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From AUSTRIA the only news is of new arrests and new restrictions. A
number of persons in Hungary, including the mother and the sisters of
Kossuth, had been arrested merely on suspicion at Pesth: and a subsequent
account announces the death of his mother. The prisoners were removed to
Vienna. The military governor of Vienna has forbidden the papers hereafter
to publish the names of any persons that may be arrested, or to mention
the fact of their arrest, on the ground that it “interferes with judicial
proceedings.” The government, it is said, has notified the English
government, that measures will be taken to prevent Englishmen from
traveling in Austria, if Austrian refugees continue to be received and
fêted in England.—The financial embarrassments of the government still
continue.—It is stated that Prince Schwarzenberg has avowed the intention
of the Austrian government to sustain Louis Napoleon in the course he has
taken—not that his legitimate right to the position he holds is conceded,
but because he is acting on the side of order.
From SPAIN we have intelligence that the Queen has pardoned all the
American prisoners proceeding from the last expedition against Cuba,
whether in Spain fulfilling their sentence or still in Cuba. The decree
announcing this was dated Dec. 9, and alleged the satisfactory conduct and
assurances of the American government as the ground of this clemency.—The
Spanish Minister, Don Calderon de la Barca, had been honored with the
Grand Cross of Charles II. as a reward for his conduct, and Señor Laborde,
the Spanish Consul at New Orleans, was to resume his post.—Immediately
after receiving news of the _coup-d’état_ in Paris, the Spanish Congress
was indefinitely prorogued by the royal authority. A princess was born on
the 20th of December.
In TURKEY the question of Russian predominance has again been raised, by
the demand of the French, upon the Turkish government, for the control of
the Holy Sepulchre, which, they allege, was guaranteed to them by treaty
in 1740. Through the agency of their Minister, the French had succeeded in
procuring an admission of the binding force of the treaty: but just then
the Russian Minister presented a demand that the Holy Sepulchre should
still remain in the hands of the Greek Church. This remonstrance caused
the Porte to hesitate: and the affair is still undecided.
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