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Afontinq Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition,
THE EXPRESS,

From JAN. 1, to Du% 31
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LONDONTUESDAY,MARCH2I.
THE most astounding of all the events of this event-
ful period, is certainly a popular and successful in-
surrection, achieved by the citizens and students of
Vienna, in the teeth of the formidable garrison of
that capital, and, it would seem, almost without its
serious resistance. How wonderful is the epidemic 11
influence of revolution ! It gives courage and fury to
the most timid population, whilst it paralyses the
intellect and unnerves the arm of princes and statesmen
the most renowned for sagacity, presence of mind, and
resolution. The absolute monarchy of Austria has been
overthrown by a band of students and crowd of citizens,
with the loss of but twenty slain! This gigantic and
leaden despotism, which weigued upon Germany and
upon Italy immediately, and upon the councils and pro-
gress of Europe as effectually, though more indirectly
—this tyranny, whose very name inspired dread, and
whose might and cunning forbade hope, is foand,
after all, to have been resting upon a reed. Its
might lay in a stupid spell, which a word has broken.
And its destruction is really more like that of a
magician, or an ogre in a fairy tale, than a real,
credible, chapter in history.
Prince Merrcititica had lived and reigned too
long. He could not for any efficient purpose take into
account the immense infiltration of liberal principles that
came in from all sides—from Germany, from -France,
and England—and even from Hungary, whose stormy
Diet sat and debated almost within sight of the walls
of Vienna. By milder government, and more atten-
tion to material interests, Mrrreunten thought he
would retard and obviate revolution. lie did not
calculate how futile such demi-prectutions are in the
midst of the hurricane of a revolutionary epoch.
It was the intelligent classes which rebelled against
the leaden despotism of Merresramt. In the ac-
counts of the Berlin riots we perceive that it was the
labouring population which mustered and which
fought, crying for a ministry of labour. In Vienna,
on the contrary, it was the intelligent classes,
especially the students and professors, who petitioned
first and then insurged for the liberty of the press.
The Austrian government discountenanced the
study of literature and philosophy. Scientific educa-
tion it, however, patronised ; bat the pursuit of science
can inspire the love of liberty ; for the study of medi-
cine and mathematics is not without philosophy. It
was the students in these sciences that led the Vien-
na,. ihaUrrectiun. The Atop:iglu deputies, Shen in

resistance to the court, and indignant at the dissolu-
tion of their Diet, furthered it; the success of the Pa-
risians gave courage and inspiration, and the deed
was done !
It is fortunate for order and for the speedy regula-
risation of the Austrian liberties that the estates
of Lower Austria had just opened their sittings. Ia
a former session they had made liberal demands,
which Prince MerrERNICH, to do him justice, had
held out some faint promises of gratifying. It is aleo
fortunate that it is the intelligent classes
which rose and which overcame. Fortunate. too,
that the military made no determined resistance ;
and lastly, it is fortunate that the Austrians retain
their hereditary respect for the person of their prince.
In Austria, moreover, the peasant class is not so un-
happy or unprovided. The revolution need not lead
to any great social changes, or to extravagant results,
at least in Austria Proper.
What may be the result in the outlying pro-
vinces is more uncertain. Bohemia, ripe for re-
volt, has a lower class of peasants and opera-
fives who, like the Galician', may be tempted to
indulge in the horrors of a servile war. But the most
momentous results will affect the political integrity
and force of the empire. By the mere fact of the
Vienna revolution, the Austrian empire falls asunder,
or subsides into a federalism which must paralyse its
military power. Hungary of coarse declares its in-
dependence. Lombardy with equal certainty ceases
to be Austrian. Italy will be abandoned to itself.
And Austria, or the great provinces of the Austrian
empire, must in self-defence re-link themselves to
Germany as a state, or as a closer confederation.
But the consequences of this stupendous event are
too many, too might, too complex to be discerned or
compassed at once. Ibere is food for endless specula.
lation and conjecture. We must be contented at the
first glance with signalising the most important fea-
tures of the movement, and the most striking results
likely to flow from it.

IT is the most unlucky of budgets this budget of
1848-9. At all points it is assailable ; its very parents
find themselves unable to say a good word for it.
They argue that it must be passed because it is there,
because there is no time to make another, and because
a budget of some kind or other must be voted. Their
whole time is taken up in apologising for its defects ;
now some substantial error (like the asking toomuch
income tax) is confessed ; anon it is to some blunder
in point of form that they plead guilty.
Last night Mr. WARD asked a vote of 43,000 seamen,
boys, and marines. Referring our readers for the present
to the debate which ensued upon Mr. 111:ME'S motion
to reduce the number to 30,000, we confine our atten-
tion to the officers and seamen composing the full
complements (marines excepted) of her MAJESTY'S
ships in commission. And we do this for the purpose
of driving in a little further a nail at which we began
to hammer yesterday.
Character is often said to be beet shown in trifles.
This is true of estimates as well as of men. There
are some curious minutia about the part of the navy
estimates for the year 1846-9, now under review,
illustrative of a tendency in the administrative de-
artments to which we yesterday directed attention.
They are not of much importance, in so far as the
amounts to which they relate are concerned ; but
they show how steadily our government (we embrace
under the phrase all ministries of every colour) stick
to their paint in sparing the higher ranks—the rela-
tions or dependents of the politically powerful—
whenever an effort is made to keep down the sum
total of estimates.

In the navy estimates of 1847-8 it was proposed
to keep on foot a force of 30,008 seamen; the num-
ber asked in 1848-9 is 30,037. But 17,634 able and
ordinary seamen were thought sufficient in 1847-8,
while in 1848-9 less than 18,149 will not
suffice. The Admiralty want this year 515 able
and ordinary seamen more than they did last year.
Yet, by economising in the article, officers, they con-
trive to ask in all only 29 men additional. When
we examine, however, the different classes of officers
in detail, we find the number of commissioned offi-
cers actually increased, though only by a trilling
sum. The number asked in 1847-8 was 4,629 ; for
1848-9 it is 4,632. But the sum total of petty offi-
cers is pared down without reluctance ; last year
7,554 was thought not too much ; but this year, al-
though both the commissioned officers and the com-
mon seamen have been increased in number, it is
thought that 7,039 petty officers will be sufficient.
Looking still more narrowly into the matter, we
find that even among the commissioned officers the
increase is chiefly, if not solely, among those of the
high class. Last year the flag-officers in commission,
and their retinue, were estimated at 163 persons ; this
year at 189. The number of captains (especially the
first class) is increased, and the number of command-
ers. But when we come as low in the scale as lieu-
tenants, we find that it is proposed to reduce their
number from 699 to 523.
Everywhere we find proofs of the pertinacity with
which the system is adhered to of pinching and paring
at the expense of the lower ranks and smaller salaries,
in order to avoid the neccbsity ofiucommoding the higher
ranks and larger salaries—in order, it possible, to
provide for men of this class by throwing some of
the others out of employment. Yet to diminish the
number of these junior commissioned officers and
petty officers who in the naval hierarchy form the
connecting links between the chief in command and
the body of the crew, is materially to endanger the
discipline and efficiency of a ship's company. it is as
if a waggon-maker should by dispensing with the use
of a sufficient number of nails, seek to make his

waggons more cheaply.
(Baring though this inveterate habit of jobbing be,
it is scarcely to be expected that it should excite a
very lively indignation in the House of Commons.
Indeed, notwithstanding the somewhat fretful interest
which we, in common with all taxpayers, take in
these discussions, it is not easy to be angry with
members for bringing listless minds to them. Year
after year they are made to feel that ministers having
once made up their minds as to the number of men
they want, trouble their heads little about a vote
of the House of Commons. As stated above,
the number of officers and ordinary and able
seamen asked in the estimates of 1847-8 was 30,008;
the number voted was 27,600. On the let January
last, the number of seamen actually borne on the
books was 31,77.5, or 4,275 more than had been
voted. The same thing occurred in 1846-7 : only
27,500 seamen were voted, bat on the Ist of January,
1847, there were 31,463, or 4,553 more than had been
voted, borne on the books. What is the use of con-
sulting the House of Commons about the matter, if
its decision is to be systA matically set at nought?

No rational or ever so liberal a person could desire
the state of things which prevails in Paris. It is
neither more nor less than the complete ascendaney
lof the lower orders over all others. But all animad-
version and censure are suspended on its being made
manifest that this ascendancy of the lower orders was
not of their eeekiug. The governing power dis-
gusted the middle classes ; which summoned their in-
feriors, the operatives, to aid them in flinging off the
yoke, and, when it was done, a provisional govern-
ment was named of men sympathising with the ideas,
and determined to act up to the republican spirit,
which animates the French masses. If the middle
classes, composing the National Guard, wished to have
protected the Chamber, to have had a regency, and to
have continued the old constitutional system in pre-
ferenee to the republic, they should have protested on
the 25th of February. They did no such thing ; they
submitted to the present Provisional Government,
knowing who had appointed it, and what was its
spirit. It is now too late, and most imprudent, to
make, as has been done, a tardy, partial, and ineffi-
cient protest.
Some people in England, and others in France,
seem to expect that the Provisional Government, born
as it has been, should content itself with putting the
great question to the French people of, will you be a
monarchy or will you be a republic, and that it should
abide tranquilly and impartially by the answer. Such
expectations denote very innocents and inexperienced
politicians. The immense majority of the French peo-
ple will be for either a monarchy or a republic, ac-
cording to the mode, the time, the enthusiaam, the
circumstances, under which the question is asked. If
a tame and timid bourgeois government ask the ques-
tion, the electors might vote in reply for monarchy.
And then, when salted which monarch, there might
be 50011, millions of voters for an Orleans, some mil-
lions for Henry V., and as many for a Bonaparte.
Some of the most monarchically inclined of French
dilemma admit, that to proclaim any prince would
be gird war. M. DUTEBOIEB D'EstraANNE, a most
modsrate, and eminent, and wealthy man, has plainly

said so in his address to the electors of his depart-
ment; the celebrated DI:PIN has said the same.
Uuder such circumstances, is it now so unfair, so
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unwise, or unpatriotic of the Provisional Government
to determine and declare that it will do its utmost to
secure the return of staunch republicans? It ap-
pears to us that they are warranted in doing so. The
Provisional Government cannot pretend to take the
place of the constitutional fiction of the monarch
who could do no wrong, and who,consequently, could
do nothing. They cannot be indifferent to the re-
sult of an election ; and if they pretended to be so
indifferent, who would believe them? It appears to
ns, therefore, that there is more honesty iu
LEDRI: ROLLIN'S peremptory order to his agents to
get republicans returned, by using all the influence
of government, than in M. Lawmen:en% pretending
that government is to stand neutral. A neutral go-
vernment in the present state of France is no govern-
ment. The gentlemen who sit at the Hotel de Ville,
and administer the affairs of France, are there by
the voice and at the bidding of the mob. The mob
is fiercely republican. And LAMARTINE has no busi-
ness where he is, if he be not frankly, and even vehe-
mently, republican. Whatever the moderates and
M. Lswassixe may d-, the republicans will use
their power and their effort to secure a republican
constitution. And the best thing that can be done
by and for all parties, is to let them make a lair trial
of that government.
One of the first requisites to a constitution and a
government in France, will be to shake off the dicta-
tion of an armed mob, to send the people back to
work, and to give security to property against plunder,
and to intelligence and freedom against atinrchy and
dictation. Let the republic and the republican govern-
ment try this. They,and we, may depend upon it that if
the republic, when established, cannot satisfy and dis-
perse the mob, or cannot put it down, the re-
pablic itself will fail, will vanish into smoke, and give
way to a military or other despotism. For no
government can exist in our days which is
but a permanent anarchy. The republicans
have now some excuse for keeping popular bands
together, and for being on the alert. The very prin-
ciple of their creed is questioned, the foundation stone
of their edifice threatened with removal. Let such
excuse be taken from them. Let them not be opposed
or alarmed. Let them have license and leisure to esta-
blish their system. The country will be very fortu-
nate if they succeed, and if, under any form, or at
any sacrifice, order and good government be restored.
If they fail, and fail notwithstanding general acqui-
escence and support, then, at least, the conclusion will
be arrived at that a republican constitution is not fit
for the French people. But it they fail without a fair
OW, and not from their own evident incapacity, bat
from the tricks and machinations of their foes; then
nothing whatever will have been learned or gained
by so much ruin and revolution, and each class of
society will continue hereafter, as before. to pursue
its chimaera, and to squabble and plot, one against the
other.
Without, therefore, setting up ourselves as repub-
licans, either practical or theoretic, we cannot but
think that the best thing for all parties in France
would be a frank trial of republican government, the
provisional rulers honestly abetting that form,and doing
their best, both in the elections and in the Assembly,
to make it work and prosper. For the government
of the mob, we have as unfeitrned an abhorrence as
any ; but to call the mob into political action one day,
and to hope to dismiss and allay it the next, is im -
possible. For the present, the Provisional Govern-
ment can do but what they are doing—obey its
humour, and sincerely at least, if not successfully,
endeavour to realise its dream and perform its behest.

GERMANY.

INSURRECTION IN VIENNA.

We announced exclusively yesterday, in the whole
of our impression, the overthrow of Prince Metternich
and the riot at Vienna which led to his resignation.
Our accounts then reached to the evening of the 13th.
They now extend to the 15th. As, however, we
were only enabled to give a short account of the man-
ner in which the desired reforms were obtained, we
will recapitulate a little.
On the 13th, the day of the opening of the legisla-
ture at Vienna, a large number of students, headed
by their professors, proceeded to the chamber, in order
to present a petition in favour of various reforms.
Immense crowds soon collected ; the military were
called out ; their muskets were loaded in presence of
the people, and extraordinary measures were taken to
prevent disturbances.
Soon after the opening of the Diet, Prince Monte-
cuoli and several of the deputies, accompanied by an
immense crowd, proceeded to the palace with the
address. The crush of spectators at the opening o
the Diet was enormous. A great number of well-
dressed people thronged the hall, exclaiming that the
petition of the estates did not go far enough. The
peasantry were crowding the streets, anxious to learn
" whether the constitution was ready."
Towards evening affairs became alarming; all the
shops were closed, the palace of the states was en-
tered and ransacked, and the arsenals were literally
besieged by the people. In the nick of time, how-
ever, the Emperor expressed his readiness to make
popular concessions, not, however, before numerous
persons were killed and wounded. The intelligence
that Metternich had resigned; that the two unpopular
archdukes, Lewis and Albert, had been disgraced—in
other words, deprived of their functions ; that the
ConntsKolowrath and Montecuoli had been entrusted
with the formation of a new ministry; that film ,y of
the press bad been conceded, and that a nati,nal
guard had been ordered to be organised—spread like
wildfire amongst the population (no longer the popu-
lace), and called forth the most extravagant demon-
, strations of joy. On the night of the 13th
and 14th sienna was brilliantly illuminated.
This peaceful revolution may be placed to the
credit of the Hungarian Diet and the students in-
Vienna. The resolution expressed by the former,
to separate from Austria if certain demands for reform
were not complied with, caused intense excitement in
Vienna, and gave rise to a similarly energetic demon-
stration. The Emperor has given permission to the
students to take arms, with the view of preserving
public tranquillity, and has, moreover, appointed a
committee, composed of the mt mbers of the states and
of the class of citizens, fur the purpose of deliberating
on the measures necessary to be taken under existing
circumstances. Prince . etternich has taken to his
heels. It is said that his residence on the Rennweg
has been demolished.

According to some accounts during the insurrection
19 persons were killed and 14. wounded. According
to others the number slain on the 13th amounted to
nearly 300 persons.
On the 14th all the troops (says the Zeitunyshalle
of Berlin), received orders to quit the city. The
" disgraced " Duke Albert was commander-in-chief
of the army. Ten students were killed by the
military. On the 14th perfect order prevailed in
Vienna. No pillage. Business was wholly suspended
on the Bourse on the 14th.

me following proclamations have been issued in the
course of the day :
Cabinet Order of his Imperial Royal Majesty the Lord
High Chaneeller.—We have sanctioned the establishment
of a national guard for the maintenance of the legal peace
and order of the capital, and for the protection of persoLs
and property, under the guarantees which property
.and
intelh,gence offer to the state, and have, at the same time,
appointed Ernest Count Von Hoyoe • chief ranger and
Lieut. Field Marshal, a commander of the national guard,
for the organisation of which the necessary prelinnuaries
will be adopted. We expect that from. the devotedness of
our subjects that the confidence which we have displayed
by this act will be fully responded to by them.—Vienna,
March 14, FZILDINLND."
The Wiener Zeilung of March 15, the official organ,
has the following :
His Imperial Royal Majesty has been pleased to theree the
abolition of the essaorship, sad the speedy promulgation at
a law on the prem.—JOHANN TALATIICO, Baron vox
OUTIETICL, Royal Imp. Government, President of Lower
Austria.—Vienna, March 14,1 i I .
The Austrian %server of the 14th states that the
following rescripts were issued :
I. The present events affect the weal of the state, as well
as that of the city of Vienna. They demand • deliberate
development, and hence it is of the utmost importance to
the interest of the community and of individuals,
that quiet, order, and security be maintained. The
public good calls for this, and the how= of the gal-
lant and patriotic inhabitants of Timms sismend iR To this
end his Majesty has been ruinously *sped to grant the
arming of the students, and has expensed his espectation
that all the burgher corps will strengthen It as much as pos-
sible, and co-operate energetically for the maintenance of
peace. These ma'am, these wholesome endeavours of the
students and burghsn, must, however, be actively supported
by all the other inhabitant' of Vienna. Therefore, every
Ina 4 of a family sad muter of a heatelield, all proptio9o

of manufactories or workshops, are called upon to keep at
home their families and dependents, in so far as they do not
belorg to the regularly armed inhabitants, to obviate the
increase of the crowds in the public streets, whereby the
desirable state of things is impeded, or perhaps retarded.
The authorities and the respectable inhabitants of Vienna
will spare no exertions. They reckon upon the general con-
surreme of all Vienna.—Jousnx TALLINN°, Baron Vox
Creartirrtcs, &o.—Vienne, March 14, 1848.
11. His Majesty the Emperor was plemed to grant some
petitions laid before him relative to tie exciteents of
theyes.
terday, in the arm hope, and in full relianmce, upon
assurance' givenbint by the statm, the burghere,and the audi
sacs senate, that peace and order should be re-established
by them without the further intsrventiou of the military.
To-day petitions are again presented, and the same usu.
rants reiterated, although the state of things is m re un-
quiet than yesterday. The stability of the throne would b
e.
e
shaken were his Majesty again to yield to delusive hope
The seasonable arrangements which his Majesty is at this
moment considering, cannot posribly be matured so long as
this excitement lasts, still less can they be brought into ac-
tion : hence it is the interest of the petitioners to conduct
themselves peaceably, and thereby accelerate the period of
their being granted. Firmly resolved not to endanger the
dignity of his throne, his Majesty has committed the re-
establishinent and maintenance of peace and order to his
Highness Field-Marshal Alfred Count Von Windisehgratx,
and to subject to him all civil and military authorities, with
full powers for the execution of the same. His Majesty ex-
pect, from the inviolate faith and loyalty of be burghers,
that :hey, conjointly with his valiant troops, will aid these
endeavours for the restoration of public peace with all their
pioNOII.—JONI•NN TALATZLO, Baran VON GZEITIETICZ, &c.
—Vienna, March 14,1848.
Up to the evening of the 15th Vienna remained
tranquil, and the concessions granted by the Emperor
seemed to satisfy the people. ']'he burghers and
students, however, still retained their arms.
Priam Metternich and Archduke Louis of Austria
are reported to have passed through Breslau in
guise.

Some disturbances have taken place at Prague.
There is no additional intelligence from Freeburg.
In several parts of German Luxembourg the
French republican flag has been hoisted, and the
authority of the Grand Duke (King of Holland) set

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It appears by the Cologne Gazette of the 19th, that
the recent disturbances in Berlin were of a more seri- 1
oas nature than was at first imagined. In the Brii- i
derstrasse the pavement was taken up and tiles were
flung down from the roofs of houses on the military.
It was reported on the 15th that the citizens would be
armed in order to keep order, rice the military, whose
late excesses have produced die greatest exaspera-
tion. fhe inhabitants of the Voigtland, the Whitecha-
pel of Berlin, are in a state of the greatest excite-
ment. About 10 p.m. (on the 15th) several collisions
took place between the military and the populace,
and a considerable number (nicht unbedentende
Menge) were killed or wounded ; in fact, some fifty
are set down in those categories.
Intelligence from Berlin of the 16th inst. states
that thirteen persons were killed by the military.
Great numbers of the military were seriously. bat not
mortally wounded. The deputies of the city have
urged the government to provide employment for the
operatives, and to grant liberty of the press. They
have also recommended the formation of a civic corps
for the restoration of public tranquillity.
The Silesian Gamete states that the arming of the
people Volksteewaffnung) will shortly take place in
Prussia.
A large quantity of gold passed through Breslau
from Warsaw on the 14th, in order, it is said, to be
expended in buying up, on the Berlin bourse, the
Polish Pfandbriefe, which are now at such a low
quotation on the Berlin bourse.
Serious riots occurred at Erfurt on the 14th inst.
The house of an obnoxious brewer was totally de-
stroyed, and the houses of other persons were greatly
injured or pillaged. The military at last fired on the
crowd, and ten persons were killed. Several colli-
sions with the military took place, and numerous
persons were wounded. The Deutsche Allgcmeine
Zeitung of Leipsic contained the next day a pro-
clatnation, recommending the citizens of Erfurt to
form " a protection union," in order to maintain tran-
quillity. As the Schutzvereine will have the appoint-
megt of their own officers, they may be set dawn as
national or civic guards.
Some large factories in the Rhenish provinces have
ceased working. One at Sterkrade has dismissed
400 men.

According to intelligence from Munich up to the
15th inst., that capital is not only tranquil, but its
inhabitants seize every occasion to give an enthu-
siastic reception to their sovereign, now more
popular than ever.
About 200 individuals, after destroying property
belonging to the Prince of Leiningen, entered
Buchen (in Baden) on the Bth inst., set fire to one
of the public offices, and proceeded to Ernithal,
where similar excesses were committed.
All the civic authorities of Hanover have resolved
to subscribe to the address of more than a thousand
of their felloweitiz.ens in favour of the convocation
of a German parliament, and of various reforms.
Serious disturbances have taken place at Prague.

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NAPLES, MARCH 4.
The news of the French revolution arrived here on
the 6th, ntarly at the same moment that Mehemet Ali en.
tend the port, and that salutes were firing in his honour.
During the day Lords ,pinto and Napier hail a confer
once, it was reported, on board the Trafalgar. The King
held a council in the evening, which was protracted to • late
hour, even till after midnight,
and Lord Minto was present.
The result of the discussions we have seen to some extent
this morning. A new ministry is at length formed •_—The
Duke di Serrocapriola, President of the Council; the Baron
D. Cesidio-Bonaani, Ecclesiastical Affairs ; Prince Dentice,
Finance; Prince di Torella, Agriculture end Commerce;
Cay. D. Francesco Paolo Boeelii, for the Interior Prince
di Carieti Foreign Affairs; Colonel I). Vincenzo deali
Liberia, War and Marine ; Councillor of State D. Giacomo
Savarese, Public Works; Cay. D. Carlo Poerio, Public In-
struction; D. Aurelio Saliceti, Grace and Justice. D.
Giacomo Tofano, Prefect of Police, is named Director-
General of the Police in place of Cay. D. Carlo Poerio, pro-
c-
moted to be Minister Secretary of State for Public Instru
tion; I). Raffaele Carforti, Attorney-General in the grand
court f Nles, has been named Prefect of Police in place of
D. Giaocomapo Torino, promoted to be Director of the General
Police.
Lord Minto to leave immediately for Sicily, with carte
blanch* to arrange matters. As you may imagine, great
agitation prevailed here on the arrival of the news from
France. The effect of the news on the bourse was immense.
The Five per Ceuta. fell from 971 to 88; to-day they are
quoted it 92. The Four per Owe. fell tram 93 to Si.
They, in 'like manner, have tisen ;our points.
The negotiations for the government loan are kept open
till the end of the month.
Mensignore Codes, the notorious Confeesor of the
saKid in
heg,
is at last in the pri,on of San Francesco, whence it in
will be sent off to Trieste. The story of his arrest I have
heard given ea such, that leaving Somme he went to Castel-
amare, in order to occupy apartments which he had in a
monastery there. The superior refused him admission,
whereupon he wet immediately to the bisho to complain.
The liishop declined interference, and sentmess
age to
the National Guard to say that Mon.ignore Codes was
there, upon which he was arrested and sent off to San Fren-
etic° at Naples. Other accounts say that on Friday night
he, as well as Gomel' Nunziante and Viall, bad interviews
• - ' e King, and that Monsignore was sent off to Castela-
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with the King, and that Monsignore was Will M. •,.. vm.a.,....-
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I. I mare, where a steamer was waiting at his disposal ; that the I;
affair transpiring, some of the National Guard went to the
Prefect of Police and compelled him to issue an order for his
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arrest, and the consequence was such as I have told you, h
binasignore is in prison. b
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The royal prince, just born, has been baptised by the b
mane of Guieeppe Maria, Conte di Lucena.
li has taken a house. The ruche looks ex. t
treinely ill, and is so feeble that he cannot valk. r
' A steelier will be sent off instanter to Messina, and also
to Palermo, to announce the power conferred upon Lord
1, Miato.
The first house Mehemet Ali entered in Naples we. that
of Messrs. Igguldon and Co. English bankers, lie was
taken into it in a sedan, to be free from the crowd who were
pressing round him, and here he waited till a carriage was
brought round to convey him to his own house.
t I /77 BIM icIiDAY, MAICH. B.—Lord Minto left last night with
1 arte tiancAs for Palermo. The fleet also left.
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AMERICA.
. , 'f
he New York Herald, of the 29th ult., says:
1 Tke intelligence from Washington, respecting the treaty
I
I , , with Mesico, renders the prospect of the ratification of that
, , instrument, in its present shape, by the American sutho-
-1 rities, more doubtful than ever. Much of the favour with
which it wee at the first blush, ressrded, has disappeared
epos a careful consideration of its provisions, and, to judge
l from our latest information from the seat of government,
peace with Mexico may yet be more distant than many
suppose.
i 1 CINOINNkTI, Feb. 28.—The steamboats Hendrik Hudson
end Circassian, lying at the Wharf at Maysville, fully freighted
for New Orleans, were entirely destroyed by fire. The
May" tile wharf-boat was also burned. The fire broke f
the con-
out
, • at midnight, 27th, and so rapid was the progress
ilegration that four persons were unable to swipe, and
ferished in the flames. The boats and cargoes are a total
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