The Press.
London, England, 1853-12-24 00:00:00

ion* anti. Colonial Intelligence.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
l'Ams, December •.:2.
PAWS is full of English visitors at this moment,
although there is nothing except the usual Parisian
amusements of theatres, good dinners at Vely's and
the Cafe de Paris, to make them pass their time agree-
ably. The Court receptions will only begin at the
New Year's-day, and there are no balls or parties
among the elite of the society going on at this time.
A notice has again appeared in the Moniteur which
it may be useful to advert to. It is as f Mows :
.4 It is by mistake that persons addressing themselves
to the high functionaries of the State and of the
Crown make use of the title of " 31onseigneur."
This style belongs by right only to the French
princes, and to the princes of the family of the Em-
peror."

Captain Laporte, brought to a court martial for the
murder of his general, the Count de Nieully, has
been arquitted and immediately liberated.
The Count Valentin Esterhazy, named Envoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Austria
at the Court of Russia, arrived last night in Paris, in
company with Lord Bateman, who, it is said, has
come over on a skit to the Emperor.
The Legislative Assembly will meet for the trans.
action of business in February, previous to which a
Ministerial modification, it is confidently asserted,
will take place.
In spite of the rigour of the season, their Majcs.
tics have visited several public and private eatablish-
nimbi, 11111011 g others that of the Sisters of Charity in
the Faubourg, St. Antoine. This foundation receives
I•!t) orphans, :NM children arc lodged and maintained.
100 are out•lsoarders. This vast family were assem.
bled together in the hall and received the Emperor
and Empress with acclamations of joy and gratitude.
In conversing with the superior, on the origin and
progress of this charity, the name of the Duchess de
Narbonne, the most generous benefactress of this
establishment, was necessarily brought forward with
gratitude. Their Majesties took their departure not
without leaving tangible roofs of their interest and
generosity, and some nice cakes were distributed
among the children by order of the Empress.
Fresh despatches have been received from St.
Petersburg. Russia has declared that she will
enter into no negotiations whatever but on the ex-
press condition that the point relating to her " pro.
tectorate" over the tireek Church shall be lett
entirely to be treated between Russia and the Sub-
lime Porte exclusively, without the interruption of
time other powers.
The temperature has become milder, and the thaw
having allowed of the works going on again for the
junction of the Louvre with the Tuileries, they have
been resumed this morning. In 1555, the year de-
cided on for the great Universal Exhibition, the
Emperor is anxious that France and Europe should
find the palace of the Louvre completed.
The hotel of the Ambassador of Russia, M. de
Kisseletf, was brilliantly illuminated on Tuesday, the
fiite-day of the Emperor Nicholas. The French
St. Nicholas falls on the Nth. But of course the
Russian Ambassador adheres to the old style, which
still continues orthodox in Russian almanacks.

.....
Most of the principal churches in Paris are ad-
mirably heated by "caloriferes," such as St. Sulpice,
St. Roche. St. Germain l'Auxerrois, St. Eustacbe
(built during the regency of the Duke of Bedford).
La Madeleine, Notre Dame de Lorette, St. Vincent
tie Paul, AT. _

The Archbishop of Paris has granted a di,pensa-
lion to all the inl►nb:tants to allow them to eat meat
rot F►idaya. owing to the hardness and insalubrity
of the times."

The authors of the popular piece Les Cossaqates,
now nightly given at the Gaite, have had their play
richly hound in vellum and gold, to be sent as a
present to the Sultan.

DECEMBER 24, 1853.

FRANCE.

The first reception of the season took place on
Monday evening at the Tuileries. It was very
crowded, bin it was remarked that M. ale Kisseleil
HMI all the Russian's were absent.

The tidings of the battle at Sinope are stated to
have excited tierce indignation on the part of the
Emperor Napoleon. It is added that a pen:image of
distinction having mentioned to Louis Napoleon that
he had heard of the entry of the fleets, and WiSliett
to know if it was true—" Yes," the Emperor is said
to have answered, " 1 hope so, and if they have
entered you may rest assured that they shall not quit
it, except with the Russians from the principalities."
In announcing the resignation of Lord Palmerston
the Mouiteur remarks :-
- This incident ci it in any way Arr. we are assured,
the underitanding so happily established between the
ioveraments of England and France 'Oil the grand interests
which preoccupy Europe. It Will not excite surprise.
nevertheless, that our regrets Ahould accompany, on his
leaving the Cabinet, a man whip has so actively ono rebated
to bring ab4att that ciascert. and on silos.• sentiments the
Government of his Alajesh the
EinpiTiot has never ceased
to Anigratulute itself."
It Was reported in Paris on Wednesday that the
Russian Ambassador in Puri. Was on the point of de
mantling his passports. Such a step was, at all
events, considered highly probable, as soon as the
news was officially communicated to hint of the com-
bined fleets entering the Black Sea, if the Emperor
Nicholas still regards the entry of the fleets as tanta-
mount to a declaration of ear. M. de Kisselell has
already had his instructions.
MM. de Planhol, hlandiu, and Coetlogon, who had
been condemned by the Court of Appeal of Rouen in
August last, in the affair of the Foreign Correspon
deuce, and whose appeal to the Court of Cassation
was rejected, are to be shortly confined in the prison
of Ilieetre in Rotten, to undergo their penalty. M.
Virmaitre, the fourth person condemned, is now in
I'aris, eonfined to his bed for the last three months
by a serious illness.
Notice has been given that the houses comprised
between the Rue des Pottlies and the Place sin
Petals Royal, and those on the Place St. Germain
PAuxerrois, opposite the Louvre, are to be expro-
priated for public utility, and pulled down in April
next. This is the first part of a vast project of int-
pmvement which in its ensemble comprises more than
200 houses, suppresses fifteen streets, courts, and
passages, and the expense of which is estimated in
the plans at twenty-two millions of francs.