Star.
London, England, 1826-02-01 00:00:00

DUSSILDORFF, .1 As. 206

The official paper of the Government at Dusseldorff,
contains an ordoa?nance of Count Siriegel, Archbishop
of Cologne, prohibiting the procession of certain socie-
ties and corporations, on the fetes of the Patrons of the
Churches, and other occasions, by which Religion is
degraded, the Mosr HOLY made ridiculous, the devotion
of the faithful interrupted, and their minds drawn
aside from GOD, the only object of adoration. In
several parishes, for instance, it is usual to accompany
the procession of the -Holy Sacrament armed, with
drums beating and music playing, often equipped in
the most ridiculous costume, aad, with unbecoming
gestures, even to enter the Church, during Mass, and
march round the Altar.

Such indecorous proceeding: cannot be any longer
tolerated, we, therefore, enjoin sll the parochial Clergy
of our Archbishoprick, not to 'permit, on any pretext,
such proceedings, either during processions or in the
Church. They are enjoined properly to instruct their
flocks, in the true spirit of Christianity, the nature of
devout prayer, and the object of the religious exercises
of the Church. They are to exhort the members of
stich corporations or brotherhoods, in their Churches,
to accompany the processions in a becoming dress,
devoutly praying or singing ; and to order the reli.
giout exercises in the Churches in such a manner, that
offence may be given to none, and that our religious
meetings and exercises may be liable to no reproach.
We have received tfl7llZgWeeine Zeilimg of the
25th ultimo, which, after announcing the arrival of
the Marquis de RIESAUPIERRE, at Vienna, from St.
Petershurgh, to announce the accr.ssiou of his Sovereign,
states, that; Colonel Marquis de BOMSELLES, who
had been appointed by the Court of Vienna, Cham-
berlain to the infant Don Munn., of Portugal, has
been sent to Warsaw, to carry to his Imperial High•
ness the Grand Duke CONSTANTINE the great Cross of
the Order of St. Stephen, and an autograph letter of
the Emperor of ANSTRIA. Why this period is selected
for conferring an honour on the Giind Duke CON•
ITANTINE, which his distinguished conduct in the war
might have won, we know not, unless as some com-
pensation for his renouncing the Crown Imperial. The
Prince of TAXIS is appointed new Chamberlain to the
Infant Don Mictom.

Letters of the 26th of November, from Rio Janeiro,
received by the TARTAR frigate, bring an account of
a grand entertainment given to Sir CHARLES STUART;
on the 21st November. All the Officers of the WEL-
LULIT, 74, and the TARTAR and DIAMOND frigates,
were present. Each English mercantile house sub-
scribed 1000 milreas towards the expensei.

:Iwo thousand men had been embanked for Monte
Video, whence it was thought-the Brazilians would act
on the defensive.

We have received New York Pipers to the 1 lth inst.
but they contain little intelligence of a political nature.
The proceedings in Congress had not then assumed any
impoitance. The correspondence which had taken
place between Mr. Secretary CLAY and Mr. ADDINOTON,
the British Envoy, upon the subject of the Convention
for Suppressing the Slave Trade, was laid before the
House of Representatives on the 27th of December.—
By these it appears that the efforts of the Americans,
in this respect, had hitherto been ineffectual.
The violence of party spirit is tearing the State of
Kentucky to pieces. The two branches of the local Legis.
lature are resolutely opposed to each other. The Judges,
because ti ey would not sanction the unconstitutional
acts of the House of Representatives, were displaced,
and a new Court instituted. The-old Judges, however,
continued to discharge their functibns, denied the autho.
rity of t' e new Court, and claimed the full right of
exercising their judicial powers..
The Editors of the Haytian• Paper (says one of these
J ,urnals) are offended at some of the language of the
French Ministry—and say, the prospect of peace has
not caused their arms to drop from their handr—that
defensive measures have hems maintained—that, if
France does not conform to her agreement in good faith,
it will remain unexecuted by, Hayti.

We have received the French Papers of Monday and
the Etaile of yesterday. The latter contains the Imperial
Manifesto of the Emperor NICHOLAS, which we inserted
in the,STAft of Monday. All the armies of the South,
including the corps of the army of Bessarabia, have
taken the oath of fidelity to the Emmtacta, after having
been officially acquainted by their Chiefs of the abdica-
tion of the Grand Duke CONSTANTLVI, and solemnly
released front the oath they had previously taken to the
latter. Had this necessary precaution been taken at
St. Petersburgh, the fatal events of the 26th of Decem-
ber, might have probably Iten prevented.
On the 6th ult. the Catholic Clergy, all the Bishops
then in Warsaw, the Suffragans, the Metropolitan Chap-
ter, and the superiors of the religious orders, took the
oath of fidelity to the Emperor NICHOLAS, Emperor of
Russia and King of Poland, in presence of the Arch-
bishop and Primate of the Kingdom.
The accounts from St. Petersburgh, in the Etolle,
are to the 15th ult. They state, that el on the morning
of the 9th of Jaauary, being the fortieth day after the
death of the Emperor ALEXA NOIR, of glorious memory
a funeral.ceremony was petformed in the dim:el of the
Palace, which was attended by the EMPEROR, the Em-
prestAtasmeDititiA,.the Grand Ducl•ess HELENA, and
all the Court."