The Press. — London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

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Subscribersare requested co send their Ordersthrough their ewe Agent; if direct to the Ochre. accompanied by a remit. anoe. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittal. et., Monev Orders to be 'chide payable to Mr. Amman Ivs, 110. Strand London. prxgg. LONDON. SATURDAY. SEPT. 20, 1856. POSTSCRIPT. THE NEAPOLITAN QUESTION. The Times Paris correspondent of the 18th writes : The Neapnlitan question, which was in a state that gave hot es of an amicable and satisfactory ad justment, has, I regret to lesrn, just assumed a less favorable aspect. It is now considered not improbable that France and England will send in a nose of the nature of an ultimatum, and that, should its terms not be complied with, the two powers will withdraw their representatives ► at the Court of the Two Sicilies. The Post Paris correspondent of the 18th also observes:— I am ab'e to assure you that the French Government, unless some unforeseen events occur, is about to recal M. Brenier and the whole of the Embassy from Naples. I understand that diplo matist's la-t despatches do not now hold out any hopes of an amicable settlement of the Neapolitan difficulties. A despatch from Madrid, Sept. 17th, states : The constitution, as well as the additional act, has been very favorably received. Nothing has yet been decided on relative to the sale of Church property and the question of the octroi duties. Intelligence from Constantinople to Sept. Bth, via. Berlin, announces that, notwithstanding reports to the contrary, it is believed that the settlement of the Bessarabian frontier is not progressing : Russia still refuses, it is said, to cede Bolgrad, and frequent conferences take place on the subject at Vienna between Count Buol, Sir Hamilton Seymour, and Baron Bourqueney. The few Russian soldiers upon the Isle of Ser pents are reported by the Post Ampt Gazette to have left the island. Admhal Lord Lyons was to leave for Smyrna, Athens, and Malta on the 11th. Intelligence from St. Petersburg states that there will be a reduction in the actual existing strength of the Russian army, by the diminution of the strength of companies, and the disbandment of one battalion in each regiment. A letter from Vienna, in the National Gazette of Berlin, says : Austria and Prussia have, it is affirmed, come to an understanding as to the following steps to be taken with regard to Denmark :—The question relative to the Duchies will be brought before the Germanic Diet by the two powers, and negotiations will be opened by them simul taneously at Copenhagen. The Prussian representative will tile the initiative at Frankfurt. Tlese measures will be carried into effect in the course of the present autumn. The Independence of Brussels states that the Empf ror of Austiia will extend his visit in Italy as far as Rume : The Milan journals themselves have given this news, 1 THE SECOND SITTING of the russels Interns . - d add that th e A ustr i an Ambassador at Rome is tional Philanthropic Congresses h taken plass this SATURDAY, week. The Hon. W. Cowper, the president of the British Board of Health, was requested to act as chairman of the third section. 111. Charles heftier (formerly Minister of the Interior), the president, Opened the proceedings by an address. Amongst the secretaries to the congresses appointed is Mr. F. 0. Ward. M. I)ucpetiaux announced the gratifying fact that he had received a letter stating that the King would honour by his presence the sitting of the Congress on Wednesday. A letter was also received from the Duke of Brabant, accepting the office of one of the patrons of the congress. After some fur ther business had been disposed of, ➢lr. F. 0. Ward addressed the meeting at consideiable length in the French language. In the course of his speech he explainedwhat had been done by the British Govern ment, as well as private individuals, towards improv ing the sanitary condition of the working classes in England. He also took occasion to mention, that though Lurd Shaftesbury, Lord Ebrington, and other distinguished individuals were unavoidably absent, they heartily concurred in the objects of the con gress. THE FLIGHT OF THE CASHIER AND SUB-CASHIER OF THE NORTHERN RAILWAY OF FRANCE with some 2,50,0001. from abstracted shares, was managed very cleverly. The cashier Carpentier first asked for arid obtained a fortnight's leave of absence, on the pretence that he was about to be married, but begged that his intention might be kept secret. At the end of a few days the sub• cashier Grelet pretended that the weight of business thus thrown on him was too heavy, and, having insinuated that the cashier had not really absented himself for his marriage, he managed so well that Le excited doubts in the minds of the directors, and was sent to bring him back. Grelet joined Carpentier at Havre, where the latter awaited his arrival with the common spoil. Carpentier was accompanied by a girl named Georgette, his fins tress, and by a man who had taken part in getting rid of the stolen shares. From Havre the party weht to Liverpool, where they embarked on board the Fulton fur New Yolk, and where they have now pro. Wilily arrived. Immediately after their flight the I:xi permtendent, al. Lueriu, disappeared also. The company have determined upon sparing no sacrifice to catch the fugitives. A special agent, accompanied by French and English detectives, has started kr New York, but meanwhile our own Forrester arrested M. Leurin on Tower-hill, an ominous spot, on Wed : nesday morning. THE CLIMATE OF THE ISTHMI:s OF DARIEN in Caledonia Bay is spoken of very favorably by Dr. M'Dermott of Espiegle, alter expeditious of 21 and 20 persons into the interior for ten or eleven days at a time. The usual doses of quinine wine were daily given, but there appeared nu occa• sion for that preventive measure, as no symptom of endemic fever appeared. Dr. M'Dermott writes:— The ground being mountainous and devoid of marsh, and the rivers being all running streams, with rocky and sandy beds, hiving no allu% ial deposit, 1 feel confident the causes of endemic fever do not exist—ut all events, during the period of the year 1 have mentioned; nor do I think, even at any time of the year, that the fever so fatal and injurious to health which prevails at tirey Towu and Navy Bay can exist. I made frequent inquiries among the natives, and 1 could not ascertain that any particular form of fever or disease prevailed among them, and, from their appearance, I should say they are a very healthy race. '1 he teuti•tra ture and climate of Caledonia are fear superior to those cf any part of the West Indies that I have visited; a cool and steady breeze from the NN.W. prevailed, with scarcely any variation, during our stay there. The heat does nut possess that feeling of oppression experienced in the West India Islands, and the nights are delightfully cool. Previous to the ship leaving 1 wade particular inquiries of all the medical officers, and found that nu case of disease had occurred which could be attributed to a (Jima• torial cause. THE GERMAN ASTRONOMERS are divided in their opinions as to the re-appearance of the great comet of 1556, and their learned discussions on the subject take up a great deal of room in the limited columns of their newspapers. It was known that Peter Fabricius, a lemons Austrian mathematician of the sixteenth century, had written a very erudite disser tation at the time, and published his own obervations of the comet, but the work itself had been lost. A French translation, however, printed in 1537, has just been discovered by the bookseller Herr K. F. Kohler, of Leipsic, amongst his old books, and he is now reprinting it for general sale. It is written in the form of a set of letters addressed to the Abbot of the Monastery at .Lilienteld, in Austria, and contains a series of illustrations, one of which repres nts a segment of the starry firmament, on which is marked the course of the comet according to tLe matheina deletes own observations. THE PRESS. causing hie pekoe to be decorated for his Majesty's reception. It is to he presumed that the King of Naples will seize the oppoitu..ity of visiting the Papal States, in order to have an interview with the Emperor. M. de Stackelberg, the Rassian Envoy to the Court of Turin, visited the Piedmontese citadel of Alessandria on the 10th. His Majesty King Leopold, accompanied by the Duk of Brabant, attended the International Congress at Brussels on Wednesday. Some details of the reception of the special am bassadors by the Emperor Alexander at the levee, a e given by the Moscow correspondent of the Times (second edition). In a letter dated Sept. 11, he writes : As the Czar is his own Minister, and is understood to act entirely on his own judgment and respo..sibility, people are naturally very curious to know how he received the Ministers today, and according to the stories I hear his Majesty was very gracious to M. de Moray at the levee, and conversed with him for some time. He alluded to the readiness evinced by France to conclude the peace, and to remove all impediments to an entente cordiale. With Lord Granville he was, on did, more reserved, and he is understood to have made some pointed allusions to the attitude of the English Cabinet. "We were trca.lies in days gone by," said his Majesty, "but it is to be hoped that the estrangement will nut continue." Lord Granville replied in a low tone of voice. To Prince Esterhuzy the manner of the Emperor was at first exceedingly dry and Cold, but the veteran diplomatist spoke with such effect, and gave such assurances of the sincere desire which actuated a large party in Austria to return to their pre miere amours, that the Emperor was visibly moved, and held out his hand ere the Prince ceased. When the Turkish Minister was introduced he read at some length his letters of creancee, but the Czar became impatient ere the conclusion, and dismissed the Envoy with a fow short sentences. The Legate of the Pope had been presented the day previous, and took prtcedenee of all the foreign am bassadors. At the ball in the evening the Empress danced with M. de Morny, Lord Granville, and the Turkish Minister. Shades of Mahomet, Sideman the Magnificent, and Selim the Terrible, what must ye have thought when the Ambas- sador of the Sublime Porte led the Czarina forth to the polonaise! The Emperor danced with the Countess of Granville, anti was very gracious in his manner to wards her. General d'Orgoui, Ambassador of the King of the Birmans, has just arrived at Alai seilles. The general has been at Alexandria for the last two months, waiting for information from Paris as to whether be would be received. The French Government sig nified its assent. THE SPANISH MINISTRY, according to gossip from Madrid, enjoy no sinecure in their present position : The Queen (says a late letter) will not allow them a moment's respite, and the moral torture under which her Ministers groan is becoming really intolerable, so much so, that n..) sooner was O'Donnell out of his sick bed than he called together a private meeting of the Vicalvarist generals, and proposed to them to strike a desperate blow at the root of the evil, and throw away the yoke they have placed on their own necks. This plan is charactetiatic of his temper and of his shortsightedness. He would, he said, compel the Queen to abdicate, and proclaim Isabella 11 I. with a Vice& verist regency. The plan was unanimously rejected, and no sooner bad the meeting broken up, than Hos de Olano, who has always been a spy, and works in this line as an amateur when his services are not professionally retained, went to the Queen and gave her a full report of the pro ceedings. Her Majesty, wht as is well known, cannot keep a secret even if her crow were the stake played for, sarcastically repeated the whole of her iniormation to O'Donnell the first time he came to transact business. There is more than a sufficient alloy of brass in O'Dou nell's countenance, but this point blank revelation of what he considered secret proceedings was more than lie could bear, and, incredible as the fact may seem, he blushed. LiteT Queen likewise told Concha of the extent of her information, and now there is much coldness amongst the Vicalvarists, and it is not likely they will meet again to plot. I forgot to mention that at their meeting Conchs brought forward, as a compromise, his old hobby, viz., a mazrimonial aflame between the Princess of the Asturias and the King of Portugal, so that when her present Ma. jesty dies, the whole of the Peninsula may be united under one crown, as Castille and Aragon were united 11 the marriage of Ferdinand and the first Isabella. But this plan, which is very popular amongst Spaniards, is espe cially distasteful to the Queen, fur she cannot help seeing that the marriage once made, the impatience of the Spaniards would not allow them to wait for her death,and that her forced abdication would bring to early maturity the political c onsequences of t h e alliance. Moreover she is clearsighted enough to understand that, as a sovereign. the choice between her and the present King of Portugal cannot be doubtful for a single instant. 902