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and the developments of industry ; considering that the temporary character of the constructions which up to tm » time have been appropriated to the exhibitions , uj not worthy of the grandeur of France , on the report of the Minister of the Interior , decrees— - Art 1 An edifice destined to receive the national exhibitions / and winch may . serve for public ceremonies-and for civil and military fetes , shall be constructed on the system of the Crystal Palace in London * established in the Great Square in the Champs-Elysdes .
Ait . 2 . The Minister of the Interior is charged to propose to us , in concert with the city of Paris , the most proper means of arriving at a prompt and economical solution of this project . ( Signed ) Lotris Napoleon . ( Countersigned ) F . de Pebsignt . Minister of the Interior M . Einile de Girardin , who was allowed to return to Paris ( on private business ) has resumed the chief editor * ship of La Presse , After showing the difficulties to be encountered by a journalist , he nevertheless c oncludes that he may without danger enter on his renewed enterprise ! for
as conspiracy could only serve the purposes of a monarcmcal restoration , to which he is opposed , he will faithfully serve a Republic that , resting on the basis of universal suffrage , must lead to future liberty . The Teport of the unwillingness of the ^ apal government to allow the Prince de Canino to approach Borne , although charged with despatches from the French government , is confirmed . The Commission appointed by the Austrian government to consider the practicability of reducing the expenses of the war department liave reported that at present it cannot be entertained . The chief reason is the eventualities of the present state of France .
Mr . Millard , who had impo rted Bibles into Austria and Hungary , for missionary purposes , has been promised their recovery when they had been removed from the Austrian dominions ; and he has been given to understand that any future attempt to sell Bibles would cause his immediate expulsion from the country . The Russian princes have left Vienna for Munich . Mademoiselle Anna Zerr is at length permitted to come to England to fulfil her engagement at the Boyai Italian Operft ; but after having pledged her word to sing neither in public nor in private before her departure , she ^ was ordered to leaw Vienna as privately as possible .
Heschid Pasha is once more Grand Vizier : and Mustapha Pasha the President of the Council , is a man of the greatest ability and energy . .. — ¦ ' ¦ Sir Stratford Canning is coming to England on leave of absence , The new constitution for Frankfort recognised a strict equality between Jews and Christians , but the proprietor of the public gardens throws them open to the " Christian public" exclusively . There was recently a very stormy debate on what we should call the " Estimates , " the chamber at Berlin ; the ministry succeeded in carrying all the votes . The I ) anish government is in a minority in both Houses , and but for the patriotic moderation of the opposition , a vote of want of confidence would have been passed against them .
A son of the Austrian Minister of Finance was among those lost in the Austrian steamer La Marianna , a crazy old tub in the gale of wind , in which the young emperor lately disported himself . The Grand Duko of Baden is dangerously ill ; and Prince Frederick , the co-regent , is named his successor . The property of Count Casimir Batthyani , in Hungary , lias been finally taken by the Austrian Government . The Duchess of Montpensier is reported to bo again in an "intercstine : " situation . She is en route to England ,
with her husband , on a visit to Clarofaont . The conductor of the Courrier des Ahaes , a journal of Savoy , is under prosecution for having attempted to incite the people of the duchy to refuse payment of taxes to tho PicdmontcHO government , and for having recommended an appeal to Franco . There are 6000 Jews at Frankfort . Tho Rothschild family lived for years in tho Jews quarter of tho town . Tho Queen Dowager of Denmark is dead . Tho Elector of He sse has fallen out with his notorious minister , Hassonpilug . Tho Hessians are deserting tho stateen masse .
, Tho conference at nanover , for tho purpose of Bavins tho Gorman fleet from th o auctioneer ' s hammer , has failed in its aim . Tho Gorman estates convened could not manage all together to raise tho necessary annual sum of 1 . 35 , 0002 . Tho King of Prussia has boon making a tour in tho Elionibh Provinces , and visiting his subjects of Hohonzollorn . Tho official accounts report" enthusiasm . " A conspiracy has boon discovered at Athens for tho suppression of tho Constitution in favour of despotic
institutions . Of course tho king has nothing to do with this conspiracy ; but ; tho fact is , that tho Greeks havo shown little fitness for their constitutional libortioe , and tho king none , to preserve thom . A decree oHfcablishos a Consistory of tho Reformed Churches in Franeoy for ' 'their better government and protection . Tho majority of tho political prisoners destined for Cayenne , are to bo sent to I ^ amboHsa , in Africa ; Tho docroo of March , 1848 , on Club , has boon ropoaled in ull its permissive clauses , leaving only tho prohibitive , This docreo had boon in aboyanco since Juno . 1848 .
M . Ho ' non was oloctod at Lyons , by a majority of moro than 6000 , and at Brest the opposition candidate by a majority of 8000 . A Swiss journal states , that tho Federal Exocutivo has como to torrna with tho Govornirumt of Geneva respecting tho refugees . Thoso wlio remain must bo furnished with a apodal permit : many hftVO received passports for England , and America .
The council of the Canton of Ticino has announced to the federal government that the Austrian , government has spontaneously offered full satisfaction to the canton for the violation of its territory-committed some time ago by three Austrian soldiers , between GermignanoandPonteTresca , in the district . of Lugano . The Free Town of Bremen resisted the Germanic Diefr . An intervention of the federal authority has taken place .
General Jacobi , the federal commissioner , has entered upon the exercise of his special powers . Acting in concert with the Senate of the free city , he suspended the right of meeting , the liberty of the press , and the action of juries . He then pronounced the dissolution of the assembly of burgesses . The decree by which this measure was effected states that a new assembly will be elected , according to a different electoral law , which is to be speedily issued . As the public mind was quite prepared for these measures , Bremen remained quite tranquil after
their publication . The Pairie of Tuesday evening says that it is not intended to proceed to elections to supply the vacancies just caused in the Legislative Body , by the refusal of Cavaignac , Carnot , and Henon , to take the oath of fidelity to the President .
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JOSEPH MAZZIKI AND FRENCH SOCIALISM . We have received the following letter from the Signers of the Reply to the Circular of M . Mazzini , which appeared originally in a Belgian journal . We published the Circular from the translation we found in the Morning Chronicle—* , translation , we believe , extracted from Galignani's Messenger . We have also received an " indignation" letter from . Mr . W . J . Linton , imputing to the authors of the Reply the omission of the passages which those gentlemen now challenge us to supply . —Ed . of Leader .
( To the Editor of the Leader . ) Sib , — We heartily thank you for the publicity you have given to ,, our Reply . But allow us to impress upon you that M . Mazzini ' Cibctjlab was far more violent , far more unjust , fax more insulting to the Socialists , than the readers of the Leader were led to imagine from the form it assumed in your journal . You extracted , no doubt , M .. Mazzini ' s article fronr Galignani , which had only-published it in an imperfect
shape . We subjoin some of the passages omitted , and we earnestly request you-to re-produce them , because their inconceivable harshness but too well explains the emotion and the warmth of the reply we felt to be unhappily imperative after such an attack : — " I accuse , " said M . Mazzini , in that Belgian journal in which his attack first appeared , "I accuse the Socialists of having sunk the Man in the Sectary . " I accuse them of having dried up the sources of faith , animalized humanity , and incited the working class to
egoism . "I accuse them of having inculcated a belief that to fatten , is to regenerate , the people ; of having , in a word , degraded the question of humanity to a question of the fleshpots of humanity : " &c ., &c . Such , sir , are the precise terms in which M . Mazzini has dared to speak of men who , to this day , had always defended , supported , aided him ; of men who , at this moment , are all , either imprisoned or condemned to deportation , or in exile for the crime of having desired the alleviation of tho people ' s sufferings ; of men , in a word , many of whom liave lost thoir ALL—position , fortune , and country—for having raised an armed protest against the odious aggression by the government of Louis Bonaparte on that Italian independence of which M . Mazzini is one of the representatives !
Profoundly deploring as wo do this strife , into winch nothing less than the absolute impossibility of allowing tho cause of truth and of justice to he trampled under foot , could have made us engage ; and knowing too well the disastrous effects of a division which fills tho hearts of pur common enemies with exultation—it is , wo fed , essential that tho facts ho well established , in order that the responsibility may fall where it is duo . It was M . Maz / Jni who , without any provocation on our part , assailed us . He has done so witli an unheardrof excess of violence . Ho has oven reiterated tho attack ; for hia last indictment was but a revival of tho bitter invectives contained in a former address
delivered heforo tho Society of the Friends qf Italyan address to which one of ourselves , us you can testify , has replied in your own columns , in language not merely of moderation , hut of friendship . " ftow let tho public conscience pronounce tho vordiot . You have Ht ^ tod , sir , thaji a cortnin miinhor of those who signed the Reply wore representatives of , tho people in tho litet Assemblies . You » my add tlmt , for having loved tlio people , tuky aeis all I'Iiosoiuhkw . Receive , ¦ ir , our cordial HalutatioiiH .
( S ) giied ) BiANOur , PiEBiua Lbuoux , Louis Blanc , Ma ^ au / mht , Cadkt , Kadauj > , LANDOJiPIM , VaSUjGNTEB . Juwiq hmovxt
PRESERVATION OF THE CRYSTAL P ^ ACE . TfiCE anxiety to preserve the Crystal Palace from threatened destruction cannot be misconstrued after the numerous and enthiisiastic meeting of committees held in the Exhibitors' Refreshment court of the building on Tuesday . On the motionof Mr . Qliyeira , " - ' seconded by Sir H ^ nry Webb ,. Sir Joseph Paxton was caUed to the chair . He said ' that ; the object of their meeting was to concert preliminary measures for the preservation of this edifice , the construction of which was a sufficiently arduous undertaking . This could only be accomplished by a strong expression of public opinion
for they had a very up-hill game to fight . They were deserted by the Government and the Royal Commission , and had nothing to rely on but popular sympath y ! They had , however , only one class of avowed opponents , consisting of those who held house-property in the neighbourhood . In what way the retention of the building could prove detrimental to them , he was at a loss to imagine . Yet such was the present position of the question ' , that it was absolutely necessary to lose no time in organizing a powerful committee , by which the preservation of the Palace for public uses might be secured .. ( Cheers . )
Admiral Sartorius moved the first resolution : — " That the preservation of the Crystal Palace for purposes of public instruction and recreation is extremel y desirable / ' Mr . Gordon Gyll seconded the motion , which , was carried unanimously . Sir Henry Webb proposed the second resolution ;~ " That'it is expedient to combine the different committees formed for the preservation of the Palace , and that this combination be considered as now effected /'
Mr . Oliveira , who seconded the motion , said that he had probably been selected to do so because he had been instrumental in forming one of the committees . Our noblemen had their palaces , and the wealthier classes had their gardens and hot-houses . The middle and humbler classes were now rising to a position of intelligence and social advancement , which made it necessary that they ? -too , should be furnished with suitable facilities for agreeable instruction and elevated amusement . "" ( Cheers . ) Now , this structure was the very
thing to ,: supply . such wants , and therefore it-ought to be dedicated to the use of the people by the people themselves . ( Cheers . ) Dr . Evans said that the feeling of the borough of Lambeth was almost unanimous in favour of preserving the Crystal Palace , and that all were indignant at its contemplated demolition . Mr . Williams and ~ &v . D'Eyncourt had taken a part in this matter which would tell in their favour not only at the next election , but at many others to come , and their conduct was entirely in accordance with the prevalent feeling of the borough of Lambeth . ( Cheers . ; acclamation
The resolution was put and carried by . Mr . Le Neve Foster moved a form of petition to bo issued for general signature . 1 Dr . Roylo seconded tho motion , and drew a lively picture of what the interior of the Palace might . bo made , with all the most beautiful objects in nature or created by art , collected and skilfully arranged , and with a plan of ventilation carried out which would secure a refreshing shade from the heat of summer , and an equally agreeable refuge from the cold winds , tlio loomand the rain of winter . Instruction might bo
g , communicated in all that was useful in manufactures or refined in art . And thus would bo supplied tho most valuable species of education for a commercial people , yet , strange to say , that in which the most commercial nation on tho face of the earth was most deficient . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Dunfbrd , as one ot two people , applauded the effort which waa being ^ inodc . to preserve tho Palace . There a poor man might i > riij msteaa o
his wife and children to onjoy themselves , , as at present , being compelled to seek for ^ creation tho beorshop . He hoped that the working-classes wow never allow the removal of thoir favourite *»«<» any other country , as it now appeared wiw IlKUJ , happen . ( Cheers . ) The resolution having boon y and carried unanimously , a sub-committee wiui no nated for tho purpose of organizing the most elkaui meanH for obtaining tho preservation of the > l > u ub » and to report progress at tho noxt meeting of tno h
nil committee . « ,,,, M ] Mr . Alfred Smeo move « l ,. and Dr . Trnninnjsect wto , a resolution providing for the expenses ot tno ^ ment . Tim resolution was at once adoption , u > ^ ^ account authorised to bo opened nt tho l » n * . . „ Westminster Hunk , in tlio names of Mr . **< J Oliveira , and Mr . William Curry , the trouBureiH . p Mr . Heywood , M . P . moved , and Mr . Moilat , x ^ seconded , a vote of thanks to Sir Josep h 1 n « > complimented tliat gontlomun on the ^ V ^ jovcjI tation among hi » countrymen which hei »/» ^ jj . r 0 in connoxion with the Crystal Puloeo . Mr- ^ i ] c 0 marked , that it whs alleged tlmt thoy coiiui i ^ tho building eolf-flupportiiig ; hub tboy wu
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Leader (1850-1860), April 3, 1852, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1929/page/8/
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