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of the safety of his Majesty's royal person and govern- no more than justice to one who, however wronged,
ment, the safety of the established religion, the security always scorned to defend himself. The noble lord then
of the ancient rights and privileges and peace of the proceeded to state all that had been done in the way of
kingdom, &c., would have, of necessity, to be repealed. increasing our establishments since the year 1835, in order
The Bishop of St. DAVIDS contended that the bill to show that neither the Government nor Parliament bad
would only make that open and honourable which was been negligent. The late Government had organized the
now continually done, but not in a plain aril honourable told pensioners to the number 'of 50,000 men, at all times
manner. A political necessity for its passing had been available, and in addition to these they had the dockyard
Shown, and therefore he supported the bill. The right battallions and the coast guard, to which were attached a
rev. prelate paid a tribute to the character and ability of supplemental force of 6000 men. In addition to all these,
" - id defended the use of the style the regular force of the country, amounting to 55,000 men
in this country, would be increased to 60,000, by the
return of some regiments from India. The question then
to a great reduction

The Bi;

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EXETER heard for the first, and ft

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to the Canon I

The noble marquis had
reasonable doubt of the

ime to time as they had hitherto
done and as occasion might require, and be satisfied with
those additions. The view of the Government was that this
great country, with its extensive colonies, and exposed to
the possibility -of war, would not act wisely in reducing,
the expenditure of the country within the limit of its
income. On the other hand, he could see no reason for
any sudden armament of any kind, because at the present
moment the nation was in a fit state of defence, and in a
position calculated to guarantee the continuance of peace.
lord then entered into a statement of our naval
particularly in steam

and should they say that the law permitted the
rying on of diplomatic relations with Rome, then the
nisters should on their own responsibility advise her

;ht rev

id prelate saw a

Court of Rome and rece
in England ! He shad,

let-ween having an Agent at the
❑g a Nuncio here. A Nuncio
.ed at the thought of seeing

The Duke of Wellington

ad Lord Stanley said that

strength

and remarked that, al-
though the adoption of steam navigation gave greater faci-
lities for the invasion of this country, it also gave to this
country greater advantages in watching the ports of its
enemies. He did notpropose any increase to the number
of the army, but in the sappers and miners an increase
would take place, the result of which, including stores,
&c., would swell the estimate by the sum of 1.358,000.
He proposed also to bring in a bill to embody the militia,
or rather to lay a foundation for an efficient militia, the

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The Duke Of Newczstle then withdrew his amendment

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY.
P. SCROPE gave notice of a bill relative to small

Mr. BRIGHT

,otice that, on the 2d of March, he

expense of which would be £150;000. In addition to the
usual sources of expenditure, was a sum of £1,100,000
for the Kaffir war, and all added together, he would not
estimate the expenditure of the coming year at less
than £54,596,000. It was evident, therefore, that if the
government was right in its view of the impolicy of
reducing largely the establishments of the country,
they must not only renew the income tax, but they
.roust also resort to additional taxation, to make up the
deficiency of income to meet the expenditure. Any at-
tempt to raise revenue by re-imposing the taxes taken off
articles of consumption, would be, in his opinion, very
unwise. The government, therefore, proposed to renew
the present income tax for a period of five years from next
April, and in addition that the tax should be raised for a

principal bankers, merchants, and traders in Liverpool,
praying for the suspension of the Bank Charter Act,
moved a resolution to the effect—" That, looking to the
state of distress which has for some time prevailed among
the commercial classes, and to the general feeling of dis-
trust and alarm by which the embarrassments of trade
have been aggravated, it is the opinion of this house that
her Majesty's ministers were justified, during the recess

of parliament, in recommending to the Bank Of England,
for the purpose of restoring confidence, a course of pro-
ceeding at variance with the restrictions imposed by the
7th and Bth Vic., c. 32." The right hon. gentleman said

that if that resolution were agreed to, he Would then pro-
pose that the house resolve itself into a connuittee of the
whole house to consider the following resolution :—" That
it is expedient that the limitatinnc imnnqed by the set 7th

period of two years from 7d. in the'pound to 12d., or from
3 to 5 per cent. Considering the distress which had
recently prevailed in Ireland, he did not propose to raise
the tax to that country. He did not think this unjust to

tion to the issue of notes payable on demand, be sus-
pended, subject to such conditions as may be provided by
any act to be passed for that purpose." The right hon.
gentleman proceeded to give a description of the melan-
choly state to which the commerce and trade of this
country were reduced by the operation of the act of 1844,
and to contend that the government were fully warranted
in giving, and indeed were compelled to give, to the bank
authority to suspend that act. Notwithstanding this,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer had come down in hot
haste, at the !me*' t tF-
-

and, for if Ireland were crushed by a weight of tax-
ation the result to England would be almost equally de-
plorable. He proposed the tax should be imposed in the
same manner as it bad been in past -years, and on the same
principles which governed its application in the days of
Pitt and GrenVille. There was one tax which it was pro-
posed to repeal—a tax on copper ore, which had been im-
posed in 1842. That tax had done much injury to the
smelters, and had been of no benefit to the owners of
copper mines, and as it produced only £41,000, it was
thought advisable to propose its abolition. The total in-
come, including the increased income tax, would be,
according to his estimate, £54,750,000, while the expen-
diture would be £54,637,000, leaving a surplus of
£113,000 (a laugh.) The noble lord concluded by moving
a series of resolutions, in accordance with his speech, and
intimated that on Monday, the 28th, he would again move for
a committee of ways and means, in order to take the sense
of the house upon them.
Mr. DISRAELI referred to the promises made when first
the income tax was resorted to, and said, that instead of
finding it a temporary tax, in accordance with those pro-
mises, it was now to be made not only perpetual but
largely increased in amount.
Mr. COBDEN contended, that instead of levying an
income tax they should reduce their expenditure to what
it was in 1835.

or parliament, ,o propose ae ap-
pointment of a committee of inquiry, the object of which
Iwas to stifle discussion on the subject. The evils suffered
by the country had been attributed to the conduct of the
es directors of the Bank of England, but no skill on the

n -
part of these gentlemen could have' prevented the crisis
that had occurred, which would be attributed to the ope-
ration of the Bank Act alone. The evil principle was
inherent in the act itself, and therefore the house would
certainly be fully justified in suspending it.
Mr. HASTIE seconded the motion.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER denied that he
had attempted to stifle discussion, or that his motion for
a committee of inquiry had any such motive. He argued
that, instead of moving for the suspension of the act, Mr.
Herries ought to have moved for its repeal. To suspend

the act while the committee was sitting would be to de-
cide first and hear the fact afterwards. He could not
oppose the first resolution, but he would oppose the going
into committee.

The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and obtained leave

to sit again

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS

Alderman THOMPSON said that, although the bank was
now in a satisfactory state. there was no sufficient security
against a recurrence of the difficulties which had lately
occurred. The mercantile community could not stand
up against the continuation, in 1848, of the pressure
which weighed them down in 1847, nor was it reasonable
to ask them to wait till the report of the committee.
Mr. W. BROWN considered that the Bank Act had
totally failed on the first occasion on which it had been
tried, and that it had greatly aggravated the distress ori-
ginally caused by the famine.
The first resolution was agreed to ; but on the motion
to go into committee to consider the resolution to suspend
the act of 1844. the house divided—For Mr. Herries'

Dr. Hampden will now rave a seat in the House of
Lords,. the future Bishop of Chester being the junior
prelate.

The Archbishop of Canterbury's grandfather was a
Manchester tradesman, and his father received his edu-
cation at the Manchester Free Grammar School.
WESLEYANS BOUND TO UNITE WITH THE CHURCH.—
Nineteen years ago, we considered this question in our
public conference at Leeds—whether the Methodists
ought to separate from the church ; and, after a long and
candid inquiry, it was determined. nem. con., that it was
not expedient for them to separate. The reasons were
- and they stand equally good at this
none

[own at

HOUS OF LORDS.-FRIDAY

RESIDENCE OF THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER.—The
negotiations for Sedgeley have been broken off, it is
stated, on the ground that the price was higher than the
ecclesiastical commissioners were disposed to give. Since
then two other mansions in the neighbourhood had been
named as suitable. One of these is Rusholm House, 'theproperty and late the residence of Mr. W. Entwistle.
The other is Hough's-end Hall, near Moss-side, the pro-
perty of Mr. Wilbraham Egerton.
The letter of the Rev. Mr. Rowlandson, of Kington,
sets at rest the doubts which have been thrown on the
position taken by the late Archbishop of Canterbury re-
lative to the Bishop of Hereford. Mr. Rowlandson, it
appears, was in Oxford about the time of the archbishop's
addressing a most kind letter to the Bishop of Hereford,
expressing a wish to officiate personally at his consecra-
tion—a most graceful act :it must have been all but the
last letter penned by the lamented primate.
An antique pulpit of remarkable elegance and beauty
-has been discovered in the Church of All Saints, Sudbury.
Itis Gothic—an octagon of the perpendicular style, beau-
tifully proportioned, richly carved in the higher parts of
the panels, and terminating in a single pedestal, which is
now very correctly made to rest upon an octagon stone'
plinth. The latest date which can be assigned to it is the
early part of Henry Vll's reign—the date of the church,
if we except the northern arch, which is as old as the
reign of Edward IV. The oak is' as sound as on the day
on which it was constructed.
The Stipend of the Bishop of Manchester is the sub-
ject of an order in council, published in Tuesday's
Gazette. It directs the ecclesiastical commissioners to
pay £4,200 a-year to the Bishop out of the funds of the
commission ; and in the event of such funds being in-
sufficient, it directs the payment by the Archbishop of
Canterbury and the Bishop of London of £l,OOO each
per annum, and by the Bishop of Durham of a sum not
exceeding £5OO per annum ; the money so contributed
from the rich sees to go in aid of the fund of the com-
mission for the endowment of the new See of Manchester.
In 1847 the diocese of Chester contained 2,435,644 in-
habitants. Of these, 1,390,287 are now assigned to the
bishopric of Manchester, 117,022 are hereafter to be added
to Carlisle, and 928,335 still remain to Chester. Of the
seven hundred and seventy-seven benefices which it then
contained, 320 form the diocese of Manchester, one hun-
dred and twenty-one are to go to Carlisle, and Chester
will retain three hundred and thirty-six. The total
church aecommodation is 535,166 sittings, viz.: for Man-
chester, 257,794 ; for addition to Carlisle, 54,211; and for
Chester, 233,161 ; fully one-half of which is free to the
poor. The number of Parochial Clergy is one thousand
and thirty-three, of which four hundred and forty-two are
in the diocese of Chester, four hundred and fifty-three in
that of Manchester, and one hundred and thirty-eight
will belong to Carlisle.
THE TITHE REDEMPTION TRUST.—On Wednesday, a
meeting of the members of this society was held at their
office, in Abingdon-street, Westminster. Lord John
Manners presided. There were also present Lord Robert
Grosvenor, M.P., the Rev. Dr. Spranger, the Rev. Messrs.
J. T. Russell, Swan, Denne, Mallet, &c. Mr. G. H.
Drew, and other supporters, of the society. The secre-
tary stated, that he had sent copies of the prospectus to
the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and to all the
bishops, most of whom concurred in their views. He had
received communications from a great number of persons,
some of whom were willing to give up the tithes they held
as lay impropriators fora fair consideration. Several new
subscribers had been added to their list since the last
meeting, and many applications had been made for advice
how to act where there were chances for getting tithes
restored. He then read a long list of suggestions which
he had received for carrying out the object they supported.
A discussion then ensued, in which Lord Robt. Grosvenor,
Lord J. Manners, the Rev. Mr. Mallet, Mr. Dingwell,
and the Rev. Mr. Scott took part ; after which a committee
was appointed, and the meeting adjourned.
THENEW ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.—The Bishop
of Chester has been nominated to the Primacy ; his lord-
ship has accepted the high office ; but, we believe, the
appointment will not be officially announced for pro-
bably a day or two. It is the rare felicity of
of Dr. Sumner to attain to the highest eminence in the
Church—to the post of greatest dignity and highest in-
fluence—with the concurrence and approbation of the
first statesmen on both sides of politics. Our readers
cannot have forgotten the spontaneous testimony rendered
to his lordship by Sir Robert Peel, in the House of Com-
mons, when speaking as the Prime Minister of this coun-
try, and as the head of the then united and all-powerful
Conservative body. The Premier had occasion to allude
with commendation to other living Prelates; but singling
out the Bishop of Chester from all others, he spoke of
his personal character and apostolic labours in terms of
as high admiration as it is possible for one man to use in
speaking of another. It is this individual whom our
gracious Queen, under the advice of the leader of the
other great section of politicians, has selected to fill the
highest office in the Church, in times of unusual embar-
rassment and danger. Dr. Sumner was appointed Bishop
of Chester in 1828. He is in his 68th year, and the
income of his bishopric, until within the last two or three
years, when it was raised to £4,500, was only £1,500.
The annual revenue of the Archbishopric of Canterbury
is £15,000, with the patronage of 149 livings. The
Bishop of Chester has consecrated, we believe, very
nearly two hundred new churches in the twenty years of
his episcopacy ; and a great number of these owe their
erection to his own zealous exertions. And yet this la-
borious prelate has found time to produce, not merely
some volumes, or many of moderate merit ; he is the most
copious and useful writer that the English prelacy has
seen during the last century. His " Apostolical Preach-
ing Considered " is in the eighth edition ; his " Evidences
of Christianity " in the sixth ; his Prize Essay on the
Creation, in two vols. octavo, in the fifth ; his " Sermons
on the Christian Faith and Character," in the eighth.
His writings form fourteen octavo volumes, and all of
them have been frequently reprinted. We repeat, there-
fore, that the premier has had a fine opportunity of dis-
charging a great duty to the church ; and he has promptly
and wisely availed himself of it. The Tractarians, how-
ever, will probably be of a different opinion ; for no mem-
ber of the episcopal bench has so firmly or constantly
withstood their efforts, as has the new Archbishop of
Canterbury.

The bill for opening diplomatic relations with Rome
passed through committee.
In the course of the debate the amendment of the Duke
of Wellington, substituting the title " Sovereign of the
Roman States " for that of " Sovereign Pontiff," was
adopted by Lord Lansdowne, and agreed to.
A smart discussion then arose on the amendment pro-
posed by the Earl of Eglintoun, prohibiting the reception
of any ecclesiastic as the accredited minister of the Pope
in this country.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE thought that the right to
refuse any minister who might be distasteful to the Crown,
ought to be left in the case of the Pope, as in that of any
other foreign sovereign, to her Majesty and the govern-
ment.

The Earl of ABERDEEN said that the amendment could
not be rejected without incurring the danger of grave con-
sequences, and deprecated the presence of an ecclesiastic
as the Pope's Nuncio in this country.
Lord STANLEY deemed it highly important that the
amendment should be carried. While he had no objec-
tion to seeing England properly represented at Rome, he
could never sanction the transplanting of the Vatican to
London.

The result of the division which took place was unfa-
vourable to her Majesty's ministers, the numbers being 67
for the clause, and 64 against it. This amendment would,
in all probability, be considered destructive of the princi-
ple of the bill as limiting the right of the Crown to the
reception of a certain class of ambassadors, but that the
government have in their own hands the power of revers-
ing the decision of their lordships on the bringing up of
the report, by the employment of the proxies with which
they are entrusted—proxies not counting in divisions in
committee.

Subsequently the Duke of WELLINGTON proposed an
amendment declaratory of the competence of the Crown
to establish diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome,
notwithstanding the ancient laws of this realm, which was
adopted by the government, and incorporated with the
preamble of the bill.
Lord REDESDALE then moved a clause to the effect that
before any diplomatic relations are entered into with the
Court of Rome by this country, the Pope should renounce
all pretensions to temporal power in the dominions of her
Majesty, which was opposed by
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, on the ground that such
claims alluded to by the noble lord meant nothing, and
were therefore unworthy of serious notice.
Lord STANLEY, however, considered that such a renun-
ciation ought to be made by the Roman Sovereign ; but,
at the same time, he was of opinion that the point was
not of such importance as to necessitate a division upon
it.

The clause was then withdrawn, and the bill, having
passed through committee, was ordered to be reported on
Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

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Lord Jolts RUSSELL made his financial statement for
the year. lie said he felt that he could very inadequately
lay before them the outline of the financial policy of the
government, and he therefore intended to leave to a future
discussion the greater portion of the arguments in support
of that policy. The noble lord then alluded to the recent
difficulties through which the country had passed, stated
the enormous transitions which had taken place in the
value of commodities and in the rate of discounts within
the last 18 months, and also drew attention to the amount
)f hur ' • ' k- ' h

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,

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A jtry of Prince George's country, Maryland, set aside
the will of the late Mr. Townsend, because the testator
liberated, by his will, all his slaves and other property.
The steamer Styx has captured thirteen slave vessels
during her services on the coast of Africa. They comprise
brigs and brigantines, arrd altogether amount to 2000 tons
of shipping which that steamer has removed from the
traffic. All of them have been condemned.
Accounts from Hanover state that King Ernest is se-b
riously indisposed. His Majesty has been suffering from
a severe influenza, but it was feared that it had taken an
alarming character, and some apprehensions were felt on
the subject.

The failure of Messrs. Dubois and Co. the largest
bankers in Havre, is confirmed. The bank consisted of
a body of shareholders, and was known as Messrs. Dubois
and Co.'s Commercial Bank. The paid up capital of the
concern was 4,500,000 f. (X 180,000). and the total liabili-
ties are stated by some parties at 12,000,000 f. (£480,000).
OPENING OF THE ELBE.—On Tuesday last, the steam-
ship Marshall, Captain Raas, arrived in Hull from Gluck-
stadt, bringing the first news of her own departure, and of
the breaking up of the ice in the Elbe. He took his de-
parture on Saturday, and after encountering much ice in
the river, which stove one of his bowplates (she is an iron
steamer) had the damage repaired in Cuxhaven, and pro-
ceeded. Captain Raas informs us that, in his opinion, it
would be about a fortnight or three weeks from the date
of his departure before the river would be clear up to
Hamburgh.
CONVERSION TO PROTESTANTISM OF A MEMBER OF
THE INQUISITION AT ROME.—The most reverend Signor
Lingi de Santes, Rector of the principal parish in Rome,
La Maddalena, Qualificator of the Inquisition, Member of
the Theological College of the Sapienza, and of various
Academies. and one of the most eloquent preachers in
Italy ; has solemnly abjured the errors of Romanism. turned
his back upon all human grandeur, and united himself to
the rising Italian Church, and is now preparing for the
great work of the Mission, in the Evangelical College of
Malta.—Translated from an Italian paper, by a Corre-
spondent.
CAPE OF Goon Hopu.—We have two days' later news
from the Cape of Good Hope, viz., to the 14th December.
This arrival confirms the belief previously entertained,
that Urnhala is not incere in his submission to British
authority ; for though living under its protection, he is
evidently affording shelter and assistance to those in arms
against her Majesty. Pato still continues to elude pursuit.
Sandilla is kept a prisoner at Graham's Town, and is libe-
rally fed at the expense of the colony or the state,*while
his brother Dundas succeeds to the chieftainship, and,
being inimical to the British, rallies the scattered tribes
around his standard in the fastnesses of the Amatola,
whence the probability is they will only be dislodged, as
before, by the employment of an adequate force.
THE AVENGER.—A court-martial took place at Malta,
on the 31st of January, on board the Trafalgar, on the
survivors of the unfortunate steam-frigate, Avenger, viz.,
Lieut. Francis Rooke, Mr. John Larcom, William Hill,
and James Morley, boy. Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis,
Bart., presided. A narrative of all the circumstances
connected with the lamentable event was put in by
Lieut. Rooke and read. This officer was then examined.
Other testimony was also given, from which it appeared
that no blame whatever could be attached to Lieut. Rooke
and his three surviving companions. At the close of the
proceedings on the 31st January the Court was adjourned
to Tuesday, the Ist of February, on which day the Court
re-assembled, and fully acquitted the prisoners. They
expressed a doubt whether the Avenger had the Admiralty
charts of the Mediterranean on board.
Among the advices from America we find one of a rather
curious character touching the famous Mississipi debt. A.
citizen of that state, by name 'Robins, has stated the di-
lemma of the honest people to be this ; they wish to pay
their debts and they have funds to do it with, but these
particular debts of which we talk were illegally contracted
by the Government; and if they submit to being taxed
for the purpose of paying them, they will be giving their
sanction to an illegal proceeding. The case is undoubtedly
a knotty one; but happily Mr. Robins has his solution
ready. He is " deputed" to meet the Mississippi creditors
and to make to them a proposal that they shall send
round—[their hats, we were going to say, but something
to answer the same purpose)—from house to house among
the good citizens, who will, he undertakes for them, joy-
fully pay their quota towards the discharge of the State
debt, and redeem their characters for honesty without
compromising the constitution by admitting the legality
of an legality of an illegal act.
Advices from Paris state that the reform agitation con-
tinues with undiminished vigour. The great reform
banquet, however, has been postponed from Sunday to
Tnesday, to obviate the danger of excitement among the
populace on their day of recreation. The agitation is
spreading rapidly through the provinces, and addresses
had arrived from Chartres and Amiens to their deputies,
exhorting them to resistance. These addresses were
signed by bankers, lawyers, municipal councillors, officers
of the national guard, and electors. Similar addresses
were on their way from Blowis, Tours, Rouen, Havre,
Arras, and Lille. Deputations were coming from the
provinces to attend the reform banquet. The govern-
ment contradicts the statement that artillery, ammuni-
tion, and other military supplies, had been distributed
from the fort of Vincennes to various points of Paris.
It is said that the king has consulted M. Dupin on the
legality of the banquets, and that he has said that minis-
ters have no legal right to impede them, and that such a
proceeding would put the country on the brink of revo-
lution. The partisans of the government still maintained,
however, that ministers were resolved to stop the banquet.
SINGULAR SUICIDE.—At the latter end of January,
Dr. Horace Wells, formerly of Hartford, Connecticut,
committed suicide at New York. The deceased claimed
for himself the honour of being the original discoverer of
the use of ether and chloroform in surgical and dentistry
cases, and visited London and Paris for the purpose of
stablishing his claim to the original discovery. It appears
that Dr. Wells was in the habit of producing intoxication
upon himself by the use of chloroform, and, under one '
of the paroxysms produced by the intemperate use of
this powerful agent; sallied forth into Broadway, and
threw vitriol upon the clothes of some of the unfortunate
girls who there promenade at night. He was taken into
custody, and, for the purpose of drowning the conse-
quences of the exposure, committed suicide by inflicting
a desperate gash in his left thigh, penetrating the femoral
artery. Beside him, when discovered, lay a razor, a pen-
knife, and a phial, ,labelled " Pure Chloroform," from
which there is no doubt that he used his own medicine to
destroy the sensation of pain in the act. A person had
obtained from the deceased, a few days previous, a phial
of vitriol for the purpose of throwing upon some of the
girls, who, he said, had injured him, and it is supposed
this in his intoxicated state must have operated upon him.
He has left a wife and one child.
LOLA MONTES.—RIOT AT MUNICH.—There is confu-
sion in the North of Europe as in the South, but the
cause is not equally dignified. Munich has been in a kind
of insurrection, on account of a Royal mistress, just as
Naples has on account of constitutional liberty. The
honours heaped by the King of Bavaria on his Spanish
paramour, Lola Montes, Countess of Lansfrld, have
caused a disgust which has at length exploded with consi-
derable violence. The proximate cause of the manifesta-
tion arose in the University. There, as in other German
universities, the students form themselves into associa-
tions, with distinctive names and badges. A new one
was lately formed, under the auspices of Lola Montes.
This seems to have caused great irritation ; at length the
members of it, on their appearance at a lecture, were hissed
and hooted in such a way as to oblige the professor to
dismiss the club. The next day there was the same up-
roar. Prince Watterstein, the minister for foreign affairs,
interfered, as it appears, with success, a promise being
given that the interruption should not continue. Never-
theless, on the ninth of the month, several of the Alema-
nea—the name taken by the members of the new associa-
tion—were attacked furiously in the street and obliged to
take refuge in an eating-house. They sent a message to
Lola Montes for protection, who boldly walked to the
place on foot, but being recognised by the mob she was
in her turn compelled to seek for refuge, which she did not
seem likely to find, when the king, being apprised of what
was going on, left a fete he was giving at the palace and
hurried to her aid. Offering his arm, he led her to
a church opposite the palace. There the melodramatic
lady first threw herself at the foot of the altar, exclaiming
" God protect my best, my only friend," and then sallied
forth pistol in hand. Not at all touched by this display,
the mob became furious, and one of them wresting the
pistol from her hand, pinned her by the throat against a
wall. From this rough hug she was fortunately rescued
by the gem:Mew:es, who eventually conducted her to the
palace. The authorities then announced that the Univer-
sity should be closed for a year. On this the irritation
increased. and some disposition was shown to come into
collision with the military, some of whom it is said had
without orders made a charge in the morning and shot
down two or three people. Either on that night or the
next, the house of the mistress was sacked by the students,
Lola Montes having barely time to save herself by flight.
The King; it is said, aided by the general irritation, has
consented to her expulsion, and reopened the University.
Such are the singular and disgraceful scenes which have
been occurring: at 'Munich. On the 12th, tranquillity was
nearly restored in Munich, though Lola had reappeared
dressed in male attire, and made a last attempt to pene-
trate into the royal palace. Some ten or twelve students
of the Alemanna Association, her body guard, escorted her.
The moment the return of the royal mistress became
known, the people assembled, and strict inquiry was made
to discover her hiding-place. Fortunately for her, Prince
Wallerstein, who still retains his seat in the ministry,
caused her to be arrested by gendarmes, placed in a
post-
chaise, and sent off' to Switzerland. She reached Augsburg
in the afternoon. Three students accompanied her in
the carriage with the two police-officers. On leaving
Munich she said, " The king will abdicate, and follow
me into exile." Intelligence has been received that Lola
Montes had arrived at Lindau, on the Lake of Constance,
on the evening of the 13th, and was to leave the next day
for Switzerland.