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The position of the President is critical . There is aereat dealof finessing among his official supporters , nd the policy of the Constitutionnel and the Patrie is occult and tortuous . Rumours in the former are cirrulated in the provincial , and denied in the Paris edition of the latter . The President ' s friend , De Persi < my , is accused of democratic opinions ; and even this , it is thought , is merely to dupe the Democrats . Meanwhile , the Republicans meet to-morrow at Lemardelay's , to consult on the state of affairs . Emile de Grirardin has an article on the electoral law from which we cut the following : —
' In spite of what I read in the reactionary journals , in spite of what I hear said in the Salle des Conferences my conviction and and my certainty remain the same relative to the absolute and unanimous abrogation of the law of May 31 . In order to prevent the unanimous and absolute repeal taking place , the President of the Republic must do relative to the reestablishment of universal suffrage what he did relative to the Roman expedition , after having written to M E Ney the letter of the 18 th of August , 1819—he must beat a retreat before a threat of the majority . I ground my conviction and my certainty on the following how members is the National
figures : —Of many Assembly composed ? Of 750 . What is the absolute maioritv of this number ? 376 . What was the number of votes against the law of May 31 ? 272 . What will be required to secure the repeal of the law of May 31 ? It will require that 104 votes should admit that the law of May 31 has exceeded its object ; that it is attended with more perils than advantages ; that a pure and simple abrogation , without discussion , is preferable to an irritating discussion , which a bill for modifying it would certainly lead to . Is the displacement of 104 votes , in an assembly of 750 members , an operation which prelents any serious difficulty ?"
The Madrid journals of the 25 th instant , state that the Moors had taken an English brig laden with corn , which from stress of weather had put into the Bay of Bitoya . The Clamor Publico mentions the same fact , and adds that two hours afterwards two English steamers and an English gun-brig left Gibraltar , bombarded some points of the coast , burned several small vessel ? , and inflicted other injuries on the pirates . —
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The United States' Mail Steamship Humboldt , Captain lines , arrived off Cowes this morning ; and , after landing the mails and passengers for Southampton , proceeded on her voyage to Bremen . The Humboldt left New York on the 18 th instant , and her voyage has occupied about twelve days and three-quarters .. The Spanish Government has sent a special envoy to " Washington . The New York Times on this subject sayS : —" There is a great deal of speculation afloat about the probable upshot of the special Spanish envoy's visit to Washington . All that appears to be known is that such a messenger is on his way thither ; that he goes backed up -with a subscription paper bearing the signatures and counter-signatures of Victoria R ., Lord Palmerston , and Louis Napoleon ; that a guarantee of the independence of Cuba is to be demanded ; and that Mr . Webster will have the handling of the man and the matter . "
Kinkel has been most enthusiastically received in the United States , and presented by Mr . Crittenden to the President . This is an indication of what kind of reception Kossuth will receive . The great specie train of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company was robbed on the 14 th of September . The people of Panama set out in pursuit ; came up with the tiaiu ; found three guards shot ; pursued and captured the robbers . One or two were hung .
The Governor-General of Canada has at length succeeded in forming a Cubinet . Dr . llolpli is president of the Council , and the Minister will be , it is thought , acceptable to the Liberals . The new Cabinet , so far as formed , is a « follows : — Inspector-General , Mr . Ilincks ; President of thcCouncil , Dr . Rolph ; Postmaster Gene ral , Malcolm Cameron ; Commissioner of ( Crown Lands , William Morris ; Attorney-General for Canada West , W . JJ . Richards ; Attorney-General for Canada Hast , Mr . Drummond ; Provincial Secretary , Mr . Morin .
The news brought by the East Tndia Mail , which brings pupcM-a from Calcutta to the 20 th of September and from Bombay to the 2 nd of October , in highly important . Do ^ t Mohammed is reported to have inarched on Herat . 15 ut thin is a Hinall fact compared with another rumour tliut the Governor-General has ordered the annexation ofaslice of territory , called the . valley of the Dour , and " < 'longin { r to the Maid Ameer . Thin seizure of territory , if without the permission of Dost Mohammed , will , it is S ; iid , laud us in another Indian war .
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Yesterday evening a crowded Hpecial general meeting ° » the membeiH of the . National Freehold Land Society Wftw held at . the London Tavern , in order to agree to a K ^ 'ieral ruviuiou of the rules . Mr . Knenezer Clarke "oounied tho oliuir , and the code as amended was , iulor noun ; dit .-uuaiou upon Hoverul of the alterations , UNii uimouBly accepted . The ; principal feature in the »« w not of ruU'H in tho ubrogjition of No . 1 !) , ttlue . h provided that '' whenever any member holding more than ono nunr < j uliould becomo entitled to * ' » fiuvance ) u > hUvuUI have tho option of accepting the •»»•»(• on nil or uny » f hit * Hhnreu . " It win also « loU-r' } i" « 'd that , the ruto of intercut uud agents' chargeH , "UUcrto a lixed one , xhouM be , left to tho discretion of "'« «' xe . cutivc : committee . The Hoclety have recently juioHuHed a freehold «« tttlo . at Dorkintf , late the pro l »< Tiy o ( Mr . Arthur Denby . It oompriaeuabout twenty-^ -tcu acrc » , mid wiU form . ,, 00 ii otnu ! Jul «
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KOSSUTH AND THE ENGLISH PEOPLE . The chosen Governor of the Hungarians has complied with the wish of the English People to see him face to face , to hear his voice . He will receive the address of the Central Committee , on Monday next , in a room at Copenhagen-house ; afterwards he will come forth and address a few words to the assembled multitude . He is obliged to speak briefly : his voice , never powerful , except in its persuasiveness , has been enfeebled by his protracted captivity , his patriotic anxieties ; and since his arrival in England he has been too lavish of it , even in comparatively private gatherings . tl You must not , " said an Hungarian in his confidence to the Chairman of the Central Committee , " you must not kill him . " Heaven forbid ! It would be too great a service to Austria and Russia . On his first arrival in this country , Kossuth was the game hunted by whole packs of eager politicians , anxious to get the first word of him . We did not share that anxiety . We saw that possession was supposed to be taken of him by circles whose notion of political sagacity is , to hush up genuine national feeling , to turn the struggles of nations into commonplace periods for half public dinners , and to treat Hungary as Poland has been
treated by the " Literary friends of Poland "to make it the subject for a charitable incorporated thesis . We saw that officials , of the very highest rank , were baiting overtures to the Hungarian with the very same hinted promises which had inveigled Sicily ; we saw that Kossuth himself had somewhat mistaken the constitution of English political society , and had taken the corporations for a real embodiment of the People , for a political
power . But we had no fear . We knew that his object was national ; and we knew that he must address the nation . It cannot be addressed through bureaux or Mayors ; and we knew that he would soon discover that fact . Lord Mayor Musgrove is not more identical with " England " than is Lord Palmerston . You do not address England through either of them ; and we felt sure that his practised eye would soon find it out .
Kossuth desires to avoid parties ; but if he had stuck to the Guildhall , or let himself be inveigled into the parlours of Downing-street , he would have fallen into something smaller than parties—into cliques . The People can only be addressed directly . The working classes arc not to be found in Guildhalls or thirty-shilling banquets . If they are not " the People , " still less are the neutral-tinted moneyed classes the Nation . Indeed the nearest resemblance to a " municipality " of the working classes ih their own Trades Unions .
Kossuth has discerned the realities . His voice will go direct to the heart of the People . He has avoided party , and the People respects his resolve . Party divisions are forgotten as he approaches . The influence which he is winning is acknowledged even by his opponents : the Leading Journal , however nensitive on the score of Austrian stock , which is dreadfully damaged ia the Money Market , begins to mitigate its rancour ; the quasi-official Post defends the Hungarian against the aggression of the commercial paper . Tho nation , in all classes responds to his appeal ; and the journals , behind the public in learning that fact , are discovering their false position .
Doubts , falso rumours , and diversions have contributed , in many cases have deliberately been employed , to cripple the ( linnonKtrati'im on Monday ; but wo believe the bulk of the working classes can bo as little diverted from their purpose aa the Governor of Hungary has been .
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'LllK CAMPAIGN OF 1 Ho 2—MORE SIGNS . "Not one to hel p us— no , not one , " said KohhuIIi , of that bravo fight which bin country waged agaiiiMt the nailed urmioH of tho two immense- empires
Austria and Russia . Not one , in thafc bad year Hungary was waging the war of National Freedom , and not one of the free nations , whose cause was at stake , —whose own future is threatened by the steady advance of the " Holy Alliance , " —not one then stood forward to help Hungary . Italy would have done so , had not . But Itt us not speak of the past now—only of the future . Italy is strong in life , in generosity , and in hope .
And Hungary will not be " alone" next time . No , the Peoples now know their common interest . The English People is awakening to a sense of the shameful and insidious part which its own Govern ^ ment played in 1848 , and we do begin to hope that the Government will no more be permitted to subserve the cause of Absolutism . And America is rousing herself .
Events are advancing rapidly . Proofs of the assiduity exerted on both sides , on that of the " Holy Alliance" of 1815 , and that of the Peoples , now come to us , in thickening numbers , from both sides of the Atlantic . America is beginning to take as much interest in the movement as we do . The Paris correspondent of the Journal of Com * merce , a gentleman of much experience and ability , writes thus : —
" That great events are just before us is certain . That crisis of which I have often spoken to you is drawing very near . Between the 16 th day of September and the middle or end of next May , the destinies of Europe for probably half a century—which , in these days is a very longtime — will be decided . A fieice struggle—it may be a most desperate and bloody struggle—between liberty , civil and religious , on the one hand , and hoary despotism in politics and religion on the other . What will be the issue , God alone knows .
" I find that there is a wonderful activity here in the political world . The foreign Ambassadors , especially those of Austria , Prussia , and Russia , have frequent conferences , and are constantly sending and receiving despatches . Nor are the Ministers resident of the smaller . Powers , such as Sardinia , Naples , Spain , the States of the Church , Belgium , and Holland , idle . Those of England and the United States are wide awake , and the former has not a little to do to look after these Continental States , and the movements of their rulers . "
This was six or seven weeks ago ; but the activity has increased ; and the meaning of it is rendered more distinct by the intimation in the Times " It is scarcely too much to affirm , " says that journal , " that the aspect and policy of the Continental Powers has already been modified and shaken" by " the fall of M . Leon Kaucher " : —¦ " The leading statesmen see in tkis design of the President an anticipation of the dreadful crisis of 1852 ; they see a diminution of the hopes once entertained , that the crisis might be legally and peacefully
terminated by obtaining the assent ot the Assembly to the revision of the constitution ; they believe that the chances of success and ascendancy which come next in order to those of Louis Napoleon fire not the claims of General Chiingarnier as a Parliamentary chief , or those of the Prince de Johiville as the representative of a spurious monarchy , but tbo . se of tl . e Red llcpublic , and they anticipate with more certainty and with stronger apprehensions , that the time \ a not far distant when the principles they have succeeded iti restoring by their armies at homo must be supported by their armies abroad .
" In short , both in Prussia and in Austria , in spite of the overwhelming burden of the military establishments , the aspect of affairs in France in held to be sufficiently ominous to prohibit any reduction of the forces ; and , on tho contrary , these armies , in conjunction with the troops of the whole Confederation , are constantly increasing in strength and elliciency . The incalculable trust , confided by the will of the French people to Louis Napoleon Ls , not only that of the order and good government of their own country , which they me free to dispose of at their pleasure , but it likewise involves the peace and tranquillity of Europe . . . . The continent of Kiuojie stands in aims , not against France , nor against Loii ' ih Napoleon , but againstt . be uncertain and I lit ; unknown which lies beyond him . "
The Military Journal of Prussia indicates that much more Use will be made of forts lliau iu the last war—partly because Napoleon ' s idea of havingsuperseded them has been exploded by newer science , partly because the war is now to be directed by Governments " mostly against internal foes "—the Peoples . Paris is already provided with forts— " those excellent positions , if there in a good commander in every fort "; Austria in busy in Italy , —everywhere : " wherever wo look , spade and trowel are labouring against futuro balls . " In short , Austria , Prussia , and Russia , with all the minor Powers , are completing their iiiuucnbo preparationfl to cruuh the revolution
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—^ SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 1 , 1851 .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , "because there la nothing so unnatural and convulsive , aa the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of it 3 creation in eternal progress . — De . Arnold .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 1, 1851, page 1039, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1907/page/11/
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