The Press. — London, England, 1856-01-12 00:00:00

JANtAttY 12, 1856. TEE EniraEss EUGENIE will use the same bed chamber in the Elysieon the occasion of her con finement as was occupied by Queen Hortense on the birth of Louis Nspoleou. PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF, at Vienna, is said to lose his habitual coolness when speaking of Austria. " Ces miserables," he is reported to have uttered the other day, " to whom a few years since we gave back a kingdom, are now ready to assist in taking from us a province." GENERAL MounAvlEFF's appointment to the su preme command of the Russian armies in the South is considered certain by the war party at SL Peters burg since the appointment of Menschikoff to Croustradt. Prince Gortschakoff, it is believed, will resume his secondary command in Bessarabia. POLITICAL ARRESTS are reported to be taking place in different parts of France with " great results." In the departments of the Cher and Indre, and even in Paris, arrests and domiciliary visits of the police have been lately very frequent. GENERAL CAVAIONAC AND BERANGER were the principal pall bearers at the late funeral, in Pere-la- Chaise, of M. David, the sculptor. THE AUSTRO-ITALIAN BISHOPS have already com menced to act upon the provisions of the Concordat. The Archbishop of Milan has issued a rescript or daining, "as the press is the root of all evil," that every publisher shall, previous to sale, lay before him a copy of every book printed or foreign work imported. - A MEDAL STRUCK IN THE FRENCH MINT comme morates the celebrated loan of 750,000,000 f. France is represented as receiving the tribute of Agriculture, Commerce, and the Arts, over which soars the Genius of War. MONSIGNOR ANTINOIII, one of the auditors of the Sacra Rudta Tribunal at Rome, has lately obtained permission from the I'ope to abandon the prelatical garb, and marry. The event has caused a great sensation in Rome. tour' attb lastion. HER Majesty during the week has received a distin guished circle of visitors. His Royal Highness the Count of Flanders arrived at the Castle on Monday, and remains on a visit. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar also remains at the Castle. Her Majesty gave a theatrical performance on Wednesday evening, when the comic drama of A Wonderful Woman, and the farce of Only a Half penny, were performed in St. George's-hall. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Wales, and the junior members tf the Royal Family, with a distinguished party, were present. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge accompanied by Generals Airey and Jones, with Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, left London at an early hour on Wednesday, en route to Dover, Calais, and Paris, where his Royal Highness arrived in safety in the evening. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence has been suffering during the week from a severe relapse of gout. Con sultations have been daily held by Dr. Bright and the physicians in attendance, and bulletins issued. The noble lord is not yet out of danger. Lord Stanley, M.P., has during the week been on d visit to the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P., at Hugh enden Manor. Earl Granville, Lord President, has issued invi tations to dinner, on the 29th instant, to the Ministers and officers of State, for the purpose of settling the Roll of Sheriffs for the present year. The Lord Chancellor, accompanied by Lady Cran worth, arrived in town on Thursday from his seat in Kent. The noble and learned lord received the judges and the leading members of the bar yesterday at breakfast, after which his lordship and learned guests proceeded in procession to open the courts of law. Lord and Lady John Russell and family arrived early in the week at his lordship's seat near Stroud, Gloucestershire, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, Beds. Lord Ernest Bruce has left town for Tottenham park, near Marlborough,Wilts. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone come to town the week alter next, from Sir Stephen Glynne's seat, Hawarden Castle, Flint shire, for the meeting of Parliament. The Duchess of Manchester has arrived in town for her accouchement. Sir Thomas Moncrieffe still continues dangerously ill at Moncrieffe house. Viscount Somerton and the Hon. Miss Barrington are about to form a matrimonial alliance. Lady Ellenborongh, whose death was currently re ported lagt week under somewhat highly coloured circumstances, is stated, according to letters of the 10th ult., to be at present hi good health, at Damascus. THE PRESS. The Marquis of Townshend died a few days since at his villa near Genoa. His lordship is succeeded in his title and estates by his cousin, Captain Towns bend, M.P. for Tamworth. Volittral. THE EARL OF ELGIN, in reply to the address of the Lord Provost of Glasgow, upon the occasion of the presentation of the freedom of that city to the noble earl, in the Glasgow City-hall, on Friday last, lightly sketched the leading principles of his colonial policy while Governor General of Canada : I know well (said the noble earl) there are people in this country, perhaps not so many now as many years ago, but I know there are persons in the country who hold the opinion that the colonies are a useless encumbrance; and I so far agree with these persons, that it is possible so to govern these colonies as to render them an intolerable burden ; but I believe it possible, by the adoption of a wiser policy—by freely and frankly conceding to our fellow•subjeets in the colonies those rights and privileges we so dearly prize—by treating their• feelings with respect, and their wishes with consideration, so to attach them to the mother•coun try as to render them a source of strength. T 1 at it was now, by the substitution of a yolicy of confidence for one of reserve and distrust, that we had wrought a most important and material improve ment in our relations with the Colonies, and that the distracted, depressed, and almost bankrupt Canada of 1847 should be peaceful, prosperous, and contented in 1850, the noble earl explained by this change of our policy in colonial government. With respect to American jealousy, Lord Elgin regarded any ill feeling towards us on the part of the Ameri cans as a serious penalty to pay for any trivial ad vantages such as the Fishing•ground Rights Treaty might have given us, and admitted that he consi dered it as one of his first duties ever to reduce the risk of a quarrel with America to the minimum de gree. Upon the war, Lord Elgin frankly stated his belief that the best thing we could do was to fight it out; expressed a certain sense of confidence in Lord Pamerston's Government; and did not feel very sanguine as to the result of the negotiations now commencing, though he yielded to no man in his desire for the re-establishment of peace : My opinions are very easily stated, and I have no hesita tion in avowing them. I say that now we are in for this war we must tight it out like men. Ido not say, throw away the scabbard ; in the first place, because I dislike all violent metaphors, anti in the second place, because I think a scabbard a very useful implement, when used at the pro per tune, and the sooner we can use it the better. But I do say, having drawn your sword, do not sheathe it till the purposes fur which it has been drawn are accomplished. I say, taking the very lowest view of the matter, looking at it simply as a question of pounds, shillings, and pence, it appears to me that nothing could be more demonstrably absurd than to leave work of this kind half finished. I go further. I have no hesitation in saying—and lam rather glad to have an opportunity of saying, because I have seen unwarranted statements to the effect that I might have a different opinion—l have no hesitation in saying that in my opinion Lord Palmerston and his Government have, for some time past, been carrying on this war in a manner which entitles them to the favour and support both of those who considered a war a necessity from the commencement, and of others (no doubt a minority) who have the opinion that, whatever the prospect of the war may have been at the outset it was soon made a necessity by the blunders of one set of diplomatists and by the passions and temper of another. A great deal is now being said about negotiations; I earnestly hope that these negotiations may turn out to be of some use, but I must confess that I am not very san guine on that point. I think myself—though I should be sorry to say anything to give offence to persons in autho rity—that since this business began, next to the successes of our arms, what we have had most reason to be thank ful to Providence for is the failures of our diplomatists. What would have been our position now, if we had suc ceeded in inducing Turkey to accept the proposals which we made to her in the famous Note of Vienna, and if, after it had been too late to mend the matter, we had found that, in point of fact, we bad secured for Russia every single thing which Prince Meuschikoff intended to obtain, the eagle of France, the lion of Great Britain, and the wild beasts of the other country crouching at her feet, as senti nels to guard what she secured? Or what would have been our position if, under the influence of some judicial blindness, Russia had not refused the proposals made the year following at Vienna, and if we had not got from her any paper arrangement such as was suggested in these proposals, leaving her the prestige and credit of the suc cessful defence of Sebastopol? But though I have said all this in respect to my views of the necessity of carrying on war till we get a proper peace, I most distinctly declare that I yield to no man, not only in my desire to see peace re established, but in my abhorrence of the evils—moral, social, and political—that a state of war involves. Mr. APSLEY PELLAT addressed the electors of Southwark on Monday evening, and declared himself in favour of carrying on tho war with vigour, until free trade and freedom of ck,mmunication were uni versally established : - - When he considered that 20,000,060/. hnd been willingly paid to rescue a portion of her 11Ittjusty's subjects from slavery he could not doubt that 200,000,0001. would be as willingly provided to rescue from that thraldom and misery in which autocracy would, if it succeeded in its übjt:ct, 33 ultimately place them, nearly all (Europe and the greater part of Asia. Heavy, then, as was the pressure which the war imposed upon all classes—great as was the depression of trade already resulting from it—he was convinced it would be borne cheerfully, and that the country would con tinue to support that Ministry that would carry it on with vigour. They did not want a Russell prop nor a Peelite buttress to keep the Cabinet of England in condition while Palmeniton was at its head. They must insist upon the Baltic and the Black Sea being thrown open to the trade of all nations; and we must continue our efforts until, with the aid of our allies—France, Sardinia, and Turkey— we convince the autocrat that our principle was the right one, and that freedom of trade and freedom of communica tion must be universally established. The hon. member then explained his political prin ciples, speaking in favour of an amalgamation or the laws upon real and personal property, of army reform, and the abolition of church rates. At the conclusion of his address, the hon. member, reverting again to the war, said that peace at any price was to prepare the road to annihilation as an independent nation, and that until Russian power was effectually bum bled, and the allies had forts and fleets in the Baltic and Black Seas, to prevent Sinope massacres, and to preserve free trade to all nations, England would not have attained the proud position to which she was entitled. Loan HOTHAN, at the opening of the Hull Corn Exchange on Tuesday last, in reply to the toast of the " Army," declared that he considered the present war neither unjust nor unnecessary, and that he believed the country and the Government were pre paring their best energies " for the crowning and successful efforts of the coming struggle." Ills lordship then proceeded to point out the evils of underrating the enemy and overestimating our own strength, and concluded by a reference tathe failure of the attack on the Redan, with an earnest appeal to his audience that in the coming campaign they wore' not in any case rashly condemn the opera tions of the allied armies upon imperfect informa tion. Captain Duncombe, in returning thanks for the " Navy," said, with respect to a peace— k That peace must not be a rotten truce, but a peace of a permanent nature, and if the negotiations which are now on foot are to have any real termination we must hope for forbearance on both sides; and those who are engaged in carrying on the affairs of this country, and who are dealing with a powerful enemy, must recollect that the trans actions must be of a forbearing nature, such as must reflect honour and dignity on this enlightened nation ; and if they are to end in permanent, lasting, and honour able peace, I believe no men are more desirous than those of the navy of this country. MR. BRAMWELL, Q.C., has been appointed Baron of the Exchequer, in the place of Sir James Parke. MR. PETER BENSON MAXWELL, of the English common law bar, has been appointed to the vacant Recordership of Penang. Mr. Maxwell was called to the bar in 1841, and was a member of the Home Circuit; he was also one of the commissioners selected by the Duke of Newcastle in the autumn of 1851 to inquire into the state of the hospitals at Scutari, and obtained some notoriety a short tme since, as author of the pamphlet " Wrhom Shall we Hang?" The salary of ‘ Mr. Maxwell's appointment is worth 2,000/. a year. A MEETING OF THE MILITARY COMMITTEE of the Cabinet Ministers was held oa Saturday at the office of the Secretary of State for War. Present, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Panmure, Earl Granville, Sir Charles Wood, and Sir George Grey. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Viscount Hardinge,Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, and General Sir R. Airey also attended. Mn. GRENVILLE BERKELEY addressed his consti tuents at Cheltenham, on the war, on Tuesday. After some ref rence to Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Cobden, the prominent representatives of the peace party, " who had done mere by their speeches to defeat their own object than the most strenuous supporter of the policy of the war," Mr. Berkeley spoke of the vigorous steps taken by Lord Palmerston's Government to bring our war estab • lishments into efficient working order, and stated that General Codrington had more than 50,000 men now, and would have nearly 100,000 in the summer, under his command : Effectually humbling the power of Russia was the only means of bringing about a lasting peace. That was the policy of France and England, and, when it succeeded, he believed it would be the proudest moment of a long and useful life when Lord Palmerston could sign a treaty of peace alike honourable to England and France, honour able to Europe, and a blessing to posterity. ptttopatitan. THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS met for the despatch of busine-.s on Monday, at Burlington house. The secretary having read the report of the chairman, detailing the steps he had taken to carry out the resolutfOris adopted by the board at the last meeting, recothmended that the officers of the late Sewers Commissice; should be continued In their