The Press.
London, England, 1856-08-16 00:00:00

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Sir,—No one can better appreciate than myself
the services which you rendered at Eizeroum and
Kars.

As long as those services called for.th the plaudits
of your country, without allusion to the services
which it was in my power to render during the same
campaigns, I feit in no way disposed to break the
reserve which is habitual to me en such subjects.
But, now that I see by the newspapers my name
alluded to by you in public., I feel it a duty to my
own military reinitation to make some remarks.
On your arrival at Kars, in the autumn of 1854,
you relieved me from the outpost duties, which had
been intrusted to me with the Irregular Corps during
nine months, without the intermission of a single day,
and in which my strength and constitution had neces-
sal ily suffered severely. You placed me, at my request,
in command of a division of the army, and you sup-
ported the exercise of my authority in that position
with all the weight of an influence such as no other
European officer ever enjoyed in this country. At
length, when the word " surrender" was uttered for
the first time, you enabled me to leave the belea-
guered garrison on grounds personal to myself. For
all this my acknowledgments are due, and far be it
from me to withhold them.

Now, however, a new aspect is given to our mutual
relations by one of your published speeches, if cor-
rectly reported. After mentioning Colonel Lake, an
engineer of great merit; the lamented Captain
Thompson, whose premature demise is by me, as by
all, regretted; the young Major Teesdale, whose
valour and coolness give the best promise; Mr.
Churchill, a gentleman who doubtless rendered you
important service in his functions of secretary; and,
finally, Dr. Sandwith, an able and indefatigable
physician—after bestowing on all these, I say, a well-
deserved meed of praise, you introduce my name, as
if half-forgotten, and as if of one who bad contri-
buted but little to the events of the campaigns.
Under these circumstances I can no longer keep
silence without losing my self-respect, and I find my-
self, though most unwillingly, constrained to call
upon you, with all due de!erence, to complete the
statements of facts which have appeared, and more
especially those concerning the battle of the 29th
September, 1855, in which the part taken by me
will no doubt on consideration appear to you, as it
does to me, imperfectly reported.
If I have not taken this course sooner, it is also
partly because on perusing your despatches in the
Blue-book I regarded them as the reports of a
British Commissioner concerning his own services
and those of other British officers, with which it was
no business of mine to interfere. But it is only
from another of your public speeches, in which you
talk of the Turkish troops being under your com-
mand, that I learn that these reports can be taken
as those of the Commander in-Chief of the army of
Kars. As such, I hold that an officer serving in
that army, although not having the honour to be a
British officer, has an incontrovertible right to come
forward and require that all chief questions relating
to it should be placed on a distinct and accurate
footing.—l have the honour to remain, sir, your
very obedient humble servant,

GEORGE ICKETT.
Late Hungarian General.

To Major-Gen. Sir Wm. F. Williams, Bait,
M.P., K. 0.8., etc. etc. etc.,
London.

AUGUST 16, 1856.

Sortign tiortesponbtntt.

BRUSSELS, August 14.
Tot Feuille Hebdo Madaire Prussienne, the journal
of the Berlin Opposition, has published a long article
in congratulation of the approaching alliance be-
twixt the Hohenzollern and Hanover dynasties.
Therein is a brilliant eulogy of the Princess Royal
of England, and the most sterling praise is given to
her royal parents for the careful education she has
received under their personal superintendence.
However violent may be the language of the Oppo-
sition press in Prussia, in criticism of Ministerial
acts, no occasion is neglected to give proofs of con-
stitutional loyalty towards the Government and the
Royal Family. Whilst a vulgar democracy would
destroy, constitutionalism upholds and preserves the
Throne.
The Mazzinian journal—L'ltalia e Popolo—ac-
cuseg the Sardinian Government of having fomented
the Massa and Carrara insurrection, and of having
afterwards betrayed the Parmignola conspirators to
the Austrian general. Mazzini himself was the
prime mover. He was in the immediate neighbour-
hood—wrote the proclamation, held meetings, and
directed the movements. At Turin, he addressed a
republican committee of thirty persons, but he failed
o raise the slightest enthusiasm, and was defeated
on all his propositions for Italian and republican
independence. He was answered to the point in
favour of constitutional monarchy, with a confedera-
tion of Italian kingdoms under European guarantee.
The Duke of Modena was disposed to ask for
Austrian interference, and was only prevented from
taking thin unwise step by the advice, peremptorily
expressed, of the Nlicisters of England and France.
A subscription has been set on foot at Turin, for the
purchase of a hundred pieces of ordnance, as a
present to the Government, in aid of the fortifications
of Alexandria. The Austrian press describes this as
an " aete provocateur," and the Government is said
to have addressed a remonstrance to France on the
attitude assumed by Piedmont. In the meantime
Austrian troops are poured into the Lombard terri-
tones, and large detachments are sent to Piacenza,
without any notice being given to the local Govern-
ment. The Duchess Regent was on her way from
Parma to Piacenza, when she was informed that an
imposing military force had the same morning
marched into the town, without the knowledge or
permission of the authorities. Upon hearing this
she turned back, and afterwards sent intelligence of
the fact to the Ministers of England and France.
A Mazzinian conspiracy, thoroughly organised, for
a system of political assassinations, has been brought
to light at Florence. The Florentine committee
was in communication with Mazzini, who was at
Genoa; and the Tuscan police was enabled, by the
revelations of some of the political assassins, to
arrest several of the gang on the frontiers. Three
cf the leaders, with important papers and itrAtruc-
twos, were taken at Leghorn. The matter is kept
secret, and it is generally said that traces of Aus-
trian connivtnce are evident. Certain it is that the
lieutenant of police had a sharp lecture administered
to him for not having concealed or burnt the docu-
ments, rather than have placed them on record.
The example of Bologna has been followed at Ra-
venna. Counts Gambit, Fusconi, and Rasponi,
called a meeting of the Municipal Council, and pro-
posed a resolution that an address should be drawn
up and forwarded to his Holiness the Pope, petition•
ing for the removal of the French and Austrian
troops from Rome and the Legations. The motion
was strongly opposed by the " Gonfaloniere" and the
Government party, but it was ultimately carried by a
large majority. The next step will be the refusal to
pay taxes, and, if this resolution becomes general,
Cardinal Antonelli will find himself in a serious
dilemma. An engagement that lasted several hours
took place between the " sbirri " and a gang of ban-
dits at Castelguelfo. Several lives were lost before
the bandits were dispersed. These gangs perambu-
late tLe country, levying fines from the farmers pre-
vious to the rent day, and robbing the offices of the
local customs.

In Naples there has been a kind of popular mani-
festation against the Liberals on the nights of the 25th
and 26th of July. The crowds on the Mercato Nuovo
began to cry "Death to the Liberals! No constitution !
Viva it Re Assoluto ! " But the Minister Bianchini bad
the Via di Toledo quickly occupied by troops, and
these dispersed the mob without much trouble. The
political prosecutions are not carried on with the
usual activity and precipitation. M. Grimaldi, the
president of the criminal court, is a man of probity
and impartiality, and refuses to convict without
proper evidence of guilt. Baron Poerio has had a
severe relapse in the dungeons of Montesarchio, and
his life is said to be in the utmost danger.
C. A. H.

THE PRESS;

foreign anb Colonial )I,nttlligente.

FRANCE.

The Emperor returned to St. Cloud on Saturday
night. The Emperor and Empress leave for Biarritz
on the 18th.

M. Rowland has been appointed Minister of Public
Instruction, in the room of the late M. Fortoul.
In the absence of any political news of moment a
circular of the Bishop of Arras, proposing to excom-
municate the directors of all mixed schools in which
not only Roman Catholic but Protestant children
are educated, has excited considerable sensation. The
Siicie characterises this doctrine " as suitable to the
revocation of the edict of Nantes."

An attack in an anonymous pamphlet upon the
Univers promises much scandal to Paris. That at-
tack has taken the form of a pamphlet, called
" L'Univers Juge par Lui-meme." It consists of
quotations from the Univers, taken at different
periods, and placed by the side of each other. The
comparison is edifying, so far as to raise the indig-
nation of the Univers at the exposure, that it has
expressed its intention of bringing an action for
libel against the publisher. The pamphlet is anony-
mous ; but it is variously ascribed to Cardinal Wise-
man and M. de Montalembert. The trial is looked
forward to with much interest, as an agreeable ex
position of the tactics of the Ultramontane party
must then take place.
The Constitutionnel of Wednesday contains an
article in defence of Naples, but admitting that the
King must hasten to efface the bad impression pro-
duced by his notes on the Courts of France and
England, and concludes by expressing no doubt that
"he will be the first to facilitate by his words, as
well as by his deeds, the renewal of friendly and
confidential relations which formerly existed between
the Governments of France, England, and Naples."
Marshal Pelissier, by imperial decree, is created
Duke of Malakoff. A law will be presented to the
Legislative Assembly for a grant of 100,000 f. to
accompany the title.

The fete of the Emperor, celebrated yesterday,
was marked by acts of State clemency. His Ma-
jesty has granted a full pardon to 240 civil prisoners,
and commuted the punishments of 233, while a simi-
lar clemency is extended to 584 military prisoners.
The appointment of General Serrano, as Spanish
Ambassador at Paris, is not regarded favourably by
the De bats. " He may be an illustrious general," says
that paper, " one of the most eminent in Spain, but
he is nothing of a politician, and less of a diplo•
matist."

The Constitutionnel, in an able article this week,
exposes the lolly of elevating the question of the Isle
of Serpents into importance, and shows that it
does not make much matter to whom the island
belongs. The Silck protests against this indifference,
and insists that the free navigation of the Danube
depends entirely upon the Power occupying the
island.

AUSTRIA.
The Emperor returned from his visit to Ischl on
the 20th.

The project of a new loan was expected to be put
forth shortly by the Government.
'I he visit of the Emperor and Empress to Lom-
bardy is fixed for the end of the present month.

PRUSSIA AND GERMANY.
The Empress Dowager of Russia, accompanied by
Prince Frederick William of Prussia, left Berlin on
Tuesday for St. Petersburg.
The Russian Danubian Commissioner, Bassily,
passed through Berlin to Vienna last week.
The three days' subscription for shares in the
Bank of Northern Germany closed on Wednesday
evening. The number of shares applied for was
3,183,492, which would give a sum of 1,591,746,000
marks banco.