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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1861.
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A NEW EMPIRE IN EUROPE. Austria is aston...
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The First Stage Of The Debate On Papal A...
frequently be « n asked to lend his aid in removing religious disabilities ; but that was the first time he had been asked to assist in imposing restrictions of that kind . They had been told that the country had taken up this question in a right spirit . He denied that . They had taken it up in a spirit of persecution . It was clear to him that a desire to prevent the propagation of the Roman Catholic religion was at the bottom of the agitation . Thus we had Lord John Russell , in his famous letter ,
complaining of the Pope for having been guilty of " an aggression upon Protestantism . " Not an aggression upon the Queen ' s temporal or spiritual power , but an aggression on an opinion—on a sentiment . He ( Mr . Milner Gibson ) did not approve of this Ministerial Popery . Suppose a Roman Catholic Prime Minister in this country ( and there was nothing to prevent it ) , he might , if Prime Ministers were to give opinions upon such points , issue a proclamation that some other things were superstitious ; or a Unitarian might write that the doctrine of the
Trinity was superstitious : — " Then there was Dr . M'Neill , in his lecture at Exeterhall—orthodox person and orthodox place , as the honourable member for Oxford University must fully admit . What said Dr . M'NeiU to the Duke of Manchester , in the chair , and to the assembled audience : — " My Lord Duk « , " said Dr . M'Neill , " it is the bounden duty of British Christians to guard against domestic intercourse with Bom an Catholics . If you allow domestic intercourse with Roman Gatholic *—if you allow your sons and daughters to become intimate with those of Koman Catholics , you cannot with a ffood errace , or consistently with your duty as parents , turn round ,
after allowing toe intimacy , and forbid the marriage . If you object to such mairiages it is your duty to d » aw up iu time . It may sound very bigoted to separate man from man in the community , but I am persuaded that one half of our misery has been traceable to this domestic intercourse with Roman Catholics . If , instead of the unclean thing being touched and fondled —{ great laughter)—we had , a 3 the Apostle said , come out from among , and be separate , ' much that is to be deplored would not have taken place . But you have fondled the unclean thing—[ laughter )—you have dallied with it—you have taken it to your breast—( great laughter )—until at length it has turned rpund and stung you . "
Mr . Scholepield having opposed the motion , the House divided , when the numbers were—For the motion 395 Against it 63 Majority 332
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The money required to be voted for the naval sprvice this year , will be about £ 5 , 700 , 000 , or about £ 400 , 000 less than that voted for the current year , and compared with last year it will show a reduction of one million . — United Service Gazette . The Revenue Trial still continues , without any prospect of a termination . James Davis , to whom so much allusion has been made , was examined yesterday . He admitted that his place was called " Davis ' s Corner , " but denied that he had ever converted any good sugar into molasses . Charles Gill , the man charged with threatening the life of Lord John Russell , was brought up at Bow-street yesterday . The man , who appeared to have crazed his brain with scientific pursuits , was required to give bail , himself £ 100 , and two sureties £ 50 each , that he would keep the peace for twelve months .
A fire broke oat yesterday morning on the premises belonging to Messrs . Mitchell and Coy , engravers and printers , Lovell ' s-couit , Paternoster-row , which was not extinguished till the entire building was burned to the ground . Considerable damage has been done to tbe adjoining promised . Mr . J . W " . llodgetts , manufacturing chemist , was killed by an explosion which took place at bis manufactory , in Springfield-lane , Salford , yesterday morning . A double suicide , in the French style , was committed in Chelmsford , on Thursday . The parties were George Ponder and Charlotte Parmenter , who had left the workhouse about a fortnight ago , and hired a room in Chelmsford . They were both found dead on Thursday morning , and from the appearance of the bodies it whs thought that Ponder cut . the woman ' s throat while she was asleep and then hanged himself .
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The Journal des Debats announces that the Congress nt Dresden bus a # reed to admit all the Sclavonian and Italian posnessioiis of Austria into the German Confederation . Prussia und all the secondary States of Germany have given their consent , and Russia has intimated that hIio will not oppose this addition to the Confederation . The Debats adds , that France and England have protested , both at Vienna and Uorlin , but that their efforts are not likely to prevent the new arrangement !! . The Cfoce di Savoia of Turin of the Dili , speaks in a tone of alarm of a « reat concentration of Austrian troops on the Tiriuo , and urges the necessity of the PicdmontcHf ( Jovernrnent demanding an explanation at Vienna on the subject .
It ih snid that the French Government has determined to add considerably to the garriHonn maintained on the frontiers of the Alps , and that , if neecsaary , a distinct army will be formed on that frontier . Whether the win like preparations will go farther or no ., remains to be seen , and must depend in some measure on the Assembly . Parliament an i > tiik Pkoplk . —To the stereotyped 1 arliainentary " 1 won ' t . " let the People respond with a hearty " We will . " They have it in their own hands . Real rrpresentation or sham reprrdentation , " that is the Munition ! " b » t to R « t th «» real , and project the ah am into the Limbo of Vanity ? To do fiat , mr , you must form a National Party . —Berkshire Independent .
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SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 22 , 1861 .
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There is nothing bo 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 eternal progress . —Db . Ahnold .
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LORD JOHN'S DOWNFAL . It is tottering ! a few more such blows and it i « over ! Mr . Locke King invited the Commons to admit a bill extending the £ 10 borough franchise to counties ; Lord John objected to so sweeping a measure , and invited the House to wait till next session . The House went with Mr . King , and the Speaker announced a majority against Ministers of two to one : imagine the Premier ' countenance at the ghastly sound .
Lord John deprecated any proposal ' to sweep away the Reform Bill : " who proposes " to sweep away the Reform Bill ? " As well propose to sweep away 1832 . What every Liberal but Lord John does propose is , not to stop at 1832 , but to go on to 1852 . He has the utmost objection to doing so , " till the proper time . " He is " consistent , " will not alter the Almanac which he published in
the day of his youthful fame . So we are leaving him behind , He is not for finality—Oh no !—but he must be allowed time for his next reform to bud . Alone was he left , with his dismayed retainers , on Thursday night—abandoned by Conservatives and other " allies . " We have recommended the union of the Opposition against every bad Ministerial measure : the Conservatives have taught us that it is as good simply to go away , and leave Ministers alone before any one section of the House .
The defeat must be , will be , followed up . All are now convinced that the Ministry is useless , effete . It is only blocking the path against the entrance of some better Ministry ; for any would be better than the present . Already Lord John has ceased to be Premier : he is only the Obstacle General ; and Policeman Public is ordering to " move on . " At last we are again in motion !
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A NEW EMPIRE IN EUROPE . Austria is astonishing her friends . She outstrips the most sanguine expectations of her reactionary Confederates . Not much is positively known of the results of the Dresden Conferences ; enough , however , to elicit a universal cry of dismay . Austria proposes to incorporate the whole of her dominions , Hungary , Lombardy , Venice , and all , with the territory of the German Confederacy . Prussia , Germany have ceased to exist . There
is now only one huge Austria , an empire of Central Europe , extending from the Baltic and German Ocean to the Adriatic and the Mediterranean , and by the great channel of the Danube to the Black Sea : an empire of seventy to eighty millions of souls , embracing the whole of Germany , one-third of Italy , a large portion of Poland , with perhaps a score of other new , ardent , high irettled tribes . What was the crown of the Othos of Saxony , what even the triple diadem of Charlemagne to the new chaplet glittering on the brow of the youthful Kaiser at Vienna ?
Yet Kuch wan the inevitable finale of the German reaction . The coexistence of Austria and Germany had , since March , 1848 , become an impossibility . Germany must either divide and break up Austria , or must be swallowed by it . Three different proposals were repeatedly made to reconcile the interests of the two statea . First , an entire and absolute separation . Then the admiBaion of the Austro-Gerrnu jt provinces alone into the Germanic Federation . ' Finally , the incorporation of the whole of Austria , with exception of her Italian Provinces . Now Lombardy , Venice , and virtually Parma , Modena , Tuscany , and the Roman Legations are to become German .
German nationality thus merges into the Austrian union . Great national interest may reconcile the German people to the loss of political existence : for how long it is difficult to nay . Germany abdientOH
her dignity . Prussia sinks at once into a mere Imperial Lieutenancy . The German Princes become mere puppets , with not even the shadow of the importance of their electoral predecessors . It is an unparalleled event , big with unfathomable consequences . Russia herself might well be startled at her own work ; but it is too late to oppose it . France and England protest ; but protests break no man's bones . And , after all , what has Austria
done besides acquitting herself of her crushing task i What complaint can France and England prefer againt her , if she took advantage of their lack of address in securing their own share of the prey ? She only bags the game her obliging friends have shot for her . Her allies were mere amateur bunglers . They crushed for the mere pleasure of crushing . So Prussia in Baden and Hesse ; eo France in Rome ; Austria alone has a business-like way of going to work .
But the treaties of 1815 ?—the balance of power for ever hurled at our teeth ? Alas ! honest men had never ceased to say it : Delenda est Austria . That hybrid state was the stumbling-block of European progress . Our English diplomatists talked and acted as if the very axis of the earth hung on the skirts of the imperial mantle of the house of Hapsburg . Austria was " our natural ally , " now it is Austria alone that kicks the beam ; Austria , that brings Europe on the very brink of a
general war . For , behold ! the new federal compact is scarcely acceded to , and already the new colossal empire thunders at its neighbours' doors . One hundred thousand men gather on the Swiss frontier . Prussia has a bone to pick with the Diet respecting her high Protectorate of Neufchatel . Austria must needs take upon herself the police of the French and Italian cantons . Masses of troops are equally ready to cross theTicino . Alas for Sardinian statutes and Helvetian democracies ! The iron tread of barbarism never drew near with a more ominous
sound . But woe , above all , to France—distracted , craven France ! She may not have to fear the fate of Lombardy or Hungary . But let her look to Prussia ! There are depths of humiliation by the side of which the most irreparable reverses are signal trophies . The extinguisher that is now putting out the light of the Great Frederic at the Dresden Conferences has already cast its shade over doating France . France is threatened with something worse than the worst territorial losses . The Dresden scheme would isolate , blot her out , annihilate her .
Nor has she any reason to rely on tbe incompressible force of the popular element . Matter , we know not for how long a period , has now the advantage over spirit ; and France herself powerfully contributed to this dolorous consummation . The Dresden Conferences aim at no establishment of national unities . They build an empire , not a country . It is no question of constituted communities , of coalescing races . It is
merely an amalgamation of brutal strength : a condensation of unthinking bayonets . How formidable , time will show . Let only the project of a great federal army of 120 , 000 men be carried into effect , taking its station along the Rhine from Radstadt to Dusseldorf , with its centre at Mayence and Frankfort ; only let the warlike Teuton fall into the ranks with the fiery Hun and headlong Croatian , and then it shall appear whether France herself can exist otherwise than by their mercy .
And England ? England is faithful to her Venetian policy : rotting in her lagoons—impregnable , yet not invulnerable . The fall of nations around sinks her fathom-deep in her slough of magnificent impotence . Austria and Russia lord it over the Continent . Little hope for Europe , except such as may arise from the quarrels inevitable amongst robbers at the division of the booty . And England ? England , always at her old business—keeps shops for " all nations . "
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THM UIJDUKT— OF "NOTIONS . " As Lord John Russell wishes to be accounted a constitutional Reformer while he in planning a despotic persecution of the Roman Catholics and is doing nothing for Reformi no Sir Charles Wood wishen to be accounted a sound and liberal financier , while he has not the heart to give anything but twopenny boons . Never did any country exhibit such gigantic resources ah England , coupled with such gigantic wants : Sir Charles is not only among those who are not willing to do the vvofk of rendering those
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 22, 1851, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22021851/page/11/
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