Foreign Intelligence.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume XIII, Issue 1373, 29 September 1858, Page 3

Foreign Intelligence.

FRANCE. Orders are issued to all officers belonging to the ports of Brest and Cherbourg, absent on leave, to repair to their stations by the 15th of July, to be ready to meet the Emperor. The Minister of Marine has received a telegraphic despatch announcing that the steamfrigate lmpetue-.se passed the Straits of Messina yesterday, the 17th June, on her wav to the Adriatic. It is said that the climate of London docs' not suit Marshal Pelissier’s health, and consequently his return to Paris is not far from probable. How far this is the case I cannot decide. Marshal Pelissier’s tastes and occupations have been of a kind very different from what they now are, and, though he has no reason to complain of his reception in England, yet at his time of life a man cannot easily adapt himself to new habits. Since the meeting with the Due d’Aumale, and the interesting scene that then occurred, a few persons here have, I doubt not, done their best to give a false coloring to that adventure, which certainly does no discredit to Matsbal Pelissicr—quite the contrary ; and if he makes up Lis mind to return to Paris. I should attribute it to that incident rather than to ar.yth’ng else. In case of the post becoming vacant, there are some wild people who think that M. Walcwski would be the one to fill it. I doubt this much. I doubt whether after all that has passed, after the too Celebrated dispatch—"assassination elevated to a principle”—and the other amenities addressed to us in that curious state paper—the Emperor would make such an appointment, or that if he did so, the nominee would venture to accept it. The partialities of a mere Cabinet are not sufficient to ueutra'ise the feelings of a nation. I disbelieve the story, quite as much as il it were said M. de Moray, or any of his complacent Colonels (the Colonels of the addresses) were to be sent. The public are still anxiously waiting for the changes which are expected to follow on the very judicious step of the retirement of General Espmasse. To begin with, the postofSecretay General of the Ministry of the Interior is to be suppressed, an 1 various changes made among the Prefects and Subprefects.”” M. Pietri, late Prefect of Police, has, I hear, been telegraphed for ; and it is thought that be will be placed at the head of the new po'ice organiz ition. I have already observed that the new Minister of the Interior is not charged with the public security. So far so good—the ntil-tarv element is begining to disappear in the civil administration ; but there are few other changes which the public wou'd be delighted to witness. The Paris Conferences.— Thelndepcndance Beige gives, on its own authority, the following analysis of the particulars of the first three re-unions of the I’aris Conferences “ The first sitting was completly absorbed bv the verification of the Powers,” and by the performance of the usual preliminary formalities. But at the second meeting the question of the reorganization of the Danubian Principalities w as introduced, when the French plenipotentiaryopened the discussion by formally proposing the union of the two provinces. Lord Cowleythen demanded that the order of the discussion should be regulated by precedent, and that the initiative of the p opositions should be left to 1 urkey first, and then te Powers bordering upon the Principalities ; that is to say, to Aus-

tria and Russia. This proposition, supported by M. de Hubner, was unanimously adopted. But Fuad Pacha, instead of presenting a project of organisation, or of indicating at least the essential basis, contented himself with protesting the desire of the sublime Porte to see the question regulated by a common accord, and to the satisfaction of all the Governments represented at the Conference. A- to Austria and Russia, their plenipotentiaries shrouded themselves in a complete reserve. The followlowing sitting gave rise ti some animated debates, and the question was then put in mere precise terms. M. de Walewski reintroduced his plan of union, and presented the bases of a project of re organisation, according to which Moldavia and Wallachia would each continue to have his hospodar, but would be regu’ated by a common constitution, and would have but one and the same legislative senate. The English plenipotentiary having reminded his colleagues that, in virtue of the decision taken at the preceding meeting, the initiative of the proposition had devolved in the first place upon the representative of the Porte, Fuad Pacha, declared that his instructions did not permit him to submit a formal proposition to the Conference, and that they only prescribed to hitn to oppose every discussion having for its basis the union of the Principalities. The Austrian plenipotentiary, to whom then belonged the initiative, proposed to discuss the reorganisation. M. de Hatzfeldt (Prussia) declared him. self without instructions for that discussion, and demanded that they would begin by examining tlie state of the relations of the Danubian Provinces with the Porte. The Conference concluded by perceiving that the instiuctions of its members were not sufficient, and that under these circumstances every discussion would be without result. It is then, afier having refused to inscribe upon the protocol the plan developed by M. Walewski, as well as the proposition of M. le Hubner, adjourned to the 10th, in order that its mem, bers should furnish themselves, in the interval, with fresh instructions, more complete and precise. According to what we learn from Con, stantinople, the Porte immediately transmitted to Fuad Pacha an order tu take an attitude more distinct, and to combat energetical.? every project of union. •