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veal of these costly edifices were palling down, and
the materials selling off to pay the debts of their once
opulent proprietors. As to the Rialto and Square of St.
Mark, they were quite deserted, except by porters and
idlers, whose wan visages and tattered, rags bespoke the
lowest stage of poverty and indigence. The decrease of
inhabitants, within the ten years, had exceeded twenty
thousand!

But while we rejoice most heartily that the oft-repeated
prayer of the remaining inhabitants has been attended to by
their semi-barbarous and rapacious task-masters, we much
doubt whether the measure will rescue Venice from that
utter ruin which she seems destined to experience. Nothing
but the restoration of her independence, and the estab-
lishment of free institutions, can ever afford the late
Queen of the Adriatic any chance of regaining her lost
prosperity. Whenever the people of Italy, recollecting
the voice of PETRA RCH and MACHIAVELLI, shall unite
and drive the barbarians across the Alps, she will, doubt-
less, participate in the glory, as well as benefits re-
sulting from that grand desideratum. More than one great
authority has said, that a nation, when once fallen, never
rises. GOD forbid that this opinion should be infallible ! At
all events, it forms no part of our political creed : on the
contrary, we are convinced that the great characteristic
of modern civilisation is to regenerate the fallen, and
render those who can st ill boast of any social advantages
better and wiser.

At an early hour this morning the Paris Journals of
Friday were received, from which we make a few inter-
esting extracts. Among these, the most remarkable is,
that the Ottoman Ministry is not indisposed to negociate
for the cession of Palestine to the Jews.
From the Monitettr.

The Official Part contains the following Royal Ordinances :
L—Art 1. There shall be created in the Department of the
Minister of War a Consultative Committee, for the administration

of that department. Art. 2. The Committee shall consist of five
members. Art. 3 To be called Intendant in Chief, with an an-
nual salary of 10,000 francs.
11. Barons de Joinville, Berger de Castellan. Denniee, Reg-
nante. and Volland, are appointed Intendants-in-Chief.
111. There shall be created In the War Department special Con-
sultative Committees of Infantry and Cavalry, each consisting of
five Lieutenant-Generals, one of them to be President, and four
Major-Generals.
IV. Appoints the Members of these two Committees.
(These Ordinances are dated 27th Dec. and 3d January.)
PARIS, Jas. 28.

By an Ordinance of tbe 27th inst. his Majesty has been pleased
to raise to the dignity of Peers of the Kingdom, Messrs. the Duke
de Cereate, the Marquis de PaWert, Count de la Boudonnaye, the
Baron de Vitrolles, Count Bugnot, and Lieut.-General Count
Vallee.

From the Gazette de France.
PARIS, Jas. fie.

The Nuremburg Correspondent alarms that proposals for the ces-
sion of Palestine base already been made to the Porte; that the
English Ambassador has undertaken the negotiation, in the name
of the Jewish house in question; and that the Ottoman Ministry
is not indisposed to enter into an arrangement.

From the Messager des Chambres.
MADRID. Lax. IL

The cold, the Intensity of which increases its a manner hitherto
unknown, continues to cause disease to spread to a most alarming
degree. Happily but few persons have died. Death, however,
has not spared the Duchess de Frias.
The King has lately had an stuck of the gout, which prevented
the levee at Court the day penes,. ywYrday; but It w hoped that
hi. majesty will soon recover.

It seems certain that the King of Naples has claimed the balance
of the dowry that was due to him as heir of the first wife of oar
Sovereign. whe he was only prince of Asturias, and that his Ma-
jesty has ordered that the profits of the lottery shall be employed
in this sum.