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,ONDON, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 30.

Keehn have we known the insolence of the press
earned to a greater point of extravagance than in the
vulgar attack which the Times made yesterday upon
OM QUEEN and her consort, for having invited to
Windsor an ex-minister and friend of the King of
Pioast•. The ties of friendship which unite the
royal families of England and of Prussia are well
known. Identity of religion is alone • bond, espe-
cially at the present der, of some influence. The
Prince of PRUSSIA stood sponsor for the last born
child of HutMsrserr, and hastened from Warsaw in
the midst of much political embarrassment to be pre-
treat in person at the ceremony.
It is well known, moreover, that the King of
PRUSSIA has been in the habit of choosing his private
friends amongst the men of most distinguished intel-
lect in his domioions, thus taking anything but
politics for his guide. As M. HUMBOLDT belonged to
this circle, so was General RADoWrri eeceived into
it. as certaiely one of the most distinguished orators
that Germany has produced, and perhaps from
having distinguished himself as a conservative leader
in the Frankfort parliament. That such a man should
have been a guest at Win wu but natural; but
there are other grounds wdsor hich would render it
strange were he not invited. General RADOSVITZ
was introduced to lien MAJESTY at Stoltzenfells by
her royal host, in what terms we need not particu-
lariae. neral RADOWITE, moreover, when not at
Berlin, rtaides near Erfurt, in the vicinageof the
grand ducal family of BAIN COBURG GOTHA, with
which he is cone- fluently intimate. It is natural
that HER MAJESTY and PRINCE ALBERT should
desire to see the nobleman who could best
give them an account of their princely re-
latives. The account is not, indeed, very cheer-
ing. For the troops of Bavaria and Austria have
entered the duchy of Coburg, we think, for the sole
purpose of insulting and annoying the family,because
of its attachment to German unity and freedom.
And the GRAND Dote, who himself has taken refuge
at Berlins, has been compelled to remove his valuables
from Coburg to Gotha. Although the politics of
Size Coburg have very little weight with Lord PAL-
MERSTON, who has shown himself, on several occa-
sions, hostile to that German cause fur which
the Ituke of SANK COBURG fought, still it
is natural that Prince ALBERT, without in the
least interfering with the policy of a British cabinet,
should still be anxious at such a moment to see and
to receive the friend of his family as well as of the
King of PRUSSIA.
The Times denounces Queen VICTORIA, and insults
nee consort, for receiving this nobleman at Windsor,
because, saith that journal, he counselled the calling
out of the Prussian landwehr. Wrist have we to do
with the motives which influenced a Prussian suttee-
man in the summoning of his country to arms? Are
we so sold to Austria that we cannot be polite
to those who differ in opinion from it? If an Eng-
lish minister choose to gi'e his vote in a cabinet
council that England should fit out a fleet, and assume
a menacing attitude, because America insisted on the
territory of Ogsgon, is that opinion, be it right or
wrong, a cause why the King et FRANCE should
snout such • statesman from his c met P Why, the
eausele4 insolecco of such an attack can only be
likened to the enmity of the paid bravos of Venice,
who und' rtook to stab any mon, even a prince, for
any cause, if such was the order or good pleasure of
the bravo's employers.
But this insolence of the bravo of the Loudon
press has not evi n the excuse of truth. The only
plea that it puts forward for offering an insult to its
Sovereign is a falsehood. General ItanOWITZ did
not call forth the Prussian landwehr. He advised it,
under certain circumstances, on the 2nd of the month.
His advice was rejected by the cabinet, and he
resigned. Other circumstances more aggravating still
afterwards occurred, proving how just a view he had
taken; and, under these circumstances, all his col-
leagues, nay, his very opponents in the cabinet, ad-
mitted the necessity of calling forth the landwehr,
which was done on the 7tb. Does the Times pretend
to issue an edict thatthe Queen of ENOLANDshaII never
receive any of these statesmen? As the PoPE has ap-
pointed Cardinal Wisrityr to administer all our
spiritual affairs, so the Times has, it seems, appointed
Prince SCIiwARZENBIRO to be the maj,,r dmw of the
Queen of ENGLAND'S court at Windsor, as well as
the dictator of the foreign articles in the Times news-
paper. Hard fate this for Englishmen, who if they
escape the Roman yoke, are infallibly condemned to
the Austrian one; unless indeed there be that free
spirit which we suspect in Englishmen, to spurn
alike the twin agents of Rome and of Vienna.
The public may be surprised that such trifling cir-
cumstances as a royal invitation should be the sub-
ject of ouch serious calumny and vituperation. But
what Jour; BULL may not care a pin for, and, in
truth, what has no more value for him, is a porten-
tous matter for the BRUNOWS, the Houma, and the
Diernicustems. Dinners and visits are serious con-
cerns to these professors of etiquette. To refuse
dining with Lord PALMERsTON is with them a severe
slur. And to see their rivals dining with the Quart,
whilst they are left out, is an event of great magni-
tude. These envoys of antiquated courts live in an
atmosphere of the 17th not the 19th century. They
see intrigue in every rendezvous and a conspiracy in
each dinner party.
It is natural seough that their affright and spleen
should break forth in this Leviathan, the very breath in
when nostrils is of Austrian and Russian inspiration.
The Times fur the last twelvemonth has been the
mere organ of absolutist diplomacy—repeating its
twaddle, trumpeting its threats, and venting its
malice. And the libel in the rinses of yesterday on
the QUEEN and Prince ALBERT is neither more nor
Isee than a proclamation of the spleen of the Austrian
embassy.

Two points are noticeable in the tactics of Car-
dinal WierwAs and his advocates. The one is their
pertinacity in asserting that one of the objects of the
late innovation was the emancipation of the Roman
catholic clergy and laity from the arbitrary powers of
Vicars Apostolic, and their restoration to the liberties
which are theirs by canon law. The other is the
silence with which the frequent demonstrations of the
press that the very contrary of this monstrous subter-
fuge is tree are, at the game time, passed over. We
will not ask Cardinal WISEMAN and hisperty whether
them tactics are honorable—for we know they are

not—bat whether they are safest the present moment,
and what their oases has to gain by such mean. P
The " Letters Apostolical" of the Yora and the gloss
of the new " &atop of Brawlwouast" are as public
as the penny prees can make them, and he who runs
m Bread.
y the first his Holiness deerses that " in the soared
goverment of clergy and laity, and is all other things
appertaining suite tk e pastoral office, the archbishops
and bishops of England shall henoeforward enjoy all
the rights and faculties which the other catholic
archbishops and bishops of other nations, according
to the common ordinances of the sacred omens and
apostolic oonatitaions nes and may use, and are
equally bound by the obligations which bind the
other archbishops and bishops, sooording to the same
commas discipline of the catholic church declarisg,
at the same time, " that it is wry far from our baton-