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

POSTSCRIPT.

A letter from Naples of the 11th inst., in the
Correspondance Italienne, says:—
Our diplomatists are very active in their endeavours to
prevail on the King to give satisfaction to the Western
powers. The representatives of the Pope and of the Grand
Duke of Tuscany earnestly support the demands of Austria.
Count dell'Aquila and Count Trapani, brother of the King,
have been applied to and entreated to represent to his
Majesty the danger of his position. The accounts from
the provinces are satisfactory. There, as well as in the
capital, the people are calm, but resolute. It is said that
the last reports, received from the intendants of Cosenza,
Reggio, and other provinces of the kingdom, have pro.
duced considerable alarm at Court. Orders have been
given to concentrate the Swiss troops in and about Naples.
The Government is also said to entertain serious appre-
hensions for the tranquillity of Sicily.

A letter from Constantinople states that the
Turkish Government has decided that the fortifica-
tions of Silistria, which have at different periods
been improved, shall now be completed on a regular
system.

The Augsburg Gazette announces from Belgrade
that a sum of five millions of piastres (about
1,250,000 fr.) has just been sent to Constantinople by
the Servian Government, being the amount of a loan,
not bearing interest, which the latter had accorded
to the Turkish Government for the purpose of com-
pleting the electric telegraph between Constantinople
and Belgrade by Salonica.

The Univers questions the authenticity of the
document published by the Cologne Gazette, pur-
porting to be an analysis of the note addressed by
the King of Naples to the Western Cabinets:—

The journals publish an analysis of the note which is
said to have been despatched by the King of Naples to the
Western powers. France and England not having ad•
dressed to the Neapolitan Government an identical note,
it is scarcely probable that the reply of the Neapolitan
Cabinet would be the same for both Governments. More.
over, the analytical form of this document causes us to
suspect its correctness ; we will, therefore, wait before we
publish it for proofs which may show that the communica-
tion of the Cologne Gazette merits confidence.

The inhabitants of the Danubian Principalities,
according to despatches which have reached Paris,
are about to organise national petitions, praying the
great powers to propose their union. The German
papers are beginning to throw out hints that Austria
will withdraw her opposition to the union ; but this
is not likely to be the case with Turkey.

The Correspondance Prussienne states that the
members of the European Commission of the
Danube will meet immediately after the conclusion
of the labours of the commission which is to de-
termine the question of the frontier line. The
Permanent Commission of the Danube is not yet
appointed.

A project to advance the prosperity of Italy, while
making the best of the existing state of things apart
from politics, has been suggested by Monsieur Lo-
renzo Montemerli of the Counts of San Donnini, a
constitutional emigrant, better known in London
under his Christian name, adopted in his capacity as
a singer. The projector proposes to encourage the
industrial resources of Italy, and by that means to
turn to practical advantage the genius and energy of
his eountry. NI. Montemerli is about to publish a
programme by which we may arrive at some appre
elation of the merits of the scheme.

Lieutenant - General Sir Willinm Codrington,
K.C.B. will in all probability succeed to the colo-
nelcy of the 54th ltegiment, vacant by the death of
T4OUtenant-General W. A. Gordon •C• B —Globe.