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Continental Notes. The First Meeting Aft...
of Municipal Councils have amounted to 126 , those of National Guards to 139 . " We fear the five millions who elected him must be considerably reduced in number by these " vigorous "
measures . Great efforts have apparently been made to find employment for the working classes during the winter . This is , of course , in itself a laudable policy , however selfish the purpose in the present case . Our next paragraph is , therefore , one of the most satisfactory in the whole document . " The municipal administration of Paris has adopted two vast projects , which at one and the same time present the advantage of facilitating the supply of provisions to the capital , and of adding to its heauty ; 1 mean the construction of the markets and the prolongation of the rue Rivoli . The impulse soon spread from Paris to the departments , which have devoted considerable sums to ¦ works of utility . "
A recommendation to determine the indemnities due to those citizens who have suffered material losses in consequence of the events of February and June , seems rather out of date . Is it intended as a warning to the bourgeoisie against barricades ? Then comes a touch of the " Emperor . " " There is , moreover , another project of law of which I spoke to you in my last Message , and to which I attached the greatest importance , namely , the assistance to be tendered to the old remnants of the armies of the Republic and the Empire . ''
" Circumstances which were independent of my will have hitherto prevented the presentation of this project . I trust , however , that you will soon be in a position to give it a favourable reception ; for I entreat you not to forget that in all parts of this country there are men covered with scars , who have sacrificed themselves to the defence of the country , and who are now anxiously waiting for you to help them . Their time is short , afflicted as they are by age and miserj' . " It is pleasant to turn for a moment from a lesson of political falsehoods and intrigues to a paragraph which expresses a national pride most honourably gratified . England can well afford to let France speak for herself : — -
" The superiority of certain branches of our industry has been confirmed or revealed by the London Exposition , as is proved by the numerous prizes awarded to our exhibitors . In fact , France has proportionably gained more than all the other countries , including England herself . And it is not only by our works of art , taste , and luxury that we have obtained this success . Our machines , our scientific instruments , our chemical products , our works in copper and hardware , as well as our preparations of our raw material , and our fabrics and dyes , have earned for us an honourable distinction . The Universal Exposition will have added a glorious page to the annals of French industry . "
Our readers may remember the description of the Valley of Nouhahiva , in the Marquesas , to which political exiles are now " deported" as a mild pubutitute for death . The conduct of some recent political trials at Lyons and elsewhere may also be remembered . How cheerful is the irony of those sentences ! — " The last Message spoke also of projects of law relative to the rehabilitation of convicts , and the repression
of crime committed by the French in foreign countries . The Council of State is occupied with a proposition , emanating from the Initiative Committee , on the subject of transportation . Great difficulties arose as to the appointment , of a place . These seem to be removed , and the law which is requisite for the peace of society and the reform of convicts , will soon receive the double examination of the Council of State and the Assembly . " The administration of justice has been everywhere 2 > rompt and enlightened . "
The Message on Foreign Affairs reads as much like a Roynl ( or Khali we Bay Imperial ?) speech as even his Imperial Mojeaty Soulouque . could desire . Here i . s a correct account of the French occupation of Rome on behalf of liberal institutions : — "At . Koine our situation remains the same , and the Holy Father is unceasing in his demonstrations of solicitude * for the prosperity of France and the comfort of our soldiers . The work of the organization of the 1 Ionian
( Government proceeds but slowly ; nevertheless , u Council of State has been established . The Municipal and Provisional Councils are gradually organizing themselves , and they will serve to form a consulta , whose dirty it will be to take a shaie in the administration of finances . Important legislative reforms follow one after another , undercut pains are taken with the creation of an army which would promote the retreat of foreign forces from the territories of the Church . "
On ( ji ermnuy could Schwarzcnberg or Ne . sseliode ppeuk more prudently ? — " The dangers which a year ago threatened the pence of Germany , h . ive been dispelled . The Germanic Confederation in its total hits returned to the forms and the rule which prevailed previous to 1 . S-1 K . It attempts to protect itself against new convulsions by application to an inferior reorganization to which we ought to remain peifict nti aiigeiH . "
M . \ . ou \ n Napoleon , if he wen ; still capable of one noble impulne , would rather have 1 iih own tongue withered than give utterance , even through the mouth of uThorigny , to this bitter comment on the « rutitude of the man for whom Switzerland once dared all this lhreatH of dcHpotiom rather than dnv « tho cxilo from hi » refuge .
" Switzerland has removed from its territories the greater part of the refugees who abused its hospitality . In supporting that measure we dui a service to Switzerland and to its contiguous States . " About freedom of instruction , it is not true that it is given up pieds et poings to the Jesuits , for says the President : — " I feel justified in saying that , freedom of instruction , which has been developed in a remarkable manner , is without danger , because it will be confined within proper limits . The non-Catholic sects have also their due share in the care of the Government . " And , under the " care of the Government , " the Bishop of Lucon ( as we stated in a recent number ) condemns the reading of such impious books as Robinson Crusoe .
Another bishop declares every marriage not solemnized according to Roman Catholic rites to be a mere " illegitimate concubinage . " And the nephew of a Jew Representative of the People is obliged to be married by a Protestant minister to a Catholic lady , for want of a Catholic priest to bless the union So much for " their due share in the care of the Government . " Lastly . M . Louis Napoleon , after considerable
flourish and alarm , fires his heavy gun of «• Abrogation of the law of the 31 st of May . " He has some difficulty in explaining how he first proposed and carried and trumpetted this law , and now urge 3 its repeal by the same arguments which he , or his organs , once called the specious inventions of anarchists . The pith of the explanations is in the subjoined extracts : —
" Since Universal Suffrage again raised the social fabric , by the substituting a right for a revolutionary fact , is it wise in us to continue narrowing its basis ? And , lastly , I have asked myself if , when new powers shall preside over the destinies of the country , we should not from the first compromise their stability if we left a pretext for questioning their origin , or for misrepresenting their legitimacy ? " No doubt was possible ; and , without wishing for a single instant to swerve from the policy of order , which I have always followed out , I have been obliged in many respects to separate from a Cabinet which had to the full my confidence and respect , in order to choose another , which , equally composed of honourable men , and whose Conservative sentiments were publicly known , was contented to admit the necessity of reestablishing universal suffrage on the broadest possible basis .
" You will , therefore , have presented to you the draught of a law which restores the principle in all its fulness , in retaining from the law of the 31 st of May everything which winnows universal suffrage from impure elements , and which makes its application now moral and regular . " Ah ! here is the key of the mystery ; but see how dexterously we let the cat out o' the bag : — " The law of the 31 st of May has its imperfections , but even were it perfect , should itnot nevertheless be repealed , if it is to prevent the revision of the Constitution , the manifested icish of the country ?" But the misery of this " honest , honest Iago , " is to be always siispected ; or at least to be always suspecting himself to be suspected : —
" It is objected , I am aware , that on my part these proposals are inspired by personal interest . My conduct for tho last three years ought to repel bucIi an allegation . The welfare of the country , I repeat , will always be the sole moving spring of my conduct . Thus , then , gentlemen , the proposal 1 make to you is neither a piece of party tactics , nor an egotistical calculation , nor n sudden resolution ; it is the result of serious meditation and of a profound conviction . I do not pretend
that this measure will banish all the difficulties of the situation . 15 ut to each day its appointed task . To-day to reestablish universal suffrage is to deprive civil war of ith ensign , the Opposition of its last argument . It will be to furnish France with the possibility of giving itself institutions which may insure its repose . It will be to give back in future to the powers of the State that moral force which can only exist so lorrg as it reposes on a consecrated principle and uu incontestable
authority . " So ends the last Message of the first President of tho French Republic . We shall be much astonished if the French People have not by this time well made up their minds that , " in order to give the country institutions which may insure its repose , " they have only to get rid—once mid for ever—of Prince-President ; with whom " perseverance" means usurpation , and " abnegation " a coup d ' etat . The following is from a hitter published in La I ' rcssc , and dated Frankfort , the 27 th ultimo : —¦
" A complete change is imminent in the hnancial world . Whilst , the moneyed aristocracy of Kngland , amongst which Messrs . ltotliHchild figure uu the second rank , are preparing for KohsuUi a reception such us no king has obtained , the new Austrian loan has entirely failed . It is well known lit at the Austrian Government has been unable to realize more than forty-five . millioiiH of dorian instead of the eighty-live which it expected . Of these forty live * millions , forty were raised at home , and live only abroad . Itut be .-. ideH the fact that the communed were forced to contribute loOiu loan , Trieste , to wit , under pain of losing her rights as a free port , the Austrian Government , consented to take in payment , instead of cash , old obligations for war expenses of divers provinces which hud almost lost their value . The forty millionii thua ruined in Austria arc in tlio main , therefore , but
fictitious , and destined to serve as a bait for forP - capitalists . We learn now from a certain source til Austria has charged the great houses of Sina and Roth schild to sell at any price the remaining forty millions of scrip . But an important loan cannot be made witho I bankers' assistance , and the bankers are abandonin Austria . This circumstance seems to be the real cau that has led to the meeting in this city of the four renrp sentatives of the Rothschild house . The object of con " sultation has been also to advise as to the means proner to adopt to cover the losses which this house has alreadv had , and is likely to have , in consequence of the present financial position of Austria . "
Our readers have not forgotten a first letter in a recent number on some " Mysteries of thp Austrian Money Market . " We now learn that the Government at Vienna have resorted to a last and most ludicrous attempt to cover the running sore of inevitable bankruptcy . The Minister of Finance acting on a supposed requisition , has appointed a commission to deliberate upon the measures necessary and expedient for regulating the business on ' 'Change . " The professed object is to suppress speculations ; the real aim , to throw dust in the eyes of the Money Market and of Foreign Exchanges . But it is too late !
" The Constitutionelle Zeitung of Dresden of the 27 th ultimo , which published a report of the Westminster meeting in honour of M . Kossuth , was seized and suppressed by the police , by order of the Minister of the Interior . The journal states that it gave only an abstract of the proceedings , and expressed no opinion of its own on the subject of the debate , and denies that the matter seized comes under the provision of the law on the authority of which the Minister issued the order . The official Dresdener Journal condenses all the reports of the proceedings in England , at Southampton and elsewhere , to half a line , stating that ' M . Kossuth had landed' at the above-named port . Within a month five different
works , published by the firm of Otto Wigand and Co ., at Leipzig , have been seized , and the sale prohibited . Among them , is the work of General Klapka on the War in Hungary and in the Siebenbiirgen . M . Wigand intended to make a strong representation to the Government of the ruin such seizures would bring on the publishing business , which employs in Leipzig an immense number of individuals . Immediately after Klapka ' s work had been seized and put under the seal of the police , an order for it arrived from Marshal Radetzki . In the month of June last no less than thirty-two German works were prohibited by the Russian Government , some of them the same as those recently prohibited in the Papal States . "
Letters from Naples speak of the serious illness of Poerio in the dungeons of Ischia . It has occasioned , says the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle , some indignation , but no surprise , to the friends of Kossuth in Vienna , to find that the papers say nothing , now that he is free , on the subject of the breach of trust story got up against him when he was not in a position to defend himself . We are glad to hear of English ( or Irish ) honesty and courage rewarded by foreign Governments . Our letters from Florence of October 28 announce the promotion of Mr . Burke Honan , junior , from the post of attache of the Naples Legation in that city to the more distinguished position of " attache to the embassy of his Gracious Majesty the King oi tnc
Two Sicilies at Pans . , It may not be generally known that Mr . burnc Honan , senior , is the distinguished correspondent at Naples of our " leading journal" : one ot the estimable corps on whose operations the author ot uk-Revelations of Russia has lately thrown some ligni-Now , we understand in what sense this ' earn- h journal " explained the fact of the popular a" ^ 111 " * by the reason that it was " too English , andt ™ plain spoken . " We should rather say " More luMi
and leas nice . " ... , i ,, From a notification of the 2 , 5 th ultimo , published i Venice , we learn that Count Agostino G uerricr , Verona , late of the Ninth Kegiincnt of Aust'ian . liu » - sars , convicted of having ( two months agoji ^ x an anonymous letter from revolutionary parties , of not having given it up to the authorities , Huron Lutti , convicted of having advised Coui ^ ( . } uerrieri to burn tho said letter , and aided Hun i * doing , have been condemned , on the count oi b ^ , treason , the former to ten , and the latter to two y imprisonment in a fortress . . ( i () f A happy augury of religious liberty in the no " Italy . The lirst stone of a Protestant than . laid at Turin , on the 29 th ultimo , with great . < - nity , in the presence of tho British AmbasNa io ^ R . Abercromby , the American Minister , Mi . » Count Redern , the Prussian Minister , anu a pastor at Turin . . , O-uiitrt Hut in the south ! On the 26 th ulti . no the - ^ ftt took possession of the convent ot bt . " Verona . _
1058 Sje Leahret* [Saturday,
1058 Sje leaHret * [ Saturday ,
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MONKY FAIMIKK OK KUItOPKAN MAlMv- >¦ [ From the Tim ,-, of Wednesday , City * rt ^^ ut Tho Coiitinentiul accounts continue to i j h , untate of « t « gimtion and <>« " «< Miru f'Xr unf-voarpartmontH of busineHS . At Vienna him > t » " " |( . iu able riHo of nearly ono percent , has taKU j the foreign exchanges , while the pro . »« » and gold continue !* also rapidly to advance . ^ Tho project that the » toudy mcreanc m tlw "
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 8, 1851, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08111851/page/6/
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