The Press.
London, England, 1855-09-29 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The French papers have been entirely taken up
with discussing the reports of Marshal l'elissier and
General Niel. Every praise is justly awarded to the
careful arrangements of the French marshal, the
precision with which every possible event was fore-
seen and provided for in order to avoid a repulse,
and a generous sympathy is expressed for our want
of success before the Redan, although our failure is
very generally ascribed by the French military
critics to the unaccountable neglect of our generals
to push forward supports in aid of the brave men
"who, after scaling the ramparts, held their position
for nearly two hours, unsupported, under a terrible
fire of mitraille."

The Empress of the French still continues ex-
tremely delicate, and her health lately gave rise to
serions apprehensions. It has been officially an-
nounced that her Majesty has entered the fifth month
of her pregnancy.

Passages in a letter from Marseilles, Sept. 20,
(Times, Sept. 23), are remarkable as showing that
considerable bodies of troops and further supplies of
ammunition are being sent to the Crimea; proof
presumptive that no intention can exist on the part
of the allies of evacuating the peninsula :

The present week is remarkable for the unprecedented
activity displayed in embarking troops and shipping mili-
tary stores for the Crimea On Monday the Jourdain
sailed for Constantinople, taking the mails, together with
General Mangin, detachments from various regiments of
infantry, and fifteen sisters of St. Vincent de I'sul, going
to attend the wounded. Orders were received the same
day to recommence the shipping of bombshells. Timber
for huts was likewise shipped in large quantities. The
steam-frigate Chrialophe Colon be and the steam-corvette
Eumenide arrived on Tuesday from Toulon, and proceeded
immediately to receive three battalions of the 11th Regi-
ment of Infantry. The embarkation of these troops, with
the horses of the staff officers, wax effected In a few hours,
and the steamers proceeded on their voyage to the Crimea
before night. Twelve months since a week would have
been consumed in the accomplishment of a similar fest.
The 11th Regiment thus embarked is one of the finest
bodies of men 1 have seen since the commencement of the

• We are in possession of the names of the parties, and have
no doubt of the authenticity of this letter.—En. P.

war. They do great credit to their officers. The steam-
corvette Gurgone arrived yesterday morning from Toulon.
She embarked nearly a thousand men of various corps,
and sailed for the Crimea. Several hundred casks of gun-
powder were shipped iu a sailing transport—a quantity
more that sufficient to blow up all Marseilles. Several
gun-carriages for field artillery of more than ordinary size
were likewise shipped. One hundred and fifty quay porters
were embarked in a small steamer which came here with
coal, anti sailed immediately for the Crimea. The Mar-
seilles quay porters are remarkable for their great strength
and likewise for their temperate habits. They are to be
employed in cleariug the ruins of Sebastopol. The mail-
steamer Sinai sailed to-day for Constantinople. She was
crowded with troops. One hundred and forty of the Laud
Transport Corps have arrived, and art. to sail fur the
Crimea in the steamer Telegraph on Saturday.
The great majority of the exhibitors who occupy
the transept of the Exhibition Palace have received
notice that they must in a short time remove their
articles, in order that the whole of the grand gallery
may be free for the ceremony of the distribution of
the medals.

Two new battalions of foot chasseurs are about to
be formed, the 21st at Metz, and the 22nd at
Grenoble. Eight of the battalions of this force, out
of the twenty which now exist, are in France, and the
remainder in the East, in Africa, and in Italy. Each
of the eight battalions stationed in France will fur-
nish two companies towards the formation of the two
new battalions.

The Imperial Family of Franco have had their
titles and rank determined by a code of regulations
issued by order of the Emperor. Tho sons of the
brothers and sisters of the Emperor Napoleon I. that
do not form part of the Imperial Family, will bear the
title of Prince and Highness with their family name,
thus :—H.H. Prince Charles Lucien Bonaparte ;
H.H. Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte ; H.H. Prince
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte ; H.H. Prince Antoine
Bonaparte; H.H. Prince Lucien Murat. In the
second generation eldest sons only will be entitled to
the style of Highness ; other sons will be simply
styled Prince. Princesses when married will only
bear the names and titles of their husband, except
when special decisions are made to the contrary.
Other regulations determine the precedence of mem-
bers of the Imperial Family at Court.

AUSTRIA.
The policy of the Court of Vienna continues hesi-
tating as ever. The Augabourg Gazette of the 24th
says that it is certain Austria will nut attempt to in-
terrupt the march of " military events " by any new
proposition of mediation, however much she may
desire to see peace once more established. The
following announcement is curious :
The Archduke William of Austria has been named by
the Emperor of llussia a General of Artillery in the Czar's
army.
PRUSSIA.

The King and Queen of Prussia arrived at Co-
blentz on the 24th. Their Majesties were received
with the warmest acclamations, and in the evening
the city was illuminated. Prince Napoleon, accom-
panied by five French generals, is to pay a visit of
compliment to his Majesty at Saarbrucic.
The King of Wurtemburg arrived at Coblentz on
the evening of the 20th, and was received by the
King and Prince of Prussia. The Prince Regent of
Baden is also expected. M. de Hatzfield, the Prus-
sian Ambassador at, Paris, M. de Bismarck-Schiin-
hausen, the General Wedel, and M. de Bernstore,
received the King of Prussia on his arrival.
At Berlin considerable disquietude was felt for the
result of the approaching elections, the democratic
party having joined the Opposition against the Go-
vernment.

The as.ertion of the Belgian Inclipendance that
Prussia had demanded of the Western powers whe-
ther the moment for the renewal of negotiations had
not arrived, is denied in the most positive manner
by the Prussian Gazette; but on Tuesday the bull-
pendance returns to the charge to declare that its
original statement was strictly accurate, and that
whoever believes he may contradict it is misled.
The cholera, which had attacked some 1,500
people, more or less fatally, was gradually dis-
appearing.
A letter from Berlin, in the Emancipation of
Brussels, says that a few evenings ago a Russian
officer congratulated the King of Prussia on having
courageously maintained peace in spite of the solici-
tations of the Western powers, and that his Majesty
replied as follows with some emphasis, as if anxious
to be heard by the people around him :
Yes, I have had the courage to maintain peace, which
is of so much importance to Germany and the whole world;
but if Russia displays misplaced exigencies, and if she
thus extends war on the shores of the Baltic, in Italy, and
perhaps elsewhere, I should also have the courage to counsel
efficaciously the return to order on the part of them who
should continue to disturb it. I am in accord with die
Emperor of Austria ; I firesaw the disaster of Sebastopol,
and I holieve that it would have been well to have avoided
it. It was not without my consent that my Minister was
present at the "Te Dem "at I'aris. After al), when a
country goes to war alone, it must expect adverse fortune.
believe rte, the war must be brought to an end i It is 11111

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time to come to a fair arrangement. The opportunity is a
good one, and we are ready to facilitate matters; but to-
morrow, perhaps, it will be too late. Our patience ought
,t to be abused, and difficulties uught not to be increased.
This, sir, merits serious attention.

The Emancipation says that it has been assured
that the text of some of the above expressions is
literally exact, and that the general sense of the
ethers is correctly given.

RUSSIA.

The Emperor Alexander, attended by a numerous
suite, has left St. Petersburg for the south, and
arrived at Moscow on the 13th inst. A letter from
Moscow, dated the 14th, states :

A large crowd assembled last night, in spite of most nn-
avorable weather, to witness the arrival of the Emperor,
the Empress, and the Imperial Family, and greeted his
Majesty with the loudest acclamations, a thousand times
repeated. Although it was nearly midnight before the
Emperor came in, the bells of all the churches were rung,
and the city was illuminated. The Emperor and the im-
perial party took up their residence in the Kremlin. At
one o'clock to-day the Emperor and Empress made their
solemn appearance in the vestibule of the ancient palace,
and after saluting the people, who greeted them with en-
thusiastic acclamations, proceeded to visit in succession
the different sacred edifices comprised in the Kremlin.
An estrade, a few feet high, decorated with purple, led to
the various churches ;and the imperial cortege passed along
it. During this visit the huge bell of the cathedral and all
the tells of the churches were rung.

Under date of Odessa, September 15, we
read:—

The Emperor, during his stay in this place, will stop
with his suite at the chateau of General Luders, within
the line of the fortifications. Thia chateau, which has

been built only a few years, more resembles a 'fortress than
a country house. Two divisions of infantry are now con-
centrated there. All the bodies of militia, composed of
recently-levied serfs, have been placed in the colonies of
Kunnowska, Awilowo, and Singirewaka, but it is probable
that they will be shortly assembled in the plains and re-
viewed by the Emperor. Numerous speculations are
afloat as to whether the Emperor will extend his journey
as far as Perekop, but it is impossible to know what are
his intentions.

Nicolaieff, where the Emperor Alexander 11. pro-
bably now is, hae since the spring been the locale of
a camp of reserve for Prince Gortschakoffs army in
the Crimea. In May last it was commonly said that
there were sixty thousand troops there. for some
time this camp has not been much spoken of, but the
place has again been brought into notice by a state-
ment that the Russian Government had resolved to
make Nicolaieff replace Sebastopol. The river, how-
ever, has so little depth of water that the Russian
ships built at Nicolaieff can only reach the sea by
the aid of floating machines. This fact must be
entirely overlooked when it is said that Nicolaieff is
to become a " a second Sebastopol."
In the Paris correspondence of the Morning Post
of yesterday it is stated :
It is the opinion of those who have material for drawing
conclusions, that the Russians will shortly assume the
offensive. The Emperor will visit Nicolaieff, and there
superintend himself the winter Crimean campaign. The
Russian treasury has v.ceived large sums of money through
Berlin. English war material is constantly passing through
Prussia for the use of the enemy.

Letters from St. Petersburg of the 7th state that
from all parts of the empire there arrive in the capital
news of the complete formation of the troops of re-
serve, and of the departure of the first levy of the
companies of national militia, which are to meet at
Kiew. The reserves, it is asserted in official quar-
ters, will number nearly 800,000 men.