The Press.
London, England, 1854-11-04 00:00:00

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His Royal Highness was born on the .20th of April,
1851.
Thecholera has made its appearance at Padau.

SPAIN.
The Madrid Gazette of the 20th contains a declara-
tion that a railway between Madrid and Lisbon would
be a work of great public utility, and nominates en-
gineers to make plans for the undertaking.
Queen Maria Christina is expected in Paris, or
realer at Malmaison, in two or three days. Her de-
parture from the Pyrenees was not a voluntary act .
There was, perhaps, no official order to remove front
the frontier, but it was intimated to her that that
removal would be viewed with pleasure by the
Spanishltiovernment, as, howevercarefully she might
abstain from intrigue and conspiracy, her partisans
and the other enemies of the Spanish Government
w furl be sure to make use her name. A complete
reconciliation has been established between her
Majesty and General Names.
RUSSIA.
Advises from St. Petersburg of the 25th ult. affirm
that Count Nesselrode had had a long interview with
the Emperor Nicholas, and at its close a measenget
was despatched to the Russian Ambassador at Berlin,
giving him instructions as to his conduct in endea-
vouring to settle the differences between Prussia and
Austria. It was said that the Czar was still resolved
to make no concessions, even if the Crimea should
be lost, and that he would continue to pursue the same
policy which he had hitherto done as it regards the
Eastern affair.
An imperial rescript has been issued appointing
Prince Menachikoff Commander-in• Chief of the land
and sea forces of the Crimea, as well as governor of
the peninsula. The ukase thus concludes :—" We
are fully convinced that, after this extension of your
rights and powers, you will completely justify the cons
fldence which we testify towards you.—Nicnous."
The anted Dukes Michael and Nicholas, the
youngest eons of the Emperor arrived at Odessa oa
the 15th ult. They were to proceed to Kisheasef4
Prince Gortschakoffs head quarters, in order to tap
active service in the army.
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THE PRINCIPALITIES.
The Hospodar of Moldavia, Prince Ghika, was
make his solemn entry into that capital on the 3
inst., being the anniversary of the day on which hi
quitted it last year.
According to accounts from Bucharest of the 30th
ult., published in the Moniteur, Sadyk Pacha having
marched on the Danube, Gortachakoff had ordered
the Russian troops which had not yet crossed the
crossed the Dneister to take up a position on the
Truth and the Danube. Achmet Pacha had received
orders fo join Sadyk Pasha with 10,000 men, at the
same time that Iskander Bey entered the Dobrudscha.
UNITED STATES.
The latest advice. from New York are of the 18th
ult., but contain no political intelligence of interest.
The mortality on board emigrant ships arriving at
New York was frightful. On the 12th of October the
packet-ship llarvezt Queen arrived from Liverpool,
and her report gives seventy-four deaths on the pas-
sage. On board a French vessel called the Piscatore,
which also arrived on the 12th from Havre, fifty
deaths ftom cholera (secured on the voyage.
A filibustering party at Louisville, numbering
15,000 persons, had been disbanded from lack of
means.
WEST INDIES.
The October mails from the West Indies, Mexico,
and Pacific, have arrived by the Atrato. They bring
no news of importance from any quarter. The
steamer brought home ninety-two passengers and
599,963 dollars in specie and freight.
THE CAPE.
Journals from the Cape have arrived by H.M.S.
Dee, which sailed from Simons Bay on August 80.
She left there the Hydra, Frolic, and Penguin. The
copper mines recently discovered in the interior were
progressing satisfactorily, and shares had consider-
ably risen in value. Several of the Kaffir tribes were
again uneasy, and robberies have been committed on
the frontier. The clipper-ship Flying Dragon, laden
with a valuable cargo from Ceylon bound to London,
was discovered to be on fire on the 81st July off
Simons Bay, and before she could be brought into
port she was totally destroyed.

According to a Genoa paper, the British troops at
Sebastopol have some heavy guns of a peculiar con-
trivance there for trial, invented by Lieutenant-
Colonel Cavalli, of the Sardinian army. These guns
were tried some months ago at the camp of San Man-
rizio, and were ascertained to have a range of 15,0011
yards, with a deviation of little more than three feet.
The projectile is of aconical form.
Mn. ltAmszy, the Inspector-General of the Post-
office Department, has been appointed Railway Ar-
bitrator to the Post.office Department. The office of
inspeetor-general is abolished.