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FRANKFORT, October
COUNT BISMARCK SCHUNRAUSEN, the present Presi-
dent of the Germanic Diet, lays down, as a basis of
active policy, that it is the interest, and must be the
paramount object, of the Northern Cabinets, at all coat,
to dissever the alliance of France and England. With-
out the accomplishment of this necessary preliminary
M. de Bismarck maintains there can be no utility in
discussing the mode of tranquillising Europe, as there
never can be permanent safety for the continental
kingdoms whilst France is powerful and supported
by England. The Prussian '• parti de la Croix'
deduce their several systems for the present and for
the future from the assumed premiss that Franco is
the disturbing cause of Europe and the world—that it
is the lion whose claws must be pared down to impo-
tency of offence, under constraint or by the adminis-
tration of political chloroform. But to effect this,
the first move on the diplomatic board must be to
separate France from land, gradually and by a
malice prepense—to f dissension and jealousies
among the allied twit the burly maleriali-
ties of the English soldiers by a comparison with
the more brilliant. achievethents of the French—and
to flatter the French by complimenting them on their
strategic and military superiority over a nation that
relies upon brute force rather than science for their
position in the chronicles of warfare. All this, and
more than this, has been put forth in the new
Prussian Gazette and Le Nord, without any con-
cealment of the ultimate design.
L'egoisme (says M. de Bismarck in his authorised
journal) eat la base de la politique. eels s'est toujours
vu. Touts lea etas poursuivent avant tout lour propres
interim, et ne favorisent ceus de leurs voisins des pays
strangers qu'en autant y trouvent des *vantages pour
euxmemes.
There is no lack of candour in this avowal, and the
progressive consequence is exquisitely naive :

De pareila principee conduisent our le terrain glissant
de la morale pulitique.

The character of M. de Bismarck can be realised by
this frank admission of cause and effect, and from
his advised stand upon the "terrain glissant de la
morale politique." It is not pertinent for this time
to make an expedition into the region of metaphy-
sical ethics which this confession temptingly invites—
presuming, however,that he did not find the expression
of the doctrine of a " glissant " morality among the
" lettres inedites " of his converted friend Schelliug.
To continue :

L'Allemagne nest en ancune 'icon l'ennemi de Is Rua-
sie. L'exemple de l'Autriche est la pour le pronver.
This settles the animus of the December treaty at
once.

L'Etat faible est bien oblige de vivre i dile et en boat%
de l'Etat puissant, la puissance de ce dernier et la crainte
qu'il pourrait abuser de se force ne moat pas des titres
suffiisiaits pour legitnner une coalition qui se formerait
dans le but d'amoindrir et de le reduire a l'imptinsaaace.
That would depend upon the possible power of the
desired coalition, for the reprobation of the compul-
sory dependence—" bien oblige "—is patent. The
will is not wanting if the means are to be found.

Si une semblable doctrine etait admise, les oats d'Alle-
magne et lours allies seraient en droit de se ruer i tout
moment bur la France, par exemple, dont la puissance
nest pas seulaient tin danger eventuel pour l'Allemagne,
mail qui plus dune fois a fait peaer sur elle la plus
odieuse domination.

The covert intent and aim is clear, and the subter-
fuge pitiful. M. de Bismarck; Schonhausen, in the
name of the " parti de is Croix," calls upon Germany
to unite, not against Russia—Germany being "en
aucune facon l'ennemi de la Bassi° "—but in a
league of self-protection against France, in assault
of whom she has a right, Bismarckly mural, "de se
ruer a tout moment."

In pursuance of this policy of aggression to France,
M. Gerlach, a Prussian Minister, the official and
intimate ally of M. de Bismarck, has published a
pamphlet entitled " Les Francais en Allemagne, oui
ou non ? " An appeal is therein made to hereditary
prejudice, naonal antipathy, and past griefs. The
common enery, France, is pointed out as the object
of general and national enmity, and a passionate
hostility is evoked in order to "se ruer" on the
ancient foe. In addition to the pamphlet, M. Ger-
lach, within the last few days, on the occasion of his
addressing the electors of Prussia, expressed himself,
in words of challenge to France, that admitted not a
doubtful meaning. He denounced the country of
the tricolour and its emperor as enemies of humanity,
foes to peace, and the curse of Europe, to extinguish
whom should be the object catholic of Germany, in
union with its natural and loyal ally, Russia. This
speech was intended to be a set-off against that of
Sir Alexander Malet at Hoinbourg, in reprobation of
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may be mentioned that the Queen of England has
been indecorously abused for having changed the
name of the Waterloo Gallery at Windsor Castle ;
and the anniversary of the battle, with the approba•
Lion of MM. Stahl, Niebuhr, Gerlach, Arnim, West-
phalen, Wilhectri, and others, was celebrated by a
commemorative banquet.
To top the infinite of insult, M de Bismarck and
his organ, betraying the private confidence and the
secret policy of Austria, proceed to say :—" En suivant
le drapeau d'Autriche "—the avowed ally of France
and England, whose emperor sent special messengers
to compliment the allied sovereigns on the fall of
Sebastopol—
En suivant le drapeau politique d'Autriehe, l'Allemagne,
rennin a Bette puissance, furmerait no corps politique dune
force immense suttisante pour arreter la lutte des parties
belligerantes, et lour imposer la paix.
A parting word to M. de Bismarck Schonhausen.
He is accustomed to speak of the envoys of her
Britannic Majest3 in Germany as a parcel of old
women—" et celui-ci je le Liens en pUche." His pre-
sent language will open their eyes to his real character.
T. E. L.

SIENA, Oct. 12.
AFFLICTION, above all that of a domestic nature, is
prompt to impair the physical organisation of man ;
but there are bounds to the species of malady re•
suiting from such a cause, and the injury is general
and not local. It has been affirmed that the illness
of the King of Sardinia has been exclusively occa-
sioned by sorrow at the severe bereavement with
which his family has been visited. In the first in-
stance this account might have had a colourable
foundation. The prolongation, however, of the
malady, its continuance, its gravity and peculiarity,
have thoroughly disproved that asseveration. Sorrow
is not the present and active cause of the royal ill-
ness, although it may be an aggravation; and if, as
public report announces, his Majesty be convalescent,
he must attribute his recovery to the skill of his pro-
fessional attendants, and to the means whereby,
under Providence, they have discomfited the
machinations of the Jesuit.. The prayers which, by
authority, were addressed within the Papal sanctuary
to the Almighty fur the worldly punishment of the
King of Sardinia, in judgment and expiation of the
royal sanction for the suppression of the convents,
have, according to the Jesuit showing, been heard.
The Jesuit end sanctifies the Jesuit means : the
Pontifical supplication has not been vain, and the
titular Vicar of Christ, under the protection of the
Madonna Immaculate, has preached the first and
fund the latter. Betwixt the stiletto of Mazzini and
the Borgian cup of the priest the alliance has had a
practical illustration.
The differences of the Tuscan and Piedmontese
Governments have not terminated. At the com-
mencement of the misunderstanding the interven-
tion of the English Minister at Florence? the
Marquis of Normanby, was immediately solicited.
The Whig-ltaclical representative of England de-
clared the nomination of M. Cassati to have been in-
judiciotis and improper and accepted the remon-
strance of the Grand. Puke of Tuscany, which was
made as Archduke of Austria, and for reasons
appertaining to the archiducal character. But the
Whig Radical Marquis is not accredited to an
Austrian archduke ; he is envoy to a prince who is
or ought to be independent. If he be not indepen-
dent, and the archiducal subjection to Vienna be per-
mitted to override and to eclipse the ignes minores of
Tuscany, then, and in that case, a Secretary of Lega-
tion, under the tutelage of the English Minister at
Vienna, would be amply sufficient. The English
Minister at the Court of Tu,scany was, not called
upon to regulate his official conduct according to the
wishes of an Austrian archduke, except upon the
understanding, especial and concedekthat the Grand
Duchy.of Tuscany and Austria are one and the same
kingdom; and the indirect admission has been in-
ferred by the imprudence of the English Minister.
Lord Normanby is and ever his been unfortunate in
his ambassadorial capacity. As the representative
of her Majesty in Ireland, he was the liberator of
convicts well deserving of the halter for foul
treason to the Queen whom he represented. At
Paris in a note, Ministerial and confidential, he
branded Louis Napoleon SS an unprincipled adven•
turer, and he now consents to betray his post and to
bow the knee to the Imperial Baal of Austria. The
Sardinian Marchese Sauli, with a just propriety, left
Florence and placed his case iu the hands of the
French Minister.
If history indeed be something more than an old
almanac, if the record of the past emblazon one fact
more prominently than another, it is that an intimate
alliance betwixt France and the house of Lorraine
bears an augury and is the forerunner of evil to
both countries. The sad events of the Place
Louis Y. that afflicted Pariis on the ierl eye of the

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nuptials of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette .of
Austria may have, under other bearings, an imperial
instead of a royal phase. Ominous disaster has a
fortuitous rule, and it may be remembered that the
matrimonial connection with the house of Lorraine,
foyal in 1770 and imperial in 1810, brought about
the downfal of each bridegroom. The Bourbons
have fallen once, twice, and thrice from an unwise
disregard of historical admonition, and the same fate
will assuredly fall upon others if a similar impru-
dence mark their unreflecting career. The partisans
of the Pope with Cardinal Antonelli and the Jesuits
boldly and pertinaciously assert that the cause of
the Pope and the Vatican dominance in Italy is safe
under the protection of Austria and France, and that
no politically-disturbing cause will be suffered to en-
danger the existing Governments of the Italian
peninsula either in form or nature. The evils are to
remain in esse. The Papists quote the assurance of
the Emperor Napoleon; they rely on the increasing
battalions of Austria in Lombardy ready to pour into
the southern provinces; and they sneer with equal
sarcasm and truth when they appeal to the conduct
of Lord Normanby in direct antagonism to tonstitu
tional Sardinia. The Jesuit holds Tuscany in
fetters—has bought Naples, employs the brigands of
Fondi, Ronciglione, and Calabria—rules at Vienna—
coaxes and menaces at Paris, and has a Whig foot-
ing in England. With all these advantages what has
the Pope to fear? With all this dishonesty what has
Sardinia to hope? That a struggle in Italy is about
to take place, that it must and will take place,
nobody here will deny, with the knowledge of passing
events national and provincial. That the attempted
liberation of the country from its excess of mis-
government will be caused by the example of Pied-
mont, firm and respected from its power of self-
government, is not less evident ;. and in what manner
England would seem prepared to act has, to its
shame, been demonstrated by Lord Normanby.
At Naples, although the Police Minister, Mazza,
has been apparently dismissed, his sinister influence
has greatly increased. He is employed in mar-
shalling the lazzaroni into compact bodies, has formed
them into divisions, given them watchwords, and, in
the event of an outbreak against the Government,
has promised them the spoil of the palaces belonging
to those who are his personal enemies. At the head
of this list, as may be suppoued, appear the Prince
Ischitella, the Duke of Cesano, and another noble-
man who lately purchased his permission to return
by a bribe to the King and his Ministers of 100,000
colonati. This is not all. Mazza has sent his
emissaries into the Abruzzi with an injunction to
negotiate with the brigands for their support of
"Fernando, it Re assoluto" and of "la Madonna
Immacolata," promising them for that same the ple-
nary absolution of the Pope for past and manifold
deeds of murder, rape, and brigandage. These acts
are done with the full knowledge and permission of
the King, with whom Mazza is in daily communica-
tion. Not the slightest reparation has hitherto been
made to the English Minister, and for the personal
insult of Mazza there never will be. These are the
men—royal and infamous, pontifical ani blasphe-
mous, Jesuits and assassins—that are assured of the
positive assistance of Austria, and proclaim the
speedy protection of France by an augmentation of
the French forces at Rome to overawe the Muratist
demonstration that may possibly ensue. The dis-
claimer and reproof of the Murat letter was proper
and unavoidable on the part of the French Emperor,
but the gratuitous advice to the Pope and the King
of Naples for a governmental reform, in which he
was joined, it is so said, by stolid England, availeth
in the same degree as if the united wisdom of the
Anglo-Frark allies were to counsel the Holy Father
to turn Protestant, and not more.

Upon this mass of insincerity, subterfuge, and chi-
canery bursts forth in the full force of a rabid
simplicity the joint manifesto of Mazzini, Ledru
Rollin, and Kossuth, a declaration of Red Itepubli
canistn at one and the same time arrogant, menda-
cious, insulting, and mendicant. " Arrogant," because
assuming a republican and European dictatorship,
which is in reality confined to themselves only and
to the bravos of the " coltello ;" "mendacious" in the
asseveration of unfounded fact; "insulting" to the
country which has harboured and saved them from
the merited halter; and "mendicant." by reason of
the sordid and beggarly petition for the obolus of
the poor and the golden piece of the rich, in order to
erect the Robespierre guillotine of extermination.
From the North Cape in Sweden to Cape Spartivento
in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and throughout
the breadth of Germanic Europe, there is an aspira-
tion, nay more, there is a determination, to possess
constitutional advantages, real and not nominal, and
to form a Saxon barrier against the encroachments
of Sclavonic Russia.

M. T. A.

Mn. GUILETON, her Majesty's Consular Agent at
Sfax, on the Coast of Barbary, died suddenly on the
sth ultimo,

SATURDAY,

Foreign not Colonial 3attiligtnte.

FRANCE.

Certain changes are spoken of in the French Cabi-
net. M. de Persigny, the French Ambassador in
London, it is rumoured, will be replaced by the
Count Walewski, while the portfolio of Foreign Affairs
will once more be resumed by M. Dronyn de Lhuys.
It is positively stated that the Cent Gerdes will be
suppressed. The Constitutionnel, which last week
published certain remaiks upon the appearance of
the Baron Prokesch Osten at the Tuileries, received
a reprimand from the Goverment, which denied that
M. de Prokesch was charged with any mission to the
French Court.
Bellemare, the man who attempted to fire at the
Emperur, has been judged insane, and condemned
to detention in a lunatic asylum for life. The trial
of the forty-eight prisoners for the insurrection at
Angers in August last, was concluded on the 16th.
The three ringleaders, Secretain, Attibert, and Pas-
quier, were condemned to transportation ; eleven to
imprisonment in a fortress,,;, eleven to simple banish-
ment ; and the rest were acquitted.
The attempt of the French Government to regu-
late the price of meat has not succeeded to that
extent which the public believed. The averages
remain as high as ever, and by mutual arrangemett
the butchers succeed in preventing any reduction in
the price. The French Government are making
extraordinary efforts to keep down the price of food,
not only in Paris, but throughout France.
The fête to Prince Napoleon, by the exhibitors in the
Exposition, at the Hotel de Louvres on Tuesday last,
was ill-arranged, and not attended with that success
which usually attends such entertainments in Finis.
General Bosquet, it is said, is about to return to
France, having obtained leave of absence on account
of his wound.
The Noniteur gives the return of the produce of
the taxes and indirect revenue from the Ist of
January to the 30th of September, 1855, inclusive,
amounting to 699,798,000 f., being 81,055,000 f. over
the same period of 1854.
A report on the Bourse on Wednesday that the
French Government had decided upon receiving at a
discount subscriptions to the last loan above 1,000
francs, such subscriptions having been excluded from
discount up to the present time, caused some alarm,
as it was taken as a proof of want of money by the
Government.