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RECORD OF TUB WEEK. HOMU AND COLONIAL.
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only of get ting- rid of Mex&X IV ., and the pi ties of Lombardy of freeing- themselves from the yoke both of the Empehoe and the T ' ope . There never Was an alliance of principle between them , but onlv of temporary interests . When , therefore , discordant and contradictory interests arose , the alliance was naturally dissolved . At no time has national independence found a support in . the Papacy . If the iattei- ever appeared to unite with the defenders of Italian liberty it was only-because it found in them allies against a common enemy , and it was ever ready to abandon and sacrifice Italy the moment its own pretensions ceased to be threatened , its own is
ambitious ' view ' s * thwarted . Though Father Lacokdaike obliged to confess that Rome has of late almost constantly been allied with Austria , he adds : " If GeneralBo ^ apahte had not opened the doors of Italy to Austria by the : destruction of the Venetian Republic ; if Europe had been inspired by more generous and far-sighted views in . 1815 , and had refused to endorse Boxapakte's error , and thus consecrate the ruin of Venice ; had Austria not availed herself of these unhappy circumstances to extend her heavy and unenlightened rule over the Peninsula , the Papacy would never have appeared to Italy as the accomplice of foreign oppression . " Hence the author concludes that the alliance of Rome with Austria is only
an accident . There is some truth in these observations , and it is on tins account that the Italians , on going to war with Austria ,, believed that they should restore liberty to the people by liberating- them from foreign despotism . But the Court of Rome has manifested the strongest opposition to driving Austria-out of Italy ; - . Is it so long since 181-8 . fchut Father Lacordaxee can have forgotten the encyclical of April 29 , in which the Pope declares that he cannot make war against AustriaP And since 1 § IS against whom Iras the Court of Rome maintained obstinate war , except against the single Government which lias displayed the flag- of national independence ? Has not Koine been all the \ vhile drawing closer to Austria , and did she . not abandon to her . all-right over the Legations ? It has been
said that the Court of ; Rome was Austrian because Austria had accepted a Concordat favourable to the Pope ; bht that fact-only justifies tlie assertion , that when the interests of : the Pope as Pope , and of the P 6 pe as an Italian prince are contrary , Italy ia sacrificed to the Curia , and the liberty , ol the people to clerical absolutism . It is certain that if Italy were independent , the question of Rome would be simplified . But . there would still be a difficulty remaining , which the writer signalizes when he says that the civil government oflloinu belongs to the ancien riy ' ime . This is an inontcstable truthj and the very head-and front of the Italian difficulty , What this government is * France well kuows , when she brought about the Revolution of ' 89 to overturn it , and this arbitrary , repressive , and violent power still continues in the Roman States , sixty years after
it was destroyed in France . A Frenchman could scarcely blame the Romans for- shaking off the . yoke of a government of thu ancien righnc . Nor does Father Lacoeiiaire condemn them , but recognises that the Papacy is in its present evil plight only because it has not kept paco with the wants of the age . He presumes that the Pope has enemies , both religious and political ,. and . thus . expresses himself : '" When , enemies exist we should do everything- in our power to diminish their number , and deprive them of every pretext for molesting- us . A power neve : * perishes by the work of its enemies ^ but by that of that vacillating , undecided , indeterminate party which forms the mass of a nation , and which , in the pitched 'buttle of events , always decides the victory . When CiiAKLES the Tenth fell , it was not his enemies who precipitated
his ruin ,- but men who the day before would have fouy-hfc to save him . " This is most true . Those who advise the Court of Rome to resist the spirit of the age , the wants of tho population , and the wishes of Italy , and to maintain the ancien rtgimc , are they who are really undermining its ppwer . But there is no ground whatever for tho expectation apparently entertained by ' the reverend writer , that Rome will adopt tho three principles whiob distinguish modern iro n : ) mediaeval governments ; namely , civil equality , political liberty , and freedom of religious belief These principles have always been negatived by the Court of Rome , always condemned by Papal bulls and encv . clicals . In simply expressing the hope that
they may prevail , the reverend writor lays himself open to censure and disgrace . During- the past ten years France lias constantly insisted upon tho necessity of reforms' at Rome , less radical by far than those involved in the realization of these three principles , yet always in vain . The clerical journals which assume to be Rome ' s interpreters show the most unmitigated rage rmd hatred against liberty and patriotism ; Cardinal Antonejcj . i refuses to make concessions of any kind ; and yet Father Lacoudaikk Hatters himself thai Rome only requires time and deferential treatment to introduce civil , political , and religious freedom into her laws . A strnngo illusion this on tho part of the reverend writer , who , however , manifests a , lively sympathy towards Italy , which cannot fail to pruvo highly gratifying 1 to Italians in general .
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Satoiday , April l < i , was the birthday of Princess Beatrice . In coiiBccjnoiioo of tho death of his Into Sureno Highness the Prince of Hohonloho Lantfenbur ^ , brothur-in-livw to the Quoon , tho Court wont into mourning 1 on Thursday last for u fortnight . Despatches were sent from the Culouiiil-ollloe qu Saturday to , tho Governors of Cunnda and tho Bahamas .
The following diplomatic appointments have been made : —Mr . J .. S . Luniiey , now secretary to her Majesty ' s mission at Sfc . Petersburg , is appointed secretary to the British Embassy at Constantinople , in the room of Mr . Alisou , appointed to succeed Sir Henry Rawlinson , as minister at the Persian Court . Mr . E . S . vEi'skiiie , now secretary of I / egatibn at Stockholm ; , is appuinted secretary of Legation to the mission at St . Petersburg . Mr . E . I win Corbett , who was secretary to the late mission at Florence , is appointed secretary of Legation at Stockholm . Captain ' Leicester Vernon , M . P ., died suddenly on Saturday last , . at his residence , 51 Great . Cumberland-street , Hyde-park . He left the Ciirlton Club in his carriage , , at about 4 o ' clock in the afternoon , in his usual health and spirits ; accompanied by a friend , lie drove up St . James ' s-street , about the middle of which his horses became restive , when he got out of his carriage to ascertain the cause of the . disturbance , ' In struggling ^ with the horses he fell , but soon recovered himself , and asserted that he was perfectly uninjured . He soon after complained of being unwell , and requested to be driven home : On reaching his house , ¦ 'medical advice Was immediately summoned , but before it could arrive Captain Vernon had breathed his last . The cause of death is ascertained to have been produced by the rupture of a blood-vesseL Captain Vernon was one pf 'the-members- ' .. for . the county of 1 Jerks , and was an .-active and able member of the House of Common * . It appears from the evidence at the coroner's : inquest on the bodies of the seventy-six men and lads killed in Burradon Colliery , Northumberland , on the 2 nd . March , which was continued on Friday last , that the immediate cause of the two explosions and loss , of life , was the weakness and instability of the air-curivnt . The -subscriptions oil' behalf , of tho families of the sufferers have reached the handsome siini of £ ' 5 , 119 19 ^ . 8 J . A few days ago an oscillating steam cylinder , weighing 30 tons , was successfully cast at the . Bowling Iron-works * near Bra < iT > rd . The cylinder is * 8 feet . 2 inches indiaineter , 11 feet 1 inch in length , and ., 12 feet S inches in width across trunnions , With steam chests and solid bottom . "Upwards of forty tons of metal were prepared in five furnaces . Dr . Letheby ' s Annual R-port on the Sanitary Condition of the ¦ City of . London for the hist twelve months shows a favourable ' c > nditfon of the public health . There have been 1 , 81-3 marriages , ' -i .-JOQ births , and 2 , 011 . deaths , The marriages have risen-above the average , and the births jnirl deaths have fallen below it . Of the 2 , 911 deaths " in the year 1 , 509 were males ' , and 1 , 102 females . 7 . 233 inspections of houses have been made in the course of the year , of which 80 : 3 were of the common lodging-houses , ami that 935 orders have boon issued for sanitary improvement in various particulars . It is . stated , in the Ti » ie . i \ rf Tuesday that ¦ ¦ the' rumours ' arc well founded which have been for some time iii circulation , to the effect that the examination papers proposed to candidates for -military appointments have been surreptitiously obtained by some of the candidates in anticipation of-the examination , Tlie result has been that a new examination will at once begin ,. From the Army couljS ' ctvy Gazette we learn that a very disgraceful and a very injurious system of touting prevails in connexion with the examination of candidates for direct commissions in the army , which now takes place periodically at Chelsea Hospital . . CVrt . iin tailors mannge to scrape up aw acquaintance with the candidates , insinuate themselves into their confidence , -p ress small ¦ loans of money on their acceptance , and get their promise to bo employed to furnish their out-fit , undertaking that the , items will be so charged that the amount of the loan will be slipped in in the shape of nu addition to ' enclY item , so as to make things pliMisiuit with the "< uivemor . " Some of these worthies even persuade . ' thq candidates that they ( tan obtain copies of tho examination papers for them beforehand , and this furnishes a ready means of introduction . The mutter lias been brought to tho . notice of tho Duke of Cambridge , who is determined to , take prompt stops to check a practice so dis ^ i-iiiyl'iil . On Saturday . April li , a crowded meeting was held in ( Juoen Struct Hall , at Edinburgh , to consider resolutions . favourable to tho Government Reform Bill for Scotland .. At this meeting resolutions were passed to the afllot , that tlie Reform Bill now bwforo Pnrjiameut , extending tho franchise in counties and in burghs , deserves the support ' of all reformers , and that Scotland has not a . sullliMunt number of members to place it on an equality with England and Ireland ; and that , when the Bills go into Committee , such additional mombors should bo given to Scotland as may be found pyneticabh ) in present circumatancos ; and that provision should also bo made for lowering tho property franchise in counties below tho sum fixed in tho Bill * so that it may bo made equivalent to tho [ English -Uh . franchise . A potition in accordance with theso resolutions was unanimously signed . Tho twelfth , limuvprsury festival of the City of London Hospital for Diseases of thy Chest was held on Tuesday evening "t 'ho London Tavern . Tho object of the institution , whiuh wus foun oil in 18 X 8 , was to afford relief to the poor afflicted with cuiisumpiion and other diseases of tho chest . The new hospital at Victoria Paris was opened in 1853 j 1300 in-patients have been umlor treatment , since that period , and 5 G , 'M 0 oufc-pationls havo hoon relieved since tho iustitution was first estubliuhed . Tho «» st of maintaining 1 tho charity amounts to about ; Ci . 5 OO por uiinuin ,, whilo at proHOiit tho subscriptions amount to only iil-AOO a yoiu * . A loun of . ( ilOOO has beou contractod , anil subscriptions , therofure , arc urg'outly roquirod . Tho dinner was provided over by the hun ot Qlnwsbury and Tulbot . The subaoriptiou nb tho close ot tho evening 1 was liberal , .. On tho snino evening n mofiting 1 of tho Statjaticftl Society wiw noltt
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384 TheJjeade ?' andSaiurdaf / A ? iali / sL [ April 21 , 1 SC 0 .
Record Of Tub Week. Homu And Colonial.
RECORD OF TUB WEEK . HOMU AND COLONIAL .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1860, page 384, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2344/page/20/
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