The Press.
London, England, 1854-08-19 00:00:00

SATURDAY,

sorters, letter-carriers, and inferior officers. With
respect to the abolition of offices and the alteraticn
of salaries, the commissioners are careful that no
change should be made in a way to affect injuriously
existing holders.

lortign and detrital Inttiligtrat.

FRANCE.
The Fite Napoleon was celebrated in Paris on the
15th, with the usual va►iety of shows, military, reli-
gious, dramatic, and pyrotechnic. There was a grand
review in the morning, the garrison of Paris, num-
bering 22,000 infantry, 3,000 cavalry, and 1,000
artillery, were reviewed in the Champs Elysees,
by Marshal Maven, and a cortege of officers, French
and foreign, among whom were the young Prince
Stirberg, son of the Hospodar of Wallachia, and M.
Buonaparte, guardian of Prince Jerome. Afterwards
there was a religious service, and then a representa-
tion of the siege of Silietria performed on a grand
scale in a temporary amphitheatre erected in the
Champs Elysees. An enormous balloon, bearing the
inscription "France, England, Turkey;' ascended in
the afternoon, and the evening closed with illumina-
tions, fireworks, and banquets. The fete went off
without accident, though the absence of the Emperor
gave occasion to many comments. Some said that he
was afraid of conspirators, others of cholera. He him-
self took a more sensible view, and claimed some credit
for the public security which enabled him to dispense
with a visit to his capital on the occasion. Being
congratulated by the Bishop of Bayonne on his fete-
day, his Majesty remarked that his absence from
Paris 1 roved that France was calm and happy, and
that she was no longer under any apprehension
which would compel the head of the State to be al
way; armed and on the quivive in the capital.
The Moniteur announces that the Emperor has
granted, on the occasion of his fete, 2,582 pardons,
or reductions of punishment. These pardons are
thus apportioned :-805 to those sentenced to depor-
tation for political offences; 774 to those detained in
the Bagnes, or penal establishments, of Guiana, in
the Maisons Centrales, and other prisons, whether
continental, Algerian. or colonial; 1,003 to soldiers
or sailors undergoing imprisonmeni., of whom 540
have been fully pardoned, and 473 have received a
remission of servitude.
The Moniteur, which was the only paper published
in Paris on the fête day, contains a decree autho-
rising 8,000,000 f. to be appropriated for carrying into
execution the testamentary clauses in the will of
Napoleon the First.
The usual list of decorations on the occasion of
the fete of August 15th appears also in the Moniteur,
They are eery numerous. M. Cucheval Clarigny,
late of the Constitutionnel, and now of the Pattie, is
the only member of the press who receives the Cross.
The Emperor is expected to stop at Boulogne-sur-
Mer for several weeks. The hotel hired for him is
at Capecure, and has been taken from the 20th Au-
oust to the 2nd October. The price to be paid for it
is 42,500 f. The Progres du Pas de Calais states that
the King of Portugal, the King of the Belgians, and
Prince Albert are expected to visit his Majesty, to be
present at some grand military manoeuvres which ere
to take place from the 15th to the 20th September.
A number of sheep-skin capes have been ordered
to be made for the use of the army of the Baltic
during the winter.

GERMANY.
The Emperor of Austria left Vienna on the 10th
for 'sail, where he will remain until the 20th. His
birthday, the 18th, was to he celebrated there.
There is no longer any idea of his Majesty going to
the army.
Prince Gortschakoff received despatches from St.
Petersburg on Tuesday, and there is reason to
believe that he informed Count Buol that as long as
the Turks were in Wallachia the Russian troops
would retain certain strategic points in the princi
palities. A telegraphic despatch stated on this
point that 00,000 Russians continue to occupy
Galatz.
Baron Hesse has left Vienna for the army.
The electric telegraph is completed between Vienna
and St. Petersuurg.
M. Bach, Governor of Lintz, is appointed Austrian
Commissioner in the principalities.
The English and French Ministers in Vienna are
said to have informed Count Buol that they were in-
structed by their respective Governments to propose
a meeting of the Conference. The reply is stated to
have been that nothing could be more agreeable to
the Imperial Court, and Monday last (the 14th), it
is added, was fixed for that event to come off. The
result of the meeting, if any, "nes of course not yet
transpired.
The Paris Moniteur of Monday contains an
announcement, so worded to heighten the impor-
tance of the previously-reported diplomatic transac-
tion of the Bth inst. Under date " Vienna, Aug-
10th," it says :
" The exchange of notes concerted between the Minis-
ters of England and France at Vienna and Count Buol