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284 The Leader And' Saturday Analyst. [A...
284 The Leader and' Saturday Analyst . [ April 21 , 1 . 8 ( 50 .
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onl y of getting rid of Hbkb * IV ., and the cities of Lombardy of freeing themselves from the yoke both of , t ie Empeeob and the T ? ope There never Was an alliance of principle between them , but onlv of temporary interests . When , therefore , discordant and contradictory interests arose , the alliance , was naturally dissolved . At no time has national . independence found a support m the Papaev . If the latter ever appeared to unite with the defenders ot Italian liberty it was only-because it found in them allies against a common enemy , and it was ever ready to abandon and sacrifice Italy the moment its own pretensions ceased to be threatened , its . ambitious view * thwarted . Though Father Lac <> rdaike is obliged to confess that Rome has of lute almost constantly been allied with . Austria , he adds : " If General Bonaparte had not opened the doors of Italy to Austria by the destruction of the Venetmn Republic ; if Europe had been inspired by more generous and tar-sigutea views iii 1815 , and had refused to endorse Boxapakte s error , and thus consecrate the ruin of Venice ; had Austria not ava . led herselt of these unhappy circumstances to extend her heavy and unenlightened rule oVer the Peninsula , the Papacy would never _ lm e appeared to Italy as the accomplice of foreign oppression ^ ^ n cj tlie author concludes that the alliance of Home with Austria i * onljy . an accident . ' . ¦ . '¦¦ , ... .-, . ¦ „ There is some truth in these observations , and it is on tins account that tlie Italians , on going to war with Austria ,, believed that they should restore liberty to the people by liberating them irom foreVn despotism . But the Court of Rome has manifested the stron g est opposition to driving Austria out of Italy . Is it so long « ince 18-18 that Father Lacordaxee can have forgotten the . encyclical of April 29 , in which the Pope declares that he cannot . -make war against Austria ? , And since 181 S against whom Iras the , Court of Rome maintained obstinate war , except against the single Government which lias displayed the flag of national . independence ; . ' Has not Koine been all the while drawing closer to Austria and did she not abandon to her . all right over the Legations ? It has - been said that the Court of Rome was Austrian because Austria had accepted a Concordat favourable to the Pope ; but that fact _ only iustifies the assertion , that when the interests of : the Pope sis lope , and of the Pope as an Italian prince are contrary , Italy is- -sacrificed , to the Curia , and the liberty , ol the people to clerical absolutism . It is certain that if Italy were independent , the question ot . Rome would be simplified . But . there would still be a difficulty remaining , which the writer signalizes when he says that the civil government of Homo belongs to the ancien . regime . This is sin inontesta > le truth and the very head and front of the Italian difiieulty . What this' -overnment is France well kuows , when she brought about the Revolution of ' 39 to overturn it , and this arbitrary , repressive , and violent power still continues in the Roman States , sixty years after it was destroyed in France . A Frenchman could scarcely blame the Romans loir shaking off the , yoke of a government of t-uu ancien rer / imc . Nor does Father Lacoeiiaire condemn them , but recognises that the Papacy is in its present evil plight only because it has not kept pace with the wants of the age . He presumes that the ¦ Pope has enemies , both religious and political , and thus expresses himself : " When enemies exist we should do everything m our power to diminish their number , and deprive them of every pretext for molesting us . A power neve :-perishes by the work of its eneraies but by that of that vacillating , undecided , indeterminate , party which forms tlie mass of a nation , and which , in the pitched 'buttle of event * , always decides the victory . VUen Cir-vRLES the Tenth fell , it was not his enemies who precipitated his ruin , bub men who the day before would have fought to save liim . " This is most true . Those who advise the Court of lvome to resist the spirit of the age , the wants of tho population , and the wishes of Italy , and to maintain the ancien re ' ime , nva they who are really undermining its power . But there is no ground whatever for tho expectation apparently entertained by tho revoreud writer , that Rome will adopt this three principles whiob . distinguish modern from mediooval governments ; namely , eivil equality , political liberty , and freedom of religious belief * These principles have always been negatived by the Court of Rome , always condemned by Papal bulls and encyclicals . In simply expressing the hope that they may prevail , the reverend writor lays himself open to censure and disgrace . During the past ten years France has constantly insisted upon tho nocessily of reforms ' at Rome , less radical by far than those involved in the realization of these three principles , yet always' in vain . The clerical journals which assume to be Homes interpreters show the most unmitigated rage and hatred against liberty and patriotism ; Cardinal Antonei / m refuses to make concessions of any kind ; and yet Father Lacokdaijus flatters himself that Rome only requires time a ' nd 'deferential treatment to introduce civil , political , and religious freedom into her laws . A strange illusion this on tho part of tho reverend writor , who , however , manifests a lively sympathy towards Italy , which cannot fail to pruvo highly gratifying to Italians in general .
Record Of The Week. Homis And Colonial. ...
RECORD OF THE WEEK . HOMIS AND COLONIAL . Saturday , April 14 was the birthday of Princess Beatrice . In oonscqnonoQ of , the death of his late Sureno . Highness tho Prince of Hohonjoho Lantfenburg , brother-in-law to the Quoon , tho Court wont into mourning on Tlmi'Hchiy last for a fortnight . Despatches wore sent from the Colonial * ollloo on Saturday to , tho Governors of Cuimda and the Bahamas .
The following diplomatic appointments have been made : —Mr . J . S . Lumiey , now secretary to her Majesty ' s mission at Sfc . Petersburg , is appointed secretary to the British Embassy at Constantinople , in the room of Mr . Alisou , appointed to succeed Sit Henry Rawlinson , as minister at the Persian Court . Mr . E SErsldiie , now secretary of I / egatibniat Stockholrn > is appi . iated secretary of Legation to the mission at St . Petersburg . Mr . E . I win Corbett , who was secretary to the late mission at Florence , is appointed secretary of Legation at Stockholm . Captain Leicester Vernon , M . P ., died suddenly on Saturday last at his residence , 51 Great ¦ .. Cumberland-street ; Hyde-park . He left the Carl ton Club in Ins carriage , , at about 4 o ' clock in the afternoon , in his usual health and spirits ; accompanied by a friend , lie drove up Sfc . James ' s-street , about the middle of which his horses became restive , when he got out of his carriage to ascertain the cause of the disturbance . In struggling with the horses he fell , but soon recovered himself , and asserted that he was perfectly uninjured . He soon after complained of being unwell , and requested to be driven home : On reaching his house , medical advice Was immediately summoned , but before it could arrive ' Captain Vernon had breathed his last . The cause of death is ascertained to have been produced by the rupture of a ¦ blood-vesseL Captain Vernon was one of the . members ' , for . the county of 1 Jerks , and was an active and able ¦ member of the House of Common * . It appears from the evidence at the coroner ' s : inquest on the bodies of the seventy-six men ' and lads killed in Burradon Colliery , Northumberland , on the 2 nd . March , which was continued on Frrdav last , : that ¦ the immediate cause of the two explosions and loss o " f life , was the weakness and instability of the air-cui-ivnt . The" subscriptions oil' behalf , of tho families of the sufferers have reached the handsome sum of £ 5 , 110 19 s . 8 J . . A few days a ° -o " an oscillating steam cylinder , ¦ weighing' . 30 ions , was successfully cast at the . Bowling Iron-works , near Brad-ford . The cylinder is ' 8 feet . 2 inches iii diameter , 11 feet 1 inch . i . n-length , and 12 feet 8 inches in width across trunnions , with steam ch-sts and solid bottom . Upwards of forty tons of metal were prepared in five furnaces . . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ "¦ . .- ,. . ,. ,, DrLethebv ' s Annual R-port on the .-Sanitary Condition oi tne ! Cit-v of . London for the last twelve months shows , a favourable c > nditfon of the public health . There have been 1 , 8-43 marriages , : J , - -UO births , and 2 , 011 deaths , The marriages have risen above the average , and the births airl deaths have fallen below it CM the 2 , 911 deaths in the year 1 , 5 . 09 were niides , and l , iO 2 females . / .-33 inspections of houses have been made in the course of the year , of whii-li 803 were of the conn . ii . qn lodging-houses , and that 935 orders have ¦ been issued for sanitary improvement in various particulars . I It is stated , in the Times of Tuesday that the rumours arc well founded . which ' have been for some time in circulation , to the erk-ct that the examination , papers proposed to candidates for military appointments have been surreptitiously obtained by some of tire candidates in anticipation of the examination . Tlie result has been I hat a new examination will at once begin .. , T . From the Army < md . & iipy Gazette we learn that a very disgraceful and a very injurious system of touting prevails in connexion with the examination ' of candidates for direet commission ^ in the arai . y , which now takes place periodically at Chelsea Hospital . . C .-rt . un tailors mnnnsye . to scrape up nu acquaintance with the candidules insinuate themselves into their pounden . , -p ress small Iomus . ut woiittv on their acceptance , and get their promise to be employed to furnish their outfit , undertaking that the , items will be so churned that the amount of the loan will be slipped in in the shape of nn addition to each item , so as to make things pl . i ? as . ant with . the governor . " Some of thcde worthies even persuade . the candidates that tliev ( tan obtain copies of tho examination papers for them belorehnn ' d , and this furnishes a ready means of introduction , llie mutter has been brought to the . notice of tho Uuko of Oambridg'e , who is dotennined to take prompt stops to check a practfue so dwsjrao'l-al . On Saturday . April li , a crowded meeting wns held in ^ uoon SlruL-t Hall , at Edinburgh , to consiiler resolutions . favourable to lUo Government Rufor . n JJiil- for Scotland .. At thi . s meeting resolutions were passed to the eftVot , that the Reform Bill now before J . « ir | mmeat , extending tho iVunchise in counties and uiburglifl , ckrterves the support of all reformers , and that Scotland bus not a snllhuont number of members to pluco it on an equality with hnglmul mitt Ireland ; and that , when the Bills go into Committee , auch iuIUitiunal members should bo given to Scotland us inuy be loimo pvaeticable in present eivcuinatuncos ; and that provision s lould iu » o bo mndo for lowering tho property franchise in counties Dolij w uio sum fixed in the 13 i ( l » so that it may bo made equivalent to uio ijnglish -AOs . frauohiso . A potition in aocordanco with theso rusoiutions was unanimously signed . ... Tho twelfth , iinnivpraury fo » tivul of the City of London Hosp tin for DiaoiiHua of tin- Cheat was held on Tuesday evening nt Uio London Tavern . Tho phieet of the institution' , whiuh wiw loun ou in 1818 , was to afford relief to the poor afflicted with eonsuinp i »» and other diseases of tho chest . The new hospital at > »<¦ ' "'! ' '" Park was opened in 1853 j 1300 in-patients have been umioi treatment « iuoo that period , and 50 / JOO out-patjonts hiivo Uoon ruliovod aiuoe tho institution was first cstobliyhod . I ho co « ol" maintaining tho charity amounts tn about ; C 1 . 500 por unnnin ,. while at pronont tho subscriptions amount to only ; U ± i > 00 a yyin ' . ^ loan of . IB-IOOO hua been contrnetod , anil subscriptions , tlioroji . ro , aio urgently rouulrod . Tho dinner was presided over by the ^ » , ' Qhrowsbury and Talbot . The subyoription at tho close ot tlio evening 1 waa liberal , . i 1 , 1 On the snino ovoniuff a . mo 6 ting of tho Statistical Socioty was ntw
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Leader (1850-1860), April 21, 1860, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21041860/page/20/
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