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sentiment ; if it had not been in unison with that sentiment of Italianism , to borrow a current term of the day , which is the grand motive power of actual events . If the conception of a great representative monarchy under the sceptre of the House of Savov is the form to which the national movement ' Italy tends spontaneously , this form cannot be refused or opposed in the definitive settlement of Tuscan affairs without exposing Tuscan independence to continued periVand the country to perpetual agitation and convulsion . The Tuscans have offered themselves and their territory to Sardinia without any condition or stipulation whatever . They have laid
taside all memories of their former ascendancy m the affairs of the Peninsula , and are quite willing o become merged in Victor Emmanuel ' s possessions- The reproaches utterred by Massimo D'Azeglio in his Ultimi CasU in reference to the selfish and isolated policy of the Italian municipalities , have now happily lost their point . The employment of their common forces for the attain-: ment of . mutually beneficial results seems at length to have , become " the aim and desire of Italians . They are now willing to place the cause of the nation first , and that of isolated States second ; Their aims and views are become far more generous and extended than in past times . Such being the case , it must be the desire of all generous and true-hearted men that they
may be allowed to manage their affairs in their own way . It-is difficult to conceive the right by which other nations attempt to deprive them of this power when they are doing nothing to violate the security and tranquillity of neighbouring states . The peace of A illafranca , the conferences of Zurich , the arts of diplomacy , the intriyues of pretenders , may succeed in prolonging the present state of iincertairity , or in causing the act of annexation to be looked upon as inopportune and precipitate . It may be that Italy is not yet really ripe for the change , and that the country ' s good may require the affairs of Tuscany and the Duchies to remain as at present until the disputes are settled among the princes themselves , and the people are left free by their former rulers .
The Piedmoutesc king cannot have failed to be highly gratified by the voluntary surrender of themselves made by the Tuscans who have thus placed their future in the hands of a man who for ten years past has neglected nothing which could benefit Italy . But it is too much to expect that lie should openly reciprocate the regard of the Tuscan people , and immediately take possession of the sovereignty offered him . The actual state of affairs is such that his boldest advisers would hesitate to counsel such a stop . The Tuscans have , therefore , no choice but to quietly wait , confiding in their chosen king , and secure that whatever may be his ultimate decision , it will bo made with a view to the real advantage and interest of Italy , who has not a warmer friend , or more zealous defender , whether in the cabinet or in ' the field , than Victor Emmanuel of Piedmont .
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Lucius , Fries and Metz representing the other sections of Germany . This is the last arrow in the patriotic quiver , and discharged with as little effect , I am afraid , as the others . We hear of no meetings nor demonstrations of any kind to second thes § attempts . The Keforni movement is confined entirely to these declarations . There is no faith in the success of the agitation , which has no leading spirit in it . The Free-traders , or . as they denominate themselves , the Political Economists , whose Congress at Gotha , last year , I reported , hold back from this Reform movement , and have resolved to meet in congress , again at Frankfort-on-tlie Maine , in the course of this month . The Free-traders fear that
the Reformers , or United Germans , by attempting too much , will perform nothing . The people of the residence towns are , naturally enough , loth to sink into mere provincial towns , while the landed proprietors are openly opposed to these union tendencies . As subjects of Prussia , they would lose all the importance they at present possess in their circumscribed localities . With the landowners , officials , and shopkeepers of all the different States , actively opposed , or entirely passive , the Free-traders see no prospect whatever of a result to the patriotic exertions of the friends of Reform . On the other hand , the landowners and all the shopkeepers of provincial towns , with the officials and the great mass of labourers and peasantry , are somewhat active upon the free-trade question ; it touches the benefits to all
vanity of none and promises equal ; consequently it is hoped that , by accustoming the people to choose delegates for these . Free-trade congresses , they may induce them to raise . their voices for a legislative congress to put the resolutions of the Free-trade delegates into force . The Free-trade agitation shows more tenacity of life than could have been anticipated , considering the events which have occurred between its first and its second ^ congress . In fact , many never expected to hear " of it again "; and it is a proof of the firmness of the leaders of the movement , and of their belief in its ultimate success , that neither the war , nor the peace , which is even worse than the war for all purposes of progress , nor the Reform agitation , nor even the lately got up Schleswig-Holstein cry , have been able , to turn them from their object ,
Of more immediate importance than these political questions is the havoc made by the cholera , which continues to extend in all directions . The journals complain that the authorities . neglect necessary precautions , from fear of its presence in their districts becoming known , and thereby injuring the mercantile interests of their localities . Everybody is talking about it , aud privately we hear most awful accounts of its ravages , but the journals for the most part are silent . The disease made its appearance first in Rostock , about the middle of July , on board of a Russian vessel . Since that period more than 300 persons have been carried off by it . For some time it confined itself to the towta ;
isolated cases , however , occurred as was afterwards discovered , in some of the neighbouring villages . Towards the end of July a day-labourer of Striesenow , an estate lying between Gustrow and Laage , came to Rostock to attend the funeral of his son-inlaw who had died of the cholera ; this labourer , on his way home , was seized with the same disease and expired a few hours after his arrival at Striesenow . From here the disease was carried to Knegendorf and Spotendorf . On both estates the' people were in the heat of harvest , and consequently in continual contact with each other . The disease spread here with frightful rapidity , raging" with an intensity of virulence as was never known before in Northern
latitudes * In Spotendorf more than half the population was exterminated . During the first week of August the town of Laage , as also the estates and villages of Drolitz , Dieckhof , Karleput , Liibsin , Politz and others , were infected by personal contact with other villagers . Some towns * however , in the midst of these places , by wisely cutting off all intercourse with the outer world , managed to exclude the contagion . A labourer from Spotendorf infected GUstrow , in which place more than 100 have died since . About the JOth ult . a soldier on furlough from Rostock arrived at Viltz , a village near Tossin ,
was attacked by the cholera and died , since then fifty at that place have been destroyed . Those , and many other examples are aufllgient to show the contagious nature of the disease , and deserve the attention of all ports and towns in' any way connected with Rostock and the inlaud towns of Mocklonburg . Hamburg has already suffered , and wo hoar now of several cases on the banks of tho Weser . The Government of Mocklonburg has lately prohibited tho customary autumn fairs this year , and tho dlatriot authorities have received orders to proceed with tho greatest caution in accepting recruits for tho military sorvlco of tho country , taking oaro to koon tho
men of the infected districts separate till all symptoms of the disease have disappeared . While the northern journals are devoting their columns fo reform declarations , those of the south are occupied With ecclesiastical questions , more especially with the prospects which are opened out for the relief of the Protestant church in the Austrian dominions . The Ost Deutsche Post expresses satisfaction that the great majority of Catholics evince a desire to see the promises held Out to the Protes tants fulfilled to the utmost extent of religious freedom . In speaking of Protestantism in Austria , people ' s " thoughts naturally turn to Hungary , under the supposition , very generally entertained by Germans and foreigners , that Hungary is the chief , if not the
only quarter where Protestants are numerous ; and that any toleration or favour shewn to Protestantism by the Government , is nothing more than an endeavour to conciliate the Hungarians , and that the Protestant element in the Crown domains is so trifling as not to be deserving of any consideration . It may not be superfluous at this moment to submit some statistical notices of the Protestant church in Austria to the attention of the public in ^ England . In the kingdom of Hungary proper , these arc no fewer than 2 , i 96 , 816 Protestants , 1 , 450 , 090 belonging to the Reformed Church , and 743 , 726 Lutherans . The Protestants consequently comprise one-fourth of the entire population of the kingdom , and the more important as appertaining to the intelligent and
wealthier middle class . They form a complete ecclesiastical organisation , guaranteed by ancient and modern charters , and require nothing more than to be placed on an equality ' with the lionian Catholic Church . In Transylvania , containing a population of 2 , 073 , 737 souls , there are 543 , 634 Protestants , of whom 297 , 419 are of Reformed Church ,. 199 , 943 Lutherans , and 46 , 272 Unitarians . In the "Woiwodship of Servia , among a population of 1 , 574 , 42 S individuals , there are 78 , 345 Protestants of both confessions . In the military frontier lands , . there are 15 , 381 , but in Croatia and Slavonia only 4 . S 31 Protestants . Among the Crown domains belonging to the Germanic Confederation , Selesia has the greatest number of Protestants viz ., 6 »> , 783 . Then follows Bohemia with 90 , 000 ; Moravia , 52 , 140 ; Upper
Austria , 18 , 511 ; Carinthia , 17 , 900 ; Lower Austria 20 ^ 000 ; Styria , 5 , 800 ; and the Coast-lands ' only 1 , 500 . In the Ukrain there are but 139 ; in Tyrol , about 124 . In Salzburg arc settled 17 <> . Of the other Crown domains , Galicia contains a Protestant population of no less than 24 , 580 . In the Bukowina there are 7 , 280 ; in Venetia about , 400 ; in Dalmatia only 15 . Protestant Austria is thus represented by a population of more than three millions . Protestantism in Hungary , in Transylvania , and in the Woiwoodship of Servia , from the number and position of its pi'ofessors , stands p ' s an element on an equality with other Confessions , and may , setting aside its natural and positive rights , demand , on this account its perfect freedom . The idea , therefore , that the intended or rather promised toleration or liberation is favour to Hungary alone is totally
erroneous . The white coats of tho Austrian army are about to be abolished . With the incroaso of the infantry regiments of the line from 62 to 80 , a new uniform will be introduced , and patterns have already been submitted to the Emperor at Luxcnburg . lnc whole of the eighty regiments will receive ns quickly as possible the new uniform , winch will be ft coat of silver grey ( pike grey ) and grey trowsers . The cuffs of the coats will be red , bordered witn black braid . ' . The Prussian are trying experiments witn . infantry armed with the Jiiindimdelgcwchr pb'nmng needle gun ) against a movoablo target wlucli nuvances towards the infantry with tho sumo rapidity as attacking cavalry , The idea was borrowou from an English book of travels in South Africa . attention
On tho point of closing my letter , niy has been callod to a comical , and yet painful instance of the German laws regulating trade . Your ronuors already know , through the columns of Tn » * ' **}™ ll that in most parts of Germany the unoientgmia uiw » still flourish fn all the selfishness and folly ot tno ignorant robber ages ; . and that Binco last autumn the congress of political economists at Gotim nim . made the abolition of these guilds their cluof tnsK . During tho disastrous effecta of tho cholora u » Mecklenburg , as already described , It happened that in some towns there were not undertakers enoug » to provide coffins , therefore tho public , anxioi « " got rid of tho post breeding corses , sought t > o "W of tho joiners and carpenters , but no sooner " " ° undertaker ' s guild become acquainted with tlio i u . ? lion * linv nlnlmnii t . hnlr nri vilGffGS . ailU PI'OMUHU "
this useful , and indeed absolutely nocessnry wons . It has been said that a man noednevur trouble i m self during 1 Mb about his burial , for thnt >* . ? ° iS . i " hours , for thoir own health and comfort , woulii pci form that task for him » hut this , it would nnpuir from tho foregoing oxamplo , can only apply to countries unprovided with trade corporations .
^ GERMANY . SiU'TiiiMnim , 7 th , 1859 . —The second declaration of the United German Patriots assembled at Elaenuch , is now , with between six and seven hundred signatures attuclujd , published in all tho journals . Of tho names , but few aro known . Those are the litorary ones of Auerbach , GorstUokor , and Von Roolmn , and tho Prussian Constitutionalists and democratic of Marthy , Riossvn , Saongor , and Brouslngc . and Sohllsso Dellsoli , Von Unruli , Phillips , and Bacollg , and , further , those of Von JJennlguen ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 10, 1859, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10091859/page/16/
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