The Press.
London, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

Magnificent presents have been sent by the Sultan
to Queen Victoria, in addition to those sent to the
Emperor of the French and the King of Sardinia.
The Persian Government has recognised the
rights of the English consuls, and the differences
hitherto existing have been completely accom-
modated.

A deFpatch:from Vienna announces the arrival of
Count Buol on the 22nd via Brussels and Dresden.
The ratifications of the treaty were to leave at once
for Paris.

The Pope, according to the Milan Gazette, will
leave Rome for Faris on the 15th of June. Former
reports lead us to believe that his holiness was to
perform the baptismal service by proxy.

Advices from St. Petersburg state that Prince
Leichtenstein, bearing the Czar's ratification of
peace, may be expected to arrive in Paris about the
30th inst.

A report has been published of an important
speech delivered by Count Walewski on the Bth of
April at a sitting of the Congress. M. Walewski ap-
pears to have invited the plenipotentiaries before part-
ing to a brief consideration of the political state of
Europe. Starting from the Piraeus, M. Walewski
remarked that the condition of Greece was far from
satistt.ctory, that the Papal States were in an ab-
normal situation, and that the cause of order required
that the Government of the Two Sicilies should be en-
lightened upon the wrong course it was pursuing ;
while the liberty of the press in Belgium, through
which the institutions of France were especially in-
sulted and reviled, to the danger of the internal
tranquillity of the empire, demanded repression, and
that on this point the French Government would
regret being compelled directly to interfere. It
hoped that the representatives of the great powers
would advise the Belgian Government to put an end
to a state of things which would certainly produce
difficulties and even dangers it was the interest of
Belgium to avert. In conclusion, the Count pro-
posed that the Congress should crown its labours
by a declaration of a maritime code for war on the
following principles, viz.—

1. The abolition of La Course. 2. That neutral mer-
chandise covers enemy's merchandise, except contraband
of war. 3. That neutral merchandise, except contraband
of war, cannot be seized even under an enemy's Hag. 4.
That a blockade is only obligatory so far as it is real.

DR. MANDT, the homcsopathic physician of the
late Emperor Nicholas, who, after the decease of his
Imperial patient, retired to Frankfort•on-the-Oder,
has been summoned by the Empress Mother to
return to Russia and give her the benefit of his
medical advice. The Empress Mother proposes to
visit Berlin in May, to proceed then to Stuttgard
Hohenzollern, and some German springs, to return
to Moscow for the Emperor's coronation in August,
and then to spend the winter in Sicily.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the
Foreign-office, and sat two hours and a half. On
Tutsday a Court of Privy Council was held at
Buckingham Palace, at which the Earl of Clarendon
attended. Later in the afternoon a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign-office, at which all the
Ministers, including the Earl of Clarendon, were
present.

A meeting of Cabinet Ministers was held at the
War Department yesterday. Lord Palmerston, Lord
Fanmure, Sir George Grey, Sir Charles Wood, and
Lord Hardinge were present.
The Earl of Clarendon left Paris on Saturday
forenoon, reached Folkestone the same evening, and
arrived in town on Monday evening.
The third report of the commissioners of the
Exhibition of 1851 has appeared. The total balance
on hand amounts to 101,7621., which will be ex-
pended in the purchase of the Hanington estate.
The Rev. Henry Melvill, 8.D., has been appointed
by the Queen to the Canonry of St. Paul's, vacant by
the promotion of the Bishop of Carlisle.

THE PLENworEsmotEs, on arriving at their
hotels iu Paris, after taking leave of the Emperor,
found an official notification that the Emperor des-
tined for each of them a copy of that grand work,
the "Iconographic, Grecque et Romaine," as a
souvenir of their sojourn in Paris.
The Thunderbolt floating battery was launched on
Thursday from Mr. Sounder's yard at Blackwall.
She is 2,000 tons burden, 186 feet in length, 48 feet
6 inches it, breadth, and in depth 18 feet 6 inches,
with a draught of 7 feet 2 inches aft. She is spoon-
bowed, framed, and plated, like an ordinary iron
ship. Outside the plating planks of teak, six inches
thick, are bolted, and over these are plates of iron
four inches thick. This sheathing of wood and iron
is expected to be proof against shot or shell. The
sessel can be moved backwards and forwards with
eat facility, and is propelled by a screw, worked by
high •pressure horizontal engines of about 200 horse-
power, supplied with steam from four boilers.

SATURDAY,

HOUSE OF LORDS—Flunky.
THE NAVAL. REVIEW.

The misadventures which attended the journey of
noble lords to the review on Wednesday were again
adverted to, and sundry explanations on the subject
offered by Earl GRANVILLE.

MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.
Earl ST. GERMANS moved the second reading of his
bill to legalise under certain conditions the marriage
of a widower with the sister of his deceased wife.
The noble lord supported his measure by a long
array of arguments and precedents drawn from tho
laws and customs of almost every civilised nation.
The discussion on this measure was protracted to
a late hour, the Bishops of Oxford, Carlisle, St.
David's, and Exeter, the Earl of Albermarle, Lord
Dungannon, Earl Grey, Lord Congleton, the Earl of
Ellesmere, arid several other noble lords taking part
in the debate. On a division there appeared:—
Contents, 24: Non-Contents, 43-10. The bill is
consequently lost.
Their lordships adjourned at a quarter to twelve
o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY.
KARS.

Mr. J. G. PirimmoßE gave notice that upon Mr.
Whiteside's motion respecting Kars, which stood for
discussion on Monday next, he should move an
amendment, setting forth the opinion that the un-
fortunate result of the siege in question was chiefly
attributable to the ill-feeling which existed between
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and General Williams.