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The Constitution having declared that the -
bunals alone are compete it to judge of civil teat•
ten, can a suit for a divorce he instigated before
the Ecclesiastical Courts ? 41, Attaining the
competency of the Ecclesiastical Courts, ought not
they, according to the Constitution, follow the civil
lows with regard to the procedure ? The Petition
of the advocate has been ►eferred to the Committee
of the Legislation cf the Cortes.
The Archbishop of San Jago has published a
pastors! letter, in which he says, " Think not, my
dearest brethren, that the abolition of the Tribunal
of the Inquisition has abolished the prohibition of
reading the impious and scandalous books marked
in the index. The power of prohibiting the read--
ing of books belongs to the Pope and to the Bi-
shops, they had•delegated it to the Inquisition, but
they now resume the exercise of their right. Reid
not then, my dearest brethren, those books that
breathe of heresy, that revile the clergy, or calum-
niate the priests. Nor read those papers which ca-
lumniate your fellow-citizens." In the same ins-
toml letter, the Archbishop prohibits the curates
from explaining the Constitution from the pulpit.
" Confine yourselves," lie says to them, " to re-
commending obedience to the laws, and to causing
it to he observed, that the Constitution proclaims
our holy religion to be the only one admitted in
the kingdom."
It has been proposed in the Cortes to demand
from the Ministers some explanations of the ex-
penses required by the fortresses situated on the
coatis of Africa (Ceuta, Melillo, and Penon de
Velez), for the purpose of ascertaining whether it
may not be expedient to cede these places to the
Emperor of Morocco, and to employ the money
devoted to their maintenance to the ennuis! equip-
ment of a squadron, which should cruise in the
Mediterranean for the protection of commerce.
The Eirglish have several times testified a desire of
licosestisig Ceuta, which is directly opposite to
Gibraltar, and it is probibhe that they would not
see with indifference this fortress pass into the hands
of the Emperor of Morocco.

CONSTANTINOPLZ, JUKS 41.

Ti svelter, announce that Ali Pacha is treating
for the purchase of several vessels of war. To ob-
tain seamen, he has offered to engage them at 100
sequin, each ; he appears to prefer North American
mariner". He has destined a million sequins to
establish a flotillas; it is his intention to arm a great
number of gun-boats, which will be very serviceable
against the heavy Turkish *hips. It is asserted,
that he has a great store of Congress lockers. which
he will employ on land and sea.' 'Pae'tw®e time
past he has carried about him two phials of poison.


GERMAN PA *R*. ,

•
VIINNA. JULY IN.
The spirit of destruction has at length seined
upon a country, which, during the last five years,
had made, under a wise administration, the hap-
piest iirogress in all the branches of public prospe-
rity, and which hid the best-founded claims to re-
pose after many years of storms. We commanicate
to our readers the following accounts, which we
have received from good authority, of late events in
Naples :
The commencement of the revolution is still
covered with a veil. It is merely known that in
the night between the Ist and 241 some mutinous
soldiers, led by a subaltern officer sod • well-known
priest of bad character. gave the signal at Nola,
and that the rebellion having extended on the fol-
lowing days to other places, the King, for frlitOUP
not yet sufficiently known, promised a constitution,
the elementary principles of which should be made
known in eight days.
. The Journalist proceeds to mention, in a few
words, the King's appointment of his sou to con-
duct the government. the adoption of the Spanish
ceustitution. and the change of the Ministry. and con-
tinues : By the latest accounts (the 11th) a numerous
throng, composed of soldiers and rabble, led by Ge-
neral Pepe and the above-mentioned Priest (mimed
Minsci '), was marching to the capital. Fear and
terror had nixed on the inhabitant*. General Cs-
rascosa was uegociatiug with the fu•urgeuts, to
hinder their march into the city end its inevitable
consequences.—(Atuitritut Observer, July 424
£*AU, JULY et.

Our accounts from the North of Germany coati-
ass lo assert that the Kiug of Prussia has been
invited to be present at the grand reviews of a large
part of she Austrian army. winch will take place
near l'estli. about the middle of September. It is
expected that there will be a martin between the
Emperors of Russia and Austria on that occasion.
The Emperor Alexander, after visiting the southern
provinces of the empire, is expected at Warsaw
about the em' of August, at which time the Diet
will be assembled. Dis Imperial Majesty, it is
affirmed, will then r. to Hungary, so visit his
august ally.—(Aran Gazette, Jxly ti.
POLAND. JULY 4.
We expect the Emperor to be at Weisser on the
47th of August. and in September the Diet will
use et, which will probably be rather animated—not
but that every body is perfectly satiafird with the
cunstitutiou, and the measures of the Emperor,
but beams 601os moms think that they are out
executeep4 insulter conformable to the lofty
I 4:
spirit anottboaal sentiments of Alexander.
tr,onp• are now in camps of exercise
near !Ponce and 11'arsaw, where they will remain