The Press.
London, England, 1853-10-22 00:00:00

Ocrostu Q 2, 1853.

At Mons the garrison has been increased to about
MOW men, and every railway train that enters the
fortress is subjected to all the precautions used in
time of war. These dispositions are said to be occa•
sioned by the strong military force concentrated at
Valenciennes, and in other French places near the
Belgian frontier. At the same time the works of
fortifications are pursued actively ia the ritinity of
Antwerp, mad will otter to builder+ a curious specimen
of military architecture. The works at the F►4e tie
Flantire, the Surrey side of Antwerp, are to be erected
on pokke ground, i.e.,on a former bog. Some of then►
had already been overturned. They are to be rebuilt
on an artificial foundation of earth, to a depth of
about eight metres. The mitres of officers have
been rapidly increased, and the army will, in a very
short time, be brought to the eil'ective►f itatosstmen,
fixed by the organic law recently passed.
The fracas about the Papal aggression is termi-
nated in Holland. The new Catholic prelates have
been recognised by the twermuent—on the condition,
however, that their patronymic names will always ac•
company their territorial titles. The seat of the
archbishopric of Utrecht is also to remain at Bois-le-
Due, for the purpose of ay.►iding all possible collision
with the Catholic „ansenist archbishop residing in
that city. The Rom, a Catholic relates are to enjoy
the same revenue, and for their official correspon-
dence the same exemption of postal duties anti other
privileges conceded to the other religious creeds, and
they have already divided their districts into deaneries
and other ecclesiastical divisions.

FRANCE.
Thursday's Maniteur contains a decree granting an
extram inary credit of 5,00,00 of. to the Minister of
the Marine. The Ministerial report on which this
decree is founded states that France has at present
two squadrons of forty ships-of-the-line, with a pro-
port' to increase in the number of steam-frigates
and corvettes. There is in the French navy a steam-
line-of-battle-ship, the Napoleon ; four with auxiliary
power, completed; while nine others are being fitted
for steam, and will be ready for sea within the next
two months. iix new steam-vessels, after the model
of the Napoleon, are on the stocks, and will be
launched about the end of 1854. The total of the
French navy amounts to lfil vessels, manned by
3:1,625 sailors, gunners, and marines.
The Emperor has given 1,0 00f. towards the erection
of a monument to the memory of Marshal Gerard.
Thu Tom'annals states that all the steam frigates
laid up in ordinary have been examined by the naval
surveyors. The instructions for this proceeding were
sent from Paris by telegraph, and the object was to
ascertain whether those vessels are in a fit state to
be armed and sent out to sea.
Orders have been given for the immediate nrma-
inent of the frigates Le Vauban, Descartes, Axmodie,
Cacique, Montezuma, and Panama.
It is stated that an intimation has been made by
the Minister of the Interior to the semi-official
journals that they are henceforth at liberty to discuss
the Eastern question as freely as they may think

proper.
Iskender lley, the favourite aide de-camp of Omer
Paella, has arrived in France. lie is charged with a
special mission for the Cabinets of Paris and London.
Young Prince Lucien Murat, who has served in
the last two expeditions in Algeria, in the quality of
private soldier, has just entered the Regiment of the
Collides as sub-lieutenant.
The Minister of War, having been informed that a
number of (iceman families have recently gone into
Algiers, without having the pecuniary resources re-
quired to obtain a concession of land, has ordered
that henceforth emigrants applying for a gratuitous
passage to the colony shall be obliged to prove that
they actually possess e,ooof. if they want to obtain a
concession of land, -100 f. if they be workmen with
families, and 100 f. if unmarried workmen.
The military school at Saint Cyr, which has
hitherto received pupils for the infantry service only,
is in future to receive pupils for the cavalry, and the
number is to he increased to 600.
The total of the importation of corn, &c., into
France amounts to :1010,(N0 hectolitres.
The Monilear of the 15th publishes, according to
custom, its report of the taxes and indirect revenue
for the three months just concluded, and a com-
parison between this and the corresponding quarter
of last year:—
" The month of September, Iht-1:1, has produced nearly
7,110U.001) more than the same month in 15.52. The
third quarter of 1st:1:1 is 17.000,000 stove that of 1$41;
a al the Dille first months of this year have exeeeded those
or last year by no less a sum than 39,:awrono. This
wovement is MO progres‘ive that it is impossible to attri-
bute it to any other cause than a general advance in the
national prosperity: anti this view is confirmed esiwcially
by the return of the indirect taxes. Ernie 1P4:11 to
the aunnal excess under this laud was stationary at
1!t,(0110.1 RCCOUIIt ell for by the regular increase of the
p Tulation ; but in loce2 it was 64t,ittin,Ittitt, as compared
with : and now the three first quarters of 1545:1
exceed the same 1 eriud of MI by about 10,0n0,00n. The
forward movement it nvt confined to one or two branches