The Press.
London, England, 1856-11-15 00:00:00

POSTSCRIPI

Intelligence from Constantinople, Nov. 7, states as
follows :
Redschid Pacha has already presided as Vizier at a State
Council.
Mehemet Pacha will retain his post of Minister of
Marine in the new Ministry.
Find Pacha remains Minister of the Interior.
The Persians, who had taken Herat, have been expelled
by au Affghan army.

The Paris correspondent of the Times k see ,nd
edition), in his letter dated Thursday, says :

It is rumoured that the French Government is in cum•
plete accord with England relative to the Neapolitan ques-
tion; and is prepared, if neceisary, to assume a more
energetic attitude. The Marquis Antonini, King Ferdi-
nand's representative here, was yesterday informed by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs that there was no chance of his
staying in Paris, and that he and the whole of the Legation
will have tc retire. Ile expects to leave tomorrow or the
day after for Brussels, though I believe his passports have
not yet been delivered to him.

A telegraphic despatch from Cherbourg announces
that the Russian squadron, which had been expected
in that port, arrived there on Tuesday evening. It
was believed it would remain at Cherbourg a fort-
night or three weeks.

A letter from Vienna states that Sir Hamilton
Seymour, our ambassador, is to accompany the
Emperor of Austria to Italy, and that he is the only
member of the diplomatic corps who is to accompany
his Majesty.

The King of Denmark is suffering from a severe
attack of erysipelas in the head. He lies at the
Chateau of Fredericksburg.

Intelligence from Spain to the 9th inst. bas arrived.
The Estina says that the Queen, as a mark of
especial esteem, had presented the Duke de Valencia
(Narvaez) with the finest horse in her stables, and
had at the same time written him a flattering auto-
graph letter. The Queen ordered the equerry
charged to present the horse to tell the duke that if
he did not like the animal, he might exchange it for
any other she possessed.
The Hoja Autografa says, that the Civil Governor
of rilatirid has forbidden the discussion of politics in
coffee-houses and other places of public resort, and
has made the owners of such establishments respon-
sible for the execution of his orders.

LEGAL APPOISTMENTS.-It is reported, and there
is every reason to believe correctly, that Sir A. Cock-
burn will accept the Chief Ju-Aiceship of the
Common Pleas, and that Sir Richard Bethel! will
succeed to the office of Attorney-General. No arrange-
ment has yet been made with respect to the appoint-
ment of Solicitor-General.

MR. BRIGHT, M.P.-31r. Bright, it is stated, has
left home for the Continent.. It is probable that be
will he absent for several monthq. and that, after pay-
ing a short visit to Algeria, he will spend the winter
in Italy.

THE PRESS.

4rtlant.

THE GREAT CASE OF " O'FLAHERTY T. M4DOWELL"
is set down for argument in the Court of Chancery
on Monday next. Mr. Whiteside, Q.C., leads on the
part of the plaintiff.
VISCOUNT DE VESCI is a candidate for the vacancy
caused in the representative peerage by the death of
Lord Hawarden. Lord de Vesci is connected by
marriage with the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert.
MR. T. DE Morryss, Q.C., of the Munster Circuit,
hss been appointed Crown Prosecutor at Limerick,
vice Mr. Michael Barry, promoted to a judgeship at
Perth, Western Australia ; and Mr. Denis C. Heron
has been appointed to a Crowu prosecutorship for
the county of Clare, vice Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald, Q.C.
MR. ALEXANDER SWANSTON, agent to the Duke of
Devonshire in Bandon, has become a candidate for
that borough. Mr. Wheeler, already mentioned as a
candidate, has just put forth an address, so that it
is not likely that the seat will be disposed of without
a contest. Mr. Wheeler protesses himself to be a
friend of civil and religious liberty, and to wish for a
fair adjustment of the landlord and tenant question.
None of the Earl of Bandon's family has yet come
forward.

THE DEATH OF MAJOR WILLIAM NUGENT MAC-
NAMARA, who for many years has represented his
native county (Clare) in the Imperial Parliament, is
this week announced. The gallant major's name is
long associated with one of the most memorable
events in the career of the late Mr. O'Connell. In
the latter's fatal duel with Mr. D'F,sterre, in 1815,
Major Macnamara acted as second to Mr. O'Connell.
The extensive estates of the deceased devolve upon
his son, Lieutenant• Colonel Macnamara, formerly of
the Bth Hussars, and now Lieutenant-Colonel of the
Clare Militia.

MR. SMITH O'Bnir.x, in the course of his letter
pleading inability to attend a public dinner given to
Mr. Kennedy at Louth, stated his views with regard
to the question of Ministerial patronage:—

I am not insensible to the force which lies in the
argument of those who say that the Irish are entitled, as
long as Ireland shall be connected with England, to a fair
share of the administrative patronage of the empire ; but
it seems to me that this legitimate object can be obtained
without degrading the representatives cf Ireland by ren•
dering them factors or brokers for the acquisition of situa-
tions for their constituents. Let the Irish nation advocate
and maintain the principle, that all offices ought to be
bestowed, not as rewards for political tergiversation, but
as the honourable recompense of services rendered to the
State, and charge their representatives with the task of
enforcing this principle, rather than with that of trafficking
for the benefit of influential individuals, and it will soon
be seen that Ireland will obtain her lair share of all situa-
tions of emolument in the empire.