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. PROTESTANTISM AND POPERY. The bill bro...
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1iin Main Furol'kan Questions . Louis Na...
Michelet , Jacques , all the professors who aspire' to the distinction of philosophes , are equally to be put down . The Jesuit is to lord it over the Trench University . It is in vain for the students to get up demonstrations in behalf of their popular instructors . The panic occasioned by the approach of their procession—the hasty shutting up of doors , the mustering of troops , the fidgeting of national representatives in their curule chairs , will not mend matters . The panic of the legisla-ors subsides , and the professors are no less inexorably sacrificed .
What could not priests and Jesuits do in France at the present time if they could only agree amongst them ? But there , as amongst us , bishops have fallen to loggerheads . He of Paris admonishes his . c l ergy to abstain from politics ; his subordinate of Chartresa lofty old man—makes it incumbent on his priests to meddle in worldly affairs so far , at least , as to pray for contusion to the Socialists : all is thus ready for a pitched battle of the dioceses . The Socialists of all nations , Conservative papers inform us , have directed their " men of action " to rendezvous in London for the Exhibition . The inexorable correspondent of the Times is at a loss to decide whether by thatphrase hommes d'action we should understand the disciples of Louis Blanc or Proudhon , or simply " pickpockets . " Marshal Soult is reported as lying dangerously ill .
The German question may be reduced to these terms—Is the world to have one or two Germanys From the days of Frederic ; II . and Maria Theresa , down to the revolution of 1848 , a kind of dualism had been established in that country . Prussia and Austria shared the supreme power in the Diet . But now this nice balance of power between them must either lead to a total and absolute separation , or one of the two must succumb and admit the supremacy of the other . Two weeks asjo Prince Schwarzenberg had Prussia under his thumb . But the perpetual oscillation of the Prince at the head of the latter power , the watchful jealousy of the minor German States seern now to have undone all that had betn
agreed upon between the Dresden plenipotentiaries . Every day brings out a new p lan . The Executive Power of the German Diet is to consist now of seventeen , now of nine , now even of five votes ; these different numbers being suggested with a view to counterbalance the power of the two great rivals , and also to gratify the petty vanity of some of the inferior states , particularly of Bavaria , which is determined to play the part of the frog in the fable , and , we devoutly pray , may meet with its ultimate fate . By the latest news , however , it would seem that arrangements have been made on the question of the Presidency . Austria will preside in the Diet , and the two powers , Austria and Prussia , will share the Presidency of the Executive Committee .
A nominal parity of power Austria is willing to award to Prussia , but she will keep the Presidency , and , what is of greater moment , the absolute and exclusive control of the federal army for herself . Added to this , she is irremovably bent on entering the German Confederacy with all her non-German provinces—a scheme , as we have often observed , which would put all rivalship on the part of Prussia too absurdly out of the question . The remonstrances of France and England , twice and thrice repeated , have been utterly void of elfct . There are those
who fancy Nicholas of Russia himself begins to entertain somu uneasiness of Austria ' s aggiaiidit-ement . But the real fact is , nevertheless , that the three northern despots have interchanged tlit ; chains ol their respective- orders of knighthood as an emblem of the ties of friendship and common interest that bind them , and make , them more than a match , for all the rest of the world . They have brought their common enemy—revolution— -to the ground : and they give no sign , hitherto , of falling out in the partition of the spoil .
Austria and Russia , seem well agreed in the share each'of them covets in a i-. poil of a different nature . Austri . i is still condensing her forces on the lJosniau frontiers , where , according to the latest news from Agram , tin ; insurrection is spreading far and wide with alarming rapidity . Russia has long since glutted her r . ivcnousness on Turkish provinces . Every popular outbreak in that decrepit . State affords reasons for interference on the pan of its uneasy neig hbours , and , in all eases , interference is conquest . Nor is the empire only open t > the invasion at its circumference . Jn its very cent re the Porte has no plight , trouble ; in warding off the intolerable pi ' . 'tcn-Hions of friends find foes .
Thus in ( Joiistantinople it . is not the Sultan but , the French Ambassador tli . it grants protection . Deinhin-ki lias lately arrived in Dial , city , mid the reception ol" the Polish and Italian refugees , the greeting of the Garibaldi band , have been loud enough to Ht . un and well-nigh to displease the old veteran . Jn Switzerland the decree for confining ( lie refugees to eei tain districts lias met with lens resistance than was anticipated . The ultra-democrats are losing the ascendancy in all the German and not . a few ol the French cantons : the remonstrances of ( lie great powers , and ( 'specially of France , against the right of asylum abused in Switzerland , have haul great weight with ( lie federal and cantonal GovcrnmentH .
By the way , Prussia , Russia , and Austria are said to have asked France to join them in a remonstrance of a similar nature , with regard to the swarms ot refugees that are now driven to England . France has not given her answer as yet , or we should have had Lord John Russell steppn .- forward before Parliament with the Alien Bill in his hand . An unfortunate patriot has been arrested in Rome with some tickets of the Mazzini loan in his possession . Death or imprisonment for life will be the unavoidable consequence . The Mazzinians in Home , however , nothing daunted , have issued a caution to the public , in print , giving the numbers and letters ot the tickets thus seized , and warning the public against them
...... , . , ,, , ° The Count of Chambord has reached Modena , whence , after a short stay , he returned to Venice . The Grand Duchess of Tuscany and the Duke oi Parma have arrived at Naples . Prince Leopold , uncle of the King of the Two Sicilies , died at Naples on the 10 th . The Ministers of Tuacany , Parma , and Modena met at Rome , with a view to persuade the Papal Government to accede to the construction of a railway , which starting from Mantua , is to cross the legations , through Ferrara and Bologna , and hence , across the Apennine , to join the Tuscan line already finished between Florence and Leghorn . All these plans are suggested in the mere interest and at the xious to establish
dictation cf Austria , who is an a communication between the Adriatic and the Mediterranean , for sanitary rather than for commercial purposes . Some hopes are held out to the Roman Government that the Tuscan line will be prolonged from Sienna to Rome ; and with this boon the Romans rnust"remain satisfied : as for any hope of joining the two seas by a line from Ancona to Civita Vecchia , or of establishing a direct communication between the Northern and Southern Provinces , by a line from Bologna to Rome , that enters not into the calculation of the Austrian projectors . Nor can the Papal Government object to these Austrian arrangements ; since the only alternative is simply to have no railway of anv kind .
The Council of State lately appointed by the Pope met for the first time on the 18 th . Prince Odescalchi has been elected president of the Pontifical Academy of Science . The Archbishops and Eishops of Tuscany have sent an address to the Grand Duke of Tuscany to remind him of his promises and sacred obligations ot 1848 , and to recommend the adoption of liberal measures . t The state prisoners , Pocrio , Pironti , & c ,
condemned to the galleys for life at Naples , have been removed from Nisida , where their presence in the buy no had created an indescribable sensation among the most abandoned convicts , who showed them every token of reverence , and expressed the most violent indignation that such men should be doomed to their own fate—and sent to the island of Ischia , there to be thrown in a dark subterranean dungeon of the castle called II Fosso , the ditch—a dark hole where no human beings huve been shut up since the middle ages .
In the Chamber of Turin , on the 20 th , the budget of public works has been adopted by 115 votes against 11 . On the following day the Chamber uiiiiniinously adopted a bill for the formation of an invalid fund for the royal and mercantile navy . General Strassoldo , the newly-appointed Imperial Lieutenant of Lombardy , reached Milan on the 18 tli . The Emperor of Austria left Vienna . for Trieste on the 21 st , and reached the latter city on the 22 nd . A poor parish priest of Ceregnano , in the Polesine , has been condemned to two yens' imprisonment , for having omitted the usual prayer for the Emperor , in the celebration ot the mass , on the occurrence of the Kinpi . 'ror ' s birthday , the lHth of August last . The sentence bears date of the 10 th of this month .
Th <; railway between Verona and Mantua will be opened to the public on the illst . The new postal regulations agreed upon between Austria and Tuscany are published in the \ 'ic . nna ( Idzcttc . of the ' 21 st . The Prussian Government has been taken to task in 1 ' arliainent on the subject of the Ifan ' r dc . s hotwlir . rs of November last . At , that time troops were quarteivd on the people without intrey . aiid the poor ,
especially in the country , have been eaten out , ot house ! and home . That t : uu / iuir ( icriaii / amounted to a very heavy and most irksome taxation ; and home ot the liberal memheis opined that , Government should not have imposed it , without , the sanction of the ( 'hairilicr . The Ministers , however , contended that ( hey liad acted under the pressure of necessity , and the ( chamber admitted the plea by a majority of 1 / H to I 0 H .
In u sitting of the oth committee of Parliamentary Inili : W . ivc in Munich , a motion of Prince Wallorntinii has been adopted l > y a majority of nix agaiiiHt three , to the ( fleet that , ( xoverumeiit should bo required to lay forthwith before the House all papers relative to the question of Electoral House , and tiie intervention of liuvaruui troops into that Htato . It is , of course , never supposed that the Minintor Von der Pfordten will over aicccdo to the demand , which , if imiutod
upon , may only lead to the long-contemplated dis * solution of the Chamber . Count Alvensleben , the Prussian agent at Dresden , has had , since his return to Berlin on the 23 rd inst ., several interviews with , the King . M . Merrier , the French Envoy Extraordinary , on a mission to the Courts of Prussia , Austria , and Russia , has arrived at Berlin . The Spanish Minister , Bravo Murillo , gives clear intimations of his intention to repudiate the national debt . He asks his creditors to renounce one half of their claims , when he will see what can be done for the remaining moiety . The King of Sweden has reached Stockholm on his return from Norway , and immediately dissolved the Regency appointed to govern in his absence . The disturbances in Norway are said to be at an end
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. Protestantism And Popery. The Bill Bro...
. PROTESTANTISM AND POPERY . The bill brought in by Mr . Lacy and Mr . Spooner to prevent the forcible detention of females in houses wherein persons bound by religious or monastic vows are resident or associated , provides that such house shall be registered by the clerk of the peace of the county in which it is situa te ; that the justices for every county in which any religious house shall be registered shall appoint six or more justices of the peace to pet as visitors of each house , who shall be sworn to keep secret nil such matters as shall come under their knowledge in the execution of their office as visitors , except when required to divulge the same by legal authority , or for the better execution of their duty . Registered religious houses shall be visited twice a-vear , and if it appear to the visitors
that any female is desirous of leaving the rehgicus house in which she is resident , they shall have power to remove her , and to place her under the care of the matron of the union in which the religious house is situate . Superiors not causing their religious houses to be registered , or wilfully making any false statement in respect of such houses , or obstructing or impeding any of the visitors on their way to , at , or in , or returning from any such religious house , shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour . Any person assaulting a visitor in the religious house , shall be deemed guilty of a felony . Concealment of any part of a religious house , or the premises appertaining thereto , or of any person residing therein from the visitors , or the production of a false list of the inmates , shall be looked upon as a misdemeanour .
The Bishop of Oxford , in a letter to one of his clergy , accused of Tractarianisrn , says : —" There is need just now of great forbearance between clergy and people . After alluding to the secessions to Rome , he says that is no reason why those who go half way to Rome should be suspected of any intention to go there altogether . If the Tractarians are cast out of the Church , as they are likely to be , he prophesies the most direful calamity . "The Church of England will not long survive their expulsion , and then must come—first the war of all sects , and the end of all religion . " The church of St . Barnabas was crowded to excess
on Sunday , by an anxious multitude , who from an early hour had assembled outside the building , for the purpose of hearing the Rev . Mr- Bennett , take a final leave of his parishioners . On the doors being thrown open , every available piece of ground was immediately occupied , and the inconvenience arising from the crush was severely felt by many persons who had forced their way in . The text was John vii . Ct ' . i—" And every man went unto his own house .
He alluded to the present divided condition of the Church , and to the perils with which she was beset , and lamented that the great work in which they hud been engaged was now destroyed . He urged perseverance in the truth , and a strict adherence to the teaching of the Church . In tho overling the church was agiin open , and Mr . Bennett preached another sermon to an equally crowded audience , but addressed himself more to the , loss the paiish would
sustain in the alteration of the established t-orvicefl of that church . During the next three or four weeks St . Barnabas will be closed , with a view , it is understood , to the removal of the Hcreen and other portions of the beautiful and richly decorated chancel . Two protest * against , the request of the Bishop of London , that the Reverend W . J . K . Bennett should resign the incumbency of St . Piuil ' s KnightHbridgo , and ihe chapel of St . Bum alms , Pimlico , were unanimously adopted at a meeting of the members <>( the congregation of those churches , held at tho schoolroom attached to St . Barnabiu * Church , on Monday last , and were- presented to Mr . IXocIhoii , tho liit * U <> l > of London ' h notary , on Tuesday , when Mr . Bennett
signed his resignation . The vestry of the parish of St . George , llnnoversquare , lias " petitioned Parliament against the sham Anti-Papal Aggression Hill , on the ground that U " will prove illusory and ineffectual to check tm : course of Romish aggrandisement , or ensure tho m > n ty of the Protestant Church , Monarchy , uml Constitution . " They also wish tho IIouho to examine the rstntute-book , with u view to ascertain what law « huve been paused by the wisdom of our ancestors guard the realm mid itw regalities from Papal mva-
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Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29031851/page/4/
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