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1082 THE LEADER. [Saturday, — ,-¦ ¦:¦ .T...
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KOSSUTH AND MAZZINI IN STORE STREET. We ...
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IN MEMORIAM: "ROBERT BLUM." When the Due...
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Continental Notks. A I'Ktition Has Been ...
reign Affairs ; Ponzardi 8 i Martino , Interior ; Buoncompagni , Grace and Justice and Instruction ; Lamarmora , War ; Paleocapa , Public Works . The Marquis d'Azeglio , M . Pernati , aud M . Cibra ' rio retire ; General La Marmora , MM . Palcocapa and Buoueompagni , remain ; and Count Cavour , General Dabormida , and Count Ponzardi San Martino , are added to the Ministry . In a recent tempest at Athens , one of the columns of the Temple of Jupiter Qlympius . which every traveller has admired , near the Adrian Gate , was over-thrown . Most of the ships in the Piraeus broke from , their moorings , and much damage was done . The storm lasted five hours . Several houses in Athens were thrown to the ground .
1082 The Leader. [Saturday, — ,-¦ ¦:¦ .T...
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Kossuth And Mazzini In Store Street. We ...
KOSSUTH AND MAZZINI IN STORE STREET . We have the great pleasure of recording a most successful opening of the winter campaign of the Friends of Italy , at the Music Hall in Store-street , Bedfordsquare . The gathering was great in numbers and in quality . Mr . P . A . Taylor filled the chair ; on his right sat Joseph Mazzini , on his left Lonis Kossuth ; and on either * side , among others , were Mr . Robert Lowe , M . P ., Mr . Crawford , M . P ., Mr . William Coningham , Mr . H . Parry , Professor Newman , Mr . AV . Ashurst , Mr . F . Stone ( R . A . ) , Mr . Pulzky , and a numerous party of ladies .
The heroes of the meeting were loudly cheered as they entered . The business was begun by an eloquent speech from the chairman , who during the evening behaved with great tact and firmness . He was followed by Mr . Ireson , who moved a resolution , secoiided by Mr . William Coningham , in favour of abolishing the abnormal state of things at Rome . Mr . W . Coningham won great applause by an energetic protest , as an Englishman , that his countrymen were not content with the position which had been taken up for England at this moment in
Europe"Englishmen were beginning to see that the consequence of their apathy on tho one hand , and of the double game played by their Government on the other was—Louis Napoleon . ( Cheers . ) The result of indifference was a threatened invasion . ( Loud cheers . ) He for one , without being an alarmist , was somewhat alarmed , but he would warn England of the present ruler of Finance . Hie nit / er est . Ilunc tu , Romano , caveto . ( Cheers . ) He ( Mr . Coningham ) was no admirer of all the performances of Lord Palmerston ; bat he could not avoid seeing that on that
day which saw a miserable intrigue successful in ousting Lord Palmerston from a Ministry which remained brainless when he left it , England had fallen in the estimation of Europe , and that every day since had witnessed her successive humiliations . ( Cheers . ) This could not last ; and he had tlmt faith still in England that he believed when she assumed her proper post among the nations , Italy , Hungary , Germany , and France would commence to rise again . " ( Great cheering . ) M . Mazzini then came forward and was , as usual
on these occasions , very warmly received . He spoke as follows : —¦ " Having only this evening to read to you a petition which the sociefy recommends thin meeting , and its friends everywhere to adopt , I shall prelix only a very words . Powers of I'loquenee have never been granted 1 o me ; but even if they had been , I could not have used them on thin of all evenings . And the reason is in one word . Every one of you has heard within these three or four days that nine individuals belonging to the -popular party of Italy have been shot in Ancona . That would seem to have been enough ; but I have received to-day , and you will probably to-morrow read in your newspapers ,
the inrther information tliat twenty-seven were shot the day after those nino bad been shot . ( Cries of ' Shame , shame' ) Before , fhese fads , it would be a mockery for me , an Italian , to make a long speech . The slate of Ilaly is roally sad , and lias been really sad beyond measure for some thru ; . AVis have wholesale bulelieries , jih you nee , in Mm states of the Church , and we have wholesale condemnations , not lo death , but lo the galleys for life , or for twenty years , at . Naples . We have wholesale arrests of KM ) lo 2 . "»(> persons in Lombardy . These arrests are most likely to lead In condemnations ami to executions , liko those ; at . Sini gn ^ liu and at Aneona . It is only two months since one of inv personal friends strangled himself with
his cravat tint first , day of his entering a dungeon ol Austria ; and he did this in the fear of bis being induced , by physical tortures , which they in Austria do apply , to reveal certain secrets . A lew days ago , again , another man of t he purl y , not a personal friend of mine , but , an exfreniol ' y well-known mcilieal man of l , odi , in l < umhurdy , endeavoured lo < 'ul his throat , and did half succeed , in the moment of bin passing the threshold of an Austrian prison . K very where , indeed , m Italy , men are being arrested tu timssr at Milan , at Verona , and at Mimua . iWO prisoners at Mantua have hceu beaten in their prison with sticks until they have hied . ( Sensation . ) That
in a fact eonnnumculed by them to their families , ( hey writing this informal ion lo their "families in blood on their linen . I nay , again , that in presence of such facts it is almost impossible lor me , an Italian , to Hpcak . You may depend on it , that , this mass of crimes and of cruellies , u hich call buck to memory the darkest , limes ' of the middle ages will pass away and will linish . ( Oreal . cheering . ) They will finish under the influence ol'lhe popular parly . N ' till , though we have hope , it is sad lo think of these men dying ( bus now . I remember our young ollicers , who were killed by the African Hharpulioolers , dying with u mnilo radiating on their eouiilenuueen ; for ' they died with tho Hag of liberty waving over their heads , with Komo not yot , fallen , mid with tho belief that Koine ivau being uuved perhaps by
their blood . That was sad , but it was not so completely sad as the fate of those men at Sinigaglia , at Ancona , and at Mantua . These latter died shouting ' Long live Italy , long live the Republic ! ' and that is glorious ; but I cannot help thinking that they had moments extremely sad before dying ; for they must have had some knowledge of what was passing in the world , and they could have little hope in beholding Europe apparently drifting altogether into reaction . They could see a Republic like Switzerland driving the exiles , Italian and Trench , beyond her frontiers , and appeasing French envy by suppressing books , , like that of Victor Hugo ' s Napoleon le Petit . They saw likewise Piedmont , a constitutional country , confiscating in
the same way these books of Victor Hugo . They saw Belgium with a ministry one-half retrograde , about to introduce a law restraining the liberty of the press , merely with the object of conciliating Louis Napoleon ; and , looking further , their last hopes must have disappeared in seeing a Tory ministry allied with the absolute powers , so far as her external relations are concerned , in England herself . ( Loud cheers . ) Thus there was not a single bright spot on which- their eyes could rest as they were dying , and that , I feel , is extremely sad . At ail events , our duty is known . We shall endeavour to fulfil it . But your duty , as you have been told before from this platform , is not merely to applaud , but also to act . It seems to me that there is a disease in the
political life of England ; it is not perversity , but apathy —a want of equipoise between thought and action . It is a Hamlet-like state of mind you are suffering from , in which you . think well , and yet cannot act well ; in which there is found a sort of impossibility to bring into harmony the realization and the idea . Certainly , if we could go round England and interrogate Englishmen , your vast people and public would be found sympathizing with those principles which you encourage here . But , if you were to test that , by an appeal for action—if you were to propose even so little as a one shilling subscription to aid this cause , you would meet with but little success . That is not reluctance , it is indolence and apathy . Lotus , however , ask the possible to be done . Here is a petition I am going to introduce to you . It concerns Rome—Rome
being the centre and the representative of our Italian patriotic cause . This petition will go to the House of Commons , and will there , perhaps , with other petitions , sink into oblivion . But do not let it . You , each of you , as you go home , can become yourselves a centre of action for sustaining this appeal to your Parliament by obtaining- similar shorter petitions signed by tens or twenties , or t one hundreds ; and I ask you , if you did this , and if the movement spread from hamlet to hamlet , and from town to town , would there not be an effect ? ( Loud cheers . ) In the middle ages there was a superstition that when a murderer walked over the grave of his victim , the hands of
the murdered one would be lifted up within the grave . Let the victims of despotism do so . We raise up our hands ; and you Englishmen should raise up both your hands in behalf of us Italians , holding in one of your hands the despatch in which Lord Normanby , your ambassador at Paris , avows that the instructions of his Government Avere , that England had the same objects as the French Government in the invasion of Rome ; and holding in the other hand this petition , or some such petition as this . ( Loud cheers . ) Let you Englishmen say , ' There have been murders committed , and , Pilate-like , we must wash our hands of them . « These are your duties . For us Italians I say , still trust us . ( Loud cheers . )
M . Mazzini then read a very able petition to the House of" Commons , praying that steps might be taken to set free the Roman States ; which was unanimously adopted . Professor Newnisui followed ; and in moving a resolution hailing the union between Italy and Hungary , delivered an excellent speech on the right of Ttnly to a national existence , and on the duty of England . One point he made was very happy" Our prevailing foible and danger , in regard to foreign politics , was not . sel / ishness , not aggressiveness—it was political pliurisn . isni and pedantry . A very large clans
among them , who on principle abhorred despotism—he referred especially to the Whig party --were so enamoured of the particular course through which tin ) Knglish nation hud been led , that they I bought every other nation must go through the same course . Thin was a great mistake . . In thin country foreign nionurohs bad never beon able ( o re-eslublish nionarchs who had fallen . ( Hoar , bear . ) Tho failures of patriots abroad were carped at , an if they were faults ; and it was much lo be regretted thai , in this way we should / Hmvu played into the bands oi despots . "
Mr . Parry seconded the resolution ; and when Ik concluded , I he cries for Kossnlh were so loud thai , lu wns compelled lo respond . When the cheers had . sub sided , he said" Melieve me , ladies and gentlemen , 1 feel deeply , very deeply sensible of your kindness , and of the value of that , interest which you manifest lor the cause of Italy and Hungary . I thank you for thin manilcstal ion the nioro because , in consonance ! with the resolution junt now adopted , I feel entitled to take hucIi a manifestation , not only for an acknowledgment , bill , for an approval of the brotherly fraternisation and alliance bet . ween t he nation
of Italy and the nation of Hungary . ( Loud cheers . ) And in that respect , my best , answer , I believe , is , that ( bun - | Here M . Kosswlh , extending bin band across the table , nei / . ed that , of M . Mazzini , who stood up and reciprocated ( he proof of utility , of course am ill the ininiei inc . nl . applause of Ibe delighted mooting ) that , ( bus I lake up the band of my friend and brother , Ma / zitii ; and im I stand here before God and you , hand in liniid with him , no depend upon if the world will yet seo I , ho people of Italy and the people of Hungary , not only Nlnniling up , but also marching on , side by side , and band in han < lr lill those fair purtM of tho world are restored to ( ho natural ,
imprescriptible and inalienable right of every nation to le fr * . to bo independent , and to have to exercise the sov 7 reign right of every nation to regulate according to \ T own will its own domestic concerns ; and to set 1 m « mi to set down , and to alter and to change , when it Si and how it will , its own government . ( Tremendous cheer mg . ) As to the rest , obedient to your call I have risen but only for the purpose to apologize for not making n ' speech . There is a time and a season for everything in the world . There is a time and a season to speak and
there is a time and a season to be silent . You English are happy . You may hope to carry all that you require bv the peaceful means of the free word . For us , we can nothing carry with words . And therefore I have ' takenin consequence of my duty I have taken—the rule , that for the future I have only a single speech , which is reserved for the due time , and depend upon it to bo spoken in due time ; and that only speech that I have in future is "Up , boys , and at them—follow me . "
This unexpected communication was received with perceptible astonishment ; but the concluding phrase of the sentence produced overwhelming app lause . " Until ( added M . Kossuth ) I have an occasion to deliver that speech , I will have none else . So am I done with oratory . " The meeting immediately after broke up .
In Memoriam: "Robert Blum." When The Due...
IN MEMORIAM : " ROBERT BLUM . " When the Due D'Enghien was shot at Vinceiines Europe , that is , " good society , " shrieked out an anathema on his murderer , because the Due D ' Enghien was a Bourbon , one of the tip-top peaks of good society . When Hofler was hung in the mountains of the Tyrol , society , " good" and not good , execrated his executioner ; and when Palm , bookseller of Vienna , was put to death for publishing a pamphlet against the Emperor of the Trench , all the world denounced the vic tor of Wagram . Hofler fought not only for his mountainhome , but for an Emperor ; and Palm , likewise , published for the same personage . In each case , the massacre was as indefensible as the slaughter in cold blood of theTtiungarian generals in 1849 , by the orders of the Baron Haynau ; or the Prussian massacres in Baden ; or the Austrian massacres at Brescia . " Good society , " saved by Napoleon III ., and " civilization , " saved by the red monarchies , however , did . not care much about these massacres ; and when , on the 9 th of November , 1848 r the famous Prince Windischsrrutz shot Robert Blum ia
the ditch below the ramparts of Vienna , good society , Mr . Macaulay , and civilization , scarcely said anythingat all . Yet the massacre of the young Bourbon , the Tyrolese , the Viennese , and the Saxon , were acts of the same kind of despotic power . Robert Blum , also , was a bookseller in the famed city of Leipsic . He was a democrat by birth and education , and ho was elected to sit , as a democrat , in the famous German Parliament at Frankfort , in 1818 . In the autumn of that year , the Hungarian militia had driven Jellachich out of Hungary ; and the Hungarian army , acting under treacherous or lukewarm generals , was encamped between the Ilaab and the L : iith : i . and
Vienna was in revolt ; Metternich had fled ; 15 cm Haug were in command of the place , and Windischgriitz was advancing to besiege it . At this juncture Ilium and two others were officially sent to Vienna , by the Frankfort Parliament . Vienna was taken ; . Iilimi . was taken also , and the official envoy of the national Parliament was shot by the order of Prince ; YVindisehtfriitz , who , at tluit moment , actually led the impi'nal army for tho imperial interest , and for nothing else , against the people of the empire . This bloody death of Robert Blum will never lie forgotten . Every yem " the German refugees in London celebrate iho . dark day of the Oth of November . To them , " Kobert liluni" is
a sacred memory , and an inspiring watchword . Accordingly , " <» n Tuesday , a large body , composed chiefly of Germans , met in the large room at th < " Itm' ~ masons' Tavern , to celebrale flu ; death of the nuul . of 1848 , by a series of orations delivered by Anioli Kii KC Oscar Falkc , Dr . Tnuseium , and J " ' "" * Rouge . Professor itugn occupied Hit ! clian' ; ( ivrl l 1
bin head was hung a poll rait of the noble , lll ' ' - face of Ilium , with its fine , good-humoured rxFusion , not unlike the busts of Socralcs . A bove the p icture drooped the German tricolor , in bands of bl j"' ^ red , and gold -mid on each side a red banner . The In * - speech was delivered by tho chuinnnn in ( leriHiin . begun by explaining how it was Mint Ilium had ''^ j '"^ flu ; upo ' sfle and marlyr of German freedom . l ' "
wiihi ( he thorough ( jerniun representative ! man . _ _ " lilmn was intensely the man of the ( Jernuin ' ' . ' l ' * ! li .-ir be incorporated all their instincts , all their lltl ( 1 H \ , | 1 () y ( aspirations ; be embodied tho people's demand "' . ; .,. rigl . tHpromiriedwl . cn Napoleon had lo be orushe < l , " " ' grunted ; and he wan < h « voice of tho people flp 11 ' , n (;( when they had their I yrunfs in their power , a . xl slio have broil generous . ' He wan the . man <»/ U «> '" j | ,, Iltl eiscly the man lo franslulo and put m action I M o I ())<> of tho time . All ( lormuny spolio m him in > H'IM > , )| i ( , greater effect thai , he wan npnnig from tho < lenioc > h y ^ bo was too Gennuu in not being sovero enough ; j < ^ ( ho Gomuww hud conuuorod their lungs , tho » ww
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13111852/page/6/
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