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VOL . VII . STo . 311 . ] SATURDAY , MAEGH 8 , 1856 . ? B * mi 33 g $ SS ^^ & $£ ^
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T > y favour of the alliance , of accident , and of every - * - ^ folly or complicity of his fellow sovereigns , JLouis Napoleon equivocates every phase of Europe into a personal glorification . His last address to his senators and deputies is as complete an illustration as his treatise upon the extinction of pauperism firom his prison , at Ham . Socialism reared its head above the middle class mark , and Louis NapoIjKON in person
identified himself for the day with the socialism . The King of the Barricades allowed the stool to be jostled from under him , a republic was on foot , and Louis Napoleon accepted the Presidency . France sickened into servitude , and he restored the Empire . Mischievously demanding a Latin key for the holy places in the East , he drew Russia upon him , provoked the crisis in Turkey , but managed to place England before him in vindicating the East against the aggression of the
is proper to the French people , enables the Emperor Napoleon to give himself the most conspicuous place , and to stand before flunkeys , if not before history , as the first among the first . There is indeed great reason to doubt whether he has on all occasions preserved that foremost place . The papers respecting Kars which have just been brought forward are an exposure for many of those who were engaged . The Ottoman Government is shown to have been strangely impotent in the control of its own armies ; the Turkish commander is for ever disgraced in history ; the
Turkey so completely to reform her entire system , it will be difficult to make even A . ustria continue to serve as a barbarous foil . Especially if , in the very heart of Germany , another such example were to arise . Such a contingency is not impossible . We all know the wrong which has been done by the princes of Germany to the peoples of Germany , and England must take shame to herself for having played false with Hesse Cassel and Schleswig-Holstein , to say nothing of the moral effect that a better support'for those states would , have had in Prussia However , there are Germans who can see . their
duty for the future , and amongst those Germans , remarkably enough , appears the reigning Duke of Saxe-Cobukg Gotha , the brother of Prince Albert . He deplores " the melancholy indifference manifested to all that belongs to constitutional government , " and , " the blind vte ' al for preventing all participation of the , , , *•; in the administration of their own affairs . ^ e
invites the whole country under his rule to « om- ' ... * with j [ him , in demonstrating how muob prosperity the constitutional system is able to btistow upon a country , where people and sovereign agree in supporting each other ' s rights . This was said to a deputation of delegates from all parts of the Duke ' s dominions . It is a very remarkable manifestation . It is a proof of the ideas which are working in high places , as well as humble , and of the strange events which we might foresee if there were to be another year of war in Europe .
Yes , freedom does continue to advance , although the people who are to enjoy it scarcely appreciate their own duties , and their indifference gives every possible advantage to the enemy . We have now , by perseverance , succeeded in abolishing Church , rates , and we are about to abolish them with the h « lp of Government far more efficaciously than we
could with the help of Sir William CuwZ ~^ r ?^ the Ministerial scheme is much more effe ^ tixe-j ^ wp ^^ /\ V the liberal Baronet ' s . His plan was tj $ is'& $ & $$ & $£# ^ V ^" posed to abolish the compulsory as ^ sKp ^ qo ^^^ j [ j : |?\ " 7 Church-rates , and to render the imposj ^^^ iranjw r—\ > -- « contribution , levied by the churchw ^ Me ^^^ i ^ ' ^ . 1 . * i ~ - ' the superintendence of a quincunx of ^ arJ ^ si ^ o ^ ai ^^ : >;^! j 3 tors . Thus , although the compulaoirtrlevy Tvottid '\/ - >'' ' } ^ h Ljlj&S ^
corruption x Admmstration , where it is removed from the centre , is brought under the light of English State papers and journals j but Lord Stkatford de Redcliffe , who left the really heroic Wiluams unsupported even by the solace of a friendly letter , is not less pilloried for his neglect of the duty towards a personal friend which would have been considered the first obligation of a gentleman . And the weakness which prevented the Emperor Napoleon f rom overruling the obstructive jealousy of Pelissier is unvoiled
by the publication of those words in which he shuffles off the responsibility , and leaves our foreign office to deal with the allied generals , PELissiEiit . of coursfe , included . That Kars episode is not over with yet ; the materials have scarcely yet come to hand j but we shall have to explore its dark passages . In the meanwhile , it is clear tliat caution here actuated Napoleon thus Thihd far more than chivalry . Just as we have this exposure of Government impotence in Turkey , of calamitous corruption , cross purposes , and treachery , we have the Imperial Hattee Shcreef sketching out an universal Reform Bill for the Ottoman Empire—comprising ecclesiastical reform , financial reform , administrative reform , electoral reform , everything reform ! Wild as the scheme looks , it is indeed possible that Turkey may bo more competent to carry out a reform than a regular administration . Her system is entirely dissolved : re organisation is absolutely necessary , and the Plenipotentiaries have sketched out the plan for her re-organisation . It is a pity that some of them cannot apply this Turkish lesson to their own realms . Let Austria give perfect equality of religion ; or let France nboliah corruption . If , however , we get
North . The Emperor Nicholas refused to call him " Sir , my brother , ' * and now the Emperor Napoleon condescendingly patronises the Emperor Alexander for deferring to the distinctly expressed wish of Europe which France has dictated '? for , saya Napoleon in his speech , the present Emperor of Russia "inherited a position which ^ he had not created . " Napoleon will not jvunieh the son for the sin of his futher : and Europe sees him magnanimously consenting to receive submission from the child of the man who refused to recognise hia equality . Thus at the
. same moment France holds out the hand of friendship to Russia , yet maintains a complete accord with England , her ally for the war . The head of < tbc Paris form advertises the capacity which France possesses , with its increased wealth , its cash ready to be placed in his hands , its military zeal , its private charity , to undertake the part of war or peace . The Plenipotentiaries of Europe are assembled in his capital , and under his patronage will the settlement of Europe be accomplished , or the fresh stage of the war initiated . It is probable that our own Government bns had some share in these transactions ; but the dramatic attitude , which
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REVIEW OF THE WEEK- page gggrf . ^ .... O PEN COUNCIL- 1 BiographicalDictiouar * , 236 Imperial Parliament 219 Thauet Union indusYiiai ' Fa ' rm !!! . " 326 An Historical Study 231 tucabtcs The War 221 Naval and Military News 227 The Amended Statutes . . 231 THE ARTSWar Miscellanea 221 Miscellaneous .. 227 t » . » pw Print « ma ThePeace 222 Postscript 327 LITPRATIIBF— The First Printer 236 Total Destruction of Covent-Garden * LlltKAIUKt Theatre ......... < . 222 PUBLIC AFFAIRS— Summary ... 232 Our Civilisation .. 222 re " Ifterffik ... 232 The Gazette S 37 A ™ enca , , 224 The DanulbjanPrincipalities 228 Southey'sLetters .. " ... / .. ' , !" . * . ' . ' . ! . " . ' . 233 . SSSSSaB « rtsi ^ hV « s ;"" ¦ 5 K * S& 5 &B 3 ? r .::::::::: S SESSSgrKSf :::-rr S commercial affairs-. oaB 3 Bfi 8 a ! Ssr ? i :::::: BS KSMS 3 aS ! £ S :::::::-: S aatasr .::: ' :::::::::::: ' . ^ . ei &eS » . . * £ *• . . * : m
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Leader (1850-1860), March 8, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2131/page/1/
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