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Lord Palmerston Has Been Down To Tiverto...
monthly mail-scheme is a sample of what Govern " ment thinks it nece > sary to do . This week , 'oo , wt- have \> y way of Hobart Town the protest of t he Anti-Convict Association of Au tralia , delivered on the arrival of two more ships with fejons , to h § added to > he population of Vjitf Piemen ' s Land * I he proceedings of the Anti-Conviet Association will derive a double impetus from the additional danger which a gold mania would impart to the noxious qualities inherent in a felon population , and from the impulse which the sense of integral wealth will give to the political importance of the Australians .
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The Aspects Of Europe. The Hurly-Burly O...
THE ASPECTS OF EUROPE . The hurly-burly of factions and the Babel-like confusion of principles in France increase in violence as the expected crisis approaches . 1 he Assembly will meet again in the firat week of November , and every party is busy in preparing combustibles enough to blow up a thousand Parliaments , lhe relative positions of the Monarchical factions and of the Republic are becoming more salient every day . The former do nor more cordially laud the Republic than they do each other ; the Legitimists are now triply divided ; the Orleanists form two sections ; of the hungry
the Bonapartists are composed " Coquino " of lhe 10 th of December , and of the timid bourgeoisie of the status quo ; the Legitimists are represented by menuf the world , like Berryer , who will keep his royal pet dallying with an idle hope at Frohsdorf , while he plays into the hands oi the Elysee at Paris , and remains the darling avocat of the noble Faubourg ; the Orleanists , by the Burgraves , who would sacrifice honour , country , reputation , to their own restless intriguing ambition of place and power the Bonapartists , by needy adventurers , to whom the Elysee is nothing less than bed and board ; and bv the most contemptible of political apostates like
Faucher and Baroche ; the Fusionists , a mere impossible coalition of fallen grandeurs , by models of austere improbity , like M . Guizot , who is ready to begin again the game of corruption and demoralization , under the disguise of Constitutionalism , which exploded in ' 48—having learned nothing , forgotten nothing , but the nobler and severer doctrines of his earlier life . In the presence of these factions , ¦ which their own personal recriminations are daily exposing to public scorn , the Republic is being silently consolidated by the patriotic convictions of its leaders — by the necessity of a closer union against the crusaderg of the
reactionby a common persecution , and by a common hope . The Republic has the Constitution , or bo much of it at least as the reaction dare not touch , on its side : it has Law , and Right , and Fact , and the one grand Principle : it has the great advantage in the eyes of the possessing classes of being the established form , and the only solution of ' 52 which can override the apprehensions of civil war . It is the government of all for all : the present quasi-dynasty is merely a passing cloud ; but , without universal suffrage in its completest expression , civil war becomes inevitable . of
Jt is more than probable that the law of the 31 st May will be abandoned by general consent before the close of this year . Even of its warmest prorooters , to whom these sudden revulsions arc an every-day occurrence . The Constitutionncl has been battering bravely at this outwork of the Burgraves , to the admiring applause of La Presse I Evidently enough there is a backstairs Ministry at the Elysee who are looking out for squalls , whilatthe official Ministers are doing the vigorous , " throwing dirt in the eyes of their motley supporters , and inundating the departments with Belf-gloritications by the telegraph .
The war against the press U carried on d I out ranee , and reminds us of the lust days of the Restoration . The papers have been dragging into light a subscription by h , Bonaparte in ' 32 to the lottery which was established in that year to pay the line imposed on the Democratic journal , the Tribune . The- now President of the Republic gave a richly-ornamented sword , with a cap of liberty and the " fasces of the Republic engraved on its Damascus blade" : an offering in behalf of tho liberty of the press . M . L . Bonapurte indignantly rejected any uuppoBed connection of I / ml swoul with the Empire !
Tho first number of the Avdnement du Pcuple , the glorious successor of the ICve'nement , wuu pounced upon by the authorities for un article by it » chief « ditor , and a letter by Victor Hugo , admirable for its Stern moderation and hopeful courutfo . Im Vrotwe of tho next day wan al * o seized lor publishing the letter , and for a few words by E . do Girardin , in which he spenks of these repeated persecutions as glorioUs to the victims , and recals the fuct that the been induced bhm earnest
Evincment hud y persuasions to support tho candidateship of M . L . Bonaparte . Hore , doubtless , was the sting ; though , an if . Girardin Bays , an advorb , /* glorieuaement , ' wnu th <> official ground of offence . Our later intelligence bri"K « us word that the directors of tho two papora h » v « been sentenced to a iino of ono thousand francs ouch und six months' imprisonment . Yet the Ely * 6 un journals , daily insulting the Constitution , nndoxcitmg
to civil war , are « $ t m * raly unpunished , but patronized by the legal authorities M . de Ojrardin had given the Paris jury a plain warning of the eonsequences of such » verdict . They may live to learn them practically . The vexations of the Parisian police are rivalling th « exploits of the R <» man ikirri . They take their seats in e $ taminet » , hobnob with unsuspecting cm-¦ eris , whom they seduce into political discussions and tHen denounce ! The Democratic representatives of the People are harassed by the gendarmerie wherever two or three electors ar « met together to hear
their " member" speak . The other day , M . Pascal Duprat , one of the most moderate and able men of the Opposition , was insulted by these coarse agents ot your modern Caesar , in the private garden of a friend , when in the act of exhorting to patience and to calmness , in the presence of all provocations , a large and orderly assemblage of citizens spontaneously met to give him a respectful welcome . But his dignified and resolute demeanour seems to have abashed even the gendarmes . All these incidents would be ludicrous , " if they were not , in France especially , pregnant with disastrous symptoms .
The triumphant entry of that bilious pedagogue , the newly-decorated M . Leon Faucher , into his own department is a chef-d ' oeuvre of the mock heroic . May his exit from power be equally triumphant ! He had just been created " Commander of the Legion of Honour" without having passed through the preliminary stages . He was anxious to exhibit his blushing honours , but a persevering rain seems to have made the whole " solemnity " a perfect " damper , " all the more absurd for the magnificent reception announced by the complaisant prefet .
From Frankfort we glean a pleasing evidence of the Protectorate under which Austria and Prussia are developing . " For an example : —The Augsburg Zeitung publishes the following answer of the Emperor Nicholas of Russia to the notification of the reassembling of the Diet of the German Confederation at Frankfort . It was delivered to the President of the Diet by Count Gortschakoff , the Russian Minister at Frankfort : — " We , Nicholas I ., & c , to the Diet of the Germanic Confederation . —It is with great satisfaction we have learned from the notification made to us , that the Federal Dietinstituted by the treaties of 1815 , and whose
, labours were interrupted by the events of 1848 , is again united on the invitation of the Imperial Court of Austria , acting as Presidial Court of the Federation . We offer our sincere felicitations to the Germanic Confederation , the more that the reunion of the Diet , established on the principles solemnly consecrated by European treaties , is to us a guarantee of the internal peace of Germany , and in consequence of the general peace of Europe . For what concerns us , in entertaining a constant wish for the welfare and glory of the Confederation , we shall have nothing so much at heart as to cultivate with it inviolable relations of peace , and a good understanding , eyen as we accept with pleasure the assurances which in this respect are conveyed in the letter of notification .
" Csarkoe Selo . " Nicholas . " At Berlin , as elsewhere , the reaction is assuming ludicrous shapes . Read the following , and imagine the scene transferred to London street *? , and London policemen : — "The offence of ' abusing officials in the discharge of their duty' is on the increase ; ten charges are reported in the last number of the legal journal . The officials have become nrnre sensitive , or the public leea guarded . In one case a man is sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment for accusing a watchman of 'hiding himself when he was wanted , ' which , considering that if you have no door koy you are dependent on that functionary for admiubion , and half an hour on a door step on a rainy night is something of a provocation , seems severe .
Another citizen \ n condemned to a month a confinement on a charge of telling a lieutenant ' not to nmke an ans of himself ; ' the said lieutenant having refused him passage through a barrack-yard , by drawing hia sword and pointing it at the defendant ' s brcust , the officer being at the same time in the citizen ' s debt for cigars . The man denied using the wordH , natural an they would appear , and two soldiers swore it wag a l . rother officer who gave the friendly advice as he came up und put the sword aside . Hut the ' comrade ' declared it was contrary to military etiquette to interfere in Biich a cane between a soldier and his wrath , und , aa Homebody must have used the epithet , the citizen i » irnpriRonrd fur it . If the non-interference principle is the rule , the Berlin military code is of a ' nice morality . ' "
At Vionna , ditto ditto . In a list of political condemnations , published by the Wiener Zeitung of the 10 th inst ., for ofiuiictiM committed between tho 31 st of AugiiHt and the 8 th of September , we find terms of imprisonment varying from one year to six days , with hard labour , and " to fust one ( lay in the weok , " or " three days of the six "—for " uat : of inflammatory expreiHxons "—fourteen days in prison , in irons , occasionally varied by corporal punishment of ten or fifteen lashes , for concealing a weapon ; three weeks ' imprisonment in irons , and fifteen lushes ; or " to faut oneo a week ; " for abusive language , and riotous conduct ; twelvo days' imprisonrruuit , irons , und to f » Wt ono duy a week , for a publican keeping his house open after the hour ; mid similar punishments , only diifuring in degrvy for " refusing to work . "
What a delightful state of society under the paternal Government of ft young man , aged nineteen ! Many persons have been lately arrested in Lem berg ( Galicla ) who were already , in 1846 , politically compromised- Domiciliary vi-its were likewise made in Cracow , in order to discover some proofs of a con nection with the Central Committee of European Democracy . The official denial of Mr . Gladstone ' s charges bv the Court of Naples we have dwelt upon in another place . As " official " it deserves attention , and is a rpal covp de grace to the battered reputation of the Christian King it professes to exculpate .
From Rome we have received private letters , describing the situation of the ' Holy City " as even more int > lerable than that of Naples . It should not be forgotten that Bomba , who ( if Mr . Macfarlane will permit us to say so ) is the bosom friend of " his Holiness , " has lent a few superior agents of police to the Cardinals , to aid and instruct the sbirri of their duties ; bo that the " form of government" is much the same at Rome as at Naples . In Piedmont , the one bright spot in the map of the peninsula , free institutions are slowly but
steadily ripening ; whilst some of the immediate advisers of the Court are closely watched by the patriotfc susceptibilities of the People . A recent article in the Progresso , on the address of the Sardinian workmen to the " Friends of Italy , " condemns the officious attempt of certain officials to control the movements of these distinguished artisans , and to prevent their expressing natural sympathies , or conversing , with any of the exiled patriots , on the common hopes of Italy . From Genoa a correspondent writes as follows : —
" The opera had scarcely commenced the other evening in the theatre of Carlo Felice , when a murmur of dissatisfaction arose , which was at first rot understood by all the audience , until it was perceived that it was directed to a box in the second row , where sat the Countess Gherardi , ah Italian lady of the Tuscan Court , notorious for having , at a public ball at Florence , snatched a feather from the hat of the Austrian general , Radetzky , and placed it in her bosom . "A voice thundered forth the well-known verse of Berchet , invoking curses on the Italian woman capable of allying herself unto the foreign tyrants of her country : — ' Maledetta chi d'ltalo amplesso II Tedesco soldato bed . '
" The storm of indignation at her presence became universal ; and the hisses and the shouts for her withdrawal continued with increasing fury , until she was compelled to quit the theatre and return home under the escort of the police , to protect her from the insults of the crowd which had already gathered outside . " Italy , too , is becoming one , whilst the young Emperor of Austria is dancing and carousing , amidst the acclamations of mercenaries , on its volcanic soil .
The Friends Of Italy. The Society Of The...
THE FRIENDS OF ITALY . The Society of the Friends of Italy is resolved to make its existence felt , at home and abroad , by a judicious and active propaganda . It believes in the dignity and consequence of its appointed task , and in the sacred and serious obligations of its nrssion . In the heart of a free country , in the last asylum ot European liberties , it labours to purify public opinion from the calumnies and aspersions of the hirelings of absolutism , unceasingly disseminated against the exiled patriotism of Italy . And in this interval between past defeats and coming struggles , it is re garded , of necessity , as a living and active testimony to the awakened sympathies o * England . .
In our last number we gave the address or sixiyfive of the Sardinian workmen , who were recently on a visit to our Exposition . This hearty and spontaneous recognition , coming from tho flower ot working classes of Piedmont , the only Italian swi which has consolidated its endeavours after a tree u - vernment , is doubly interesting and valuable ; u > proof that tho society is known and acknowieug jjioui Liiui , uiu society is miowh <*•<«« •»— - - . 11
by Italy , and that the subjects of Victor *"' " »"'" arc , before all and above all , Italians , and trc <•«»•• of Italian nationality and independence ubi en my prized at Turin , as at Venice and Rome , it ( l on earnest of an aspiration after national unity ; »» ^^ its ultimate realization the fortune of Italy aepei - The reply to the address was read to a depinai of tho workmen by Mr . James Stansfeld on U »< - V
of tho committee of the society : — " Gentlemen , —The Society of the Fricn « l » o ^^ J tJ desire to exnrene to you the profound satiotaci which they have received your address . truth of " It will form un admirable testimony ot the iri ^ the convictions which they « uck to iiapreiw » P British public . -f nrove » " It is honourable to yourselves : l > eeBUSC , { , „ ,, «> t that , in the enjoyment of your own liberties , v 0 ' iaV , d forget your common brotherhood with y <)« r « - ' ;_ countrymen . Jt contains a presentiment oi » wht , flentUI future for your wholo country , w . j , ( , | t « deeply seated in the breast of a Peop le , J " " ion # anticipation of that future , and assures its rca " ** ull . " It in tho profound sentiment of y « lir co 1 ""' wlli , ; li tionality , and of tho duties which tiprmsj from »^ rUfic 9 huve constituted tho peculiar »« d hopeful on « ra > II ( i of your emancipatory struggle * , « n <* wUlon «" our highest admiration .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 27, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27091851/page/2/
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