FOREIGN NEWS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 689, 10 March 1852, Page 4

FOREIGN NEWS.

A letter from Florence, in the Carriere Mercantile of Genoa, positively asserts that the governments of France and England have addressed diplomatic notes both to the Court of Florence and to that of Vienna against the apparent project of absorbing Tuscany into the Austrian empire, add reminding those courts that such a measure would be contrary to existing treaties, and would increase the complication of affairs in Europe. The moderate party of Spain have obtained a complete victory there, at the municipal elections. It is stated that Saldanha would obtain in Portugal a strong majority of representatives in his favour, the elections having commenced. A fire broke out on the 25th ult. at Vesprim (Austria), which destroyed 87 houses, 130 outhouses, and other buildings. One life only was lost. The fire was caused by the carelessness of a drunken baker. In Norway a public trial has been made of General Neydel’s newly-invented flying artillery, 6-pounders, constructed so as to be transported with ease up rocks and defiles by horses in the common peasants’ carts of the cbuntry. They succeeded exceedingly well, and will be' largely used for the artillery department. The Cologne Gazette states that a peasant, while lately clearing a ditch near the paved road between Frankfort-sur-Maine and Houhst, discovered a quantity of muskets of very old manufacture, placed upright about twb feet below the earth, to the number of several thousands. In the course of the last few years the tide of emigration to Australia has increased so rapidly in Upper Lausatia, that the government, understanding it was from a religious motive, has recently sent thither the chief court preacher, M. Von. Harless to inquire into the matter. Baron Haynau is lying dangerously ill. A consultation of four of the first physicians has been held, and they have pronounced his case by no means satisfactory. The sudden death of his amiable consort is said to have brought on this alarming illness of the fieldmarshal. The admission of the Jews to fill judicial offices in the courts of justice in Prussia which has long occupied the public mind, has been brought' to a partial settlement. The Jews will in future be admitted to the study of the law, and every opportunity afforded them for prosecuting'their studies, but it has, at the Same time, been notified that they cannot be admitted to the office of judge until the present laws on this subject undergo a change.