The Press. — London, England, 1856-10-25 00:00:00

1014 object of the general's mission, manifests to her Majesty in the most expressive terms the sentiments of cordial sympathy which he feels for Spain, and testifies the desire that the friendly relations between the two Courts shall become closer." By a royal decree, published in the Gazette of October 21. M. Melcher Ordonez is named Civil Governor of Barcelona. The refusal of General de la Pezuela of the post of Director• General of Cavalry has been accepted. The effective of the pro vincial militia is to be incorporated with the regular army. d'eneral Pezuela and M. Vilma have declined to take office, because they have no confidence in the duration of the present Government, and because they hope to hold leading positions under a still more Absolutist regime. Count San Luis (Sartorius) has received permis sion to return when he pleases. There is a report that the Cortes will soon be convoked, but the pro spects of getting rid of the state of siege are more distant than they were. The produce of Church property already sold under the law of dliamortisation amounts to no less than 175,000,000 f. and the proposition that the whole of this enormous sum should be refunded is supported by the Queen. The Gazette of the 20th publishes a royal decree declaring that the sequestration laid on the property of the Queen Mother is revoked. Another royal de cree accords an extensive amnesty for all the con demnations incurred in consequence of the events of July last. General Don Manuel Concha had resigned all the appointments he held in the Junta of the Colonies and Council of War. He had also asked for leave to go to Granada, which was granted. M. Isturiz is also spoken of as likely to return to London, and M. Mon as about to go to Rome, in which case diplomatic relations with the Holy See will be i e-established. M. Gonzales Bravo is among others named as the probable successor of General Serrano as Ambassador in Paris, and M. Luiz Gon zales Bravo as likely to fill the post of Minister of the Colonies, a department about to be created for the first time. At a Council of Ministers on the evening of the 13th it was decided that the additional act of the constitution of 1845 should be annulled, that the old RDyal Council should be re-established with all its former members, that the state of siege should be no longer maintained, and that all the former Senators should he reinstated. The Marquis de Viluma and the Duke de Rivas are both talked of as likely to represent Spain at the Court of the Tuileries. In the decree by which the Queen accepts O'Donnell's resignation, it is declared that she is " entirely satisfied with his distinguished and extra ordinary services, his zeal, intelligence, and devo tion." It is announced, as might have been expected, that the marshal has occasion to make a " short visit to a foreign country." General Dulce hrls been allowed to go to Santander " for the benefit of his health." NAPLES. The situation remains the same. Nothing of any consequence has occurred. The rumour that the King had sent autograph letters to the Western powers is denied. The Cologne Gazette this week asserts that King Ferdinand has communicated to General Martini, the Austrian Ambassador, that he could not recognise the right of the Paris Conference to interfere with the internal affairs of Naples. It was not his inten tion to send a plenipotentiary to the Conference. The withdrawal of the English and French embas sies was believed to be imminent, but no great im portance would be attached by the Neapolitan Govern ment to the act. The Neapolitan Ambassador at Paris has not received orders to apply for his pass ports in that event. A despatch received in Paris on Thursday from Baron Brenier announced that if in two hours from that date he did not receive any communication from the Neapolitan Government he should then present his list instructions. The despatch of Baron Brenier was dated from Naples, and after the pub. lication of the note in the Moniteur was known by him. A letter from Naples, in the Austrian Gazette, says :—" On bearing that France and England had recalled their ambassadors, the Council of Ministers assembled. It is affirmed that the King expressed his regret at the decision come to by the Western powers, but that for his part he could not and would not give way. Nevertheless, in order to express the consideration of the King for the Emperor Napoleon and Queen Victoria, and to prevent the supposition that he desired a diplomatic rupture with the Western powers, it was decided in the Council of Ministers that the Neapolitan Ambassadors at Paris and London should not be recalled. On the contrary, an order was sent to th em t o k eep u p cont i nue d diplomatic relations with those Governments, and not THE PRESS. to quit their posts unless their passports were sent to them." A Paris letter says :—" The Bavarian Minister will be charged with the protection of the French and English residents at Naples after the departure of their respective legations. No one, on the part of France, will remain at Naples but M. Soulange- Bodin, the Consul." The Universal Gazette of Leipsic states that in addition to the letter of the Czar to the King of Naples, recommending him to yield to the wishes of the Western powers, the Russian Ambassador at Rome has been charged to call the attention of the Neapoli:an Government to the consequences of per sisting in its present course of conduct. Le Nord remarks upon the question of the with drawal of the allied Embassies—that it is of " secondary importance " relative to the resolution the King will take. "We continue to believe," adds Le Nord, " that at the moment France and England repudiate all idea of intervention in the affairs of the kingdom the King will not believe that he is sacri ficing a single sovereign right in recognising the necessity of introducing some ameliorations in the government of his kingdom." The Ost. Deutsche Post asserts that England has asked, and obtained, a union of thelnaval squadrons as the minimum preliminary to more decided action, reserving however to herself the adoption of ulterior measures independently of France. ThE reduction of the Austrian troops in the Lega tions is announced by the Paris Constitutionnel on the faith of a treaty lately concluded between Aus tria and Rome. Austrian garrisons will continue to hold Bologna and Ancona. SWITZERLAND. As the result of diplomatic efforts, the prisoners of the late Neufchatel insurrection have been set at liberty. The Federal Council declares itself ready to pro pose to the Federal Assembly a full amnesty, on condition that Prussia shall recognise the independ ence of the canton. The Council is using its exertions to be repre sented at the Conferences of Paris. TURKEY AND THE EAST. A change of Ministry is anticipated at Constanti nople. A letter of the 12th inst. mentions some facts which are not without interest. It states :—" The Sultan sent orders to Redschid Paths during the week to form a new Ministry. Redschid declined, on the ground that the question under deliberation just now would inevitably undergo a sudden change. The real cause is said to be a difference of opinion with M. Thouvenel on the union of the Danubian Principalities. It appears that an attempt was made to induce Mustapha Pacha to take office, but he re plied that he could do nothing until he bad con suited with Redschid." The question of the National Bank remains uncettled. The Journal de Constantinople gives the following account of the late victory of the Circassians : " Soudjak- Kale, Sept. 24—The Russians having passed the Laba for the purpose of constructing fortifications in Abzech, Seter Pacha immediately despatched an interpreter to the Russian com mander, in order to know the object of the expedi tion. The Russian commander replied, By the treaty of Paris Circassia is conceded to Russia, and I have come to take possession of it.' Sefer Pacha sent a second messenger to the Russian commander to inform him that Circass:a was an independent country; that to one could dispose of it without the consent of its inhabitants, and that if the Russians did not retire forthwith the Circassians would take strong measures to compel them. The next day Sefer Pacha advanced with 30,000 men against the Russians, who had taken up a pot,ition on the slopes of a ravine with sixteen cannon. The combat lasted three hours and a half; the Circassians remained master of the field; made 800 prisoners, and took all the guns. Another affair took place twenty days ago in the Tchap-Sou, after the passage of the Kouhan by the Russians, who were obliged to retire with a considerable loss of men, leaving five guns behind. The Russian troops were composed of re cruits, and did not stand their ground. The pri sonen taken by the Circassians are no longer re duced to slavery. They are admitted into the ranks, or are at liberty to establish themselves upon the land under the administration of a Naib. The Cir cassian deputation which was sent to Constantinople has no' returned, but it is thought certain that the Porte and the Western powers will not support us." The question of the Principalities still remains un settled. The Porte has published its propositions relative to the organisation of the Divans ad hoc, with an explanatory note, urging every argument against the union of the Principalities. The French and English Ambassadors were not in accord on the subject. The Nord of Brussels publishes the text of the memorandum addressed by the Prince of Monte negro to all the Cabinets of Europe. Montenegro SATURDAY, demands :—"1. The recognition of the indepen. deuce of the principality In a diplomatic form ; 2. The extension of its frontiers on the side of Herz. gowine and Albania; 3. The precise demarcation of the frontiers on the Turkish bide, as it has been effected on the Austrian side; 4. The annexation of Autivari to Montenegro." AMERICA. Intelligence from New York to the 11th inst. has been received. In some of the States the municipal elections had taken place. In Connecticut Fremont had gained twenty-three towns, and the Democ•ats fourteen. In the Southern State of Florida, the Buchanan party had been equally beaten. In Santa Rosa cauntry the American party had gained a majority, but the extent of it was not known. At Baltimore, Maryland, during the election for mayor, several riots bad occurred, and some blood was shed. In the evening the opposition parties had come into collision, and made use of their firearms, by which four persons were killed, and upwards of fitly wounded. Several personal rencontres had also taken place on the 10th inst., in one of which a man had been shot dead. President Pierce had embarked at Portsmouth for Washington. The New York Herald, of the 11th, has the follow ing under the heading " Make way for Fremont ": " On Tuesday next, the 14th inst., we are to have in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, those preliminary battles against the demoralised democracy, which are destined to culminate in a regular Waterloo defeat to Mr. Buchanan on the great day of November. In Ohio such is the overwhelming strength of the Fremont movement that the Pierce-Buchanan demo cracy are merely keeping up a show of resistance for the sake of appearances—in Indiana it is much the same thing. In both States the result in October will go far ahead of the tremendous revolution of the same elections in 1840, against the corrupt and condemned dynasty of Van Buren." HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF N ottnirmsEarAND opened the Tyne Sailors' Home on Tuesday with great ceremony. The day was kept as a holiday at Shields, and upwards of 40,000 persons assembled to greet his grace upon his arrival in the town from Alnwick. The duke, accompanied by Sir Thomas Herbert, M.P., and Mr. Bartleman, arrived at half -1 ait twelve, when a procession was formed to escort his grace to the Home. The building is situated en the New-quay, and commands a very fine view of Shields harbour. It is admirably located as a home and place of accommodation for seamen, and is truly a noble structure. It will cost the Duke of Northum berland between 8,0001. and 9,0001., and is a free gift to the port, the merchants, shipowners, and other inhabitants of the district contributing 3,0001. to its endowment ; thus enabling the managers of the in stitution to offer better accommodation, at a lower rate, to the seamen than the crimps and publicans who have heretofore taken in sailors to lodge, and in too many instances "done " for them, in the mise rable low streets of the town, a sort of Tyne Wapping. The large dining-rooms, smoking-rooms, a long room for meetings, a reading • room, a hospital for the sick, a navigation school, a large warehouse for storing seamen's effects, and dormitories for 150 men, are all fitted up with every regard to the comfort and convenience of the class for whom it is intended, and the establishment is the result of the most compre hensive effort that has yet been undertaken in the north-eastern ports to improve the social habits of the seafaring population. But for the munificence of the Duke of Northumberland the erection of such a building might not have been accomplished for some years to come. On the arrival of the duke at the Home a presentation of addresses tock after which the Duke of Northumberland, in a brief speech, thanked the corporation for the honour done him, and alluding to the objects of the institution said : I am sorry to say that the 7 sailor, who exhibits his skill. perseverance, and daring on hoard, and overcomes all the difficulties of the seafaring life, when he comes on shore falls too often into the hands of those who wish him ill. He is careless of his earnings, and to him is not inapplicable that line of Dryden's : Saved from the sea, but shipwre:ked on the shore. it has been wisely determined to establish in connection with this institution a savings•bank, where the seaman may deposit his earnings and remit them to his family as he thinks fit. There are also schools established under the patronage of the Government, but there is one thing more. While we look after the sailor's com fort, his health, and his pecuniary affairs, let us not forget that which is of more essential importance—his religion and morais. I wish to bring that point parti cularly under your notice. It is quite certain that we should leave men not only happier, but better than they were before ; for this is the only principle of doing good. In that, by the blessing of God, we shall succeed, as we have in founding this institution. The Home was then declared open, and a dinner at the Albion Assembly-rooms, at which Us grace pre sided, concluded the day's proceedings.