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RUVARIL—The Journal des Debate publishes a letter purporting to have been written to the King of Bavaria by four of his Ministers on tendering their resignation. They state that they are driven to this "sad necessity " by the King's decision to naturalize Satre Lola Montes. "The question of naturalization," they observe, "was frankly and openly characterized by the Counsellor of State, De Maurer, in the sitting of the Council of the 8th instant, as the greatest calamity with which Bavaria could be afflicted." The Ministers refer to the great public scandal, and notice that the respect for the Sovereign "becomes weaker and weaker in all minds." The na- tional feeling is outraged at being governed by a foreign female. The Bishop of Augsburg has shed bitter tears, and "the Ministers of the Inte- rior and of Finance have been witnesses of his profound affliction." The foreign journals are full of the most scandalous comments, and the efforts of the police to exclude these papers are vain. Torn with anguish, and ready to lay down their lives for their royal master, the Ministers feel bound to resign, unless his Majesty should deign to listen to their repre- sentations.

Some of the accounts since received deny that the attempt to naturalize a foreign lady was the real cause of the Ministerial crisis. It is alleged that for some time the King had contemplated serious and beneficial changes in the system of government followed hitherto by Ministers; and it WEB to hinder the development of the proposed reforms that the late opportunity had been seized to coerce the King. It is pretty clear that there has been much intriguing in the matter. The old Ministry, finding that they had made a false move in resigning while there was a possibility of forming another Ministry independently of their aid, began to appeal to the populace. "In Munich, Augsburg, and Nuremberg," it is said, "they circulated copies of their protest most industriously, not merely in private circles, but in a true revolutionary style, in taverns and coffeehouses; while in the salons there were dropped, in the midst of large parties, hints and proposals, even bordering on high treason, of which even the public papers have given reports." From whatever cause, there is no doubt that Munich has been the theatre of serious disorders. According to the Journal des Debats, the resignation of M. D'Abel was followed by an effort on the part of some members of the University to make a demonstration in favour of the Minister. The majority, however, decided otherwise-

" The Government, having been informed that four professors had on this occa- sion shown a strong spiriKof hostility to the King, has deprived them of their pro- fessorships. One of them, M. Lasseaux, Professor of Theology, put up a notice in the interior of the University that he had stopped his course of lectures, as he was not allowed any longer to receive students, and bidding the students adieu. This produced a great degree of agitation. A considerable number of students, who were joined in the way by some of the common people, went to the ex-Professor's house, and saluted him with cries of 'Long live Lasseaux!' This was followed by some cries of 'Lola Mentes I' and the crowd went to that celebrated lady's house, and broke the windows. Upwards of six thousand persons were at one time as- sembled before her house, and they gave vent to seditious and hostile cries of the most serious kind. The streets being covered with ice, the populace had plenty of materials to break windows with. The troops were called out, but were not able to suppress the disorder, which continued for a great portion of the night." It is said that the King has cut the Gordian knot, by giving up the at- tempt to naturalize the lady; merely conferring upon her the title of Countess, and building her a palace.

Letters from Munich, of the 27th February, contradict the statement which has been published that Lola Mentes had provoked a riot by strik- ing a carter, and had subsequently been expelled from that city.

Batennst.—The high price of bread has led to disturbances at Liege, at Verviers, and in East Flanders. Ever since the end of February there have been symptoms of discontent, and inflammatory placards have been circulated: the disorders now broke forth- " On the night of the 5th instant, a considerable number of persons, apparently belonging to the working classes,' assembled in front of the Hotel de Ville of Liege; and, after giving utterance to seditious cries, proceeded to the palace of the Archbishop, against whom they directed very significant menaces. In passing through the Passage-lemonier, the mob smashed several windows, as well as the lamps which lighted up the arcade; and thence proceeded to that part of the city which is solely inhabited by the poorer classes. Not having succeeded in their efforts to excite any general commotion in that quarter, the misguided people re- turned to the more central streets, and demolished the sentry-box of the treasurer of the city, and broke the windows of his residence. The rioters were preceding to commit other excesses, when they were met by the military and a large body

of police. About twenty of the ringleaders were arrested, after resistance, and conveyed to prison. The most energetic measures have been taken to preserve the public peace, as well as to relieve the necessitous. On the 7th instant, the authorities issued placards, stating that every person in need would receive tickets to entitle him to a loaf for 10 centimes (Id.) under the present legal price. The municipal tax on meat is suspended till further no:ice, and other measures of re- lief are promised. Employers have been earnestly recommended to prevent as much as possible their workmen from assembling in the streets. On the 6th in- stant, however, crowds of persons, principally belonging to the class just referred to, perambulated the city; but, according to the latest intelligence, no excesses of any importance were committed. Strong detachments of military were posted in various streets and on the bridges, in order to prevent the inhabitants of the Quartier d'Outre Meuse (the Whitechapel of Liege) from passing into the city. "On the evening of the 6th instant, a battalion of troops of the line left l.tege for Verviers (the Lads of Belgium) in a special train; an express having reached the former city that disturbances had broken out in the latter. The prompt in- terference of the authorities, and the appearance of the troops, prevented the committal of any great excesses. Measures of relief, similar to those in Liege, were adopted by the Town-Council." At Deynze and at Ghent, barges containing corn and flour have been pillaged by the poor inhabitants. The civic authorities of Brussels, in order to remove one pretext for dis- order, resolved on the 7th instant to increase the price of bread of the first and second quality, in order to be able to keep the so-called "pain de me- nage "—the kind used by the labouring classes—at its present price.

Meat is very dear in Brussels; and a royal decree was issued on the 7th instant abolishing the duty on cattle.

FRANCE.—Public attention in Paris seems for the time directed to the state of the country. The Constitutionnel asserts that the deficiencies of the last harvest cannot be made up by less than 12,000,000 hectolitres of grain, of which only one third have as yet been obtained; and argues that if the exportation of specie for this third has created so much monied em- barrassment, the exportation for the whole must be ruinous. Everywhere the price of wheat and flour is advancing alarmingly; and although the authorities in the provinces are using most active exertions to augment and equalize the supplies, the scarcity is daily increasing. At the last market at Boulogne-sur-Mer, there were scarcely any supplies of wheat; a cir- cumstance which excited the greatest alarm among the authorities and principal inhabitants. M. Adolphe Adam, M. L. Fontaine, M. Chaveau- Sire, and EL Adam, the heads of four of the principal mercantile houses of the town, advanced a sum of 200,000 francs, with which they despatched M. L. Fontaine junior to England to purchase corn. In the Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, a proposition by M. FouM to cancel above 11,000,000 of French Three per Cent Rentes, redeemed by

the " caisse d'atnortissement " from July 1833 to December 1846, was re- jected by a considerable majority. The Minister of Finances, who opposed the motion, reiterated his assertion that he considered no loan necessary at present.

The Prince de Joinville left Paris on Sunday, for Toulon.

SPAIN.—The accounts of Carlist demonstrations still continue; and re- inforcements amounting to 7,000 men have been sent to Catalonia.

The dispute respecting the French vessel stranded in the Bidassoa has been settled by the surrender of the vessel under protest. She was towed. out of the river on the 1st instant, by the French gun-boats. Among the rumours that have obtained currency in Paris on the strength of accounts from the Spanish capital, is one to the effect that the disgust

of Queen Isabella for her husband had gone so far that she had resolved to apply to the Pope for a divorce: all personal communication between the hapless couple, it is asserted, has long ceased; and they very sel- dom see each other, though still occupying the same palace.

The Madrid Gazette announces the appointment of Sefior Isturitz to be Envoy at the Court of St. James's.

Ponrucat..—The Portuguese mail has brought news from Lisbon to the 3d, and from Oporto to the 2d instant. Saldanha had at length reached the banks of the Douro, opposite Oporto; and it was announced that he was about to proceed to the investment of the town. There had been no action: everything remained in statu quo,—Saldanha in position, unmoved by a bravado of the Junta; who, with 6,000 men formed a line of battle on hills not eight miles distant from the Marshal's head-quarters. Saldanha had now with him but 4,500 men including 700 cavalry.

The Queen's Generals, Casal, men, and Vinhaes, were effecting a junc- tion on the right bank of the Douro. The Duke of Terceira and other prisoners had been removed from the castle of the Fox to the city prison. They were well treated. The Queen, it is said, refused to exchange Bomfm and the prisoners of Torres Irvin; for the Duke.

The Junta bad postponed to the 1st of May any change in the monetary circulation. Oporto was perfectly tranquil, and abundantly supplied. Nearer Lisbon, two actions had been fought, in both of which the Queen's troops had been very successful,—one a little North of Coimbra, where eleven of the insurgents had been slain; the other at Estremoz, where twelve insurgents were killed, and nearly 100 wounded. Count Alexander Mensdorff, Sir H. Seymour, and Colonel Wylde, con- jointly were endeavouring to persuade the Queen to accept British media- tion for a pacific settlement. They are said to have represented, that Lord Palmerston was anxious for an accommodation, and had offered that Eng- land herself would become directly the mediator. But the reluctance of the Queen and her Government as yet showed no disposition to yield. The money difficulties of the Government were still very great, and the discount on Bank of Lisbon notes was still at 30 per cent.

TURKET.—There has been a Ministerial crisis at Constantinople. On the 17th of February, the Minister of Finance, Nafiz Pacha, tendered his resignation; which was accepted by the Sultan. The Councillor of the Grand Vizier, Sarim Effendi, was appointed Minister of Finance, and elevated to the dignity of Machin, or Pacha with three tails. Sarim Effendi is considered one of the ablest men in Turkey, and his nomination to that post must tend to strengthen the Ministry. The Augsbury Gazette of the 28th February states, that King Otho had written an autograph letter to the Sultan, offering the lame excuse that the words of which M. Mussurus, the Turkish Ambassador, com- plained, were addressed to him as a private individual, and not in his capacity as representative of the Ottoman Porte. M. Coletti on his own part had addressed a letter in a similar sense to the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Constantinople.

NEW SOUTH WALEs.—Sydney papers have been received to the 7th of November. A Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed to con-

sider Lord Stanley's despatch to Sir Charles Fitzroy dated the 30th of April 1846, had reported in favour of a renewal of transportation, under certain conditions. They require that the transportation of males shall be

accompanied by an equivalent importation of females, either convict or free; that there shall at the same time be an equal importation of free immigrants, in which the balance of the sexes shall be preserved; that the

wives and families of all convicts receiving indulgences shall count as part of the free immigration; that the number of male convicts shall not be less than 5,000 annually; and that the penal establishments shall be main- tained at the cost of the Mother-country. The Legislative Committee also propose, that two-thirds of the expense of police, gaols, and the criminal administration of justice shall be paid by the Imperial Government; but

that on the relinquishment of the Laud-fund to be appropriated by the Governor and Council, the whole of the expenditure shall be assumed

by the colony. The power of making regulations for the government and discipline of the convicts to be vested in the Governor and Connell, saving entire the Royal prerogative of mercy. The colonists were very much divided in opinion upon the subject.

New ZEALAND.—Papers have been received from New Zealand to the 24th of October, bringing the advices from the Bay of Islands down to the 17th of the same month. At that date the affairs generally bore a quiet and peaceful aspect. Held and Kawiti had held a conference with Wake

• Nene, the stanch and tried ally of the British; and the result was a mutual interchange of forgiveness and reconciliation. Heki, it is stated, has signi- fied his readiness to restore the horses purloined by the rebels, whenever the Governor shall inform him of the owners. This chief had also forwarded by the Castor war-ship a large hog, weighing nearly 300 pounds, as a pro- pitiatory present to his Excellency. The latest accounts from Wellington state that Rangihaeata was still at large, in the neighbourhood of Manavratu. The remaining prisoners had been tried and sentenced to transportation for life. Seven of them were on board the Queen's steamer Driver, on their way to Hobart Town.

Mmtco.—According to the accounts brought from Vera Cruz by the West India mail-steamer Medway, the internal affairs of Mexico are in the worst possible condition. The financial resources were exhausted; and Vice-President Gomez Ferias was driven to the expedient of seizing on fifteen millions of Church property to aid in meeting the expenses of the war. Public feeling, however, was against him on this point.

Meanwhile, Santa Anna's army was in a miserable plight, and quite powerless for want of resources. The invaders were in possession of the whole coast of the Gulf; but the blockade is represented as "a farce," vessels getting through every day. The United States navy is not con- sidered to have distinguished itself in any of the operations of the war. General Taylor was at Ciudad Victoria, connecting his forces through Lindres to Monterey.