The Press.
London, England, 1856-12-06 00:00:00

THE SECOND CONGRESS.

The period for the re•assembling of the Congress is
not yet fired, but preparations are making for the
immediate reunim of the Ministers. The Paris
correspondent of the Post (thud edition) gives the
following as the probable list of Ministers :—M.
Walewski, President ; Lord Cowley, her Britanic
Majesty's Representative ; M. Hubner, the Austrian
Ambassador; M. Kisseleff, the Russian Ambassador;
M. Hatzfeldt, the Prussian Minister; Djelmil Bey,
the Turkish Ambassador; and the Marquis Vlllatna-
rine, the Piedmontese Minister.

The Constitutionel of Thursday, in an article upon
the approaching Congress, makes the following re
marks :

The question will not be to recommence the labours of
the Congress, nor to change the text or the decisions of the
treaty. But what remains for the conference to establish
is the correct interpretation of certain points which have
appeared dubious. The conference will this time be corn-
posed of the second plenipotentiaries, and will, in all pro-
bability, be of very short duration. Nevertheless, it does
not appear certain that all the difficulties have been solved
beforehand; it is to be believed that matters are less
advanced on this point, and that each power maintains its
particular views relative to the question at issue. But
either the accord will be established by mutual conces-
sions, as we hope, or by the result of a vote and a majority.
In either case, a satisfactory solution is without a doubt.
The object of the conference is therefore to interpret cer-
tain contested points of the treaty of Paris, and to enforce
its speedy execution.
The Vienna correspondent of the Times (second
edition), in a letter dated Dec. 1, says, with reference
to Bolgrad
The Bolgrad question is not likely to lead to a rupture
between the allied powers, but it is not so certain as could
be wished that the town at the north-east extremity of the
Lake Yalpuck will eventually form part and parcel of
Moldavia. The foregoing information is from an excellent
source, and is probably correct.
A letter from Constantinople received at Vienna
states that the Porte has revoked the resolution
which it bad come to of interdicting the national
Divans of the Principalities to discuss the question of
the union. "Tbe divans will now have the right to
make known to the Congress of Paris the wishes of
the provinces which they represent."

Intelligence from New York to the 22nd ultimo
arrived yesterday at Southampton.
The election returns are not yet fully completed.
No tidings had reached New York of the missing
boats of the Lyonnais.
Some recent storms on the lakes have been very
disastrous to shipping.

The New Orleans Delta alludes to a rumour that
Mr. Buchanan is about to throw over the extension-
of-slavery question, and thus sketches the duty of the
newly-elected President:--
lie
ewes his election to the vote of the South, and to
the defiant attitude of resistance which she was beginning
to assume. He should bear that fact well In mind. He
will be a traitor and insensible to every manly feeling of
gratitude if he forget it and disregard the obligation it
implies. Then let him live up to the letter and spirit of
the Ostend letter; let him look to our interests in Cuba,
which, by right of geography and of political necessity,
should he ours. Let him fortify Walker in Nicaragua, and
forestall Spanish and French designs upon Mexico ; let
him place the Great Tehuantepec route beyond the hazard
of being lost to us by securing the grant of a strip of terri-
tory across that isthmus. The acquisition of Cuba in
defiance of England and France would not split the Union,
it would strengthen it. The regeneration of Central
America by Walker, in alliance with the United States,
would lead to the gradual emancipation of the West Indies
from the infamous free negroism established by the enemies
of American republicanism.

M. HAUSMANN, the Prefect of the Seine, has ac-
knowledged in the most handsome manner the mag-
nificent subscnption of 500/. towards the Inundation
Fund, by that princely Parsee Sir Jamsetgee Jeeheeboy.
Such generous proofs of sympathy, observes M
Hausmann, in his letter to the Lord Mayor, " attract

THE PRESS.

the marked attention of the entire French nation,
and, in addition to the political tie uniting the two
Governments, create nearer ties of friendship be.
the two peoples."

THE APPEAL ON ARCHDEACON DENISON against the
sentence of deprivation was rejected yesterday by the
judgment of Sir John Dodson, Dean of the Court of
Arches. The appeal will now be made to the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council.

THE enthronisation of the Right Rev. C. T. Longley,
D.D., Bishop of Durham, took place on Thursday.
Archdeacon Bland acted as the Bishop's proxy.

THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK list of contributories
will be settled by Vice• Chancellor Kindersley, on the
17th inst.

A CHANCERY CASE, which has been before the
Courts for about twenty years, and has consequently
eaten up in costs a large portion, if not the whole of
the amount of money disputed, was yesterday decided
by the Lord Chancellor, who gave judgment in the
case " Booth v. Allington," on an appeal upon the
decision by Vice-Chancellor Stuart. The main
question regarded the construction of a deed of ap-
pointment made by Mrs. Booth in favour of her
husband, John Gillyatt Booth. Mrs. Booth, under
the will of her father, Mr. Williamson, was entitled
to a legacy of 120,000/. She had the power to ap-
point the whole or any part of this legacy during her
life, or to bequeath it by will. In default of her
doing so, it was to be divided equally among her
children. Mrs. Booth had three children, and during
her life she made a deed of appointment, giving 30,0001.
good and lawful money of Great Britain, part of
the 120,0001. legacy bequeathed by her father, to her
husband. The legacy, however, did not real-
ise the full sum of 120,000/., but only about 80,0001.,
and the question was whether the appointed sum of
30,000/. should abate rateably or be paid in full.
Vice-Chancellor Stuart held that as the sum of
30,0001. was described to be " part of" the larger
sum of 120,0001., it must be held to be the fourth part
as three was the fourth ot) twelve. The appeal from
this decision was ably argued before the Chancellor
by Mr. Bacon and Mr. Hardy for the appellants, and
Mr. Melina and Mr. Sheddeare fur the respondents,
the main argument for the former being that " part
of " must be read in the sense of " out of," numerous
cases being cited in support of this general view.
The Lord Chancellor, in his judgment, held that the
snm of 30,0001. must be allowed in full, and be paid
before any part of the residue of the 120,000/. was
distributed. His lordship also reversed the decision
of Vice-Chancellor Stuart on two other points respect-
ing the interest to be allowed, and the manner in
which the account should he taken.