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1388 THE LEAD ERv [No. 509. Dec. 24, 185...
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GERMANY. Hanover, Dec. 21st, 1859. Austr...
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The Wikter Fair a* Milan. —The Milan cor...
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The San Juan Dispute. The Following Is T...
ral Scott added in his note that any addition or modification suggested by Governor Douglas would meet with resrectful consideration . Iaeutenant-Oblbnel Lay returned with the following reply : — " Memorandum ,-i-Etis Excellency Governor Douglas authorises me to say , having yet no time to consider the proposition offered b \ r L . ieutenant-General Scott , or to consult with his official advisers here , he is at a glance satisfied that no obstacle exists to a completely amicable and satisfactory adjustment continuing throughout the period of diplomatic discussion respecting the title of the island of San Juan , either upon the plan suggested by General Scott , or some other that may be mutually agreed to after advisement . " A copy of this memorandum was retained by Governor Douglas , after being read and approved by him , and signed by Lieutenant-Colonel Lay .
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GERMANY . Hanover , Dec . 21 st , 1859 . Austrian affairs have claimed more than usual the attention of the public during the past week . Reports from Vienna represent the state of things as sb dismal that the rumours of the intended abdication of the Emperor , which I was disposed to reject as devoid of all foundation , begin to take more consistency , and demand more notice . The statements in the public papers , combined with the in ^ - fbrmation contained in letters from officers in the
Austrian army induce the belief that the Emperor will really abdicate , or that some great change will take place in . the Austrian system . The reforms which were promised after the peace of Villa Franca are beyond the Emperor ' s powers to effect , and he must stand before his people and the world as a sovereign whose - vrord is not to be relied on . . If , however , the inability to execute his expressed ishes for his people ' s welfare were the sole reason f his resolution to abdicate , he might be considered Imost super-chivalrous ; and the generality of people , I entertain little doubt , would think him the very last sovereign whom they would desire to
be rid of . The idea of a prince descending from his throne , and retiring into private life , because unable to keep his word , pertains altogether to the regions of fiction the most romantic . It mny be one ground ; but the great and glaring fact is * that the llapsburgs have lost the confidence and sympathy of the most intelligent part of their people , who have no longer any attachment to their persons . With the outer world Austria has lost all credit—a man is ashamed to own that he possesses Austrian state notes . Her defeats in Italy have dissipated all respect for her military prowess . Love , honour , money —all are gone ; and she stands now tottering like a tree without roots .
Oh ! the Germans and their ways ( Art ) . Whatever of good and worth that lives . and moves ( i . e ., effectuates ) upon European earth has sprung from the most German tribes (/ . e ., tribes that have most of the Teutonic element in them ) . God bless their Germanic blithesome Lebung , Hebung , tind Belebung vnd Efhebung ( 1 must refer your readers to their German dictionaries for the interpretation of these bouts-rimes . I confess my inability to translate them . That they have a meaning is certain for Arhdt is a poet of celebrity , and maj * venture upon an < tmphigourie without suspicion ) . " It is to be hoped , " continues the poet , " that soon a happy German hour will" arrive for the world , and
likewise a God-born German hero , whose advent has long been awaited in vain , who with sharp iron and the heavy stick , called a sceptre ,, will beat up into a grand whole the so-and-so many petty lordship and kingship fractions . Yes , long live the pan-German , and the pan-Roman " s and the pan-Sclavonians will never create another world-history . With this hope I salute my esteemed Belgians . You know that according to the derivation of the word it means the Schwellendcn , the Wogigen , i . e ., the heavy ones , the raging ones-r—Balg , Boeljae . Thus shall they heave , rage , swell , roll , and toss like the waves and billows of the great German Ocean , ever braving and dashing like the gamesome main . —In German truth , Yours , E . M . Arndt . "
This will afford your readers a slight idea of the German propaganda . Can they wonder at the Scandinavians , the Sclavonians , the Magyars , the Italians , and others paying them back in their own coin and setting up each a propaganda of their own ? A reduction of the Austrian army with the prospect before them of a war of races is altogether out of the question . Reform is equally impracticable . There remains hardly any resource but an abdication ; but in what way this will serve the turn of the Hapsburg is still a question . The imperial edict , granting the Jews throughout the empire perv mission to marry in future without the interference
of the district authorities will mostly affect the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia . In German Austria , Hungary , and Poland the Children of Israel were not condemned to single blessedness _ at the whim of an official . It may not be uninteresting to your readers to hear something of the hitherto slavish thrall in which the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia were held . The Jewish communities " were limited to a fixed number , A youngman was riot permitted to marry till it pleased Providence to remove from this world . soniu married member of the persuasion . Thus , the brother waited with criminal longing for
the death of the brother , the friend for the departure of the friend . The happy man , who after a thousand anxieties managed at last to get possession of the concession which enabled him to take home his bride , was termed a Jumilyant . He had to pass through si vast number of ceremonies and examinations ; the chief object of wlvich , however , \ va 9 the fees . If hecould not provide himself with the needful , it was in the power of the official to keep him a bachelor as long as he pleased . The change has caused , as may be imagined , much joy amongst the poor Jews .
The Commission , whose tnsk it was to recover the deficit in the treasury , have held four meetings , but appear to have arrived at no result in the right direction . One member proposed the reduction of all official salaries to the extent of 5 per cent . but , as might be expocted , found no seconder . Nor would such a measure have been of any beneficial effect , for sp long as Austria regards it necessary to hex * existence to maintain a standing army out of all proportion with her population » nd their means , the deficit is irremediable . It has been continually rumoured thnt the Government had resolved to roduce the army by 200 , 000 men : the third and fourth
battalions were to have been dissolved long ago , Now it is snid that the officers are to dispense with their servants—each officer having been hitherto allowed one at the expense of the Governmenttheir number is 27 , 000 men . But no faith can bo put in these reports , for it is difficult to understand how such a step can bo von tared upon with the national yearning of the Magyar and Sclavonic nations so resolutely ardent . These longings after a separate nationality , which cause her so much trouble and are replete with so much danger ,
Austria lias to thank the German propaganda forthis propaganda she herself was the foremost to encourage , little thinking that her rival , Prussia , would reap all the benefit of it . Your renders may , perhaps , bo inclined to oak what is meant by tho torm German propaganda ? It will bo shown be « t , in my limited space , by the following epistle addressed to tlio Pangcrmane , a publication just brought out at Brussels . The letter is from Ernst Moritz Arndfc , tho whilom wnrbaxa pf Germany . It is dated Bonn , Deo . 15 th , and Bays : —" The Pangermane has reached my hands ¦ well ana merry Q , « ., safe and sound , I presume ) .
Architectuiib In Berlin.—Tlie Number Of ...
Architectuiib in Berlin . —Tlie number of monumental buildings in Berlin is to be increased by three cdiflc . es , which , if they fulfil , tho expectations of tho proprietors , will becomrc masterpieces of art . The municipal authorities nre building a town hall , lnrger than many now existing in the principal cities of Europe , and on the whole forming a combination of everything that is magnificent and costl }' . The corporation of the merchants have already commenced the construction of an exchange , by the side of which the edifice hitherto used as the shrine of Mercury will look like a dog kennel nt the foot of St . Paul ' s ; and , to relieve the sterner aspect of Northern , architecture by nn admixture of the fantastic element of the Orient , the Jewish congregation will in the early spring lay the foundation
stone of a monster synagogue capable of holding 8 , 000 worshippers , and designed in tho style of tho Alhamfira . Those are symptoms of tho growing importance of Berlin , which , but fifty years ago , was moro like tho county town of a province than the capital of a powerful kingdom . Tho great majority of tho edifices in tho Prussian capital are of vory recent date ; and up to tho second half of tho reign of Friodrich Wllholm III ., tho old towns in tho south and west of Gennanv far surpassed this city in eloganco nnd external appearance . It was not until a vory short time ago that tho dull perceptions of tho people of Northern Germany were awakened to a sense of tho beautiful , nnd even now tho architectural enthusiasm of the Berllners refers less to tho art and stylo of the piles they are about to erect than to tlio accidental importance reflected upon tho place they adorn by the accumulation of stately structures .
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The Wikter Fair A* Milan. —The Milan Cor...
The Wikter Fair a * Milan . —The Milan correspondent of a contemporary writes : •? xHe ground , which on ordinary week days is in the exclusive possession of a few solitary vendors of patent blacking , Walking sticks , singi ng birds , and shivering puppy-dogs , is now invaded by shoals of booths and stalls , teeming with every imaginable descri ption of merchandise , winter clothing of all kinds , glov es , mittens , embroidered collars , pocket-handk erchiefs needles , and pins , cravats , felt hats and caps for the National Guard . After these come shining rows of pots and pans , and kitchen implements of every sort Not a single available inch of space is left unoccupied * The basement of the cathedral is hung with oil
paintings , lithographs , and engravings , many of the latter of the old English school . There are coloured sheets of ' Characters and scenes , ' and miniature theatres for children , confused heaps of newspapers pamphlets , and second-hand books , and—a new importation since the departure of the Austrians—giltedged rows of Italian Bibles and New Testaments printed by one of the religious societies of London A little further on we are informed by means of a huge linen placard , that the great Lorenzo Soaccabarozzi from Perugia has taken \ ip his residence , for a few days only , in this distinguished capital ) for the purpose of disseminating his world-renowned infallible specific for the removal of corns
and chilblains . Near this professor stands a man , who is busily engaged in sharpening pencils with an instrument Jin size and shape resembling an ordinary scythe , both instrument and pencil being held behind the back of the operator . These pencils are entirely new to the respectabie public of Milan , being exclusively manufactured for the present proprietor in the famous lead-mines of Spain . They may be cut with any implement , from a razor to a reaping-hook . From their capacity of being driven through a deal board Without injury to the point , they will , at a pinch , admirably serve the purposes of a hat-peg , a : gimlet , a corkscrew , or a weapon of defence . But the largest throngs are gathered round the lottery-tables , -which arc many and various . JLet us take one as a specimen . A large wooden tray , lined with white paper , is divided
into a hundred partitions , each partition being marked with a number , and containing asugarstick ; a few comfits , or an almOiul-cake , with which are interspersed , at rare intervals , objects of greater value , a fat capon , a pancitone , an accordion , a sausage , and a bottle or two of wine . A buxom dame invites the attention of the bystanders by shaking a little'bag , containing the numbers which decide the fate of the adventurous speculators : —' Forward , worshipful public ; forward with courage ! Only five cents , the draw ; all prizes and no blanks ! Remember , every hand wins ; forward , forwurd . ( A number is drawn)—Seventeen ! Only think , if is had been fifteen you would have carried off the accordion . ( Another draw)—Forty seven , Three burnt almonds ! Thirty-nix would have won tho capon , & c . '"
American REronrEits . —Tlie special correspondent of the New York Herald , sent to report tho proceedings nt the execution of" Old Brown " giveB the following description of callous impudence on the part of himself and fellows , which equals tho worst that JDicfcens or Trollope . ever said of his country inon .-H- " During yesterday , Mrs . Brown kept her room . Several persons , members of the press in particular , anxiously sought interviews with her , but tho gentlemen who accompanied her invariably objected . She is not disposed to bu communicative , and is said to be particularly reserved when aware of the presence of any one connected wjtli the press . I was one of a party of three , gentlemen who were seated
admitted to her mom last night . Who was near a table in the centre of tho room ns wo entered . One of her male companions , through whom wo had secured ' the privilege of on interview , introduced each of us as we went in , after which vro oil tooK seats . A gentleman connected with u New * illustrated journal took a position immediately opposite her at tho table . Ho commenced a conversation with her by asking if sho had an interview with Mr . Brown . She repliod that sho had . ' " lie seem to be in good spirits ? ' asked tho gentleman . She said . ' Yes ; ho expressed a wish tliac God would be with her , and assured her that oou was with him . ' Tho next question was , ' DM lie receive vou warmlv . madam ? ' Sho answorcd »» tno ami
affirmative , and then rose from her soot , , removing back from her interrogator towards tno bod , held down her head and began to woop . At this time the gentleman who Introduced us Interposed , and said ho would allow no moro quofltlons to bo asked . We all then left tho room , loaving nor and her lady companion together . " . , « War to tub ' Kmxvjb " . t-Another letter rocoivea hy M . Molondez says of the Moors : — " Thoro oro a groat many of their priests among thorn j these mo to be distinguished by theic long beards , their wild
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 24, 1859, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24121859/page/8/
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