The Press.
London, England, 1858-01-30 00:00:00

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PARIS, Jan. 28.
THE report that tho Emperor Napoleon has caused
a strong diplomatic note to be presented to Lord
Clarendon relative to the refugees now in England
is ridiculously untrue. The Emperor is too well
acquainted with the British Constitution to commit
such a bitise. But at the same time the general
feeling of the Government over here, there is no
denying it, is that the time has arrived when some
measures should be taken to prevent conspirators
from openly plotting the murder of any sovereign .
What those measures should be is felt to be best
left to the Imperial Parliament, which, whilst con-
sulting the just susceptibility of all Englishmen, and
the laws of hospitality, will at the same time take
care to prevent the refugees of all nations from
establishing in England a club of uncontrolled con-
spirators and deliberate assassins.
The Government, I have reason to believe, have
not the slightest intention to propose any new and
stringent laws as regards the press. Neither the
editor of the Journal des Debate, nor of the Slick,
nor indeed of any other journal, has received advice
to be more careful in the future. Neither of these
journals has in any way been interfered with. The
Emperor, in the exceptional position in which
France has been placed since 1848, has a right to
demand that his policy should be tried before con.
demned, and that the passions of the people should
not be uselessly roused ; but he has not the least
objection—indeed he courts it—that the acts of the
Government, after a fair trial, should be discussed
with impartiality.
The reports in certain German papers to the
effect that an arrangement had been come to as to
the Danubian question I believe to be premature.
As to the Danubian Riverain Convention, it is still
under discussion by the different Courts represented
in the Congress of Paris. It is satisfactory to state
that in this question the best understanding exists
between England and France. _

The Emperor went this morning to Compeigne,
accompanied by Prince Hohenzollern Sigmaringen,
the father of the future Queen of Portugal. The
Prince reached Paris yesterday.

Prince Lichtenstein will leave in a few days for
Vienna. Prince Albert of Prussia is expected to
reach Paris to morrow.

Ferouk Khan, the Persian Ambassador, assisted
at the funeral of the Queen of Oude. His Excellency
will leave in the beginning of next week for Turin,
but will return to Paris before his final departure for
Persia.

M. de Talleyrand, the French commissioner for
the Danubian question, is expected to reach Paris

about the end of next week. He will bring big
report with him. It is not expected that the Paris
Congress will meet before the first week in March.
Mehemet Djemil, the Turkish Ambassador, and
the son of the late lamented Redsohid Pacha, beg
received his permission to return for a short time to
Constantinople. Ile intends leaving us next week.
I have reason for believing that, owing to severe
ill-health, M. de Rayneval will not go as Ambassador
to the Court of St. Petersburg.
You will in all probability have seen in Galignani's
Messenger full details of the magnificent ball given
by Lord Cowley. I shall only remark that the
English present were greatly pleased with the good
taste of the Empress in wearing a dress trimmed
it rEcossais as a compliment to the marriage
of the Princess Royal. MI the French Ministers,
Marshals of France, and high functionaries
were present. The rooms were crowded with
at least 2,000 of the elite of fashion in Paris.

The Archduchess Anne Marie, wife of the here.
ditary Prince of Tuscany, Archduke Ferdinand, was
lately delivered of a princess, who received the names
of Marie Antoinette Leopoldina Anunziade Anne
Josephine Jeanne !
A letter from Teheran, dated the 12th, states that
Mr. Murray, the English Charge d'Affaires to the
Court of Persia, bad suddenly fallen seriously ill, and
that great fears were entertained for his ultimate
recovery. The Shah sent daily to make inquiries.
Letters from Rome of the 23rd announce the
deaths of Cardinals Spinola and Lewicki. The latter
prince-prelate was the Greek Archbishop of Lens.
berg, in Gallicia. He had for some time previous to
his death been occupied in bringing about the reunion
of the Greek and Latin Churches.

I forgot to mention that at the meeting of the
Senate yesterday a Senates Consulie was presented
by the Government, compelling all candidates for
seats in the Corps Legislatif to take the oath of
fidelity to the Emperor at the latest eight days before
the day of election.
From an official source I learn that the number
of passports granted throughout France in 1854
were 37,059, for 50,215 travellers ; and in 1855,
37,880, for 52,215. The number of Frenchmen who
left France to settle in some foreign laud was in
1854, 18,079; and in 1855, 19,959.
The statistics of the receipts of the Paris theatres
and other places of amusement during the year
1857 will be found interesting. The amount of the
moneys received was [13,746,284f., being 585,825 f.
more than in 1858, and 1,337,202 f. more than in
1854. In 1855 it was 16,103,835 f., but this was
owing to the Universal Exhibition. The amount
received last year may be thus divided :—The
Imperial theatres, 4,537,703 f. ; minor theatres,
6,487,158 f. ; public balls and singing cafes,
2,843,262 f. ; divers other places, 78,140 f. On all
these sums a tax is levied for the use of the poor, of
the eleventh portion of the net receipts. The Impe.
rial theatres have thus contributed to the poor in one
year, 394,338 f. ; the minor theatres, 589,741 f. ; the
other places of amusement have only to give to the
poor one•eighth of the net receipts. The public balls
and singing cafés, 355,407 f.; divers other places,
9,767 f. This shows that out of a receipt of
13,746,264 f. received from the public for amuse-
ments, the poor benefited to the extent o
1,349,253 f.

Mn. HORSMAN, M.P., at a recent meeting of the
electors of Stroud, explained the circumstances
under which he had resigned office. He said that
in 1855 he gave his warm support to Lord Palmers••
ton, because he needed it, but in 1850 he tendered
his resignation, because the " circumstances " under
which he had taken office were so " entirely
changed ;" and that he did resign in 1857, because,
finding himself " the holder of an office which bad
been condemned by public opinion and policy, both
in England and Ireland," he felt, without "any
dereliction of public duty," he might exchange his
" anomalous position" for one of " more general
occupation and interest." The hon. gentleman
having spoken at great length upon the present
state of India, disapproving of the project to abolish
wholy the government of the Company, and having
offered his opinion upon the late monetary crisis, the
proposed Reform Bill, the late a'teaipt upon the
French Emperor, and our relations with the Kingdom
of Naples, concluded by saying :

My colleague and I shall go into that house to meet
and discuss these questions ; I will not deny that we shall
go there as party men, because the longer one sits in the
house the more one feels the value of party government;
we shall go there as party men, with a feeling of sym-
pathy and a desire as far as possible to support the Go.
vernment of the day—that Government which was placed
in office, and which is supported in office, by the Liberal
party. But at the same time we shall not be forgetful of
that independent coarse which it behoves us to take as
your representatives, on the great questions on which
party subjects must give way to national requirements ; •
and our first duty and our greatest effort will be to con-
sider the interest of our c,onstituents, and the requirements
of the nation at large.