27 NOVEMBER 1847, Page 2

In the mean time, the Duke of Modena, as demented

as if his perdition were decreed, has issued a proclamation forbidding everything to enter his dominions, or to exist there, that partakes of the " pestilential " principles by which his little state is sur- rounded : he does not specifically direct that the wind from Tus- cany, Piedmont, or Rome, be excluded ; though that .exclusion would be as easy as the rest.

Queen Isabella has opened the Spanish Cortes, in the ominous presence of Queen Christina, with a speech foreshadowing, in dark ambiguous phrases, new laws against the press and a generally absolute policy ; it being some time since the Absolutists of Spain have been entertained with the sport of contesting a truly popular revolution.