FOREIGN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 21, 31 May 1851, Page 2

FOREIGN NEWS.

We are indebted, to the Wellington papers lately received per "Perseverance,"-for the following European and Indian intelligence. FRANCE. _ The long impending crisis has at length arrived. The French ministry has resigned. Various causes have led to tliis result. Some attribute it to the quarrel between the Assembly and the Executive in reference to the case of M. Mauguire, the arrested member, -whose liberation was decreed by the Assembly, that body resolving to call in the troops if any resistance were offered to their mandate. The Commander-in-Chief; however, opposed this, and issued instructions to the military to obey no orders from the Eepresentatives, iinless coming through himself. Others,.again, refer the disruption to the more serious cause of a quarrel between the President and General Changarnier. No min_istry.Jiad_.been fpnned when_ the latest news (per telegraph) .^vere receivedi It was generally believed that MM. Barouche and Bbcheiy and

Fould, the Minister of Finance, would remain Ihe President remains firmly by his declaration that the new ministry must remove General Ohangarmer, who on his part continues to assert that he will receive his dismissal only from the assembly. The sense of Paris in the matter may be gathered from the fact that a meeting had been held in the house of M. Mole, at which it was determined by a large majority, to oppose the President'sinteniion of getting rid of General Changarnier, and if possible to name the General President of the Assembly, and place 40 000 men at his disposal. INDIA. Translated from the Cerneen tie Maurice Feb. IS. Sir W. Cotton, General-in-Chief of the Bombay army, set out for England on January 3. Sir John Grey, X.C.8., arrived in the steamer " Queen," on the 30th December, took the oaths the same day, and succeeded Sir W. Cotton in the command of the Bombay army,.and also to the second seat in council. Sir William.Gommhad set out for the north-west provinces on the 7th of January. The Atlienaum gives the details of the reception given to M. Achille Bedier, governor of the French Establishments in India, who arrived at Pondicherry on January the sth, by the « Eurydice." " The character of M. Bedier," says the Pondicherry Guardian, " guarantees to us the solicitude with which he will occupj himself for the interests of the country.