CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Wellington Independent, 2 December 1861, Page 1

CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Negociations for settlement of the Roman question are still said to be going on between France and Italy, but another pamphlet has appeared in Paris. It intimates that a vote will be taken at Rome on the question- of annexation; if affirmative, Italian trpops will replace Frenoh. This is taihely denied by the *■ Moniteur ' as being unofficial. Spain and Austria have offered to place troops at the disposal of the Pope, should the French troops leave Rome ; and Southern Italy ,■ brigandage, is almost suppressed/ Becker, who attempted to assasinate the King of Prussia, has been sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. , ' A lunatic has attempted to assassinate Queen of Greece. Hostilities have commenced, between the Turks and Montenegrins. England and France advise the Sultan to recognise Prinoe Congas as sovereign { over, the Danubian Principalities. The Austrian Government is resolved to carry out its despotio policy towards Hnngary with a right hand. It has suspended the committee of the Comitat of Pesth for having protested against the dissolution of the Diet, and it has p 1 roseeuled thirty of its members for treason. The position takeu up by Hungary is rapidly securing the sympathy of other dependent provinces, Croatia is now the friend of Hungary j in both houses of the Regscrath her cause has been eloquently espoused. , InHolstein affairs are going on no better than in Hungary. The public every- . where manifest the most resolute opposition to the German element, and have proceeded to acts of open violence against German residents. At Warsaw, the Goi vernor threatens the people with a state ofseige; but the, national spirit is in r dominitable, and in the face of all' these . perils, a meeting of delegates has been organised from all the constituted bodies % of the three Polands, to celebrate the Union cf Poland and Lithuania, which took plaoe four hundred years ago. A, great soandal is reported from Paris. The Countess de Persigny is said to have run away from her husband with a lover. ' ' , ■-„:.■■