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610 &t)t 3Leat!eV. [Saturday,
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. In answer to repeated...
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[The following appeared in our Second Ed...
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The latest accounts from Hesse-Cassel re...
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Wo have elsewhere given a brief notice o...
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The Duke of Wellington had a narrow esca...
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1850.
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TO YOUR TENTS, O ISRAEL! With whatever s...
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610 &T)T 3leat!Ev. [Saturday,
610 & t ) t 3 Leat ! eV . [ Saturday ,
To Correspondents. In Answer To Repeated...
TO CORRESPONDENTS . In answer to repeated enquiries , we may state that our unaltered engravings of " The Moore Raphael" are to be obtained at Messrs . Colnaghi ' s , in Pall-mall ; and that impressions on a plainer paper may be had from our Publishers .
[The Following Appeared In Our Second Ed...
[ The following appeared in our Second Edition of last week . \ POSTSCRIPT . Saturday , Sept . 14 .
The Latest Accounts From Hesse-Cassel Re...
The latest accounts from Hesse-Cassel represent the crisis as advancing in intensity . By a ministerial decree dated the 9 th , the whole of the electorate is placed in a state of siege , and , as a matter of course , the liberty of the press and the right of association and meeting are suspended . In the first instance the town of Cassel only was subject to this measure , but , in consequence of the threatening aspect of affairs , and of the standing committee of the Chamber having drawn up an act of impeachment against the Ministry , the latter extended the exceptional act to the whole state . The Frankfort Zeittmg , under date of Cassel , 8 th instant , says : —
" Five persons have been arrested for having torn down the decree which declares the country in a state of siege . M . Heisc , the editor of the Frelons , has escaped imprisonment by flight . The printing-office of the New Gazette of Hesse is still occupied militarily , and the proprietor of the journal , M . Oetker , and M . Sheel , the printer , were threatened with imprisonment if they made the slightest resistance . This morning all the numbers of this journal were seized . A complaint has been addressed to the Ministry on the subject , and it is expected that a civil action will be commenced . Last evening the permanent commission of the States addressed to the public prosecutor the following indictment against the de
Minister of State , M . de Hassenpflug , Major Haynau , and Councillor de Baumbach , in consequence of the decree of the Elector , which places the country in a state of war : — ' The permanent commission sees in this decree a serious abuse of power , and considers it even as a crime of high treason , according to the terms of the decree of the 14 th of February , 1795 , considering that it has for its object to do away with the organization and the constitution of the country . It has , in consequence , resolved to impeach the Ministers for a violation of Art . 01 of the commission , and requests the public prosecutor to proceed conformably to paragraph 75 of the law of judicial organization , and to immediately arrest the accused . ' The public
prosecutor then replied as follows : — ' The public prosecutor recognizes in the acts of the Ministers , of which the permanent commission of the states complains , a violation of the constitution ; but Ministers who violate the constitution cannot be impeached but by the states , and not by the permanent commission , and only before the high court . Consequently , the demand of the commission for the arrest and impeachment of the Ministers cannot be followed up . ' A letter of the 9 th says that , although the public prosecutor has rejected the charge brought against the Ministers , the Procurator-General has ordered the Ministers to be arrested . At Hanau the municipal council refused to publish the last decree of the Government . "
The officer entrusted with dictatorial powers is Licutcnant-Goneral Bauer , who has under his orders , as military commissaries , Major-General Schirmer nt Fulda , Colonel Ilihlebrand at Marburg , and Major Kincr at llintoleu . The principal paper at Cassel , the Neio Hessian , has been suppressed , nnrt its presses sealed up . It will be difficult , therefore , to obtain correct intelligence of what is passing . The Berlin , papers announce that a banquet was given , two days past , at Cassel , by the officers of the . stall ' , and that they gave a percat for the Minister Hassenpflug .
The High Court of Justice of Wurtemburg has given its decision on the impeachment of the ex-Minister of foreign affairs , Baron Wachtcr Spittler , on a chaige of having violated the constitution . The court declares that there was no foundation for the impeachment .
Wo Have Elsewhere Given A Brief Notice O...
Wo have elsewhere given a brief notice of the fatal termination of Mr . Gale ' s aeronautic exploits . The following more circumstantial account of the sad event we take from Gallgnani ' s Messenger : — " On Sunday last Lieutenant Gale made an ascent with tho lloyal ( Jrcmorue balloon , on the back of a pony , from the Hippodrome of Vincennes at Bordeaux . It was the first time that Mr . Gale had ever mndo . suchan nscrnsion , and his pony had only a few days before boon broken in . At first tho littlo animal displayed great repugnance at
being lifu-d from his feet , but he gradually got accustomed tn it , ami on Sunday allowed himself to be carried oil' by iho balloon with the greatest composure . As there was Mime delay in filling the balloon with pps , the pony , usiily Raddled and bridled , was paraded round the . IIippoelrome , and was regarded with extraordinary curiosity by the spectators . An immense multitude assembled to witness the ascent . The lneal journals say that the town was completely deserted , anil that the adjacent villages M « nt their contingents . When Mr . Gale was seen to
asiHMul rapidly into the air , seated on his pony , with the bridle in one hand anil saluting the public with the other , there was a sort of shudder of fear in the ! vast gathering . The puny was perfectly calm , with his legs hanging nnd the neck bent ; but . he made no movement . Tho descent Dl . Mr . ( Jalc , which took place at a short distance from l ;> nl « ; m \ , was mar b-in . r y . \ n \ to i , im # When the hoi . M- hiul been ideiiMil Imm its Mint's , the peasants who held the mpi s of thy balloon , mmuulcibtamlinii
the instructions given by the aeronaut , let go , and the balloon having still sufficient gas in it to give an ascensional force , after losing the weight of the horse , rose suddenly , and the anchor , -which held by a tree , being loosened by the sudden motion , the shock upset the car . Mr . Gale , however , clung to the ropes , and was fortunately able to pull the string of the valve to cause a further escape of gas . This being done , he came down , safely at a distance of about a mile and a quarter from the place where he had left the horse . "
Lieutenant Gale's family believe the report ^ of that gentleman ' s death to be incorrect . They think it is reasonable to suppose that , if the fatal accident had occurred , Mr . Gulston and Mr . A . Gulston , Mr . Gale ' s partners and companions throughout the tour in the French provinces , would have immediately sent notice of it to Mrs . Gale , or to their own family , which they have not done . The Nepaulese princes seem daily in better humour with Paris ; and their Oriental mode of testifying satisfaction witn . those who minister to their pleasures , by stripping off and presenting their gorgeous trinkets , is highly gratifying to the Parisians who are fortunate enough to attract their approbation . On Wednesday night Jung Bahadoor gave a signal proof of his taste and
magnificence , which is the talk of all Paris . Ke and his brothers went to the opera , where Madame Aguado has placed her box at their disposal , to see Cerito in the Violin du Diable . The ecstacies of the prince were so intense , that he gladly suffered himself to be led behind the scenes , where he could give freer vent to his rapture , aud take a closer survey of the object which dazzled his senses . Cerito was panting upon a sofa in the little room to which she retires in the intervals of her performance , when the swarthy visitor presented himself , indicating by smiles and salaams his internal satisfaction . A more solid token of the ambassador ' s delight remained behind , for he unclasped from his wrists a pair of magnificent diamond bracelets , and transferred them with all the gallantry and grace in the world to the arms of the celebrated danscuse .
The Duke Of Wellington Had A Narrow Esca...
The Duke of Wellington had a narrow escape on Friday afternoon , as he was returning from Dover to Walmer Castle . When about a quarter of a mile east of Dover Castle , on the Deal-road , the post-horses in his grace ' s carriage took fright at the sight of some papers ( songs and ballads ) posted for sale during the races , upon a board by the roadside . The post-boy lost command of his horses , and the carriage was precipitated from the road down a declivity of about two feet , into a stubble-field . One of the horses fell , and the post-boy was thrown down under the carriage , but escaped unhurt .
Lord Clarendon paid his promised public visit to Belfast on Thursday . Shortly before twelve o ' clock his Excellency , accompanied , by Major Ponsonby and Mr . Corry Conncllan , arrived from Garron-Tower , the seat of Lord Londonderry , by the Belfast and Ballymena Railway . At the terminus the corporation , with General Bainbrigge and his staff , the Harbour Commissioners , and other public bodies , and a vast number of the merchants , manufacturers , and other inhabitants , were arranged in order of procession . His Excellency was greeted with the heartiest and
most enthusiastic acclamations , which he acknow * ledged in a feeling and impressive manner . The procession , in which his Excellency then took his place , proceeded through different streets to the residence of General Bainbrigge , the people cheering with great energy all through . At the house of General Bainbrigge the address of the corporation was presented . His Excellency then proceeded to the Linen-hall , where the addresses of the Ulster Flax Society and others were received . In the course e > f the day his Excellency visited the great flax spinning-mill of Messrs . Mulholland and Son , and other establishments connected with our staple
manufactures . A collision took place at the Black-lane station , on the Lancashire and Yorkshire . Railway , on Wednesday evening , under the following circumstances : —In congcqucncc of the ItadcliH ' e races , special trains had been running several days between the Bury and Blacklane stations , and at the time of the occurrence a train was at the Black-lane station , near to the race-ground , taking up passengers for Bury . A goods' train proceeding from Bolton to Blue . Pits came up before the other train could be moved out of the way , consequently a collision took place , which , we are happy to say , was
unattended by the loss of human life . When the tram arrived at Bury many of the passengers were bleeding in consequence of injuries sustancd by the violence of the shock ; some had lost their hats , and one person had fainted . Many of the passengers were under the influence of liquor , anel the station-ground for some time presented a sad scene of contention . After some five years of unremitting labour , the engineers connected with the Biitannia Bridge safely lowered the ' ! last" of the Britannia tubes to its permanent resting-place on Friday , so that everything that was difficult or " hazardous in the constructive character of the undertaking in now finished . The Carnarvonshire end of the
jube was lowered three fret , the opposite end being oincd em to tha Anglesra large tube in the interior of the . tower on the Britannia rock ; anel , obedient to the law of the novel operation , tho centres e > f both tubes , as before , sprung up several inches . The Government officer will be ' down on an e-arly day to inspect the entire structure , preparatory to its permanent opening . Nothing beyond a mere fractional deflection has been observed to take place in the tube that has been opened since March , and which has been subjected to the constant transit , of heavy trains and tralHc . The total weight of each of the wrought-iron roadways now completed , represents l'J . OOO touts , supported on a total mass • I ' masonry of a million and a half cubic feet , run up at the rate ui' three llet in a minute .
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Saturday, September 21, 1850.
SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 21 , 1850 .
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w There is nothing so revolutionary , "because there is nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in its eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .
To Your Tents, O Israel! With Whatever S...
TO YOUR TENTS , O ISRAEL ! With whatever specific objects , with whatever specific prospect of success , it becomes daily more evident that the royal classes of Europe , and the official classes dependent upon those royal classes , are engaged in some machinations against the Peoples of Europe—are busied in some project to take advantage of the reaction which is supposed to exist after the subsidence of the European revolution ; and the Paris correspondent of the Times avers that our own Government is playing a part in these anti-national proceedings . According to the same writer , considerable progress has been made in breaking up the popular party , not only
throughout Germany , but even in the capital of Europe , Paris . The " blouse partizans of the Republic , " says that writer , " are now met by blouse partizans of another kind . " As the People in Germany and Italy is put down , as Hungary has been conquered by Russia and Austria without the hand of help from any free nation , as the People even of France has been broken up by the treachery which has sown discord broad-cast throughout its masses , so steps are taken in London to drive out the refugees of the Peoples that have struggled for their liberty , and to keep down popular opinion amongst the English People itself . Such , at least , is the representation made by the Paris correspondent of the Times .
" It is stated in political circles in Paris as positive that the British Government has , at the earnest entreaties of the Russian , Austrian , and Prussian Governments , consented to take measures relative to the fe ) reign refugees now in England . Whether the * measures ' alluded to be expulsion—if the Government can legally have recourse to it—I am unable to say . I believe , however , that the evil has assumed such a magnitude in England as to call for the serious notice of the authorities . It is stated here that the treatment General Haynau has lately met with in London is attributable to certain German Democrats , who were employed to excite them . Whether this be the case or not I cannot state , but it is certain that amongst c i ther plans for the spread of Socialism the greatest pains have been taken for
months past to introduce German mechanics into England , in order to propagate their principles , ' , ' use their own words , ' teach John Bull how to get rid of his tyrants . ' From all I can learn here ( and I think I shall soon have to say more on the same subject ) these evil principles have spread more extensively in England , and particularly in London , than many are aware of . The incidents that occurred at Messrs . Barclay and Co . ' s brewhouse are , perhaps , but the first sign of the change that Socialist doctrines , preached in entire liberty by foreigners , have been producing in the public mind . It is the opinion of a man who has an accurate knowledge of what passes in the secret societies in London that , unless something be done at once , England may pay dearly for the tolerance allowed to the preachers of the wildest doctrines . "
Now we do not believe this—nor does the Times The Paris correspondent is a very active and intelligent man , but he is not very discriminating in his acceptance of current rumours , and when he trenches upon London reporting , we see that he is fairly out of his element . His estimate of character is excessively loose and prejudiced—we do not mean corruptly prejudiced , but tinged with his own personal feeling ; and , consequently , we do not accept the assertion of his London friend any the more confidently for his endorsement . Therefore we do not assume that Lord Palmerston is malting himself the tool of Russia in planning to turn out refugees in revenge of Haynau , or to " put down " the English People and the opinions which
are growing amongst it . For Social doctrines are growing up . And here is the point . Although the English Government may not now be engaged in planning to put down the quiescent English People , nor ° to suppress the opinion which is extending with free discussion , there must come a day , and perhaps it may not be far distant , when the English People will take steps towards the practical application of such new doctrines ; and
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 21, 1850, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21091850/page/10/
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