The Press.
London, England, 1853-07-30 00:00:00

DENMARK.

The draft of a new fundamental law, presented to
the Volksthing at its last sitting by M. Oerstadt, Pre-
sident of the Council, contains some important modi-
fication of the existing constitutional system. This
document consists of sixty-one paragraphs, together
with three temporary provisions, and by it the fol-
low•ing changes will be accomplished :

The right of sdf•taxation Ix aholisheil.
The present free electoral law is MlNdirhPd, and a new one,
it i• a 1111111 l need, will be es•trowd.
The liberty of the press is abolished.
Freedom of trade is abolished, and the system of dose guilds

The frt.e eiquiration laa• I.; wain:4lo4lpol.
The contt•uiplate.J of trial by Jury la Jame away
with.

The indepentlenee of the law courts, as connected with oral
pleadings stud separation from the Executive, is lled.
The promised organisation of the Danish Church by a free
Synod, in eonne,•tiou with a free Parliament, he revoked.
Go‘enimetit functionaries cannot accept the place of deputy,
except with the assent of the Mint.
The Diet to assemble every second year, not annually, as here-
tofore.

The finance law• shall be passed for two years.

'Phis new act will not lie sul►mitted to the Danish
Parliament for its sanction. The whole is octroyed.

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It will immediately become law, and the present con-
stitution ceases to exist an soon as the State arrange-
ments are proclaimed by the authority of the King.

GERMANY.

A conspiracy against the life of the Emperor of
Austria had been detected in Viemut and frustrated :
forty-seven persons, some of them students, have
been arrested.

The Porte has given the Austrian minister full se-
tialaction for the late Smyrna murder. Three of the
assassins. all of them Italians, have been arrested ;
the fourth, a Hungarian, who stabbed M. de Heckel-
berg with a dagger, has absconded.
The American Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople
has written to the Austrian (iovernmentthat " Martin
Costa owes no allegiance to the Emperor of Austria,"
and that the imprisonment of that person, after be
had rendered a civil oath to the American tiovern-
ment, " is not only a very regretable violation of in-
ternational law. but an act of disrespect, which will
not noon be forgotten."
In Berlin three proprietors of journals have been
called before the director of police, and told to be
less severe in their remarks upon Russia, as the oo-
vernment hoped for a pacific solution of the Eastern
question, and wished to prevent the publication of
irritating articles on the sul►ject.
M. Usener, who is known front the part he took in
the so-called Kossuth rockets, has been arrested in
Coblentz. lie was on his way back front Russia.
The reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg has also
caught the measles, and has been seriously indis-
posed. The duchess is convalescent.

SWITZERLAND.
The Council of the Nation has rejected, by 71 to
13 votes, M. Atteh's motion for interfering in the
affairs of the canton of Freiburg.

ITALY.

The health of the Pope is stated to be daily be
coming more precarious. Ho is suffering from a
severe attat•k of asthma and general debility. He is
sixty-one years of age.
Travelling in Romagna may now, it is hoped, be
resumed with some degree of safety, the retnnanta of
the Passatore's band having been nearly extermi-
nated in a conflict with the grand-ducal troops, on the
Tuscan frontier, which lasted from the evening of
the Uth to the morning of the 11th inst.
The scarcity of corn in the Itotnan states, owing to
a very bad harvest, has engendered a bad spirit in
the population. The municipality of Faenza has re-
signed en mane that of Imola threatens to follow
the example. The people will not allow eon) to be
removed.

PORTUGAL.
A railway to Cintra is in contemplation. It is pro-
posed to carry it to Belem along the river, which is
to be embanked for that purpose. Such a work
would be of great utility, as the northern side of the
Tagus is getting rapidly choked up.
The disease which has proved so fatal to the vines
in the island of Madeira is spreading with great
virulence through the vineyards of Portugal. Ap-
prehensions are entertained that this calamity will
not only seriously affect the vintage, but destroy the
plant.

RUSSIA ANl► TURKEY.

40,0 tat troops and 144 pieces of artillery had al-
ready passed through Jassy on the 15th, and pro-
ceeded by foreed marches towards the Danube.
The British Consul was not present at the "Te
I)eum" which the Russians performed after occupy-
ing Jassy.
On the 1:Ith the birthday of the Empress of
Russia was celebrated by a solemn service in all the
churches throughout Moldavia.
Instructions have been sent to Omar Pacha order-
ing him to destroy the bridges over the Danube.
A division of the Turkish fleet, under the corn•
mend of Rear• Admiral Osman Pada', proceeded to
the Black Sea on the 12th inst. lie fell in with •
Russian frigate at sixty miles distance, but she put
up all sail and disappeared in the direction of
Sebastopol.
Official intelligence had been received that the
Egyptian fleet was in a forward state of readiness,
and would sail for Constantinople about the middle
of the present month. Fifteen thousand Arab troops
under Mita Paella were shortly expected to arrive
in that city. The Viceroy of Egypt has given the
troops three months' pay in advance.
The war enthusiasm is not confined to the Turks.
A deputation was lately received by the Minister of
War, in the name of :S,INK Boharalees, offering their
services as volunteers. They have been admitted,
and are being drilled as irregulars in the plain of
Sentari. The headman of the Dobrudga Coasacks
also offered the services of N,OOO men. A celebrated
Derehey of Damascus, Halet Efendi, has written for
permission to proceed with 12,000 Arabs to any
part of the empire that may be menaced by Russia.
He has offered to defray the whole expense out of
his own resources.

UNITED STATES.
The New York Crystal Palace was opened by the
president on the 11th inst., in the presence of an
immense assembly.
Mr. Buchanan has, it is said, definitively accepted
the appointment of Minister to England.
Another terrible casualty occurred on the 9th at
Haverstraw, a factory village about forty miles from
New York. A tornado hurled into ruins a large
wooden building occupied as a lodging-house by
operatives and labourers and their families. Five
persons were killed on the spot and about a dozen
injured, some very severely.
From San Francisco the last steamer has brought
to New York dates to June 10th, more than two
million dollars' worth of gold, and accounts of several
duels. One was b. tween senator ti in
and repre-
sentative M'Corkel—after an exchange of three shots
the difficulty was reconciled. Another between
Alderman Tobey and Dr. Crane—the latter killed
at the second tire. A third between Alderman Noyes
and Mr. John Nugent, editor of the San Francisco
Herald---the latter wounded and not expected to
live. Meanwhile a fourth duel was on the tapir
between Mr. Bush, of the Express, and Mr. Stibger,
of the Herald. The mines and diggings continued
to be very productive. The weather had caused
much mortality from its excessive heat. Mrs. Sin-
clair (Mrs. Forrest) had closed a brilliant theatrical
engagement, which had yielded thousands per night.
INDIA AND CHINA.
The Calcutta mail of June 10 reached Trieste on

Tuesday last.
From liurmalt th intelligence is that no advance
is to he made on Ave. unless our troops or civil ser-
vants are molested, sod our present position there is
to be maintained. Many oaken( have ,hied.
Trade in India is (lull, owing to the season of the

year.
The empire of China is divided, and Nanking is
independent of the reigning dynasty. Great anxiety
was entertained for Canton, and a rising was daily
expected there.
The screw steamer Lauridost, on her passage from
Shanghai to Hong-Kong, struck on Turnabout Island,
and was totally lost ; crew and passengers were all
saved.

THE CAI'E.
Since the restoration of peace at the Cape the
frontier has suffered no serious interruption. The
chief sufferers by the late war are the inhabitants On
the immediate borders of Somerset, Victoria, and
Albany. In the districts beyond, the last year seems
to be one of great prosperity, as their chief exportable
produce, wool, exhibits a remarkable increase, the
quantity being nearly 6,090,00016., valued at :100,00411.
The Orange River sovereignty is tranquil, the British
and native inhabitants being on friendly terms.
Within the colony little had been heard but the voice
of rejoicing for the constitulion, which has satisfied
all the reasonable desires of the inhabitants. A
search for gold was about to be made in the western
districts of the colony, for which subscriptions arc
being raised to defray the expense. Search for coal
is also going forward on the flats, and a stratum has
be dic
en reached at a depth of fifty-six feet, which af-
forded good indication of the vicinity of the much-
desired mineral.