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THE PRESS.

MARCR 10, 1855.

°reign anb. Otoloniat clntelligette.

Gortschakoff in his place to the command in the
Crimea. General Liiders succeeds in the command
on the Danube and in Bessarabia. General Rudiger
obtains the Imperial Guards, and has been sum-
moned to St. Petersburg.
Accounts from Varna of the 4th report that the
Grand Duke Michael, brother of the new Emperor,
had been killed before Sebastopol. Another despatch
stated that he had only been severely wounded.
THE NEGOTIATIONS.
Prince Gortschakoff at Vienna is said to have re-
ceived from the Emperor Alexander full authorisation
to proceed with the conferences for peace. Lord J.
Russell was presented to the Emperor of Austria on
Tuesday, and held a prolonged audience on the fol
lowing day with his Majesty. According to letters
from Vienna of the 7th inst. the plenipotentiaries of
France, England, and Turkey, had held a meeting at
Count Buots, when the second point of the four guar-
antees was taken into consideration.

RUSSIA.
DEATH OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS.
Some details respecting the last illness and death
of the late Czar have transpired since our last im-
pression. According to these accounts the suspicions
that the event had been brought about by violent
means, which were at tiret entertained, were altoge-
ther groundless. A statement apparently derived
from official sources and published in Berlin gives the
following particulars :-
1 The Emperor, indisposed for several days, insisted, against
the recommendation of his medical advisers, in passing bis
Guards in review. He remained three hours exposed to
severs cold, and on returning home was attacked by fever
and forced to take to his bed. The physician at first con-
sidered the illness to proceed from a violent colic, but on
the 28th February inflammation attacked the chest. On
the morrow a raging fever declared itself. The extreme
weakness of the august invalid occasioned the greatest

FRANCE.
The Emperor Napoleon returned to Paris on Sun.
day evening from visiting the camps at St. Omer and
Boulogne. At the latter place on Saturday his
Majesty held a conference with Lord Clarendon, who
had come over from England specially to meet him,
and Lord Cowley arrived also from Paris to join them.
At this interview it is stated that a determination was
taken to prosecute the siege of Sebastopol with
enhanced vigour. In writing to Paris on Sattuslay,
the Emperor, alluding to the consequences of the
death of the Czar, is said to have used the expres-
sion, " rien n'est change."
The Moniteur de la Flotte states that from the
commencement of the siege of Sebastopol, up to the
17th ult.—upwards of a hundred days—the number
of French soldiers killed whilst employed in the siege
was only 454.
Prince Napoleon is reported to have indignantly
repudiated the authorship of the pamphlet on the
war which has been attributed to him. At the same
time he admitted that there were certain specific
facts which might have derived their authority from
letters or conversations of his. M. Giradin, to whom
the authorship had also been assigned, has forinaily
denied the accusation in the Prem. He adds that
the Government knows the name of the real author,
and expresses an opinion that it ought to be made
public.

alarm.
The Emperor perceived his condition in the evening, and
desired to be sustained as long as possible. Throughout
he displayed the greatest calm. The Crown Prince passed
the night by the aide of his father, On the 2nd March, at
four in the morning, the Emperor received the sacrament,
and expired at ten minutes past ten.
A despatch of the 7th from St. Petersburg received
in Vienna adds that the dissolution of the remains of
the Emperor was so rapid as to prevent the exhibition
of the body to the public.
Formal tokens of respect to the memory of the late
Czar have been paid by many continental Courts.
In Prussia the King and royal family pashased three
days in retirement, and the Court and army e been
ordered to wear mourning for a month. The Em
peror of Austria, in acknowledgment of the services
rendered by the Emperor Nicholas during a time of
unfortunate trial, has ordered that the Nicholas
Regiment of Cuirassiers shall always preserve that
name, as a lasting souvenir for the Austrian army.
In Paris the ball at the Tuileries appointed for Thurs-
day, the Bth inst., was postponed on account of the
death of the Czar. Our own Court has as yet shown
no recognition of the event.
The accession of Alexander, the eldest son of the
late Emperor, was accomplished with none of the
delay and difficulty that had been apprehended in
some quarters. He received homage on the 4th inst. AUSTRIA.
in St. Petersburg, taking the title of the Emperor The Empress of Austria was safely delivered of a
Alexander IL, and on the sixth the Grand Duke
princess on Monday last. The infant was baptised
Constantine solemnly took the oath of fidelity to his
on Tuesday, Lord John Russell being present at the
brother. The greatest enthusiasm was manifested at ceremony. In celebration of this event the Emperor
the moment of this solemnity. has granted an amnesty to a great number of persons
The new Emperor was born on the 29th April,
confined for political offences.
1818, and is consequently thirty-seven years of age.
He married, in 1841, a daughter of Louis 11., Grand
DENMARK.
Duke of Hesse. The Dibats gives the following ac- The King of Denmark has been confined to his
count of his character and re bed for a week by a severe cold, accompanied by a
education :
The new Sovereign of Russia was initiated at an early bad cough and slight fever.
age into the affairs of the empire by the Emperor, his The Volksthing has resolved tel impeach the late
father ;he was present at all the councils ;he was invested Ministers of War, Marine, and Finance.
with situations which gave him frequent opportunities of
SARDINIA.
rendering himself useful to the army and pleasing to the The Turin Chamber of Deputies adopted the
youth of the schools. Whenever the Emperor Nicholas Convent Suppression Bill on the 2nd inst., by 116
quitted the capital he left the supreme direction of the
votes against 36.
government to his son, and, in short, he had taken the
utmost pains to prepare him to become his successor. On Saturday last, the 3rd inst., the Western
The Grand Duke Alexander was very popular in Russia, Alliance Treaty was approved in the Senate by 83
being beloved and esteemed by the people. He will not votes against 27. The ratifications of the alliance
exercise the great authority of his father, for he does not were formally exchanged on the following day.
inherit either his hauteur or his inflexibility. He will rather SPAIN.
please as the Emperor Alexander I. did, by his mildness
and affability, and-hetween the uncle and the nephew there The Cortes voted the religious bases of the new
is a very great similarity of character in numerous ways. constitution on the 28th ult. It is as follows :
The new Empress is also highly spoken of, and her elevated The nation binds itself to maintain and protect the
judgment and her conciliating manners are much extolled. worship and ministers of the Catholic religion which
It is thought that she will exercise a salutary influence over Spaniards profess; but no Spaniard or foreigner shall be
the Emperor. persecuted for his opinions or belief, so long as he does
The reigning Empress of Russia, Maria Alexan- not manifest them by public acts contrary to religion.
drowns, daughter of the deceased Grand Duke Louis TURKEY.
IL of Hesse-Darmadst, and born in 1824, is said to From Constantinople on the 28th ult. we learn
be a woman of strong sense and character, of amiable that the Porte has received a Greek envoy, and a
qualities, and possessing much influence over her Turkish ambassador will shortly set out for Greece.
consort. They have five children—four sons and On the Ist inst. heavy shocks of earthquake were
one daughter. The present Cesarewitch and eldest felt at Constantinople, and a report was receivadthat
son, Nicholas Alexandrowitch, was born in 1843. Broussa had been almost entirely destroyed by the
On Thursday the first public manifesto of the new subterraneous convulsions, and 2,000 lives lost.
Emperor was issued to his subjects. le ummary of CUBA.
its contents has been received by graphic de- Advices from Cuba of the 15th ult. report the cute
spatch : break of serious disturbances. Proclamations had
After announcing the sudden and severe illness of the
been issued declaring the island in a state of siege,
Emperor Nicholas, which terminated in his death, it says and the ports under blockade, and ordering the en.
that, as the deceased devoted himself incessantly for the
welfare of his subjects, "sodo we also, on ascending the listment of all persons capable of bearing arms. Re-
throne of Russia, and of Poland and Finland, inseparable inforcements of troops from Porto Rico had been
from it, take a solemn oath before God to regard the welfare sent for, and militia companies were forming. It is
of cur empire as our only object. May Providence, which stated that the Captain-General Concha was well
has selected us for so high a calling, be our guide and pro- acquainted with the designs of the expeditionists,
lector, that we may maintain Russia on the highest elan- and had issued a proclamation commanding that no
dart of power and glory, and in our person accomplish the citiarter be shown them in case of capture.
incessant wishes and views of Peter, of Catherine, of Alex.
ander, and of our father. May the zeal of our subjects AUSTRALIA.
assist us therein. We invoke and command the oath of Advices have been received from Melbourne to the
allegiance to us and to the heir to the throne, our son sth of December, two days later than the last pub-
N icholas Aleundrowitch." lished. A sericus collision had taken place between
Before his death the Emperor Nicholas had re- the military and the diggers, with a lamentable loss
called Prince Menschikoff, and appointed Prince life. According to the latest accounts, however,