FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 670, 3 January 1852, Page 4

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE. French political news contains one imp O r tant fact ; the vote of the prorogation of th* Assembly, which is fixed for the 10th of August ; the vacation to continue until the 4th of November. The next event is the notn ination of the Committee of Permanence. is widely reported that the Legitimists will not, as a body, vote for any candidates of that Committee who are violenty opposed to Loifi s Napoleon. In fact, it is averred that the Legitimists, afraid of the chances of the Prince de Joinville, whose name is now mentionedas a candidate for the Presidency, or of aßepubfi. can, have struck up a kind of left-handed alliance with the Elysee. There is somereason to believe this; for M. Montalembert it is well known, has long adopted this policy as a means of prolonging the regime provisoire. The election of Louis Napoleon would eminently conduce to that object.

The Commission of Permanence, which will sit during the prorogation ol the French Assembly, has been constituted as follows — Didier, General Cbangarnier, Dufougerais Sauvaire Barihelemy, De Montigny, Berryer' I Viiet, Poujoulat, De Melun, Passy, Druet’ Desvaux, D’Olivier, Gouin, Bernardi, De Montebello, Bocher, De La Tourette, Admiral Cecille, Ruhliere, Hubert, De Lisle Boinvilliers, De Kermarec, De Bat, Grouchy and De Mortemart. When M. Cabet, the Icatian, left France three years ago, a charge of fraud and embezzlement was preferred against him by some of the parties engaged in the Icarian emigration. M. Cabet distinctly denied the charge at ihe time, and complained that it should have been brought in his absence. Judgment was given against him, by default, About a month or six weeks since he returned to Paris, and brought the whole case into notice by an appeal to the Court of Cassation \ for a reversal of the sentence ofthe courtbelow. The evidence offered by his accusers was I gone into at great length ; and the appeal resulted, on ihe 26th July, in the full and I honourable acquittal of M. Cabet. Italy.—Marshal Radetzky published a B proclamation to lhe Lombardo-Venetian king. B dom on the 19th of July, from his heail-quarters t at Monga. This document has ibo merit 4 B brevity and distinctness. The Lombardo. B Venetian kingdom is declared to be in a state H of siege; the communes are made responsible HS for all assassinations similar to that of Vaudoii M at Milan ; and the inhabitants will be severely Egi dealt with if they do not immediately surrender E| all such offenders to the military. The lan- KPI guage is courageous, the lone vaunting, but |g| the act itself is one of apprehension, avowedly Ml excited by the evident signs of extensive K? organiza ion among the people. In Rome, H the French are reported as having offended M the Holy Father beyond forgiveness, by ||||| ejecting the officers of the Inquisition, and ES occupying that edifice as a barrack. The H Pope returned to Rome on the 16th, not as Wl' the Giornaie at Roma stated,, amid the plandits of a vast concourse ol people, but attended by his usual guards, and watched by some fifty or sixty people on the Piazza di San Pietro, In a leading article on Saturday morning, which professes to go upon peculiarly good information, the Times gives a new shape to the intelligence from Rome. It denies tint ||j| the Pope has demanded the withdrawal of the l|g| Trench troops, but represents the French as gk unable to endure any longer the position ol BB. : supporting <,he odious, tyrannical, feeble, and BEBj impracticable Government of the Pope; |||§ wherefore the Government at Paris has con- l||| yeyed to the Pope an intimation “ expressing |J in distinct language, that as the French armjH cannot be withdrawn from Rome without discredit and a total surrender of its position pjy in Italy to Austria, so neither can it remain tE .; there without taking steps to secure to the people of Rome some of the advantages oiiS|g better government.“ The coolness between Ml| be French and the Papal government recently come to anopen rupture on tbeHl distribution of military posts ; and to thSw t reatjust cited the Pope has retorted bjKt ireatening to retire to the dominions oil'll Naples,— a step intended to tell through tbi[ - rench clergy and their rustic or more u adherents, on the contemplated of President Bonap arte.