The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-13 00:00:00

BELGIUM

The Belgium Minister of the Interior, M. P. de
Decker, has addressed a letter to the Heads of the
Universities of G.and and Liege, in which he
enjoins the Professors to abstain from all direct
attacks against the essential principles of the
religions professed in Belgium. He observes that
it is not necessary that the professors should treat
irritating and controverted questions in their
lectures, but that if ever they are led to deal with
such delicate matters, it should be done with
reserve. The Minister observes, in the course of
his letter, that he is bound to take care that the
teaching of the universities shall be such as may
gain the confidence of families, and he repeatedly
declares that he will discharge his duty with

firmness

THE AUSTRIANS IN ROMAGNA,

The following letter has been published in a
eotemporary:—
Sir,—When at the Paris Congress mention was
made of the painful state of affairs in Italy, you and
the English press spoke in favour of that unhappy
country ; and you did the same in the name of
humanity on the occasion of my flight from the
castle of Mantua. Tendering you my sincere
thanks, T at the same time beg you will bring under
the notice of the public the persecutions and
cruelties committed every day by the Austrians on
individuals that are not Austrian subjects, and in
a country where Austria has no right to be, viz.,
the Papal States, governed for the last seven years
by three masters—the Pope, the Emperor of Aus-
tria, and the Emperor of the French.
The letters which I receive from my friends are
full of accounts of the arbitrary acts daily com•
mitted by those powers on the population of that
unfortunate country. The following is what they
write to me from Romagna, one of the most
enlightened provinces of Italy .
On the night of the 3rd of January, 1855, Count
Pasolini, a young man of thirty, was arrested at
Cesona. The soldiers entered his palace through
a window, which they burst open with axes, and on
the same night he was conducted to Bologna, and
lodged in the prison of St. Agnese, where for
several months he was not permitted to have any
books or light. llis mother, who is the sister of a
gentleman holding a high appointment under the
Austrian Government, could only with difficulty
obtain permission to visit her son a year after his
confinement. fie has now been in gaol twenty-
i the thatg beingen town twenty-
one months ; his health his gone, he having had
two serious illnesses during this time; and he has
not yet undergone any examination, nor has he
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the Excise-office, arrested Artidoro Bazzacchi, one
of the clerks, whom they took at once to Bologna,
where he is still languishing in a dungeon.
On the 15th of January, 1855, th 6 Austrians
arrested at Bologna Alessandra Castegnoli, a
student at that university, and bastonaded him
twice, with several other students.
In the present year they arrested Baratelli, a
merchant ; Bezzi, a silversmith ; Talentoni, an
independant gentleman ; and Tamourini, a post-
office clerk. They endeavoured also to arrest at
Cesona the brothers Finali, one an advocate and
the other a surgeon ; also Monaresi, di Poggi, and
Valzania, landowners, but they all succeeded in
escaping into Piedmont.
In 1864, twenty-eight persons were condemned
without any trial to ten, fifteen, twenty years'
imprisonment, and amongst this number there was
a lady, named , ena,rdi, belonging to a highly res•
pectabie family. None of these sentences were made
known, nor any reason given why these unhappy
beings were condemned. Even mention of the above

CaP°
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Town to the 2nd August, inclusive. W!) ,cite,
following,
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the Caffre border. Three posts have since, degree
from the frontier, without in the slightee" gel
confirming that rumour, or even alluding "1;00 s
such an alarm. There must, therefore, have origi'
mistake somewhere. The rumour probabilY taken'
nated in some collisions that have recent'Y Fro'
place beyond the Orange River between ths
arr
State and a native chief named Wietze, s 100
which is not yet settled, and which it wssarioo,
at one time might lead to something Inera
between the State and the powerful 0--tioss
the Basutus, Moshesh. Peace between, both'
two parties is the paramount interest.°l4.deet
Of this we have no doubt, both the rre.,:010111,
Boshoff and the Chief Moshesh are Pe":„,-tirevi
aware and convinced ; but it miry not be `jtber'
so with some of the peoplQ, under thou, enf'retie°
exist, unhappily, some grounds of dissatito-rito4
respecting boundaries. which the British ant'iot
left undetermined when her Majesty's $ll-000..`:,
was withdrawn from that quarter. Therl on'
to
no interference now on our part, unless bou, Pr or
agree to submit the question to the Govern
the Queen as umpire, as England and the to tbe
States of America did on a similar oceseifilbe be
King of the Netherlands This ivoul,"„011,
safest and cheapest course, provided bow rtt,
bind themselves to abide by the awardi'd
between them at present would be Met' ef
i
tive, and could only end in the total ruin 410 v
to the a
of the parties, by no means Ram'
either."