The Press.
London, England, 1855-07-07 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Cortes has approved of the decree which
fixes the army reserve at 00,000 men, forming 80
battalions.

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Marshal Espartero is completely re-established.

TURKEY.
Accounts from Constantinople of the 25th ult. say
that 2,000 wounded had arrived there.
Captain Lyons had been buried with all the
honours.

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A great fire had destroyed 3,000 houses at Con-
stantinople.
Abd el-Kader had returned to Broussa.

AUSTRALIA.

The Royal mail-ship Lightning has arrived from
Melbourne with mails, 260 passengers, and 69,060
ounces of gold. A nugget weighing 851b5., found at
the Forest Creek diggings, was also on board. She
left Melbourne on the 11th of April.

The commission appointed to inquire into the
grievances existing on the gold-fields have published
their report. They advise the abolition of the license
fee, and the substitution of an export duty.
The receipts of gold by escort at Melbourne for the
quarter ending March 31 show a decrease of 5,785
ounces when compared with the corresponding period
of 1854. The shipments from Melbourne for the
same time were 119,372 less than in 1854. _ _

Several new and apparently produc ive gold mines
have been discovered near Melbourne and Geelong

respectively.
A magnificent mass of pure gold, weighing 841b5.,
from Castlemaine, and one of 40lbs. from Ballarat,
bad arrived at Melbourne by escort.
Trade at Melbourne was improving. Gold was
in increased demand, and quoted N. 16s. 6d. per
ounce.

In the labour-market the demand for agricultural
servants was on the increase, and wages had conse-
quently an upward tendency.

PRINCE ALBERT, OR Tuesday last, presided at the
inauguration ceremony of the new buildings at
Earlswood, near Reigate, intended as an iasylum for
idiots. The new structure will accommodate about
400 children, and has been built at a cost of about
35,000/. Atter the ceremony of inauguration had
been gone through, the Rev. Mr. Champney read an
address to his Royal Highness, thanking him for
the interest he had shown in the asylum. The pro-
ceedings were closed by a dijeuner, given by the
vice• presidents.
THE BANK OF ENGLAND and the London and County
Bank are each about to open a branch establishment
at the West-end of London. The latter will also open
a branch in Southwark.

A REPORT upon the present condition and progress
of the new Westminster bridge has been presented
by Mr. Page, the engineer, to Parliament en Tuesday
He details the progress made since July last, and
thinks the new bridge will be completed about
December, 1857, or before Midsummer, 1858. Mr.
Page adds that, from constant observations, he finds
the old bridge undisturbed in its position.
MR. RICHARD M. LYNCH, late poor-law inspector in
Ireland, will be the new Commissioner of Income
Tax, in the room of Mr. Godley, appointed director-
general of stores in the War Department. By this
appointment 3001. a year will be saved to the public,
that being the compensatory allowance awarded to
Mr. Lynch upon the occasion of ae late reduction of
the Irish poor-law establishment.
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THE report that Rear-Admiral Berkeley was about
to leave the Admiralty and retire into private life is
premature. It appears that the gallant officer's
exertions have rendered it indispensably necessary
that he should seek some relaxation in the country
for the benefit of his health.

JULY 7, 1855.

Court anb lastrion.

The King of the Belgians arrived in England on
Tuesday, and proceeded by special train from Dover
to Buckingham Palace, where his Majesty remains on
a visit to the Queen. He is accompanied by the
Princess Charlotte of Belgium and the Count de
Flandres.

It is understood that her Majesty and the Court
will leave London on Friday next for the Isle of
Wight.
The Earl of Derby had an audience of the Queen
on Thursday, at Buckingham Palace, to present an
address from the University of Oxford.

The Preue of Vienna mentions a rumour to the
effect that Lord Westmorland is likely not to return
to Vienna, and that the Hon. Mr. Elliott, a near rela-
tive by marriage of Lord John Russell, is to suc
teed him.

His Excellency the Count de Persigny, Ambas-
sador of France at the Court of St. James's,
accompanied by the Countess de Persigny and a nu-
merous suite, landed at Dover on Thursday. Their
Excellencies arrived at Albert-gate-house early in
the afternoon.

A matrimonial alliance will shortly take place
between the Lord Muncaster and the Lady Jane
Grosvenor, daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness
of Westminster.

The Princess Pauline of Wurtemburg, who died
lately at 'Vienna, has bequeathed the whole of her
large fortune to her nephew, Prince Richard de
Metternich, now secretary to the Austrian Legation
in Paris.