The Press.
London, England, 1854-01-21 00:00:00

BADEN.

It is stated that the religious difference between
the Government and the Jesuits in Baden has been
arranged in a satisfactory manner.

SWITZERLAND.

Owing to the complications of the Eastern ques-
tion the Swiss Government intend to place a military
force on the German frontier.

The National Council has refused, by a large
majority, to sanction the law against the press which
has been in vigour for the last twelve months in the
canton of Berne.

ITALY.

An important bill concerning the Jews has been
presented to the Piedmontese Chambers by the
Government. By this bill the Israelite population
of the kingdom, now divided into the Universities of
Piedmont, Monferrato, Alessandria, and Nice, are
authorised to exercise self-government in matters
relating to their religion and worship. For this
purpose they are divided into twenty electoral
circles, each of which is to elect a representative to a
general assembly, which is to meet at Turin every
third year, or whenever the Minister of the Interior
shall convoke it. This general assembly fixes the
duties of the rabbis, the taxes for the cost of public
worship, the general budget, the stipend of grand
rabbi, &c. The Government is empowered to deter-
mine, by royal decrees, the minor rules to be observed
in the execution of the measure.

All the inhabitants of Brescia who were imprisoned
at Mantua for political offences have been restored
to liberty.
A letter from the Romagna of the 7th states that
that province is in great consternation, owing to the
increase of brigandage. People are afraid of being
out late at night, and at Faenza the theatre is quite
deserted.

The Countess Radetzky, wife of Field-Marshal
Radetzky, Governor-General of the Lombardo-
Venetian provinces, died at Verona on the 12th.

SPAIN.

The Queen was sufficiently recovered on the 12th
inst. to rise for a few hours, and would, it was expected,
speedily resume the performance of state duties. On
that day the corpse of the deceased princess was
conveyed from the palace with the usual ceremonies,
preliminary to interment in the vaults of the Escurial.
A tremendous storm which occurred at Elche,
province of Alicant, last month, destroyed, as it
appears from an official investigation, 307 houses in
that town and neighbourhood, together with the con.
vent and church of Santa Clara, and the church del
Salvador.
The Empress of the French has directed, through
her mother, the Countess of Montijo, 30,000 reels to
be appropriated from the proceeds of her Spanish
estates to the relief of the people of Huetortaga,
province of Granada, who were in great misery,
having lost three successive harvests, and suffered
immense damage, with loss of seeds, dc., by a storm
in June last.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

The following are the terms of the message con-
veyed to the Russian Governor at Sebastopol from
the representatives of England and France re-
spectively
" TO THE GOVERNOR OF SEBASTOPOL.
" Conformably with the cutlers of my Government, the
British (French) squadron, in concert with that of France
(England), is on the point of appearing in the Black
Sea. The object of this movement is to protect the
Ottoman territory from all aggression or hostile act. I
apprise your excellency thereof with a view• to prevent all
collision tending to disturb the amicable relations existing
between our Governments, which I am desirous of pre-
serving, and which, uo doubt, your excellency is equally
anxious to maintain.
" To this end, I should feel happy to learn that your
excellency, animated by these intentions, had deemed it

expedient to give the requisite instructions to the admiral
commanding the Russian forces in the Black Sea, so as to
obviate any occurrence calculated to endanger peace.
" IZEDCLIFFE.
" (BARACWAY D'HILLIZIRE.)"
The letters of both ambassadors are couched in
precisely similar phrase, and with the last word,
" peace," italicised in the same manner. In addition,
the British captain is charged formally to demand
the extradition of two English subjects, the engineers
of the Atedari Tidjaret, an Egyptian steamer cap-
tured at Sinope, and who were kept prisoners by the
Russians.

The fleets that had entered the Black Sea wera
composed of the following ships :
ENOUSH. Britannia, Bellerophon, Rodney,
Albion, Vengeance, London, Agamemnon (screw),
Sanspareil (screw) ; Terrible, Retribution, Furious,
Tiger, Firebrand—steamers.
FRENCH.-Ville de Paris, Friedland,Jina, Jupiter,
Jemmappes, Henri IV., Charlemagne (screw), Gooier,
Mogador, Sani, Magellan, Descartes—steamers.
Five Turkish steamers, the Tail; Feizi Bahri,
Med jidie, Chaaki Chadi, and Muhbiri Suru, followed
the combined squadrons, conveying MOM troops and
warlike stores under their care towards Batoum or
Trebizond.

The .Augsburg Gazette states that the Russian
admiral had, of his own accord, released the two
English engineers who were taken prisoners on board
the captured Egyptian steamer.
The following modifications were made by the
Porte, on the 31st of December, to the note of the
four powers :
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First.—lnstead of the evacuation of the princi-
palities as soon as possible, it is now stipulated to
read, "Within fifteen to twenty days after acceptance
by Russia."
Secondly.—The renewal of treaties to be with
special reference to the integrity and independence
of Turkey.
Thirdly.—The Porte will ameliorate her adminis-
trative system alone and spontaneously.
On the sth Lord Stratford de Redcliffe issued a
tranquillising circular, stating that the object of
Admiral I)undas was the protection of Turkish in-
terests, without disturbing friendly relations with
Russia.

A dreadful fire took place on the 2nd in the Fanar
quarter of Constantinople. According to the official
report, 103 houses, twenty shop;, one mill, and one
guard-house were consumed. The houses of the
Greek and Jerusalem patriarchs, and of the Greek
bishop, were burnt in this conflagration.
M. de Reizet reached St. Petersburg on the 12th

inst. with the French categorical note.- It watt pre-
sented simultaneously with the English note of tho
same character, which► Sir Hamilton Seymour had
received some days previously.
The St. Petersburg Court Gazette of the oth pub-
lished a most violent article against England. Great
Britain, it is said, is the moving cause of all European
eommotions, and the mischievous intermeddler who
has filled the barren fancy of the Turk with an
absurd and whimsical notion of "independence.'
A letter from Warsaw, of the 7th inst., states that

the chiefs of districts throughout Poland have
received orders to draw up a list of all able unmarried
men, from the ago of eighteen to forty, and to watch
them carefully, not to permit them to leave their dis-
tricts, because the recruiting, which takes place
usually at the end of the year, will take place this
year in March.
A private letter from Bucharest of the 6th states
that formal orders had reached Prince Gortschaltoff
to take measures for effecting the passage of the
Danube. He was at the same time informed that
the reinforcements demanded by him would shortly
arrive.
From Odessa, on the 11th, it is stated that no more
cargoes were allowed to be shipped on board Eng-
lish or French vessels, and that all the Russian
ports on the Black Sea would speedily be, if they
were not already, closed against the eomme,
those nations.
New contracts for supplying the Russian army in
the principalities with food and forage, from the
month of March next till the end of June, were made
at the opening of the present year.
At the express desire of the Servian Hospodar the
Porte has consented not to publish the new firmans.
The fortifications round Kalafat and Widdin con-
tain 250 pieces of the heaviest calibre. 60,000 men
were collected within the rayon.
The Patric states that Chainyl has been joined
by several distinguished Polish officers, and has,
with the arms which he has received from Constan-
tinople, formed a corps of sharpshooters, 1,200 in
number, chiefly composed of Polish deserters from
the Russian army.
EGYPT.

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The Eurotas steam-packet, belonging to the
French line of the Messageries Impiriales, was lost
on the let inst. about four miles to the northward of
the new port of Alexandria. She was coming from
Joppa, and bad on board forty passengers and a very
valuable cargo. The sea Wad very calm, but the in-

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tensity of the fog was such that it was impossible
for the captain to ascertain his positton. The pas-
sengers, with their baggage and the mails, were
landed at the Lazzaretto, and attempts were made
to save the merchandise, but little could be done, m
consequence of a gale which had come on, and on
the morning of the 3rd it was found necessary to
abandon the vessel.
UNITED STATES.
By the mail-steamer America New York intelli-
gence to the 4th inst. has been received.
The United States Senate had appointed a special
committee for the purpose of inquiring into and re-
porting upon the cause of the great mortality on
board emigrant vessels.
On the 3rd inst. a message was received by the
Senate from the President, in response to Mr.
Cass's resolution of the 12th of December, commu-
nicating some voluminous correspondence relative
to the construction placed upon the Clayton and
Bulwer treaty, touching Central American affairs.
Various disasters are as usual reported in different
parts of the Union. The New York Herald says,
" From the east we have accounts of some fifteen or
twenty vessels having been driven ashore and
wrecked during the late storm. One captain states
that he came around Cape Cod in company with
about seventy-five vessels, most of which he thinks
went ashore."
The wreck of the packet-ship Staffordshire is
announced, with the lamentable loss of 180 lives.
She left Liverpool for Boston on the 9th of Decem-
ber, and on the morning of the 30th struck on the
Blonde Rock, South Seal Island, off Halifax. The
first and second mates and seventeen seamen reached
Cape Sable. The third mate, boatswain, and twelve
others, were picked up and landed at Shelburne,
Nova Scotia. Captain Richardson and the re-
mainder, about 1140 persons, went down in the
wreck immediately after striking. Her cargo was
very large, and is estimated to be worth over
300,000 dollars. The Staffordshire was a noble
ship of 1,817 tons, and one of the finest vessels of
the line. The steamer Pearl sank in the Mississippi
on the 31st ult., when eighteen lives were lost. A
new steam-ship, the San Francisco, hound from
New York for San Francisco, was fallen in with at
sea on the 26th ult. completely disabled. Her decks
were swept, rigging demolished, and the sea ran so
high that no aid could be afibrded her.
SOUTHERN AMERICA.
Ecuador has declared the navigation of her tribu-
taries of the Amazon free to all nations. She has
also passed a law authorising steps to be taken to
treat with New Granada and Venezeula for the re-
organisation of the Columbian Confederation.
A further length of the Panama Railroad was to be
opened on the Ist of January, making in all thirty-
one miles completed, and eighteen as yet to finish.
At Rio de Janeiro the English Minister, who was re-
siding temporarily at the Hotel dos Estrangeiros, was
robbed of the whole of his jewellery on the Ilth of
December. He estimates the value at 3,0001. The
police were immediately on the alert, and, after
examining the premises, came to the conclusion that
the robbery had been effected by some person
residing in the hotel, or intimately acquainted
with the internal arrangements of the premises. It
was proposed to search the trunks and apartments of
his servants, but this his excellency refused to per
mit, alleging that the step would cast a stigma upon
his domestics.