The Press.
London, England, 1854-08-05 00:00:00

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Don Enrique to Valencia was revoked. The Junta
had also abrogated the prohibition laid on the circu-
lation of certain foreign journals, and decreed an
amnesty for political offences.
On the 29th, at Barcelona, a decree of the local
Junta ordered the suppression of a machine in the
manufactories which was calculated to throw a
nttinber of hands out of work.
Subscriptions continued to come in on all sides
towards relieving the wounded and the families of
those who died in the late conflict. The Queen
subscribed 30,000 reels in her own name and that
of the King Consort and the Princess of Asturias.
The Bank of San Fernando has given 6,000 reels ;
the Duchess de la Victoria, 4,000 ; the Duke of Osuna,
4,000, Jo.
Queen Christina was still in Madrid on the 3rd
inst. She had not decided what route she should
take to get out of the country.
I M. Salamanca has been arrested and imprisoned
at Albacete. Generals Lara, Mata-y. Alos, and Que-
sada, who commanded the troops in the late struggle,
have their choice either to retire to a fixed place of
residence or to leave the country.
The ex• Ministers are hiding in different places,
and the foreign embassies are reported to abound
with them.
The houses in all parts are mostly decked out
with coloured silk and other hangings. Many have
done so voluntarily, out a general order was subse-
quently issued to that effect.
TURKEY.
With the exception of the fears of the cholera,
which have become very general, and the very great
heat, there is little of interest in the last letters from
Constantinople. All who possibly can were seeking
cool breezes on the banks of the Bosphorus. General
Ney (Due d'Elchingen), one of the youngest generals
in the French army, and second son of the celebrated
Marshal Ney, died on the 19th ult., at Gallipoli, of
cholera. Constantinople itself, and Pere and Galata,
the Christian suburbs, have not as yet been visited
by the epidemic.
In the arsenal of Constantinople many gun-boats
are being fitted out.
RUSSIA.
Letters from St. Petersburg state that they are or-
ganising at Cronstadt two battalions of skating
infantry, an arm of the service already known in pre-
ceding wars. These skaters are intended to operate
in the winner on the ice against the islands occupied by
the enemy. Battalions of skaters will be also formed
in the other garrisons.
It is rumoured in Paris that the British and
French Cabinets have laid down conditions on which
they wculd treat for peace, defining what they under-
stand by guarantees against a renewal of attacks by
Russia on the Turkish empire, which would mainly
consist of the free navigation of the Danube and the
Black Sea, with a free port in the latter.
GREECE.
M. Mavrocordato arrived at Athens on the 21st,
and next day had an audience of the King, which
lasted four hours.
The sanitary state of the occupation troops is good.
There had not, been a single eisse of cholera at
Athens.
PERSIA.
A despatch of the 21st ult. from Constantinople
states that the Persian Prime Minister had just sent
a special envoy to Georgia to propose the conclusion
of a secret convention between the Shah and the
Czar, on the following terms :
" 1. That Russia should restore to Persia the province
of Erivan as far as Lake °oche., the whole of Karsbagh,
and the portion of the territory of Taulish usurped by the
Autocrat.
" 2. That Russia should annul the Persian debt.
" 3. That Russia should, if necessary, assist Persia to
recover the districts of Kutur Dambet and other encroach-
ments wade by Turkey in the province of Agerbijan.
" 4. That Russia shall grant a monstrous bribe of two
millions of ducats► fur the benefit of the Prime Minister
and his family."
UNITED STATES.
The last New York advices are of the 22nd ult.,
brought by the Baltic.
The treaty between the United States and Japan
was confirmed by the Senate on the 15th of July.
The fishery and reciprocity treaty was still under
consideration.
Ou the 21st the bill from the Senate authorising
the construction of a railroad through Washington

has passed.
It is stated-by the New York Tribune that a treaty
for the annexation of the Sandwich Islands to the
United States is under consideration at Washington.
The only question is whether the islands shall come
in as a territory or as a state.
At New York the weather has been extremely hot :
the thermometer stood at 05 in the shade, and
several cases of sunstroke have occurred.
On the 18th Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher com-
mitted a violent assault ou Mr. James M'Master,
editor of the Freeman's Journal, knocking him down
in the street, and beating him about the head. Mr.