upon the condition of the Reman Catholics in our army the cardinal related the following anecdote of Sir Charles Napier few years ago—the year before his death—l was in the Exhibition in London, looking at a picture re presenting one of his battles, in which he was in the very centre of danger, the most conspicuous object amid the terrors of the fight. Standing close to it was the hero of the piece, Si: Charles Napier him self. It was impossible to mistake him ; but he de sired to be introduced to me. I asked him a few questions about the picture and its correctness, and lie then took me by the arm and drew me aside — there were several persons around us—and he said, ' Cardinal Wiseman, you Catholics are shamefully treated in India. I have told them again and again —I have told the Government there—that a time was coming very soon when, to save our empire, we should require to he united, combined forces of all British subjects without distinction, and that it was their duty to prevent any disunion or any religious differences. I have spoken in vain ; they will not listen to me; and they are keeping up a system of disunion and separation instead of tuip.n. 1 have been again and again ashamed when in India at being thanked by the Catholics as for a favour for what was but a piece of commonest jinn 942