The Press.
London, England, 1857-06-13 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

Their Majesties set out frog► Berlin on the 9th for
Dresden. The Queen goes to Topiitz, and the King
to Marienbad. Their Majesties will return on the
liith of July.
RUSSIA.

According to the latest accounts from St. Peters-
burg, the Emperor and Empress of Russia, attended
by Prince Gortschakoff, Minister for Foreign Affairs ;
Prince Dolgorouki, Minister of Police ; and a suite
of 200 persons, will quit St. Petersburg on the 25th
inst. On the 28th of July they will be at Kiel. and
sleep at Rambad, whence they will proceed by way of
Gottingen to Darmstadt.
A telegraphic despatch from Odessa says that the
steamers in communication with Constantinople, the
Crimea, Nicolaieff, Cherson, and Rostoff had corn
menced running, and that those for Galati and the
Sea of Azoff were to follow shortly.

TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES.
Diplomatic conferences have taken place between
the Grand Vizier and the representatives of the
powers who signed the Treaty of Paris.
In connection with the firman for convoking the
divans ad hoc in the Danubian principalities, three
deliberations have taken place.
Nothing certain is known about the' debates be-
yond the fact that they have been very animated.
Some pretend that the French Ambassador, M.
Thouvenel, presented to the council the ultimatum
of his Government upon the question of the Princi•
palities, which was expressly in favour of the union.
Others say that Lord Stratford spoke very energeti-
cally against the scheme, and was supported by
Prokesch-Osten, the Austrian internuncio, and then
finally by the Sultan's alter ego, Redschid Puha.
The Emperor of Austria has sent the grand cross
of the Order of the Iron Crown to Prince Vogorides,
the Kaimakan of Moldavia. This ostentatious token
of approval at the very moment when the Ministers
of the other powers which signed the Treaty of Paris
are uniting at Constantinople in a very decided pro-
test against the arbitrary and unauthorised acts of the
representative of the Porte at Jassy, is calculated to
cause a great deal of scandal.
Little is yet doing to advance the preparations for
clearing out the mouths of the Danube.
The Russian campaign in the Caucasus has com-
menced.

THE PRESS.

From China we learn that H.M.S. Raleigh, 50
guns, is to all intents and purposes lost :

She was bowling along the dangerous coast in the
vicinity of Macao, on the 14th inst., when she struck upon
a rock not laid down on any chart, but the same upon
which her Majesty's ship Cho struck long ago. Her port
b..)w was nearly atovu in by the shock ; but the pumps
were set going with a will, and in six hours more she was
snug in the mud at the mouth of the Typa, the harbour of
Macau. It is characteristic of the man that, immediately
before "beaching" her, and with the water up to the lower•
decks, Captain Keppel saluted with twenty-one guns the
Virginia and Cutinat, French men-of-war lying in the
Macao roads. From them, I need not say, as well as from
the ships of the British squadron iu these seas, he has
received every assistaece possible, vain as that will most
likely prove to be. On the other• hand, the Portuguese
are in ecstacies at the calamity which has befallen the man
who of yore violated the Tlacao territory to give liberty,
in a somewhat irregular way, to an imprisoned British
subject.

All her guns have been taken out of her and brought up
to Hong Kong. Everything has been done to lighten her
short of pulling her to pieces ; but there she lies, embedded
in ten feet of mud at the least., with twenty feet and more
of the same material inside of her, and a heavy beating
sea jamming her faster and faster into the beach. She is
perfectly immovable. There can be no doubt that she will
be blown up. Yet Captain Keppel, they say, thinks better
of her chalice, and even offers to bet pay and allowances
that he will get her safe into Hong Kong harbour. 1
regret to say that he is the only naval authority who enter-
tains such an opinion.—Times cor.
Nothing of importance had occurred up to the
25th April. The Chinese of Hong Kong were sus-
pected to be much under the influence of the
authorities of Canton, but every precaution was
being taken to secure the safety of the island. A
Portuguese prisoner, lately liberated from Canton,
gave an interesting account of his imprisonment:—

During the whole time that he was in prison he was
frequently called upon by the mandarins to inspect the
heads which the" braves," some of whom he well knew as
boatmen of Hong Kong, brought in from Hung Kong,
Whampoa, and Cumsing•moon, and to say whether they
were or• were not European heads. There were about a
score of such, including " two old ones with white hair."
The children used to drag them about and play with them
during the investigation. If it ended satisfactorily the
claimant received MO taels of silver for each head, with
an order for the like sum on the arrival of the head at
Canton. One of his crew having died in prison of a
wound the mandarin ordered his ears to be cut off before
burial, " for," said he, " I shall be able now to detect
any man who may dig him up and try to impose the
dead man's head upon me as a fresh one and claim the
reward." There were said to be about thirty Europeans
in the Canton prison, including old Mr. Cowper. It is
difficult to understand by what influence the Governor of
Macao obtained the release of Joze Maria. When theman
himself claimed protection as a Birtuguese subject one
mandarin said, "We are at war with all nations," and
another, " You and the English are Christians all the
same," and a third, " You are a white man." But released
he is, and all his company, and by the intercession of the
Governor of Macao.