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they consecrate their labours and their learning to the defence of the rights of the Holy See , and to combat the opinions ( read , the Gallican doctrines ) which are contrary to the authority of the Holy See . " You may regard this encyclical letter as a death-stroke to the Gallican doctrines , and the definitive triumph of Ultramontanism in France . For a little while . ' The trial of the affair of the Foreign Correspondents began the day before yesterday ( Tuesday ) . The sittings of the Court are almost secret , on account of the rough verses ( vers croustillants ) , which I mentioned to you in a former letter , of a lampoon on the Empress . The
police represented the public on this occasion . No advocate not concerned on the trials was allowed to enter the Court . The advocate of M . Coetlogon was ill ; M . Plocque appeared for him . He defended * his client against all imputations of any connexion with secret societies . " There is no proof at all of the fact , " he exclaimed . There remains , then , against M . Coetlogon nothing but the affirmation of the Government Law Officers . " M . Dufaure , sometime Minister of the Interior under Cavaignac and Bonaparte , now reduced to the simple functions of an advocate , defended M . Planhol . He exhibited in the defence extreme skill and address .
" Thebe is no other peoof existent agaiust M . PiiAiraoi . ( he said ) than a letter ; and that IiEtteb was inteecepted at the post , and bead bit the police , instead of being fobwabded to its addbess . The question , then , is this , will you , as judg es , as men of honoub , by youb sentence in this case , make toubselve 3 accomplices of the VIOLATION OF THE SECBECY OF LETTEBS ? Then protesting with great vehemence against the infamy of SUCH A VIOLATION , and DECI / ABING THAT IT WAS THE ACT OF NONE BUT THE VILEST GOVEBNMENTS , * M . Dufaure cited several decrees of the old Parliaments , and several other more recent ones of the Court of Cassation , to prove that no legal proceedings could BE FOUNDED ON THE VIOLATION OF THE SECEECY OF
lettebs . Ihis speech of AT . Dufaure was warmly applauded by the few advocates present in the Court . Rovigo was ill ; nevertheless , he determined to present himself for trial . He defended himself against the charge of having written the scandalous quatrain against the Empress—saying that he was not the man to insult a woman : meanwhile , however , he took the opportunity of repeating the quatrain in question four times over , and commenting upon it—protesting at intervals that he was incapable of committing 6 uch an infamy . A great number of letters were read , and a mass of correspondence inserted in the Nation and the
Observateur , Brussels journals . As these journals don t penetrate into France , and contain a heap of jokes and incidents of which the Parisian public is deprived ( sevre ) , it was the lust for such select reading that had attracted so many members of the Bar to the trial . Doctor Flaudin , the only Republican included in the indictment , appears with the rest only for the form . No charge lies against him . The trial still continues ; and at the moment of writing I don't know the result . It is thought that the judges will acquit the accused , if not of all , of the greater number of the charges . The speech of M . Dufaure was too stinging not to affect the judges .
Blanqui and Cazavan , in prison at Belleisle , have made a fruitless attempt to escape . They are now caught again . It seems that on the- evening of the 4 th they dressed up two dummies in their own clothes , and placed them—the one representing Blanqui before * According to M . Dufaure , then , the British Liboral-Consorvative Cabinet , including "Lord Palmerston tind Sir William Molcsworth , is ono of " tho vilest Governmonts . " Even in Franco thoro is still enough of public spirit left to stigmatize those odious abuses of espionage—a word once declared by Lord Pahnorston himself to have no representative in tho English language . Such are the
benefits of a Coalition Cabinet . What a pure Tory Government would never dare- to attempt , exposed to the constitutional jealousy of a Liberal opposition , this confusion of Conservatives of one idea , v / ho have not tho courage or tho honesty to bo Tories , with parliamentary and philosophical Radicals , duly caught and tamed by Downing-strcot and tho Palace , stealthily accomplishes with profosHions of liberty and patriotism on its lips . Like Don Juan bohind the cloak of Loporollo , Lord Palrnerston , tho debonair revolutionist , far ( son ) excollonce , who betrayed Poland , Hungary ,- Italy , and Sicily , ono after tho otfior ,
panders to Absolutism behind the « louk of his own past bad reputation Cm Austria ) for fashionable incendiarism . And Lord Aberdeen , with his Peelito nondescripts , < 1 oon what Lord Malmenbury was never found out doing , Iwhind tho cloak of a couple of domesticated Radicals . Lord John , in tho memorable Pacilioo dobato , naid , " Lord Palin srs ton is neither a French nor an Austrian Minister , but an Kurdish Minister . " So it is tho characteristic of " English Ministers" to open letters and employ spies ! Tho met is , our prosont Ministcrx have neither tho bad courage to be thoroug hly Austrian , nor tho dignity <« bo | ioroughly Engliah . —Ej > . jp < wirfcr ,
the fire , with his elbows on the table . The turnkey when he closed the cells in the evening saw the two dummies , and talcing them for the prisoners , closed the doors upon them . During this time Blanqui and Cazavan were hidden in the atelier . They descended through a trap-door into the court , and thence , by scaling two walls , they managed to get to the open country , ran to the" shore , and there wandered about , in vain search of a boat to get away from
the Island . As day began to break , they made away precipitately to a farm , and hid themselves in the barn ; but the alarm was given . At five o ' clock in the morning their hiding-place was discovered : all the troops and the gendarmerie were on the alert ; the two prisoners were soon discovered . Blanqui wounded himself severely in the leg : a fragment of a broken glass bottle , stuck on one of the walls he had to scale , drove into his foot . He was obliged to be transported to the court-house in a wagon .
We have news from Constantinople to the 31 st ult . The Porte was temporizing , waiting the arrival of the English and French ambassadors . The Russian armaments continued still : all the troops of the interior of Russia are transported in steamers , by the Don and the Volga , to the Black Sea . The veterans have been recalled into active service . The French fleet has arrived at Salamis . The British fleet was still at anchor in Malta harbour on the 8 th inst ., with no signs of a move . . S .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . We have little to notice of political movements on the Continent , but that little is portentous . First , from its obvious connexion with , the most striking event of the week , at home . We present the reader with the following remarkable passage from the semi-official organ of the Germanic Diet , the Frankfort Post Gazette . The source from whence it was derived is Vienna : it is signally substantiated by the proceedings of our own Home Office . " It is now confirmed that the Pkussian police were most efficiently assisted in the 1 ate political arrests at berlin and elsewhere by repeated communications from the police of london , without which many of their discoveries might not have been made . in this we see a proof of the good faith of the british government , when , through Lord Westmoreland , it assured the Cabinet of Vienna that it would watch over the conduct of the refugees . we learn from other sources that the London police has for some time kept lists of all the fugitives residing there , add watches over their communications with the continent . " It must be remembered , that when the Von Beck affair was brought to light , a statement was made which has never been contradicted , that under Lord John Russell's Government , a Foreight Branch of the English Police Fobce was established . Have we not now more reason than ever for believing this statement ?
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Tho second point of interest in continental politics , is the probable re-establishment of despotism in Spain . Tho Opposition for some time past has waxed in strength , and taking advantage of a discussion on the railway administration of the last Cabinet , has exposed the unconstitutional proceedings of both Ministries . It is quite clear that jobbing has gone on in railway matters , ana the Marquis d'Alduoro do Concha openly designated the husband of Queen Christina as the " evil genius of the Government , " through whoso influence tho shamoful railway concessions to Senor Salamanca have been made . I Ce declared what was affirmed with much more emphasis by General
Prim in the other Chamber , that the Queen was no party to tho attempts of either Ministry to govern without the concurrence of tho Cortes ; to silence tho tribune , and gag the press ; and so to screen the illegalities of hor Ministers . They had placed themselves between the Sovereign anil tho country , in order to carry out their own personal and antinatinnal schemes . Of course , General Roncali saw that all this was " contrary to the dignity of the Government , " and , therefore , could not bo true ; and tho Senate broke up in a state of great excitement , without coming to any vote . General Prim , in tho Chamber of Deputies , spoke with much more emphasis : —•
" There , " he said , " was Bravo Murillo , a man who bad broken fourscore laws while in office , and yet he went up and down tho kingdom , came and went just as ho pleased , as if nothing had happened . However coolly that ex" ' ininistor might bo disposed to take it , u fow days would show whether or not a guilty minister was to go unpunished . Tho mutilation of the constitution proposed under tho name of reform was bad enough , but that was only a threatened evil . Thoro woh something worso , which was at tho same time actual arid present ; it was the anarchy
caused by tho protonco of governing by a constitution the most important proscriptions of which were neglected at pleasure . Spain was not dead , whatever M hunters in their blindness might supposo : thoro was still blood and heart in the nation . Spaniards had not fought to maintain ono Bourbon prince against anothor , but to seat tho constitutional Isabella IT . on tho throno to tho ontiro exclusion of absolutism . " Theso debates , which occupied both houses on tho Oth , wore resumed on the 7 th , and were- proceeding with increased warmth when tho post loft on that day . On the 8 tb inst . a Royal Doproo nuporsodod tho ( sittings
of the Cortes : but on the 9 th , General Roncali , finding himself not strong enough for the occasion , tendered his resignation to the Queen , which was accepted within twenty-four hours . The latest accounts state that General lersundi , Captain-General of Madrid , has been called upon to form a Government , and the Cortes has resumed its sittings .
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Public spirit in Germany does not seem to be quite extinguished by the presence of absolutism . As -we know , the constitution of Hesse Cassel was abolished by the intervention of the Germanic Diet . The constitution was remodelled by the elector . On the 6 th inst ., the Diet , as newly formed , met and proceeded at once to discuss the political relations of the state . By a very large majority it was declared that the Germanic Diet , although entitled to call for tho modification of special points , had not the right to abolish the old constitution of Hesse Cassel , and that this was still the fundamental law of the state . The decision took the government by surprise .
The Prussian Chambers , too , have shown a spark of life . In the second chamber the government proposed a bill on the organization of urban communes , and in the preamble stated that his Majesty ordained thus and thus , " having consulted the provincial diets . " These ancient local legislatures , narrow in their constitution , spirit , and powers , are in great favour with the squirearchy of the kingdom , and are equally disliked by all constitutionalists , as it is well understood that their chief use is to be played off against the popular chamber . On the Ilth the preamble was debated , when M . Vincke , leader of the Left , in concert with M . Bethman-Hollweg , leader of the moderate conservatives , condemned the recognition of provincial diets as bodies of the state . Notwithstanding the strenuous opposition of the government , the house resolved upon striking out the obnoxious words , and the bill , if it pass , will be simply the work of the King and the constitutional chambers .
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Last Saturday the young Duke of Brabant , heir to the Belgian throne , came of age ( 18 ) , and was duly installed as a member of the Senate . The event was duly celebrated : the interior of the hall was decorated with the national colours , and crowded with ladies , representatives , and Foreign Ministers . When the Duke had taken the seat prepared for him , he was addressed by the Prince de Xigne , who , with an obvious allusion to the Emperor of the French , reminded the future successor of Leopold I . of the patriotic services and enlightened conduct of that monarch , " the faithful observer of sworn faith . " He then took the oath , and made a very suitable reply , in which he congratulated himself on having entered on his Parliamentary life , where he might , be able to acquire experience in public affairs , and expressed himself in the strongest terms on the independence and future welfare of the country .
At a banquet given by tbe Chamber of Deputies to King Leopold , His Majesty spoke with a noble modesty of his son ' s capabilities , and pointed out very emphatically that the only way they could preserve the independence they liad so gallantly won was by steadily -working together .
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Count Revel , the Sardinian Minister , as announced by our Paris correspondent , last week , has quitted Vienna en conqS . The official journal of Turin protests on behalf of the Piedmontese Government against an article of the Journal des De"bats , in which it was stated that the Sardinian Cabinet was ready to deliver up to Austria , under certain conditions , the refugees against whom proofs of complicity in the late insurrection at Milan could bo brought . Tho 41 st , 47 th , and 49 th Regiments have arrived at Malta , to relieve the 70 th Regiment , and reinforco tho garrison of that island . On tho 2 nd inst . the good Prince Ghika entered his capital amidst the cheers of its inhabitants , and resumed tho government of Moldavia . The French Emperor has made Eossini a Commander , and Ponsard , the poet , an Officer , of tho Legion of Honour .
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INDIAN JUDGES . Thk arrival of" the Overland Mail brings interesting news from Bombay . Lord Falkland has suspended two judges . It appears that a Mr . Luiml was a judge in Surat . In 1845 a case ciune before him , in the trial of wliicb , it is stated , he exhibited intemperance : uul partisanship , and gave a wrong decision . His conduct was investigated before the Sudder Court—the Company ' s highest court of judicature in India . That court rovcrsed his decision , and removed him from the bench , giving him , however , an equivalent revenue appointment . Ever since , the dismissed judge has continued to assail the Sudder Court through tho columns of the Bombay Gazette , bin attacks being unceasing and iinspnring . The Sudder judges appealed to Government to protect them against thin persecution ; demanded that tho scandals alleged should be thoroughly investigated ; that Mr . Luurd ( to whom the authorship of the nrticleH bud been clearly traced ) should be called on to prove his charges ; and that the Gazette , should be prosecuted . The Government refused to interfere , and Mr . Luard continued tho newspaper abuse . Lately , he added to its intensity the piquancy of direct personal slander . He singled out two of the Sudder judges by namo . Ho ntiited that Judge Grant and . Fudge Lo Geyt worolxjth notoriously involved in debt ; that Mr . Grant " kept a mistress , " and was in the habit of gambling for largo HiimH at bis club ; and that Mr . Lo Ooyt had made a fictitious transfer of his liabilities previous to deciding
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. April 16 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER , 367
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Leader (1850-1860), April 16, 1853, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1982/page/7/
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