The Press. — London, England, 1855-08-11 00:00:00

THE PRESS. AUG. 11, 1855. of the house of Lorraine, governmental and eccle siastical, and to the existence and consequent cor ruption of the petty princes, one and all. Against the latter the enmity is most condensed, and espe cially pervades the agricultural sections, vexed by the irritation of undue taxation for the useless ex travagance of pigmy Courts. Since the open sale of their independence, through the agency of Prince Peter of Oldenbourg, these princes have lost all con trol over public opinion. It is true that the press throughout the country has been bought, and that the Diet is ruled by M. de Bismarck Schonhausen and M. de Prokesch Osten ; but, even these " tm worthies " are fully cognisant that their powers are insufficient to prevent the coming storm. Of the aversion and contempt for M. de Bismarck it is barely possible to give an idea, certainly not to exaggerate it; and nowhere is this repugnance more prevalent then in Prussia proper. In this unenvied dis like and condemnation M. de Manteuffel takes his share. The Prussian element, essentially German, and opposed to the private opinion of the King and his Ministers, is gradually unfolding its strength in the country, not with the desire to be dominant, but to make a common cause, on the one hand against Russia, and on the other against Austria. The Germanism of the King of Prussia is exclusively personal, and proceeds from ambition to bear an imperial title ; whereas the Prussian people of all classes are anxious and determined to be a bond fide portion of the consolidated " Fatherland," in strict and active unity, without peculiar distinction or privileges. And now, in its proper place, must be noted the antipathy, and the just reason for the antipathy, of the united Germans for Lord Palmerston. Prussia and the Scandinavian kingdoms have been hitherto the guardians of the mat itime interests of Germany in the Baltic against the attempted monopoly of that sea by Russia. In the war of the Danish Succession, a Russian prince, the nephew of the Emperor Nicholas, contested the contingent right to the Crown against the German Duke of Holstein Augus tenbourg. Lord Palmerston, in utter contradiction of his former policy, sided with Russia against Prussia and Germany; and this was the more re markable since he was inciting at the same moment the Germans of the South to war against the prin ciple which he was supporting to their detriment in the North. Of this crying shame, of this disastrous lapse—fatal to probity of policy and character—the nobles, landowners, and merchants of united Ger many retain a vivid memory. To him, and to him alone, they attribute the advance of Russian ascen dancy in the Baltic, which is one of their chief ob jects to suppress ; and so far the war is now favor able to them in remedying the act of treachery. The accession of the noble lord to the office of Premier has caused the entire of Germany to view with sus picion, and to act resolutely against, any proposition which may emanate from him and his Radical and Whig-republican Cabinet. They will not consent to have any particular alliance with England on the subject of the dispute betwixt the Western powers and Russia whilst he is the Minister of the country. They say that he has betrayed the liberal and con stitutional party in Germany and Italy more than once, and has shown favour to that of the Red Republican, and again to that of the despotic, as in the case of the Baltic, in preference to the constitu tional, whenever it has suited his interest. In fact, they perceive that he keeps terms with the re publican leaders in London in order to loose them and their accursed theories of communism and republicanism when he may judge the time oppor tune to create a continental confusion. The Whigs are everywhere accounted to be the opponents of united Germany, and of continental constitutionalism generally, for their accession to office has always been distinguished for a stricter union with the autocracies of Europe. Their modus operandi is first to excite and to foment resistance to despotism, and to remain passive during the struggle, and then, if it should be successful, to lay claim to the credit of assistance, or, if the reverse, to abandon their victims, to denounce revolution, and to ally them selves still more strongly with the despotic autho rities. Sir W. Molesworth lauded and cheered the French revolution, personally vituperated the Em peror Napoleon, and now not only fawns upon him with low-bred servility, but, himself an anarchist by profession, denies the right of Parliament even to discuss a measure of questionable propriety with which the French name is connected. So much for a Red Radical materialist : now for a Whig of the old school. 'enerable fi The Mercure d'illtona mentions the qualified ap proval of the General Constitution of Denmark, which was submitted to the consideration of the as sembly of notables by the Government. The assem bly declared it to be far from satisfactory, and asserted " la necessite de representer toutes les classes de la population." It remarks, "La crise dans laquelle se debat ce royaume, forme d'elemens assez beterogenes, est encore bien eloigne d'une solution satisfaisante." The Russian and Palmerston parties, although they may have temporarily succeeded in their designs against the liberties of Denmark by prostituting the royal inheritance, in defiance of Danish. Holstein, Swedish, and Prusso-German opposition, are yet ill assured of their advantage. Germany does not deem the Danish question to be irremediably disposed of, and awaits the opportunity which a prolongation of the war cannot fail to afford to effect a fundamen tal change in the constitution of her Confederated Government. This will be in a sense adverse to Austria, and in which the Holstein provinces will be treated as a portion of the empire. Be it observed that this same letter, announcing the confederated patriotism of united Germany, patrician anal plebeian, in deadly conflict of principle with the house of Lor raine, and in fierce hostility to Lord Palmerston, has been written under the sanction and dictation of several magnates of central Germany. Political pro fligacy may for a brief period be triumphant, but when the misdeed is committed against the wants and demands of a whole people, combining every section of the body politic and social, it is not pos sible that such ascendancy of wrong should outlive the fall of the evil-doer—and that fall is at hand ! J. E. L. BRUSSELS, Wednesday. Le Nord continues its course with a perseverance that is the surety of a determination to effect the given object. This is patent, without the slightest effort of disguise. To sow dissension betwixt France and England is the first and most essential task ; to cajole Germany, to alarm Austria, to taunt and to soothe her by turns, and to exaggerate the offensive criticisms of her insincerity by England and France, is the commanded and daily labour. Count Buol has fallen into the snare artfully laid for him, and is now and at the last sincere and hearty in his abuse of England and its insular policies. But, in the im pulsive burst of passion, the especial organ, under his direction, has laid aside the hypocrisies and the conventionalities of civilisation, and returns, as it were, to the olden time of primitive usages, when, as the historian Tacitus asserts, the Teuton chiefs, by way of pleasurable relaxation, lay naked for hours together on their hearths before huge pine-log fires. The precise terms applied to the English last week by the Court paper, the Gazette Autrichienne, and quoted in Le Lord, are "mangeurs de bif steks," " mauvaises dolus," " chasseur barbaras du fox," "irrognes," &e. Prince Felix Schwartzen burg, in his Ministerial capacity, had formerly given an example of similar low breeding. Language of this nature has never been employed by the most ♦irulent of the Russian organs, evidencing the superiority of the Schlave over the bastard Vandal. And now shall be put forth the diatribe against England, the England of Lord John Russell and the Vienna Conferences, launched by the Austrian Court under Russian guidance, and eulogised by Le Nord for its truth and propriety. After having censured England for the parliamentary and Ministerial dis grace of Lord John Russell, it proceeds to say, in allusion to the rejected proposition of Vienna:— Si de tele principes (d'equilibrel venaient a se traduire en faits, l'Angleterre pourrait elle encore eteindre le Con tinent entier dans une ceinture de fortresses. bans le moment mhne on elle cherche a passioner le monde pour la liberte de la Mer Noire, Gibraltar ferme l'eutree de la Mediterranee, Corfou la Mer Adriatique, Heligoland, l'embouchure de l'Elbe, Malta se dressant wenacante au centre de toutes les routes maritimes de la Mediterranee, et qui sail quelles citadelles on projette du cote dela Mer Baitique et des detroits de la Turquie? - - - - - These remarks come from the organ of M. de fool SchOnstein, and probably formed a part of the dis cussion with Lord John Russell in furtherance of a peace based on general and several concessions. What apology can the democrat Whig offer for his listening to these tentative aggressions against the European appendages of England? It. E. SIENA, Aug. 4. THE infamy of the King of Naples exceeds belief. _ . Austria, Rome, and Naples is against Piedmont, at all hazards and at all cost, and the cardinal, faithful to his bandit extraction, has suggested that Mazzini and the republicans may be used with effect at this juncture. Hence, by indirect and Jesuit means, Mazzini was prevailed upon covertly to denounce Poerio, Salimheni, and Salicetti—honest constitu tionalists—as enemies to liberty ; at the same time that he proclaimed the sanctification of murder or regicide. The Red Republicans of Italy are urgently enjoined by him to oppose constitutionalism as a foul mockery, and to war against it with an enmity equal to that waged agakst kings and kingcraft. Troops are pouring into the Milanese, and every prepa ration is being made to lend assistance to the south of Italy, if called upon, in support of absolutism, and for mally to reoccupy Tuscany. There may, then, by possibility, ensue a complication of policies betwixt France and Austria, which will test the Anglo- Frank alliance. Elated by the secret assurance of Austria to stand by Neapolitan and Italian despotism, the King of Naples has deemed the moment fitting to insult England. He has not only refused to permit his subjects to sell corn, oil, and Turkish grain for the allies in the Crimea, but has also accompanied such refusal with injurious epithets addressed to this country; and neither in the House of Commons nor in the newspaper press of England has parti cular notice been taken of the glaring insult; and it does demand a real and substantial denunciation. France, although equally offended, is in a peculiar relation with Austria by separate treaties, not. con nected with England, and distinct in their object. Naples without Austria is utterly helpless; end the private stipulaions with Vienna and the position of the French army at Rcme are difficult to reconcile with the course of events and the ultimate emanci pation of Italy. In the meantime is England to be fettered in her independent action to serve the caprice of party and the corruptions of private interest? Austria in Germany and Italy is notori ously hostile to the cause of the allies—has deceived the English and the French by the showing of the Emperor Napoleon—has caused the immediate dis grace of our English Minister for having yielded to temptation—and it is certain tht.tshe has now entered into a private arrangement with Rome and Naples on the subject of Piedmont and Italy. Liberal iNna emancipated Italy cannot be dissociated from loyal Piedmont. King Bombs has issued a decree commanding that should any one, without exception, in his dominions be found to wear a hat called a " wid awak," round and full in the brim, with a low crown, or having a beard and mustachios, or other a)mbol personal and decorative which may induce a belief .of the wearer thereof entertaining liberal opinions, the said person shall be instantly arrested by order of the commissioners of police, and brought before the Governor of the Province. Besides, and more espe cially, any said liberal and miscreant not having the fear of Bomba before him, and having the audacity to vend any foreign journal, more particularly English, and having the said in his possession, shall. be immediately imprisoned and punished without. further proof of crime as flagrant enemies of good order. This is a literal fact. To give an example, a " cacciatore," who lived by the chase of game and wild animals for i e subsistence, was suspected of conveying correspondence and newspapers betwixt some exiles of high family and their friends. He was arrested by the police, but without finding proof of the fact upon his person or being able to make him confess. He was imprisoned. A hundred ducats were offered if he would discove- the corre spondence, and the snm was increased to five hundred with the same result of negation. " Giacche tu non vuoi dir lo per bene, per forza to lo dirai per male," remarked the Caposbirro. After every in terrogation and continuous denial he was forced to swallow a glass of water, so that he became prepos terously distended, and then ho was kicked in the stomach until he vomited. This torture not being auffi-4 cient to subdue the determination and courage of the. victim, he was stripped naked atidtied to the iron bars o 1 his prison window, and lighted matches were placed. on his shoulders. His agonies becoming insupport able, he demanded to be led before the Minister of Police, Don Drazio Mazza, and upon being asked by. him who was the rascal that bad induced him to be letter-carrier to the exiles, "Sei tu it gran larbo-4 the me lo fecesti fare " was the bold reply, and wasi the strict truth. The infamous Mazza bad the mart During the last summer a venerable factionist, not tne strict trutn. iniamous There can be no doubt that his present conduct is altogether decrepid if judged by certain associations employed to carry the letters and papers, and, failing perambulated the Rhenish provinces. He is quoted consequent on recent communications with Vienna. in having them seized at the right moment, and,. to have said, in a particular conversation when in That be applied for advice and assistance to meet baulked of his prey, his victim was imprisoned and. this neighbourhood, that democracy was the growing the unfavorable demonstration that is every w h ere tortured. The affair got public, and as tho principle of the universe, and that it could only be throughout Italy is well known and his ‘ cacciatore" belonged to the estate of a famil y that m anifest subdued by seducing it artfully and advisedly into ' it was not prudent to offend his life was saved, and the commission of crime that might act as a suicidal application was in accordance with the views of he was liberated, OrrOgliVei cardinal.4o4ollo l li , The common ground taken by M. Te A.