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DECLARATION O 1" AR AGAINST AUSTRIA ISY'r TRU T.OITE

Letters•tromCivita Vecchia, dated the 2nd instant, an-
nounced that:thdl`ope had confided to his modified. ad-
ministration the power of making war if they thought
right, and 'that• ministers had accordingly decided upon
making war against Austria. The conditions conceded by
the Pape are-+-I. No priest to be called into public em-
ployment ;,'.2.. Formal declaration of war ;3..Pius IX. to
be the head of the government ; 4. Official bulletin to be
published daily ef the war; 5. Encouragement to- young
men thatthey arm themselves. and assist in driving from
Italy the Austrians. Some arrests have taken •place,
among the-rest is that of the commandant of .the fort of
Ancona. The Roman people are perfectly united. The
cardinals, seeing that their escape is impossible, are
gathering around the Pope ; it is reported that everything
is prepared for the Pope's departure. The ministry have
determined• to push the war most actively, and will co-
operate with all the forces of the state to drive out the
Austrians. -The ambassador from the latter.power is to
be compelled to return home.

THE POPE IN PRISON

MARSTILLF-S, MAY 6.—1 had hardly posted my letter
this morning when I was credibly informed of the follow-
ing startling intelligence—if any news now-a-days may
be so qualified. The Pope has been confined to prison
until he shall have consented to abdicate his temporal
principality. The Roman people are determined not to
forego their part in the Austrian war, and will take no
excuse to relinquish it that the Pope may adduce. They
told him—"• Since your holiness feels embarrassed in the
exercise of your two-fold duties, as a spiritual prince and
a temporal, forego the latter, and we will elect aling who
shall act for,us in temporal matters with freedom and
independance." His holiness hesitated to abdicate his
temporal Government, and was consequently put under
restraint in the Castle of St. Angelo. I cannot guarantee
the exactitude of this news, although it is credibly repor-
ted. Howeve2, as n'est que le premier pas, qui •eolite—
the Civic Guard having occupied the gates of the city and
t' tr. - ' tl-* hands, what is

ne peop, ashen toe law into ,eir own
reported to have followed is most probable. The-position
of the Pope has caused profound interest, only equalled
by delight. It is seen that Pius IX., in reviving-Guelph
against Ghibeline, has committed an anachronism in the

19th century, fcr which the penalty will be the loss of
sovereign power to the Pope, henceforth a simple bishop.
—Post.

It is'confidentFy stated that a treaty, offensive and de-
fensive, has been ,entered into between the Emperor of

and the Czar

surrection took .place at Madrid on the 7th inst

o'clock in the morning, which was suppressed after a san-
guinary conflict which lasted several hours. The number

s not known, but it was consic

han in the insurrection o'

Among the killed was the Captain-General Fulgosio,
brother-in-law of Maria Christina. Thirty-four of the
prisoners taken—one half of them civilians, the other half
military men—were tried_ and sentenced to death by a

It appears frog

.quentadvices that only thir-

—eight military and five civilians
nsenteneed to imprisonment foi

Some of the men who had (J

surrend

themselves.
THE DANISH DisrurE.—The kingdom of Denmark
allows successicm to the crown in the female line. The

Duke of HOlstein

mark is also Duke of 6etilesw
Of these he is reigning Duk

These Du+
ale line.

and they declare that when the male line is in-

terrupted in Denmark by the accession of a Queen, they
must look for a Duke in the next male heir. Just as when
William IV. died, in England, without male heirs,
England passed under female dominion ; but
.Hanover

was yielded to the nearest male inheritor and divided
from England. To this the King of Denmark accedes as
far as the Duchy of Holstein is concerned. He acknow-
ledges that Duchy to belong to the German Confedera-
tion, and that it passes to the male heir. He contends.

however, that Schleswig is Danish, and as such admits of
female inheritance. To this Schleswig and Holstein
reply--that is, the German faction in both Duchies make
answer—that whatever Schleswig may be, she is by her
constitution indissolubly united to Holstein ; that no se-
paration can take place ; and that when a Queen ascends
the throne of Denmark, Schleswig and Holstein cease to
be united with that country, and pass to the next male

heir who, being a German, will carry both Duchies into
the Germanic Confederation, of which even now they are
declared by Germany to be a part.
AUSTRIA.—DREADFUL MASSACRES.—A communica-
tion from Sclut Micklos, of the 27th April, contains fear-
ful accounts of the cruelties committed at Barote. The

yrians ant

kiristians revol

,he same c

da. They repaired in great numbers to the district stadt-
houses, released 110 men under arrest, and then went to
the Roman Catholic church, where they pillaged and de-
stroyed everything. Thence they went to a former as-

sessor, who fled, and endeavoured to conceal himself with
property amounting to 6000 florins. He was discovered,

and though he offered to deliver up all that he had if they
would spare his life, they cut off his head, stuck it on a
pole, and caused his dead body to be dragged through the

city fastened to a horse's tail. They tlijn went to the
procc.nt aseczcor, and while he wrs ..teumntin to effect
his escape they shot bin, dead upon the spot. , Magazines
and houses were entered and plundered. Everything was
destroyed. Beds and furniture were thrown into the
streets ; and the city treasury, together with the docu-
ments, were destroyed by fire. Fifty-one hussars, who
were in the stadt-hau., fired upon them, but they were
too few in number. The rebels were furnished with long
poles, to the ends of which scythes were attached, and
with these they attacked the military. The riding-master
had his arm cut off, and Lieut. Count Zichy had a scythe
run. through his body, and two privates were killed and
many disarMed. The revolt commenced at Nertsatz,
where the Hungarian flag was destroyed, and a red one
hoisted in its stead. Emissaries from Servia are said to
have instigated the revolt. _ _

UNUSUAL CONNECTIONS.—The quartering of Prussian
troops in Christianfield, a village of the peculiar sect of
Hernhutters, is described as having astonished the prim
and peaceful brotherhood not a little. But they made a
virtue of necessity, and did their best to lodge the men of
battle. General Wrangel and his staff took possession of
the meeting-house, the ground-floor of which forms the
the only inn of the place ; the house of the " sisters," and
the " widow sisters," were appropriated to other depart-
ments of the administration. As the community is only
600 in number, on whom 1,400 men are billeted, both
brothers and sisters are thrown into affliction and diffi-

culties by the sudden pressure of numbers upon space.
But war respects no opinions, and takes no account of in-
conveniences; so the eagles were lodged in the dovecot,
as much out of place as a pile of muskets in the midst of a