The Press. — London, England, 1857-09-05 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. ft Is impossible to acknowle Igo the mass of letters we reeds e, 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 communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Communications should always be legibly written, and on one aide 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 tho writer, not necessarily for publica- tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements sent f►om the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION FOR 113rros: (STADIPED) Per Annum .. Half Yearly.. Quarterly .. .. PAYAIILE IN ADVANCE. .. £1 6 0 .. 013 0 .. 0 0 6 Subscribers are requested to send their orders through News Acents; if direct to the Ohio, , accompanied by a remittance. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFIIED I VC, 110, &rand, London. Vrtgg+ LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 5, 1857. POSTSCRIPT. THE INDIAN PRESS. A correspondence between the Board of Directors and Mr. J. Connon, proprietor of the Bombay Gazette, appeared in the Daily News of yesterday. Sir James Melville, in reply to a memorial from Mr. Connon appealing against the late press-gagging act of Lord Canning at Calcutta, states that the act " has been approved of " by the Board of Directors. Mr. Con non, in answer to Sir James Melville, concludes with the follo wing pithy paragraph : The power of all these various authorities and agencies for the Government of India to do good I find very small but their power to do nothing, or to obstruct honest busi; ness, and at last, it would seem, also free speech, I find complete, and, must I add, unassailable. No, please God, it shall neither be unassailable nor unassailed. " One asylum of free discussion is still inviolate." And the clever clerks, who in peaceful times pass for great states men, and are at no time unmindful of their own puny and sordid interests, must give up their governing when all empire is in danger—an empire won by the heads and hands of great men, being lost by the red tape of the said clever clerks. Sir, I hope my personal misfortune—and I look upon tins gagging of the Indian press as nothing less than that—will never make me forget my duty to my country. But I will say that a Government of Englishmen that cannot bear discussion on its merits, and its acts, is one that does not deserve to exist; and if the East India Company persist in the resolution it seems now to have taken, I will add that it must be swayed by recreant linglishmen,:and ignoble councils, that have brought it to death's door; and most surely it deserves to die. THE DUCHY OF HOLSTEIN. The following telegraphic despatch from Hamburg, dated the 4th inst., has been received : Tn the sitting of the Holstein Chamber, on the 3rd inst., the Commission reported that it considered the situation of the country critical, and declared itself unable to dis cuss the new Constitution before having secured the independence and equality due to Holstein in the Danish monarchy. AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. Many persons still deny that the Russian Govern ment is concentrating a corps d'armee in the south west of the kingdom of Poland, but it is a positive fact that large bodies of cavalry have recently marched from Lublin and Radom towards the Austrian frontiers. On the "20th of last month powerful detachments of Russian artillery also entered Czensochan and Kielce, which lust place is close to Cracow. It is not, however, probable that Russia meditates any breach of the peace. Her object is to keep Austria in check, and to prevent her interfering too much in the r.lfairs of the Danu bian principalities. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 29th ult. contain no other news than that M. Hidalgo, Mexican Charge d'Affaires in that city, had, in consequence of the rapture of diplomatic relations between Spain and Mexico, left Madrid, in obedience to orders from his Government ; and that negotiations on the Mexican affair will henceforth be carried on between the ambassadors of France and England and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. CORFU. The English Government has adjourned the Par liament for two years, which has caused great irrita tion in the island. THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1857. larcign ino 6olonial 3ntelligente. FRANCE. The revolt in India affords the Paris papers full employment. In all quarters the most gratifying expressions of sympathy are to be found, while honourable tribute is paid to the heroism of our countrymen and women. At the same time we observe a general expression of disapprobation at the bloodthirsty cry for indiscriminate vengeance of our Ministerial papers. With respect to the Fund of Relief now being raised in London, the 1116norial Bordelnis, in its impression of the 31st ult., after a brief summary of the recent deplorable massacres, publishes the following appeal to the French people : All Christian hearts, without distinction of nationality, will sympathise with the sufferings of their brethren in Bengal, and in the other provinces where the rebellion pre vails, and will be ready to come forth to their aid. But we Frenchmen, who in recent and different calami. ties, especially at the time of the earthquake in Marti nique, and at the time of the inundations of 1856, received such substantial proof of British sympathy,—we who fought and suffered side by side with the English in the late Crimean war,—we hold it as our duty to be the first to come forward to offer help to those of our friends and allies who are in misfortune. We therefore express the wish that a public subscription may be opened without delay to receive the gifts of those who are desirous of giving a proof of their sympathy fur the unhappy victims of the Indian insurrection. At the head of this list we doubt not will appear the names of the moat august personages and of the highest functionaries. All the notabilities of the country will subscribe. There is not a town in France which will not make it a point d'hunneur to appear in the list, and we need not add that the city of Bordeaux will figure among the first. This appeal calls for no comment. The Emperor continues at the camp at Chalons. Prince Albert is expected at the camp about the 18th. An Imperial Ordre du Jour impresses upon the army the necessity of "strict discipline " and of " assiduous exercise " To officers (observes the Emperor) T recommend a paternal severity —to soldiers necessary obedience—to both a willing mind and strict attention to discipline. For discipline is respect to your uniform, and the uniform is the emblem of that noble profession of abnegation and selfdevotion, of which you are justly proud. Let us never forget that every characteristic sign of the army, beginning by the flag, represents a moral idea which it is your duty to honour. This camp will not then be a vain spectacle offered to public curiosity, but a serious school, which we shall turn to profit by persevering labour, and the result of our studies will be evident if ever our country shall want you. (A true iopy). NAPOLEON. General REGNAULT DE SAINT JEAN D'ANGELY, acting as Major• General. It is reported that the Emperor intends to make experiments in the camp of a new system of military manoeuvres, by means of which the three arms, in fantry, cavalry, and artillery, will all act together in obedience to one and the same word of command. A committee of general officers has made a report to the Emperor concerning this system, which, it is said, will greatly modify the theory of evolutions in line, and simplify movements on a grand scale. A telegraphic despatch from Marseilles announces that the French squadron had left the coasts of Corsica for Tunis. The affair is satisfactorily settled ; but the fleet is now going, in order to produce a more moral effect upon the population, in aid of the Bey, and not to make a demonstration against him. There was a panic on the Bourse on Thursday, having its origin in the retirement of some influential directors of the Credit Mobilier, the shares of which fell to 890. The break up of this gigantic specula tion is generally anticipated. AUSTRIA. The Emperor of Austria, who left Presburg on the 27th ult. by railway, to continue his journey in Hun gary, had a narrow escape. At Hobulkut the loco motive ran off the rails with such violence that one of the wheels broke, and the whole train was dragged off, and stuck fast in the ground. After some delay his Majesty resumed his journey, and in the evening reached Bolasso-Gyarmath. RUSSIA. An interview between the Emperors Alexander and Napoleon is freely speculated upon by the German papers. Prince Gortscbakoff has announced at Warsaw that the Emperor will arrive there on the 6th inst., remain a week, and then leave for Berlin, and the Dresden Journal says : It is looked upon as nearly certain that at Darmstadt the Czar will have an interview with the Emperor of the French. From this capital the Czar will go to Weimar and return to Berlin via Stuttgardt. Prince Gortschakoif is to accompany the Emperor. The Emperor will arrive at Berlin on the 15th and at Darmstadt on the 17th. Le Nord reports from Paris that the Emperor Napoleon, in reply to a deputation from Metz, pro. mised to visit that city "on his way to Germany." With regard to Circassia the Russians acknowledge severe fighting and heavy losses on the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th of July. It is worthy of note that on the front page of the Journal de St. Petersbourg of August 27, and in larger letters than we have seen in its pages before, is this telegraphic despatch : Berlin, August 25. In yesterday's sitting of the House of Commons, PA. merston declared that Russia had not broken the treaty by her procedure in Circassis. The Premier's declaration evidently appears as ex. traordinary to the Russians as it did to his own coun trymeE. PERSIA. The Austrian Gazette learns from its correspondent at Berlin, who bad the news from Constantinople, that in Persia the Indian mutinies are regarded as a result of English oppression and contempt for every non-Christian faith. At Teheran, it is related, the public excitement is so great, that " the members of the British legation, if they ventured to appear in public, would in all probability be assassinated, as the members of the Russian legation were twenty years ago, at a time when the populace were in a state of great irritation because a peace had been concluded on disadvantageous terms." This fanatic feeling is not confined to Teheran ; it has spread all over Syria and Palestine, where disturbances and assassinations were increasing. At Jerusalem the Latin Patriarch had been so threatened, that be has resigned his post. PIEDMONT. The King of Sardinia has returned to Chambery, from Culoz. The ceremony at the latter place has been accomplished admirably. Prince Napoleon took leave of the King on the French terzitory, and his Imperial Highness has set out again for Paris. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH NAPLES. The Gazette de la Bourse of Vienna contains the following : __ Notwithstanding the doubts entertained on this subject, we learn, from a good source, that diplomatic relations will soon be resumed between the Court of Naples and those of Paris and London. M. Caraffa, the Neapolitan Minister for Foreign Affairs, having requested of Count Buol in a despatch in his own handwriting that Austria would inter- fere in the re-establishment of friendly relations between the three Courts, the Austrian Ministers at the Courts of London and Paris have taken steps for this purpose, and we understand they will result iu a speedy settlement of the matter. SPAIN AND MEXICO. The Duke of Ilivas had a long interview on Fri day week with Count Walewski, and is said to have declared that, before proceeding to hostilities with Mexico, the Spanish Government would publish a manifesto, explaining the question at issue, and per mitting the Mexican Government to open fresh nego tiations. Although accounts are conflicting with respect to the exact course the Spanish-Mexican dispute is taking, and to the manner in which it is likely to be arranged, it is pretty evident that all danger of collision between the two powers is over for the present. As regards the final settlement, that, considering the national character of the dis putants, may possibly be long. SWEDEN AND PRUSSIA. The healths of the Kings of Sweden and Prussia are pronounced " precarious." The King of Prussia has suffered two slight apoplectic attacks, and the King of Sweden is lying seriously ill in his palace of Tullgarn. A despatch received from Stockholm announces that, by the advice of his physicians, the King has made his will. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Paris Moniteur of Monday announced : The diplomatic relations between the representatives of France, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia, ou the one hand, and the Sublime Porte on the other, were resumed on the 29th August. Despatches from Constantinople, of the 20th ult., state that Lord Stratford do Itedclitre and M. de Prokesch had, on the previous day, notified to the Porte the agreement of the allied powers, and that the Divan immediately forwarded to Moldavia, by telegraph, an order to recommence the elections. A letter from Jassy, of the 18th inst., says that the Kaimakan Vogorides has just revived public towards him by an act as impolitic as it is unpopular. On his own responsibility he has named a commission charged to grant to Austria a rectifica tion in her favour of the frontier on a certain point of the Moldavian slope of the Carpathians already considerably encroached upon. Such a concession as this seems scarcely credible on the part of a mere governor of a province, and will surely, if it has really been made, not be confirmed or tolerated by the Porte. Private letters from Constantinople state that the financial embarrassments of the Porte still continue, 870