THE "LATEST FOREIGN.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 245, 24 February 1860, Page 3

THE "LATEST FOREIGN.

FRANCE.

, Paris, Sunday Evening. I gave an opinion last month that "the sth of January, though named for this Congress, would never see it constituted or at work, adding that the Parliament of Great Britain, as well as that of the new kingdom of North Italy, would assemble simultaneously with this European Paris Diet, which represents notTthe nations or the peoples, but simply the rulers and courts thereof. What 1 stated will turn out pretty accurate. The only efficient representative assembly now sitting is that of Belgium, and it has been occupied hitherto in debating the interference of the clergy with the Louvain election. , No Belgian deputy has been found to venture a motion adverse to the claims of Central Italy, or in disparagement of the Romagnol populafion. If any such Pope Hennessy popgun .were let off in that house, the echo would be a shout of indignant rebuke from men who have vindicated their own right to shake off misgovernment. I did not load your columns with either notice or extract from Girardin's senseless pamphlet. He is the mouthpiece of no set of men, but merely the bagpiper of his own wind-bags. There is just out a political manifesto from the pen of Massimo d'Azeglio, who speaks the sentiments of twenty millions, and a large portion of which you will find in to-day's issue of Le Novel. I commend it to public notice as the most calm as well as vigorous expose of the Central Italy question.

At Milan there is a journal, 11 Pungcih, worthy of being cdi ed by Mitchell, or another JDundolk Demoded. It prints and holds up to execration as unworthy of the suffrage for Parliament no less than twenty distingnised Lombards, whose offence is that they signed an address, on the 2nd of March, 1853, to the Emperor Franz Jos?ph, on his escape from the poignard of the assassin Labienij at Vienna. ' The good sense and proper feeling of the Milanese has scouted this attempt to confound disapproval of a scoundrel act with servility to an Austrian Emperor. It is stated that 600,000 dollars have reached the Roman Exchequer, contributed by bishops and others who !eel that empty talk is no use without sending cash. This is the right sort of thing. Let the sympathising breeches pocket bleed freely for the Court at Rome, but let not the Romagnols be bled or hanged or incarcerated for that establishment. This is all the more necessary, as every Israelite banker in Europe is agreed on refusing a loan on any terms since the capture of the boy Mortara. Maria Christina, to whom much will be forgiven because she has loved that court much, gave a Million of dollars, and whether the " siller" came from Cuba or other queer sources will not be inquired after. ITALY. The Nord of Sunday, contains an article on the Italian question, by Massimo j d'Azeglio. He begins by warmly urging | the prompt settlement of Italian affairs, and points out the evils resulting to a nation from prolonged uncertainty, as to its political future. It is a matter of astonishment, he says, in reading history to see how often men have blindly disregarded in their struggles the simple means of obtaining tranquility which lay within their reach. The peculiar feelings which agitate Italians increase the difficulties in their case:—

" What to conceal it? Our blood bounds at the sight of an Austrian uniform. Yet this sentiment is not worthy either of a reasonable man or a Christian; it reminds one of the oath of Hannibal of the old savage hatred of nation for nation^ We are far from justifying it, we condemn it. Nobler aspirations will enable us to overcome it."

Dwelling on this, he says, the wish to restore Italy to her rights and the love of independence, ought to be enough to fill the heart, and leave no place for base instincts of hate and vengeance. " Austria has, no doubt, brought unspeakable evils upon Italy, but if she were to reckon up her losses has she reason to praise her system of violence and injustice ? Are the last consequences of the policy she has pursued with so much obstinacy of a nature to show her the wisdom of the course she has adopted ?

" For us Italians the present moment is final and unprecedented; we feel that in it lies the germ of our whole future. Let Europe therefore, listen to us a few moments. Let her listen to a voice that has never betrayed the truth; for in our day, more than ! in any other, the truth alone is the sacred labamm which leads us to victory. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. _ ! Notwithstanding the advantages ob'ainfd over the Moors, and, if we give credit to the despatch of the 16th December, from Madrid, the great discouragement of the enemy, we do not find any decisive change in the relative position of the belligerents. It is not easy to foim a correct estimate of military operations carried on at a distance. We make every allowance lor a General who may have difficulties to contend with not known to the public ; yet if any wrong by done to ODonnell and those under him, he himself is to blame for having raised hopes which are not yet realised. Our latest news from head-quarters announced that O'Donnell, reinforced as he has been by Ros de Olano's division, and having now the whole of his troops in hand, was on the point of assuming the offensive; whereas, to the latest date—at all events to the 16th—we find that it is still the Moors who are the assailants, and that they attack with the same impetuous bravery* and each time in greater number. As for the loss as/eported in the Spanish bulletins, though,-probably, less'than that of the I Moors, we cannot except as literally correct

chief of the Spanish army, whose casualties are reported so trifling, earnestly calling out for reinforcements. Private letters from Cadiz, received at Paris, state that the plan of the Spadiards is to attack Tetuan on two sides simultaneously—by land Jrom #Ceuta, and by sea by the river of Tetuan. The bad state of the sea and the defensive measures adopted by the Moors will render the attempt, very difficult. It has been ascertained that Tetuan is defended by earthworks and redans as Sebastopol was, constructed with a degree of skill not to have been expected from the Moors. THE CONGRESS. ".

The Pairie of this evening states positively that Cardinal Antdnelli will assist at the Congress, and that he will arrive in Paris on the 4th of January.

The Pays announce that to-morrow the Marquis de Villamarina will present his letiers of recall, and M. Desarnbrois his kttres de creance.

Prince Mettemich has officially informed the French Government of the nomination of Count Rechberg as First Plenipotentiary of Austria at the Congress.

A telegram received here from Copenhagen states that the Royal Palais of Fredencksburg was last night completely destroyed by fire.

Paris, Dec. 18 (evening). ; In the autograph letter of the Pope to ! the Emperor his Holiness declared that he is willing to be represented at the Congress, have full confidence in the loyalty i and firmness of the eldest son of the Chutch, ! to whom God has entrusted the mission to protect the patrimony of St. Peter against ■illegal covetousness. The health of Prince Jerome continues to improve - ; St. Petersburgh, Dec. IT. The French Ambassador, the Duke de Montebello, has communicated to the Russian Government the wish of his sove- j reign that the functions of first Plenipotentiary of Russia be entrusted to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Prince Gortsehakoff has replied by telegraph to Paris that he will take into consideration the. wish of France. Marseilles, Dec. 18. Letters received from Naples state that during the night between the 12th and 13th instant, numerous arrests, including several eminent persons, were made. The persons arrested are accused of having clandestinely printed journals, and of having supported a subscription in behalf of General Garibaldi, several documents concerning which have been seized. The police were searching for distributors of the photographic portraits of Agesilas Milano. The Sardinian Consul had been momentarily anested by mistake, but was set at liberty.. Advices received from Algiers state that the formal opening of the railway to Blidah had taken place. SWEDISH ENTHUSIASM FOR ITALY. Stockholm, Dec. 17. To-day an enthusiastic demonstration of the citizens in favor of the Italian people took place. The Diet has unanimously resolved to present an address to the King, requesting his Majesty to defend at the Congress the right of the Italian people to decide their own affairs. STATE OF GERMANY. Frankfot CM., December 17In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet, the proposals of the Wurzburg Conference were brought forward. They are as follows:— Ist. The publication of the proceedings of the Federal Diet; 2nd. A common civil and criminal legislation ; i 3rd. A common law of domicile; 4th. A revision of the Federal military constitution, by increasing the Federal army organically and not numerically; and sih. The fortification of the coasts of the Northern and Baltic Seas. The Christmas vacation of the Federal Diet has been declared, and will continue till the sth of January. ■y. AUSTRIA. Vienna, December 18. The report of an intended abdication of the Emperor is' totally unfounded. The statement that the Archduke Maximilian would be absent from Austria two years is likewise false. The journey of his imperial highness to the Brazils will only occupy six months. ,THE SPANIARDS IN MOROCCO. Madrid, December 17. The division of General Prim has taken a position two leaguas from the general encampment in order to protect the works for opening a road to Tetuan. The division of General Ros d'Olano has been placed to the right of this road. The defeat of the enemy yesterday has produced discouragement in the Moroccan army. SWITZERLAND. Berne, December 18. The Federal Council intends to ask at the Congress that the neutrality of Savoy may be guaranteed by the Italian Confederation, as it already is by Piedmont, in virtue of the Treaties of 1815.