The Press.
London, England, 1856-03-29 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANEA.

THE CONCORDAT is not yet quite settled at Vienna.
The act of the Internuucio, Mgr. Viale Prela, calling
together a synod of Austrian bishops, without taking
any notice of the convocation already made by the
Emperor, was discussed at a Council of Ministers on
the 15th. The result of this sitting has been to
despatch to Rome the Imperial Councillor Hoff-
mann. The number of antagonists to the Concordat
increases daily, and amongst the most important of
these is M. de Bruck, Minister of Finance. In this
sitting of the Council he is reported to have stated
without hesitation that the execution of the Con-
cordat rendered the realisation of his plans of refcrm
more difficult.
M. MAZZA, the notorious Director of the Neapolitan
Police, has lately published an exposition of his
political opinions, in which he attempts to prove the
superior benefits of absolutism, " that divine form of
Government, the only form which can insure the
amelioration of all classes." Absolutism M. Mazza
admits is his taith, his life, and the future of all the
prosperity of Naples, while he asserts that the great
majority of the kingdom fully and enthusiastically
agree with his principles. The pamphlet is regarded
in Naples as a feeler to ascertain the strength of his
party.

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THE ROUMANIANS RESIDENT IN PARIS have ad-
dressed a memorial to Count Walew•ski pointing out
the present unhappy state of Moldavia and Wal-
lachia, and praying for the union of the two princi-
palities under one sovereign independent State,
coupled with the Ottoman empire.
A REFORM OF ABUSES IN THE RUSSIAN ARMY

is being seriously carried out by the Emperor. We
learn from the columns of the Invulide Rune of the
15th that some battalions of the 6th Corps d'Armee,
lately sent from their depot to the Crimea, were de-
fectively equipped, and broke down en route from
ill-health and want of stores. The matter came to
the Emperor's ears, and a most severe order of the
day has been published, reprimanding the general in
command and the chief of the staff, whose duty it
was to inspect the troops previous to their departure,
and finally handing over to a court•martial the
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officers in command of the depot, to be punished
according to law. This order of the day has pro-
duced no little sensation in St. l'etersburg, as evincing
the determination of the Emperor to root out all
abuses. Great changes, it is said, are being made
in the personnel of the Russian army, whichlis hence-
forward to be organised on the Napoleon system.
THE MINUTES OF THE SITTINGS OF THE PLENI-
POTENTIARIES AT PARIS, according to the Inclepen-
dance Beige, are lithographed, twenty-five copies
being taken of each report. The process takes place
at the Foreign Ministry, the two printers employed
being under the ngid surveillance of a trustworthy
and venerable employe.
THE ANNUAL CEREMONY of washing the feet of
twelve old men and twelve old women, by the Em-
peror and Empress of Austria, took place last week
at the Palace of Hofburg, Vienna. The Emperor
and Empress performed the ablution in the presence
of the whole Court, and afterwards entertained the
old people at a dinner in the palace.
A CHARITABLE CONGRESS OF ALL NATIONS, to
meet at Brussels, in September this year, to discuss
the means of ameliorating the condition of the
working classes throughout Eurone, has been invited
by the members of the Societe Internationale de
Cbarite, established in Paris.
Kum, l'Acris, who lately died at Constantinople,
leaving some two or three millions sterling to the
Sultan, was originally a Georgian slave, purchased
by Khosrew Pacha (who died last year at the great
age of 103), by whom he was educated, and through
whose interest the young slave was gradually ad-
vanced from rank to rank till he became a paella,
and married one of the Sultan's sisters. Halil was a
man of varied abilities, and had filled the highest
posts in the empire.

THE YOUNG PRINCE IMPERIAL OF FRANCE WBS
first mounted guard over on Monday by the
dragoons of the guard. The post is commanded by
a captain, who takes his orders from Mme. Bruat,
the gouvernante. The Cent Gardes remain in
special attendance upon the Emperor and Empress.
AUSTRIA has not been favorable to the admission
of Prussia to the conference-table, if we may place
reliance upon a curious incident related by the
Times Berlin correspondent. Colonel Manteuffel,
who for some months has been on a mission to
Vienna, returned to Berlin on the 12th, the day on
which the Walewski despatch was presented inviting
Prussia to join. The first visit the colonel made
was to his cousin, the Minister-President, to acquaint
him with the result of his mission to Vienna. He
reported that, in a final audience he had had with
the Emperor of Austria, on Monday, the 10th, the
latter had assured him, with great expressions of re-
gret, that "there was no chance at all of Prussia
being invited." The Minister-President's answer
was—the despatch. The news of this written invita•
tion, adds the correspondent, being on the road was
received by this Government by telegraph on the
10th, and yet the Emperor of Austria, the indefati-
gable advocate of his rival being admitted together
with himself, did not know anything of the matter at
that date.
THE ELEVATIONS OF GENERALS CANROBERT AND
BOSQUET to the rank of Marshal wax first made
known to them at a dinner at the Tuileries. On Tues
day last, after the reception on the occasion of the
birth of the Prince Imperial, a grand dinner was
given at the Tuileries. At the dessert, the Emperor
caused the glasses to be filled, and then said
" Gentlemen, I propose the health of two men whom
I esteem and love, Marshal Canrobert and Marshal
Busquet!" The surprise and gratification of the two
marshals is said to have been evinced in a very
marked manner.
AN AUSTRIAN SURVEY OF THE PRINCIPALITIES is
announced from Vienna as about to be shortly
undertaken by some of their best engineer officers.
The object is to develop internal communication
throughout the principalities, by completing the two
main roads of the country to Hermanstadt and
Cronstadt. A direct line of rail also between Hun-
gary and Galatz, which would open up a vast event
of country, is also under consideration, Tranayl•
vania, through which this line would pass, abounds
In iron and coal,