The Press.
London, England, 1858-04-03 00:00:00

lII.—EXPENDITURE AND RECEIPTS. (From all Sources.)

Surplus Balance beyond the Charge of the Consoli-
dated Fund for the Quarter ended Dec. 3:,183", viz.,

Great Britain
Ireland £"82,168
782,168
Income received in the Quarter waded March 31,1838,
as shown in Account I
Money received by sale of Exchequer Bills (Supply)
issued to replace (in part) the amount of bills paid
of in money out of the Ways and beans of the year
1827.8
Amount received in the Quarter ended March 31,11858,
in repayment of advances for Public Works, &c.
Saving on the chem. for Diplomauc Salaries for the
year 18457

431,268

17,512,951
Balance, being the deficiency on the 91st March,
1858, upon the charge of the Consolidated Fund in
Great Britain, to meet the Dividends and other
Charges payable in the Quarter to June 30, 1858,
and for which Exchequer Bills (Deficiency) will be
issued iu that Quarter

C 8,714,371

jou* an tolonial jnttiligenn.

FRANCE.

M. Cartier, formerly Prefect of Police, is dead.
The Emperor on Tuesday, with the Empress and
Prince Imperial, inspected the model 9 pounder
presented to him by her Majesty the Queen.
Ferouk Khan will leave Faris on the 12th of April
aid sail from Marseilles for Constantinople on the
15th. He will remain in that city for three months
to settle the question relative to the boundaries
between Persia and Turkey. Several French offi-
cers who are to accompany Ferouk Khan to Persia
will join him at Constantinople.

FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND.
The Government of Basle have refused to admit
the new Consulate which the French Government
desires to establish there.
Dr. Kern, the Swiss Minister at Paris, has declared
to the Federal Council that, if Switzerland should
refuse to receive the newly appointed French
Consuls, France will reserve to herself the right of
withdrawing the exequatur granted to the Swiss
Consuls in France.

AUSTRIA.
It is whispered in the d iplomalic world, writes a
correspondent from Vienna, that the publication of
parts of the correspondence of Napoleon I. in the
Moniteur has given great offence to his Majesty the
Emperor Francis Joseph.
Several political arrests are reported to have been
recently made in Lombardy. Upwards of fifty are
said to have been made in Milan alone.

RUSSIA.
EMANCIPATION OF RUSSIAN SERFS.
At the opening of the Committee of the Nobility
for regulating the emancipation of the Russian
serfs, General Mouravieff addressed the Committee
in a speech of great force. He referred to the im-
portance of this assembly, on which rested the hope

Net Amount applied out of the Income for the Quarter
ended March 31, 1858, to redemption of Exchequer
Bills (Deficiency) for the Quarter ended Dec. 31,
1857, viz.:
Total Deficiency
Abate Redeemed by Si:ling
Fund
.41,090,023
Amount applied out of the Income to supply Services
in the Quarter ended Marsh 31. 1858 9,196,919
Charge of the Consolidated Fund for the Quarter
ended March 31, 1.58, viz.:—
Interest of the Permanent Debt .. 5,177,130
Terminable Debt 1,393,985
Interest of Exchequer Bills (De-
ficiency)
The Civil List
Other Charges on Consolid Fund 348,638
Advances for Public Works, *c... 254,1'0
Sinking Fund
7,940,056
Surplus Balance beyond the Charge of the Consoli-
dated Fund for the Quarter ended March 31, 1858,
vis
Great Britain
Ireland

£18,714,371

of the Sovereign and the expectations of twenty-five
millions of people. He spoke of the grandeur of
their mission, and exhorted them not to prefer their
material interests to the welfare of the millions of
human beings whom chance had placed in depend
ante upon them. The mission confided to them
raised the moral dignity of a class called to aecom.
plish that work with an abnegation based on the con-
sciousness of the rights of man:—

Amongst the individuals whose material condition we
have to determine will he found some individual' content
with their position. Glory and honour to the proprietors
of these individuals! But their prosperity is merely
fortuitous. Gentlemen, you are called to replace chance by
certainty, and to remove everything arbitrary from the
administration of a whole class 113 not sepsrate from
sour calculations the respect due to the rights of anal ;
render to man that which belongs to man, and you will
justify the confidence of your Sovereign and the hopes of
the nation.

Great opposition to the views of the Emperor existed
amongst a large body of the landholders.

MADRID.
A Minister of Public Safety has been appointed
by the Government.

NAPLES AND PIEDMONT.

The Opinion of Turin, March 30th, states that
the King of Naples has addre-sed a final note to the
Piedmontese Government, touching the capture of
the steamboat Cagliari. The Lnor of the note is not
explained.

The trial of the prisoners still continues to drag
on its weary length. Park, as we ltarned by tele.
graph, has been conditionally released, and is now
residing with Mr. Barbar, the consul.

The Gazetta del Popolo of Turin states that on the
24th Mr. Hodge wax allowed an interview with M.
Brofferio, who has been appointed his coun‘el by his
friends in London. It also mentions a rumour to the
effect that he is first to undergo a preliminary trial

in Piedmont, according to the forms prescribed by
existing international treaties. He is described as a
young man of a prepossessing exterior.

AMERICA.

Intelligence from New York to the 20th nit.
announces that the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs were then considering the propriety of abro-
gating the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. "It is highly
probable they may report in favour of its immediate
abrogation."

The house had passed a bill for raising five regi-
ments of volunteers.

The Senate had passed a measure disapproving
of the Kansas policy of Mr. Buchanan.
A rumour was prevalent at New Pork that Lord
Napier would shortly retire from his post, and return
to England.