The Press.
London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1858.

POSTSCRIPT.

PORTUGAL.

The Morning Post of this day publishes the
following :
We understand that the Channel fleet has been ordered
to Lisbon.

THE " CHARLES GEORGES " AFFAIR.

M. de Piennes, who was charged with despatches
for the French Minister at Lisbon, arrived in that
city last night, and delivered his instructions to the
Marquis de Lisle, who was to put himself in com-
munication this day with the Portuguese Minister
for Foreign Affairs. M. de Paiva, the Portuguese
Minister, was to arrive this day at Lisbon.

THE EAST.

A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople says.—
The Montenegro Conference held its first sitting on the
14th.

Kiarnil Bp, has arrived at Bucharest with the &man of
the elections.
Lord Stratford de Bedeliffe will probably leave on the
19th. fhe Skonptschine, or meeting of the national re-
presentatives, is adlourded till May.
The news brought by the last mail that the Montenegrins
had put the Turks to flight and occupied the quarantine
building of Sutorina is confirmed by the Journal de Con•
iitenlinople of the 13th instant.

According to letters received from the Principalities,
there was a rumour that Prince Daniel was marching
against Grahova.
Difficulties have arisen which have suspended the set-
tlement of the Montenegrin frontiers. Turkey and Austria
refuse the cession of the boundary near Podgoritza.
An explosion is imminent in Candia.
The Albanian troops are exasperating the Christians.
INSURRECTION IN BOSNIA.

An insurrection has broken out in several points
of Bosnia. The insurgents are Christians. In one
place fourteen Mussulmans were massacred ; in
another village several Mussulmans were put to
death. The Pacha had marched to the scene of the
insurrection with a large body of troops,

A MONSTER PIECE OF ORDNANCE was brought on
Wednesday from Woolwich to Windsor Castle, by
clmmand of her Majesty, and placed on the North•
terrace, where it will be inspected by the Prince
Consort, and a suitable situation selected for its per.
'manent position. The gun was taken during the
bite war from the Chinese, and brought to England
by the ship Sibyl ; it is an admirable piece of work-
inanabip in brass, and weighs 7 tons 31 cwt. 81b., ite
length is 13i feet, girth 7 feet 3 inches, and 12 inches
in the bore. It requires upwards of 301 b of powder
to load it, and it will carry a ball of tomb weight.
The value of the braes stone is estimated et petweep
51)01, and WV.

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PARIS, Thursday.
No decisive step towards a settlement of the Portu-
guese question has been made since my last ; but a
satisfactory solution is more than ever certain of
being arrived at. M. de Paiva, the Portuguese
Ambassador in this city, left Paris last week to
submit personally to his Cloyed:Mien( propositions of
arrangement, and it was believed that this very day
a telegraphic despatch would have been received
from him announcing the acceptance of them ; but
it appears that he met with some unexpected delay
on his journey, and in consequence the despatch is
not now 10-iked for before Saturday or Sunday.
What he will propose, is, it is understood, the imme-
diate restitution of the Charles George, the release
of her captain, and the grant of an indemnity, and
it is said that the French Government will not
consent to any thing less, come what may : it is
added that it requires the first two points to be at
once conceded, hut consents to allow time to treat
about the precise amount of the indemnity. Such,
at least, are the on dits of Paris political circles.
The affair of the Jew boy Mortara is assuming
considerable gravity. The French Government has
represented, in very serious terms, to the Pope that
it is absolutely impossible that, in the middle of the
nineteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church can
be allowed to kidnap an Israelite child, baptize him,
and shut him up in a convent away from his parents.
But his Holiness has answered the famous Non
possumus —" Such is the law of the Church, and I
cannot, dare not, will not alter it !" The French
Government has been deeply hurt at this response,
and is now pressing on the Pope to reconsider it.
In the meantime, the affair is creating a profound
sensation in France. Public opinion pronounces
decisively and indignantly against the conduct of the
Papal See. The Ultramontane party, however, de-
fends that conduct with all its usual violence. As
the matter stands, it is not easy to see what will be
the issue. The Pope cannot, evidently, give up the
child without rendering the canon subservient to
the civil law, and without, in the eyes of fanatical
Catholics, abandoning a soul to perdition ; but the
indignation of the French, and it may be added of
all civilized Europe, will never let the little creature
remain in the Papal clutches. It is seriously re-
commended by many eminent personages that the
French Government shall make its troops at Rome
rescue the child by. force.
Prince Jerome, the Emperor's uncle, has been
rather seriously ill. No announcement of the nature
of his illness has been vouchsafed to the public, but
I hear that he has had a slight attack of apoplexy.
The Prince has arrived at an advanced age.

If what is said in well-informed quarters is to be
credited, Prince Napoleon, as Minister of Algeria'
proposed to the Emperor a few days ago to make the
well-known M. Emile de Girardm Prefect or Algiers;
and it is added that the latter, notwithstanding his
Republioan antecedents, was most anxious to obtain
the place, not for the sake of the salary—he has no
need of that—but to be able to carry out some of
those famous schemes of social regeneration about
which, in times gone by, be made so much noise in
the world. The Emperor, however, fearing that so
bold an innovator would do mischief instead of good,
positively refused to accept him. To soothe his
wounded vanity at this rebuff*, M. de Girardin has, it
is said, been allowed by the Prince to recommend
one of his most intimate friends for the appointment.
At last the Emperor has resolved on carrying out
a measure which, as previous letters have informed
you, he has long contemplated, and which is the
natural consequence of tho monarchy he has re-
established, and also of the law against the usurpa-
tion of titles which ho lately cattsed. to be passed.
His Imperial Majesty hag had presented to the
Council of State a project for establishing an Im-
perial Order of Nobility. The Order, it appears, is
to consist of dukes, counts, and barons—no mar-
quises, the title of marquis having, from the ridicule
of Molitme and other dramatic wags, and From the
exceeding silliness of the major part of its possessors
under tirs aneten 4 inu, fallen into contempt,
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