LATE AND IMPORTANT EUROPEAN NEWS.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 218, 1 July 1848, Page 3

LATE AND IMPORTANT EUROPEAN N E W S.

H.M.S. Dido arrived from Sydney on Thursday evening, bringing papers from New South Wales to the 20th June. We are indebted to the courtesy of the gun room officers of H.M.S. Calliope for n copy of the Sydney Morning Ilerm.ii of the 19th instant; the propuelors of that journal, through some unaccountable icmissness, having omitted to post their important issue of that day. New .sot all illy staitliug cluuacter had been leccivcd, by (he Juno, steamer, fiom Adelaide and Melbourne, UansmUted (via India) from England to the 2(ilh, and from. France to the 29th Febiuaiy. Another revolution had swept away the King of the Barricades, and the piojcctor of a new Spanish dynasty. The monarch of one revolt had fallen beneath the weight of another and more popular one. Louis Phillipe had found refuge anew in England. Another Republican Government had been established in France, and had been recognized by the ambassadors of England, America, and Rome. Without needlessly trenching on the copious details we have given elsewhere, we may obsene that M. Guizot had stated it to be the intention of the Government to prevent any more "Reform Banquets" —an intimation which cieatcd the greatest excitement in the Chamber of Deputies, where the prohibiton was uttered. This announcement, it was thought, would compel a change of ministiy, but no one imagined it would co^t the Sovereign his throne. On the 22nd of February the Reform Banquet was announced to take place at Paris. The ministry foibad it. The Reformers, it appears, intended to give way, but a deputation to be followed by foity thousand men, was appointed to present a protest against the course the Government was piusuing. The Government would have prevented the assemblage from talcing place, but, in the attempt, the populace and soldieiy came into collision, and ' many H\cs were lo^t. The excitement grew intense, and some of the Uoops began to side with the people. The King, in alaim,proffered a change of ministiy, substituting T minis foi Guzor -. it was refused, and he then abdicated (like Napoleon in his extremity) in favour of his grandson, the Cojhe he Paris, with a regency of the Duchess of Orlljvns. That lady and her two sons proceeded to the Chamber, whilst the king's resignation was lead. In vain ! A provisional Government was foimed ; the establishment of a Republic decreed, and theumwhilc Royal family fled ! We, in New Zealand, who have heard so much of the costly cue icnle, with its star foits and bristling battlements — those prodigious strong-holds which weie to oveiawe Palis and to uphold unscathed the kingly power — may pei haps be forgiven if we pause to inquiie what had become of them in this emergency 1 The Revolution of February 1848, likethatof July 1830, appears to have been a work of three days. Blood was drawn on the 23d — the King abdicated and fled on the 24th — and the Piovisional Government was formed on the 25th. The interview of Mr. Rush, the Ambassador of the United States, with its Members, was of a truly fraternising character, we refer our readers to our extracts for the details. What numbeis fell in achieving this levolution it is impossible to conjectme •, but they must have been considerable, as one regiment is described as having been cut to pieces. A transposition of the national colours had been ordered, the white and the red changing their respective places. The Prince de Joinville and his lady, (sister to the Emperor,) had sailed for Brazil only a few days before the revolution. His Royal Highness intended taking up his residence there for some time. He may now make his stay a permanent one, a frigate having been despatched by the Provisional Government to forbid his return to France. How far these events will affect the peace of the woild,*,il is hard to predict. That they will heap frd'lh fuel on the revolutionary spirit of Italy we hold to be certain -—and when we look at the troubled state of Spain and Portugal, the revolt in Sicily, and the degraded condition of Bavaria, whose besotted monarch parades the streets in pablic with the notorious com tezan, Lola Monies, we confess we apprehend a speedy and a general convulsion. Picparations against a coming stoim are making in England, where Lord John Russet.i. piopo.ses to rai.se additional taxes to the extent of £3,300,000, m order to make up financial deficiencies, to piovide against ihicateneU invasion, and foi coasi defences, Mr Hi me dccldied the budget to be a'• wai " budget, and the announcement produced a great sensation. The income tax was to be jai.sed from sevenpence, (its present late) to a shilling in the pound.

Five Ihoicuiud men ucio lo he drafted funn India foi sou ice in the United X in<4«lom Tim. wo luisf, is only as a, pieeautu.n.uy measuie, ioi, fight who li>f, we >liould !> v deeply giieunl to see the '-/nnous Isugli.li blood flowing in any meie continental <muun J, much less in suppoil u{ that lotion old eiufch legitimacy. If Stance wills a Republic, in Ueiueu's name he it so. If an Eniptim be lu-i taste — an Empeioi be it \V hy .should l''ngland battle for king 01 kai.->ei ? Lt t iid ies])i>( f the lights of othei nations, aid kn t , hei lian'l fiee to £>tiike, ay, and to stuke home, i.lumld her own honoui 01 intcoiity be won u<(\. A bill had passed the House of Loids foi establishing diplomatic iclations with Home The ambassador from the Pope is mu to be an ecclesiastic, nor a membei of any iolimh.t oidcr. The excitement in London was cxce.s.siv. 1 . Consols went doun to 85^ : afteruaid^ \aiious bargains were made at Bi%, and at S3, the transaction*; ultimately closing at B')^. Defenceless as we, in. common with dll the Australasian colonies aie, we must of nec-'S^l} , wait foi fiu t her aduccs with an uiiiuual mien sity of mlciest. We ha\e long, m iime ot doubtfulfpeace, stiivcn tocnfoice the nn pewit !\e necessity of fortifications. On llv pos,ible eve of a sanguinary sliuggle, w moiiU John Bull's hands will be 100 full to cou.idei u-..

Enhanced Vali eof Ruiml Lands. — \VV congratulate land holders on the choeiing prospects which the following tu«i>actiouj picscnt. Several farms, wo aie informed, have changed hands AUthin the la.fiVv, weeks. One, on the Tamaki, containing 130 acres, all vmdei cultivation, belonging to Messrs. Vaimei* and Wallace, was sold for £1000, being at, the rate, vulhin a trifle, of £7 14,. pei acic. A second, the property of Mi. Kennedy, near the Three Kings, containing 100 (uncultivated)acies, with 23 head of cattle, lealised £1500. Her Majesty's Coronation. — Wednesday, being the eleventh anniveisary of this auspicious event, the Cuxiope was pioi'usely decorated with many coloiued bunting, ftinu; a salute of one and twenty guiii, at noon. A ceiemony obseivcd at the same time, and in the same manner, by the Royal Aitillery, U Point Britomart.

CiiLORoroRM —This new remedy for the alleviation of human suflering, under siugical or-ei.itions, was tested on Tuesday last, at the Civil Hospital, by Di. Johnson, colonial surgeon, on Uic occasion of the removal of (he forcfingei of one of the patients, in th > presence of Start Sutgeon Courtney and the Siugcons of her Majesty's 58th Regt. The patient was soon thrown inio a state of insensibility by inhaling the vapouv of the chloiofcnm, and thi- Colonial Siugeon removed the finger without any consciousness oil the pait of the pa ient, who, after n s-hoit time, av.oke as if from a sleep, cleclaiiug that he had felt no pain. He lias experienced no ulterior had effects horn it, and the wound is healing as favoui.tbly as if made uikljj ouunaiy chciuns anc.s. The rebult of die expciiment was highly sal isCictojy to all present, ami ebloiotbrm wiil no doubt be commonly employed when &uigical opuations become imfoitunately necessary.