The Press.
London, England, 1858-01-16 00:00:00

THE PRESS, JANUARY 16, 1858.

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would have been brought back to their friends at the
expense of their country.
For the above reasons, which appear to my mind quite
sufficient, I have disarmed and sent to the United States
Gen. Wm. Walker awl his outlawed and piratical followers,
for trial, or for whatever action the Government in its wis-
dom may think proper to pursue.
A despatch from Washington, Dec. 28th, says :
The Cabinet hail the matter before them to-day. Al-
though the arrest of General 'Walker is not strictly
justified by the instrucions to Commodore Paulding, it 1
is conceived that the case is very much palliated by
the circumstances under which, as explained by him, it
was effected.
The excitement in the south is very intense. A
despatch from New ()cleans, of the 29th ult., says :
The receipt of the news of General Walker's capture
caused general indignation in this city. The announce-
ment was made at Spaulding and Rogers' Amphitheatre,
and the St- Charles Theatre, causing great excitement.
A meeting to express the fet-lings of the community is
called fur twelve o'clock to-morrow. The feeling in
favour of the reinforcement of Col. Anderson is intense.

that Captain Ommanney, of her Britannic Majesty's
shipßrunswick, wished to take part in the capture
of -Walker and his men ; but they were Americans,
and Commodore Paulding reserved the right of
°punishment to himself. Walker asserted on board
the Wabash that if the English had landed a force he
would have fought them, doing all the damage he
could, and then taking to the bush, or, to use his
own expression, " If you had landed with red coats
oe I would have done you a great deal of damage. I
would have fought to the last man." The Fulton was
to remain at Greytown and arrest Anderson's party.
The Susquehanna was also there.
The news of Walker's arrest had created intense
excitement in New York. According to the Washing-
ton correspondent of the New York Times, Commo-
dore Paulding's energetic proceedings did not meet
with the approval of the Government, his instruc-
tions being intended only to prevent Walker landing.
The correspondent says :
The Administration is very emphatic in repudiating the
action of Commodore Paulding, and denouncing it as a
violation of the sovereignty of Nicaragua and of the Ameri-
can constitution. Our power over the filibusters, it is
held, ceased the moment they had entered upon the juris-
dicti3n of a foreign power. There is no doubt that Com-
modore Paulding will ba at once ordered home for trial.
Walker's friends express the conviction that Commodore
Paulding acted under secret instructions. In proof of this
they cite the fact that it has been repeatedly predicted that
England and the United States would pursue him upon
Nicaraguan soil. I learn also that a week ago the British
Minister, in conversation with a gentleman, suggested as a
suppositious case precisely what has happened through
Paulding's act, at the same time agreeing that it would be
a violation of international law, but saying that Nicaragua
would not complain. Nevertheless, the Administration
positively denounces Paulding's course, denying that it was
even anticipated.
Walker on his arrival in New York was accom-
panied by Marshal Rynders, T. F. Meagher, and
Malcolm C ampbell :
He was received with cheers by a large concourse of
people as he entered his quarters at Brown's Hotel.
Walker and Rynders called at the State Department this
evening. General Casa said that the Executive Depart-
ment of the Government did not recognise Walker as a
prisoner, and that it was only throngh the action of the
judiciary that he could be lawfully held to answer any
charge against him. Marshal Rynders then informed
Walker that he had no authority to detain him further, and
both withdrew.
But this is not all. A later despatch from New
York of Dec. 31st states that Commodore Paulding
had been ordered home, to be tried by court-martial
for his violation of the Nicaraguan territory. The
excitement was declared to be " increasing through-
out the States." The enlistment of filibusters was
" progressing with much spirit ;" 800 men had left
Texas for Nicaragua, and there were about 1,400
more at New York awaiting shipment.
Finally, a despatch from Washington says that
Walker demands that Government shall convey him
back to Nicaragua in a national vessel, and salute
his flag on arriving at the isthmus ! Walker himself
is about to proceed to New Orleans, where " the
excitement in his favour is intense."
The following is the commodore's explanation of PRUSSIA.
his conduct, dated Aspinwall, Dec. 15 : The Chambers were opened on the 13th by the
I could not regard General Walker and his followers in President of the Council of Ministers, M. de Man-
any other light than as outlaws who had escaped from the teuffel, who made allusion in the Royal Speech to the
vigilance of the officers of the Government, and left our malady of the King, adding that he hoped soon to
shores for the purpose of rapine and murder, and I saw no see his Majesty completely re-established. The
other way to vindicate the law and redeem the honour of Minister also mentioned the approaching marriage
the country than by the disarming and sending them of Prince Frederick William ; and in reference to the
home. In doing so lam sensible of the responsibility 1
Holstein-Lauenhurg question, said that Prussia, in
have incurred, and confidently look to the Government
for my justification. Regarded in its true light, the case common with the
. other German Governments, would
appears to me a clear one, and the points few and strong. persist in maintaining the rights and interests of
Walker came to Point Arenas from the United States, Germany. In addition to the Budget, the Speech
having in violation of laws set on foot a military organise- announced the presentation of Projets de Loi upon
tion to make war upon a people with whom we are at peace. the subjects of Banks, some commercial Treaties,
He landed there with armed men and munitions of war, in and the suspension of ths law on usury. The
defiance of the guard of a ship of-war placed there to pre- Revenue had so far increased, that, independently of
vent his landing. With nothing to show that he acted by the amount required to meet certain extraordinary
authority, he formed a camp, hoisted the Nicaraguan flag,
exenses, it would permit of an augmentation of the
called it the head-quarters of the army of Nicaragua, and
salaries
signed himself commanderin-chief. With this pretension of some minor employes of the Government.
he claimed the right of a lawful government over all per- SPAIN.
persons and things within sight of his flag. Without right
or authority be landed fifty men at the month of the River Her Majesty the Queen opened the Cortes on the
Colorado ; seized the Port of Castillo in the San Juan 10th in a speech of great length, announcing
River, captured steamers and the goods of merchants in measures of compensation for the sale of the Church
transit to the interior, killed men and made prisoners of lands, for the improvement of the navy, great public
the peaceful inhabitants, sending to the harbour of San works and railways, &c. Extraordinary credits will
Juan del Norte some thirty or forty men, women, and be avoided, and the Cortes are urged to vote the
children in the steamer Morgan. budget of 1859 this session if possible.
In doing these things without the show of authority M. Bravo Murillo was elected President of the
they were guilty of rapine and murder, and must be re- Chamber of Deputies the next day, defeating the
ganled as outlaws and pirates. They can have no claim to
be regarded in any other light. Humanity, as well as law, Government candidate, M. Mayans, by eight votes.
The followin da Ministers tendered to the Queen
justice and national honour, demanded the dispersion of g y
these lawless men. The remnant of the miserable beings their resignations, which were not accepted.
who surrendered at Rivas were conveyed in this ship last TURKEY.
summer to New York, and their sufferings are yet fresh in
A telegraphic despatch, dated Constantinople, Jan
the memory of all on board.
11th, says that in consequence of the death of Red
Besides the sufferings that must necessarily be inflicted schid Pacha, Aali Pacha has been appointed Grand
upon an innocent and nnoffending people, these lawless
Vizier ; Fuad Minister of Foreign Affairs ;
followers of General Walker, misguided and deceived into
and Mehemet Kiprili Pacha to the head of the I an-
a course of ?crime, would doubtless have perished in
Central America, or their mutilated and festered bodies zimai.

4orttgn anb (Colonial Intelligent.

FRANCE.
The Moniteur publishes the text of a treaty of
commerce concluded with Siam.
The funeral of Mlle. Rachel took place on Monday
last. An immense crowd attended. Jules Janin
delivered an eloquent speech over the grave.

AUSTRIA.
A Vienna correspondent of the Frankfort Journal
writes as follows upon the recent assertion of the
Paris Spectateur, that a secret treaty had been agreed
upon between Austria and England :
Almost all the journals are now more or less engaged in
discussing the statement made by the Spectateur of Paris,
that about the middle of last year a protocol was signed
here between Austria and England, drawn up in four
articles, by which those two powers mutually engaged to
defend each other in case of either being attacked, and to
undertake nothing without previous concert. I refrain
from inquiring whether or not such a protocol does exist ;
but in either case it is evident that those powers have
acted as if they had concluded such a convention. This
has been clearly observable in the disputes upon Eastern
affairs, as well as upon many other questions. The
pressure which had been brought to bear on the Italian
States has ceased, and in the Holstein affair England has
taken the side of Germany. Austria, on the other hand,
has warmly vindicated the position of the other power at a
time when it was pretended at Paris that Great Britain
would be reduced by the Indian revolt to a second-rate or
third-rate power.
It is stated that the Austrian Cabinet is drawing
up a memoir to be submitted to the Congress of
Paris, in which the question of the conference having
the right to examine, and give its approval to, the
treaty of navigation of the Danube, is set forth at
length. The convention, we believe, is signed.
The Emperor of Austria has issued an order of
the day expressive of his profound grief at the loss
he has experienced by the death of Radetzky.