The Press.
London, England, 1855-10-27 00:00:00

OCTOBER 27, 1855.

Saxonism, to be unconditionally vituperated for the
misdeeds el the Russian "parti de la Croix," and for
the Jesuit artifices of Austrian satellites

In following the example of the Times, but at a
halting pace, the Sun and the Daily News counsel
the discontinuance of foreign connection, and point
to such es be of a closer proximity. History, in their
exuberance to intensify Anglicanism, has become a
dead letter for them. The wars of the Roses convey
a. political moral, and they would see without dis-
pleasure the advent of another king-making War-
wick, as they might be disposed to justify the inter-
necine contentions caused by a civil war of succession.
To dilate upon these absurd opinions would be a
waste of time. Birmingham, for the nonce, will not
furnish forth a royal consort, nor Manchester provide
a Quaker bridegroom.
But the Times has a fair occasion and ample scope
to make use of the liberty of the press in the justest
sense. It is difficult to convey the indignation—the
wird might almost be consternation—experienced in
Germany at the positive atrocities of speech de-
livered at the meeting of the Red Republicans in
John-street, Fitzroy-square. The personal insult to
the Queen of England, to the Emperor Napoleon,
and to the Anglo• Frank alliance, is only another
form of the same sentiment expressed by M. de
Gerlach, of the " parti de la Croix," and published
by royal permission at Berlin. The Prussian Minis •
ter denounces France and the Emperor Napoleon,
reviles England for its apostacy to the Holy Alliance,
and calls her Majesty of Great Britain to account
for receiving the Imperial guest at Windsor, and for
her visit, in return, to Paris. The French democrat,
an exile, and under the safeguard of English laws, ac-
cepted the theme and the creed of M. de Gerlach,
and thus he enlarged upon it :—" Procedes oftciels,
politesses politiques, avec un pareil etre (Napoleon
III.) violent la morale et entachent la conscience,"—
and to her gracious Majesty of England, " 01.111,
YOUR avez tout sacrifie, dignite de Reine, scrupules
de femme, orgueil d'at istocrate, sentiment d'Anglaise,
le rang, la race, le sexe, tout, jusqu' a la pudeur, pour
l'amour de cet allies' The honest execration of all
classes here and in Germany at this unparalleled in-
sult to one who, irrespective of her royal position, is
an honour to her sex, does an English heart good to
witness. It is difficult, however, to reply to their
astonishment at the tacit permission by Government
of such an insult, coupled with an authorised and
public announcement of a repetition, in due form,
and on an appointed day. The simultaneous
speeches and pamphlets of M. de Gerlach at Berlin
in the same spirit, and apparently in consentaneous
arrangement, has not tended to exalt the "parti de
la Croix " in public estimation.
Let the Times employ its vast and avenging power
in chastising the republican and M. de Gerlach of
Berlin, the Prussian Minister. Let the amalgama-
tion of the Red democrat with the "parti de la
Croix " and the Russian, as shown by " Felix Pyat,"
be emblazoned in all the infamy of the unholy
league. Then will the European journal deservedly
earn the approbation and gratitude of all men. But,
apart from the righteous flagellation of these cup
prits, steeped in crime and dishonour, let the Times
remember that, in open condemnation of Prussian
policy and of the Prussian Government, the Prince
Royal departed from Berlin, and has retired with his
accomplished and high-minded Princess to Cohlentz,
there to await for more auspicious times, when
Prussia shall assume an independent and dignified
attitude, supported by Germany, free, powerful, and
united; when the Jesuit and Austria shall have re-
ceived the meed of their demerit; and when shall
have been accomplished in all the honour of con-
stitutional justice the impending transition of Europe
from feudal privilege to federal right. And will
England turn away from Protestant union and anti-
Cathulic alliance? Will she accept instead the
crimson hand of the Austrian Jesuit? _ _

J. E. L.

Sortign an (colonial 3nttiligtut.

FRANCE.

The financial crisis has almost entirely absorbed
public attention this week from all other subjects,
not excepting the war. The situation of the Bank of
France does not at all improve. Up to Tuesday,
from the demands made, its bullion had decreased
since the Thursday preceding by some 18,000,000 f.,
and the question of forcing a paper currency had
been mooted by the Directors, but was opposed by
the Government, on the plea that it would produce a
serious affect abroad. By a circular letter last week
the Bank had summoned depositors of Rentes and
railway shares either to give new security, or to re-
inibui se a portion of their loans with cash. In addi-
tion to purchasing from England, the Bank had also
p•irchased gold in Holland to the amount of
41,000,000 f. It was generally believed at the latest
dates that the Bank would refuse to take bills of
more than sixty days' date, as the Government had
4ecljned sanctioning a forced paper currency.

THE PRESS.-

The circular of M. Billault, the Minister of the In-
terior, to the Prefects on the employment of the
credit of the 10,000,000 f. for the necessities of the
poor, enters freely into the question of high prices
and famine, and enumerates at length all the
measures which have been adopted by the Imperial
Government to give means of subsistence to the
poorer orders. M. Billault then announces that the
most severe punishments will be inflicted upon those
dealers who seek to keep up false prices. After
pointing out to the Prefects the various modes they
should adopt to mitigate the present hardships of
the time, the circular concludes in these remarkable
words, words which indicate something existing and
apprehended under the present smooth surface of
affairs :

If, in spite of your efforts, some agitators endeavour to
profit, for the gratification of their passions or their folly,
by the sufferings of the people, repeat to the labouring
classes that agitation and disorder could not add to the
harvest a single grain of wheat, but must give a sudden
blow to cmfidence and employment, and aggravate their
own misery; and, while rendering to them help and
counsel, make them understand that they have au evident
interest in resisting the authors of disorder, and strike
these last with a repression immediate and severe.
Generals Bosquet and Trochu had embarked at
Kamiesch on their return to France.
RUSSIA.

The Emperor Alexander is stated to have left
Nicolaieff for Elisabetgrad, 130 miles to the north-
ward. The presence of the allied fleets off the
mouth of the Bug is supposed to have been the
cause of this sudden departure of the Imperial
suite. The Emperor, by an ordre de jour, had dis-
missed General Kordfrom his command, and ap-
pointed General ltadziwil in his room. General
Korff commanded the Russian cavalry in the late
action with the French cavalry outside Eupatoria.
The new levy in the provinces of Orenburg and
Samara is expected to produce 33,000 soldiers ;
bringing up the total amount of militia raised in
the present year to 380,000 men, exclusive of Cos-
sacks.

An Imperial ukase issued on the 23rd permits the
free importation of European colonial produce into
the Transcaucasian provinces, via the overland fron-
tiers of Persia and Turkey, during the continuance
of the war.

Private letters from St. Petersburg, according to
the Paris correspondent of the Daily News, affirm
that the mind of the Emperor has become affected
by the serious state of affairs; that he has suddenly
grown exceedingly religious, prays incessantly, and
is in constant intercourse with his priests, many of
accompanied him in his suite.
The Constitutionnel, of the 24th, publishes the
following highly interesting letter from St. Peters-
burg :
St. Petersburg, Oct. 15.
Unfavorable accounts succeed each other with such
rapidity here that the greatest despondency has seized on
all classes. We had scarcely learned the defeat of General
Korff, near Eupatoria, when we were informed by telegraph
of the strive! of the allied fleets before Odessa. On the
other hand, the anxiety observed among the upper classes,
and even the members of the Imperial family, has con-
tributed in no small degree to increase the popular alarm.
A report prevailed during the course of the day that the
Empress had commanded General Gezevitch to proceed
express to Nicolaieff with a letter for the Emperor, in which
she entreats him to return to St. Petersburg. The approach
of the enemy has aroused the fears of both Empresses. The
Czar is no longer safe at the extremity of the liman on
which Nicolaieff is built, and the Metropolitan has ordered
general prayers to be offered in the churches for the Em-
peror's security. T have this very day assisted at one of
these ceremonies in the church of Kagan, and the serious

countenances of the masses that thronged round the images
of the saints convinced me that they are beginning to feel
the gravity of the crisis. Besides, the Government
openly admits that fresh sacrifices must be submitted to.
In the western part of the empire preparations are already
making for the fourteenth levy, which is to take place
before next March. The decree relative to this levy is
expected to appear in a few days. The diplomatic
accounts are not less unpleasant than the military re-
ports. The representatives of Russia at foreign Courts
are by no means satisfied with the attitude assumed by
the different Cabinets. Taking, for instance, the neigh.
bowing States, it has been observed that in Sweden the
King is more and more disposed every day to adhere to
the policy of the Western powers, and Count Nesselrode
has determined to send to Stockholm an Envoy-Extra-
ordinary, with a view to counterbalance the constantly
growing influence of the Ministers of France and Eug•
land. At the other extremity of the empire the conduct
of Persia does not inspire more confidence. Notwith-
standing the honours paid to General Bronsiloff, the Rus•
Man Envoy at Teheran, it is not considered probable at
the Home-office that, with the victories of the allies
before him, the Shah will persevere in a strict neutrality.
On the other hand, the very marked reception given %y
Persia to the representative of France must be regarded
as a most significant fact, and nobody any longer talks
here of the Persian embassy, whose arrival was so pom-
pously announced about a month since. As to Austria, be
assured that the Russian Government does not flatter itself
that the Cabinet of Vienna will long persevere in its pre-
sent neutrality. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg has directed
its agents in foreign countries to state that it is reducing
the army in Poland, in order to show how little she has

to fear from Austria. But that statement its totally un-
founded. According to a recent decision of Prince Dol.
gorouki, the army of Poland is not to be diminished by
a single regiment. In point of fact., all the acts of the
Russian Government indicate a resolution to continue the
war. You will soon have an additional proof of it. I
am informed that the Privy Council have just decreed the
raising of a militia of reserve intended to defend the
territory without actually engaging in the war. As I was
about closing my letter I learned the departure of a
courier for Stockholm, with important despatches for the
Russian Minister, Jasow-Andrewitch Dasulikolf, accre-
dited to that Court.

AUSTRIA.
The Emperor returned to Vienna on the 17th, and
immediately sent for Baron I'rokesch Osten, who had
an interview alone with his Majesty for upwards of
two hours. The late visit of this Minister to Paris
is presumed to have afforded the principal topic for
conversation. Baron Prokesch shortly proceeds to
Constantinople to arrange the affairs of the princi-
palities. Negotiations and notes have recently
taken place between the Austrian Government and
the Western powers and the Porte, but with no
result, owing to the great differences which eiist
between the Turkish authorities and General
Coronini.

Baron Bruck was endeavouring to bring his
financial projects to a successful termination. Ne-
gotiations continued with the houses of Rothschild
and Periene. It was generally believed, on the 21st,
that the mortgage bonds of the new Mortgage Bank
would be issued at no fixed rate of interest. The
capital of the bank was to be 35,000,000 florins, in
50,000 shares of 700 florins each.
In order to complete the different railroads in the
empire, the tiovernment are about to form a perma-
nent Railroad Building Fuud, with a floating capital
of 50,000,000 of florins ; the sum to be raised by
loan, the Crown lands of Upper Austria and Hungary
being mortgaged to the capitalists who take the
loan.

As an instance of the manner in which " voluntary
loans" are raised in the Austrian dominions, we
quote the following notice of the Mayor of Milan :
The list of the State Loan not having answered the expec-
tation of Government, the commercial and industrial
classes, who have not voluntarily subscribed to the said
loan, must deposit in the public cassa civila, not later than
the 31st of this month, a sum of ten per cent, on the money
reported as having been paid.

The visit of the Duke and Duchess of Brabant to
Paris is regarded at Vienna as a political event of
some importance. l'he Times correspondent writing
from Vienna on the Dith, characterises it as " an event
likely to produce a favorable impression in high
Austrian circles, where everything that tends to
strengthen the present Government of France is con-
sidered an additional guarantee for the future peace
of Europe. Some highly-placed Austrians," continues
this correspondent, "still affect to consider Louis
Napoleon a parvenu,' an adventurer,' Ste., but
the Imperial family invariably speak of him with
extreme respect.
PRUSSIA.
A letter from Berlin in the Borsen Halle, of Ham-
burg, states that the report circulated by the Vienna
Gazette, to the eifect that all the Russian Ministers
at the German Courts had received orders to be
ready to leave for Warsaw towards the end of Octo-
ber, when summoned by Count Neeselrode to meet
the Czar, is doubted in the diplomatic circles of that
city.
A deputation of the electors of Berlin has pre-
sented to the Minister of Commerce a memorial
relative to the high price of food. The Minister, in
his reply, declared that, from all the information that
he had received, there was every reason to expect a
speedy fall in prices.
On the question of the late elections the Miele has
the following remarks :
On the whole, the Prussian Government cannot deceive
itself as to the result of the elections. Ignoring none of
the causes to which it is indebted for the election of 150
functionaries, it will have turned its attention to that of
the 120 independent deputies. The elections of Berlin
must have particularly struck the Ministry. Out of nine
deputies elected, seven belong to the Left; and, what is
still more serious, Count Schwerin, formerly President of
the Chamber, was elected four times at Berlin, in spite of
the direct opposition of the Prefect. At Berlin, also, M.
de Matiteuffel was defeated in three districts by candidates
of the Left; in another district the Minister of the Inte-
rior, M. de Westpbalen, was set aside, owing to the exces-
sive zeal of a police agent; and in a third the same Mims-
ter was defeated by M. de Patow, one of the chiefs of the
Opposition. The political opinions of the elected and the
defeat of the Ministers show clearly that Berlin has de-
sired to condemn the policy of the Government, even at
the risk of losing the little royal favour it has possessed
since the events of IS4B and 1649.

DENMARK.
Great sensation has been created in Copenhagen
by the King at his birthday court and levee, causing
his morganatic wife, the milliner Lolls Rasmussen,
to he present, and, after presenting the foreign am-
bassadors to her, requesting them to notify his mar-
riage to their respective Courts. This lady, whose
antecedents are of a very questionable character, has

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been created Countess I)aum3r by the King, and is
to be raised to the rank of a duchess at the close of

the year.
The new Ministry comprises M. Bang, President
of the Council; Colonel Von Liittichau (war),
Haasloff (Schleswig), Simony (justice), Colonel
von Andree (finances), and Hall (cultus), are in-
vested with the Grand Cross of the Dannebrog Order,
and Captain Michelsen (naval minister) is created
a chamberlain. Lieutenant-General de Billow re•
places the Hereditary Prince Ferdinand as Governor
of Seeland and the islands.

SARDINIA AND ITALY.
Reinforcements continue to be sent from Genoa to
the army in the Crimea. The steamers Jason,
Himalaya, and Golden Fleece, sailed on the IRth for
Balaklava. The King had attended council on two
occasions, and was gradually recovering his health.
Colonel Read has arrived at Turin as president of
the committee for organising the Anglo-Italian Legion,
and some changes were expected from his known
vigour and energy.
Accounts from Tuscany represented a fearful state
of increasing distress, caused partly by bad harvests,
partly by cholera, and partly by misgovernment.
Already the people in Florence and its neighbourhood
were seeking refuge in crime from impending star-
vation, and the other day a Mr. Corrie, an Englishman,
was found murdered in bis bed in Florence, by per-
sons who had evidently done so for the sake of
plunder. A succession of bad harvests has done
(severe injury to the agriculturists; the cholera has
deprived many families of their main support, for it
has been peculiarly destructive to men in Florence
this year; the Government has destroyed confidence,
and consequently crippled trade during the last seven
years, and all these causes combined, are likely to
produce a winter of unparalleled suffering in Tuscany.
The quarrel between Sardinia and Tuscany
still remains unsettled. A special envoy has been
sent out to Lord Normanby at Florence, in order to
explain to him the decided views in support of Sar-
dinia of the English Government.
The visit of the Austrian Archduke Albert to the
Court of Naples, and to his sister the Queen, is ex-
pected to have some political bearing. The intrigues
of Russia, according to the French and Austrian
papers, will be exposed,and King Bombs made aware
that Francis Joseph is sincere in his alliance with
the Western powers. The Canstitutionnel declares
boldly that the sole object of the Archduke's visit, is
to bring the Court of Naples to reason.
M. Mazza, it is stated, has been sent on a mission
to Vienna.
THE PRINCIPALITIES.
Late despatches from Bucharest state that Prince
Stirbey had been attacked by severe inflammation of
the lungs, and was in a precarious condition. Owing
to the high price of meat, the exportation of cattle,
except for the use of the allied armies, had been
prohibited.
The following letter of the 9th from Bucharest,
gives some curious revelations of the encroachments
of Austria, the wily policy of France, and the indif-
ference of England:—
The English agent keeps apart, no doubt in order that
the white robe of England should not be soiled. The
zeal of the French Consul iu favour of the Austrian occu-
pation, and of the Hospodar whom it supporta, passes all
bounds. lie seems still to be at the period of excessive
consideration, which it was thought indispensable to mani-
fest to Austria before the fall of Sebastopol ; and with sur-
passing goodwill combines the means of insuring, by the
implicit approval of the excesses of the Hospodar, the
success of his system of policy, which consists in making
for France the alliance of Austria even preferable to that
of England. The importance of the object no doubt pal-
liates the means adopted, and the shame of supporting an
unpopular despot will be effaced by the gloiy of having
changed the policy of the world. in the meantime the
Wallaehian provinces endure their misery and shame,
while, by such unjustifiable tolerance, the wretchedness of
their condition increases. Their traditional antipathy ti
Austria has grown to rage. kept under it is true, but all the
more violent. Indeed there is no part of Italy where the
Cabinet of Vienna has succeeded in making its name more
execrated than in the Danubian principalities.
A letter from Galatz of the 10th inst. gives us to
understand that a number of the gun-boats of the
allies are lying close to the Sulina mouth, ready to
ascend the river at any moment, and to bombard the
coast towns of Bessarabia. Although this rumour, for
such it must be termed, doubtless requires confirma-
tion, it has not been without a powerful effect in
raising the prices of corn at Galatz.
The strength of the troops in the different Turkish
fortresses on the Dituube is stated by late returns as
follows :—The garrison of Varna, 3,000 Turks and
600 French ; of Schumla, 3,000 Turks ; of Silistria,
5,000 ; of Roustchouk, 1,500 ; and at Kustendje about
1,500 Turks destined for Asia.
SPAIN.
The commission of the budget has approved the
budget of the Minister of War. It is probable that
the general commission will adopt the financial plan
of M. de Bruil.
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