The Press.
London, England, 1856-10-18 00:00:00

AUSTRIA IN THE PRINCIPALITIES.

A letter from Berlin in the German Journal of
Frankfort says :—" It is probable that the occupa-
tion of the Danubian principalities will give rise to
grave debates. It is asserted that a note of Count
Walewski has been received at Vienna, in which it is
openly stated that the continued occupation by
Austria is in flagrant contradiction with the stipu-
lations of the treaty of Paris. We learn that at
Vienna no readiness is displayed to evacuate the
provinces. This question will be decided by the
Congress of Paris, and Austria will probably be
compelled to give way.

DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS IN CIRCASSIA.

Intelligence from Constantinople, of the 9th inst.,
states Sefer Pacha has gained two victories over the
Russians in Cirzassia, and has taken from them about
800 prisoners and 21 guns.

The Emperor Napoleon has decided that, in order
to give French industry time to prepare, the project
submitted to the Corps Legislatif relative to vari.)us
prohibitory enactments shall not come into effect
until the Ist of July, 1861. The project referred

to repealed prohibitions and substituted protective
duties.

An Imperial decree nominates General Count de
Goyco, aide-de-camp to the Emperor, to the com-
mand of the army of occupation at Rome, in the
room of General de Montreal, who is admitted to
the reserve. Other decrees make nine alterations
in the commands in different military &visions
and subdivisions.

THE LATE MILITARY FRACAS AT
BRIGHTON.

DISMISSAL OF LORD E. VANE TEMPEST ♦ND CORNET

GIRT FROM HER MAJESTY'S SERVICE.
(From the London Gazette of last evening.)

Mitsmakenue. Cornets Lord Ernest Vane
Tempest and William J. Birt, of the 4:11 Light
Dragoons, are dismissed from her Majesty's Army,
in consequence of conduct unbecoming officers and
gentlemen, and subversive of good order and military
discipline, as reported to her Majesty by his Royal
Highness the General Commanding-in-Ch ief.—D ated
17th October, 1858.

The Corps of Royal Sappers and Miners are
henceforward to be denominated the Corps of Royal
Engineers, and form one body with the existing
Corps of Royal Engineers.

Ax brvzimom of considerable interest to the
public as well as the trade, is just now beginning to
attract attention in Lancashire. It is a discovery by
Mr. John Leigh, surgeon and analytical chemist to
the Manchester Corp,ration Gas Works, of a sub-
stitute for the size hitherto made from flour, which
is used in the manufacture of cotton cloth. This
substitute is made of a silicate of soda, or preparation
of sand. It is calculated that a saving of 2:5 to 50
per cent. will be effected by the adoption of this
instead of flour size, whilst the quantity of flour
which will be set at liberty for the purposes of food,
should it become generally adopted, will be equal, it
is thought, to about 3,000,0001. to 3,500.0001. worth
per annum.
THE CAPTURE of the two Grelets and Parot, the
French " Northern Railway " cashiers, who embez-
zled some 5,000 shares of the company, and squan-
dered the money away in fruitless speculations on
the Bourse, is fully detailed in the New York papers.
The prisoners were captured without much difficulty
while waiting in New York to change their French
hank notes for gold. They reached London last
Monday, in charge of the detectives, and have stare 1
for Paris. The legality of their seizure in New York
is doubtful, as the article in tho treaty of extra-
dition mention` "public officers " only.