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formally . Austria is desirous to bring the commercial -int erests of Germany to Frankfort , where Austria is paraunt Berlin is unwilling to enter into any negotiations ^ th Vienna , until assured that the Zollverein shall have been ^ mpletely re-established . The smallerstates are coquetting tli one or the other of the two great powers ; the northern W f aid to lose the advantages of tho Zollverein under Prussian auspices , and anxious to bo well with Austria : * 2 ie southern states being all for Austria , but disposed to to Prussia Prussia to
make concessions , , on promising admit Austria into future treaties , after the reconstitu-• tion of the Zollverein . Such is , or recently was , the posture of the question ; but the latest accounts state the whole matter to be at a dead lock . Austria considers Prussia ' s demands unacceptable , and Prussia insists on the reconstitution of the Zollverein as an indispensable preliminary . In January , 1854 , the Zollverein expires . At the present rate of discussion , the settlement may be as far distant in . 1854 * as it is now .
The following notice has been sent to the French bookselling trade : — _ ' ' The Austrian press— -periodical as well as non-penodica \ having been placed under the exclusive surveillance of the civil authorities , i ( has been ordered that all books and pamphlets imported into Austria , in whatever manner the importation may be effected , must be sent to the Custom-house , where persons specially appointed for the purpose will examine them before they are permitted to circulate . " The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa of the 9 th states that a new instrument of political agitation has been discovered in the National Bank of Turin , where French 5 fr . pieces , bearing the dates of 1831 , 1851 , and 1852 , have been found among the cash , with the motto , " Dieu punira la France , " on the edge , instead of the usual one , " Dieu protege la France . "
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 11 th confirms the statement that General Lainarmora has been appointed by the King of Sardinia to proceed to Lyons , in order to compliment Louis Bonaparte . An English company has obtained the concession of a railway from Naples to Brindisi ( the ancient Brundusium , and nearest point of departure for the Levant ) , on veryquestionable terms so far as the British capital invested is concerned . The difficulties of construction will be very considerable and the traffic doubtful . The completion ( as required ) within three years is considered next to impossible . But " impossible" is a word unknown to cngiueers . The disinclination of the Government is , however , a serious item in the obstacles to be incurred .
The Clamor PtMico , of Madrid , has the following from Corunna , dated the 5 th : — " There has just been denounced to the tribunal of this city a man-wolf , who , upon his own confession , lias been in the habit of going into the forests and killing and eating men , women , and children . He was captured in Castillo . He has declared to the examining magistrate that he had two accomplices belonging to Valencia , and that they carried on a traffic with Portugal for the fat of their victims . This horrible monster added , that he had killed and ealcn his mother and his sister . " The latest accounts from Sicily describe Etna as having been in full eruption since tho 20 l . li of August , and still threatening a largo extent oi' fertile land with destruction . Sir Henry Lytlon Bulwor is at Home , where it is supposed he will finally arrange the liberation of Edward Murray , who still languishes in prison at Ancona , in so weak and prostrate a condition that it is feared his pardon may reach him too late .
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THE COLONISTS AND THE COD-KISITTNG . Tin . ; United Stales steam-frigate ' Missi . sxi . p 2 n , bearing the broad pennant of Commodore Perry , returned to New York on the SJnrt instant , from an active cruise to the fishing districts of Hritish North America . The Commodore and his officers have been most warmly received in all tho colonial ports where ho has landed . Meanwhile , the colonists arc ; enraged at the alleged termination of the dispute with America—tho reciprocal interchange of fisheries , as announced , some weeks back , by tho Standard , and backed by the Morning llrrahl . A meefin <> - lias been held in Halifax , Nova
? Scotia , and strong resolutions remonstrating with the << overinnent on tho alleged desertion of the colonies ; and equally strong inomoriuls to the Ijietifenant-Governor and to tho Queen have bu ' .: ii drawn up by the Nova ?" H'oliaiiH . 'i'lie gist of the remonstrance is contained in theses passages taken from the memorials and the , resolutions . ' 1 'he resolutions begin by saying - " I'liut tbo citizens of Halifax feel deeply grateful lo her Miijesty ' n Government lor ( lie solicitude evinced by the •' nforiiiiiiafion lo ' remove all ground of complaint on tho piu'i , <>| Hid colonies in consequence of the eneroaehmonts "' 'ho fishing vcmmcIh of the I Tinted Stales upon tho ro-Nwvocl fishing grounds of Mrilish America , ' expressed in "'<> despatch of the Right , Hon . tho Secretary of Stato for "io Colonies , dated the ' . Wild of May . "
' lie next passages are from tho memorial to Sir lolin Gmipurd le Marcliant : Hy tho terms of | , lu ) Convention of IHI 8 , the Ifniled Mules expressly renounced any right of fishing , within '' I'l'co luarinn miles from tho coasts and shores of these •' "Ionics , or of entering their bays , creeks , mill harbours , < 7 « ' ( - |>| , ror shelter , or for wood aii < l water . 11 " I his rcitric-¦ lo n l ) n removedit imi . 'il . ho ohvioliti to your Kxcellency
, Mill ( . I t at . Ill 1 . . !__ -It ¦ i 11 * A ' I' "nit it , will ) , o impossible lo prevent the ' Americans from "'" "IT our fishing grounds as freely as our own fishermen . j'o . y will he permitted to enter our bays and harbours , where , af , all dimes , imlona anuod vounola are preuont in
every harbour , they will not onl y fish in common with our own fishermen ,. but they will bring with them contraband goods to exchange with the inhabitants for fish , to the great injury of colonial traders , and loss to the public revenue . The fish obtained by this illicit traffic will then be taken to the United States , where they will be entered as the produce of the American fisheries , while those exported from the colonies in a legal manner are subject to oppressive duties . We need not remind your Excellency , that the equivalent said to have been proposed—that of allowing our vessels to fish in the waters of the United States —is utterly valueless , and unworthy of a moment's consideration .
" We would fain hope that the reports which have appeared in the public press respecting the pending negotiations between the two Governments are without any good foundation . We cannot imagine that her Majesty ' s Government , after having taken prompt and decided measures to enforce the true construction of the treaty , will over consent to such a modification of its terms as will render our highly valued rights a mere privilege to be enjoyed in common with foreigners . "We therefore pray your Excellency to exert all your influence to induce her Majesty ' s Ministers to stay any further negotiations on this vitally important question until the rights and interests of the inhabitants of this province are more fully inquired into and vindicated . " The memorial to the Queen is rather fervently composed , and contains these paragraphs : —
" If conciliation , irrespective of right , be the principle on which is to be withdrawn the restriction against the entry of Americans into the bays and indentations of the coast to fish , limiting them alone to the distance of three miles from the shore , the concession of the privilege to fish within this latter distance must equally be granted—as , indeed , has been already urged in the American Congress —the restriction in both cases rests on the same authority ; and the concession in each would bo demanded by the same principle . It may not be the province of your Majesty ' s colonial subjects to suggest how far such a principle is consistent with national honour and independence ; they have a right to pray that it be not carried out at their
expense . " * * * "In the present case , the possession to be surrendered is no offspring of artificial arrangements , falling with a complicated policy of which it formed a part . No , may it please your Majesty , your loyal subjects in Nova Scotia raise their voice against the injury of an inheritance conferred upon your North American subjects by nature—connected with their soil by the laws and usages of nations—confirmed to them by solemn compact ; and which practically enjoyed by them peculiarly , and as your Majesty ' s other subjects cannot enjoy them , can be surrendered only at their extreme injury and great loss . " Thus the Protectionist and Colonial Ministry arc involved in a dispute with the colonists on very equivocal grounds ; the Ministerial policy remaining confessedly a dark enigma .
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GENERAL CASS ON INTERVENTION , Tammanay HaxIi , in New York , was filled with a crowded meeting on the 2 nd of September in behalf of Pierce and King . General Cass addressed the meeting . As he grew warm , the General successively took oli' his coat and waistcoat . Among other topics lie touched on the democratic doctrine of intervention : —¦ " Adverting to the external policy of the two parties , he said , in the first place , free intercourse with foreign nations has been the controlling principle of the democratic party—lo do no wrong and to suffer none . We have been told by high whig authorities that the oppressed of other nations are welcome to hospitable graves in this countrythat they may live here and die hero . Look lo the whig
papers , and they will tell you that 'intervention' is interfering in tho concerns of other nations . If the Emperoi of Austria , or the Emperor of Kussia , or thesalle Emperor of . Hayti , undertakes to violate the great principles of public law , and carry into effect their projects , we have the same right to declare that ( hoy shall not do so . Arc we to stand still and see tho laws of nations violated by tho strong arm of de . spoli . sm ? ( Cries of ' No , no . ' ) I am glad to hear that response of 'No' from Irue-heiirled Americans . You must Jiot . stand ntlW and see the feeble oppressed and tin : strong triumphant . 1 do not advocate going to war going fo war now but the lime will come , and the time is coming , when the voice of Ibis nation will be potential throughout the world . ( Enthusiastic cheers . )
1 trust the time will soon come when not a hostile drum shall roll and not a hostile cannon be fired throughout , the world , if we say , ' Your cause is not a junt one . ' ( Loud cheers . ) And a glorious consummation ( bat will be for the establishment <> f 'rue democratic principles . If any struggling Million bowed down by despot ism shall rise against its oppressors , as we did , and thai , a neighbouring power shall interfere , and say , ' We are afraid lo see established a republican government , as your example may injure my subjects , ' shall Hint , power be permitted to do hoP 1 have been fold by eminent whig authorities , but . 1 pronounce it to be a great , humbug , that a declaration on our part against such a violation of public law , is inlerl ' erinir in the affairs oi' other nations , in the sense which
General Washington meant . 1 should like to know , in the name of common hciisc , if we adhere lo I ho principles of public law , and if tho Kmperor of Russia , nays , ' I have a right to interfere in I he internnl disputes of nations , ' and we declare that no one has a . right ( o do so , if thai , is entering into ' entangling alliances i '* A ml yet that humbug has been pressed with much perl inneily . () ne more Ionic and I mIiilII close ' Nympafhv wilh foreign nalion . i . ' We feel a sympathy with struggling oppression . So did General Washington . He said thai , ' wherever an oppressed nation unfolds the banner of freedom , there my heart , is with them . ' That , was I ho true doctrine of | , hai , day , and iu tho truo doctrine of this . Yen , my friends , wherever
men are bowed down , wherever the image of God is defaced , wherever man is striving to pass out of darkness and turn to the light of truth and freedom , there the hearts of American democrats are with them , and say , ' God speed you—do as we have done in tho establishment of free institutions , and then do as we arc doing by maintaining liberty and law . ' " Is not this evidence of the deep furrow which Kossuth has ploughed in the history of the United . States ?
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ROBERT LOWE AT KIDDERMINSTER . In the dearth of politics , when Mr . Disraeli , compelled by stress of business , shirks his constituents , as Lord Derby did the agricultural gathering last month at Preston , it is refreshing to meet with the speech of a new man , at least new on the British platform , though well known in Australia , and powerful in the press . Mr . Robert Lowe was entertained by his constituents at Kidderminster on Wednesday , when he made a striking speech , remarkably pertinent to the present state of politics . After paying a tribute to the cause of free-trade , and the memory of Peel , he turned upon the present
ministry" Never before in the history of our country was a Ministry selected precisely because—and for no other reason —because they combined in holding a principle unanimously discarded by the country they were set to govern . ( Laughter and cheers . ) One might defy any one , in or out of her Majesty ' s Government , to point out any ground on which a member of that Government was selected , except that he was , above other men , a bitter and remorseless Protectionist . ( Renewed laughter and cheers . ) Now , that was bad enough ; but there were ManichoDans in politics as well as in religion , and it might appear probable that by way of a change it was worth our while to establish a Government to impersonate the evil principle of commercial legislation . ( Laughter . ) But was it ever
heard , that after having done this , we retained the Government in office , because it meanly discarded and basely flung , away the very principle that brought , it in ( cheers)—¦ that it should take the worst principle it could find , ride into office on its shoulders , and then kick ifc down stairs ? ( Laughter and cheers . ) That was unexampled , he ( Mr . Lowe ) would venture to say , in the history of this or any other country ( hear , hear ); and therefore , although he did believe the present Ministry had resigned the worn-out doctrine of Protection , he must be excused from reposing in them the least more confidence than lie did when they
held and avowed that principle as their rule of conduct . ( Laughter and cheers . ) The interests of this country were great and manifold ; they extended over a large portion of the world ; they involved matters of utmost moment to us all : let us then select our Government on some intelligible principle . ( Hear , hear . ) If it pleased us to have them because of their being Protectionists , let us require them to stick to protection ; if they thought proper to giveit up , what business had they in ollice ( hear , hear)—max who had surrendered the only principle they ever had , and taken no new one whatevcV in exchange ? " ( Cheers . )
Again : — " Lord Dei-by ' s Government came into office as Protectionists . What were they there for now ? They told ua they were in ollice in order to ' preserve the altar and tho throne . ' Very good objects certainly ; but , who was there that wished to lay his sacrilegious hand upon the altar , or to stretch forth his traitorous arm against the throne ?" ( Cheers . ) And lie likened the trick to the coup-d ^ ctat of the 2 nd of December , with great effect . After describing the kind of men who might bridle democracy , supposing democracy needed the bit , he asked ¦ -
" -Hut we ' re the present Government the men—( hose who had been arraying clans against class , and teaching us to live like wild beasts preying upon one another ? Was it lo be done by ( he friends of t he Duke of Richmond , who talked about bringing lire and sword into the camp ( laughter and cheers ) ? or tho farmers , who reminded us that fhev possessed all the horses in the country , and intimidated us with the prospect , of an agricultural invasion ? ( renewed laughter and cheering ) or my Lord Derby , who only hist year could find no milder terms in which fo stir up the tepid enl husiasm ol ' his agricultural supporters than those of the Duke of Wellington , ' Up , Guards , and at I hem' ? ( Cheers . ) ' Wore those the men that would assuage popular fury ? leather , it" such a crisis as they
predicted were to come , were t hey not ( he men who would be its first , victims instead ol' its repressers ? It was all very well to talk about , ' putting down democracy , ' hut , ( Ins country was not to lie ruled , tike I'Yance or Germany , by the sword . (( 'beers . ) We ( continued Mr . Lowe ) wo are free , mill we mean to have our will , ( Great cheering . ) And if it should be our will which I I rust it never shall be to change our admirable monarchy , and our admirable constitution , for unbridled democracy , it , is not my Lord Derby , nor my Lord Malinesbury ( laughter ) , nor > Sir I ' . Kelly ( renewed laughter ) , no , nor a thousand such men , long bunded together agninnl . our commercial freedom , thai , would stop the onward movement , of public opinion
a singly inch . ( Cheers . ) II , may be , in l / rancc , I hat , when the ' people elect , a President , they elect , a master ; but , ( . had is not so in kuglaml ; we appoint our Ministers , not lobe our maulers , but lo execute our will . ( Cheers . ) I ( . is from us ( hat . the power is derived . , ( Iv ' enewed cheering . ) Wo do nol , appoint a Government l <> check and to control us us , ( he , people' of Kngland ( hear , hear ) ; we appoint it . to bear I he sword of ju . it iee , b > curb malefactors , lo make I ho laws obeyed , but not . to set itself against , public opinion ( bear , bear ) , not lo c . ny to ( he united will of a great na-( ion , 'Thus far shall . Ihou go , and no further . ' ( Cheers . ) We can net our own limit , wo can legislate for ourselves and fix ( ho limits , without necking for control from mon who
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September 18 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 891
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1852, page 891, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1952/page/7/
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