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that war against the Mexican republic into which Queen Isabella ' s government wants to * engage . The ministry said that the passage in the royal speech that brought the gene ^ asserted that , in case ^ the negociations still carried on with England and Fran ce , and through them witlr the republic , remained without result , then Spain was
prepared for war . The journals state that in the sitting of the senate , on General Print's amendment , the absence of many of thei senators was remarkable . The opposition-press had seized upon the fact , and had cbserved that ] though favourable :. to the ^^ ^ they desired to withhold their countenance from the mmisters ,------iFrom Prussia we learn that arrests haye > been made in the matter of the e * pergne which , the city of Cologne gave the Princess Frederick William on her marriage .
Bejbter still , the whole of the precious metal , or very nearly the whole , has been recovered , although melted down , so that the costly workmanship of the piece is lost .- — ----Turning to Russia , we have a picture of autocratic' power exerting itself not without great peril , for the emancipatiori and enfranclrisemeht of the serf millions . The party which , in the ^ general commission at St . Petersburgh , represents the extreme views of the Emperor , has triumphed over its more timid opponents and has given to its master a highly satisfactory report onthe progress of
emancipation . In Russian Poland the peasants have already been set free , their forced labour being commuted into a rent payment for lands which are to be granted to them , under conditions that will probatory at some not very distant time be found to require considerable anaehoration , but which at the outset will secure to the emancipated peasant a living , with liberty .- ——The debate on postal reform in the Belgian Chamber has been continued , and was not concluded when the last mail left . The proposition of the reformers is to introduce the system of penny postage
unreservedly . The loidependance Beige gives an account of the visit of the king to the Ardennes , where he shot a wolf ; and another was shot by his majesty at St . Hubert . It is strange that wolves should be found in so thickly peopled a country as Belgium . ——A letter from Vienna says : —' : ' There is reason to believe that the highest and most influential persons in the Austrian empire are beginning to observe that they committed a gross political blunder when they gave such unlimited powers to the Roman Catholic clergy . Since the publication of the concordat there
has been nothing but discord at home and unpleasant complications ; abroad . The government would feign do something for the protestants , and the temperor himself is of opinion that their reasonable wishes should be attended to , but the ultramontane party is so strong that no power in the state is now able to overcome its passive resistance . The consequences of the Concordat have , if possible , been even more disastrous abroad than they have been at home . With the exception of Naples , Tuscany , and Rome , Austria has no ally . It would be good policy for England to be on intimate terms with her ; but no British ministry can venture to
go hand in hand with a power which barely tolerates Protestantism . " Intelligence from Stockholm states that the health of the King of Sweden is seriously impaired . His appetite and power to sleep diminish , and . his strength fails . The Prince Regent of Sweden lias just dismissed the Norwegian minister , M . Vogt , who had been in office for thirty-three years . On the ll ) th inst . a detachment of
French troops was marched into the Swiss valley of the Dappcs , to which claims have been set up by the imperial government . Great excitement is said to be felt in Switzerland at the proceeding , and the Swiss and Austrian press are reported to be highly indignant . Advices from Lisbon inform us that many of the documents respecting the Charles-et-Georges question have been published , and the Marquis de Louie * has declared with respect to some papers which were not published , that tho Portuguese government did not think it expedient to publish them , but they would be laid on the table for the examination of the deputies .- A telegram of the 21 sb indicates tho ' confirmed hostility of the King of Naples to French interference .
Monsieur d ' Agiout had brought fresh capital and skill to the undertaking of a line from the Appian Way to the remote seaport of Otranto , and had lodged a very large sum as caution money for the due execution of the contract . On some flimsy pretext the king has confiscated the deposit , and annulled the contract . A similar proceeding had already occurred in the Castelkmare line of rail- —Some difficulty
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that war against the Mexican republic into which Queen Isabella ' s government wants to * engage . The ministry said that the passage in the royal speech that brought the gene ^ asserted that , in case ^ the negociations still carried on with England and Fran ce , and through them witlr the republic , remained without result , then Spain was
prepared for war . The journals state that in the sitting of the senate , on General Print's amendment , the absence of many of thei senators was remarkable . The opposition-press had seized upon the fact , and had cbserved that ] though favourable :. to the ^^ ^ they desired to withhold their countenance from the mmisters ,------iFrom Prussia we learn that arrests haye > been made in the matter of the e * pergne which , the city of Cologne gave the Princess Frederick William on her marriage .
Bejbter still , the whole of the precious metal , or very nearly the whole , has been recovered , although melted down , so that the costly workmanship of the piece is lost .- — ----Turning to Russia , we have a picture of autocratic' power exerting itself not without great peril , for the emancipatiori and enfranclrisemeht of the serf millions . The party which , in the ^ general commission at St . Petersburgh , represents the extreme views of the Emperor , has triumphed over its more timid opponents and has given to its master a highly satisfactory report onthe progress of
emancipation . In Russian Poland the peasants have already been set free , their forced labour being commuted into a rent payment for lands which are to be granted to them , under conditions that will probatory at some not very distant time be found to require considerable anaehoration , but which at the outset will secure to the emancipated peasant a living , with liberty .- ——The debate on postal reform in the Belgian Chamber has been continued , and was not concluded when the last mail left . The proposition of the reformers is to introduce the system of penny postage
unreservedly . The loidependance Beige gives an account of the visit of the king to the Ardennes , where he shot a wolf ; and another was shot by his majesty at St . Hubert . It is strange that wolves should be found in so thickly peopled a country as Belgium . ——A letter from Vienna says : —' : ' There is reason to believe that the highest and most influential persons in the Austrian empire are beginning to observe that they committed a gross political blunder when they gave such unlimited powers to the Roman Catholic clergy . Since the publication of the concordat there
has been nothing but discord at home and unpleasant complications ; abroad . The government would feign do something for the protestants , and the temperor himself is of opinion that their reasonable wishes should be attended to , but the ultramontane party is so strong that no power in the state is now able to overcome its passive resistance . The consequences of the Concordat have , if possible , been even more disastrous abroad than they have been at home . With the exception of Naples , Tuscany , and Rome , Austria has no ally . It would be good policy for England to be on intimate terms with her ; but no British ministry can venture to
go hand in hand with a power which barely tolerates Protestantism . " Intelligence from Stockholm states that the health of the King of Sweden is seriously impaired . His appetite and power to sleep diminish , and . his strength fails . The Prince Regent of Sweden lias just dismissed the Norwegian minister , M . Vogt , who had been in office for thirty-three years . On the ll ) th inst . a detachment of
French troops was marched into the Swiss valley of the Dappcs , to which claims have been set up by the imperial government . Great excitement is said to be felt in Switzerland at the proceeding , and the Swiss and Austrian press are reported to be highly indignant . Advices from Lisbon inform us that many of the documents respecting the Charles-et-Georges question have been published , and the Marquis de Louie * has declared with respect to some papers which were not published , that tho Portuguese government did not think it expedient to publish them , but they would be laid on the table for the examination of the deputies .- A telegram of the 21 sb indicates tho ' confirmed hostility of the King of Naples to French interference .
Monsieur d ' Agiout had brought fresh capital and skill to the undertaking of a line from the Appian Way to the remote seaport of Otranto , and had lodged a very large sum as caution money for the due execution of the contract . On some flimsy pretext the king has confiscated the deposit , and annulled the contract . A similar proceeding had already occurred in the Castelkmare line of rail- —Some difficulty