The Press.
London, England, 1853-10-29 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

" God our Lord has spoken to us in these last times by
means of his only begotten Ron. after having done so in
old times in many and divent manner% by the Prophets.
The !Whited of the Nat* , tiert and true Man, couvemed
with men, and formed His Church. He placed in it, as
His vicar. the most High Pontiff, centre of unity, rector,
doctor, and universal master. Whoever its not with Him
is not in the Church; and whoever has not the ('hutch
for mother, has not tier( for father. Without necessity of
prolix explanations, what is a Protestant ? An 'inform.
nate, spurious. without faith, without father or mother, and
consequently without God, k deAgruleidthi. as esparee, site
Sr sea padre, al ,sajrr, y de rosoigttenfe sift lines),"
As for allowing any reliti a eeremonies to be per-
formed at Protestant funerals, the writer says :
" Ales for the day in which there should be seen among
us a religious act of these discredited sects ! We trust, in
the pnaedion of Heaven, and in the enlightened piety of
her Majesty's Government, that this will never happen in
the classic soil of Catholicity."
The ('lamer observes that the bishop has a very
poor idea of Catholicism when he fears that the per-
formance of a single religi act by another sect
would cause its abandonment and the ruin of its
votaries. It was feared that this pastoral might
hamper the Government on the cemetery question.
The Bishop of Barcelona, Don Domingo costa, of
Borras, was a partisan of lion Carlos during the
civil war.

GREECE.

The Ministers of iinanee and War were dismissed
on the plot inst. The free introduction of corn has
been determined upon. A loan of five million
drachmas has been proposed.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY

Namik Pmhaha; been despatched by the Forte
to Paris and London, as Extraordinary commis_
sioner, to contract a loan for 4,000,000/. sterling.
The answer of Prince Gortschakotr to Outer Paella
has been considered as a refusal, and orders have
been sent to the Turkish General to commence boa
A despatch from Bucharest, of the 15th of October,
announces that the Turks had already occupied an
island in the Danube, near Widdin. The army of
timer l'acha is represented as full of enthusiasm.
The combined fleets entered the Dardanelles on
the 19th, but were not to proceed to Constantinople.
For the present they remain at the island of Marmora,
about fifty geographical miles from the Golden Born.
An important change has taken place in the
Turkish Ministry. The celebrated Muossa Safetti
l'acha has been named Minister of Finance, and
his predecessor, Mouktar Bey, member of the Brand
Council.
The dervishes of Constantino!)le have unfurled
their flag for recruits among their own body at the
Turkish quarter called Sarrateh lime. They num-
ber about non in all, and will proceed to Schtunla.
The flag of the Softas, it is said, will be unfurled
after the 15th of the moon. They will number,
however, upwards of twenty thousand.
The exportation of corn is forbidden by procla-
mation at Constantinople.
It is stated that the monk Anthems, the new
Greek patriarch at Constantinople, in a circular
addressed to his coreligionistm, on taking possession
of his post, declared himself very energetically
against the rights which the Czar pretends to claim
in the name of the Greeks.

The term fixed by Omer Podia for the with-
drawal of the Russians from the principalities was to
expire on the '.4th. According to the best estimates
of the force with which each party enters upon a
state of war, Russia has about 1811,11110 men in the
Danubian provinces, the centre of operations of this
army. Prince Wor►nzotf, who commands in the
Caucasus, has demanded reinforcements, and his
army is to be raised to 2110,0110, Scarcely the half
of this force can be employed against the Turkish
anny, as Caucasus will be like an immense chain of
fortresses in the rear of the Russians. On the side
of the Turks the regular army amounts, according
to the declarations of the Minister of War, Mehemet
All paelka, to 217,n0ti men, without counting the
irregular corps and the volunteers. These troops
altogether are estimated to amount to :11111,11011 men,
and the new levies to 2INyMNt. Omer Paella at pre-
sent commands 111yNMI men, distributed on three
lines—the I bumbe, the line from Varna t►► Chomula,
anal a third line which guards all the passages of the
Balkans, and closes the road to Constantinople.
On his side Alsli Pacha has under his orders :►II,INN)
regular troops, and 00,1ssi irregulars, who are en-
camped on the banks of the Black Sea in Asia.
Otner Paclia has addressed a proclamation to the
inhabitants of Mohlo-Wallachia, informing them that,
in case the ottoman army should enter the princi-
palities, they would have to apprehend no harm.
The Paella is said to be preparing to cross the
Danube, near Ibraila and Widdin. Bridges have
been constructed to the islands nearly opposite those
places which Turkish corps already occupy.
Letters from Bucharest state that the benediction
of the colours, usual in the Russian army before a
battle, took place on the lUth. The hospital* were
full of sick *Mien.

The Russian generals have left Bucharest, and
proceeded to the head-quarters of their corps.
Prince Gotischakoff alone remains there. lie has
received instructions as to the course he is to pursue
in case of war. The Russian troops in the vicinity
of Bucharest muster to the strength of MOM.
Strong reinforcements of cavalry had entered Walla-
chia. Prince tiortsehakoff passes all his time with
the troops, and has several times ordered the alarm
to lie sounded to convince himself of the alacrity of
the troops.

UNITED ST AT ES.
The last aeCtinnts from New York, dated to the
11tIt inst., bring no politieal news.
The new Minister to France, the lion. John T.
Mason, purposed leaving New York upon his mission
on the 19th, in the llwasduldt► for Havre.
The Irdskington .Slur %totes that tiovernment has
received advice% of serious troubles in the Cherokee
nation. A portion of the nation was in arms against
the authorities, and had murdered two of Roos's
pally.
It is stated that the director's of the New York
Crystal Palaee have received official notice from the
principal of the household of the Emperor of
France that the tiobelitt tapestries on exhibition at
the Palace should he returned forthwith, being
required for the decoration of one of the impend
palace's.
A despatch from Boston announces the death of
!lamellas Bates, the great advocate of the cheap
rootage systivin. Ile was formerly assistant pewit-
toaster of New York.
The widow of Professor Wel►ster, who wan executed
in New York about a year ago for murder, died tm
the 10th inst. _ _

The schooner Oneida was run down by &steamer
on Lake Erie, on the night of the and the cap-
tain and three of his men were drowned. I.ouls
Wakelee, the only surviving member of the crew.
clung to the wreck, during a terrific gale, for a period
of twenty hours, and when taken ott waa completely
exhausted. _ _ _

~t►ver ItM► buildings were burned in Buffalo on the
sth. They were mostly frames erected upon the
ground recently burned over by the great fire, cover-
ing an area of four or rive acres.

AUSTRALIA.
The Argo reached Plymouth on Thursday, after a
run of only sixty-four days from fortl'hil ip. She
belongs to the lieneral Merew Steam-ship Company,
is the first passenger-ship that has made the passage
home rid Cape Horn, and has accomplished the
quickest voyage ever known either to or from Aus-
tralia. Her average rate was 240 miles per diem.
The Argo brings 140,000 ounces of gold on freight,
and an immense quantity is brought home by the
passengers, who number eighty-six, and among them
Is tieneral Wynyanl and staff, from Melbourne.
A person named Harrison, a native of Yarmouth,
who left England in July, 11+52, a poor man, has re
turned in the Argo in possession of 3,000 ounces of
gold.
Two new and productive gold-fields have been dig-
covered,---one on Jones's Creek, the other at
tionl-
burn, to the eastward of Mount Alexander. The
yield is described as most wonderful.
A Melbourne paper says :—" The Anglo Australian
hanks have been in the habit of getting blank forms
of their notes from England. The ship Strathedeit
brought out a case of these notes for the Union
bank on the 24th of June last, which was stolen
from the wharf. lln the Ist of July two of the notes
fin. 1111. ea.+ were passed in Melbonnw. Of course
they were not regularly signed, and the person who
passed them was apprehended. Int the 4th July
another of the note% for MN. was parsed by a ra"
who aUended a dinner to celebrate American Ede.
pendence in Melbourne. An American gentleman
gave immediate notice to the police, and the passer
of this note was also apprehended; and he gave
such information that a great portion of the stolen
notes were recovered. The value of the notes stolen
was aIsoutIIIIMNOII/., and about itloNlll/. worth have
been recovered."