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A FEW weeks back the Economist pointed out the movements in Europe -working " for mischief" which were exemplified in the Spanish coup d ' etat . The whole aspect of the news of the l ^ resent week confirms the worst apprehensions of our contemporary . It exhibits to us the governing classes of the world , the crowned heads and their
chosen statesmen , very busy in conference , while the doctrinaires of the world are preparing to debate upon abstract questions , and the people , amused at soirees , or contending with the homely difficulties of the day , are content to remain absolutely in the dark as to the plans for influencing , controlling , possibly darkening their destinies . Our review will consist almost exclusively in describing that position on the political map .
At Madrid the O'Donxelc coup d ' etat , which NAPoiiEON III . declared to be no coiq ) d ' etat , has been successful . Espaktero is pronounced to have retired into private life ; no effective aid has been given by the leading patriots to Saragossa or Barcelona ; the resistance has completely died out . The English Government , which professes to support constitutional government , and which
has had special interests in the liberal administration of Spain , has not made a sign ; but Lord Palmehston , off to enjoy himself for his vwellearned holidays , has been arranging for certain intellectual festivities amongst the working classes at Manchester . There he is to assist in the opening of a Mechanics' Institution , and at a soiree ho speaks an inaugural address . Pai-merston never shines so well as when he delivers himself on the
progress of positivo science . lie puts great ideas into forcible and homely language , which makes philosophers the better weigh and appreciate the ideas , and brings the knowledge home to the comprehension of the humblest . But his business for the week wns to say a word or lift a hand to arrest the progress of Absolutist encroachment throughout Spain : he is rusticating , and contemplating those pleasant amenities .
The Emperor Napolkon remains in ostensible rotiremont at riombieres ; but from thufc quiet retreat he dictates official articles in the Monitc . ur , denying that O'Donnhm . ' s subversion of the Spanish Government is a coup ( Vtitat , and proclaiming the necessity of arresting " the dissemination of subversive doctrines " . —that is , Socialist doctrines—in Spain .
He is in communication with the Sardinian and moderate reform party in Italy , where the public is called upon to subscribe towards the artillery for defending the frontier of Piedmont against Austria . He is in communication with the Neapolitan Government , whom he has professed to threaten , but who is now putting forth insolent addresses to the King ' s subjects , denouncing the Liberals as attempting " to plunge the country into new disasters , " when any movement that may exist is got up solely by the King's spies , against every effort of the Moderate Reformers .
Napoleon III ., too , is sending one of his lieutenants , the Count de Moksv , to represent him at the coronation of Alexander IF . Great at present seems to be the friendship between Napoleon and Alexander . It quite recals a certain conference in a boat in the middle of a river , when Alexander and Napoleon proposed to
divide the world . Russia , whom De Morny is hastening to honour by his presence at the coronation ceremony , has just been sending an officer to Stockholm to make certain inquiries professedly of a harmless kind . Nobody , however , could learn the true purpose of this unwelcome and unexpected guest . Wns he there to reconnoitre ? The agents of Russia , who
have been surveying the northernmost territories of Norway , have again shown themselves in that district . It is expected that Uussia will shortly lay a claim to it . After it has been long enough in the stage of a disputed territory , she will encroach upon it ; she will then have established her right of way to the- Atlantic coast below the frozen boundary . Before we had concluded peace we had a treaty with Sweden which would have compelled us to defend her frontier in return for her aiding us in the Baltic . Russia has not observed the treaty of peace so faithfully that toe could be compelled to stand by it .
For she is even now violating the treatyrazing the forts which she asked leave to raze and was refused—holding Kars after she should Unvo evacuated it—and holding the Islo of Sei--pents at the Danube mouth , in defiance of the treaty nnd the Allies . Notwithstanding the proposal to buy up the Sound ]> uca , to which Denmark has no right , that insolent State is said to bo contemp lating a fortification of its coast on the entrance into the Baltic . This , of course , she could not fur a moment
think of without the consent of Russia and of Prussia . While such is the state of the political world , a congress of free-traders , representing the chief nations of Europe , is about to assemble in Brussels to debate these two questions : — " 1 . What are the artificial or natural obstacles opposed to the extension of the commercial relations of the country to which each member belongs ? " 2 . What are the practical means proposed , or to be proposed , in each country to remove or diminish the obstacles which impede the extension of commercial relations with other nations ?"
The meeting of Plenipotentiaries at the Russian coronation has been anticipated by remarkable meetings in Germany . At Carlsbad the King of Prussia met the King of Greece , Earl Ghanville , the Ban Jellacuicii , Prince Schwabtzenbeeg , and Count Persigntt . Next day he went to Toplitz , where he met the Emperor of Austria and the King of Saxony . Meetings of this kind are seldom held for nothing : even the Pope and Naples did something when they met .
Such is the state of Europe . We now turn to America , and for the moment the prospect is not more cheering . While the whole crowned and statesman class of Europe are carrying forward their conspiracy against the peoples of the whole world , are planning arrangements by which they can more completely coerce those peoples and monopolize the power of this half of the globe for themselves , they have to a certain extent succeeded in the aim which they have kept in view so long—to divide the great republic against itself , and so to prevent it from giving at least the
moral support which it might have rendered to the spirit of freedom and liberal institutions in the old world . We are well aware that there is honest conviction against the institution of slavery in the North , but we know also that it has been mixed with the grossest sectarian bitterness nnd ignorance ; and we know that the abolitionism of the Garrisons and the men of that stamp in the United States has been fostered and excited by the Abolitionist incendiaries of this country , who would have sacrificed the republic rather than not carry their own dogma in their own way . Woknow that the Southern States have had their difficulties , havo
had thoir exasperations ; but wo know also thatinsfcead of frankly meeting broad discu 8 sjprfQO | £ j . J the difficulties of their case , thoy " ^ f ^ l ^^^^^ vourod to stifle discussion and to bully a j ^ eanjpippij ^ r > "iiiiltl ' i $ x < ¦ ' . " . i ^' . vj ^ - ¦ « d ^\^ ¦ . •¦ ni . vv '? ^ 7 . 'fr t
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09081856/page/1/
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