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Foreign and Colonial Intelligence. FRANCE. The Journal dei Debatt has the following on the lecent visit of the English to Paris :— Several hundreds of English citizens have come to return the visit which the National Guards paid them some months back. It was formerly the sovereigns who paid these inter- national visits now that the sovereign is called the people it is the citizens who do so. The Parisian population retains the best remembrance of the reception given in England to its delegates, and it is anxious, we are sure, to testify at present the same cordiality. These spontaneous and pacific meetings of two great and free nations have an importance. From this mutual exchange of toasts, shakes of the hand, and kind wishes, each carries back with it reminiscences which keep up the love of peace. A year back, at the same period, we should have beheld with a certain regret this visit of strangers, for Paris was all in disturbance. We should have been sorry to show Paris as it then was, from the same feeling that no one desires to receive visits in the midst of removing one's furniture. At present, order is restored circulation is re-established; in fine, we are Somewhat more presentable. The English who beheld one day last week the stream of carriages in the Champs-Elysees, and on the Boulevards, must have said that there is in France a very powerful elasticity, since, after such cruel trials, she has returned so quickly to all the appearances of health and security. We are delighted to see Paris again as in former times, a centre of attraction. No place is so much the city of every one as Paris; its museums, its mon- uments, its edifices, its churches, are open to all, and we have no doubt the authorities have given every facility to our visitors to see everything. We look for excellent results from this system of pacific expeditions, and we hope that they will in the end supply the place of the old descents on the coast. 1 he French who visited England will have seen there, in the midst of great social inequalities, the complete triumph of the prin- ciple of liberty; the English who have come to Paris will, on the contrary, perceive the piinciple of equality prevailing above everything, often even at the expense of liberty. Both may gain by studying each other. What must profit by such intercourse is the cause of peace. The French and the English may have different interests, which may sometimes even Le. come hostile, but they know that they have a great common interest—that of liberty, of civilization, of humanity, and that such interest can only be safe by their union." M. de Ricbemont, who has attained a certain celebiity by pretending to be the son of Louis X VI., has just sent an assig- nation to the Duchesse d'Angouleme, to appear before the tribunals to recognise his birthright as the son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette. M. Armand Marrast was, on Saturday, re-elected President of the Assembly tor the ensuing month. The numbers were— for Af* Armand Marrast417, for M. Dufaure 49. The greater part Q} the sitting of Saturday was occupied listening to an espoftS of the principles of Fourlerism by M. Victor Con- siderant. A duel took pJace on Friday between M. Juedru Rollin and M. Denjoy.lJiejfjarti-pretre Deputy. Having exchanged shots, e seconds interfered, and prevented tbe afl^r frcuit pfQBeed- .(o.t. Ac:P.' .4i- "The Moniteur publishes the following :— The Government has to day received a telegraphic dispatch which left Turin on the 15th inst. and Lyons on the loth, an- nouncing that the submission of Genoa was complete." The Presse says We have received a letter from an officer on board the steamer Ie Tonnerre, dated Genoa, in which is the following postscript: Florence has surrendered to the Grand Duke ;and Palermo has capitulated afier three days' bombardment. The Comtitutionnel says It reported that 18,000 Austrians were marching on Tuscany." ROMAN STATES. A report prevails that war had commenced on the Nea- politan frontier, and that the opening of the campaign had been the seizure of the town of Tondi by the Roman corps of Gen. Ferretti. It is calculated that sixty new field pieces will be formed out of the church bell metal. A dozen have aheady been cast, and are now in the hands of the carriage makers. Some of them are ready for action. Volunteers are hastening to the legations. On the 2nd, about two, p.m., about 1,t;00 Neapolitans, with half a battery, and protected by three gun-boats on Lake Frodi, attacked the fort of the Epi. taffio, belonging to the Romans, but soon retired. SARDINIA. We find in a supplement to theNouvelliste of Marseilles, of the 9th instant, important intelligence from Genoa. A sangui- nary engagement had been going on in Genoa for two days, during which the troops had gained some important positions. The post-packet Alexandre, which left Genoa on the evening of the 7th instant, has brought the following particulars and intelligence up to that date —The city defended itself with in- credible obstinacy priests and women had taken part in the defence of the barricades. No troops could have penetrated into the town without being crushed by the stones that had been collected in the houses for that purpose. Shells and cannon balls have destroyed several houses, and severely damaged others. In the hospitals several patients have been struck by projectiles several ships in the harbours have also suffered. The French residents, and many fugitives of other nations, took refuge on board the Tonerre. steamer. At last the consular body succeeded in obtaining the conclusion of an armistice of forty-eight hours. Three members of the muni- cipal council set out for Turin to obtain the royal sanction to this convention, as General La Marmora refused to take it upon his responsibility. The Piedmontese troops have not ceased to make preparations for defence in the interva tie Alexandre, on eutering the port, was descried by the it montese, who taking the passengers she had on board for a body of Lombards come to the assistance of the Genoese, iired upon her; but the mistake being soon discovered, tie Piedmontese commander made excuses to the captain of the Alexandre. The British man-of-war now off Genoa, had been seen making manceuvres which appeared hostile to the Genoese, from which they concluded that she would act in concert with Piedmontese troops, should the armistice not be accepted. No one is allowed to quit the town. The numbei of victims is considerable on each side. At the moment of the departure of the Alexandre, a rumour was current that 2.000 Lombards had just entered the town by the Tuscan road, and 4,000 more were expected. SURRENDER OF GENOA. TURIN, APRIL 11.—This fact acquires the utmost impor- tance at the present juncture, as, if that city had held out only a few days longer, many other cities and districts of Piedmont would have been induced to follow its example, or rather that of the city and district of Aosta. which sent a de- putation, the bearers of a remonsnance to the king, demand- ing a change of ministry, which, on rtfusal, would have been followed by open rebellion, the revolutionists having their agents ready prepared and instructed to that end. The sur- render of Genoa has put an end to the hopes of that faction whose object in thus throwing the country into confusion, could only be to produce anarchy and civil war for their own prtvatc Iews, and without even an excuse of bringing about a French intervention, in which no one here of any party be- lieves. The ministry refused to treat with the rebels, and of course did not resign at their instigation but though the really patriotic men who have lately assumed the reins of government, in the difficult and critical circumstances in which the country was placed, to preserve power from danger- ous hands, would not yield to the threats of an armed faction, yet it is probable that they will bow to the will—or to the pre- judices—of the majority, and resign the power they have only wielded to save she state. A general amnesty is granted, which excludes only the leaders in the rebellion, who, of course, have already taken to flight. ITALY.-CAPTURE OF BRESCIA. The Opinione of Turin, of the 5th inst states that Brescia, the finest city of Lombardy, after Milan, is now but a heap of ruins. The inhabitants of Losne, on hearing of the disasters of Brescia, had laid down their arms. Bergamo, a'ter a resist- ance of some days, had capitulated. The inhabitants had been condemned to pay a fine of two millions of dollars. The population of Brescia held out for eight days. General Havneau arrived there on the 30th ult. from Padua- He gave the citisens two hours to surrender. At the expiration of that period he commenced a bombardment, which lasted six hours. The resistance of the people was of the most desperate cha racter. The town was covered with barricades raised to the second story of the houses. Those bairicades were succes- sively carried by the bayonet after a sanguinary contest. Every inch of ground was disputed with fuiy. The massacre on both sides was enormous An Austrian general was so severely wounded as to be compelled to submit to the amputation of a leg. A colonel was killed, together with several officers. The inhabitants who survived, entrenched themselves in some houses. Those houses were set on fire, and the inhabitants were burnt alive. Brescia had not suffered so severely since the yerr 1512, when it was carried bv assault by the French under the command of Gaston de Foix. AUSTRIA—HUN GARY. The advices from the seat of war in Hungary all tend to prove that the insurgents are gaining the upper hand. Zenta has fallen, and the town been pillaged by the Magyars. A body of 3,000 men and six pieces of artillery surrounded the town and took it by storm. Many of the inhabitants threw themselves into the ) htiss, preferring a watery grave to the insults of the victors. An Austrian division has been beaten at Morischa, where 400 men were sla n, and the road to Nesatz is now open to the Magyars Another detachment of the Imperial troops was defeated at Losonez, two com panies of infantry were made prisoners, and the town remains in the hands of the insurgents. According to a correspondent of the Allgemeine Zeitung, Kossuth bad dissolved the Diet at Debreczin, and summoned it to meet again on the 24th of April, at Pesth. A private letter fromWallachia says 1-" The state of Hun. gary is very serious. In a former letter I mentioned the cap- ture of Hermannstadt; last night we heard 01 that of Cron- ltadt. There were no less than 6,000 Russians and 10.000 Austrians, 700 cavalry, and 45 pieces of artillery yet no sooner did Bern's force appear, that the whole fell back on Wallachia, and have taken up a strong position within the Wallachian frontier." The Wiener Zeitung contains the following official statement concerning the occupation of Cronstadt by Bern, and the re- treat of the Austrain troops in Wallachia —The imperial troops had on the 13th of March reached the neighbourhood of Hermannstadt, and took up a position at Gerolsan to effect a junction with the Russians at Falmatsch. On the 15th ihey marched for Cronstadt, and the Russians entrenched them- selves in the quarantine grounds on the extreme frontier. General Puchner and other Austrian generals had with 1,21)0 infanty retreated to Rimnik. (This is the precipitate flight of the Austrians through the Rothenthurm pass to which Bern's despatch of the 16th March to Kosuth refers.) The imperial army corps reached Cronstadt on the 18th, with the purpose of holding this place with the Russians under Gen. Engelhardt. Meanwhile the rebels under Hem marched against the city Irom Hermannstadt. General Liiders gave orders for the evacuation of Cronstadt. This, and the circum- stance of the troops being in want of ammunition, and many other necessaries, determined the Austrian general, Kaliany, to evacuate the place, and retreat with the Russians into Wallachia, which they did on the 20th. The army-corps con- sists of 8,140 men, inantry and artillery; 900 cavalry, and 42 cannon. The Austrian major, Baron Hayde. who com- mands 12,00 infantry, and 240 cavalry, had thrown himself into the Torzburg pass, and was expected on the 21st at Kim. polung, in Wallachia. Therefore, there are in this princi- pality 12,000 imperial troops. The main corps, under General Kaliany, is quartered in Kinpina, Plovest, and Concurrent, and would take twelve days' rest. The government of the country did its utmost to meet the wants of the troops. The former Hungarian war minister commanded in Hermannstadt, and Bern was at the head of the rebels in Cronstadt, from whence it was exppcted that he would march into the Bukowini. The number of fugitives out of Transylvania into Wallachia is immense. On the 27th March, the Austrian General, Von Reichetzer, arrived at Bucharest from Crajova, to conduct the march of the troops from Kimpina through Carjova and Orsova into the Banat. NAPLES AND SICILY. These States are again involved in the horrors, cruelties, and chaoces of war. The following is an extract fiom a pri vale letter, dated Messina, April 3.—" The steamer Bulldog passed here the other day on her way to Catania, being ordered to that place for the protection of British property. I fear the destruction of lives and property in the island will be im- mense. Messina is in a most deplorable position upwards of 100 persons, belonging to the first families in that place, have been arrested within the last few days, and imprisoned in the citadel. The town has been declaied to be in a state of siege, and the greatest terror prevails among the inhabitant*. We have the Rosamond steamer still here, and we know not how soon we may be obliged to take refuge on board of her. It the Neapolitans meet with a check, and have to retire on this place great disorder must ensue. The King of Naples' ulti- matum having been rejected by the government of Palermo, hostilities have recommenced. The Neapolitan troops, con • Vn* nf about 18 000 men, have left this place, a small gar r Illy «m.i ing in .l.e Aad.l and lor*. About 13.000 on.t.od.ys .gom.l.e° the remaining 6000 were shipped in steameis, with tllie 11 tion fit is supposed) of following coastwise the direction of the i Vv hav- already ("Onimenced — most awful atrocities. Several villages on the < i,avonetr(j entirely destroyed—old men, women, and chndrei, _rrm.« by the soldiers. It is dreadful to think that sue 1 should be permitted in civilised Europe. It Lnglanc and France do not interfere again, to at rest the course of these barbarian! the whole of Sicily will soon become a wilderness. The Swis soldiers seem to set the example in all these atrocities, burning and killing without mercy all that come in their way.' Guerazzi, the Dictator of Tuscany, has ordered 3,000 Tuscan troops to proceed to Lusignano, to defend that place against the advance of the Austrians. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTKIN.—The British Government has taken measures for informing German vessels coming southwards, of the recommencement of hostilities, by sending the last-sailing steamer, the William Gunston, in the Channel. A second English steamer, the Britannia, left Dover, lor the purpose of cruising in the Channel for a similar object. All the pilots of the vessels lying in the English Channel have also received orders to give due notice of the danger to all German vessels. By these means great protection is, of course, afforded to German commerce. COPENHAGEN, Arnii. 12.—The Minister of War. General Hansen, has arrived here, bringing in several officers and pri- vates prisoners. No engagement of any importance has taken ploce, hut active preparations continue 'O be carried on on both sides. In Denmnrk it is expected that motives of interest will induce England, Prussia, and France to take up arms in her cause. Dani-h vessels are cruising about in the neighbourhood of Swinemunde. Their movements are closely watched by the Germans. FLKNSBURG, AIMIIL 10.—The Danes have withdrawn their forces partly towards their Jutland frontier, and partly behind their entrenchment near to Duppel. Our 9th battallion pur- sued the Danes, but was not able to engage them in a battle. ALTGNA, APIIIL II.— The brigade of Schjeswig Holstein, commanded by General de Bonin, entered into Jutland yes- terday, and occu pied Kolding. To-day it will continue its march towards Vede. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna of the 9th says :— "The reports received from Hungary inform us that the Imperial army is concentrated round Pesth. It has been forced to retreat before the superior force of the Hungarians." Another account says,— A battle has been fought under the walls ofPesth. in which the Austrians fared worst. The kit wing of the Imperialists-- consists of the Jahlonowsky and Goz brigades, which occupy the ground from Waitzen to Gyarmath the head quarters of the centre are at Godollo, conlmalHled hy Count Schlick. On the 4th and 5th the fighting was very severe, but the Imper- ia'ists did not lose an inch of ground. The right wing did not do so well. Attacked by overpowering numbers, it was com- pelled ro fallback. The Ban has approached closer to the centre,thus permitting the enemy to advance nearer to the city." The Breslmi Gatette of the 9th inst. states that the Magyars could easily have siezed on Pesth, but that they preferred to turn that town in ordei to attack Buda, which commands it. It is probable they wihed to gain the route to Waitzen and Wagnal to relieve the fortress Comorn. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. We have received the following information :— It is understood that the Emperor of Russia having ascer. tained that the military preparations going forward in the Turkish empire were undertaken at the instigation of Sir Stratford Canning, acting under orders from London, dis- patched on the 25th of March his Aide-de-Camp, General Grabbe, to Constantinople, with an ultimatam which requires the immediate cessation of warlike preparations in Turkey, as well as the recal of the Ottoman troops assembled on the Danube. It further requires the Porte's acquiescence in the occupation of the Principaltifs of Wallachia and Moldavia, by Russia, during her good pleasure- Failing the acceptance of these terms by the Divan, the Russian Minister is to quit Constantinople, and the Autocrat's troops, at once to advance on Constantinople, turning (not crossing) the Balkans. The Russian fleet from_Sevas- topol is to lend its co operation. We are assured that Baron Brunow has been instructed to communicate the contents of the ultimatum to our Foieigu- oHice.—Chronicle.

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