The Press. — London, England, 1857-09-12 00:00:00

lortign anb doionial ntallignut. FRANCE. The visit of the Emperor and Empress to Stuttgard is now settled. Their Majesties w►ll leave Chalons on the 24th. The King of Wurtemburg returned to Stuttgard last Saturday, in order to prepare for his distinguished visitors. " The first grand manceuvres in the camp at Chalons took place on Monday last, and are to be continued every other day. The Guard executed with remarkable precision and combination the different military movements commanded by the Emperor. In a few days his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is to arrive. The marshals are invited to come and spend a few days with his Majesty. " The Emperor," says a letter from the camp, "leads a complete camp life: from noon to three o'clock, during the exercises, his Majesty is on horseback ; the remainder of the day he is engaged in his cabinet. At half•past six his Majesty dines, covers being every day laid for thirty. There are about 150 superior officers in the camp, and they are each invited in their turn. After dinner some whist tables are formed, but the party does not remain late, as the Emperor retires to rest at an early hour. Every morning he is engaged in his cabinet, and the telegraph is act►vely at work." The event of the day in Paris is the reappearance of the Assemblie Nationale under the name of the Spectateur. It may be remembered that this journal Was suspended on the Bth of July for two mouths by a Ministerial order, in consequence of an article re lating to the elections. M. Binard, in tl►e first article, alludes to the circumstances attending the reappearance of the journal under a new name, and remarks—" Yielding at present to a force which we cannot resist, we have consented to change our title, but ell the rest remains as it was." The authorisa tion of the Minister is subjoined to the statement; and then the journal proceeds to give the intelligence of the day in the usual way. Ledru Rollin, Mazzini, Massarenti, and Campa nella, have been condemned par contumace for conspiracy (crime de complot) in the plot to assassi nate the Emperor. The court sentenced them to deportation. AUSTRIA. The Ost Deutsche Post, which frequently ex• presses the sentiments of the Austrian Foreign office, contains the following article on the Anglo- Indian question:— " Great anti general is the sympathy felt for the English in the East Indies. Wherever inveterate prejudice and national jealousy do not predominate, it is wished that England may speedily triumph. So great, so powerful is the force of public opinion in this matter, that even those who at heart hate the proud British empire, and wish to see it enervated and exhausted, dare not openly express their thoughts. They are necessitated to mask their real sentiments under a hypocritical turning up of the eyes' (Attgenverdrehen) and apparently sympathis ing phrases. Edifying in this respect are the American and French organs of the press. Some of the American papers already flatter themselves that India is lost to England for ever, and foresee that Great Britain is destined to become a fourth rate power. A Paris paper, being moved by generous indignation, repudiates the idea, and with great unction expresses its conviction that even if England should lose India it will be a second or third rate power. We, however, hope and believe that those who speculate on the humiliation and decline of England will find themselves egregiously deceived. England's power and greatness must be upheld for the welfare of the world, for the maintenance of the integrity and independence of the European States ; for if her might and influence should decline, two powers would share between them the dominion over the world. We do not mean Russia and France, but Russia and North America. It is necessary for Germany, for the Netherlands, for the balance of power in the East, that England should continue to be what she now is. England is also necessary to the well-being of France, inasmuch as she, by her influence, keeps a sanguine and over-hasty nation from making perilous experiments—from paying, by the most terrible misfortunes, for a few brief years of splendour (glory). The war in India will probably last one or two years ; but every politician who is not a Russian or an American must desire that the ex ertions of England may be crowned with success, and that she may remain, as now, a first-rate power.' PRUSSIA. The health of the King of I'russia is restored. A Berlin letter of the oth says :—" The King and Queen leave this evening for Potsdam, on their way to Halle, to be present at the manteuvres of the troops. The brothers of his Majesty as well as the King of Saxony will be present, as well as several other German sovereigns, and in particular the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimer and Mecklenburg- Schwerin, the Dukes of Nassau, Brunswick, Gotha, Memingen, Altenberg, the Prince of Wasa, and the THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 12, 1857. Duke of Anhalt-Dessau. The Emperor of Russia will not be present, not reaching Berlin until the 13th or 14th." A semi-official Berlin journal, the Preussische Correspondenz, has been instructed to inform its readers that —" It is with anxiety and indignation that the King has heard of the restless endeavours being made by certain clergymen and theologians to deter people from attending the meetings about to be held in Berlin by the Evangtlical Alliance, with his permission and approbation. His Majesty had therefore commanded the Ober-Kirchenrath to make known to all general superintendents his determina tion not to allow silence on his part to be misrepre sented as consent (to this oppositional movement), but was resolved to leave no opening for doubt on this point. The King attaches the most lively in terest to this assembly, -in which he hails and wel comes a manifestation of Christian fraternal spirit as yet unexampled, and of the Providence that pre'ides over the destinies of the Evangelical faith. While far from desiring to impose on any one an attendance at these meetings, the King will as little conceal from every one how much importance he attaches to them, and what auspicious results for the future of the Church he expects from them." RUSSIA. The marriage of the Grand Duke Michael with the Grand Duchess of Baden took place on the 27th ult., with great pomp. The St. Petersburg corre. spondent of Le Nord gives a brilliant description of tbe ceremony. In the evening the city was illumi nated, and the usual display of fireworks, &c., took place. The Emperor gave a magnificent ball, and the marriage fete was altogether most brilliant and successful. Le Nord denies that the Russian Go vernment have despatched any diplomatic circular to its agents at for fign Courts, repudiating any par ticipation in the Indian revolt. The Abeille du Nord, referring to the squadron recently sent to the Pacific, denies that it is in any way intended to take part in operations against China :—" Russia requires to have a permanent squadron in the northern part of the Pacific, to defend her possessions, and observe the whalers that visit in largo numbers the whole of her coast." Le Nord fixes the meeting between the Czar Alexander IL and the Emperor of the French for the 25th instant. The following is a brief programme of the route to be taken by the northern potentate: — "The Emperor of Russia was to have left his capital on Wednesday week last, to visit Warsaw, where his Majesty will remain until the oth. He will then proceed direct for Berlin. After a stay of two days at the Court of Prussia the Czar will continue his excursion. It is probable that his Russian Majesty will then go to Wildbad to meet his august spouse, the Empress Marie Alexandrovna. He will remain from the 20th to tbe 24th at Darmstadt, and from the 24th to the 28th at Stuttgardt." The reason why forces have been concentrated in the south-western part of Russian Poland is explained by the fact that the Emperor Alexander will review the troops as be passes through Warsaw on his way to Germany, and cavalry detachments have been sent to the spot nearest to the Austrian frontier, which his Majesty will have to cross on his way to Berlin, by railroad. SPAIN. It is stated as certain that Queen Maria Christina will be present at the accouchement of her daughter, and that a memoir is in preparation for the purpose of refuting the charges brought against the Queen Mother. The Madrid journals of the sth state that a tele graphic communication had been opened between Madrid and Barcelona vis. La Junguiere, Figueras, and Girona. Reinforcements were continuing to be sent off to Cuba; within a few days 400 had sailed from Barcelona, and 800 from Cadiz and Malaga. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. The retirement of Redschid Pacha from the Minis try is ascertained to be a fact. His Excellency is succeeded as President of the Tanzimat Council by Fuad Pacha. The Danubian elections have been annulled by proclamation from the Kaimakan Vogorides. A despatch from Moldavia, dated Tuesday, the Bth instant, also states that the Minister of the In terior and seven Prefets had been dismissed for improper conduct at the elections. A Bucharest correspondent gives the following sketch of the position and popularity of the Com missioners in the Principalities :—" It was with mistrust that Austria was seen finally to yield on the question of the elections in Moldavia, for it is well understood that, if she at this moment gives way, she will resist the more obstinately on the principal question of the union. As for the Wallachians, the power most popular with them is France, as was again seen on the day of Napoleon's fete. Neither deputations, baskets of flowers, speeches, nor sere nades by torchlight were wanting at the ovation of which the French Commissioner was the object, while on the birthday of the Emperor Francis Joseph 895 there was no demonstration whatever. Baron Rich• thofen, the Prussian Commissioner, and the Che valier de Benzi, the Sardinian Commissioner, are the most popular after the French Commissioner. Safet Effendi and M. von Liehmann, the Austrian, are generally esteemed, but the dislike entertained for their Governments is to a certain extent reflected upon them. Sir Henry Bulwer and the Russian, M. Basily, are living enigmas for the Wallachians. The first is cold and impenetrable beyond expres sion ; the second affects so much reserve, and keeps so much in the background, that his intentions are generally mistrusted." A letter from Bulgaria in the Cologne Gazette states that the Prussian and Turkish members of the European Commission, assembled at Galatz, have left for Widdin, in order to make surveys and plans on which will be based the project for regu larising the course of the Danube. The Prussian Commissioner has expressed his opinion that the works for preventing the river from undermining the fortifications of Widdin may be accomplished at a very trifling expense. It is in contemplation to convert Widdin into a fortified place of the first rank, on a plan proposed by Omer Pacha in 1853. PERSIA. Accounts from Teheran to the 6th of August have reached Constantinople, reporting the non.evacuation up to that time of Herat; but a later despatch front Constantinople, via 'Vienna, states that on the sth instant information reached Constantinople that the Persians had detinitively evacuated Herat. A force of 5,431 men, with 12 guns, occupies Bushire, under the command of General Jacob. The Persian Go vernment has named a resident governor at Bushire. The Sadir Azam continues in the ascendant, and matters are pretty much in the same unsatisfactory state as formerly reported. Mr. Grenville Murray, employed at the British Embassy in Persia, was to leave Trebizonde for Teheran on the Ist of Sep tember, accompanied by Mr. Abbott, Consul-General at Tabriz, named, on the part of Great Britain, com missioner to inquire into and liquidate claims of British subjects in Persia. Colonei Taylor, who has been appointed British Commissioner at Herat, was to leave Teheran about the middle of August. The Persian Government, though professing entire friend ship, had not yet appointed its commissioners. 3 rtiant. SOME DISGRACEFUL RIOTS occurred last Sunday in Belfast. It appears that disturbances, arising from the hatred of a Romanist faction in the town to Protestant out-door preaching on Sundays, have been frequent of date. Last Saturday the following placard was posted over the town : Down with open-air preaching. Down with fanatic Drew, the divine ; the enemy of tranquillity and peace. Gather to the Custom-house on Sunday, 6th inst., at three o'clock, and give the Orange bigot such a check that he will not attempt opeu air preaching again. Catho lies of Belfast, Down, and Antrim ! On Sunday numbers of the Roman Catholic rabble assembled at the Custom-house steps, where a ser mon was to be delivered by the Rev. 3. Hanna. The rev. gentleman, in the face of the danger of the proceeding, boldly delivered his sermon, and at its conclusion recommended his hearers to disperse quietly. Their moving away was, of course, the signal for an immediate onslaught. Stones and brickbats were pelted at them, and bludgeons freely used. The row became general, the mayor and magistrates in vain endeavoured to stop it, the Riot Act was read, the troops called out, and at length the mob were fired into and dispersed at the point of the bayonet. Many persons were seriously wounded, and the town during the night was in a state of great excitement. Several of the ringleaders were arrested, and an official inquiry is now pending. THE EARL OF MOUNTCASHELL has just disposed of the Island of Amherst, near Kingston, in Upper Canada, to his relative, Major Perceval Maxwell, for a sum little short of 60,000/. This sale, it is added, " will materially alter the state of his lordship's affairs." THE HoN. MAJOR KNOX, member for the borough of Dungannon, being about to join his regiment, now on its way to India, has issued a spirited address to his constituents, appealing to them for their sanction of the step taken. This gallant officer, on the breaking out of the Russian war, freely obtained tiliNt leave of absence from his constituents which there is no doubt will be as readily given now. THE STRENGTH OF THE TROOPS now assembled at the Camp of Chalon amounts to 21,250 men and 5,1.460 horses, divided as follows :—lnfantry light regiments, 11,000; cavalry, six regiments, 4,500; six batteries of horse, and six of foot artillery, 2,000 ; two companies of engineers, 200 ; and one squadron of the waggon train, 550. If to the above be added the detachments of gendarmerie, pompiers, administrative services, szc., the total number assem bled will amount to about 23,000 mu and 6 4 00 Q homes.