FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 410, 8 October 1856, Page 4

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The European Timesoi June 20th publishes

the following-as the latest advices hy magnetic telegraph : FRANCE. The Monitcur of the 17th, in mentioning a donation of 5024 francs, from Geneva, to the fund fur the benefit of the sufferers hy the floods, states that the sum previously received, from various sources, amounted to 1,591,388f. 30c. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Ncios says :— " 1 am informed-that the Corps Legislatif ts to be prorogued till July 2. There is little doubt that the new tariff hill abolishing prohibitions will he passed this session, although there is a majority of protectionists in the house who would throw it out if they dared." ■ A Senatus Consulhim appointing tho Empress as Regent, in case of an imperial minority, together with the nomination of a Council of Regency, bus been communicated to the Senr.le by the Emperor. The ."amount collected in Paris for the inundated amounts to nearly £ 100,000. The Paris journals generally indulge*^ a feeling of surprise at the attitude a^sumy;! by the Biitish Government on the American question. The comments of the Assemblee Nationals especially are not flattering to our national pride. SPAIN. On the 16th the Cortes rejected, by a majority of 136, the vote of censure on. Marshal O'Donnell. • The harvest in Spain, it is now hoped, will turn out finer than was expected. BELGIUM. The printer of the Republican journal The Nation published at Brussels, has been fined 1000 francs, and sentenced to a year's imprisonment, for a libel on the Duchess of Brabant, the King's daughter-in-law. RUSSIA. The Norcl;- of Brussels, states that M. Tourkull, the minister directing the affairs of Poland, had died from the consequences of a malady which he contracted while travelling.with the Emperor from St. Petersburg to Warsaw. A telegraphic despatch, dated Warsaw, 15th. say* that Prince Go-lenischefF-Koutousoff, a Pole by birth, has been appointed to succeed M. Tourkull. ITALY. The Paris correspondent of the Post says that, af-cording to information he has received from Vienna, Marshal Rsdetskj' "lately intimated that if certain' Symptoms of excitement continued in the Lombardo "Venetian provinces he should require an increase of 30,000 Ausrian troops. A council was summoned on the receipt of this despatch at Vienna,at which the Emperor presided : when it was agreed that the increased iorcsf'* should be afforded if neeesary. SARDINIA. Advices from Turin of the 15th instant contain the intelligence that the arrangement by which the" departments of War and Marine were to be divided. General Delia Marmora taking the War portfolio, and General Duraudo retaining that of Marine, has not been entirely carried out. General Durando leaves the Ministry, and retires to the country. General Serra is to be placed at. the head of the Marine. Galignani has the following from Turin, dnted^tbe 1 G«h : —"To-day, on the occasion of the distribution of medals to the troops returned from the Crimea, the King addressed to the soldiers a speech, of which the following is a passage:—' You have worthily responded to my fxpectatious, as well nx to the hopeu of the country; and you have justified the confidence of Urn Allied Powers, who offer to you to-day a solemn acknowledgement # of their high opinion. I now receive back your victorious standards, certa n that if the interest and honour of the country oblige me to restore them to you, you will and everywhere cover them

with fresh glory.' These words were hailed with enthusiastic vivats. The ceremony responded on the whole to the geneial expectation. GIIEECK. Advices from Athens of the 11th instant state that the Moniteur Grec contradicts the statement that Lord Palmerston had been burned in eifigy, and says that the Morning Post hns been deceived by its correspondents TURKEY. The steamer Indus has arrived from Constantinople, whence she sailed on fthe 9th instant. The Russians destroyed the fortifications of Bavazeed before they restored the place to the Turks. The Russians have consented to admit Mouklis Pacha (Prince Stourdza) to the Danubian Principalities conferences. The'sou of the French consul at Tenedos has been assassinated.