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port to the Ministry of Police at Paris , whence was instantly despatched to Havre the chief of the detective police ( la police de sHrete ) , by name Henricy . This officer summoned the locksmith , who proceeded to put together the pieces of mechanism , and then was fceen to take bodily shape and presence a majestic collection of turn-spits , and kitchen jacks , capstans , and other equally formidable engines of war . The police were dumbfounded with shame : the locksmith was released ; but as the authorities can do no wrong , the poor man was sent off'to Hamburg , and forbidden the French territory This regvrrve of authority is not altogether , it seems , to the taste of M . Guizot . He has recently protested in the following language in favour of liberty : —
" Another principle of life and of moral order" ( he said ) " is wanting now in France : it is hope ! Look around you , and periaps within yourselves ; the discouragement of minds and of hearts is general ; so many disappointments in the past , so many clouds over the future . Doubt , discouragement , and that disquietude , at one time agitated , at another apathetic , but always sterile , which doubt engenders ; this is the misfortune of our aige , even among good people ( les honnetes gens ) . . . . The public peace is
difficult to maintain in the midst of that grand extension of liberty , which is one of the principal characteristics of modern civilization . Liberty itself , all liberties , are sources of dissensions and of struggles , which easily become excesses , disorders , dangers . To suppress the effect , the cause has been , destroyed ; to re-establish peace , liberty is abolished . This is but a momentary remedy , and one which soon wears out—( Memede momentand , et qui s ' use bientot . ) Liberty has become one of the permanent necessities of our society : "
In the meanwhile the Governments are " making their fortunes / ' I mentioned to you that for the concession of the line from Bordeaux to Lyons , the Mastermans of Paris and London -had given De Morny ten millions of francs ( 400 , 000 / . ) You understand , of course , that this sum is not given in hard cash , hut in shares . They have now offered him to buy them back for a sum of six millions ( 240 , 000 ? . ) down on the nail . Need I add , that he has declined the generous offer ?
Unhappily , while the men of the palace and the public offices , the satellites and the parasites of power , are gorging themselves with wealth , basking in imperial favours , and swimming in floods of luxury , a great number of working men are without a home wherein to lay their heads . The exorbitant rise in rents has literally driven them out of doors , and forced them to sleep in the streets . Then again the extraordinary rise in the price of all articles of primary necessity has made it impossible for them to be content with their present wages . Hence they are daily threatening to strike work , one trade after another . At Paris , the
government has ordered the masters to yield . In some trades the prudhommes , after consultation , have raised the wages twopence halfpenny ( 25 centimes ) a day , where the workmen demanded fivepence . But in the provinces , where the government is under no apprehensions of t he working men " descending into the streets , " 200 , 000 men in arms , the reclamations of the operatives have been fruitless . Thus , at liouen , out of 180 cabinet-makers , 130 were deserted by their workmen , who demanded fifty centimes ( fivepence ) a
day increase of wages . They rested their demand on the rise in the price of all , the most strictly necessary , provisions , and in the better condition of their brother-workmon in the other great cities of France , and particularly at Havre . But the government did not mince matters with them . Several among them were arrested by the police ; and only , after having been compelled to promise to keep quiet ( d'etre Men saqes ) were thqy released . A few of the more obstinato were summoned into court ,
and , on Saturday last , eight of these courageous citizens were condemned to ten days' imprisonment . The Republicans , who aro suspected of plotting against the Government , aro being daily confined to certain prescribed districts , { internes ) In the Courier de Qard , I find the following paragraph on this subject : — " Ulysse Lnrrey , condemned to transportation to Algerin , had his punishment commuted to internement in the department of tho Iscro . On tho pressing solicitation of his friends , he had subsequently obtained
permission to fix hiH residence in tho ( jnrd . Tho Prefect of tho ( lard , having learnt that the presenco of the nuid Larrey might be not without danger for the public tranquillity , has just ordered him to return to tho spot where his settlement was first fixed . * Tlui Government , fearing too largo an agglomeration of working-men at Paris , has ordered that no piuwporU shall be given to workmen , in tho provinces , desirous , of going to tho metropolis . On thin subject , tho Prefect of tho Rhino has addressed the following circular to tho mayors of his department :
" Monsieur ra : MairtS , — I am informed that a great number of working-men , in the departments , are disposed to go to Paris , attracted thither by the considerable works which were carried on in the metropolis last year . It is the duty of the Government to take care that the influx of operatives into the capital do not exceed the requirements of the public works , and that they do not become an embarrassment , which it were better to prevent , with a view to the maintenance of public order and security . Consequently , I beg to remind you of the instructions contained in a circular of my predecessor , which expressly recommended you to deliver no passports for Paris to working men , except to such as can satisfy you of their having a certainty of work in the capital , and at least a sum of 150 francs ( 61 . ) to start with . "
This is the way in which our working men are penned off in each department like flocks of sheep ! S .
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* If Lord Palmorston , tho TAbaral Minister , remain long enough ut tho Homo OMm , wo may hope to urrive ut iku ¦ tato of things our » olv « s . —J £ d .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . The Moniteur of yesterday contains a decree for a levy of 80 , 000 recruits . M . Dubois , the Imperial accoucheur , has passed three nights at the Palace . The Empress is reported to be " much better . " Unable to intimidate Switzerland into compliance with its demands on the Italian frontier , Austria has stirred up the smouldering faction of the ultramontane and absolutist priestly party in Switzerland to revolt and violence against the legal authorities of Fribourg . It appears that the partisans of the Sonderbund , defeated in 1847 , now finding Switzerland menaced at once by Prussia and Austria , while France remained indifferent , if not hostile ,
thought the moment propitious for a coup de main Accordingly , on the 22 nd inst ., they got up a serious Smeute at Fribourg , which was not extinguished without bloodshed and some loss of life . Three or four hundred peasants , brutishly priestridden and savagely superstitious , headed by priests with banners blasphemously dedicated to the " Blessed Virgin" and to " Holy Church , " and imploring the aid of the Mother of God and of all the saints , got possession of the College . They were led by a Colonel Perrier , a species of buccaneering bravo not worthy to be called a soldier of fortune , who has been in the service of the Pacha of Egypt and of the King of Naples ; and who now , after an attempt to worm himself into the good graces of the patriotic and national party , has sold himself to Austria and Papal intrigues .
At four in the morning of the day mentioned , this band of fanatical peasants , marshalled by monks , and led by a cut-purse adventurer , having secured the two upper gates of the town , occupied the Jesuit ' s college before a sufficient number of citizens could be aroused to offer any effectual resistance . The civic guard and the militia , however , responding to the first cry of alarm , were soon upon the scene , and at once assailed the avenues of the college . A sanguinary but brief conflict now ensued . M . Carrari fell in front of the college , pierced with several balls , and two of the militia were also killed . The bravery of tho legal forces , however , prevailed . All the avenues of the building were carried at the point of the sword , and a large number of tho insurgents were compelled to yield themselves prisoners . Amongst the more considerable of Zivrich Gazette
the latter were names which , as the New romarks , show how ably the affair had been calculated . Colonel Perrier himself , wounded slightly on his head , was captured . Some of the leaders escaped . By eight o ' clock order was completely restored , although the excitement of tho public , amounting to exasperation , was very great . M . Perrier has since oeen tried by court-martial . The rivic guard , which lost several of its members , among others a father of nine children , demanded that he should be condemned , as he well deserved , to death , but clemency prevailed , and he was sentenced to thirty years' imprisonment in irons . This fratricidal attempt of tho priestly party is tho more criminal that tho federal assembly , in a spirit of conciliation , recently absolved tho cantons , which composed tho lato Sondorbund , from tho debt towards tho eonfedoration incurred in the campaign of 1847 .
Carrart , one of the leading insurgents , and one of the most bloodthirsty , was killed . Ho was only pardoned in 3850 , when ho swore never to take arms again against tho Government . On the 23 rd , the town was completely restored to tranquillity , and martial law had ceased . The Government of Freiburg baa made a report of the affair to tho federal executive , without , however , invoking its assistance—a Huffieiont answer to thoso writers who have asserted that the Cantonal Government ruled by other strength than that which it derives from tho sympathies of t no poonlo . Tho civic ; guard fought , very well ; they were placed in a very difficult position , having had , in order to reach tho College , to ascend two flights of atops , and to pass through n . narrow street . Tho carabineers hoou dislodged the peasants , who woro stationed at tho windows . A number took refugo in tho church , whoro they wore fired on with
grape * . Tho Univera and tho Dthor ultramontano papers in Franco and Austria declaim furiously against tho constituted authorities of Freiburg , and represent this Smeute f \ n if tho civic guard woro tho authors of tho riot and tho bloodshed . The Charinari auks , with groat point and force , how it is that tlio journals that bo fiercely denounced tho insurgents at Milan , who at leant woro on ^ afjod in . * doNporato effort to rid thoir country of foreign domination , n » a honlo of arouiswiiiH , havo nothingnow but praiso and pity for thoHo bloodthirsty traitors , who in tho oarly morning HiirpriHo uHloopingoity , and rnurdnr their peaceful countryman in tho mimo of religion P This i » ft question wo may put to certain of our own groat journals , dofenders of the faith in monarchy tuad Jfiuropeau order > flw b « l » noo of
power , and other consecrated enormities . Will the Times be so good as to compare the imeute at Freiburg and the insurrection at Milan . But we forget—the legal Government of Freiburg is " radical , " revolutionary , based on . universal suffrage , and therefore odious to les honnStes qens . Such is the political morality of official Europe ! At the Paris Institute , on Monday week , Lord Brougham read a paper on optics and mathematics , accompanied by demonstrations and calculations on the board .
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A new Ministry has been formed in Holland , and the Second Chamber has been dissolved . The Ministry has published its programme , which promises , in rather vague terms , fidelity to the constitution , independence of the Uoyal executive , concession to the ( Protestant ) feeling of the nation , liberty for all rebgious opinions under due supervision . Great excitement has prevailed in consequence of this Papal aggression .
The Count de Cavoaar , in presenting the bill for an indemnity to the naturalized Lombard refugees , characterized the conduct of the Austrian Government , in the matter of the sequestrations , in the most severe terms , — as not only violating the principles of international law that all civilized nations look upon as sacred , but also the conditions formally established by the treaties latterly concluded between Sardinia and Austria , which consecrate the inviolability of property possessed by the subjects of either power on the territory of the other . The bill was well received by the Chamber . i The Crown Prince of Sardinia has been elected Colonel of the National Guard of Turin .
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The programme of the Spanish Ministry is , like all such documents , a mystification . It promises adherence to the " political system inaugurated by the fortunate accession of her Majesty to the throne" —a phrase which is interpreted by the Constitutionalists at Madrid as a bitter jest , considering that the constitution has been grossly perverted ever since her Majesty Isabella came to the throne . The new Minister of the Interior , M . Egana , in a circular to the Provincial Governors , recommends a discretionary liberty to the press . In the meantime he has been seizing the independent journals at Madrid . The Government promises a great development of " public works "m other words , wholesale jobbery—the recipe of all modern Absolutist Governments to corrupt and materialize their peoples .
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A letter from Milan states , that the deputation to Vienna to present the address drawn up according to the intention of General Giulaye , was coldly and harshly received by the Archduke Charles and the Ministers . They did not see the Emperor . " The distribution of medals ( at Milan ) to those who distinguished themselves on the 6 th February , was done ( continues this letter ) in a manner ridiculously provocative . The troops were drawn out from tho Piazza del Duomo , all along to the Porta Orientale , supported window
with numerous batteries of cannon . The s were hung with tapestry , by order of the military commander , under menace of imprisonment and fine . But not a living being appeared at tho windows , and none even of the people were seen about the streets . The military were greatly incensed at this , and I myself heard one of the officers say to his companion , ' These Italians are marvellously obstinate . The gibbet , impositions , menaces , imprisonments , and nevertheless they will not bow their heads . ' He said truly , and this is our victory and our claim .
"Life becomes odioua and insupportable , from being exposed to insults and provocations of every kind , Are we required to lodge the military ? They insist upon occupying whatever room they chooso ; turn a carpetted salon into a kitchen , hang up their accoutrements on the more elegant pieces of furniture , break , spoil , destroy , and rob without restraint . Tlie palace of Count Anoni was forced to bo cleared out in three hours by its inmates , who were obliged to remove to lieichrnan ' s hotel , oppoaito . Are the military ordered into fresh quarters—they carry off the beds and other furniture that suits thorn , and if a rofusal is attempted they send ten soldiers to enforco obedience . " Ridiculously false statements of Mazzini ' s whereabouts appear continually in tho Austrian papers . At ono time he is said to bo at Malta , at another never to have left Sardinia . Wo havo good reason to assert that both thoao statements aro utterly devoid of truth .
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Tho Journal des DSbats has tho following note , dated Berlin , April 21 : — - " Horr Nocrnor , an officer of tho Crown , has left for London with several agents of our police , to collect evidence of tho supposed connexion between t ho plot discovered hero and the machinations of tho political refugees living in London . " A Berlin journal states that tho shells discovered lately by tho polico at Rostock aro exactly similar to thoso discovered at Eothorhithe . ( Granulated gunpowder in both , we suppose . ) A rogular congress of sovereigns is announced to meet afc Vienna in tho forthcoming summer . Tho Emperor of
Itussia proceeds to Warsaw , thence to Berlin , and from Berlin , with tho King of Prussia , to Vienna . Tho King of tho Belgians viuits Berlin and Vienna at tho eoxno timo . Tho King of Bavaria is to bo alfio one of tbo party . It is surely time for tho pooplo to employ spies as well ae tho kings . Louia ' Napoleon , tho juirvenu { is not invitod . "What the King of tho Belgians has to do in this congress ( quo dittble allait il fairo ) wo cannot nay , unU'SH it bo to talk over the eventuality of Fronch annexation . We may romonibor , however , that Leopold Ijoh sorvod morp fchnn onco as a convenient go-botwoon to our constitutional l . hrono , to muk © things pleasant for absolutism . And this in a service with which no ambuMsudor could be bo well trustod . Tliero is no " solidarity , " aftor all , like the " solidarity" of thrones I Tho JL ' i / Bt &fWf tt 0 of Moscow o $ « Mlly *]« M > un © e » thf
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Leader (1850-1860), April 30, 1853, page 419, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1984/page/11/
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