The Press.
London, England, 1857-07-18 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1857.

POSTSCRIPT.

Of the Italians who were at first arrested on the
serious charge of conspiring against the Emperor's
life, and who are still in prison, one or two have
avowel their guilt; the others deny it. In the
course of the investigations conducted by the autho-
rities no complicity has been brought home to any
of the French refugees of note in England. The
conspiracy is Italian, and essentially Mazzinian ; and
the object assassination. A commission of inquiry
is sent by the Government to Italy to collect further
inhumation as to the extent of the plot. This will
retard the trial, which will take place before the
Court of Assize instead of the High Court of Justice.

The United States mail steamship Ericsson, with
advises from New York to the ith, was off Holyhead
at 8.30 yesterday morning.

Intelligence has been received from Constantinople
to the 9th. The Presse d'Orient affirms that the
island of Perim belongs to Turkey. An engagement
had taken place in the plain of the liouban, between
Sefer Pacha and the Russians. The loss on both
sides is declared to be considerable.

His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon WAS
expected to arrive from the manufacturing districts
at Liverpool on Thursday night. The Reine Hortense
is expected to leave Liverpool this day for the Isle
of Man and the north-east coast of Ireland.

SWEDEN.

A letter from Sto•liholm of the oth says :

The discussion in the Diet on the chapters of the
budget relative to the army and navy has terminated by a
vote of the four Chambers favourable to the demands of
the Government; the representatives of the nation, gene-
rally so parsimonious, hosing shown more liberality than
the Ministry had hoped for. All the credits allowed to the
war department exceed those fixed in preceding budgets.
The Swedish Chambers have perfectly well understood the
change which has taken place since the Eastern war in the
political situation of Sweden and Norway, as regards their
powerful Northern neighbour. Sweden, in breaking off
het' alliances of 1,411, to contract as she did on the '2lst of
November, a closer one with the two great naval
powers of the Test of Europe, has felt the necessity of
being prepared in her new position for any eventuality that
may arise. The system of defence and fortifications drawn
up by a mixed commission of engineers and officers of the
staff will be definitively carried into execution in conse•
(pence of the above votes. As to the army, it is about to
receive a fresh organisation, which will allow of an impos-
ing force being always available. The greatest activity
now prevails in all the naval dockyards. A certain number
of the heavy and unwieldy line-of-battle ships are to be put
out of the service. and replaced by others on the model of
the best in the French and English navies. The innu-
merably fleet of gunboats, which on former occasions have
rendered such important services to Sweden, are also about
to have considerable improvements made in their system
of armament. The land and naval forces of Swetten and
Norway will be very shortly in a condition to stand the first
attacks of a powerful enemy.

LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.

Lord BnoroHAN moved an sdiress to the Crown
on the subject of the African slave trade in connec-
tion with the measures adopted by the French
Government in respect thereto. The noble lord sup-
ported his motion by recapitulating and commenting
upon a detail of circumstances which bave already
obtained general publicity, and undergote discussion
in both Houses of Parliament.

The Earl of CLARENDON, after att explanatory
speech, assented to the address.
The Earl of MALME4BURV having spoken, and
Lord Baouemat replied, the motion was agreed to.