The Press.
London, England, 1854-07-22 00:00:00

Sortign 10 Colonial 4uttllignut.

FRANCE.
The Emperor, who returned to Paris from Calais
late in the night of yesterday (Friday) week, left St.
Cloud in company with the Empress on Wednesday
for Biarritz, in the Pyrenees. The Emperor will
return in about a fortnight probably, and afterwards
proceed to the north, to take the command of the
camp near Boulogne. The Empress will not
revisit Paris until the fetes of the " St. Napoleon" in
August.
Various announcements of interest have appeared
in the Moniteur. The blockade of Cronstadt and
the Russian ports in the Baltic is stated to have been
established ; that of the Black Sea and the Sea of
Azoff ports is to commence at a date to be hereafter
notified. By imperial decree a Council of Prizes is
established in Paris with duties analogous to those
of the British admiralty courts. Another decree
grants an extraordinary credit of 55,405,000 E to
the Minister of Marine, for the purpose of in-
creasing the naval armaments of France. The budget
of this Minister for 1854 is thus raised to 174,286,000 f,
which is, however, only 16,000,000 E more than
1847.
The Moniteur has also published the official ap-
pointment of General Baraguay d'Hilliers to the
command of the expeditionary division of the Baltic,
General Niel to the command of the engineers, and
Generals d'Hugues and Grisy to command brigades
of infantry. General Count de Schramm replaces
General Baraguay d'Hilliers in the command of the
Ist corps d'arnthe of the camp of the north ; ana
Generals de Liniers and de Gerandon replace Gene-
rals d'Hugues and Gresy.
An article published in Wednesday's Constitv -
tionnel has removed all fear of any intervention n
Spain by the French Government, This pntdel_t
abstention is generally approved of in Paris.
The harvest has commenced in the Drome. The
wheat is in the finest condition, and abundant; the vines
promise a large crop, and the walnut.trees are loaded with
fruit. The Union du Var states that the oldest farmer
does not remember the crops to have been finer than the y
are at Cannes and at Draguignan. The harvest is
forward near Arles. At Marseilles the crop of wheat hen
been most satisfactory. At Aix the wheat harvest has
commenced, and the general opinion is that the produce
will be very considerable. In Gascony the crops ail.l
turn out excellent. The Memorial de t'aucluse gives
similar favourable accounts of the crops in that quarter.
The produce of fruit will also be more abundant than has
ever been remembered : all the trees are bending beneath
the weight. The vines also look remarkably fine and
healthy. Terrible thunderstorms have, however, com-
mitted serious injury in some localities. The Gazette de
Lyon announces that on the 12th inst. the whole of the
country round that city was visited by a terrible storm,
which in five minutes utterly destroyed the most splendid
crop. The corn was so much battered down that it wilt
not even yield litter for the cattle; the vines were stripped
of their leaves, the clover and lucerne literally beaten to a
pulp, the fruit had fallen, very large trees were torn up by
the roots. The disaster was complete, and the hope of
any harvest annihilated. The same paper says that at
Vaise and other places enormous hailstones fell which did
great damage. AIM
GERMANY.
The Austrian Correspondence says that as repress
the present phase of the Oriental question, and tl e
answer brought by Prince Gortschakoff, the demands
of Austria and Prussia are but imperfectly satisfied;
but there are some materials which might possilly
serve as the basis for peace negotiations. These ale
left to the decision of the Western powers. Upon
receipt of their answer, Austria, acting upon her con-
vention with Prussia and with Turkey, and upon a.
cordial understanding with the Western powers, will
take all the measures requisite for the re-establish-
ment of the balance of power in Europe, and of the
integrity of Turkey, and of general peace upon a safe
basis.
Colonel Manteuffel arrived in Vienna from Berlin
on Tuesday, for the purpose of enforcing the vies*
of the Prussian Government respecting the tree y
between itself and the Government of Austria. TI e
Prussian Cabinet is satisfied with the advances made
by the Czar as a beginning, and intimates that the
aid stipulated for in the treaty would not be due
from Prussia should Austria now enter into hostiL_
ties with Russia.
The Emperor of Austria, it is stated, will soon
leave Vienna to inspect his armies. All the Austrian
reserves are to be called out and made mobile. /so
orders had been transmitted for the forces to enter
Wallachia up to Wednesday last.
The Servian Government has given perfectly satis-
factory assurances to the Vienna Cabinet.
Count Buol de Schauenstein gave a dinner on tie
13th in Vienna. Among the guests were Print e
Gortschakoff, the Russian Minister; M. de Fontor,
a Russian Councillor of State ; and other womb, in
of the Russian Legation. No diplomatists of other
States were present.
Letters from Baden state that the Pope has
.ael-
dressed to the Baden Government a protest against
any interference with the ecclesiastical immtuuty to

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which the Church has a right, and declares that the
conduct of the Archbishop of Friburg relative to
ecclesiastical property is quite in conformity with his
episcopal duties.

ITALY.
The ship Persian arrived at Genoa on the 17th,
having on board the submarine cable for La Spezzia,
where it was expected to arrive on Monday last. The
Prince de Carignan, the Ministers, and the corps
eliplomatique, were to be present when it was laid
down.

TURKEY.
Omer Paoha issued a proclamation from Oltenitza
on the Bth inst., addressed to the inhabitants of
Wallachia, in which he calls on them to remain tran-
quil, promising an amnesty to all those who were
compelled by circumstances to act in the interest of
the Russians. "You will soon," says the proclama-
tion, "be freed from your oppressors, and return to
the rule of your rightful Sovereign, who has never
ceased to care for your welfare, rights, and freedom."
Grand preparations were being made in Constanti-
nople for the marriage festivals that were to take
place on the 15th inst.
All the magazines in Salonica containing wool and
cotton, as also the new crops of corn and tobacco,
were completely destroyed by the tire of the 28th.
The loss is estimated at 45,000,000 or 50,000,000
piastres. Salonica is completely ruined by this mis-

THE PRESS.

Majesty. Be severe—severe, Sir Baron, to these lawless
Walleehians—the more severe the better. This is the will
of his Majesty the Czar.
" Receive the assurance of my highest regard,
" NESSELRODE, imperial Chancellor."

General Aurep, who had been disgraced by the
Czar on account of his ill-success, has committed
suicide, and the event is said to have made a deep
impression on the Russian troops. A report
published in the Vienna Prase, but requiring con-
firmation, states that Prince Petskiewitsch, who has
also fallen out of favour from a similar cause, has
died while on his journey to his estates.

fortune.
The organisation of the troops which the Bey of
Tunis was to send to Constantinople has been nearly
completed, and the first portion, under General
liechid, was to embark on the 15.1 inst.
Ilhamy Pacha, son of the Viceroy of Egypt, whose
intended visit to Europe has been announced, is to
leave at the end of the present month for London,
and from that city he is to go to Paris. He will also,

perhaps, visit Germany.
Letters from the coast of Abasia dated the 25th ult.
state that Schamyl had forbidden the sale of women
in all the tribes that recognised his authority.

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many years. The over-issue amounts to about 19,000
shares of stock, the par value of which is 1,900,000
dollars. The culprit is Mr. It. Schuyler, the president
of the company, and he is said to have swindled also
the Haarlem Railroad Company, though to a less
amount. He has escaped, as it was believed, to
Canada.
The anniversary of the establishment of the Re-
public had been celebrated with the usual ceremonies
on the 4th inst. At Dorchester, Massachusetts, on
that day, the Roman Catholic church was blown up
with gunpowder. At Manchester, New Hampshire,
on the same anniversery, a dreadful riot occurred be-
tween Americans and Irish, when the latter were
defeated, fifteen of their houses gutted, and their
furniture destroyed. The Roman Catholic church
was attacked, but saved by the police. Several
persons on Loth sides were dangerously wounded.

RUSSIA.
Letters from St. Petersburg state that not alone
in that city but throughout the whole empire the
Government has rendered the new loan obligatcry.
Each town is obliged, according to its importance,
to bear a certain portion of it, and such of the in-
habitants as should venture to refuse their share are
to be considered enemies to the Emperor.
The Vienna Presse states, on the authority of
travellers arrived from the Russian capital, that
more than three hundred young men—nobles, stu-
dents, and merchants—have been arrested. They
have been told that there is no charge against them,
but that their opinions were known, and that the
Government was resolved to omit no salutary pre •
caution. The Government is apprehensive of some
explosion of popular discontent.
According to the lest. Deutsche Post the Empress
of Russia had written a letter to her brother, the King
of Prussia, of which Col. Manteuffel was the bearer,
and which produced a great impression on the King.
The imperial writer, who addressed her brother
" from the bed of sickness," says that she is likely
to be one of the sacrifices to the war, as she cannot take
the German baths, which are so extremely necessary
for the restoration of her shaken health. She further
affirms that it would break her heart if the Prussian
army should take the field against the power which
had rendered such great assistance to her father
when he was in peril.
Baron Budberg, Russian Governor of Wallachia,
before departing to the head-quarters of Prince lion-
schakolf, summoned the principal Boyards to wait
upon him, for the purpose of communicating a
despatch just received from the Russian Minister.
As the majority of the parties summoned were, how-
ever, too ill to appear, copies of Count Nessel-
rod. e's missive were transmitted to them. It is cer-
tainly a rather fiery document, and takes the form
of a letter dated June 22, addressed to Baron Bud-
berg himself :
" Sir Baron,—His Majesty the Czar wishes that yon
should opportunely make known to the Wallachians his
displeasure at their strange conduct, particularly the
Boyards, in regard to the Russian troops which have
entered into the principalities, that they may free them-
selves for ever from the unbearable Turkish yoke. His
Majesty the Czar considers it improper, at the present
posture of affairs, that the associates of his Majesty in the
true religion should meditate subjecting themselves to
other than a Christian Government. If the Wallachians
do not understand this, because they are too much under
the heretical influence of the powers of Western Europe,
his Majesty the Emperor cannot leave unfulfilled the task
entrusted to him by Heaven, as the supreme head of right-
"elieving Christians, namely, to rescue the members of
the true Christian Greek religion for ever from Turkish
dominion. His Majesty will carry out his task in spite
of the interference of the other powerless States of here-
tical Europe. We are with God—God with us, and the
victory is ours. His Majesty the Czar commands that
Po, Sir Baron, shall strongly rebuke the Boyards and
higher Wallachian functionaries for their illoyal conduct
towards our troops. Soon will the time come when these
F 6614011 Wallachians will sorely repent that by their
illoyalty they have to such a degree raised the ire of his

Two railroad trains came into collision on the
Susquehanna road, near Baltimore, on the 4th, when
twenty-eight persons were killed and thirty•three
wounded ; ten more e expected to die. Neer
Detroit, on the 3rd, owing to a similar collision, a
farmer, his wife, and child were killed.

The ships Olympus and Trade Wind, trading be-
tween Liverpool and Mobile, came into collision on
the 26th ult., at sea, when both sank, and twenty-
four persons were drowned ; the rest of the passengers
and crews being rescued by the Belgian barque Stadt
Antwerpen.
A terrible conflagration broke out in Philadelphia
on the sth inst., which destroyed the National
Theatre, the Chinese Museum, with its noble halls,
and about twenty houses and stores. An actor,
named Shepherd, perished in the flames, and several
firemen were seriously injured. The loss of pro-
perty is estimated at half a million of dollars.
The authorities at New York had thought it neces-
sary to issue the usual notice respecting the prevalence
of cholera. The two Operas were closed, in conse-
quence of the indisposition, from slight attacks of
cholera, of Mesdames Anna Thillon and Maretzek.
At Boston, Philadelphia, and at St. Louis, especially,
where 207 deaths occurred in a week, the epidemic
was spreading. Accounts from the plains state that the
disease was creating much havoc amongst the
emigrants.
The Atlantic has brought to England 202 passen-
gers, and 800,000 dollars in specie, besides the usual
mails.

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