The Press. — London, England, 1855-01-27 00:00:00

82 there is every prospect of its being permanent for some days at least. Yesterday 1 was at lialaklava ; all the ships are covered with snow and long icicles, and the hills which inclose the bay look like gigantic icebergs. Altogether, it gives a tolerable idea of the Arctic regions. I have no news of interest to add to my letter of yester day. Everything remains as if frozen into a stern trap- Fifty. early 1,000 men have been sent in for invaliding during last two or three days. Captain Swinton, of the Royal Artillery, was one of the officers suffocated by the fames of charcoal ; only one officer of the 97th died from the same cause, and not two, as it was at first reported. tortign anb (colonial (t FRANCE. The Moniteur announces the conclusion of a spe cial convention between France and Baden for regu lating the interchange of telegraphic despatches. According to the Industriel Calaisien, the preli minary preparations are already beginning to be made for the embarkation of troops at Calais for the Baltic, as soon as spring weather will permit it. Count Buol Schaunstein, the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and M. Drouyn de Lhuys, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen of Austria. The first grand ball of the season was given on Monday night at the Hotel de Ville. There were upwards of 5,000 guests present. The whole of the splendid suite of rooms was thrown open. On Wed nesday the Count de Morny, President of the Legis lative Corps, gave a grand ball at the Chamber of Deputies, and on Tuesday a small ball was given by the Empress at the Tuileries. The yearly return of customs and indirect taxes shows that 149,337,510 f. have been received in 1854 against 141,607,552 f. in 1853, and 139,863,655 f. in 1852, thus giving an increase of 7,729,958 f. on 1853, and of 9,473,855 f. upon 1852. GERMANY. The Vienna Conferences will open on the 6th of February. M. Brunk has accepted the post of Finance Minister. _ The Vienna papers announce as a significant fact the advertisement in the local journals of "two dwellings, containing respectively thirty-eight and twenty-five rooms," in No. 42, on the square of the Minorites, being to let on St. George's-day next (23 April). This is the residence of the Russian Ambassador, Prince Gortschakoff, who up to the present time has not taken another house, and who may therefore be supposed to be in daily expectation of receiving orders from the Czar to quit Vienna. The Austrian Minister at the Cou'rt of Hanover, Baron Von Koller, was recalled from thence on the 13th instant,. The Baron, it is stated, will be appointed internuncio at Constantinople, in place of Baron de Bruck. Advices from Munich in the Moniteur state that Bavaria was about calling on the Parliament for fifteen millions of florins to place its contingent on a war footing. DENMARK. The motion for the impeachment of the late Ministry has been rejected in the Volksthing by 63 votes against 32. The budget passed the second reading on Saturday last. It is reported that Herr Von Scheel undertakes definitively the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. SWEDEN. Orders have been given for placing the entire Swedish army upon a war footing. The measure is to be executed with the greatest promptitude. One thousand sailors are to be raised in Christiana. The Norwegian army gun-boat force is to be consi derably augmented. SARDINIA. The text of the treaty between Sardinia, France, and England, having received the assent of the Government of the two latter countries, was expected at Turin on the 20th, and was to be submitted im mediately to the Piedmonteso Parliament. After being approved of by that body, the ratifications were to be exchanged forthwith. The Sardinian loan is to be fifty million francs. The Queen of Sardinia, Maria Adelaide, consort of Victor Emmanuel, expired on the 20th inst. from typhus, produced by puerperal fever. The deceased, the second Queen of Sardinia who has died within a fortnight, was a daughter of the late Archduke Rainer of Austria. Her Majesty was born in 1822, and leaves, besides the infant just born, five children, the eldest of whom was born in 1843. The life of the Duke of Genoa is stated to be in serious danger. His royal highness had been bled five times in the course of a few days. The King is said to be in a state of profound dejection. SPAIN. The Cortes voted, on the 18th, by a large majority, the Ministerial bill fixing at 2b,000 the number of se/distre to be galled out this rear, The Government THE PRESS. had attached great importance to this measure, and a defeat had been apprehended. TURKEY. A Constantinople letter of the 11th inst. states that Redschid Pacha was very unwell, and had been obliged, by indisposition, to receive foreign diplo matists at home. important negotiations were going on. Four Frenchmen and seven Englishmen had been found stabbed in the streets of Galata. The perpe trators are organised bands of Greeks and Armenians, who have been traced. Letters from Alexandria of the 10th state that new convoys of munitions of war have been sent to the Crimea by Said Pacha. ~~ RUSSIA. The last letters from St. Petersburg announce the health of the Empress to have improved. The accounts from Odessa and Warsaw affirm that the greatest possible exertions were being made to send large reinforcements to the Crimea, when the Russians would assume the offensive. A letter, purporting to proceed from St. Peters burg, dated the 10th, says that for some time past numerous relays are posted at intervals of four leagues from Odessa to Sebastopol for the purpose of conveying, as soon as the snow is frozen over, re inforcements to the amount of .10,000 men for the Russian army. It is expected that the Russians will have on the 15th of February an army of 160,000 men in the Crimea. UNITED STATES. The Atlantic steamer has brought New York dates of the 10th inst. Business continued dull ; but there were indications of an early revival. The money markets were a shade easier, with a better supply of capital offering. The statements of the city banks as to the amount of bullion in hand was highly favourable. INDIA. An overland mail has arrived with dates from Calcutta of the 20th, Madras 24th, and Bombay 31st of December. . The mission of the Burmese Ambassador, it was fully expected, would lead to a treaty. The deficiency of the opium revenue of the year was only per cent. of the whole Indian revenue. The Bengal Bank has again raised its rate of dis count all round. Trade in India was dull, money scarce, and freights low. A detachment of the 10th Hussars arrived at Bombay on the 2nd inst. on their way to the Crimea, and departed immediately. CHINA. The latest advices are dated Shanghai, sth ; Can ton, 11th ; and Hong-Kong, 12th December. The Imperialists have recaptured four towns in the north of China. The town of Canton is in great distress and all business is stopped. Teas have de clined at Shanghai, but sales of silk are active. AUSTRALIA. Australian advices to 28th of Nov. have arrived by the overland mail. The predominance of imports over exports into the colony continued to be excessive. The prices of wool were maintained. Accounts from the gold fields were steady and satisfactory. A promising gold field has been dis covered near Lake George. Melbourne had been in a state of agitation on the convict question, and a series of resolutions had been carried denouncing the system. The inhabitants of Melbourne were about to raise a sum of money as a testimonial to Mrs. Chisholm, for her services in promoting family emigration. They intend to subscribe 2,8001., and ask the legisla ture for 5,0001. to purchase a house. IT is arranged that fifteen regiments of militia selected from those most numerous and longest em bodied shall be permitted to volunteer immediately for garrison duty at Malta, Gibraltar, and Corfu. These regiments will release an equal number of the line either for immediate transmission to the seat of war, or else for the formation of a corps of reserve at Malta, for the lodging and training of which accom modation is actively preparing to the extent of ten thousand men. The regiments proceeding to the Crimea will be made up from their depots at home to the full force of one thousand men each. The militia regiments will send out six companies each, six hundred men, leaving at home a depOt fur re cruiting and keeping up the available force. It is almost unnecessary to say that no militia officer or soldier will be required to go to our Mediterranean colonies, even for garrison duty only, unless with his own free will, and that every care and comfort will be provided for his residence in those most agreeable and lively quarters. Everything is arranged, and it is possible that many of them might have already embarked had not our transports been engaged for thynore urgent asonities of the wer► M. MAZZINI. SATURDAY, SONE details respecting the recent movements of this indefatigable demagogue are published in a reeent number of the Constitutionnel Every day (says our Parisian contemporary) retetds more and more the intrigues and efforts of Ital►an dema gogues, who have, as is well known, become the *milli_ cries and accomplices of Muscovite autocracy. Every where we find the hand and mind of that mischievous man, of that fanatical sectarian, M. Mazzini, who has done so much harm to Italy, and who is inconsolable at not being able to do more. it has been seen what odious seatimenta and what criminal ideas are concealed under the decla matory phraseology of the manifesto recently published by the clandestine committee which M. Mazzini directs ac cording to the caprice of his revolutionary hallucinations. The Venice Gazette now gives us a series of documents not less significative. A certain number of individuals, com promised in the plot of the 15th of August, have j ust been tried at Rome, and important documents were seized in their possession. We in particular remark an extract of a letter written by Mazzini, on the 27th October, to a man named Brizi, after the arrest of some of his agents:— The party is decimated (says M. Mazzini); the arrests are too numerous fur the Government not to have surprised our secret. It is strange that there could not be found fifty resolute men who, by throwing themselves into the Apennines, eould have given the signal of resistance and armed protestation. By continuing in this way the party commits suicide. If Rome by a series of cur prises, by imprisoning the general staff without a great shedding of French blood, and even by au unexampled total destruction of foreign and domestic enemies, could succeed in emancipating herself in a decisive and heroic manner, such an event would have both in and out of Italy consequences such as should be re• edified without further delay. But at this moment 1 believe it to be impossible—it Is, on the contrary, Providence that must act. If our friends were in secret to study and practise the art of sur prises by the use of knives, muskets would be obtained, a levy en masse might take place, and be terminated by Austrian vespers. If a levy en masse be impossible, national bands must be organised. _ We thus see that it is always the same mot d'ordre. The Italian demagogical party, under the mischievous inspira tion of M. Mazzini, neither abandons its hopes nor its illu alone. Having for followers the personnel of the secret societies and the dagger for weapon, it. imagines that the moral and political regeneration of a great nation may proceed from the meetings of some violent men conspiring in cellars, and from a conspiracy of assassins. At the time of the miserable outbreak at Milan, which dyed the streets of that city with blood, M. Mazzini preached war to the knife, and taught the theory of wholesale murder. This theory he still inculcates. Do we not see this noble in struction bear its fruits at Constantinople, where some French soldiers have fallen victims ? Among the authors of these abominable deeds we find, in addition to fanatical Greeks, some sworn followers of the Mazziuian sect. In fact, such men are worthy auxiliaries of the policy of Russia THE liabilities of Messrs. Home, Eager, and Co., whose suspension in the Cape trade was announced on Saturday, are stated to amount to 130,0001. THE Coe'. TRADE.—The importation of coals into London last year was — Seaborne coals in 10,114 ships 3,899,501 tons. By railways 979,170 " Total 4 378,731 tons. Showing an increase of upward. of 350,000 tons as compared with 1853. The price of the best cuals at the Coal Exchange was—in January, 1854, 425. per ton ; January, 1855, 235. od. to 245. per ton, which great reduction is an immense Loon to the public, and particularly the poorer classes, at this season of the year. TILE BELGIAN GOVERNHENT have appointed com missioners to inspect and report on the English system of railways. The gentlemen composing the commission, Baron de Man, General Nerenberger, General Delaunoy, and MM. H.Spilaels, Brouwer de Hogendorp, Masni, and Belpaire, arrived in Dover on Monday, and left on the following morning by the South-Eastern Railway for Ashford. They were ac companied by Mr. Cook, secretary to the general manager of the South-Eastern Railway, who would conduct them over the company's immense establish ment at that place. THE board of directors of the London, Brighton, and South-Coast Railway have decided upon re commending the payment of a dividend for the half year of 31. 4s. per cent on the consolidated stock of the company, making the total dividend for the year 1854 amount to 54 per cent. - - - - THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH has granted a gold medal to Dr. Thomas Williamson, chief physician at the hospital of the port of Norfolk (United States), and a gold medal of honour, first class, to Dr. James Harrison, physician of the same establishment, for the care and attention given by them to some of the crew of the French steamer La Chimers, who were taken to that hospital when labouring under yellow fever. A silver medal of honour, first class, has also been awarded to Captain Raw, of the English ship Britannia , for saving the crew of the French sloop Clyne, which had foundered near Orfordness, after a collision with another vessel, and procuring them provisions and a passage to France. - - THE QUEEN has appointed George Moir, Esq., ad vocate, to the office of sheriff of the county of Ross, vacant on the promotion of Mr. Mackenzie to tho Solicitor-Generalship for Scotland.