The Press.
London, England, 1854-10-14 00:00:00

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Two thousand French and all the English troops
in the Pirteus have been ordered to the Crimea.
Others from Marseilles replace them.

TURKEY.
By the treaty of commerce between France and
Turkey it is enacted that the tariffs on imports and
exports shall expire on the Ist of March, 1►855, pro-
vided that in the six months preceding the Govern-
ment of either country shall demand the revision of
them ; but in case no such demand shall be made
they are to remain in force for seven years longer.
The Chamber of Commerce of Paris calls on
merchants and traders to make known any objec-
tions they may entertain to the tariffs, in order that,
if necessary, they may be submitted to the Govern-
ment.
The committee appointed in Constantinople to
carry out the last hatti houmayoun is completed.
Prince Stirbey made his entry into Bucharest on
the sth inst. He was received with due solemnity
by his Excellency Lieut.-General Count Coronini and
his staff, as also by the Wallachian military and
civil authorities, and escorted to his palace, where
Austrian and Wallachian guards of honour were
drawn up.
A Vienna letter in Voss's Gazette of Berlin states
that on the sth the Turkish Ambassador at the Court
of Austria had a long conference with Count Buol
on the intended operations of the Turks against
Bessarabia, and received the most positive assurances
that no obstacle should be placed in the way of them
by Austria.
The running of the steam-boats between Braila and
Galatz reoommeuced on tho 20th of September,
after nearly a whole year's interruption.

RUSSIA.

A Russian report of the battle of the Alma was
issued by Prince Paskiewitsch at Warsaw on the 3rd
inst. It ran thus :
On September the 20th an encounter took place be-
tween our troops and those of the allies on the banks of
the Alma. Prince Menschikoff, realising his plan of cam-
paign, to engage onl in a combat with the dance guatd
of his army, and toy fall back on Sebastopoal,v has led the
troops under his orders to the neighbourhood of the for-
tress, and has there taken up a strong position. It was
thought that other combats would take place in a few days.
We have lost a thousand men, killed and wounded ; but the
enemy, having attacked us in our entrenchments, and un-
der the fire of all our batteries, must have successively ex-
perienced much greater losses.
UNITED STATES.
A conference of American Ambassadors is now
assembled on the Continent. Acting under the
directions of the President, the representatives of the
United States at the various European Courts are as-
sembled to exchange information, to consult, and to
report to their own Government on the state of
affairs on the Continent. Subsequently to the last
great European war American interests have been so
far developed that they may be regarded as the
creation of the intervening perioi. American trade
is now carried to every part of the world ; and the
conference has in view the due protection and ad-
vancement of those interests in any new arrange-
ment of treaties that may be made in Europe. Mr.
Buchanan left London on Saturday last, and has
already been met by the American Ministers from
Paris and from Madrid. Ostend is the place of
meeting, being neutral ground.
The latest New York dates are of the 30th ult.
Three thousand passengers arrived in that city
from Europe in a single day of last month. The
Irish and American riots at New Orleans have
again been renewed, and two men and a woman
killed.
During the last six months 25,110 persons havo
been arrested for criminal offences in New York, in-
cluding 11 for arson, 94 for assaults with intent to
kill, and 48 for murder.
Captain M'Seavy, of a vessol trading from Glasgow
to New York, passed a hull, which he supposed to be
the missing City of Glasgow steamer, on the 18th
ult. The wreck seen was of iron, and had had all
its woodwork burnt out.
A terrible storm commenced on the coast of Texas
on the 18th ult., and raged with terrific fury for four
days. An immense amount of property was destroyed,
and several vessels and many lives lost. The town of
Matagorda was totally destroyed, with the exception
of three houses. The crops, both of the canes and
the cotton, were nearly ruined.
CANADA.
The session of the Canadian Parliament opened
favourably to the new Conservative Ministers. The
Opposition were defeated by large majorities on
several questions connected with the address. On
the passage referring to the "adjustment" of the
clergy reserves an amendment was moved to sub-
stitute the word "secularisation ;" but the original para-
graph was carried by 70 votes against 33. The
Opposition then changed their tactics, and sought to
delay business by repeated motions of adjournment.
This attempt was battled by the persistency of the
Government members, who won six divisions on this
point, and fairly wearied out their opponents by pro-