arbitrary acts; and such a spirit of resistance was excited
that the Elector and his minister were constrained
to seek safety in flight. The Elector left Cassel on the
morning of the 13th, and arrived the same evening at
Hanover, where he was afterwards joined by Hassenpflug.
Some of the accounts state that M. Hassenpflug was
agitated by terror in his flight. He arrived at Rheda,
in Westphalia, on the 13th instant, and on the following
morning he took the train to Cologne. He was
pale, and his features were distorted with fear and the
fatigues of his journey. He informed his fellow-travellers
that he was proceeding to Coblentz; but it was
generally supposed that he intended to escape into
Belgium. His presence in the train having become
known, it was soon whispered at all the stations that
the "Hessen fluch" (Hesse's curse) was a passenger in
a certain carriage; and everywhere public opinion vented
itself in groans and execrations. On the arrival of the
train in Dusseldorf, the gendarmes on duty were informed
of the presence of Hassenpflug, the convicted
forger of Greifsweld. One of the passengers, who had
paid a particular and by no means welcome attention to
M. Hassenpflug's bearing and features, was canvassing
the subject with one of the gendarmes, when the ex-minister,
unable to retain his pent-up-emotion, addressed
him with, "I say, sir, why do you persecute me?"
"Sir," replied the passenger, "I do not persecute you.
I'm just telling this man of the villanies of that scoundrel
Hassenpflug." The gendarmes asked him for his
passport; and when the minister produced that document,
a voice was heard to cry, "Look sharp, man,
whether it is a good passport! You know he's a forger!"
Upon this Mr. Hassenpflug was arrested, and taken to
the police-station; but he was subsequently allowed to
proceed by post to Langeafeld, where he intended to
wait for the Elector's arrival. At Hanover it is said
that the Elector made application for military aid to
carry out the policy in which he had been checked; but
the reply was unfavourable. Thence he turned to the
South-west, in order to regain the South of his own
dominions by a detour through Minden and Dusseldorf.
He and his ministers were at Frankfort on the 16th.
From thence he went to Williamstadt, where, on the
19th, he issued a decree making that place the seat of
government.

On the 13th, the day on which the Elector took his
secret departure, a courier arrived at Cassel from General
Hainau, the Minister of War, to General Bauer, the
Commander in Chief, instructing him that the government
had been removed from Cassel; and that the
Elector had revoked all the decree establishing the state
of siege, except the second section of it, which placed
the Civil Guard under the Commander in Chief. The
municipal authorities met, and immediately issued an
address, stating that the harmony between the militaiy
and civil powers would obviate all the evils threatened
by the unexpected departure of the Sovereign and his
Ministers, and exhorting the people to persevere in
their strictly legal and orderly behaviour. On the
14th, the Permanent Committee of the Assembly resolved
to bring old General Bauer, a stanch disciplinarian
soldier, but a most honest and respected citizen,
to account for his share in executing the late measures.
He was prosecuted for abuse of office, violation of the
constitution, and high treason. On the first point, a
military one, the Garrison Court acquitted him; on the
other two, the "General Auditoriat" Court found
that "the facts adduced were not sufficiently strong
to warrant lurther proceedings." The old soldier
has expressed his desire to resign, and confines himself
at home as "sick."

The accounts from Madrid announce the capture and
death of the Centralista chief, Baliarao, who for more
than three months past had kept in continual movement
the whole of the troops of that province. He was concealed
in his mother's house in the village of St. Andres
de Palomar, where the volunteers of Catalonia, who
had been for many days in pursuit of him, overtook him.
They attacked resolutely the place of his refuge, where
his brother and some of his partisans also were, and after
an obstinate defence, during which two of the volunteers
were killed, succeeded in entering the house, when they
immediately put him and his companions to death,
and severely wounded his brother, who however had the
good fortune to make his escape. At this moment
there is not a single insurgent in arms in Catalonia.

The Elections for the Cortes, both in Madrid and in
the provinces, have terminated in so signal a defeat of
the Progresista party, that the government will find
itself almost without an opposition in the assembly.
Even the moderate or conservative opposition has
obtained so few votes, that it has no longer any pretension
to the name of a party. An idea of the general
result may be obtained from the state of the ballot in
Madrid; the Moderates had 2185 votes, the Progresistas
509, the Conservative opposition 15, and the pure
Democrats only 6.

Hostilities have been renewed between the troops of
Denmark and the Duchies. Offensive operations were
commenced by the Schleswig-Holsteiners on the 12th,
and continued without any definite result to the 13th
inst. On the 12th inst. the entire Holstein army advanced,
and made an attack on the whole Danish line.
The fighting, as at Idstedt, was very fierce, especially at
Eckernforde, which was taken and retaken twice during
the day; and then remaining in the hands of the Holsteiners,
who established their head-quarters there in
the afternoon. The town suffered severely; the Danish
ships of war stationed in the harbour fired broadsides,
until the Holsteiners, having brought up some heavy
guns to the coast, compelled them to leave. The
wounded were sent to Kiel, and filled fourteen carriages.
The Danish camp, strongly entrenched before
Eckernforde, was taken, after three assaults, by the
Holsteiners, and afterwards destroyed by fire. The
strong Danish trenches were carried by the bayonet,
and the carnage seems to have been frightful. At day-break
on the morning of the 13th, the battle was renewed
with redoubled fury. General Willisen marched
on Missunde to force the Schlei. He was attacked by
the Danes in the forest of Cosel, and driven back. He
withhdrew behind Eckernforde. The Holstein army
surrendered Eckernforde on the 13th, and resumed its
position of the 12th. On the 14th, General Willisen's
head-quarters were at Wittensee.

The accounts from Copenhagen give some particulars
respecting the Morganatic marriage (mentioned in last
month's Narrative) between the King of Denmark and
the Countess Danner, formerly the court milliner. The
ceremony was performed in the Palace Chapel, and two
Countesses were commanded to attend—the Countess
Von Ahlefeld (the lady of the Chief Clerk of the Closet)
and the Countess Knuth. The youthful bride was led
to the altar by Baron Lewetzan, Marshal of the Royal
Household. The ceremony was performed in the presence
of the whole court, who were attired in court
dresses. After the marriage there was a grand dinner
at the palace. The Hereditary Prince Ferdinand led
the Countess Danner to table, and the King the Countess
Von Ahlefeld. A few days after the King and the
Countess Von Danner paid an unexpected visit to his
stepmother, the Queen Carolina Amelia. The Queen
Dowager, the widow of Frederick VI., forbade the visit
that the king and the countess intended to pay to her.
The ladies who attend court, and who were highly indignant
at this marriage, were under great apprehensions
lest they should receive commands to wait upon the
Countess Von Danner; it being known that she had
declared that nothing would give her more satisfaction
than to see the ladies upon whom she waited as their
dressmaker now come and pay their court to her.

The Peace Congress assembled at Frankfort, commenced
its proceedings on the 22nd August in the
Church of St. Paul. Dr. Jaup of Darmstadt was elected
President of the Congress. The principal speakers at
the meetings were Mr. Cobden, the Rev. Mr. Burnett of
Camberwell, M. Emile Girardin, M. Bonnet, the pastor
of the French Protestant church, Mr. Garnet a negro,
Elihu Burritt, Mr. Hindley of Oldham, M. Gamier one
of the Secretaries, Dr. Buller from America, the Rev.