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AUSTRIA. The discontent in the Lombard©-...
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na ^ e 215 ; « I was for my part , ' page 252 ; In a word , the force . ' page 260 ; ' During that these reflections , nace 261 : ' I have already indicated , ' page 266 ; « With respect to the fourth misdemeanour imputed to the accused : " Whereas , if in the incriminated passages are to be met with passages which ought never to fall from the pen of a writer who respects himself , and if these exnressions are of a character to sow disunion and excitement among citizens , they do not manifest sufficiently n the part of the author the intention to disturb the public peace ; that this last misdemeanour is not therefore found to be completely characterised ; " That the Comte de Montalembert and Douniol remain convicted of having committed the three misdemeanours above charged against them ;
" Misdemeanours provided against and punished by the' Articles 1 and 4 of the decree of the llth August , 1848 , 1 and 3 of the law of the 27 th July , 1849 ; " Whereas , in case of conviction of several misdemeanours , the greatest punishment ought alone to be applied ; that the severest punishment is imposed by the first article of the law of the 29 th July , 1849 ; that this article , -which has for object to protect from culpable attacks the chief of the State , sprung from universal suffrage , has not been abrogated ; ^ " Making of the said articles application to the accused :
" Whereas there exists in respect to Douniol extenuating circumstances , and the dispositions of Article 463 of the Penal Code are , by terms of the decree of the llth August , 1848 , applicable in matter of misdemeanour of the press ; " Seeing the article 4 < 33 ; " Condemns the Gointe de Montalembert to six months' imprisonment and 3000 francs finis ; " Douniol to one month ' s imprisonment and 1000 francs fine ;" . ¦¦' " Declares that they will be severally and collectively held responsible forthe . said fines ; " Discharges them from the remaining heads of accusation ;
" Condemns them jointly and severally to pay the expenses , and fixes for one year the duration of constraint by body . " [ Term of imprisonment if the expenses be not paid . ] I have given you above as literal a translation as possible of the judgment , for it is a melancholy euriosity . I know not where you are to look for its parallel , unless it be in the annals of the Terror or in the records of ' the Bloody Assize . The punishment inflicted at those epochs may have been more cruel and more sanguinary , but that they were more unjust is impossible . Never in the most dismal periods of history was justice so flagrantly and scandalously violated as yesterday in what if will be henceforth a mockery to ( jail the Palais de Justice . Never was the law so despotically and infamously perverted to the elevation of ignorance above intelligence , and to screen men of ignoble character from
that which all honest men award . Who are the " men cf the Government " that M . de Montalembert is punished for having excited public contempt for ? Does not that contempt envelop them and cling ro them , despite their wrjtbings and their contortions ? No verdict of judge , nor abject flattery of mercenary advocate , enn make the world forget that many of these men * are the fruits of adultery , and that at former periods of their lives they were maintained by women , and too often by the wages of hideous vice ; that they were , in short , what is called in police reports " fancy men , " It is to gratify the bilious spite of such things as these that a man of irreproachable private life , an eloquent onrtor , an able writer , a member of the first literary body in Europe—the Institute of France—a great statesman , a peer of the realm , is to bo cast for six months in a fulon'sgnol ! But let M . Montalembert take
heart" Stone walls do not a prison make , Nor iron bars a cage . " All honourable men in France , nil admirers of political honesty , and the votaries of freodom throughout thb "world , will respect his nobility ' ancl integrity of purpose . They would infinitely prefer hia prison fate to the gilded palaces an < 3 . sensual enjoyments of a Do Morny or a Walowski ; pnd the most ennobling document that lie onn bequeath to hia posterity will be the record of his condemnation yesterday , when he stood up well-nigh alone , in the presence of the groateat despotism that over "weighed down a nation , to accept and bear tlio responsibility of hfs sympathy with free Englishmen , for that , and thnt only , waa hia offence .
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Germany. {From Our Own Correspondent.") ...
GERMANY . { From our own Correspondent . " ) November 24 . I D . vnn say your readers are beginning to think that Germany means Prusshi , for this country hns boon , the subject of all discussion these months pnst , and indeed , for the time , Prussia is Gormany , and Germany Prussia . Except Austria , the other countries of the Monnanto Confederation oflfor rarely anything of farreaching Interest , and just now they appear nil agape , ¦ Waiting for the results of the elections in Prussia and the mooting of the Landtag . Official tlooumontB issued by
this state and that state are flying about , but which are , to my inindj utterly devoid of any interest or tendency . In spite of its monotony , Prussia is the only theme that affords a correspondent matter to write about . We must console ourselves that acts of the Prince and his Minister will become matters of history , and may lead to consequences -which-no one can be certain of , but many may and do anticipate . I noticed in my last that the Swiss journal the Bund had been seized by the Prussian police ; since then we hear that the police authorities have refused to allow the German Catholics , the disciples of Dr . Ronge , the free exercise of their religious worship . This sect had been forbidden by the late Ministry to hold prayer meetings in company
with their wives and children , but imagining , like all the rest of their countrymen , that a new era had been inaugurated in Prussia by the accession of the liberal-minded Prince of Prussia to power , they met on Sunday , the 7 th instant , for the purpose of public worship , having first craved permission from the police . At the hour appointed for prayer , however , a police official appeared -with a notification that prayer meetings coald not be tolerated , and that therefore they must disperse and return home , which they did instantly and quietly—evidence of a remarkably meek and Christian spirit or great respect for the law , or that coercive means which passes under that term in Prussia , and all Germany , excepting perhaps the Hanse Towns , Hamburg , Bremen ,
and Lubeck , where freedom still glimmers in spite of the despots around . It must be admitted that the Prince—he must not be permitted with hereditary kingcraft to shuffle off his responsibility—has seized the earliest ^ opportunity to throw cold " water upon the enthusiasm of tire people , who believed that his advent to power would be the signal for freedom of the press and legitimate freedom of action . Those who relied upon his oft-repeatod declarations , or at least the declarations attributed to him , are now in a state of collapse . No other expression that I can think of will impart a conception of the utter astonishment and dismay of the lately so jubilant constitutional Liberals . I fancv thev expected from the Prince more than he
could performJ If , however , ha had the wish to encourage a liberal system of government , which most probably , judging by his antecedents , he has not , yet it would ! be a difficult thing to overthrow by a dash of his pen that system of police-rule , called by custom Government , which has always existed in Prussia , and is thoroughly interwoven with its social life . The measures taken against the German Catholics may be regarded as a sigii that the old element of the Prussian monarchy is to " day just what it has ever been . The Prussians under the present Government will not be one whit less in bondage than they were ivnder the late Ministry . The Prince is loth to octroyer , and the people loth to " ' move ; any change must come from abroad— - thev will have it so .
On the 10 th inst ., M . Flottwell , who seems to have a weakness for writing edicts or ordinances , published one in vyhich he called upon the country magistrates and other officials to check , as much as lay in their power , " extreme or exclusive political tendencies , " alluding to the exertions of the Ivreuz Zeitungs party . But to show himself quite impartial , on the 17 th another edict was issued , in which the steps recommended against the Democratic candidates were equal to a prohibition to voto for them . A good deal of surprise has been excited by certain
" instructions" addressed by a Landrath von Brandt , at Lyclc , to the superintendent of police and the gendarmes , in which he deojares— "It must be your task by all legal means—and these are manifold-r-to bring your whole influence to bear upon the electors in such a manner that none but Conservatives ( not in tho English sense ) bo returned . " This affords an idea how MV Flott-well ' a edicts are obeyed , and how ready tho officials are to obey . Yesterday was Iho election day for tho representatives . Tho large towns , as usual , have returned mostly Liberals ; Berlin all Liberals , as it ever does .
Tlieso-called Democratic—thnt is , very liberal—party have declined offering any candidates . They have beun induced to take thia resolution by tho cry which has been raised in reactionary circles to alarm the shopkeepord and dealers . They have thus closed tho mouth of tho Feudalists—there will bo no democrats nt all in the Diet , and the shopkeepers , and tho aristocrats need not fear a recurrence of tho scenes of 18-18 . There nro bad reports as to tho state of trade in ilifforont parts of Austria . A great number of factories are closed , more especially in Curinthia , and the workmen emigrating by thousands .
The following announcement is malting tho round of tho Gorman jounmls : — " Director L'Arrongo has entered into an nrrAngomonfc with tho troupe of Sadler ' s Wells Theatre in London , according to which the said company will nppenr among us next March , and give representations In al ) tho chief towns . Tho manager of tho company la Mr . Samuel Phclps , who is considered to bo at present tho best . actor of Slwltflponronn characters in England , and who has continually striven to maintain tho genius of Slmkapoaro . Ilia greatest rival in , the same field is Mr . Charles Kenn . As to the merits of those two artists , public opinion in England is divided . "
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" * Leader Office , Friday Night , November 2 . 6 th . FRANCE . A letter from Paris says : — " At the conclusion of the Montalembert trial , it was a moot point at the Palais de Justice whether it would be more advisable to appeal against the sentence to the Court of Appeal , or to carry the case at once before the Court of Cassation to have it quashed for irregularity , apparent upon the face of judgment . The present intention of M . de Montalembert's advisers is to resort to the Court of Appeal . " It is rumoured to-day in the " ante-chambers" of which M . de Montalembert speaks , that all the foreign , journals , English , Belgian , German , Italian , & c , which give any report of the proceedings of his trial will be seized and confiscated in the French Post-office . M . C . Brainne , a writer in the Presse , wio has been distinguished for his enthusiastic loyalty to the Emperor , was lately sentenced by a court of justice to three months' imprisonment and a fine of 300 fr . for a libel upon a receiver-general in the Maine-et-Loire . He has just received a free paTdon from the Emperor . The Paris correspondent of the Globe says , that a fresh number of Le Correspondant is about to issue , with another article from the pen of Montalembert . The topic selected by the eloquent writer is apparently nonpolitical , being " about "the monks of the Western Church , " but inuendo is a powerful weapon . Theex-Minister , Comte de Falloux , is about adding to this issue another article , which from its freedom in . speaking of absolute governments Twill probably bring down a prosecution on him also . .
Prussia. A Letter Dated Berlin, Nov. 24,...
PRUSSIA . A letter dated Berlin , Nov . 24 , says : —" The definitive election of the Deputies to the Chamber came off yesterday . The contest lay , not between Conservative and Liberal , " but turned upon a number of secondary considerations . No Conservative ( Manteuffelite ) candidate was so much as thought of for Berlin . That Berlin has selected the nine most distinguished , or most able men , out of the fifty or sixty candidates with which they commenced their deliberations , cannot be affirmed . But they have chosen nine men , every one of whom is very well fitted for their purpose , and for the present juncture . What was required was , independence of character , without extreme political tenets . They have endeavoured to get men who would support , -without being subservient to , the present Ministry ; men -who had political knowledge without theories of politics . And what the electors sought it must be admitted that they have found . "
Austria. The Discontent In The Lombard©-...
AUSTRIA . The discontent in the Lombard © -Venetian provinces is very great , and disturbances are expected . Count Gyulai , the Commander qf the Austrian forces in Italy , is still here , and it is now generally known that he and the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian are at variance . Some of the foreign papers have spoken of serious misunderstandings between the Governor-General of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom and the Imperial Government , but thero is a great deal of exaggeration in the reports . There is a rumouT of the death of Prince Metteruich , but the truth of it is doubted . He is eightyfive years of . age , and was indisposed a few days ago .
The Ionian Islands. News Has Been Receiv...
THE IONIAN ISLANDS . News has been received from Athens , dated November 18 . The news of Mr . Gladstone ' s mission to the Ionian Islands had created much excitement in diplomatic circles . The King had sent for iho Kussian Ambassador , and a Cabinet Council was held , to take into consideration the relations of the Ionian Greeks with thoir countrymen of the continent , in conjunction with tho , published despatches of Sir J . Young , suggesting that the British Government should retain only
the islands of Corfu and Paxo . It seems to bo understood by the King and Court , that if England witUdrnws from the other islands they will of necessity be annexed to Greece . It was proposed to modify the existing Ministry , and to take in some Liberals known to be favourable to England and constitutional rule in Greece Tho Kussi . m Ambassador is said to favour this move on the part of the Court , as in point of fact tho islands from which wo should retire would , annexed to Greece , fall under Kussian influence .
Switzerland. Tho Nffulr Of Mgr. Marilloy...
SWITZERLAND . Tho nffulr of Mgr . Marilloy , Bishop of Frlburg , is , it is said , about to bo brought formally before tho Swiss Chambers . The Government of Borne objooted to that prolate exercising his pastoral functions in the capital of tho Confederation , ami tho Papal nuncio remonstrated . The executive council , In reply , pointed to tho provisions of tho Concordat of October , 1848 , which ntordicts the residenco of tho Bishop on tho torrltorloa of Borne , Friburg , Noufcl . Atol , and Geneva , on tho ground that his presence was Incompatible with the maintenance of public tranquillity .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 27, 1858, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27111858/page/21/
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