The Press.
London, England, 1855-02-17 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

THE VIENNA CONGRESS.
A despatch from Vienna received yesterday states
that the diplomatic proceedings which are shortly to
open in that capital will take the form not of a
mere conference, but of a regular Congress. France
as well as England sends a special representative.
M. Titoff, who was for many years Russian Ambas-
sador at Constantinople, will be commissioned by the
Czar to act with Prince Gortschakoff.
Lord John Russell, who was to have left town for
Vienna this (Saturday) evening, is suffering from
indisposition, by which his departure will be de-
layed for some days. At the earliest moment that
his health permits the noble lord will proceed upon
his mission. As at present arranged, it is probable
that he will visit Paris and Berlin. At the latter
place he will enter into communication with the
Prussian Court. It is a singular fact, that the father
of Mr. Hammond, who accompanies the noble
lord upon this occasion, was sent, in 1796, by Mr.
Pitt upon a similar mission to Berlin-the object
then being to persuade Prussia to assume an atti-
tude of armed neutrality.
The mail steamer which left Constantinople on
the sth inst. arrived at Trieste on Thursday. Riza
Pacha, who will represent the Porte in the ap-
proaching Congress, was a passenger on board the
vessel.

A Cabinet Council will be held this afternoon.
Sir Francis Baring has been appointed to the
Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, in succes-
sion to Lord Granville. The Secretaryship to the
Board of Control is not yet filled up.
The Right Hon. Henry Fitzroy resigns the office
of Under Secretary for the Home Department. No
appointment in his place has been yet made, nor has
any successor been named to Mr. Peel as Colonial
Under-Secretary.
The Globe states on authority that Mr. Monsell
has been induced to carry out the intentions he ex-
pressed in the month of December last, of resigning
his office at the Board of Ordnance, solely from pri-
vate and personal reasons. The changes about to
take place in the War Department will have the
effect of causing considerable alterations in the
Ordnance, involving the abolition of some of the
higher offices. Pending this arrangement, it is not
probable that the Clerkship of the Ordnance, vacated
by Mr. Monsell, will be filled up.

The King of Naples on the 4th inst. presided at a
Cabinet Council, at which the question of Naples
joining the treaty between the Western powers and
Turkey was discussed. The Russian Minister, Count
Orloff, has left, with his Chancellerie, for Caserta.
The Metz journals state that orders have been
given to the officers of engineers to prepare a piece
of ground in the neighbourhood for a camp of 100,000
men. Preparations, it is said, are being made at the
Palace Stanislaw at Nancy for the reception of the
Emperor Napoleon.
The Vienna Presse of Thursday states that the
English are retiring from the siege lines before
Sebastopol, and are, with the French guard, to form
the reserve at Balaklava.
Khosrew Pacha, formerly Grand Vizier and founder
of the Turkish regular army, has died in Constanti-
nople at the age of 90 years.
The Russian Embassy in Constantinople has been
taken by the French as a military hospital. This is
said to be a contravention of warlike etiquette; but
was matter of necessity, no other place being dis-
coverable for the French sick. M. de Bruck, the
Austrian Intamincio, to the protection of' whose pre-
decessor the Embassy was confided by litenschikoff