The Press. — London, England, 1856-12-13 00:00:00

DECEMBER 13, 1856. The Princes and the Queen, who were but a few paces off, observed the same demeanour. It was only after having returned to the palace that his Majesty acknowledged that he was slightly hurt (alteint) on the side. The Corps Diplomatique immediately went to the palace to congratulate the King on his escape. At eight o'clock in the evening the King, with the Queen and t his children, went to the Church of Fie di grotto. The assassin is a Calabrese. He had entered the army as a volunteer. A despatch from Naples of the 9th says : Yesterday, during the marching past of the troops, a young Foot Chasseur rushed at the King, and violently thrust at him with a sword bayonet: the blow glanced aside. and slightly grazed the King's breast. His Majesty remained an hour afterwards on horseback, until the troops had defiled, assuring the Princes and the Ambas sadors (yet remaining) of the slightness of the injury The populace followed him to the palace with acclama tions. The King came out again, after having had the wound dressed, and drove through the dense crowds in a caleche. The assassin said coolly, " i have obeyed my orders." The King presided next day at a State Council, and held a public reception. The insurrection in Sicily is suppressed, and Baron Bentivegna made prisoner. On the Ist instant the state of siege was raised in the marches of the Romagna, with the exception of the provinces of Bologna and Ancona, which will remain under the present military authority some what modified. The Emperor of Austria on occasion of his visit has granted a political amnesty. The Verona Gazette of the 3rd inst. publishes the following two letters, bearing the signature of the Emperor of Austria : Dear Field Marshal Count Radetzky,—T have resolved to raise entirely the sequestration placed under date of 13th February, 1853, upon the property of the political emi grants of my Lombardo-Venetian kingdom. You will at once take the necessary steps that the property still under sequestration shall be restored to those who can prove their right to the same. At the same time I authorise you, for the future, to report upon the sequestrated property of the emigrants, with a view to their reinstatement and their readmission to the quality of Austrian citizens when they shall have forfeited the same, and to grant them the clemency they asked for, on condition of a formal promise on their part to conduct themselves for the future as loyal and faithful subjects. I order you to publish this, my Royal order, at once, FRANCIS JOSEPH Venice, Dec. 2 1836. The second letter is as follows: Dear Field• Marshal Radetzky,—l grant a free pardon to the undersigned, condemned for high treason or other criminal acts against public older. FRANCIS JOSEPH. Venice, Dec. 2, NM. This second letter is accompanied by a list of seventy names of persons who may receive the benefit of the amnesty. AUSTRIA. It is very generally stated in the German papers that, though several matters are to be discussed at the Conference, the only question connected with the treaty of the 30th of March now to be settled is that of the Bessarabian frontier question. As soon as Russia has promised to cede New Bolgrad, and to withdraw her troops from that part of Bessarabia which now belongs to Moldavia, the Austrians will quit the Danubian principalities, and the English the Black Sea. The commission for the reorganisa tion of Moldavia and Wallachia will not go to Bucharest before the evacuation of those provinces is complete. The Austrian Correspondenz, of the 2nd, publishes a very vague denial of the presentation to the Porte of a Russian. Franco note, alluded to in THE PRESS of last week. The note was presented by the French Ambassador alone. M. de Boutenieff, the Russian Ambassador, put into the hands of the Grand Vizier a note not verbally similar to that received from M. Thouvenel, but one in which the same ideas were expressed in other words. The Emperor and Empress continue in Lombardy. The Archduke Charles Ferdinand, it is said, will be the successor of Marshal Radetzky. RUSSIA. Le Nord this week, in an able article upon the Persian question, attributes the British Persian ex pedition to England's jealousy of the growing in fluence of the French at Teheran. Le Nord then comments upon the treaties with England, and asserts that the Court of Teheran had constantly invoked its treaty with England as interdicting the interference of England in the struggles of Persia against her neghbours. In remarking upon the statements of some of the English journals that it was the intention of England to seize upon the Isle of Karrak and other isles in the northern point of the Gulf, Le Nord observes : Such a proceeding on the part of England would give rise to a very delicate question, not only between Persia and England, but between England and France. THE PRESS. With reference to this, we may observe that the Paris Pays lately cited a treaty by which Persia had ceded the Isle of Karrak to France. The article in question was No. 17 of the treaty of 1808, and was worded as follows : The agents of the Court of France having manifested the desire that the Cuurt of Persia would grant the Isle of Karrak, which is one of the isles of the dependency of Farsistan, an as to be enabled to establish factories there, it has been ordered that after the evacuation of Georgia, and of all the Persian provinces by the Russians conform able to the treaty of alliance, concluded jetween the two nations, the Court of Persia will deliver up and will give the undermentioned isle for their establishments, and that it shall be for the future and for ever their property. After referring to the conventions of 1729, 1732, and 1783, between Russia and Persia, also to the two treaties concluded on the 12th of October, 1813, and the 22nd of February, 1828, Le Nord remarks : The obligations 'which those treaties impose on Russia in favour of Persia may be judged of by Article IV. of the treaty of Gulistan His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, in testimony of his sen timents fur his Mojesty the Shah of Persia, nod to prove to him his sincere desire of seeing the autocratiz and sovereign autho rity established on a solid basis in the Persian empire, engages solemnly, fur himself and his successors, to lend, in case of want, help to any of the sons of the Shah of Persia who may be named heir to the Persian empire; so that no foreign enemy can interfere with the affairs of Persia, and that the Court of Persia will be fortified by the help of the Court of Russia. Le !Nord then concludes by frankly stating that if, in consequence of the encroachments or England, Persia should demand that help from Russia, the latter power will be bound to render it, and thus the existing complications between the various powers will be most seriously increased. A French telegraphic agency has circulated the report that a force of 50,000 men has been prepared, under General Khruleff, to be ready to march on the Persian frontier at the call of the Shah. The Czas of Cracow published a statement to the same effect a fortnight ago, while a later despatch from St. Peters burgh, Dec. 8, states that General Bernloff will command the Russo-Persian army. The Second Army, under the command of General Luders, is dissolved. The 4th, sth, and 6th army corps, of which the second army was originally com posed, resume their place as distinct corps. GREECE. The army of occupation will winter in Greece. THE EAST. Intelligence from Constantinople to the Ist states that Russia had demanded from the Shah of Persia a right of entry into the Province of Makon. The Beloochees had invaded the Persian territory on the side of Kerman. France was endeavouring to persuade Persia to yield to England. Ferukh Khan has conferred with Lord Redcliffe ; and the conferences opened between the two embassies, it was anticipated, would detain Ferukh Khan some time at Constantinople. The fall of Herat up to that date was doubtful, although Ferukh Khan guaranteed the truth of the statement to M. de Tbouvenel. The personnel of the British Embassy bad left Teheran. The Cabinet of Redschid Pacha was becoming established. The Sultan had received, at an audience, General Durando, the representative of Sardinia. Achmet Vefik Pacha is the statesman who will represent the Porte in the commission for settling the affairs of the Danubian piincipalitie'. The Divan had authorised the English 'fleet to winter at Sinope. PRUSSIA. _ _ It is the general impression at Berlin that the affair of Neufchatel will terminate in a compromise. The Grand Duke of Baden has granted an amnesty to all persons condemned for participation in the armed revolt of 1818, except the chiefs of the insurrection, and individuals sentenced to infamous punishments for crimes not political. AMERICA. Intelligence from New York up to the 26th ult. states that the meeting of Congress would take place the next Monday, when the President's mes• sage was expected. Some curious revelations of Walker's intended policy have come to light in the New York papers. General Goicouria, an exiled Cuban, who had been in triguing with Walker to secure the independence and liberty of Cuba, and was sent to intrigue with the English Government by Walker, has quarrelled with the Central American revolutionists, and pub lished some correspondence of Walker's which clearly b, tray his design to achieve the conquest of Central America, and to establish a new Southern republic independent of, and to some extent antago nistic to, the United States. The two most impor tant documents were first a solemn convention entered into between Walker end Goicouria to achieve the liberty and independence of Cuba. The second document is a letter to Goicouria, received when starting upon his British expedition : - Granada, Aug. 12. Ny dear General,—l send your credentials for Great 1183 Britain by General Cazeneau. They are ample, and will be, I hope, not without result. If you can open negotia- tions with England and secure for Nicaragua the port of San Juan del Norte, you will effect a great object. It will be a long step towards our end. Without San Juan del Norte, we lack what will be in the end indispensable to us —a naval force in the Caribbean Sea. The commercial consequences of this possession are nothing in comparison with the naval and political results. With your versatility, and, if I may use the term, "adaptability,' I expect much to be done in England. You can do more than any American could possibly ac- complish, because you can make the British Cabinet see that we are not engaged in any scheme for annexation. You can make them see that the only way to cut the expanding and expansive democracy cf the North is by a powerful and compact Southern federation, based on military principles. The sooner you get to England the better it will be for us. If possible, the treaty should be made before the middle of November. By that time the rainy season will be over, and we can open the next campaign. We must have all our relations with Central America fixed before the last of April, and nothing will so much facilitate us as the settle• meat of the Mosquito question. Above all. this part is necessary for the work we have in hand atter our Central American affairs are settled. It is needless for we to impress you with the import ance of this mission, for you, no doubt, feel it as deeply as I do. I hope to bear from you every mail. Can you yet make write me a letter? Tell he must send me the news, and let me know whether " Cuba must and shall be free;" but not for the Yankees. Oh, no! that fine country is not fit for those barbarous Yankees. What would such a psalm•singing set do in the island ? Remember me to your family, and believe me yours sincerely, WM. WALKER. Gen. D. de Goicouria. General Goicouria, uron this, entered into a lengthy and fruitless correspondence, protesting against the revival of slavery, and which has re sulted in his present quarrel with Walker. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald states that, owing to these indications of Walker's ulterior views, the American Cabinet, re garding the question as one of the greatest magni tude, are about to send a Minister to the Republic of Guatemala, for the purpose of opening negotiations with Carrera, the permanent dictator, and of urging him to form an alliance with the other Central American Republics against Walker. Collateral means to bring about the result will not, the corre spondent says, be neglected. Further, the corre spondent asserts that Mr. Marcy hopes during his remaining term of office so to shape the policy of the United States in regard to Central America that it will be difficult for the Buchanan Administration to effect a change. He will strain every nerve to overthrow Walker. It is stated that matters in reference to the massa• cre at Panama had been arranged by Mr. Marcy and the new Granadian Minister. The New York Courier and Enquirer's correspon dent states, respecting British claims on Oregon : The claims of the two British companies in Oregon and Washington territories, which are excluded from notice in Mr. Dallas's treaty, will probably be provided for in a separate convention, or by special legislation in the coming session of Congress. The privileges secured by the treaty of 113.16 to the Hudson's Bay Company are less impor- tant and valuable to them than embarrassing to this Go vernment. They will be disposed of without much trouble and at little expense. The Puget's Sound Agricultural Company claims a very large tract of the best arable lands in Washington territory, and, should its pretensions be sustained, they would very serionsly interfere with the settlement of the country. Could the extinction of the alleged rights of both companies be connected with the retrocession of Vancouver's Island, our Government would be found disposed to pursue a very liberal policy. This great island contains vast deposits of bituminous coal, which is needed to supply the wants of the population of the Pacific slope. Its reannexation to the United States is an object which the Executive is anxious to accomplish before yielding the helm of affairs to his successor. THE FOLLOWING EXTRACT from the New-Russia Calendar for 1853, which contains concise particulars of all the towns and smaller places in New-Russia and Bessarabia, will throw an interesting light on the discussions that. are now going on with reference to Bo!grad : Bolgrad is a well-built Bulgarian hamlet, in the colonial district of Lower Budjak, in the province of Bessarabia, on the river Alpuch, chief seat of the ad ministration of the Trans-Danubian colonists. It contains 8,305 inhabitants, in 1,307 houses, which are for the most part built of bricks (the word may also mean stone) ; has a village school for boys, and Another for girls, a splendid cathedral, and a burying-ground in which General Insow, the founder of the present colony, lies interred : there are also five granaries belonging to the commune and 13 belonging to private persons, 1 public garden, 675 private gardens, and the following - establishments—viz. :-15 for candlemaking, 9 brickmaking. 7 potteries, 8 dye houses, 14 of fermen•ed liquors, I inn, and 42 shops. The land is 22,765 dessiatimes in extent. On the way there is a monument erected by one of the colonists spot where the Emperor Nicholas pitched his on his march to the Danube in 1818. • m g industrial 2 soapboiling, for the sale A The common way to Ismail )lonists on the i camp while