The Press.
London, England, 1854-12-23 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

better assure to them the sympathies and concurrence of
all civilised nations, nor more speedily effect the tinal
triumph of the sacred cause they defend.
The section of the Imperial Guard about to be
detached for service in the Crimea will form the
neucleus of a distinct corps on the field, to be
augmented successively by soldiers taken from the
army under General Canrobert, who have roost dis-
tinguished themselves during the present operations.
It will be commanded by a general cheer.
The Emperor has granted from his private purse
a pension of o,ooof. a year to Madame Marrast,
widow of Armand Marrast, the Republican President
of the Constituent Assembly. His Mikjesty accom-
panied the grant with a letter stating that he enter-
tained a great esteem for her late husband. M.
Achille Marrast, his brother, has lately obtained a
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Emperor has also from his privy purse doubled the
pension of 20,0(l0f. granted to the widow of Marshal
de St. Arnaud.
It is stated on good authority that a new loan, to
be raised by national subscription, is shortly to be
Issued. The amount of the loan is said to be S(K)
millions of francs. A bill on the subject has been
laid before the Council of State, and will be sub-
mitted to the Legislative Corps immediately after its
meeting.
GERMANY.
The Austrian, English, and French envoys sepa
rately presented to Baron Manteutfel, at Berlin, on
Saturday, the ratified treaty of the 2nd December,
with iarate nt - inviting the adhesion of Prussia

sept .totes,
thereto.
Herr von Usedom, lately Prussian Minister at
Rome, left Berlin on Tuesday, on a special mission
to London, to sound the English Cabinet with
reference to Prussia's joining the treaty of Decem-
ber 2nd.
In the Berlin Second Chamber on Wednesday it
was unanimously resolved to throw open the Prus-
sian coasting trade to English vessels.
A Vienna despatch of Tuesday states that" Prussia
desires to avoid acceding to the treaty of the 2nd
inst., by endeavouring to conclude a special treaty
with France."
The Cologne Gazette gives the following letter from
Vienna, dated the 15th :
Prime Gortachakoff has declared plainly that his mis-
sion as ambassador at this Court is terminated, and that
for the future he would only act as mediator. It is not
easy to see how Russia can act as mediatrix, when in reality
she Is one of the belligerent parties, and when she has to
decide whether she will accept or not the conditions pro-
posed to her.
The Emperor of Austria has nominated the Em- ,
peror Napoleon Grand Cross of the Order of St.
Stephen. It is affirmed that his Austrian Majesty
has ceased to wear any Russian decoration—an
example which will be followed by the whole army
and Court.
The Vienna Lloyd has been suddenly and peremp-
torily suspended on account of an article published
in its number of the 10th, in which the last note of
Count Nesselrode to Baron de Budberg was com-
mented on with considerable warmth.
Advises from Munich of the 15th announce that
King Louis of Bavaria had been seized with an
apoplectic tit at Darmstadt. Later advices state that
the condition of his Majesty was improving.
DENMARK.
The Danish Parliament was opened on Monday,
the Prime Minister reading the Royal Message. On
the following day the Ministry published the pro-
gramme of their policy.
SAXE COBI7RG.
At the sitting of the Saxe Coburg Gotha Par-
liament on the 7th instant, under the presidency of
Count Chancellor Becher, besides the proposition of
various alterations which concern the constitution of
the State and the royal household, other propositions
of importance proceeded from the Government. It
demanded a credit of 100,000 thalers for the mobili-
sation of the contingent, and also 56,000 thalers for
furnishing more effective fire and side arms. The
Government has already caused its army estimates to
be prepared, and will account for the amount de-
manded with the Parliament. These propositions of
the Government were to be considered in the whole
house at its ricxt sitting.
Sl'AlN.
M. Collado, the Minister of Finance, has renewed
the tender of his resignation, iu consequence of the
opposition which his financial measures have met
with in the Cortes.
Queen Isabella 11. (says the Madrid correspondent
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of La Prow) presents the Pope with a magnificent however, infinitely against their . ___
tiara worth 200,000 francs, in honour of his decision stance, as Baden, Nassau, Homburg, and _
respecting the Immaculate Conception. The tiara is Hesse—will eventually comply, and that the
now exposed to public view at Madrid. tractors for the grand and gilded hells will not re-
RUSSIA. ceive renewals of their existing leases.
A private letter from St. Petersburg, dated Deeem- CONSIDERABLE purchases of sheepskins for the
ber k, states that from the moment when the news of troops in the Crimea have been made in the different
the battle of Inkermann arrived, the Empress's provinces of Prussia, especially in Silesia. Orders
health became worse. It is said that Prince Men- have been given in Berlin for the mainfacturs of
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