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THE PRESS. MARCR 10, 1855. °reign anb . Otoloniat clntelligette. Gortschakoff in his place to the command in the Crimea. General Liiders succeeds in the command on the Danube and in Bessarabia. General Rudiger obtains the Imperial Guards, and has been sum moned to St. Petersburg. Accounts from Varna of the 4th report that the Grand Duke Michael, brother of the new Emperor, had been killed before Sebastopol. Another despatch stated that he had only been severely wounded. THE NEGOTIATIONS. Prince Gortschakoff at Vienna is said to have re ceived from the Emperor Alexander full authorisation to proceed with the conferences for peace. Lord J. Russell was presented to the Emperor of Austria on Tuesday, and held a prolonged audience on the fol lowing day with his Majesty . According to letters from Vienna of the 7th inst. the plenipotentiaries of France, England, and Turkey, had held a meeting at Count Buots, when the second point of the four guar antees was taken into consideration. RUSSIA. DEATH OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS. Some details respecting the last illness and death of the late Czar have transpired since our last im pression. According to these accounts the suspicions that the event had been brought about by violent means, which were at tiret entertained, were altoge ther groundless. A statement apparently derived from official sources and published in Berlin gives the following particulars :- 1 The Emperor, indisposed for several days , insisted , a g ainst th e recommendation of his medical advisers, in passing bis Guards in review. He remained three hours exposed to severs cold, and on returning home was attacked by fever and forced to take to his bed. The physician at first con sidered the illness to proceed from a violent colic, but on the 28th February inflammation attacked the chest. On the morrow a raging fever declared itself. The extreme weakness of the august invalid occasioned the greatest FRANCE. The Emperor Napoleon returned to Paris on Sun. day evening from visiting the camps at St. Omer and Boulogne. At the latter place on Saturday his Majesty held a conference with Lord Clarendon, who had come over from England specially to meet him, and Lord Cowley arrived also from Paris to join them. At this interview it is stated that a determination was taken to prosecute the siege of Sebastopol with en h a nced vigour. In writing to Paris on Sattuslay, the Emperor, alluding to the consequences of the death of the Czar, is said to have used the expres sion, " rien n'est change." The Moniteur de la Flotte states that from the commencement of the siege of Sebastopol, up to the 17th ult.—upwards of a hundred days—the number of French soldiers killed whilst employed in the siege was only 454. Prince Napoleon is reported to have indignantly repudiated the authorship of the pamphlet on the war which has been attributed to him. At the same time he admitted that there were certain specific facts which might have derived their authority from letters or conversations of his. M. Giradin, to whom the authorship had also been assigned, has forinaily denied the accusation in the Prem. He adds that the Government knows the name of the real author, and expresses an opinion that it ought to be made public. alarm. The Emperor perceived his condition in the evening, and desired to be sustained as long as possible. Throughout he displayed the greatest calm. The Crown Prince passed the night by the aide of his father, On the 2nd March, at four in the morning, the Emperor received the sacrament, and expired at ten minutes past ten. A despatch of the 7th from St. Petersburg received in Vienna adds that the dissolution of the remains of the Emperor was so rapid as to prevent the exhibition of the body to the public. Formal tokens of respect to the memory of the late Czar have been paid by many continental Courts. In Prussia the King and royal family pashased three days in retirement, and the Court and army e been ordered to wear mourning for a month. The Em peror of Austria, in acknowledgment of the services rendered by the Emperor Nicholas during a time of unfortunate trial, has ordered that the Nicholas Regiment of Cuirassiers shall always preserve that name, as a lasting souvenir for the Austrian army. In Paris the ball at the Tuileries appointed for Thurs day, the Bth inst., was postponed on account of the death of the Czar. Our own Court has as yet shown no recognition of the event. The accession of Alexander, the eldest son of the late Emperor, was accomplished with none of the delay and difficulty that had been apprehended in so me quarters. He received homa g e on the 4th inst. AUSTRIA. in St. Petersburg, taking the title of the Emperor The Empress of Austria was safely delivered of a Alexander IL, and on the sixth the Grand Duke princess on Monday last. The infant was baptised Constantine solemnly took the oath of fidelity to his on Tuesday, Lord John Russell being present at the brother. The greatest enthusiasm was manifested at ceremony. In celebration of this event the Emperor the moment of this solemnity. has granted an amnesty to a great number of persons The new Emperor was born on the 29th April, confined for political offences. 1818, and is consequently thirty-seven years of age. He married, in 1841, a dau g hter of Louis 11., Grand DENMARK. Duke of Hesse. The Dibats gives the following ac- The King of Denmark ha s been confined to his co unt of his character and re bed for a week by a severe cold, accompanied by a education : The new Sovereign of Russia was initiated at an early bad cough and slight fever. age into the affairs of the empire by the Emperor, his The Volksthing has resolved tel impeach the late father ;he was present at all the councils ;he was invested Ministers of War, Marine, and Finance. with situations which gave h im fre q uent opportunities of SARDINIA. rendering himself useful to the army and pleasing to the The Turin Chamber of Deputies adopted the youth of the schools. Whenever the Emperor Nicholas Convent Suppre ss ion Bill on the 2 nd inst. , b y 116 qu itted the capital he left the su p reme direction of the votes against 36. government to his son, and, in short, he had taken the utmost pains to prepare him to become his successor. On Saturday last, the 3rd inst., the Western The Grand Duke Alexander was very popular in Russia, Alliance Treaty was approved in the Senate by 83 being beloved and esteemed by the people. He will not votes against 27. The ratifications of the alliance exercise the great authority of his father, for he does not were formally exchanged on the following day. inherit either his hauteur or his inflexibility. He will rather SPAIN. please as the Emperor Alexander I. did, by his mildness and affability, and - hetween the uncle and the nephew there The Cortes voted the religious bases of the new is a very great similarity of character in numerous ways. constitution on the 28th ult. It is as follows : The new Empress is also highly spoken of, and her elevated The nation binds itself to maintain and protect the judgment and her conciliating manners are much extolled. worship and ministers of the Catholic religion which It is thought that she will exercise a salutary influence over Spaniards profess; but no Spaniard or foreigner shall be the Emperor. persecuted for his opinions or belief, so long as he does The reigning Empress of Russia, Maria Alexan- not manifest them by public acts contrary to religion. drowns, daughter of the deceased Grand Duke Louis TURKEY. IL of Hesse-Darmadst, and born in 1824, is said to From Constantinople on the 28th ult. we learn be a woman of strong sense and character, of amiable that the Porte has received a Greek envoy, and a qualities, and possessing much influence over her Turkish ambassador will shortly set out for Greece. consort. They have five children —four sons and On the Ist inst. heavy shocks of earthquake were one daughter. The present Cesarewitch and eldest felt at Constantinople, and a report was receivadthat son, Nicholas Alexandrowitch, was born in 1843. Broussa had been almost entirely destroyed by the On Thursday the first public manifesto of the new subterraneous c onvulsions, and 2,000 lives lost. Emperor was issued t o his subjects. le ummary of CUBA. it s contents has been received by graphic de- Advices from Cuba of the 15th ult. report the cute spatch : break of serious disturbances. Proclamations had Aft er a nnouncing the sudden and severe illness of the been issued declaring the island in a state of siege, Emperor Nicholas, which terminated in his death, it says and the ports under blockade, and ordering the en. that, as the deceased devoted himself incessantly for the welfare of his subjects, "sodo we also, on ascending the listment of all persons capable of bearing arms. Re throne of Russia, and of Poland and Finland, inseparable inforcements of troops from Porto Rico had been from it, take a solemn oath before God to regard the welfare sent for, and militia companies were forming. It is of cur empire as our only object. May Providence, which stated that the Captain-General Concha was well has selected us for so high a calling, be our guide and pro- acquainted with the designs of the expeditionists, lector, that we may maintain Russia on the highest elan- and had issued a proclamation commanding that no dart of power and glory, and in our person accomplish the citiarter be shown them in case of capture. incessant wishes and views of Peter, of Catherine, of Alex. ander, and of our father. May the zeal of our subjects AUSTRALIA. assist us therein. We invoke and command the oath of Advices have been received from Melbourne to the allegiance to us and to the heir to the throne, our son sth of December, two days later than the last pub- N icholas Aleundrowitch." lished. A sericus collision had taken place between Before his death the Emperor Nicholas had re- the military and the diggers, with a lamentable loss called Prince Menschikoff, and appointed Prince life. According to the latest accounts, however, 231 the insurrection appeared to be over, the insurgents having surrendered. THE CAPE. Papers of Dec. 30 from Capetown state that con siderable alarm had been caused on the eastern borders by some reported movements on the part of the natives, though it does not appear that any serious apprehensions were entertained respecting immediate hostilities. Sufficient, however, was known to warrant suspicion and vigilance. SANDWICH ISLANDS. H.M.S. Pique reached San Francisco on the Bth of January, having left Honolulu on the 17th of De cember. She announced the death of Xing Kameha mobs 111., on the 15th of that month, in his 41st year, after an illness of five or six days. His son, Prince Alexander Liholiho, has been proclaimed king, under the title of Kamehameha IV. BRITISH REINFORCEMENTS FROM INDIA. A despatch from Cairo of the 22nd ult., published in the Aluniteur, suttee that the first detachment of English cavalry which is to cross Egypt had arrived in that city. The horses, of the Arab breed, are in very good condition, despite the fatigue of a sea voyage of twenty-nine days. This regiment is en camped at Abasia, at the gates of Cairo. Ftom Corfu, un the 20th ult., it is stated that the 48th were ordered to get ready to embark for the Crimea. NO soldiers arrived uu the 21st to reinforce the garrison of the lonian Isles. A letter is said to have been written by the Em peror Alexander to the King of Prussia, expressing his desire that the relations between the two coun tries, as existed during the lifetime of his father, may still be continued. A despatch from St. Petersburg announces that General Rudiger is nominated Commander-in• Chief of the Imperial Guard. The Emperor of the French did not leave Pario,4l Thursday for the Crimea, as it had been contidig& believed he would do ; but no doubt is entertained that his Majesty will carry his intention into effect, and that on an early day. Four more French divisions are under ordep for embarkation, which will make between 30,000 and 40,000 men added lately to the army at tho seat of war. Mr. Berryer has been received by the Emperor Napoleon at the Tuileries. The election of this Legitimist orator to be one of the Academy took place two years since; but he purposely refused to appear before the Emperor for his sanction of the appoint. moot until yesterday, when his Majesty most gra ciously ratified the choice made. The Belgian Court has been ordered by King Leo pold to go into mourning for a mouth, ou account of the death of the Emperor Nicholas. The blockade of all the Russian ports of the Crimea and Sea of Azof, except those actually occu pied by the allies, has been duly announced by the admirals of the Black Sea fleets, and notified in the Gazette and Moniteur. The navigation of the Danube has at the same time been pronounced open. That event took place on the lath ult. The Austrian Preset states that the English consul at Aleppo had Veen assassinated. The new First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Charles Wood, commenced his official duties as President of the Board on Thursday. The new patent appointing the commission also includes Rear-Admiral Henry Eden, who has succeeded Rear-Admiral Pundits. THE REGISTRAR GENERAL reports that although the winter's cold has passed away, its effects still appesr in the registers, on which, during the week that ei:Lled on Saturday last, tl - 43 deaths of 1,560 persons are inscribed. The deaths in the last seven weeks have been 10,968, and have thus exceeded the weekly averages of the year round by 2,288. THE success which has attended the establishment of a news room in the Crystal Palace has induced the directors to commence the formation of a free library (available to visitors) in connection therewith. The artistic and scientific works collected for the use of the company's staff will form the nucleus of the new library. The extension of the company's plan has called forth large donations from Messrs. W. and R. Chambers and other publishers, w ell as liberal promises of support from many distinguished friends of education. WALE. RACHEL. ordering her to play Medea, or in default day's delay, came on the Imperial Court, M. Delangle. The worse used by the below. Although favour, the law • the oourt not awarded besides damages. HIM'S appeal against die judgment play in M. Legouve's new tragedy of efault to ply 200 G dapaagswf, • ne on to be heard n 611004 . • .. ourt, presid,••d ; Are y • ' .45 The great trope . jig's bed ever: the higher tribuoilkitiap in tlfßi court toofpast/ , igh the Advocat Genilial 111)(401MT was thought BO . igin‘t itle tint mere l: confirm ilbliritiant, but 4 5 to M. Leg o ins