The Press. — London, England, 1856-03-15 00:00:00

MARCH 15, 1856. tiations now pending, the Government will maintain the reserve it has imposed on itself, and that no enterprise entailing any issue of fresh scrip or shares will be autho rised during the current year. The fact that no new concession of railways, or suc h industrial undertakings, would be granted this year, depressed the Bourse. The French papers have not occupied themselves so much as usual with the great question of the day. The Constitutionnel believes that, whatever definitive result the Conference has, this war will have an immense result upon civilisation. It will have intro duced into practical existence the principle of right over might. The illness of Prince Jerome soon assumed the serious nature of pleurisy, but by the latest bulletins there is every hope of the prince's recovery. It is rumoured in Paris that in the event of the birth of an Imperial Prince, MM. Fould, Baroche, and Canrobert, will be raised to dukedoms. 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The E Silesia, e re-establi preparati, Baltic : The fle creased, al up the We coast of I reserves a General li peror, has artillery at and has g( the K ni p e other p o i ❑ The ( despatch duplicity and callio iu ate to] AUSTRIA. The speech of the Emperor Napoleon has not produced a favorable impression at Vienna. The prominent mention made of Sardinia, and the slight notice give❑ to Austria, is felt. At Vienna every belief ex fisted in the speedy ter. urination of the war and the signature of a satisfac tory peace. The Post Ampt Gazette states : The reports sent lately by Count Buol say, we are assured, that it is doubtful if the treaty of peace can be signed this month, but that the conclusion of peace appesrs certain. It is stated that it will be impossible to regulate the Bessarabian frontier without despatching a commission to the spot. In fact, the topographical de. tails at hand are very incomplete, and the projected fron tier of Chotym to the Lake Sasik is neither marked by a stream of water nor a mountain chain. France, it is said, has already fixed on her commissioner, who will be General Letang—Austria, England, and Russia, are on the point of naming theirs. Sardinia will not be represented in this commission. The formation of an Austro-American Commercial Company, with the object of establishing a direct open trade between the United States and America, was regarded as a prelude to the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between the two countries. The reduction of the army on the conclusion of peace was anticipated. PRUSSIA. Baron Manteuffel, at a recent debate in the Cham ber of Deputies, made a remarkable political decla ration. Count Schwerin had objected to an inter ference by decree with the taxation on spirits as unconstitutional. In reply the Prime Minister main tained the right of the Miristry to issue such a decree, and pointed out the difference between Count Schwerin's views and those of the Court : According to Count Schwerin's view of things, the per son of the King vanishes entirely; according to him it is requisite that each Ministry for the time being shall put forward a distinct programme, that shall be open to all attacks and possibly to destruction. Then the M.nistry is to retire, and another to come in its place, soon to move oil again in the same way. We, too, have a programme, and it is—We are the servants of his Majesty the King! That is a programme which is fitting and becoming for Prussia! The death of Herr Von Hinckelday, Minister of Police, shot in a duel with an officer of the Land wehr, has created much excitement in Berlin. The Minister of Police wa. a faithful servant of the King, who, when informed of his death, uttered the most vehement exclamations of rage and grief. The sub ject was brought before the House of Peers on the 11th. RUSSIA. The statement that the Russian vessels of war had left Sweahorg to attack the English advanced squadron has been officially contradicted at Berlin by a telegraph from St. Petersburg. The anniversary of the Emperor Nicholas's death was kept with great ceremony on the Ist inst. The whole of the Imperial family and Court were present at the service performed in the chapel of the Winter Palace. The Emperor has replied to an address from Silesia, expressing his earnest desire to see peace re-established and secured. At the same time great preparations are said to be pushed on in the Baltic : The fleet at Cronstadt has just been considerably in creased, and the levies of sailors recently made have tilled up the blanks made by the war at Sebastopol. All the coast of Finland is covered with troops, and most of the reserves of the guard have been placed in garrison there. General llaraas o ff, one o f t h e a id es -d e - camp to t h e Em peror, has, in company with an inspector-general of the artillery and ooe of the engineers, visited all the fortresses, and has gone as far as Helsingfors. The report made to the Emperor is very favorable, and it mentions, among other points, the good feeling of the inhabitants. The Grand Duke Constantine has addressed a despatch to Admiral Wrangel, pointing out the duplicity and falsehood of Russian official reports, and calling for frank statements and the real truth to the forthcoming annual reports, THE PRESS. AMERICA. The Atlantic, with dates from New York to the Ist of March, arrived on Thursday. No intelligence of the Pacific had been received. His Excellency G. A. Dallas, American Minister at this Court, has arrived in the Atlantic. The correspondence between the British Govern ment and the United States on the enlistment and cn the Central American questions had been pub lished and laid before the Senate, on the 28th ult., by the President. A discussion on the Central Ame rican correspondence had taken place in the Senate. Mr. Seward considered Lord Clarendon's explana• tions satisfactory. The debate was adjourned. The rumour of the dismissal of Mr. Crompton is unfounded. Nicaragua was peaceful. The United States Government have annexed the Mosquito ter ritory, and banished Colonel Kumey. FOREIGN MISCELLANEA. COUNT ORLOFF is a great lion just now in Paris. The moment he makes his appearance in a salon (says a letter from Paris) he is sure to be the centre of a numerous group of both sexes, who scan every feature and watch every expression of his counte nance. Commanding in person, he stands without flinching the artillery of the many eyes, many of them brilliant ones, that are pointed at him, and so watch ful is the curiosity of the beholders, that many of the reports one finds floating the following day may he traced to inferences hastily formed after such a scrutiny. The hero of the moment, whose name awakes associations of so peculiar a kind, bears him self well through the ordeal. His high forehead, from which the iron-grey hair is only half pushed aside, but not carelessly ; the regular and marked features, of which sternness seems to be the most prominent characteristic; the long and thick mous tache, aid last, not least, the costly diamonds which compose the three s• ars which decorate his left breast, and which might make the Duke of Brunswick him self grow pale, if anything could produce such an effect, all mark him out as an object of curiosity. He seldom smiles, or, if he does, his smiles, the moment they appear, hide themselves in the hair of his upper lip, as if ashamed to be seen at play on a countenance cast in so stern a mould. He is per fectly easy in his manner, and, whether he speaks to man or woman, is still grimly polite with all. PARTY FEELING still runs high in Paris. An occurrence which took place one evening last week in the salons of a distinguished lady shows that the chiefs of the old party have by no means forgotten their hostility to the present regime. In the course of the evening's reception, Count Flahaut and Count Morny were announced. In a moment M. and Mme. Thiers, M. and Mme. de Remusat, M. and Mine. d'Haussouville, and many other visitors, rose and took their leave. In a few minutes more the salon was nearly empty, and Counts Flahaut and Morny left alone to enjoy the society of their hostess. THE Frankfort Post Zeitung lately published a remarkable statement, which promises some agree able personal quarrelling with Turkey as soon as peace is concluded:— - - When peace is concluded (says the Post) Count Buol intends again to direct his attention to a matter which was stt aside when the European-Russian difference assumed such formidable dimensions. The matter in question is a claim which Austria made on the Porte when Count Leiningen went on his mission to Constantinople. What is desired is the cession of a little strip of land called the Sutorina, which runs into the Austrian territory in Dal• antis, and has frequently led to quarrels. THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA has determined to in crease the efficiency of his navy. Three screw line of battle ships are ordered, and an extensive addition to the fleet in the Mediterranean is at this moment under consideration. _ _ MAZZINI lately sent 501. to some friend at Rome. The letter was intercepted at the post-office, the bills seized, cashed, and applied to the fund for raising a statue to the Immaculate Virgin. The French papers have characterised this act as a shameful and flagrant robbery. CARDINAL ALFIERI, it is believed, will attend at Paris at the baptism of the expected Imperial child. The Cardinal, it is stated, will possibly be the bearer of the Golden Rose of this year, as a gift to the Em press from the Pope. PRINCE FREDERIC WILLIAM, son of the Prince of Prussia, will visit the English Court for a lengthened period during the present season. SOME DIPLOMATIC CHANGES among the represen tatives of Russia will, it is expected, take place on the conclusion of peace. Count Chreptowitsch is spoken of for Paris; M. de Kisselef for Rome. Baron Brunow will not return to London. Prince Gortscha koff, it is now believed, will retire definitively from Vienna. THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF PRISONS in the Duchy of Parma was stabbed in several places with a dagger at the door of his own house, one night last week, just as he was returning from the theatre. His death was instantaneous. 249 BARON LEJUNE, the French Ambassador at Teheran, has broken off diplomatic relations with Persia and retired to Damascus. THE IMPEIUAL layette divides with the plenipo tentiaries the attention of at least the fairer portion of Paris. The public have this week been admitted by tickets to Mile. Felicie's rooms, to inspect the baby linen of the future Imperial child. The Place do la Bourse and the Rue Vivienne have been blocked up with carriages all day. Sergens-de-villa marshal the spectators the way they should be going, and only let in a few at a time, so that the show rooms may not be overcrowded : The first thing that strikes one on entering the rooms where the two complete infantine trousseaux, masculine and feminine, have been laid out by Mlle. Felicie with ex quisite taste (writes a correspondent from Paris) is the amazing superfluity of the outfit. There are napkins, caps, frocks, chemises, petticoats, jackets, wrappers, hats, bonnets, shoes, drawers, cloaks, mantles, mantelets, capes, talmas, muffs, collars, socks, stockings, flannels, rattles, pillows, and hosts of nameless articles pertaining to a nur sery, enough to set up a foundling hospital. But when the costly material and delicate workmanship of every one of these articles is considered, the mind, perplexed to think what they can all be wanted for, might fancy that some political convulsion had driven all the sovereigns of the world to one place of refuge, and that this was the common and ample warthobe of all the royal babies in existence. It never can be expected that any prince or princess will actually wear a tithe of the things here pro vided. Coat au Sastion. Her Majesty the Queen held a levee (the third) oa Wednesday. Her Majesty and his Royal High ness Prince Albert arrived at St. James's from Back ingham Palace soon after two p.m., attended by the Court, and escorted by a detachment of Life Guards. Her Majesty was received by the great officers of State. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar attended the levee, and were received by the Vice- Chamberlain. The levee was very numerously attended by the nobility and gentry. The presentations exceeded four hundred in number. The general circle was fully attended. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert and the Princess Royal, went to Woolwich on Thursday to witness the arrival of the Siege Train direct Iron]. the Crimea. The Queen afterwards inspected the men, nine hundred strong, and returned to town. In the evening her Mkjesty visited the Princess's Theatre. _ Her Majesty and Prince Albert dined with the Duchess of Cambridge on Monday, and visited the Olympic Theatre on Tuesday evening. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al bert, accompanied by the whole of the youthful members of the Royal Family, will leave Bucking ham Palace on Monday next for Windsor Castle, where the King of the Belgians is to arrive on the following day, on a visit to the Queen, from Brussels. During his Majesty's sojour❑ in this country he will accompany the Queen and Prince Consort on a short visit to Osborne, and while there visit the fleet at Spitbead. The Eari and Countess of Derby entertained a select circle at dinner on Wednesday evening at the family mansion in St. James's-square. The guests upon this occasion comprised the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Bath, the Earl and Countess Stan hope, Viscount Newport, Viscount Fordwicb, Lord and Lady Olivia Ossulston, Lord and Lady Lynd hurst and the Hon. Miss Copley, Lord Redesdale, Lord Henry Lennox, and the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs. Disraeli. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley will leave town on Saturday next for Knows ley hall, where they will remain until atter the Easter holidays. The Earl of Eglinton entertained a distinguished circle at dinner on Wednesday evening, at the family mansion in St. James's-square. The dinner party comprised the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Yowls, Viscount Maidstone, Lord and Lady Colville, Lord and Lady Colchester, Lord William Graham, the Right Hun. - - Sir John and Lady Pakingtou, the Right HUD. Spencer and Mrs. Walpole, Sir Adam Hay and the Misses Hay, the Hon. Henry Murray, Sze. Lord and Lady Poltimore have left town for Paris. M. le Due d'Ossuna has arrived in town from Paris. Bittvopolitan. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.-OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION. A JURY of the principal inhabitants of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, were empannelled on Tuesday before Mr. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster..it t$