The Press.
London, England, 1854-07-15 00:00:00

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It is announced that a meeting of the Vienna Con-
ference will shortly be convened for the consideration
of the Russian propositions.

The Emperor Napoleon has sent the Grand Cross
of the Legion of Honour to Omer Pasha.
Marseilles is suffering terribly from cholera. On
Saturday last the deaths were 59, on Sunday 05, and
Monday upwards of 100. The unfortunate soldiers
have hitherto been the greatest victims, particularly
the 4th Light Infantry. This regiment is almost in
its totality composed of recruits dragged from the
plough. The city is in a state of panic, business
is suspended, and an emigration on a large scale has
already taken place.
Further details have arrived of the check said to
have been suffered by the French expeditionary force
against the Kabyles. It is said that owing to some
mismanagement the troops were exposed to a galling
fire, in which a great number of men were killed, and
a general and two colonels were wounded. Fortu-
nately General Mac Mahon came up with a reinforce-
ment and prevented a more serious disaster. If this
be well founded, it will be necessary to send more
troops to Algeria. -

According to the last police reports of cholera in
St. Petersburg the number of cases under treat-
ment on June 30 was 405 ; the day previously it was
only 114; on the Ist of July there were 580. The
epidemic is making great ravages among the garri-
son of Cronstadt.

From Constantinople, on the Bth, we learn that the
merchants' quarter of Salonica has been destroyed
by fire. The loss of property is considerable.

Several of the ex-Greek ministers, as well as some
other influential individuals of rank, are to be indicted
for illegally appropriating the public money to forward
the Greek insurrection. Among the culprits are
General Spiro-Milios, formerly war minister at Athens;
Colonel Soutos, secretary of the war department ; and
General Vlachoupulos, military inspector. All have
acknowledged having received each between 300,000
and 400,0(X) drachmas intended for the insurrection,
but declined saying on whose account.
The pirates in the Archipelago have taken refuge
in the small islands, and the sea has again become
free.

The Madrid Gazette contains a proclamation from
the Queen calling on the insurgent officers and
soldiers to return to their obedience, and a pardon
will be granted to them.
An engagement is said to have taken place near
Valencia between the royalist and the insurgent
troops. The former took 54 prisoners, and the chief
of the rebels was killed in the action.

The Peninsular mail has brought letters from
Lisbon of the oth inst. They contain no political
news. The vine disease was spreading most fear-
fully, with almost certain ruin to the vine-growers
and their dependents.

A CABINET COUNCIL will be held at the Foreign-
office this afternoon, at two o'clock.
LORD ADOLPHUS FITZCLARENCE is to have the com-
mand of the Royal Albert, destined as the flag-ship
for the channel fleet.
THE METROPOLITAN MEMBERS waited upon Lord
Palmerston yesterday, on his lordship's invitation,
for the purpose of having laid before them the out-
lines of a plan for improving the sewerage of the
metropolis, and to hear their opinions on the subject.
YESTERDAY MORNING a most destructive lire broke
out on the extensive premises of Messrs. Cook and
Co., Manchester warehousemen, St. Paul's-church-
yard. The premises in which the disaster com-
menced are the shipping-offices and private dwellings
situated in Knowles-court, Carter-lane, Doctors.-
commons. By great exertions on the part of the
firemen the fire was at length subdued, but not
until considerable damage was done.

KOSSUTH AT GLASGOW.
LAST week there was a great gathering in the City-
hall, Glasgow, to hear M. Kossuth express his senti-
ments on the war question now agitating Europe.
Professor Nichol presided, and the names of several
reverend gentlemen are given as having been present.
The speech of Kossuth was distinguished by the
eloquence which his most determined opponents
cannot deny him, and the whole aim of it, as may be
imagined, was to show that Austria was no less to be
dreaded than Russia; that, to carry en the war with
vigour, the "oppressed nationalities of Europe,"
Lombardy, Poland, and Hungary, must be summoned
to the contest ; and that only by the reconstitution
of those countries would an effectual barrier be raised
to the aggression of the great northern monarchies.
No assurances of great states against territorial en-
croachment were to be depended on, he said, as such
encroachment was under certain circumstances an
inevitable result from their geographical position :