The Press. — London, England, 1855-07-14 00:00:00

662 jot* an Colonial antellignut. FRANCE. The Emperor Napoleon received the Corps Legis tif on Friday, the Bth inst., when the projects of law adopted at the sitting of the sth and Gth of July were presented. Count de Morny, President of tho Corps Legislatif, said:— I have the honour to place in the hands of your Majesty the law allowing of a fresh loan, and the law thing the army contingent for MO, which have been voted unani• mously. The Emperor replie 1 : I thank thi Corps Le tislatif. I know how heavy war i m p os t is felt, but 1 hope it is only momentary ; and I believe that the eourke a id patriotism of the country will surmount all difficulties, and arrive at an honourablelpeace. The terms of the new loan will be promulgated in a few days. The Moniteur states, as the result of the documents received at the War-office, that the number of military men who have fallen on the field of battle, or who have died in the ambulances and hospitals, in consequence of wounds, cholera, or other diseases, amounts for the army in the East, from its departure from France up to the Ist Jane, 1855, that is to say during a period of thirteen months, to 14,205 men, and that, according to re ports already received, the number of killed during the recent combats in June may be estimated, at the highest, at 2,300. AUSTRIA. The Vienna official Gazette of the 7th replies to the speech of the Emperor Napoleon on the opening of the French Legislative session. It declares that Austria had fulfilled the engagements entered into by the treaty of the 2nd of December, and was not obliged to go further. A new circular by M. Buol to N. de Hubner, intended as a further reply to that speeoh, is spoken of. In the circular Austria asserts that France and England retain her preferences and her sympathies, but that she remains the sole judge as to the suitable moment for her to take part in the contest, or as to the conditions of the ultimatum, the definite rejection of which is to determine her to re sort to extremities. The Emperor returned to Vienna on Monday from his journey into Gallicia, and was received with great ceremony. SPAIN. A despatch from Barcelona, dated the 10th inst., announces that strikes still continued. The work. men had left the town, and were encamped in the open fields, with bands of peasants. The National Guard had given its support to the Government, and mounted guard in the town. The troops were outside. The town was tranquil. The shops had reopened. The manufactories had struck work. General Zapatero had receivel reinforce. ments : he awaited more to be able to act. The Catalonian deputation applied to the Cortes, on the loth, for a bill to organise labour. The Min istry refused to interfere till the insurgents had sub- milted. v the Government had decided to act against the Carlista as well as against the workmen. _ _ _ It is stated that the brother of the Carlist chief Marsal has been killed, and he himself escaped, by the speed of his horse, into France. A colonel, four superior officers, eighteen subalterns, and seventy four men of the insurgents had crossed the frontier nto France. TURKEY. The Sultan has effected a loan of 700,0001. sterling at Constantinople. After the affair of the 18th, the Sultan sent to Lord Raglan and General Pelissier a letter, ex • pressive of admiration and thanks for the bravery of the allied troops. Letters from Egypt state that Said Pacha has doubled the pay of his lately-raised brigade of Soudan negroes, to their great satisfaction. _ . RUSSIA. An Imperial decree was issued at St. Petersburg on the sth inst., enjoining all the governors in New Russia and Bessarabia to augment the Cossack troops in their respective Governments by volunteers from all classes. A letter from St. Petersburg says : The Czar continues to display great activity; he visits fortresses, passes reviows, and works at night in his Cabinet. All trace of dissension between him and his brother the Grand Duke Constantine has disappeared, and there was never any question of his abdication. The Czar, though mild and affable, clings energetically to the resolutions which he has adopted ; and he said recently to a commercial deputation, " If I am feeble, I will dray to God to make me strong." He has several times repeated what ho said to the diplomatic body on his accession to the throne : " The policy of my father is sacred for me." He has determined not to abandon that policy on any amount. The Frankfort Post Gazette is informed from Warsaw that the troubles in the Ukraine, far from Wing smiled, dal, gain new ground, and ahead THE PRESS. beyond the Dneister. The peasants commit no excesses, but refuse their accustomed labour tax (the corvie) and demand " liberty and land." A corps of light infantry, commanded by a general, has been rapidly moved from place to place, a service of light waggons having been appointed for the purpose, but it has not been able to restore order, as the troops no sooner leave a town or village than new disorders take plate. UNITED STATES. New York dates to the 27th ultimo have been re ceived. The vote of all the counties on the prohibitory liquor law of Illinois has been received, and shows a majority against the law of 14,000 votes. A New York paper states that the efforts of the British recruiting agents there to enlist men for the Crimean legion appear to be attended with con siderable difficulty. Mr. Charles H. Stanley, of the British Consulate in New York, was arrested on the 26th of June, and placed under 1,000 dollars bonds to answer a charge of enlisting recruits for the Crimea. Favorable accounts continue to be received of the growing and ripening crops. In the southern States the harvesting has already commenced, and the yield is said to be unprecedented. A New York paper observes :—" If this season does not outstrip any previous year in the number of bushels produced, there is no truth in favorable reports of crops." Advices from San Francisco to the Ist of June had reached New York. Accounts from the interior of California give glowing descriptions of the country and the general prosperity of the various branches of industry, particularly mining. INDIA. The steamer Australia arrived at Trieste on Wed nesday, with the Overland Mail. The dates are, Calcutta 4th of June, and Bombay 10th of June. There is no political news by this mail. Tranquility prevails throughout India. Lord Dalhousie was at the Neilgherries. THE CAPE. Papers from Cape Town to the 16th of May, in clusive, have arrived. The colony was quiet., and the Parliament occupied with the discussion of local measures of improvement. The Governor, Sir George Grey, was about to proceed to Natal, for the purpose, it was said, of adding Delagoa Bay to the Natal colony. INFORMATON regarding the public income and expenditure for the year ending the 30th of June last is given in a parliamentary return issued yester day. The income for that period amounted to 61,153,0001., and the expenditure to 73,055,0001.; leaving an excess of the latter over the former of 11,901,0001. Of the expenditure, 27,863,000/. was on account of debt, 1,614,0001. charges on the Con solidated Fund, 9,890,0001. for the army,17,528,0001. for the navy, and 6,442,0001. for the Ordnance ; 3,000,0001. vote of credit on account of the war with Russia, and 6,176,0001. for miscellaneous Civil services. The balance in the Exchequer on the sth of July, 1854, was 4,003,0001., and on the 30th of June, 1855, 3,882,0001. . . . THE Select Committee on the office of Speaker of the House of Commons have framed a bill and new standing order intended to provide for the inconve nience which may occasionally arise from the Speaker's absence. The bill simply provides for the validity of the proceedings taken by the Deputy Speaker,—to be the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means. The Deputy-Speaker is to have no power of appointing to an office except for such time as he shall continue to be Deputy-Speaker. _ ENGLISH RECRUITING AGENTS have enlisted a number of men for the Foreign Legion at Lille, and in its neighbourhood. The French who tender their services, says the journal La Veriti " are not admitted, from a feeling that does honour to our allies. They only accept young Belgians and others, who are very numerous in our country." THE EVESHAM ELECTION took place on Wednesday. Mr. Holland was proposed by Mr. T. N. Foster and seconded by Mr. J.:New, and, the two other candidates having previously retired, was declared duly elected. Mr. Holland, in returning thanks, said he was for a vigorous prosecution of the war, and not only of the war, but of everything right and just, whether at home or abroad. He was not a member for any par ticular class of politicians, but for every class, for every elector, and every non-elector. THE DEATHS REGISTERED IN LONDON, which in May rose to nearly 1,200 in a week, and in June to nearly 1,100, fell to 926 in the week that ended last Satur day. The average number in the ten corresponding weeks of 1845-54, when corrected for increase of pop ulation, is 1,058. The present return is therefore of a favorable character. THE Lord Mayor entertained on Saturday evening, in the Egyptian-hall, Mansion-house, a distinguished party to meet the president and members of the B4al deadeav% Coyest were laid for 110 pieta SATURDAY, gout an (fasten. The Queen left London on Tuesday for the Isle of Wight, accompanied by the King of the Belgians, who still remains her Majesty's guest. On Thurs day the Queen and King Leopold embarked on board the new royal yacht, and sailed on a short cruise. This was the first occasion on which her Majesty had used this new and splendid steamer. The Queen held on. Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, an investiture of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, at Buckingham Palace. Several officers who happen to be now in England then received their decorations from her Majesty's hand. The complete list of the honours conferred is given elsewhere, from the Gazette. In the evening of the same day the Queen, with the King of the Belgians, visited the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. On her way to Portsmouth on Tuesday, the Queen visited the new camp at Alders:hott. Her Majesty's visit to Paris, which had at first been intended to take place on the 2nd of August, is now definitively fixed for the 17th. Parliament will, of course, be prorogued before Her Majesty's departure. The Duke of Cambridge, on Tuesday, delivered the Crimean medal to about thirty invalid and wounded soldiers of the Scots Fusilier Guards (who were unable to be present at the recent distribution by her Majesty), at the Military Hospital, Vauxhall bridge-road. The Queen has given apartments in Hampton Court to the widows of General Strangways ana Admiral Boxer. The Portuguese brigantine St. Pedro arrived at Southampton on Thursday from Lisbon, with a variety of presents from the King of Portugal to Prince Albert. They consist principally of statuary, slabs of marble, acc., and some horned cattle of a peculiar breed. The Earl of Derby left town on Tuesday for Knowsley, where be has been entertaining a large circle of friends during the races at Liverpool. Lord Haddo, M.P., is residing with Lady Haddo and family at the Ranger's Lodge, Blackheath, the residence of the Earl of Aberdeen. His lordship continues in a very delicate state of health, and is quite unable to attend to his duties in the House of Commons. A pension of 501. a year has been granted by the Government, front the Civil List, to the well-known and popular author of many works of Christian philosophy and literature, Dr. Dick. Some German newspapers announce, no doubt at his request, that Prince Woronzoff, who is at present at Dresden for the benefit of his health, possesses neither chateau nor estate in the Crimea, and that, consequently, the English cannot have spared either, as has been reported. LETTERS FROM CONSTANTINOPLE state that Sir G. Brown was to embark there in the Nubia on the 2nd inst., in order to return to England for the recovery of his health. Miss Nightingale was at Therapia, and did not intend returning home unless obliged. REPORTS have been current in Plymouth that Mr. Collier, M.P. for the borough, had received the re ward of his partisanship to the present Government. Sould this prove true, the Plymouth Mail adds, wo are in a position to say that a Conservative candidate every way eligible to represent this important borough in Parliament will be forthcoming. A PARLIAMENTARY RETURN gives Some particulars regarding appointments to commissions in the army. It appears that from the Ist of January, 1853, to the 18th of January, 1855, the sum realised by the sale of army commissions on account of the Government was 82,9701. IN consequence of tl e attempt made in the House of Lords to defeat the bill for securing the liberty of religious worship, which has passed the House of Commons, a public meeting of the friends of reli gious liberty was held on Thursday in the Free masons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn fields, in support of Lord Shattesbury's efforts. The chair was taken by Rear-Admiral Vernon Har court. THE large and beautifully-proportioned wrought iron cannon constructed at Gospel Oak, in Stafford shire, burst and fell into many pieces on Wednesday at Woolwich, under the usual charge. The gun was 10 inches in the bore, 10 feet long, and weighed 06 cwt. ON Tuesday at a late hour a gentleman took lodgings at Eastey's Hotel for the night. Nothing being seen of him in the morning his room-door was forced open, when he was found dead, having shot himself with a revolving pistol. A pocket-book was found containing 81. in gold and 251. in notes, and an order for 100/. on the Belfast Bank, signed by Miss Wilson, and 355. in silver. The deceased's name has sinced proved to be Mr. Thomas Wilson. THE REMAINS OF LORD RAGLAN are to be sent home to England, in charge of Lord Biughersh', onb t his late lidos-do-camp,