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LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26.

M. Gutzor is certainly a great minister, and
will leave a great name. Ile has now reigned
longer than any of his cotemporarics, has overcome
more difficulties, defied and defeated more enmi-
ties, and accomplished more political ends than
any of them can boast. He has placed France, we
think, in a wrong position, dangerous and critical for
the future; but of this we cannot as yet judge, till it
be seen how he intends to extricate himself, and to
carry the country through its future perils.
But it is in the mar.agement of domestic parties,
and the maintenance of his position and strength, that
M. Guizor has shown most skill, and been re-
warded with most good fortune. A year since, M.
Otlizor'e chance of retaining office was small in the
extreme. Unpopular with the masses, not altogether
contenting the court, he had, even amongst the Con-
servatives, a large number of persons discontented
with him, and jealoes of him. He was not of their
clique, and their evident purpose was to get rid of
him. With this view, his foes in the cabi-
net, and behind tho minister:al benches, co-
quetted with the two very opposite parties of
the Liberals and of the Church. To the Liberals they
said, We are not so English as M. Gutzor, we
are independent and ready to be national and spirited
in our foreign policy; nay, we would not mind quar-
relling with England to please you." To the church,
and the church party they said, " M. Geizar is a
Protestant—M. Ovum . is a latitudinarian —he leans
to England and to Prussia, and favours the Libem's
in thcir views of the hierarchy and education." lo
the court they said, " M. GVIZOT is a minister the
, lives from day to day. He came in merely to allay
popular effervescence and effect a reconciliation with
England. Ile has ovi rdone this task, and he
is now good for nothing. And you see he has no
parliamentary influence to procure dowries and
dotations."
M. GUIZOT was sore pressed last autumn by this
secret hostility. And he certainly has taken the
field against it in the most able and successful way.
We characterise his conduct solely with regard to
its effect upon domestic party. In order to refute the
accusation that be was too English, M. GL IZOT turned
round at once, and entered into the king's views
respecting Spain ; nay, went beyond them, and dis-
pat:hed instructions to Count BRES,ON to carry
every aim and every disputed point at all
hazards, per
,/as et nefas, by violence, or money, or
falsehood. If England was affronted, so much the
better for M. Guam.; for this silenced his ene-
mies, took their great theme out of their mouths, and
stamped M. GUIZOT as a statesman win) could ha as
effective and successful in triumplf,zg over England,
as in cajoling her.
Wu need not say how fully the plan succeeded,
and how completely those enemies of M. GUIZOT,
who pretended to be more spirited in foreign policy
than he, had their months stopped. The minister
soon had a striking proof of this. M. THIERS and
his friends moved forward, represented GUIZOT as the
foe of peace, the author of a breach with England,
and the maladroit disturber of the accord between
the two nations and Spain. Had that portion of the
Conservative party, so long discontented with Guam,
supported M. TRIERS in this move, they would
have accomplished M. TRIERS' desire, and overthrown
the minister. It was PO near fulfilment, that every
one thought M. Guizor lost. But, at the eleventh
hour, the malcontent Conservatives rallied, and passed
a resolve at a meeting that they would support GUIZOT
in the Spanish business. M. TIMES was, of course,
obliged to retreat, and Gleizor became once more
master of his mutinous and irresolute soldiers.
Having thus broken and defeated the band of
jealous political rivals in his own conservative party,
the enemies next to be dealt with were the chart,;.
M. MARTIN nu NORD was the head or organ of this
party, and had strongly entrenched himself. He Wad
/Coeper of the Seals, and Minister of Public Worship.
He had the support of Marshal Soutr, who detests
GUIZOT, and also of the Minister of the Interior,
M. DUCHATEL. The Queen of the FRENCH, however
mild and good, and little interfering in politics, still
exercises a certain influence, which is ultra-pious.
And of this M. Menrie took advantage. The ultra-
Catholic party, thus headed and supported, took up a
position, if not right opposed to M. Gutzor, at least
on his flank, and menacing his every move.
Fortune enabled M. OCIZOT to rout this sacred
phalanx. How it was done, is known to all Paris.
It is perfectly well known that M. MARTIN, the
Keeper of the Seals, was caught in a company, and a
locality, little consonant either with his office, or with
his
.profession and practice of extreme piety. The
Parisians are indulgent. They might have pardoned
the escapade of a chancellor, bat when such habits were
sought to be redeemed by joining the public ceremony
of receiving on his forehead the ashes of penitence
on Ash Wednesday, the Parisians could stand it
no more : the public laughed through every muscle
and in every pore. It laughed till the court was
electrified, and the cabinet shaken. It laughed at
the priestly party and its chief, till the unfortunate
man, stricken first with moral, then with physical,
annihilation, shrunk into the grave from his shame.
All has contributed to the ascendancy of M.
GUIZOT. The religious
.party, of course, envoured
to repair the lose of their chief, by installing another
person, equally devoted to them, in the first seat and
ministry of justice. But NI. Gutzor would not per-
mit it : he insisted on giving the French great seal, as
we should call it, to one of his own attached friends.
M. Guizor is thus master of his cabinet. There is
none to resist him.
At the same time, M. GUIZOT condescended to re-
ward the mutinous conservatives by adopting and
employing one of their set. M. DE CARNE was one
of the most violent of the anti-English conservative
party : a clever man, who flattered the priests and the
liberals together, and persuaded both that they ought
to resuscitate the old Bnonapartiat ideas, in order to
humble England and l'rotestantism. This precious
head-piece NI. Gum' has covered with the -humble
laurels of a foreign under-secretaryship. Some
of our contemporaries have argued from it that M.
Gtneor's office is to become terribly anti-English.
It may be so. But M. GUIZOT is not to obey the in-
spirations of M. DE CARNE. On the contrary, he has
merely extinguished that red-hot patriot by giving
him his portfolios to empty and to fill.
M. Gutzor, we see, is coquetting with Austria, and
has jest allowed Prince METTERNICII to coerce the
poor Pope into clapping a censorship upon the Roman
press. Bat M.GUTZOT, we have no doubt, will make up
with England, if he can. That is the great aim—there
the great future triumph of his statesmanship. He
has tricked and beaten all domestic parties out of their
'vantage-ground. If, after having choused and dis-
graced us, English, in Spain, he can reduce us to
shake hands with him, then NI. GUIZOT will be
decidedly—what ho already . is very nearly—the
greatest and moat successful minister (moral or frank
we leave out of the question), that France has fur a
long time seen.

THE present is a trying moment for Ireland, for
the empire, and for the government. At this momeu
a great effort is making to stem the tido of Irish
pauperism, and prevent it from overwhelming and
over-running the resources of the empire with a ge-
neral inundation, which, if rot stopped now, must
cover the laud, and render it barren for at least two

the proprietors
years. If, of the 700,00 d labourers,
and occupiers of the Irish coil cannot ei.tploy at the
present moment cf seed-time one-eqh, th) n all hopes
of a harvest must be abandoned in Irela-d, and the
entire population must come upon the icsources of
the Eaglish, not for one year, but for .:3 itukfiaite
period.
Now, with all the willingness of the English to
&sr an inevitable burden, this they will not bear.
If they see that the soil of Ireland rem..•as
sated, whilst its population looks to En . sh wealth
and resources for permanent fod, this .entry will
not bear it, nor would any county bear nor dart
any ministry propose or conteeodate . Govern.
ment, thererme, in asking the lard.rds •1 occupiers
of the soil to employ and feed one-filth 'he labour-
ing population during the months of seteth.
makes of these classes a most moderate ) . nand ; aid
if government did not make this ,lanand, ' le English
tax-payer would have moat s)-rious e . ibr some.
thin more than discontent.
Si a have supported the Irish landlor,' . when raa
down in a mass. But the time is r.on. •.: when the
good mutt be divided from the bad, a,,ft • m the lat.
ter must be marked out for a peeatty ;h.- will come
little short of confiscatioa. We teem from our own
correspondent, and from the D t;146 lost,
that in most counties of Leinster and Uls...r the laid-
luids have come forward zealously, both ) give agri-
cultural empleyment, and to strop°. r the relict
committees ; but there remain dist: ic c!. I provinces
where su.li duties are shirked, where tie: entire pee.
santry will be flung upon the smp-pot., and where
the preparations for harvest will be confi-ed to stray
scratchnsof the ground, andtosmall p trt:..aael hiker.
One letter represents the farmers as anxious to get
labourerstor one or two days' work,—thetiigging of a
garden perhaps,und no more—flinging t.,, back im-
mediately upon, or rather avoiding to take them from,
the labour-rate. Such labourers ns wkislraw them-
selves are not allowed to came hoe% ue.a: the public
works, and hence their unwillingness to 9.):t them, or
seek employ elsewhere, which may be out tempo-
rary after all. It is a cruel cri)is far the poor, lane-
rant puma.
The contemplation of such a state of Pimp in Ire-
land has a very natural duet in urging pAiamett to
vote, almost unanimously, clause after ;:lause, the
Irish Poor-law. This at least puts the weight on
the land, enables the active and the le ient to taz
the lazy and the absent, and corn/Yds tit) Axivernment
its.ll to interfere iu districts mil:eh to.: landlords
desert. . . .

O'CoNYYLL rated a qumf, at
each a moment no one would tutertall . This was
the unfairness of Protestants outnumbcrirg Catholics on
boards of guardians. One of the redeemus:.: features of
these late distressed times has been the - ...pension of
religious animosities, the joint labours .4 the Pro.
testant and the Roman Catholic clergynr 7, the di&r-
enco of religion sunk in the connr.anity wanes
of the distress. Mr. Jour O'CONNELL r iy not have
gone out of his own way, but he ecru:. y went eat
of cv..,y one elst's, in lugging such a cji.• iion forthto
the attention of parliament, and pr..— '.ug it to a
division. . _

From this, end from several expressin!.s of Mr. J.
O'CONNELL'S speech, it would stem tb t the Irish
Party is going to pieces—that the Repeler and the
Orangeman have not found the advant.c•res expected
from their temporary union. The foot law, whirls
the league was destined to defeat, has over-ridden
them both most triumphantly. And, indeed, as
things turn out, the Irish landlord parts l.as to frank
government for its great forbearance mu: concessions
to men, who so sorely tried its temper and patience.

WiTneur intending anything disrespectful to the
occupants of pr&iissorial chairs, it may be argtud
that museums and libraries are, ate:- ^ll, the ben
universities. In this age of universal reading and
teaching. the elements of science aro attainable by
many who never enter the walla of a college. And
when once a young man has mastered tl." outlines of
systematic science—has learned to appreciate the
utility of system in the prosecution of hnowled.,e—
there is no better method of completing Lis education
than by turning hint loose in a good library cr
museum to browse at will. }recall there store Ls mind
with facts, and will be taught to estimate !heir relative
value correctly by the experience of real life ; whether
he enters it in one of the old recognised proftesions, or
in that youngest and most anomalous of professions—
literature.

That a conviction to this ett.ct is ling ground
appears from the accounts of the British Museum,
annually laid before parliament. Those for tl:c year
1840, which have just been presentee., show that
whereas the visits made to the readiug-r .oral, for the
purpose of study or research, did not exceed 1,980
n 1810, they amounted in 1816 to 66,78'. The visit.
ants to the reading-rooms consist chiefly of lit. ratears
' par metier: so any one who will take troutle to
compare the current popular literature of the ch•y, at
the former period, with the present, may be able to
appreciate the influence of these visits upon it. The
improvement—the higher average of accuracy and
extent in regard to information, and earreetnems in
point of taste—which characterises the current
literature of 1847, as compared with that of 1810, is
admitted on all hands. And this improvement is
but a reflex of that n bleb has taken place in the
intellectual tastes of the general public.
The increased use of the Museum by r.rtists has by
no means been co-extensive with that we have been
noticing in men of letters. The visits b. the reading-
rooms for purposes of study or research were, in
1830, about 31,000; in 1846, they were not
far short of 67,000 ; the amount had more than
doubled in the interval. The visits of artists to the
galleries of sculpture for purposes of study, about
1,938 in 1831, were only 4,124 in 1818. The visits
to the print-room, about 4,400 in 1832, were only
4,390 in 1846. In some measure at le.,st the differ-
ence may be attributed to the greater completeners of
the library when compared with the collections of
art. The library of the British Mnseum is far from
being complete ; there are numerous lat-,wle in it mat
discreditable in the national library of so wealthy,powerful, and intellectual a country as Great Britain.
But rc any departments of literature are richly supplied.
The collections of art on the contrary, are for the
purposes of the student of art altogether incomplete.
Treasures of sculpture are there, unmatched in any
other collection ; but for the artist will would form
his taste and perfect his knowledge, the gallery of
casts at Dresden affords a much more useful school.
It is complete ; it was formed by an artist bent upon
mastering his art, and as an instrument to that end ;
whereas the fragmentary British collection has crept
together under the desultory efforts of eblettonti, bent
upon acquiring something to brag of. In the print.
room matters are still worse ; the collection does not
contain a satisfactorily complete series of any one
school—scarcely of any one master.
We regret to observe that the report of the progrir
made in cataloguing and arranging the collections in
the Museum during 1846 scarcely warrants an expee-
tation of any speedy increase of efficiency in the
library department. Though far from sympathising
with the personalities levelled against one of the hbre-
rims by Sir HARRIS NICHOLAS, in the pamphlets he
discharged against the Museum library sometime sr,
we felt that in his criticism upon the cataloguing aF
rangements the knight had hit upon a sore point. The
new catalogue has been projected upon a mod mes-
prehensive and luminous model, but the undertalong
is so colossal that faint hopes are tutorials'
of its being available till the third generation from the
present. Already some twenty bulky volumes stand
upon the shelves, but they do not extend beyond the
letter A. It does not appear from the present re-
port that the B volumes are yet ready to take their
place beside them : a considerable part of last year's
activity seems to have been spent upon re-entries and
additional entries in the volumes already completed.
There is too much of the dilettanti spirit in this. The
functionaries prosecute their labours with enthasianin,
blessed in the employment, and by no means anxious
that it should leave an end. They forget that a cata-
logue is meant to be used, and that the visitors to the
reading-room are often at fault because it is wean
plete. A much less ingenious and ientific catakre,
if finished now, would be worth the meet exquisite
the wit of man can devise, if it i, not to advance more,
rapidly than that which is now in the progress
compilation.

Our Paris despatches of Wednesday contain nothing
of general interest. The cabinet and its friends it!'e
thrown into visible alarm by the check sustained in
the election of M. de Mallcvdle to the vice-presideneY
of the chamber. The truth is, the conservative pall
is split into fragments, the cohesion of which is fnul
and precarious, and they become detached by the

most trifling political collision. The alarm is accord-
ugly sounded by the official organ ; and those who
share, or expect to share, the leaves and fidies of
ministerial patronage, are put upon their good
hhayMnr.
The King, as we stated in our correspondence of
ceeterday, went on Monday en an excursion to Fon •
lainbleau; but returned suddenly and unexpectedly
nest morning. This counter-movement was ascribed
to the intelligence of the defeat of the ministry in the
chamber. A report was spread upon the Bourse on
Tuesday afternoon that the ministry intended to
make a cabinet question of the first vote on the project
of electersl rcfotm now 1:r. fore the chamber.
hn Patric ann.mnees that the Duke de Gleteksberg,
km Secretary el' Legation at Madrid, has been nomi-
nated Minister Plenipotentiary at that court, not-
withstanding tne opposition of Count Bresson to his
appointment. This measure is attributed in Paris to
tile influence exercised by Queen Christina, and the
advice of M. lsturitz.
Letters received at Anemia, say that the Greek
government is determined to resist the claim of the
Porte for an apology to M. Museums. Two
despatches from Vienna were received at Athens,
vhich gave some hope of the termination of the affair
in a satisfactory manner for the Greek government.
Advises received in Paris from Switzerland, sex,
that a rupture between Piedmont and Austria Was
become inevitable and that all the movements of the
Austrian troops indit ate this. The Valteli•te will be
occupied to keep up the communications with Monte
Stelvict.

The Madrid mails of the 18th and 19th were re-
ceived in Paris on NVednet.dw.
The Serrano affair N% 9/ still without gelation. That
senator kept up the semblance of concealment, and
the ministry recoiled from the danger of bringing
him is trial. The inspection of troops which was to
have been confided to him was given to Gen. Blazer.
The Miniater of Commerce and Public Instruction
had infarined the Political Ctief of Oviedo that the
Queen had confirmed the concession of the railway
tram 5.,1111 di Longres to Gijon and Villa de Vicosa,
a well as to the line from Barcelona to Mataro.
It was nported that the cabinet had renounced
the intention of raising the loan authorised by
In the
sitting of Congress of the 18th, M. Cortina
envied, in vain, to obtain leave for M. Olozaga to
plead his own cause; the Puritans and the Mode-
rados ennenrred in rejecting this pr Tosition.
El 11,11.7) says that the miniseers had not seen the
Queen for two days, but that, on the evening of the
18th, she transacted some ordinary business with
theta, all referen.:e to the personal affairs of General
Serrano being i.appressed.
On the msrning of the 18th, Mr. Bulwer had a long
private conference with the Queen, the subject of
which did nut transpire.
Oa the whole, it appears certain that her :Majesty
and her cabinet urn upon the most unsatisfactory terms,
and that the ministry only hold their offices by dint
of the majority they have obtained in Congress.

ROME, MARCH 18.

The Austrian ambassador appears to have recon-
sidered the matter of his threatened departure, and,
mach to the chagrin of the public here, has chosen to
remain. Some compromise was immediately sus-
pected to have taken place, and some retrograde
movement cm the part of the papal cabinet was anti-
cipated; nor tuts the alarm without foundation, as the
events of the last few days have given evidence. On
Tuesday an toilet came out suddenly, and took every
one by surprise: a heavy stamp tax is thereby laid on
sm N EWS2A PERS! and a rigid censorship is announced,
under terms of apparent liberality. There is some
laudatory phraseology about the press in general, of
which popes and bishops are stated to be, if not the
inventors, at leant the principal promoters ; the
edict gees on to talk of, even, Tionesta
libertd Bella stamps," but it only crowns the vic-
tim with a few flowers of speech previous
to immolation. There eau be no mistake about it.
Austria has obtained the suppression of public opinion
in the journals of Rome, the only free utterances in
the whole Peninsula: and Cardinal Girzi has sold his
country, and the fair prospects of Italy, for a grim
smile from the idiot Vandal at Schiinbrunn.
That the Secretary of State alone is to blame in
this foul concession, is the opinion dell Rome. The
Pope is supposed to have been kept in ignorance sf
the intended blow, and hence the firm determination
oil the part of the public not to submit to this return
of old tyranny. A public meeting of the proprietors,
editors, and printers of the 16 journals published in
this city, was held yesterday. at the office of the
Ce!emporanco, end it was unanimously resolved, that
" single newspaper should be published in Rome
wail the revocation of the. of ensice edict." The Mar-
quis of Azelio attended, and spoke in indignant
terms of the servile act of the government, as did
Men". Gazzols, with Professors Mazi and Gigli,
editors of th.s Cobonporaneo: Professor General',
editor of the Saggia'ore (Essayist) ; Doctor Ponpili,
of the Fanfulio ; Pinto, of the Polka Cerotti, of
the Giarispoolenza ; and Professor Morelli, of the
Boman Advertiser. An energetic address to the
Pontiff was resolved on, and received thirty
signatures of editorial representatives on the spot.
To-day an adjourned meeting takes place, and is
going on while I write ; a crowd of upwards of three
hundred printers, with their wives and children, are
about to march up to the Quirinal palace ; and such
an " agitation" prevails as no one could have fore-
seen, in a country so newly initiated in the blessings
of freedom.
I send you the original of this precious edict. I
feel each a loathing at the sight of the disgraceful
document, that I cannot bring myself to translate it.
The copies affixed as usual about Itome have been
all torn down during last night ; and some supposed
emissaries of Austria have torn off the Papal
escutcheon from the Post-office, in order to mix up, if
possible, the fair fame of Pius with that of the offend-
ing Gizzi.
I have confidence that our sovereign will instantly
revoke this blundering act of his minister. The press
of Europe is, after all, the main support of Pins and 1
of his reforms. Of this I have reason to know, that
his Holiness is fully aware, and that no churchman
has so keenly appreciated that mighty modern revo-
lution
through which the pulpit itself has been eo
effectually superseded by the printing machine. The
only result of the edict of yesterday (which may, if
not annulled, prove as disastrous as the Jesuit Letel-
lief, revocation of the Edict of Nantes) would be the
circulation of clandestine publications like the
" Sentinella del Campidoglio," of which I spoke in a
previous despatch, besides a host of irreligious broad-
sheets printed in Switserland, and smuggled, during
Gregory's sway, in thousands among the people.
My mind is so fell of this vexatious matter, that I
can scarce think of any news for you. I may men-
tion, however, that since the public holding of crimi-
nal courts (a gracious reform of our new monarch),
the able Irish barrister, Mr. Whiteside, Q.C., has
been a constant attendant on the sessions, and, I
trust, on his return, he will give you the benefit of
his experience in Homan law as laid down by Bartell,
our "Coke upon Littleton." Prince Borghese has shut
up his splendid gallery, and discharged all the
eastodes thereof, because some unscrupulous amateur
of the stiff school of art has helped himself to a
valuable specimen of Pietro l'erugino. Accounts
from Florence represent the Grand Dale as affrighted
beyond measure at the freedom of public opinion in
the Roman press, and he, doubtless, aided Austria in
getting the new edict from Gizzi. Every southern
and northern despot feels that the battle of human
progress is to be fought at Rome, and we all feel the
truth of that notion. Here the banner of reform must
be unfurled to rally the millions of hereditary bonds-
men. Signfer hie statue sign=! hie optima mane-
idel us. ( VideLiTY.)

FRANCE. SECRET NOBLESSE IN PARIS. --
Some time before the death of M. Martin (du Nord), there
*a, a tgort that he had been made a Count. It was even
loPPeeed that this title of nobility was • calming draught,
11000 in ertremis to the ex-keeper of the seals, to make up
for the loss of his health. This supposition was erroneous;
now certain that M. Martin was mado a Count
11'0 years since ; but he did not dare to wear
11,3 feathers of nobility in public. But this is
not all ; there are, at the present moment, a
considenhl number of counts marquises, and even
dukes of more or Ices recent creation, of whom no one
4'.kre. All these nobles in pea* arc awaiting same fa-
!9_ urAlc occasion to display their nobility to the public.
In one can now feel sure that he has not one of these
'TIP Of nobility among his friends or relations here,
won have not tho courage to inform their friends of it, but
blush at their own foolery, and dare not wear the tinsel they
lived after. Not only are scent nobles created in our days,
,
ndrancement is {siren in this unknown order. M. de

Salvandy gloried in the title of Count ; but, on the day that
a marquis entered into his family, the title of Count
vanished, and he affected It singelar simplicity, by omitting
the title of Count before his signature. This is now
explained. M. de Salvandy dial not think he could
remain count, with a marquis far his son-in-law ; he has
been created duke, and impatiently awaits the day when he
may display his new bearings to the public gaze. Such at
I least was the report current at the ch ember on Tuesday.
M. Lacave-Laplange, who stuck up for the title of " Excel-
lency " the other day, was jokingly called " Marquis du
Deficit." But perhaps ef. . Lecaeo-Lsplagne is one et the
new-baked dukes—at all events, he dmenes to be one.
BELGIUM. —NAmtIi..—FANATICtSII AND NiVR-
DER.—In our payee of Wednesday wo gave an 'teen:lnt of a
strange murder, of which wo were not able to exeleia the
motives and circumstances. A young Count Likekeake
entered a village church near Namur and shot his two seders
while they were engagtd in their devotions befere a crucifix.
We now read, in a Brussels paper, that the only twelve for
this dreadful crime wits an insane fete.tieism. The presence
walked all night after conunittiug the manta., and boasted
of what he had done to a peuant whom he mA on the seed.
On being arrested, he effered no resistance. He was token
to prison, and soon afterwards was confronted with the
c•rpees of his sisters, and asked if he recogtesed them, and
if he knew how they Mel been murdered. His reply was,
" Yes ; I slew them for their Pelatry." Ile then
went on to ascribe the deed to the overruling will
of hellct, quoted Deuteronomy to justify the act,
and declared that if hr had found his father and
mother perpetrating the sin of idolatry, ho would
have destroyed them without hsslt,,tion. He elm added
that the elder sister was shot dead at once ; but that he had
to fire twice upon the youeeer. Tito that shot inflicted no
mortal injury ; so he loaded his gnn and fired upon her
egain. On further examination it became, fully evident
that the prisoner was a monomaniac. His fixed idea was a
earions zeal for the restoration of the Hebrew mode of woe-
ship. Ile called himself a disciple of Moses, ar.d protested
azunst some annuitic.• h ft to his sisters as violations of the
Jewish law of primogeniture.
HANOVER, M.irxrt 16.—The Hanover Miwgen-
zeitung st:ecs that the government intend to new Ilarourg
and Gees; harbours into fie o parts, and to lay before the
roasting states general a pneect of law to th-t effect.—Miss
Caroline Herschel, who is living iu Hanover, attained her
Oeth year on the 16th inst. She has received a handsome
birth-day present front the King of Pruseia. She is in
the possessien of all her faculties, and still takes a lively in-
, terest in the: art which his gained immortal renown for her
great relative, Sir John Lierechel.
MUNICH, Mauer! IS.—ilia Majesty is not yet suffi-
ciently recovered from his recant iodispuitMe to leave his
nourtments, but he is better. Ne bulletins will be issued.
A law in favour of the press is shortly expected to be publialied.
—The king of Bavaria has appointed H. Abel, ex-minister
of state, ambassador to the c curt of Sardinia, and net to
Bra eels and the 'Lague so has been reported.
BRAZILS.—By tho Formosa, arrived at Liverpool
yesterday, we have received Merman= newspapers to the
15th ult. They coetain no news.