The Press. — London, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

TO CO: It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we recehe 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. Cemmunications 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 name 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 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION POW. Ebe il3ress: (STAMPED.) Per Annum .. lialf-Yearly .. Quarterly .. • • Payable in advance. .. 11 6 0 .. 0 13 0 .. 0 6 6 Subscribers are requested to send their Orders throughtheir News Agent; if direct to the Office. accompanied by a remit. tance. Advertieomeuts also must have a reference or remittance Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED IvE,llO Strand London. :)rtgo+ LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1856. POSTSCRIPT. The publication, incomplete as it is, of the text of the treaty by the English newspapers, has excited the intense surprise and indignation of the French papers. The following note has been sent, with slight verbal modifications, to all the Paris journals : One of the London papers, the Daily News, and two journals of Brussels, the Independance and the Nord, arrived this morning, publish a version of the treaty of Paris, as to the correctness of which it does not behove us to express an opinion. The publication of that document can only be the result of an unjustifiable breach of trust (indLicrelion coupable), the party guilty of which is being sought out. A treaty only exists, in fact, after the ex change of the ratifications, and we shall await is official publication by the llloniieur to reproduce the important document in question. Despatches from Berlin of the 24th announce that Prince Menschikoff has been relieved of his post as Governor of Cronstadt. The Journal de St. Petersbourg publishes the fol lowing report from General Lnders, dated 2nd (14th) of April:— Yesterday I had an interview with the commanders-in chief of the allied armies. I arrived at noon with my suite at the Kammenoi•bridge (stone bridge) over the Tschernaya, where I was received by the French General M`Malion ; two battalions of Zouaves were drawn up on each side of the road with their band, which did me the usual honour ; at the same time salutes were fired from the batteries on the Fedukhine heights ; shortly after wards Marshal Pelissier, attended by a numerous suite, came to meet me, and immediately afterwards Generals de la Marmora and Codrington, with their staffs. After the usual compliments and introductions, I invited the foreign generals to the camp of the eleventh division, on the Mac kenzie heights, whither we proceeded on horseback. On our approach salutes were fired by our batteries on the Mac• kenzie heights. Near the hut of the staff of the division, I introduced the company of honour, carrying the flag of the Selinghinsk regiment, to the commanders-in-chief. After a few momenta' repose we proceeded to the twefth divi sion, which was waiting feu• us under arms, in columns and sections. Military honours were paid to Marshal Pelissier. After the review the troops marched peat in sections; the bearing, dress, and especially the step of the men, pleased the stranger much ; I then invited the corn. manders•in•chief to dinner in a tent prepared specially for the purpose ; many other generals and officers partook of this repast. After a toast proposed by me to the health of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, of Queen Victoria, and of the King of Sardinia, Marshal Peliasier proposed the health of his Majesty the Emperor and of the armies of his Imperial Majesty. In a long speech he expressed hie veneration for his Majesty, and his warm sympathies for our troops ; he especially requested me to bring to the knowledge of the Emperor that what he said came from the bottom of his heart. During the whole of the day a great number of officers and soldiers of the allies visited our camp, On the whole, great cordiality prevailed on all sides. Accounts from Constantinople to the 17th state that the son of Fuad Pacha had left fur Paris with the ratification of the treaty of peace. The same accounts state that all right of inter vention on the part of foreign powers in the internal affairs of Turkey is suppressed. .._ THE PRESS. Magnificent presents have been sent by the Sultan to Queen Victoria, in addition to those sent to the Emperor of the French and the King of Sardinia. The Persian Government has recognised the rights of the English consuls, and the differences hitherto existing have been completely accom modated. A deFpatch:from Vienna announces the arrival of Count Buol on the 22nd via Brussels and Dresden. The ratifications of the treaty were to leave at once for Paris. The Pope, according to the Milan Gazette, will leave Rome for Faris on the 15th of June. Former reports lead us to believe that his holiness was to perform the baptismal service by proxy. Advices from St. Petersburg state that Prince Leichtenstein, bearing the Czar's ratification of peace, may be expected to arrive in Paris about the 30th inst. A report has been published of an important speech delivered by Count Walewski on the Bth of April at a sitting of the Congress. M. Walewski ap pears to have invited the plenipotentiaries before part ing to a brief consideration of the political state of Europe. Starting from the Piraeus, M. Walewski remarked that the condition of Greece was far from satistt.ctory, that the Papal States were in an ab normal situation, and that the cause of order required that the Government of the Two Sicilies should be en lightened upon the wrong course it was pursuing ; while the liberty of the press in Belgium, through which the institutions of France were especially in sulted and reviled, to the danger of the internal tranquillity of the empire, demanded repression, and that on this point the French Government would regret being compelled directly to interfere. It hoped that the representatives of the great powers would advise the Belgian Government to put an end to a state of things which would certainly produce difficulties and even dangers it was the interest of Belgium to avert. In conclusion, the Count pro posed that the Congress should crown its labours by a declaration of a maritime code for war on the following principles, viz.— 1. The abolition of La Course. 2. That neutral mer chandise covers enemy's merchandise, except contraband of war. 3. That neutral merchandise, except contraband of war, cannot be seized even under an enemy's Hag. 4. That a blockade is only obligatory so far as it is real. DR. MANDT, the homcsopathic physician of the late Emperor Nicholas, who, after the decease of his Imperial patient, retired to Frankfort•on-the-Oder, has been summoned by the Empress Mother to return to Russia and give her the benefit of his medical advice. The Empress Mother proposes to visit Berlin in May, to proceed then to Stuttgard Hohenzollern, and some German springs, to return to Moscow for the Emperor's coronation in August, and then to spend the winter in Sicily. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the Foreign-office, and sat two hours and a half. On Tutsday a Court of Privy Council was held at Buckingham Palace, at which the Earl of Clarendon attended. Later in the afternoon a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, at which all the Ministers, including the Earl of Clarendon, were present. A meeting of Cabinet Ministers was held at the War Department yesterday. Lord Palmerston, Lord Fanmure, Sir George Grey, Sir Charles Wood, and Lord Hardinge were present. The Earl of Clarendon left Paris on Saturday forenoon, reached Folkestone the same evening, and arrived in town on Monday evening. The third report of the commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851 has appeared. The total balance on hand amounts to 101,7621., which will be ex pended in the purchase of the Hanington estate. The Rev. Henry Melvill, 8.D., has been appointed by the Queen to the Canonry of St. Paul's, vacant by the promotion of the Bishop of Carlisle. THE PLENworEsmotEs, on arriving at their hotels iu Paris, after taking leave of the Emperor, found an official notification that the Emperor des tined for each of them a copy of that grand work, the "Iconographic, Grecque et Romaine," as a souvenir of their sojourn in Paris. The Thunderbolt floating battery was launched on Thursday from Mr. Sounder's yard at Blackwall. She is 2,000 tons burden, 186 feet in length, 48 feet 6 inches it, breadth, and in depth 18 feet 6 inches, with a draught of 7 feet 2 inches aft. She is spoon bowed, framed, and plated, like an ordinary iron ship. Outside the plating planks of teak, six inches thick, are bolted, and over these are plates of iron four inches thick. This sheathing of wood and iron is expected to be proof against shot or shell. The sessel can be moved backwards and forwards with eat facility, and is propelled by a screw, worked by high •pressure horizontal engines of about 200 horse power, supplied with steam from four boilers. SATURDAY, HOUSE OF LORDS—Flunky. THE NAVAL. REVIEW. The misadventures which attended the journey of noble lords to the review on Wednesday were again adverted to, and sundry explanations on the subject offered by Earl GRANVILLE. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. Earl ST. GERMANS moved the second reading of his bill to legalise under certain conditions the marriage of a widower with the sister of his deceased wife. The noble lord supported his measure by a long array of arguments and precedents drawn from tho laws and customs of almost every civilised nation. The discussion on this measure was protracted to a late hour, the Bishops of Oxford, Carlisle, St. David's, and Exeter, the Earl of Albermarle, Lord Dungannon, Earl Grey, Lord Congleton, the Earl of Ellesmere, arid several other noble lords taking part in the debate. On a division there appeared:— Contents, 24: Non-Contents, 43-10. The bill is consequently lost. Their lordships adjourned at a quarter to twelve o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY. KARS. Mr. J. G. PirimmoßE gave notice that upon Mr. Whiteside's motion respecting Kars, which stood for discussion on Monday next, he should move an amendment, setting forth the opinion that the un fortunate result of the siege in question was chiefly attributable to the ill-feeling which existed between Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and General Williams. INTERPELLATIONS. On the motion that the house on rising should adjourn until Monday next, various topics were, as usual, brought forward by different hon. members, and gave occasion to a miscellaneous discussion. Among others, Lord C. HAMILTON called attention to the new arrangements which the termination of the war would render necessary in the organisation of the militia; Mr. LAYARD complained of some errors in recent returns respecting masters in the royal navy; Mr. BYNG commented upon the inconsistency displayed by the Government in preparing to cele brate the peace with fireworks, while postponing the announcement of a day of thanksgiving on that account; and Mr. LAING sought some information as to the intentions of the Government in sending troops to Canada. Replying to Mr. Ryng, Sir G. GREY stated that a thanksgiving day would be duly appointed, and a suitable form of prayer drawn up for the conclusion of peace, as soon as the formal ratifications had been exchanged. To Mr. Laing. Lord PALMERSTON reiterated the explanations already given, to the effect that the troops to be despatched to the British colonies in North America numbered, not 10,000, as had been asserted, but very little over 4,000, and were meant simply to replace the detachments drawn from that quarter at the first commencement of the war. THE MISHAPS AT THE REVIEW. Sir C. Woon redeemed a promise made on his behalf by Mr. Osborne earlier in the sitting, and explained in detail the causes which had led to the delays and disappointments suffered by the members of both branches of the Legislature at Wednesday's naval review. All possible care had been taken to provide for the accommodation of the two houses, but the phenomena of the tide rendered it indispensable that the review should begin and end at certain hours while the enormous pressure on the appliances cf the railway seriously embarrassed and protracted the journey from London. Between the collision of these two conditions the unlucky result had been chiefly produced. Mr. Newdegate, Sir W. JolliffelMr. Nisbet Hamil ton, and other members, while admitting the force of the Ministerial apology to a certain extent, ad dressed severe censures against the South-Western Railway Company. Mr. CHAPLIN (chairman of that company), and Mr. HUTCHINS, a director, expressed their sincere regrets for the catastrophe, but excused their rail way functionaries, attributing the delay in the transit of the train which conveyed members of the Legislature to an accidental break down of the engine attached to a preceding train. The subject then dropped. POLICE BILL. The house then went into Committee on the Police (Counties and Boroughs) Bill, and several hours were spent in discussing amendments in the two first clauses of the measure. SCOTCH PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. The second reading of the Parochial Schools (Scotland) Bill was moved by the LORD ADVOCATE, and opposed by Mr. HADFIELD, who brought for ward an amendment postponing the further progress of the measure for a 1 ortniglit. After discussion the house divided, when the amendment was nega tived by a majority of 00 to 47-43. The debate was then adjourned. The remaining business on the paper having been disposed of, the house adjourned at half-past one o'clock. • -1