The Press.
London, England, 1856-11-29 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

ver also will furnish troublesome matter for the
Frankfort Diet, and test the value of confederated
interference in the Home Government of a country
disposed to question the right of such intervention.
Neither is the Bavarian concordat with the Pope a
subject of congratulation at Munich, since it is highly
displeasing to the Germans, and renders them still
more contrary to Austrian interests, to which they
attribute this unpalatable measure. General Dufour
has quitted Paris. His mis'ion has been fruitless,
from the determination of the Federal Council to
refuse the liberation cf the Neufchatel prisoners
unless Prussia consented to yield her rights to the
principality and countrof Valengin. The represen-
tation of the German Diet in favour of the protocols
of 1852 has had no effect, and, according to a brag-
gart letter from M. Fazy, of Geneva, Switzerland is
prepared to hazard everything rather than concede
a single point. Extreme rigour is exercised towards
the royalist prisoner., many of them being aged and
of high rank. Their dungeons are narrow and con-
fined, and without fireplaces; they are given the
poorest fare, sufficient only for existence ; no servants
are allowed, not even those of the prison, to perform
the necessary and menial offices ; and only lately has
a candle been given, which must be extinguished at
nine.

The report that the English Minister at Vienna
would acocmpany the Imperial retinue into Italy
was incorrect. Another personage, of a different
sex and different sympathies, will be a more ominous
substitute, and this is the Archduchess Sophia,
mother of the Emperor. Ever since the time that
the Emperor received his injury in the head from a
cowardly assassin, there are moments when he with-
draws his attention from public affairs, and when
the vicinity of the political mother is reckoned upon
to uphold the integrity of Austrian tactics. Upon
the policy of adopting a clement rule towards the
Lombardo-Venetians, the Cabinet of Vienna is
divided. The partisans of the Archduchess main-
tain that history shows from time immemorial that
severity alone has been able to keep the northern
Italians in subjection, and that the milder mode of
treatment by Radetzky and other generals has never
succeeded in repressing the revolutionary tendencies
of the Milanese. A strong opponent to harsh
measures is found in M. de Bach, the Minister of the
Interior ; and as he was sent on a mission into Lom-
bardy to ascertain the sentiments of the people
before hazarding an Imperial visit, a certain leaning
towards his advice is about to be shown by way of
experiment. Whilst the Emperor of Austria is at
Milan it is expected that King Victor Emmanuel will
take that opportunity to pay a lengthened visit to the
Empress Mother of Russia. _ .

C. A. H.

fortiga an 4 6olaniat 3atelligtnce.

FRANCE.

The Emperor and Empress return this day from
St. Cloud to the Tuileries for the winter.

A Council of Ministers was held on Wednesday.
The Emperor presided.
General Dufour left Paris last Saturday for
Berne, to lay the result of his mission before the
Federal Council.

Despatches have reached Paris from St. Peters-
burg, which anticipate the opening of the Conferences
at Paris about the end of December.

The Marquis de Turgot left Paris on Wednesday
for Madrid, to resume his functions as Ambassador
of the Emperor of the French at the Court of Queen

The Marquis Antonini, the Seapolitian Ambassa-
dor, has not yet left Paris.
The AssembMe Nationale, taking up the text of the
Constitutionnel, in a late article against England,
is desirous that Government should at once efficiently
fortify the coasts and ports of Algeria :—" After
having been so long a nest of pirates Algeria must
not become a branch establishment of Malta and
Gibraltar."