The Press.
London, England, 1856-10-11 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Emperor and Empress returned to St. Cloud
at the close of last week. On Sunday a Council of
Ministers was held. _ _

On Monday the Moaiteur announced that the
Council General of the Bank had resolved not to
discount bills of longer date than sixty days instead
of ninety as heretofore, the measure to come into
operation on that day.
On Tuesday the Moniteur contained the roport of
M. Magne, the Minister of Finance, relative to the
budget of 1856. The most remarkable points ad-
vanced in the report were that the budget shows a
considerable increase for the first six months alone
of 63,000,000 as against 1854, and 26,000,000 as
against 1855. M. Magne then alludes to the activity
of trade in spite of the succession of bad harvests,
heavy floods, and the failure of the silk crop, and
concludes with an assertion that France is in the
most prosperous condition :
The two first loans have been entirely paid up, and
the terms of the last, which will edifice to liquidate a,l
the expenses of the war, are fulfilled with exactitude.
The public revenue is augmenting in a hitherto un-
paralleled proportion. The taxes are paid with the most
exact punctuality, and even often in advance.
Money flows into the public Treasury. The payment
of the last six monthly payments of the rents has left
us a reserve of 110,000,000.
a It must be evident to every sensible man that these
facts are the indices of a situation of things which is
fundamentally good.

The attention- of the Government was particularly
called to the unfair selection of the best silver coins
by certain parties for purposes of illegal speculation.
On Thursday the Moniteur contained the following
notification

The specula:ion which consists in picking out the beat
pieces from the coinage and melting them down, in order
to extract their surplus value, is a wrong done to tie
common prosperity, and constitutes an ottence which can-
not be tolerated.

The Government is resolved to endeavour to repress it
by every means which the laws place in its power.

M. Magne's report has been but briefly com:
mented on by the Paris papers. The Constitutionnel,
Dibats, Pattie, and Pays, consider the statement
frank and reassuring, as incontestably proving that

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the present situation is created only by temporary
causes, and does not authorise fear.
The monthly account of the Bank of France was
publshed on Thursday. The results are important.
Under the head of coin and bullion there is a decrease
of no less than 69,332,5451. The Treasury account
is about 17,000,0001. less than last month. The ad-
vances on Government Securities have decreased by
2,353,450 f.
With respect to the Neapolitan question, beyond
mere rumour, nothing definite has transpired.
The tone of the circular of Prince Gortscbakoff
has been generally condemned by the French press.
Admiral Trehouart is yet in Paris, waiting orders.
The Emperor reviewed the Imperial Guard on
Wednesday. The Empress and Imperial Prince
were present. The Emperor was on horseback.
Prince Napoleon has returned from his North Sea
cruise.

A certain undercurrent of excitement exists
among the working classes of Paris against their
landlords. Placards are constantly posted up with
the words, " Tqe son proprietaire ; je tuerai le mien,"
and other menacing recommendations. Several

arrests have in consequence taken place. A deputa-
tion of ouvriers have had an interview with the Em-
peror this week, upon the subject of high rents and
dear bread.

AUSTRIA.

Le Nord of the oth calls attention to a statement
by its Vienna correspondent, upon "high authority,"
that the Austrian Government, immediately upon the
publication of Prince Gortschakoff's circular, ad-
dressed an "energetic note" to Paris, calling upon
the French Government not to permit itself
to be seduced by England into employing menacing
measures against Naples, but to limit its action to
amicable representations without trenching upon the
sovereign rights of the King.
The French Government, it is further asserted,
has given by telegraph such reassuring explana-
tions as tend to remove all apprehension of a naval
expedition.
Baron Mohrenbeim arrived on the Ist from St.
Petersburg with important despatches for the Aus-
trian Cabinet.
The result of General Martini's mission was
eagerly anticipated at Vienna. General Martini,
besides the official note for the Cabinet of Vienna, is
the bearer of an autograph letter from the King.

M. Hubner, who returned from Naples on the 2nd,
is at present preparing himself for the discussion of
those questions to be brought before the approaching
Conference at Paris.
A letter from Vienna, in the Weser Gazette,
speaking of the coming " adjourned meeting " of the
Congress of Paris, intimates that Austrian views as
to the principalities and Montenegro will have a
majority in the congress. It adds :

BAs to the Neapolitan affair, it is hoped that the King
will consent to send a plenipotentiary to the conferences iu
Paris, or to a special congress which will afterwards take
place, and which will settle the Italian question and the
Greek question. It is wished to give in this way a pacific
turn to this difficulty and to postpone (meitre de cOte), in
a manner equally honourable for all parties, the demands
of the Western powers.
The German papers this week generally dwell on
the community of views and feelings subsisting
between Russia and Austria on the affairs of Naples.
The visit of the Emperor and Empress to Lom-
bardy has beep postpued from the beginning to the
end of November.

Field•blarshal Leiningen died at Cracow on the
Ist instant.

RUSSIA.

Le Nord announces that the Emperor and Empress
proceeded to Toula, not to Kiew, from Moscow, and
would make their solemn entry into St. Petersburg
cm the 9th.

The Empress Mother reached Warsaw on the Ist,
and passed through Breslau, en route to Dresden, on
the 3rd inst.

Typhus fever had broken out with great severity at
Moscow. Several eminent personages have been
attacked, and the Metropolitan of Moscuw had died,
The census of Russia, taken at the Emperor's
accession, is published in the Moniteur de l'Armee.
The total number of the population amounts to
63,000,000. At the accession of the Emperor
Nicholas the census then taken only gave a popula-
tion of 51,000,000. This large increase in the space
of thirty years may, however, be readily understood
when it is considered that the Russian territory has
now an extent of 22,000,000 of square kilometres
(a kilometre is five-eighths of a mile), and a length
of coast of 27,000 kilometres. If the population
continues to increase in the same proportion it will
1900 amount to 100,000,000. The Russian empire,
according to the same document, contains 112 dif-
ferent peoples, divided into twelve principal races,
the most numerous of which is the Sclavonian,
including the Russians properly so called, the Poles,
the Cossacks, and the Servian colonies of the Dnieper.
These populations inhabit the finest and the most
important provinces of the empire.