The Press. — London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

OCTOBER 1, 1853. tion, it has taken up this ease in the right spirit. Even the reputed organ of Lord ABERDEEN, although so tame and subservient when great national interests are at stake, can spare some well-lamed indignation in this matter. It denounces the Grand Duke. the Church of Rome. and the whole tyrannical system, in language which ought to stir up tile country. On the other side, there is but the plea that Miss CrNNINGHAME has knowingly contravened the laws of Tuscany, anti that she must abide by the eonse►luences. This being the defence set up by the Italian priests, as well as by their latitudinarian► aunt "in different " abettors here at home, it is quite clear that if any redress is to be obtained for a British subject under the circumstances, it eau only be by means of some bold step t iken utterly without reference to the Tuscan exit). The ease brings Protestantism and Popery once more face to face. The incarceration of Miss CusNisoitax}: for making known the Gos pel to some Tuscan peasants is only one small bilk in a great chain of spiritual tyranny now binding some of the fairest portions of Europe. The blood of centuries has been spilled in vain, if the first duties of a Christian are to be converted into crimes, by the ignoble laws of a petty state—laws expressly devised by Rome for the sole purpose of shutting out the truths of the Gospel from mankind. Our Govern ment, Legislature, and people will find them selves compelled to eonsider the conditions on which we have held pre-eminence among nn tious, to revert to the origin of our most valued institutions, and to weigh the gua rantees of their continuance. Yield a prin ci rle, and the energy and enthusiasm which s tstained it will not be long in following. There is a tacit league and covenant among the Roman Catholic States for the ex tinction of Christian truth and civil liberty. Ltt the Protestant nations look to it in ttme. The events of to-day sufficiently show that the age of great national crimes is not past away : we may live to see the active, as we already feel the silent, renewal of a strife vitich not so many generations ago desolated the European world. If we would mest this creeping yet audacious tyranny, it must not be by diplomatic courtesies, such as those con templated in Lord CtAttENnox's reply to Lord Suarrtsurnr, but by some act of vigour and decision that will daunt the ambitious hopes of those who already calculate the hour when fre:dom of thought, speech, and action shall be crushed under priestly tyranny and mili tary force. SANIARITANISM IN MARYLEBONE. A GENTLEMAN, passing by the private entrance to St. Marylebone workhouse the other night at ten o'clock, saw " three wretched women " huddled together, lying on the pavement." They had been refused admittance into the house, and one of them said that " for the last " five weeks she had slept on the same pave " meet, only four nights excepted." The workhouse porters. with n most unusual civi lfty,regretted, while admitting,, the facts, adding that the ordinary number of hapless outcasts thus left on the pavement outside the house spe. dally provided by the law for their reception was twenty. From the porters Mr. llomxsox —the benevolent man who had pitied those forlorn creatures—went to the police. They, too, were polite, but acted strictly on the policy of non-intervention, except that the ser geant on duty makes a regular nightly report of the exact number of victims to the law tit• the relief of the poor who at eleven o'clock may he lying on the pavement in their hopeless misery. At ten o'clock at night, it seems, they receive one pound of bread front the work house, which, being " outdoor relief," ex pressly precludes them from shelter under the roof of the workhouse. Finding that the police could not receive the four women in charge as vagrants, Mr. Rom silos found them beds in a common lodging house, and wrote to the ma gistrates of the Marylebone Police Court to know whether a repetition of such disgraceful scenes could not be prevented. At this point the universal politeness ceased—neither Mr. 11110t4nTON nor Mr. I.oNa PM a reply. THE PRESS. Is it seriously pretended that such crimes against social morality us that here brought to light are inevitable in a city which boasts itself the metropolis of Christian civilisation Here we have a magniti4vnt organisation of poor " relief" spreading throughout the coun try. yet resolving itself into polite porters, de liberately shutting the door of the poor•-house on the poOr at WU at night. and polite police men coming an hour• after regularly to istart the exact number of wretched beings thus left to shiver in the bitter 4.°141, pallopg to the There is something horribly revolting ht the manner Of this utfair. Had the workhouse Cerberus been brutal. us is the wont of those functionaries, or had the polio° proclaimed ignorance, this outrage on common hultmnity might have beau set down to accident. host think of the systematic routine of the bland janitor, and the punctual statistical gleaning by the police-ser•ge'ant! A ease like this opens up the whole question of the principle on which poverty, or even pau perism. is relieved in this city. if the un doubted difference between the two is to be deteeted, and the deserving distinguished iron► the undeserving accordingly, certainly it will not be by the rigid rule which gives hlls eriminately one pound of bread to a woman at the workhouse door. and leaves her to perish with cold on the pavement dining the night. To some it may be a salutary " test ;" to others a cruel torture. A judge, quick to see and firm to decide, is required in both eases, but more especially in the latter. In the instance before us, the regret of the porter and the vigilance of 111 e police pritsii facie suggest a necessity for this resolving and ab solving power. Here is a sphere for the ac tivity of the Sir BENJAMIN Ilium and the minor patriots of Marylebone. On an iniquity prac tised at their very doors they ought to speak with a forty vestryman power, before which even Somerset-house should soften. At all events, no " test," no logical deduction of the economists, however perfect, can justify the exposure of twenty wretched women to the horrors of a wintry night on the pavement at a workhouse door, with only one pound of bread and a Somerset-house " regulation " be tween them, and the slow torture of starvation or a more sudden and summary disposal 4)1 their eases. THE CAMP AT OLMCTZ. " Ir," says an eyewitness, " we proceed along the Olmiitz terminus on the Galicia' road, and have left the village of llodolein in our rear, the view is at tracted by the immense extent of the c a mp, whi c h lies on }Huh hides of the road. To the left is that of the infantry, to the right that of the cavalry and ar tillery. If we pass through the camp or the foot soldiers we see Germans, Slaves, Magyars, and Ita lians, all mixed together. While the greater pert of the temporary tent dwellers arc gone early to the manccuvres, another portion remains behind to attend to the various occupations of the camp. It is curious to observe, that even in the way of cooking a division of nationalities is here observable. If we proceed on the road up to the village of Bistros an, we perceive on au elevation the camp of the Emperor, consisting of about twelve tents destined for the immediate use of the Sovereign and suite. The tent of the Emperor himself is divided into three compartments, which are united by covered passages. It. is a present from Queen Victoria, and is conspicuous for its beauty and elegance. At some distance in the rear is the tent of the first aide-de-camp. General Griinne, which is of historical interest, as it is that which the Grand Vizier Kara Mustapha left in the hands of King Sobieski of Poland on his flight from Vienna : its interior is covered with red velvet, cm bmiderefl with gold and silver. To the left of the imperial tent is a small observatory with a telescope. The electromagnetic, telegraph apparatus. by which orders and messages can he conveyed 1111.010 ml the whole camp. is placed on three carriages, in each of which a complete set of signals is to he found. Ile• sides the usual apparatus, these carriages eontain rollers on which the line of wire is fixed. which gets unrolled es the vehicle proceeds, and by which a communication may be established to any convenient length : on the return of the carriage the wire replaces itself on the roller. In this way it is possible to con vey orders instantaneously to the different corps, and the wire is made of the kind that vv hen it is placed on the ground not even the passing of the heaviest guns ' or waggons will injure it. As these camp-wires are in communication with those of the central stations of Olmutz, desptches sent from the very camp of OtUltitZ filti• reach any part of Europe.".4lustrion Lloyd. THE: Itt:LATIVE Ol•' ri:UsslA AND 11rni.t%, Sept. .:I.—lt has Wen much talked of here, that, in the last despatch addressed by Count Sessrlrode to 31. de Meyettliortf. Prussia has been entirely omitted and ignored. It is not well possible to aseribe this to as 111 1011'1111NT of the \ i, wot 1 . 0111 . 01V1114'. HMI has given her vote to the Vienna note. If. therefore, tho Iftts..ian Minister puts tally in relief the of the three other two%wes. and dot's tett riillslitur it IlelTSl.ltry to men. t i oi l PlitSSilt. this the riVetititill Lit twitter insult. W 0 may well rot`tti to ;twittery Ile , note §cWCfniti• had to return In 1 1 1 Num. 31. tie Nteyott oaf, witlt attswok that "LhOre wt's n,l roOnt in the Itits4tne archive* for a similar doettia 4 tll l ." ft • , oataineili amongst others, that. Pnissitt coitus only 1n oemiat aN . non with Austria take part in the transom. Lions. It appears. thrrofore, that the Ittissibui Alinister thinka nisi) &hi* that the sascut of 1 1 414, 0 4 d t o th e ol'injohs of Alb•ltia limo Melo, a matt e r o f f ai l. We think, hoetv cr. e ate welt itiffirme.l In asserting that the Prussian Cabinet lots, front she first. IMO withheld from the Cabinet of st. l'etersharg tiNt opinion int the 4 ltiental question, which is by tow means absolutely favourable to the claims o f thaw power. It willows, therefore, the more iuteutimo I now, if the Russian 11inistry to have 1 1 111%hill. It Is 11111101•1'%%illry for its to develop to any length the feelings rir any Pritsstan patriot at such heltaviour int the part of ‘lre Caltinit of ht. Petersburg. We will not wail ourselves o f this opportunity to vaunt ourselves or pat the hand to the sword. Itut it is all established fart. that whenever there be an esension to gnitril the in dependence of Prussia, tiovernment may c ount upon the most lively interest and support of the whole nat ism. When, at the end of the l u st eontury. Ate trig and Russia hail conintetteed an unjust attack 1111011 dill 1104 leslllllll to &timbre than half droll its huitril to seem(' peace. lf, therefore, the Eastetil tamers should again take cue sided rese litainsaith regard t,, 'turkey, oar 4 iovolime444 woli4 IN u;414i11 ill tlit. ilositiim l 0 ',rote to went evidence that "We I rit—antis are nest ,ti.t dead. '—corres . poinlent of the Cfoliorte (gazette, Mept. is. Tim Loire % in the Principalities are stated to be deserting in great numbers, lint most 44 them are 4'1101114, as the line of the Danube is strongly guartled. Most of them expiate the oft'ence by death. Some of the officers have been shot as a measure of discipline, and the intercessions of the most indnential persons prove of no avail. Tue. At slimes AelitoitiviLs Imes refused to admit the Auxttian labourers on their return from Switzerland. WI: aces.: ev Et rt tatcrrv.—For some time past the introllitctiosi of electricity in the machinery . of weitaing has been yam ly spoken of--an intuutinu to that vial having been 11111110 by 14 cl. Ittinelli, gene ral director of the telegraphs in Piedu ont. lie now hints:elf anntainces hit wonderful discovery in the Gazette de adding that, 11'4 " 4 / 4 /11 104 all the patents Flinn have been applied for in the different countries of Ettrope and America, he shall expose publicly at Turin, side by side, his electric loom und the metier it la .1 itequard— the (elutee aorktog the same pattern es the latter—when the public 11111) jiolge for theinselees of the sticcess obtained in em ploying electricity in the weaving process. Every person ha% any idea of weaving knows that, tor the production of a certain pattern, as many as 611,111 ti pieces of pasteboard, pierced by small hides rim - senting the desire, arc required, at it cost of IA franca the hundred. 'this expense, in the new process, will be saved. .Inother inconvenience of the actual sys tem is the great noise its working valises, minds makes it m•cessnry to exile it to the m u st tvoiote part of the town ; then the store of so great ft titian tity of perforated cards requires notch spare; and lastly, the number of springs required in this ma chinery are a coutiuuul cause of dermigement and expanse. Hitt all this inconvenience will, it is said, te removed by the Lou inveutimi. No more row plivated mechanism, no pasteboard, i n , wit' s ; the pedal of the Well%en raises the tails as it does now), puts their tops in contact with as litany 1/111114 MOit Oval, sin roomiest by rl.i per wires, which nut etc, . tric (-mesa magnetises or umnagnetita s acconlii g to will, and suddenly, without any 1144/41*; '4.1110 it - main suspended and others go down, as the cum tit is directed one way or another. From this results a great simplicity in the loom, which sill only teen l y OW space of a 414111111111 11111'11 1104411. threat the electricity no Int CllBlll4lll is moms! tor th e at of the pattern. 'flit re urea senes 111 points di,. pth.tml 1111 11111' line, like the teeth of it ri)111b ; I Huh point communicates with an elertro•magnet. NI billing is required hut to pasts under these . ia.mta th e p at . tens. made will a varnish on it cybli,!er „ r metallic leaf, in communication with the pile. The current will pass only where there is no ‘arni:li, and the corresponding rails will rtmein rai•ed up, and *Ali nee the pattern with snrptiaing exa.litude,