LATE ENGLISH NEWS

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 701, 21 April 1852, Page 3

LATE ENGLISH NEWS

[From the Lyttelton Tinies, April 10.] The Will o’ the Wisp schooner arrived on Thursday, bringing files of Van Diemen’s Land papers up to the 24th of March. Most of our paper having been in type for Good Friday, we are unable to give much of the news received. The supply of gold and of crime seem both to be largely on the increase at the diggings in Victoria. The intelligence from England is brought down to the 26th December. Bishoprick of Lyttelton.—The Morning Chronicle says that Dr. Rowley, at present Dean of Lyttelton, is to be consecrated to that diocese, vacant by the retirement of Dr. Jackson ; and the Bishops of Sydney, Melbourne, and New Zealand, are to be appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, a commission for the purpose. Lord Palmerston has resigned his post as Foreign Secretary. He is succeeded by Earl Granville. A vacancy is thus created at the Board of Trade. The state of the markets in Paris at one o’clock every day is now immediately after posted in the Exchange at London. The English market was steady at the prices of the previous dav, when the news of the revolution at Paris arrived, and a fall of | per cent, in Consols was the immediate consequence. A further decline took place, and consols touched 97. The market closed excited and unhealthy, at following quotations : —. Consol account and money, 971 J three and a quarter per cents., 97| f ; Bank Stock, 214|; Exchequer Bill, L. and S. 50 3 premium. A serious fall took place in the Railway market on the arrival of the French news. Marshal Soult died on the 26th of November at St. Armaud, aged 82 years. Father Matthew has returned to Ireland. Sir John Ross, of Arctic celebrily, and M. De Lamartine, the eloquent French historian were dangerously ill. Mr. Basil Montagu, Queen’s Counsel, was dead. A supplementary charter has been granted to the Royal Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851, authorising them to dispose of the surplus in their hands. Mr. Sheriff Alison, the historian, had been re-elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University without opposition, Lord Palmerston not coming forward as had been expected. Prince Albert has bought the property at Balmoral for upwards of £30,000. The Liverpool Times mentions that it is in contemplation to revise the whole system of steam communication, and says, with reference to the Australian mail, only an alternate monthly communication is tc be provided by the contractors from Singapore to Sydney, and that the route via Batavia, Adelaide, and Port Philip to Sydney, is selected in preference to the previously recommended line via Torres Straits. This of course is besides the Cape route for which tenders huye been invited.

The see of Winchester was likely to be divided by Act of Parliament, and the county of Surrey placed under the episcopal charge of a Bishop of Southwark. Lord Mackenzie, the eminent Scotch lawver and judge, died at Belmont, near Curlorphine, at the advanced age of 74. He was the son of the celebrated author of the “ Man of Feeling.” REVOLUIION IN FRANCE. By the arrival at Hobart Town of the Ahoukir, with male prisoners, we have received our files of English journals up to 26th December. On Tuesday, December 2, the submarine telegraph, and the numerous ramifications of the magic wires, transmitted over the kingdom intelligence of another French revolution. “ Paris is in a state of seige. The President re-establishes his universal suffrage and appeals to the people.” Such were the sentences that startled the j commercial public of these realms, momentarily checking business, and, for the time being, pulling down the prices of Consols, stocks, and railway shares. Later in the day came the following despatches, under date “ Paris, Tuesday, 11, a.m. “ The President of the Republic accomplished a coup d'ilat this morning. The principal streets in Paris were occupied at an early hour by strong bodies of infantry, cavalry and artillery, and the following decree was posted on the walls of Paris :—“ In the name of the French people. The President ol the Republic decrees —Art. 1. The National Assembly is dissolved. Art. 2. Universal suffrage is re-established. The law of the 31 st of May is repealed, Art. 3. The French people are convoked in their elective colleges from the 14th to the 21st of December. Art. 4. The state of siege is decreed in the whole of the first military division. Art. 5. The Council of State is dissolved. Art. 6. The Minister of the Interior is charged with the execution of the decree. “ Louts Napoleon Bonaparte, “ De Morny, Minister of the Interior.” “ The Prefect of Police has addressed a proclamation to the citizens of Paris, exhorting them to calmness and order. The President of the Republic descended into the streets this morning, at about eleven o’clock, attended by a brilliant staff, and preceded and followed by troops of cuirassiers and lancets. He was received with respect, but without enthusiasm. “Vive la Republique I” was the only cry uttered by the crowds assembled. No attempts were made to repress the expression of the people’s opinion. The attitude of the troops was calm and firm. The President has caused three proclamations to be posted up in Paris. Troops occupy the Louvre, the Place de la Concorde, the Rue and Fauborg St. Honore, and the Hotel de Ville. It is said Generals Changarnier, Cavaignac, Lamoric.ere, and Bedeau, Colonel Charras, M. Thiers, and some others are arrested. JJhe greatest part of the Legitimist representatives assembled at the'have been arrested and conducted by a battalion of soldiers to the Barracks on the Quai d'Orsay.” The Paris correspondent of the Times, writing nn Tuesday afternoon, says :—

The President of the Republic was informed last night, that a meeting was held at General Changarnier’s house attended by M. Thiers, M. Base, and others of the chiefs of parties, at which it was decided that tie coup against the President should be made this very day—that is, that he should be arrested, the Assembly prorogued or dissolved, and, no doubt, the Republic abolished.” The President considered it absolutely necessary to take steps immediately. Proclamations were at once prepared, addressed to the nation and to the army. In the address to the people, the President, after describing the existing order of things as unstable and unsatisfactory, says : “ Persuaded that the instability of power, and that the preponderance cf a single assembly are the permanent causes of trouble and discord, I submit to your suffrages the fundamental basis of a constitution which the assemblies will develope hereafter. “ 1. A responsible chief named for ten years. 2. The ministers dependent on the Executive alone. 3. A Council of State formed of the most distinguished men, preparing the laws and maintaining the discussion before the Legislative corps. 4. A Legislative corps, diseasing and voting the laws, named by universal suffrage, without the scrulin de lisle which falsifies the election. 5. A second assembly, formed of all the illustrious persons of the nation ; a preponderating power, guardian of the preponderating pact, and of public liberty.” The proclamation to the army calls upon the soldiers, by their imposing attitude, to assist the country, and to be ready to repress all attempt against the free exercise of the sovereignty of the people. The prefect of police, M. de Maupas, addressed a circular to all the Commissaries of police, inviting them to watch with courage and energy over the public tranquillity, and to allow no meeting the abject of which should appear to them suspicious. On Tuesday morning, at an early hour, the Place de la Concorde, the Faubourg fet. Honore, the Tuileries, the Louvre, and the Place de Carousel, were covered with troops, the arrangements having been made during the night. Generals Changarnier, Cavaignac, Bedeau, Lamoricihre, Leflo, Colonel Charras, M. M. Baze, Thiers, Brun, the Commissary of police of the assembly, and many others were arrested. The first-named was committed to Vincennes ; and, it was said, would be transferred to the fortress of Ham. General Changarnier attempted to harangue the soldiers sent to aid the police agent, who arrested him ; but they refused to listen to him. Colonel Charras is said to have wounded one of the agents who arrested him.

The new Ministers are M. de Morny, Interior; M. Fould, Finance; M. Rouher, Justice; M. Fortoud, Public Instruction; M. Chasseloup Saubat, Marine ; General St. Arnaud, War ; and, it is said, M. de Persigny will be the minister for foreign affairs. General Magnan still retains command of the army. Orders have been given to pull down the temporary hall where the representatives were wont to meet. Eight journals are suspended, among them the Evencmcnt.

A manuscript decree, purporting to emanate from the representatives who met in the municipality of the 11th arrondissement, under tin presidency of M. Odillon Barrot has just appeared. By that decree Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is declared outlawed, and the high Court of justice is convoked to try him for high treason. The army is relieved from its allegiance, and a General appointed to command it.

A consultative commission of eighty notable men was formed on the 3rd. The ministry is composed of M. de Morny, Interior; Fould, Finance; Rouber, Justice; Magne, Public Works; Chasseloup Saubat, Marine; Cassa Bianca, Commerce; St. Arnaud, War; Fortoud. Public Instruction; Turgot, Foreign Affairs. Paris is perfectly tranquil. The theatres were opened yesterday evening, and the intelligence received from seventeen departments announce the greatest tranquillity. An account up to the evening of the 3rd, says :■ — “ The meeting of two hundred members in the 10th Arroudisenieut, has turned out a complete failure. They declared the President to be turned out of office, and appointed General Oudiuot to command the army of Paris. Some of the National Guard got up the cry of “Vive I’Assemblce ” but the people only hooted them. A party of the foot Chasseurs arrived, when the National Guards walked quietly home, and the representatives were marched eff, two and two, under escort, it is said, to the Invalides." The Globe correspondent, writing at 6 o’clock, on the 3rd, states that four regiments had just entered Paris. Two of them were carbineers, devoted to the President. The Boulevards had been cleared, and cannon sent to the Faubourgs. Other regiments have been sent for. Louis Napoleon reviewed a division in the army, and was enthusiastically received by the troops and people, on the Boulevards. The President’s proceedings are very popular in the market places, which is a great point. At the Bourse the belief is that he will succeed. M. M. Barouche, Drouyn, de I'Huys, Admiral Cecio, Montalembart, Lucien Marat, and seventy’-five other distinguished members of the National Assembly, form the new Council of State. These events had net been accompanied by any' serious disturbances amongst the citizens. The military, which is devoted to the President, was engaged in preserving order, and in crushing any attempt at opposition. The barricades erected by some of the citizens in a few localities were all levelled without difficulty, and some of the insurgents were shot. The presidential election was not decided in the evening of the 26th December. The numbers of votes known up to that time amounted to about six millions, of which the proportions were —9 to 1 for the President.