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? NAPLES declines to accommodate the Moderate party in Europe . An account of the official note in reply to the Western Powers has been published ; and we find that no previous descriptions of it had done justice to its insane insolence . The King declares that he is an independent Power , and he will not permit the Western Governments to dictate to him . His system is " necessary , " for there are committees in Italy w \ ich preach the right to assassinate him as a " monster . " His system is successful , for his people are * ' tranquil . " What would England say , if Naples were to recommend to her more liberal views in Ireland or India ? How can France venture to disturb the peace of the Continent , by encouraging revolutionary movements ? Naples , in short , shames England for being as "bad as King Fjekdinaki > , and France for taking part with the revolutionists , whom its Emperor dreads ; and he warns them , that if they proceed from counsel to force , he shall oppose to them his brave army and his faithful subjects ! It is even reported that he has replied to the advice of Austria with a threat that , if pressed , he will join with Piedmont " to drive the Stranger from Italy ! " This , however , is purely incredible . King Fkkdinand is an animal without the capacity for understanding his own interest ; but he is equally without the capacity for the practical wit of joining the one Moderate native state against Francis Joseph . Still it is manifest that matters cannot remain in Italy much longer as they are . Whatever may bo the " ultimatum" sent by the Western Powers , the course of conduct adopted by King Ferdinand must so completely place him beyond the range of tohcir defence , that his subjects will ieadily perceive the increasing facility of removing the nuisance . Although the story discovered by Gauibaijh of the assassination of Cickkuaccuio ,
Ins two sons , and four friends , while they were flying unarmed , and wore surprised by an Austrian troop , —although this story , wo say , belongs to the paat , it will newly arouse public indignation against the state whoso soldiery committed the crime , and whose officials have concealed it . Signor Farini , the independent member of thu Moderate party in the PiedmonteBo Chamber , has publicl y declared that , while Austria arrogates to
herself the right of interfering in states beyond her own boundary , Piedmont has a similar right . The Ojiinione has published a systematic declaration of measures especially wanted in Naples , and in all parts of the Peninsula . The natives can feel nothing but irritation at the manner in which the Western Powers compel them to keep waiting , in order to see if Naples intends to be reasonable , and Austria will deign to take the lead in reforms . A o + * - » + 1 * r » r » T » rvi \ r » T o / l i-n-k ^ w / it-o r \ F + rtn ii / vn finonf
nobody at present knows what they are doing . We have simply one fact to report . There have been conferences at Vienna , whence strange reports respecting the disposition of Russia still further to infringe the Treaty of Paris . There is a gathering in Moscow to celebrate the coronation of the Czar , and to arrange other little matters . There have been conferences at Bei'lin , between French and other statesmen , under the eye of the mild Prussian eagle . But the only fact which has been authentically stated is , that the King of Prussia has bestowed the colonelcy of a regiment , vacated by the death of the Emperor Nicholas , upon that " puissant Princess , " his " particularly dearly beloved sister , " the Empress Dowager of Russia .
We know nothing of what those crowned persons and their diplomatic agents intend to do with the Russian encroachment upon Norway and Sweden ; with the Sound dues , and the rights of Sehleswig Holstein j with the Danubian Principalities , which Austria threatens to undermine , if Russia be not before her ; with Italy ; with Spain : for all these things , the peoples of the Continent , like the people of England , await the fiat of the crowned persons : as if they -were really a second Providence upon earth , whoso ways are inscrutable , and irresistible . Recent injunctions in the Morning Pust , the soiniomeial representative of our Foreign O / Iiee , lead us to beliove that there is no intention of reducing the forces . The journal arcrues airainst such a
There is , at all events , one part of the globe where the officials of the European Powers in . Conference assembled at Paris are not permitted to dictate . At that Conference , a declaration was adopted comprising a platitude against paper blockades ; two rules respecting the vessels and goods of neutrals , which have met with general acceptance ; and an announcement that " privateering is and remains abolished . " Privateering has not recently been used , because there has been no npc ^ sity for it \ but everybody has foreseen that if any European power with a large
navy were to attack the United States , that republic could find a ready-made marine force enly amongst its merchant ships , and would have to keep off the enemy ' s by such means , while it was constructing a navy conunensurate with , its strength . This was so palpable , that nobody expected the United States to fall in with the Paris declaration ; and Mr . Makct has formally notified that his Government declines to do so . The
notification is important ; first , as effectually stopping the adoption of the rule for Europe , on the pretence of passing a law for the civilized world while America dissents ; and it is also important as one of the first stojis to the system of collecting all the military force of the civilized world into the hands of the Executive Government . The United States at least will not tolerate that system on the water any more than on land . While , then , we have by no means a settled promise of tranquillity East or West , North or
South , the clouding of our skies has somewhat disturbed our anticipation of a plentiful harvest . It is possible that the sun may yet redeem the harm done , but it is possible also the other way . If so , wo shall depend for corn upon our late enemy , and upon our ally whom we have been wanting to brave ; and the necessity for importing corn with the consequent disturbance of our money-market , pur commerce , and our industrial Hystem , might somewhat hamper us in going to war , especially if the Government should undertake such warfare as would not be heartily
supmeasure , which it would advocate , if Government really intended it . There are , then , evident anticipations of some further disturbance of the pence , and of a necessity for English urmies . But surely if we are again to pay the expenses of n war , we ought to know in time what are ( lie measures which are rendering the war necessary , and whom we are to support in the conflict . It is getting really too late in the day to have the war first , and to loarn whut it is about afterward * .
ported by the public at home . The strange weather has materially affected the health of the metropolis : the mortality is running tibove the average—above the rate for the last uight years ; and a special scourge Las boonitt ^ r ; dieted upon us for the neglect of those BaV ™ ££ ~ nrrangumunts the necessity of which the lJj ^ i ^ MM ^ General is incessantly pointing out . jj | P \ g It is not onl y in the natural world , l ^ r | IM ,-j (
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" The one Idea which Historv exhibits as evermore developing it 3 elf into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-aided views ; and , by setting aside the distinction ^ of Religion , Country , anS Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 23, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2155/page/1/
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