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against-Trance and Russia will-rue it . Imagine the Prince of Prussia , who might easily continue to be as he is , the most popular Prince since Frederic the Great , giving , ' at this period of terrible anxiety , a banquet to celebrate the triumph- bf one party brer another . This is not all : the confiscation of journals has not yet ceased . Last week a Berlin paper the Publicist was confiscated for criticising , iiiimicallyj the motion made by Prussia in the Diet , that a Corps of Observation might be drawn up on the Rhine . The journal , however , confiding in the power of public opinion , showed fight , and in its next number declared that it would not be deterred from expressing its opinion upon the . acts of the Government ; that it was indeed a bad prospect for Prussia , if the authorities alone should possess the nrivileere of entertaihiner an opinion . It must be
admitted that the Prussian Government has been , up to the present , pretty tolerant as regards the press , butj as I foretold , they are gently and by fitful degrees returning to the old system . Since the Prince of Prussia ' s accession to power the press has only in one or two instances been troubled by the police , and , as it ¦ were , without the knowledge of the higher powers . A confiscation of the New Prussian Gazetteiras quashed by decision of a court of law . This soothed the public , who were becoming alarmed that the constitution had only loosened their fetters—not quite knocked them off . The Berlin papers are at feud upon the merits of the foreign policy of Prussia . The provincial press are mostly on the side of the Government , a circumstance rather advantageous , as now more than ever the authorities depend upon the patriotism and
good-will of the mass . Jn Berlin , the yolkszeitungand the Vossische , the most widely-circulated , have become , -since the mobilisation , the fiercest opponents of the Government . The VossiscTie was formerly not remarkable for its opposition , but now it fears that the influence —and what is more , the resources of Prussia will be employed to maintain Austria , ' and thereby prolong the baleful power she has exercised over Germany . It argues against any participation whatever in the war now raging , declaring that the terms , ' * balance of power , " sanctity of treaties , &c ., are mere diplomatic twaddle , signifying nothing , and an insult to the common sense of the age . Divided as opinions now . are here , and hated and'despised as Austria is , a war against the Trench would only lead to dire misfortunes . It is true the French , and more especially their Emperor , are detested , but it is not a detestation accompanied with contempt . The Liberals of Gerraanyare not all extirpated yet , and they can well distinguish between the real and the
ideal . The state of Hungary is very precarious . An insurrection is daily expected . The Governor was ordered to proclaim martial law , but he refused point blank , upon the ground that such a measure would but hasten what they hoped to prevent . The Hamburgh constitutional question is not yet settled , though entirely overlooked by the general public , absorbed in the sanguinary contest in Italy . The Senate having , no doubt under Austrian pressure , prohibited public meetings for the discussion of State affairs , seven lawyers have now united in a declaration that such an assumption of power by . the Senate is illegal , and contrary to the Constitution . Jt is here seen that the humiliation of Austria is already productive of benefit to parts of Germany where liberty , still struggling , lives . . . Complaints are beginning to be heard of the long drought . The rivers are bo low that on some the steam navigation has altogether ceased to the up-stream towns . Everywhere the rye is ready for the sickle , but looks thin and poor in grain .
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BOOKS RECEIVED . A Memoir on the Treatment of the Epidemic Cholera . By Joseph Ayre , M . D . J . Churchill . Accountants and Auditors . Letts , Son and Co . The Life of Charles James Fox . By Lord John Russell , M . P . Vol . 2 . 31 . Bentley . Northumberland and the Border . By Walter White . Chapman and Hall * The Three Gates ( in verse ) . By Chauncy Hore Townsend . Chapman and Hnll . Tobacco : its History and Associations . Chapman and Hall . The Curate and the Hector ; a Domestic Story . By Elizabeth Strutt . Routledge , Warnes , and Co . A Practical Paris Guide , Xongman and Co . A Practical Rhine Guide . Longman and Co . The Convalescent ; his Rambles and Adventures . Bv N . Paulo Willis . H . Q . Bonn . J The Sonnets , Triumphs * and other Poetns of Petrarch . H . G . Bonn . J
A Guide to the Food Collection in the South Ken , " sington Museum . JEyre and Spottiswoode . Official Correspondence on the Italian Question . By the Earl of Malmeabury . Harrison . Essay on the Sceptical Tendency of Butler ' s Analogy . J . Chapman , The King ' s Secret : a Romance of English Chivalry . By Tyrone Power . Thoxnos Hodgson . Dublin University Mapazino , No . 319 . Dublin : 'Alexander Thorn and Spn . The Journal of Universal Science , No . 80 . Longman . Brown , and Co . p Thd JZadiet' 'Treasury , Ho . 96 , Vol . 3 . Ward and JLOCK . Xtouttedffo ' a Shdheapvar ^ Part 40 . Routledge , ' Warnes . ana Co , ' ' Itoutled 4 o > 6 Illustrated Natural History , Pai * t 4 . ^ Moutleftae , < lVarne 9 i « and Co . ^ 41 ™ *** "JLJ !?*™ & Vhmuu Moore , Part 4 . Longman , Brown , and 0 o >
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. ——? A new annoyance to the general readers of Shakespeare has started up , which threatens a wearisome and troublesome controversy , as regards the genuineness , as it is strangely termed , of the second folio , or that of 1632 , of which Mr . Payne Collier found an annotated copy some time since . The manuscript emendations of this volume , or a large proportion of them ,, were reprinted in an octavo volume , verbatim , from the original , with several facsimiles of the hand-writing . A mere conjecture was put forth as to the probable time the chief of these marginal emendations were made , and it was generally thought it was about the period , or a little
comet in the constellation of Perseus . Its nebulous intensity is equal to a star of the ninth magnitude . The Earl of Ellesmere has entertained the Genealogical and Historical Society of Great Britain , on the occasion of holding their sixth annual meeting . There were present many literary celebrities . The report of the council iras read , and a very able address by the Rev . F . Owen followed , in which he explained fully the objects of the society , and the advantages which historical and biographical literature would derive from its records and compilations . There were also some speeches by the noble president , Sir Brook W . Bridges , Sir Archibald Alison , Rev . T . Hugo , Rev . F . Owen , Rev . B . Byam , and others . . _ . and Literature ¦ ¦ . j . i _ ' » HnMi . M 1 lAilA * i A ^ T > o « ao'iia T + o nnhiiisviici
The Lombard Institute of Science has assumed the name of National Institute . The members have renounced their pensions until the end of the war ; they have also given up the decorations they had received from Austria . A complaint has been laid before the Tribunal of Correctional Police against M . Alexandre Dumas , for having , in a work called "Le Cauease , " pirated largely from a small volume entitled " Souvenirs d ' une Francaise captive de Schamyl ; " M . Merlieux , a literary man , proved that he is the author of the . " Souvenirs , " which was published two years ago . The tribunal , on comparing " Le Caucase" and the Souvenirs , " decided that the former contained so many textual extracts from the latter as to be a piracy ; it , therefore , fined Dumas lOOfr ., his printer and publisher 125 . fr :, and it condemned all jointly to pay 500 fr . damages .
later than that at which the book was printed . It could hardly be supposed that such simple facts could lead to volumes of controversy , breaking of friendships , insinuations Of forgery , and , finally , to a volcanic explosion of correspondence in the Times newspaper , and a threatened controversy , in which the hot-headed and shallow-brained partisans on each side will go on boring and worrying the quiet and less captious admirers of our great dramatist . A Mr . Hamilton has published a long letter in the Times , in which he states that the emendations must be forgeries , as he has discovered that they are written over pencil-marks in a handwriting of this century . If this be so , we do not see that it
matters two ^ -pence , for , however gained , some of the readings are exceedingly valuable ; and if some cracked-brained antiquary has so strangely employed his time as to conceal his own acumen in this strange tray , it is only another instance of extraordinary literary mania . We are , however , by no means convinced that it is so ; for Mr , Hamilton ' s letter bears such marks of eagerness to prove some foul play that we cannot take his mere assertion as proof . The book has been in so many hands that it is as easy to suppose the folly or the roguery has been committed by one , or one set of men , as another , and there has been , a virulence of attack so remarkable against the discoverer
of the book , that it is quite as reasonable to suppose malice may have made the marks , since the controversy arose , as that an insane roguery caused them in the first instance . That Mr . Collier is utterly incapable of such folly and chicanery as is insinuated , everybody knows , who is acquainted with him or his writings ; he found the book as it is j he printed and adopted many of the emendations ; he did not appropriate the excellent new readings to himself ; but proclaimed where he obtained them ; he handed the book to competent authorities to examine ; he printed fac-simjles of them , and finally placed the volume in a library where access to it was almost as easy as if in a public institution . A set of writers have , in furtherance of some angry feeling , always been carping at tlie volume and attacking its finder ; and now Mr . Hamilton ' s letter
has caused the long smothered animosity to burst into a furious flame . Mr . Collier has answered this epistle perfectly satisfactorily ; and very properly refuses to be further tormented or troubled about the matter . It may answer the purpose of restless journalists , who must ever find new- gossip for their readers , and for third and fourth class literati to attract attention by getting up a controversy , and thus for a time obtaining a little notoriety ; but ; to no one else can this controversy be anything but an annoyance . The calmer readers and truer admirers of our great dramatist will not ~ trouble themselves about the matter , but take the emendations of this unhappy second folio for what they are worth , and go on their Shaksperean way undisturbed by the clamour some portions of his aelf-elected critics arcalways amusing themselves . with creating , .
The Surrey ; Archaeological Society held its annual meeting at liichmond , on Tuesday last , under tlie presidency of Lord Abingor , Some interesting papers were read by Messrs . Flower , Chapman , and Hart , F . S . A ., and at three o ' clock the audience proceeded to the local museum , opened at the locturehall of the Cavalry College , to view an excellent collection of antiquities and works of art , the band of the Surrey Militia being * in attendance . A new light is about to be cast upon the
antiquities of Western Europe by a version of the poems of Oflsian , now in progress by the Rev . John Forces , minister of Slcat , in Skye . Mr , Porbos ' s translation is principally-with a view of conveying a more exaot and literal version of the poems of Ossian , accompanied by historical notea , illustrations of customs and mannora , and expositions of Celtic vocables , which will give light , not only upon the people , bub the language and usages of the Western Celtic . M . Dlen announces at Paris that on Sunday ovening , July 5 , at 10 ' 10 , p . m ., ho discovered anew
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THE ROMAN QUESTIONS By E . Aboxit . Translated from the French by H . G . Coape . W . Jeffs . The history of this book of M . About ' s is as well known as its appearance is well timed . Its trenchant wit , its merciless logic , and . its indisputable facts , make it tlie most dangerous to the political power-of the Pope ever published . "Well may he have withdrawn to Brussels , out of tlie way of the long arm of His Holiness—for tlie upshot of his book and varied argument , not disclosed until page 282 , is simply and purely this : — " Suffice it to say that the subjects of the Pope will be as prosperous and as happy as any people in Europe—as soon as
they cease to be governed by a Pope . " These words , we should imagine , would be dangerous anywhere within the reach of " the long arm " aforesaid . Paris , indeed , wacs not even safe . Originally , the author published his Italian experiences in the Moniteur Univcrsel . But in consequence of the violent outcry of the Pontifical Government he discontinued them , and , burning the papers , determined on writing a book —and publishing it in Brussels . " As , " says the author , " the Pope has a long arm , which might reach me in France , I have gone a little out of the ¦ way to tell him the plain truth contained in these pages . " The book may be read as we run , so easy is the style . The facts may be depended on . Tliey are
derived from the author ' s correspondence and conversation with illustrious Italians , and from the learned memoir of the Marquis Pepoli ; to which may be added " the admirable reply of an anonymous writer to M . de Rayneval . " iNTever was clearer case propounded to the world ; never was so just a plea laid before Europe for redress and countenance . "The Bishop of Rome is the temporal sovereign of about six millions of acres , and reigns over 3 , 124 , 668 men , who are all crying out loudly against him . " If any sovereign , the eldest : son of the Church , should remonstrate , the Pope takes counsel with his Cai ^ dinal Secretary , who undertakes to dispose of the matter diplomatically , and writes an invai'iable note , which , divested of its tortuous style , may be , thus abridged : —
' < We want your soldiers and not your advice , seeing that we are infallible . If you wore to show any symptom of doubting that infallibility , and if you attempted to force anything upon us , even our preservation , wo would fold our wings around our countenances : we would raise the palms of martyrdom , and wo should become an object of compassion to all the Catholics in tho universe . You know wo have in your country forty thousand mon -who are at liberty to aay everything , and whom you pay with your own money to plead our cause They shall prcaoh to your subjects , that you arc tyrannising over tho Holy Father , and we shall sot your country in a blaze without appealing to touch it , " Can we » wonder that the eldest son of the Church should appeal to tho sword , to out this worse than Qordian knot ? The Author professes himself a fervent Catholic , but this fact involves not necessarily allegiance to the Papacy . Many Italian .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 9, 1859, page 822, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2302/page/18/
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