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INTELLIGENCE FROM ABROAD . The battle of the National Guards has been fought and lost . The Provisional Bill for adjourning the elections of the officers of that Citizen Militia was adopted in the National Assembly by a majority of 418 to 239 . The minority is made up of mere Republicans , both Red and Moderate , though it numbers also , a few old soldiers , such as Fabvier , Gourgaud , Orammont , and Lucien Murat , who belong to the Bonapartist party . The Government gave its vote with Legitimists and Orleanists ; as the dread of a republican result of elections based on the principle of universal suffrage prevailed with Louis Napoleon and his party over all personal interests and all other political considerations . The President , it seems , will rather cease to be than owe his existence to the people .
The discussion has been represented as stormy . Not only the most fiery Republicans , but even the Arcadian Lamartine and Generals Lamoriciere and Cavaignac spoke warmly in behalf of the National Guards , and protested against the sheer ingratitude with which their services to the cause of order were now requited . The National Guards of Paris have in the course of the last three years been reduced from 250 , 000 to 56 , 000 , even without reckoning the suppression , of the entire brigade of artillery : no less than 194 , 000 soldier-citizens have been disarmed as suspects . It is thus that the guardians of public order will soon be reduced to that quiet set of round-shouldered , shortwinded epiciers , whose uniform the Citizen-King of 1830 delighted to wear .
The dissolution and disarmament of the National Guards of Strasbourg has been accomplished in the " most admirable order . " The mayor of the city and two of his adjoints have resigned their office to have no share in the execution of the Government ' s order . The Republican papers have published a proclamation of Louis Napoleon to the " Alsatians , " dated October 30 , 1836 , at the time the young hero threw himself on the enthusiasm of the Strasbourg people and National Guards , offering to lead them , to the metropolis , to the utter confusion o all traitors and oppressors . The reproduction of these fanfaronnades at the present juncture was not without its effect upon a people so keenly alive to ridicule ; but Louis Napoleon , in 1836 , had not yet reached the acme of his Eagle sublimity .
^ Since the utter failure of a fusion of royalist parties , the ^ so-called Legitimists have tendered , it is said , their services to the President , arid declared themselves ready to support any proposition that may be made towards a revision of the constitution , with . a view to prolong the President's power . The 18 th bureau of parliamentary initiative has taken into consideration some propositions relative to the reimbursement of the 45 centimes-tax levied by the Provisional Government of 1818 . That tax produced a sum of about 180 millions ; it is now contemplated to indemnify the suf ferers by a remission of one-fourth of the direct taxes for four successive years . As this act of justice would occasion a deficit in the treasury , M . Berryer , the chief of the
Legitimists , did not scruple to move for an excise duty on the salt ; an indirect tax that would be most heavil y felt by the poorest classes . A reduction in the price of salt is the first measure resorted to by a popular Government all over the Continent , and it is rather surprising to hear a party , now reduced to the unenviable condition of begging , eo far forgetting themselves as to think of a measure that would only rob the poor to give to the rich . The Republicans , represented in this instance by M . Ch . Lagrange , did not fuil to take advantage of the blunder by proposing to reclaim the milliard ( 40 millions sterling ) which was voted for the benefit of the emigrant nobles in 182 C . The committee has equally rejected all these propositions .
I he Journal des Debats has been condemned to n fine of T > 00 francs and costs , for publishing an anonymous letter of a correspondent , although the letter -was followed by some remarks that bore the signature of M . Bertin , the responsible agent . General Magnnn , commander in chief of the fourth division , puts forth an order of the day enjoining his soldiers to take good cure of thoir lives , " as not belonging to them , but to their country ; the ttuicides now rife amongHt those troops being considered as infringements on the rights of the commonwealth . A profession of young recruits caused Home riot at St . Arm and , -Nievrew . The nub-prelect , with a posse of gendarmerie , hits been routed by the rioters ; but the prefect , with a large force of regular troopn , at last succeeded in roi ; BtabIinhing order .
1 he singular phuscu of our Ministerial Crinis lmv < had the most striking effects all over the Continent especiall y Italy ; nil the Liberal newspapers in that country have mourned over the contingency of lowing Ijord Palmerston ns over a national calamity . It is , certainly , not easy to know where one may fall , when thrown out of the frying-pan ; but , whatever may be thought of good intentions , we do not hesitato to assert that the moot inveterate Tory could hardly have been more fatal to Italy , an well ub to Hungary and Germany , than the headlong and blundering philanthropist at the head of English diplomaoy .
The Pope has made a formal application to King of Naples for some detachment of troops , which the King has been obliged to refuse , alleging the treaties between the Catholic powers , which excluded the Neapolitans from the Roman territories . To reassure the Pope under circumstances , however , King Ferdinand has marched a considerable force to the frontier , ready to hasten to the rescue of his holiness on the first alarm . Street fights between French and Roman soldiers are events of daily occurrence in Rome . In all hand to hand encounters the former are invariably worsted .
the The Austrian ass has ventured on . a kick to the British lion at Ancona . A British vessel has been forcibly seized by an armed boat of an Austrian manof-war , claiming damages for some collision of vessels in that port ; which , however , the Roman authorities had declared to be merely accidental . Mr . Moore , the English consul , has remonstrated , but in vain , and the English vessel has only been suffered to sail on giving security to answer all demands for the damage . _ ....,
New gangs of brigands have shown themselves in the neighbourhood of Rieti and Viterbo . Three companies of French Chasseurs and 150 Roman dragoons , have been marched against them . All the Bibles and Testaments ( Diodati's translation ) that were either imported from England , or published in Rome itself under patronage of the Republican Government , are now falling into the hands of the Pope . 3642 copies of those books had been deposited for safe keeping in the house of Mr . Cass , the American consul . As those could not be confiscated or taken by force , the Papal Government offered to buy them up , and they have now been given up for cash . The President of the Tuscan Council of Ministers , M . Baldasseroni , has suddenly left Florence for Rome : this journey has given rise to the strangest
conjectures . It is not the Grand Duke of Tuscany that is going to Naples , but only his royal Consort . The Grand Duke accompanied her as far as Leghorn , where they were both received with the loudest acclamations . The republican Leghorn is now " won back to her old feelings of loyalty . " Pity the Grand Duke did not trust himself to his faithful subjects without reserve , and did not dispense with the strong Austrian garrison which lined all the roads along his triumphal
progress ! The Duke of Parma is also embarking for Naples , whence , it is said , he intends visiting London for the Great Exhibition . Let us hope the young Prince will have no great thirst for Barclay and Perkins ' s entire ; for , in spite of that utter insignificance which screened him from remark so long as he kept out of the way , enough is known of his petty cruelties , of his free use of the lash and stick , to entitle him to a reception a la Haynau , if he dares to show his fa ce in honest Old England .
The Count of Chambord has left Venice on a visit to his sister , the Duchess of Parma . The count is to be back again to Venice on the 21 st . Letters from Ischia describe the sufferings of the high-minded and gifted patriot Minister , Baron Poevo , now a state prisoner in the castle of that island , as being no less of a revolting than of an afflicting nature . He is allowed no bed , no change of linen , no water , no means of indulging the habits of the commonest cleanliness and decency in his dungeon . The Lombardo-Venetian Government has put its veto on all experiments on animal magnetism , whether it be applied to medical purposes , for scientific inquiry , or even as a mere pastime .
A Protestant woman , from the Swiss Canton of Aargau , was refused admittance into the common wards of the public hospital nt Como , and thrown into a separate apartment , like a leper , on account of her religious heterodoxy . The people at Genoa have tried their hand at n first experiment of Lynch hiw . A journal called 1 st Strega had published those sinister reports respecting a reactionary plot , at the head of which the l'rince of Savoy-Carignano , was supposed , to be , of which we gave some account in a previous number . As all those rumourH were formally contradicted in Parliament , a deputation , from Turin waited upon tho editor , M . Dngnino , requesting a retractation of the offensive charges . The
editor promised to comply with the juwt demnnd ; hut , on the . following day , some of his associates published in the Hume paper h protest that the Streqa made no Teeant . at . ion ; whereupon a mob of muHoth and citizens , amongst them a lew noblemen , broke into tho office of the Strega , broko the pre . sH , and completely gutted the house , throwing the much damaged property into the ntreets . . Several arrests haves been tnade , chiefly among tho sailors and officers of the Jtoyal Nuvy ( the Prince of Snvoy-Cari gnano being the supreme commander of that , corpn ) . These , upon a decision of the Council of the Admiralty , have been admitted to bail , for the Hum of 10 , 000 francs . The event , ban created the grentewt Kensation throughout the kingdom ; and given rime to warm discussions in tho Chambers . The King ' tf birthduy \/ uti colebmtod with heartfelt
enthusiasm at Turin on the 14 th . A scheme for embellishing and aggrandizing that cleanest if not most romantic of Milan capitals has been approved by the Chambers , and will be carried into immediate execution . The Sardinian Government is actively engaged in the discussion of the budget of public instruction and all the papers are busily propounding interesting questions on the great subject of national education ? The Lombardo-Venetian Government has also publ lished new regulations for the improvement of the various branches of instruction .
An Italian refugee has been forcibly expelled from Switzerland . Our readers will remember that Mm , Vare and Sterbini joined some French , exiles in a protest against the decrees of the Federal Government , for appointing particular districts for the residence of the refugees . The consequence of this protest has been that M . Vare has been arrested , and escorted by gensdarmes to the Piedmontese frontier . He had reached Turin , on his way to Genoa , whence he was to be embarked for England or America . Daylight is making its way into Russia . The Viceroy of Poland has granted permission to Count Henry Brewusky , a celebrated novelist , to start a daily newspaper in Warsaw : its title is Dziennick WarszawsM ( the Warsaw journal ) .
A large majority in the Swedish Chamber passed a vote of want of confidence in the Ministers . The King is no less determined not to part with his Cabinet , and is said to be confirmed in his resolution by popular opinion . Motions have been made in the Swedish Parliament for a complete emancipation of the Jews . A strong liberal feeling in favour of this persecuted sect is abroad in the country . German matters continue in all their charming
perplexity . The King of Prussia shows some disposition to disavow Baron Monteuffel and his doings at Dresden . He finds his agent should have been less accommodating , and Prince Schwarzenberg should not have had it all his own way . The blundering diplomatist is now in disgrace , and the King listens once more to that warlike Radowitz , and that bold uncompromising party that have so often offered to put him , King Frederick William , at the head of the German nation .
The letter of the King of Wurtemberg has created greater sensation than the King ' s doubtful sincerity and his previous conduct might have led us to expect . The petty Kings , that shameless Bavaria especially , are once more playing false to Austria , and all standing up for a Federal Parliament . A strong party in favour of that national representation exists in Berlin also , and the King is supposed secretly to encourage it . In short , King Frederic William ' s conduct reminds
us of all the bold aspirings and base misgivings of the unfortunate Charles Albert of Sardinia , in 1846-7 , when the Italians justly nicknamed him King Seesaw , King Shilly-shally ( II Re Tentenna ) , hanging in suspense between fear and ambition , between Austria and Italy , between the Jesuit Solaro della Margherita and the old Carbonari Gallina and Villa Marina . The identity of measures , persons , and circumstances is complete , though Prussian matters are on a larger scale , and greater destines hang upon them .
Un rot comme cm compromet tout le monde . We have no doubt Frederic William is destined to the same final catastrophe . Like Charles Albert , he will shift his policy and temporize , till he has destroyed the very shadow of faith in the heart of his stancheat believer , and only make up his mind to a decisive course when his own mismanagement and the inexorable march of events have rendered it desperate . We do not know how safely we can assert that his time is now come ; for he has too often slipp ed through our fingers : bnt there is at the present moment temptation enough around him to turn a much
stronger head . The four kings , the constitutional party , and not a few of the patriots of more advanced principles are still rallying around him ; and France and England , alarmed at last by the towering ambition of Schwarzenberg and the terrible ascendency of Russia , seem willing to countenance Prussia , and will go just as far in her favour as they did in support of Hurdinia in 1818 : that is , they will help to confuse und complicate mutters till the sword alone c undo the knot ; and , when a war is engaged , they will bring about a termination of it by tho sacrifice of the weaker party .
A council of Ministers , we aro told , has been held at the Elysee to deliberate on these eternal German affairs . Tho result Iuib been nn express to Vienna , convoying instructions to the French Minister there , to renew his remonstrances against the great scheme of incorporation of the Austrian non-German provinces into the Germun Confederacy , and to throw out Home hints of a determination on the part of Franco to side with Prussia in case of any » criou » difference of that power with the Austrian Government . M . Mercier Ih charged with a mission of the Humo nature to tho Courts of Berlin and St . Petersburg . Lord Palrnoratoii ' a noto to tho same effect has been presented at the Foreign-office at Vienna a » early oh tho 8 th of this month .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 22, 1851, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1875/page/4/
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