The Press. — London, England, 1856-01-26 00:00:00

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Advertisements also must have areference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALIPHSO brit, 11U, Strand. London. VI) :1 r g LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 2t;, 1856. POSTSCRIPT. Letters from Constantinople, of the 14th, hare been received. Conferences have been held in order to adjust the first and fourth paints relating to the principalities. The persons who took part in these conferences were Aali Pacha, Grand Vizier ; Filed Pach, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Prince Calliinaki, M. Thouvenel, Lord Stratford de Redcliffs., and Baron de Prokesch. From the Crimea the intelligence is up to the 9th, and states that : The firing continued on both sides of Sebastopol. The allies have blown up two more of the docks. The Russians are taking up their winter quarters at Simferopol and Ilaktchi•Serai. The news from Kinburn is to the effect that the Rus sians had 30,00 men in echelon, between Petrosska and Otchakoff, and that, in consequence, fears were enter tained of an attack on the fortress of Kinburn. The garrison had bean reinforced by troops under the command of General Lebceuf. The floti la was frozen in, but would aid in the defence, if the Itussisns should attempt the place. General Vivian, fearing to be attacked at Kertch, has called for officers of infantry and artillery to be despatched to him from Constantinople. The following is the text of the ultimatum ad dressed to the Court of Persia by Mr. Murray :- 1. The Government shall restore to liberty the Princess, wife of 11iirza. 2. That it Eliall acknowledge Mirza as Consul for the Queen of England. 3. That the Prime Minister of the Shah shall proceed to the residence of the English Embassy, to offer an apology, and withdraw his offensive note. Mr. Murray has left an agent at Teheran, and has threatened, if necessary, to support him by an English squadron in the Persian Gulf. By letters from Hamburg of the ':4th, we learn that an Imperial ukase has been promulgated at St. Petersburg, decreeing the issue of ten new series of paper money, each of three million silver roubles. At the same time, eight series formerly drawn are renewed, making altogether fifty-four Letters from Copenhagen state that the news of the Russian acceptance had been coldly received in Sweden, and by the ultranational party in Denmark. The English Government had forwarded a second peremptory application to the Danish Government for winter quarters for a small steam squadron. No answer has been returned t) the application. The Australian mail-packet Champicn of the Seas, with 124,000 ounces of gold on board, arrived off Liverpool yesterday afternoon. She reports the James Baines as having reached Melbourne, seventy seven days out. The Belgique steam ship, of the Belgian Steam Navigation Company, after leaving Plymouth for New York, returned to Southampton on Thursday, with five feet of water in her hold, the passengers and crew being nearly exhausted by the exertions they hal undergone. - t . THE PRESS. Her Majesty, it is stated, has signified her intention of opening Parliament in person. The Address in the Commons will be moved by the Hon. G. H. C. Pyng, M.P. for Tavistock, and seconded by Mr. W. E. Baxter, M.P. for Montrose. The Address in the Lords will be moved by the Earl of Crosford, and seconded by the Earl of Abingdon. Lord Palmerston has issued the usual circular to his parliamentary supporters. A Cabinet Council was held on WPdnesday after noon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren don, Mr. Secretary Labouchere Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alder ley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The Council sat three hours. i - Cabinet Council will also be held this afternoon at the Foreign-office. _ _ The Connell of Education will meet this afternoon at the Privy Council Chamber, Whitehall. _ . _ The members of the War Council at Paris—his Royal Highness the Poke of Cambridge, General 1)e la marmora, Gen. rul Airey, Sir Harry Jones, Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, and Admiral Dundas— arrived at Dover on Tuesday morning at 5 a.m., on their return from Paris, and proceeded direct to London by the express mail train. The Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole has ac cepted the office of Archbishop's Church Estates Commissioner, vacated by the decease of the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn. The income attached to the office, which is in the gift of the Archbishop of Can terbury, is 1,0001. a year. The Duke of Argyll has been offered the Green Riband of the Order of the Thistle, vacant by the death of the Marquis of Aylesbury. Mr. J. Clementson, well known - to the members of the Legislature as Deputy-Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons for the last fifty years, died on Sunday last at his residence, Felcourt-lodge, Torquay. The Crawford Peerage is about to be claimed by a farmer in Montrose, who traces his descent from the head of the house of Lindsay. Cardinal Wiseman, on Wednesday last, was elected a member of the Royal Society of Literature. The Metropolitan Board of Works met at the Guildhall Council Chamber yesterday, for the pur pose of considering the several new appointments. The election of an engineer was proceeded with, the list being .at once reduced to four principal candi• dates,—Messrs. Bazalgette, 11,mrick, Rawlinson, and Booth. The contest was very close, and resultsd in the appointment of Mr. Bazalgette to that important office. The will of the late Thomas Cubitt, Esq., is said to be one of the longest on record, extending to 386 Chancery folios, covering thirty skins of parchment. The personal estate exceeds one million (termed in law of upper value), and is charged with the highest amount in the scale of probate duty, the stamp being 15,000/. The widow has an immediate bequest of :20,000/., and an annuity of 8,0001. Lord Howden, at Madrid, received the intelligence of Russia's acc.-mtance of the Austrian proposals in the midst of a diplomatic dinner. His lordship im mediitely announced it to his gaests. An important fact is announced, with due em phasis, in the Post Ampt Gazette of the 21st. "Count Benkendorff, the Russian Military Commissioner at Berlin, at the Grand Opera ball in that city, last Saturday, ' danced' with Lady Bloomfield, the wife of the English Ambassador." This is considered by the Post Ampt Gazette as the most satisfactory step towards a pacific solution of the causes of difference between the two countries yet observed. THE Suriris is busy preparing magnificent presents of great value for the allied sovereigns. His Impe• rial Majesty's MiniAers, it is said, lately called the attention of the Sultan to the enormous expense of these presents, and the impoverished state of the Turkish finances, to which lie is reported to have re plied that the brilliants have not to be purchased, as they form part of the treasure of the Crown, and that he thought no better use could be made of them than in offering them as a feeble mark of gratitude t his august allies. PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF is said to be in anything but good odour with the Austrian Court. At a late audience of the Emperor, his Majesty it was ob served maintained a marked coolness towards the Russian Ambassador. The unfortunate speech at the dinner to Baron Hess, in which Prince Gortscha koff praised the Austrian generals at the expense of the Austrian Government, is said to have given great offence to the Emperor Francis Joseph. The Prince, moreover, is extremely annoyed at the success of Count lino], upon whom the Russian diplomatist always affected to look down. SATURDAY, THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. THE negotiations continue to progress favorably. The telegraphic communications hitherto received have necessarily outstripped the slower delivery of the State documents themselves. Meanwhile the latest information received from St. Petersburg con. tinues to be of that character which must lead to a speedy pacific solution. RUSSIAN DECLARATIONS. St. Petersburg, Jan. 21. The Journal de St. Petersbourg says that out of consideration for the general wish of Europ e the Russian Government has not sought to impede the work of reconciliation by accessory negotiations, in the hope that due account will be taken of its moderation. Berlin ' Jan. 23. M. de Budberg has this day received a circular from Count Nesselrode, by which the Chancellor makes known to the representatives of Russia in foreign countries the motive for accepting the pro. positions of Austria, and gives an exposh of the intentions of the Russian Government in reference to the future negotiations. The circular of the Russian Government declares that Russia has made concessions with a view to the re•establisliment of peace, out of deference to the representations of friendly powers, but not at all because the interest of Russia calls for the conclu sion of that peace. Berlin, Wednesday. The acceptance of the Austrian pr•'position has been published officially at St. Petersburg. The announcement states that the chief condition is the neutralisation of the Black Sea, to be secured by a treaty between Russia and Turkey. Russia is ready to discuss the other points. _ _ T3erlin, Jan. 18. According to the most recent accounts, the docu ment signed by Count Nesselrode constitutes a real attestation that Russia accepts without reserve the Austrian propositions, and will suffice to authorise Prince Gortschakoff to sign a preliminary treaty of peace. _ _ _ Berlin, Jan. 18 (Evening). Count Lobanoff has arrived with despatches from St. Petersburg. The participation of Prussia in the conferences for peace is under discussion. Russia has only accepted the propositions of Austria with the reserve of their being discussed at the con ferences. The King has to-day held a chapter of the Order of the Black Eagle. Letters from Berlin of the 23rd assert that orders were sent to Prince Gortschakoff in the Crimea on the 18th to suspend hostilities. Despatches from Berlin of the 24th assert that the question of the participation of l'russia in the future conferences had been discussed in a Cabinet Council presided over by the King. It was there decided that Prussia should take no initiative in the matter, and should make no concessions susceptible of changing her actual position. Count Orloff and Baron Brunow are mentioned at Vienna as the Russian Plenipotentiaries expected to attend the approaching conferences. M. Messimo d'Azeglio, it is said, will represent Sardinia at the conferences. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, Jan. V. BANKRUPTS. GEORGE FOSBET, Norway-wharf, Millwall, Middlesex, timber merchant—EDWAßD ROWLAND and THOMAS EVANS, Coleman-street, New North-road, Middlesex, builders — ALEXANDER CLARE, Gate-street, Lincoln's.inn-tields, Middlesex, engineer and patent shutter maker--Jamss FRASER, Lower Thames-street, City, wine, spirit, and neer merchaut—BENJamiN RICHARDSON LAWRENCE, Carsbalion, Surrey, apothecary — EDWARD CHARLES CURTIS, Stratford, West Ham, Essex, builder —AI:RAMAN STINSON, Scholetield-street, Bloomsbury, Aston- Juxta. Birmingham, builder—WlLLlAM HINTON and SAMUEL MEREDITH, Pensnell, Kingswinford, Stafford, builders—THOMAS BATE, Wolverhampton, licensed victualler--..Tomt URIFFITHS, Ludlow, Salop, carpenter and joiner—JosEPH ALLEN and BRAMMALL HoLmEs, Derby, silk throwsters, and silk manu facturars--JOSZPH SPOONER TAYLOR, Derby, ironfounder— WiLmas PAGE HURLSTON, Cheltenham, innkeeper and wine and spirit merchant—STEPHEN AMER, Bradford, grocer—Harm MANSFIELD, Liverpool, fancy-toy dealer. Friday, .Innuary 9.5 . 7,SANKRUPTS.—WIT.LIAII SHOvE, 011 and colourman, Croy don—WILLIAM HAWKKR and ALFRED CAMPION, carmen, Dow gate-hill. tity—Wittuat TINGLY, warehouseman, Tottenham court-road—WILLIAM PHILLIPS, builder, Wallingford—JAMES SIAM', glove manufacturer, `coke-sub-Iltundon, bomersetbbire —lnouss FALKINOHAM, coach-builder, Knalesborough Enwsito ELLIS, wine merchant, Ludgate-hiII—WILLIAM Jona sox, licensed victualler, Metropolitan Cattle market —Nam BRODIE, commission agent, Liverpool—JAMES CHADWICK, joiner, Heywood, Lancashire WILLIAM WILCOX BsEEL stationer and printer, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn—Ousts. JErraatEs. merchant, Aldersgaie-street, City—JOHN BEiouso - BtrrnE, dealer in metals, Old Kent-road— Faansaic CHAFFERS, colonial btoker, late of Old Broad.street—Joun Caoss, innkeeper, Bolton, Lancashire—Joss.rit BUDSuN, mer chant. Seaton Carew and West Hartlepool, Durham. SCOTCH SEQESTRATIONS. JOHN WILSON, grocer. Ilelensburgh—AatlOßALD DAVIT so and Co., sewed muslin ntereltaats, Glasgow— CHARLES STEWART, manufacturer, Glas 'ow—Joan FERGUSON, manufacturer, Glasgow.