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KAISER JOSEPH. " The Emperor returned to...
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GENERAL CONTINENTAL NEWS. The Daily News...
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HUNGARIAN CAPTIVES IN TURKEY. The follow...
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French Politics. The Revision Party Have...
the eighty leagues coming , " to and from Dijon , which saluted Louis Napoleon . As the Revisionists only obtained a majority of 60 votss on the whole , the Republicans naturally regard the result as a triump h . In his last pamphlet , M . de Cormenin ( Timon ) has thus expressed the present state of the European question : — " I defy any party to reestablish in France a monarchy
which shall not concede a parliamentary government and a free press ; and I defy any monarchy which shall concede the liberty of the press and representative government to continue longer than three years . " The Republic alone , because it is right and true , can and may be discussed with impunity . " The question henceforth in all the great governments of Europe will be between the Republic and Absolute Monarchy . " These are the two terms of the question from which
there is no escape . " Ferdinand Flocon , writing in the Democratie du Bas Jthin , declares that the' first thing that the Republican party will demand-when the time comes to revise the constitution , will oe the abolition of the Presidency ; declaring that , for their part , they neither want a Prince nor a Soldier . The commission appointed to consider the propositions for the revision of the Constitution met on Tuesday , and appointed M . de Broglie , president , and M . Moulin secretary of the commission . A subcommission of five has been appointed to examine the host of petitions for revision which have been presented to the Assembly . The names of the five are—Dufour , de Corcelles , de Melun , Baze , and Charras .
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Kaiser Joseph. " The Emperor Returned To...
KAISER JOSEPH . " The Emperor returned to Vienna and his faithful lieges on the 3 rd of June , and the papers are permitted to announce the gratifying fact to us this morning . Now , as the town is very full , and most of the celebrities are here , and there is no political news , perhaps I may amuse some of your fair readers by giving an account of Franz Joseph the First , and the pillars of his throne , and of some of the beauties that give grace to his court , of the wits that brighten , of the good that endear . "Do you remember , then , ladies , in Schiller ' s noble ballad of ' The Diver , ' the stately boy , with an * aspect unfearing but gentle , ' who broke the silence which succeeded the king ' s throwing his jewelled cup into the deep ? Of course you do ! Well , then , just such a * herrlicher jungling' you may fancy the Emperor of Austria . A figure of singular grace is set off by a most gallant carriage ; personal bravery is shewn in every look and in every quick , firm movement . H « is considerably above the common height , though not absolutely tall . His face is very peculiar . To the marked characteristics of the House of the Hapsburg , he adds an expression which I never saw in any other of that family , either in a portrait or the living face . The forehead is high and beetling , the nose and mouth well formed , but nothing peculiar . It is in the eyes that something remarkable strikes you at once ; they are not large , but sunken , and the eyebrows form over them in a singular manner—they are piercingly bright , and have an earnest , almost melancholy look , which must have been planted there by thought beyond his years . The eyes , then , are the chief characteristic of his lace , and mark it out so strongly that once seen it were hard to forget it .
" The Emperor never appears but in uniform , and generally wears the plain light grey coat of a general . He is seldom decorated , except on great occasions , and his whole appearance is strikingly simple and military . Unlike any of his family , or the Austrians generally , he is a most expert horseman , and a keen sportsman . He rides straight across country , and seldom goCs home while the dogs last . He is a capital shot . A aoldier at heart , he is little luxurious , and his private apartments are the least splendid in the palace . The room where he usually sits at Sohb'nbrunn has a fine look-out , and commands the garden where . Napoleon used to walk and meditate , and which still goes by his name . It requires little stress of imagination to suppose that such a prospect may often set him musing , and
check aspiring , and rebuke pride . The walls are covered ¦ with maps ; on the table lie booka of reference , mostly on military mutters . He rises early , and not seldom indulges in the pastime of riding out unattended , and paying visits betimes to barracks and public places to see with hia own eyes that all things are in order . He inspected the artillery barracks a little while ago , at seven o'clock in the morning . This keeps up a groat state of qui vivo . He has au extraordinary eye for detail , and will detect with a glance if an oflicer be not wearing the proper regulation eword . Ho has the royal gift of remembering names and faces ; and if an officer should not bo in uniform , be his rank what it may , he had better not fall under the eye of the Emperor . There in a story in the army of his having one day placed six general officers under arrest for this breach of orders during a state of
ge . " He is very accessible , and since his reign tho rules of the court have been a good deal changed in this respect . Him chief Hociety is , however , that of military men , and not a day passes but Nugent or Schliok , Hess or Win-( uaeh grutz , ure invited to his table , Radotzky , while in Vienna , lives with him altogether , and sleeps in the palace . When in public , and of course surrounded by a crowd of gazers , his eye wanders about in search of a known face , and if he llndu it lie will talk pleasantly for a long time with the Mnmo person . Like the Emperor of llussia , whom , perhaps , ho may in nome degree h » vo taken for ti model , ho in fond of aurpriucs ,
and likes to appear -unexpectedly everywhere : it may be owing to this fancy that the journals have been forbidden to chronicle his movements till officially announced . There is altogether an absence of parade about him , except on state occasions . If he drives , which is but rarely , it is in an open carriage with two horses , and a coachman and footman in undress liveries . No guards , with nodding plumes and caracolling chargers , surround him—not even an outrider precedes ; and were it not that Vienna is one vast camp , and the soldiers turn out and the drums beat when he passes a
guard-house , a stranger would scarcely suspect * he ruled the land . ' On horseback , a single English groom , wearing the plain livery of an Eng lish gentleman ' s servant , rides behind him , and Count Griinne , his adjutant and constant companion , at his side , but about a neck in the rear . He will change his horse several times in the same ride , and appears usually on three or four during his afternoon ' s ride in the Prater . To sum up , as my letter is ending , I will finish in the words of a Russian general — ' To ladies he is gallant ; to the men courteous . ' I will Bketch the court less in detail in my next . "
General Continental News. The Daily News...
GENERAL CONTINENTAL NEWS . The Daily News of Wednesday contained the following announcement : — " Telegraphic advices from Rome of the 2 nd of June received via Vienna announce the advance of Austrian troops into the Papal province of Spoleto . The intelligence is official , being confirmed by the Wiener Zeitung of the 7 th instant , which mentions the movement as in course of preparation . " The Lithographirte Correspondenz , also an official
medium of publication , adds that the movement has taken place in conformity with a convention passed between the Austrian , French and Papal Governments . We cannot but receive this explanation with great suspicion . The movement , at any rate , is curiously close upon the publication of the celebrated Papal memorandum which we lately published , and which the Governments of Vienna and Rome were so quick in disclaiming . We do not hear of any diminution in the immense army which the King of Naples has assembled at Capua . Rome is exactly midway between Capua and Spoleto . "
On the same day the Morning Chronicle said : — " Letters from Rome of the 2 nd of June state that in virtue of a convention between Austria , France , and the Holy See , Austrian troops were preparing to advance into the province of Spoleto , beyond Terni . Letters from Vienna confirm this intelligence . " This , if correct , is probably the first move of the New Holy Alliance of Warsaw and Olmutz . The Hamburg journals state that an usually high rate of mortality prevails among the Hungarian soldiers who form part of the garrison of Rendsberg , and that case of suicide are also frequent among them . The Tyrolese regiments also suffered much when in the district ; the mountaineers of the south soon became afflicted with Heimweh , and pine among the flat sandy plains of the north .
The severe regulations respecting the saluting Danish officers by civilians in Sehleswig , which caused so much irritation , have been suspended ; among the expedients the people adopted at last to turn the order into ridicule was the following—they agreed to meet each other with the slightest nod of acquaintance , but to salute every dog , pig , bullock , and Danish officer with a profound bow . The absurdity became popular , and , it is stated , has been one of the causes of the order being revoked . It is understood that the English Consul in Hamburg , Colonel Hodges , at present on a special mission at Flensburg , had felt it necessary to make strong representations on the effect of the regulation in Home parts of Schleswig .
The Portuguese news is of no note politically . The captains of the English ships in . the Tagus have been killing time with dancing . The ball on board the Leander on Friday week , given to the English residents and a portion of the Portuguese nobility , was particularly successful . " Upon the splendid upper deck a tent-like saloon was beautifully illuminated and decorated with flags and flowers , and although there was nothing wanting in any of the
arrangements , it is a fact that the vessel had been officially inspected , with her crew at quarters and every gun in its place , three hours before the ball ; nor had the whole of the delighted participants in the evening ' s amusements reached the shore before every vestige of the arrangements had disappeared on board , and the Leunder , with her gallant captain and crew , might have been inspected , and would have been found in its usual eflicient state , ready for sea or uny other service . "
The so-culled kingdom of Poland , patched up by the treaty of 1815 , linn had , up to the present moment , a / separate postal administration , and now , by an imperial ukase of March 4 , IH 61 , this administration fulls under the disposition of the general imperial board and control , and will hereafter form the thirteenth postal circle of the . Russian empire ; . Thus vanish one by one all traces of a separate existence established by the Congress of Vienna . The fate of the Russian exile Jtukooniu , who Home time ago was dragged from the Saxon fortress ol KimigHtein to that of Olmutz in Austria , has at lust boon decided . Tho decree aginst him is thus worded : —" Michael Bukoonin , born in 1814 , at
Torshok , in the Russian Government of Tver , of Grecco-Russian religion , legally and in virtue of his own confession , convicted of the crime of treachery against the Austrian empire , the court-martial , by its decree of May 15 last , sentenced him to death by strangulation , and to pay the expenses of the whole trial , for which he is mutually responsible with the rest of the guilty persons . " This decree was legally sanctioned , but commuted by the Emperor to carcere duro for life .
Mark this solidarity between the continental despots ! Bakoonin , a Russian by birth , lieutenant of artillery in the Russian army , accused of having taken an active part in the revolution of Dresden against the Saxon Government , is condemned by an Austrian court-martial , as guilty of a crime of treachery against the Austrian empire ! To what extent the German writers have lost all feeling of dignity and national honour , is shown in a leading article which the Prussian gazette { Die Neue PreussiscJie Zeitung ) of May 24 published , and which expresses itself as follows on the occasion of the King of Prussia ' s departure to Warsaw : " After
many disturbances which have occurred during the two last years , the monarchs and the peoples have reentered their natural relations . The monarchs tendered to each other a friendly hand , and the peoples look now with joyous confidence towards futurity , and the benign blessing which a lasting peace and the reign of order and law will bestow upon them . We greet the meeting of the monarchs in Warsaw with joy , as a token of a new and closer alliance among them , which , in our eyes , acquires an enormous weight if we consider the friendly sentiments of the Emperor Nicholas toward our country .... It only requires that the Russian statesmen should not judge with prejudice , but acknowledge that Prussia can win much in the present circumstances , and that
nothing can be lost by preserving the closest relation with Russia . " The author of the article then endeavours to show that from Frederic the Great up to the present time , it was ever a national interest , a sound policy for Prussia , to go hand-in-hand with Russia . He then thus concludes his arguments : — " Frederic William IV ., faithful to the principles of Frederic the Great , and to the last wish of his neverto-be-forgotten father , went to Warsaw , in order to renew the alliance with , his imperial brother-in-law . The foreign and internal enemies of Prussia may look upon this event with a malevolent and curious eye , but the more it disquiets and displeases them , the greater the reason for the friends of Germany to rejoice , and to place an unlimited confidence in the Congress of Warsaw . "
A correspondent from the frontier of Poland thus writes : — " There is again a great difficulty in the kingdom , of Poland to obtain passports . Even persons going to the waters are obliged to obtain certificates from , responsible physicians , and to depose written declarations that they will not go to London . This is the more surprising , as a ukase had been previously promulgated , by virtue of which no obstacle was to be put in the way of obtaining passports to those who should wish to proceed to the Exhibition of London . Some attribute this change to the circumstance , that when the Russian ambassador announced to the
English Cabinet his master's intention oi visiting London , and required the principal refugees to be removed from London during his stay , Viscount Palmerston , it is said , answered that II . I . M . should be received with pleasure , but that the Government could not condescend to satisfy a claim which was contrary to the laws of the country . "
Hungarian Captives In Turkey. The Follow...
HUNGARIAN CAPTIVES IN TURKEY . The following letter has been received from the Foreign-oilice , m reply to a memorial agreed to at a public meeting in the Tower Hamlets , last week : — " Koreitfn-ottict ; , June 7 , 1851 . " Sik , —lam directed by Viscount Palmerston to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday ' s date , enclosing a memorial , signed by you as chairman of a meeting of the inhabitants of tho Tower
Hamlets , praying the interference ot her Majesty » Government , in order to procure the liberation of tho Hungarian refugees detained in Turkey ; and 1 am to request that you will acquaint the memorialists that her Mujesty's Government have been usin / , ' , and aro continuing to use , their good offices with the Turkish Government to obtain tho reloads of these Hungarians from their present captivity in Turkey ; and her MajcBty ' ri Government trunt that th < iir endeavour * may before long load to n favourable result . humble servant
"lam , Sir , your moot obedient , " Stanu ' . y of A i . i ) j : iti . i ; v . " T . Hunt , Esq ., 10 , W ellington-Btreet ., Strand . " Active exertions aro still iiiiuli : by tho people of Sheffield to HUHtain public sympathy m favour of tliimu Polish Hungarian exil « -n whom they have succoured ho generously . A public mooting was held at Stiiiniington , near Sheffield , on Monday week , in their behalf , and attended by a numerous , and cnthuniastic audience .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 14, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14061851/page/3/
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