The Press.
London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

causing hie pekoe to be decorated for his Majesty's
reception. It is to he presumed that the King of Naples
will seize the oppoitu..ity of visiting the Papal States, in
order to have an interview with the Emperor.

M. de Stackelberg, the Rassian Envoy to the
Court of Turin, visited the Piedmontese citadel of
Alessandria on the 10th.

His Majesty King Leopold, accompanied by the
Duk of Brabant, attended the International Congress
at Brussels on Wednesday.

Some details of the reception of the special am-
bassadors by the Emperor Alexander at the levee,
a e given by the Moscow correspondent of the Times
(second edition). In a letter dated Sept. 11, he
writes :

As the Czar is his own Minister, and is understood to
act entirely on his own judgment and respo..sibility, people
are naturally very curious to know how he received the
Ministers today, and according to the stories I hear his
Majesty was very gracious to M. de Moray at the levee,
and conversed with him for some time. He alluded to the
readiness evinced by France to conclude the peace, and to
remove all impediments to an entente cordiale. With
Lord Granville he was, on did, more reserved, and he is
understood to have made some pointed allusions to the
attitude of the English Cabinet. "We were trca.lies in
days gone by," said his Majesty, "but it is to be hoped
that the estrangement will nut continue." Lord Granville
replied in a low tone of voice. To Prince Esterhuzy the
manner of the Emperor was at first exceedingly dry and
Cold, but the veteran diplomatist spoke with such effect,
and gave such assurances of the sincere desire which
actuated a large party in Austria to return to their pre-
miere amours, that the Emperor was visibly moved, and
held out his hand ere the Prince ceased. When the
Turkish Minister was introduced he read at some length
his letters of creancee, but the Czar became impatient ere
the conclusion, and dismissed the Envoy with a fow short
sentences.

The Legate of the Pope had been presented the day
previous, and took prtcedenee of all the foreign am-
bassadors.

At the ball in the evening the Empress danced with M.
de Morny, Lord Granville, and the Turkish Minister.
Shades of Mahomet, Sideman the Magnificent, and Selim
the Terrible, what must ye have thought when the Ambas-
sador of the Sublime Porte led the Czarina forth to the
polonaise! The Emperor danced with the Countess of
Granville, anti was very gracious in his manner to-
wards her.

General d'Orgoui, Ambassador of the King of the
Birmans, has just arrived at Alai seilles. The general
has been at Alexandria for the last two months,
waiting for information from Paris as to whether be
would be received. The French Government sig-
nified its assent.

THE SPANISH MINISTRY, according to gossip from
Madrid, enjoy no sinecure in their present
position :
The Queen (says a late letter) will not allow them a
moment's respite, and the moral torture under which
her Ministers groan is becoming really intolerable, so
much so, that n..) sooner was O'Donnell out of his sick-
bed than he called together a private meeting of
the Vicalvarist generals, and proposed to them to strike
a desperate blow at the root of the evil, and
throw away the yoke they have placed on their
own necks. This plan is charactetiatic of his temper and
of his shortsightedness. He would, he said, compel the
Queen to abdicate, and proclaim Isabella 11 I. with a Vice&
verist regency. The plan was unanimously rejected, and
no sooner bad the meeting broken up, than Hos de Olano,
who has always been a spy, and works in this line as an
amateur when his services are not professionally retained,
went to the Queen and gave her a full report of the pro-
ceedings. Her Majesty, wht as is well known, cannot
keep a secret even if her crow were the stake played for,
sarcastically repeated the whole of her iniormation to
O'Donnell the first time he came to transact business.
There is more than a sufficient alloy of brass in O'Dou-
nell's countenance, but this point blank revelation of what
he considered secret proceedings was more than lie could
bear, and, incredible as the fact may seem, he blushed.
LiteT Queen likewise told Concha of the extent of her
information, and now there is much coldness amongst
the Vicalvarists, and it is not likely they will meet again to
plot. I forgot to mention that at their meeting Conchs
brought forward, as a compromise, his old hobby, viz., a
mazrimonial aflame between the Princess of the Asturias
and the King of Portugal, so that when her present Ma.
jesty dies, the whole of the Peninsula may be united under
one crown, as Castille and Aragon were united 11 the
marriage of Ferdinand and the first Isabella. But this
plan, which is very popular amongst Spaniards, is espe-
cially distasteful to the Queen, fur she cannot help seeing
that the marriage once made, the impatience of the
Spaniards would not allow them to wait for her death,and
that her forced abdication would bring to early maturity
the political consequences of the alliance. Moreover she
is clearsighted enough to understand that, as a sovereign.
the choice between her and the present King of Portugal
cannot be doubtful for a single instant.