There have been vague reports during the week that the
King of the Belgians and his father-in-law Louis Philippe have succeeded in bringing There have been vague reports during the week that the King of the Belgians and his father-in-law Louis Philippe have succeeded in bringing
the Spanish Government to an apologetic mood in respect to its expulsion% of Sir Henry Bulwer, and that Lord Palmerston's ultimatum has been accepted. The Times correspondent at Paris c onfirms the statement on assurances from " the best-informed quarters in Paris " ; adding, that' a Belgian courier passed through Paris on Thursday, bearing, the new& t0 Brussels.
It was stated' yesterday, in brief telegraphic despatches front Parer,. that one of the regiments ns garrison there had revolted against its officers, on account of an intimation by the Colonel two days ago that he would' punish an adjutant for voting in favour of the Socialist candidates on the 10th March. The greatest agitation immediately spread through the regiment ; the soldiers set their officers at defiance, went at large into Paris, and were wandering about in irreclaimable mutiny. It was added —" The newspapers are filled with accounts of sergeants and cerporalS who have been reduced to the ranks and sent to Algeria for voting for the Socialists." This morning it turns out that the riot occurred not at Paris but Limoges : as a military indication, it is not the less serious; especially when we couple it with the evident desire to hush up the' affair.
Yesterday evening's papers state that the Socialists of Paris have de- cided to put forward as their candidate, vice Vidal, one of the private.. soldiers lately punished for depositing crowns of imnzorteller on the column of the Bastile in memory of the victims of February and June 1848. The Committee of the Electoral -Union selected M. Ferdinand Foy es their candidate.
The Daily News reports that at the Prussian Cabinet Council, on Satur- day last, Radowitz present, "it was decided not to proceed with the in- dictment or complaint against Hanover and Saxony ' : Austria has, made: proposaleof an amicable tenour—in effect,. to recognize the Prussian; scheme. and Erfurt Parliament, if Prussia will recognize the Munich projects and Russia has addressed a " very friendly note " to both Cabinets, re- commending amore conciliatory policy, and "making no objections what- ever to the more intimate confederation which the Prussian Government' has at heart."
Constantinople letters of the 21st March state that the Minister of -War was drawing up a measure foe the admission of Rayahs, or non-Muesul- man subjects of Turkey, into the army. The Ottoman populations will continue to form the conscription, but the Rayahs will be admitted,. by voluntary enrolment, into a: special battalion added to each regiment.. [An important constitutional innovation in Turkey.]
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