FOREIGN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 13, 5 April 1851, Page 6

FOREIGN NEWS.

The war between Denmark and the Duchies still continues. The conferences of the European powers at Ohnut/. is the must important item in the Foreign Intelligence, but the result ; was still unknown. The treaty of Olmiitz is : now said to comprise the following six paragraphs:— '; I. The pacification of Hnlstein by Austrian ( troops will not lake place. A Prussian and ail I Austrian commissioner will meet two coinuns*

sfoners appointed respectively by Denmark and Molstein for the purpose of effecting a peace between Dsnmark and the Duchies. The first principles of this peace are —that the authority of the Sovereign shall be restored; that Holstein shall remain part of the Germanic Confederation ; and that Schleswig shall not be incorporated with Denmark, but that on the contrary it shall remain in its former union with Holstein, All other disputable points are left to the ' Free Conferences.' If the Stadtholders should refuse to make peace on these terms, Holstein will be occupied by a corps of Austrian troops, acting in the name, not of the Frankfort Diet, but of Austria and Prussia. ~ 2. The Hessian question will be settled by the evacuation of Hesse by both the Austrian 'and Prussian troops. It will be left to the Elector to come to terms with the Assembly of Estates, and thus to restore the legal state of his country. If an understanding cannot be effected in this way, the country will be occupied by Austrian troops acting as the Electors auxiliaries (that is to say, not as Federal troops) ; ; in the same manner as Prussian forces at one time acted for the Grand Duke of Baden; and in this case the mediation will be undertaken by a Prussian and an Austrian commissioner. 3. In the question of the German Constitution it has been agreed that Austria and Prussia shall act on a footing of perfect equality % (parilat). The Free Conferences will create a central organ, wilich is to te composed of the former 17 votes of the lesser Confederation (enqere Bund), and the Federal part shall be subjected to a revision. The Executive Power i- in this Confederation will belong to Austria and Prussia alone. Austria reserves its declaration as to which of its provinces will enter this new Confederation, in which there will be no popular representation. With respect to Art. XI. of ; the Federal Pact, which provides that for such 1 purposes the assent of the Central.Power shall ] be indispensable, the Suites will be authorised | to form separate leagues. j 4. All the German States are to take part in the Free Conferences, which will be opened at ' Dresden in the course of this very month. 5. The Prussian army, as well as the Federal troops, will for the present remain on a war footing. - 6. The transactions of the Federal Diet will cease. The Federal Diet has no vote on any \ of the above questions. \ These terms had been the subject of violent i discussion in the Lower House at Berlin. The i Times of Dec. 7th, says:— ■** "In spite of the energetic measures which the Cabinet has'just taken against the war * party in the two Houses, it appears that §the • preparations for war are continued with the greatest zeal. Tlie whole of Silesia is in arms, and the second' call" of the Ladwehr has just been mustered in the district towns. From Coblentz, too, we learn that preparations are making" to put the fortress of Ehrenhreitstein and the fortified camp of Coblentz, Petersburg, ' A and Carthaus, into an efficient state of defence, jand that for this purpose the pioneers have commenced clearing glacis. No movements of any importance have, however, taken place among the Austrian forces, which are encamped upon the frontiers of Prussian Silesia. The only circumstance that deserves notice is that the Australian troops, : which entered Frii'diand on the 24th ult., were suddenly marched hack to the interior of Bohemia on the 20th. These battalions (6,000 men) ' consisted chielly of Italian troops, and the men ■ began to cross the Prussian frontier and thus to v desert. They hare consequently been marched \ s to Jung Bunzlm, the head-quarters of General , Clam-Galhs. The positions in Friedland ~ and along this Prussian frontier will be taken •by a division of Jalladiicli's Szeretsbaners. The Lithographinlv Gurrs-tpniidpn? fiom which we take these details, states that Marshal Badetzky is pypected at Sleiohenberg, the head quarters \ of i.fe Bohemian ;»\my. We ought to remark that.the Vienna, kuu'rs of the Kolner Zeilunq \ contradict t.hi« statement, since they assert that ", Marchal itaih-M./.ky will remain in the capital.