[From the Hobart Town Courier, Oct. 4.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 339, 1 November 1848, Page 3

[From the Hobart Town Courier, Oct. 4.]

From our Adelaide files we have news to the Ist June, containing a condensation of the Irish trials, and other particulars. An extraordinary commission, under the Great Seal, addressed to the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, constituting them justices, and directing them to enquire, by means of a grand jury of the counties of Kincardine, Forfar and Aberdeen, into all felonious forgeries, and uttering of bills of exchange and ' promissory notes committed by John Viscount Arbuthnot, within the said counties, was opened in May last at Forfar, by the Lord Justice General and Lord Moncrieff. The grand jury, after two hours deliberation, found two true bills of indictment for forgery against ! Lord Arbuthnot. The commission was then adjourned by proclamation, to the 20th June, by which time it was understood that a suit of certiorari would be issued by the House of Lords for the removal of the indictment for trial before their lordships. Proceedings similar to the foregoing were to be instituted at Stonehaven and Aberdeen upon two other indictments. In answer to a question from Mr. Divett, in the House of Commons, on the 25th May, Mr. Hawes said there was no intention whatever on the part of the Emigration Commissioners, acting under the Colonial Department to lower the standard of emigrants sent to South Australia. Mr. Hawes also stated that the Government was quite inclined to assist any British subjects who might be compelled to quit the French territory in emigrating to the Australian colonies. The highest quotation for wheat in the London market was 355. per quarter ; and for fine flour 495. per sack of 280lbs. The highest price in the metropolis is Bd., and the lowest price 6|d. for the 41b. loaf. Consols, 84|.

On the 23rd May, in the French Chamber, General D'Hilliers resigned the command of ,the army for protecting the National Assembly, refusing to share the military direction with General Cavaignac, Minister of War ; the latter entered the House in full uniform.

M. Pierre Napoleon Buonaparte moved a resolution that the Executive Government should be authorised to demand from Austria and Prussia the fulfilment of their promises to Poland. Lamartine said that as soon as Italy demanded aid 60,000 men would cross the Alps, but not unless Italy solicited French intervention, when, cost what it would, Italy should be free. M. Lamartine also stated that the restoration of Poland should take place with the consent of the Northern powers. Rumours were strongly current in Paris, May 25, that Lamartine and Ledru Rollin will resign. The following from the Constitutional will show what a volcano the Government was standing on in the Champ de Mars duriug the review of May 21st. "It might have been remarked that many legions of Paris had only furnished a very small number of men for the review. The following is the reason : — In different quarters the National Guards were invited not to leave home, for that during the fdte a plot was to break out. The plot was, it is said, to create great confusion, to set fire to the theatres, and during the confusion to seize about forty representatives, marked out beforehand." It was op this account that the firemen were all under arms, and that many were on duty on the mairies of each arrondissement. The discovery of this infernal project .was owing to the workmen in the national ateliers. One declared that he had been offered fifty francs to go with his brigade to the Halle. He did not hesitate to inform the authorities. It is positively the fact that the attempt did not take place only because the authorities had been warned. la the evening some men carrying banners crossed the Place de la Concorde, shouting 'Vive Barbes!' They separated, however, on learning that the Garde Mobile were coming up to meet them. A plan for the escape of Barbes from Vincennes was actually in course of execution, he having passed several doors, when he was seized by one of the young Garde Mobile, who recognised him. On Thursday arrived from Naples the French steamer Pluton, having on board four deputies of the Neapolitan Parliament, and members of the civic guard, who were obliged to quit Naples on account of the part they took in xhe late disturbances in that unfortunate capital. — Mtdta Times, May 30. On Friday, her Majesty's steamer Porcupine arrived from Naples, bringing news which confirmed the report of the French steamer I of the 17th instant, with respect to a collision between the people and the Neapolitan sovereign. The slaughter on the part of the former appears to have been dreadful, and would in all probability have been much worse, had not tha French Admiral interfered, and put a stop to further effusion of blood, by declaring, that if the firing did not immediately cease, he would land three thousand men, and open a fire from his ships on the castle of St. Elmo. . His threats were effectual in putting a stop to the carnage, but when the steamer left nothing satisfactory was decided. The lower orders appear to have acted with the troops against the Civic Guard and their partisans, and upon a cool examination of the report as we have received it, we think that both sides are to blame ; one party for having erected barricades and made preparations against an attack of which there was no certain indication ; and the other for having, in the first place, suffered them to be erected, and then fox having used unnecessary force in their destruction, when we are assured by a person who was an eye witness, and who is in every way qualified to judge, having been a resident in Naples for several years, that they might have been destroyed, and their constructors and defenders dispersed without a shot being fired. — Ibid, May 23.