FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 407, 27 June 1849, Page 4

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

We have scarcely ever observed a greater and more sudden improvement in the aspect of foreign affaiis than has occurred within the present week. At the commencement of last week much doubt existed as to whether the President would be able to procure a majoiity in the French Assembly, so as to enab c the Ministry te carry on the government. This point has now been happily settled ; the President has obtained a majority which not only establishes the ministry, but which has bound the Assembly to a dissolution within about eighty days from th° present time. This motioo was introduced by one of the members of the moderate party, and was in effect and j substance, that the Assembly should proceed at once to discuss and pass the electoral law, and should afterwards make due regulations for the coming elections, both in Paris and the Provinces. The elections are to take place throughout France on the first Sunday after the Assembly shall have passed these regulations, and the New Assembly is to meet, and the present Assembly is to become dis- | solved, within ten days after the day of election. In Austria, there seem some uneasy feelings on the part of the government,^hat the rebellion in Hungary has spread from the totvns throughout the whole population, and that the suppression of the civil war will be a long, perilous, and most costly enterprise. This is more to bp regretted, as the aspect of affaiis had become so generally prosperous, that the funds were rapidly advancing to the rate which they had attained before the troubles. Vienna is still abandoned by the Court and the nobility, and all gaiety and dissipation, as well as all trade and business, have thus vanished from a city which, next to Paris, in all former years, was the idlest and most luxurious city in Europe. In no other city did the English nobility so much enjoy themselves, or were so well received, and no service was more anxiously sought by the younger members of our great families, than to become secretaries, or attaches to the Austrian embassy. In Sardinia, the government and people are again preparing to assist the Milanese and "Venetians in the renewal of the Italian war, and Austria is again on the alert to strengthen her army in that quarter. In Prussia the King is slill bidding for public favour, and offering, and indeed giving, a price which will render the business of his future government a perpetual anarchy. — Bell's Messenger, Feb. 10. An insurrection had taken place in Modena, and the Grand Duke had fled.