FOREIGN HEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 6, 15 February 1851, Page 2

FOREIGN HEWS.

The Austrian, Prussian, Bavarian, and Saxon governments have just entered into a convention with regard to the elective telegraphs, by which a common tariff has been adopted, reducing the expense by about one half. This new tariff was to come into operation from the Ist October. FRANCE. From Paris there is scarcely any intelligence of interest, save the notable i'act, that the government of the Republic, secure under the shield of its motto, " Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," strikes a deadly blow at the freedom of the press than was ever attempted in the most palmy days of absolutist Legitimacy. The legal proceedings against the press under the new law are rigidly enforced. The last journal which has fallen under the displeasure of the Government is L'Opinion Publiqtie, for transferring to its columns an article, from the Corsair,, reflecting upon Louis Napoleon. On Tuesday, the Assemblee Nationale published an article, to which the name of M. A. Lafayette was affixed, stating that M. Persigny had gone to England to raise a loan for the President. The journal was immediately seized by order of the Attorney-General, and a prosecution is about to be commenced both against the director of the journal, and the author of the article complained of.

Another grand review had been held at Versailles on Thursday, the 10th of October, at which the President of the Republic had been received with cries of "Vive Napoleon," "Vive I'Empereur," by many of the troops, stimulated, it is said, by the example of their officers.

M. de Larochejaquelein had published another letter, in which he expresses the hope that no division of the Legitimists will take place; but at the same time he will not retract any of his former opinions.

The President of the Republic and General Changarnier are said not to be upon the best terms, the former giving-orders to the array through his aide-de-camp without the acquiescence of the latter.

The Nepaulese Ambassador and suite left Paris on Tuesday for Marseilles, on their return home.

Count Mole has written a letter to the Bulletin de Paris denying his intention of withdrawing- from public life ; on the contrary, lie says, that as long- as God gives him health and strength, which he is enjoying at present, he shall devote all his energies to the best interests of France. BELGIUM. • • ' The Queen of the Belgians died on Friday, the 11th of October, in the arms of her mother, the ex-queen of the French. She was the eldest daughter of the late Louis Philippe, and was universally beloved in her own country.>?J France, and in England by none more so than?\ by her Majesty. A revolution oil a small scale is going on in Hesse Cassel. ITALIAN STATES. Fourteen new Cardinals have been created by the Pope. Twelve are foreigners to Italy, amongst whom is Dr. Wiseman, the 11. C. Archbishop of Westminster. The quarrel between "the Church and ■ State" in Piedmont has begun to assume a se- \ rious character. From Turin we learn that the \

two \great champions of the independence of the (Church and the maintenance of ecclesiastical privileges, the Archbishops of Cagliari and Turin, had been sentenced by the law courts to banishment from the Sardinian territories, and had, in consequence, on the night of the 18th ult., embarked for Oivita Vecchio. Both prelates denied the competency of the tribunals to ti*y them upon the charges of which they had beeh found guilty. Under the despotic government of Tuscany, the press is persecuted almost as oppressively as it is under the constitutional rule of the French republic at Paris. The Nazionale of J "Florence of Sep. 23, was seized on that day, in virtue of the new decree on the press, for an article against it. So strict were the orders given to the police agents, that, in order to prevent the reproduction of the article in any shape, the printing machine was sealed for 24 hours, and the railway-train retarded an hour, to prevent the circulation of the proscribed number. DENMARK & SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. From the seat of war we learn, that on the 29th, the Schleswig-Holstein troops made a movement along the lines, and advanced against the Danes, when a battle took place, in the course _of which the city of Friedrichstadt ■was bombarded ; and though it had not surrendered, it was completely surrounded, and was hourly expected to yield. Two of the trenches had been carried by the bayonet, and fourteen pieces of artillery had also been captured from the Danes. The Holsteiners also carried and took position, of the city of Tonningen, after an engagement of two hours. Several Danes were taken prisoners. It appears, notwithstanding the reports spread by German authorities, that the Danes were entirely victorious at Friedrichstadt, and though the town was bombarded for several hours. General William's army was driven back, and suffered a complete defeat. UNITED STATES. Advices from New York to the 17th ult., and in addition, by telegraph, via Halifax, to the 20th ult., reached town in the early part of the week. Washington intelligence mentions the existence, in some quarter not named, of further piratical intentions on Cuba, and that the American Government stands prepared with preventive means. The House of Representatives have passed a bill appropriating three million and a quarter dollars respectively, to meet instalments under the American indemnity treaty. Payment will be made by arrangements with Baring's house. The bill for abolishing the slave-trade in Columbia had been ordered for a third reading by a majority of 22. The bill for the delivery of fugitive slaves had passed the House by a vote of 109 to 75. A vote had been taken in the House condemning the present ad valorem anti-protective tariff by a majority of 2. The public enthusiasm for Jenny Lind continued unabated. She had given two concerts, and, it was said, had appropriated her share of the profits of the first, being at least 10,000 dollars, to several charitable institutions in New York. The whole of her receipts in America are, it is stated on " good authority," to be devoted to the establishment of free schools in Sweden and Norway.— Her first set of concerts had realized, it was said, 140,000 dollars. The first ticket sold at the auction of the tickets for the Boston conceits was bought by a Mr. Ossian E. Dodge for the sum of 620 r dollars (£114.) The Earl of Elgin was at New York.