The Press.
London, England, 1857-04-18 00:00:00

DEFEAT OF TWO RUSSIAN COLUMNS BY

THE CIRCASSIANS.

A despatch from Constantinople, dated April 10,
states :

Towards the end of March the Circassians attacked and
repulsed two strong Russian columns. The loss of the
Circassians amounted to three hundred; the Russians
seven hundred.
Mehemet Bey is giving to Circassia a military organi•
sation. _ . .

The tribes of Daghestan have captured Fort Saliah and
massacred the garrisou.;The garrisons of the neighbouring
villages surrendered.
A kind of Zollvereir. is pr. jected by the Government as
a means of conciliating public opinion in the Principalities.

A telegraphic despatch from Copenhagen, April 15,
states :---,

The Council of Ministers have this day unanimously
adopted the treaty on the Sound dues.
The Ministerial crisis is not yet at an end.

Intelligence from Berlin to the 15th says that
several journals propose to open a national sub•
scription to pay the indemnity claimed by Prussia.
They declare it to be certain that the required sum
would be raised without delay. The Bund pro-
nounces against this idea, affirming that any pecu-
niary indemnity would be humiliating for Switzer-
land.

Marshal Vaillant gave a grand banquet in Paris
yesterday evening in honour of General Todtleben ;
all the high military authorities present in the
capital were invited to meet that eminent general.

The Paris correspondent of the Times, second
edition, writes:—

Marshal Serrano had an interview on Wednesday with
Count Walewski on the subject of the quarrel t etween Mexico
and Spain. M. Walewskt is extremely desirous that this
unfortunate affair should be amicably arranged, and is
leaving nothing undone for that purpose.

The Atrato steamer has arrived, with the West
India mail, and 689,800 dollars on merchants'
account. Jamaica was healthy. Mining intelligence
favourable. Cholera at Demerara had disappeared.
Trade was depressed.

The advices from New Grenada state that the
Government had refused to negotiate with the
Minister sent by the United State to arrange the
differences between the two republics.
Letters from Nicaragua report that the ex-
President Rivas had been assassinated.
The Arago steamer has arrived, with two days'
later intelligence from New York. No political
news.

The news from Mexico is to the effect that the
difficulties between that :republic and Spain had
been arranged, most of the demands made by the
latter Government having been complied with.

" A letter from London," says the Pays, " gives us
details relative to the instructions given to Lord Elgin
for his mission to China" !

He is to have the superior direction of all affairs in that
part of the world, and for that purpose he is to receive full
powers from the English Government, with whom alone
he is to be in correspondence. He is to decide on the
opportuneness of all warlike operations, and to Sx the time
for commencing them. In case the authorities of the
country should think fit to send propositions of arrange-
he endeavour to obtain the following conces-
old treaties are to be renewed and
ports of China in place of five ; and, in

THE PRESS.

addition, English trading vessels are to have the right of
putting in, from stress of weather or for repairs, to every
point on the coast ; 2nd. England is to have, like Russia,
a college at Pekin. The head of that establishment, which
is to be composed of five members at least, is to be charged
with all official relations with the Chinese Gavernment ;
and 3rd. the English are to have military posts in all the
towns in which they have consuls or agents. A piece of
ground shall be conceded to them at Shanghai and another
at Canton, on which to raise forts and form military
establishments, the strength of which shall be fixed by
common accord. Independently of these principal con•
ditions, other secondary points are left t 3 the judgment of
the English commissioner.

The following bulletin of the health of the Queen
was issued on Friday morning :
"Buckingham Palace, April 17, 9 a.m.
The Queen has had another Rood night.
Her Majesty and the infant Princess continue well.
CHARLES LOCOCK,
ROBERT FERGUSON, M.D.
JAMES CLARK, M.D.

Dr. Locock, in honour of the safe. birth of the
Royal Princess, has been raised by her Majesty to the
rank of baronet.

THE IRISH ELECTIONS.
( From our own Ccrrespondent.)

DuBLINT, Thursday, April 10, 1857.
OF all the victories achieved in Ireland, the trium-
phant return of Mr. Hamilton and Col. Taylor for the
county of Dublin is the most signal and decisive.
From first to last the Conservatives took the lead,

kept it, and in racing parlance " won in a canter."
The villa voters, whose support Sir C. Domville, with
puerile folly, abjured and despised, have, in common
with their brother electors, taught the flippant young
baronet a lesson which we may hope will be a warn-
ing to him for life.
The numbers polled on this occasion are very re.
markable. At the last contest., there voted for Mr.
Hamilton 1,948 ; for Colonel Taylor, 1,939 ; for Mr.
Craven, 1,385 ; and for Mr. Letayne, 1,370. This was
during the career of Lord Derby's Cabinet. With
Castle influence and patronage arrayed against them,
the Conservatives have come forward with a zeal and
an alacrity which produced the following notable
result :—Hamilton, 2,450 ; Taylor, 2,340 ; Domville,
1,645.
Wicklow too has nobly and manfully done its duty.
Mr. Hume has been elected by a majority of 540 over
Mr. Monck, put forward by Lord Monek to avenge
his signal expulsion from Portsmouth, and conciliate
the Ministers into retaining his services as a Lord of
the Treasury. . .

In Antrim the defeat of the Palmerstonian is so
complete as to reduce his candidature to a farce.
There polled for Macartney and Pakenbam, the two
Conservatives, 4,223 and 4,538, respectively ; and
for Mr. O'Hara, 1,227 !

You will have observed that the recreant member
for Down, Mr. Ker, a convert to Palmerstonism, was
defeated by Colonel Forde, by more than 2,000 votes !
So much for political honesty and public virtue!

Clare has selected Lord F. Conyngham and Mr.
Calcutt, two nominally independent Oppositionists;
and Tipperary has taken a similar course in the
choice of The O'Donoghue and Mr. Waldron.
A grand dinner was given to the " Dublin SiA," as
they are called, last night. All the members were
present, and were welcomed with exuberant
enthusiasm.

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