The Press.
London, England, 1855-08-04 00:00:00

GERMANY.

Le Nord reports from Vienna that the Austrians
are buying greet bargains in wheat in the princi-
palities. The purchases are on a large scale, and
the price so low that it pays well to carry the grain
to Bohemia.

The late reduction of the Austrian army will not
restore the deficit of Austrian finance, which has
gone on augmenting as follows :

June, 1851 1 023,200,00)
Sept., 18M
March, 1862
Sept., 1862
March, 1854
July, 1854

Total 1 773,769,800

The Archduke Charles Louis is appointed Governor
of the Tyrol.
The Diet of Frankfort, in its sitting of the 28th
ult., decided on the question which had been pro-
posed by Austria in the sitting of the 19th. The
three points, such as they had been proposed by
Prussia, have been accepted by the Diet.

SWITZERLAND.
The Cantonal Court-martial at Berne was lately
called upon to try an anabaptist, who, being drawn
for the army, refused to serve on religious grounds.
The court sentenced him to exile so long as he should
persist in his refusal.
SPAIN.

The governors of provinces have claimed the
Church property confiscated by the new law. The
sales will soon commence.
Cholera has broken out in the garrison of
Barcelona. The regiment "El Principe" has greatly
suffered.

TURKEY.

The disorders committed by the Bashi-Bazouks at
the Dardanelles still continue, and more troops have
been sent down to restore tranquillity. Most of the
merchants of the Dardanelles have Bed to Gallipoli
and Rodosto, to escape persecution. The rebels had
pillaged several villages. The French consul bad
,)rganised a defence of the town, and 500 rebels had
submitted. General Beau on had proposed to send.
them to the Climes to act with the Syrian cavalry.
According to reports from Constantinople of the
20th ult., received in Vienna, General Beatson,has
been murdered by the Basiii•Bazouks.
The new Turkish Ambassador to Paris was ex-
pected to arrive in Marseilles to day (Saturday).
The telegraph to Adrianople will be open to the
public in a week or two.
The Debats announces the death of Prince Alex.
ander Ghika, formerly Hospodar of Wallachia.
The Viceroy of Egypt, Said Paella, loft Alexan-
dria on the 14th for Bagdad, with 12,000 men, to
put down the revolted Bedouins.

RUSSIA.

Accounts from St. Petersburg state that General
Prince Gortachakoff had published an order of the
day, thanking the inhabitants of New Russia and

Bessarabia for their patriotism, and announcing the
arrival in the Crimea of the 7th and 15th divisions
from Bender and Odessa.
A letter from Warsaw announces that the marriage
of the Grand Duke Nicholas, brother of the Emperor,
of Russia, to the Princess of Oldenburg, daughter
of Prince Peter of Oldenburg, has been positively
decided on, and will take place very shortly.
Letters from Kanaiesch state that a part of the
Russian guard had arrived at Sebastopol, as uniforms
of that corps were found on some of the persons
killed in the late conflicts.

AMERICA.
Mails from the United States have brought New
York news to the 18th ult..

The general accounts of the ciops are very cheer-
ing. Six persons were burnt to death at Buffalo on
the 18th. Several of the recruiting agents for the
Crimea have beet, arrested at Buffalo. The trial of
the British Consul at Cincinnati, for enlisting soldiers
for the Crimea, was proceeding ; and it seems the
Consul has been the victim of a paltry trick.
A steamship called the John Stevens was burnt at
Philadelphia on the 17th, and three lives were lost.
The Mexican advices in the New York papers re-
present Santa Anna as completely surrounded by
revolutionists.

INDIA AND CHINA.
The papers arid letters in advance of the Overland
Mail reached London on Thursday. Their contents
are not of much importance. The embassy to Ave
was attracting considerable attention at Calcutta, the
object of which was to convey to the King some
valuable presents from his Excellency the Governor-
General, among which were to be a carriage, •
buggy, and six beautiful Arab horses. The latter, it
was thought, would be highly prized, on Recount of
their novelty, none having been seen before in the
Burmese territory. Major Phayre was the commis-
sioner selected for the honour of presentation, who,
with a num,rous retinue, would leave Rangoon upon
his mission, in the steamer Zesobia, about the begin-
ing of J uly. I'egu was perfectly tranquil. Six out of the
seven murderers of Captain Madigan, of her Majesty's
84th Regiment, had been left for execution, the
remaining one having saved his life by turning
Queen's evidence. The Com m ander. in- Chief of India
had, it was said, applied to Government to permit
officers of the Indian army to volunteer for service
in the Crimea. It was also rumoured that it had
been decided to send a force from that country to co-
operate with our troops at the seat of war. The
Madras railway wis expected to be opened in a few
months. His Excellency the Governor-General woo
at Neilgherries, and it was believed would remain there
until October.

From China we learn that the Imperialists had
driven the insurgents entirely from Canton, having
previously captured a great number, whom they im-
mediately decapitated. At Shanghae all was quiet.
The rebeli had taken possession of one or two im-
portant towns in the north, but they had suffered
several defe►ts, which left the balance of victory in
favour of the Imperialists. Her Majesty's ship
Rattler had been busy among the pirates. On the
2sth of May a pirate fleet of six boats was destroyed,
five captured vessels released, about thirty pirates
killed, and four made prisoners by the boats.

MR. STOTiOR'S CABE was brought before the Mel-
bourne Legislative Council by the Colonial Secreuuy
on the 18th of April, when a motion was made for
the appointment of a select committee, to take into
consideration his claim for compensation. That gen-
tleman, pleaded the secretary, had been appointed
in England to a judgeship in the colony, and had
been put to considerable expense in taking his pas-
sage, but upon reaching their shores found that his
appointment had been cancelled before his arrival.
It was a hard case, inaeed, that he should have to
bear the whole of the expenses of the passage to the
colony, and of his detention in the colony, besides
the loss of the profits of his profession in England.
At all events, whatever might the issue of the motion,
it was due to Mr. Stonor that the question should b•
raised, and it was by his own desire that the matter
was submitted to the house for their opinion. The
motion was. however, negatived without a division,
Mr. Chapman being the principal speaker against it.
The Lon. member inquired—

Who had done the wrong? The Colonial office, no
doubt. Who then should pay Mr. Stoner the compensit-
tion ? Certainly the Colonial-office. The Colonial Minister
should go to the House of Commons, and there state that
he had made a mistake, Anil ask for a sum of money to
compensate Mr. Stonor, but to come there to seek it—to a
house not implicated in the appointment, and whicb had
done no wrong—was an absurdity. There had beeu three
wrongdoings in this cue—the wrong done in the appoint-
ment, and the wrong done to Mr. Stonor in his removal,
and there was the wrong done to the colony also. It might
be fairly proposed, as an intendment to the motion, that
this house apply to Mr. Stonor (or compensation doe to
injury done to the colony ; that course would he quite al
reasonable as for Mr. Stonor to apply to them for cow
pensatton.