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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?
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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 everywhere 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 family that
manifest
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.4o4ollolli, The common ground taken by M. Te A.