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1088 THE L E A DJE jt. [Saturday,
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FRENCH AND AUSTRIAN OCCUPATION OF ITALY....
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THE SOCIALIST AT THE DIGGINGS. Nuggets m...
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one kind or other . What the colonists are thinking of is wool , gold , sugar , and the bringing of labour to produce those commodities . What Yorkshire is thinking of at present is more wool ; what the English housewife is thinking of is more cloth , or cheaper candles ; for the price of tallow is ali'eady . affected by the sacrifice of mutton to the gold diggers . We want a statesman at the Colonial Office who "can understand wool , ' tallow ; cloth , and candles , as well as paper—who can know what it is English housewives want ; what commercial men want ; what colonists want ; and who can set about the work of supplying those wants in some better manner than by making all the emigrant labour pass through , an area-gate in Park-street .
In Foreign affairs , we want a man , also , who can understand how to keep the path of trade open , who can understand wliich . is our best ally of all those around us , who can understand cotton , and Manchester stuffs , and can keep clear the course of interchange between Liverpool and New York . But that is not all . Let us not imagine that pounds , shillings , and pence , are the final question hero . Powerful as " the almighty dollar" is
in America , we have more than once seen that that energetic community can adopt resolutions of non-intercourse , starving the pocket to indulge a national resolve . And much , as we may boast prospectively about Brazilian or Indian cotton , let it not be supposed that America is blind to the power which she possesses , by an abrupt withholding of cotton , to stop the factories of . Manchester . Let any statesman ask how he would like to be in the post of responsibility with the engines of Manchester arrested ?
Nor is even that all . This commerce traverses the ocean , and we want in office a man who can boldly encourage the managers of our Admiralty in being prepared for the defence of our commerce whithersoever it may go . Nay , England herself is a convoy the very richest that can invite speculators in disorder ; and we want in public affairs men who can understand how great nations have their freaks , how rich nations have their dangers , and how commerce , powerful in peace , in Avar becomes by its wealth an incumbranee and a bait . And even short of any invasion from , without , we have a right to demand at the head of affairs a Government who can
understand the vast industrial movements of the country , can supply them with every facility , remove every obstruction , and can , at all events , continue to breathe into the nostrils of the people that "which is the life of commerceconfidence .
1088 The L E A Dje Jt. [Saturday,
1088 THE L E A DJE jt . [ Saturday ,
French And Austrian Occupation Of Italy....
FRENCH AND AUSTRIAN OCCUPATION OF ITALY . A FontTir Parliamentary recess lias expired , and Italy is still locked in the joint embraces of Austria and I < Yance . Apparently with the concurrence of ollicial England : certainly without any overt protest from Downing-HtreoL 'Nor is Lord iMalnie . sbury , with all his heavy liabilities , alone , or even chiefly responsible for this acquiescence in a . sil nation so I lirentening to Ilie I rniujuillil y and independence of Kurope . That . Whig ( ¦! ovcrnine > il , which Hie noble democrat , of the I ' erlh dinner-table would fain revive , with a . lustre borrowed from expectancy , was the direct , and scarcely passive accomplice in the fratricidal aggression on the |{ , onia . n Republic by I . he reactionary legions of I < Y : ince , and m the occupation of I he I ifgations by I he A ustrian Protectorate . 11 was not , we regret , to say , until after his forced release from power , that , Lord Palmers ! , on rose in the ( . ominous to denounce this nrbilrary disturbance ! of Iho balance of power as : i danger wliich it concerned the vigilance of England to arrest . I'Yoni July , 1 M-1 , ' ) , up to ( he present time , and with no prospect of a , change , ( he lYeneh in Rome , and I he A ustrians . in Tuscany and l . ho Mlales ol " the Church , have been , to use the inildesl . expression , ni . ali ing I heniselve . s quite at home . We have no de . siiv to re-open old quarreLs with Lord Palinerston . On the contrary , wo would nil . her risk any imputation of inconsistency in his favour , and assert our present , desire to |>« a ! ' »\ ved to believe that , he was hampered , mm Minister , by Hie clique of 1 ucajtuldes n ho ea balled him oul'ofollice a ! , t lie cost of their own feeble vitality ; mid HiaUiinown more mitionul impulses were daily and hourly balked by the half-hearted
hesitations and dynastic complicities , to which he finally succumbed . Nothing could be more forcible than the picture Lord Palmerston drew of Italy under her rival enslavers in the peroration of his speech , on the Mather case . The occasion was a debate , provoked by Lord John Eussell , on the general policy of Ministers . Here are his words : — "It is lamentable to see the present state of Tuscany , the Roman States , and of Naples . It is difficult to say where the greatest rnisgovernment prevails .
( Loud cries of ' Hear . ' ) It has been said of Austria , that they wished the people of Italy should draw a comparison favourable to them between the condition of the States which they govern , and those which othei ? Governments administer ; but , like the gentleman from the sister island , who complained of his bootmaker that , whereas he had ordered him to make one larger than the other , the bootmaker had made it less than the other —( laug-hter )—so the Government of Austria , instead df making a comparison in such guise that the Italian should think the Lombards and the Venetians
are better governed than the rest , only compels them to think that the other territories are worse governed than the other States . ( Cheers . ) This is , I say , lamentable ; and I do not believe there is another example in modern times of such a system of cruelty , tyranny , and violence of every sort as exist in the Neapolitan and Roman States . ( Cheers . ) It is a disgrace to modern Europe . The position of affairs in Tuscany is not so bad ; but the public there are exposed continually to acts of violence from a foreign garrison , for which they have no redress , and which , if committed in England would arouse the indignation of every man from one end of the kingdom to the other . ( Cheers . ) This occupation of the Italian States , especially of Tuscany , by foreign troops , did not escape the attention of the late Government . It is evident that that
occupation cannot cease except by common consent between the Government of France and the Government of Austria . France would not withdraw until Austria has evacuated Tuscany and the Legations , which it cannot be expected to do until the French have retired from Rome . We have been told that nothing could be done until the month of May had passed , and there was much force in the arguments and statements then made . But May lias now gone by . I do intreat Her Majesty ' s Government to turn their minds to this question . It is one which really concerns—not merely the happiness and welfare of a most interesting part of
Europe—but which also involves great international questions , and which deeply afl ' eets the balance of power in Em * ope . ( Cheers . ) I should hope that Her Majesty ' s Government , being on good and friendly terms with the two Governments mainly interested in a decision upon that matter , will exert that influence that justly belongs to the Government of this great country , and will endeavour to persuade the Governments of France and Austria to put an end to the anomalous and irreinilar state of things which now prevails in so great a
part of the Italian peninsula . ( Cheers . ) 1 shall be told , that the condition of the Roman States ia such that , if the French garrison wore to retire , a great rovolution and disturbance would take place . . Hut let me remind the House of what passed in 18 , 'il and 18 , 32 , when the five powers of Austria , Prussia , Hussin , France , and England , gave to the tlfen Pope- advice with regard to the improvement ; of the internal organization of his Government , which , if it had been acted upon sind carried out , would have secured the tranquillity of
the States which he governs . Sonio such arrangement , mig ht ; now with advantage be adopted . 1 shall be told , perhaps , that ; some steps are already taken with th : tt , object , but- 1 feel that they are practically illusive , and tlmt no practical ftc > p bus been taken with the view to those improvements which were then recommended , and which are now more wantfd than ever . I ought ., perhaps , to upologi / . o to tho House for the time during which 1 have occupied its iiU . enl . ion . ( Loud dicers . ) I am , sure , however , that ; the subject , 1 have mentioned is one that , must ; engage the sympathy ofeverv man in this country ; and ' ain persuaded that if liei- Majesty's Government will take it up in the npiril , in which I think they am disposed to net , great good will result to Kuropt ; from their endeavours . ( Much cheering . )"
( Such wan Lord Pnlinersl . on h emphatic teRt . iniony , bint , June , to a state of IhingH Avhieli linn not only not improved , but , visibly , and atill more in nisi /)/// , dialled for the worse . To descend to I , ho level of our current h * ates-¦ ina , nnhi |) , we dismiss for the moment , all higher and more ennobling appeals , and we ask our merchants , our -shopkeepers , our City inrn : — does it < />< rt / to forget , . Kngland ' n plnce mid duty in Muroper Ono JJriliah Bubieel languinheH in a
condemned cell untried , unconvicted . Another is cut down in the streets of Florence third , and he a British officer , wearing her Ma * jesty ' s uniform , is dragged in chains through tho streets of Leghorn , in sight of the national ensien under which , he serves . " Protestantism and free thought , of which Ene . land was once the champion , are persecuted in the Eerson of an English missionary at Naples , turned ouseless int *> the street , in spite of treatieswhile the Madiai are sentenced to a life ' s incarceration for reading the Bible , recommended by Exeter Hall ; but not rescued by the unavailing mission from Exeter Hall . °
But let all these cases pass , and let Lord Shaftesbury and his Evangelical associates intercede with the poor Grand Duke . Let us waive all considerations like British honour , as obsolete and dangerous dreams . As for the spiritual and political independence of Italy , let it be a mere phrase of a few ideologists ; but what if the Mediterranean becomes a French lake—what if Tuscany and the States of the Church become part and parcel of the Austrian Customs' League ?
Austria , we know , is pouring fresh troops into Tuscany daily ; France is fortifying the seaapproaches at Civita Vecchia , and appropriating the Pope himself by an excess of arrogant courtesies , which must remind Pius IX . uncomfortably of the venerable hostage of Fontainebleau ; while he does ample justice to his teaching , by the wholesale executions at Sinigaglia and Ancona , where people have been shot by the score for the acts of 1848 !
"We ask these things because it is evident that our Government is now in the act of taking sides , not probably as the people of England would desire , but in a manner which may lead to serious consequences . The expulsion of Signor Lemmi from Malta—although protected by an American passport and an American Consul—because he is the friend of Mazzini and of Kossuth , implies that the British . Government is acting as a branch of the Austrian police . The treatment of the refugees in Jersey implies a subserviency also to the Government of France . The officials in
Downing-street are taking the part of absolutism against the people . What attitude , then , will the new Parliament assume in these grave international questions ? Will it be apathetic and impassive as the last , and will Lord Palmerston be dumb ? We trust not . The day is hastening with rapid strides when England must , under penalty of death , shake off her policy of insincere , mistrusted , and impotent isolation , and stand forth the sole champion of light and liberty on this side of the Atlantic .
The Socialist At The Diggings. Nuggets M...
THE SOCIALIST AT THE DIGGINGS . Nuggets may be had for the digging ; fortunes of all kinds may be made for the trading ; but cattle may be had for the taking ; as witness the subjoined extract from an article in the Times ot Monday last , announcing the formation ot a " Gold " Exploration Company , " by certain substantial citizons of Melbourne and Oelong , ana treating on Australian affairs in general : — " Public safety is very much left to chance . Tho absence of gr ai ( - ' crimes may ho ascribed to want « temptationto tho absorption of all interest by t » c iu
, gold fever , to the armed neutrality of every yowon the colony , rather than to the preventive" action ol u »« police . Jt cannot exactly he mid that h orse-stealing m of frequent occurrence , hut / row-taking is . J ' crson * do not , . set . out with a felonious intent , but , if they nap-V en to want a horse or a Imltoc / j , they take him wlu * - ever the ,, find him . The districts of Cnmj . aspe , Lon - don , and Avoch , however , make an exception- 1 »¦ -J ot
have not even the semblance of any protection aj kind , and are overrun with tho worst characierH . Melbourne there is it corps of policemen , hut , li "" ¦ accounts in tlio papers , it would appear they are a v < y independent , mil , rude to the public , and violent in ' ^ execution of their duty whenever they do < ' « ' «• " « "j Here , too , tho action ofthe public will most lllu > 1 - [ required to set tiling to ri h < H , Lynch law li »» _ mentioned , lmt tl * e plan / inds lif-Uo sympathy , uij i thorn is some talk of a private rillo corps lor ' < euiiK
i . .. i > ii .: Tiw . (] , ; . »*<¦« when "' ' , prehension of thieves . Tho th . oreH Wlien »"'* " , t to be Unxulv . il over to the constituted nuthontieH- i is how Uiitf lishmen realize the idea ol Lym - " " Here , then , is ii hLhIo of «<« ' « ;^ ^ 'l' Z \\ nervous an illustration for Mr . M « c » u Uy ^ mlion of Hoeialimn uh " robbery . ' : '"" Jit . mhiHturhiM , in common with many ol ma ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13111852/page/12/
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