LATEST EUROPEAN NEWS. (To the 30th April.) (From the New York Weekly Herald—edition for California — of Monday, May 15th)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume VI, Issue 434, 26 August 1851, Page 3

L ATE ST EUROPEAN NEWS. (To the 30th April.) (From the New York Weekly Herald— edition for California —of Monday, May 15th)

The American mail steamship ' Arctic,' Capt. Luce, arrived early yesterday morning from Liverpool, whence she sailed on Wednesday, the 30th ult., at 10£ o'clock, A.M. She has, therefore, made the passage in ten days, nineteen hours, and thirty minutes. , Accounts from Madrid announce that the Charge d' Affaires of Porgugal made another unsuccessful attempt, on the 19th, to induce the Spanish government to agree to an armed intervention. The Paris 'Moniteur' publishes a note from the Minister of War blaming an order of the day issued by General d'Hautpoul, relative to the taking of Selloun on the 10th of April. The note says that the order in question is the " object of a formal disapprobation and of severe blame." Gen. d'Hautpoul is daily expected in Paris, and will, no doubt, at once resign the Governor1 Generalship of Algeria. The Viceroy of Egypt has definitively sanctioned the construction of the Alexandria, Cairo, and Suez Railway. M. A. de Planta, the Federal Commissioner to the Canton of Tessino, Switzerland, has given in his resignation. We learn from Berlin that notes have been addressed by Austria aad Prussia to the government of Denmark, insisting on the regulation of the Holstein question. The Progresistas, at Madrid, had returned three out of the five candidates for the city. It is now stated that Prince Schwarzenberg will not proceed to Dresden, the Conferences there being to all purposes abandoned. From Bosnia the accounts state that the siege of the insurgent city, Bihacs, has been commenced. The fugitive insurgents will not be allowed to cross into Austria. His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia, accompanied by the Princess of Prussia and family, and Prince Frederick William, of Prussia, arrived at London on April 28th. Among the recent deaths in Europe we notice the name of Admiral Sir Edward Codrington. He was captain of the British fleet in the Chesapeake and at New Orleans in 1814. , „ Sir RichardPakenham, formerly Envoy to the United States, and who has been on the retired list since his return from Washington, is appointed Her Majesty's Minister at Lisbon. We learn that Capt. Guesdon^ commanding the French whaler the ' Salamandre/ just arrived at Havre, gives an account of the discovery of a cluster of islands which is not marked on any of the charts. They lie in 172 deg. 56 mm. west longitude of the meridian of Paris, and 9 deg: 38 mm. south latitude. They are from 25 to 30 in number, three of them of some extent, and all covered with cocoa trees. On the same day he discovered the He Clarence. The following is an extract of a letter dated Hamburgh, April 24 : ' "Rosas, the dictator of the Argentine republic, has instructed his consul in this city to remonstrate with the Senate against the enlisting of soldiers and the exportation, of ordnance for the Brazils. It is stated, in the note" delivered by the consul, that, in case of a war breaking out between the said republic and the empire of the Brazils, the dictator would consider these proceedings as hostile acts, and would treat as enemies the subjects of those countries where they had been committed. Our merchants, who have considerable property at stake at Buenos Ayres, and other parts of South America, feel uneasy about this threatening note, The best joke is, that the agents of Rosas have been engaging some of the disbanded military of the late Schleswig - Holstein army, but only a few of them ; it is said, only artillery officers. This was done clandestinely, the officers in question taking

their passage on board regular merchant vessels as private individuals j whereas the recruits for the Brazils went on board transports chartered by the government, got their regimentals, and wore them on shore, and were openly drilled after they came on board. Not the least secresy was observed." The following is from the London Corresof our New York contemporary: —

pondent "London, Friday, April 25,1851. " The approaching opening of the Crystal Palace, and the military insurrection in Portugal, have been the two absorbing topics of the week, and have tended to enliven the Easter holidays, the gayeties of which, out of doors, were marred by a torrent of rain. "On the Ist of May, as announced, the Crystal Palace will be solemnly opened by the Queen, accompanied by Prince Albert, the ministers, foreign ambassadors, &c. The Archbishop of .Canterbury will invoke God's blessing upon the undertaking, when an anthem will be sung. Foreign exhibitors, and all persons holding season tickets, will be admitted to the opening. I subjoin, the official programme of the opening, which may interest many of your readers :—r