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Whether the German Governments return to the old forma of the Diet , or whether the ( by no means abandoned ) plans of a reorganization of the confederation be brought into effect , the independent development of frussia will he in no respect , in either case , endangered . " r ' The recipe with , -which , the King proposes to bring about peace and prosperity in Prussia is singular . It is in the cooperation and cordial unanimity of all those who iD truth and loyalty have the old motto , the old inscription , written on their hearts— " With God , for King , and Fatherland . "
Lord Palmerston , it is clear , does not earnestly—¦ we might say sincerely—desire the liberation of Louis Kossuth and his friends . The advocacy of their cause by Sir Stratford Canning was mild in the extreme , and amounted to no more in fact than a bare recommendation that Kossuth should be set free . The Turks don't understand why they should be reproached for not setting the Hungarians at liberty . When the correspondent of the Daily News asserted , in the presence of a high Turkish functionary , that it was a shame the Porte should act gaoler to Austria , the Turk replied : —
" And what have you English done for the Hungarians ? You have made great speeches in Parliament and in meetings , to the great gratification and amusement of the orators and of the assembled crowd ; but we did not see the result of these speeches—we beard the clapping of the mill , but no corn was ground in th « mill— " - "we saw no flour coming out . Your pretended sympathy for Hungary is a sham . The Sultan did awre ; he gave not way , to the threats of Russia , and , at the risk of a war , he did not comply with the peremptory demand for the extradition of Kossuth , though he was not sure of the English support ; indeed , jour fleet did good for the Jew Pacifico , not for the Hungarians . The Sultan acted but upon the advice of
ytror Reis Effendi , Lord Palmerston , and your ambassador , in sending Kossuth to Kutaya ; he treated him liberally , whilst your Government never sent a piastre foe the Hungarian refugees who fled to England , and all thje subscriptions of your great men for those unhappy fellows did not amount to the sum granted by the Sultan to Kossuth . alone . You became parties to the transactions which finished with the detention of Kossuth ; you see the Hungarians starve- in England , whilst we treat them liberally ; and now you reproach us for having acted according to your advice and having done more than you did . The franks , are really a strange people : they make a great noise , and then they pretend they have done a great deal , and think that they are entitled to make reproaches to those who did more but spoke less . "
It is impossible not to feel the justice of this severe criticism , not certainly upon the people , hut upon the Government of England . The way in which the conqueror of Hungary and the traitor who . sold his country pass their time affords a strange contrast . Georgey lives almost like a hermit at Klagenturth . ; he appears little in public , and declines all invitations . His sole amusement is the study of ehymistry in the laboratory of the
Polytechnic School ; his lodging and his habits are Simple in the extreme . Haynau enjoys the otium cum dignitate , and the interest of the half-a-million of Four-and-a-Half per Cent . Stock given him by the § tate , in Grratz and Vienna . The stern suppressor of rebellion is to be seen night after night playing his rubber at whist in the " mercantile circle " at Vienna , as calmly as if there were no such places as Brescia and Arad in the world .
Tlhe chief administrative political act of the Pope of late appears to have been the nomination of the municipal councillors throughout the communes oi the various provinces , a privilege reserved to the Sovereign in the first instance , although the councils will afterwards be partially renewed by annual elections . Circulars have likewise been forwarded by the Minister of the Interior to the provincial authorities , directing them to convoke the municipal councils forthwith , in order that in their first meetings they may appoint by vote candidates for the magistracy , from every three of whom his Holiness will select one . There has been for some time a rumour that three
heads of the noblest families in Rome have addressed a memorial to Louis Napoleon , demanding the fulfilment of the promises contained in his celebrated letter to Colonel Ney . The memorial , it is waid , l > oldly charge * the Pope with having violated all the fVtipulations rnado at Portici before the restoration . Hut this rumour not-ds confirmation . There is no evidence of its truth beyond that of the correspondents of tho daily journals , and they do not vouch for it . The stick is » till active . The smoke and nor-smoke agitation , one of Home importance , continueB to attract the attention of those interested in the tobucco duties , tho Austrians . The commander of tho eighth corps d ' armcc at Bologna , Count Nobili , teemed the following ukaao «« April ' 11 , on thia Hubiuct , which contains boiuo remarkable
expressions : — ' * It has happened aleo in these provinces , nocupioi ) by tho imperial troontt , that some person * ln » , v « ( lured to offer violence to peaceable oitUunn by hjiuk-iiun thoni from uninK tobacco , cither to Miiokc or a » hiiuH " . Iking abtolutely * o » ol > wl not to tolerate t / tia infraction trf individual libert y , hut to n pri'Ks it with oil the fi > rce ut »» y tfutpoNitioii , 1 oxdur th « j hnj ^ t ri « I commandant <»* "'•» Wy , » nd ull iutpwritl oouimuud * uta of tivtiow * , Co . mvbjwut forthwith , to corporal pumuhuaont whoever shall have the
impudence , by deeds , gestures , or words , to interfere with personal liberty , and afterwards to hand such individuals over to the military tribunals . At this opportunity notice is given that the notification of June 5 , 1849 , ia still in full vigour , and that , therefore , any act or attempt bearing a character of political demonstration will be punished by a court-martial as well as by the correctional measure above mentioned . " This is generous . Two tribunals provided to protect " peaceable citizens " in the enjoyment of a pipe or cigar ; and an Austrian general " absolutely resolved not to tolerate the infraction of individual liberty" !
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THE SANITARY ASSOCIATION AT Till' ! SYMi'OjSIUM . Alexis Soyer ' H Symposium was appropriately choHen by th «; Metropolitan Sanitary Association an tho hccuc of their Hint public dinner ; a good cook and a heulthy framo being ua noturully iwiiociutoU tin
cause and effect . They met on Saturday in the Baronial Hall built in the grounds of Gore-house , a handsome room and remarkably well ventilated . Lord Carlisle , the prince of chairmen , presided over the feast . They drank the usual toasts . Lord Carlisle , in proposing " The Metropolitan Sanitary Association , " said that it would be a great trespass in him to make a long speech , as after- dinner long speeches neither improved the temper nor aided the digestion of the company . He felt that they , indeed , were fully impressed with the solemn importance of a cause which had its business with deaths that might be
prevented" With deaths arising from epidemic and contagious diseases which amount to some 50 , 000 in the course of every year—( Hear )—with deaths consequently outstripping in numbers the carnage of the most destructive campaigns and the most protracted wars—with deaths , moreover , which strike down those whom our modern warfare especially saves , and cuts off one-half of some districts of all who are born before they reach five years of age—with deaths , in fine , which , threaten all , but especially those who fill the many walks of humble life . ( Cheers . ) Such a cause as this is surely one of solemn
importance , which we should do all we can to increase in the appreciation of all classes . I have alluded to the claims and the dangers of humble labour . We have , indeed , close to where we sit , a remarkable building , which is in itself a shrine of labour ; but while we gaze on the wondrous results of its harmonious and completed combinations , in all their gorgeous magnificence , let us not refrain from tracing them back to that crowded workshop , that damp cellar , and that slifling garret , in which so much of that collected mass of ingenuity and splendour has been elaborated . ( Loud cheers . )"
The spectacle of the Crystal Palace should teach us to transfer our care from the work to the workman , and try and surround the scene of his daily labours with some portion of the decencies , the comforts , and the enjoyments with which he so plentifully enriches our own . ( Cheering . ) There is too much reason to fear that the stimulus of drink is often resorted to as a diversion to the depressing effects of an uncleanly house or a polluted atmosphere { Hear . ) : — " And , " he continued , "if I may borrow another hint from the immediate subject under discussion , and the place in which , we are met , and the recollection of which , if I may so speak , must still linger on your palates—( cheers and laughter )—I would beg to remark that nothing can be so little sanitary as bad cookery . ( Laughter . ) I am not without reverence for the substantial and
invigorating qualities of our old English fare ; but I think we should be carrying the spirit of nationality very far if we did not admit that with respect to our culinary character we are somewhat deficient in variety and resources . ( Hear , Avar . ) And I would observe that our worthy host here , M . Soyer , has already displayed an admirable disposition to enter upon a career in which I really think he may do substantial service , if , besides exercising these more recondite mysteries which qualify him to take his place with UcJe and Careme , he should communicate to our English kitchens some of those arts which would render them at once more cheap and more versatile than they have hitherto been . ( Loud cries of ' Hear , hear . ' ) 1 believe it will be found an almost unfailing rule that the best articles and the best methods are in the long run the most economical . " As to the position of the Government in regard to this question , the people were ready enough to halloa a Minister on ;—" But then the Government , especially if it lias to deal with representative , bodies —( ' Hear , hear , ' and laughter)—if it should succeed in removing the inherent difficulties of the question , often no light , matter , and then should promise a remedial measure , up rise immediately the legion host of vested intercuts , of prescriptive customs , of great monopolies , of consecrated ignorances—( great lawjhler )—and then many of the gi ^ od people who have urged tho Government on to the assault , art : apt to take very little share iuthe actual burden of the conflict . ( Hear , hear . )"
Ito thought that somo extraneous body was required to enlightoii the public and keep the Government up to the mark . Inthis respect he thought the Sanitary Association had done a great deal of good , and he warmly Invoked the countenance and contributions of the public in support of its exertions . Lord Robert ( Jrosvonor and the Rev . C . Hume responded . " The Health of the Sanitary Reformers in Parliament " was proposed by the Chairman , and responded to by Lord Ebrington , who believed that ;
pestilence and death—the great checkh to popu lution—were two of the greatest . scourges under which the labouring and industrial classes of the population were miilering , and were two of the main causes of di » tress among tlio . se classes ; < tnd that next to a criminal population the most , expensive was a diseased population . lie added that . since he entered I ' ai liiumnt a mighty change had been effected throughout the civilized world in the view takenoi " this ( nit stion .
Mr . Charles Dickens proposed "The Hoard of Health . " No man could estimate the amount ot mischief grown in dirt . Fifteen years ago some of the . valuable reports of Mr . Cluuhvic k and Dr . Southwood Hmith had made him earnest in thin ciuihc ; and he could honestly dccliuv thai , the us « ho hud since that , tune made of Iuh <> y , s uiul none hud only strengthened liis convictions thut certain aanitary reform mtwt precede ull other Bociul reniedieu—
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May 17 , 1851 . ] © £ * 3 L $ &iret . 457
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THREATENED INVASION OF CUBA . The adventurous spirits of the United States seem bent on making a conquest of Cuba . In spite of the numerous failures , new enterprises are continually being planned . The last steamer from New York brings intelligence of a plot for that purpose which was fortunately discovered in time . It appears that the United States marshal received intelligence on the 23 rd of April that a vessel had been chartered by certain individuals interested in the invasion of Cuba , and secretly fitted out with implements of war , and taken down the bay , where she was anchored , awaiting the arrival of several hundred men . The marshal called upon the chief of police to furnish a force of his men to aid and assist the United States authorities , and after a good deal of pains they succeeded in discovering the suspected vessel , which was alleged to be bound to Galveston , Texas . She had a large quantity of coal on board , occupying the forward cabin and hold , and a quantity piled on the forward deck . She had also on board a great number of large empty casks , the whole capable of containing probably some 7000 gallons of water . No firearms or munitions of war were found on board . Application was made to the Navy-yard for some marines to take charge of the Cleopatra , which was granted , and they now have her in custodj \ Mr . C . Racklewitz , a native of Poland , one of the deputy marshals , went to South Amboy , where it was said some Germans and others had assembled with a view to embarking in a Cuban expedition , disguised himself as an
emigrant , and , conversing m German with some of the parties , obtained information which indueed him to get five of the parties to come with him to New York . Affidavits were prepared , charging Wm . T . Rogers , jun ., John L . O'Sullivan , Captain Lewis , formerly of the steam-boat Creole , engaged in the former expedition ( charged with being , in fact , captain of the Cleopatra ) , Major Louis Schlesinger , one of the Hungarian patriots , Pedro Sanches , a Spaniard , residing in New York , and Dr . Daniel H . Burtnett , an old resident , with preparing the means for a militaryexpedition against Cuba , in the possession of the Queen of Spain , contrary to the sixth section of the Neutrality Act of the 20 th April , 1818 , The parties thus charged were arrested , and held to bail in 3000 dollars each to appear for examination .
The President of the United States has issued a proclamation in which he states his belief that the expedition is instigated and set on foot by foreigners , which he considers a very ungrateful return for the shelter afforded them . Such expeditions , he says , enn only be regarded as adventures for plunder and robbery , and he warns all engaged in them that they are liable , on conviction , to pay a fine of 3000 'dollars . The New York Herald says there are 2 / 5 , 000 or 30 , 000 German , Polish , and Hungarian refugees there , all
accustomed to war , and that there could be no difficulty in obtaining . 5000 or 6000 of them as recruits to join in any such enterprise . In Georgia the conspiracy has been ripe all last winter . Cuba Kevolutionary Stock was selling there at ten cents in tho dollar . The general rendezvous ia said to be on tho coast of Texas , to which place eight or ten vessels were to converge with a largo body of men . Several United States vessels of war are cruising between the coast and Cuba , for the purpose of arresting marauders .
Some rumour of the intended expedition appears to have reached Havana , where the moat inteiiHe excitement prevailed with regard to another invusion , and so confidently wua it expected that the troops were ordered to sloop on their arms , and be ready for marching at a moment ' s warning . Tho vessels of war in port were also ordered to be ready for action . It was currently reported in Havana , an : l generally believod , that the cause of tho detention ot" the Ohio
on her hint trip from Mow Orleam to Havana was to bring an invading force , und so groat was the excitement on her arrival that hundreds of people were waiting on the Mole to catch a sight of the expected troops . One Spaniard had been condemned to death , having been detected in bribing a pilot to assist I . ope / .. Somo of the Now York papers nilirm that the people of Cuba desiro the invasion , and are ready to join when a . respectable force lands on the island .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 17, 1851, page 457, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1883/page/5/
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