The Press. — London, England, 1855-11-24 00:00:00

18 Ministers of England on foreign missions should at least be those on whom the country might depend for uncompromising devotion and fidelity to the public service. On this head hitherto Lord Palmers ton has never failed, nor is he likely to permit Lord Clarendon, for whose acts he is responsible as Pre mier, to shield with unbecoming partiality those who are not inclined to perform their strict duty. It is necessary that, towards foreigners, the Ministers of England should conduct themselves with those social and diplomatic courtesies which add a patriotic grace to the several embassies and missions ; but this is the least of their duties, and they should remember that a fawning servility is unbecoming the high am bassador of a great nation, and not calculated to engender foreign respect for the Minister or for the country they are appointed to represent. That respectis strictly in ratio to the ability with which the Minister watches over the important interests corn • milted to his vigilance and care. The firmness of the Minister at Naples is neutralised by his colleague at Florence, and the shortcomings of the latter are so unfortunately and obviously patent to all, that it will be impossible they can avoid parlia mentary notice. To come directly to the point, were a Conservative Government to succeed to power in England, Lord Normanby must be instantly re called, and Lord Normanby would be instantly recalled. If a personal rancour exist on his part against the Emperor of the French and Lord Palmerston, that is no reason why the interests of England should be neglected and jeopardised to gratify the indulgence of personal spleen. The recruiting in the North has become of late far more active and successful, under the management of Colonel Read. By having a depot on the Sardinian coast, a continued supply of recruits comes through the Maremma from the Romagnese and Neapolitan districts. From the Abruzzi the mountaineers pass with facility by hill paths to the Apennines of Romagna, by Terni and Civita Castellana to Monte Fiascone, Bolsena, and Acqua Pendente into the Tuscan Maremma of Grosseto, and then pass on through the Pisan Cascine, by the Serchio to Vil lareggio and Lerici. Many of those who have been tempted to " prender carnpagna," from untoward cir cumstances rather than deliberate crime, have seized the opportunity to escape from unwelcome bri gandage to a more honourable state. Strange to say, amongst the recruits a% not a few young priestlings of the flock, eager for an emancipation from a dis tasteful noviciate. They are nicknamed "Coronati," owing to the following circumstance. From the early practice of the tonsure, the hair, being con stantly shaven off on the top of the head, acquires strong and bristling properties, so that when allowed to grow it does not lie in obedient harmony with the adjoining locks, and, it may be said in vulgar par lance, "to stiver up "in capillary rebellion. Thus, these young fugitives of Babylon are easily recog nised, and received with acclamation and sundry felicitations not germane to Pio Nino and his crimson cardinals. The insurrection in Sicily is far from being quelled, for the power of repression is wanting. So certain are the leading Liberals of defeating the Bombs helots, that they are only awaiting the progress of events in order to make success doubly sure. Nothing has more tended to show the animus of the country than the invitation to a public dinner given to the captain and wounded of the Carlo Alberto, Sardinian steamer, returning from the Crimea, by the inhabitants of Messina. Bomba gained nothing by the interference of the authorities in prevention. Mazza has not yet departed for Spain. M. Caracciolo and the Baron Gallotti, who had been imprisoned and exiled by his own and sole act, have returned, yet the King still clings to his former favorite, and believes and confides in his power to protect him from the effects of those enormities which have made him for ever hateful to the people. The armei support of Austria can alone preserve him or his pontifical patron in their chairs of State. M. T. A. reign jutaigence. FRANCE. The impression produced by the Emperor's speech has been most favorable throughout France. All classes agree iu believing the Emperor to be disposed for peace, an.l desirous of learning the opinion, nut only of 'rauce, but of Europe, upon this momentous question. The near visit of the Km of Piedmont to Paris has been mada the most of in the French papers this week. The question of the King's reception by the dignitaries of the Church excites much attention. It is generally believed that the higher dignitaries will riot be present upon any State occasion. The Pope's Internuncio, it is remarked, has left Paris on " urgent private affairs," thus conveniently relieving himself of the awkward .dilemma of meeting a sovereign under the ban of excommunication. The Moniteur on the 21st published a letter of the 13th from Stockholm, stating that popular sentiment THE PRESS. in Sweden was manifesting itself more and more decidedly in favour of General Canrobert and France. The principal corn and flour depot of the garrison of Paris on the Quai de Billy was almost totally destroyed by fire on Sunday evening. Forty thou sand quintals of corn, and property to the value of four millions and a half francs was totally destroyed. The Emperor, all the Ministers and generals in Paris, and large bodies of troops were early on the spot, and by their example and exertions saved from similar fate the Exposition, which stood a few hun dred yards in the rear of the Manutention des Vivres. . . • AUSTRIA. The The Concordat is generally felt at Vienna to be a great triumph for the Pope. The Gazette, in an article on the subject, sums up briefly thus : Without any cons ideration as to its contents, the fact of the Concordat having been concluded is a great triumph for the Holy See. Its ancient dignity and its historical rank are thereby sealed and invigorated anew, and the importance of the circumstance is many times doubled by the treaty having been concluded by a grand power like Austria, by a race of emperors which has borne the crown upon its head for centuries, and by a State which, since the days of Maria Theresa, has been peculiarly sen. sitive of any encroachments upon its prerogative by the Holy See. It is easy to explain the joy expressed by the Holy Father in his address on this subject to the Collective College of Cardinals, for the Concordat with Austria forms the most brilliant point in his career as Head Shepherd of the Church. The question of the principalities still occupies the serious attention of the Austrian Cabinet. Baron Prokersch has not yet left Vienna, and will probably not do so until the future government of the princi palities is clearly traced. Count Coronini has arrived at Vienna, and been admitted to a long conference with the Emperor. Lord Elliot, according to a letter in the Silesian Gazette, had an interview with Count Buol on the 13th, on the affair of Etienne Turr. The Cabinet of Vienna declares itself quite disposed to accede to England's wishes on the subject. In the meantime, Turr will remain in the prison of Hermanstadt. The chaplain of the British Embassy has re ceived an apology for the treatment he met with at the hands of the two gendarmes about a month since. "It has not yet transpired," writes the Times Vienna correspondent, "how and under what circum stances the apology was made, but it was accepted by the principal party concerned, and is therefore not likely to be again brought before the public." The subscriptions for the shares of the Credit Mobilier will be opened on the 10th of December. The founders keep 50,000,000 ft. for themselves, and consequently 10,0110,000f1. only are left for the public. The Ost Deutsche Post of the 15th contained a remarkable article upon the present situation of affairs. The Post is generally supposed to be anti- Russian, but is believed to under governmental in fluence at Vienna. The tone is excessively hostile to England. We cite a few passages:— " England wants mercenar►es and foreign legions, but not alliances," said a well-known French statesman in the month of August last. The Eastern question is more particularly of importance to England in a naval point of view, and she is desirous that no other European affairs should be mixed up with it. She is willing to wage war to the knife against the Russian establishments in the Black Sea, but she is resolved not to enter into any conti nental engagements. France is still inclined to listen to reasonable propositions, but England is desirous to con• thine the war until Kherson, Nieolaieff, Odessa, and every place in which a Russian vessel can find shelter shall have been destroyed. In continental matters, on the contrary, the British Government is extremely Conserva tive. The grand phrases employed in some of the organs of the British press about Poland and the Nationalities are mere humbug, as are the tirades against Austria and Prussia; for Lord Palmerston is as little inclined as is Mr. Gladstone to increase the influence of France by means of an alliance with Germany. RUSSIA. His Majesty the Czar arrived on the night of the 19th at St. Petersburg, on his return from the Crimea vii Moscow. It is stated that "he was in excel lent health." The Journal d'Odessa of the 7th November gives official details of the visit of the Czar to that city. The Emperor arrived on Saturday the 3rd Nov., at seven in the evening, and received the various mili tary and civil authorities on the following Sunday morning. He also received a body of merchants, who presented his Majesty with bread and salt; and perhaps breathed a wish favorable to peace, as his Majesty in reply, expressed his entire reliance on the Most High, that ho will grant a happy issue to this war, raised against us by nations whom we have constantly nourished with our bread, and his conviction that, after the conclusion of an honourable peace, the commerce of Odessa will resume its original im portance. At the Cathedral his Majesty was received by the Archbishop with the following address : Pious Sovereign, thou host scarcely put on the crown of thy ancestors when it has pleased Providence to surround SATURDAY, it with thorns. Our bodily eyes are not accustomed t o see such an ornament sparkle on the head of kings, but the eyes of faith see in it, with piety and respect, a souvenir of the crown of Christ. Has it not been, in fact, such crowns that the most pious kings and princes have worn since David, Jehosaphat, Constantine, Vladimir the Great, until Dimitril, our hero of the Don, and finally thy patron, Alex- ander Newsky ? " Have courage, and let not thy soul become weak at the sight of these smoking brands," said the Prophet to the warrior-king Akaka, when the two kingdoms of Israel and Assyria united against him in an unjust war. How closely do these words of the Prophet apply to us and our enemies! This unhappy France ! Is she not, in truth, the brand which for half a century has carried fire throughout the entire world ? And the proud, but to-day abased and jeopardised Britain ? What is she, if not the other brand, which, after being extinguished for two centuries, recom mences to smoke in the midst of a yawning gulf? And we also will say with the Prophet, "Let not thy soul grow weak at the sight of those two smoking brands before us." At a sign from the Most High the winds abate and the rain falls to fertilise our fields. These brands depart, and Russia, protected by God, recovers itself for the joy of her chief and for the well-being even of her own enemies. Enter then, 0 pious Sovereign, the temple where thy august father lately came in the depth of the night to raise towards heaven his thanks for having escaped the tempest and shipwreck. Enter, and in thy turn raise with us thy prayers to the King of Kings for the cessation of the tem pest which now rages both upon sea and land. May Heaven grant that this temple may again see thee kneling before God, but then only to render acknowledgments and to give thanks. Amen. The city was illuminated in the evening, and his Majesty left at eight o'clock on Monday morning for Nicolaieff. _ _ _ The Invaltde Busse adds details of the Czar's visit to the Crimea, from which it would appear that he advanced as far as Mackenzie's Farm, and was at one moment in the close neighbourhood of the allied troops His Majesty the Emperor left Nicolaieff for the Crimea on the 7th of November, at 10.30 a.m.; he passed through Perekop the fellowing day at 11 in the morning, and con. tinned his journey by way of Simferopol, where he arrived at half-put t in the evening. His Imperial Majesty was received in that town by Prince Gortschakoff, Commander-in-Chief of the land and sea forces in the Crimea, and on the 9th of November he left, at 10 a.m., for Baktchi-Serai. During his journey the Emperor inspected different divisions of the army in the Crimea, and on the 10th of November his Majesty visited the troops in the advanced positions from the north side of Sebastopol as far as Mac kenzie's Farm. On the 11th his Imperial Majesty visited the troops near the Belbeck and Youkhara-Karales, and was perfectly satisfied with their condition. In the morning of the same day some of the enem's battalions, together with artillery, appeared anew on t he crest of the hills which divide the valley of the lielbeck from that of the Haider. Our outposts drew near with their reserves, but on the departure of the enemy soon after wards resumed their usual positions. On Nov. 12 the Emperor inspected the troops upon the river Katacha, and near the village of Tasch-Basty, and found them, like all the other positions of the army, in a perfect condition. In these different inspections the Emperor was com pletely satisfied, nut only with the perfect state of these brave troops, but particularly and still more so with their healthy and vigorous appearance; and on the 12th left fur St. Petersburg, vii Moscow. Up to the night of the 12th nothing new had taken place in the Crimea. Late despatches from St. Petersburg, via Berlin, state that the war party in the capital were confident that Prince Gortschakoff would hold his position in the Crimea. The loan at Berlin had been con cluded. The kat de siege has been raised off St. Petersburg, in consequence of the definite withdrawal of the allied fleets. The St. Petersburg Journal of Commerce announces the prohibition of the export of grain across the en tire European frontier of the empire of Russia, as well as of the kingdom of Poland, with the excep tion of wheat, which is still allowed to be exported from the kingdom of Poland. Accounts from Warsaw state that the Emperor will visit the militarypreparations now being made in the Baltic provinces. The recruitment in Russia is being conducted with the greatest vigour. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Journal de Constantinople of the Bth denies, on authority, that the Sultan has conferred the rank of Serdar Ekrem and a pecuniary recompense on Marshal Pehssier, and the dignity of Capitan Pacba on Admiral Bruat, as stated in several European newspapers. THE TUNISIAN TROOPS AT CONSTANTINOPLE. A serious affray lately occurred between the French troops at Constantinople and a body of Tunisian soldiers. The following account is given in a letter from Constantinople of Nov. 8 : For some time past it has been remarked that there assembled in the neighbourhood of St. Sophia groups of Tunisians and of Sottas who bad looked with an evil eye on the strangers who were in the habit of visiting the it osques. For some dap; past their attitude had become