The Press. — London, England, 1855-03-17 00:00:00

MARCH 17,1855. c if or tign (forresponbtna. FRANKFORT, March Ll. Two expressions, lightly uttered, give a clue to the spirit of passing events. The King of Prussia, in allusion to an active co-operation of Austria with the allies, remarked, " Elle n'ose pas." The Emperor of the French, on hearing of the death of the Em peror Nicholas, said quietly, "men n'est change." Both mots have a peremptory signification. There is neither a king nor prince in "Deutschland" that has not ascended untold degrees in the scale of self-importance since the death of the Emperor Nicholas. These worthies presume to affect a re spectable independence, to the infinite amusement of M. de Benckendorf at Berlin, and M. de Bismarck at this place. A turf expression, "en argot," not classical, is yet peculiarly applicable to them—" They are potted." Painful is it to witness a person of the standing of M. de Bismarck Slion batmen satisfied, nay boastful, of the deceit, venality, and prostitution of his country. The mani festo of the Emperor Alexander 11. bas simply veri fied a foregone conclusion—that, however honest and enlightened may be his private sentiments and character, he is in the hands of a party who will never recede from the policy of Peter, Catherine, and Nicholas. In one respect he is more powerful than was his father. Nicholas was feared, conse quently disliked; and although the German princes were willing to act in accordance with his wishes for a consideration, the severities of serfdom were not always agreeable. The open regard of the Empress Mother for her German compatriots is shared by Alexander, and, without diminishing the Mongolian arrogance of the Muscovite, a vast accession of strength has been gained by Russia from this par tiality of Germany for the present Emperor. This will be fruitful of result, and possibly change in some degree the nature of the European war. It will inevitably work adversely to Austria and France. To consolidate this Germanic predilection for Russia, a Muscovite journal is about to be estab lished at Berlin, with the consent of the King—it might also be said under his very patronage—to be called the Journal du Nord. The chief editor is M. Joly, a person heretofore distinguished at Paris for his support of the Jesuits. The two sub-editors have been supplied from Brussels by M. de Chrep towich, the Russian Minister at that Court. It is not a little singular that for the purpose of despotic propa gandism a Protestant king should lend his aid to a Jesuit, the Jesuit take service under a heretic Greek, and a Russian Minister seek for subservient "familiars " in a country professing a devotion to liberal institutions. " Frond nulls fides." M. de Chreptowich has completely succeeded in Russianising Brussels, and the heretic Greek has secured his religious opponents, the Jesuits, to a man. He is also in contact with a journal loudly proclaiming its liberalism, and professedly opening its columns to all parties, the meaning of which may be dealt with in all its "largesse." The Liberal has been made safe ; but something more of this may be said at a future time. Betwixt Belgium and this place the communication is immediate and constant, and the Bisinarck clique become initiated into Brussels in trigues without any reference to the worthy and RC • credited channels at that place that are above petti fogging and corrupting influences. The brochure " De la Conduite de la Guerre d'Orient," concocted and published at Brussels, was privately seen here in its yellow envelope a fortnight before its appearance in that capital. The author, or rather authors, are known, and intimately so, by M. de Chreptowich. Great pains were bestowed in collecting the mate rials, and a portion of the letters of Prince Napoleon Jerome were bought from his faithful correspondent for a large sum. Who provided the money? The whole was compiled under the direction of an aulic council, and sent to head-quarters to be " vue et approuvee." It was beyond the power of Russian cunning to conceal the manifest object . Th is was to injure the prestige of the name of Napoleon with the army of France, to sow dissension with England by coupling the Duke of Cambridge and other general officers with the Anti-Napoleonic party,. and to turn the present indignation of England against the Aber deen Ministry to bear personally upon the Emperor of the French. And the Bright and Cobden egotists lend a helping hand. Further, it was to precipitate the rupture betwixt France and Germany in such manner as to detach Austria from French alliance, to quicken again the revolutionary sympathies that led to the battles of Lodi, Arcola, and Marengo, and thus compel Austria in self-defence to withdraw from France. The agents are Red Republicans put in motion by Russian intrigue, and the plot was matured at Brussels. It was not wise to give one of the gang a Russian decoration. There is a becoming modesty even among the R. R. It. " Tria juncta in uno." gins separabit." J. E. L. THE PRESS. lortign 10 (Leonid eluttilignut. RUSSIA. The text of the first manifesto issued by the new Czar to his subjects, of which we gave a telegraphic summary last week, was published in the Journal of St. Petersburg on the 3rd inst. It runs as follows St. Petersburg, Feb. 18 (March 2). By the grace of God, We, Alezander 11., Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, King of Poland, &c., To all our faithful subjects make known:— In His impenetrable ways it has pleased God to strike us all with a blow as terrible as it was unexpected. Following a brief but serious illness, which at its close was developed with an unheard-of rapidity, our much loved father, the Emperor Nicholas Psvluviicb, has de parted lifts this day, the 18th Feb. (March 2). No lan guage can express our grief—which will also be the grief of our faithful subjects. Submitting with resignation to the impenetrable designs of Divine Providence, we seek consolation but in Him, and wait from Him alone the ne cessary aid to entble us to sustain the burden which it has pleased Him to impose upon us. Even as the much-loved father, whom we mourn, consecrated all his efforts, every moment of his life, to the labours and to the cares called for by the well-being of his subjects—We, at this hour so painful, but also so grave and so solemn, in ascending our hereditary throne of the empire of Russia, as well as of the kingdom of Poland, and of the Grand Duchy of Fin land, which are inseparable from it., take, in the face of the invisible and ever present God, the sacred pledge, never to have any other end but the prosperity of our country. May Providence, who has called us to this high mission, so aid us that, guided and protected by Him, we may be able to strengthen Russia in the highest degree of power and glory ; that by us may be accoinVished the views and the desires of our illustrious predecessors, Peter, Catherine, Alexander the much-loved, and our august father of im perishable memory. By their well-proved zeal, by their prayers ardently united with ours before the altars of the most high, our dear subjects will come to our aid. We invite them to do so, commanding them to take, at the same time, the oath of fidelity both to us and to our heir, his Imperial High ness the Cesarewitch Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovi:ch Given at St. Petersburg the 18th day of the month of Feb. (March 2), of the year of grace 1835, and the first year of our reign. (Signed) AI.EYLNDE/t. Intelligence of the death of the Emperor Nicholas reached Admiral Bruat, at Kamisch, on the 6th. There were then no signs that the event had transpired in Sebastopol. The Emperor Alexander 11. has presented to the Guards, the Cadet Corps, and to the Suwarrow Regi ments, the uniforms worn by Nicholas I. The two Russian Grand Dukes are on their way home from the Crimea. Prince Menschikoff has gone to Moscow. Accounts from St. Petersburg (says the Gazette de France) speak of remonstrances which are said to have been addressed to the new Czar by the body of nobles against the arming of the serfs. It is well known that this measure, comprised in the general armament ordered by the Emperor Nicholas, had not met with au y opposition. If, as it is said, its execution now meets with any remon strances on the part of the nobility, it is doubtless because the resolution of ema‘cipating the serfs having been long attributed to the heir presumptive, now become Emperor, it is feared that the arming of that class will be a good step towards that object. FRANCE. The Imperial yacht, La Reine Hortense, is being fitted up at Cherbourg with elegant furniture and decorations, as if intended for an early voyage, which has given occasion for a revival of the report that the Emperor is about to pay his promised visit to the Crimea. The Moniteur publishes an Imperial decree pro mulgating the act of acceptation signed at Turin on the 26th of January, 1855, on the accession of Lis Majesty the King of Sardinia to the convention of the 10th of April, 1854, between France and England. The northern army of France is now divided into two corps. The first is commanded by General Bars guay d'Hilliers, with General Guillon as chief of the staff. The second is to be under the command of General Guesvilliers. 'rhe Moniteur formally denies the report that a French general (Forey) had been tampering with the enemy. The Constitutionnel reads the Times a severe lecture for circulating the calumnious report alluded to. A grand funeral service was celebrated on Tuesday, at Notre Dame, by the Archbishop of Paris, for those who were shipwrecked in the French frigate Sentil /ante. A letter from Corsica states that the body of M. Jugau, commander of the frigate, had been washed ashore, with those of sixty others, who were not re cognised. GERMANY. Prince Gortschakoff presented his creaentials to the Austrian Emperor on the Pah. The Conferences formally opened on Thursday last. Baron de Bruck has been filially nominated Minis ter of Finance. Baron Lieven arrived at Vienna on Monday, from St. Petersburg, to notify.the accession of Alexander 11. 253 The 'health of the Empress and her infant con• tinues to be excellent. The Government of Prussia has issued a circular note, dated the Bth, to its diplomatic and consular agents abroad, in wilich it declares that there is every reason to believe that the negotiations now in progress will have a favorable, that is, a pacific solution. M. de &toy states, in the Debate, that Prince Charles of Prussia, who is to go to St. Petersburg to present the compliments of the Kiug, his brother, to the new Emperor, is to obtain the King's inten tions respecting the dying message of Nicholas on the subject of the relations of Russia and Prussia. The Prince is to assure Alexander that. the King, desiring the continuation of peace, is ready to con tinue the work of mediation, if the new Emperor will continue the policy of the Emperor his father. If he should fail, he will confine himself to a strict neu trality. SPAIN. The Madrid Cortes sanctioned on Tuesday, by • majority of 200 against 12, the measures introduced by M. Madoz, intended to effect a great reduction of public expenditure. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Cape Town papers of the 29th of January have arrived by the mail steamer. The frontier journals concur in stating that, the dread of a Kaffir war had much diminished. Accounts from the Trans-Vaal republic announce the return of General Pretorius, after inflicting signal punishment on the Kaffir chief Makapan, for the murder of Field-Cornet Potgeiter and seven or eight men, and the massacre of several women, accom panied by circumstances of the most horrid cruelty. General Pretorius was about to proceed on another command towards the end of January, the destina tion of which was kept secret. The Frontier Times mentions a report that the British Government intended to propose to the Cape Parliament to sanction the transmission of a number of convicts to East London, for the purpose of im proving that harbour; and it is added that, should the proposition be entertained, it was intended to offer a shipment of convicts Lobe employed on public works in Table Bay. ONE HUNDRED AND FIVIY-TWO INVALIDS arrived at Chatham on Saturday from the Crimea. Many of the cavalry soldiers show the effect of severe sabre wounds, received at the grand charge at Balaklava. They all speak in the very highest and grateful terms of Miss Nightingale, and relate an anecdote of that lady which saved he lives of many of them. A considerable quantity of invalids arrived at Scutari from the Crimea in a very bad state, and bedding and other articles were demanded from the person known as the storekeeper, who, when applied to for the articles, refused to deliver them without a written order from the bead of his department. Miss Nightingale, seeing the emergency of the ease, offered to make good the articles required if they were disallowed. The storekeeper would not yield, when Miss Nightingale, finding anything she could say of no avail, addressed herself to a few of the stoutest of the men to break open the door of the store, which they soon effected, and with her own hands served out what was required, telling the storekeeper, who was looking on with the key in his hand, that she alone was responsible for what had been done. IT is believed that the "flying squadron" for the Baltic, under the orders of Captain Watson, C. 8., of the Imperieuse, 61, screw, will leave Spithead in a day or two for the edge of the ice, and advance up the Baltic as the weather breaks up the frozen im pediments. The "flying squadron" will probably be composed of the Imperieuse, 51, screw, Captain Watson ; Euryaltss, M, screw, Captain Ramsay ; Arrogant, 47, screw, Captain Yelverton; Amphioti, 34, screw, Captain A. C. Key ; Pyladrs, 21, screw, Captain D'Eyncourt; and other screw and paddle wheel frigates and sloops. On Sunday, March 10, last year, the fleet left Spithead for the Baltic, and arrived at Wingoe on the 20th. The Admiralty in tend to employ a number of North Sea captains, well acquainted with the navigation of the Baltic, to act as pilots to the fleet, They are to have one guinea per day. GOVERNMENT have entered into another extensive contract for the supply of ordinary straight-cut rifles, Minis rifles, titled carbines for cavalry, re volvers, sabres, naval cutlasses and pistols. The manufacturers of Birmingham, Sheffield, and London will supply the greater portion, and the gunmakers and sword cutlers of Liege ,he remainder. h is expected that the supply will approach 1,000 stand weekly. THE BISHOP or Lonnox has sanctioned a proposal which has been made to him by his clergy, that the collections on the day of humiliation (Wednesday next) may be devoted to the purpose of erecting and permanently endowing a church in some part of the Turkish dominions for the benefit of oar countrymen. ~j .„!