EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

Wellington Independent, Volume VI, Issue 551, 22 January 1851, Page 4

EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.

"' FOKEICX AFFAIUS. (Albion, 19tA September.) Our accounts from abroad are this week more interesting than usual. France supplies little beyond the tale of the President's tour to Cherbourg and reception at that great _ harbour, where he arrived on Saturday night week. Addresses, banquets, a sham attack upon a steamer, scores of men-of-war unci British yachts salutes of unusual grandeur marked the scene throughout; but the applause was not great, nor personal to the Napoleon, but that result in the truly significant moral of tbe whole. En route homeward new triumphal festivities marked the path; and at Granville two hundred maidens gave tho President their best wishes and a bouquet; explaining that they yvere only simple girls, and could not elevate him to the throne, however ardently they wished it. Some anxiety attends the President's return: a society of the 10th December, being accused of an intention to create disturbance under the pretext of a celebration on the chiefs arrival. Chungarnier, however, is prepared, and fear is quieted. M. Dupin, in the Departments, and M. President Louis Napoleon have both discredited reports of coup d'etat. Further reports have been received relative to tbe Councils-General and the revision of the constitution but they are not important. From Germany our accounts are varied by new spectacles of petty znisgovernment. Electoral House is in a state of agitation. M. Hassenbflug, tho premier, issued au unconstitutional decree for the collection of taxes yvithout the consent of the States. The permanent committee of the States ordered the authorities not to obey the decree ; the executive issued martial law; some of the printing offices were seized. Protests agaiust the act were made by the councils ; and the permanent committee ordered the arrest of the minister. A warrant yvas accordingly made out, and M. Hasseubflug yvill probably soon expiate in prison his arbitrary rule. Such is a brief history of this tempest in a tea-pot. Meanwhile, Prussia has resolved that Austria andßuvaria shall not interfere, and the people are quiet: it is said, however, that tho Austrian corps d'armcc in Bohemia ia heing reinforced. Other petty affairs hqvo also occurred amongst the German States. On the Bth the Assembjy of Anhalt Bembourg yvas dissolved aud shorthand writer's notes yvere seized by the Ministry. The Saxon Government is said to have determined to dissolve the Chambers for resisting its railway schemes. Frankfort accounts state, that, at the first, sitting of the Restricted Federal Council, at Frankfort, on the 2nd inst., the Assembly acknowledged that it was the duty of the Germanic Confederation to interfere in the question of the Duchies in order to put an end to the war, and accordingly the Council appointed a committee to examine aud report on thebest course of proceeding to effect that purpose. A committee was. also named to take into consideration the proposition made by Prussia to Austria to confide the care ofthe Federal property to a commission. Prussia, it is said, has resolved to make no more concessions to Austria. Spanish accounts contain rumours of j new Ministerial changes. The Minister lof the Interior had been challenged by a subordinate. Almost all the. elections had terminated in favour of the Government. "

Schlcswig accounts note-the occurrence of several skirmishes. Ou the 10th the Holstein Chamber held its second sitlinoat Keil, but the proceedings yvere merely formal. Fears., were entertained that a hew conflict would bo forced on. Denmark, it is announced, has signified- its assent .to receive individual Gormau state ratifications to the. late treaty. From Russia, Turkey, Su>., we have no news. From Greece wo learn that the Minister of Worship had been assassinated. " Six. balis: pierced the unhappy man. j Italy presents some striking details of newjorts around Elian; anew Austrian customs; treaty wit]", Parma and Modena ■ new arbitrary acts at Naples; new sentences to death at Palermo. Sardinia meanwhile, is negotiating its dispute with Pic.Nino; and; Lord Palmerston is said to, have counselled the Vatican in a strong bote; be amiable. Austria, again, is said to have tendered itself as mediator Rome itself, is meanwhile, of tlaily robberies dud murders of the vilest Austria has effected \n new loan in its own dominions, of 7,500-000 florins.

■TSREAT STOIJM IN PARIS. On, the Bihar August a fearful storm of'tain burst oyer Paris. Tho folloW , „ pendent of the Time's, of the. 9th '— A ! d ,°% 9 grainy accorapaaicd.' by a

thunder storm, and most vivid lightning, fell yesterday to an extern scai'cely remembered by that most questionable of all known authofiv" 1 * "the oldest inhabitant of Paris " !f,, es day before yesterday the heat was'totenT throughout. About ten o'clock at-niS th c sky became covered with clouds 7-f the blackest hue, and flashes of jW lightning lighted up the horizon w?, the whole of. the sultry night. Towardl daybreak a soft mist began to fall Abodf nine o'clock a mass of clouds piled hehvil l and darkly, and charged with the torrei and the thunder hung like a darkcanov over the city. .About eight o'clock £ rain fell ike a deluge.; Tho growling distant thunder was heard. Thirst however, passed off, but bhly- to.retuni with tenfold violence, and abouthalf ti-Kf one o'clock the rain and thunder ayvful. The heavens were compl et 2: obscured, even as <hu'k as a fog g Y eve ' y ing in London in the month of NovenT ber, and in some houses candles were Tlie luminometre in tho establishnW of au optician in Ihe Palais Royabhowed the cloud that shut out the sun S heaven from the inhabitants of 'Paris'tn be at least 71 miles in thickness From that hour until nearly 7 o'clock i v the evening,.the rain came down in torrents though the thunder was neither loud nor frequent. It continued, though with much less intensity during the greater part of the night. Some persons assert that they even felt a slight shock of an earthquake, though I suspect this to be an exaggeration. In every place the passage of carriages was completely stop ped. In the streets of Notre Daruede Lorctte, Martyrs, St. Jacques, and'the newly macademised Boulevards, the horses were in the water to the'chest and others presented the cheerless pearance of a long marsh, with alternate mud and yvater. A regular lake yvas formed in less than half an hour at the junction of the streets Cadra, Montor gueil, and Maria Stuart. It extended to more than 600feet,and it was with difficulty that carriages and carts could traverse the.current. The:ground floors of the houses were of course inundated The floor ofthe Hotel de Ville was"a lake. The cellars of many houses were invaded by an element wliich is not the one that ought to be plentiful there, arid bottles of Chateau MargeauxChampagne, Chambertin, aud Clous Vougeot, worthy of a better fate, were floating by fhotis". ands, and (horresco referens), dashed to pieces. Thousands upon thousands of black rats, frightened by the. invading element, were driven from their foul retreats into the open air, and with the courage of despair, to . shelter in the upper habitations. The whole of the upper yvorks of tho Boulevard, St. Martin were inundated, as also those of the Pout Neuf. Paris was covered over with darkness-, and inundated three times dur : ing the day. It yvas when the second cloud—thick, black; and awful—hung over the city that the oscillation as of an earthquake was felt. About 2 o'clock the lightning fell in the ' Gx'os. Gaillou,' but I have not heard of any more serious accident than those mei.ti ned occurring! The following is another account of the storm from Galignani's paper:— Tho rain fell in Paris yesterday to an extent rarely witnessed. Many of the> streets were so covered yvith water that for nearly an hour the passage was im* possible. In some places the yvater was four feet deep. There was a thunder (Storm, but it was neither riolant nor of long duration. We were witnesses, ,iv the rue dv Faubourg Mon'martrc..of(t perfect deluge. Two formidable-catar-acts flowed down' from the rue Cadet mid the.rue dcs Martyrs. The shopkeepers had /placed planks to a great height, to prevent the water from entering their" shops, but it yvashed over and carried them ayvay. The horses were up to thcif' chests and* the carriages could not move. On« person threyv off his coat and swam along thestrcet amidst the applause aud laughter of the bystanders. His example was, however, followed by otheisi and at one time' upyvards of twent)' persons were enjoying a swim.' The rue. Richer presented tlie appearance of a rapid and muddy torrent, in the midst of which were seen floating a num- ( berof casks, which had' been washed oil a followed by men' stripped to their middle. The horses in the carriages were, upi to their shoulders. The oinnibusses,which persisted in endeavouring to pass through, were filled with watef. 4U the shops and cellars were iuilndatedi Similar scenes took placo in the rues dcs Provence, de la Victorie, and the Chausses d'Antift. In somcof the shops in tliK latter street the water was a foot deep. Coathes plied on the Boulevard 'Mo.it' martre to carry over persons for one sou-