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ScHWABZENBEBGhas volunteered " explanations . " Having cast to the winds the last tattered shreds of the constitution of the 4 th of March , ' 49 , — having disputed Jts very existence in any other shape than as a momentary expedient fortified by mental reservation , —this gallant and debonnair Prime Minister deems it necessary to " protest against all idea of reaction on the part of the Emperor and his Government . " The note we have not
y et seen—only an abstract of it . The constitution is to be classed among those measures . " which the Sovereign adopts , but may modify or repeal according to his convictions . " A very large class indeed ! Once more we thank the tutor of young Austria for allowing this enfant terrible to betray the game . Old Metternich ( who is variously spoken of as preparing to start for Vienna and lying dangerously ill at Johannisberg ) would have finessed in a different fashion .
Ihis circular of explanations contains , perhaps , one of the last avowals of that exploded blasphemy of Right Divine which modern Europe will have to record . The Emperor is " only accountable to the Almighty " : —for barefaced perjury . It may be that his People , whom he is so anxious to deliver from " fictions " and uncertainties , will be disposed to relieve him of this awful accountability . At all events , next time , they will put it out of the power of the Kings and Emperors to make promises , or to break them . The " pacific state of the capital " ( in a state of siege ) is insisted on ! " It is believed that the popularity of the Emperor will not suffer" ! not at all : both in kind and in
degree it will be confirmed ; but young Franz Joseph may yet live to learn the eloquence of the People's silence . The very fact , however , of this circular bespeaks the fear of consequences . Another eloquent silence : young Franz Joseph wants money—he asks a loan of his subjects—dead silence . He sends abroad ; but what security can he give , who is not to bo bound , except , like a criminal witness , on oath ?
In France , we find Im I ' atrie , a semi-official organ , exultingly exposing the degradation of the Klysean alliances , in a paragraph of which the pith is , that Prince Schwarzenberg , the new Amndis , Ii « i 8 declared himself strongly in fuvour of Prince Ij- Napoleon ' s reelection . Whereupon , almost aimultaneously , the Janissaries of M . Baroche , that apostate lackey of Despotism , are Net to do the dirty work of the Austrian spies . The razzia uguinst
German tailors and bakers , and other artisans , who thought to find ahelter from the gaol and the scaffold under a Republican Hag , is announced pompousl y uh ono against the " Conspiracy of lariH . " Any name with a Teutonic termination , any guttural thickucau in pronunciation , in in itself a Buspioion and a crime . But when two-thirds of tUu arrested are Germane the title of the plot raiWt Uoww JSuwionJ
be changed ; so in the second act it is the Franco-German Conspiracy ! The only French subjects inculpated were arrested because they had no reason to give for being in certain cafes when the police entered ; if we except the brutal attack upon the office of the Voix . du Proscrit , which is amply explained in the indignant official vindication we publish in another part of our paper . Here again
mark what we have before noticed more than once ; conscience-stricken Reaction , pursued by the logic of an implacable system , strikes wildly at the shadow of its coming doom . Grasping at the threads of the world-wide conspiracy of ' 52 , it has only caught a few poor refugee German tailors ! The French people are thus enabled to complete their experiences of the " Party of Order" in power . La Presse searches official records of the old
regime to show the quality of religion , and the respect for " the family" under the Monarchy . The reactionary interpretation of the third article of their creed , " Property , " is exemplified by the last attack on a newspaper-office , imprisoning its commercial director , seizing the accounts and the cash , for no reason given but that the paper represented a proscribed party ! Verily ! France should know her saviours ! Simultaneously with tliemock conspiracy of Paris was the discovery of a foreign branch of our own Police ; and in the official journals of the French Reaction the arrest of some two hundred Germans is called a " warning and an example to England . " Some of the arrests made in Paris are said to have
been consequent upon information from London . The Permanent Committee of the Assembly , we need not say how composed , appeals to the vigilance of Lord Palmeioton , who regrets that he enn do nothing . All this proves , however , that the new foreign branch of our Police is in being and at work . Will our Liberal Minister , par excellence , follow in the wake of M . Baroche P England will not be the tool of Austria .
I he Royal Executioner of Naples treats us to his explanations also , in a aort of official notice of Mr . Gladstone ' s letters , which are denounced in true Bomba style as " calumnious diatribes : " " false , absurd , and ridiculous stories . " We are told that the amity of our Government is " most dear" to Ferdinand , who is surprised at the " aspersions made by a member of Parliament of a friendly power . " We are promised a pamphlet , " that shall be Kent to " Palmerston , in the hope that he
will distribute it to the Legations , as a corrective to Gladstone . We fear our " roving pamphleteer " Iiuh botched his work , or , at least , has aatistied his Neapolitan clients as little as be intimidated the Turkish Vizier . Too much of " 1 and my bosom friends : " not enough of downright comprehensive mendacity in that , high-bred lucubration of which two hundred copies were instantly taken ! We do not despair to find the good Novarro a type of " enlightened justice , " Pccchcreaa , of the " wia < i execution of good .
laws : " all proved from " authentic documents , and by the records taken from the archives oi our law . " Before the taste of Macfarlane is well out of our mouths , a second bonne bouche ! Come and buy ! From Cuba we have nothing much more decisive : the idea is , that Lopez has been defeateda fact to be anticipated , but not yet established . The papers say that the excitement in New York about the massacre at Havannah has
abatedwhich may be true of the mere mob demonstration ; but . the mob at New Orleans has caught up the cry still more fiercely ; and even the Government has taken a step which indicates a spirit oi hostile vigilance : the mail steamers are armed , to resist that , right of search which was enforced upon the Falcon . This is of course a proceeding distinct from any support of the insurgents in Cuba ; it proves , however , that the American Government is not only prepared to measure strength with the Spaniards , but is willing to do so on the first opportunity .
The leading journal has been discussing the Cuban affair in a manner which will not escape notice in the Union . It declares that a time has come to maintain the international law violated by the invaders ; and , affecting to considei the American Government " too weak" to look after its own citizens , it suggests that the maritime nations of Europe will join in eliciting " explanations" from the Government at Washington , and in " supporting" that Government against its own citizens ! The Times often suggests that which will probably come to puss , and the Republic will know what it has to expect . We imagine that it will be rather nettled than pleased at the kind of support now promised to it .
In the (/ ape of Good Hope , Sir Harry Smith is not getting on very well in either of his two capacities—governor or general . As general , he has succeeded in driving the contumacious aborigines out of their own mountains into the colony ; and the aborigines have made a good thing of their defeat : they have carried oil ' ' ' 20 , 000 sheep , with oxen and horses in proportion . Possibly Sir Harry ' s best success lay in the recent attempt to divide the colonists , by removing the scut of government from Cape Town to Graham ' s Town . Some of the Graham ' s Town people were pleased ; but in the old Cape Town we find men , not of the most violent party , once more talk ing about 11 passive resistance . " Good Governor !"
Let ua turn once more to the Continent , not for the secular but the religious politics . Amongst other modes by which Austria is rendering itac . lt intolerable in the mippresHion of that great movement originating with Johannes Kongo , which is not without itn counterpart in this country , —a movement which necks to find unity of religion in the sympathy of reverence mid in reciprocal respect for the free action of thought . The Rupprcstrion of he Free Coiitfregativna km been followed , by acts
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^ y « Tm one Idea which History exnibits & 3 evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barriers erected between men by prejudice and one-sided views and by settm ^ aside the distinctions of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race a 3 one ' orotherhood havin ^ one great object—the free development of our 3 Pintual nature . "—Kumboldt ' s Cosmos .
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Pa ° e HighgateCottag-c Gardens 867 Our Peace Principle 872 Portfolio—News of the Week ° The Miracles of St . Saturnin 8 J 7 More Gold hi 2 Doubt ^ 8 Continental - Votes 853 Public Opinion 8 C 8 A Bankruptcy retrieved 873 Ou the Word " Talented " 878 The Great Railway "Accidents" (?; HGi The New " Dig ^ ins' ! 868 Transceudant Bravery of the Stamp- Thk Akts' The Kafir War ..... 864 Personal New-3 and Gossip 8 : 39 Office 873 Dojlo ' s Overland Journey to the Ex-An Ovation to Dr . Newman 8 * 1 Miscellaneous 8 t > 9 Social Reform—Associa lion f . r the hibition 879 Cuba and the United States 865 Public Aff . uus— Middle Classes 873 EuU 0 PE vv De o '""" 879 Inquiries into the " Von Beck" L-mdon in September £ 870 Literature— MUOpean Uemocraci «<* Mystery 863 The Siar-Spangled Banner raided in Kinsley ' s Lecture 875 Organization of the People 880 English Threat to the United States 865 Europe 871 John Drayton 877 Commercial Affairslleligious Persecution in Germany .. 866 The New Austrim Loan 871 l ' roudhon 877 Markets , Gazettes , Advertisements , The Search for Sir John Franklin .. 867 An "Imposing " Archbishop 872 Looks on our Table 87 S &c 880-81
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VOL . II . — No . 77 . SATURDAY , SEPTEMBER 13 , 1851 . Price 6 d .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 13, 1851, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1900/page/1/
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