The Press.
London, England, 1856-08-30 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

, The Indicateur OfilcieiefSt. Petersburg has an-
nounced the .coronation for the 7th of September.
Ih6 presentation of the Cordon of the Legion of
Honour to the Emperor Alexander by Count Morny
took place on the 17th instant with marked ceremony.
A letter from St. Petersburg of the 19th, in the Berlin
Borsen Zeitung, says :
This interchange of orders between the Emperors of Rns-
sia and France is looked on as an unmistakeable evidence of
of the personal sympathies which the two Monarchs enter-
tain for each other. Our Emperor is known to be an admirer
of Napoleon T.'s greatness as a ruler and as a general, and he
transfers to the heir of his name and throne a portion of the
admiration he feels for him. How generally these sympa-
thies have penetrated from above among the lower classes
of the people may be seen in the fact that the portrait of
the first Emperor was never so frequently visible as now in
all public places, in the picture shops, and in private
dwellings, even the Emperor's study contains a half-
length of Napoleon 1., the size of life, by Horace Vernet.

Another semi-official writer observes
It has produced great satisfaction here to find that
France has not made the tardy surrender of Kars and the
lighting up afresh of the lighthouse on the isle of Sepenta,
•ground for a vote of want of confidence in this Cabinet.
;All the attempts are in vain to justify the want of delicacy
that England has shown in reminding Russia, at the very

SATURDAY,

moment when an Ambassador from her to the coronation
was about to show himself here, that Russian newspapers•
committed a mistake in 18.55 when they affirmed that the
Black Sea was a Russian Sea.
ITALY.

A revolutionary attempt on the Maremma, near
Orbitello, in Tuscany, has been easily suppressed
by the Tuscan gendarmes.

Prince Flavin Chigi, Ambassador of the Pope to.
the Court of the Emperor Alexander IL, left Rome,,
with his suite, for Russia on the 17th.

The Nord this week mentions a rumour current to.
the effect that the French Government has trans-.
mitted a memorandum to all the European Courts,.
urging the necessity of reforms in the Papal States,
and concluding with a declaration that the Frenctr
troops cannot evacuate Rome and Civita Vecchia
until such reforms have been realised.

The presence of Prince Murat at Aix-les-Bsins, in
Savoy, has produced some sensation in Italy.
In Piedmont the fortifications of Alessan.lria and
Casale are advancing rapidly. The military fur-
lough has been suspended, and military manoeuvres
on an extensive scale wera to take place during
September.

Baron Hubner arrived at Naples on the 10th, and
left at once for Gaeta to see the King. Le Nord, in
its correspondence from Vienna, asserts that Baron,
Hubner is simply charged with a non-official,
mission :

All that our Cabinet. (that of Vienna) desires, is that
King Ferdinand should make some conciliatory advances,
take some step calculated to efface the depbt•able•
(fdcheuse) impression produced on the Western Cabinets.
by the tone of the last reply to the notes of France and.
England. In a word, it is an affair that must be stifled
as soon as possible, and without wounding the rights or•
dignity of anybody. That is the substance of the mission,
which Baron Hubner is at this moment charged to fulfil
at the Court of Naples, and whose success no one is bevatr
fitted to insure.

The Frankfort Journal believes that, in the main,.
the Cologne edition of the King's reply to the.
Western powers is correct. It observes :
It must not, however, be thereby interpreted that die,
King has refused to adopt reform ; he has only decNired
himself to be the most competent judge of the opportunity
of these measures.