FOREIGN NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 567, 8 January 1851, Page 3

FOREIGN NEWS.

AUSTRIA. An imperial edict has put an end to General Haynau’s omnipotence in Hungary. The w hole city .s aware that he is in disgrace, as the Wiener Aeitung, without circumlocution or ceremony, states, “ that the Emperor, at the instance of his Cabinet, has been pleased to remote Feldzeugmeister Baron Haynau from the 3rd army corps, and to recall the plenipotentiary powers entrusted to him durin" the state of the siege in Hungary.” It appears the emperor has for a long time submitted to insubordination of the General, whose disobedience of orders at length reached that pitch that his dismissal was absolutely necessaty. Haynau, it appears, tried, condemned, or pardoned such of the Hungarians as he pleased, without the slightest reference to the decrees of the civil power. Amnesties of the Emperor forpohtical offences took no effect in Hungary. Others again were pardoned, though marked by imperial power for punishment. And “the utcher Haynau,” as he was designated by the opponents of Austrian government, is according to the Reichszeitung, dismissed for “ having arrogated to himself the highest perogative of the crown, that of mercy 1” The same Gazette that announces the G«norul’«, ii that all those persons who have been sentenced l o imprisonment or hard labour from one year to ten, on account of the share they bore in | the late rebellion in Hungary and Transylvania, i are to be instantly set at liberty.— Atlas. paly 20. ' 5 I SPAIN, , Narvaez has met a check from the Queen, : which made some noise. On the day of her ; Majesty’s delivery, Narvaez, in a burst of ■ tags, told the physician, Sanchez, that, as ! soon as the Queen recovered, he should not . only be dismissed from the palace, but bani- , shed from Madrid. Sanchez, three days after I t us warning, availing himself of the improved th 6 ,ueens health, communicated L j C > , e . at all-powerful minister, and 1 suuen that it grieved him to be obliged to . confess that at the moment of her Majesty’s I e ivery he had been reduced to the painful | alternative of either sacrificing her life or that In e P !^nce » At such a moment he could J ot hesitate a moment as to the decision which I e ought to take. The Queen bade the sup- | jL? nt be of good courage; for she had Iwh er ? r £°“ en ‘hat on a former occasion, lass<i ,? had g°°d reason to believe her life Ito l>; C( 'i m P oison » her preservation was due «° bis skill nnrl fl,Ck. „.:n ___r . SconfirU. . 7 —uno >iaU ouu ueneCt Iwas dnf° Ce X - n '* S lo y alt y and knowledge, and irated f errnined ‘hat he should never beeepaframe ? n . tlle aft emoon of the Bof • Warvaez insisted upon the dismissal ftbost Ma J est y expressed in the g C 1 ed manner the confidence which

she reposed in the skill and fidelity of her physician, to whom she attributes the preservation of her life, and flatly refused to comply with the demand of the President of the Council. The King supported the Queen in this resolution. — Atlas, July 27.