FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 41, 7 October 1867, Page 246

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

;; FRANCE.^ Miron excitement has prevaUed in -France and Prussia .during the; last few days by the'report'that'the Marquis de Moustier has addressed’a peremptory ;order to Prussia'.pfi the subject; of 'Schleswigi The instructions to ; said jto be coincident a sitailir jßarbnvTon. v -||inis&. .’'..Count has now to- meet , another opponent in the Cabinefyand it .would.appear that Napoleon 111- proposed to himself to prepare construetive- oow? belli for poasible use next year.' : ; n 1 1 • ■ - ■

' 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’ Cabinet 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 Au9tro-Erench alliance with;, Schleswig % for a complaint. By this policy he establishes a connection which ( wilLdo., something to persuade the French people that he >3 still in accord with Austria, 1 notwithstanding all that has bccurred in Mexico, and he gains the whole year for the military preparations which are being made., , - • r ... The Moniteur attempts to disabuse the public,mind of the belief that unpleasant negotiations are being carried bn with Prussia with reference'to North Schleswig. ' The Moniteur asserts that there is t 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 md the independent journals with genearl incredulty. The last day’s sitting of tlie French Senate was marked by a speech from Baron Dupin in which lie expniined 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 stop 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 Catnpagnes, is finished in the South of France, and has commenced in the central departments. The yield in the South docs not appear to justifvthe expectations announced in the agricuij|jnral journals. The rains have laid mucli of the corn in the Bearne, the. Orleannais, 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 for this excess of expenditure by payments spreading over two .or three years without haviug recourse to a loan.

It is said that the cost of entei’taining the sovereigns and princes wiil exceed two millions sterling. The Paris Presse says it has just learned on certain information that Mazzini is in Italy and aesiiig in concert with Garibaldi and the National Roman Junta. A Florence letter, of Juy 21, in the Liberie, speaks of the sudden “ disappearence ” of Garibaldi after lie had been seen in meditation. over the tomb of Ferucci on the summit-of one of the Appenihe-moun-tains. '

The news had caused .ten Italian regiments to be sent to the Pontificial frontiers and ,a tquiadron of Observation to" the Pontific.ia! coast. According to. the Presse, Garibaldi is now in the neighbourhood o Pisa, has signed commissions for the-officers of the bands which are forthwiili to invade the Pope’s dominions. The first Garibajdian attack is coejectured as liqely to be. made from the Neapolitan frontier. He calculates on an insurrection in-Rome simultaneous with liis invasion, the word has been passed tb the intended insurgents to. proclaim a republic in Rome.