The Press. — London, England, 1856-10-11 00:00:00

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Subsoribersare requested to send their Ordersthrough their News Agent; if direct to the °Mee. accompanied by a remit. twice. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance, Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALYRID IVL, 110. raqii Loudon. Vbx :IP rtgg+ LONDON, SAT URDAY, OCTOBEIL 11, 1856. POSTSCRIPT. THE NEAPOLITAN QUESTION. No further movement in this affair has yet been made. The Paris correspondent of tho Times (second edition) writess:— The latest advices from Naples as yet announce no change or modification in his Majesty's determination To the first steps taken by the Western powers the King responded by the opening of the present criminal proceed- ings. To the ultimatum, if ultimatum be intended, the same amiable Sovereign will probably reply by the exe.lii tion of the sentence on snob of the prisoners as have been convicted. A note is still spoken of on the part of the French Government, but it is hardly believed that the fleet will be despatched at the same time to enforce its demands. Indeed, there seems to be nothing yet decided respecting the fleet, though it is probable that the ambas sadors will be recalled. The political trials mentioned above are concluded, and sentence delivered :—Mignona has been con. demned to banishment for life, Mauro Dangelis for twelve years, and the priest Decicco for two years. The monk Roggero and another have been set at liberty. By intelligence from Vienna, Oct. 6, we learn that the prevalent impression in higher political circles is that General Martini's mission to Naples will not be attended with any great success. The Oester reichische Zeitung, which is supposed to acquire a part of its information at an official source, contains the following Many of the foreign papers state that the Austrian Government has sent a squndmn from Pola to share in the demonstration against Naples, but the news is pre. mature. " Until now no vessel but the war steamer, the Elizabeth, has received orders to proceed to the Bay of Naples." A private letter from Bucharest, of the 20th of September, asserts that Prince Alexander Ghika, the Kaimakan of Wallachia, has not only reorga• nixed the Cabinet and made great changes in the political administration of the province, but he ha entirely broken up the supreme and second courts of justice. The occupation of Galatz by the Austrians is denied by the Journal de Constantinople, but to some extent authenticated by intelligence received in Paris from Bucharest. intelligence from Madrid, Oct. Bth, announces the appointment by royal decree of M. Tessera as Spanish Ambassador at Washington. Preparltions were commencing for sending to Africa next spring a considerable amount of naval and military forces. The screw steamer Canadian arrived at Liverpool yesterday morning with the mails from Quebec and Montreal of the 211th ultimo. The athices contain no news of interest.. Commercial affairs are quiet. Mrs. a Beckett, widow of the late gifted magis trate, has been considerately and liberally granted by the noble Premier a pension of 1001. per annum. Lord Palmerston's liberality has been further shown in the gift of 1001. towards the maintenance of Mr. Angus Beach. THE Pt Es THE "FREMONT" FOREIGN Policy. A vERY important public meeting was held at New York on the 25th ult. Upwards of 25,000 persons were estimated as present. Housetops and windows were crowded. Mr. Banks, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, a "Republican," and sup porter of Colonel Fremont, was the speaker. Mr. Banks, in opening his speech, claimed the con fidence of the mercantile community for the Re publicans a 3 true Conservatives, and then referredlto the policy of annexation : Look at another question—look at the mean and scandalous policy declared in the Ostend Conference —that policy re-affirmed, blindly and darkly, in the Cincinnati platform—which is to the extent and goes at least in the direction that it is right for a people, if they want a territory, to steal it, if they cannot get it in any other or better way. We are against that policy—not that we are against the acquisition of territory that has taken place in times past, which was necessary to the national defence, and which has contributed to that prosperity to which allusion has been made heretofore, but I allude to those islands which our southern brethren speak of as our islands of the Southern Seas. We want nothing of them so long as they remain in the hands of nations at peace with us. They add to our interests as they arc. If the Sandwich Islands, or the islands of the South Sea, excepting alone the Island of Cuba, were possessed by the people of the United States, they would be held either by the consent of other nations, or else we should hold them only as tenants at will, and we should be dependent on the support of other nations. Otherwise, you would have to send your steam marine for their protection, and at any moment of difficulty or doubt in reference to the relations existing between them and other points of the confederacy, you would be always obliged to maintain a naval power in those islands such as this country has never con templated, and which could not exist without danger to our institutions. What we want is not to steal territory from other nations. We have at present as much territory as we want. But we have the right, and it is the duty of our people, to cultivate amicable relations with the people of those islands and with the people of the other portions of the South American continent. From these amicable relations may spring other evi dences of that commercial prosperity which has placed your city before all the cities of the American continent. We have tried it with Canada—we have tried it with the British possessions, and certainly no human experiment has ever proved more grand and success ful than the Reciprocity Treaty between the United States and Canada passed in the years 1852-3. Now, we propose, if our people of the North should conceive and inaugurate a policy of their own, to substitute this doctrine of reciprocal treaties, with the nations of the Western world at least,:in place of that doctrine of theft of territory which has made the name of America and of American Government a scandal throughout the nations of the earth. We might extend the same system of reciprocity to Japan and the other nations of the Eastern hemi sphere, whenever they shall choose to change their national policy. We might thus recuperate and revivify the honour once attendant on the American flag, and on the American Government. Mr. Banks then referred to the monopoly hitherto enjoyed by the Southern States in the Govern ment : For seventy-five years past the Government of this country has been in the hands of Southern statesmen, who have directed its policy. The North has been busy in the mechanical arts, in agriculture, and in mining, and has given less attention to the affairs of the Government than it otherwise might have done—certainly less than it ought to have done. On the contrary, the South, having no literature of its own, having no science of its own, having no mechanical and manufacturing industry of its own, having but little or no commerce of its own, having no inventive power or genius of its own, having, in short, none of the elements of power that distinguish our civilisation, has turned its attention chiefly, so far as its leading men are concerned, to the govern ment o' the country. Now, we of the North propose to divide this little matter with them. In some places they call it treason to talk of this, bat I think, after the election of November shall have passed, they will be willing to concede that it is patriotism and not treason. We propose to divide the manage ment, control, and responsibility of this Government with the ten millions of the South. He alluded to the rumoured separation of the Southern States : What will the South do after the election of the so-called northern and sectional candidate? What will those who aro despoiled of ►heir offices of SATURDAY, trait and emolument in the army and navri and in the civil department of the Government, do ? I will tell you. They will look abroai' s to see where and what they a re . Th ey w i ll recognise the truth of the statement tlitt I have made to you—that they have no literature, no science, little or no commerce, little or no manufacturing and mechanical industry; and that even their agricultural industry is falling off. Let me recite to you a single fact. Out of 2,0;0 patents issued from the Bureau of Invention at Washington for the last year, less than 1:,5 were issued to men living in the 15 Southern States, and of that 125 doubtless many were to stray Yankees sojourning there. I hear a great deal said at Washington about the value and importance of the cotton crop; but I remember that it was a neighbouring congressional district of mine that gave birth to the humble man who invented the cotton gin which has given the cotton crop all AS value. Baba! intb triilitarg It has been reported through the clubs that Cap. taro Hackett has declined to accept the vacancy at Greenwich Hospital, caused by the lamented death of Captain Monbray. Her Majesty's ship hannibal, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.8., was expected to sail from Malta, for England, about the 7th instant. Sir Houston Stewart is intended to relieve Admiral Farnham) in the West India com mand. Some discreditable proceedings among the officers of the 4th Dragoons, at Brighton, are about to be come the subject of a court of inquiry. Lord Ernest Vane Tempest will figure more prominently than creditably in the matter. THE EXPERIMENTS which took place at Shoebu6 ness last week with the great wrought iron Mersey gun were eminently successful. The practice con sisted of about twenty-seven rounds with solid shot and heavy charges of powder, the range, with eigh teen degrees of elevation and a charge of 501 b. of powder, exceeding at first graze 5,000 yards. The line of fire was also excellent, the shot following each other with surprising accuracy. Since it was last tried a new and very beautiful carriage has been made for the gun, combining the recent excellent appliances introduced by the Woolwich authorities, and which rendered the working of this immense weapon of destruction as easy as that of an ordinary 05-pounder. Some successful experiments were also made with various descriptions of rifled guns, in cluding the celebrated weapon by Whitworth of Man chester. Obituarg. LORD DE FREYNE, better known in the House of Commons as Mr. Arthur French, of French-park, county Roscommon, died last week. His lordship re• presented his native county in Parliament for many years, and was succeeded by his younger brother, Mr. Fitzstephen French. The Rev. John French, it is understood, inherits the family honours. The late peer's father and grandfather both declined to accept peerages which were proffered to them. COLONEL SHEWELL, C. 8., of the Bth Hussars, died on Wednesday, the Ist instant, near Guildford. Colonel Showell bad been thirty years in the service, commanded the Bth Hussars at the famous Balaklava charge, where he brought a portion of the brigade out of action, and subsequently held the rank of brigadier general in the Crimea, was made a C. 8., and awarded a pension for distinguished services. Colonel Shewell was in every sense of the word a good officer, and was high in the esteem of all who knew him. He was forty-seven years of age. M. FARTSCH, the eminent German geologist, and member of the Academy of Sciences, and inspector of the Mineralogical Museum at Vienna, died last week. The Brompton Hospital for Consumption is at length fully completed. The whole of the wards are now thrown open, and patients can be admitted in a few days. To sustain this magnificent institution, one of the noblest charitable institutions in the country, the most careful economy cannot contract the expenditure within 8,0001. a year. This is a heavy responsibility, but the charity of Englishmen and Englishwomen never refuses an appeal in favour of such an object. The committee are making an ap peal for support at present : we feel confident that when known it will not be made in vain. A new candidate to the Shrewsbury propel ty it is anticipated will shortly appear in the person of Prince Borghese, who is inclined to advance claims in favour of his daughter by his first wife, the Lady Geraldine Talbot. 974