The Diet of Baden was opened on Thursday by the
Regent at Carla- ruhe. He expressed deep regret at the disturbances resulting from "the step taken by the Archbishop of Freiburg, as well as the misapprehen- sions which prevailed in some foreign states on the subject. Under such circumstances, it was satisfactory and-reassuring to find that the greatdr part of his people took a more correct view of the course pursued by the Government. The faith of his Catholic subjects was as sacred to him as his own. No effort would be spared, while asserting the rights of the Crown, to bring about an amicable adjustment of the misunderstanding, and to secure to the Church a safe and dignified position."
A singular proof of the unpopularity of the present Queen of Spain and her Government has been given by the Opposition journals. No allusion even was made to the Queen's confinement in their columns It is said the Ministry has resolved to suppress the whole batch.
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