FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 501, 22 May 1850, Page 2

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE.

Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 3. — The result of the division in the Legislative Assembly yesterday on the bill, introduced by the Minister of Public Instruction, for investing the Prefects of Departments with power to dismiss all communal schoolmasters, has caused a painful sensation amongst the friends of order, as it shows that a serious schism has arisen among the Conservative majority of the Assembly, fo whom the country looked for protection against the machinations of the So-, cialists. Many of the President's personal friends attribute the result in some measure to the want of tact exhibited by ministers during the debate. Great praise is given to Count Mole for coming to the assistance of

the government at a most critical moment, and thus saving ministers from a complete defeat. As it is, it is feared that a portion at least of the Cabinet must retire, to make way for more efficient men. The Conservative journals, as might be expected, regard the vote as deplorable; while the Socialist organs, under the belief that the urgency is rejected, exult in the division which bos for a second time shown itself amongst the Conservative majority. A letter from Belle- Isle of the 27th ultimo states that 105 of the insurgents of June have been shipped on board the Archimede for Brest ; 10 others are to be transferred to the U Orient, to be tried for having risen in insurrection against the authorities of that island. Letters from Turin of the 29th ult. announce that M. Pinelli was elected President of the Sardinian Chamber ol Deputies by 70 out of 225 votes. — limes, Jan. 5.