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Several Opportunities Havo' . Occurred, ...
witness a military review . The Duke of Cambridge , who was reported amongst the guests , has not gone ; the King of Prussia has not gone ; one of the Rothschild family , however , has attended the meeting . ! £ Jie . Emj ^ rws kissed each other in public , &&& talked toother the whole evening in private—terrible portents for Central Europe \ But whetl }?? Austria is to adhere to th § western alliance , whether she is tQ ^ oin Russia openly , ex whether ostensibly to remain separate , or whether she is still to act as the instrument of that
power in the conference organised to oppose Russia , are questions which cannot be answered for anything that has been discovered at the Olmiitz gathering . The gentleman who has just ascended Mont Blanc , auspice Albert Smith , probably discovered as much in that elevated site bearing upon the state of Europe in general as any
tourist to Olmiitz , not an accomplice in the conspiracy there assembled , could discover from his expedition . AJbert Smith ' s popularity in the neighbourhood of Mont Blanc is said to be quite romantic ; indeed , he has gone about his labours in the true spirit of statesmanship , by placing himself en rapport with the people , and especially by giving them liberal entertainments . What a chance if he
were to set up for Emperor of Monfc Blanc , with Savoy and the Tyrol , and a large slice of Austria for his remoter provinces , monarch of all he surveys . An alliance between Albert Smith and the son of Charles Albert sounds well , and would no doubt be a more fortunate event for Europe than this conspiracy of kissing Bmperors at Olmiitz . The Americans are right in pushing their institutions wherever they push themselves ; if we could only establish an honest Englishman like Albert Smith on some thrones not so exalted as Mont
Blanc , both the peace of Europe and the order of society "would be better secured than they are at present under the long-pedigreed felons who now sit over the peoples of the Continent . Kossuth has written a letter to explain why he could not attend a meeting at Stafford , and as he writes with his usual point and force , he effectually prevents our understanding the reason . He seems to say that he is absent because if he had been there his disclosures
would have obliged our Ministers to take a decisive course in Europe . There are , however , in this letter of Kossuth's many truths , and amongst them the never-to-be-forgotten truth , that the reason why our Ministers flinch from upholding the influence of Europe , from vindicating right , and from standing by wronged nations against imperial law-breakers is , that English statesmen have grown
afraid of the people . If they have so far degenerated from their predecessors in our best times , perhaps they might learn from Mr . Albort Smith , bettor to apprehend the feelings and motives of the monster they dread . Ask Albert Smith whether he is afraid of the pcoplo in any part of Europe , and ho will toll you they arc us easily managed aa an audience in Egyptian Hall .
Ueaidea , our statesmen might loam at homo better than to be afraid of the people . JLct them attend tho mcotings at Wofvorhampton , Manchester , Bristol , and Loiceator , and learn whether there is anything to bo afraid of in what happens there . JNTay , going to Stafford , ami standing in the presence of that enthu-( siast ^ whoso object in life has been to bring ' Lord Pahueratxm ' a head to tho block , Lord Palinorston himself would feel aa safo in tho midst of Mr / Urquharfc's audience as lie was at Melbourne , and as ho has boon this week at ( jl hlKCOW .
Our old ally , Spain , has just " settled" something with Lord Clarendon , in London ; Oeiioral Pozuela h eont to replace Cariedo as ( ilovomor of Cuba ; and , after trying many feebler wtatosnion , tho Court appeara to have
resolved to fall back upon its old reliance : the Gazette announces that General Narvaez may return to Madrid . The Cortes meet again to be dissolved ; and , in short , the political state < jf Spain is once more sponged , , ' . ' , ' * If 6 | j we doubt wheijisje 1 the Spain 9 ! gutclaty pa $ f <\^ et learned to " wtite upoijijie , sjate of history ; Hifi $ Mg ^ garet CutinlngH ^ nio hayi % ' jresolv # 4 to m % aside tie la ^ rs of the 0 m » d Duchy ef Tuscany , which forbid the promulgation of prohibited books , and doctrines of
piotestant or proselytizing tendencies , has given Protestant Bibles and the Pilgrims Progress , in Italian , to certain peasants in the neighbourhood of the Baths of Lucca . The Tuscan Government has joined issue with Miss Margaret , and has arrested , the fair and meek crusader . The English Government , which resists Russian intervention on behalf of the Orthodox Greek Christians in Turkey , sustains Miss Margaret ' s intervention on behalf of Protestants in Tuscany ;
and having given a hesitating support jfcp the Sultan in defence of Mussulman laws , is now about to support the lady rival of the Emperor Nicholas , in contravention of the Ikws of Tuscany . It is to be inferred that public law has a reverse meaning as it is applied to Romanist or to Protestant subjects : that which is wrong in Nicholas ^ is right in
Cunninghame , and that which is incompetent to England in the Golden Horn is iucumheni at Leghorn ; so difficult is it to follow the turns of logic under the different colours of a sectarian view . Out of evil , however , cqmeth good : if England be illogical , she may yet be useful ; only it would be desirable that the same principle that is advanced in support ^ of the Scottish Miss were advanced on broader
fields and . for larger objects . Liberty of conscience , which she vindicates , is a grand object ; but why not vindicate it at Naples , in Hungary—protestant Hungary ; in Bohemia , in Milan , in Sardinia , against the Pope all over the world ? In short , freedom of conscience , or Protestantism , call it which you like , is outraged in the person of Hiss Margaret ; but if our Government , which is endeavouring to redress the wrong in the one particular instance , had only dealt with evil
at its source , and had not sanctioned the restoration of the obscurantist old Pope , instead of pompously redressing the wrongs of Margaret Cunninghames in detail , the wrongs of the whole world in this regard might have been set right . English statesmen , however , think it more practical not to arrest tho torrent at its source , but to wait until it is an ocean , and then with the broom of a Partington they will sally forth to rescue a lounging Evangelical tourist , or a romantic ladyapoatlo jealous of tho martyrdom of Rosa Madiai .
Cholera and common sense continue their fight . Cholera is taking possession of new towna , including tho metropolis ; and is advancing up dirty l ^ nes , like Elm-lane , at BaysWater ; up dirty ditches , like the Wander wortfri ditch ; b y the slums of Holborn , and the low grounds of Bermbndsey ,, until it enters tho districts in which tho rjchor classos dwell . Common sense has just begun to meet tho enemy by a Napoleonic attack upon his main
body . In Nowcastlo , it has just been resolved to close up houses unfit for human habitation , of course providing for tho inmates dislodged b y tl »; 4 " eviction . " It will probably bo found upon a review of tho results that tho dooreaeo of cholera is oxactly proportionate to those decisive and direct methods of common flonpo , and that exactl y in proportion as common eonso is passive tho cholera effects its , onward inarch .
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I < OitI > PALMERSTON AT PERTH . . T . onn I ' Ai . MicitHTON has had nnothor opportunity of malting u holiday nnouch , inul hau turned it to good account . In tho City Hall of Perth , filled , wjth a crowd of two thousand portions , tho freedom of tlio pity was pro ^ ontod to tho Homo
Secretary . In the commencement qf his speech returnin thanks , . Uu &~ P $ mex > tojx most happily c omplimented ^ ca $ ii ) ty : fQr * ifc ; fine scenery , and then Scotland for « , „ !; tioni & j & ara « teJ , Qfthe people ;^ ¦; . . . .. ; , ; ,. \ .,. ; . * " ¦ e na " ¦ ' You * country-is £ land of emblem of your national <* ratete * .- fr ^ i-wfailfton . ] the one hand * jit presents those bold eJevat * Btt f * # cfc sjfe the gift b £ imture > tm the otW hani WhtifibH & m highest « ultivatiori which human ^ skill * c ^ fc rV ; Mr & ffr ' and , any * interests lie ^ indeedi in oS parts of $ to Parted kingdom ; abut 1 may- claim , at W one ^ m ^ t ^ m ^ m ^ li rid . <*_ For what signifies it 2 a mm should be born , or of what practical value « re hh *&&&!»> M-ty ' lm ? , !* % ^ e ^ of that cultivation which education bestows ? and -whenever any important nart of a man ' s education has been given hijnio that nlacaTnLt
, his ^^ ections ' 'Ireeai- ^ nng '" the ^ fioWP « tion of % is subse quent life .: ' Nq ^ r , g ^ ntiemeriyfyfrftt ' njy . good ' fortirne ib Bass three years in Bdinbufgh ,, iitidet the irobf , and under- the instrvicHoi ^ bf thatrgjreat and good mM }; . Bugald Stewart—a man no ' less ^ disbfagulsned . fo ^ tH ^ fftiat capacity of his mind fpf . Ms ' pdVeis tdn ^ penetrate the deej 6 > t ttyaferjf ^ 'jtfjnietapKysifes , and no less remarkable for that than' for . ihosei sterlipg qdalities of heart and ' of disposition ^ hich makei talent tiiBtticallT iiseful « n < i which ad ^ tp jhe ^ g ^ ity of ^ eiiitjs : ;'' ¦ * ' | >'•• •¦ ¦ ¦ - " ' a The o ^ t or then launched out in tp ' iargertppics
:---••^ enp / empn , me Jupra ; . prqvosf Jjas deen tind enough to o ^ yeri to some jas ^ ges ^ n ' ^ m ^ i ' ^ ' ^^^^ A & it interprej ^ d i ihe senHm ^ pts . ^ f hich KUfdejg me , vh . en he » aid that , X embraceiii heartily , an ^ coj ^ lifllly ; tjiosje pnnpjpIeV of Parliamentary , apd ^ nnicipal ^ ReJEqira whic ^ , hbjtvever much Jhej . ' kwntad ; dojil )^ in the inin'ds . ' . Qi . niany ; in . ^ n at thW time whenihiey were broached ,, % y «^ t , t ^ iip } fjI ijow gayied uniye , rsa ^ . c , ( incur . rejQpe . by ,. the p ' rijcUcaljexDe ^ ience q ^ good > vhich they have conferred on alt classes ; qf . this gr 0 at empire ^ 4 iid whatever qpiniqns any man may have fonripd at the " 'dme : wUen '' that / great'batO ' eVyr ^ js' £ > u ^ h ' t ^ there is not , I belieVe , an individual in , the " . '¦ country ^ wh q ' wquld' n <> ' w fojr an instant conteinpiate any retrogxessipnTni regard to those great measures . Gentlemen , if was , as the Ldrii Trbvost has' been
pleased'to saj ? , my anidous desire ^ ' while the charge of our fdreign relations Was '' committed to Wy' 'hands , in the first place , to maintain unimpaired the interests , ; and untarnished the honour and dignity of the ' country ; ' ¦ " Butf as beyond' these interests and ( hat honoiiri there ' were certainly-two objects whjch I held constantly in view , and * whieb , to a great degree , the Government of which 1 Was a member succeeded in accomplishing— 'the one was t <* ' encouf age the diffusion of the principles of constitutional government throughout the countries of Europe , - ^ 'Jfrie Loid Proy 6 st has jnstly said , that our efforts sne ^ eed ^ d-In establishing that which I hold to be the best system of constitutional government—I mean constitutional monarch ^— -that that ?' wks Established in
Belgium— -lhat these principles of government -tfere established in Portugal and Spain . & n & we may look now with satisfaction to the map of Enfope ' , iandwe m & y see that there are —I speak not of those' small tinfortuttate States of middle and southern Italy—putting them out of the question—among the great States of Europe , there are but Austria and jRustia in which , in some form or other , representative or constitutional government " -does not « xist . ' I know well I may be told , that in many of these couritrifes it has for the moment been reduced to ai mere form ; but ; depend uj ><> n it , forms are invaluable . As long as good forms of government are maintained , no man need despair that the time mar not come when , even without violence and without revolution , these 1
forms may'become ' real siibstanee : The next object was—I will hot say the next , because it was tho first object—the abolition , the suppression of the detestable crime of slavery . It was a difficult task ; there were many resisting influences . These influences have been , I trust , almost entirely overcoiHO . Wo took a lino which compelled that great delinquent , Brazil , pnictipally to abandon its crirtle ; ah « J altliough Spain still continues , unfortunately , to a great degree—as far os uer limited means are concorned—to perpetrate this crime , yet 1 trust that Cuba will sodrt follow the example of Brazil , and that the much injured race of Africa will now be restored to the legitimate pursuits of agriculture and commerce , and that the rtativo will no lbngef tremble at the night of a white mun , ol all tuo
fearing that ho seos in him tho representative misories that can afflict human nature . Gentlemen , it is « ought to bo—satisfactory to every Englishman to know tnoi the conduct of Our foreign relation ' s is now lU able hanus , that my Lord Clartmlori- —my noble friend , Lord Clarenuon —who is now at tho head qf that department , has penetrttion to » co where tho intercst / i , iihd the honour , and the solety tho country aw to bo sought , 'thai he has aagricity to discover the proper moans for preserving and thaintftining those - torests , « nd that ho h , uH firmnoas , nnil energy , -and pe" «^ voranco to pursue tho ri R ht course t < t arrive at o sucC ( 1 M and perfect result . If niy noble friend recoives--os 1 «« sure ho will—tho cordial , tho gcnorotwi support 01 < -nmitrv vnil rnnv / Imwitnl itnnn it that ho will not disapp «»»
tho just expectations of his countrymen . " Tho speaker ' next referred / to his diitjea as Woiwo Secretary , aud to tho liolp tho people aiiould givo him in his worJf . ' , 'Gontkmcri . my duties now < iro ofn iWfotmt pftturo . Tho oflloo which I linro tho honour to l * old p laces mo wor iu iuam . no flijd , closp iojation with my f « llow-coiinuyino « home . I . tru * t tlmt i , > ( ho p brformanco of those' * g }!* * * ot rocoivo pioir cordial m » d goxwrtil , support . A mm K , . Stato , gciitlomon , has no boiior ' oyes , and can » oe no i «" U > an hi » n ^ i «!« boWr 8 : Th 9 probability J » , thoj « J J ^ nhurliiiiu ? « f roudW b « d I » mi 4 » ' « u « l u « J « »•*» » »¦ P * v or <) oyoa will bo ruthor worao than ^ lose ' ofothora . *" ° "' . J . 11 . 1 ..... ~\\ - . :. ' -.... *» ' , o : « : i ; ..,, mill < h « V C «» " r .
very mil" of whnt cojnos iVoin a distqMcp froin ' . « " « J ^ J " i countvynwniinv 6 oyw to « oq , aiid tJ » , y ?» T « , V « W : » » 'J" 70 IHi thoy lmvo tongues tit sp ' onlt , and thoy hnyo . pon » « o wn <" . ^ if thoHo who «« o and Ur thing * Uiat » ro . g » ing "J ™* dttty luivo tho goodnq »» to coini « un » ci » to < o th « t ol !^!) r , | ] . „ thil »«» itb , , u » d w » io « my l | iivo Oio nqw « r ° f » ° , ffPf V" * f () 11 () Srightr ^ wuj vsHitro y «» , ({ « ntloihon—I can fijevje > J ^ ^ countrymou at large—that wlioovor dpoa that wi « « ¦ . „ „ ring a groat favour on tho m *» n in oiijco , «» *
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 1, 1853, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01101853/page/2/
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