FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 366, 26 April 1861, Page 5 (Supplement)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The gre^t news from Europe is the fall of Gaeta. Francis 11. surrendered on the evening of the 13th February, and on the morning of the 14th he embarked for Rome, where he anived on the following day. The garrison are detained as prisoners of war until Messina shall have surrendered. The subjection of the Neapolitan and Sicilian territory will then be completed.

The Italian Parliament was opened on the 18th by King Victor Emmanuel, in a moderate and dignified speech, in which he appealed to the courage with which he risked his crown as the best argument for his honesty, whilst he urged patience and moderation. The first proposal offered in the Italian Parliament was an act declaring Victor Emmanuel King of Italy.

The Italian Government will, it is said, klgaTes 1, afi^fenVft mmf%&Sti!ig& my to 500,000 men.

The ex-King Francis 11. and his queen leave Kome in a few days for Bavaria, accompanied by the Queen-Dowager.

The public at Rome are greatly agitated, and an enthusiastic demonstration was made to commemorate the fall of Gaeta. An order of the day of General Guyon is declared to be a calumny on the Pontifical Government.

Military and naval preparations are still going forward in France with undiminished zeal, and Napoleon has made a speech at the opening of the French Chambers which causes general suspicion that the Empire is not peace. The utmost consternation has been occasioned in Paris by the anest of M. Mares, the great French capitalist, who has been thrown into prison on a criminal charge. Other arrests are threatened, and the names of very high personages are mixed up in the affair. The drafts from Constantinople on Mares will be met, but the Levant trade is expected to suffer severely.

It is reported that France h as supported Russia in demanding of the Porte a permanent conference at Constantinople, for the protec tion of the interests of the Christian inhabitants of Turkey.

The difference between Denmark and Russif respecting Schleswig-Holstein widens. Den. mark is arming, and resolved to resist hi force any attempt to execute the federal decree in Holstein. The state of the Danist finance is represented to be highly prosperous and the determination of the people on th< subject is that of one man.

Austria and Hungary are farther than evei from a peaceful adjustment of their lonj standing quarrel. The necessity of throwing into Venetia the bulk of his army has pre vented the Emperor from concentrating ii Hungary the force necessary to carry out th Imperial rescript, so that it is impossible t predict what turn events may next take.

The 3rd of March is definitely fixed upo as the day tor the proclamation of the emanc: pation of the serfs in Russia. The Porte has refused to agree to the pre * ■—♦inn of the French occupation of Syria.