The Press.
London, England, 1857-11-14 00:00:00

THE INDIA RELIEF FUND.

AMONG the recent contributions to this fund is one
from his Majesty the King of Greece, who has for-
warded through his Minister at the British Court a
cheque for 4001., with an intimation that he had
directed that lists of subscriptions to the fund should
be opened by the prefects throughout his kingdom.
His Majesty the King of Sardinia has also contri-
buted a donation of ten thousand francs, and several
members of his Majesty's Government have libe-
rally subscribed in aid of the fund. Information has
been received from Constantinople that the contribu-
tions made there already exceed 1,1001., and are ex-
pected to be considerably increased. A donation of
2501. has also been received from his Highness the
Maharajah Duteep Singh, with expressions of spe-
cial interest in the case of native Christians Rh o may
have been reduced to a state of distress in conse-
quence of the mutinies.

MR. NEWDEGATE, M.P., ON 1 NDIA.—LI3III Cal-
thorpe, Mr. C. B. Adderley, M.P., Mr. B. Spooner,
M.P., and Mr. C. N. Newdegate, ➢I.P., were present
on Monday evening at a dinner which was given to
the Mayor of Birmingham. In the course of his
speech Mr. Newdegate adverted to the mutiny in
India. He h►►d not raised his voice in unison with
that cry for vengeance which had justly risen from
the people. He hoped, however, that the mutiny
would be put down with an iron hand, and that the
murderers of women and children, the enemies of
England and of the human race, would find that
severe retributive justice would visit them, which
their horrid deeds called for from the laws of God
and man. He had warned the Government of this
country that the contest would not be light, and that
they must not expect a speedy return of the troops
they had sent out, and that therefore those troops
ought to be replaced by others for the defence of
England itself. He hoped that warning would be
taken, for while we are restoring the stability of our
empire in India we must not forget the safety of our
own land. Mr. Spooner endorsed the sentiments
which Mr. Newdegate had uttered.

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jortign anb Colonial intelligence.

FRANCE.

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The financial crisis and the pressure brought to
bear upon the Emperor by the Ministers has ex-
tracted from his Majesty the following excellent letter
upon the position of affairs. The letter is addressed ,
to M. Magne, the Minister of Finance, and was
published in Tuesday's Moniteur :
Monsieur le Ministre,--I see with pain that, without
an apparert or real cause, public credit is assailed by
chimerical fears and by the propagation of soi•disant reme-
dies for an evil which only exists in the imagination. In
preceding years, it must be owned, there were some
grounds for apprehension. A. succession of bad harvests
compelled us to export annually many hundreds of millions
in specie to pay for the quantity of corn of which we
stood in need, and yet we were able to meet the crisis and
to defy the sad predictions of alarmists by a few simple
measures of prudence taken momentarily by the Bank of
France. How is it, then, that at the present moment it is
not understood that a similar measure, rendered still more
easy by the law which allows an increase of the rate of
discount, must suffice a fortiori to preserve to the Bank
the specie which it wants, es we are in a much better con-
dition than we wt re in last year, having had an abundant
harvest and a most considerable metallic reserve in the
Bank?
I therefore beg of you publicly to deny ell the absurd
projects attributed to the Government, the propagation of
which so easily causes alarm. It is not without some
pride that we may state that France is the country in
Europe where public credit rests on the broadest and on
the most solid basis. The remarkable report you ad-
dressed to me thereon is the proof thereof. Give heart
to those who are vainly alarmed, and assure them that I
am firmly resolved not to employ those empirical means
which have only been had recourse to in circumstances,
happily so rare, when catastrophes beyond human fore-
sight have befallen the country.
May the Almighty have you in his good keeping.
NAI'OLEON.

Palace of Compidgne, Nov. 10.
The Moniteur publishes the following decrees re-
moving the prohibition against the exportation of
corn:—
The decree of the '22nd of September, 1857, is revoked
(rapporte) as regards the prohibition of the export of grain
and flour, potatoes and vegetables (legumes sees), chest-
nuts, and the flour of the same.
The decree of the 213th of October, 1854, which prohibits
distillation from corn and from any other farinaceous sub-
stance used as food is revoked (rapporte).
The distillation from corn or from any other farinaceous
substance used as food must be so managed that the
residue thereof may be used as food for cattle.
Any disregard of the above regulations may lead to a
prohibition to distil from farinaceous substances.
The decrees of the 11th of February and the 30th of
July, 1857, are also revoked (rapporles) as regards the dis-
tillation from rice and foreign grain.
The Moniteur of Thursday publishes an impetial
decree, by which the Corps Legislatif is summoned
to meet on Saturday, the 2sth of November.
The death of M. Abbatucci, Keeper of the Seals
and Minister of Justice, is also announced in the
Monitcur as having taken place on Wednesday
evening.