FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 514, 3 October 1867, Page 1

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

j?xwA.N(Jl£» Much excitement has prevailed in France and Prussia during the last few days by the report that the Marquis de Moustier Hh= addres-'erl a Dercmntorv order to Prussia on the subject of Schleswig. The instructions to Mr Bendetti are said to be coincident with a similar despatch from Baron von Beiwt. Count Bismarck has now to meet another opponent in the Cabinet, and it would appear that Napoleon 111. proposed to himself to prepare constructive casus belli for possible use next year.

Prince Napoleon, who is now on good terms with his Imperial cousin, is going to Copenhagen in order to defeat any attempt on the part of the Caoinet of Berlin to make a treaty with Denmark as a consideration for the retrocession of North Schleswig. The Emperor’s policy, therefore, would seem to be an Austro-French alliance with Schleswig for a complaint. By this policy he establishes a connection which will do something to persuade the French people that he is still in accord with Austria, notwithstanding all that has occurred in Mexico, and he gains the whole year for the military preparations which are being made.

The Moniteur attempts to disabuse the public mind of the belief that unpleasant negotiations are being carried on with Prussia with reference to North Schleswig. The Moniteur asserts that there is i o fear of a conflict arising out of the international relations of France, and denies the truth of the report that two camps are being formed and that extraordinary military preparations are being made. This disclaimer is received both by the public and the independent journals with genearl incredulity. The last day’s sitting of the French Senate was marked by a speech from Baron Dupin in which he explained the past history of Prussia, and said that she had formed a Northern Confederation in Germany which “ was offensive to France." He farther expressed his opinion that Prussia would not slop in her career of aggression, and hoped that the larger states would unite together and limit the empire of Prussia to acceptable proportions.

The harvest, says the Gazette des Campannes, is finished in the South of Prance, and has commenced in the central departments. The yield in the South does not appear to justify the expectations announced in the agricultural journals. The rains have laid much of the corn in the Bearne, the Orlcarumis, and the central departments. The consequence is a rise in the markets. .Notwithstanding the bad weather hitherto the prospect of an average harvest is still considered likely.

The Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt has received the Imperial assent, and the prison doors have been thrown open. It is affirmed that in consequence of the expense attending the reception of the sovereigns and princes in Paris the Imperial civil list has exceeded its ordinary budget by some millions. The Emperor it is said intends to provide fur this excess of expenditure by payments spreading over two or three years without having recourse to a loan.

It is said that tiie cost of entertaining the sovereigns and princes will exceed two millions sterling. The Paris Presse says it has just learned on certain information that Mazzini is in Italy and acting in concert wit h Garibaldi and the National Roman Junta. A Florence letter, of Juy 21, in the Liberie, speaks of the sudden “ disappearance ” of Garibaldi after he had been seen in 'meditation over tho tomb of Eerucci on | tiie summit of one of the Appeuine mountains.

ihe news had caused ten Italian regiments to be sent to the Pontificial frontiers and a squadron of observation to the Pontificial coast. According to the Presse, Garibaldi is now in the neighbourhood o Pisa, where he has signed commissions tor the officers of the bands which are forthwith to invade the Pope’s dominions. The first Garibaldian attack is coejectured as liqely to be made from the Neapolitan frontier. He calculates on an insurrection in Rome simultaneous with his invasion. Ihe word has been passed to the intended insurgents to proclaim a republic in Rome.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. The Registrar General’s weekly return for the last week is very satisfactory. The deaths in London being 106 less than the estimated number, allowing for increase ol population. The deaths from diarrhea have raoidly increased of late. The numbers for the last six weeks being respectively : 16, 48, 54,115,170, and 106. Th<deaths from cholera in the same week# were 0, S, 6, 12, Id, and 15. From Rome we hear of 470 persons haring died since the outbreak of cholera in June, up to the 26th ult. In Sicily it is committing serious ravages. At Malta, a quarantine of thirty days is imposed on from certain ports* The Athens journals publish the follow, ing telegram alleged to have been ad dressed to their Government by the foreign Consuls in Candia. The Turks are massacrcing women and children. The Turkish authorities are neither able to subbue the insurrection or to put a stop to iiiese massacres. Humanity demands the immediate sus~ pension of hostilities, or the transference of the Christians to Greece.

The blockade runner Arcadion had undertaken her twentieth voyage. She was bringing hack to Grccr-e 800 Gi'efan Vi.. and children. xhe wreck Government had called out reserves. Several brigands hud been killed. It is reported that the Emperor an Eraprtroa wi luc J’ rciicu arc auuui CO g brief vibifc i Q the Kmperor of Ausbiaat Strsditz as a mark of their sympathy at the rr.r* rS th.r

the Emperor of Austria will visit the Emperor Napoleon at the camp at Chalons, and that afterwards the two Emperors will proceed to Paris.

The Moniteur says : “ The Empress has returned from her excursion to the Isle of Wight, where her Majesty received from Queen Victoria the kindest ana most affectionate welcome. France and England have witnessed with pleasure this fresh proof of the friendship of these two sovereigns, whose lofty qualifications have inspired doth nations with a lively feeling of respectful sympathy. In the House of Lords, yesterday, the Earl of Derby was again present. A motion, brought forward by E«rl Grey, that boroughs of 12,<>00 inhabitants instead of 10,000, should return only one member each, was strongly opposed by the Earl of Derby, who said he felt bound to announce that in case the motion were carried he should move the Chairman to report progress with the view of consulting his colleagues. After a long discussion there appeared for the motion 86, and against it 98.

In the House of Commons, in reply to Mr Mill, the Attorney-General statec that he had taken into consideration the evidence produced at the trials by courtmartial lately hold in Jamaica on Ensign Cullen, and Staff-Assistant- burgeon A 1 orris, and that it was not his intention to advise the Government to institute proceedings against those officers in the ordinary tribunals of this country.

LATEST NEWS. BT KLKCXKIC TELEGRAPH. Southampton, Aug. 2. Liverpool Cotton Market opens quiet. Sales, 8,000 bales. Funds.—Consols, for money, 94 3J-4I ; account, 94J-. U.S. fives, 72£. Railways firm.