The Press.
London, England, 1855-09-08 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Rumours of new negotiations are current in Austria
and Prussia. The Lithographed Correspondence of
Vienna says that the news of a Russian circular des-
patch of a very conciliatory nature is entirely con-
firmed. The Silesian Gazette of the 30th ult. affirms
that Austria's answer to the Russian circular bad
been sent to St. Petersburg on that very day, and
adds :—" We are assured that Prussia has come to

a complete understanding with Austria with regard to
future proposals for peace." The Nord of Brussels
says :

If we may interpret in a pacific sense the returning
activity of diplomatists, all hope of an arrangement is not
lost. M. de Bonrqueney and Prince Gortschakoff passed
the whole morning of the 30th ult. together in conference
with Count lino! at Vienna. The Vienna Cabinet has al-
ready replied to the last circular of Count Nesselrode, the
existence of which is now out of doubt. The communica-
tions which take place between Austria and Prussia give
reason to believe that the German powers will end by
agreeing upon a political programme, which they will be
able to oppose to the belligerent parties who may be
tempted to extend the war beyond the object for which it
was ostensibly undertaken.

The Emperor of Austria has left his summer resi-
dence of Laxenburg for Ischl. He has gone by way of
Upper Styria, and the Empress, who, it is under.
stood, is again enciente, was to leave Vienna during
the current week for Lintz by steamer, and thence
proceed to Ischl, where the Imperial Family will re-
main till the end of this month.

The King of Prussia, it is well known, has long
suffered from ill health. His disease is said to be
dropsy in the chest, and is slowly gaining ground.
A letter from Berlin, of the Ist, in the Debats
says :

The marriage of the Prince Regent of Baden with the
only daughter of the Prince of Prussia is now considered
as a thing decided on. It is stated that before his mar-
riage the Prince Regent will be invested with all the rights
of his elder brother, who continues ill, and will also take
the title of Grand Duke of Baden.

The negotiations which have been going on for years
past at Rome for the purchase of the Caffarelli Palace for
the Prussian Legation have just been concluded. It is
intended to construct in this building a chapel for tbs
use of the Protestants sojourning at Rome.
The Prussian cloth manufacturers of the province of
Saxony have lately received extensive orders on account of
the Ottoman Government.
SWEDEN.

The resignation of the Stadtholder Loewenskaeld
is accepted, but he holds office until spring, when the
Crown Prince becomes Viceroy of the kingdom of
Norway.

SPAIN.

The Madrid Gazette of the 30th ult. publishes a
decree on the subject of reforms introduced in the
organisation of the bureaux of the Ministry of
Finance. The sale of the national property con-
tinues. There are a number of purchasers, and good
prices are obtained.
The brigade of General O'Donnell has taken up
a position at Medina Celi, to prevent any Carlist
movement.

THE PRESS.

NAPLES.

The discontent and distractions of the kingdom of
the Two Sicilies are now acquiring a great deal of
public interest, the more so, as several great Euro-
pean countries seem likely to take part in the ques•
tion, and are most certainly not over-peacefully dis-
posed towards King Bombe. The Neapolitan forces
consist of 88 battalions of infantry, 36 squadrons of
cavalry, 17 batteries, and 43 ships of war, of which
29 are large steamers. This would make a total of
nearly 80,000 men.
The Government of the Two Sicilies has to
apologise for another deliberate offence directed
tower& France. On the occasion of the Fete Na-
poleon, a French frigate saluted the port of Messina,
but the salute was not returned. Such is a national
insult. The captain of the vessel immediately tele-
graphed the fact to Paris, and a correspondence is
believed to be now taking place on the subject.
Another state trial is getting up in Naples. A
person called Pierro brought an accusation of con-
spiracy against some advocates and others who were
in the habit of meeting in a café near the Toledo.
One of these, on being arrested, had in his house a
list of the names of persons to whom he was sending
tickets for a performance at the Olympic Circus. All
who were named in the list were imprisoned. In the
houses of some even the wainscoting was removed,
and the tiles taken up from the ground. The sbirri
pretended that they bad found in the hat of one of
them, the advocate Mignogna, a copy of an insurrec-
tionist proclamation; but as he maintained his inno-
cence, he was repeatedly beaten, with a view to extort
confession. The same thing happened to the
advocate Bascone, who, after twenty blows, had a
seizure resembling apoplexy, and he was bled on the
instant in order to save his life. The process is
being prepared by the Attorney-General of the Grand
Criminal Court of Naples, and a faithful agent of
the infamous sbirro Campagna has been appointed
the chancellor in this cause. At the same time some
of the Scalzi (barefooted) Augustin fathers were
imprisoned, and a young student who lived in their
monastery near the Museo Borbonico. It is asserted
that this young man was " fisticuffed, slapped, and
even bitten by the Commissary of Police," who was
in a fury. That which is of more importance, not
only were not the fathers respected, but Monsieur
Pizarro, who is here to arrange the difficulties
between the Papal and Neapolitan Governments, met
with insulting treatment. He is living in that mo-
nastery, and his rooms, in spite of a strong protest,
were minutely examined. It is said that he has
made a grave complaint.

111111..