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    EEMODELLING EUROPE.

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    SUNDAY TllADING.

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    IT is doubted in Paris whether the visit of the E : \ fpebor to Baden'is to be considered a failure or a success , but , taken in conjunction with M . About ' s pamphlet , it can only be regarded as -designed to hasten the internal commotion of Germany , in order that France may have some new " idea" to recommend others to fight for , or , if it should prove convenient , to fight for herself . We have long recommended that the English Government should express itself in favour of German unity , leaving- the Germans to . make what arrangements . they pleased for the

    realizareckon that the blaze of revolution will soon be kindled —if it is not so already—on the mainland of Naples , and then . Austria will find herself so hard-pressed , that avoiding a conflict will become impossible . At Rome , Lamoiucieee has been of more service to the national party than to the Pope . He . has been so craftily opposed by Antonelli and the priests , who profit by corruption , that he has reorganized nothing , while his efforts have served the purpose of making confusion worse confounded . A storm in European politics is manifestly brewing ; and when the Pkince of Prussia tells the German Sovereigns assembled at Baden , " that in order to come to an understanding Austria has taken some steps to which he attaches great value , " we are curious to know what sort of an alliance with that

    tion of a project dear to the national heart , and / necessary for the common safety of Europe . Our Cabinets , whose policy lias the appearance ' . ' . ofhaving been picked up at an : ' * -old . clo ' shdp , " redjolent with reminiscences of other days , has not given any aid to the - . liberal party in Germany , whose principles ally them naturally and closely with ourselves , and now the Emperor of the French starts forward in advance of England as the advocate of beneficial change . He forestalled us in Italy , and he forestalls us in Germany ^ We are thrust back as belonging to the past , while he moves' forward as the man of the present and of the future also . —

    miserable power the Prince will agree to , and whether any such altiance has the approval of the English Court . It is our misfortune that we do not know what our rulers are about , Diplomacy is still a black art—shrouded in mystery , and only worthy of distrust .

    In Franco M . A bout ' s pamphlet will win great popularity for the Government . The nonsense about French liberty may be laughed at , but the national pride will be gratified by the belief that Trench ideas and French power are about to realize their old ambition of remodelling the world . The rubs for Prussian constitutionality will tell . Neither the Prince of Prussia nor any other Gei'man potentate can exclaim with' Hamlet , " Letv the gnlLed jacie wince ; ' *~ a nrl poor . Fkaxcts Joseph will shake in his shoes when he finds the conqueror at Solferino

    speaking through his scribe , and , alluding to tho Germans , ; say , " They know that in accepting the domination of Austria , they must renounce even a hope of progress , " for , as he says in another place , ( t Austria represents the doctrine of divine right in its most absolute rigour . Political and religious despotism , abnegation of the rights of the people , the most enormous concessions to clerical authority , and blind worship of the past , and an obstinate hatred of all progress , those arc the wormeaten bases of the Austrian monarchy "

    The King of Prussia is asked by M . ' About whether he sides with divine right or popular right—" with'divine right , and'the King of Naples , or with popular right and the Empkhoh of the French nmj the King of Sardinia ? " This pamphlet , like other expositions of policy , will very likely bo disavowed by Imperial authority , but it . would not have appeared , unless in conformity with the designs of the astute Jtuler of France . Taking it altogether , it is not comforting for Germany , but it , certainly offers a . way out of all difficulties ; and if the ' PHixon of Prussia would forget his political bigotry , and declare himself , as recommended , in favour of popular right , he would at once secure , in the numerous and intelligent German race , a counterpoise to any evil

    designs of Monnparfist ambition . Our pence-at-any-price contemporaries profess to believe that everything betokens u continuance of calm , but while Louis Napoleon -invites Germany to a rebellion against- its prinncs , and holds Austria up to contempt , events march on in Italy , and bid fair to bring Sardinia once more into the field , without mueh further delay . If the Neapolitan Government gives up the . two steamers wliich have been sei / . ed merely on suspicion , and whiuh aro formally reclaimed , Gaiuhaldi will have another useful triumph , anil the moral power of Bomb a II . will sink still lqvtrer . If , on the other'hand , the latter refuses to make restitution , a war with Sardinia will bo imminent . Anyhow wo may

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    YOUR well-meaning man is invariably a mischievous legislator . He is so anxious to put everybody and ' everything-right that , if allowed to have his own way , he will worry people out of their lives with his tender precautions for their welfare . -Whenever he sees a nuisance , or what he deems a hardship , he hastens at once to remedy it by Aet of Parliament , never considering that small inconveniences are the inevitable accompaniments of laws of a high utility , or thinking that his remedy in . healing the

    particular sore which disgusts him will make the whole body politic exceedingly uncomfortable . ... Lord Chelmsfoiu ) is distressed beyond measure because the shops are kept open in some quarters of London the whole morning , ; - and introduces a Bill into Parliament the practical effect of which would be to inflict immense inconvenience upon the poorer inhabitants of the metropolis , and fill their minds with a bitter sense of the injustice or indifference of thei upper and powerful classes .

    Wherev er the shops are open on a Sunday they supply a-public want . If there were no suctf want ,- if the customers of the tradesmen in these quarters ' could ' make their purchases on Saturday , the shops could be closed just as easily as warehouses' and banks are now closed on Saturday afternoons . In the wealthier districts of London , where ¦ the residents' can conveniently lay in quantities of the conimoditius they are 'likelv to eon / miic , the

    shops are all closed ; they are opened in the poorer parts because the working-el asses can only buy in very . small , quantities , and are afraid to keep the meat or fish for their 'Sunday , dinner a whole night iiv their close unhealthy dwellings . The poor prefer , too , to " . make their purchases on the Sunday morning , because ¦ they have a natural suspicion of the articles palmed oil' upon them by gaslight . Lord Ciiklmsfohd , indeed , admits the necessity of some SmKlaT ^ traTliiig , iiiasiriuch as he al'ltfwS 'somtf

    shops to bo open until 10 o ' clock , aii . d a-few during . the . whole day , and by that very admission gives up the principle upon which he . professes to-legislate . It' fruit maybe sold all day why not vegetables ? Are , gooseberries clean and greens unclean ? What new revelation justifies Lord Cmelmsfoku in pronouncing tipples legitimate objects of transfer on the Sunday and water-cresses objectionable ? How is the lino to be drawn ? The . police will have ; to compile a catalogue of tho'" forbidden fruits" for the benefit of greengrocers and street hawkers . Lord Ciiklmsford , perhaps , thinks that by letting tho shops be open ' until ton he allows everybody plenty of time to procure all

    he may want for the clay ; but his lordship , if ho knew anything of tho ' habits of the hard-working population of the inciropolis , would be aware that Sunday morning is an especial season of indulgence with them ; obliged to get up ¦ to ¦ work every other clay . at five or six , they like to take several extra hours' . sleep on the-Sunday . Of course ; no tradesman ought to be obliged to keep his shop " open to indulge this lu / auess , but he ought not to be . compelled to shut it against his will ; and H there is such a necessity for the o )) oning of shops on tho Sunduy that tradesmen cannot of their own motion force their customers to buy on tho Saturday , it- is absurd to try to dVoot the object bv penalties .

    Lord Ciiei , m . spoh , u , indeed , rests his ease very much upon the hardship in 1 lictc . nl u ]) on the shopkeepers themselves , who wish , lie says , to bo obliged to close : on tho Sunday . With all deference to the ex-Ch « ncelior , this > isfll » iei' nonsense . If tli « buhint ^ d now done on Sundays could bo dout ; before tun , iiio t . r < idn- > ni » sn could accomplish . all that tho Aet would try in vain to do . They sny , however , that , ono of their-competitors may keep open , : ind therefore ' they must do the same , much as it hurts their con .-iciieufc ' os . The linc ' iulrapcrs , when first asked to closo earlier in tlw rvoniutfs , mado tho . stnno objection , but they have now discovered that , then ; was nothing in their , fenrs . They do not lo .-so customers who would pay i ' or the gas tlioy must . burn . So it would bu

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    been , from the legitimate service of the country , to serve the purposes of a class . Thus , to extend the system , while we cry out against the clothing-colonels'fees , is knocking out the btaighole , and screaming with despair at the waste of a leaky spiffgot . It is a vast extension of military misrule ,, 'while the Hotise of Lords deliberately Usurps a power over the . property" of the people . The power of the sword already belongs to the aristocracy , and with this amazing extension they also claim the power of the purse . What better England will politically be than Venice was , or than the military and bureaucratic

    despotisms of the Continent are , should the Peers be triumphant and Sir Chakles Wood succeed , ingenuity is puzzled to discover . We don't despair , nevertheless , of the country . Its living power is in the energies of the people , not in political organization ! But we di'ead , as the consequence of such a combined usurpation , a swifter destruction to the power of revolutionary conservatism than may be compatible with internal peace and welfare . England must avoid the continental series of insurrections , revolutions , and despotism , in pursuit of freedom and security .

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    June 23 ., I 860 . ] The Leader and Saturday Analyst . 585

    Eemodelling Europe.

    EEMODELLING EUROPE .

    Sunday Tllading.

    SUNDAY TllADIXG .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1860, page 585, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2353/page/5/