The Prussian Universal Gazette makes the further announcement, that this
Congress of the German states will be opened at Dresden on the 25th of March. The peasants are 11117114r1OW 3* -
hereditary castles of the nobility are burned or razed: Prince Hohenlohe's two residences, Niederstettin and Oehringen, have fallen; also Assumstadt, Schwaiggern, and the celebrated Jaxthausen.
Before the Duke of Hesse Cassel capitulated to his people, they had bar- ricaded his streets; piling up large trees, waggons, and stones, with a frieze of plough-shares, which they scoured the country to collect.
The Duke of Saxe-Meiningen has "pronounced " in the most Liberal manner.
A violent tumult arose at Pesth on the 6th, from a rumour that the State bank-notes would be refused payment. It was allayed by the authorities' affording more than usual facilities for payment, and the notes are now restored to credit.
The Oberlander Bole, a German journal, contains this announcement- " Hungary has declared itself independent of Austria, and has proclaimed a Republic."
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