FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, 26 March 1842, Page 12

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

- America. — Mr. Macleod has been acquitted. The trial lasted eight days, and the jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Not guilty. Judge Gridley, in summing up, was very eloquent, and entirely in favour of Mr. Macleod. Colonel Grogan has been released, by order of his Excellency Sir Richard Jackson, on application of United States authorities. The excitement was subsiding, and a better feeling springing up on both sides of the border. Spain and France.— The papers are full of accounts from Spain ; and there appears to be but one feeling on the subject of the conduct of the King of the French. " Writers of all parties admit the impossibility of resisting the conviction that the governing powers of France were instigators and abettors of the insurrection; and by writers of all parties is this nefarious conduct unreservedly censured. It appears that there is a French army of between 30,000 and 50,000 men on the northern descent of the Pyrenees, which gives occasion to the English press to comment very strongly on the crooked policy of Ijouis Philippe, on this as on other points. There seems a disposition to acquit Christina of any leading part in the conspiracy against her daughter, or rather Espartero, and to lay the whole blame upon the King of the French. Tkere was talk in Paris that the French Government had communicated to the English representative their intention of interfering directly in Spain ; that it was intended to occupy Upper Catalonia, Lower Aragon, and the Basque Provinces, this year, and to push intervention to Madrid next spring. In this note the French Government demanded the co-operation of the English. The charge d'affaires answered that he"' had orders, in case such a demand vrlis made, to protest immediately, and to declare that England would oppose any intervention 'by all the means in her power, but that she would support any reasonable arrangement. This answer seems to have stopped the warlike inclinations of the French Ministry, for overtures had been made to all the members of the diplomatic body to direct their Courts to take the affairs of Spain into consideration." The Spanish' insurgent generals, O'Donnell, Piquero, Jaurequi, and Iriarte, with 1,200 men and 400 officers, had entered the French territory. * Espartero appears to have succeeded in obtaining and maintaining a general confidence in his ascendency being a continued one. He was expected at Irun. Persia. — The rapid and unquestioned success of the British arms in Syria, seems to have had a most beneficial effect, even in 'central Asia. The Shah of Persia is so astonished at the destruction in a few hours of a place always considered as impregnable — the flight of Ibrahim, and the succumbing of the mighty Mehemet Ali, that he has displayed the greatest anxiety to be on the best, possible terms with a power that can perform such wonderful feats ; and to convince us that he is now, and has been at all times in his heart, our loving friend and ally. '