FOREIGN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 20, 24 May 1851, Page 2

FOREIGN NEWS.

The Sydney Morning Herald gives the following digest of foreign news from newspapers to December 24th. FRANCE. The 48th Regiment of the line, in garriseV) at Lyons, has received orders to occupy cai/ tonments for the winter in the department ftf the Am. This measure is attributed to inforformation received by the Government from Switzerland, and particularly from Geneva, which would require great vigilance on the frontier. It is supposed that Mazzini is in Geneva.

The number of electors has been reduced by the new law from 9,918,000 to 6,711,000. The reduction principally affects the towns. Madame de Failoux, mother of the ex minister of Public Instruction, died on Friday evening", the thirteenth of Dec, at her Chateau of Bourg d'lre. The Court of Appeal of Paris, have confirmed the judgment of the police court, which condemned the director of the Courant Francais to pay 1500f. for having published a leading article divided into four parts, but having one signature. * -The Vote Universal has again been seized, for the publication of two articles entitled "The "Usury Law,'1 and "Social Contracts in the Nineteenth Century." The editor is to be prosecuted on a double charge of attacks on pro- . perty, and exciting hatred between different classes of citizens. The Paris papers are much occupied with the debate on the bill for raising the condition of Algeria, by admitting the produce of the colony into French ports free of duty, and allowing advantages, in the way of importation, into Algerine ports, of timber and other articles useful for building. The omission of all mention of France in the message of the President of the United States has excited some surprise. SPAIN. It was rumoured that the Queen of Spain was again in an interesting state. The Queen had publicly manifested her displeasure with Narvaez by forbidding him to take a seat in the royal box at the theatre ; and the hitherto favoured minister consequently sent in his resignation, but next day he was persuaded to withdraw it, and thus prevent a ministerial crisis. GERMANY. From all the provinces and military districts intelligence is arriving of the recent order for disbanding the landwehr of the second class being carried into effect. Of the same pacific character are the accounts from the neighbouring States. In Bavaria, in Saxony, in Wurlemberg, and lastly in Austria, regiments are being reduced, levies are suspended, military estimates revoked, and the purchase of horses for the artillery and cavalry "mounts" stopped. The single exception occurred in the Prussian Polish province of Kastoul, in which a riot broke out, ending in the arrest of eleven men. The Kolner Zeitung states that England and France have entered a positive protest against the introduction of all the Crown lands of Austria into the Diet. Three editors of the new German Zeitung, a social democratic paper, have been ordered to quit Frankfort in 24 hours. DENMARK & THE DUCHIES. General Yon dcv Horst had been appointed Commander-in-Chiefof the Holstein army, vice Willisen, who has resigned. The King of Denmark has intimated his readiness to dismiss part of his army. yon der Horst is likely to commence hostilities against the Danes within a short period, this being the desire of the Stathalterchaft, who deem the opposite line of conduct of the late Commander-in-Chief, General Willisen, to have been an injury to the cause. Several officers, among whom Yon Gageru is mentioned, have testified their opposition, to the newly adopted policy, by sending in their resignation. RUSSIA. The Petershurgh Gazette of the Ist instant publishes his Majesty the Czar's ukase abolishing the line of customs between the kingdom of Poland and the bulk of the Russian Empire. Another conspiracy had been discovered in the south. Respecting the late rumours of a matrimonial alliance, which the King of Denmark has been said to contemplate, we find it stated in the Borsenhalle that the princess who is mentioned in connection with this project is the j sister of the Prince of Hesse, heir apparent to I the Danish throne, and, by reason of a former 1, alliance, son-in-law to the* Emperor of Russia. ITALY. Letters from Rome state that the Pontifical Government, supported by that of France, had demanded of the Austrian Cabinet to reduce the Austrian troops in the Roman States to 10,000 men.

TURKEY. A Pera correspondent of the Ost. Deutsche Post gives some interesting details relative to the conspiracy recently discovered at Constantinople. By a singular chance the Sultan himself found certain suspicious documents in the room of one of his adjutants, the Bimbaschi Mustapha Effendi, who was arrested with twelve other persons of high standing in the seraglio. The conspiracy was directed against the Sultan and Eeschid Pasha's Cabinet. Abdul Assis, the Sultan's brother, if not actually a sharer in the' the conspiracy, certainly connived at the revolutionary movements which have so fortunately bean brought to light. The Sultan's physician, an Austrian, was sent for by his Imperial master, who after dismissing his first chamberlain, conversed with the doctor a whole hour. The same evening the latter left Constantinople for Trieste with his wife and family. UNITED STATES. The iron screw steam-ship " Helena Sloman," Captain Paulsen, from Hamburgh and Southampton, bound to New York, was lost on the passage, the greater number of her passengers and crew being rescued by the packet-ship " Devonshire," Captain Hovey, the third mate, and three of the crew of the "Devonshire," being drowned in their gallant efforts to rescue those on board the steamer. Five of the passengers of the " Helena Sloman" were also unfortunately lost. The St. Louis papers contain particulars of an awful tornado on the Mississippi River, which almost entirely destroyed the village of Cape Girardeau, in Missouri. President Fillmore's first annual message was delivered on the 2nd instant to the members of the 31st Congress.