Letters from Tuscany state that fresh political arrests had been
made in Rimini, and that the whole of Romagna was in an "alarming fer- ment.'
The Gazette de France publishes a letter from Cologne, announcing that the Prussian Government was adopting energetic military mea- sures to secure the tranquillity of that city, where great exasperation continued to prevail. A large body of troops had been concentrated on that point; several pieces of artillery had been placed at the extre- mities of the principal streets and on the public squares ; Cologne, in short, presented the appearance of a place in a state of siege. The que,.tion from being a religious one was fast assuming a political cha- racter, and the population of the Dutchy of the Lower Rhine were beginniug to ask this question—" Why are we Prussians?"
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