Naples followed suit

and Ferdinand was compelled to summon a parliament and take oath to adopt and maintain a constitution. After succeeding in suppre ing the Neapolitan revolt, Ferdinand, in 1849 di olved the parliament, and violated his oath by annulling the constitution. After succeeding in subjugating Sicily, his tyranny knew neither bounds nor sense of common decency, and the revelations respecting it, published in Mr. Gladstone’s famous letter to Lord Aberdeen in 1851, evoked one sentiment of indignation and disgust throughout Europe. Even the most absolute of European sovereigns shared in this feeling, and grave remonstrances were addre ed to him at the Congre of Paris in 1856. These proving unavailing, France and England proceeded in the same year to recall their amba adors and suspended all diplomatic intercourse. He died in Naples, May 22, 1859. Ferdinand V., called The Catholic, son of John II., King of Navarre and Aragon; born in Los, way March 10, 1452. He married in 1469, the Prince Isabella of Castile, in whose right he succeeded on the death of her brother, Henry IV., to the throne of Castile. Later Ferdinand succeeded his father in the kingdom of Aragon, thus reuniting the two crowns of Castile and Aragon. One of the greatest events of this reign was the conquest of Granada. The war with the Moors began in 1483; victory after victory attended the arms of Ferdinand, and in 1492 the capital city was taken after a siege of eight months, The “two kings,” as they called Ferdinand and Isabella, made their entrance in January, 1493. The dominion of the Moors in Spain had lasted 800 years. "By a cruel edict 2f the same year, 1493, the Jews in Spain were commanded to receive baptism or quit the country in four months.