The Press.
London, England, 1856-02-23 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANEA.

THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA iS about to grant an
amnesty, general and unconditional, to all Austrian
and Lombardo-Austrian refugees. Those who choose
to re-enter the country and reassume their rights of
citizenship will be put in possession of their property,
while those who prefer to renounce their nationality
are to be free to sell their property. In no case will
the properties of the refugees ire confiscated. It is
reported that similar concessions inay shortly be
hoped for fiom Rome and Naples.

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THE GRAND CHAPLAIN OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON
being desirous to inspect the ball-room at the
Tuileries, previous to the arrival of the company to
the masked ball on Shrove Monday, privately visited
the rooms at a very early hour in the evening. It is
related that while his reverence the Bishop of Nancy
was admiring the taste and elegance of the prepara-
tions, a solitary masquer art ived in the costume
which tradition ascribes to the Tempter of Men.
Approaching the Bishop, with a respectful salutation,
the devil observed, " Monseigneur, permit me to seize
this opportunity to effect a reconciliation."
THE ARCHBISHOP OF VIENNA was lately appealed to
by the Common Council of the city, to permit a
monument to the memory of Mozart to be erected in
one of the churches. His grace is reported to have
refused permission on the plea that he cannot
countenance the worship of genius, as it is nothing
more than a species of idolatry.
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THE first effect of the late Swedish treaty upon Russia
was, according to the Donau this week, in favour of
an immediate declaration of war again-4 King Oscar.
The question was submitted to the decision of the
council of war then sitting at St. Petersburg, but
General de Berg, the Governor of Finland, at once
put a stop to allidiscussion on the matter by declaring
that if war were pronounced he must have 60,000
more men to keep the Finlanders in order.
THE KING OF NAP .E 3 lately performed an act of
singular condescension towards the British Minister.
An English seaman, in a street row, had killed a
Sicilian with a single blow. The seaman was tried
and condemned to thirteen years' imprisonment in
irons. Sir William Temple applied to M. Cassini,
the Minister for Foreign Affairs, for his intervention.
M. Cassini referred the matter to the King, who at
once granted a free pardon.
THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON loses no opportunity of
marking his appreciation of the services of his sol-
diers. At a review of the Chasseurs of the Garde,
last Friday, observing two men in the last platoon
who had been wounded and were not decorated, he
called them to him to interrogate them on the sub-
ject, and sending an aide-de-camp into the palace for
two military medals, the Emperor himself attached
them to the breasts of the soldiers, amid loud cries
of " \lye l'Empereur."
THE REV. DR. OLDHAM, of Oxford, on the first day
of Lent, in the church of Jesu, Rome, publicly ab-
jured Protestautism in favour of Roman Catholicism.
The conversion of this rev. gentleman has created a
great sensation among the English residents at

HERR HEINE, one of the cleverest of German
writers, the author of the well-known " Letters on
Paris," died, aged 47, this week at Paris, after an
illness of eight years.

THE Stmies has decreed that in remembrance of
the coursge and perseverance displayed by the inha-
bitants of Silistria in 1834, they shall not be liable
for three years to any taxes, nor to furnish recruits
to the army. The surviving wounded are to receive
a money indemnity, and all who took part in the
defence a military medal.