The Press. — London, England, 1855-12-15 00:00:00

DECEMBER 15, 1855. FOREIGN MISCELLANEA. r THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON i 8 reported to have written a private letter to the King of the Belgians, stating that, should the Countess of Neuilly, for the entire restoration of her health, choose to stay for a time in some part of Southern France, no impediment would be thrown in her way. THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE OF RUSSIA Will, it ix stated, succeed on the death of Marshal paskiewitch as Viceroy of Poland. THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA is expected at Milan by the end of February, from whence he will, on the special invitation of the Pope, visit Rome, and be present at the consecration of the column erected to tie Immaculate Conception, to which his Imperial Majesty has subscribed 250,000 francs. A PRUSSIAN NOBLE, according to the Berlin papers, was lately prevented from purchasing a chateau in the Tyrol, Austria, solely on the ground of his being a Protestant. THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR at Berlin was received in special audience on the 7th by the King of Prussia, for the purpose of receiving an autograph letter from the Czar announcing the betrothal of the Grand Duke Nicholas. M. ANSELEM ROTHSCHILD, of Frankfort, the eldest of the family, died last week at the age of eighty-five. GENERAL CANROBERT, according to the French papers, is about to marry the daughter of one of the Court physicians. The Emperor is said to be ex tremely interested in the match. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DANUBIAN PRINCI PALITIES will not, it is now believed, be settled by the allied powers until the conclusion of the war. RUSSIA AND Palm's have lately agreed that a considerable modification shall take place of their existing frontier restrictions as respects their several subjects : a mere certificate of identity from their own Government will now permit a Russian or Prussian to cross the frontier. M. Kens, ex-President of the Republic of Venice, has lately addressed a letter to the French papers calling upon them to express themselves in favour of Italian unity and independence, as the people of Italy unjustly believe that France and England by reason of petty rivalries are hostile to Italian unity. THE JEW BANKERS OF VIENNA, who subscribed largely to the late Austrian national loan upon the understanding that their political position would be improved, consider themselves ill °treated by a new domestic police regulation, which compels every frequenter of the Exchange to bold a ticket upon which is inscribed the name, address, and religion of the holder. M. DE BISMARCK SCHtiNHAUSEN is at present at Berlin, and is not expected to return to Frankfort till the end of the year. AN EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF NAPOLEON THE FIRST is about to be executed at Cherbourg, facing the sea. It is to be completed in !„857, and the inauguration is promised to be on an imposing scale. COLONEL TURK is about to be delivered over to the Austrian authorities, Lord Clarendon having dis• covered that the law is entirely in favour of Count Coronini. THE CONFERENCE UPON THE PRINCIPALITIES will be held at Constantinople, and not at Bucharest. Among the candidates who aspire to the office of Hospodar, Prince Alexander Glika, the ex-Prince George Bibebsku, Prince Calimachi, and Janku Ghika are mentioned as the more prominent. A RAILWAY MANIA has seized the Hungarians. New lines are daily planned, and the whole energies and resources of the people seem turned to that point. THE CHEVALIER BONELLI . B TELEGRAPHIC APPA RATUS for holding communication with trains in motion has undergone several successful trials. M. Bonelli's system consists of a thin iron bar running parallel to the rails, and fixed edgways upon insu lators of earthenware, which raise it about three inches above the surface. A combination of springs establishes a communication between this bar (which the inventor calls a " line-bar ") and a telegraphic apparatus fitted to one of the waggons. THE KING OF NAPLES continues his military pre parations. New field-guns are daily cast, and the corps of engineers has been increased. Orders have also been given to build several large steam frigates, and it is said to be the intention of the King to turn the Lake Averno into a great military port, by opening a communication between it and the sea. THE VICEROY OF EGYPT, desiring to join in the relief of the wounded, the orphans, and the widows of the French army in the bans, and offered as a gift to the French Government the whole of the rich and curious articles sent by Egypt to the Great Paris Exposition. THE PROSECUTION OF THE SERVANTS OF COUNT GERLACH for stealing his private d e spatches has b e en discontinued, on the plea that there is no enactment in the penal laws to meet the case. In consequence of the affair, the Russian Government are now extremely cautious in the ir tele g ra p hic despatcher. THE PRESS. Curt alai lastion. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince and, with the exception of the Prince of Wales, the younger members of the Royal Family, and attended by the Court, left Windsor at an early hour on Monday morning for Osborne. Her Majesty reached Gosport at twelve o'clock, and was received with the usual ceremonies. Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, the Lieut.-Governor, and the usual staff and flag officers of the port and garrison, were in attendance. The Queen immediately embarked on board the Fairy, and, under a royal salute from the ships and batteries, proceeded direct to Osborne. The Court is expected to return to Windsor at the latter end of next week. Her Majegy and the Royal Family have enjoyed perfect retirement during the week. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston returned to town on Monday, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at 'Woburn Abbey. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood arrived at their residence in the Admiralty on Monday, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. The Duke of Rutland has arrived at the Clarendon from St. Leonards-on-Sea. Colonel Lord West arrived home from the Crimea on Monday last. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., is about to marry the Lady Jane Hay, daughter of the Marquis of Tweddale, and sister of the Duchess of Wellington. The marriage is expected to take place immediately after Christmas. His Excellency the Earl of Carlisle left town on Thursday on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, at Trentham. His Excellency M. Fontis di Mello, the Portu guese Financial Minister, has returned to Claridge's Hotel. The Earl and Countess of Perth have left town for Brighton. Lady Molesworth has returned to her residence in Eaton-place, from Folkestone. Volitical. OPINIONS ON THE WAR. SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, BART., M.P. for Dudley, upon a late visit to his constituents laid down the principle that the war was undertaken for the vindication of the public law of Europe and the submission of Russia to that law which she had so grossly violated. He thought that Russia, to obtain peace, would give up the mouths of the Danube, re linquish her naval establishments in the Black Sea, abandon the protectorate, and make other consider• able concessions. He was not one of those who to secure the applause of constituents would cry out lustily for " a vigorous prosecution of the war till a safe and honourable peace could be cbtained "—words which mean nothing, and might be construed either one way or the other. He would not shirk his own opinion upon what terms would constitute a safe and honourable peace : He was not prepared to recommend the dismember ment of Russia. I t might be desirable to take from her some of the possessions she had gained by recent conquests —to take those points which gave her the supremacy of the Euxine, and made her dangerous to turkey, but he was not for her dismemberment. He thought if they could induce her to give up her peculiar privileges in the Black Sea, the protectorate over the Christian subjects in Turkey, and to disarm herself in those parts, they might then rely on the force of public opinion, and the known and proved powers of their army, to maintain peace. MR. C. N. NEWDEGATE and MR. R. SPOONER, Members for North Warwickshire, briefly expressed, at the meeting of the Rugby and Dunchurch Conservative Agricultural Association last week, their opinions upon the war and upon the effect of the Bank Charter Act. Mr. Newdegate would vigorously support the war, but declined pledging himself to the support of Lord Palmerston. He was of opinion that if the Bank Charter were continued, it would be impossible to carry on the war : Money was obliged to be sent out of the country to keep up the war, and, in consequence of a short harvest, to buy food for home consumption. Was it reasonable, with these necessary outlays going on, that that act, which was founded on a fiction, should be allowed to continue to cripple the country, when the people were exposed to an enormous and increasing taxation? Mr. Spooner regarded Peel's Act as a most mis- chievous measure : Unless Government were forced to alter it, the country might protest against it, and urge on the war, but if the act was not repealed—if they continued to confine the issue of what represented money to the amount of bullion in the Bank—they would find themselves disappointed. They must alter the act or make peace. Although desirous of peace, he would not seek to attain any but one grounded on tarms honourable landlasdng. 1187 LORD HARRY VANE, M.P., at the Darlington Cattle- show, on the 6th inst., expressed himself adverse to a prosecution of the war for indefinite ends : We were now engaged in war, and he would be the last to advocate any departure from the utmost fidelity to our engagements. He would not now make peace with out certain conditions, but he certainly would say that ho could be no party to what he thought was a popular deli'. sion—the advocacy of an indefinite war without any definite purpose. He looked with some alarm at the opinions entertained by some persons, and expressed at public meetings. It appeared to him to be uo part of the mission of this country to enter at all hazards and at any time into an indefinite state of war, to settle every question at the cannon's mouth or the bayonet point. Having engaged in war, it was necessary to conclude that war upon certain definite conditions. The subject was of a grave character, and he thought it his duty, as others had done in different parts of the country, to state his views upon it. SIR ROBERT PEEL, M.P., at a dinner the bon. baronet gave to the Staffordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, on the sth inst., commented freely on what he termed the "treacherous conduct" of Austria : He wanted peace as much as any man, but if the nego tiations for peace were to come from Austria he should be exceedingly cautious about them. He could not forget the past—he could not forget the hesitation and vacillation of Austria during recent proceedings, and he could nut close his eyes to the treacherous conduct of Austria in the Danubian principalities. Austria entered the principali ties as our friend, but her conduct had been nothing else than that of the ally of Russia. If they were to have a peace, the cause the allies had espoused, and which had been hallowed, he might say, by the blood of our country• men, absolutely demanded that it must be satisfactory to the country, and such as the sacrifices it had made de manded. But, independently of all this, there was the honour of our own country to be held sacred, and therefore he said they must not be satisfied with the bare four points. The Crimea was no longer an integral part of Russia, and it never must be, and he would add it never should be. Let them think of the carcases of their coun trymen by which the Crimea was hallowed in the eyes of Englishmen, and then say whether they were to be satis fied with any false peace, which might be offered through the medium of a power which had proved itself anything but friendly towards them. CAPTAIN SCOBELI, and MR. TITE, the Liberal members for Bath, spoke on the subject of the war at the West of England Agricultural Society. Captain Scobell said that, with respect to the peace, he believed it was only to be obtained at the point of the sword, but that we were "not justified in carry ing on the war one moment longer than we could procure honourable, safe, and upright terms of peace." With reference to the expenses of the war, the gallant captain observed that we must expect taxes, but he thought the Government had been guilty of great extravagance, and he hoped the House of Commons would look into the expen diture : The money was certainly flying very fast. It had got up to 90,000,0001. last year, including the interest of the debt • this year it might be something more. The result would be, of course, that ultimately there would be some scru tiny into the manner in which the money had been expended. With respect to the transport service, nothing could have been more extravagant. He believed the transports had been bought all of them over and over again. Mr. Tite regarded the prospects of peace as not flattering ; he doubted anything that came from Austria, and he thought it the duty of the Govern ment and the people " to assume a bolder attitude," and carry out the war "fairly, honestly, and houour ably," until we gained such terms of peace as we might not be ashamed of. He considered, moreover, that Russia should be made to pay the expenses of the war. W. F. KNATCHBULL, Esq., the Conservative member for East Somerset, at the Castle Cary Agricultural Society, paid a high tribute to the gallantry and devotion of our army under circumstances of pecu liar hardship and trial, and to the good service of the blue-jackets in the Eaht. MR. H. DRUMMOND, M.P., at the Guildford Agri cultural Association, on Thursday, with reference to the war, expressed an opinion that be doubted whether the Emperor of the French was disposed to carry on the war, and that be was not for carry ing on the war singlehanded against Russia. lie was disposed to take possession of Constantinople, and keep the Russians out, but not go further. Mr. Mangles, M.P., considered that Mr. Drummond was rather vague in his definition of the object of the war. He considered the object of the war was to press back the Cossacks to their native forests. With respect to peace, the hon. member desired peace, but only on terms which would effectually prevent Russia from again disturbing Europe. VISCOUNT NEWPORT, M.P., at the Shropshire Cattle-show last week, in alluding to the war, said that the terms of peace lately put forth by the public journals were not such as we were likely to obtain from Russia. The noble lord also frankly owned that the object for which we were now fighting, and the terms upon which the Western powers would make peace, were not exactly apparent. He believed, nevertheless, that the people would willingly