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London, England, 1830-05-05 00:00:00

FRANKFORT PAPERS.

LEIPsIc, APRIL 21.—The Saxon Gazette contains
the following article :
"ON THE CLAIMS OF BAVARIA TO THE
PALATINATE OF THE RHINE.

" The late death of the Grand Duke of Baden has
brought forward questions, the development of which
must be left to time and to the wisdom of those States-
men who have already decided greater matters. We may,
however, be permitted to recall to the mind of our
readers some further circumstances, by which they will
be better able to understand the present state of things.
The claims which Bavaria might make to the Palatinate
arc founded on ancient hereditary tight and modern
compacts. In 1813, when Bavaria withdrew from
its alliance with France, it could not avoid returning
the Tyrol to the Austrian empire, of which it was one
of the most ancient and important provinces. But in the
Convention of Reid, concluded Bth Oct. 1813, Austria
promised to the King of Bavaria a full indemnity, and
such a one as shonld form a connected whole with the
kingdom of Bavaria. Bavaria ceded to Austria—Tyrol,
Salzburg, and Voralberg, and was to have, by way of in-
demnity, Mayence, the Palatinate, and such parts of
Wurtemburg, Darmstadt, Nassau, and Baden, as would
be necessary to form a connected territory. A Convention
of 23d Apra, 1815, to which Austria, Russia, Prus-
sia, and England were parties, guaranteed to Bavaria in-
demnities which were to be taken from Wurtemburg, Hesse,
and Baden, and the eventual succession to the Palatinate.
In the Protocol of the conferences between tke Plenipo-
tentiaries of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, at Paris, 3d
November, 1815, it was agreed, that in ease of the ex-
tinction of the direct line of the reigning Grand Duke
of Baden, the right of succession to the Palatinate was
in Bavaria. Lastly, in the convention of Munich, signed
14th April, 1816, the King of Bavaria was promised,
besides succession to the Palatinate, certain parts of the
Circles of Neckar, the Tauber, and the Maine. The se-
cond source of possible claims of Bavaria to the Palatinate
is ancient hereditary right. It is well known, till the last
quarter of last century, Bavaria and the Palatinate formed
two distinct electorates. In 1777 the Elector of the Pala-
tinata united both, when the Elector and Duke of Bavaria
died, and that line of the House of Wittlesbuek became
extinct. The Palatinate is, therefore, the ancient posses-
sion of the present reigning family of Bavaria. It was,
however, deprived of this possession during the wars of
the present Revolution, and in 1802 it was joined to Baden
after the peace of Luneville. If the Allied Powers had in
1815 taken the status quo of 1789 for the basis, the Pala-
tinate must have reverted to Bavaria. But the Allies gua-
ranteed the integrity of the Grand Duchy of Baden, till
the extinction of the reigning family. Bavaria had no
reason to be uneasy on this point, as this extinction was
probable and near at hand, because the Counts of Stock-
burg descended from an unequal marriage between the
Margrave Frederick and the Counts of Stockburg, &c.,
were not capable of succeeding to the throne. Bavaria
had, therefore, the probable prospect of reassuming, at no
very remote period, the old possessions of its reigning fa-
mily. But in 1819 the question of the right of succes-
sion in the Grand Duchy of Baden was decided by the
Great Powers, to the prejudice of Bavaria, the Counts of
Stockburg being declared capable of succeeding to the
Grand Ducal Throne. It is manifest that this decision,
which was made chiefly through Russian influence (the
consort of the Eniperor Alexander was a Princess of Ba-
den), is in direct opposition to the above conventions.
The question is whether Bavaria will appeal to these
Conventions, or will submit to this decision."
MUNICH, Aram, 22.—The Royal Board of Police has
communicated to the Editors of the Journals, published here,
his Majesty's resolution that they will not be allowed to
insert articles on the affairs of the Royal family, or of the
Courts interested, from whatever source they may be de-
rived, if they have not first appeared in the Augsburg
or the Munich Political Journal, which will be specially
authorised to publish them.—Frankfort Papers, April 26.

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BERLIN, Aram 20.—Great sensation has been caused
here by the murderous attempt of a fanatical student, at
Halle, who, in a place of public resort, ti ied to kill, with
a knife, and really wounded, a handsome waiting-maid, in
order to rescue her from the temptations of the world.
This dreadful example again spews to what excesses a
blind religious zeal, throwing off all the restraints of reason,
may lead.
VIENNA, Aran-. 22.—Metalliques, 1031; Four per
Cent'., ; Bank Shares, 1,369. A Ilsonaeine Zeitung,
April 27.

The forthcoming Travels of Mr. WEBSTER
through the Crimea, Turkey, and Egypt will contain, we
understand, much information of peculiar interest at the
pres,nt moment. This gentleman was, it appears, at Con-
stantinople when the result of the battle of Navarin was
known in the Ottoman capital, and he describes the sen-
sation produced by that event and the consequent proceed-
ings of the SULTAN. ft will likewise comprise an ac-
count of the Emperor Ar.rxiNnze'a journey to the Crimea
and the circumstances attending his death, together with
full particulars of the grand conspiracy of 1825. The
second volume includes the history of MOIV.MEn Au, and
an interesting description of the present state of Egypt, &c.

Our Irish letter presents some curious state-
ments respecting the animal emigrations from Ireland
across the Atlantic, and the changes said to have been
thereby effected in the ratio of Protestants to Catholics
throughout a large portion of the north, whence the chief
emigration has been carried on by Protestants. If ma-
gi ation is to proceed at all as a measure of Govern- •
ment, we believe that the ortly. beneficial mode of
conducting it would be that which has recently been
explained by Air. GOUGER who proposes that the public
lands shall not be granted away, but sold for the highest
price they will fetch ; and that the labouring popula-
tion sent out by the State as a relief to parishes or dis-
tricts, instead of being scattered to the greatest possible
distances, as has hitherto been the practice, shall
be as much as possible condensed, so as to produce
from the origin of each new colony some of the ad-
vantages arising from antiquity of settlement—viz.
those of division of labour, mutual co-operation, so-
cial intercourse, and so forth. If the Irish landlords
will expel the unhappy tenantry, which for selfish
purposes they have hitherto encouraged and multiplied on
their estates, they ought to be forced by law to provide
them with other dwellings, or to contribute towards their
passage to some of our dist int colonies, where, if labour
be rendered plenty by an emigration of labourers, men
with moderate capital would be sure to purchase laud and
settle. What now deters capitalists from buying land, or
even accepting it, in Canada, or elsewhere, is the scarcity
of labourers, and the consevent high wages, which neu-
tralize the benefit of obtaining land even for nothing, and
form the grand obsticle to a rapid improvement of our
colonial territories, however susceptible of cultivation. Let
us, nevertheless, wait for a little, and see if something
cannot be done for the Irish pour at home by a well-
arranged system for encouraging domestic industry. Per-
' haps it may be true, as it has been asserted, that his MA-
JESTY'S Government have at present some such measures
in their contemplation.— Times.