The Press.
London, England, 1853-06-25 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Government has sent General Prince on a
mission tA) Constantinople.
There is no change in the Ministry, which still re-
mains incomplete.

RUSSIA .

An important Stat© paper has been published in
the Journal of St. Petersburg of the 12th instant. It
is a circular note, dated the 11th of June, relative to
the Turkish question, and addressed by the Russian
Government to all its diplomatic agents abroad ; to
be communicated by each of them to the Govern-
ment to which he is accredited :

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" In this note the Goveniment protests energetically
against the ideas of invasion attributed to it, and affirms
that in the complications which have arisen in the East
it is only a question of the Holy Places. It pusses in re-
view all the incidents of the question, and endeavours to
demonstrate that the protectorate claimed by the Czar over
the Greeks in the East cannot be contested either in prin-
ciple or in fact. The note then declares that the want of

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sincerity displayed on this question by the TurkishOoreen-
ment, which had accorded to Russia and Frame respec-
tively contradictory firmans in favour of the Greeks and
Latins, obliges the Russian Government to demand Rustle-
tees for the future. It demanded at first to have these
guarantees inserted in a formal convention between
Russia and the Porte; but afterwards, from a spirit of con-
ciliation, it successively reduced its demand to the .hoed;
finally, to en engagement taken by the Porte, in the
sitar of a note addressed by the Turkish Minister
of Foreign Affairs to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Russia. This note, the Russian Government declares,
contains the extreme limits of its eoneeetsions, and that if
within the delay of eight days the Porto does not accept
purely and simply that proposit ion, which has already been
the subject of the bud communication of Prince Menschi-
koff to Rescind ratchet, and the first r•fhsal of which deter-
mined the departure of that envoy, Russia will be obliged
to take the n►cessary measures to cut the knot which it
would have been her earnest desire to loose pacifically ; but
it thr►ws upon the Porte and those who have encouraged
it to resist the demands of Russia the responsibility of all
the fatal consequences which that resistance may engender
for the peace of the world."
The departure of the Emperor of Russia for Odessa
is announced.
Prince Menmechikoff is at Sebastopol, waiting for
the Emper►r's orders. lie is stated to have been
appointed liovernor of the Crimea.
Two Turkish vessels, one loaded with slaves and
the other with grain, have been captured by the
Russians in the Black Sea.
The war in the Caucasus has again broken out
with redoubled fury, and the Russians are reported to
have suffered a defeat at the hands of Schamyl.
Letters from Odessa state that preparations for
war were going on with great activity, but the autho-
rities still continued to assure the merchants that
peace would not b►e disturbed, and recommended
them to continue their operations.
A division of the squadron of the Sea of Azoff has
been ordered to enter the Black Sea and proceed to
Sebastopol. This division comprises a number of
small steamers.

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TURKEY.
At an extraordinary Council of the Ministers,
Viziers, and other+, held in Constantinople on the
oth inst., it. was unanimously resolvol (A grant firmans
to all Turkish subjects, augmenting their ecclesias-
tiaal privileges, and restoring all religions conces-
sions made by the several Sultans since the foundation
of the Ottoman Porte ; but which have gradually
fallen into partial disuse. The hatti sheriff issued
in consequence was solemnly delivered to the (treat
Patriarch on the 7th, in the presence of a great
number of notables.
The Turkish armaments continue. Much enthu-
siasm prevails among the people.
The excitement is on the increase, and the Govern-
ment are straining every nerve to prepare for war.
Two regiments on the model of the Chasseurs de
Vincennes are forming. They are destined for ser-
vice in the Balkan. The last French steamer has
brought 40,0 IN) muskets for the Porte. 2,0(X) gunners
have left for Varla and Shumla.
A Russian steamer had arrived to take away the
remainder of the members of the embassy.
The interval for the acceptance of the new eta-
wawa was to terminate on the 10th.
The English fleet is at the Dardanelles, and the
French fleet at 'Penedos.
The Austrian Internuncio, M. de Bruck, arrived at
tl►e Dardanelles 4111 the 9th.

UN I TED STATES.
The weekly mail received by the Atlantic brings
New York dates to the 11th inst.
The Leawler frigate, with the Earl of Ellesmere,
the royal commissioner appointed to represent the
English nation at the New York Exhibition, on board,
arrived at New York on the 10th inst.
A further arrival of gold from California had taken
place at New York, the estimated value being about
3,0110,000 doll.
The New York Herald states that Mr. Crampton,
the British Minister, had received despatches by the
last steamer relative to the fishery and reciprocity
question, and urging the matter upon the attention
of the United States Governntent. Mr. Buchanan
was desirous of having the negotiations transferred
to London.
CANADA.
Dreadful riots hail occurred at Quebec and Mon-
treal on the occasion of Father tiavazzi's lectures.
He lectured on the 6th inst. at Quebec, and many
persons were injured by the mob. Father Gavazzi
was himself thrown out of the pulpit, and received a
severe cut on the head, and another on the face.
(►n the 9th he gave a lecture at Montreal. The
Catholic portion of the community became furious;
the military were called out, and were ordered to fire
on the mob, when seven persons were killed, six
mortally injured, and ten severely wounded. Tele-
graphic accounts state that great excitement continued
to exist in Montreal on the 10th.
CHINA AND INDIA.

The last advices from Victoria and Hong Kong
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telligenoe that Nankin had been taken by the insur-
gents on the 21st of March, although they were
afterwards compelled to abandon it. The insurgents
are said to have lost about 2,00 X) killed, and 1311
wounded. The British Consul at Shanghae had
informed the inhabitants that Sir George Bon-
ham "could hold out no promise whatever of assist-
ance in the defence of the city if attacked by the in-
anegest forms r but that unquestionably he "would
deka the property within the foreign settlement, if
way &Meek epos it were made." The insurrection,
which had aseemed so formidable an aspect, was,
hemmer, hai■S everywhere put down.
The United States Government seem determined
to relieve liesked of a portion, at least, of her
Eastern trade. A direct steam communication i 4 to
be opened immediately between California and China,
and a line of railway is to be completed in two years
between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the termini
being at San Francisco and New York. This, with
an American settlement at Japan, and the ports of
that kingdom open to the ships of America, will very
Noon form a second Anglo-Saxon empire in the East..
Two Bombay mails arrived in London vid Mar-
seilles on Monday. This circumstance has arisen
from the early despatch of the mail usually sent home
on the :3rd of the month, in the anticipation of the
moonsoon, and the very slow passage of the Precursor
to Suez, which enabled the mail of the 23rd of May
to overtake that of the 10th of May ; consequently we
may be nearly a month without any further intelli-
gence from India or Burmah.
The celebrated Parsee merchant, Sir Jamsetjee
Jeejeebhoy, has made over 10,0001. to Government for
the purpose of endowing a school of design in Cal-
cutta; and a large donation is forwarded by the last
steamer by Ramlal, the famous banker, to the funds
of the London East India Reform Society.