The Press. — London, England, 1855-08-25 00:00:00

AUG. 25,1855. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION FOR Ebe Press: (STAMPED.) Per Annum .. .. • • .. SI 6 0 Half• Yearly .. .. .. .. 013 0 Quarterly .. .. • . .. 0 6 6 Payable in advance. Subscribers are requested to send their Orders through their News Agent; if direct to the Whoa, accompanied by a remit. Lance. Advertisements also must have &reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRYD IYE, 110, Strand. London. TO CORRESPONDENTS. It is impossible to acknowledge the masa of letters we receive. Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter, and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot undertake to return communication not avail ourselves. Ccmmunications should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. if long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the Dame and address of the writer, not necessarily for publics tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. of which we do ( - r b x 1 .2) rtg - 0+ LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1855. POSTSCRIPT. THE QUEEN IN PARIS. Thursday was reserved as a day of partial rest for her Majesty, whose fatigue on the previous days had been excessive, and the Queen accordingly remained peaceably at St. Cloud until the afternoon. Prince Albert, however, paid another visit to the Industrial Exhibition, where he arrived at half-past ten, and stayed until nearly two o'clock. His Royal Highness occupied his time in a curious scrutiny of various departments, noticing especially the collections of arms and warlike instruments. He made also several purchases ; among others, becoming possessed of a diamond pavure and an ebony cabinet., elaborately carved. Her Majesty on the previous day had like wise bought a number of rich silks, &c. At two o'clock Prince Albert reached the Tuileries, where the Queen had already arrived, and whence, after lunch, the royal party proceeded to the galle ries of the Louvre, and viewed the splendid series of paintings of the old masters there collected. The visit was quite private, no spectators being admitted, and the illustrious visitors entering the Louvre by the private door from the Palace of the Tuileries. At night the magnificent ball came off at the Hotel de Ville, for which it is stated that not less than 200,000 applications had been made for tickets of admission, the number granted being extremely limited. Queen Victoria opened the ball by dancing with the Emperor Napoleon. It is arranged that her Majesty and the Royal Family will leave town for Balmoral, on Thursday, the 6th of September, by the Great Northern Railway. Her Majesty will pass a night at Holyrood on her way. Fifty-four persons have been tried by the Cor rectional Tribunal of Nantes, for being connected with a secret society, all of whom were found guilty, excepting seven, who were at once set at liberty. Ten of those convicted were sentenced to two years' imprisonment, seven to eighteen months, twenty-one to one year, and nine to six months. Six large and elegant Arabian horses have just arrived at Marseilles from Syria, intended as a present for the Emperor Napoleon. AlVienna despatch of Thursday states that there has beet a great interchange of couriers within these few days. Two English messengers have been despatched to Berlin; two Russian to St. Peters. burg : a Prussian and an Austrian to Berlin and Nirmkfort ; two to Pars and London, and three to Italy. The Second Wurtemburg Chamber having de manded of the King a reform in the political organisation of Germany, his Majesty refused to com ply with the request, and dissolved the two Houses if Legislature forthwith. The late Duchess of Saldanha, the wife of the Portuguese statesman, who died on the 6th inst., was an Irish lady. To the duke, it is said, the blow will prove irreparable, as he was devotedly attached to THE PRESS. her ; and some add that its effects will be to cause him ultimately to quite public life. Another first-class ship of the line, to be called the Howe, is to be built at Pembroke Dockyard ; she will class with the Marlborough, Royal Albert, and Duke of Wellington, and will be considerably larger than the latter vessel. SIR C. NAP IER. A Loma letter from the late naval commander.in chief in the Baltic was published in yesterday's papers. Sir C. Napier gives an account of the abortive councils of war held last year on Sweaborg, and intimates that the want of mortar-vessels and gun-boats was the main cause of no attack during the season of 1854. He points out that he did lay down a plan for attacking Sweaborg, but with the intimation that, whether successful or not, the fleet would afterwards be unfit to cope with the Russian fleet, and adds It will be seen by what I have written and by Admiral Dundas's despatch, had my plan been followed up to the letter, Sweaborg would have been annihilated. It appears the allies had only 48 gun and mortar boats, and many mortars have been disabled. They ought at least to have had 100. Sir James Graham, in a letter to me, said 200. Had that number been there, the bombardment would have been continued by means of reliefs, as men are re lieved in the trenches. The mortars would have had time to cool, and the bombardment continued till not one stone was left on another, and an opening made for the ships to go in and finish the work. Sir Charles goes on to make several accusations against the late Government : Instead of building gun and mortar boats, they built a parcel of iron floating batteries, which could hardly swim, and if they could they would have been useless, for had they been placed within 400 yards of Sweaborg they would have been annihilated, and at 800 yards they would have done no harm. . . . Had Admiral Dandas been fur. wished with sufficient means he would have contemplated an attack on the defences, and assembled the whole of his fleet, ready to take advantage of the terror and confusion occasioned by the gun and mortar boats ; the heat of the conflagration alone would have kept the garrison from the guns, and the fleet would have been iu Sweaborg, and the whole of the fortifications, islands and all, blown to the devil ; instead of that, the wooden buildings and magazines are destroyed, and the work will have to be begun again next year. Sir Charles concludes his letter by saying :—" In a subsequent communication I shall prove my charge against the Admiralty of having perverted my letters." foreign and Qtolnniai 3nttiligente. FRANCE. All interest in the French capital seems to be absorbed by the visit of Queen Victoria. The ex citement occasioned by this event appears daily to increase. Business is almost suspended, and holiday making and sight-seeing are the order of the day. The conductors of the Paris journals, inoculated with the popular feeling, respond to the wishes of their readers by giving the most copious accounts of every circumstance, however trivial, connected with the arrangements prepared to afford welcome and entertainment to the royal guests of their Emperor. Lord Howden, the English Ambassador at Madrid, has arrived at Paris. Four vessels left Marseilles and Toulon on Satur day and Sunday last, with troops and stores for the Crimea. GERMANY. The urgent remonstrances made in Berlin by the representatives of the Western powers against the exportation of articles contraband of war to Russia have had their proper effect, the Prussian authorities having received orders to exercise the strictest sur veillance on the subject. The negotiations for a Concordat were concluded on Monday last ; and the document was duly signed by the Pope's Nuncio and the Austrian Negotiators. A letter from Vienna, in the Silesian Gazette, states that the Empress of Austria is again in an interesting situation. PORTUGAL. The King of Portugal, accompanied by his brother, the Duke of Oporto, returned to his dominions on the 14th instant, and was warmly received by his subjects. The Duchess of Saldanha, who was much esteemed, has died at Cintra. TURKEY. News from Constantinople of the 13th and 16th inst. is published by the Oesterreichsche Correspon denz. Omer Pacha had been invested with the order and insignia of the Bath. He was still at Constantinople. Advices from Trebizond of the 7th of August state that the postal communications between Kars and Erzeroum are interrupted. The Russians had ad vanced as far as Kapricio, on the road to Erzeroum. Ten thousand Bashi-Bazouks had arrived at Er zeroum. 811 A winter camp is to be established at the Sweet Waters. The camp, including that of Maslak, will number 50,000 men. RUSSIA. A despatch from Warsaw of the 20th inst. states that ten thousand of the Imperial Militia, WHO were under orders to advance from Kisseleff into Poland, have received counter-orders and remain in Li thuania. A letter from Odessa of the 11th says : Bodies of troops are constantly passing through this place for Nicolaieff ; about 3,000 men of the iireco-Schi vonic legion, which were at Ismail, have also left for Sebastopol, Several Poles have recently been shot at Sebastopol, being convicted of acting as spies. While I am writing this letter the air is completely obscured by immense swarms of locusts. These insects have this year committed dreadful ravages in Southern Russia. A letter from Warsaw, in the Borsenhalle of Hamburg, says :—" The Emperor has given (1,000 silver roubles to heirs of the persons lately mur dered by the Circassians of the guard of Prince Paskiewiteh." The rouble is worth somewhat more than four francs. It is stated that the Emperor of Russia will, towards the latter end of the month, proceed to Sebastopol, with his brothers Nicholas and Michael, in order to convey in person to the army the expres sion of the gratitude of his late father, as he verbally promised to do. UNITED STATES. New York dates of the 11th inst. have been re ceived by the Ariel steamer. The Pennsylvania papers are filled with accounts of terrific rainstorms, floods, dams carried away, barns struck by lightning, horses and cattle killed, &c. The cupola of the courthouse in Taylor county, Va., had been struck by lightning while the court was in session, and a large number of persons within the building. One man, the Rev. Hezekiah Dunham, was instantly killed, and several others prostrated, some of whom were severely wounded. The new York, Newfoundland, and London Tele graph Company's officers had sailed from the former port, to lay down the submarine telegraph cable between St. John's, Newfoundland, and the mainland. A sanguinary election riot occurred at Louisville on the oth inst. Several persons were killed, and many wounded. Two blocks of buildings were set on lire. The Irish fired from windows, and killed three Americans. One Irishman was hung by the Americans; several were killed, and others taken prisoners. The excitement was increasing when the last mail left. A collision had occtured on the Delaware between twe vessels, and a number of persons were killed or drowned. The Danish brig Janette had drifted into the Bahamas with all her crew dead, supposed to have been murdered by the crew of a strange vessel. A terrible calamity occurred at Wilmington on the 3rd inst. Several tons of gunpowder exploded, scat tering death and desolation around. Trees, build ings, fences, were levelled with the earth, and every moveable object was dashed to an immense distance and shattered in its flight. It has been ascertained that not less than four persons were killed outright. AUSTRALIA. Advices dated Melbourne, the Ist of June, sixteen days later than the previous intelligence, have been received from Australia. They give a moderately favorable account of the progress of business. The markets were still oppressed with goods, but less so than for some months past, and such trade as was carried on was for the must part sate and remu nerative. Grain and farm produce generally were in great demand, and the prevalence of high prices had caused a large increase in the breadth of land sown with wheat. The export duty on gold had come into operation on the let of May, and, owing to the forms connected with it, a temporary dimi nution had occurred in the quantity brought into Melbourne, although the rate of production was understood to be undiminished. The efforts made previously to send away as much as possible had also contributed to a reaction. The success of the Chinese diggers had been remarkable, and several of them were returning to China with large amounts. Violent opposition was being raised against them as settlers, and a public meeting had been called to demand measures to put a stop to their arrival. The produce of the gold duty for the four weeks it bad been in operation, was 14,4191. A plan of Mrs. Chisholm for the erection of shelter sheds on the roads to the mines, at from five to nine miles apart, had been adopted by the Government, and a supply had been ordered for the first eighty miles out of Melbourne. Sir Robert Nickle, the Commander of the Forces at Melbourne, died a few days before the last accounts were despatched. Accounts received from Wasa state tbat some English cruisers had visited the place, and burned the magazines and vessels found there belonging to the Russian Government.