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. REVIEW OF THE WEEK- * aob Miscellaneous a 9 S OPEN COUNCIL- Natural History . . , 308 Postscript 397 Permitted /' - -affie in English Girls .. 302 ««««! ruscory .,.,, 308 The Wind-up of the War 399 LITERATURE— THE ARTSl ? SiSii " ::::::::::::::::::: E PUBUC * FFA 1 RS ~ Satnxaar ^ . 303 K "JSS ?^ « % &&&& & « ^^ £ :::::::::::: ; :::::: K Afters war . ........ 299 ¦ fiKWJft & S ?^ ^ ?! .:::::::::: 8 The Op eraB — » £ j A . * 1 •••• 29 & Prussia and the Princess Koyal .... 293 Life and Politics in Syria 305 The Gazette ao 9 The Oneat ...... 295 The Sign at Bangor ........: .. 300 The Antigone and its Moral 306 The trszette 309 ContinentalNotes .... 295 Martial Law at Parma ............. 801 Three Novels .... 306 rrMUMrRMAl ACCAIDC Obituary .... w . 29 S A French Aggression ... ; .......... 301 A New English Greek Lexicon .... 307 OOMMEKVIAL AFFAIRS *—Naval and Military Ne ^ rs 296 Trial of William Palmer .... 301 Travel Talk 307 C ity Intelligence , Markets , & c ... 309
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/ T > HE struggle now is , to close the Conference ¦•¦*• without teavina ; open any grpnt question that can disturb the Governments of Europe . Paris is filled with rumours that are inexplicable , except upon the supposition that the Plenipotentiaries are more anxious to agree amongst themselves than to attain the particular objects of their own Governments ; yet difficulties confessedly arise in putting the finishing stroke to the Treaty of peace . We were to have had it last Saturday ; it is now promised indefinitely . The continental Governments which are to be parties to it are , in Almost all Gases , threatened with troubles in their rear . The pressure upon the Russian Government is an old story ; the state of Berlin is such as to show tliat Prussia must dread auy extension of the contest to the centre of Europe . A Government whose Tory Opposition causes its Ministers of Police to be shot ; whose agents are now trying to hush up further suicides or duels ; whose other agents are selling the reports of its own spies upon its own ministers and its own royal family—for amongst the documents lately in the market was a report upoa the Prince of Prussia to General Gerlach— -is certainly not in a position to confront any turn of affairs in Europe that might call out the populations . Since 18-18 the Prussian Government , which then created a transien t popularity , has been treacherous , arbitrary , and it is now contemptible ; its own officers and the parties favoured by its own King setting the example of treating his authority with contumely . Natolbon the Third at present commands the situation ; and yet even in Paris there are little incidents of a disagreeable kind . The press begins to show its : teeth in spite of warnings , suppressions , fines , and imprisonments . The polished and discreet Chief Editor of the Dtbats , M . r > E Sacy , a Member of the Academy / ia sum-• moncd to the Police to answer for a few words of just and honest reprobation , addressed to the foulmouthcd intemperance of abuse lavished on all independent men by the immaculate M . Grankbr » h Cassaqnac . The sprightly
Figaro expiates its name , if not its wit , by suppression , in the name of good morals . Nevertheless , some good journals contend for a revision of that electoral law , which simply '^ serves the right of voting againat the Government candidate . A case under this law is actually before the Court of Cassation , and affords a comment on the authenticity of the eight million votes . Turkey , which was the object ] of the treaty , has its own local difficulties . Some of its Christian clergy are protesting against the hattee-shereef ; and some of its Turkish * patriots are protesting against the proposal to distribute the army of the Allies in different portions of the-Jterritory . ] The Principalities constitute an unmanageable part of the Turkish question . To leave them as they are , is to leave them exposed to the same kind of insidious invasion which Russia has carried on so long . To unite them would be to render them independent of the Porte , and to effect that " spoliation " of territory which it was the object of the war to prevent . Yet the Roumanians are canvassing support in many parts of Europe for their independence ; -not semi-independence , but absolute separation from the Porte . They have five millions , they say , who , in race and ideas sj'mpathise with the Anglo-Latins of Europe , and constitute the proper vanguard of civilisation in that quarter . They have rivers available for military and commercial purposes ; they could exist as a nation , if they were not forbidden by the conspiracy of Governments ; and they now claim their independence in the name of policy as well as justice . Austria , who is affecting to arbitrate between contending states , is herself between two fires . It is reported —¦ and with great probability— that Russia resents that act of " immense ingratitude " which Swarzenbcrg foresaw—that hostile alliance with which Austria lias repaid the power that retained Hungary for her . There arc those who expect that , as soon as the -war with the Western Powers is concluded , Russia will be found somewhore in Hungary , or GiilHcia , or on the Military Frontier , unsettling the tenure of Austrian Power over the Sclavonic populations . In the meanwhile Austria hos ^ bcon called upon
by one of her proteges to exhibit her unchastised arbitrary policy in Italy . "We have no doubt that , if she could have deferred that demonstration , she would have done so . But there was no help for it . Parma has been placed under martial law and handed over to the keeping of an Austrian . General , because one man—a Lieutenant- Bordi—has been assassinated in the streets . The very-statement looks like a contradiction in terms . Of course the most arbitrary government could not , for such a reason , make martial law usurp the function of criminal law . There must be something more than the assassination of the man ; and we believe it . Bordi was an officer of a military commission which was established in 1854 to deal with rioters during a temporary dearth of provisions . The commission has subsisted ever since—a sufficient ' proof that Parma has not been so ^ tamely submissive as some pretend . Lanati , the President of the Commission , was assassinated ; Gobbi , another officer , was severely wounded ; Giovannini has heen reported among the persons killed , but erroneously , It is evident , however * that the report was not a simple fabrication : there must have been a reason why Giovani sini was marked for destruction . There is a method in these things I * is impossible to disconnect these political assassinations from the assassination of the Duke , though that was , at the time , said to be the result of a personal squabble—a tavern dispute . It is a fact , however , that , at that time the people of Parma were prepared to rise : they only deferred the movement ; but they could not induce the person who was appointed to dispose of the Duke to defer his part of the entertainment , and he pro * cccdcd alone . Parma has not yet risen ; but its state has compelled Austria once more to exhibit the mode in which she is ready to put down , any Italian protestations that are too nmch ^ t-for th e native Government . . ' y ^ *^ v |^ sT j ^\ In the meanwhile the WanderQB »* MStt §^ t ^^ ft . } P § in affirming that some " Italian < l u f «* fiQ # f ^^^^^^ < j brought before the sub-committee |^ t ^| p ^^ b ^ TO ( " r > the Conference , or before some n «^^« M ^ MK ^ Ln « S C be held in Paris . ^ 'PSHB fe f Absolute tranquillity is the c ^ ^^ e ) $ mie ^ FQi |^ v ) M own country . There is scarcely an ngitaki ^^^^ C / e &
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Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1856, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29031856/page/1/
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