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MN) THURSIYAT EVENING, DECP4MBViIt 1181

scenes of so common occurrence in the Senate. The
President refused to allow any of the senators to address
the assembly. In vain did MM. TRICOUPIS, CLONA..
RES, LOINDOs and MANGINAS, protest against so fla-
grant a violation of the regulations. The President
replied by loudly demanding the installation of the
new senators. The Ministers sat mute spectators of
this scene. The greater number of the senators
finally rose, and of the thirty-five senators present
only fifteen remained. The President then adminis-
tered the oaths to the new senators, although the
Senate was not in number, and the two secretaries
had withdrawn. On the 9th the Senate met again,
when the members who withdrew the previous day
entered a protest against the proceedings that took
place in their absence. The project of law voted by
the Chamber of Deputies relative to the loan of
500,000 f. by M. EYNARD, was then adopted by a
large majority.

The Patria, Florence paper, publishes the following
letter, dated Rome, 10th instant :
" The question of Ferrara has arrived at a conclu-
sion. Matters remain in that city absolutely in state
quo. This Government has maintained its rights
with a firmness which does it honour. The principal
praise devolves upon M. Massoni. M. Palomba,
attached to the Austrian Embassy at Rome, returned
yesterday from Milan with dispatches, by which
Count de Fiquelmont announces this fortunate con-
clusion to the Ambassador. The official notes on the
subject rare to be exchanged this day between the
Pontifical Government and the Austrian Envoy."
The Presse contains a letter from Palermo, of the
Bth instant, stating that tranquillity prevailed in that
city. Nothing new had occurred at Naples. Prince
SCILLA still retained the portfolio of foreign affairs,
which was considered a certain proof that the KING
persisted in his resolutions. " His Neapolitan MA.•
JEsTr,7%says the correspondent of the Presse, " evinces
an energy unusual to our modern Royalties. He is
said to have lately made the following declaration :
" My relative, Louis XVI., would have''' escaped
the scaffold but for his concessions. Weakness in
political matters is a crime. I will never yield. It
is not my intention to surrender my crown to the
revolution. I will defend it whilst a single soldier
stands by my side, and if I am to lose it, it will be
with my head.' %cg. 46454

A letter from Naples of the 12th says—" On the
4th a political demonstration was to have taken place
at the theatre of Catania, but the rumour having
rapidly spread that the Krsto, in a conversation with
his Ministers, had blamed these manifestations, stat-
ing that his people ought to rely on him, all the
preparations were suspended, and at Catania, and in
all parts of the kingdom, the people calmly await
the acts which are to give a justification to these
words."

We read in a letter from Berne of the lfith
The new grand council of Friburg assembled yes-
terday, and commenced its operations by completing
its Legislature, by the nomination of ten Members,
who are declared Liberals ; among them are M. CHA.
TONNE/. and VICKET, members of the Provisional
Government. The news from the other cantons is of
little interest to-day."
The Ami de la Constitution of Berne states that
Austria, in addition to a loan of 300,000 florins to
the Sonderbund, supplied it with 3,000 muskets.
M. DR KAISERSFELD, Ambassador of Austria to
the Helvetic Diet, who had retired to Bregunz in the
Voralherg, has returned to Bale with his suite.

A letter from Turin, in the Augsburg Gazette,
states that the money taken from M. SiEGweaT
AIuLLEs in Piedmont has been restored to him, as
being his own property, and the functionary who
seized the money has been dismissed from office.

Madrid journals of the 16th have arrived.

Some sensation had been ereated by a motion made
in the Chamber of Deputies by Senor SEGASTI, for
the production of the accounts of all the sums paid
by the Treasury of the Havannah since 1844. A
stormy discussion ensued, which had not been brought
to a conclusion when the post left.

We have received the Paris papers of Friday.
The debates in the British Parliament on the sub-
ject of Jew Emancipation are commented on in all
these papers, and the French, as they are justly en-
titled to d), take great credit to themselves for being
I far in advance of England as far as the fundamental
principles of equality of civil and religious rights are
concerned, although they admit that we are in ad-
vance of them in the practice of constitutional liber-
ties. The Debuts says" France may be justly
proud to behold her principles defended, and her
example referred to in the British Parliament. Eng-
land is in advance of us in the practice of many con-
stitutional liberties, but we laid down and realized
long before her the fundamental principles of equa-
lity ;" and the Constitationnel, in commenting on
Lord MORPETIeS declaration that no difference of
religious belief ought to exclude any citizens from
the enjoyment of common rights and privileges,: asks
with justice—
" Is not this the very principle of the absolute poli-
tical equality of all citizens which was proclaimed by
the French Revolution ? and is not the rapid progress
made in the world by the ideas which the Revolution
put forth, and which are the foundation of all our
codes, the noblest homage that could be paid to it?
Have we not some right to be proud—we, the sons of
that glorious Revolution—when we see its principles
penetrate into the midst of nations, when we hear
them proposed by one of the members of that Eng-
lish aristocracy which maintained such a violent
struggle against our fathers, and which anathematized
the doctrines which the Lansdownes, the Russells,
and the Morpeths now avow and defend in the face of
Anglicanism ?"
It would appear from the following article on the
affairs of Italy, which appears in the Debats, as if M.
GUIZOT had before his eyes a wholesome fear of the
Chambers, and that he is prepared, if necessary, to cry
" Peccavr when taunted by the Opposition with his
retrograde policy. The Debate says—
" Italy offers at this moment the magnificent spec-
tacle of an active and intelligent nation, which, after
several years of suffering, advances, with her princes
at her head, in the career of Reform, which, con-
ducted alinost throughout -the entire country by the
Conservative and moderate party (the only one which
can guide nations in the road of real progress) pur-
sues, ardently and sagaciously, the amelioration of
her social and political condition. There is no doubt
but some impatient men would, wish to see a more
active and rapid movement which might compromise
everything by too much haste; but it must be said to
the praise ct Italy, that those impatient characters are
almost strangers—men who are ignorant of the
grandeur and importance of the reforms accomplished.
Those reforms are, in fact, quite important
enough to prove the integrity and the good-
will of the Governments—to explain the enthusiasm
of the population, and the feelings of grati-
tude which they have expressed for the. princes
whom Proviklence has placed at their head. Thus,
for example. without speaking of that which has been
already realised in Tuscany and in the Roman states,
if we study thoroughly the reforms of which King
Charles Albert had given the signal in Piedmont, it
may be comprehended why the Piedmontese have
lavished so many proofs of attachment on him; and
it may likewise be understood why, when they look
back and see the advance made in so short a period of
time, they must have full confidence in the intelli-
gence and goodwill of their Sovereign, inasmuch as
the progress realised in a few months is for them
a pledge of new and perhaps more important improve-
ments which they will owe solely to the wisdom of
the King, without being obliged to purchase them by
contests, crises, and those painful catastrophes, at
the price of which they have been obtained elsewhere.
It is thus that Piedmont has at present •arrived at
a judicial unity, by the creation of a Supreme Court
of Cassation—at civil equality, by the uniformity of
the code and the abolition of the privileges of various
jurisdictions, and by the separation of the judicial and
administrative powers. The Piedmontese have ob-
tained a reform of the communal and provincial sys-
tem, in which the Liberal mode of election will here-
after perform a considerable part, and, in fine, a
commencement of free government by the institution
of a Council of State, which it is true has but a con-
sulting voice, but whose suggestions, supported by
public opinion, cannot but exercise influence. Those f
are important conquests which, if necessary, would be
sufficient to justify the epithet of a reforming King
bestowed upon Charles Albert. But this is not all.
Although the press is not completely free, it has, never-
theless, been released from the most embarrassing
shackles, and the choice made of the censors is a proof
of the liberal intentions of the Government in
that respect; and although the national guard,
that excellent guarantee of order and liberty,
has not been legally established throughout the
kingdom, it is nevertheless known that the
Government is preparing to organize it—that the
staff has been formed, and that the muskets which
are to arm it are ready in the Government arsenals ;
and, in fine, it is known that the King's Government
is conducting active -negotiations with Rome and