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There, as well as in the capital, the people are calm, but resolute. It is said that the last reports, received from the intendants of Cosenza, Reggio, and other provinces of the kingdom, have pro. duced considerable alarm at Court. Orders have been given to concentrate the Swiss troops in and about Naples. The Government is also said to entertain serious appre hensions for the tranquillity of Sicily. A letter from Constantinople states that the Turkish Government has decided that the fortifica tions of Silistria, which have at different periods been improved, shall now be completed on a regular system. The Augsburg Gazette announces from Belgrade that a sum of five millions of piastres (about 1,250,000 fr.) has just been sent to Constantinople by the Servian Government, being the amount of a loan, not bearing interest, which the latter had accorded to the Turkish Government for the purpose of com pleting the electric telegraph between Constantinople and Belgrade by Salonica. The Univers questions the authenticity of the document published by the Cologne Gazette, pur porting to be an analysis of the note addressed by the King of Naples to the Western Cabinets:— The journals publish an analysis of the note which is said to have been despatched by the King of Naples to the Western powers. France and England not having ad• dressed to the Neapolitan Government an identical note, it is scarcely probable that the reply of the Neapolitan Cabinet would be the same for both Governments. More. over, the analytical form of this document causes us to suspect its correctness ; we will, therefore, wait before we publish it for proofs which may show that the communica tion of the Cologne Gazette merits confidence. The inhabitants of the Danubian Principalities, according to despatches which have reached Paris, are about to organise national petitions, praying the great powers to propose their union. The German papers are beginning to throw out hints that Austria will withdraw her opposition to the union ; but this is not likely to be the case with Turkey. The Correspondance Prussienne states that the members of the European Commission of the Danube will meet immediately after the conclusion of the labours of the commission which is to de termine the question of the frontier line. The Permanent Commission of the Danube is not yet appointed. A project to advance the prosperity of Italy, while making the best of the existing state of things apart from politics, has been suggested by Monsieur Lo renzo Montemerli of the Counts of San Donnini, a constitutional emigrant, better known in London under his Christian name, adopted in his capacity as a singer. The projector proposes to encourage the industrial resources of Italy, and by that means to turn to practical advantage the genius and energy of his eountry. NI. Montemerli is about to publish a programme by which we may arrive at some appre elation of the merits of the scheme. Lieutenant - General Sir Willinm Codrington, K.C.B. will in all p ro b a bili ty succee d to t h e colo nelcy of the 54th ltegiment, vacant by the death of T4OUtenant-General W. A. Gordon •C• B —Globe. THE PRESS. THE QUEEN OF OUDE AT SOUTHAMPTON. En Majesty the Queen-Mother of Oude, accompa nied by the heirs apparent and presumptive to the throne of Oude, and attended by a numerous suite, arrived at Southampton in the Indus on Thursday morning. The suite consists of some seventy per sons, including eight eunuchs, several great officers of state, secretaries, and other attendants. The bag gage was put ashore, and at three p.m., her Majesty and the Princes decided upon landing; the Queen was to be conveyed on shore in a palanquin. Just before three o'clock two splendid carriages drawn by four horses drew up alongside the ship, and unusual ex citement was observed at the gangway of the Indus. The Mayor of Southampton, accompanied by the Prince of Surat and suite, soon after arrived. The landing-stage from the ship to the dock was then covered with carpet. Surrounding the gangway were eunuchs, and the chief officers of state belonging to the Court of Oule, dressed in magnifisient robes, and holding the insignia of their offices. A snow-white screen was held up before the gangway. It was now whispered that preparations were making for the Queen leaving the ship, and voices were heard be hind the screen. Presently two figures, dressed like Egyptian mummies, appeared, and walked across to the stage, their little naked feet in gaudy slippers turned up at the toes. They were assisted into the Queen's carriage, not a vestige of any part of them being seen hut their feet and legs. These were the chosen maids of honour to the Queen. Soon after they were seated the screen was thrown down, and the palanquin was brought out. It consisted of a chair inclosed in a slender frame, which was covered with a splendid blue and silver robe. In it was the Queen, whom few persons in the world, beyond her immediate attendants and family, have ever seen. A splendid scarlet umbrella was held over the palanquin. Macebearers attended her, eunuchs and officers of state preceded and followed her. The pressure of the crowd to get a glimpse of her was intense, and the gigantic eunuchs were in agony. The difficulty of' getting her Majesty into the car riage without being seen was immense. At length a screen was placed against the body of the carriage, and her Majesty was just in the act of stepping in when, horror of horrors ! two men were detected on the coachman's box, looking deliberately into the carriage, and about to stare her Majesty in the face. A shout of indignation drove them from their ex alted post, to the infinite relief of the courtiers. A mass of drapery was spread over the door of the car riage, and her Majesty was safely and secretly housed. The Mayor, in company with Major Bird, and at tended by the chief of the eunuchs, then went to the door of the carriage, and was formally introduced to her Majesty through the apertures of a Venetian blind with which the door of the carriage was fur nished. Captain Brandon acted as interpreter to the 13egum. The Prince of Surat and suite then, ac cording to the custom of their country, each pre sented a sum of money to the Queen, which was passed through the blind of the carriage by the chief of the eunuchs. The Mayor was then conducted into the vessel, and introduced to the Prince and his uncle. Soon afterwards the heir-apparent to the throne of Oude, escorted by his worship and followed by his uncle, left the ship and entered the carriage prepared for them. Two finer-looking princes one would not wish to see. The heir-apparent is a youth about five feet six inches in height, with a thin lithe figure, and looking not certainly more than eighteen years of age. His face was of a pale brown colour, and his eye bright and intelligent. His uncle, the heir-presumptive, is a handsome stout-built man, regal in appearance. They were both gorgeously dressed, their head-dresses being in the shape of a helmet, and glittering with the lustre of precious stones. Their appearance seemed to strike the crowd who witnessed their landing with astonish ment, and an involuntary burst of admiration, in the shape of a hurrah, took place. The young prince evidently did not know what to mice of the ap plause, and paused and looked about him with great dignity. His uncle lifted the back of his hand to his forehead and smiled. As soon as the princes were seated, the mayor of the town and Major Bird, the agent, entered the same carriage, and drove off to the Royal York Hotel. The whole of the suite soon followed in omnibuses, flys, and cabs, and ap peered highly amused. As soon as the princes reached the hotel, an immense crowd gathered round it, and called for the princes. The latter were led on to the balcony by Major Bird, who addressed the crowd, stating that the object of the visit of the princes to this country was to claim from Englishmen an investigation into their grievances, and demand that justice should be done them. The jury upon the late colliery explosion in Gla• morganshire have returned a verdict of "man slaughter" again -t Morgan Thomas, the manager ; Rowland, the overman ; and Jones, Thomas, and Rowland, the firemen of the pit. SATURDAY, Clititary. BERTRAM ARTHUR, 17TH EARL OF SHREWSBURY, died at Lisbon, of consumption, on the 10th inst., in his twenty-fourth year. His lordship was the only son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Thomas Talbot, nephew of Charles, 15th Earl, by Ju:ia, third daughter of the late Sir Henry Joseph Tichborne, Bart. (since married to Mr. Washington Halbert, of Bilton Grange, near Rugby), and was born Decem• her 11, 1832. He was premier earl in the English and Irish peerages, Vice-Admiral of Cheshire, a Deputy Lieutenant for Staffordshire, and High Steward of Allbrighton in the same county ; he also held the honorary distinctions of a Knight Com mander of Malta, and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Pope Pius IX., and was about to be nomi nated a Knight of the Order of St. Patrick. Lord Shrewsbury also claimed the office of Hereditary Lord High Steward of Ireland, and his claim was under the consideration of the Houss of Lords, having been referred to a Committee of Privileges, when his death supervened. He had been for some months in delicate health, and by his will the pro perty of Alton Towers and the other estates have been devised to Lord Edmund Bernard Howard, second son of the present Duke of Norfolk, now in his third year, with remainder to his Grace's other younger sons, and to his brother, Lord Edward Howard, M.P., who is married to the late earl's cousin, Miss Augusta Talbot. The death of Lord Shrewsbury makes the Earl of Derby the premier Earl of England, and the Earl of Cork the premier Earl of Ireland. AN EMINENT LITERARY CORRESPONDENT of tho Times this week heads his letter with " Where's the Police!" and, after humbly submitting that he does not complain of being garotted, for he has long ago made up his mind, if he be so foolish as to walk through the streets of a night, to be garotted or robbed, proceeds to detail the misery in which he lives "in a broad, well-lighted street." His house has been robbed three times in as many years : The first time the thief was caught by my brother, who came in from an evening party at an inconvenient moment for the burglar. The man confessed that he was going to a " job " in Weatbourne•terrace, but, seeing one of my drawing•rsom windows open, he had mounted the area railings, " swarmed" up the pillar of the doorway, and so entered the house. He had three months, and the police say, "Ah l that was So-and•so he's still at it." The second time the robbers descended the area, burst open one of the kitchen windows, then prised a door from its hinges, and coming upstairs bad nearly the whole house at their command, for the greater part of my family were out of town. They carried off enough to have filled a cab, of plate, wearing apparel, guns, clocks—in fact, the con tents of an entire catalogue of a miscellaneous Covent garden sale. The detectives came; showed me how the affair had been managed—which I already knew; told me how successful they had been somewhere else in bagging the thief—which I did not know ; came again to tell me nothing further had been found out, drank my health, and we parted Two years are supposed to elapse between the second and third part. The windows, in the interim, have been guarded, the doors strengthened, and spring bells put to the sills and shutters. My plate has been re placed by German silver, which, kept clean, divides fish and raises fruit from the plate equally well ; anything particularly valuable is at my banker's, and the family mind is generally easier, more especially as ray biother and myself both sleep with loaded revolvers at our beds' heads. But for the last six or seven months I have noticed ruffianly fellows lurking about the street when I have come from my club ; and once, whirling round the corner in a Handsome, and pulling up sharp at my door, I found a " roue." examining the keyhole. I have men tioned this from time to time to the policemen on the beat—when I have met them—and they have promised a closer attention. But still the blackguards have haunted the neighbourhood. "Last Sunday morning," he continues, "at alquarter past five o'clock, with broad daylight over London, and early excursionists on the move, I awoke sud denly, hearing the alarum of the street door go off and the door close directly afterwards. In half a minute my brother and I were downstairs." His house had been robbed again. They had got in on the old style, over the cistern, and through the kitchen window : The inspectors and detectives, as usual, came next day, and a similar interview took piece—al course without result. All I could glean was, that, what with the ticket-of•lesve men and the disembodied militia, this was nothing to what might be expected as soon as the long nights began! The writer concludes with a strong appeal against this frightful insecurity of life and property, and solemnly declares his future intention to " shoot dead the first scoundrel ha catches robbing the house." The office of Inspector General of Infantry, to which the Duke of Cambridge had been nominated before Lord Hardinge's resignation of the Command in -Chief, will, we have reason to believe, be filled by Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.B.— Globe.