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      NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . iev \ -nnfiVp can be taken of anonymous conoinunicationa . Whatcve ? 1 ? intonded for insertion miist be authenticated bv the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his . good faith . C ommunications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted . it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . A Miscellaneous paragraph in our last impression , headed "A ^ Frenchman ' s Skeich of Three English Workmen , " should linve been acknowledged as a quotation from Household Words . 'J'lie omission was purely accidental . Erratum in Sir A Elton ' s letter , last week . —Seventeen lines from the bottom , for "the dainty disgust of a . favourite ensign , " read " the dainty disgust of a . juvenile ensign . "

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      There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so -unnatural and convTalsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the -world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Arnold .

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      RELIGIOUS PROTECTIONISTS . The Irish Attorney General is proceeding i against a person whose name is presented in . | many forms , one of the latest of which is Pet- I che-uine , a Russian member of the Roman ] church named after the Russian St . Vladimir , | who is accused of burning the New Testament in , | public . The prosecution is instituted for the de- *' fence of religion ; -whereupon ensues a riot in the streets of Dublin , and an outburst of demon- istrations iii Ireland , during Avhich respectable | persons put forth declarations that they re- | j joice in the burning of the . Protestant Bible . | St . Vladimir would have got off with the i ' i assurance that he had not been burning Bibles , I but some other kind of book ; and that if there I were any Protestant Bibles in the heap , it was I by mistake . We cannot see the policy of I tying Pi : rciiEMNE down to his own crime . ' He I was recreant against his act of heroism in dis- I claiming the aggression on the Protestant I volume , and he might have been allowed to I go ; whereas , with the official vindication of I Protestantism , the Attorney Gisnekal has re- | vived the anti-Protestant bigotries of the Irish , lias assisted St . Vladimir and the Russian interests by aggravating a paltry scandal | into a national feud , and has evoked from a Jj multitude of the Irish a new flame of hatred j against all that is English . Where is the 7 advantage ? | Petciikimne committed an unwarrantable j | aggression ; but all churches are aggressive . < J The Poi'ic lins just obtained the permission | of the Emperor of Austhia to render the . 1 clergy throughout the Austrian dominions > f independent of the civil power . The Catholics | of Bohemia have imprisoned a friar converted I to Protestantism , Bouzinski , on the pretext i , that the man was mad . ) At Bologna , a Dominician , who is a member of the Holy Office , has demanded the sur- , render of a man seized by the police because he " belonged" to the Inqxiisition ;—a demand which the Prolegato lias ratified . The JUonmn , Catholic Church therefore is aggressive in Bohcniin , treating Protestantism as lunacy ; it , proclaims itself inviolable by th <; temporal ; power in Bologna , claiming to deal willi its own servants independently ; it asserts it . s supremacy over the whole Austrian Empire ; « iul will , if it can , eat up any other State—Ireland included . It is not , therefore , that wo uis-

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      hatred of his powerful neighbours by keepinS faith with his disheartened subjects . When he assumed the abdicated crown of his father , the Austrian army , victorious at Novara , threatened the borders of his kingdom ; lie made a compact with them , and might have had their assistance in establishing a military government at Turin . The time was ripe for reaction ; for the opportunity of Italy - had passed , and it remained only for the people to suffer and unite , and prepare for future struggles . Victok Emmanuel was tempted by the Imperial Court , and by the Roman Church ; but became their opponent , " and established a new basis of revolution in Italy . He has kept to this honourable course , in spite of many personal afflictions , of obstructions , and of dangers . His alliance with the Western Powers was suggested , of course , by interest ; but by interest considered from a high point of view , in which it differs from the concessions of England to the French Emperor , and the subterfuges of self-deception by which men persuade themselves , when they flatter a crime , that they act from policy . At the ptiblic receptions of the King of Sardinia , Englishmen may resume their customary style of oratory , and may , unless the French Ambassador be present , refer to " the blessings of civil and religious liberty . " Victor Emmanuel is called by his subjects a gentleman ; he attained the throne without bloodshed , and trusted neither to darkness nor to terror . When he opens the Chambers at Turin , his address is not a mockery : the discussions that follow have real significance . In the capital and in the provinces strangers may converse on the policy of the kingdom without incurring fine and imprisonment . The press is comparatively free , and though impure influences are at work in the capital to promote dynastic schemes in that and other states of Italy , a general health of opinion prevails , and no midnight coup d ' etat is expected . If , therefore , the Sardinian King's welcome be less clamorous than that of the French Emperor , it will be more sincere . The only painful episodes in fa ' s career have been family bereavements . Post prandial eulogists may pronounce the words liberty , fidelity , honour , and perhaps they will not hiss Lord John Russell if he compliments Victor Emmanuel on the advance of civil and religious freedom in his territories . But the moral of the visit will be this : that the French alliance has not wholly demoralised the English people . They are hospitable , and desire to be cordial to an ally . There is something still among them Avhich has an affinity with the good faith and manly spirit of the King of Sardinia , and if this moral power could be brought to the front , if it could lead instead of being lost in the confusion , it woidd bear us through all our difficulties . And this suggests another clement of enthusiasm that Avill be wanting Avhcn the guest of the week arrives . We are not in the war season . The capture of Sebastopol , the suspense of arms , the inevitable delay that must elapse before the next campaign , and the public doubt on the question between Peace and War—deprive the occasion of a meretricious glow , and will render the Kinu ' s welcome at once more sober and sincere . London will be displayed to him under a more natural aspect than that which Louis Napoleon saw . lie will discern the real working of the popular mind , and be enabled to discriminate between opinion and the froth of opinion . No doubt it is one object of his visit to the French and British capitals , to sound the dispositions of the allied governments ! , towards himself and towards his projects—if he have any . In Paris , of course , lie will learn

      nofcTHE KING OF SARDINIA IN ENGLAND . The reception of the King of Sardinia will explain much that was incomprehensible to foreigners in the reception of Louis Napoleon * It was not Louis Napoleon that the majority admired—although they professed a personal admiration ; it was the Ally of England—the disposer of great armies—the French ruler who had conciliated English good-will . We are satisfied that had America joined her fleet with ours , battered the Baltic walls , and landed her free-rifles in the Crimea , an equal enthusiasm would have been excited by the President ' s visit . Nay , whatever Government existed in France , its official representative would have been received as a hero . The absence of certain adventitious circumstances — Louis Napoleon ' s obscure exile in England—his mclo-dramatic adventures— his striking success — his charming bride , with the vulgar prestige of the Regalia , would have toned down the popular excitement ; but the excitement would have been more respectable had it been less exuberant . The serious fault in the manifestation of last summer was its excess . The people , inside and outside the Palace and the Guildhall , went mad , like the devotees of an Indian idol . They will only be more moderate when the Sardinian King is welcomed , because he will bring less pomp into the streets ; his power is not so extensive as to call for Hattery ; morcovei * , his character will be admired rather than his position . He is an honest hereditary ruler , and not an Apparition . It speaks little for the royalty of Europe that ViCTon Emmanujct , is distinguished , because he has respected his oaths . It would be xrngenorous not to point out , as a Sovereign "Who , in this respect . , resembles him—the King of the Bklgians , in whose capital exists the only free press on the Continent , excepting that of Piedmont . The Picdmontese express their idea of European royalty by conferring on their Prince tho title of a tf Gentleman , ' and , construing this appellation to signify a man of honour , who is true- to his word and who is liberal in his feelings , Vjoroit Emmanuki , deserves it . Tho English people will see in him a Ituler who came to the throne at a difficult crisis ; Avho might have established a despotism , but who preferred the . glory of an honest name , and incurred the

      thing that it is not intended that he should know , and , possibly , he may gain some false impressions . But he will be able to estimate a Napoleonic vow—on Muratism for instance or on the politics of Rome , or the machinations of Austria . Clearly , his interests are not identical with those that are favoured in Paris . The popularity of his Government is a reproach to France—for the self-loving nation , which claims the initiative in Europe , has seen itself morally eclipsed by a second-rate people in the Italian peninsula . Moreover , if any dynastic change is encouraged in Italy , it must tend towards Bonapartism , and should the King of Sardinia's ambitious views be furthered , it could only be as a set off against his support of French policy . In England , whatever language the Cabinet may hold , public men are neither so astute nor so reserved . They will probably express themselves freely on the subject of Italian politics , and there is no doubt that the King will be warmly encouraged . But they are the best friends of Italy who consider its broad interests without reference to dynastic schemes . It will not be as an ambitious Italian that Victor Emmanuel will be received , but as an useful and courageous ally of England , who has hitherto been a loyal King , and a wise Reformer .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 1, 1855, page 1150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2117/page/10/