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THE LEADER.
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The Leader.
THE LEADER .
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India And Indian Progress- Original Co3r...
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_ ^ The Imperial Government of France having last week taken pains to undeceive the journalists of that country , as to any fallacious hopes they might have conceived of an increase of the "just and moderate liberty" which their press has so long enjoyed , has this week found it expedient to inform them , through the official columns of the Motiiteur , that , however faithful it may remain to moderate principles , it cannot tolerate excess ;
and holds a rod over then * heads by warning them of the powers of suspension which the Government holds , and which it is prepared to exercise whenever it considers such a measure to be necessary . The simple meaning of this pompous announcement is that the press of the country , exists only on sufferance , and that any journal can be crushed , without an appeal to law , at the will of the minister of police ;—so much for the hpjjes of liberal measures under the rule of Louis Napoleon . Nevertheless , the spirit of the best of the French writers is not curbed , nor is their wit dulled by this stern regime .
Another announcement in the official journal of the French Government is of even greater importance , since it refers to a matter in which the whole of Europe is interested . On Wednesday the printed mouth-piece of the Emperor informed all whom it might concern that the rumour of any intention on his part to seat his cousin Napoleon Jerome upon the throne of Etruria was totally unfounded . The French ruler reminds the public of his words and acts before and after the peace of Villafranca ; but those who have studied the politics of Europe of late years
will hardly waste much time upon consideration of the former words of Louis Napoleon—they will rather look to the direction in which that personage ' s real interests lie , for an explanation of his policy . To foist upon the unwilling Tuscans as a sovereign , a man whom they could neither admire , love , nor fear , ivould seem but a shallow , proceeding on the part of the astute potentates whoso will it is to be popular in the Italian peninsula-. The inhabitants of Tuscany despise the Emperor ' s cousin , and it is questionable whether he has the slightest wish to become a ruler anywhero—pleasure , and not ambition has generally been considered the object of his life , and the fatigues of the cabinet are not likely to be
more to his taste than the dangers of the field . The object of Louis Napoleon is doubtless to retain that influence winch he has acquired in the peninsula ; and this object will apparentl y be best saved by the restitution of the Grand Dukes . A short time onl y would probably ohipse before fresh quarrels between those princes and their subjects would give tho French rulor a pretext for arranging matters upon tho basis most agreeable to his own policy 5 at tho same timo that a new Italian campaign would bo always ready to bo oponed as a safety valve , in case- of any unpleasantness at homo in Franco . It is not therefore surprising to read in last night ' s intelligence , rumours of an approaching restoration of tho Arch-duke Ferdinand in
Tuscanynot by force , but by " universal suffrage —conducted , no doubt , upon the most approved imperial system ; while Modena is to be , by the same plan , handed to the Duchess of Parma , whose principality is thereupon proposed to beannexed to Piedmont , as a recompense for the denial of the sovereignty of the Duchies and Central Italy . The Piedmontese monarch has received from the Roma < ma the deputation to offer him the rale over their fair territory , and has been constrained to reply to them in the same ambiguous terms which have marked his answers to their fellow patriots in the other states of the Italian Confederation . To the Romagnese , he speaks of his respect as an Italian prince for the head of the
¦ Church , and promises the Pope ' s former vassals that they may rely upon the . justice of the great powers . The position of Victor Emmanuel is , doubtless , a most difficult one , and watched , as he is , by powerful and suspicious neighbours , he is compelled to be very cautious in every act and word . Still it is thought by many that his best policy lies in boldness , and that his assumption of the sovereignty of the Italian States , who have elected him as their head , would be ratified by the voice of European public opinion , against which Napoleon would not choose to act ; and without the consent of France , any opposition on the part of Austria to such an arrangement would indeed be futile . Meanwhile , the Central Italian States are confederated for foul
or fair weather , and are making judicious preparations to face whatever opposition may be offered to their projects of a free country under constitutional government . As regards the sympathy of this free country with the cause of Italy , Lord Shaftesbury's letter this week will not give a very , favourable impression abroad . On the other hand the manly speech of Lord John Russell at Aberdeen will find an echo in the opinion of the nation , and will reassure the friends of liberty in Italy as to t ; he policy of England in their cause . Lord John spoke of the sufferings of the Italians tinder Austrian rule for half a century , and of , the abortive attempt of the
patriots of 1849 . He laid great stress upon the magnanimous declaration of the French Emperor that he made war in Ldmbardy for the freedom of Italy alone , and not for his personal aggrandizement ; and he added that , though we have hitherto been bystanders in tho quarrel , wo are not the less opposed to any forcible interference with the right of tho Italians to arrange their own affairs . As to the proposed Congress , he added that England would only take part in it upon the condition that no power should interpose between the Italians ana their own views of government . He pointed out the moderation and obedience to law which havo characterised these
peaooful Italian involutions , and assorted the obvious policy of this free country to foster independent constitutional government in tho other states of Europe . Our JToroign Minister's speooh is not only satisfactory for its English tone , 'but for its definite announcement of tho position of tho government . At agricultural societies' meetings and other provincial assemblies this week , noulo lords and honourable members havo discoursed upon topics political and sboial ; tho speakers being for tho most part of the Conservative faith .
Among these orations we find occasionally a novel idea or sentiment ; but in the general run of them we are sorry to find the old stock platitudes doing duty as energetically as ever . Thus , at Ludlow , "Viscount Newport observed , that Conservatives never hamper Government measures of a beneficial character ; and with regard to the Chinese war , remarked s ensibly that John . Bull fought his own battles best ? independently of allies . At the same dinner Colonel Herbert hoped to see the day when the country might again depend upon her half a million volunteers ; more especially as bur army is insignificant and our
militia a name only . Sir Baldwin Jueighton tells us that he has surveyed mankind throughout the surface of the globe , and has witnessed the . ill effects of despotic democracy and autocratic despotism—considering the first to be the worst evil under the sun ; which is a hint to republicans generally , and to London workmen on strike in particular . From the Right Hon . James Wilson , at a farewell banquet , something more than common-place was expected with regard to Indian affairs—but nothing either brilliant or profound fell from the lips of th . at statesman , though all will ' agree with his praise of Sir John Lawrence , and his condemnation of interference with the religion and prejudices of the natives . Sir James Fergusson at
Kilmarnock , and Lord Alfred Churchill at Woodstock , as Conservatives , asserted their desire to see a measure of reform based upon an educational and constitutional foundation ; and at Hertford worthy Mr . Puller discoursed much upon reform , national defences , French ambition , and the danger of an American quarrel , which last difficulty he sensibl y attributed to a cute Yankee notion of making political capital for the next presidential election . It is satisfactory to learn by the latest accounts , that the overbearing conduct of General Ilarney emanates from himself alone , and that there is no reason to suppose that the American Government will countenance the steps he has taken at tho island of San Juan . On the contrary , the latest news points to an amicable arrangement by Lord Napier , and Secretary Cass , of the claims of
then ? respective countries . Among tho most remarkable occurrences oi our time must bo considered the conspiracy against tho G overnment , and , indeed , as it is thought , tho life also of the Sultan ; If tho accounts wo have received are trustworthy , the guilty comprise the most important personages m tho empire , and the number of person * involved w so lame , that tho wonder scorns tq bu that tho plot did not look out long . ago . The Commander of tho Fuithful apponrs more surprised than any ono else 5 and in satisfying his curiosity an to tho causes of the affair , may probably find nu ngrecablo fillip to tho monotony oi" his luxurious
existence . . . ., Tho hopes which were entertained oi u speedy termination to tho strike oi tho metropolitan builders have boon n # a _ in disappointed ; tho masters appear most injudiciously to huvo rojootcd on oflbr of adjustment on t |» o part of the men , which would havo involved no loss of principle or dignity on cither side ; and by this course they havo arrayed against thom tho operativo masons—a powerful body , who havo tho moans of prolonging tho dispute indefinitely .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 1, 1859, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01101859/page/3/
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