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THE DANISH STRUGGLE . The struggle in Denmark for Constitutional rights and responsible Government goes on without cessation . The king , urged on by the defeated and irritated Ministers , on raged at the impeachment hanging over them , dissolved the Parliament on the 21 st . The admirable correspondence of the Morning Chronicle keeps us fully informed . Writing on the 23 rd , the writer says : — " Taken aback by the vigorous measures of the Danish Parliament , while the Premier himself publicly admitted in the House that the address ' was very moderate , ' Ministers held a Cabinet council on Wednesday , and most of them were inclined to throw up the game and
resign at oace . But the actual sjnritus rector of the administration , the German Minister of Holstein , Count Reventlow Criminil , was furious . He would listen to no opposition , would give way in nothing . The War Minister ( Hansen ) supported him . I am told that this party advocated vigorous measures—the immediate suspension of -tlie liberty of the press , the forbiddal of all public meetings , and the proclamation of Copenhagen in a state of martial law-. This was resisted by the more peaceful part }' , Oersted and Tillisch , while Sponneck ( the Danish vicar of Brav ) was , as usual , betwixt and
between . At last they haired their differences , and agreed to the- immediate dissolution of the Commons ' House , thus making three dissolutions by this Ministry In the space of twenty months—an unlieard-of abuse of the constitution , an entire illegality . Instead of retiring after repeated votes of want of confidence , they cling to their posts , and make king and people , and law and Parliament their victims . . This is , of course , sheer despotism . It will be ended by the Parliament not having passed any budget tor the next year : If the taxes are collected by force , it will be a . court-military revolution ; the people -will rise and resist .
u Having determined on the illegal dissolution , the Ministry have executed the same in the most violent manner possible . At noon on Saturday the Ministers , "with the exception of those for the duchies , appeared in the Lower- House , and Oersted read the royal proclamation , which disbands the Chamber . It was not entirely unexpected , but it came much earlier than was judged likely . It was received most calmly , the Speaker archly remarking that the Premier ' s name was down as debater on a bill then on its course through the House , and that tb _ e dissolution would of course deprive them of the pleasure of hearing him . Not a tongue breathed the name of the kins , who is the passive instrument in
this immense Russian conspiracy ; but the llev . Dr . Lindberg loudly exclaimed , ' Hurrah for the unchanged constitution of the Danish kingdom , ' which was responded to by the most enthusiastic plaudits , which must have been heard by the Ministers , although they decamped -with , the most unseemly rapidity .- Lively cheers were then given for the Speaker of the House , Mr . Attorney Rotwitt , who has iillod his office Avith great tact , and talent , and calmness . The crowded galleries continued tlie display by deafening vioats for the Danish Parliament , and loud cries of ' Down with the Ministry . ' The curtain thus went down on another act of the Russian-Prussian whole-state blow at the
rights and liberties of the Danish nation . " According to the Danish ground-law , whenever the one Cluimber is dissolved , the other adjourns ita sittings till a new session of Parliament . The Lower House being dissolved , the Speaker of the Lands-thing prorogued the sittings of that Chamber on the 23 rd . One of thu < members ( Wcssely ) then exclaimed , ' The constitution of the Danish kingdom for ever ! ' which was loudly responded to in nine cheers . The galleries then gave ' The Danish Parliament for ever ! ' also in nine vevuts , and the sitting waa over . " The people ineun . to resist ; how Jar remains to be seen .
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GERMANY AND RUSSIA . Vienna , October 25 . Somis months ago it was rumoured in Vienna that a Bavarian army would occupy the Austro-Italian , provinces , and lately tho same report circuLutcd in circles Avhiuh are generally well informed . It in aaid that , in order to avoid a rupture with Austria , the second-rate States Avill consent to march a powerful body o federal troops into tho Lombardo-Venetian kingdom , > vhich meusuro would enable the Austrian Government to move the whole of tho Italian army to thu northern frontiers of tho umpire . The forces under Marshal Rudetzky consist of aoino 120 , 000 men , with lf > () jruns , and if thin
army was placed in ttohemiaund Moravia , Austria could entirely disponflo with tho assistance of Prussia . No guarantee can bo given for tho correctness of tho intelligence , but it in said that one part of M . Von dcr Pfordteii ' . s mission nt Ucrlin wan to make an arrangement -with 1 'ruHnln . for n . s . iistiiig Austria in tin ; wuy above-mentioned . ( Jcnoral Hum either considuo tho ( lunger of an attack on , Uuliciu imminent , or hw in of opinion that proveuilon is better than euro , for i | , wan yiwtonlny resolved at tho Council of War tluiL tho " roinninder" of tho urniy whoukl bo pl / iuud on a war footing . Tho gjxrritioni of Vioimu , which may ho about 10 , 01 ) 0 ntroiiK , lutH received ardors to bo propurod to 11 lurch at -1 K hours' notice .
A Vieimii eorrrapoiulonl . of tho Aut / abtou ) ( JazeCle ban given Ihu following hitortiHUng information relative to tho Aiirttriuu nrmy i — li !) , HO 0 men , witli 144 tfiinn , nru posted in tho ( Joriniin proviiKum ( in Austria ) , under tho conimwnd of ( Jcnoml Count . WimpJlbu . Tho army undor Marnhsd Kadot / Jiy , in tho Loinhardo-Voikutiau provlnouu , anil ( in tho right bank of tlio Po , connlnta of 117 , 000 men , with 1 ( 10 gum * . The " mobile" ur my iu Ualicia ,
the Bukovina , and the Danul > ian Principalities , with the reserves iu Hungary and Transylvania , is composed of 30 Infantry regiments , 10 battalions of Chasseurs , 16 regiments of heavy and 18 of light cavalry , 12 battalions of IBordor troops , 24 : de ' pfit battalions , and 25 field and 18 reserve- batteries . The total is 225 , 800 men , with 200 field and 144- reserve guns . The troops are thus distributed : —In the Panubian Principalities 24 , 000 men ( this is m « h below the mark ) , in Hungary and Transylvamia . &SyQOO mien ,, in Galicia and the Bukovi » a 80 , 000 and in the . district 1 of Cracow 63 , 000 men . The forces under Ban . JelLx&hich and General Mainula consist of 25 , 400 troops , of the line and 70 , 000 Borderers , with 72 guns . In the Federal fortresses in Germany are 12 , 800 mem . -with 24 r guns . According to this calculation , the military force of Austria is- composed of
522 , 200 men , with 664 guns ,. and this is probably below rather than above , the mark-. We are told that the Emperor of Russia- is a . great actor . Before his sous , Michael and Nicholas , left for- Bessarabia , he gave them his solemn blessing , in the . presence of the 30 , 000 men forming the reserve of the Ii&perial Guard . After the ceremony waa over ; the Emperor knelt down : his sons imitated his example , and . at the word of command the 30 , 000 guardsmen did the same . The Heriditary Orand-Duke Alexander was daily , expected at Warsaw to inspect the Guard Corps , whose commander ho is . The Grand-Duke Gonstwitiiie is the only Russian Prince who remains at has father ' s- side . All the troops which were in the north of the empire aie on their way to the south , and the Russian aimy befrwees the Austrian frontier in Volhyiiia and SebastopoL in tbe Crimea will amount to about 400 , 000 men .
A letter from Ste Petersburg , of the 18 th nit ., in the Press of Vienna , says :- —• " Count Nesselrode had yesterday a long confidential conversation with , the Czar at Gatchim , and shortly after a courier was despatched to the Russian ambassador at Berlin , with instructions as to his conduct hi the attempts made to bring about a better understanding between Prussia antbiAustriti . The Russian Cabinet in this note by-no means- seems inclined to make concessions , declaring that dfcdfesires t » follow in every circumstance the policy ¦ ¦ which it- has hitherto followed in the Eastern affair ; if even Sebastopol were to fall and the Crimea ta be- - lost , ' Russia- ' will not yield the slightest
portion of tbe rights which aa \ j ensured to her by treaties in the Eastt Russia , the- note declares , is- the most powerful state in the Bast * and -will remain so in spite of every check ; : she < has-not > yet brought forward her principal forces , a-nd the' "Western Powers have no cause of triumph . The Russian , ambassador at Berlin is to read this despatch- , to . M . de Manteutfel , but without leaving him . a copy . It is said that the Czar Iras himself strengthened some- passages of the despatch drawn up by M . do Nesselrode , which did not appear to him energetic enough ; Tho . troops- of the station of the White Sea arrived , here ; this ( Lay ; they are to remain here a week , and will : then- take tlieir departure for the south . "
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AiSrOTHEll ARCTIC EXPEDITION . Dr . Uae ^ writing to tho Times on Monday , says that " two overland . cNpeditiuns . huve been decided upontho one in l ) Oiits , to go down tho Mackenzie River in search of Captain Colliuson , about the safety of whom there is now some anxiety ; the other , in canoes , down Back's Mslx lUver , to make further inquiry into the fato of Sir J . Franklin ' s people , and to endeavour to obtain some more relics ; and
should any of tho remains o > f the dead be found , to place them decently under ground . About noon on Friday it was arranged , by thu Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty * and Captain Shepherd , Deputy-Governor of tho Hudson ' s I 3 a » y Company , that these expeditions should be left wholly in tho hands of the Hudson ' s Buy Company , un < l tho same evening tho Deputy-Governor had po . sU'd letters to Sir George Simpson , territorial Governor , containing full details as to the objects and mode of carrying into effect these expeditions , "
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THIfl PUJBLIC HEALTH ; Tins cholera , has now nearly departed from Xjondon . 15 ut it raged hero ami tlroro in the provinces ; notably at Worcester and Merthyr Tydvil . In London , tho Refjintmr-Gcneral says thut " tho cholera epidemic it * for thin muwon quickly pnn , iing away , and that , the total mortality bus nearly nwuinud it . t fornntr position . In the week Unit undod <»« . Saturday tlii ) number of doatbm reglnt « rfld from all cuunon wart 1228 . In the t « n corresponding widen <> C ( h <> years 1 H-14-GH the iiveniK number of doatlm wa « t )'> 2 , mid with a correction for incrouno of population , 104 7 . Tins nxce . in of last week la 1 H 1 . Tim ( lisHt . lm from diolora , which were 10 « in th « prtsrodhiR wsult , have fallen to (>(> ; thoHH iVom ( IIiutIkuh "r « ' 1 U . " In a auppUfmciit to tho iiuurtorly return is thu following ttUitciucnt : —
"Thw following irt " ¦ coiiipluto ntturn of tho munbtir of douthrt from olu » l « rii iwd from dlnrrliiDu in Knglimd tuid Wulfs , for tl » u MMih * of Jul > , Auguttt , uad HupXwnbor .
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THE CZAR'S OWN ACCOUNT OF HIS MISSION . The St- Petersburg Court Journal , of tlie 29 th , publishes am article worthy of notice , as it contains a sort of programme of Russia ' s policy , and announces without circumlocution the objects which Russia seeks to attain by the present war . At first it states that the demands made by the Western Powers , of the Porte , in regard to placing the rights of its subjects upon the same level , go twice as far as was intended to be demanded by Itussia , especially through Prince Menschikoff ' s mission . The journal cautiously avoids touching upon the fact that Russia ' s supreme object was to confirm these rights through her own protectorate . "If , " says the Court Journal , " it was the conviction of the Western Powers
that it was essential to carry out their object , they should have said , on the Prince being- sent to Constantinople : ' You ask too little . You only demand the half in the entire equality . ' Had tins been done , the unhappy conflict might have been avoided , and the ' faithless publication of the blue book' rendered superfluous . The noble and decided language addressed by the Emperor in regard to Turkey does not reflect upon him ( adds the Cotirt Journal ' ) the slightest spot as monarch , Christian , or ally , because the existence of the Ottoman rule is an anomaly , a thing deprived of vitality . England was in her heart convinced of the rights and justice of the Emperor , but concealed her own grasping intentions in order to convert them at the proper moment
to her own special advantage . Did not England , fear the power and unbending character of the Emperor , the world -would never have witnessed a union between Franre and England ( the terrible sore in the eyes of Kussid , and its coadjutor , Prussia ) . England looked about for an ally which , after the object was attained , might "be more easily thrown overboard than Russia . Russia ' s mission is certainly great . She is called upon to sot limits to the materialism of England . France holds a secondary position . She is a inere bubbling political whirlpool ; not a durable and generally destructive inundation . We must light England , because she alone , and not France , is the focus and support of . all revolutionary principles . It is not Russia , but England ,
who , imbued to the core with ' mercantilism , ' treads under foots humanity and the rights of men . It is llussia ' -3 mission to protect Europe from the torrents of the West . As formerly the stream flowed from East to West—now the reverse is the case . No matter lwsv the causes for the war may be regarded , that between Russia and Turkey is founded ori religious grounds . Through the policy of the Western Powers the wai has , however , assumed the character of a struggle between Conservatism and Communist revolution . Only one path is open to the Emperor—that of right and honoiiT . He
will-adhere to his word not to make conquests , but at the same time it is his mission to restore Russian ' preponderance ' on the Kosphorus , because that is absolutely requisite for the development (!) of Russia , and tbe re-esta . l ) lish ment of order . It is Kussia ' s holy duty to establish and consolidate the dominion of Christianity on the Bosphorus . Finally , the Emperor , as the strong rock and defender of Europe , has to fuliii the lofty mission of consolidating European Conservatism . To attiiiu this object Russia must carry on an obstinate war , "which will break down England ' s avuriee , and unconditionally terminate Turkish misrule . "
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THE SYDENIIAM FETE . Tub Crystal Fahvco Company resolved to sot apnrt one day ' s receipts for tho Patriotic Fund . To attract a large concourse , they obtained tho scrvicoB of thirteen military bauds , including that of tho French ' cavalry rojjiiiicnt , known as " Ijus Guides " . —^ vcry showy follows in scarlet , anil amber , and green , r > G in nuniljei' , and acting' in France as tho Emperor ' s private baud . Saturday was tho appointed day of celebration . It was perfectly successful , Nearly 40 , 000 people crushed their way into tho grounds of
tho palace by train , and many arrive . I by processor best known to themselves . Tlie bands were wtationod in divers parts of tlio fabrio , and they maintained un ¦ uninternutted flood of music all tho morning . Tlie " Guides ? ' played " ( Jod save tho Queen , " the ( Guards performed " L ' ai'tant pour la Syrie . " Iu tho ulternoon all ftUe bands pluyod in oonoort on tho lower tcrraco , and tbo multitudes gathered Hko hues on the uppur tertraues and tho gnlluriciH of tlio palaco . Thou they rytiarncdiuul plavod again . The "Guides , " decidedly popular , were gratified by an encore .
Sir Joseph . A \ ixton , in a moment of imlicxsrool enthuHiiimu , quickly put down by tho daily proas , actually propoHBil « . Hiibacription in aid of the French ¦ wounded , because tho " Ouidoa" played at tho palace ftUe !
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November 4 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 1039
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 4, 1854, page 1039, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2063/page/7/
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