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THE PRE S S, OCTOBER 16, 1858.

which perhaps they may be hardly justified in
addressing to official persons. Unskilled in
the business and duties of the Executive,
they may sometimes ask questions which
those of whom they ask them may fairly
meet by curt, and merely formal, answers.
But all this is the mere by-play of the part which
they are acting. The task which they have set
themselves is to create an interest, in the public
mind of the great manufacturing towns, in
foreign affairs. They believe, and surely their
belief is a true one, that the internal prosperity
of this great nation is deeply affected by
the management, or the mismanagement,
of our external relations ; that every man
throughout the country is affected more or
less by the expenditure occasioned by expen-
sive wars, carried on at a distance, on un-
justifiable pretences, and for the attainment of
very doubtful advantages. They believe that
each individual subject of the Queen ought
to feel interested in England being the nation to
stand forth as the doer of justice, and the up-
holder of international law ; and they know too
well, and they desire to impart the knowledge to
others, that, under the guidance of Lord PAL-
MERSTON, England lost her fair fame, and appeared
before the world as a nation, defiant of law, blus-
tering to the weak, and truckling to the strong.

Such is the character, such the objects of
"The Committees of Foreign Affairs." Had they
not been composed of working men, and had they
not afforded evidence of what working men are
capable of, we perhaps should not have thought
it necessary to give our readers this insight into
their organization and objects.

REFORM.
TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS."

Sir,—At this season of the year, not only does
pheasact shooting begin, but political " canards '
are rife. That portion of the press which querulously
supports opposition to her Majesty's Ministers has
always, towards the second week in October, the
best possible reason for knowing that disagreement
exists in the Cabinet. This year Lord Derby is in
consultation with Lord John Russell on the Reform
"looming in the future " ; and, doubtless, Mr.
Spencer Walpole's visit to Ireland is to obtain a
clearer insight into Mr. Smith O'Brien's views of
home government. In the meantime, the leading
supporters of Lord Palmerston's fallen dynasty—
which year after year promised, and year after year
shelved, Reform—are using their hest endeavours to
persuade their constituents and would-be constituents
how impossible it will be for a Conservative Govern
ment to bring forward a measure of Reform which
shall be satisfactory to the country. For myself, sir,
I agree with the Prime Minister that there is no
general, I might say there is not even a par-
tial, "cry " on the subject ; and, but for the Whig
servants of the Crown having found it convenient to
deceive their Radical supporters by making their
Royal Mistress promise a Reform Bill so often and
so long, there are many subjects of foreign and do-
mestic policy much more pressing on the attention of
the Legislature. But, as I believe there is no one
measure which the Whigs so little wish to see brought
forward, so do I believe that the present Government
will be able to remedy the anomalies of the Whig
Reform Act of 1832, to set right the specious inequal-
ities of the boundaries and divisions of boroughs and
counties, founded on the impartiai reports of the
Whig-ridden boundary commissioners of that day,
and also to extend the franchise in such a direction
as shall alike add weight and numbers to the classes
represented in the Lower House of Parliament.
Without presuming to anticipate what the coming
measure is likely to be, I shall have no difficulty, in a
future number, in showing how a Conservative
Administration can accomplish the objects I have
alluded to, and even without the aid of that Nestor
of Reform, Lord John Russell. C. L.

THE RIGHT HON. J. W. HENLEY, M.P., President
of the Board of Trade, is to be presented with a
memorial of his long and valuable sevices as a county
magistrate and chairman of the Oxfordshire Quarter
Sessions, a movement having been set on foot by
some of his constituents to obtain subscriptions for a
portrait of the right hon. gentleman to be placed in
the County•hall.
Mn. JAMES MURRAY, of the Foreign office, has been
appointed Assistant Uoder•Secretary for Foreign
Affairs. There:have been only two Under• Secretaries
since August, 1827, when on the resignation of the
Marquis of Clanticarde the third under•secretaryship
was not filled up.

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PRUSSIA.
THE REGENCY.
The Prussinn Moniteur publishes the following
decrees:-
I.—TO lIIN ROYAL. HIGHNESS TILE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA.
In replacing we in the direction of the affairs of the
Government during the year which has elapsed since the
commencement of my illness, your Royal Highness has
given me a great consolation, for which I return you ni%
heartfelt thanks. Now that I am, by God's will, still
prevented by the state of my health from devoting myself
to the cares of government, and as the physicians have ad.
vised me to make a journey during the winter in a southern
climate, I invite yuu, in consideration or the continued
hindrance of governing, myself, to exercise the royal power
in my name as Regent, according to the inspirations of
your conscience, and being responsible only to God, until
the moment I shall be again able myself to fulfil the duties
of my royal functions, and heg of you to take the necessary
measures to thut effect. I reserve to myself to make
ulterior arrangements respecting those affairs of my royal
house which concern my person.
Saus•Souci, 7th Oct., 1858.

(Signed) FREDERICK WILLIAM.
(Countersigned) VON MANTEUFTEL.
VON DER HEYDT.
VON BODELSCITMINOII.
VON FLOTTWELL.
VON MANTEUFFEL
lI.—TO TILE MINISTRY OF STATE.

According to the tenor of the royal decree annexed,
under date of the 7th inst., his Majesty the King is pre.
vented in a permanent manner, by the illness which it has
pleased God to afflict him with, from devoting himself
personally to the affairs of the Government; consequently
his Majesty has addressed to me an invitation to assume
the Regency.
Consequently, upon his Majesty's invitation, and in
virtue of the kith Article of the Constitution of the 9lst
January, 1850, I will assume, in my quality as nearest
Agnate to the Throne, the regency of the kingdom, and
direct the government in the name of the King until the
day when his Majesty shall again be in a state to exercise
the royal power himself.
Conformably to the terms of the 50th Article of the
Constitution of the :31st January, 1850, I have convoked,
by the annexed ordinance, the two Chambers of the Diet
of the Monarchy for the 20th of this month, and I charge
the Ministry of State to bring this ordinance to the
knowledge of the public through the official Gazelle, as
also the royal decree and this present order.
Berlin, 9th Oct.
(Signed) WILLIAM, Prince of Prussia, Regent.
(Countersigned) VON MANTEUFZEL.
VON DER HETDT.
VON lIODELSCHWINOR. •
VON FLOTTWELL.
VON MANTEUFFEL 11.

Hitherto the Prince of Prussia has not received
any special allowance as locum tenons for the King,
whose functions lie performed for a year ; it natu.
rally becomes necessary for a provision to be made
for the necessities of his new position without levying
a tax OD the country. A rent of 2,300,000 dots.,
guaranteed on the produce of the Crown domains,
forms the dotaticn of the Crown. Now the domains,
which were formerly the patrimonial property of the
Royal Family, bring it much larger returns, so that
the surplus will suffice to provide for the new
Regency. It is not probable, however, that the
question will be brought forward in the extraordinary
session of the Chambers convoked for the 20th inst.,
and which will bo solely occupied with giving the
constitutional sanction to the new order of things.

TUE ROYAL VISIT TO RUSSIA.
The officers who accompanied the Prince of Prussia
in his recent visit to Warsaw have all received deco-
rations from the Emperor of Russia.

SPAIN.
THE CARLISTS.
The Carlist party appears to be taking advantage
of the preparations for the Congressional elections
to endeavour to excite an interest in favour of the
pretensions of the Conde Montemolino, but the
Government is fully on its guard.

ROME.
THE ABDUCTION OF ?HE JEWISH CHILD.
The Brussels Independance states that the French
Government has addressed a note to the Holy See,
couched in very moderate and cautious terms, in
which it calls upon that power to consider the moral
consequences it entails upon itself by approving of
the violent outrage committed by the tan:Uttar.; Of
the Holy Office in carrying oa the Jewish child at
Bologna.
INDIA.
DEFEAT OF THE REBELS.
A telegram received at the Foreign office states
that the Bombay mail has arrived at Suez, with
dates to 24th September. The two native regiments,
the 62nd and 09th, who mutinied at Mooltan, have
been nearly eAterminated. Tontia Topee, while
moving towards Bhopal, was met by the Mhow field
force under General Michel, and totally defeated,
with trifling loss on our part. The Calcutta Engluh-
man, however, says the ensuing cold weather will no
doubt see the end of the mutineers.

JUNG BAHADOOR.
A very unpleasant quarrel with Jung Babadoor
has just terminated. It arose apparently in this
way:—About two years ago Jung, in a fit of dignity,
made his brother, Deem ahadoor, Premier, retain-
ing only the command of B
the forces. He wished to
be regarded as something higher than a mere
Minister. As he retained all substantive power, he
perpetually interfered, and at last grew seriously
angry because Colonel Ramsay, the Resident, accord.
ing to the precedents of seventy years, looked to the
Chief of the Durbar for replies. Instead, however,
of frankly expressing his dislike, Jung, when at
Allahabad, suddenly produced a list of some
thirty charges aga:nst Colonel Ramsay, the least
trifling of which was that the colonel did not vene-
rate the Hindoo religion enough. The Governor-
General, perhaps taken by surprise, ordered words
to be said which meant, or which Jung understood
to mean, that the Resident should be recalled. Col.
Ramsay was accorlingly recalled to Allahabad to
answer for his conduct, and Jung returned to his
hills, boasting loudly that he had done what no
Indian prince had ever succeeded in doing. Col.
Ramsay, on his arrival, explained the charges so
completely that there was no alternative but to re-
store him, and he was ac.iordingly sent back. On his
arrival at Patna, however, he received a letter from
Jung Bahadoor forbidding him to enter Nepaul. In
explanation, the Nepaulese reiterated his charges,
and pleaded the Governor General's promise. A
long correspondence followed, and at length the
Governor General, while, as he said, fully exonerating
Col. Ramsay of all blame, would not force on the
Nepaulese Durbar an envoy personally distasteful.

CHINA.
THE CAPTURE OF NANTOW.
By a Government telegram the capture and sack
of Nantow by General Straubenzee is confirmed.
The troubles at Ningpo continued. The Earl of
Elgin was at Japan, but Sir Michael Seymour had
returned to Hong Kong, weak, we are sorry to say,
from the effects of fever.
CUBA.
THE YELLOW FEVER.

Letters from Cuba state that the yellow fever was
ravaging the island, which was otherwise in a pro-
sperous condition. The planters complain of the
heaviness of the duties of all kinds, which make the
price of transport of sugar to the United States
amount to sixteen dollars the arroba (26 lb). The
Chinese immigrants are said to be well treated, but
the number of suicides among them, averagine one
per week, awakens suspicion upon this point. The
writer of this account ascribes this melancholy cir-
cumstance to their not having been converted to
Romanistu.

AFRICA.
THE MAIL.

The African mail brings news of the ordinary cha-
racter, and again points to conflicts among the
natives which European steel is interposed to settle.
The Inlet bad been seen at Teneriffe, and had been
frightening the natives ; and we further learn that an
American vessel, the Anglo-Saxon, lay at Bathurst,
with her crew all dead of fever.

(Sort nub lasiltatt.

THE QUEEN, the Prince Consort, and the juni'r
branches of the Royal Family are at Balmoral.
It is understood that her Majesty and the Court
will leave Balmoral on Monday next, arriving in
Edinburgh in the evening and proceeding to town
next morning.
THE PRINCE OF WALES will attain his seventeenth
birthday on the 9th of November next, when Mr.
F. W. Gibbs, C. 8., will retire from the office of tutor
to his Royal Highness, which he has held since
February, 1852, and Colonel the Hon. Robert
Bruce will be appointed Governor to his Royal High-
ness. The Rev. C. Tarver will act as chaplain and
director to the Prince's studies. The future Equer-
ries to his Royal Highness will probably be appointed
at the same time. We understand that they are
Major Lindsay, Scots Fusilier Guards ; Major Tees-
dale, C. 8., Royal Artillery ; and Captain G. Grey,
Rifle Brigade; and as Extra Equerry, Lord Valle-
tort.

THE MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE OF MALAEOFF
WITH MLLE. SOFIA VALERA DE LA PANIEGA was cele-
brated on Tuesday evening in the chapel of the
Palace of St. Cloud, in the presence of their Majesties
the Emperor and Empress, of his Imperial Highness
Prince Jerome, his Imperial Highness Prince Napo-
leon, her Imperial Highness the Princess Mathilde,
their Highnesses the Princes and Princesses Lucien
and Joachim Murat, and a numerous and brilliant
Assembly, consisting of the grand dignitaries of the
State, of the ministers, marshals, great officers of the
Crown, of the officers and ladiss of the households of
their majesties and of their Imperial Highnesses.