The Press.
London, England, 1857-12-12 00:00:00

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FRANCE.

The principal event in Paris during the week has
been the suspension of the journal La Presse, for
two months, by order of the Government. The
Courrier de Paris has just started as a " constitu-
tional opposition." Some powerful articles in favour
of " liberty " and universal suffrage, from the pen of
E. de Girardin, have opened the campaign. The
writer seems to anticipate that the Imperial Govern-
ment is prepared to adopt a more liberal policy, and
thinks the empire is now strong enough to admit a
greater freedom of discussion.
It is said that M. Oliivier, one of the democrati
deputies for Paris, has addressed, or is about to
address, a letter to M. de Morny, as President of the
Legislative Body, protesting against the "moral
violence " practised towards him in the Chamber, in
not being allowed to speak on the resignation of M.

Segur.
The new elections to fill up the vacant seats for
the Haut-Rhin and Paris will not probably take place
before March.

The Moniteur of Tuesday announced that the
commission of the four powers signed, on the sth
inst., at Constantinople, the final act of the rectifica-
tion of the Russian irontier in Asia.
THE PRINCIPALITIES.

Prince Gortschakotf has addressed the following
note to M. Boutenieff, the Russian Minister at Con•
stantinople

I have received your despatch inclosing the circular
which the Ottoman Government has lately issued to its
representatives at the Courts of the Governments that
signed the Treaty of 2aris, and which has been officially
communicated to you by Ash Pitch*.
We deem it useless to enter upon a controversy with
the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs; or else we should
have questioned his assertions with regard to the capitula-
tions of the Principalities, and especially the phrase
sovereignty, which occeurs in his letter, and which can
nowise be applicable to the relations between those pro-
vinces and the Sublime Porte. _ _

We shall leave the communication unanswered, and if
Aali niche again speaks to your Excellency about it, yon
will take care to tell him that we refer him to the purport
of our circular of the 22nd of October.

We are assured, says the Post, that when M.
Boutenieff read the despatch in question to the
Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Aali Pacha
simply replied to the Russian diplomatists that the
despatch was an anachronism, for evidently Prince
Gortschakoff, when writing it, fancied he was dating
it after the Treaty of Adrianople and before the
Treaty of Paris.
A Vienna letter of the 2nd says that in a confer-
ence yesterday between Count Buol and Prince
Kallimaki, the latter communicated the bases of the
plan of organisation of Moldavia and Wallachia
which the Porte is drawing up. The principal
features are that two princes shall he elected for life
by the Divans from families of the provinces, sub-
ject to the confirmation of the Porte ; that a certain
union shall exist between the Principalities as
regards military, postal, customs, and telegraphic
communications; that a Moldavian commission shall
be nominated to superintend these matters in Wal-
lachia, and a Wallachian one in Moldavia ; and
that the two shall at intervals form one commission,
meeting at Jassy or Bucharest at fixed intervals to
modify existing regulations.