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perfectly different light . It appears that the hotel taken on lease for the British Consulate-General was previously occupied by several tenants , all of whom received long notices to quit at the expiration of the term . One of the lodgers , however , said he would only go out when he thought fit ; that he was a Russian , and defied the Turks or the English to eject him ; so he locked himself in , abused the police , and prepared to stand a siege . Mr ; Fonblanque of course addressed an official note to the Russian Consul-General , but either through ignorance of diplomatic usage , or unacquaintance with social proprieties , no answer was returned ! This was at once a denial of justice , and a personal disrespect which ( until atoned for ) made it impossible for the aggrieved functionary to hold immediate intercourse with the wanton offender , who ( having only recently
arrived ) was not even known to him by sights So Mr . Fonblanque took the obviously correct course of representing the matter to the Foreign-office and to the embassy at Constantinople . In order to save appearances without compromising the national honour or his own—he went , in uniform , to the Russian consulate , and gave in his card , which was insultingly rejected in the way already described . Sir Stratford Canning is reported to be highly indignant at the affront , which is viewed by the Porte as part of an intolerable system . The British ambassador is supposed to have left the question to the decision of the Secretary of State , and there is a general impression that the Russian ftmg _ tiQnary will be disavowed by hi » Government . If theAustro- Muscovite intrigues and cabals are suffered to continue much longer in the European provinces of Turkey , there will be no use in trying to check them . The game will be up . "
The Constitutionelle Blatt aus Bohmen states that the members of the London Missionary and Bible Society , who have for many years resided in Peath , and other Hungarian towns , had been ordered ( it is not said by whom ) to leave the Austrian States , " and to direct their journey in obedience to a prescribed route , being forbidden to visit the capital . It is further stated that these missionaries , most of whom are family men , solicited vainly a short respite , for the purpose of arranging and removing their households . In reply to this request they were peremptorily informed that they must proceed on their journey on or before the 15 th instant . From the accounts given in the Swiss journals , it appears that the winter has been very severe in Switzerland . On the 28 th ultimo the thermometer stood at 18
degrees centigrade below zero at St . Gall , and at 20 degrees at Appenzell . The lake of Zurich is entirely frozen over . At Fribourg , the River Sarine is said to be frozen over , except where it is very rapid . What is remarkable is , that the cold is said to Be less intense on the mountains than in the valleys ; the temperature-is milder in the Gruyere than at Fribourg , and at Altdorf than on the slopes of St . Gothard and the neighbouring mountains . The Honourable R . Abercromby , British Envoy at Turin , has taken his departure for his new post at the Hague . His removal is regarded as a serious loss by the Liberal party in Piedmont .
The Intendant- General of Genoa has issued regulations concerning the refugees in that city . They are to apply for a permit of residence , stating their means of sustenance and their occupation . No political reasons are assigned for these regulations , which are said to be directed against people of bad character , who usurp the designation of political refugees . Letters from Florence mention the exultation of the Tuscan Government at the success of the coup d'etat in France , and its avowed intention to exterminate the Constitutionalists . The Grand Duke is scandalized at the liberty of the press in Piedmont .
The Duchess d Aumale was delivered of a prince at Naples on the 12 th instant . He was baptized on the following day , by the name of the Duke of Guise .
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Rise Of A National Prussian Party. (Prom...
RISE OF A NATIONAL PRUSSIAN PARTY . ( prom ; an occasional corbespondbnt . ) Bonn , January 18 , 1853 . X ought to give you some information about a new political party which has just worked itself to the light of day , and which , as things go , is not without significance . During the last daysof November , while all nature was wrapt in benumbing frosts , and the political -world , like nature , was sleeping a fructifying sleep , and the curtain (" green with gold bees' ) had not yet risen yonder on the grand Napoleonic
rifacoiamenta , the readers of newspapers were startled bv the announcement of anew weekly journal , thoprogramme for which bore the signature of a prince , ( the Prince of Wied ) , of the generals of the army , of three counts , three privy councillors , besides those of sundry professors and members of the Upper Chamberall , or nearly all , hitherto known as staunch Conservatives , if not reactionaries and adherents of the yunker party . Said programme expressed dissatisfaction with the ruling reactionar y politics of the day , professed fideility to the constitution as settled , and to
the important duties which Prussia , as the largest purely Gorman state , and the smallest of the great European powers , had to perform towards itself , towards Germany and Europe . In short , it amounted to an explosion , an utter split amongst the Prus - Bian Toriea , and the loss to the squirearchy of some of its moat respectable names . At the hoad of these seceding " liberal conservatives" stand Horr von Bethmunn Holweg , and his son-in-law Count Pourtales , recently returned on leave from his post , as Ambassador at Constantinople . The former , -who
has been much connected with this town , and is greatly respected by all parties , is a very learned and very wealthy man ( tourists may remember his beautiful seat , Castle Rheineck ) , who was formerly a professor , and has served the State in various honourable offices . Last summer there was much talk about his energetic protest against the assembling of the provincial estates ; and . the " split "dates from that period . " Provincial estates " means here abandoning the constitution of 1849 , and returning to the status quo ante . The men of the " Preussische Woehenblatt" ( that is the name of the new journal ) oppose that ; they are for honest acceptance of things
as now settled , and for proceeding onwards , not back * wards , from that basis ; they advocate also ( curiously enough ); a separation of the Protestant Church from the State , and they oppose Manteufel ' s principle of the ' * solidarity of conservative interests , " as the basis of the external relations of Prussia ; maintaining that Prussia has to choose her allies according to her actual interests , and not according to political tendencies ;* they are withal against the close alliance with Austria under present circumstances , arguing , with much justice , that as long as Austria continues within Germany , it is her interest to keep Germany and Prussia weak , while the fortunes of the
latter are iridussolubly unitedL The articles which have hitherto appeared in the paper embrace the salient points of German politics : Electoral Hesse , Holstein , the Press , the Protestant Church , the Austrian Incubus upon the affairs of the fatherland . They are written in the best spirit , with remarkable talent and practical knowledge , and withal with perfect independance of the doctrines said to be acceptable in high quarters , which is all the more to be commended , as the King , who has long been on friendly terms with Bethmann Holweg , and others of the party , is said to have ( as his way is ) talked and remonstrated with them about their dangerous
and disloyal proceedings . Here then we have , for the first time since the hurricane of 1848 had blown itself out in exhaustive talk and conclusive cannon , a set of men of rank , of practical political experience and standing , of conservative sentiments and loyal attachment to the " altar and the throne , " placing themselves in avowed and clearly defined opposition to the ruling reactionary politics of the day , and pointing , with a force and emphasis that must command respect and attention ,
towards a different and more profitable onward way . Good luck attend their patriotic enterprise ! But , on the whole , Manteufel's star seems on the wane . Besides this new opposition , he has that against him which no statesman or man can long resist—the stubborn nature of things . He succeeds in nothing ; he has proved himself—even in the eyes of those who acknowledged the difficulties of his position , and ^ who wished him well—a mere bureaucrat , a red-tapist , and nothing more . All the aspiring men of Prussia—all those who believe in the future
of their country , and are anxious she should take her right and proper position , and be true to her history , ( and there are many such amongst all classes , but particularly amongst the higher and the cultivated )—hate him . His bending to Schwartzenberg has brought him nothing but humiliation and embarrassment . Austria ^ hostility to Prussia's interests , within the walls of the palace of the Diet at Frankfort , as elsewhere , has been as unrelenting as ever ; and the quarrels in the former have lately run so high , that the people in the adjoining houses tell tales about it ! The one important thing of which this Manteufel ministry has accomplished the preliminaries at leastthe treaty with Hanover , contemplating the introduction into the German Zollverein of those northern
states that have hitherto kept aloof from it—is greatly endangered by Schwartzenberg ' s counter-move . As in olden times , they had their counter-synods and cecomenic councils , so has he now sitting at Vienna a great counter—Zollcongress , or Custom-house—Parliament , where he expounds to the delegates of the secondary German oourtB the transcendant beauties of his counter-tariff ; and kindles their Bavarian , Swabian , and Hessian imaginations , with blarney about a great Central European Customs union of seventy millions of souls , and Austrian " protection to native industry . " The unprotected state of his finances , however , if nothing else , will prevent his doing more
for the present than poisoning the ears of the delegates against the free trade tendencies of Prussia , and heaping stumbling-blocks in the way of the Zollverein . What he practically proposes for the present is a close commercial treaty with the latter , preparatory to ultimate complete union . Should Prussia succeed , as it ought , in uniting all the rest of Germany into one Customs union , and should that , as would not be unlikely , be followed by a commercial alliance with Austria , then would bo accomplished for practioal internal purposes what Gagern had proposed politically , namely , a German Union , and separate but close alliance with Austria I That which is " innerlioh berechtigt , " as my professional friends express it , what is justifiod by the * In the latest number of the paper an alliance with England is strongly advocated as the most natural for Prussia .
nature of things , will have to come about , in spite of intrigues and obstacles . Germany has long been intellectually one ; the Universities of the different States have always cooperated , and practically dealt with each other as members of one great commonwealth ; railways and uniformal postage ( that is also a plant of-our new growth ) are busy day and night weaving the web of social intercourse and mutual dependency ; this contemplated completion of the Zollverein , joining the coasts of the North Sea to the
banks of the Lake of Constance , will do the same for commercial and industrial operations . The mind , the heart , the hands of a nation of some forty millions , will then act , consciously or unconsciously , all in one direction ; and against them there will be the " vested rights" of some thirty-odd ( inostly ; wornout ) individuals , claiming to put up gates of different colours ( blue arid white , black and white , red and white , & c . ) and to annoy each other . Will it be difficult to guess the issue ?
The late occurrences in France have had no rebound or echo of any sort here . It is the first time this century , and longer , that this has been the cage ; and one might take it as a proof of the diminishing influence , of France . Even its electrical force , once so strong ¦
over the Continental d over the world , seems ¦ ex * hausted . One might almost say that Lord Palmerstor / s exit from Downing-street has caused more sensation here than Louis Napoleon ' s advent at the Tuileries . At the beginning of the winter , which threatened to be severe , fears were entertained of distress in the country , owing to the deficient harvest and high price of provisions ; and the Government had issued circulars to the provincial authorities , encouraging the
undertaking of public works , if possible of a remunerative sort , for the employment of the poor . But lately the weather has suddenly grown remarkably mild , soft , and spring-like j swallows have already been seen ; and here and there a sanguine vintner is busy with hi » pruning-knife ^ -hoping , no doubt , as he always does , that this year will be better than the last was I And this is the great blessing of even the poorest peasant-proprietor—this exhilarating contact with Nature and her inexhaustible hopefulness . J . N .
Reform Campaign. Many Persons Presume To...
REFORM CAMPAIGN . Many persons presume to know the results of those numerous-deliberations at the" Foreign-office styled Cabinet Councils ; and country editors , on " good , " and even the" very best authority , " speculate pretty freely . Thus the Gloucester Journal understands , " upon the very best authority , that Government , in the new Reform Bill they are about to introduce , mean to combine Trowbridge , Bradford , and Westbury ( in Wiltshire ) , in one electoral district , which shall unitedly return two members to Parliament . " The Kentish Mercury has similar revelations to make of the fate of the " right little , tight little " borough of Greenwioh . In the piquant words of the customary editorial formula , the Kentish Mercury " understands" that " in the new Reform Bill promised by Lord J . Russell , efforts will be made to divide the borough of Greenwich into three districts , viz ., Woolwich to have one member , and include the parishes of Plumstead , East and West Wickham , & c . ; Deptford to have Hatcham and Peckham ; and Greenwich to take'in the parish of Lewisham , which includes Sydenham and Blackheath . "
Reform meetings continue to be held here and there in support of the alleged reformatory tendencies of Lord John Russell . Westminster met at the Exeter Hotel on Monday , and the old Reform Association , which has seen great days , and may see great days again , was aroused from a long and not very creditable torpor — abeyance , " that is the word—it has been for the last two or three years in ** abeyance . " Why , in the face of continental activity , did the Westminster Reform Association remain in abeyance ? Because th ' e Westminster section of the British mind required " repose" after its fatiguing efforts in carrying corn law repeal ; and
then the Great Exhibition had a " deadening effect ' on all questions " merely political . " Now that a " dissolution " is we do not know how close upon us , it was felt that the Society should be put in working order , and the word passed to " clear for aotion . What are the first step ? Something immense . A committee , named from the different parishes in the city , was appointed ; and it was remitted to them to revise the rules and regulations now existing * and report to a future meeting to ba held soon after the meeting of Parliament .
Birmingham and Manchester have also spoken . Birmingham reveals scandals . The meeting was held on Friday week in the Town-hall , and attended by some thousands . It was called to receive a deputation from the National Parliamentary Reform Association , consisting of Sir Joshua Walmsley and Mr ' . George Thompson . Mr . Alderman Baldwin presided . After the gentlemen deputed had spoken , a curious scone ensued . Letters were read from absent eminent reformers : Mr . Hume pleaded business and his great ago ; Mr . Geaoh , M . P ., had an urgent engagement ) in Paris . Mr . Joseph fttarge also declined ftt-
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 24, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24011852/page/4/
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