The Press. — London, England, 1856-06-07 00:00:00

Government all the charges pressed by Count Cavour against Austria, and declares that the only means by which reform can be attained safely in Italy are utterly opposed to those put forth by Count Cavour. Austria, says Count Boot, will not refuse assistance when asked for, but she will withdraw her troops as soon as the legitimate authorities declare their power to maintain public order without assistance. In con clusion, Count Ilnol declares Austria to be ready to give approbation to any prudent reform, and to en courage any useful amelioration emanating from the free and enlightened will of the Italian Governments, and to offer moral and zealous co-operation for the development of their resources and their proeperity : Austria is also firmly decided to employ all her power to repel any unjust attack from any quarter that it may come, and to co operate, wherever its circle of action extends, in causing to fail the efforts of the concocters of disturb anees, and of those who promote anarchy. The publication of this document is said to have given serious annoyance to the Government at Vienna, as it contained expressions relative to Sar dinia not meant for the public e7e. The entente cordiale which existed between Russia and Prussia, in contrast to the complete alienation of Austria from Russia, was felt with some degree of inquietude at Vienna. Prince Pant Esterhazy was to attend the coronation of the Emperor Alexander. RUSSIA. A steam squadron, consisting of one liner of 96 guns, two frigates, and two corvettes, is fitting out, and will leave Cronstadt almost immediately for Palermo, whither the Empress Dowager repairs for her health. The ambassadorial appointments are believed to be finally arranged thus :—Count Chreptowitch as Ambassador to London ; M. de Fontoa to succeed him at Brussels, or be appointed to represent Russia with the Germanic Diet ; Prince Dologorouki as Ambas sador at Paris; and Baron d'Offenberg to represent Russia at the Principalities Commission. It is further stated, with confidence, that M. de Balabiue, who has managed the affairs of the Em bassy at Vienna since the departure of Prince Gorts cliakoff, will be attached to Prince Dolgorouki as Councillor of Legation at Paris, white Baron Bud berg goes to Venice, and Baron Brunow to Berlin. PRUSSIA. The Emperor Alexander left Berlin soon after midnlght on Monday, on his return to St. Petersburg, the Baltic coast. The reception of the Emperor Et Berlin had been very warm. His Majesty, while at Potsdam, is said to have worked hard every night in the settlement or arrangement of State questions. The departure of the Empress Mother is not fixed. Count Nesselrode, the Grand Dukes of Oldenburg and Weimar, and the other great personages assent bled at Berlin to meet the Emperor Alexander, had left on their respective journeys. The Emperor, be fore leaving Potsdam, conferred on Baron ManteutTel the Order of St. Andrew, the highest order of Russia. TURKEY. The arrival at Constantinople of the Russian Con sul-General from Odessa took place on the 18th ult., and friendly relations between Russia and the Porte were once more officially renewed. The Turkish Government, it is believed, has de termined to disband the Turkish Contingent upon its return to Turkey. The Post itiapt Gazette of Frankfort states that at the international commission for the regularisation of the frontier of Bessarabia, which opened its sit tings on the 190, the following members were pre sent :—For Austria, Colonel Kalik ; England, Colonel Staunton; France, Colonel Bosson ; Russia, General Fonton, Baron Hackelberg, and the Russian Consul, M. Cola; Turkey, Dervish Pacha and Muselis Pacha (Gregory Stourdza, second son of the es-Prince Michael Stounlza). After some preliminary sittings the commission will commence operations at the Lake of Sasik. The Moniteur d* la Flotte states that the Russians had already removed a portion of the artillery and war materiel from the fortress of Ismail on the Danube. That important point is to be delivered to the Moldavian Government in its present condition, but without its armament. The flotilla of gun-boats, which had sought refuge in the port of Ismail, is to be conveyed to the Don, where, after being disarmed, they are to serve as transports for the wants of the local navigation. Ismail will be totally evacuated towards the 15th June, and the Russians will after wards disarm the fortress of Reni, which, in virtue of the treaty, is also to be given up to Moldavia. ITALY. General Alphonse) de la Marmon arrived on the :19th ult. at Yarignano, in the Gulf of La Spezia, on board the Sardinian frigate Gorernolo. In the sitting of the Chamb-T of Dept:Weft of the 39th ult. a bill was passed, awarding to the general fitly are* of Crown land, within the city of Turin, as a national THE PRESS. recompense. The land is situated In a new street, named after the battle of the Tschernaya, and being building ground is of considerable value. The are is above one hundred square yards English. The state of Parma continued much the same. SPAIN. The Spanish Government appear determined to proceed with great energy in the " Mexican affair." The quarrel originates in the refusal of the Mexican Government to grant redress for injuries committed during the late revolutions upon Spanish subjects in different parts of Mexico. A squadron of seven frigates and corvettes has been ordered from Cuba to the Mexican Gulf, and two more line•of-battle ships, one frigate and one corvette, are under orders to leave Cadiz as soon as possible for the same des tination. The Gazette of the 2nd publishes the speech de livered by M. Waldkirch, demanding, in the name of the King of Greece, the hand of the Infanta, sister of the King of Spain, for the heir presumptive to the crown of Greece. The demand was made at an audience given by the Queen, and to which her Ma jesty gave a satisfactory reply. The Cortes has just declared unanimously that they are well satisfied with the financial operation which the Government has effected for the redemp Lion of 200,000,000 of the floating debt. AMERICA. The United States mail steamer Atlantic, Captain Eldridge, arrived in the Mersey on Wednesday night from New York with dates to the 24th ultimo. These advices are four days later than those previoirily arrived. The explanation and apology contained in Lord Clarendon's despatch, it would seem, were re garded somewhat favorably, and although Mr. Crampton's dismissal was still regarded as inevitable, th€re was a strong feeling both in Washington and New York that the pending difficulties would be even tually satisfactorily adjusted. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald writes on the 23rd : Mr. Marcy is now engaged in drawing up a reply to Lord Clarendon's last despatch, and it will be forwarded to Mr. Dallas at the same time that Mr. Crampton re ceives his passports. Mr. Marcy will show that Lord Clarendon'a special pleading has only aggravated the offence. In Lord Clarendon's despatch the ground is taken that the witnesses against Mr. Crampton are persons of worthless character; while, on the other hand, Mr. Crampton said the three British consuls, all honourable men, pledged their word that they are inno cent of the charge made against them. The fact is, however, that Mr. Crampton's complicity in the offence rests upon a different basis from that suggested by Lord Clarendon, and which seems to have escaped that gentle man's observation. It is based upon Mr. Crampton's own admissions, as contained in a letter written by him and produced at the Hertz trial. This is the document which has convicted Mr. Crampton, and not the testimony of his confederates; and the pledge of his honour, now tendered to show his innocence in the face of these facts, renders his further residence here personally obnoxious. The theory upon which the President excuses himself for not having long since dismissed Mr. Crampton is, that when the correspondence was at first opened with the British Government, it was not known that he was impli cated to the extent it afterwards appeared ; but, having commenced a correspondence upon the subject. it was con trary to dipl mails etiquette and the relations existing be tween the two countries to act upon the additional evi dence produced except by presenting it in the correspond ence, and demanding Mr. Crampton's recal. That demand being now refused, nothing further remains but to sum up the evidence and hand the Minister his passports. Had no correspondence taken place previously to Mr. Crampton's letter (that produced at the Hertz trial), be would have been dismissed without going through the formality of demanding his recal by his own Government am sufficiently well advised to announce the fact that while our Government will reciprocate the friendly feeling which is expressed by Lord Clarendon in his despatch, it will be shown that the interest of both nations will be best promoted by the appointment of a successor in the place of Mr Crampton, who no longer enjoys the confidence of this Government. The British consuls implicated in the enlistment affair will be permitted to remain, by way of compromise. It is supposed that England will take no ex ception to this procedure, as Mr. Crampton', dismissal will have been owing not alone to his complicity with the enlistment case. The mails of the 20th ult. brought also highly important intelligenee. The Padre Vigil, the Nica iagnan Minister, had been acknowledged. On the 10th the President sent a Message on the Central American affairs to the Senate, explaining that as satisfactory evidence exited that the Padre Vigi! re presented a Government. de jure and de facto, he had been received. Lord Clarendon's final reply had been received ou the 20th. The New York Journal of Commerce says: -- The dismissal of the British Minister—for that event may as well be assumed, now that its certainty has become apparent—is regarded with vague apprehensi9ns in com mercial circles and by capitalists. Nobody, however, be lieves that war is likely to ensue upon it. The objections un . ,:el against Mr. Cnunpton are entirely personal. He is held by the Administration to have violated our laws; and although his own Government, with a laudable anxiety to SATURDAY, shield their ambassador from rebuke, have listened indul gently to his explanation, the Cabinet at Washington per. siat in regarding him as an unacceptable representative, and having iu vain requested his reed, accept the ungra cious alternative of tendering him his passports. . It the dismissal of Mr. Crampton should provoke that of Mr. Dallas, there the matter may be expected to end, till a change in the persons intrusted with the conduct of one or both of the two Governments shall open a way for the resumption of direct diplomatic intercourse. Meantime any necessary communication from one to the other may be made through the good office of a neutral legation. The harmony which has met no interruption since the peace of ISIS is not likely to be seriously disturbed now. . In both countries the sentiment is urainimous, that there is no existing injury or grievance to excite and keep alive a feeling of resentment in one against the other ; and that sentiment is sure to be developed into practical manifesta tion whenever a well-founded apprehension shall point to the possible rupture of friendly relations threatening a fresh disturbance to the harmony of the world, and a lamentable check to the progress of Christianity and the advancement of civilisation. The New York Tribune, upon the same subject, under date Washington, May 19, says : The Cabinet sat to-day until half-past four o'clock deli berating upon the answer to the British Government. It will meet again to-morrow morning, which is an unusual proceeding. The chat acter of the reply divests the issue of any threcteldug consequences, except those necessarily resulting from a suspension of friendl)• intercourse between two Governments at peace, if the dismissal takes place. The question is plainly resolved into one of personal appli- cation affecting Mr. Crampton and the consuls. Lord Clarendo.i thinks they are not guilt-; we think otherwise, and therefore they are unacceptable. While the F etc York Courier and Inquirer, of the same date, par►ially contrailicts the above : The Earl of Clarendon's last despatch has not been con sidered in the Cabinet, and no communication has been had with Count Sartiges on the subject. It has not been determined to dismiss Mr. Crampton. Long Cabine meetings were held to-day, and on Saturday, but this sub ject was nut touched upon. To day, at three o'clock, it was privately announced to Opposition senators that the difficulty bad been settled, that the Earl of Clarendon's last despatch was satisfactory to the President and Secre tary of State, and a publication, announcing an adjustment, would be made to-morrow morning. I doubt this. A correspondence has taken place between Messrs. Clayton and Crampton. Mr. Clayton yesterday sent to Mr. Cramp ton a long communication, explaining what had been said. Mr. Crampton replied through a friend to-day. It was stated at four o'clock that a reconciliation had been effected. The New York Herald of the 10th says : To send Mr. Crampton home is nothing. It is not a war measure; it is a peace movement. It will be the removal of the everlasting enlistment difficulty from the two troublesome negotiators, Palmerston and Marcy. The people of England care nothing for it ; we care nothing for it. It is a matter of police with us, just like any other violation of our laws. Mr. Crampton once out of the way, and the laws have been vindicated. England cannot real him, because he only obeyed orders ; we can dismiss him: and it is probable that the true men in England sincerely desire that it may be done. There are some nervous and weak people who have confounded such a proceeding with offensive and warlike measures. That is great folly-- there is not a speck of war in it. It amounts to nothing but an act of our own internal administration, with which England has no concern. Again, the Belize colony is another affair which is said to threaten war. If so, will somebody tell us how it is to come about. Eng land disputes with us on the Clayton treaty; but she offers to refer the matter to an umpire of our own choos ing. War, then, must come of our declaration by Con gress ; for, if resorted to, it must be to dislodge Great Britain in the Belize. That declaration must be made after we shall have rejected the proffered arbitration. Now, there is such a thing as an absurdity; at least there is with those who express fears of a war on such a basis. Nothing can be more silly—nothing more preposterous. Even Marcy and Palmerston, who have been playing for the stakes, have never thought of war. They are annoy ing tricksters and selfish bunglers. but they know that no harm will come of the dispute. We have no serious dis• pute with England, nothing to estrange the two nations from each other, certainly nothing to quarrel about. In the Crampton and Belize matters there does not appear to be a point of possible collision. This Crampton affair is a great card for the " bears," and •hey should play the game as strong as possible, for it is not likely to last long. It is in reality the most absurd thing in the world to talk about war between this country and Great Britain, and every sensible man on both sides of the Atlantic is of the same opinion. It amounts almost to an impossibility. There are so many ways to avoid actual hostilities, that it is, in fact, utterly out of the question. The United States Senate wasengaged in an angry discussion on the affairs of Kansas. The senator for South Carolina had on the 22nd caned Senator Sumner, one of the speakers on the question on the previous day. From Quebec a telegraphic communication has been received, stating that on the 22nd ult. the Canadian Ministry had resigned. The Assembly tendered a vote of confidence in them, but a majority of Upper Canadians voted against them. It was ru• moured that Colonel Taebe had been sent for. Some further remains of the Franklin expedi tion have lately been received at New York from the Hudson's Bey-house, Lachine, fcr transport I