The Press.
London, England, 1854-02-25 00:00:00

PRIESTS AK

WE were not amongst
the zealous support
ABERDEEN'S candidate

county of Louth. Priests and placehunters get on
very well together in some Irish counties, for clerical
canvassers have a wonierful facility :n getting their
brothers or nephews into the public service. Be-
tween Louth and the' English Treasury a remark-
able connection also has been established in late
years. Two Irish peerages—Clermont and Bellew—
have been bestowed wthin a very shoat time upon
two Irish families tbathave zealously supported the
Peelite-Whig principle; and it is also not a little

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I singular that the same families should have ob-
tained two Lordships of the Treasury, with the
official patronage of those posts. Why Louth should
be so peculiarly enriched with titular honours would
be a curious subject for inquiry; but in the cam of
Mr. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE it is obviolls that the
Ministry calculated on the support given by the
Bellew family in return for past favours. We
shall, probably, hoar more about this last election,
upon which the united powers of the triple coalition
of the Pope, the Treasury, and the Bellew-
Fortescuo junction were all brought to bear.

Mn. J. 0. PHtuamonz's Brim In our remarks
last week on the Public Prosecutors' Bill, we were
misled by the repsots of the debate into the belief
that Mr. Phillintore had resigned his measure into
the hands of the Government. We are informed
that the hon. and learned member, having no confi-
dence in the zeal of Ministers for law reform, will
press forward his measure, unless they either take it
up or introduce a better themselves.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY CoNsTtTriloN.—The petition
to the Queen, embodying the constitution proposed
by the Hebdomadal Board for the University of Oz,
ford, was submitted to Convocation yesterday( Friday ).
The petition was divided into eight clauses, which
were severally offered for adoption. Upon a resolu-
tion for affixing the university seal to the petition a
vote was ta!,en, and carried in the affirmative by 212
to 161. The other resolutions, adopting the details
of the proposed scheme, were also assented to.

The latest accounts respecting the progress of the
war are generally satisfactory. The insurrection ex-
tends all along the Greek frontier, and has even
reached Cephalonia, but it does not appear to gather
strength in proportion to the extent of its progress.
King Otho isharudently anxious to acquit himself of
all share in the movement.
A communication from Vienna say :-" No change
had taken place at Krajova up to the 10th. Both
armies were occupied in bringing up reinforcements,
and carefully observing one another."
A letter from Odessa of the 12th states that the
maritime authorities at Sebastopol had caused all
the buoys marking the shoals and sandbanks to be
removed. This measure, it is believed, will render
the entrance to the harbour impossible for any vessel
not guided by a Russian pilot.

Two divisions of the French army intended to aid
the Turks will leave Toulon and Algiers on the lith
of March. They will be commanded by Generals
Canrobert and Bosquet. Each division will have
two Generals of brigade. Those officers will be—
Generals Viney, Autemarre, d'Herville Bonet, and
Espinasse. General d'Allonville is to have the com-
mand of a brigade of cavalry, and Prince Napoleon a
reserve brigade of the seine force.
The Moniteur publishes a decree calling out the
remainder of the contingents of 1840 and 1850.
It is said that the Emperor of the French has
received from the Emperor of Austria an autograph
letter, in which he states that he has witnessed with
deep regret the failure of the efforts of the four
powers in the interest of peace ; that he appreciates
the efforts of the Emperor of the French in the same
direction, and the good faith with which he has
respected existing treaties ; that he continuts to
agree with the Governments of France and England
in the view that they take of the necessity of pre-
serving the integrity of the Turkish empire, and so
preventing the destruction of the balance of power
in Europe; and finally, that be has written to the
Emperor of Russia respecting what he had before
urged against the continuance of the war with
Turkey, and calling upon him to order the evacua
tion of the principalities within a short delay, as he is
sending an army to the frontiers for the purpose of
preventing the consequences which a prolonged oc
cupation of the Danubian provinces would cause.

It is confidently asserted that Austria entirely
adheres to the policy of France and England; it is
even said that she will take part in the treaty of
alliance which is being negotiated between_the two
Western powers and Turkey.
In its new financial measures the Austrian Go-
vernment formally renounces all right to issue bank-
notes. The Bank takes on itself unconsolidated debt
represented by 149,000,000 florins in Imperial Trea-
sury bills. The Government gives the Bank as
security the customs revenue, and repays 10,000,000
florins a-year.

It is stated that Lord Raglan, the Duke of Cam-
bridge, and the officers of the staff about to proceed
to the East, will go via Paris and Marseilles to their
destination.
Admiral Sir Charles Napier has been definitively
appointed to the command of the Baltic fleet.

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