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Inconsistently Eight. Lord John Russell'...
ful for fhe progress to indulge in harsh conjectures as to its cause . The British Government has emphatically promulgatedopinio » * that strike at the roof of the existing state of Europe , and all that is bad in the treaties of 1815 . The German people have as much right to judge their own interests as the Italians , and if they should decide upon reducing their Royal establishment , and dismissing a few dozen of their little potentates , with or without a month ' s wages or warning , England is bound to congratulate , and not to complain . Hungary- cannot lose her privileges on account of her latitude , and it would be monstrous for the Minister who applauded the rising of the Italians , to discountenance an insurrection of the Magyars in favour of their historical rights .
The last despatch must tend to diminish the chances of quarrel with France , because , more definitively than any other State paper , it takes England away from the meshes of absoutist opposition to the great country of revolutionary change . With a liberal foreign policy , England can afford to the Empire no convenient pretext for quarrel , and it will not answer Louis Napoleon ' s purpose to appear less in favour of the
nationalities than the Cabinet of Great Britain . If Whig policy were founded upon any philosophy bette 1 " than expediency / Lord John Russell must see that it is our interest to promote , by moral means , all the necessary change in Europe , and to obtain the speediest settlement of all those car dinal questions which will reproduce revolution and war uut " they are finally solved . The times are favourable for succes in this endeavour if England and France can manage to
coincide , as those Powers which are the chief obstacles to progress , are either crippled in resources or too full of internal difficulties to make a dangerous resistance . The Constitution diddles in Austria have completely failed in their object . Instead of internal peace , the y have , excited a commotion in all the provinces of the Empire . ' The Hungarian is naturally indignant because offered-much less than Ms legal claims ; while the inhabitants of Bohemia * Galicia , and the Tyrol , feel insulted by the mockery of liberty which their Emperor dangles before their eyes . Will the Whigs
still try to make Austria a counterpoise to France , and to this chimera sacrifice , so far as they are able , the happiness of millions , and the good name of England ? Or will they learn to see that a free united Italy , a free Hungary , and a ¦ u nited Germany , would offer elements of permanent stability which no patched-up Austria can alFord ? The overweening greatness of Finance cannot come to pass without an overweening folly of England in refusing to be the champion and advocate of new ideas . The world will change , and ought to change ; and our own country should always be foremost in the beneficent race .
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924 " ¦ ' ¦ The Saturday Analyst and Leader . [ Nov . 10 , I 860
Our Volunteers In Italy. A Few Numbers B...
OUR VOLUNTEERS IN ITALY . A FEW numbers back we gave a woi * d of censure to amateur dawdlers and hangers-on about the great scenes of moral action or physical triumph in the various fields where such struggles successively occur ; we now wish to express our gratitude to men of a different order , who have gone forth to act and not to criticise ; to make conquests and not to take surveys , or bring home dinner and drawing-room gossip about how they have observed , meddled , and
" Mumbled the game at whiolx thoy would not bito . " Strictly " regular " proceedings arc rare now-a-days in national acts and relations , and glorious " irregularities" seem to afford the highest themes of praise . As there are said to be luws through which a four-horse coach can drive , so there are treaties through which a regiment of cavalry can canter ; state parchments are turned into drum-heads ; and protocols have as many holes drilled in them as a straw target would have at Hythe or Vincennes ; all to prove one very old propositionthat the rights of pepple to govern themselves justly and reasonably , are prior to any rights of rnonarchs who may wish to govern them otherwise . Under a banner with this respectable
blazon have our countrymen been fighting in the fields of Naples ; and however great their "irregularity" may have been in putting their sickles deep into the harvest of liberty , England ie deeply indebted to them , not merely as the maintainers of a valuable abstract principle—not merely for helping to extinguish a grinding tyranny—but because , owing to the disposition to truckle and shuffle in some of our statesmen , and the peculiar position of England herself ivs regards this Italian struggle , she seriously wants her interests consulted and her honour maintained . Perhaps our political leaders are like Na p ox . T 30 N in another way , fur from sorry at sharing 1 a little of the credit as Englishmen , of which they shun the risks us statesmen , and the responsibilities .
Owing to the extent to which England burnt her fingers in the last great lvuropean war , and the debt already on her shoulders , owing , too , to her position with reference to France , and the binding necessity upon her not to throw , if she could possibly avoid it , an atom of her public strength away in foreign fields , she has abstained from mixing herself intimately , except as far as moral influence might go , in the Italian struggle . The moral influence , whatever her censurers may say , has not been trifling , thanks to her press ; to quote only one instance of it , the exposure to the eyes of the world of the abominations of the Neapolitan prisons , respecting which the gagged press
of the rest of Europe might have been interminably silent . However , the physical aid of France , notwithstanding her unanticipated self-payment , which tarnished it not a little , must shine brighter unquestionably in the eyes of Italy arid Sardinia , than our talk and " newspaper leaders , " no matter how earnest or strong ; and the Gallic sword has weighed heavier than the British pen . AVe unquestionably wanted something to make up the difference , and this something our English Volunteers in Italy have helped to give us . They are felt to be substantial specimens of the real feeling of England towards Italy , when unshackled by state reasons and political , expediency .
We have , not the slightest doubt that the Italians would far rather both acknowledge and pay a debt of gratitude to England than to France ; in fact , they do not like the French generally , nor the French character , especially its levity and boasting ; the Italian ' s character in , gravity and reserve far more resembles our own ; besides , in ¦ former days , they saw avast deal more of France and Frenchmen than pleased them ; however , they were riot in a position to decline practical aid , come whence it would , and it is by no means improbable that they would feel more bound in . honour to join armies with France in any future struggle than with England . To any reflecting mind there cannot bo a moment ' s doubt that Napoleon would be inclined to look
for and almost . demand from Italy an offensive and defensive alliance in any future European war , though the Leader has been amongst the last to taunt Lours Napoleon with any distinct intention of assaulting England , or of decided feelings of hostility towards her . . But , at all events , it is essential that Italy should have reasons to show on the other side of the question * , and stateable grounds for refusing , to act against England , whether in the Mediterranean or elsewhere The personal part -which so many private Englishmen have taken in the struggle , their attachment to the person of Gahi « a . ldi , and
his attachment to them , their eminent zeal in the cause , will all tend to establish in Italy a strong feeling in our favour . With Prussia wavering , disliked by France , distrusted by England , Austria and Russia aloof , and embarrassed by their own difficulties—for any serious attempts at . aggession against Italy on the part of Austria would soon be made futile—the side that Italy would take is well worthy of our highest interest and consideration . Neither England nor France could depend an atom on either of the other three . It is mainly lor this reason that we give a vote of thanks with three cheers to the English who have been fighting at Naples in the cause of liberty , and for the maintenance of England ' s prestige .
Hard Lines In The City. It It* Hard Lino...
HARD LINES IN THE CITY . IT it * hard linos for poor people in the City of London , within tho dominion of his civic majesty tho Lord Mayor . If any poor wretch seeks to pick up a living- in tho stroots within those sacred precincts—precincts sacred to money getting atul cold-hearted solnslinoss—lie must snatch it like a rod-hot chosnut from a fiery furnace . Tho ruddy damsel , with hex basket of apples ; the decayed widow , with her store of lollipops ; the half-starved man , with hia tray ot combs—those and such as those no sooner cross tho charmed boundary , and mingle with tho civic community , whom tho City motto over prays Hoavon to direct , than thoy aro huntod about uko wild , boosts . Policemen pounce upon thorn at every corner , ana it thoy refuse to betake themselves to regions westward , thoy are dragged before the terrible justioo-soat of the Mansion-house . It would appear as if Sir II . Wai / ter Oahkisn , Knight , wero olwayH on the look-out for such oasoa , for it almost invariably happens that tho said seat is occupied by that high judicial personage whenever any itinerant merchants are brought up for judgment * Tho w ^ thy alderman seems tp lovo tho sport of hunting" his species . It wo mistake not , ho has occasionally played all tho throo parts of prosooutor , witness , and judgo . Wo woro in hopos that public opinion had ourod tho oivio Knight of this propensity , and that any taunt or joko about tho seventy of Oak . men's judgment was out oi date , liuti wo find oursolvott mistaken . Hero is Oaudujh again I " , On Saturday , November 3 rd , a woman of poverty-strioKon appearance , wns charged before Sir Waxtjpjr with soiling' apples in Lower Thames-street . In answor to tho charge sho said , that sue had six ohildron , some of whom wore ill , to support , and she ha « no
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1860, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10111860/page/4/
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