The Press. — London, England, 1856-10-18 00:00:00

OCTOlitri 18, 1856. foreign alo ogoloinial 3ntelligcnct. SPAIN. DISMISSAL OF O'DONNEL AND RESTORATION OF NARVAEZ. A telegraphic despatch from Madrid last Sunday announced that Marshal O'Donnell, and with him all his colleagues, had tendered their resignations to the Queen. Her Majesty accepted their resignations, and immediately sent for Narvaez, appointed Lim l'resident of the Council, and charged him to form a Ministry. The new Spanish Ministry is composed as follows :—Narvaez, President of the Council—Pidal, Foreign Affairs—Seijas, Finances—Nocedal, Inte rior—Arasola, Justice—Lersundi, Marine. General Sanz has been appoinhd Captain-Gene. ral of Madrid, and General Pezuela Director of Cavalry. Intelligence from Madrid up to Wednesday announces the suspension of the disamortissement of Church property, and that all sales now pending are annulled. TI le Concordat is re-established in full force and vigour, and all ordinances, provisions, and regula tions to the contrary are annulled. The Governors of Corunna, Ciudad Real, Ponte Vedra, Alicante, Toledo, and Cordova, are dismissed. M. Arguelles, and Signor Zaragoza are mentioned for the Colonies, and Movano for Public Works and Civil Governor of Madrid. Of the details of the sudden dismissal of O'Donnell little is known. It occurred after mass on Sunday. Marshal Serrano, ambassador at the French Court, has received a despatch from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, informing him that the change of Ministry has no political signification, and is a spontaneous and personal act of the Queen. At the reception and ball on the 10th, the Queen's birthday, her Majesty (writes the Epoca of the 11th) Gave the President of the Council and the other Ministers unequivocal proofs of the pleasure which she felt at the conciliatory policy of the present Cabinet, which tends to draw together all the important political men in Spain. Our august Sovereign did the same at the ball in the evening. Her Majesty opened the ball with the Presi dent of the Council (O'Donnell) as her partner, and Mar shal Narvaez had the honour of dancing with her after wards. Her Majesty also danced with M. Rios Rosas, Minister of the Interior, with General de la Concha, and with General Echagne, Civil Governor of Madrid. The Queen received on the Bth Count Crevelli, the Austrian Envoy. Count Benkendorff, the Russian Envoy, has arrived in Madrid. M. Manuel Bermudez de Castro had been ap pointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo• tentiary of Spain at Vienna. The Gazette denies the truth of the paragraph in the Debatz last week relative to a misunderstanding between the British Charge d'Affaires and M. Pastor Diaz on the removal of the seqaestration of the pro• perry of Queen Christina. A letter from Madrid states that the Spanish Government has at last made a concession in favour of British subjects which had long been desired, namely, that her Britannic Majesty's Consuls in the Spanish colonies should be allowed to administer to the effects and property of British subjects dying in testate. FRANCE. The Emperor and Empress leaye St. Cloud to morrow 'or Compiegne, where. grand hunting parties will oe given during the ensuing week. A reply to the Russian circular is mentioned in the Frankfort German Journal of the 10th : Count Walewski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, has sent a circular to the French diplomatic agents at foreign Courts, in answer to that. of Russia of Sept. 2. According to what we have heard of this new document, the French Government repels the reproaches of Prince Gortachakoff, and adduces arguments to prove that it is erroneously that the conduct of France and England in the Neapolitan affair has been represented as contrary to existing treaties, and to the public right of Europe. The Berlin Bourse Gazette says that Count Morny read the note to P►ince Gortschakoff, that it is full of pacific protestations, and moreover contains the assurance that the action of France on Naples will be of a purely diplomatic character. The note, or ultimatum, despatched to Naples on Saturday last is described as moderate. With respect to the French squadron, it is expected to join the British fleet in a anise off Naples. Le Nord denies that the note bears at all the character of an ulti matum, but that the reply would decide the question for a rupture or not. The change of Ministry in Spain is regarded by the French papers as a prelude to the return to power of Sartorious. The Prase remarks : Marshal Narvaez must not deceive himself. He is but the precursor of Count San Luis, and, logically, royalty will not have revenged its check and the humiliations which it experienced in July, 1864, until things are restored to the same state in which they were before the treason of THE PRESS. O'Donnell, Dulce, and the other Vicalvarista. Neither in fact nor in name does constitutional government exist in Spain, and if Narvaez thinks to re-establish it he will fail. There is nothing left in Spain bat a provisional royalty. Count San Luis will be only the precursor of legitimacy or a new revoluion. The continued occupation of the princpalities by Austria has excited the attention of the French Government. A note upon the question is daily anticipated in the Moniteur. The Constitutionnel this week remarks, with reference to Article 31 of the treaty of Paris : Not a single French, English, or Sardinian battalion now remains on Ottoman soil. It was in this same man ner that the first Austrian Plenipotentiary regarded the evacuation, and this is confirmed by his language in the Congress. According to this language the evacuation of the principalities should have preceded that of Constanti nople by the allied forces. This is proved by Protocol 21, relating to the sitting of the 4th April. After the explana tions exchanged in that sitting it was impossible for all the members of Congress not to be convinced that Austria would have evacuated Moldavia and Wallachia long before the expiration of six months. We cannot believe the truth of the rumours which assert that the Austrian com manders in the provinces have concluded fresh contracts for provisions with the contractors of these provinces. Austria has no motive, no plausible pretext, to allow her troops to remain in the principalities, which she cannot continue to occupy without violating, according to the expression of Count do Buol, one of the principal condi tions of the peace. With respect to Serpents' Island and the Princi palities, the Nbats states that the question of the Serpents' Island has been already settled—that the island is to be restored to Turkey ; that, as regards the islands of the Lower Danube, they also will be ceded to the Porte. As regards the union of the Principalities, the Dibats says that, as the commission charged to con sider the whole question of the Principalities has not yet entered upon its functions, that question must be deferred ; and, as France, Austria, England, and Turkey each claim the presidency in the commission —a post which is one of "influence"—the Debate is of opinion that this, as well as some other prelimi nary matters, must first be settled by the next con gress before the actual question of the Danubian principalities is touched upon. Reports from Marshal Randon in Algeria upon the Kabyle expedition have appeared in the Moniteur this week. The expedition has been so far success ful, and certain tribes have been subdued. AUSTRIA. The occupation of the Principalities is defended by the Vienna papers on the ground that the con ditions of the treaty of Paris have not been fulfilled; that the cession of Bclgrad forms a stumbling block in the settlement of the Bessarabian frontier ; that the difficulty excited by the Serpents' Isle has not yet received an official solution ; and, finally, that as the allied armies have evacuated the soil of the Crimea, the sole guarantee which still exists for the proper performance of the conditions imposed by the treaty of Paris, lies in the occupation by Austria of the Danubian principalities. No mention has been made of the result of General Martini's mission to Naples. The Emperor and Empress will visit Lombardy in December. The departure of Baron Hubner for Paris is said to be fixed for the 28th inst. NAPLES. Intelligence from Ajaccio of the 14th announces the sailing from that port of Admiral Dundas and his squadron. The French squadron at Toulon it was anticipated would shortly join the British fleet. The statement that the King of Naples had sent autographic letters to Queen Victoria and to the Em peror of the French is denied by the French papers. The King, it is said, is willing to send a plenipoten tiary to the Paris Congress it invited to do so. Meantime the military preparations for the defence of Naples continue to be pressed on with much vigour. All the resources of the State are being placed on an efficient footing. Le Nord of the 18th, speaking of the ultimatum sent last Saturday, does not despair of a satisfactory solution of the question, and adds : We are persuaded that when the text of these notes is known the world will he much astonished at the appre hensions which the mystery at present enveloping them has given rise to, and that everything will resolve itself into a mere dissertation upon the international right of one Government to offer advice to another. THE EAST. Intelligence from Constantinople, October 8, states that a change of Ministry is imminent. Redschid Pacha, it was said, would be appointed Grand Vizier. Accounts from the Isle of Serpents state that the Russians have still there one officer, a surgeon, and five soldiers. Three English vessels of war are at an chor off the island. - . Austria refuses to pay the dues levied for the main•• tenance of a lighthouse at the Sulista mouth of the 989 Danube, on the plea that she was not consulted respecting its establishment. Thu Porte had invited the ambassadors to a meet ing, preparatory to the Convocation of the Divans which are to express their wishes on the subject of the reorganisation of the Principalities. A firman has been published touching the "national representation " in the Principalities. It makes no mention of the union of Moldavia and Wallachia. The Havas correspondence from Vienna, repre sents that in consequence of the differences between Austria and France on the subject of the Principali ties, and of the difficulties arising out of Captain Magnan's privilege, a sort of interruption of relations has taken place between M. Thouvenel and M. de Prokesch-Osten, the Austrian Internuucio at Con stantinople. The English Commissioner for the regularisation of the Danubian frontiers had arrived at Galatz on the Bth. The Prussian and Austrian Commissioners were expected by the next steamer. A letter from Vienna of the 9th in the German Journal of Frankfort, states that Prince Kallimaki, the Turkish Ambassador at Vienna, has had several conferences with Count Buol on the question of the Danubian Delta, it having not yet been decided whether the Delta is to be incorporated with Mol davia or yielded up to the Porte. AME RICA. Intelligence from the United States to the 2nd states that the Presidential contest was raging violently, but the general feeling was in favour of Fremont's success. Beyond this the political news is unimportant. A report prevailed at Panama to the effect that a treaty of peace had been agreed to between General Walker and the President of Costa Rica. Walker was said to be seriously ill of fever. INDIA. The usual mail has brought full details of the con templated expedition to Persia. The Times cor respondent writes from Bombay, Sept. 12 : The expedition will sail about the end of October or the beginning of November. The strength of the con templated Bombay force, and even the individual regi ments of which it is to be composed, still remain uncer tain. But it seems probable that it will consist at first of two brigades of infantry, two field batteries, and oae troop of horse artillery, a siege train, two companies of sappers and miners, and a regiment of irregular cavalry—the Poonah Horse. Whether the Persians were really in occupation of Herat was unknown. The opening of a new loan by Government, at four and a half per cent., for expenditure on public works, had taken the money market by surprise, and was not responded to. The Times correspondent writes : The rapid recurrence of these loans, the astounding blunders committed in 1R54, and the distrust which is beginning to make itself felt as to the results of our policy in the matter of public works, all point to one fact. Wo need a financial commission of inquiry, composed in part at least of English financiers. AUSTRALIA. Intelligence from Melbourne to the 28th July has been received this week. The advices contain no political or general news of importance. The news confirmatory of the declaration of peace had been received with enthusiasm by the inhabi tants of Melbourne, Sydney, &e., and each town cele brated the event by a general holiday. The prospects of the various gold-fields were most promising. A new gold-field had been discovered near Maitland in New South Wales. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON drove into Paris on Tuesday in an open carriage. He was hardly recog nised as he passed along the Champs Elysies, and consequently there was little or no demonstration : On arriving at the Tuileries (continues a correspon dent) he mounted on horseback, and traversed, at a slow pace, the whole of the once formidable Faubourg St. An toine. It was two o'clock, the ht.ur at which the workmen were at their dinner, so that his way lay through the thick of the crowd. He was attended by a brilliant buff, and the squadron of the Cent.-Oardes, complete in costume and in number, served as his escort. He rode in advance of them, and his intrepid confidence in passing through the mass of the working population at a moment of suffer ing and discontent, and with a display so anti democra tical, could not fail in its fascination on the lower orders of the people. The "pride, pomp, and circumstance of war " affect none more than the French, and of the French no population more than the Parisian ; and therefore Napoleon 111. was well and warmly received even by those who an hour before may have murmured loudest against him. He passed on at the head of the brilliant cortege, glittering in their cuirasses and helmets, to St. Maur, where he held a review and conducted the manoeuvres on the field. He returned at half-past five by the same faubourg, which was then nearly deserted, as the crowds had returned to their workshops. Some anxiety had been felt by the authorities as to the reception his Majesty might meet with, and numerous police agents in plain cloths were stationed en echelon along the way. The pre cautions, however prudent, proved unnecessary, as nothing occurred.