The Press.
London, England, 1856-07-19 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

Sir G. GREY promised to take the third reading at
the morning sitting on Tuesday.
The house then went into committee successively
upon the Coast Guard Service Bill and the Mercantile
Law Amendment Bill; the clauses of both were
agreed to, with, in the latter bill, the exception of
clauses 2 and 8 struck out.

The Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer Bill was
read a second time, and immediately committed.
On the order moved by Mr. CRAUFURD for going
into committee upon the Judgments Execution, cfcc.,
Bill,

Mr. WurrEstnE objected to proceeding further
with this. hill, especially at that late hour, and moved
to defer the committee for three months.

This amendment was negatived by 51 to 39; but
the bill way withdrawn.

The Lords' Amendments of the Reformatory and
Industrial Schools Bill were considered, and their
clati,,e giving the magistrates power to send
juvenile criminals to reformatories without previous
imprisonment rejected.
On the order for going into committee upon the
Joint•stock Companies Winding-up Acts Amendment
Bill,

Mr. WHITESIDE, warmly denouncing the measure
as one which left a wide measure for fraud, moved to
defer the committee for three months.

The bill was defended by Mr. MALINS and op-
posed by Mr. HENLEY.

Upon a division the amendment was carried by 40
to 31; so the bill was lost.
The house was shortly after counted out.

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BRUSSELS, July 16.
THE Baron Richtofen has been appointed as the
Prussian plenipotentiary at the Danubian Confer.
ences, so that Austria will be met with a check
inimical to the intrigues that are working to secure
the predominance of her exclusive interests. To M.
Bitter is deputed the care of superintending the
Prussian interests in the navigation of the Danube,
and to insist upon that freedom of use which Austria
has lately denied to Bavaria. In the principalities
the meetings in favour of a union are of daily occur-
rence. The Boyards, the professors of public in-
struction, and the merchants, are unanimous in their
adhesion to this principle of reform. At Galatz,
Folichany, and Tekutch, strong demonstrations have
been made, and the Bishop of Moldavia, from the
pulpit, enjoined his congregation to exert themselves
in bringing about this salutary measure. In pro-
portion as the population evinces its determination,
the brutal insults of Austria increase. Prince Ghika,
on that account, resigned his office, and, although
the Porte refused to accept the resignation, and the
prince had consented to retain the exercise of his
powers until August, yet fresh indignities on the
part of Ccunt Coronini have induced him to adhere
to his first resolution. The tone assumed by the
Austrian commander in his communications was
that of command. "It matters not what your high
ness may think or do, or what your Courts may
decide, Austria has those means at hand that can
enforce her designs." Again :—" Your highness is
influenced by demagogues that it shall be my care to
look after." Prince Ghika has been untiring in his
opposition to the tyranny of the Austrians during
their occupation of the principalities. Against mal-
treatment and insult he has stood firm, and the effect
which his example has had in concentrating a
national antagonism to the unprincipled invaders has
been the cause of the misconduct of Count Coronini.
Counter petitions against the project of union have
been secretly got up, under the auspices of the Aus-
trian Consul, by M. Th-- B—. Signatures have
been obtained by purchase, intimidation, and forgery,
and the anti unionist petition, when forwarded to
Constantinople, will no doubt be duly seconded by
the Minister of Austria at the Porte.
General de la Marrnora, at a Council of Minis-
ters held. at the Castle of Pollengo, under the presi-
dency of the King, advised that the fortifications of
Alexandria should be completed, and the frontier
fortresses repaired and strengthened. The " ordi-
nanza " had been long expected, and is now put
forth. Under the guarantee of treaties, Austria has
the right, under certain conditions, of garrisoning
Piacenza, but such stipulation does not give them
the power of making new works and multiplying the
defenses elsewhere. The forts of Piacenza are not
only rebuilt, but others are in progress of construe
Lion in every part of the country; so that precau-
tions, on the part of the Sardinian Government, be-
come a matter of necessity.
At last Lord Normanby has made his appearance
at Parma. He has had several interviews with the
larquis Pallavieini, Count Crenueville, and the

SATURDAY,

Duchess Regent. Acting under particular iustruc-
lions, the English Minister has, to all appearance,
a straightforward course to follow, but individually
he is perfectly unable to cope with the subtle politi-
cians with whom he has to deal.

After having created during his Papacy fourteen
cardinals, Pio Nono is about to add two more names
to the list of canonised priests. These candi-
dates for an aureole are the Fathers Cottolengo of
Turin, and Fabre. The ultramontane journals are
divided in their estimation of the relative virtues of
the new saints, some vehemently insisting for the
priority of the virtues of Padre Cottolengo,over the more
abbreviated glories of Padre Fabre. In favour and in
compliment to these Roman worthies of the calendar,
the Papal intention has been signified that Altnia
Christina of Savoy, the wife of Ferdinando Second()
of Naples, shall bear them company in their abode
of beatification. It has been necessary, by order i f
the Pope, to institute inquiries into the particulars
of the life of this Royal Princess. This is wroti;:.
The delicate investigation should have preceded the
announcement of canonisation, for now the question
of propriety is raised, and will always be doubtful
whatever the result. Female reputation is more
difficult to defend after the tomb has closed upon
error than before that event. On the other hand,
apostolic affidavits of virtue are to be obtained with-
out difficulty, according to the Roman doctrine of
plenary absolution.
Ferdinand of Naples is not disposed to accept the
advice of England and France on the subject of
reform. In this determination he is strengthened
by the example and advice of the Pope. In the
interview at Porto d'Anzio the Pontiff declared his
intention to resist to the utmost the proposal for a
secular Government, however modified. At the same
time he reproved the "Re assoluto " for having
brought priests and nuns before a common and pub.
lie tribunal. C. A. H.

foreign anZI 01,olonial 3nttliigente.

SPAIN.
INSURRECTION IN MADRID.
;lion broke out in Madrid on Monday

An i.
night.

General Espartero in the course of the day
resigned his office as President of the Council. The
Queen accepted his resignation, and charged Marshal
O'Donnell with the formation of a Ministry.

The intention of the new Government to disarm
the National Guard and effect a coup d'itat against
the Liberal party gave rise to the revolt.. Ou the
first attempt of the garrison of Madrid to effect the
disarment of the National Guard the insurrection
broke out. The troops were resisted and some sharp
street fikhting occurred. During Tuesday the con-
test continued ; in the afternoon a suspension of
hostilities was agreed upon. By Wednesday morn-
ing the rebels, headed by Pucheta, were driven
in at every point, and the insurrection suppressed.
The following telegraphic despatch was received
on Thursday at Paris :

Madrid, Thursday.
The insurrection has been suppressed, after a combat
which lasted thirty hours, and was fiercely obstinate. The
dead are very numerous. Pucheta is killed.;
The National• Guard has been disarmed.
Forty of the Deputies now present at Madrid, having
associated themselves to convene the Cortes in a legal
manner, were dispersed by the troops.
The whereabouts of Espartero is still unknown ; he is
probably at Saragossa or at Logrono.
It is asserted that the insurrection has been victorious at
Saragossa, and that the garrison there goes along with the
people..

. .
By the news from Barcelona it would appear that
Catalonia is also in a state of insurrection.

The Queen had reviewed the garrison, and been
well received by the troops and people.

FRANCE.

The Emperor still continues at Plombieres.
The insurrection at Madrid and throughout Spain
causes considerable interest in Paris.

The text of the proposilion some time since pre-
sented to the Senate for the erection of a monument
in memory of the late war has been published. It is
proposed to erect a column, similar to that in the
Place Vendome, between the Church of St. lien: -
vieve and the Palace of the Senate in the Boulevard
Sevastopol.

Great preparations are being made at Marseilles
in anticipation of tho arrival of Marshal Pelissier.

AUSTRIA.
The Empress was delivered of a daughter on the
12th inst.

A limited amnesty for political offences and
restoration of confiscated property has been granted
by the Emperor. •
M. de Bruck is suffering from indisposition.
The reply of the Neapolitan Government to the
Austrian note had been received. The King de-
clined to make those administrative and judicial

JULY 19,_1856,,

reforms pointed out by the Court of Vienna. A
second note had been despatched by Count Buol to
N spies.
Baron Werner, sent on a secret mission to Italy,
has returned to Vienna.
RUSSIA.
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The coronation of the Emperor is officially fixed
for the 31st of August.
On the 20th the Emperor will leave Peterhoff for
the Chateau Pietrovski, and on the 22nd make his
solemn entry into Moscow.
The Grand Duke Michael is betrothed to the
Princess Cecilia of Baden.
General Paniutine has been nominated Governor-
General of Warsaw.
Count Kisseleff has been appointed Russian Am-
bassador at Paris.
ITALY.
A decree of the Bth July, issued by the King of
Sardinia, commands the extraordinary outlay of
1,000,000 lire for fortifications to be erected around
Alessandria.
The Austrian generals are putting Ancona into a
state of defence, and repairing and strengthening the
several fortresses of the Legations.
General Crenneville has not retired from Parma,
nor raised the state of siege.
The Governor of Narini, in the Papal States, was
assassinated on the night of the 2nd inst.
THE PRINCIPALITIES.
A despatch from Bucharest, July 16, states that
the Hospodar Ghika has been appointed Caimacan
of Wallachia, and Theodore Baloch Caimacan of
Moldavia.
INDIA AND CHINA. _

Intelligence from Calcutta to the 3rd June, and 10th
June from Bombay, brings news of an apprehension
of a second rising of the Santhals, and of an actual
insurrection in Kimedy in the Madras Presidency.
In Gude the Rajah of Toolsepoore had resisted
payment of his rents, and taken up arms; a strong
force was being organised against him.
Lord Canning was unwell at Calcutta. The com-
pletion of all public works costing above 1,0001. havo
been stopped.
AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES.
Advices from New York to the sth state that the
admission of Kansas into the Union as a free State
bad passed the Hnuse of Representatives on the
2nd inst. by a majority of one.
The Governor-General of Canada prorogued Par-
liament on the Ist inst. until the flth of August.
Intelligence from Central America states that a
combined movement between Costa Rica, Guatemala,
San Salvador, and Honduras, was being organised
against Walker at Nicaragua.