The Press. — London, England, 1856-09-06 00:00:00

SErr. 6, 1856. entire force is something short of 15,000. The Frascati railroal comtnences to fructify largely, and make 4 Cardinal Antonelli still more unpopular from the obstruction he pertinaciously gave to its forma tion. file line of the Arezzo juncion, granted by the Grand Duke of Tuscany to the Marquis de Flers, a French speculator, will be commenced forViwith. Those of Naples will be assuredly most dilatoty in arrangement., since the King, in his wisdom, repugnant to foreign assistance, and fearful of its consequences, insists that they shall be con structed without the intervention of foreign capital. Now, as propery, public and private, is not secure in that country from the fact of being dependent upon the capricious suzgestions of the Minister of Police and Mazza, no great temptation, setting 'nude the want of monetary ability, is offered for an investment of capital in those undertakings. The Neapolitan citizens have spoken ont by pia cards, condemnatory of the employment of foreign troops, denouncing the maladministration of the ex • isting Government, and calling upon Italians to rally rand a common and constitutional standard. A private but categorical notice has been given to the King, that, in the case of a local revolution, no assistance will be granted by foreign Governments, and a states man of reputation has informed him that for Austria to attempt any support, would be to endanger her ex istence as an empire. C. A. H. { foreign Any &lonia! ]ntellignut. FRANCE. The Emperor and Empre4s of the French continue at Biarritz. Sentence of death,recorded par contumace on March 151111 mi alainst fife persons f r conspiring against the life of the Emperor, was made public last week for the first time in the usual half-yearly legal summary of the ju lgments of the assize court of the Seine. No details were given, but the conspirators are yet at largo. The Constitutionnel has ex• plained that these sentences apply to the affairs of the Hippodrome and the Opera Comique in 1853, and not to any more recent case. The Finance Minister has appointed a commission to prepare a measure, to be laid before the Corps Lezislatif next session, for a new assessment of the land tax. No official or other reply has yet appeared in the French journals to the statements of M. Louis Blanc, with reference to the treatment of the political pri soners at Cayenne. AUSTRIA. The Austrian official journals continue to regard the conduct of Piedmont encouraging public sub scriptions f..r the fortifications of Alessandria as an indication that she is determined to oppose Austrian influence in Italy. The new law for the commercial organisation of the Austrian empire is prepared. PRUSSIA. The King has left Berlin to attend the military manoeuvres in Pomerania. Baron Von Budberg, late Minister of Russia at Berlin, has presented his letters of recal. General Adlersberg has succeeded Count Benken dortf as the Russian Military Plenipotentiary at Berlin. Count Bile Brahe has arrived from Copenhagen upon the subject of the Sound Dues, and it is expected that the Count will fill the post of Danish Ambassador. The "despatches theft" trials are expected to come on in the course of the month. Intelligence from Basle, Sept. 3rd, states : During the past night a Royalist revolution broke out in Neufchatel. The Royalists seized the Chateau, arrested the Coun cillors of State, and hoisted the Prussian flag. The Neufchatel telegraph is cut. At Chaux de Fonds, and in the western portion of the canton, the population have taken up arms. - - - According to later news from Paris, the federal troops have retaken the town, and the insurgent leader, Count Pourtalis, has been arrested. RUSSIA. The Emperor made his solemn entry into Moscow with great state on the 29th ult. The coronation takes place this day at noon. Intelligence from Warsaw denies that the Russian Government have come to any decision as to the con ces•ion of railways to private companies. Count Stanislaus Ostrowski, a Polish refugee, is reported to have been reinstated in his property and rights by the Emperor Alexander. SPAIN. The dicsolution of Cortes has been officially announced in the Madrid Gazette by royal decree. The resignation of M. Corradi, Spanish Minister at Lisbon, is also accepted by the GoNertmenL Changes continue to be daily made in the home and foreign services. The Epoca states that a new THE PRESS. Minister to Mexico, in the room of M. log Santos Alvarez, will not be appointe I till the differences existing between Spain and Mexico be settled. ITALY. General Count Stackelberg,Russian Envoy to the Court of Turin, was received by the King on the morning of the 29th. The Piedmontese Government is employing every means to animate the national subscriptions for the one hundred guns for Alessandria. Mazzini has opened a subscription for 10,000 muskets, and also published in the journal L'ltalia e Popolo an address to all It ilian military men. He reproaches them for submitting to the all-dominant power of a few Swiss re giments in the Two Sicilies and at R , me, as also to that of the Austrians in the Duchies and in Lombardy. An order from General de la Marmora again enjoins the chiefs of corps to grant no furloughs, as the whole of the Sardinian forces must assemble as numerically strong as possible at the camps for going through field manoeuvres. These camps are at three points, viz., Chambery, Vill a f ranca , near Nike, and San tiaurizio, on the Ticino. The Austrian Custom-house League with Parma and Modena will, it is said, be rent wed. The Sicilians have published an address to the Neapolitans, calling upon them to make common cause with Sicily in the effort to obtain liberty. The Oat. Deutsche Post assures us that a new note has been addressed to Naples by the Western powers in concert. Its terms will efface the impression of the former note. M. BrentPr, the French Minister, has expressed his utmost satisfaction with the docu ment. The French brigade at Rnme is preparing to evacuate the Roman States, with the exception of Civita Vecchia. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. M. de Botttenieff, the Russian Envoy, paid his official visit, and presented a copy of his credentials, on the 22nd ult., to Fuel Pacha, Minister of Foreign Affairs. On the 26th his Excellency was to be re ceived by the Sultan. Mehemet Represli Paella the Ottoman Envoy to attend the coronation of the Czar, has left Constanti nople for Odessa and Moscow. No further intelligence of importance has been received concerning the Isle of Serpents. The Turkish troops retain possession of the island. The French Patrie says that the Russian Government wishes to submit the question of the Serpent Island occupation . to the interpretation of the great powers. Sir Houston Stewart, with a small squadron, was, up to the 2nd inst., still cruising in the Black Sea. The same intelligence from Constantinople states that the campaign projected by the Ru-sians against th- Circassisns is indefinitely adjourned. Ferouthe-Khan, the Persian Ambassador at Paris, it was believed, had received orders from Ispehan to proceed to L ,, ndon to terminate the Anglo-Persian dispute, by offering full satisfaction to England. on condition that the British Government recal Mr. Murray. Solve indications of the views entertained by the Porte as to the principalities are given in a letter from Vienna, of the 20th ult., in the Nouvelliste of Hamburg. The writer says:— In the diplomatic document which the Porte has for warded to the signatories of the treaty of Rats, on the question of the union of the principalities, the Turkish Cabinet insists on the necessity of consulting the wishes of the power which is most deeply interested in the ques tion. It recala that Article 2of the protocol agreed upon on the 11th of February. between the Porte on the one part, and France, England, and Austria on the other, and which formed the basis of the deliberations of the Confe rence at Paris, and states positively that Moldavia and Wallachia shall continue to enjoy in the future, as in the past, administrations separate and independent under the suzerainty of the Sultan. The Conference at Paris had established expressly that the principalities will continue to enjoy the privileges of which they have been in possession. One of these pri vileges is to have a separate administration. The Porte, in conclusion, maintains that the reunion of the princi palities will be to the advantage of no party, neither to that of the great European powers nor to that of the European equilibrium, :or it is evident that under their new Government the pr Icipalities would henceforth be merely the object of rival interests. The Minister of War has resigned. AMERICA. The mail from New York up to the 23rd ult. brings grave intelligence. The ordinary session of the 34th Annual Congress terminated on the 18th ult. without passing the Army Estimates, the Senate and the House of Re presentatives being unable to agree upon the ques tion of the conditional clause proposed by the Repre sentatives, and rejected by the Senate, that the troops in Kansas should not be employed in gip ptessing the tree legislation there, or in aiding the pro slavery settlers. Oii the sane day the President exercised his extraordinary powers, and oy public proclamation convened an extra session to cora- 845 mence on the 21st. The following is the official document : BY THE FRCSIDENT OF THZ UXTTSD STATES OF AMERICA. (A Proclamation.) Whereas, while hostilities exist with various Indian tribes on the /emote frontiers of the United States, and while in other respects the public peace is seriously threatened, Congress has adjourned without granting necessary supplies for the army, depriving the Executive of the power to perform his duty in relation to the common defence and security, and an extraordinary occasion has thus arisen far assembling the two Houses of Congress ; I do therefore, by this my proclamation, convene the said Houses to meet at the Capitol, in the City of Washington, on Thum lay, the 21st day of August inst.; hereby requir ing the respective senators and representitives then and there ► o assemble, to consult and determine on such measures as the state of the Union may seem to require. The Senate and House of Representatives re assembled respectively on the 21st ult., and it soon appeared that their mutual antagonism was more decided than before the adjournment. A message from the President, setting forth the urgency of the Appropriation Bill, was real to the Senate. The President, detailing the position of affairs, said:— To refuse supplies to the army, therefore, is to compel the complete cessation of all its operations, and practical disbandment. and thus to invite hordes of predatory savages from the western plains and Rocky Mountains to spread devastation alma a frontier of more than 3.000 miles in extent, and to delver up the sparse population of a vast tract of eououv to rapine and murder. Such, in substance, would be the direct and immediate ef eta of the refusal of Congress, for the first time in the history of the Government, to grant supplies.—the inevitable waste of millions of public treasure—the idfliction of extreme wrong upon all persons connected with the military estab lishment by service, employment, or contracts—the reeal of our forces from the field—the fearful sacrifice of life, and incalculable destruction of property on the remote frontiers—the striking of our national flag on the battle ments of the fortresses which defend our maritime cities against foreign invasion—the violation of the public honour and good faith, and the discredit of the United States in the eyes of the civilised world. On the following day the Army Bill was received from the House of Representatives, but found to have the Kansas proviso still annexed. The Senate proceeding to the vote, struck out. the proviso and passed the bill by a majority of 35 to 7. The Senate then adjourned. The House of Representatives meeting also on the 21st, the Army Bill, precisely the same as when lost in the former session, including the Kangas restrictive proviso, was rep rted fr on the enmetittee of the whole, and passed by 93 against 85. ti L,‘e fallowing day the house received a mes sage from the Senate relative to its action on ti e Army Bill. The question was taken on the a rikirg out., and was lost by 94 to 92. Mr. Campbell moved to reconsi ler the vote, and lay that motion on the table. This was carried by a major ty of two. Mr. Campbell then moved that the house insist on their proviso, and ask a committee of conference. The motion was lost by a majority of three. Mr. Cobb moved that the house recede. This was lost by 04 against 96. Mr. Washburne moved that the house adhere to its disagreement. His motion was agreed to by 97 against 93. Mr. Washburne moved to re consider the vote by which the house adhered to its proviso, and to lay that motion on the table. Motion carried by one majority. Mr. Sherman asked leave to offer a resolution for an adjournment sine die at four o'clock this afternoon. Repeated unsuccessful motions were made to adjourn, when the house took a short recess to await the result of the Senate's pro ceedings. The house, on reassembling, the Senate having come to no conclusion, adjourned. A Washington correspondent, writing on the 22nd, says:— The prospect for the passage of the Army Appropriation Bill is now regarded as hopeless, the republicans having exhibited to-day a stubborn determination to defeat it at all hazards. The debate in the Senate was highly instruc tive and impressive. While Senators Bell, Hunter, Casa, and others deplored the consequences, but thought it better to lose the appropriation and disband the army than to permit the House of Representatives to assume all the legislative powers of the Government, by forcing upon the Senate independent legislation contrary to their judgment and constitutional rights, senators ou the other side of the chamber applauded the house and urged them to persist in their action, whether it be revolutionary or not. It now remains with the Senate to determine what shall be dune. _ The news from Kansas brings further reports that half a dozen sanguinary conflicts had taken place, in which the Free-State men appear to have gained some advantage. The town of Lecompton was cap tured on the 20th ult., and Governor Robinson and the other State prisoners rescued. Letters from Iltivannab state the news of the insurrection in Spain had caused much excitement ; and so anxious was General Concha for the earliest intelligence, that ho ha , l despatched his swiftest steamship to wait at Charlestown the arrival of the steamer from Europe.