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the age of Walpole or even Chatham , but not suitable to the year 1859 . It is unworthy of England , which since Walpole ' s time has become , in relation to Spain , ten times more powerful than she was then , to be jealous or apprehensive of Spain . Suppose she should waste some of her little strength in occupying a little piece of Morocco , instead of improving her honie territory ; suppose she should atteuipt to impede our trade to the Mediterranean , or starve Gibraltar into a surrender , her few remaining colonies would be at our mercy , and the attempt would probably be her total ruin .
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THE NATIONAL PROSPERITY . " Whether we take the great increase of revenue , the present state and condition of our trade , mto consideration , or look to the diminution of pauperism in the kingdom , we still find the most ffratifyin » evidence of the sound condition and healthy state of our national affairs , " said the Home Secretary , at Guildhall , on Wednesday . A more gratifying statement could not be made ; but it does not adequately express all the facts of our present condition . Not only is pauperism very much
diminished and diminishing--not only is our trade wonderfully enlarged and enlarging—not only is the revenue increasing—but all kinds of serious crimes have diminished and are diminishing , as is amply proved by the judicial statistics for 1858 . In addition , our population is increasing very fast , and as it increases it creates an additional quantity- of wealth , and the whole people arc better supplied with comforts and necessaries than were their fewer and more barbarian fathers . These are now established facts—the intimate relation
between increase of people and increase of civilisation is a matter beyond dispute , and the old , horrible theory that population and evil , population and misery , population and sin and barbarism go tpgther , is for ever annihilated . No one in the least degree acquainted with the statistics of the empire will doubt for one moment that during the last ten years the number of offences , in proportion to the . population , has decreased—that in the same interval the number
of paupers has largely decreased- —rthat the bulk of the people have been better fed , better clothed , and altogether are in a better condition than ever before . Nor will any one acquainted with the history of science and art during this period doubt for one moment that both have made a greater progress than in any previous ten years of our history . These facts cannot be gainsaid . Now ¦ we are informed by the Registrar-General that in this interval the population has been incessantly and rapidly increasing . His last quarterly return for the three months ended September states that in this period the births exceeded the deaths in England and Wales by 63 , 972 , and that , in
consequence , on the average , 695 were added to our population daily . Since 1851 , the date of the last census , such an increase has been continually going on , and the number of the people in this part of the island has increase ^ from 17 , 1 ) 83 , 000 to 19 , 745 , 000 in the present year , or by 1 , 762 , 000 , so that all the wonderful improvements in the period have accompanied a Very rapid increase of people . In fact , no civilisation is worthy of commendation , no increase in trade * no involutions in arts are ultimately of any real value if they do not tend to an increase of population . Society exists for the benefit of the individual , " and all State regulations and contrivances are worthless which do not add to the number of the people and their welfare .
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Soutbcoat , Dr . Cullen , or Joe Smith , but let a determined fight be made against all combinations of priestcraf t which are incompatible with human right . Among the millions of Roman Catholics which Europe holds are large numbers with whom their religion is a personal question ; and who , if not instigated to mischief by their priests , would lead quiet inoffensive lives , and never attempt an authoritative meddling with their neighbours ' concerns . Far different from this class is another , headed by proud , ambitious , intriguing priests , whose dream by night and by day is to establish in modern Europe a system of ecclesiastical despotism more peneirating and profound than that which Hildebrand conceived . These men adopt the Jesuit maxim that the end sanctifies the
of the French to be the slave and tool of priestly arrogance and Jesuit malice . In the towns of France the Ultramontane party will achieve no great success , but they knowf the empire rests upon the ignorant peasantry , and those they hope to mislead . In a political point of view , the struggle is one of the most important that has ever agitated Europe , and upon its issue depends the continuance of the Anglo-French alliance—a thing impossible if the . Ultramontane party guided the Government of France . No one can tell what the difficulties of the Imperial Government inay be , but it is certain that a large portion of the French clergy would dislike that subordination to Rome for effecting which in his own dominion Dr ! Cullen lauds Francis Joseph , and we cannot believe , that Louis Napoleon will consent to end his career disgraced in the eyes of intelligent Europe , and tied to the apron strings of the Pope .
means , and crime and falsehood are instruments ever ready and ever welcome to their hands . The progress of events in Italy has filled them with alarm lest their edifice of corruption should perish ; and by political intrigue , by tierce denunciation , and the baleful power of the confessional , they are striving to bring all their forces into the field and fight what they hope will be a final and victorious battle with the independence of the human mind . The tone and temper of this struggle is well exhibited in the speeches of Archbishop Cullen-and his compeers in the late Irish demonstration of sympathy with the Pope .
According to this malignant priest , Lord Malmesbury and Lord John Russell are equally odious for conspiring against the temporal sovereignty of Pio Nono , whose government is described as the most perfect which the world has ever seen . Lord Shaftesbury and the Evangelical Alliance are not less objects of ultramontane wrath , and they are accused of procuring funds to arm the *' worst banditti against a peaceful and humane sovereign , who has never given England , or to- any of her subjects , the slightest ground of complaint . '" Garibaldi and the Italian patriots being disposed of as " banditti , " it naturally follows that Francis Joseph should be the subject of laudation , and accordingly
we find him spoken of as " the noble and generous Emperor of Austria , who has boldly broken the chains which bound the Church in his vast empire , and given the death-blow to the tyrannical innovations of Joseph II . " Louis Napoleon he pror fesses to believe a thoroughly faithful son of the Church . In Spain , Portugal , Brazil , and Belgium , he finds ample groundfbr satisfaction . " Sardinia is the only plague spot on the Catholic map of Europe , " and the people of that unhappy country are declared to be " groaning under a military despotism , and suffering from , the misdeeds of their excommunicated rulers . "
We have been in the habit of supposing the Papal government to be the very worst in Europe , and the French Emperor has kept an army in the Holy City for the purpose of preventing the inhabitants from dismissing the Holy Father , and his red-legged conclave ; but all this is a mistake . No sovereign is so profoundly beloved , and " his whole court breathes , like their master , a true spirit of Christian virtue . " This most veracious gentleman ended his tirade by declaring his belief that Heaven would furnish aid to do what he called , " vindicate the rights of religion , and maintain the independence of spiritual power . "
The Very Rev . Monseigneur Yoi'e proposed a resolution expressing ^ g-rief and abhorrence at the violent and sacrilegious invasion of the territories of-the Church , ' which is novr being perpetrated ;" and he denounced " the idle attempts of the English ministers against the religion of which he was a minister . " The Very Reverend Father Russell , O . P ., In a temper which suggested the idea that the letters appended to his name may have some connexion with the celebrated " row , " proposed another resolution , ' declaring that " an attack upon the temporal dominions of the Church is not so much a violation , however unjust , of the supreme rihts of most
THE ROMISH CHURCH MILITANT . Wi * j 3 N Romanism is contemplated merely as a system of theology it presents the aspect of a sot of propositions , sentiments , and traditions , whioh demand a respectful treatment because they constitute the religion of a large portion of the civilized world j but when it reveals itself as the enemy of civil liberty and the corner stone , of treacherous and vindictive despotism , when it openly assails the friends of progress and exerts all its open and its secret influences to crush the life of nations and make earth tremble under the double domination of the tiara and the sword , it deserves we _ unsparing and . untiring hostility of every lover of ^« T i ? WM * of truth . We advooate no persecution otfxeliRioue opinions , or of men for holding them ; let all be free , if they choose , to follow Joanna
g a august and venerable temporal " ruler as a sacrilegious invasion of the Church , and an injury inflicted on the whole Catholic body throughout the world . " The Rev . Canon MoCabe threatened Louis Napoloon with the fate of Seleuous and Heliodorus if ho did not sustain the old gentleman on the Seven Hills , and the prooeodings were wpund up by the adoption of an address to his Holiness embodying the sentiments described . Now this may be taken as a fair specimen of a movement whioh is gping on all over Europe with more or less -vigour , and one object of which is to frighten nnd compel the Emperor
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REGENCY OF PRINCE CARIGNANO . Affairs in Central Italy appear within the last few days to have given some healthy signs of animation and progress . ' The dormant stagnation which , to a cursory spectator , seemed to envelope the political state of the Duchies , has been exchanged for something like a popular and legislative attempt at vigorous self-assertion . The Regency of Prince Carigiiaiio has been proposed and agreed to in Modena . In the Romagna the National Assembly has also voted for him and invested him with full powers ; and by this time the subject has been discussed at Florence and most probably decided affirmatively . We are glad to report this energetic movement because it is a proof that the Italians are beginning to feel that they must act for themselves and allow no foreign power , whether openly adverse or professedly friendly , to dictate their rules of action . According to the report given of the interview between the Tuscan , deputation and the Emperor Napoleon III ., which took place at St . Cloud on the 16 th ult ., his Majesty without hesitation , and decidedly refused his sanction , to the proposed regency of the Prince . The gentlemen composing the deputation courteously but firmly intimated that they should not hesitate to oppose the imperial wishes as faras their influence and ability extended and the announcement of the voted regency , is a proof that they have acted up to their resolutions . The poor French Emperor ' s position at the present time is really most embarrassing . The Peace of , Villafranea seems to have placed him in a veritable culciff sac from which he has no means of emerging . It is one of the peculiarities of his policy that it pleases no one , though this , we may well conceive , would trouble him little if lie could but see any solution to the questions raised by himselfwhen he began war with Austria , cnlcuk- ' ted to win him either credit or material ndvnntnge . Let but the Italians persevere in the independent course upon which they seem now to have entered , and to which the English press has been nil along so strenuously urging them , and they Avill defeat the scheme by which France bus sought , ever since the first Napoleon ' s time , to keep" Italy divided , in order that she might experience no cheek to her political and commercial greatness by the existence of a strong and united nation upon her frontiers . The Pope himself ridicules the idea ot the Confederation as proposed by Louis ) Niipoleoi ) , and is indisposed to become a party to it . It is sheer folly to talk of Venice beooming u puVeiy national province with an Italian army , a sonamte representation , and the establishment of Mantua and Peschiera as federul fortroHsos according to the letter of the Emperor to the King of Piedmont . If the views of Austria were really so disinterested she would do far more wisely to give up Y onetin , with Loinlnnrdy ; but that who fully intends to repossess herself of the latter before long , ih ino » t significantly proclaimed by Inn' retention of we iron crown . It ia perfectly monstrous that l ico mont should bo compelled to pay over an immense sum before'she can obtain posaesmon of a province actually won from Austria , foot by foot ut we point of the swoi'd , and then bo deprived ot t » o regalia and insignia of the territory—the very title deeds , so to speak , necessary , to attest lior right of possession . According to present iippon * - anooa the Venetian soil itself will soon be all t »« will remain to the Emperor Frauds Josopii . The inhabitants are leaving in alarming numborB . It ; is stated that not fewer than 13 , 000 young men
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 12, 1859, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12111859/page/14/
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