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tibn to complete it . The constitution , administered as it is , with its persecutions of the press ; -with its confiscations , unfollowed by trials ; with its continual violations of individual liberty ; with its odious , base , and tyrannical conduct towards the Italian , exiles , treated as foreigners in Piedmont ; with its excessive taxation ; with its Government interference in elections ; with its gloomy immorality in official spheres ; with its perennial disregard of the honours of Italy , and the national cause ; with its concessions to foreign dip lomacy ; ¦ with it 3 adoration of facts , however iniquitously achieved ; with its local egotism , and its oblique Machiavellism , dynastic ambition substituted for the relig ion © f the common country—the constitution thus administered , is proving to the nation , better than we could do , that true liberty , equality , and prosperity , are irreconcilable with a form of government which places the monarchical falsehood at the summit of the social edifice ; and that to hope for the salvation of Italy from the House of Savoy is a folly permitted to those alone who avail themselves of that hope to indulge their own inert egotism "There lives , or rather breeds , in Italy , a monarchico-Piedmontese conspiracy , having no other agent than the one I have indicated , of either frustrating every p lan of insurrection or of seizing the leadership should one burst forth . Ever swarming busily in all directions , with its travellers and agents , now under colour of diplomacy , now by means of affiliations and subscriptions , it has its centres of propaganda and agitation which I could point out and name . There exist monarchico-Piedmontese committees in Rome , Bologna , and Florence , and in some of the cities of Venetian IiOmbardy ; and th « re are secondary centres in other parts of Italy . And I could name to you men , some of them , members of Parliament , who act as intermediates , between these poor dupes and the Government . These intri guers busy themselves now , as before 1848 , in spreading councils of truth in the House of Savoy , and -delay of any popular movement ; hints of the deep designs ¦ of the Sardinian Government , hopes of a royal initiative , ¦ should no other arise to disturb its plans , &c , and when the impatience of these dupes becomes threatening , they mystify them -with medals and subscriptions which they entitle the first step towards action . " The conspiracy has linked itself with foreign pretenders , and I could name to you the man who was sent with introductions to Count Cavour to create a party for the adventurer Murat in Savoy , but he was an Italian at heart , and with him to see clearly was to be undeceived . B y means of this consp iracy the Ministry were in contact with the men who were preparing an armed expedition which shortly afterwards took piace in the territories of a neighbouring State ( I speak of the movement in Lunigiana , to the cry of Viva casa Savoial ) This consp iracy made overtures to me but two years ago , when I was , with the full knowledge of the Government , in Genoa , as it made overtures on the question of action ; it suggested to me—most probably with a view of feeling the ground—the spot on -which my action would give the best pretext for intervention to the Sardinian Government ; it asked of me some concessions—probably with a view of after calumniating me as a deserter from my princip les , a n d onl y withdrew on my imposing decisive conditions which would obli ge the G overnment either to compromise itself by acting , or unmask it and prove it to be intriguing without any Italian aim . I promised to conceal the name of its intermediate , and I shall keep my word , but I pledge my honour for the truth of what I assert . " Jn his letter to the Emperor , M a z zini r em inds Louis Napoleon of the grand promises he made to the p eo p le as the reward of their trusting him , and asks whether any one of them has been fulfilled . He , promised prosperity to the working man and to the trader ; but capital has been diverted from the provinces to Paris to aid in the inflation of gigantic bubble schemes which have now burst , after having stimulated a vast extravagance . Further on , Mnsszinj , in words of awful denunciation and warning , tells the Dictator that his system of government is based on hypocrisy , lying , immorality , and corruption ; that it cannot posBibl y last , and that the throes of its dissolution are already visible in tho frantic and fear-inspired acts of repression which are con-Btantly being committed . Lastly , the writer traces th e histo r y o f th o a lli a n c e with E ngl an d , and tells tho Emperor that he only sought that alliance when he had failed to secure the co-operation of the despotic powers of the Continent ; that ho began and ended the Russian war for his own selfish ends ; that he has saved Russia from any really damaging , blaw : ;^ and ^ thali ^ the _ pQw , er 4 >] tth . p Czar is as . jffgg at , as ever . . »—
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . Chatham Dooicyajrd . —Tho now Lords of tho Admiralty paid their first official , visit of inspecjti 6 n to CUafham dockyard on Tuesday afternoon . . Soldiers' Wives and Cmh , dkj&n . — 'Tho Soorotary of State . for War , noting on tho representation of tho CommftndeMn-Chlof , has sanctioned tho formation of an hospital , in tho oamp at Colchester , for tho sick wives
and children of the soldiers , and orders have already been issued to the Military Purvey ing Department to supply the requisite diet and medical comforts . Ikon Steamship Building at Southampton . —A very fine iron screw steamer ,, built for the Peninsular and Oriental Company , was launched on Thursday from the yard of Messrs . Summers and Day , iron shipbuilders and engineers , at Northam , Southampton . Miss Willcox , daughter of the chairman of the company , named her The Northam . ' Fatal Collision in the Irish Channel . —A collision of an alarming description took p lace early on Sunday morning in the Irish Channel , near the Mull of Galloway , by the running down of the brig Albion , Captain Starkey roaster , bound to Belfast , by the Tubal Cain , screw steamer , from Westport for Liverpool . One man is supposed to be drowned .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeling is to be condemned -which regards -with jealousy the progress of foreign nations , ana cares for no portion ol the human , race but that to which itself belongs . Db . Ahnold . FRANCE . The various Marshals under whom France is now parcelled out into military divisions ( like England in the time of Cromwell ) have been entering on their posts , and uttering very Imperial language at banquets , &c . At Tours , Marshal Baraguay d'Hilliers observed : — " I have come here to secure the maintenance of order , and
I will energetically fulfil my mission . "We have only one cry—that of ' Vive l'Empereur ! ' As long as I command in this part of the country there shall be no other . I do not know how to serve two masters . " Marshal Canrobert , speaking at Nancy , said : — " The Prefect , in proposing to you the health of the Emperor , expressed the sentiments which fill all our hearts . I will add that the Emperor is not only a crowned head , but a man of the most straightforward and most liberal character , whose heart and genius are always preoccup ied with the g lory and prosperity of the country ; in fact , a sovereign who is at the same time a man of the greatest worth . "
The Toulouse journals publish an order of the day from General Feray , in command of the military division there , instructing his troops that , as some ill-intentioned persons lately threw a bottle at a sentry belonging to the 92 nd Reg iment , which struck him on the head and stunned him , and as moreover five men on another occasion approached a soldier , when p laced as sentry at one of the public offices , and only withdrew when he threatened to fire , every man p laced to defend a post must have no hesitation in using his fire-arms , if menaced by attack , after , however , having , as far as can be done , given warning to the assailants of his intention to fire . The reorganization of tho Cent Gardes , which has been for some time in contemp lation , has now been definitively decided on , and will bo shortly carried into operation . The number of the corps will be considerably increased .
Another of the persons wounded by the explosion of the bombs on the 14 th January has just died in the H osp ital Lariboisiere—a girl , named Girodon , fifte e n years of age . The Aloniteur denies that any changes in the French Ministry are contemplated . " It is remarked , " says the Daily Netos Paris correspondent , . " that none of the French journals are permitted to translate tho Emperor ' s condescending reply to the letter of Mr . Carpenter , of the ' Discussion Forum . ' This is , another among many illustrations of tho fact that tho " present policy of tho French Government is to make ono sot of professions in Eng land , and another in Franco . " It is stated that a forco of one hundred and fifty mounted police will be shortly established in Paris .
The Patrie says that tho elections for tho threo scats for Paris , vacant by tho death of General Cavaignao , and the refusal of MM . Caruot and Goudchnux to take tho oath , will take p laco on tho 18 th a n d 19 th of A pril . M . Jules Favro is spoken of as ono of tho opposition candidates . It Is an offence Sn a French journalist oven to quote from tho published writings of his imperial master . Tho Patrie having recently cited some passages from tho works of tho Emperor in connexion with tho proposed law on false titles of nobility , it was' invited' ( so , at least , the Times correspondent ia informed ) to publish no inoro extracts from tho same source . Tho Emperor ' s writings , therefore , aro seditious aguinst himself . Tills is tho reduotio acl abaurdum of tyranny .
Marshal Polisalor gave a dinner laat Saturday , to wulch ^ Ko'iffvHcu'T ^ Paris . Tho Marshal oxprossod to thoso gontlqmon his high oatoom for tlio British army . " A deputation from Macon , appointed to arrange tho uflairs of M . do Lamartine , and composed of tho Abbd Naulin , M . Lacrolx , Prosident of tho Civil Tribunal of Macon , and M . Cliamborno , waited on Goncral EapinoBso , " saya tho Times Paria correspondent , " on Monday , to request permission , to open a subscription in favour of their illustrious townsman . Tho General replied to thorn in writing that ho bad boon porralttod by
the Emperor not only to authorize the subscription but to p lace his Majesty ' s name at the head of the' i a ' The Prince , ' writes General Espinasse , ' who has struggled for ten years against the excesses of demagogues " does * not , and never will , forget the services rendered bv M . de Lamartine to ; the sacred cause of order in 1848 and all the misery and disgrace France was spared by his generous energy . '" ' A new secret society , called the Icarians , has been discovered at Troyes , and eight of the chiefs have been broug ht to trial , convicted , and sentenced to various fines and terms of imprisonment . A corporal of the Garde de Paris has died of sheer horror at seeing the execution of Orsini and Pierri . A cafe at Narbonno has been closed by the Prefect on the ground that it was a place in which socialist and anarchical ideas were propagated .
The two guns sent by Queen V ictoria as a present to the Emperor arrived at the Tuileries on Tuesday morns ing , and were inspected by the Emperor and Empres and several officers of rank , among whom was General Lahitte , the former Minister at War , now Inspector-General of Artillery . A new work by M . Proudhou is shortly to be published , under the name of Le Bon Dieu au X IX * . Siecfe . The great tenor Tamberlik came out at the Italian Opera-house in Paris on Monday night with immense success . The opera was Otello . The singer was slightly nervous at first , but in the second and third acts obtained a great triumph . M . Curlier , formerly Prefect of Police , is dead . A woman , the wife of an Italian refugee , has been condemned , by the Tribunal of Correctional Police , to fifteen months' imprisonment and one hundred francs ' fine , for using seditious language respecting the Emperor's recent escape from assassination .
riALY . T . " words " VivaOrsiui i "' liave b ' . cn found written in red letters about the walls and street corners of Rome . We continue to hear of shocks of earthquake in the Neapolitan territory ; and Vesuvius gives signs of an approaching eruption . The 3-oung Englishman , Mr . Hodge , who has been confined several weeks at Genoa , at the instigation of the French authorities , under an impression that he was implicated in the late attempt at Paris , has been removed to Turin , and is now p laced in the Ospulale dei Cavalieri . Giovanni Prati , the patriotic poet of Italy , having lately visited Padua , simply to see his daughter , who resides there , has been peremptorily expelled from tho Lombardb-Venetian territories .
The Countess Strozzi , an Austrian lady married to an Italian noble , created a little riot a few nights ago at the theatre at Venice by ostentatiously placing ia her hair the Austrian colours . The disturbance that ensued was sufficiently serious to induce the lady to leave the theatre , guarded by officers . Sbe has been ordered to remain in her house for a week . It is announced from Vienna that insurrectionary movements have taken place among the students of the University of Padua and among the scholars of the Academy of Milan . Both of these establishments have , in consequence , been shut up by the Austrian Government .
Park , the English eng ineer , has been c onditionally liberated by the Neapolitan Government . On tho 21 th ult ., according to a letter from Salerno , " the Attorney-General of the Grand Court received the Ministerial rescript by which tho Acting-Consul , Mr . Barbar , was authorized to remove him to the British hosp ital , tor considerations of health ; and on tho following morning he came over , and we had tho satisfaction of receiving and entertaining poor Park on the very day on whioij Watt must have arrived in England . " Tho trials will be resumed on tho Oth inst . . BELGIUM . Baron do Briero , Minister of Foreign Affairs , has stated in tho Chamber of Representatives , in answer to m-Dumortior , that instructions had been given to tho uelgian representative at Paris to submit some observations to tho French Government on tho subject of tho dilncuitios presented by tho existing system of passports , lio added that the Belgian Government would nccodo to every tolorunco consistent with public sufoty . TUUK 1 SK . Tho state of tho Herzegovina , according to the insi accounts , was more satisfactory . Order hud not boon aostttbllflhed , but tho irritation iutlio minds of tlio 1 > w > 1 > « was Hoftoning down , notwithstanding the ofiortfl wiiuj by tho Montenegrin party to keep up tho agitation . ^^ Tlio-PoFto- « as . aoairfldaUaL , A ] U . ^ f l i ^ iL ^ opor : lfa Moldavia and Wiillachia bo roliovod , on poy " " ™ - " ? fulr indemnity , of tho obligatory bunions in wo * « n " produce which havo hitherto pressed on it . inorw »» likewise an intention of uboliuhliig all luwa and io « u » u .-tlona which stand in tho w « y of purchasing property those countries . , . . Several houses nnd bnssaara at Damascus havo ue »» crushed in by massca of » now . Tho lose of mo ia »« to bo considerable . . t , Tho Porto huu rojootod tho demand niado l » y u »«
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o THE LEADER . L - 419 > April 3 , 1858 .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 3, 1858, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2237/page/6/
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