FOREIGN NEWS.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 79, 2 May 1843, Page 2

FOREIGN NEWS.

France. —The dismissal of General Pajol from the command of the first military division which cpmprises the troops of the capital, is much commented upon. He was offered the governorship of the Louvre, and the post of aide-de-camp to the King; but he looked higher, and hoped for the baton of a marshal. He was undoubtedly one of the “ glories of the Napoleon dynasty,” and an especial favourite of the Emperor. He proved his fidelity to that distinguished man by afterwards refusing to serve 'the cause, but the Duke of Orleans, now Louis Philippe, distrusted him, and got him sent to Rambouillet on the missison to induce Charles X. to leave France. In that mission he was jguccessful, and he was rewarded by receiving the command of the first military division. This he retained until his recent dismissal. The government agents maintain that a younger .man was necessary for such a post, and that as re had attained the age of retirement it became necessary to replace him.

M. Thiers is once more back in the French capital, but he has probably arrived too late to do much injury. The ministry has avoided a rock on which jit would have split—-the conclusion of a customs union, or a commercial treaty with Belgium. The King will, however, eventually carry out his own pet project. He who knew how to waif seven years to obtain the fortifications of Paris, and who, notwithstanding the most extraordinary obstacle, at last succeeded, wifi, in spite of all the commercial agitation in France during the last month, in the end have his way. Louis Philippe feels •convinced, that if Belgium Shall not join France in political as well as in material interests, the former must throw herself into the hands of the Zolverein. Alexandria. —Letters from Alexandria of the 25th ultimo Apprises us that the Pasha left that place on the 16th, for the Delta, and would probably pass the winter in Cairo. The Russian consul had formally opposed, on behalf of all Russian subjects, the payment of the new Egyptian custom-house duties, on the ground that Russia was not a party to the treaty of Constantinople. All Russian goods had been therefore ordered to be sequestrated. The Nile had risen to an alarming extent. The mortality among the cattle continued without intermission. Artirri Bey is reputed to have visited Europe for the purpose of negociating a loan. A collision had taken place between the mountaineers and the Turkish forces near Tripoli. The latter were defeated. It is supposed that this is the first step of a well-combined insurrection against the Turkish government in Syria. Spain.— The French and their party in Spain have never ceased to cry out against the contraband introduction of English commodities by sea. Martin Zurbano has now set to wbrk to put a stop to contraband by sea and land: yet the French are as little pleased as ever, and they thunder against Zurbano, as if he were not executing their wishes. The Presse publishes an order by the commandant of the revenue force in the province of Grenada. The commandant threatens, in case of a disembarkation ofgoods taking place, to try the revenuemen in whose boat it has taken place, and shoot them, in 24 hours if they cannot exculpate themselves. Moreover, Van Halen, Chacon, Lacerbe, and other commanders, shoot such peasants, without judge or jury, as are suspected of being Chouans, L e ., robbers, or of favouring them. These things are certainly censurable, but it speaks for the vigour of Espartero’s government, that the roads have been rendered safe, and that smuggling is checked. The Moderadoes tried to effect both these, and lamentably failed.