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

FRANCE.

Since the discovery of the recent serious con-
spiracy the refugee question has been touched upon
by some of the French journals. The Pays of Tues-
day, speaking of the late conspiracy, writes :
Every attempt that has been made in France has been
made by Italians, and the men who will appear at the bar
of the Assize court of the Seine, nest month, are also
Italians. Such a state of things calls for a vigorous re-
pression. It is from London that all these attempts
emanate, and it is in London that the evil must be at-
tacked at its source. Energetic measures are called for
to give satisfaction to the interests of nations allied with
England, and to the public conscience which has been so
long outraged by revolutionary excesses.
It is generally believed that a meeting between the
Emperors of Russia, Austria, and of the French will
take place shortly in Bavaria.
Nothing is as yet decided about General Cavaignac,
M. Goudchaux, and M. Carnot, the newly-elected
deputies for Paris, taking the oaths to the Constitu-
tion and their seats in the Legislative Body ; but of
MM. 011ivier and Darimon, two less important mem-
bers of the democracy, there is no doubt.
RUSSIA AND PRUSSIA.

The fete of the Empress Dowager of Russia was to
be celebrated at Wildbad on Tuesday. The Emperor
Alexander, the Xing of Prussia, the Prince of Prussia,

and the Princes Charles and Albert, were to meet at
Wildbad on Tuesday morning.
The Empress will make a short stay at Weimar
and at Berlin on her return home.

SPAIN.

Intelligence from Madrid, July 15, states that the
Senate has approved the law for public instruction,
and that both the Senate and the Congress have voted
the Constitutional Reform as proposed by the Govern-
ment.
The disturbances in Seville have been put down
promptly, but with severe loss on both sides. Ac-
cording to the statement of the Civil Governor of
Cadiz, the insurgents met with no sympathy from
the population, and were only able to penetrate into
some thinly-inhabited villages.
TUSCANY AND THE POPE.
A rumour is very prevalent in Florence that the
Pope's visit will be signalised by the most calamitous
of all events to Tuscany—by the conclusion of a very
stringent concordat, and the entire repeal of the
Leopoldine laws. Of the nature of such a step, few
persons not Tuscan have any conception. It is not
hazarding too much to say that enormous powers
and privileges will be restored to the Church. The
following is a summnry of the Leopoldine laws which
are about to be overthrown :

The establishment of a uniform administration of civil
and criminal justice for blth clergy and laity, free from
clerical interference and Papal usurpation ; the abolition
of the inquisition ; the abolition of niortrnain; the aboli•
non of the right of sanctuary; the abolition of torture;
the reduction and partial suppression of conventual vows ;
the diminution of monks, nuns, and convents ; the
equalisation of church and lay property as regards taxa-
tion ; the abolition of parochial tithes ; the dispersion of
pilgrims ; the restoration of the Tuscan Episcopacy to its
ancient and legitimate authority ; the prohibition of non.
residence ; and, as the basis and guarantee of these truly
national measures, the suppression of the bull " in ca'na
Domini," and the declared invalidity of all Papal monitories
without the Sovereign's approval.
ASIATIC TURKEY.
Letters from Erzeroum of the sth ult. state that
the commission appointed to settle the Turco-Rus-
sian boundary in Asia had arrived at Gumri on the
11th, and had commenced operations the next day.
The commission, as is already known, is composed
of M. Pelissier, the French commissary (accompa-
nied by U. Saillard, secretary of the mission), Hus-
sein Paella for Turkey, Colonel Simmons for Eng-
land, and General Tcherikoff for Russia.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
The commissioners have terminated their prelimi-
nary labours at Bucharest, and an ordonnance of the
Kamaikan has appeared, regulating the elections for
the Divan ad hoc, according to the decision of the
commissioners.
A Paris letter, in the Nord of Brussels, says :

T understand that M. Thouvenel has been authorised
not to follow up the protest presented to the Porte against
the acts of the Kaimakan of Moldavia. The motive of this
abandonment is the measure adopted by the Porte of post-
poning from the P2th to the 27th inst. the elections of
Moldavia for the nomination of the members of the Divan,
in order that the electoral lists may be rectified conform-
ably to the demanda made by the commissioners of the
Congress of Paris. The advice of M. Thouvenel has led to
this policy of moderation. It has been approved of by the
representatives of Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia. Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe and M. de Prcicesch are said to have
strongly opposed the concession made by the Porte.