The Press.
London, England, 1858-06-26 00:00:00

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

The CHAIRMAN said the Court had been made
further special for the purpose of laying before the
proprietors a bill (No.:1) for the better government
of India.. •
Mr. JONES asked whether it was competent to enter
into any discussion on the merits of the bill on the
present occasion.
The CHAIRMAN : Certainly.
Mr. Msexesziz then entered on a long and ram-
bling attack upon the bill, which he characterized as
a sham.

After some further conversation, in which Colonel
Sykes, General Briggs, and Mr. Helps took part, the
Court adjourned.

jortign dorrtsponbtatt.

PARIS, Thursday.
DOUBTS are expressed that the Conference will be
able to terminate its labours much, if at all, within a
month from this time. Delay lias arisen not only from
the differecce of view between the plenipotentiaries,
and the consequent necessity of their zonsulting their
respective Governments, but from Fuad Pacha, the
Turkish Minister, having been seriously ill. By the
way, it is said in diplomatic circles that Count
Walewki, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs,
strongly suspected Fuad's illness to be a mere diplo-
matic one ; and that to ascertain the truth be sent
a high dignitary to visit him. The dignitary reported
that he found the poor Turk with leeches on his
throat, and the Minister was satisfied.

It is whispered that important changes in the
Ministry are not unlikely. The retirement of Count
NValewski is specially spoken of, for private as well
as for political reasons. Yet the Count was never,
apparently, in greater favour than now ; the Emperor
having visited him at his country seat not long since,
and having even, it is said (somewhat, it must be
confessed, to the scandal of society), conferred a
title of nobility on an illegitimate child of his, by the
late Mlle. Rachel, the tragic actress! Another im•
portant governmental change talked of is the retire.
ment from the London Embassy of Marshal Pelisser,
and the appointment to it of a civilian, probably M.
Druuyn de Lhuys, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, if
lie can be persuaded to overcome his repugnance
to serving the Imperial regime. The elevation of
Prince Napoleon to the Viceroyalty of Aigerie, or, to
speak more correctly, his acceptance of it, is more
than ever doubtful. the important place of First
President of the Imperial Court of Paris, vacant by
the nomination of M. Dela Igle to the Ministry of
the Interior, has this day been filled up by a gentle.
men of the name of Devienne, Procureur General at
Lyons, of whom nobody thought for snch a post,
and of whom nobody out of the profession at Lyons
ever heard. It is, you are aware, a favourite trick of
the Emperor to astonish the public by nominations
of unknown people to high places, or of known
people to places for which their previous training
but little fitted them. Contrary to what might have
been expected, his Majesty, with the exception of
the deplorable appointment of General Espinasse to
the Ministry of the Interior, has hitherto been lucky
in his singular selections.
I am informed that the French Cabinet is strongly
pressing on Sardinia not to insist on having a pecu-
niary indemnity from Naples for the seizure of the
Cagliari, and that the Continental Cabinets generally
are giving the same advice. The view the English
Government takes of the matter is not stated.
Paris has, since the heat set in, been very un-
comfortable, and is now getting extremely dull. The
Emperor having left Fontainebleau, is at St. Cloud,
en attendant his departure for Plombii•res. His
Majesty's Ministers have begun taking their annual
congli. Most of the aristocrat", both of birth and
money, have g3ne away. Hardly a diplomatist
would be found here were it not that the Conference
is sitting; and every unfortunate tied to the place by
duty is " babbling of green fields" or sighing for
ses-breezes. En revanche, whole batches of Bulls,
male and female, gentle and snobbish, are arriving
amongst us daily—the men, as usual, in grotesque
garments and abominable caps; the women, as usual,
fair exceedingly, but alas! for the most part, won-
drously ill-dressed.
I understand that at the fetes at Cherbourg in pre-
sence of the Emperor, which are to take place in
August, there *ill be a grand sham fight by the
fleet.
The interdiction on the Indipeadance of Brussels
to enter France is, I am told, about to be removed ;