FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume VII, Issue 344, 5 March 1859, Page 1 (Supplement)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

[Fiom the Home Nem, 17th Dec] FRANCE.

The Emperor and the Empress and the Prince Imperial arrived at the Tuileues on the sth of Decemuerfrom Compiegne.

A most warlike tone haspievailed dqring the past month in the articles of a poi tion of the French press and in the Austrian official journals on the Italian question. The French idea is, that the time has come when Piedmont, allied to France, is to expel Austria irom Lombanly; an idea, of course, which Austria repels with scorn. An official disclaimer of anything discordant in the relations of the two countries has, itis tiue appeared in the 'Moniteur;' but it is not so explicit as it piobably would have been were there leallv no cause for disquietude. The Fiench Minister of Agricultme and Commerce recently issued a circular to the prefects of departments, drawing their attention to a decree of the emperor, by which all bakers in all towns of the empire, where the tiade of a baker is legulated by decrees or oidmances, shall keep by them a reserved supply of corn or flour equal to the quantity required by the consumption of their trade for thiee months. Within one month the prefects, after consulting the municipal authorities, shall decide how much of the reserve shall be in corn and how much in flour, how much shall be left in the baker's own hands, and how much shall be kept in public storehouses. The system is enforced in 160 towns of France, but in many places the reserve of the bakers has been fixed at a very insufficient quantity. This is forthwith to be amended. Government offers to such iiakers as may not have sufficient storage at their command the use of public storehouses, on what terms we are not told ; and, adverting to the possibility that the bakers, though possessing capital enough to carry on their business, buying flour as they want it, may not have funds at command to purchase a thiee month's stock, paternally reminds them that corn is cheap, that the inteiest of money is low, that the transaction offers good security to lenders, and that it may be presumed that capitalists would be willing to advance the money if the bakers do not possess it. v The French emperor has pardoned Gomez, Orsini's servant, altogether, and lie is to be set at large on the Sardinian frontier. The new administrative oiganisation of Algeria has been announced to its inhabitants by public proclamation. The proclamation says that Algeria has ceased to be a colony. Prince Napoleon has proposed and the Emperor has sanctioned the appointment of Jews members of the Councils General of Algeria.