FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 505, 14 August 1850, Page 3

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AMERICA

The'steamer America, Captain Leitch, arrived in Liverpool early in the morning of the 19th March, with dates from Boston to the 6th inclusive ; from Halifax to the Bth : from Washington to the 4th ; from Cinciunatti and Pittsburgh to the 3rd ; and from New Orleans and St. Louis to the 2nd; with all these mails the steamer brought one hundred passengers.

The Nicaragua Ship Canal Company had received an information that they might possess themselves of Tiger Island if it were at all necessary to the success or convenience of their operations. The Governments of England and the United States are quite agreed, and those of France and Russia have expressed their desire to acknowledge the future transit as open to all nations, and to assist in a guarantee of territorial neutrality. The slavery question in connexion with California, was engaging the attention of both branches of Congress, and on the 20th of February, was discussed the policy of a pacific dissolution of the Federative Union, when it was declared that the fear of war arising from disunion would not deter the South from adhering .'to • the right guaranteed "\n*'> the , bond

j under which it entered the Uniou. Mr ! Case characterised such suggestions as a chimera, and hoped that God would give, their counsels more of the spirit of justice, j conciliation und compromise, that the j [. nion might be bound together again as j with bonds of iron. In Mexico there j had been a slight insurrection, which hud i been speedily quelled. J FRANCE. The ca'isc! of democracy appears to have Ruined some slight advantage as a result of the elections of France. In j the capital the Socialists carried all bej fore them, returning Carnot Vidal and jDe P'lotte. In the rural districts the I Moderates appeared to have had the i advantage. On the whole the result I seems to have proved favourable to liberty, Iby interposing obstacles to the accomJ plishment of the French Presidents' j scheme of aggrandisement and ambition. j The Napoleon, while not absolutely des■j ponding, is evidently considerably taken aback by the result of the elections The organs of the democratic party accused the police authorities of an endeavour to entrap the people into a physical force collision, and had urged them to absent ! themselves altogether from the locale where the result of the city elections was to he declared. Everything however ! passed off quietly.

The immediate result of the elections on the Cabinet has been, that the whole of the Ministers have notified to the President that they are prepared to resign their portfolios. It is not so certain however that their resignations will be accepted. It is reported that M. Ferdinand Barrot, Minister of the Interior, and General Lafite, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will positively retire. The failure of the last mentioned more especiulh in. the late contested elections leaves him no choice. The increase of steam navigation upon the rivers of France is truly sui'prising. In 183-3 there were only six steam-vessels on the Rhone and Saone: but now, according to an official report, there are no less than oo steamers on the two rivers, with an aggregate of 8,000 horsepower. PRUSSIA. Though Prussia has not been able to constitute herself the great central power of Germany, she has succeeded in establishing a Bund, which, until laiely, affected to be that authority, though now it lias assumed a more modest tone, provided that the collective German States which recognize the Constitution shall be called the " German Union." The legislative authority is to be entitled the " Parliament of the German Union." and already J has it begun to exercise its power by citing before it the petty State of Hanover to which citation that power replied by a simple protest, refusing to acknowledge the authority of the Eriurt Parliament.