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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 586, 15 March 1851, Page 3

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

| ('Ey Electric Telegraph.) |l London, Friday Evening, November 8. | PARIS, Thursday. | General La Hitte is elected for Lille. The Jpciety of the 10th December will probably fe dissolved. The Bourse was dull; Fives jtened and closed at 92f-. I GERMANY. I Belgium.—The advices received to-day |om Belgium report a continued dulness in |igar and coffee, prices of which had underJane a further decline in Ghent, Antwerp, fed various other ports. At the principal ■rench consuming markets business was aCiye, in consequence of holders declining to feept lower rates. ■ Austria.——An Austrian note is reported B have been received at Berlin, demanding Be evacuation of the electorate of Hesse by Be Prussian troops, and that an army of f >OOO Austrians and 60 field pieces is' re■ned to be ready to march into Holstein, Brough Saxony. The insurgent government K Kiel, will, it is said, only submit to coerTroops are numbering in all direcR ns * The Times’ Vienna letters of the 3rd ■o state that a Federal army would be sent olstein. The Prussia envoy at Vienna 8 been summoned to Berlin. The advices

from Berlin of the 4th, state that a Prussian secretary of legation in Frankfort left on the 3rd, for Vienna, to temporarily undertake the envoy’s business ; he is to be the bearer of a note from the Prussian Government, in which it accepts the proposal for free conferences made by the Congress of Warsaw, but coupled with the conditions that Austria shall suspend her warlike preparations ; if they are persisted in, Prussia will continue preparations of the same kind. The Government has forbidden the transmission of private messages per electric telegraph throughout the Prussian dominions.

Vienna, 3rd November.— The Times' correspondent writes, that if Prussia of- _ .1- _ 1. c -1 ;u:3 uuy lUBI3U&UUU IU LUU IUSHIU US UltJ &!* j lied troops to • Holstein, war is inevitable; but although matters look threatening, he repeats his opinion that war will not take place. Frankfort and Cassel, 4th November. —All the Hessian officers had received their dismissal. Diplomatic relations between the Elector and Prussia are broken off. At Tulda the Prussians and Bavarians were in sight of each other for twenty-four hours, and conflict seemed imminent, when, suddenly, the Prussians fell back to the distance of two leagues, and their outposts were occupied by the allies. This confirms the news that the Prussian General had orders to prevent a conflict, if possible, but endeavour to prevent the occupation of Cassel by the Bavarians. The movements of the troops here are incessant. At Vienna, gold is 0.28 per cent, premium. Hamburgh, sth November.—The Prussian garrison was leaving Hanover. The North German Gazette, says the Hanoverian Government will march no troops to Holstein. A heavy gale, at W.N.W., accompanied by rain, set in last night, and caused, towards morning, a heavy flood in the river, which rose nearly fourteen feet. SPAIN. Letters from Madrid of the 31st ult., announce the opening of the Cortes by the Queen on that day with the usual ceremonies. The Queen was accompanied by the King Consort. In the speech from the throne her Majesty began by alluding to the hopes she had entertained of presenting herself with a prince or princess on the occasion, but expressed her resignation to the will of Providence. She expressed satisfaction in being able to announce the happy re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Great Britain in a manner worthy of both countries. Friendly relations continued with other powers. — The Spanish expedition to Rome had been eminently successful. In the interior of Spain public order was maintained and past dissensions forgotten. Tranquillity was for a moment disturbed in Cuba by a set of foreign pirates, who fled before the loyalty of the people and the bravery of the troops. The army preserved its reputation for disclipline, and the navy was increasing in importance. Various reforms had been made in the penal code of Spain, all of which would be submitted to the Cortes by the Ministers. Reforms had also been effected in many other branches of the public administration. The public revenues continued to progressively increase. The plan for the difinitive settlement of the public debt would be presented ; also that of the Basque fueros. In a word, the state of the count, y her Majesty pronounced to be relatively prosperous and favourable. The ceremony took place in the new Palace of the Congress, the Chamber of Deputies. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A. tdsgrsphic despatch, from JCiol, November 3rd, says—“An Austrian officer has arrived here with despatches from the Diet, which command the immediate suspension of hostilities, and, in case of refusal, threaten the armed intervention of the Federal troops.” PRUSSIA. A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated the evening of the 4th, announces the resignation of M. de Radowitz, the Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and that his resignation has been accepted. Two other members of the Cabinet, M. de Ladenberg and M. de Heydt, had tendered their resignations : that of M. de Ladenberg had not been accepted. It had been decided to convoke the Chambers for-the 21st November. The Secretary of Legation, Rosenberg, had been sent to Vienna with despatches relative to the Frag deliberations

We have received our Berlin correspondence of the 4th instant. The Chambers had been summoned to meet on the 21st. The resignation of M. Von Radowitz is confirmed by a royal order published in the Gazette. This transfers the conducting of the department of Foreign Affairs to Count Brandenburg, and, during his illness, to M. Von Monteuffel. The last bulletin of Count Brandenburg’s condition is favourable, but still great anxiety is felt as to the result of his illness,

The Frankfort Assembly had issued an in- I hibitorium or injunction to the Statthalter- < schaft of Holstein, commanding the Government, in the name of the Confederation, to suspend hostilities. Count Bernstorf!, the Prussian Ambassador at Vienna, bad been summoned to Berlin. It was believed he would be offered the Ministry of. Foreign Affairs, but nothing has yet been fixed. We have since received a telegraphic dispatch, dated Berlin, November 6, which states that the Duke of. Brandenburg, Prime Minister, died that morning, at 24 minutes past eight o’clock. HESSE CASSEL. The Bavarian and Austrian troops, under I the command of Prince Von Thum and Taxis, entered Hesse Cassel on the Ist instant, and took up quarters in the city of Hanau at one o’clock in the afternoon. Their force consisted of about 8000 men, including an Austrian rifle battalion 1000 strong. The Prince, having passed his troops in review, in Hanau, ordered a large portion of them to march in the afternoon forward to Genlhausen, where they took up quarters. 3500 remained quartered in Hanau. A proclamation, I issued by the “ Commissary of the Bundestag,” was posted up simultaneously with one from the Elector. The only act by which the people showed their feeling was that of tearing down these proclamations. Not a copy of the Commissary’s address was saved, but the German papers contain that of the Elector, which is the most remarkable document of its kind that has ever been published. It is as follows :—“ By the Grace of God, we, Frederick William 1., the Elector and Landgrave of Hesse, &c.. The imporj tance of the moment, in which federal troops i are entering the electorate, requires that we I should address to you, our faithful subjects, a word of confidence ; for we connt with certainty and firmness upon the fidelity of our people, which has never failed us in giving proof of both these qualities. The facts that are now occurring under our eyes are the fruit of the unconstitutional refusal by the Assembly of States to authorize the levy of taxes, a refusal which led co that Assembly’s

dissolution by our order. The constitution gives us the faculty, and imposes upon us the duty of adopting in these extraordinary circumstances measures calculated to insure the safety of the State. The refusal of obedience to our authority—a refusal by which a great number of our officers have allowed themselves to be led astray-r-has rendered impossible the execution of our ordinances published during the course of last month. It has reduced us to the necessity of demanding of ■ the confederation that assistasce which has been recognized as imperious by the governments represented in the diet. We should be failing in the sovereign duties delegated to us from God, were we to allow the arbitrary opinions of our public servants to determine the course of our government. Troops belonging to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria and to his Majesty the King of Bavaria will enter our territory the same day that this our proclamation shall be made known, in order that by the authority of the High Germanic Diet our ordinances may be executed, and the state of siege already decreed be maintained effectively. Counting upon the calm and legal ’ attitudes of our subjects, we expressly declare ■ that the occupation of our country by the troops of the Germanic Diet is only for the purpose of re-establishing order and law i where these have been disturbed, and consolidating them where they have been maintained by the fidelity of our subjects : and we ~ shall “take crare“to”“avoid “anything "tfiaF may” tend to barm our faithful subjects, and endeai vour to lighten the inevitable consequences of a temporary state of war. (Signed) “ Frederic William, ? (Countersigned) “ Hasssnplug, Volmar., “ Haynau, Baumbach.

Wilhelmsbad, Get. 28, 1850.” According to advices from Cassel, of the 2nd instant, the 18th Regiment of Prussian Infantry, accompanied by a squadron of Hussars and a battery of artillery, entered that town on the morning of that day, after a very severe forced night march. These troops were sent off by General Groeben from Warburg as soon as he received intelligence of the Bavarians and Austrians on the opposite side of the Electorate, The military posts in Cassel were occupied by the burgher guard. The reception of the Prussian troops by the inhabitants was quiet but friendly. SWITZERLAND. Religious disputes are running very high at the present moment in Switzerland. The same spirit of proselytism which has induced the Court of Rome to assume the right of establishing a Catholic hierarchy in England, is busily at work in all the countries of Europe containing a mixed Protestant and Catholic population ; but in no place has it shown itself more boldly than in Switzerland, where it is encouiaged by the High Church party in France, with an ardour which they

would not venture to display in their own country. . . ,