LATEST NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 413, 18 July 1849, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

Her Majesty. — It is stated that her Majesty is in a condition which holds out a prospect of her presenting the country, before long, with an additional prince or princess. — Liverpool Albion, Feb. 19. The Tory Leaders. — Mr. Stafford is anxious to be known in the Commons as the Tory leader on Irish affairs. Mr. Disraeli conducts the foreign department of opposition; Mr. Herries t dices charge of the finance, and the legal attainments of Mr. Stewart indicate his fit ness to occupy the post of " grace and justice," as certain of our continental neighbours phrase it. — Daily News. It was reported that the government were endeavouring to get consols up to par, when they would reduce the three per cents, to two and a half per cent. Sir H. L. Bulwer, late ambassador at the Spanish, Court, has been appointed to succeed Sir R. Pakenham, who is an old diplomatic servant of the Crown, and will retire upon a pension. In France the government of President Louis Napoleon appeared to be firmly established. No decisive steps had been taken by the Roman Catholic powers towards the re-establishment of Pope Pius at Rome. The Grand Duke of Tuscany had fled from his dominions. The Danish dispute respecting the Scileswig Holstein question remains as unsettled as ever. There does not appear, however, to be the slightest reason for fearing that England will become involved, whatever may be the character of the Continental revolutions. It is asserted that the French Government have resolved to withdraw the troops from the 1 Island of Otaheite. The marriage of General Cavaignac with Madame Bauden, widow of the former Re? ceiver General and banker of that name, ii talked of in the fashionable circles .of Paris, Madame Bauden possesses a private' fortune.' which \k estimated 'at 3,000,000 " francs, (£125,000,) and the hotel in the Rue de Vir%nne*,'which the Get) era] occupied when ht

wai, chief, of the executive power, belong* to that ]ady>.< , • , , *,A deputation of the clubs and secret ao--•ietics of. Paris bare left for Rome, together with, a certain number of retired officers, who •re. goipg to drill the new republican militias of Central Italy. The President of the Republic has despatched Colonel. Majocci, one of his orderly officers, on a, mission to Vienna, the object of which, it is said, is to endeavour to induce the Austrian Government to consent to some settlement of the Italian question, otherwise than by entering the Roman States. ,- • The National Guard of the town of Clermont, in the department of the Herault, has been .disbanded by a decree of the President of the Republic. The Mayor of the town has been likewise dismissed. ' Further disturbances have occurred at Narbonne, in consequence of the arrest of two leaders of the Montagnards. The timely appear&nce of three companies of infantry restored tranquillity^ General Magnari has established |the head quarters of the third division* of*the army of the Alps at Dijon. Abroad *be journals represent a good deal of stir, -but at present it has assumed no more substantial shape than rumours, without any tangible result. Thus a Russian army — fifty thousand of the Imperial Guard — is said to be marching upon the Prussian frontier : yet I King Frederick William is opening his new Chambers, and talking about his negociations to form a Federal State of Germany, as if no matching were : and Hungary is still as contumacious as if no Russians had entered Transylvania. Austrian troops have entered Ferrara, on the pretext cf local quarrels between citizens and soldiers of the garrison, though ptobably with an eye to ulterior schemes not local ; but the city has been evacnated with a- motive as little apparent as that for the occupation.; and meanwhile Turin, Florence, and Rome, continue new saturnalia as ' Nationalism. France is watched with anxiety, and her Ministers are shrewdly suspected of contemplating an alliance with Austria and the Pope ; a step which would blow up the bubble of French Republicanism. Perhaps President Bonaparte has communicated his embarrassments on that head to the Austrian, and begged off hasty proceedings like the one at Ferrara> i

Narrow Escape of the King of the j Two Sicilies. — Letters from Naples to the | 21st ult. state that on the 18th a collision | took place between two Government steamers, running between Naples and Gaeta, one having on board the King of Naples and Count Trapani, and the other M. Oastenhoff Secretary of the Russian Legation, Count Caraffa, and four cardinals. Frightened at the shock, M. Ou»tenhoff, Count Caraffa, and 6ome others, threw themselves into the ,sea. M. Oustenhoff was, unfortunately, lost. The King left again by the Vesuvius for Gaeta* — Bell's Messenger, Feb. 5. j

Lombardy. — The most-: atrocious cruel-lies-are practised on the unfortunate inhabitants of Lombardy by the savage herd? of Croats and Pandours who arc under the command of Radetzky. A horrible system of tspionage has, in obedience to orders from the Austrian camarilla, been organised throughout the whole of Lombardy. A few days since a man, in apparently an extreme state of suffering, applied for relief to Signor Rossi, a gentleman well known in Milan for his numerous charities. The applicant stated that he was an Hungarian ; that he was suffering from illness and destitution ; and that he was anxious to return to his own country. Rossi relieved bis wants, and the miscreant, who was a Government spy, immediately caused Rossi to be arrested and conveyed to prison on a charge of having aided an Hun* garian to escape. Rossi's wife went at once to the military commandant at Milan to beg the release of her husband, and was assured that he would not be long detained in the prison. On quitting the presence of the commandant she met her unfortunate husband, guarded by soldiers, going to execution, and he was shot immediately afterwards, ljto>si leaves a widow and family of seven children. Another execution, of a still more atrocious character, took place shortly after* wards. Dr. Mangi, of Milan, had a son, who, on the entry of Radetzky into Milan, in August last, emigrated to Piedmont. Some time, sine* a decree of the Emperor recalling the emigrants was published at Milan. The doctor .sought the Governor of the city, and asked if bis son bad realty's right to return.. The Governor handed the doctor the imperial decree, de»ired him to read it, and added, "Trust in the word of the Emperor; your son willrnn no risk by arriving here." The fathei wrote to his son to' hasten his leturn. He did , return, was arrested, and within twelW hours of his arrival at Milan was shot. Liverpool Albion, Feb. 25. f ?^PA?N.TrrAccounts from Navarre sja.te thflfe u&fitiM jit the insurgents in *h*ijain,w*sr) bare- been; routed. !, : Fronv C«alon\»jr^.h§yf.

accounts of an action in which the Carlists, commanded by Cabrera/ in person, were defeated with great lois. Cabrera, accompanied by only one servant, subsequently escaped across the frontier into France. — Bell's Messenger, Feb. 12.