The Press.
London, England, 1856-08-23 00:00:00

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BRUSSELS, August 20.
TuE utmost exertions are being made to invest the
approaching coronation of the Emperor Alexander H.
at Moscow with all the interest, that magnificence can
lend to a ceremony at once solemn and popular.
Unlike other despotisms, the strength of the Crown
in Russia is mainly dependent upon the people,
upon the regard with which the lower orders cling to
the head of the Church—the Viceregent of God on
earth—and to the mighty monarch who is ever ready
to redress the wrongs of the serf and to punish the
oppressive noble. There can be no surer claim to
popular sympathy than the combined action of power
and mercy. The reception given to the Count de
Monty at the Palace of Peterhoff was most gracious
and flattering. There was an evident intention that
the French Envoy should feel assured of the Imperial
desire to create a favorable impression, and the
success was proved by the words of Count Morns, on
the day following, at the official and State dinner,
when he gave the toast Of " The Emperor and
Empress of All the Russias." Equally gratifying,
and at the same time more frank, because less osten-
tatious, was the greeting given by the Emperor to
General Count Broglia de Casalborgone, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Sar-
dinia. The recoznition of Sardinia lay Russia as an
important element in the field of Earapean diplomacy
denotes that Italy will not be allowed by the
Northern powers to be considered a province of
Austria. Count Broglia was accompanied by Count
Petiti, Major Cuzia, the Chevalier Corso, and M.
Spinola. Whether General Mouravieff has been
tacitly dismissed from the government of the Cau-
casus, or whether his resignation was in consequence
of irritation at an adjournment of the Circassian
campaign which he had warmly counselled, cannot
be known, but it is certain that fur a long period his
credit at St. Petersburg has been on the decline.
His successor is Prince Bariantin ski.

The Chevalier Rafaello Beni, formerly consul-

general at Mexico, has been named Sardinian Com-
missioner for the Danubian principalities. His
official secretary, M. Dario, is a person of talent and
acquirement. Much weight is attached in Italy to
the settlement of the M oldo-Wallachian question, and
the curtailment of Austrian power in those districts.

Another association has been formed at Jassv for
the union of the principalities, comprising some of
the chief boyards of Moldavia and Wallachia, who
are thoroughly dissatisfied with the new appoint•
ments, and purpose to send a deputation to Paris to
point out, among other grievances, the usurpation
by the Porte of sovranic and absolute power instead
of the more moderate "droits de suzerain." The
disgrace of Prince Gregorio Ghika, and the affronts
offered to him on account of his open support of a
union of the MoldoWallachian States, has irritated
the Liberal party. M. Theodoritza Balsch, the new
Kaimakan of Moldavia, has been formally installed
into office. He has published a manifesto, declara-
tory of his intention of being guided exclusively in
his government by the wishes of the Porte, which
are known to be in opposition to the views of the
Liberals ; and the selection of the Ministry is a
pledge of his conduct for the future. M. Theodore
Balsch, uncle to the Kaimakan, a boyard of little
capacity and strong passions, has been made Minister
of the Interior; M. Kostantin Katardgi, an unprin-
cipled speculator and defaulter, is appointed Minister
of Justice; M. Aleko Stourdza, who, from his official
ignorance, earned the soubriquet of "Wenger aux
affaires," undertakes the post of Foreign Minister;
and M. Skarlat Rossetti, a paralytic, crippled, and
incapable of distinct utterance, is to superintend the
Finance Department. These appointments suffi-
ciently denote the intentions of the Porte. Khiamil
Bey, the Turkish Commissary, refused to pay the
usual visit of etiquette to the Ministers of Prince
Ghika, who held their offices " ad interim," upon the
plea of their being favorable to the question of
union, and the latter, to resent the insult, abstained
from being present at the ball given by the new
Kaimakan to the Turkish Commissary. They also
immediately retired from their respective offices
without waiting or the appoinim nt of their sue.
censors. These ex Ministers, who are deservedly
popular with the Liberals, are MM. Nefri, Mavro-
gheni, Jean (Mika, Ralleto, and Pano. Two pam-
phlets, in answer both to the manifesto of the