The Press.
London, England, 1856-08-23 00:00:00

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

The dissolution of the Cortes, and its reconstruc-
tion under the act of 184.5, the general disarment of
the National Gua d, and a new municipal organisation
throughout the country, are said to be resolved on by
the Government.
A letter from Madrid, 15th, says that:—

The Government is anxious that all monarchical and
constitutional parties disposed to aid it in re-establishing
order and the empire of the laws should participate in the
direction of affairs; and it says that the Government will
not dismiss any public functionaries for mere political
reasons; also, that if it promulgates a constitution, it will
not be of any particular epoch or peirty, but will contain a
fusion of the liberal principles common to constitutional
Governments.

The letter adds that the Government knows that the
Carlists have not abandoned their projects of civil
war) but that it does not fear them.

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The question of the supply of food is occupying
general attention. The harvest has been bad, and
a dread of " famine " k general among the lower
classes. Large importations of wheat are taking

In Lisbon some serious bread riots have occurred.
Intelligence to the 14th states that everything was
then tranquil.

TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES.

The announcement of the approaching arrival of
M. de Boutenieff to the Grand Vizier by Prince
Gortschakoff, instead of to the Miaister of Foreign
Affairs, had produced a considerable sensation.

The Journal of Constantinople also announces
that Sir Houston Stewart, who is cruising in the
Black Sea, had appeared off Odessa. General
Strogonoff, governor of that town, after demanding
instructions from his Government by telegraph, ac-
quainted Sir H. Stewart that orders had been given
for the evacuation of Kars, of Ismail, of Reni, and
of Kilia, and that the evacuation would be completed
before the expiration of the term of six months fixed
by the treaty of Paris.
The eight Russians, it is reported, on the Isle of
Serpents, had been removed and landed at Odessa
in a British man-of-war, by orders of Sir Houston
Stewart.

The Journal Francais of Bucharest gives a de-
tailed account of the installation of Prince Alexander
Gliika as. Kaimakan or Lieutenant-Governor of
Wallachia, including the text of the firman, the
speech of Kiamil Bey, and the reply of the Prince.
In the firman Wallachia is spoken of as an integral
part of the Sultan's empire, and as " our Imperial
province," and mention is made of the privileges
granted by the Porte to the Wallachians. Another
unsatisfactory passage was the following
Until the moment of the revision of the statutes actually
existing, those statutes must necessarily be conformed to
in principle. Every act concerning the administration
and future state of thc, country which shall not be conform.
able to the existing regulations must be considered in prin-
ciple as non avenue.

In his speech Kiamil Bey made use of words which
were listened to, says the correspondence from Bu-
charest, in mournful and expressive silence :
Wallachia is to maintain a calm and dignified attitude,
and to have full and entire confidence in the sentiments of
exalted benevolence of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, to
hasten the internal administrative ameliorations which will
be diwussed, approved, and put into execution by the Sublime
Porte.

Prince Ghika's reply was brief, and included the
following sentence :

I beg your Excellency to believe that I will do my utmost
in order that the inhabitants of Wallachia, happy in the
consolidation of their rights and of their welfare, may un-
ceasingly bless the august name of his Imperial Majesty.
The words in italics, upon which the Kaimakin
laid particular emphasis, were received with enthusi-
astic arplaii.e. _ .

The consuls of Prussia and Austria were not
present at the reading of the firman.

AMERICA.

Tntelligence from New York to the Bth inst. has
arrived.

In Congress, the Army and Navy Appropriation
Bills had been passed. The President had commu-
nicated with the Senate in answer to the resolution
calling for information relative to affairs in San
Francisco, together with the correspondence on the
subject.

The President informed them that the Governor
of California had requested the use of both naval
and military forces of the United States to restrain
the insurrectionary, movements. The President, sup-
ported with the Attorney-General Cushing's opinion,
declined to interfere.

Mr. BUCHANAN, the candidate for the American
Presidency, according to the scandal of the American
papers, lately repressed an opinion on the outrage
by Brooks. At the recent annual Commencement of
Franklin and Marshall College, held at Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, Mr. Buchanan was present, and a
young orator, named Davis, made a speech, in which
he referred to the degeneracy of the politicians of
the present day :

So truckling in their character and destitute of moral
courage and political integrity, that men are found who
applaud the attack of Canine Brooks upon the noble
Sumner for defending freedom.

At the delivery of this sentence the whole house
heartily applauded. On retiring to his seat Mr.
Buchanan said to him, loud enough that the whole
class could hear—" My young friend, you look upon
the dark side of the picture. Mr. Sumner's speech
was the most vulgar tirade of abuse ever delivered
in a deliberative body." To which the young orator
replied, that he " hoped Mr. Buchanan did not ap-
prove of the attack upon Mr. Sumner by Brooks
and others." To which Mr. Buchanan rejoined, that
" Mr. Brooks was inconsiderate, but that Senator
Butler was a very mild man."