FOREIGN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 7, 22 February 1851, Page 2

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE. The only important political incident Las been the discovery of an Orleanist plot. The documents connected with it, whilst they do not appear to implicate any person, afforded the London and Paris.press food for very long editorials. The French government, it is said, has addressed, by General Lahittej official remonstrances to Lord Palmerston on the subject of the French refugees in London. The health of General Cavaignac gives great uneasiness to his friends. For some time past he has been subject to periodical attacks, which produce great suffering, and_which are followed by lassitude and weakness. DENMARK. The Danes are concentrating around Frederickstadt, either for the purpose of repelling, or making an attack. The loss of the Schlesvrig Holsteiners on the 12th was 9 officers and 257 subalterns and privates in killed, wounded and prisoners.— Prussian Staats Auzeiger, Sep. 24. AUSTRIA. The Austrian Council sitting at Frankfort have declared that the refusal of the Hessian Diet to grant the supplies is illegal. In the meantime, the armies of Bavaria, Hanover, and Prussia, apj)roach the Hessian frontier. Hesse Cassel, however, remains perfectly quiet. POLAND. The Augsburg Gazette states that there is at present a species of political Congress at Warsaw, at which the Austrian and Russian diplomatists are engaged. The Emperor himself is expected to attend it. The Congress is occupied in the affairs of Germany and Poland. On the Ist of January, 1851—that is on the 25th anniversary of the accession of the Emperor— Poland will be transformed into a certain number of Russian Governments. UNITED STATES. Congress adjourned to Sept. 30, after having passed all the bills except the Mint and its amendment. The city of Philadelphia is again stained with bloodshed. A serious and disgraceful riot took place there on the sth inst. between the Moyamensing rowdies and the negroes. Several persons were wounded by gun-shots, and the greatest excitement prevailed. The Fugitive Slave Law is meeting with great opposition in theEasternStates,and even through Canada. CALIF'GRNIA. The Southern Cross of the 31st January, says, —The arrival, yesterday morning, of the brig Lady Harvey, has put us in possession of a variety of Californian papers to the oth of Dec. inclusive. That date, being merely six days subsequent to the departure of the Novelty, had not sufficed to supply any further intelligence from Europe ; but, if .we may judge from the daily reports of the Board of Health, the inter-

val had been quite long enough to exhibit the ravages of the cholera in a much more virulent form. On the 30th of November, the report of the previous 24 hours showed 24 cases with 16 deaths. On the 3rd of December, 22 new cases .. with IS deaths for the preceding 48 hours. On the 4th, 13 cases, with 8 deaths; and on the sth, 20 cases and 9 deaths. Amongst the victims of this fell disorder, we have to lament one well known here, and in New South Wales, —Dr. George C. Forbes, —who, after not only successfully resisting the contagion himself, but after having been the means of preserving many others, was carried off on the 3rd of Dec, in the 33rd year of his age. The name of Mary Scullion, from New Zealand, aged 26, likewise appears on the fatal vo\\.—Southern Cross. INDTA. The last news from India, received in London by telegraph via Trieste, states that the cholera had broken out in China, and the Governor of Macao had died of it. Commercial affairs at Bombay were improving. The same remarks apply to Madras, but at Calcutta trade was less active. The prospects of the Indigo crops are said to be very encouraging