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ao readily as now , since the utter abolition of caste . The old sang-bleu floats by virtue of its ethereal buoyancy , nz-ii . t ~ i In the Trench National Assembly on the 25 th , general Randon , Minister of War , demanded an extraordinary credit of 6 , 800 , 000 francs for the construction of works necessary for the defence of the harbour of Cherbourg . . " . . . The 17 th commission of parliamentary initiative and conferred
met on the same day at twelve o ' clock , with the Ministers of the Interior and Justice on the subject of the proposition relative to the amnesty The ministers opposed the proposition on the ground of its being dangerous to the public tranquillity , and a censure on what has been decided by the tribunals . After a long discussion the commission , by a majority of nineteen votes to three , rejected the proposition . M . Piscatory is charged with training up the
proposition . M . Arago , who was represented as lying dangerously ill , has so far recovered as to attend the sitting of the National Assembly . The resignation of Count Siccardi is at last officially announced in the Piedmontese Gazette . The King of Sardinia has appointed the ex-Minister First President of the Court of Appeal . Both Houses of Parliament have for some time been bu « y with the final demolition of some pitiful remnants of feudal rights and privileges still lingering in that oldfashioned community , especially in the island of Sardinia , where the most barbarous laws had taken deep root throughout the Arragonese and Spanish dynasties . Equitable measures have been taken to indemnify the sufferers from all losses at the expense of their respective communes . The law for the abolition of these old abuses has been adopted en bloc
in the Lower House by a majority of 98 votes against 44 , on the 19 th . The Pope and his friends were relieved from great anxiety upon receiving the Queen ' s speech , and still more so on becoming acquainted with the extent of the measures proposed by Lord John Russell for the repression of their usurpation of ecclesiastical jurisdictionin this country .. The omniscient correspondent of the Times is sure that his Holiness is burning with desire to play once more the part of the Clement and Benevolent Pope . A second amnesty in behalf of all political offenders is said to lie in his Pontifical bosom . Some ruthless
advisers of Pius IX ., however , will not suffer the humane edict to come into light . The same infallible authority has for the last few months been preparing us for the abdication of the Pope . The novel Celestine is to lay down hi 3 triple diadem , and retire into a hermitage in the course of next June . Pius IX ., is to be met with about the streets of Rome accompanied only by a few of his , noble body , guards . Free from apprehension for his personal safety , the Pope dispenses now with the escort of his dragoons . All French and Roman troops have equally been dismissed from the Palace ; the Pope Swiss
either needs or trusts none but his honest . Bitter animosity exists between the French and the native Roman troops , arising from jealousy and wounded pride on the one side and sheer contempt on the other . At a late review the wretched Papalini shrank in a corner with a hang-dog look , and were looked down upon by their Gallic comrades as little better than prisoners . The Pope has appointed Colonel Filippo Farina acting Minister at War . Count de Bermand , a French officer , lately appointed commander of the staff of all the Papal troops , died at Rome on the 13 th .
The anniversary of the Republic passed off without commotion at Rome . Some wags amused themselves with tricolour Bengal lights , which caused much unnecessary alarm to that valiant garriuon . The Roman nobility and gentry are amusing themaelves with balls and masquerades . One hundred executions have taken place in the four provinces- of the Legations since the first establishment of court-martials , consequent upon the Austrian occupation from 1848 to 1860 . A score of the robbers of the Passatorc band are
said to have been arrested noon after their dramatic attack on Forlim-popoli . The authorities in Bologna have proscribed a kind of country gigs—biroccini , by the aid of which the brigands were aaid to perpetrate their predatory feats , driving nbout the country in the garb of peaceful fanners going to market . None of the rakish-looking vehicles will bo allowed to go about except with number and badge after the fashion of London hackney-cabs . Another party of the
Pubnatore highwaymen whs pursued by the armed forco up the mountains towards the Tuscan frontier , and bloody skirmishes had taken place on the Kith and 17 th , in which several soldiers had lost their lives , and the final result of which was not known when the courier left Bologna on the 18 th . A few journeymen printers at Milun have beon condemned to hard impriaonment for five , throe , and two years , being convicted of the clandestine circulation of Hcditioua writings . The Florentine journal , Lo Statute , is now allowed to sou the light , after a long silence of a month . All the most odious measures adopted by the Grand
Ducal Government fail hitherto in gagging the lively Tuscans , who will sooner die than hold their tongues . Private letters from Switzerland assure us that both the number and activity of the German , Italian , and other refugees have been greatly exaggerated by foreign newspapers . Strong measures are adopted with a view to allay the fears of neighbouring governments , and to anticipate their demands . The refugees are to be removed from the frontier cantons ; The Germans from Basle , St . Galien , &c , the Italians from Ticino , the Grisons , as well as from Vaud and from
Geneva . Mazzini has been hunted down one to the other of those cantons , and has at last been driven out of the country ; he is now in London , where he arrived early this week . Altogether there aTe not more than 600 refugees of all . nations in Switzerland ,, men , that is , who profess themselves political exiles , and apply to the Government ol the Cantons for hospitality ; but there are numbers of others living as private and independent persons , upon whom the Diet can exercise no legal control , especially as not a few amongst them are in the enjoyment of the rights of Swiss citizenship ; and some of the most active political agitators belong to this
category . The Dresden conferences seem at last to be drawing to a close . Crestfallen and cowed as she is into abject submission , Prussia could not , would not , submit to the exorbitant demands of Prince Schwarzenburg . There seems now no resource left but in a return to the old state of things , and a restoration of the grotesque old diet to the exercise of its lethargic functions . It is not easy to propose any plan to which the minor German Governments will more readily accede , whatever the Germannation may think or feel about the matter . It is something for the petty German princes to escape , nominally at least , with a shadow of independent existence . In sober fact , however , the absolute sway of Austria and Russia over them all , is neither to be resisted nor evaded .
The Prussian Chambers are eagerly rivetting the chains that are to crush down thought in their country . The paragraphs of a more than Vandalic law on the press are being daily carried one by one in the upper house . No printer , lithographer , publisher , bookseller , or antiquar ( dealer in second-hand books ) is to open shop or carry onhusiness without a license from the district Government ; no such license to be issued , except to persons of deserving character ; the local authorities alone to decide . on the merits of the
applicant . No book or pamphlet to be published without presentation of a copy to the police , to be made twenty-four hours previous to publication ; for newspapers , immediately after the impression is made . Military and civil employe ' s are to be allowed no connection with the periodical press , except by an authorization from competent authorities . With these precautions alone , and not otherwise , are Prussian subjects to be trusted with the great two-edged tool of modern civilization .
The King of Wurtemburg has issued orders to his army for the abolition of the national German colours , which had been adopted in March , 1848 . Austria , however apparently strong andsteady at the centre , is threatened with organic disorders at the extremities . The visit of Jcllachich to Vienna has given rise to some sinister surmises respecting the disaffection of the Croatian and South Sclavonian provinces . The Ban arrived at Vienna on the 17 th , and returned to Agrara , after a few days' stay in the imperial metropolis . The rumours of some differences between Austria and the Porte have as yet acquired no material consistency .
Count Buol von Schaucnstein , ambassador of Austria at St . Petersburg , has btten appointed ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in London . Baron Kdller is appointed minister to Belgium . The King of Sweden has opened the 13 th storthing of the Norwegian Parliament , on Feb . 11 . He congratulates his subjects on their escape from the 41 calamities produced by exaggerated hopes , founded on delusive theories , Which have desolated other countries . " Ho recommends the attention of the
Chambers to a project of railway between Christiana and the Lake of Injosen , and applauds himself on the good countenance and firm assistance afforded to his brother of Denmark , in his late differences with the German confederacy .
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PROTESTANTISM AND POPERY . An address on the Papal aggression question was lately presented to tho Archbishop of Canterbury , signwd by 2740 members of tho Church of England , including 29 clergymen . In his reply lie corroborates what wua stated by Lord John Russell , lust night week , as to the probability of some law being punned , with a view to complete tho Protestant Reformation . After expressing his sorrow ' that doctrines should have been preached in any of our churches , closely approximating to those of the Church of Rome , " the Archbishop says : — 44 The power which the ecclesiastical laws confer of restraining these innovations in very limited , and might perhaps be advantageously enliirgvd . A short time will
prove whether may any ments , or whether the strong expression of public opinion which has been manifested may not supersede the necessity of additional legislation . " The Catholics of Manchester have had a grand demonstration in the Free Trade Hall , for the purpose of expressing their grateful acknowledgements lor the establishment of a Catholic hierarchy in England , and petitioning Parliament against any aggression upon their civil and religious liberties . Most of the speakers repudiated in the strongest terms the doctrine that their obedience to the Pope in spiritual matters interfered in any degree with their " unshaken and long-proved attachment to the constitution of their country . " A Mr . Richardson , in speaking of the prospects of Catholicism , said ;—
" There could be little doubt that the Church of England would soon perish . Already had most of her gifted and pious clergy made their peace with Rome , and the flower of her nobility were following in their train . And when the blessed day should come-r \ vhen the men who now persecuted the Roman Catholics should rejoice in this patriarchal hierarchy—when the successor of St . Peter should hold his ecclesiastical sway in Englandthey would acknowledge that the Pope had done wisely in the step he had taken . " A number of resolutions were passed , the substance of which is embodied in the following petition , which was finally agreed to : — " To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , in Parliament
assembled . " The Petition of the Roman Catholic Laity of Manchester and Salford , in public meeting assembled , " Showeth—That the Catholic laity of Manchester and Salford solemnly declare to your honourable House that the obedience which , as a matter of faith and conscience , is rendered by them to the Pope , as head of the Church . upon earth , and to their more immediate prelates and pastors in communion with him , has relation to spiritual matters alone ; and that this obedience does not in anywise interfere with or affect their perfect and undivided allegiance to their temporal sovereign , their unwavering loyalty to the throne , or their unshaken and long-proved attachment to the constitution of theircountry .
" That they gratefully , and without qualification , recognize in the reestabliahment of a hierarchy in their Church in England , the fulfilment of long-cherished hopes and wishes ; it being the only means whereby their spiritual organization can be rendered efficient and complete . r ~ " Thar it ia the opinion of your petitioners x 5 at , in the reestablishment of the hierarchy in this country , no law has been infringed , nor any act done , which w " as not contemplated at the passing of the Emancipation Act , and intended to be permitted by it ; that any legislation now , which seeks to prohibit the exercise of their rights , whether in the forma ami functions of their spiritual government , or in the legal investment of funds for religious or charitable purposes , is an infraction of our rights as British subjects , and a retrograde step in legislation .
" That , in the face of the delusion which has been practised upon the people of this country , and which your honourable House has been called upon to sanction by a new and unjust law , your petitioners disclaim any attempt to procure temporal ascendancy for their church , and every wish to iuterfere in the ecclesiastical organization of any community which differs from them ; but , immoveable in their determination to adhere to their own faith , and deprecating every measure which may induce or impose upon them the necessity of disregarding . or evading the provisions of a law , they humbly implore your honourable house to refuse assent to the bill entitled , * Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill , ' now before your honourable House , or to any bill which shall interfere with their full religious liberty .
44 And your petitioners , as in duty bound , will ever pray , " &c . The statement which has been running through tho papers that ground had been obtained by the Roman Catholic body , in the line of new street now in course of formation between the Houses of Parliament and Pimlico , for the purpose of erecting a magnificent cathedral , to be called St . Patrick ' s , is erroneous . The commissioners have declined to grant land for the purpose . — The Builder . Lord John Itussell was buriied in effigy on Sunday night last in this town b y tho people , on account of his Anti-Papal Aggression Bill . The procession wae preceded by a band , and the windows were broken in tho houses of some Protestant inhabitants . There was no other disturbance , nor any interference with the proceedings by the police . — Trake Chronicle .
The Irish agitation against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill becomes more and more brisk . Tho City met on Thursday week , the city of Limerick on Saturday , Droghedaon Sunday , and the city of Cork oij Tuesday , At the Dublin meeting , the Reverend Dr . Cooper maid tho agitation would ho bucked by twonty-wix bishops ami IIOOO priests . The patttorul of Archbishop Murray , calling on tho people to pray against tho proposed enactment , whh read from tho altars in all the Roman Catholic chapels of tho archdiocese on Sunday . Tho Roman Catholic ineinljern of tho Irinh bar have protested against tho bill , which they condemn for tho following reusons : — 44 We . view tho proposed measure an retrogresBive and penal in its character , an infringement upon religious
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Leader (1850-1860), March 1, 1851, page 194, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1872/page/6/
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