The Press.
London, England, 1856-03-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANEA.

COUNT ORLOFF is a great lion just now in Paris.
The moment he makes his appearance in a salon
(says a letter from Paris) he is sure to be the centre
of a numerous group of both sexes, who scan every
feature and watch every expression of his counte-
nance. Commanding in person, he stands without
flinching the artillery of the many eyes, many of them
brilliant ones, that are pointed at him, and so watch-
ful is the curiosity of the beholders, that many of the
reports one finds floating the following day may he
traced to inferences hastily formed after such a
scrutiny. The hero of the moment, whose name
awakes associations of so peculiar a kind, bears him-
self well through the ordeal. His high forehead,
from which the iron-grey hair is only half pushed
aside, but not carelessly ; the regular and marked
features, of which sternness seems to be the most
prominent characteristic; the long and thick mous-
tache, aid last, not least, the costly diamonds which
compose the three s• ars which decorate his left breast,
and which might make the Duke of Brunswick him-
self grow pale, if anything could produce such an
effect, all mark him out as an object of curiosity.
He seldom smiles, or, if he does, his smiles, the
moment they appear, hide themselves in the hair of
his upper lip, as if ashamed to be seen at play on a
countenance cast in so stern a mould. He is per-
fectly easy in his manner, and, whether he speaks to
man or woman, is still grimly polite with all.
PARTY FEELING still runs high in Paris. An
occurrence which took place one evening last week
in the salons of a distinguished lady shows that the
chiefs of the old party have by no means forgotten
their hostility to the present regime. In the course
of the evening's reception, Count Flahaut and Count
Morny were announced. In a moment M. and Mme.
Thiers, M. and Mme. de Remusat, M. and Mine.
d'Haussouville, and many other visitors, rose and took
their leave. In a few minutes more the salon was
nearly empty, and Counts Flahaut and Morny left
alone to enjoy the society of their hostess.

THE Frankfort Post Zeitung lately published a
remarkable statement, which promises some agree
able personal quarrelling with Turkey as soon as
peace is concluded:—
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When peace is concluded (says the Post) Count Buol
intends again to direct his attention to a matter which was
stt aside when the European-Russian difference assumed
such formidable dimensions. The matter in question is
a claim which Austria made on the Porte when Count
Leiningen went on his mission to Constantinople. What
is desired is the cession of a little strip of land called the
Sutorina, which runs into the Austrian territory in Dal•
antis, and has frequently led to quarrels.
THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA has determined to in-
crease the efficiency of his navy. Three screw line-
of battle ships are ordered, and an extensive
addition to the fleet in the Mediterranean is at this
moment under consideration. _ _

MAZZINI lately sent 501. to some friend at
Rome. The letter was intercepted at the post-office,
the bills seized, cashed, and applied to the fund for
raising a statue to the Immaculate Virgin. The
French papers have characterised this act as a
shameful and flagrant robbery.
CARDINAL ALFIERI, it is believed, will attend at Paris
at the baptism of the expected Imperial child. The
Cardinal, it is stated, will possibly be the bearer of
the Golden Rose of this year, as a gift to the Em-
press from the Pope.
PRINCE FREDERIC WILLIAM, son of the Prince of
Prussia, will visit the English Court for a lengthened
period during the present season.
SOME DIPLOMATIC CHANGES among the represen-
tatives of Russia will, it is expected, take place on
the conclusion of peace. Count Chreptowitsch is
spoken of for Paris; M. de Kisselef for Rome. Baron
Brunow will not return to London. Prince Gortscha-
koff, it is now believed, will retire definitively from
Vienna.
THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF PRISONS in the Duchy
of Parma was stabbed in several places with a dagger
at the door of his own house, one night last week,
just as he was returning from the theatre. His death
was instantaneous.

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BARON LEJUNE, the French Ambassador at Teheran,
has broken off diplomatic relations with Persia and
retired to Damascus.

THE IMPEIUAL layette divides with the plenipo-
tentiaries the attention of at least the fairer portion
of Paris. The public have this week been admitted
by tickets to Mile. Felicie's rooms, to inspect the
baby linen of the future Imperial child. The Place
do la Bourse and the Rue Vivienne have been
blocked up with carriages all day. Sergens-de-villa
marshal the spectators the way they should be going,
and only let in a few at a time, so that the show-
rooms may not be overcrowded :
The first thing that strikes one on entering the rooms
where the two complete infantine trousseaux, masculine
and feminine, have been laid out by Mlle. Felicie with ex-
quisite taste (writes a correspondent from Paris) is the
amazing superfluity of the outfit. There are napkins,
caps, frocks, chemises, petticoats, jackets, wrappers, hats,
bonnets, shoes, drawers, cloaks, mantles, mantelets, capes,
talmas, muffs, collars, socks, stockings, flannels, rattles,
pillows, and hosts of nameless articles pertaining to a nur-
sery, enough to set up a foundling hospital. But when
the costly material and delicate workmanship of every one
of these articles is considered, the mind, perplexed to
think what they can all be wanted for, might fancy that
some political convulsion had driven all the sovereigns of
the world to one place of refuge, and that this was the
common and ample warthobe of all the royal babies in
existence. It never can be expected that any prince or
princess will actually wear a tithe of the things here pro-
vided.