The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-19 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

Court, and the guests invit.„l. At four o'clock a
council of Ministers WWI held, one of a series which
hare been tolerably frequent during the stay of the
Emperor.
M. le Comte Eugene Dubois is appointed Director-
General of Railways and Councillor of State. This
new office is created under the Ministry of Public
Works.

The state carriage to be used at the coronation of
the Emperor and Empress is just finished. The
weight of this splendid equipage is more than 1:1,000
pounds. The under-carnage is the one which served
for the coronation of Charles X. Eight others are
also ready; amongst which is one which was used
at the baptism of the Count de Chambord, and will
be occupied by the Prince Jerome and his son. No
one as yet knows at what period the coronation will
take place, but it is said the Pope's pleasure will be
consulted as to the most Opportune time. M. de
Maupas, Ambassador of France at the Court of Naples,
has arrived at Rome, and his visit is certainly con-
nected with this question.

General Haraguay d'Hilliers, Ambassador to the
Sublime Porte, is the bearer of a present from the
Emperor to the Sultan, consisting of a splendid
collection of highly-wrought arms among which
is a cannon made after the improved model invented
by the Emperor himself.
At half-past three o'clock in the morning of the
111th the conspirators of the Hippodrome and the
Opera Comique were condemned :—ltuault, Lux,
Copinot, de Meren, Marie Girard, and Gabrat, to
transportation for life; Moutchirond to ten years'
imprisonment ; Turenne, Matz, and Mazille to seven
years of the same; Deney, Maillet, Jaud, Commis,
and Joimu to live years' imprisonment ;
Decroix. and Mix to banishment for eight years ;
Langardii•re to five years' imprisonment ; Folliet to
five years of the same. Six were acquitted.

Although it was announced that the Prince Napo-
leon had left the Palais Royal for Fontainebleau on
Tuesday, it. w•as only yesterday that be took his de-
parture. lie is attended by Colonel I)esivarets, his
principal aide-de-camp.

The whale of the first page bath of the Pays and
the Censtitsitionite/ wan aecupied on Tuesday with
an article from the pen of M. de la trui•rr►nnii•re, the
political director of those journals. The greater
part of this article, which is entitled " Turkey and
Hassle," consists of a review of the circumstances
connected with the dispute between those two states,
showing that it has been a provocation on one side,
followed by a just and reasonable defence on the
other. 'rho facts and arguments adduced have
already been brought forward repeatedly by other
journals ; but the interest of the article lies iu the
fact that M. do la Guerronierre is supposed to speak
the sentiments of the French Government in general,

but more especially of the Emperor. The writer
appears to have a conviction that peace will not 4e.
materially disturbed by the conflict between Russia
and Turkey. lie nevertheless draws a vivid picture
of the injury already inflicted on the prosperity of
Europe by the pretensions of Russia.
The Esperance, a Protestant. journal. published in
Paris, gives the following statement, which is
reprinted by some other papers, though without as-
suming any responsibility for the matter of fact :
" Alw out a month since a Protestant was buried at (lien, a
(t list.). Three weeks later the snisprefeet furtively, during
a wet day, took up the body, dragged it thrioigh the mud,
and buried it in surd destined to receive the corpses of im•
baptised inftmts. The priests came the nett day to teem-
seerate the burial•ground ' polluted by a Protestant inter-
ment.' Vo add insult to injury, a bill of Alit was sent to
the family of the deceased fur expenses of exhumation.
Complaint hos been made to the Minister of Public Wor•
ship, and it is to be hoped this illegal outrage will be
promptly redressed."
A sum of 4,000 f. has been sent by the Emperor
and the Empress to the Patriarch of Jerusalem,
for the French missionaries in Syria.
Queen Maria Christina left Malmaison on Sun-
day, to return to Madrid with her family.
The Emperor and Empress came to Paris on
Monday, and witnessed some experiments with an
elector-magnetic machine. invented by a Mr. Shep-
anl, for the extraction of hydrogen gas from water.
These experiments, which were also witnessed by
Lord Cowley and the Minister of State, are stated
to have been perfectly successful.
M. tiondchaux has been interrogated by the jege
&instruction relative to the manner in which the
money raised by subscription for the refugees was
employed; and a formal notice has been given to
hint not to receive any more money for the political
refugees.
The Government has, it is said, determined to
support the creation of a journal to popularise the
ideas of free trade. Amongst the persons who are
spoken of as willing to lend their assistance as
writers is M. de Wolowski, director of the Mort-
gage Batik. _ _ _

A highly respectsble meeting of the English re-
sideuti iu Para was held on Wednesday at Neu-

SATURDAY,

rice's Hotel, for the purpose of raising a tablet to
the memory of Lieutenant Bellot. Lord Howden
presided on the occasion, and, in an admirable
speech, supported the object that the meeting had
iu view. The resolutions were proposed by Lord
Poltimore, Hon. W. Stewart, Earl of Munster, Sir J.
Easthope, Capt. Hall, R.N., Mr. Locke, Capt. Lang.
ford, Rev. Dr. Hales, and Mr. O'Reilly, and were
unanimously adopted.
Six new battalions of Chasseur4 de Vincennes are
to be organised. These will not, however, constitute
any real addition to the army; as the battalions in
question will be formed from companies taken from
other regiments, and drilled and equipped as chas.
seurs. It is probable that the practice will be
gradually extended to a more considerable portion of
the army.
The

of the railroad system has
been now completely centralised in France by the
constitution of a separate department, entitled the
"Direction Generale des Chemins de Fer." Count
Eugene Dubois, maitre des requites of the first class
at the Council of State, and ex-director of public
works in Algeria, is appointed the director-general of
railroads.