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1154 ffi&e % t& 1 t * [ t . ¦ Satomut
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ANNIVERSARY OF THE POLISH RP^T^ OF THE T...
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THE REFORM CAMPAIGN. The long talked of ...
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republic , under the protection of Russia , Prussia , and Austria ? If the system of laissez-faire ( not to say complicity ) be maintained , we shall soon see how much sincerity there is in the declaration of this official paper , that " Austria aspires to no greater influence in Tuscany than is secured by treaties and her reversionary rights . " As to the solemn phrase— " though hatred and revenge are passions unknown to this Government , " *
what can we say when we think of the frightful slaughter of Eperies , in Hungary ( 1687 ) , by the Austrian hangman , General Caraffa ; of that in 1846 in Galicia , perpetrated by Austria ' s hired assassins , who were paid by the Government so much per head for the slaughter of the defenceless nobles ; and that of 1849 , in Hungary , during and after the war , by the modern Caraffa , Haynau , and his atrocities in Italy , especially at Brescia ?—or are these butcheries to be called " punishments deemed necessary " '?
How these Austrian scribes who fabricated the " semi-ministerial reply " to an article of one of our evening papers , will prove the assertion that " in the Spanish war of succession , Austria battled at the same time for the interests of England , ' " we are at a loss to conceive . Exclusively waged for the dynastic interests of the Hapsburg dynasty , viz ., to conquer Spain , it was begun in 1701 by Leopold ( 1701-1705 ) , who in all his undertakings was the tool of the Jesuits , his constant advisers , and the express instigators of this war . His eldest son , Joseph I ., unsuccessfully continued what his father had rashly
commenced ; and after Joseph I ., his brother Charles III ., who was already in 1703 designated by his father successor to the expected throne of Spain , and who , having been by his family proclaimed actual King of Spain , hastened thither with Hungarian troops to maintain his illegal claims ; but the Spaniards so valiantly defended their own rights , that in 1711 he was entirely driven out . Such was the issue of that war . Now , is it likely that England would have in « cited Austria , through the Jesuits , to enter into a war against Spain , to conquer that country , and to occupy its throne , and all for her ( England ' s ) interests ?
The last phrase , " Austria remains the same , but England has changed its tendencies , " is a reproach which , for our part , we are disposed to accept with thankful pride . Austria is still what she ever has been—viz ., perjurious , a violator of treaties , tyrannical , cruel , revengeful ; and England has changed , because she has ceased to subsidize with her blood and treasure Austrian infamies . The ukaze , forbidding the Jews of the Prussian empire to wear beards , and . the married Jewesses to shave their heads , issued by the Tsar in 1846 , is executed with the utmost rigour . According to the
German papers , a detachment of Cossacks has lately surrounded the Jewish synagogue at Peterkoff ( a small town in the so-called kingdom of Poland ) , and the commander of the detachment , accompanied by the mayor , upon entering the synagogue , made a strict survey , and . inscribed on a list all the Jews who had shaved their beards , and separately all those who had not . The Cologue Gazette mentions that at all the gates of Warsaw military barbers are posted , who at once shave every abnormal beard , with a sharp or blunt razor according to the sum of money paid in advance for that uncalled-for service .
The Constitutionelle lilatt of Bohemia states , in a correspondence from the Prussian frontier , as follows : — " The German papers startle us , at iirst sight , with their very odd tidings , viz ., that , in the ltussian provinces of the Baltic , the . Esthonians , LivoniaiiM , and Finlanders puss over in crowdH to tlie Christian faith . " Our eorrespondent very justly considers that news as very ridiculous ; one would think , indeed , that the villages of the Baltic provinces are inhabited
by heathens , to whom Christian missionaries are being humanely sent . Still , it cannot be denied that there is some truth at the bottom , only misrepresented . For many years the ltussian Government 1 ms sent its schismatic miusionarics into these provinces , to convert their Protestant populations to the GreeeoltusHian creed . In the towns peopled b y Germans the number of proselytes was very insignificant ; but among the raw arid ignorant people of the villages of Eathonia , Livonia , and Finland , being easily allured
* Francis I ., for instance , who was not the worst of the Austrian rulers , and who reigned for forty-four yours ( 1792-18 . 'J (>) , wa » in reality the most revengeful and refined of tyrants . For example , he had a model of Spielberg , representing all the inner cells of the prison , with little figures in them personating the political Italian and Polish prisoners incarcerated therein . Every day at breakfast time that model was put before him , together with tho daily report of the governor of ^ S pielberg . He then looked over the said report , and if the prisoner m
and so had not made the confession he wished , and which -would have procured him more victims to torture , he took out the little figure representing that prisoner , and put it in another ci 11 , in which the prisoner was to be Hubmittcd to a torture more cruel than that he had hitherto undergone—ho having himself invented different kinds of tortures for different cells . Such was the pastime of the paternal ruler of Anfltria , which fully shows his goodhear tednesti , and proves that " hatred and revenge am passions unknown to tho Austrian Government . "
by promises , they reaped an abundant religious harvest . Their apostolic zeal has , for the last few years , lain somewhat dormant ; for they did not think it prudent to provoke excitement at a moment when the neighbouring German countries were revolutionary disposed ; but the schismatic missions have been lately successfully resumed , for there is now not one village m the above-mentioned provinces in which some converted Grreeco -Russians could , not be found . The German papers state , that in Besarabia Russian troops are being numerously concentrated , and among them are many regiments which acted in the Hungarian war , and are inured to war .
Russian recruits deserting to Prussia were never so numerous as now . They are , of course , given up to Russia by the Prussian authorities . Their severity is especially directed towards the deserters belonging to the Mosaic creed . By the zeal the Prussian Government manifests on this occasion , it pretends to be especially prompted by goodly feeling towards the inhabitants of the so-called kingdom of Poland , where the communes are obliged to furnish three recruits for one deserter . From the frontier of Poland a correspondent writes to the Baltic Gazette : —
" Russia is the country of palace conspiracies and revolutions . Scarcely has one conspiracy been subdued , when the Government tracks out another . A rumour is again current , that a formidable conspiracy of the nobility was discovered at St . Petersburg , purposing to bring about this winter a revolution , and that , consequently , many persons of high rank have been arrested . The plot , it is said , was betrayed by some Circassian officers of the Emperor ' s lifeguard , whom the conspirators endeavoured , to enlist into the conspiracy .
In virtue of an ordinance issued by Prince Poskevich , classed , functionaries , and retired military officers , are entitled to possess firearms , without asking for a special permission ; but they are not allowed , under any pretext , to lend them to others , under the penalty of being deprived of the permission , and under the severest responsibility . The funeral of the late King of Hanover took place on the 26 th ultimo . The public were not admitted to the ceremony . The King of Prussia returned to Berlin from Hanover on the 27 th ultimo . The members of the two Chambers dined with the king at the Palace , on the day following . Covers were laid for 600 guests . The state of siege in the Grand Duchy of Baden has again been prolonged .
The opening of the Session of the Prussian Chambers took place on the 27 th ultimo . The address was read by the President of the Cabinet . It contained no reference to the foreign policy . The convocation of Provincial States , which has been granted , is to stand as a Provincial Representative Assembly ad interim , and their decisions are to have no other force than the expression of an opinion . An additional grant will be necessary for the army . The state of the finances was satisfactory . Every hope was cherished of the September treaty being brought to a successful conclusion . With respect to the prevailing scarcity , no encroachment would be made on the freedom of commercial intercourse . In conclusion , the king rested his trust on the patriotism of the Chambers .
The Schleswig-flolstein question seems to be at last arranged in what may be called a satisfactory manner ; if it be satisfactory to find that an obstinate struggle and a protracted negotiation has resulted in the Status quo ante" ; in other words , that things remain exactly where they were before the war . Schleswig will not be incorporated with Denmark ; but will form an independent part of the Danish Monarchy , with its own provincial representation . Holsteiu remains in ita former position with regard to the Confederation ; and the separate provincial system of Government , as it existed before 1818 , will he again established there . In fact , wherever it is possible , and as far as is consistent with the integrity of Denmark , the administrative independence of both duchies will be strictly adhered to .
The Austrian Gazette contains a Ministerial edict , signed by Dr . Bach , and dated November 10 , forbidding all meetings of the brotherhoods known by the name of German Catholics , or Friends of Light , alias Free Christians . The reason assigned for closing these associations is that they have been ascertained to conceal , under the cloak of religion , designs against the State , and that one of the chief aims of the sect is to undermine the foundation of society . All the unions existing under either of the above names are therefore declared unlawful , and a ban placed upon them . The formation of any other societies which , with a different name , are derived from , or connectcd ' with these , in also strictly forliidden
The accounts from Upper Italy are most deplorable . The municipality of Milan exhorts the inhabitants of that city to raise subscriptions in aid of the sufferers by tho late inundations . In almost every part of tho Peninsula similar disasters have to be deplored . Capital punishments are now of frequent occurrence in tho Uomiin States . On the lfith of last month , three men were executed at Kahriano , for the attempted murder of n piit'st . Thin attempt occurred ou the Kith of May , 184 !) , at Rome ; and now , three years ~ having nearly elapsed , these unfortunate men , one of whom was an exoflicer of the National Cluard , of the name of Vcntroni , huvc been executed .
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Anniversary Of The Polish Rp^T^ Of The T...
ANNIVERSARY OF THE POLISH RP ^ T ^ OF THE TWENTY-NINTH OF NOVeS ^ ION Last Saturday evening the Polish Democrat ' -, resident in London , met at Lambert ? Tavern ft Lion-court , Fleet-street , to commemSSto' % * twentieth anniversary of their revolution ft io , The chair was taken at eight o ' clock bv M 5-lk- , ' member of the central committee of the DemoJ ?^ Society ; who opened the meeting with an Xn lC speech full of hope for a nigh regeneration of P ? ^ Lieutenant-Colonel Stolzman delivered a rf £ » * on the duties of a Pole and a Democrat , both tiT-& own country and to mankind at large . He sevm-l reproved those exiles whoaccept , or begfor , anamnp « il irom
a ioreign uespotic usurper ; no less severelv Ail he censure the un-Polish conduct of his < jali countrymen in their reception of the Austria * spoliator . M . Lopatsinski , who , like the Chairman was a member of the Polish-Hungarian Legion veri eloquently and documentarily showed , that in all parts of Poland the new generation , to which he him self belongs , is truly Democratic . The exiles , thirty-nine in number , afterwards Bar took of a modest supper , after * which they chau nted " national hymns and songs appropriated to the occasion , and separated at twelve o ' clock .
As the Polish exiles in Paris were not allowed this year to assemble , they were compelled to content themselves with commemorating the anniversary of the 29 th of November by attending divine service Thus , in the Church , Notre Dame de Bonnes Nouvelles , the Polish Democrats assisted at the celebration of a mass . A sermon was afterwards preached by a priest belonging to the Polish Democratic Society . In the Church de l'Assomption the Polish refugees ^ belonging to the aristocratic party , joined by those who have no political opinion whatever , assisted at the celebration of a mass , and offered up prayera . If in Vienna the proceedings of the Exchange are watched by the police , the Parisian police in a large body , assisted by some sergents de ville , were on this
occasion no less active ; and the divine service performed in the two above-named churches was rigidly watched by them , so much so , that the slightest motion of the hearers , deemed by the sceptic serpents de ville " l & s unsuitable to the ceremony , was severely admonished by them . It is , perhaps , not out of place here to mention that , even under Louis Philippe ' s Government , the Poles were never prevented from holding anniversary meetings , as well in Paris as throughout the whole of France . Is not that a proof that Louis Bonaparte is a tool in the hand of Nicholas ?
The Reform Campaign. The Long Talked Of ...
THE REFORM CAMPAIGN . The long talked of Manchester conference and public meeting took place on Wednesday . The attendance was large , so large , indeed , that the delegates were compelled to adjourn to the Spread Eagle . Almost every district in Lancashire and the West Riding was represented . There were also ten members of Parliament present . Mr . Cobden , M . P ., Mr . Bright , M . P ., Sir J . Walmsley , M . P ., Mr . Sharman Crawford , M . P ., the Right Honourable ! . M . Gibson , M . P ., Mr . James Kershaw , M . P ., Mr . G . Thompson , M . P ., Mr . L . Heyworth , M . P ., Mr . J . 13 . Smith , M . P ., and Mr . John Williams , M . P . the chair
Mr . George Wilson occupied . Hemaae the customary opening speoch , and introduced Mr . JohnBright , M . P ., who came forward with the cut ana dried resolutions agreed to at a preliminary meeting . Mr . Bright described the meetings in which the resolutions were adopted as refreshingly unanimous , ui the resolutions themselves , he said : — « I do not propose now to submit any set ofj abstrac propositions ; but rather , knowing the great difterente of opinion that exist in various clauseB-from tlle ma wealth and station down to the enthusiastic artisan has no stake but his labour-looking at these th ngj say , we should submit a plan of reform tj » J ™ * nnd a large measure of political liberty to the peop le , also conciliate the largest amount of public op among the more wealthy and intelligent claabca hea
community . ( Hear , r . ) He considered that a new reform bill every years would be a nuisance—«< We therefore are bound , in my » P" » : . " \ a (; stion , hit upon aorne scheme which shall settle mw v bfl at leant so ab that whatever future ainemlint ^ necessary can be effected , carefully and gr » d » J ^^ out interrupting the general huamesH ™ . druwn up Now the resolutions I have to l > ro |>« s a . th - with a definiteneHS which some gen """ ' eueHB to undesirable , and at the » amc }« ne « i * J ^ ,,,. y which others may have an equ . ly btroi g j ^ c M t ( , have endeavoured' to prepare tlu . in in bu m act lay a basis on which the " P " '"^ ° ai <(; ground * - might be erected on »»^» " »^ Z o « v 1 to l « a * o so . no At the same time we have l ^ j g , , ottl < - matters and detail * opm « " *™™» £ BsilIg throug h inrnt in Parliament while the bill w V
committee . ,. i ,, ; ined Mr . The following uro our resolution * , exclaunu ^ Th ^ t thin conference ^^^^ existing Htato of the reprccntution o tl , ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1851, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06121851/page/6/
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