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ment of the Monarchy . Lamoriciere himself , who from his own saddlebow wrote the conditions of the capitulation of the Emir , became Minister of War only to affix ineftaceably the stigma of dishonour to his own and to his country ' s name by an official consecration . It might have been imagined that the recollections of the rebel prisoner of Ham would have served the nobler captive of Amboise ; but how should the systematic betrayer of his own constitutional oaths , the man whose whole tenure of office is a wearing struggle to betra } ' the institutions he has sworn to protect , have time to remember the broken faith of
former Governments ? The very charge of broken faith is to him a personal insult . If he remember the traditions of his uncle , it is to tread in the seps of the man who slowly murdered his ardent admirer , Toussaint I / Ouverture , and more expeditiously , but not treacherously , dispatched the four thousand who laid down their arms in Syria . When the outraged feelings of humanity speak through the voice of England , St . Helena , forsooth !
is thrown in our teeth . We admit the reproach We expiate it daily in the taxes bequeathed to us by the Holy Alliance , whose footman , George the Fourth , consented to be jailor of the vanquished hero . That hero , indeed , had broken his parole ; which Abdel-Kader has not . Nor is our wrong the quittance of France . Not to us is she accountable ; but to that unvanquished captive , to history , to men like Londonderry , to her own honour .
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MEN AND MOVEMENTS . Persons represent events , not only past , but future ; and a play is performing before the world . * While Londonderry , like a brave old knight , is pleading stoutly for the captive hero Abd-el-Kadcr , France is deploring the want of a man to lead her . Yes , France , who most of all needs a man just now , has not one whose heart is so warm , whose comcience is so tender , whose farseeing is so clear , whose courage is so strong , that perforce he would set free that captive foe . While Metternieh has made his insidious way back to Vienna , to preside over the destinies of JS 52 , Kossuth is on liis way to England ; to pass through cold , apathetic , leaderless England , on to America , that brave republic which has sent a ship to fetch him . While Kossuth was on his way , Lord Palmorsfon was bonstingat . Tiverfon that // e had succeeded in releasing Kossii : li . And Tiverton believed him ! Lord Palmerston " demanded" the release of Kossuth , and went on demanding ' . The American Captain fetched him away . And people will not believe in America , though they will in that d ( -light nd Viscount . Mr . Abbot Lawrence is touring it in Ireland ; " oflieina gentium , " as the Times calls if , for the American Republic—breeder of citizens for American consumption . Yes , on the west , of St . George ' s Channel , they breed beef for the British navy and citizens for the United States ; the beef is u : > to contract standard , and the citizens are trained in the way they should go—tlrat of hatred to
Kngland . And travelling there , Abbot Lawrence , who looks at the universe through Lord Rosse's telescope , finds that , man is as well in Ireland as in any other part of the world ! " Miserable sheep , those , " cried a Xmitlifield critic , in the days when George III . was farmer , and Peter Pindar was Poet Laureate Extraordinary . " Put on your spectacles , " said Peter . And the critic , reading *• ( i . H . " royally chalked on the wool , declared that
he" really could turn glutton On such pretty-looking mutton . " Abbot Lawrence surveys the universe through a Lord ' s telescope , and enters Ireland through Kansdowne-house . He is < i Bostonian—learned people are they of Boston ! lie is also wealthy , and much respected in his native town . He is not adriieted to low republican company in this country . He views tilings candidly , from an elevnttd point of view ; . surveys the universe through a telescope of the best . society ; ami discovers that the Irish are might v well oil ' . Whereat the Times is channel at lii . s politeness , and explains it to the British public ; which cannot but feel duly obliged to the gentleman .
"Stick to that , " a cunning Yankee might nay , with an eye to keeping up the breed , or to that future annexation of Ireland at which the New York Herald hints . Hut we really believe that Abbot Lawrence meant no malice of that sort . It
was nothing but politeness . It only shows how high a standard of flattery he is used to . King Leopold's artist-subjects have been cooperating in the great annual fete to celebrate their independence ; the young Duke of Brabant taking part in that national rejoicing . Belgium keeps up a kind of uneasy but friendly relation with its dear king . On the whole , Belgium is not the state threatened with the darkest future .
The Emperor of Austria , for instance , has been welcomed by his Italian subjects with the most enthusiastic joy . So the official account says . They rushed forward to embrace him ;—only the enormous guard made it difficult to get at him . And their endearments could not , as it were , even shoot him flying ; he was so restless . Butterflies have a very zigzag progress , which makes it difficult for " the sharpest birds to catch them flying : Emperors also are restless and zigzag in their splendid flight . " Butterfly ! " cries the delighted child , cap in hand . Missed him ! But the Butterfly of course feels the compliment .
While Italy rejoices in the presence of its so much beloved Austria , the detested Mazzini reposes in England . Not forgotten . Somehow all Italy looks to that man ; and somehow Austria cannot forget him either . That patriot man , living modestly in the heart of England , is the object of Austrian solicitude ; Austrian policy is shaped to meet his wishes , conjectured by anticipation with more than a mother ' s fondness . Austria ' s only wish is to embrace him , to hug him . In London , he is more potent in Italy than the very Emperor that stands upon the land , and possesses it , with , all the vast power of a hundred
. Persons , we say , represents events , past and future . Francis Joseph stands on Italian soilsafely , for he is surrounded by immense armies ; Metternieh has gone back to Vienna , to rehabilitate 1815 ; Kossuth is on his way to America ; Mazzini reposes on his placid voyage towards 1852 .
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COLONIAL KEPItESENTATION . Spain talks of extending her Parliamentary franchise to Cuba , whose members will sit . in the Cortes at Madrid . Cuba is not so very firm in her allegiance , but what the concession may be useful . French colonies already enjoy a share in the Imperial representation . The same idea has been entertained for Fnglish colonies ; but always scouted by the clerks in Downing-street ; and Lord Grey will not even allow the colonies to represent themselves to themselves .
Oh , yes ! we beg pardon ;—a very satisfactory constitution has been given to Canada ; but then Canada had rebelled , . fust as the Cape of Good Mope got rid of the convict ship by icbelling in its quiet way . It is curious to observe what n sine qua non colonial Ministers make of that as a prelimanary to all concessions : a colony is not thought to have performed its duty in the way of compliments , until it has rebelled . The colonies , both of Franco ami Spain , obtain more consideration than those of England .
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A KOYAL " I'EUVEKT 1 ' TO TUT . WATEK CUIIK . Oiih ri ^ ht royal friend the King of Prussia , who in hi « time " playR many parts , " has just come out in an entirely new character . In a revised official copy of his address to the Club of Fealty , he notices the various " hell-born " calumnies and base inventions of the Democratic exiles , which even hin integrity of life and manners cannot escape . Ii » t this revised copy he lias contrived to slip n reply to the
charge that he was " given to excess in wine . " He knows this to be a lie determined upon by the German refugees in London ; and he begs all who hear him , to let the fact be known . So his Majesty of Prussia , whose strange filn of excitement have been often attributed to stronger nauocH , is after all what V . J . I ' roudlum him been Bnecriiifijly called by the French reactionist journals , a buvv . ur d ' eau . He bus been addicted to liquor— -but
in the Itrewery sense . What a pity thatno august a convert should not be in London in time for the approaching Temperance Festival at Kxeter hall . It wan only the other day we had the misfortune to oflend an estimable reader at Kensington , from our comparative inattention to bin very judicious and praiseworthy hobby , ( he Temperance Cause . "Will he forgive uh now if we present him with a Koyul Convert , Frederick William of IVuhhui ? We do not despair of ' 62 making this water-bibbing and injured Majesty a Vegetarian !
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KOSSUTH . Competition is all alive among several cosmopolite parties of London , to take possession of Kossuth on hi arrival , bodily , politically , and dramatically . He is to be courted by the courtly , approached by the moderate and feasted by the speculative ; that is , if he will dine on party principles . Our advertising columns will Bhpw that the working men are astir . He might almost test the sincerity of his friends by their willingness to afford him active aid , or not . He will scarcely be content with " protests" which left Russia to walk over his country ; he will hardly consider that Notting-hill came half-way to meet him , because it " came forward " as far as the turnpike-gate .
He will learn that the class which would be the most willing to concur in rendering him active aid would b e precisely the class on which war would entail the greatest proportion of sacrifice . But the movement of the working class will probably be widely spread and spontaneous , and he can hardly mistake that .
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A FALSE ALARM . Mr . Shadwell , one of the revising barristers , recently decided against admitting the claims of some persons who had purchased freehold land allotments , because there was no evidence that the said plots of ground were worth forty shillings a year . Some alarm was felt , at first , on reading this decision . Bat the alarm is groundless . The barrister was perfectly right . There was no evidence . By some oversight the solicitor did not bring into court , until after the first rebuff , the proper persons who could prove the value of the freeholds—the overseers or a surveyor . This must be looked to another time . Meanwhile , the claim to vote for a forty shilling freehold , properly backed , is as valid as ever .
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SOCIAL REFORM . " notes of a social ceconomist . " the cooperative associations of england . III . " Can the ( Irish ) landlords rightfully use the lands so as to cause the natives to perish of hunger or of cold ? If they can , then have the landlords the eight to kill . " — Cobbett ' s Legacy . " Quod quisque populus ipse sibi jus constituit , vocatur jus ci \ ile . "—Institutes of Justinian . To pursue the history of the struggle between the assumed rights of the hereditary feudal aristocracy and " the wants and fears " of the communitythe only true and natural foundation of society , according to lilackstone—to trace the rise and progress of a thrifty commercial middle-cluss , under the . sheltering influence of municipal association , and then to watch the unnatural revival of slavery by Act of Christian Church and State Parliament , would lead me far beyond the limit of newspaper discussion , into the wide field of conssitulional history . Instead of grappling with history , I must now take flig ht into the imaginary regions of Utopia . All the Utopias , or ideal schemes for the organization of society , nnd the attainment of perfect happiness , may be traced to a common sourcethe philosophy of Pythagoras ( the founder of the first community camobium)— which embodies the accumulated lore and wisdom of Oriental and classical antiquity : — Utopian youth grown old Italian : "
and the influence of his doctrines may be traced through every subsequent form of religion and philosophy , in the Republic of Plato , and in the Utopia of Sir Thomas More . Utopia , or , The Discourses of Raphael Uythloday , of the best State of a VommonweaUn , " written by Sir Thomas More , citizen and sl 1 * ' 11 " of London , " was printed at I-ouvain m 16 « N about the time of Luther ' s first onslaught upon we
sale of "indulgences , " and was everywhere ueeived , except at Home , with enthusiasm . ? l ? T *' is a communist , in principle , a reformer in rcligi <> , and agriculture is the basis of his . system of « k ai organization . With the heathen p hilosop hers , » a with singular inconsistency , in " a man ot inc highest virtue , integrity , nnd ^ l "" ^' . ^ tolerates slavery in this imaginary colony «> lim " by Utopvs . In the first chapter he gives an ; < --coimtof his journey to Flanders , and of his .. si meeting with Raphael lljthloclay at Antwc p , m company with one Peter Giles , to whom Utopia-
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1851, page 944, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1903/page/12/
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