EUROPEAN EXTRACTS. FRANCE.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 358, 22 September 1849, Page 3

EUROPEAN EXTRACTS. FRANCE.

(Fiom the Morning Herald, May 15.) Paris, Monday, May 14. The Rloniieur contains a tel<"Kraphic dispatch from General Oudinot, dated Palo, the Bih, statins that the 3rd Brigade of the 16th Light Infantry Regiment had s,afely landed. The numerical force of the expeditionary corps was, therefore, quite sufficient to si cure to France the ascendancy she must exercise in that country. On the following day the general was to take up a position which would corammd the western j art of the city. The health and courage of the troops were excellent. With the exception of about thirty wounded, there does not remain in the power of the Romans a single French soldier, or even a knapsack. ~~~ A man was arrested at Vincennes who was endeavouring to excite mutiny. Theie has been a sort of military mutiny at Blaye, ( caused by some Mobile Guards. The last reports stated that they refused to return to their duty. The elections were passing off tranquilly. The Montagnards intend, it is said, to make a set on General Changarnier, the commander-in-chief, by endeavouring to have a vote of censure passed on the gallant general for pretended contempt of the aisunbly.

(J?rom tlie Correspondent of the Morning Herald.) Paris, Sunday, May 13. The proceedingi of the National Assembly yesterday were rather uninteresting, us, indeed, geneially happens after a stormy debate. Ibe conversations of meuiberi turned on the rumours of revolution, and of a coup d'etat which might have followed a vote adverse to the Ministry. It appears certain that a hostile vole would have been immediately followed by a proportion to postpone the election, and this the Government would have prevented at any hazard. Warnings nre still thrown out that danger is not over, and that the revolutionary party has not given up its hopes to make the red flag triumphant. M. F.ocon attempted yesterday to give fire to the linguid assembly by addressing hu interpellation to tie Gote-nment on the subject of Rusiian intervention in Hun<ay. He stated that 3D,1'()0 Ruisiuns were expected at Risbourg, to he ihenee dnected to Neutra ; tfnt 40,000 were marcl.i >q by Temeswnr on Duels, in

the direction of Debreczin, where the Hungarian Die 1 was sitting ; and that in Transylvania there were three columns of 20,000 each— in all 130,000 men, sustained by a reserve of 200,000 men in the neighbourhoop of Cracow and the principalities of the Danube. The Emperor of Rusiia was, moreover, expected at Ollmutz. He would demand accordingly what line of conduct it was that the French Cabinet intended to purfue ? Ths Minister for Foreign Affairs observed, that a question of such magnitude could not be treated in directly on a mere interpellation. The Government lud already, on the first intimation of the intention of Russia to interfere in Hungary, addressed a note to St. Petersburg, to Berlin, to Vienna, and to London stating that aticli a circumstance could not fail to awaken thft most lively solicitude. It was by diplomacy that France endeavoured to retard an action calculated to cause the greite.st perturbation in the East, in Germ »ny, and in all parts of Europe. The Government would persist in this course, and if any othei means should become necessiry it would make its resolutions known to the assembly. M. Flocon would have pushed the matter further, but ho was put down by the impatience of the Assembly. The budget of the War Minis er was then taken up, and nothing extraordinmy occurred. The salary of the Governor General of Algeria was reduced fiom 60,000f. to 48,500f. The elections commenced this morning, and io fir th ( re is promise of fair proceedings. There was no un\mul excitement last night, notwithstanding that inflainnntory papers and placards appealed to the pas■ions of the people in the most fiery fashion. The a my hus already voted, nnd if we may trust the Liberie, the soldiers have by a great majority voted for the Socialift Candida es. Tue Assembles Nationale contains the following : — "Paris has again escaped grett danger. Leaden, with scarfs, were to have descended the Boulevards this morning (Saturday), and to have tried on the army the prestige of an august and inviolable character. Courage failed in si high quarter at the moment of execution—the vote of the day before had much to do with this failure. Lagiange was right when he said to colleagues that if he descended into the street they would not follow him. He that was to have given the signal would not expose his safely : but the plot is not abandoned. The adjournment, however, amounts to a defeat, and still-born conspiracies a>c not easily revived ; yet the peril is not over. There are fears for to-mo' row— fears for the day of the close of the election of the new assemb'y. Two causes, however, serve to reassure us— the want of courage in the leaders, and the defection of a large class of workmen, who want not pillage, nor to be maie the steppiig atones to power for certain ambitious persons who use them for these purposes The energy of Geneial Ohangarnier causes much hesitation, for they know that he has his plan fully matured. M. Marrast bus not yet explained whnt be wanted with the two battalions which he e'emanded, and on the s^ore of which there are some odd rumours. He had bettor do or we will speak out. We may also tell the names of those who were to have formed a committee of public safety, and give their I rosrription list." The Moniteur contains the following : — •'The President of the Council having announced af the tribune that he would ask explan itions about the order of the day attributed to General Changarnier, the honorable General h listened to declare that he had not issued any order of the day regarding the President the Republic, in his capacity of commander ot thforces of the Ist militiuy div sion, he conveyed to tl.c chiefs of the corps the expression of the Piesident's sympathy for our brave Eoldien. This he did beloie the letter h«d been commented on In the assembly, and on Urn instant of its being published. The honorable General adds that he could not comprehend how his sending this letter could be construed iato an offence to the National Assembly, whose rights and prerogatives he respects as being those ot one of the great powers of the state, and of which assembly he has the honour to be a member." Paris, Sunday Evening. The population of Paris appear all day to be busily engaging all possible m°ans of conveyance to the environs lor the sake of enjoying the fine weather. This intimation will be sufficient to show the sirt of excitement that cxiits. Eaily this morning the poll wj went on briskly but tranquilly. There are guaids and pickets at different points to keep peaca and order, but pic-nics divide with polling the interest of the day. Every precaution has been taken to prevent «ny disnder. All the railroad stations in Paris are ye. y strongly guarded.

(From the London Spectator, May 12.) Last night s Gazette announces that the Queen has constituted Hongkong and its dependencies to be " the Bishopric of Victoria," and has appointed the Rev. George Smith, D.D., to be its first Bishop. Her Majesty has promoted Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Blakeney, Knight Cominaader of the Bath, to be a Knight Grand Cross. Yesterday's letters from Paris state that "Pa is is in a state of great excitement to-day, more especially in the Fourbourgs of St. Antolne and St. Maicel, the ordinary hotbeds of insurrection. The Government appears to be serioutly alarmed for the peace of the capital, and the military are kept in preparation to appear in the streets at a moment's notice. The Government organs declare that the clubs and secret societies are in full operation every night, and that the Montagnard Members of the National Assembly are in communication vvich them." Letters from Civita Vccchia to the 4th, and from Rome to the Ist instant, give detail! of the affair on the 30th, in which the Fiench expedition was repuUcd from Rome. It seems that General Oudinot advanced in consequence of an arrangement with a party in Rome ; and that his troops were engaged with Garribaldi'n Legion, between the village af San t' Antonio and the Porta Cavallegiere and the gate behind bt. Peter's. The Romans were driven back, and a number of the French troops entered the latter gate pellmell with them ; this accident was mistaken for part of the "arrangement," and the entering troops were strongly followed up by reinforcements. They were received, however, with the most courageous and effective resistance. The head of the cotumu was destroyed by the fire of three pieces of artillery placed on the top of a high and solid barricade, and the officer! were struck down by rifle-shots from the house ! windowb. A Colonel and some twenty officers thus fell dead, and some 6(JO men were killed or diiabled, The General decided on withdrawine; his men— *' But here," lays tl c Times correspondent* "fresh suffering was to be endured. The only retreat wa» by a lone narrow road, fl nkeJ by high walls ; and as soon as the column! weie formed a masked battery of foui guns, which had been established in a home nearly touching the gate withia the walls, opened, and a perpetual storm of grape swept down the ranki. The loss here was dreadful, as the piecei were well seived, and the Rotnani fired with perfect impunity. The Commander-in-Chief says he never saw a belterdirected fire; and I am told hia enemy fought, according to hil own confession, in a manner to astonish him."

The Roman correspondence from all sources agrees in describing the populace as in a state of mad intoxication at their success, and in stating that persons who weie " last week" [the end of April] the most strongly opposed to the actual order of things, are now fiercest in their denunciation of the " foreign occupation." The French official despatches, while allowing that Pius is still beloved, insiit on the strong opposition of all Romans to a restoration of his temporal rule. A writer in Paris says, on Thursday, that the question has suddenly taken a new aspect ; ° the Popoand the Catholic hierarchy are furious at the interference of the Fiench," as ruinous to the Pontiff's prospects; and " His Holiness positively refuses to return to Rome under the protection of French and Neapolitan biyonets." It is said he intends to leave Italy tor a time."