The Press.
London, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

NOVEMBER 12, 1853.

various witnesses. Enough has already transpired
t..) prove the reality of the plot; though all the at-
tempts to link the atrair with certain distinguished
msmbers of the ()demist party, who were suspected
of being secretly implicated in the conspiraq, have
altogether failed. Besides the prisoners present there
are seven others included in the charges, who have
succeeded in escaping arrest, and are tried par con-
tamer.
The Monitear contains a decree convoking the
Cmneil-tieneral of the department of the Seine for
the 15th of November, and the councils of the or-

for the oth of December.
The inauguration of the bust of the Emperor, and
the ceremony of administering the oath to the em.
p/oyis and agents of the administrati tttt , took place
on Monday at the Prefecture of Police. M. I'ieui,
the Prefect, resided, who read a very impressive
and appropriate speech, which was replied to by
loud cries of " Vive l'Empereur !" " Five l'hupera •
trice :"
The linssian Ambassador is amongst the number
of personages invited to meet the Emperor at Fon-
tainebleau.
A deputation of English gentlemen waited on
Wednestlay upon Lord Cowley to express the wish of
the English Protestants in Paris that an English
church should be built in that city for public wor-
ship. At present there is only the private chapel at
the Embassy, which is necessarily of limited extent,
and the English church built by the late Bishop
Luscombe, and now in the hands of the Rev. M.
Chamier, but at which a franc is demanded for ad-
i t tame.
The French troops in Algiers have obtained a vic-
tory over the Arabs. They captured 16 standards,
4,000 sheep, and 150 camels.
The Count de Paris, the eldest son of the late
Duke of Orleans, is said to be indisposed at Eise-
nach.

BELGIUM.
The session of the Legislative Chambers was
opened by King Leopold on Tuesday. his Majesty
returned from England on the previous Sunday. In
the speech from the throne he congratulate(' the
Chambers upon the expanding productiveness of the
revenue, the progress of education and agriculture,
anti the results of various recent measures affecting
the essential interests of the country.

AUSTRIA.
The Wanderer of 'Vienna says that the injury which
is inflicted upon Austria by the present state of
things in the East is enormous. The commerce of
Austria with Turkey, in imports and exports, amounts
in quiet times to nearly 134) millions of frames per
annum.
SPAIN. _ .

The Marquis de Vibutta, Spanish Minister at
Paris, has been appointed to the presidency of the
Senate at Madrid, a post which he had before oc-

cupied.
The Madrid Gazette of the 4th publishes a royal
decree uniting the general superintendence of
finance of the colonies with the attributions of the
President of the Council of Ministers.
The conferences in reference to the settlement of
the boundary between France and Spain were
opened at Bayonne on Monday last.
It is stated that the Spanish Government have, in
conformity with the petition of the provincial depu-
tation of Navarre, given permission for a commission
o (French engineers to examine, at the cost of the
deputation, the point most suitable for connecting
the French lines of railway with Navarre.
M. Mendizabal, who held a prominent place in the
Spanish Govenunent during the regency of General
Espalier°, died at his residence in Madrid on the
morning of the and instant of a pulmonary catturh.
His funeral was to take place on Sunday last.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
The last despatches from St. Petersburg state that
the Czar refuses to admit the new proposition of the
four powers respecting the Eastern question. lle
again insists on the 'Vienna note.
A manifesto has been published in the (official
.horns( of St. Petersburg, dotted ()et. some dais
before any intelligence that the Turks had crossed
the Danube could have been received by the Czar.
This document is, however, of a very bellicose cha-
racter, and concludes with iese words:—
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" Russia is goluled on to war ; nothing remains for her
but in have reelotrse to arms to compel the ra.slllßll
Vill• to resity, t. treaties, to atnitt reparation for the insults
A% ith which the latter has replied to our most moderate
demands--to our legitimate soilieitiale for the mainteinuice
of the orthodox faith in the East.
Prince Paskewitsch has returned with his family
to Warsaw. The statements so authoritatively made
of his visit to St. Petersburg, and appointment as com-
mander-in-chief ot the tinny in the principalities,
turn out to be unfounded.

• ,
'4,nsideral•le reinfioreementm baN•e been vent to
Ite•oiarabilt and 11 where the and and 4th
corps &armee are stationed. The army of the
aucatitta has alb(' received large rvinfvrcement.:.