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Germany. Juxy&7th, 1859.-Step By Step Th...
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, progress of civil liberty on the continent oi Europe , one mayh ^ e allies among the princes , she has none among the nations . She will never again influence the masses by her example , nor the rich and educated by her literature—both have become a laughing stock , bhe is now nothing better than a horrible nightmare , equally oppressive to tyrant and slave . A project of mediation , attributed to Prussia , and very unfavourable to Austria , has been circulated in the German papers , with the view , it would appear , to render Prussia responsible for the hasty and abortive peace that has been concluded . With reference tothis ; the Prussian Gazette of the 22 nd inst . says : - "The manifold errors which have been propagated lately respecting the objects of the mediation proposed by Prussia , have induced the Cabinet to address the following explanatory despatch to . all its Embassies in Germany : — ¦
Berlin , July 20 , 1859 . Immmediately after Count Rechberg returned from Verona , he informed the Prussian Ambassador at Vienna that Austria had accepted the preliminarie * of peace ^ at Villa Franca chiefly because it wasmade evident that the conditions which would have been proposed by Prussia , England , and Russia , would prove more unfavourable for Austria than those to which the Emperor of the French would agree . The Imperial manifest of of the 15 th July , held a similar language . To a despatch of Count Rechberg ' s , read to me in confidence a few days ago , a project of mediation was annexed , said to have been addressed by England to France ; and Prussia , it was said , had agreed to the seven paragraphs which it contained . This project tlie Mayence Journal published to-day .
Your Excellency is authorised to declare most positively — 1 . That Prussia herself has not drawn up any sucli conditions , nor agreed to any conditions of a like nature drawn up by any other power . 2 . That the Prussian Cabinet is totally ignorant of the project annexed to the Austrian Circular , since published in the newspapers . Scheeinitz . This has been met by a semi-official reply in the Austrian Correspondenx , to the effect that the contradiction which exists between the second part of the Prussian declaration and the authentic communications which have been received . AH Europe is witness that the-moral in ^ fluence of Prussia was thrown into the scale against
Austria . It is true that Prussia proposed terms of meditioin , in conjunction with England and France that would have led to a surrender of territory by Austria . Prussia refiised to enter the lists for the integrity of the empire , to maintain the treaty of Vionnn , or to guarantee the Italian possessions . She was in close connexion with England and Russia , and well knew that a refusal to guarantee was equivalent , in the eyes of those powers , to an expulsion of Austria from Italy . As Prussia went hand in hand with those powers , who were known to be desirous of seeing Austria driven entirely out of Italy , Austria was justified in believing she had no move to expect from Prussia ' s mediation than from theirs . It is
best now to discontinue a barren dispute upon what has been done and cannot be mended . They would not have replied to the Prussian despatch , but that it wns necessary to maintain words uttered from tho throne of Austria free of all doubt . This reply is regarded as a very lame one : Austria ' s influence in the intelligent parts of Germany is null . The Regent is reported to have exclaimed to Count Rechberg at parting : " The Emperor has deeply wounded my heart by concluding such a peace . " The Bavarian Chambers nre open , but beyond a discuBBion respecting an address to the throne nothing has taken place , Indeed very little interest is now taken by the people in those sham parliaments .
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Intolligonco has been received at Liverpool of tho loss of the Alma , bound from Calcutta to London . Tho news is dated from Calcutta , June 14 , and states that the Alma had been totally wrecked , and that the pilot ( one of the oldest on tho river , who was just going his last trip , previous to retirement ) , leadsman , Captain Munco , wifo and child , and a lady passenger , together with fourteen of the crow of tho " 1-fivted vessel , perished . The Alma was a flne voBse ] , and was owned by Mr . Sinclair , ¦ of Liverpool .
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grandson of the poet . The first day ' s sale seemed somewhat affected by the weather , the rain pouring in torrents , and preventing a thronged attendance . On the second day there was more animation in the biddings ; and on Thursday , the concluding day , when the books sold were principally in verse , the bulk of them being presentation copies from their authors to Wordsworth , there was much , competition , some of the lots bringing remarkably high amounts . The autographs inserted in most of the books gave them great additional value in the eyes
ON the 19 th , 20 th , and 21 st inst . the library of Wordsworth , consisting of nearly 3 , 000 volumes , was offered for sale . The auctioneer manifested no little tact in the manner in which he expatiated on the volumes and the associations connected with them . There was a large attendance of booksellers from London , Manchester , & c , and other towns , also of clergymen and private buyers . Among the latter were Lady Cran worth ; Sir Joh n Richardson , of Arctic fame ; Dr . Davy , the brother of the inventor of the safety-lamp ; and the Rev . J . Wordsworth , a
of the bidders . The City of Paris has just bestowed on Lamartine a pleasant house in the Bois du Boulogne . The Paris papers inform us that the impoverished poet still possesses three estates in Burgundy of goodly extent and rich pasture—Saint Point , Monceaux , and Hilly . Some verses of his in praise of poverty are dated from Saint Point , and others , on his contempt of riches , are written at Bfonceaux . By a curious circumstance ( says a correspondent ) , every complaint against his countrymen for allowing him to remain in that poverty , he praises , and for not bestowing upon his declining years those riches he so much despises , is written at Milly . Perhaps the air of the place must be good for the appetite . —too good , indeed , and induces an unnatural craving .
It is feared that the grand archaeological expedition to Greece , projected by M . Alexandre Dumas , is stifled in the bud . He had chartered a frigate , to be called the Monte Cristo , which was to explore the coasts of Greece , Asia Minor , Syria , and Egypt . A large staff of men of letters , artists , find photographers was retained for the voyage . Pitft of the plan Svas to anchor the Monte Cristo , on her return from her adventures , in the Seine , near the Pont Royal , and to have a grand photographic and artistic exhibition on board . But the Monte Cristo was a Greek vessel , which sailed from Greece for Marseilles two months ago . She has not since been heard of , and it is therefore feared that she is lost . British Association
The date of the meeting of the at Aberdeen is fixed for the 14 th of September , when his Royal Highness the Prince Consort , the president for the year , will deliver the opening address . Among other celebrated persons whose attendance at the meeting is expected , Professor Agassiz is mentioned . A deputation from the Royal Horticultural Society , on the subject of the proposed garden at Kensington Gore , had an interview with Earl Granville on Monday at the Council-office . The deputation consisted of tho Earl of Ducie , Sir J . Paxton , Mr . Ulandy , Mr . Henry G . Bohn , Mr . T . Grissell , Mr . Godson , Mr . Cluttou , and Professor Lindley . _ ........
The short debate upon the vote for the British Museum ( says the Critic ' ) w 4 H serve once more to remind the country of the unjustly low salaries paid to ft class of public servants , from whom more solid and rarer acquirements are expected than from any other . The gentlemen employed in the library of tho British Museum must bo men not only of education , but also linguists of considerable attainment ; and . yet these gentlemen are supposed to receive the maximum value of their services when they liave reached the munificent salary of 300 J . per annum . Such a state of tilings ought not to be suffered to continue , and the admirably efficient stato in which ' every department of the Museum is now to ho found constitutor in itself a claim for a more just and liberal scale of payment .
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through carnal media or capricious prejudices by which it has been ignorantly distorted . Lady Shelley accordingly has wisely felt it necessary and proper to remove all possible misrepresentations , as far as she might , by a truthful statement , and to " clear away the mist in which the errors of foes and professed friends have obscured" his living lineaments . Her ladyship -well describes a late work , though dedicated to ¦ ¦ herself , as " a fantastic caricature . " Here , at least in the book before us , is a fair and consistent picture , in which a resemblance may be traced to the departed thinker and singer , and which may be accepted as a portrait , though perhaps little more than a photograph , with such
disadvantage as a too-literal transcript always entails . Faithful to a certain extent it is , though with a few unintentional exaggerations , which may be readily allowed for . We have , at any rate , the prosaic life of Shelley here , if not altogether the poetical . '" ,- ¦ . The biography before us does not enlighten us on any of the secret passages of the poet ' s life , which with a prurient curiosity so many desire to look into . His First Love , Harriet Grove , however , receives early notice . Letters passed between them , but Shelley expressed so incautiously his speculative doubts on serious matters , that the oarents of the young lady were alarmed ; and so
the match was broken off . His expulsion from Oxford , on the same account , soon followed . Ihe pamphlet that excited the anger of the authorities consisted only of two pages . It was a mere challenge to discussion , beginning with certain axioms , and finishing with a Q . E . D . It was but , ha fact , the questioning of an Inquiring Spirit , which the heads of the college , being men of narrow and disingenuous tempers , sought to crush . Mr . Hogg , his friend , was also expelled . So foreign is intellectual activity to the habit of officeholders , whether Italian or Anglican . And this dishonourable transaction took place in England ,
so late as Lady-day , 1811 . On the conduct of the poet's father we need not make much remark . He would not suffer his son ' s residence at home , unless he ostensibly conformed to the orthodox belief . Lady Shelley enters an apology for the old man . " Let those , " she says , " who utterly condemn him , ask themselves how they would like the presence in their houses of a disciple of Spinoza or of Galvin , whose enthusiasm never wanes , and whose voice is seldom silent ; who , with the eloquence of conviction , obtrudes his doctrines at all times ; who seeks the youngest daughter in the schoolroomand the butler in his pantry , to make
, them converts , in the one case to the moral excellence of materialism ; in the other , to the { esthetic comforts of eternal punishment by election ; and , if they can conscientiously say they woxild like it , they may condemn the elder Mr . Sholley ; but not unless , " The same apology might be made for the Pope himself , and justify excommunication . There is as little defence for domestic tyranny as for national The household should be as open to reason as the Vatican ; if either shut its doors against truth , the fatherwhether of the less or larger family—_
, whether holy or profane—is the despicable slave ot prejudice , and would impose the shackles he is not ashamed to wear himself on his sons and daughters , to the manifest injury of the latter , and the disturbance of his own peace . In England , how « ever , only fifty years ago , the reign of prejudice was strong , and a lord-chancellor could he readily found to acf quite as absurdly as cither tho L ope or oltf . Mr . Shelley . , , Meanwhile , tho poet partook of t he darkness against whloh ho struggled , and had to win light f or himself us well as tbv others . Ho had boon thoroughly persuaded that he was an A * " ?""* and even Eecamo proud of tho title . But his to nevertheless under a mistake . A ow * Xid examination of his writings would entirely ^ jo him ., % vL /• ,, „* . sjLrtllnv wnfl suiinlv a bad hw | M « v
8 HICLL 13 Y MEMORIALS * , from Authontio Souroos . — Edltod by Lftdy Sholloy . To which la ndtlod < ii > Masay on Christianity , by Porey JJysslio Sholloyj now flret printed . —Smith , lilclor and Co . Wis are not surprised to find that the Sholloy family should bo dissatisfied with tho memoirs that have been recently published of the great poet . TJioy have , indeed , most unfeelingly desecrated tho memory of tho most spiritual of our bnrda , and have , as fatally as foolishly , regarded his mental and moral character , not in its own pure light , but
ironi two cuivrffe . *¦ " » .. »; , v heologian And an incomp lete philosopher , and such ho remained , unfortunately , to . hw djath . It was not Atheism that " Tho Revolt of Islam , or oven " Queen MuV' contained ; but simply ProthQiam 5—i . « . Theism , prior to and independent of any system or crood ; the simple aoknowledirmont , ropeatodly made nx his works , , of an Eternal Lovo , independent of its impersonation in an ideal deity . His denial of a divinity was therefore only a denial of those gods of this world , those creatures of the popular theology , that could
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Leader (1850-1860), July 30, 1859, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30071859/page/17/
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