The Press.
London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

The absence of the French Ambassador, or of any
one to represent France, on that occasion has been
much remarked upon in Brussels ; but I know, front
good authority, that the Emperor has lately con
veyed to King Leopold the wannest assurances of
his friendship and congratulations on this event,
so auspicious for Belgium.

FRANCE.
The Emperor and Empress left Paris for Dieppe
on Saturday, arriving at that seaport aftor a journey
of two hours, and being received with much enthu-
siasm. On Sunday, Lord Cowley, the British Ambas-
sador, reached d►ieppe, and hail an interview on the
same day with the Emperor. The Princess Mathilde
arrived on the day following.
The Moniteur has published a decree pmmitlgating
the treaty of friendship, eketnnerce, and navigation
concluded at Santiago between France and Chili on
the :10th of June, lss'!, and ratified at St. Cloud on
the Nth of August, 1$5:1.
The sessions of the councils-generalwere opened in
every department of France on the :22nd, w►th the
exception of the department of the Seine. Accounts
have been received of the proceedings at the first
sitting of several of those councils. In all of them
the prefects have delivered speeches in which, as a
matt, r of course, the warmest encomiums were
passed on the Emperor Napoleon 111. and his ad-
ministration.
The intended journey of the Emperor to the north
is said to be postponed for the present.
An article appears in the Constitution!►rl of Wed•-
nesday upon the marriage of the Belgian Prince
with the Austrian Archduchess. The object of the
writer is to show the advantage of annexing Belgium
to France.
General Montholon, who shared the Emperor
Napoleon's captivity at St. Helena, has just died in
Paris. Ile leaves a widow (who is an Irish lady)
and a son, who cannot, however, it is believed, suc-
ceed to the title, in consequence of the circumstances
connected with his birth. General Month°lon must
have been more that seventy years old, and had
antlered occasionally and severely from a wound
which he received in battle under the Empire, and
which had never been thoroughly healed. The
general was with the Emperor Napoleon from a very
early age, and was a great favourite. He had at one
time a large fortune, but lost it in commercial and
manufacturing speculations. For some years his
111311118 must have been very limited.
The circus ordered by the Emperor to be built in
the camp of Satory for the amusement of the troops
will very soon be finished. The construction is con-
fided to M. Souhart, a chef-de-bataillon of engineers,
who on Friday last summoned to his aid M. Anima,
the director of the Hippodrome, with whom he
passed three hours in consultation. The Emperor
himself furnished the plans. The circus of Satory is
intended to emulate the vast Roman amphitheatres.
There will b►e eighteen rows of turf benches capable
of accommodating 15,000 spectators, so that the
whole army of Satory will be able to see the games
at the same time. The Hippodrome company will
perform there by the Emperor's orders.
AUSTRIA.

The Emperor of Austria was betrothed on the 19th
instant, at Isehl, to Princess Elizabeth, second
(laughter of Maximilian 11., King of Bavaria. The
princess was born on the 24th of December, 1837.
She has three brothers and four sisters. She is
granddan2hter of the l►►te King Maximilian Joseph
of Bavaria, cousin of the Emperor of Austria, and
nearly related to the Queen of Prussia.
The Emperor will proceed to the camp of Olmutz
on the 15th of September, and remain there for a
week, immediately after which the Federal Military
Commission will inspect the Austrian contingent.
The invitation given by the French Government to
send Austrian officers to the camp of Satory has been
followed by a polite reply, accompanied by a similar
invitation for French officers to be present at the
camp of Olmutz.
A memorandum has been communicated by the
Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Minister(
of the several Foreign Courts with regard to the
events at Smyrna.
The Government, it is stated, will be compelled to
resort to a new loan in October next, notwithstanding
the palliatives lately employed to mitigate their
financial difficulties.
IT .1 IX.
The Gionuzle di Ronu► announces the arrest of
certain Roman emigrants who had clandestinely
landed at Civita Vecchia, as well as that of their
accomplices who had given them shelter. Twenty-
nine persons had been already arrested, and among
the number was the advocate I'etr►ni of Bologna, a
man devoted heart and soul to the republican cause,
and late president of the Mazzinian committee in
Rome, but removed from that office by the republicans
themselves, after the events of Milan, which pro-
duced a split between the liberal parties. A con-
siderable mass of correspondence with Mazzini and

other leading men of his party was discovered in his
moms, besides papers calculated to reveal the whole
plans of the republicans and to implicate a vast
number of persons throughout the Roman Staten.
In the apartments of Signor bepri in the Poll Palace,
besides three of the foreign emissaries who lodged
there, the gendarmes seized upon a quantity of
papers, circulars, and the printing-press itself, whose
mysterious existence has so long puzzled the autho-
rities. Other arrests were expected to follow from
the revelations which the papers thus discovered
would bring about.
'the fe're of Napoleon was celebrated at Nice with
great kiat. ATe Defeat was celebrated in the church
of St. Dominique, and in the evening the French
Consul, Baron do Maussion, gave a grand ball to the
principal inhabitants There was a display of fire-
works given in the course of the evening.
The quantity of specie which is now leaving Pied-
mont for purchases of corn in foreign markets has
caused the national bank of Turin and its branch
establishments to raise their raw of discount from 4

to 5 per cent.
The Tuscan Monitore announces that fifty-eight
vessels buten with corn. from Oreece, the lowan
islands, Turkey, and the tllack Sea. eeiteied the port
of Leghorn between the Ist and 14th instant, that
seventeen vessels more from the Black Sea entered
on the 14th, three more on the 15th, and eight were
within sight on that day.

SPAIN.
The Madrid Gazette of the 17th publishes a decree,
signed by the Minister of Public Works, ratifying the
concession of several lines of railway.
M. Salamanea has arrived in Paris with the object,
as it is stated, of bringing out the project for making
a railroad from Madrid to Bayonne. It was that
project Which occasioned more than one Ministerial
crisis at Madrid.
PORTUGAL.
The session of the Cortes was closed on the 15th
by royal decree.
The prospects of the country were very unfavour-
able, owing to the rapid and general spread of the
grape disease. The grape shipments by the packets
would not, it was expected, reach more than ten per
cent. of the usual quantity. The price of wines had
risen considerably in consequence.