The Press.
London, England, 1856-09-06 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The dicsolution of Cortes has
been officially announced in the Madrid Gazette by
royal decree.

The resignation of M. Corradi, Spanish Minister
at Lisbon, is also accepted by the GoNertmenL
Changes continue to be daily made in the home
and foreign services. The Epoca states that a new

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Minister to Mexico, in the room of M. log Santos
Alvarez, will not be appointe I till the differences
existing between Spain and Mexico be settled.

ITALY.

General Count Stackelberg,Russian Envoy to the
Court of Turin, was received by the King on the
morning of the 29th.

The Piedmontese Government is employing every
means to animate the national subscriptions for the
one hundred guns for Alessandria.

Mazzini has opened a subscription for 10,000
muskets, and also published in the journal L'ltalia e
Popolo an address to all It ilian military men. He
reproaches them for submitting to the all-dominant
power of a few Swiss re giments in the Two Sicilies
and at R ,me, as also to that of the Austrians in the
Duchies and in Lombardy.
An order from General de la Marmora again enjoins
the chiefs of corps to grant no furloughs, as the
whole of the Sardinian forces must assemble as
numerically strong as possible at the camps for
going through field manoeuvres. These camps are
at three points, viz., Chambery, Villafranca, near
Nike, and San tiaurizio, on the Ticino.

The Austrian Custom-house League with Parma
and Modena will, it is said, be rent wed.
The Sicilians have published an address to the
Neapolitans, calling upon them to make common
cause with Sicily in the effort to obtain liberty.
The Oat. Deutsche Post assures us that a new note
has been addressed to Naples by the Western powers
in concert. Its terms will efface the impression of
the former note. M. BrentPr, the French Minister,
has expressed his utmost satisfaction with the docu-
ment.

The French brigade at Rnme is preparing to
evacuate the Roman States, with the exception of
Civita Vecchia.
TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES.

M. de Botttenieff, the Russian Envoy, paid his
official visit, and presented a copy of his credentials,
on the 22nd ult., to Fuel Pacha, Minister of Foreign
Affairs. On the 26th his Excellency was to be re-
ceived by the Sultan.
Mehemet Represli Paella the Ottoman Envoy to
attend the coronation of the Czar, has left Constanti-
nople for Odessa and Moscow.
No further intelligence of importance has been
received concerning the Isle of Serpents. The
Turkish troops retain possession of the island. The
French Patrie says that the Russian Government
wishes to submit the question of the Serpent Island
occupation. to the interpretation of the great
powers.
Sir Houston Stewart, with a small squadron, was,
up to the 2nd inst., still cruising in the Black Sea.
The same intelligence from Constantinople states
that the campaign projected by the Ru-sians against
th- Circassisns is indefinitely adjourned.
Ferouthe-Khan, the Persian Ambassador at Paris,
it was believed, had received orders from Ispehan to
proceed to L,,ndon to terminate the Anglo-Persian
dispute, by offering full satisfaction to England. on
condition that the British Government recal Mr.
Murray.
Solve indications of the views entertained by the
Porte as to the principalities are given in a letter
from Vienna, of the 20th ult., in the Nouvelliste of
Hamburg. The writer says:—
In the diplomatic document which the Porte has for-
warded to the signatories of the treaty of Rats, on the
question of the union of the principalities, the Turkish
Cabinet insists on the necessity of consulting the wishes
of the power which is most deeply interested in the ques-
tion. It recala that Article 2of the protocol agreed upon
on the 11th of February. between the Porte on the one
part, and France, England, and Austria on the other, and
which formed the basis of the deliberations of the Confe-
rence at Paris, and states positively that Moldavia and
Wallachia shall continue to enjoy in the future, as in the
past, administrations separate and independent under
the suzerainty of the Sultan.
The Conference at Paris had established expressly that
the principalities will continue to enjoy the privileges of
which they have been in possession. One of these pri-
vileges is to have a separate administration. The Porte,
in conclusion, maintains that the reunion of the princi-
palities will be to the advantage of no party, neither to
that of the great European powers nor to that of the
European equilibrium, :or it is evident that under their
new Government the pr Icipalities would henceforth be
merely the object of rival interests.
The Minister of War has resigned.
AMERICA.

The mail from New York up to the 23rd ult.
brings grave intelligence.
The ordinary session of the 34th Annual Congress
terminated on the 18th ult. without passing the
Army Estimates, the Senate and the House of Re-
presentatives being unable to agree upon the ques-
tion of the conditional clause proposed by the Repre-
sentatives, and rejected by the Senate, that the
troops in Kansas should not be employed in gip-
ptessing the tree legislation there, or in aiding the
pro slavery settlers. Oii the sane day the President
exercised his extraordinary powers, and oy public
proclamation convened an extra session to cora-

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mence on the 21st. The following is the official
document :

BY THE FRCSIDENT OF THZ UXTTSD STATES OF AMERICA.
(A Proclamation.)
Whereas, while hostilities exist with various Indian
tribes on the /emote frontiers of the United States, and
while in other respects the public peace is seriously
threatened, Congress has adjourned without granting
necessary supplies for the army, depriving the Executive
of the power to perform his duty in relation to the common
defence and security, and an extraordinary occasion has
thus arisen far assembling the two Houses of Congress ; I
do therefore, by this my proclamation, convene the said
Houses to meet at the Capitol, in the City of Washington,
on Thum lay, the 21st day of August inst.; hereby requir-
ing the respective senators and representitives then and
there ►o assemble, to consult and determine on such
measures as the state of the Union may seem to require.
The Senate and House of Representatives re-
assembled respectively on the 21st ult., and it soon
appeared that their mutual antagonism was more
decided than before the adjournment.
A message from the President, setting forth the
urgency of the Appropriation Bill, was real to the
Senate. The President, detailing the position of
affairs, said:—

To refuse supplies to the army, therefore, is to compel
the complete cessation of all its operations, and practical
disbandment. and thus to invite hordes of predatory
savages from the western plains and Rocky Mountains to
spread devastation alma a frontier of more than 3.000
miles in extent, and to delver up the sparse population of a
vast tract of eououv to rapine and murder. Such, in
substance, would be the direct and immediate ef eta of
the refusal of Congress, for the first time in the history of
the Government, to grant supplies.—the inevitable waste
of millions of public treasure—the idfliction of extreme
wrong upon all persons connected with the military estab-
lishment by service, employment, or contracts—the reeal
of our forces from the field—the fearful sacrifice of life,
and incalculable destruction of property on the remote
frontiers—the striking of our national flag on the battle-
ments of the fortresses which defend our maritime cities
against foreign invasion—the violation of the public
honour and good faith, and the discredit of the United
States in the eyes of the civilised world.

On the following day the Army Bill was received
from the House of Representatives, but found to
have the Kansas proviso still annexed. The Senate
proceeding to the vote, struck out. the proviso and
passed the bill by a majority of 35 to 7. The Senate
then adjourned.
The House of Representatives meeting also
on the 21st, the Army Bill, precisely the same
as when lost in the former session, including the
Kangas restrictive proviso, was rep rted fr on
the enmetittee of the whole, and passed by 93
against 85.
ti L,‘e fallowing day the house received a mes-
sage from the Senate relative to its action on ti e
Army Bill. The question was taken on the a rikirg
out., and was lost by 94 to 92. Mr. Campbell moved
to reconsi ler the vote, and lay that motion on the
table. This was carried by a major ty of two. Mr.
Campbell then moved that the house insist on their
proviso, and ask a committee of conference. The
motion was lost by a majority of three. Mr. Cobb
moved that the house recede. This was lost by 04
against 96. Mr. Washburne moved that the house
adhere to its disagreement. His motion was agreed
to by 97 against 93. Mr. Washburne moved to re-
consider the vote by which the house adhered to its
proviso, and to lay that motion on the table. Motion
carried by one majority. Mr. Sherman asked leave
to offer a resolution for an adjournment sine die at
four o'clock this afternoon. Repeated unsuccessful
motions were made to adjourn, when the house took
a short recess to await the result of the Senate's pro-
ceedings. The house, on reassembling, the Senate
having come to no conclusion, adjourned.
A Washington correspondent, writing on the 22nd,
says:—

The prospect for the passage of the Army Appropriation
Bill is now regarded as hopeless, the republicans having
exhibited to-day a stubborn determination to defeat it at
all hazards. The debate in the Senate was highly instruc-
tive and impressive. While Senators Bell, Hunter, Casa,
and others deplored the consequences, but thought it
better to lose the appropriation and disband the army than
to permit the House of Representatives to assume all the
legislative powers of the Government, by forcing upon the
Senate independent legislation contrary to their judgment
and constitutional rights, senators ou the other side of
the chamber applauded the house and urged them to
persist in their action, whether it be revolutionary or not.
It now remains with the Senate to determine what shall
be dune. _

The news from Kansas brings further reports that
half a dozen sanguinary conflicts had taken place, in
which the Free-State men appear to have gained
some advantage. The town of Lecompton was cap-
tured on the 20th ult., and Governor Robinson and
the other State prisoners rescued.
Letters from Iltivannab state the news of the
insurrection in Spain had caused much excitement ;
and so anxious was General Concha for the earliest
intelligence, that ho ha,l despatched his swiftest
steamship to wait at Charlestown the arrival of the
steamer from Europe.

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CORONATION OF THE EMPEROR OF
RUSSIA.
ENTRY OF THE EMPEROR INTO MOSCOW.

THE Emperor Alexander made his solemn entry into
Moscow on the 29th ult. :
A little after midday (says a correspondent of the
Daily News) a salvo of nine guns from a battery posted
opposite the Tchoudow Convent, followed by a peal of
bells from the Cathedral of the Assumption, gave the
signal to all the bells of Moscow to begin jangling. Their
deafening clang has continued ever since, and only those
who have witnessed can imagine the noise and vibration
of the air produced by such a mass of tintinnabulary metal.
As soon as the hurricane of clangour broke out. actors
and spectators of all ranks and degrees hurried to their
posts.
_ _

- At a quarter past three p.m. the imperial procession left
the Petrovsky Palace. First came a Maitre de Police,
with twelve mounted gendarmes to clear the way. The
Emperor was preceded by his body guard, in their magmfi •
cent uniforms, squadrons of Cossacks of the Black Sea and
of the regiment of Guards, the representatives of the haute
noblesse on horseback, all in uniform, the representatives
of the Asiatic population which acknowledge the sove-
reignty of Russia, with valets, lacqueys, and runners of the
Court. After this mixtute of European and Oriental cos-
tumes came masters of ceremonies and others with their
badges of office. After this train, in which European and
Oriental finery were strangely mingled, came Alexander
Nicolaievitch, on horseback, attended by the Minister of
his Household, the Minister of War, and his aides-de-
camp.. The :Princes of the blood followed, all on horse-
back. A long train of splendid carriages came next in
or.ler, containing the Empress, the Empress Mother, the
Grand Duchesses, and the Princess of Oldenburg, followed
by their ladies of honour. Squadrons of Cuirassiers closed
the procession. . _ _

At four p.m. precisely a salvo of set enty-one guns an-
nounced that the Emperor was entering his ancientcapital.
The Military Governor-General of Moscow received his
Majesty at the entrance of the city, at the head of his
employes. The magistrates and the burghers received
his Majesty at the entrance of the quarter called Zemlenoi
Gorod. The marshal and the nobility of the Government
of Moscow received him at the entrance of the quarter
called Rieloi Gorod. The Civil Governor and the civil
authorities of the city were stationed to receive him at the
gate of the Resurrection. Here a brief halt took place,
during which the Emperor, the Empress, and the Princes
and Princesses of the blood, dismounted and knelt before
the image of Our Lady of Iberia. This ceremony over,
the procession again moved onward ; was received at the
gate of the Saviour by the Commandant of Moscow and
his staff, and in front of the Cathedral of the Assumption
by the Directing Senate. All along the route of the pro-
cession the houses were decorated, and the clergy stationed
at the gates of their respective churches with their images
and crosses. The acclamations of the assembled multitude
were enthusiastic, and distinctly beard above the din and
clangour of the bells.

The Emperor, the Empresses, the Princes, and the
Princesses, descended from their horses and carriages in
front of the Cathedral of the Assumption, at the stair
which is cued Krasnoe Kryltzo. Intelligence of this
event was forthwith thundered forth by a salvo of eighty-
five guns. The portion of the imperial cortege which
preceded their Majesties kept on their way round the
cathedral, and such as had the entrée entered it by the
north gate. The officers of the Court completed the circle
of the budding, and stationed themselves in front of the
south gate, to await the coming out of their Majesties.
The Holy Synod and the functionaries of the cathedral
met their M,j2sties at the parvir, and preceded them into
the church chanting the second canticle for Palm-week.
After kissing the images and relics, their Majesties pro-
ceeded to the Cathedrals of the Archangel Michael and the
Annunciation, in both of which the ceremony of kissing
the images and relics was gone through. In the Cathedral
of St. M ichael they also prostrated themselves before the
tombs of his Majesty's ancestors.

On quitting the cathednd their Majesties. accompanied
by the Court, walked to the Palace of the Kremlin. At its
gates they were received by the Court clergy with the cross
and holy water. The Archbishop of Moscow here pre-
sented the Emperor with bread and salt ; and immediately
afterwards a salvo of Jul guns announced at five p.m.
that the Imperial family had entered the palace of their
ancestors.

The journey between St. Petersburg and Moscow
is tedious, and twenty•four hours long. The rush
last week was tremendous :

When I entered the railway station at the top of the
Nevskoi (writes a correspondent), I was reminded of
London-bridge on the Epsom morning, with this diffe-
rence, that instead of sporting men, jockeys, and the
metropolitan holiday folks, I found myself surrounded and
almost overwhelmed by princes and mujiks, Circassians
and Georgians, handsome Greeks and wily Tartars, ladies
in Parisian toilettes, and their bonnes in the national
caftan and coronet, Jews and Slovacks, Poles and Hunga-
rians, priests and Levites: in short, every vanety of
c istume, colour, and odour that distinguish the varied race
composing the great Russian nation. To do them justice,
they were not half so unruly as the crowd to which I have
just now compared them, but they were legion, and their
luggage—such luggage !—which had all to be passed
t r utgh a window and weighed, and which seemed as if it
wo di' have required the leviathan steamship to supply
the requisite accommodation. Nineteen, twenty-five,
even tifty packages were no unusual amount for a single
r^-ve 'ger ; awl some of them as big as a sugar hogshead

The formalities necessary before a man can leave
one town for another exhibited that übiquitous

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Smith " of the Egyptian-hall in his usual dis-
tress:—

Smith has complied wit'a every portion of the intricate
regulations ; and, knowing this, he has not felt any of the
anxiety which made me proceed so superfluously early (as
it might seem) to the railway station. When, therefore,
in return for the production of his money he is asked for
his Moscow passport, he confidently draws it forth ; but
the bell is ringing, and, heavens! he is told that it is not
vised. He points to the visa of his consul, to the next
visa of the secret police, to Count Orloff's visa, to the visa
of the police of his first guarder, to that of the police of
the quartier to which he then removed, to that of the
police in the district from which he has last and only just
come, and he demands indignantly," Do they call that
not visit' ? " The English speaking clerk has, unluckily,
his attention engaged elsewhere for the moment ; and it
is with German that poor Smith is being pelted now.
Still he has one chance. The clerk addresses a few words
in Russ to the porter ; the latter jabbers vehemently to
Smith, and points across the office; " Pashowlst," he
cries, and beckons Smith to follow. Ah! if our tormented
countryman's good angel would only inspire him to do so.
The Russian porter will not despair, and, in reply to
Smith's " You be —, it is vised, I tell you ; don't you
see it's vised in fifty places." In reply to this he
ventures to lay a hand on Smith's collar gently to draw
him through the seething and fast•thickening crowd. The
spirit of a Briton is immediately roused by this last
atrocity ; he has not rightly read the benevolent anxiety in
the face of the poor mujik ; for Smith is athletic, but not
a physiognomist, any more than a linguist. Just as he
has sent his insolent adversary reeling against the fat
Russian merchant who is hurtling out to the platform at
the sound of the second bell, the clerk, who speaks all
languages, happens to be again disengaged, and calls out
that the visa now required is merely that of the officer at
the other side of the booking•office. Smith rushes
thither, presents his passport, has it stamped, receives it
back, struggles once more through the crowd, and arrives
at the counter where he should receive his passenger
ticket only to find that the time is past for its delivery.
Meanwhile his luggage is in the train, which, nearly a
quarter of a mile long, is now beginning slowly to move
past the tall windows and windowed doors. There will be
no more trains that day, except a special one for his
Imperial Highness the Prince Romanovsky and his suite.
—Poet cor.

The first-class railway carriages, built upon the
American plan, are extremely convenient, permitting
free passage up and down the centre, with an outside
gallery at the end for those who wish to enjoy the
fresh air. The country was very uninteresting :

For the first hundred versts it was bare and level as a
steppe, without a single tree to break the monotony of the
prospect. But as we neared Moscow, and left St. Peters-
burg further behind, the landscape became more mellow;
clumps of trees first appeared, then plantations, while the
open country became tinted with the green of the meadow
or the golden hues of the corn-field. Now and then the
fantastic spires of a Greek monastery cut the horizon, and
comfortable farmhouses gave reassuring indication of
human habitation. Then we had little rivers to cross,
over well-constructed bridges; and one of greater preten-
sions, called, I think, the Nidska (I do not pledge myself
to the orthography ), covered with a flotilla of curiously
constructed barges bringing down corn from the Volga fur
the consumption of the capital. We had rain in light
showers, even down teems and perfect torrents, with now
and then a flash of lightning or a gleam of sunshine; and,
lastly, some regular stoppages on the road, varying in dura-
tion from ten minutes to two hours, and giving the nobles
ample time for their tichi and the mujiks for their darling
vodka. You may depend upon it the opportunity was not
neglected, as at every station the refreshment room exhi-
bited the most motley groups imaginable, while the waiters
were embarrassed at once by the pressure of their duties
and the scarcity of change. Indeed, I cannot call to my
mind a single instance in which these truly conscientious
men being intrusted with a three-rouble note were enabled
to get back to the passenger who had intrusted it to him
before the departure of the train.—D. Ne es Car.

During a stoppage en route, the special train of
the Grand Duke Constantine arrived :

I got an excellent view of his Imperial Highness, who
came down upon the platform and nodded to and chatted
with everybody about him. It was pleasing to see the
confidence with which the humblest people came np quite
close to him, and the off-hand friendly way in which he
received their compliments. There were no soldiers, no
butt•ends of muskets to keep off the common herd, but
everything was trusting, kindly, and without any affectation
of condescension. He is a tall, slight, well made young
man, with good features and a pleasant expression, and
seems to be on the beat terms with himself and everyone
about him. He is, in short, the last man in the world
whom from his appearance I should reckon dstwerous or
disagreeable. Besides this. he has a considerable repute.
tion for wit and sarcastic humour, and many of his sayings
are in general circulation. I shall give you one or two as
specitre is. To enable you to understand the first, I must
premise that the Americans, whose wonderful sympathy
with Russia during the last war it was so difficult to under
stand, have made several excellent speculations in this
country, amongst others the contract for keeping the lltos•
cow railway in repair, by which it is said they net a clear
profit of some 20:),00431. a year. The Grand Duke. who is
dissatisfied with this job, as well he may be, had lately
some distinguished friends on a visit, whom he handed
over to his chamberlain to show them the sights of the
capital. One day he asked that officer whether his friends
had seen all the sights, and being answered in the affirma-
tive, said, laughing, " Then go and show them the Ame-
rican contract, which is decidedly the greatest curiosity
that could be exhibited in any country.' The second

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story applies to his Imperial Highness's early days. He
was, as is well known, appointed to the nominal command
of the fleet when a child, but even at that early age was
anxious to make it a reality. One day when on board a
man•ofwar. he promoted an officer who pleased him, but
the appointment was not confirmed, while the young
admiral was reproved. The next morning he appeared
before the Emperor in full uniform and tendered his resig-
nation, adding that he was no admiral if he could not
promote whom he liked. It is needless to add that this
youthful burst cau.ed considerable amusement in the
highest quarter, and that the resignation was not accepted.
—lb.