FOREIGN NEWS.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 45, 3 January 1843, Page 3

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE. (From the Times.) We have received by express the Paris papers of Wednesday, with letters from our correspondents in the French capital, in Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Malta, Italy, Spain, and Germany. The defection of M. Thiers from the opposition continued to be subject of discussion with the entire Parisian press. The Journal des Debats taunts the Gauche for the “ pitiful campaign which it made, when it was so easy for it to have made a good and honourable one.” “We shall gitfe the reasons in a few words,” adds that paper: “ the Gauche was afraid to show itself too monarehial, and this was the first cause of its shuffling. The seconcPwas,. that in this party the chiefs . gdyerfr';' they are governed ; and, as'revolts at the idea of being led, ; a man*displays a expresses! a'will of bis own he. an object of suspicion, gufch is the inedible nature of ‘the Left/ and this is the party now aspiring to govern France.” Upwards of 20Q deputies had already; l&fF Paris, and the session being co:psider<Ss as closed, tjhe painters had resumed: their works in the Chamber, which had been/ interrupted for several weeks.

Count Mole was on Tuesday appointed chairman, and the Duke de Broglie reporter, of the Committee of the Chamber of Peers to which the Regency Bill was referred for examination. The report was to he publicly read on Thursday. The King, Queen * and Royal Family left Neuilly on Tuesday night for, the Chateau of Eu, in Normandy. “The Mohiteur Parisien states,” says our, Paris letter, “that Jbheir departure had been suspended by the indisposition of the Duke de Chartres (the younger son of the Diike. and Duchess of Orleans)*, bat the ; real cause of the postponement was that already stated in the Times— -the illness of her Royal Highness the Duchess, his mother.” The temperature was again high in Paris on Wednesday. At 3 o’clock the thermometer (Farenheit) marked 87 degrees in .the shade.

(From the Weekly Despatch) The Regency Bijl has passed, with an immense majority of the Chamber of Deputies in its favour* in consequence, of the conduct of

M. Thiers.- The behaviour of^^^J| : iers ..has, on this occasion, been that of a.; wily. but a most unprineiplS®'; statesman,- and , proves that he is a complete egotist, acting* dtffirely for self, and without the slightest?: welfare of his country. Thiers his best friends, and has played a/ pajftrWhich will destroy all future-confidence in-him and his assertions.' "What has been his policy ? When compelled to resign, two, years ago, in consequence of his warlike demonstrations and fanfarronades; he organized a most powerful opposition to the Ministry which succeeded his own, and proclaimed himself the.enemy/0f...a1l conservative measures, and of any line of. policy which might emanate from the palace. Jie was the King’s bitter enemy, and his speeches breathed sentiments of extreme liberality.- He was ever the hope of the republican party.. He, however, now sees returning,. to power ; and his ia»to conciliate the King. the Regency porters in a most ’ such was the cheered enthusiastically Ihe and hissed most unmercifully. By tile qppqsi|ibh. j To the clamours of tile latter he J indifferent, and ou the following day dre/boMly informs his late supporters that he shbtild- not unfold any portion of his "’‘future intentions ; that he was independent; that lie owed an account of his actions to no one; and that if the opposition wanted him they would know where to find him.” The cool insolence of this conduct is almost unparalleled in the history of Parliamentary intrigues. Thiers will endeavour either to form a coalition on terms of mutual concession and compromise with Guizot, or he will attempt to overturn the Soult-Guizot Cabinet, and then form an administration with Count Mole. In any ca§e his Ministry will be essentially Conservative; and thus are the progressive interests of France to be sacrificed to the infamous ambition of an unprincipled Statesman. Guizot himself is not to be admired, although the English tory journals laud his integrity to the very skies. He owed/every thing to the empire and yet during the .one hundred days, he followed Louis XVIII. to. Ghent, where he edited The Moniteur, in the columns of which he vehemently attacked the partizans of Napoleon, advocated the most arbitrary measures, and clamoured for the total extermination of the liberals. He afterwards showed himself very favourable to the execution, or rather murder, of Marshal Ney. He took no active part in the' glorious revolution of 1830, and has since shown himself ever ready to obey the King of the Barricades, in all his infamous attempts to stifle the outburst of liberty,- which gave him a throne. As Minister of the Interior, Guizot deluged France with spies, and carried the system of domiciliary visits to a fearful extent. He, moreover, helped the September laws, which gagged the press, to pass ;• and the repeated massacres in Paris,. Lyons, &c., have been defended by him. Under the tyrannical -Guizot, and the unprincipled Thiers, France lias at this moment a pretty prospect!

SPAIN. It will afford the most lively pleasure to all the admirers of popular freedom to learn that Spain progresses rapidly ; and welL hnder the liberality of its present institutiofrs—-liberal to an extreme, when., compared With the selfish tyranny of tfa$ f exA^sefen.: The world must no longer put; fai|||-in->tP' Spain,of romances, but of. the present day, as.it 'rfealiyVfelists'. - Spain is rapidly advancing towards 'a purely democratic form of Government ---that same- Spain .which was deemed the nation of all monarehial institutions, par excellence. The Spanish character was represented to be essentially aristocratic —the type of every thing the most refined in the shape of national susceptibility—the most jealous of innovation > and yet, behold this satne people throw off with indignation. the- yoke .of. a. Princess descended: from a long line of. PriuGes, and place themselves under the guidance of a soldier sprung from an -obscure origin. The Spaniards were also the Catholic nation par excellence; never-/ theless, in a moment they cast off their old superstitions, reduced their convents, and laid aside the trammels of the Roman supremacy; they now treat with ridicule the bitter expressions of the Roman Pontiff’s discontent.* These are by no means the symptoms of a very fervent Catholicism, nor 6f a deeply-rooted attachment to,the did .principles of monarchy. was price the. land of mystery—a pfobl^mhich'alb Europe vainly endeavoured to present. conditiorrof Spain is now in^^ible and her future: destinies are within,#Jpqw.er of the prophet. „ Men no longer trbmmnfas they put their feet to the ground -the farther they walk into her territory, bepause, with the expulsion of her tyranny, have also disappeared those abysses which she contained* Spain now walks on with a fixed plan —determined to retrieve herself by means of liberal, institutions and measures.. Many years willy however, elapse in a financial point of view, she will recover from the embarrassments in which monarchial misrule has placed lief; and some timfe

' will also be required to estaqUsn tranquillity of the country. Public has, however, returned, and this is step to internal concord and peace. time of the late rulers venality was. as pra-lp verbial in Spain as it Was public. The public, i officers arid functionaries of the State were.Mh , this respect, the very scum of £he earth : thb® corruption of the Government arid its servantrif| was a muddv.river, which infected every thing; : b'ut the mud which is left behind it,- in its f course, became sterile, and produced Madrid wari the seat of the public offices ; but f* Barcelona and Cadiz were superior to the ca- f pital in respect to civilization. Thus Spain influenced Madrid in the days of danger, and was not influenced by the capital—the seat of r the Government. This appalling condition of things', js new entirely The strong arm of Espartero has swept away myriads of abuses, and introduced honesty into those branches whose very first principles should be based' upon integrity.' The' ‘power of the capital is now' jfujly. perceived, and its influence' will shortly* 1 "become as universal as it ought to be for purposes of national tranquillity. Of course, much remains to' be donebut much has been already done by Espartero, and is still being effected by him. All his measures are progressive and remedial; none reactive nor injurious. The Courts of Law have been considerably reformed ; indeed, when tile fountains of the Government were purified, the tributary streams were also cleared of their mud. In a word, the present condition of Spain is flattering and promising in- the extreme, and contrasts strong] v-with-its state a few vears ago, when liberal journals' wermsupprcssed us easily as if they were in Russia hr Greece, when imprisonment took place without the object of its rigour being made acquainted' with' the motive, and when any young poet, whose verses bore the stamp of liberality, was closely immured in a jail, or exiled from the country.

Our private accounts from Beyrout, dated the 30th ult., state that a considerable quantity of arms had been landed there of late,' but for what purpose was unknown. Selim Pasha was expected at Beyrout in a few days from Lebanon, having, it was said, accomplished to his satisfaction the mission committed to, him by the Sultan. The last advices from - Aleppo received in Beyrout mentioned that the efforts hitherto made' by the English expedition to open a communication by the Euphrates had failed, and that they would probably be' obliged to abandon the undertaking. Letters from Alexandria of the 7th inst. state that the Nile continued to rise very slowly, and caused great .anxiety for. the crops. A board of 12 physicians had been appointed to' devise measures against the plague in Lower Egypt. The number of cases in Alexandria did jiot exceed two or three a day. The intelligence brought by our Constantinople correspondence (dated the 7th inst.) is not important. No news had arrived from the Persian frontier since the 3‘lst ult. The Porte, however, was not inactive, and every day artil • lery and ammunition were being embarked*at Topliana for the army then 1 on its march to ; Persia.

Tahir Pasha had repaired to Heraclea, to be' present at the launching of a ship of the line. The deputation lately arrived from Syria had been presented to the Porte. The Smyrna papers of the 9th inst. state that the British ships of the line Vanguard and Cambridge, and the steamer Phoenix, arrived from Beshika Bay at Smyrna on the, 2d. Prince Frederick of Hesse Cassel embarked on the same day in the French- steamer Lycurgue for Vourla, where the Danish frigate Thetis was waiting for him to weigh anchor.