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No. 497. O^r. 1.1880.1. THE LEADEB. UO 9...
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GERMANY. September 28th, 1859.—It is now...
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LITERATURE. SCIENCE, ART, Etc
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of"Vefeping with grief at his master ' s departure . The caricature bore the inscription , " Dumas convokes his subscriber to Monte Christo , and gives , him his benediction . " It is said that Dumas will bring out an history of his friend , Schamyl , the Circassian warrior , who , by the way , is now a prisoner at bt . Petersburg . f * * i . I mentioned last week the remarkable case ot the abduction of M . Hua ' s child . A woman and her daughter were arrested at Orleans , with the child in their possession . They have been sent to the Prefecture of Police at Paris , and the results of the judical inquiry are looked for with curiosity . The younger kidnapper is a fine lusty girl , with Spanish features , who , although but seventeen years old . looks to be twenty-three . When M . Hua offered a reward of 10 , 000 f . for his child ' s recovery , a swindler wrote to him through the post , stating that he would restore him his child , upon the receipt of half the
amount in advance . The Moniteur has just come out with a warning to the newspapers , not to discuss the laws restricting the liberty of the press . The new paper L'Opinion Nationel has been served with a communique . The English in Paris are much annoyed by the seizure of their papers at the Post office . Your number of last week did not reach me , and upon mentioning the circumstance to a gentleman whose friends in England send him a copy of The Leader every week , he told me that he could only obtain his paper on an average of once in a month . ; lish in ParisVisi
There are not many Eng now . - tors are but few , and many of the residents are in the country . The church in the Rue d' Aguesseau , recently re-opened for Church of England worship , has a pretty large congregation . It is served by the Rev . Mr . Forbes . There is another . English church in the Avenue Marboeuf , known as Bishop Spencer ' s Chape l * which , as a quasi-religious commercial speculation , is I believe tolerably profitable . But the best administered and best attended place for Church of England worship , is that in the Coiir des Coches , Faubourg St . Honore , served by the Rev . Archer Gurney , who is well known in England and here , as a scholar arid literary man of ability .
No. 497. O^R. 1.1880.1. The Leadeb. Uo 9...
No . 497 . O ^ r . 1 . 1880 . 1 . THE LEADEB . UO 9 .
Germany. September 28th, 1859.—It Is Now...
GERMANY . September 28 th , 1859 . —It is now clear that Austria and the middle States have resolved to crush the hopes of the Germans at the outset . The meetings of the National Unity Association have been prohibited by the police authorities , and Senate of Frankfort-on-the-Maine , and all non-residents of the city who have taken any share in the formation of the Association , have been ordered to leave the city . This has been commanded at the requisition of Austria , and other States . The Darmstadt official Gazette likewise warns all subjects of Hessja against being concerned , in any manner , with political unions , either at home or abroad ; for that Hessian subjects are strictly forbidden from taking any share in political , or other associations , which have for
their object the subversion of the existing constitution of the German Confederation . It is also reported that the Court of Hanover has manifested its dissatisfaction with the conduct of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha , in receiving in audience , and afterwards inviting to dinner , M . von Bennigsen , who is an active promoter of the unity and reform movement , and the principal opposition orator in the Chamber of Deputies of Hanover . My last two communications mentioned the reports in circulation of notes having been addressed , either by the middle Btates to Prussia , or by Austria to the middle states . The latter is- pretty certain , and it is probable that Prussia has also received one , although the contents have been hitherto carefully withhold
from the public , This week a note , or edict , as tho framer himself terms it , addressed by Count Rechberg , to the Austrian minister at Dresden , lias been published . This is a remarkable document in its way . It runs thus— " Among the different party programmes which have lately adopted for their theme the transformation of the German Bund into a parliamentary . fqderation , under the leadership of Prussia , one above nil the rest line attracted our attention by tlio boldness of its tone , arid the pertinacity with which it insists upon the exclusion of Austria from the nowly ~ to-bo-constituted Germany . In this declaration , published at Gotha , may be perceived the idea
of a well-known party which assumes to itself the title of National . ' This idea has been enunciated with unusual openness , so that , in fact , the German Imperial Htato is placed , as regards its connection with Germany , in exactly the same line -with the Netherlands and Denmark . Wo afterwards observed , not without regret , by the public journals , that his Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha had not only received a deputation which had waited upon him to present the programmo In question , nccompaniod with an address , but that his Highness hud likewis e dismissed them from his presence with expressions of unreserved acquiescence and
encouragement . The Imperial Government respects every sincere conviction , but the words which fell on that occasion from princely lips are of wider importance than the mere utterance of individual opinions , for they affect well defined and very important rights and obligations . His Highness the Duke Ernest will not conceal from himself the fact that the aim which this new party under , the' name of ' National' ( framed from the elements of the democratic and so-called Gotha party ) seeks to attain , embodies the complete negation of the bonds existing between his Imperial Majesty and the other Federal princes , including the Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gotha , consequently that the countenance and
encouragement afforded to that party was equivalent to a rupture of Federal relations .. The Imperial Government has therefore the right , we think , even more , the patriotic duty to protest emphatically as we hereby do , against the views of His Highness the Duke . The Imperial Government ha 9 the welfare of entire Germany at heart , and it cannot , dare not forget , that the corrupt errors of that party once nearly led to the most profound disruption , and civil war , a danger from which Germany was saved not by partial and short-sighted constitutionary doctrines , but solely by the noble national sentiments of our Emperor and master , and the moderation and love of peace , which animated both the great Powers of Germany . his
In accordance with the intentions of Majesty the Emperor , I have to commission your Excellency to take measures , either by giving a copy of the present edict to the Ducal minister , or in any other form you may think proper , that the foregoing observations , and particularly the protest contained therein , be not withheld from the knowledge of His Highness the Duke . —Receive , & c . Rechberg . This document has created much sensation , ; and some are disposed to think that this is the only diplomatic communication which has been made ; that this in fact has been the sole basis of the report of the notes of Prussia and the Middle States . The style of this state paper , but more especially the nohchalaut and freedom which Count Rechberg , leaves to the ambassador , as to the time and method of communicating its contents to the Dukei excites much comment generally very adverse to Austria . reminds the
Among others the National Zeitung Austrian Government * that Austria has not returned from Bronzell , but only very lately from Solferino , and that it , therefore , ill becomes a country , after such a notorious humiliation to adopt the part of Captain Bobadil . It is expected that the Duke will not leave the edict unanswered , but some patriots are fearful that in the princely paper war . the people may forgetlthe main question . We have just now too many irons in the fire . First there is the great national unity question itself , out of which has sprung the question upon the right of meeting represented by the national association ; secondly , there is the free trade and untrammelled handicraft question which has given birth to the association of political economists now sitting at Frankfort , but trembling for its toleration ; thirdly , the Schleswig-Holstein dispute , which is , however , shelved for the present .
The national association , turned out of Frankfort , will , it is thought , endeavour to establish its headquarters at Berlin or Coburg , but few are so sanguine as to imagine that it will be tolerated in any part of Germany . Conferences have been lately held at Munich between the ministers of Saxony , Bavaria , and Wurtemberg , These terminated on the 22 nd , and it is reported that the chiefs . of the cabinets of the three states are perfectly united upon the attitude to be adopted in opposition to the national Verein * Hanover will be invited to give its adhesion to the measures which Messrs . Beust , Ilvigel and Schrenk arc about to put in force to check the agitation which , according to their expression , the men of I $ 48 / are endeavouring to excite and develope . Hanover appears resolved to take an independent
and very resolute position . Whilst the rest of Germany and some of her own subjects are agitating for centralisation and unity , the Hanoverian Government has just ordered new uniforms and head gear for the army . The Prussian helmet is to be abolished and the Austrian cap to . bo substituted for it , the object of which is to destroy all resemblance between Hanoverian and Prussian soldiers , and discourage Prussian tendencies . This reform is , I hear , very welcome to tho army for two reasons , viz . ; that the Austrian cap is more comfortable and anti-Prussian . Tho last perhaps holds most amongst tho officers . Wo hear groat - complaints of the " persecution by the authorities of tradesmen who put their names to tho declaration . The officials are forbidden to deal with them , or even associate with them under pain of dismissal . . Tho elector of Hessia has just rofuaed to receive a petition , presented by the Burgomaster and the Town Councillor of Casaell . praying for pormisuion
to elect two deputies for the Landtag , a right secured to them by the Constitution of 1831 . A German patriot has need of patience , indeed !
Literature. Science, Art, Etc
LITERATURE . SCIENCE , ART , Etc
Literary Notes Of The Week. -*>
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Mr. Antonio Panizzi, Of The British Muse...
MR . ANTONIO PANIZZI , of the British Museum , has left Modena on his way back to England ; but from Turin he will go to pay a visit to Count Cavour , at his country house of Leri . Mr . Wallace , the English naturalist , has arrived at Menado , with the intention of spending some months in the Minahassa districts , for the purpose of making zoological collections , the requisite help having been granted him by Government . two volumes of
M . Victor Hugo ' s new poetry are on the point of being given to the public . They will form part of a grand work , entitled " La Legende des Sit'cles . " The author lias chosen this time a noble and gigantic scheme ; he proposes , in fact , to write a poetic and dramatic history of the world ; or , at least , of the great events in the records of human existence from the creation to the present age . The first volume includes the Biblical and Evangelical periods , the decline of the Roman Empire , of
the rise of Islamism , and the history Chivalry , in two dramatic poems , entitled "Le Petit Roide Galice" and «* Evirachnus . " The second volume treats of Italy , from the dark ages to the Renaissance , Philippe If ., maritime discovery , and includes a poem on the Swiss mercenaries of the seventeenth century . A Paris correspondent ivTites , " Some specimens that I have read exhibit much pathos and beauty ; but there is little doubt that the great attraction of the work will consist in its political references . "
Some days ago a daily journal announced , upon the somewhat singular authority of the New York Tribune , the entire restoration of Sir E . B . Lytton ' s health . We regret to learn from another source that this statement is incorrect , and that Sir Edward st-ill continues to suffer severely from illness . We quite agree with our contemporary the Critic , who says : " For some time past people have been inquiring what has become of Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer . That his health had suffered from his many labours , literary and political , and that a temporary cessation from all kind of work became necessary about the
time of Lord Derby ' s famous appeal to the country , was well known . Afterwards it was reported that he was better , and would shortly be able to resume the normal activity of his life . Since that time , however , his name as it were disappeared from public records , and a kind of ' Oh ! ho , we never mention him' feeling seems to be entertained on the subject . This is far from satisfactory , and although we have no disposition to intrude upon a private sorrow , we cannot but regard Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer as public property ; and , as such , tho public ought to know something about him . " the lecture at the
On Monday afternoon , season Royal Manchester Institution commenced with the first of a course of lectures by Professor Owen , F . R . S ., " On the classification and geographical distribution of recent and fossil mammalia . " The professor commenced by stating that thq study of natural history was an important ono in the education ot youth , ou account of its impressing upon the mind the principles of order and arrangement conditions well adapted not only to business habits , but to almost every form of iictivo life . The various divisions of wnrm and cold-blooded animals , with their distinctions of vertebrate and jnvertobrato . & c , were then pointed out ; nlso the basis of classification by Aristotle , Limwuus , nnd Duron Cuvior , with subsequent discoveries by tho learned professor himself . There was n good audience .
Macmillan ' fi Mayazina will make its appearance on tho ' let of November . The editor is to bo Proftjssor Masson , and among tho loading contributors are named Mr . T . Hughes , the author of " Tom Brown ' s School Days , " Mr Kobert Chambers is engaged upon a volume refuting tho antiquity of the Scottish Historical Ballada . Wo hour that ho considers them to have been written in tho curly part of the eighteenth C Tlio i * ubllttltarn' Circular gives an interesting and vuluablo account of tho conventions entered into between Franco nnd other nations for the preservation of literary and artistic property : —From France
we learn that tho Minister of the Interior has issued for tho guidance of tho PrOfots a resume , in chronological order , of tho instructions which from time to time have accompanied tho conventions having for
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 1, 1859, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01101859/page/17/
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