The Press.
London, England, 1854-08-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1854.

POSTSCRIPT.

THE WAR QUESTION.
A Vienna letter published in the Silesian OaSine
says :
" Whilst Austria is continuing her preparations for war,
Prince Gortschakoff is acting as if the whole question was
at an end by the retreat of the Russians behind the Pruth,
—as if, in fact, peace was about to be signed. He is
getting the apartments of the Russian embassy splendidly
fitted up ; and, after purchasing the equipages of his pre-
decessor, has ordered eight splendid Hungarian horses to
be purchased for him. He has sent for his sons, and in
all respects is acting as if there was no prospect of an in-
terruption to the diplomatic relations of Austria and
Russia."
The Moniteur publishes the texts of the notes ex-
changed at Vienna between the Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of France, M. de Bourqueney, and the Austrian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Buol. They are, of
course, identical in dechFation and language to those
which were exchanged between the English Minister,
Lord Westmoreland, and Count Buol, and of which
a summary is published in another column.
The moveable column, commanded by the Austrian
General Manuela, and latterly organised in order to
act on the frontier of Montenegro, has just been dis-
banded. Four thousand horses belonging to this
corps have been sold.
Some Vienna papers of Thursday repeat the ques-
tionable statement hazarded by the same journals
last week, namely, that 60,000 troops had sailed from
Varna on the 14th inst. for the Crimea.
Three London journals were seized at the Paris
Post-office for containing exaggerated accounts of
the cholera in the East, calculated to excite needless
alarm among friends and relatives at home. The
Constitutionnel says that the last accounts from the
Black Sea represent the sanitary state of the squa-
drons to be most satisfactory, The Globe corre-
spondent in Paris, writing on Thursday, says :
" I am assured at the War-office, and by persons
who would not, I think, purposely deceive me, that
there has been great exaggeration as to the mortality
in the French army of the East, in the accounts given
in some of the foreign journals. It is not denied
that the cholera has raged violently, but the deaths,
it is asserted, are much less than half what those
journals have stated. The last accounts received at
the War-office are very favourable. There were
few cases, and those were of a mild character. In
Paris there is now very little alarm. For some days
past the cases in the hospitals have averaged less
than half what they were in July, and the medical
men generally are of opinion that in another fort-
night it will ceaso to exist in an epidemic km.
The accounts from the departments are also more

cheering."

The Emperor Napoleon visited Pau on the 21st
inst., where he was received with the most enthu-
siastic applause. On the 22nd his Majesty reviewed
the garrison, and on the following day returned to
Biarritz.

Letters from Madrid of the 20th state that the
city was tranquil. The Union Club, presided over
by the Republican Marquis D'Albaida, continued
day after day to address memorials to the Govern-
ment, demanding individual liberty, liberty of con-
science, liberty of the press, freedom of labour, and