FOREIGN NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume I, Issue 29, 26 July 1851, Page 3

FOREIGN NEWS.

The procession of the Bceuf Gras took place in Paris on the 4th of March, for the first time since 1848, and passed off quietly. Matters appeared to be going on tranquilly in the French republic. The troops in the garrison of Paris were to be relieved by others according to length of duty at the forts.

It was stated in the Dresden Gazette that Prussia had again given way to Austria, and it was also rumoured that the differences between Austria and Switzerland were settled. The insurgent Bosnian chief, Kavass Pacha, who after his defeat took refuge in the Austrian territory, has been conveyed as a prisoner to Zara. The thousandth anniversary of the foundation of the Russian empire, which, according to the historians of that country, dates from the year 852, is to be celebrated with the greatest pomp at Petersburgh next year, and in the chief" towns of all the European and Asiatic Provinces of Russia.

Disturbances had broken out in Norway, at Drontheim, but had been suppressed. The French Legation at Rome received despatches on the 24th of February from London, announcing the result of the division on Lord John Russell's motion on Papal aggression. The majority astonished every one, and struck a certain degree of alarm into* the Papal Court. The people thought that upon its first introduction the premier had either said too much or done too little, and that the bill fell far short of that which had been expected from the severity of his previous declarations. x At the first glance the Vatican considered that it had gained a great triumph, and that the British Government was shewing the " white feather ;'' but the second part of the bill, which affects trustmoney and donations, created a different feeling, and the church was indignant because compelled to keep its hands out of dead men's pockets. The subject, however, had lost much of its importance in Rome ; and as long as no penal laws are enacted, the victory will be claimed by the Propaganda, or at least it will be considered a drawn battle. It is asserted that had not the English Roman Catholic vicars been so urgent, the present Pontiff would not have issued the Bull, but now that the mischief is done Pio Nono submits in resignation, and his advisers console themselves with the idea that if the English Government be opposed to the Court of Rome, the English nobility and gentry are in large numbers becoming converts to its doctrines.