The Press. — London, England, 1855-09-08 00:00:00

854 tort* anb Qt oionial ainttiligtnte. FRANCE. Lord Cowley, the British ambassador in Paris, has forwarded a letter to the Mayor of Amiens, express. ing her Majesty's great satisfaction with the address presented to her by that municipal body, and also with the hearty reception she met with from the population upon that occasion. Upwards of 2,400 troops, besides stores, left Mar seilles on Monday last for the seat of war. The French Government has already made preparations for every necessity of the army, supposing it should be compelled to go through a winter campaign. The Navarin is about to leave Toulon with 1,90(1 men, mortars, forges, Stc., and other vessels are preparing at Marseilles and elsewhere on a very large scale. Prince Wladislas Czartoryski has left Paris, with several foreign officers, for Marseilles and Constanti nople. They are to organise a corps of Ottoman Cossacks, which will be composed in part of Poles. Colonel Lagoudie, who was made prisoner eight months ago by the Russians and subsequently exchanged, has also left tor the Crimea, and is placed at the disposal of General Peliesier. Colonel La goudie had been, since his return to France, at tached as chief of the staff to one of the divisions of the camp of Boulogne. It is stated to be the intention of the French Go vernment to strengthen the garrisons in Rome and Civita Vecchia, and steamers are said to have re ceived orders to convey a considerable body of men to that port. The Thabor, which left Constantinople on the 23rd August, brought Abd.el-Kader to Marseilles en route for Paris. The Emir has, however, been detained at Marseilles by indisposition. The commerce of France with Switzerland in creased from 205 millions of francs in 1853 to 353 millions in 1854. GERMANY. Rumours of new negotiations are current in Austria and Prussia. The Lithographed Correspondence of Vienna says that the news of a Russian circular des patch of a very conciliatory nature is entirely con firmed. The Silesian Gazette of the 30th ult. affirms that Austria's answer to the Russian circular bad been sent to St. Petersburg on that very day, and adds :—" We are assured that Prussia has come to a complete understanding with Austria with regard to future proposals for peace." The Nord of Brussels says : If we may interpret in a pacific sense the returning activity of diplomatists, all hope of an arrangement is not lost. M. de Bonrqueney and Prince Gortschakoff passed the whole morning of the 30th ult. together in conference with Count lino! at Vienna. The Vienna Cabinet has al ready replied to the last circular of Count Nesselrode, the existence of which is now out of doubt. The communica tions which take place between Austria and Prussia give reason to believe that the German powers will end by agreeing upon a political programme, which they will be able to oppose to the belligerent parties who may be tempted to extend the war beyond the object for which it was ostensibly undertaken. The Emperor of Austria has left his summer resi dence of Laxenburg for Ischl. He has gone by way of Upper Styria, and the Empress, who, it is under. stood, is again enciente, was to leave Vienna during the current week for Lintz by steamer, and thence proceed to Ischl, where the Imperial Family will re main till the end of this month. The King of Prussia, it is well known, has long suffered from ill health. His disease is said to be dropsy in the chest, and is slowly gaining ground. A letter from Berlin, of the Ist, in the Debats says : The marriage of the Prince Regent of Baden with the only daughter of the Prince of Prussia is now considered as a thing decided on. It is stated that before his mar riage the Prince Regent will be invested with all the rights of his elder brother, who continues ill, and will also take the title of Grand Duke of Baden. The negotiations which have been going on for years past at Rome for the purchase of the Caffarelli Palace for the Prussian Legation have just been concluded. It is intended to construct in this building a chapel for tbs use of the Protestants sojourning at Rome. The Prussian cloth manufacturers of the province of Saxony have lately received extensive orders on account of the Ottoman Government. SWEDEN. The resignation of the Stadtholder Loewenskaeld is accepted, but he holds office until spring, when the Crown Prince becomes Viceroy of the kingdom of Norway. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 30th ult. publishes a decree on the subject of reforms introduced in the organisation of the bureaux of the Ministry of Finance. The sale of the national property con tinues. There are a number of purchasers, and good prices are obtained. The brigade of General O'Donnell has taken up a position at Medina Celi, to prevent any Carlist movement. THE PRESS. NAPLES. The discontent and distractions of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies are now acquiring a great deal of public interest, the more so, as several great Euro pean countries seem likely to take part in the ques• tion, and are most certainly not over-peacefully dis posed towards King Bombe. The Neapolitan forces consist of 88 battalions of infantry, 36 squadrons of cavalry, 17 batteries, and 43 ships of war, of which 29 are large steamers. This would make a total of nearly 80,000 men. The Government of the Two Sicilies has to apologise for another deliberate offence directed tower& France. On the occasion of the Fete Na poleon, a French frigate saluted the port of Messina, but the salute was not returned. Such is a national insult. The captain of the vessel immediately tele graphed the fact to Paris, and a correspondence is believed to be now taking place on the subject. Another state trial is getting up in Naples. A person called Pierro brought an accusation of con spiracy against some advocates and others who were in the habit of meeting in a café near the Toledo. One of these, on being arrested, had in his house a list of the names of persons to whom he was sending tickets for a performance at the Olympic Circus. All who were named in the list were imprisoned. In the houses of some even the wainscoting was removed, and the tiles taken up from the ground. The sbirri pretended that they bad found in the hat of one of them, the advocate Mignogna, a copy of an insurrec tionist proclamation; but as he maintained his inno cence, he was repeatedly beaten, with a view to extort confession. The same thing happened to the advocate Bascone, who, after twenty blows, had a seizure resembling apoplexy, and he was bled on the instant in order to save his life. The process is being prepared by the Attorney-General of the Grand Criminal Court of Naples, and a faithful agent of the infamous sbirro Campagna has been appointed the chancellor in this cause. At the same time some of the Scalzi (barefooted) Augustin fathers were imprisoned, and a young student who lived in their monastery near the Museo Borbonico. It is asserted that this young man was " fisticuffed, slapped, and even bitten by the Commissary of Police," who was in a fury. That which is of more importance, not only were not the fathers respected, but Monsieur Pizarro, who is here to arrange the difficulties between the Papal and Neapolitan Governments, met with insulting treatment. He is living in that mo nastery, and his rooms, in spite of a strong protest, were minutely examined. It is said that he has made a grave complaint. 111111.. TURKEY. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has returned to Con stantinople from the Crimea. The Ministerial crisis continues. Mohamed Ali is appointed Capudan Pacha. The Anglo-Turkish contingent was on the 23rd ult. ready to embark, awaiting only the English Foreign Legion. Fifteen hundred wounded Russians had arrived at Constantinople. The English Government have just had built in the Bosphorus, on a new model, eighty large boats, which are to be taken in tow by steamers for the Crimea. RUSSIA. The St. Petersburg correspondent of La Presse, writing under date of the 27th of August, says : The Emperor was seriously affected at the disastrous result of the affair on the Tschernaya, and has ordered a searching inquiry into the facts connected with the battle. All the accounts which arrive from the Crimea are unani mous on the point of the want of provisions. At Simfe ropol, in which the Russian resources are collected, provi sions have been measured out to the inhabitants for a long time put, as if the place was besieged. General Suchozanett, who has been appointed to succeed the late General Read in the command of the 2nd army corps, set out for Sebastopol on the 28th ult. Ho has hitherto held the rank of chief of the artillery of the active army. Another levy of conscripts is impending in Russian Poland. The Government of Kieff, which has been hitherto subordinated to the commander-in-chief of the Crimean army, is now placed, with all its military establishments, under the care of Prince Paskiewitch. Gun-boats of the allies have appeared at the mouth of the Danube, the Russians having forbid the naviga tion of that river to neutral vessels. Official accounts from Bessarabia, however, state that neutral vessels had been authorised to load grain at Ismail. The intelligence from Odessa announces that thousands of RUSSiELIA were busy in fortifying and intercepting the passes communicating with the Putrid Sea. In the course of the present month there will be presented the greatest military spectacle the people of Odessa have ever seen. Forty battalions of infantry, thirty-two squadrons of cavalry, and eighteen batteries, will represent the attack and defence of Odessa, under the superintendence of General Luders. The lino of attack will extend from the village of Lustdorf to the Shawachover hill. The number of sick and wounded from the Crimea has so increased at Ekaterinoelaw, that the nobility SATURDAY, have been obliged to give up their magnificent casino to be converted into an hospital. In consequence of the war, the University of Hel.. singfors will be closed this year. _ A destructive fire broke out on the 22nd ult., at St. Peteruburg, in a large establishment belonging to Prince Dolgorouki, the Councillor of State, and used for the purpose of drying sourkrout intended for the troops. The loss of this building is stated to be severely felt, there being no other establish. ment of th• kind available for provisioning the troops. A letter from St. Pewrburg, in the Silesian Gazette, says : . At the commencement of the present year there were in circulation iu this country credit notes to the amount of 556,337,021 silver roubles (the silver rouble is somewhat over 4f.), being 244,961,440 roubles more than at the be ginning of 1853. The cash in hand which is to guarantee this paper money has only increased during the same pe• riod by 4,996,137 roubles, haviLg been at the beginning of 1853, 146,794,848, and at the commencement of this year, 151,790,895. The debt of Russia at the beginning of 1853 was as follows :—Due abroad, at fixed periods, 57,449,000 Dutch florins (the Dutch florin is somewhat over 21.) ; home debt, 10,867,050 silver roubles; debt requiring to be paid at any moment, 223,861,476 silver roubles, and 8,280,0001. sterling. These figures prove that the financial situation of Russia is very critical, and that it must get worse and worse every day, since the expenses caused by the war are estimated at 20,01:0,000 of silver roubles a month. WEST INDIES. A West India mail has arrived by the steamship Atrato, with intelligence from Jamaica of Aug. 11 ; Demerara, Aug. 10; Trinidad, Aug. 12; Barbadoes, Aug. 15; and St. Thomas, Aug. 22. The yellow fever was prevalent at Barbadoes. At St. Thomas that disease was on the decline, but smallpox had broken out on that island. Fever was doing much mischief at Jamaica, where trade was exceedingly dull. AUSTRALIA. Adelaide papers of June 23, received on Thursday, announce the safe arrival there of the new Governor, Sir Richard Mac Donnell, for whose safety some apprehensions had been entertained. Sir Richard had reached Melbourne in the mail-packet Blue Jacket, and embarked for Port Adelaide on board the screw-steamer Burra Burra on the 19th of May. The unusually long time that elapsed without any tidings of this vessel tended to create considerable uneasiness as to its safety, the more so as it was known that gales, equal, if not greater, in violence than any ever known before on the coast, had been blowing continuously for several days. On Thurs day, June 7, however, the signal for a steamer in sight was hoisted at the signal-station, and great was the joy in the city when the vessel was made out to be the Burra Burra. She reached the port about sunset, and came to anchor amid the cheers and rejoicings of the inhabitants there. Her long passage had been owing, as was expected, to the boisterous weather encountered, especially on the South Australian coast. His Excellency landed on the following day, and was duly sworn in, and since his arrival has been actively enraged in visiting the various Government departments, and seeing with his own eyes the condition of the various estab lishments. There is no political news by this arrival from the colony. The last report of the Protector of the Aborigines had recently been published, but, beyond testifying to the rapidly diminishing numbers of the native tribes, possessed little of an interesting character. The Adelaide tribe have returned to their winter quarters in and about town, occupying themselves by day in begging food and clothing, and by night in holding corobbories by their wurley tires. Archdeacon Hale continues his efforts at Port Lincoln, and speaks hopefully of the indications of some of his pupils. But the steady disappearance of the natives is what every report upon their condition most uniformly points to, although everything is done that could promise to alleviate the discomforts of their con dition. GIBRALTAR. Lieutenant-GeneraliJamesFergusson, K.C.8., the newly-appointed Governor of Gibraltar, ar rived at that port on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon from Malta, during the night of the 27th ult. His excellency landed under a salute of nineteen guns from the garrison, and was received by a guard of honour furnished by the 54th Regiment. After receiving the military and civil officers, and the principal in habitants of the city, the prescribed oaths were ad ministered. Vast crowds assembled to witness his arrival. Her Majesty's steam.sloop Prometheus arri►ed at Gibraltar on the 26th ult., from the East. On her way down she touched on the Riff coast near Melilla and ran down along the land to abreast of Zera Bay, where she hauled close in and hove-to to make out sonic articles and boats that were observed lying on the beach ; and when close in, the Riffians hoisted a flag of truce, which was answered by the ship. As the ship was canting off shore, which she did