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London, England, 1848-03-27 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

FORMATION OF THE AUSTRIAN CABINET'
By a royal rescript of the 17th of this month, his
Imperial MASESTY has been pleased to appoint
FRANZ Count VON KOLOWRAT, his MAJ
Minister of State and Councillor pro tem. as Prime
Minister; also Count VON FIQUELMONT, Minister of
Foreign Affairs ; Baron Vox PILLERSDORF,, Lord
High Chancellor, Minister of the Interior; Count
VON TAFFE, Minister of Justice; Baron Voor Kra
ACME, Minister of Finance. His MAJESNY still
reserves to himself the nomination of Minister of
War.—Vienna Gazette, March 21.

BAVARIA.

MUNICH, MARCIE 21•

The following royal patent has been issued :--
,
" Ludwig, by the grace of God King of Bavaria, Pals
•
grave on the. Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Franconia,
Suabia, &c.
" We have been graciously pleased to resign our crown
in favour of our beloved son, his Royal Highness the
Crown Prince, Maximilian, and make known by these
presents that it is our royal will in future to adopt the
title of King Ludwig (Majesty), and our beloved, royal
consort the title of Queen Theresa (Majesty). This our
act of resignation and titular denomination is to bet made
public in our State Gazette. " LUDWIG.
" Given at Munich, March 22, 1848."
The subjoined Royal Address to the people of Ba•
varia has also been issued.:—

" Bavarians,—A new state of feeling has commenced
—a
state which differs essentially from that embodied in
the constitutional code agreeably to which I have now
governed 23 years. I resign my crown in favour of my
beloved son the. Crown Prince Maximilian. My Govern-
ment has been in strict accordance with the constitution
—my life has been dedicated to the welfare of my peoPl°-
I havo administered the public property and the public
money as if I bad been a Republican officer, and I can
boldly encounter the most scrutinising eye. I offer my
heartfelt thanks to all who adhered to me faithfully, and
though I descend from the throne, my heart yet glow 6
with affection for Bavaria and for Germany.
" Munich, March 21, 1848." " LUDWIG. _

The following is the patent of the new KING
" We, Maximilian IL, by the grace of God King Of
Bavaria, &c., to all whom it may concern herewith send'
our royal greeting.
" Seeing that our beloved and venerated father,
Royal Majesty, has of his own free will and accohrP
declared, under date of the 20th of this month, i 1
resolve to resign the crown of Bavaria in our favour, and
by this act of resignation to delegate to us, as legitimate
• and hereditary heir, the kingdom of Bavaria, with all
the ancient and modern territorial possessions apper-
taining thereunto, agreeably to the act of the constitu-
tion, and on the bases of the alliances of our state and
dynasty;
" We have accordingly taken full possession of Oil
same, and have entered upon the government of the
kingdom.
" We make known by these presents to all our States,
burghers, and subjects in the cities and in the eountry.lll
also to all our officers of state, and to other functionaries
of our hereditary dominions, whatever be their office,
rank, or condition, that they must henceforth consider,
us as their legitimate and only liege Lord ; that they'
shall serve us willingly and dutifully, render us invio-1
lable loyalty and implicit obedience at all times and in all
places, as loyal subjects are in duty bound to kings and:
those who are set over them by God.
" We make known to them by these presents that
we have already taken the oath contained in Title 10,'
sec. 1, of the Constitutional Code in due form.
" In order that the affairs of Government and the ad-
ministration of justice may not be impeded, or the public
weal suffer detriment by any delay, it is our Royal.
pleasure that all the officers and authorities of the king-
dom shall continue to discharge their several functions'
till our further pleasure be made known.
"Our Royal name and title being affixed to the official
documents of the same, and the present seal appended
until the execution of a new one.
" We would especially remind all persons in office of
the oath of the constitution which they have taken, and ,
we feel assured that all our loyal subjects will faithfully
obey the legal demand now made upon them, and we
desire by these presents to testify our Royal good-will
and favour towards them.

" MAXIMILIAN.
"Baron Von THON DITTMER,
Councillor of State.

" By a Royal command.
"F. Von KOBELL, the Secretary-
General.

" Munich, March 21, 1848."
The Augsburg Gazette of the 22d inst., has the fol-
lowing article :
" MUNICH, MARCH 20, 12 o'CLocx, P.M.
" A most unexpected change has taken place here.,
This morning the King transacted business, and granted
a public audience to several deputations, and in the

evening he has ceased to reign. -
" Various reports were afloat during the day. but no
credit was attached to them till ten o'clock in the even-
ing, when an Aide de-Camp presented himself to the
principal corps of the students, and declared officially
that the King had abdicated. The intelligence was also
convoyed officially to the Civic Guard by the Burgo-
master.
" Considerable excitement prevails. The burghers,
it is said, intend to make a protest, and take the part of
the King if it should be proved that his abdication is the
result of intrigue.

" MARCH 21.

" The excitement is indescribable. It is asserted that
the abdication is the result of intrigue. Maximilian 11.
ascends the throne at a most ominous conjuncture."

POLAND.

The accounts from Poland are very contradictory.
The Paris Presse says that the statement of the In-
surrection in Cracow is confirmed. The Berlin
papers, however, mention nothing of the insurrec-
tion in Cracow, but mention an Insurrection in 'War-
saw, and state that General Prince PASKEWITCH has
left St. Petersburgh for the purpoe of nuellinv the
disturbance and restoring order.
The Gazette des Posies states, under the date
Cracow, March 18, that that morning a proclama-
tion was issued, calling upon the burghers of the city

ta) agree to the re-establishment not only of the re-
public of Cracow, but of the whole of Poland.

'THE INSURRECTION AT MILAN.
The Turin journals of the 22d state that the fight.
ing between the people of Milan and the Austrian
troops had continued during the days of the 19th, 20th, '
and 2] st. The people had at last obtained possession
'of all the principal points of the town, and were,
when the last accounts left, engaged in attack ing
the castle, which still held out. The same journals
also announce that Modena had risen, and confirm
what was before rumoured—that Parma and Pia-
cenza were in full insurrection. The following are
the details given :
" On the 19th fighting was still going on, the people
being principally engaged in endeavouring to reduce the
Castle, which was supposed to contain about 8,000 to
9,000 men. The inhabitants were in great want of
ammunition, though a certain supply had been sent
from Novara ; they possessed not less than thirty
thousand muskets. Bodies of peasants were flock •
ing in from the neighbouring towns and villages.
At the above date Pavia had not risen. A party of
Austrian cavalry and Hungarian artillerymen, on their
Stay from Pavia to Milan with six pieces of cannon, were
attacked by the people at Binasco, and the cannon taken.
The Austrians fled, but the Hungarians cried, ' Viva
l'ltalta 1' The party from Binasco then proceeded to
Milan, and were joined on the way by several thousand
meu from Lomello, armed by Count Litta and the Mar-
quis of Erba. On entering the city, they found the
people in possession of six pieces of cannon which they
bad taken from the Austrians on the Piazza del
Duomo; the fighting was going on in the streets, and
great numbers were constantly arriving to aid the
people, but reinforcements were alio coming in to the
other party. Two thousand Genoese were on their way
to Milan.
" The people of Milan were still holding out on the
20th. A body of Swiss had forced the Porta Comasina,
and dislodged the Austrians from that post. They had
brought ammunition and provisions, and were proceed-
ing to join in the attack on the castle. The chiefs of
the movement at Milan are the following persons, who
have constituted themselves a Provisional Government.
Cusati, the Pc,desta; Ruggiero Settimo, of Milan; Rossi,
of Alessandria; Della Croce, of Vigevano; and Gui-
eeppe Avogadro.
On the 20th the troops had succeeded in driving
the people from the Broletto, which had been up to that
time the centre of the movement at Milan; but on the
morning of the 21st the insurgents had regained their
ground, and forced the troops to take refuge in the
Castle. Radetzky then offered to treat with the Pro-
visional Government, but received a decided negative on
any terms but unconditional surrender. The people had
at last gained possession of the powder magazine. They
bad succeeded in placing a piece of cannon on the tower
of San Celso. The magnificent marble spire of the dome
is in ruins.
" The inhabitants of Bergamo and Brescia had driven
out their garrisons, and were marching on Milan. Gen.
O'Donell had been made prisoner by the people. The
intelligence of the arrest of the Viceroy at Brescia was
gaining ground.
Letters from Stradella of the 21st confirm the news
of the insurrection of Modena."

HAMBURGII MAIL.
HAMBURGH, MARCH 24.—Scarcely any business was
done in exchanges this day. In railway shares and the
rands, on the contrary, a good deal was transacted,
though at reduced prices.
INSIRRECTION IN SLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, FRIDAY
EVENING, MARCH 24.—The call for freedom, liberty,
and independence has been raised in the south-western
parts of the provinces of Germany ; Sleswig-Holstein
has risen to maintain her unity and her independence of
Denmark.

A Provisional Government has been formed

at Ki,l, which has issued the following declaration :
"Fellow• citizens,-137 a popular movement in Copen-
hagen, our Duke has been forced to dismiss his former
counsellors, and to tuke up a position which is inimical
to the duchies.

" The will of the governing Duke is no longer un
lettered, and the country is without a Government. I
is our resolve that our German dominions shall not fal

a prey.to Denmark. Imminent dangers demand decided
measures, and the defence of the frontiers and the
maintenance of order must be committed to a respon-
sible guiding hand. Considering the urgency of the
case, and fully relying upon the confidence which had
hitherto been reposed in us we have accepted the public call,
sad have provisionally undertaken the administrationjof the
Government, which we will conduct in the name of our
legitimate Duke, for the preservation of the rights of
our country, and the rights of the Duke.
" We will immediately convoke the United Diet and
resign our delegated authority. So soon as the governor
of our country shall be again free, or other persons shall
be empowered by the Diet to conduct the administration
of the country.
"We will devote all our energies to the promotion of
the present endeavour to effect the union and the free-
dom of. Germany.
" We hereby call upon all the right-minded inhabi-
tants of the country to join us. Let the firmness and
regularity of our proceedings bear testimony to our
native German Fatherland, to the patriotic spirit which
animates fie people of Sleswig Holstein.
" M. Bremer, who is now absent, is summoned to join
the proiisional Government.
" Kiel, March 24.

" The Provisional Government:—
" BESELER.
"FREDERICK, Prince of Sleswig Holstein.
"F. REVENTLON.
" M. T. SCHMIDT."
-The Provisional Government has been recognised at
Altona.
Prince Frederick Von Augustenburg is to proceed to
Bendsburgh to-day. A Burgher Guard has been
formed, and Rendsburg is being put into a state of
defence. Many soldiers have torn off the Danish
cockade and joined the burghers; yet throughout the
whole of this important movement no excess of any
kind has taken place. Nay, there is not even any
excitement or cries in the streets, although the city was
illuminated and great joy prevailed, and from seven to
eight hundred men have keen armed and are gone off
to Rendsburg by railway. There the German flag was
immediately hoisted. The military garrison is in favour
of the Provisional Government, and is only waiting for
the arrival of the Prince in order to place itself under
his command.
The greater part of the silver coin which was being
transported from Altona to Copenhagen has been de-
tained at Rendsburg.
The proclamation of the King of Prussia, in which
he declares that those Prussian provinces which are not
included in the German Confederation shall be admitted
thereto, gives the decisive stroke to this movement.
At Kiel, Rendsburg, Eckernforde, and Gluckstadt, the
military are on the burghers' side. In all these places,
and, in several others, Burgher Guards are being
formed; the students are to form a separate corps.—
Hanaurgh Borsenhalle, March 24.
ALTONA, MARCH 24.—An extraordinary meeting of
the Burgher Guards was held here to-day, when about
9,000 burghers were present. By command of the Duke
the Danish authority over the guards has been sus-
ended for the present.—Hamburgh Correspondent,
arch 24. . .

It was decided at this meeting that the Provisional
Government, as maintaining the rights of the Duke and
of this country, should be recognised, and that the resi-
dent Danes should be treated with all consideration.—

Hamburgh Borsenhalle, March 24.
COPENHAGEN.—OUr Copenhagen papers come down
only to the 21st. These merely give the origin of the
disaster at Kiel, which have been greatly exaggerated.
They also contain the address to the King and his Ma-
jesty's reply, acceding to the dissolution of the old
Ministry. The address was decided upon in a meeting
of 2,500 persons, and was taken to the King by a depu-
tation. Nearly 1,500 persons were assembled in the
Schlopplatz.
The resolutions of the address were to the following
effect :
"1. A Sleswig Holstein Constitution-is a renunciation
of the rights of the Danish Crown on Sleswig. The
King of Denmark is not authorised to do this, and the
people of Denmark will not suffer it.
" 2. The Danish nation promises the King of Den-
mark unlimited assistance for carrying out his sacred
duties of Sovereign by maintaing the sovereignty of the
kingdom of Sleswig Holstein.
"3. The long subsisting union between Denmark and
. Sleswig can be consolidated only by a constitution for
both territories, founded upon a popular code of election.
"4. The provisional independence of Sleswig, and
the twofold rationality will be received by a distinct
Provisional Diet, and commensurate provisional arrange-
ments in the Government, and the administration of
justice.
"5. The welfare of Denmark demands that the King
should surround his throne with men whose union,
patriotism, and energy, shall give strength to the
government and confidence to the nation."
To this address the King replied that he had already
anticipated their wishes, that the old Ministry was al
ready dissolved, and that a new Cabinet would be im-
mediately formed. lf,"continued his Majesty, " you
will repose that confidence in your King, which he has
in you, he will be your faithful leader in the path of
honour and liberty."
The cry of " Long live the King," was reiterated by
the thousands who were assembled in the Schlopplatz.
Petitions are presented from all quarters for the for-
mation of a National Guard.
The deputation from Kiel, which is expected here, is
to be placed under the protection of the Danish national
honour. This was decided on by the students.—Ham-
hrgh Correspondent, March 24.
IiAMBURGH, MARCH 24.—The Altona Kiel railway
has just arrived, and brings a proclamation from the
President
.of the Rendsburg Burgher Association, an-
nouncing the entry of the Prince Von Augustenburg,
at the head of the Lanenburgh Jager corps, into Kiel,
requesting the aid of men for the defence of the coun-
try, and a supply of provisions and horses, to be sent
immediately to Rendsburg. .Humburgh Borsenhalle,
March 24.