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HOAVEVE R rapidly American questions may be approaching to a pacific solution , we rejoice to think that common sense has triumphed over stilted anti-American notions . There is no sign , yet , that the Western Powers , of whom our Government is one , have definitively determined upon any intelligible and popular policy with regard to the treatment , of the European questions that press upon them . We are in the dark . It is said that the "Western Powers have actually
submitted the arbitration of Italian matters to Austria . This we do not believe , but it is possible that dip lomatists , with closed doors , may negotiate away the independence and happiness of great nations . Some facts are obvious enough . Naples has as yet made no concession to the demand for better rule . If Austria has denied the murder of Cicekuacchio by a troop of soldiers with an Imperial cousin at its head—if she now affirms that the Roman tribune was drowned ' accidentally , ' how is it that , his fate being known , we
never heard of it before ? The spirit of Austria towai-ds Italy is shown by the steps taken to complete the sequestration of property belonging to Jjombardo-Venetian subjects who have become naturalized Piedmontese subjects . In fact , the Austrian Government in Lombardy is confiscating the property of private persons because they are Piedmontese subjects . It has taken that step immediately after it has completed the fortifications of Piacenza and Imola , as if it apprehended that the Sardinian Government might at once inarch into its territory and make reprisals .
In Piedmont they talk of reprisals upon the property of Austrian subjects within Sardinian territory . If the Austrian subjects say that they are blameless , their plea cannot be admitted ; the natives of no country can claim to be irresponsible for the acts of their Government . A new light of a certain kind has been thrown upon the progress of events in Spain . We have
from the French press a curious testimony to the fact that O'DoNNisiii , had contrived a coup d'etat upsetting Espartkbo ' s Government , and that ho had deliberately planned tho conspiracy during the two years in which ho was EsrAimcRo'a Minister of War . While he held that office under Espaktkro , he wan debauching tho urmy and ofiicoring it with his own follower . It also appears that he had some kind of French
assistance in that process . But we have treated this subject in a separate paper . The misfortune at home is , that we have no party which can stand up , in Parliament or out of Parliament , and call the responsible Ministers of the country to account . They may be doing well , —though , if they were meriting the public confidence , we belieye that they would be only too willing to lay their services before the country , and to claim credit for what they had done . They may be entirely departing from the wish of the nonnld Tt . is tvnp . tli . it the erarrison at Malta is
stronger than it has ever yet been , as if there were an eye to contingencies in Italy ; true , that notwithstanding certain manoeuvres , and the proposed dismissal of the Anglo-German Legion , we are not yet likely to see a reduction of our forces . But if Ministers were prepared to take a course consistent with the opinions of the country , they would most likely , by this time , have explained distinct ! } ' what that course is , or at least , what its principles were . As it is , they are shut up like other diplomatists with closed doors , and we know that in that Parliament there is a majority against us . In our own Parliament we have no Opposition which can call Ministers to their duty ; for instead of demanding that the servants of the Crown should g ive effect to the national feeling , should llll / UIcsl / iiiuucuiio
tlCICnU Jlingllall O anu ^ auwau , i »*^ members of the recognised Opposition are quarrelling about the particular gentleman that shall be at their own head . Mr . Dxskaeli is too clever for them . They want a plainer man , and respecting a question about as important as a parish election all their energies are absorbed . As to popular party , we have none . Italy might be extinguished before we should find any committee of popular members rcudy to stand forward as spokesman for the country . Without a Ministry , then , or an Opposition , or a popular party capable of speaking for us in Parliament , or in the presence of the supremo authorities , we are likely to see the national influence and resources embezzled for the use of the despots of Europe . Well , it is our own fault if we tolerate thoso who thus misrepresent us ; for , again we say , no nation can claim to bo irresponsible for tho acts of its Government . The German Legion , it appears , is to go to the Cnpe of Good Hope . Such ia the mode in which Minister get out of any legionary difficulty . They endeavoured to raise an Ang lo-American
Legion in the United States , they about 350 men at the expense of a serious and dangerous quarrel with the great Western Republic . It is with great satisfaction that we notice the gradual advance in settling all the questions with the United States ; but if those questions are to be" settled satisfactorily to the people of both countries , we have a right to say that the force of public opinion has been brought to bear most positively upon that result .
Ministers succeeded in obtaining an auxiliary Legion from Germany ; so far they avoided the American failure ; but their difficulty , again , is exactly in proportion to the degree in which they neglected to consult really popular interests . They took the German Leg ion in such manner as to avoid displeasure to paltry German Governments , whose indignation they might have defied ! They
got such men as they could collect . together by that kind of evasive process , and they brought over to this country a force consisting partly of high-spirited adventurous men , partly of scamps of the upper as well as the lower ranks , and partly of refugees who could scarcely return to their own land . Yet Ministers could not constitutionally maintain a foreign force in Great Britain . AVhat to do with them then ? While this
subject was under consideration , arrives a proposal from Sir George Grey , Governor of the Cape of Good Hope , to send out Chelsea outpensioners as a band of military settlers , to assist in keeping the border savages ofT the colony . After having done their best to repress the military spirit and self-defensive vigour of the border settlers , Government is now actually invited by Sir Gkorge Guky to send out a special body of
military settlors to do that which the old settles were prevented from doing . If the had been twinges of conscience at this result o . official philanthropy , they might havo been allayed by the magnificent opportunity olfercd . Ministers at once sent out word that they had no quantify of Chelsea pensioners on hand , but that they had u / superior assortment of German soldiers , winch they should bo happy to place at the disposal of the colony . Sir Geoiigk Gihsy dresses out this reply in a very tolling speech to the two Chambers of the local Parliament ; they uro overwhelmed
with gratification at the promise of the contingent ; the Representative Chamber votes 10 , 000 / . _ to assist the emigration ; and there is a gener $ 5 \ - £ glorification in Capo Town and London . 0 $ ¦ ¦; , £ ; , £ Tho "rand banquet has been given to the jftjmi ^ Aifr ; p » Sf < . ^ rv . Vtf . w ' . f&H * 3 ; ^ -r * f > v . ¦ — -J ' . '•>
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"The one Idea which History exhibits as evermore developing itself into greater distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endeavour to throw down all the barnsrs erected between menby prejudice and one-sided views ; and , by setting aside the d ^ UncUons of Religion , Country , and Colour , to treat the whole Human race as one brotherhood , having one great object—the free development of our spiritual nature . "—Humboldt ' 8 Cosmos .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 30, 1856, page unpag., in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2156/page/1/
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