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London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

troller-General of Accounts, M. J. H. Tudorachi;
Under Secretary of Justice, M. Scarlati Folcoyano ;
Under-Secretary of the Interior, M. Nicolas Pacia-
liano. Umbrage has been given to the Boyar& at
the nomination to office of MM. Dumitresco and
Tudorachi, as not belonging to th..ir body. Per-
sonal merit, and th s high consideration in which
these persons are held in the country, have alone
caused their appointment, which may be said to be
a departure from the ancient ways that augurs a
better state of things. How.3ver, the maintenance
of the Vornik, Javou Mano, an instrument of the
ex-Hospodar Stirbey, at the head of the Divan,
makes it clear that the Porte preserves a fatal as-
cendancy. This is again shown in the peremptory
refusal to verify the powers, accorded in all faith to
the Bank of Dessau, for the establishment of a
Jassy bank of credit. In this opposition the
Austrian Cabinet has brought into play its utmost
influence, inattentive to time immediate advantages
that an extension of capital would bring to the
Danubian navigation—a benefit of which Austria
would reap the first and latest fruits. In a similar
spirit, is conceived the revocation of a contract made
with a French company for a steam navigation of
the rivers Pruth and Sereth. This breach of con-
tract has also been the work of Austrian intrigue.
Nothing has more tended to bring into discredit the
undue power and pr.tsumption of the Court of Vienna
than the arrogant and insulting letter of General
Count Corocini, on his quitting the principalities.
It amounts to an assertion of the right of Austria to
enter and occupy the provinces with her armks
whenever she may deem such a course proper for
their defence. Until the treaties between the Porte
and Russia were abrogated, Austria never had any
pretension to meddle with the Moldo-Wallachian
territory; for when the Russians evacuated those
districts, during the late war, the Austrian troops
wera permitted to enter in order that Russia might
swell her numbers in the Crimea against the allies.
It was a temporary arrangement, now sought to be
converted into a right; but if such right belonged to
any power conjointly with the Porte, it would pro-
perly appertain to Russia. One of the objects
gained by the war—the independence of the princi•
palities—Austria seek to disannul for her sole benefit,
although never having contributed either a man or a
thaler towards the freedom of the navigation in the
Black Sea and the Danube, and having garrisoned
and provisioned a large army, ready for selfish ends,
at the expense of Turkey.

A petition to the Grand Council Helvetic is cir-
culating for signature in the different parts of the
canton, praying, 1. That the properties of the parti-
cipators in the late rebellion shall be confiscated to
make good the loss, pillage, and devastation that
their misconduct caused ; 2. Tha.t further sums shall
be appropriated from their possessions for the
wounded, and for the support of the widows and
orphans of both parties ; 3. That the guilty shall be
punished according to the law of high treason, and
be deprived of their civil rights ; and, 4. That all
royalist societies be declared illegal and treasonable.
M. de Pourtales, Sandoz, and Colonel Meuron were
brought back in a boat to Neufchatel. They were
given over by the prefect of the department to the
custody of Colonel Denzler, who received them at the
head of his staff, and they were slowly marched to
the Castle, escorted by the entire battalion of
Bernese No. 80. The appearance of the aged Count
Pourtales was most venerable, and Colonel Meuron
had the air of a determined soldier. All attempt at
a rescue was impossible. Among the documents
found in the possession of Count Pourtales Steiger
are some of the highest importance, fully establish-
ing a correspondence with parties at Berlin, and
compromising persons of official note. He was
not long since in that capital, and returned
shortly before the insurrection. The reception
given to the prisoners by the people augurs
little for the clemency that M. So:civil de-
scribes to be peculiar to Swiss law. M. de Pourtales
Steiger was taken by Colonel Denzler himself in the
Castle, and saved from the fury of a republican
soldier, who had torn off his Prussian decorations
and was about to cut him down. Count Pourtales
Gorgier, MM. de Rougetnont, Tarrisse, De Petit.
pierre Wesdelilen, and Lardy an attorney, were found
concealed in a vineyard. Colonel Meuron was taken
on the confines of Fribourg, and M. de Montmollin
was drawn from under a bed in the Castle. The
royalists oommitted most unjustifiable cruelties
during the short time they were in possession of the
town, and this has exasperated the republicans against
them. Austria has signified her intention to defend
the sovereign rights of Prussia to the Neufchatel
principality.
The " Congregazione Provincials di Brescia," in
Lombardy, presented a petition to Baron Burger,
showing the injustice of its present financial burdens.
It is therein frankly declared and proved that the
annual income of the province amounts to 12,000
francs, and that the taxation exceeds 13,000. As the
members of these " Congregazioni " are selected by
the Austrian authorities, this proce•iiime comes with

SATURDAY,

a double weight. It will assuredly be the signal
for other Lombardo-Venetian provinces to follow the
same example. Affairs are not so thoroughly safe
in those quarters as to justify Marshal Radetsky iii
giving the toast of " fhe King of Sardinia, to whom
he intended to pay a visit in the ensuing spring." To
say the least, it was dangerous badinage. General
Stackelberg, the Russian Minister, expressed to the
King, at a Royal audience, the desire of his Imperial
master to cultivate the most intimate relations with
him, and the same assurances were personally given
to General Broglia by the Emperor Alexander at
St. Petersburg. An amnesty has been pro.
claimed by King Victor Emanuel to all political
exiles, without distinction or reservation----an act
that will deservedly render him still more popular.
M. d'Aste and his pupil have returned from Lig-
holm, where they were ordered to quit the Tuscan
territory within three hours. M. Gianotti, the Sar-
dinian secretary at Florence in the absence of the
Marchese Sauli, made a strong appeal to the Minister
Landucci, who persisted in his determination. There
are two things that haunt the mind of this ultra-
montane Minister and frighten him t* om his pro-
priety,--a constitutionalist and a bible• It is said
that the Sardinian pupils possessed, or were said to
possess, the dreaded "Book." M. Leonidas Lan.
ducci is a native of Siena. He studied at the
University of Pisa, and was at that time rather in-
clined to what were termed, twenty years ago, liberal
opinions, and was utterly free from the taint of
Jesuit intolerance. Years have subtracted from his
ability and added to his bigotry, until he has
become the most narrowminded instrument of
Jesuit ultramontanism. Of the posthumous works
of Gioberti, now published at Turin, some trouble
will be given to M. Landucci to prevent their entrance
into Tuscany. Gioberti, in dealing with the temporal
power of the Pope, asserts it to be impossible of pre-
servation in its present state; that either darkness
must again prevail over the human intellect, or the
Pontiff must be content to relinquish mundane
dominion. A severe article lately appeared in the
Opinion, and has been privately circulated through-
out Italy, entitled "La Diplomatia Inglese in
Italia." It is a severe censure on Lord Normanby,
and although the position of that Minister with
parties at borne is described wrongfully, yet the
inefficiency of the ambassadorial influence of Eng-
land in Italy is thoroughly demonstrated. Sir James
Hudson is the only Minister that the author exempts
from blame.

A struggle betwixt the Cardinals Antonelli and
Viale Preia is daily expected. Whenever the French
troops quit Rome for Civita Vecchia the tocsin of
internal strife will commence, and it will then be seen
whether Count Colleredo will take possession of the
ground abandoned by the French. It has been pro-
posed to arm the rural population for self-protection
against the brigands. The police are wilfully ineffec-
tive, and the soldiers not to be depended upon. This
state of things is the consequence of a pontifical
Government—abounding in evil, impotent of good,
proud and powerless, protecting vice and persecuting
virtue : and yet the Austro Papal Concordat was sys-
tematically devised for a preservation of these enor-
mities against the canons of civil polity,
C. A. H.

THE EX-KING LOUIS OF BAVARIA, who recently
attained his seventieth year, was, a few days ago,
waited on at his chateau at Ludwigshohe, in the
Palatinate, by a deputation from Strasburg, in which
place he was born, who paid their respects to him on
the occasion. The King received them most kindly
promised to visit their city, and related to them a
curious circumstance. At the time of his birth, in
August, 1780, his father, who was then only Prince
de De►ux Punts, commanded the Alsace Regiment in
the service of France, which was in the garrison at
Strasburg ; and a few days after the birth he was
astonished to see that all his grenadiers had cut off
their beards and moustaches. On inquiring why
they had done so one of the men stepped forward
and said that they had determined to beg his accep-
tance of a velvet mattress for the newly-born Prince,
and that they had stuffed it with their oeards and
n-owtaches. " I have the mattress still," cried the
King, " and will show it to you." The mattress was
produced, and the King added, " I do not think that
there ii in the world a bed which can be called more
strictly military than that."
THE PREPARATION OF THE KREMLIN for
lllumina-
tion was one of considerable personal danger to the
muj.ks employed :

A few days before the coronation (writes a corre-
spondent) I stopped to watch the poor mujika poised high
up in the air, and fixing the lamps on the innumerable
hooks of the framework. I saw one poor fellow slung up
to the top of a high tower by a dozen men. As he rise
he swung to and fro in the wind; but when he got iiebr
the top, the men below giving a sudden pull to bring loin
"home," the rope broke, and down he came, tumbling
er and over like a ball, a distance of 2.50 feet Th. re
was a shriek, a dull heavy plump, and all was over ; the
poor mujik never spoke or stirred, and his companions who
had done the deed scampered away in every direction !

SEPT. 20, 1856.

lortigit nn dolonial 3ittelligont.

FRANCE.

The Moniteur of the 17th announced that Marshal
Serrano ha.l presented to the Emperor and Empress
at Biarritz the deputation charged with the official act
by which the Junta of Biscay recognised the right of the
Impertal Prince to enjoy the prerogatives and privi-
leges attached to the citizenship of the province.
The Emperor received the deputation very gra-
ciously, and replied that he was very grateful to the
Queen of Spain for allowing the deputation to be
presented to him ; that he was extremely touched by
this proof of sympathy on the part of the province
for the Empre-s and her son ; that such demonstra-
tions could not hut strengthen the ties which already
united the two nations ; and that he was happy to
think that the Imperial Prince bail Spanish blood in
his veins, for lie had ever felt as much affection as
esteem for that warlike and chivalrous people.
Count Hatzfeidt, Prussian Minister at Paris, left
Paris early in the week for Biarritz.
The Emperor had revoked Count Walewski's sup-
pression of the 100-gun subscription. The DThats
insinuates that the Emperor's motive in authorising
M. Manin's subscription is to show how small a sum
France will sub-cribs for such a purpose !

When the amount of the collection is made known (says
the Dikes) we shall see which is the most astute policy,
that of the ernment or that of M. Mama.
The return of the Court to St.. Cloud is not antici-
pated before the end of the month.
An important arrest of some thirty conspirators
belonging to the Marianne has been made in Paris
this week. The majority of the men were young
artisans. They are at present in solitary confine-
ment at Mazes.

The Constitutionnel of Tuesday, in an able article
upon the Serpents' Isle question, maintains that
Russia has executed in perfect faith every promise of
the treaty of Paris:—
The occupation of the Isle of Serpents does not appear
to us to be of such importance. It signifies lather that
the Russians are not disposed to yield anything more than
what may be absolutely exacted from them, and that they
will not abandon, without at least making an effort of dis-
cussion, a portion of territory the cession of which they
think is not categorically prescribed by the treaty. It is a
custom to say that an unsuccessful pleader has twenty four
hours to curse his judges. Is it therefore astonishing that
the Russians show some hesitation in making a cessic.n
which, in their opinion, they may not be positively obliged
to make? No one is ever eater to put an interpretation
on a treaty which is unfavorable to himself.

The ground the Russian Government takes upon
the question is shadowed forth :

The treaty of Paris, it is tree, gave to the Ottoman Porte
the islands of the D ►nube, but the Isle of Serpents does
not form a part of them, and its situation ou the coast of
lie-sarabia, which is a province of the Russian empire,
appears to make it in the opinion of the Russians a part
of the impenal territory. Admitting, however, that this
islet stands outside the limits of Bessarabia, Russia, after
the rectification of the frontier which is about to be male
by the international commission, will, it is said, consent
to abide by the decision of the powers who signed the
treaty of Paris as to retaining or giving it up. Such at
least is the language attributed to the Russian Government.

The Constitutionnei concludes with declaring that
no alarm is felt in Turkey at the act complained of,
and that France and England need have no fear
that Russia would ever realise the testament of
Peter.