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HANOVER, AUGUST L
Several samosa have passed through this city,
who are to give evidasoe before the House of Lords
respecting the conduct of the Queen of England,
during her last vi.it td berthany.
Letters received by the knglish here from their
friend, at home do not stietk with she same con.
&lessee as formerly of the peaceable issue of this
lemons trial. The decision in the Upper House,
they say, does not seem doubtful ; but its reception
in England, and the execution or any sentence
are not so certain. The prudent and collected
conduct of the Queen since her return gains her;
they •ay, important suffrages, and the women in
partittilar espodse her cause. The principal inha-
bitants are not: gone to the watering places, but the
Labouring classes are employed in the royal palaces,
as the Duke of Cambridge is expected back this
Summer, and we have not given up the hope of see-
ing the King.—/Supplement to the eillgesteine
7.eitsiNg. Argent 15.1

♦IENNA, AUGUST ht.
Irons one of our correspondents at Leghorn we
have received the following particulars of the dread-
ful events at Palermo, as related by an eye-wittiess
who left that city on the 19th July. When this Ira.
yeller departed, the military, after three.days' mas-
same, had been entirely overpowered; several hun-
dred lay dead in the streets, the rest were impri-
soned in the. dungeon of the galley slaves, before
which the same criminals kept guard who had been
confined there only a few days before. Cannon
loaded with grape shot are placed before the pri-
son to fire on the imprisoned soldiers at the first
signal. Three or four thousand inhabitants of Pa-
lermo likewise lay dead in the streets.
The Government, if such it can be called, was
in the hands of the various directors of trade, who
commanded the armed populace, and formed a
kind of senate. whose despotic orders were sum-
marily executed by the mob under its influence.
The general cry wss independence, and eternal
separation from Naples ; but those who first set up
this cry had already disappeared from the stage,
or if ally one of them sliewed himself, he was
immediately the victim of the popular fury.
The heads of the Princes Cattolica and Villa
Franca (the last Minister (luring the Sicilian Par-
liament, and both the moot zealous revolutionists in
the country) were fixed upon poles in the middle
of the city, and their bodies quartered and exposed
in four different streets. Many other persons,
among whom are mentioned the commander of the
port. and, as some affirm, Prince Priem) and
Prince Couto, have likewise been murdered. The
victims of private revenge a►e innumerable. For
the mere attempt to conceal three or four officers
• man was shot, and his body nailed to the door of
his own house. A great many houses were plunder.
ed or the furniture thrown into the street and burnt ;
to increase those horrors, provisions were becoming
scarce, as nothing was brought to market in the
general confusion. while thousands of armed pea-
sants kept pouring into the city on all sides. It
was generally believed that in case of famine, the
soldiess in the prisons would be left to starve.
An embargo was laid on all vessels in the har-
bour of Palermo, and the oars of all the rowboats
taken away. The crews of many of those vessels
were thrown into prison. As far as was known the
rest of the Wood was tranquil, but the wish for
independence and separation from Naples was
general ; Messina alone seemed to adopt the con.
stitution, if the seat of government were removed
from Palermo to Messina.
Accounts from Palermo of the 20th are more
consolatory. The Archbishop proceeded through
the streets with the cross, and exhorted the people
to humanity and tr►nquillity ; it was hoped that the
latter would be gradually restored.—(Anstrion
Observer, ANgNst 14j