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pretensions to interpose in Seryia was regarded as Favourable to peace , and the panic-stricken Rentes ventured to look bigger accordingly . Subsequent reflection seems to ' have dispelled this illusion . The Cabinet of Vienna felt , no doubt , that with any chance of hostilities in Lombardy , it would be madness to isolate troops unnecessarily beyond the Save ; and , what would be still worse , to furnish Russia with a pretext , if she desired it , for threatening the frontiers of Gallicia . The strength of the
HOPES AND FEARS OF WAR . During the last week great efforts have been made at home and abroad to discredit the idea of war , and to resuscitate the belief that peace between France and Austria will , after all , be maintained . The dexterous avoidance by the latter of any actual pretext for quarrel , regarding Servia , came just in time to check the rising tone of diplomatic menace on the part of the former . Regard for appearances will compel the French Government , therefore , to take the trouble of finding some new topic , which may be forced prematurely to ripen into a casus belli . For a day or two . the waiver of Austria ' s
reinforcements sent into Italy no longer admit of any question , and the open concentration of Austrian forces along the line between Bergamo and Brescia is precisely what an able strategist like General Von Hesse would resolve upon , in contemplation of war with Piedmont . That Austria is alive to her danger no one can pretend to disbelieve ; and that the moneyed interests of Europe , generally , are in mortal fright is evident , not only from the actual state of depression of public securities everywhere , but from the rapid oscillations caused from day to day by every apparent shifting of the wind .
On the other hand , it must be owned that all the incidents that have occurred since the announcement of Prince Napoleon Joromc's journey to Turin , wear a pacific rather than a warlike aspect . Instead of being hailed as a dclivorcr , the cousin of the Emperor has , upon tlie whole , been somewhat coolly received in Piedmont . The high Royalists have heard with a silent shrug that the youthful daughter of Savoy is about to be offered as a propitiatory sacrifice to the family ambition of the House of Bonaparte . The Republicans make no House of Bonaparte . The Republicans make no
secret of their disgust at seeing a new , Iink riveted between French and Italian monarchy . The Con * stitutionaliats ponder anxiousl y the influence that so intimate a union with foreign Absolutism may exert over the future counsels of their country : ana among * the generous and high-minded of all classes ana opinions , there is a mingled sonso of pohtipal disappointment at the eagerness of JPranoo to force on a marriage gratifying to her prido , and of personal sympathy lor the young and innocent gwl » who has Doen , without any will of her own , bargained for and disposed of as tho jmue of a blaw' and selfish adventuror . Not oil J « b recent efforts to maintain a sort of oharaotor
for greater liberality than the other advisers of his Imperial kinsman can obliterate from men ' s memories the ultraism of the sentiments he professed but a few years since when aspiring to . lead the Red Party in the National Assembly , or the length to which he went in the opposite difection after the coup ( Fe'taf . There is a lurking suspicion Everywhere , that if war presented the opportunity Prince Napoleon would be rapidly converted into King Jerome of—nobody cares to inquire precisely which province of the peninsula . In spite of the pains takenby the Sardinian Government to make an ovation for him at Turin , he must be , i ii , 1 n ii i i '¦ " ¦'¦¦ ¦ . ' I . ¦ - nf Iii
conscious of the reserve with which lie is nationally regarded ; and he will return to Paris next week with somewhat abated confidence , perhaps , in the intimacy and durability of the present entente . The reported death of the King ol Naples at the present critical juncture , would , i ( true , have had a pacific tendency . Had Ferdinand the Tormentor gone to his account , . many of his recently liberated victims were destined soon to follow him , and by the dread tribunal of the Unseen and the Unerring , the life feud between isuc
him and them could only then have terminated , one heavy score of grievances and complaints is thus summarily wiped out of the international memory of Europe . His eldest son , who now sue- ; ceeds him on the throne , is an inexperienced youth of three-and-twenty , nearly related through his mother to the King of Sardinia ; and , however badlybrought up as yet , free Trpnv the hatred and resentment of any portion of his subjects . A reasonable plea is afforded by his accession for the resumption of diplomatic relations by "Great Britain and France with the Court of the Two Sicilies . Austria will not fail to urge the imme-J !« i » *; J ^« 4 Crt « * . C 4-iiic rtA « i > on unrvn niiT l ^ Ji"VVfil * nnr lfVnfc .
and Napoleon III , will , in all probabilit y * seize the opportunity to do an act which will have a show of moderation , and , for the moment * , to quiet the misgivings of England and of ¦ ¦ ' Russia with regard to nis ultimate designs on Naples . How little those designs are likely to be in reality abandoned , and in how many ways , on the contrary , they may be insidiously promoted by the residence of a French minister at Naples , it is needless to say . , By far the most significant circumstance , however ; that has yet occurred is the irrepressible manifestation throughout France of feelings averse
to war . Consideriner the weight of the ud that imprisons as in a tomb the sentiments and thoughts of the French people , it is only wonderful how so many evidences of the disposition alluded to have found vent . The army would , of course , like war for the sake of its spoils and promotions , and the bulk of the adventurer class , who have still their fortunes to make , look with delight on the prospect of new fields of stock-jobbing and political gambling . But the Walewskis , De Mornys , and Foulds , who have risen by the establishment of the Empire , and who are thriving apace in its peaceful glare , have no stomach for desperate enterprises . Victories won by French armies in Lombardy can do them no assignable good , while reverses , however casual or reparable , would inevitably drive them from
power . It is now understood pretty well that the acquiescence , if not encouragement , afforded by them to tho projects of M . Cavour rested on the assumption that Russia was ready to enter the field in concert with France against Austria . On the discovery , somewhat late , that the Court of St . Petersburg was not prepared to enter into immediate engagements on the subject , Napoleon III . endeavoured to resuscitate the alliance , offensive and dofensive , with England . The polioy of Compiegiie was sought to be substituted for tho policy of Jrlombicres ; but that has likewise failed . England will not be dragged by Lord Palmcrston into complicity with , any more Bonapartist schemes . The feeling ot the country has been unmistakably pronounced , and its firm but unanimous verdict has been given against war .
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DIOGENES AT SHEFFIELD . John Arthur Roebuck is himself again . The salamander luxuriates in tho flames ; the stormy petrol rejoices in tho tempest ; tho chameleon grows tat on air ? and the member for Shofliold thrives upon discord , and revels in disturbance . What is one main ' s poison is another ' s food . The Sir Lucius O'Triggcr of polities , Mr . Roebuck , is in his olor mont in a quarrel ; no termination of a dispute is so uncongenial to him as a reconciliation between tho disputants ; the very name of a peace-maker
is an abomination in his sight ; Well , after all , t here is good in everything ; and the same inscrutable Providence which , created wasps gave birth to Roebuck . We have often wondered by what law of chemical affinity or moral fitness Sheffield and its member came :: into contact . If you ever went inside a Sheffield factory , you would soon become aware that the whole atmosphere was impregnated with , steel filings . The particles of steel floating in the air y 0 u breathe , stick in your throat , impede your respiration , and , irritate your nerves / Now , if you can picture to yourself a man begotten like is an abomination in his sight Well , after all .
a magnetic homunculus , by the friction between a rasp and a file , cradled in a bed of steel filings , fed out of a steel bottle , lulled to rest by . the grating of a file , amused with cast-steel dolls , and sleeping at nig ht on a bed stuffed with steel dustin fact , an animated bundle of steel filings—if you can fancy such a man , we say , you will have before your eyes a twin brother of Mr . Roebuck . Truly , the late Administrative Reform Association is jus tified in the person of her last friend and president As long as Sheffield and Roebuck are inseparably connected in perfect communism , files with files , steel dust with steel dust , so lone , there at least , if
nowhere else , the right man is in the right place . If you want an old grievance kept alive , an unpleasant remark made , and an old sore forced open , we recommend you to Mr . Roebuck . Happily for him there is no immediate prospect of the advent 6 f the Millennium . A fish out of water would be a happy being compared to the great Sheffield statesman in a state of universal peace . We are disposed to consider the very fact of Mr . Roebuck ' s existence as a suflicient argument against the speedy accomplishment of Mifienarian views . If the lion and the lamb were to lie down and be at peace together , if the serpent were to forget his
cunning , Mr . Roebuck would tread upon the serpent ? s tail , pinch the lamb till it bleated , and rub up the lion ' s mane the wrong way . Whatever else his sins may be , amongst their number there is not found that of speaking peace where there is no peace . Just at present Mr . Roebuck must be in as near an approach to perfect felicity as is allotted to mankind in this terrestrial sphere . He has fulfilled the whole duty of a Roebuck . He can reflect that in his Sheffield oration of last week he gave more offence , stirred up more ill-bloody and made more people uncomfortable than any other man could have effected iii twice the time . Besides the
satisfaction which always arises in a well-regulated mind from the consciousness of a meritorious action , he has before him the , delightful prospect of a fresh opportunity for the exercise of his peculiar talents . It is whispered in Ministerial circles , talked of in political reunions , and proclaimed aloud in Sheffield workrooms , that Roebuck is once again about to assume the part of the stern and relentless Brutus . Ministers have committed the unpardonable sin of declining a promising dispute . The hour of retribution is at hand , and before their guilty vision there appears already the image of Cato-Roebuck demanding vengeance for peace and Portugal , . _
_ ... . Into the merits of the Portuguese question we have no wish , because we have no power , to enter . Neither we nor Mr . Roebuck have at this moment the means of forming a correct judgment upon the subject . Meanwhile , we are so tame-spirited that we plead guUty to a feeling of satisfaction that war has been avoided . It is always time enough to take up arms ; and for our " own part we prefer to know clearlv what we are Koine : to war about before the
declaration of hostilities . As our feelings are not embittered by steel-filing or knife grinding , we admit that the fact of having avoided a war w » tu France is rather a recommendation in our eyes than otherwise . We are ashamed of ourselves . We have not , alas ! a stock of virtuous indignation and self-asserting patriotism ready at a moment ' s notice ; yet , though we cannot imitate our great exemplar , wo can admire and venerate him from a humble
distance . , , The Roobuokian style of eloquence and argument has been exhibited to greater advantage than at the late Reform demonstration at Sheffield . Baalach had sent for Balaam . The altar was dressed , the sacrifice was offered , and the expectant worshippers were panting for the prophetic utterance , but , like his great prototype Roebuck refused to be cdoroed . The very faot that he was summoned to bless the cause of Reform was sun > oiont ground for predicting its inevitable failure . With characteristic ccoentrioity he commenced oy
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No . Ml Jactart 22 , 18591 THE tEAJIB , : 113 TT 7 ¦ ¦ i ¦ === s sss =
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. ¦ ¦ ¦¦ . ¦' .. .... ? ¦ — . ¦ There is nothing s © * volutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
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—S- V- / T SATURDAY , JANUARY 22 , 1859 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 22, 1859, page 113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2278/page/17/
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