FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 464, 12 January 1850, Page 3

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE.

La Pntrie announces that M. Courcelles is seriously indisposed at Cdstellamare. The Pope, whilst waiting the result of the negociation pending between the ambassadors of the great powers, is about to pass some days at Naples, where the King is preparing to give him a magnificent reception. General Oudinol had received orders to remain at Rome until M. de Courcelles- should be completely recovered. ' La Presse announces that a diplomatic note ■was despatched by the French government to Gaeta on Tuesday, in which it declares to the Pope that General Otnlinot has exceeded his instructions by transmitting the full powers with which he was invested to the commission of cardinils, and prrticularly in having the appearance of legalizing by his si'ence all thai the commission has accomplisheJ since the period of its installation. Tl.e note adds thai ihe French government feels it to be its duty to warn his Holiness that from this moment France and her representative at Rome will reserve to themselves the last word in all acts of the papal government, and that in case either jthe Pope, his councils, or any of the intervening powers, oppose this decision, the representatives of France have orders to pay no attention to their protests, and to appeal, if necessary, to the army of occupation to euforco respect for the just rights of the French government. There is at this moment, says the Constitutiunel of the 29th Aug., neither a coalition nor a prospect of war. Europe is not alarmed; she is still agitated, but she desires repose. She fully comprehends that she ought to be watchful. We believe that at Berlin as in London, at Vienna as in Paris, public opinion is awakened, and that is sufficient to insure us against danger. No people will allow themselves to be taken by surprise, and no one ever dreams of the conquest of the world, because it is known that the defence would be as easy as the attack. We must not, therefore, attribute gratuitously to any one projects which are impossible. The only danger is that which would place Europe in the alternative of choosing between the destruction of all society and the loss of freedom. Even the very hypothesis we now discuss would never have arisen had not demagogues by their excesses, by their extravagant and abominable attempts, excited indignation and alarm to such a pitch as to make people despair, and force them to seek a remedy quite as fatal as the disease.