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Frankfort Papers to the 6th inst. have reached us.
An article from Berlin notices some new regulations
for preventing the Students at Halle from forming secret
associations. The following are extracts:
VIENNA, JUNE se.

It is reported that the estates in Bohemia, formerly
belonging to the Duke of Deuxpontt, and now to Tus-
cany, are to devolve,, by the death of the Grand
Duke of Tuscany, on the Duke of Reichstadt (who
takes his title from them), according to preceding con-
ventions. As the Duke is a minor, it is supposed that
the estates will be for the present under the management
,of the Commissioners who superintend the family estates.

BERLIN, JULY 1.

If our Government has been obliged to employ the
severity of the laws against the secret associations still
subsisting in the Univerity of Halle, it has lately issued
very wholesome and energetic ordonnanees against that
Rernicious system of association especially called the
Barchendschaft, to put an end to it in future in all the
Universities in the kingdom. These associations are in
future to be considered not merely as associations among
the Students, but as belonging to the class of secret
societies prohibited by the edicts of 1798 and 1816, and
consequently punished by the criminal law, which in-
flicts the penalty of imprisonment in a fortiess for a term
of three to tea years, besides expulsion from the Uni-

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ace, in which even die practice qf the Medial pro-
fession is included. .3+
The investigations ielltimenced against din members
of a secret revolutionary society in Germany is now
confided to a special commission, which is to make its
report to another Court of Justice, probably the tribu-
nal at Breslau. The number of persons confined in the
castle of Copenick is very differently stated, many of
them had already left the University, and several are
of very great and distinguished families. One of the
most important confessions is said to have been obtained
in the following singular manner :—A young man hav-
ing taken the oath of the society, repented, and feeling
his honour implicated, and unable to bear the pangs of
remorse, he resolved to put an end to his life, and at-
tempted to cut his throat with a blunt knife; failing in
this, he stabbed himself; however, he did not wotind
himself mortally, and was happily cured. He aim•
bated his preservation to a special interposition of No-
vo:tame, and confessed all he knew.
SWITZERLAND, JUNE 29.

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Just when our commercial relations With several parts
of Germany have been placed on a more satisfactory
'footing, we learn that the Sardinian Government has
imposed on our manufactures, duties so heavy as to
amount to a prohibition. This step is the more sur-
prising, as Sardinia had proposed to Switzerland to
conclude a commercial treaty advantageous to both
parties, and Switzerland readily acceding to the pro-
posal, had already named Plenipotentiaries to open
negotiations at Berne. Our Government has sent
a remonstrance to Turin, the result of which we must
wait for.

The French Papers of Saturday, and the Etoile of
Sunday, have been received ; but, with the exception of
some vituperative articles against M. de Vicunas, par-
ticularly in the Journal des lkbats, they contain nothing
of interest. If M. de
...1111ATEAUBRIAND either writes,
or causes to be written, the numerous attacks on his late
colleague, he shows as little liberality as consistency,
and places himself in a rather awkward dilemma; for
he must either have very suddenly changed his opinion
respecting the measures of M. de Vitcxcx, or for a
long time have preferred place to principle, and sanc-
tioned a policy of which he did not approve.
The other Papers contain nothing of importance. An
article from Constantinople, dated June 16th, asserts that
the SULTAN had at last issued a Firman for the entire
evacuation of Moldavia and Wallachia ; but the re-
ports on this subject have always been so contradictory,
that it is impossible to attach any credit to what comes,
from that quarter.

Private letters from Lisbon, received by the packet,
to the 30th ult. represent the state of affairs to be far
from settled. The arrests are said to have been nume-
rous ; amongst them was that of the Editor of a Liberal
,ournal. It was known generally in Lisbon, that the
Ktuo had applied to the British Government for the
aid of troops; and-it is- addedhlsis MAJespt persisted
in the requisition, and had itiaisesei‘ibet in:tbst event
oil this country declining, rlie= proposal of assistance
from Prance would be accepted. It was believed that
no answer had yet been received to the dispatches of
Sir EDWARD TnonNrnN.

A Lady named JunoMENHA, had been discovered to
be particularly active in promoting plots against the
Government, and was therefore ordered to leave Lisbon
in forty-eight hours. It is said that Marshal BERISFORD,
with the natural feeling of an Englishman toward the
fair sex, had twice applied to the KING in this Lady's
favour ; but the reports of the Police were probably too
decisive of her criminality; for notwithstanding the great
desire of the KING to gratify the Marshal, no further
relaxation of the orders previously issued could be ob-
tained, than that she should be allowed to choose her
place of residence anywhere beyond a certain distance
from the capital. Upon the important subject of con-
verting Lisbon into a free port, nothing further had
transpired. Mr. CANNING'S speech upon the South
American question bad been translated at length, and.
inserted in most of the Journals. These letters convey
the apprehensions of the writers, that the present tran-
quillity was not of a description to warrant the belief
of its continuance.

Letters have been received from the Coast of Africa
to the middle of April, but they add little to our in-
formation respecting the Ashantees. One of the letters
dated Elmiita, 12th April, states, that Mr. WILLIAMS,
Colonial Agent, who was made prisoner by the Ashan-
tees in the late battle, had been exchanged, through
the interference of the Dutch Governor, on cdndition
that he should not be allowed to retire to Cape Coast
or to Europe for a certain time, as they considered his
presence necessary to settle the disputes at an approach-
ing palaver. Another letter, dated from Cape Coast
Castle the 15th of April, does not contain any news,
but states that the Colony was in a healthy state.

In consequence of the Catholic Association having
represented to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland that Mr.
Bnowma, a Policeman at Wexford, had sadly over-
stepped his duty, in impounding unoffending pigs, and
threatening equally innocent persons with bringing a an
old campaigner among them, who would run the mus-
kets down their throats after the balls"—in consequence
of this charge, a Commission of Inquiry has been ap-
pointed, to investigate the circumstances, at New Ross.
Mr. Bate, a Counsellor just called to the Bar, was sent
by the Association to conduct the charge, which was
supported by witnesses, though denied by others. Mr.
flnownn solemnly protested before Goa that the charge
that had been brought against him was false, and the
result of foul perjury and conspiracy. The Magistrates
had not given their decision, but the Waterford Chro-
nicle says it is enabled to state, on very respectable
authority, that the Magistrates had decided on recom•

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.mending.to GovernMem the dismissal a r. Baowst
In the coarse of the inquiry, Mr. Baowair mentioned
some circumstance that occurred on the 81st of June,
add he afterwards corrected himself, by saying it was
the 81st of May; on which Mr. BRIC, with infinite
11 promptitude, as Dr. Prolix says, asked, " Are you
sure that it was not the 31st of June?" Mr. SIIIPPA an
corrected the young Barrister, by saying, "My Qou,
Sir, you know we have no Slst of Jane r--(A laugh.)