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Mazzini In Arms. Two Remarkable Document...
tion to- complete it . The constitution , administered as it is with its persecutions of the press ; -with its confiscations , unfollowed by trials ; with its continual violations of individual liberty ; with its odious , base , and tyrannical conduct towards the Italian eples , treated as foreigners in Piedmont ; with its excessive taxation ; ¦ fri th its Government interference in elections ; with its gloomy immorality in official spheres ; with its perennial disregard of the honours of Italy , ana the national cause ; with its concessions to foreign diplomacy ; ini
with its adoration of facts , however quitously achieved ; with its local egotism , and its oblique Machiavellism , dynastic ambition substituted for the religion of the common country—the constitution thus administered , is proving to the nation , better than we could do , that true liberty , equality , and prosperity , are irreconcilable with a form of government which places the monarchical falsehood at the summit of the social edifice ; and that to hope for the salvation of Italy from the House of Savoy is a folly permitted to those alone who avail themselves of that hope to indulge their own inert egotism " There lives , or rather breeds , in Italy , a monarchico-Piedmontese conspiracy , having no other agent than the one I have indicated , of either frustrating every plan of insurrection or of seizing the leadership should one burst forth . Ever swarming busily in all directions , -with its travellers and agents , now under colour of diplomacy , now by means of affiliations and subscriptions , it has its centres of propaganda and agitation which I could point out and . name . There exist anonarchicc-Piedrnontese committees in Rome , Bologna , -and Florence , and in some of the cities of . Venetian
Lombardy ; and there are secondary centres in other parts of Italy . And I could name to you men , some of them members of Parliament , who act as intermediates , between these poor dupes and the Government . These intriguers busy themselves now , as before 1848 , in spreading councils of truth in the House of Savoy , and delay of any popular movement ; hints of the deep designs of the Sardinian Government , hopes of a royal initiative , should no other arise to disturb its plans , & c , and when the impatience of these dupes becomes threatening , they mystify them with medals and subscriptions which they entitle the first step towards action .
" The conspiracy has linked itself with foreign pretenders , and I could name to you the man who was sent with introductions to Count Cavour to create a party for the adventurer Murat in Savoy , but he was an Italian at heart , and with him to see clearly was to be undeceived . By means of this conspiracy the Ministry were in contact with the men who were preparing an armed expedition which shortly afterwards took place in the territories of a neighbouring State ( I speak of the movement in Lunigiana , to the cry . of Viva casq Savoia /) This conspiracy made overtures to me but two years ago , when I was , with the full knowledge of the Government ,
in Genoa , aa it made overtures on the question of action ; it suggested to me—most probably with a view of feeling the ground—the spot on which my action would give the beat pretext for intervention to the Sardinian Government ; it asked of me some concessions—probably ¦ with a view of after calumniating me as a deserter from my principles , and only withdrew on my imposing decisive conditions which would oblige the Government either to compromise itself by acting , or unmask it and prove it to be intriguing without any Italian aim . " I promised to conceal the name of its intermediate , and I shall keep my word , but I pledge my honour for the truth of what I assert . "
_ In his letter to the Emperor , Mnzzini reminds j _ iuUi ? Napoleon of the grand promises he made to the people as tne T 2 T ard of their trusting him , and asks whether any one of them has been fulfilled . He promised prosperity to the working man imd to the trader ; but capital has been diverted from , the provinces to Paris to aid in the inflation of gigantic bubble schemes which have now burst , after having stimulated a vast extravagance . ^ Further on , Mazzini , in words of awful denunciation and warning , tells the Dictator that his system of government is
based on hypocrisy , lying , immorality , and corruption ; that it cannot possibly last , and that the throes of its dissolution are already visible in the frantic and fear-inspired aots of repression which are constantly being committed . Lastly , the writer traces the history of the alliance with England , and tells the Emperor that he only sought that alliance when he had failed to secure the co-operation of the despotic powers of the Continent ; that he began and ended the Russian war for his own selfish ends ; that he has saved Russia from any really damaging blaw 4-ftnd ^ that ^ the _ pow . erjoO ^ as over .
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Naval And Military. Chatham Dooicyaxid.—...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . Chatham Dooicyaxid . —Tho now Lords of the Admiralty paid their first official visit of inspection to Ciut & am dookyard on Tuesday afternoon . fipUDiiwa' WrvJta an » Ohil-diusn . —Tho Soorotary of Stato for War , noting on the representation of tho Oommancter-iu-Cbiof , h « s sanctioned , tho formation of an hospital , in tho camp at Colohostor , for tho flick wives
and children of the soldiers , and orders have already been issued to the Military Purveying Department to supply the requisite diet and medical comforts . Iron Steamship Building ax Southampton . —A very fine iron screw steamer , built for the Peninsular and Oriental Company , was launched on Thursday from the yard of Messrs . Summers and Day , iron shipbuilders and engineers , at Hortham , Southampton . Miss " Willcox , daughter of the chairman of the company , named her The Northam . ' Fatai .. Collision in the Irish Channel . —A collision of an alarming description took place early on Sunday morning in the Irish Channel , near the Mull of Galloway , by the running down of the brig Albion , Captain Starkey master , bound to Belfast , by the Tubal Cain , screw steamer , from " Westport for Liverpool . One man is supposed to be drowned .
Continental Notes. That Narrow And Unchr...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeling is to be condemned -which regards with jealousy the progress of foreign nations , and carea for no portion ot the human . race but that to which , itself belongs . De . Arnold . FKAJJCE . The various Marshals under whom France is now parcelled out into military divisions ( like England i n the time of Cromwell ) have been entering on their posts , and uttering very Imperial language at banquets , & c . At Tours , Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers observed : — " I have come here to secure the maintenance of order , and
I will energetically fulfil my mission . We have only one cry—that of ' Vive l'Empereur ! ' As long as I command in this part of the country there shall be no other . I do riot know how to serve two masters . " Marshal Canrobert , speaking at Nancy , said : — " The Prefect , in proposing to you the health of the Emperor , expressed the sentiments which fill all our hearts . I will add that the Emperor is not only a crowned head , but a man of the most straightforward and most liberal character , whose heart and genius are always preoccupied with the glory and prosperity of the country ; in fact , a sovereign who is at the same time a man of the greatest worth . "
The Toulouse journals puhlish an order of the day from General Feray , in command of the . military division there , instructing his troops that , as some ill-intentioned persons lately threw a bottle at a sentry belonging to the 92 nd Eegiment , which struck him on the head and stunned him , and as moreover five men on another occasion approached a soldier , when placed as sentry at one of the public offices , and only withdrew when he threatened to fire , every man placed to defend a post must have no hesitation in using his fire-arms , if menaced by attack , after , however , having , as far as can be done , given warning to the assailants of his intention to fire . The reorganization of the Cent Garde 3 , which has been for some time in contemplation , has now been definitively decided on , and will be shortly carried into operation . The number of the corps will be considerably increased .
Another of the persons wounded by the explosion of the bombs on the 14 th January has just died in the Hospital Lariboisiere—a girl , named Girodou , fifteen years of age . The Moniteur denies that any changes in tho French Ministry are contemplated . " It is remarked , " says the Daily News Paris correspondent , . " that none of the French journals are permitted to translate the Emperor ' s condescending reply to tho letter of Mr . Carpenter , of the ' Discussion Forum . ' This is another among many illustrations of the fact that the present policy of the French Government is to make one set of professions in England , and another in France . " It is stated that a force of one hundred and fifty mounted police will bo shortly established in Paris .
The JPatrie says that tho elections for tho three seats for Paris , vacant by the death of General Cavaignac , and tho refusal of MM . Carnot and Goudchaux to take the oatb , will take place on the 16 th and 10 th of April . M . Jules Favre is spoken of as one of tho opposition candidates . It is an offence in a French journalist even to quota from tho published writings of his imperial master . Tho Patrie having recently cited some passages from tho works of tho Bmporor in connexion with tho proposed law on false titles of nobility , it was' invited' ( bo , at least , tho Times correspondent is informed ) t <) publish no more extracts from tho same source . Tho Emperor ' s writings , therefore , aro seditious against himself . This is tho reduotio ad abaurdum of tyranny . Marshal Polisaior gave a dinner last Saturday , to ^ n ! 6 bTliie "invitM ^ W" e ' r " al ^ n " glish ^ offlcers ^ atnprosont-in Paris . The Marshal expressed to those gentlemen his high esteem for tho British army .
"A deputation from Macon , appointed to arrange tho affairs of M » do Lamartiue , and composed of the Abbo * Naulin , M . Laoroix , President of tho Civil Tribunal of Maoon , and M , Chamborno , waited on Generul Espinasao , " saya tho Times Paria correspondent , " on Monday , to request permission to open a subscription in favour of their Illustrious townsman . Tho General replied to thorn in -writing that ho had boon permitted by
the Emperor not only to authorize the subscri ption hnt to place his Majesty ' s name at the head of the ' 1 ' The Prince , ' writes General Espinasse , ' who has strae * gled for ten years against the excesses of demagogues ' does not , and never will , forget the services rendered hv M . de Lamartine to the sacred cause- of order in 1848 and all the misery and disgrace France was spared bv his generous energy . '" * A new secret society , called the Icarians , has been discovered at Troyes , and eight of the chiefs have been brought to trial , convicted , and sentenced to vario us fines and terms of imprisonment . A corporal of the Garde de Paris has died of sheet horror at seeing the execution of Orsini and Pierri . A cafe at Narbonue has been closed by the Prefec t o n the ground that it was a place in which socialist and anarchical ideas were propagated .
The two guns sent by Queen Victoria as a present to the Emperor arrived at the Tuileries on Tuesday morns ing , and were inspected by the Emperor and Einpresand several officers of rank , among whom was General Lahitte , the former Minister at War , now Inspector-General of Artillery . A new work by M . Proudhon is shortly to be published , under the name of Le Bon Dleu au XlX e . Siicle . The great tenor Tamberlik : came out at the Italian Opera-house in Paris on Monday night with immense success . The opera was Otello . The singer was slightly nervous at first , but in the second and third acts obtained a great triumph . M . Curlier , formerly' Prefect of Police , is dead .
A woman , the wife of an Italian refugee , has been condemned , by the Tribunal of Correctional Police , to fifteen months' imprisonment and one hundred francs ' fine , for using seditious language respecting the Emperor ' s receut escape from assassination .
ITALY . The words " Viva Orsini ! " have been found written in red letters about the walls and street corners of Rome . We continue to hear of shocks of earthquake in the Neapolitan territory ; and Vesuvius gives signs of an approaching eruption . The young Englishman , Mr . Hodge , who has been confined several weeks at Genoa , at the instigation of the French authorities , under an impression that he was implicated in the late attempt at Paris , has been removed to Turin , and is now placed in the Ospidule dei Cava-Iieri . Giovanni Prati , the patriotic poet of Italy , having lately visited Padua , simply to see his daughter , who resides there , has been peremptorily expelled from the Lombardo-Venetian territories .
The Countess Strozzi , an Austrian lady married to an Italian noble , created a little riot a few nights ago at the theatre at Venice by ostentatiously placing in her hair the Austrian colours . The disturbance that ensued was sufficiently serious to induce the lady to leave the theatre , guarded by officers . She has been ordered to remain in her house for a week . It is announced from Vienna that insurrectionary movements have taken place among the students of tho University of Padua and among tho scholars of tho Academy of Milan . Both of these establishments have , in consequence , been shut up by the Austriun Government .
Park , tho English engineer , has been conditionally liberated by the Neapolitan Government . On tho 24 tli ult ., according to a letter from Salerno , " the Attorney-General of the Grand Court received tho Ministerial rescript by which the Acting-Consul ^ Mr . Barbar , was authorized to remove him to the British hospital , tor considerations of health j and on the following morning ho came ovor , and we had tlio satisfaction ot receiving nnd entertaining poor Park on tho very day on wine Watt must have arrived in England . " Tho trials wiu be resumed on the 9 th inst . BEU 3 I 17 M . . . ..., state
Baron doBriere , Minister of Foroign Affairs , Iwb * in the Chamber of Representatives , in answer to o Dumortier , that instructions had been given to t « ° j ™" gian representative at Paris to submit aomo obsorv . ";" T to the French Government on tho subjoct of tho ciimcui ties presented by tho existing system of passports , i added that the Belgian Govornmont would accuuo w every tolerance consistent with public safety . TURKliTf . . , t Tho stato of tho Herzogovinn , according to tne «• accounts , was more satisfactory . Order had not ucciil « . oatubliahod , but the irritation in tlio minds of tlio pwi ' was eoftoning down , notwithstanding the oiloris »» f » by tho Montenegrin party to keep up tho agitation , r—Jinie-l ? orfco 4 ia 8 . d 0 BireavtUat . aU-tU ^ iU ^? iljlL o . ^[ f ? of . Moldavia and Wallaohla bo relieved , on payment oi ¦ fair indemnity , of tho obligatory bunions u woi * . « produce which linvo hitherto prosMOd on H . *"" , likewise an Intention of abolbhlng all laws and iefau » tlons which stand in tho way of purchasing properi *
those couutrioe . , ,,. „« Several houses nnd bnzanrs at Damascus havo u «< crushed in by masses of snow . * Tho loes of lifo w * to bo considerable . . t i Tho Porto lias rqjeotod tho demand wado i > y
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Leader (1850-1860), April 3, 1858, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03041858/page/6/
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