The Press. — London, England, 1856-11-08 00:00:00

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Subscribers are requested to send their Orders through the Nowa Agent; if direct to the Office. accompanied by a remit t Ince. Advertisements also Mint have a reference or remittance Money Orders to be made payable to SU. ALFRED 11fE, 110, Stra•!d London. Zip ;;) virgg+ LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1856 POSTSCRIPT' ENGLAND AND FRANCE. Yesterday's Moniteur published the following : " The Constitutionnel of the sth inst. contains an article upon a point in dispute in external affairs which we should be very sorry to allow to be sup posed that it emanated from the Government. To envenom a discussion is not the way to facilitate its solution. England and France, who together carried on the war and concluded peace, and who agree upon all the great questions of the day in Europe, are divided in opinion upon one of a very minor inte rest (asses foible). Will the difference be settled by a preliminary arrangement, or by conference That is the only thing to be decided. But, under all circumstances, we entertain the firm conviction that the difficulty will soon be removed, without run ning upon the double error of weakening the Eng lish alliance and of failing to fulfil engagements con tracted." SPAIN. The Gazette publishes a de..ree, naming a com mission of general statistics in Spain. The resigna• tion of General Don Enrique O'Donnell, as Governor of Cadiz, has been accepted. The Nacion, a I'rogressist journal, has ceased to appear. The Duke de Valencia (Narvaez), who had been indisposed, is better. It is expected that the Gazette will soon give the state of the Treasury, with the financial plans of the G overnment. The Augsburg Gazette has the following from Cracow of the 2nd : The prolongation of the occupation of the Danubian principalities and of the Black Sea by the English has the consequence of causing numerous corps of Russian troops to stay in Southern Russia, in Podolia, and Volhynia. 11p to the present time, not one of the corps whith lett the Crimea has appeared in the interior of Russia or in Poland. The two divisions of Grenadiers which left the Crimea in the spring, and which were to have gone to Moscow for the coronation, did not arrive there, but have remained in the south. Political reasons can Alone explain the retention of these large bodies of troops in the southern provinces. NAPLES. Accounts have been received by sea from Naples to the 3rd. The King came to the capital on the 30th ult., and held a Council of Ministers. An envoy had left for Rome, charged with a mission. He was expected to return to Gaeta on the Nth. The French steam-frigate Ditchayla and an English steamer were cruising off Naples, and had exchanged salutes with the forts. Some of the officers landed and walked about the city. It is said that these vessels are to remain in observation, and are to be successively relieved by others. There was a report of the intended publication of different decrees relative to administrative matters and to public works. The Frankfort Journal prints from Vienna the intelligence that England is about to effect " a mili- tary occupation of the Island of Sicily!" as a coun terpoise to the Austrian and French occupation of the Roman States. THE PRESS. The African mail, with dates from Lagos, Oct. ith, has arrived. A collision among the natives at Bonny had occurred, and the inhabitants of Lagos were expect ing an attack. The Royal Mail steam-ship Persia, from New York, with advices to the 20th of October, was off Holyhead at half-past two yesterday afternoon. The appointments of Robert William Keats, Esq., to be Governor and Commander-in Chief in and over the Island of Trinidad and its dependencies, and Miss Louisa Gordon to be one of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Honourable Mary Seymour, resigned, appeared in the Gazette of lust night. OMER PACHA AND SIR W. WILLIAMS COLONEL SIMMONS ' late aide-decamp to Omer Paella, has this week written to the Times with re ference to the following passage in Colonel Lake's " Kars and Our Captivity." It is an extract from a private letter written by Major-General Sir W. Wil liams from Kars, and dated the 31st of October, 1855: Rumours of the operations of Omer Pacha also reached us, and I hope he is at least acting like a brave and resolute man ; if he does not I will mark him with my ink in spite of his great reputation. Batoum is but four days from Kars, and six for the march of troops, but if he operates manfully in any direction I shall be content. Colonel Simmons upon this makes the pithy remark, that no such road—by which troops can march in six or more days from Batoum to Kars—is in existence at all ! The distance is indeed no more than 105 miles as the crow flies, and Omer Pacha had reason to believe that there was a mule track, or rather mountaineer's path, but he knew that it had to cross a chain of mountains near 10,000 feet in height, and, at the season to which his expedition had been delayed, covered with snow, and through the gorges of wh . ch, as he was informed, not even a mule could carry his load with any safety. This route has since been explored by a British officer, whose report, it is said, fully coutirins the opinion of Omer Pacha and those whose advice was taken on the subject of his Asiatic expedition, which, allow me to add, he undertook "like a brave and resolute man," undeterred by the obstacles and delays thrown in his way, aui removed in great measure by his zeal and energy, and hoping against hops to rescue his Sovereign's forces from the fatal position in which they were placed by the strategy of others. Omer Pacha's opinion, however, be it right or wrong, was based upon the best information accessible to him, and upon which, being personally unacquainted with the country, he could place reliance. If any authentic or positive information had been received from General Wilitans with respect to the route by Batoum, it would have immediately set at rest the much debated question as to the point from which the relief of Kars should be attempted; but it appears his knowledge of this route must have been derived subse quently to the commencement of the blockade of Kars, for on the 15th of August, 1555 (p. 170 in Colonel Lake's book), after stating that an army could march from Bedout Kitleli to Tiflis, he expresses a hope that a demonstration will be made in his favour in that direction. I make no reference to other allusions to Omer Pacha in the pub lished letters of Sir W. Williams. They are principally rumours brought into a blockaded camp by the country people, which official despatches since published have shown to be false, although I cannot help thinking that their reproduction and publication cannot fail to misdirect the judgment of the public, which is not thoroughly con versant with all the facts. Deprecating, as all must do, the animosity which controversy may raise between those who have fought on the same side, and although the ink marks have as yet left Omer Pacha's reputation undamaged, which may lead to the supposition that upon more mature reflection Sir NV. Williams sees no cause for the execution of his threat, I have merely come forward, in the interest of history and of Omer Pacha, to correct publicly an error which may hereafter lead to some conftision. General Williams replied to Colonel Simmons' letter in yesterday's Times. Sir Wm. Williams does not consider it worth while discussing how far Omer Pacha could have penetrated towards Kars from Batoum, but expresses a clear opinion— That the moment he ceased to operate, as, in my humble opinion, " a brave and resolute man " should have done— that is, towards Kars and the centre of Gor.ria--our fate was sealed; and the instant that General Mouravieff heard he had chosen the remote port of Souchum Kaleh the Rus sian general felt himself relieved from his disquietude, and made up his mind to hut his army, and thus insure the capture of Kars by famine. This opinion is fully sup ported by that of General Mouravieff himself, expressed to the and to my aide de•camp with characteristic frank ness. The able and veteran General laughed and said— "As soon as I found Omer niche at Souchuni-Kaleli I had no doubt of the result of the campaign ;" adding, " was much obliged to Omer Pacha for going in that direc tion." With respect to the question of the value of defending Kars at all, Sir Wm. Williams observes, in con clusion : I and those who served with me, hold to our view, namely, that by keeping the Russian army occu• pied before Kars, only twenty miles from their own frontier, till the snows of winter provented their taking a single step in advance, even after the SATURDAY, blunders of Omer Pacha and the imbecility of Mini Pacha bad put that fortress into the possesion of the enemy, we had fulfilled a wise purpose, and saved Asia Minor from being overrun, as also the allies from the dire necessity of sending English and French troops from Sebastopol to !te rescue. grtlant. THE DEATH OF THE EAF.I, OF BANDON leaves a vacancy in the representation of Bandon, Viscount Bernard succeeding his father's title and estates. It is believed that the Hon. Captain Bernard, the younger brother, will offer himself. LORD SEATON, accompanied by a numerous staff, has again left Dublin, with a view of following up a close inspection of all the military and naval posi tions in the kingdom. The first posts to be visited on the tour are Limerick and all the forts on the river Shannon. The noble and gallant general arrived at the former place on Monday from Dublin, and at once entered upon an inspection of the new barracks, the military prison, &c. On the follow ing forenoon his lordship and staff returned to the metropolis. AIR. WHITESIDE, Q.C., will be leading counsel for the petitioners in the celebrated Tipperary Bank case of " O'Flaberty v. M‘Dowell.'- This case, No, 37 on the list, it was decided by the Chancellor on Monday should be placed at the top of the list for the present term, and be heard immediately after the cases standing over from last term. THE DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE, in the course of his late address to the students of the Queen's College in Cork, remarked upon the success of the college : This college has been only a few years in existence, and already are its students holding positions of honour and respectability in nearly every port of this empire and I am proud to say that if their reputation is not sufficiently matured to reflect back a lnstre on the place of their edu cation in no instance has •heir conduct been such as to bring on it discredit. Students and professors alike feel that they are nursing the infancy of a great institution, destined, ere long, to raise this country to the highest in tellectual eminence. It has not antiquity to recommend it, neither are there venerable names associated with its history, to give an artificial value to its degrees. lint, on the other hand, it is free from the abuses which time has rendered sacred in other institutions, and which impede their action there. This college has no claim to respect or support except its utility. Taking human knowledge in the advanced state to which it hail arrived in the middle of the nineteenth century, there is here everything neces• sary for its diffusion, in the shape most suitable for the wants of society, as at present constituted. Without egotism or flattery I may confidently state that the autho rities and professors have performed the part assigned to them. If the public do not perform theirs, if they show an insensibility to advantages, the greatest ever conferred on a community, advantages so long and so clamorously sought for, with them rests the reproach, on them will fall the consequences. THE FIRST PUBLIC ENCUMBERED ESTATES COURT SALES for the season took place on Tuesday before Mr. Commissioner Longfield. Four estates were put up, but the gross amount realised during the day did not exceed 7,0001. THE JUDGE OF THE PREROGATIVE COURT has given notice that he will, on Wednesday, the 12th inst., give judgment in the important will case of the " Attorney General v. Wilson," which involves a pro perty of several hundred thousand pounds. THE QUEENS COUNSEL is, it is said, to be rein forced by three additional calls to the inner bar. The names of the gentlemen are Mr. Alexander Norman, Mr. John Edward Walsh, and Mr. James Lawson, the first of the North-West and the others of the Leinster Circuit. THE GOVERNMENT has bestowed upon Mr. Nicholas Kelly, R.M., a good-service pension of WO/. a year for the zeal and ability exhibited by him in reference to the discovery of the murderer of Miss Hinds. AN EXPRESSION occurring in the following letter from the Emperor Alexander to General Luders has excited some remark on the part of the continental press . Taking into consideration the indispensable necessity hou are under of seeking a cure of the grave malady which as affected you for many years, I have consented to accord you a year's leave of absence, to enable you to repair abroad, conserving to you your present emoluments. Acceding, further, to your second request, I have relieved you from the duties of Commander-in-Chief of the Second Army, retaining to you, however, the dignity of my Adju tant-General. Appreciating your efficient services, I hope that if circumstances give me occasion to steal you to employ ment before the expiration of the period named, you will come to resume your duties with the same zeal and alacrity which have ever signalised your military career.—l am always your affectionate _ _ ALEXANDLA Nicouaiwacu.