The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TlMES.—Birmingham has just been spared an ex-
hibition which certainly would have tended to justify
its olden fame for specious and ephemeral wares. The
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. Prince of Canino, ex-President of the Italian Re-
The subjoined conditions concerning the opening of public, has just been lecturing the British Associa-
a State Loan are published, agreeably to orders issued tion on the difference between the little blue magpie
by the Imperial Royal Finance Department on the of Spain and the little blue magpie of Siberia. Of
14th of September, 1849 :-- course it is interesting enough to see a great man
"1. The loan to be opened will consist of the nominal able to find comfort for the wreck of his political
sum of 71,000,000 of florins, in State Bonds, at 44 per hopes in so simple a theme. As he was at Bir-
cent.
mingham, however, Mr. George Dawson and some
"2. These bonds will be emitted for the sums of 1,000
florins, 500 florins, and 100 florins, to which the half-
yearly
gentlemen, who cared more for men than for
yearly coupons will be annexed, on producing which the r's ' and who desired some more piquant con-
interest;will be peid at the Netionel Debt Pay office.
trasts than that which the Prince had chosen, waited
"3. As long as it is permitted to invest interest, which, upon him to request that he would accept of a soiree.
when due, is payable in Frauktort-on-thesMaine, or in From the Prince's reply it appears that the soiree was
Amsterdam, in Five per Cent. State Bonds, the coupons to have been "in connexion with their admiration of
of the present loan, as they become du; may be employed the truly heroic Roman people ;" and would have
is the same way. consisted of speeches by Mr. George Dawson, the
"4. For each 100 florins of these State Bonds 85 Prince of Canino, Mr. William Potter, and other
florins Conventional currency in ready money is to be statesmen, expressing what is called sympathy,
paid,
with what is called the cause of the Roman people.
e 5. The subscription begins on the 22d of September,
1849, and will close on the 4th of October of the same Either an actual engagement, or a little good sense,
prevented the Prince from accepting the soirée. To
year.
satisfy the gentlemen, however, he took pen and paper
`•6. In addition to the pay offices mentioned in the
paragraphs 2 and 9of the annexed condition, the bank- and wrote down in their presence a rhetorical sort of
fag- house of Hope and Co., in Amsterdam, is empowered reply, intended to do the duty of a speech. It ap-
to receive subscriptions, deposits, and instalments. Sub- Feared in our Saturday's paper, and therefore we need
scriptions, deposits of earnest money, and instalments not repeat it. Being written extempore by a foreigner,
can therefore be made at the above-mentioned banking- and in the presence of the Birmingham sympathisers,
house is the same way as at the pay offices, which are one is not surprised to observe that it contains in a very
mentioned in paragraphs 2 and 9of the annexed condi- small compass quite a fiorilegium of old British clap-
ditions of the present loan. traps. After the testimony of his own conscience,
" The Imperial Royal Chief of the Province of Lower the Prince knows nothing so flatteringsas the appro-
Aus:ria,
bation of " generous and truly free Britons." He
" GUSTAVUS COUNT CIIORINSKI
• will never be dumb, he says, " whenever his feeble
" Vienna,,Sept. 15, 1849.
CONDITIONS CONCERNING THE OPENING OF A STATE voice may be raised in favour of liberty and civili-
LOAN. zation." Had he been able to attend the soirée,
"In accordance with a resolution of the Diet sane- he would have greeted every Englishman present as
tioned by his Majesty on the Bth of January, 1849, a "a friend to the oppressed and dread foe to the
loan for the Imperial Royal Austrian Finances will be oppressor;" and would have said how much he ad:
negotiated on the following terms : mires a Constitution which, whatever its theoretics,'
"1. The loan will be mate by way of voluntary sub- defects, "works so admirably in practice," and
scription. Every one is at; liberty to subscribe to the makes us greater, and happier, and freer than any
same. The lowest sum for which one can share in the other people in the world; "whilst," he concludes, loan is fixed at the neminal worth of I,ooofls. in State
bowls. Two or more persons can unite, and under one " better 'framed Constitutions, without the vigi-
name subscribe for this lowest sum, and they will be con- lance of an enlightened people, can make pseudo-
sidered as one subscriber. monarchies, or, what is worse, mock republics."
"2. Every subscriber has to present a memorial, Of course the sting in the tail is cut at cousin
which ii free from stamp duty, to the offices of the Na Louis Napoleon and his citizen subjects, as the
Lionel Bank, to the provincial pay •offi:ies, or to such Prince would express it. President Lucien thinks
offices or persons at home or abroad as will, having been it very hard that his game has been spoilt by
appointed, be separately made known. From such another President, and that President a cousin. It
offices or persons blanks for such memorials are to be was not so in old Bonaparte's days. He would
had gratis. not have objected to see a Bonaparte in-
" 3. Every memorial must have the earnest money stalled, under one name or another in every
appointed in par. 4 enclosed. A receipt will, on de- capital in Europe ; and Lucien, who possibly in-
mend, be given to the subscriber fur the memorial and
ht refs some of the family traditions on this point,
enclosed earnest money.
"4. The earnest-money is 10 per cent, on the sum
may think, that for the sake of a Bonaparte, France
might have pardoned the dangerous freaks of young
subscribed, and must be paid in ready money. mi
"5. Should the amount of all the subscriptions ex- Italy. We in this country are out of the family
coed the sum of the loan to be made by one-fifth, then circle, and are happily without any Bonapartist pre-
the several sums subscribed will only be accepted by the judice. We take a purely political view of the affair,
Finance Department in proportion to the whole loan, and on that view it does not appear to us perfectly
and always for such an amount as can be divided by 100 decorous that in a sort of public interview with cer-
without leaving a remainder. "
G. In proportion to the diminution (according to pin citizens of a great English municipality, a Bona-
par. 5) of the sum rte should denounce his cousin as aknave, the French subscribed will be the reduction of
the earnest-money, and the sum exceeding the reduced Republic as a humbug, its President as an impostor,
d its citizens as fools. This island is out of the conti-
a
earneat-money will, on demand, be paid back to the n
subscriber. nental quarrel, and on that account affords a refuge
"7. Within 14 days from the termination of the to the Prince of Canino, who cannot land in a single
period appointed for subscription, the sum total of the port of Europe without being accosted by a policeman
subscriptions will be made known in the Vienna Zeitung ; and requested "to move on. The condition of such
and, at the same time—should the case mentioned in par. an asylum is that refugees should keep their quarrels
5 have occurred—the proportions in which the diminu- and grievances to themselves. Were Mr. George
Lion of the sums subscribed have to take place. Dawson and his friends really very formidable
"8. The payments of the subscriptions, or of the sums people, a public interchange of sympathy upon
diminished, according to par.! 5, are to be made in Roman and French affairs between them and the
ten equal monthly instalments, and as the earnest- ex-President of Rome, lately at war with France,
money deposited at the time of subscription counts for
and just now warned off the French soil, might tend
One enstalment—
"On the 14th November, to interrupt the good understanding between us
1849.
15th December, and our neighbours. We are entitled to express
15th January, our own opinions upon French and Italian
15th February, affairs as freely as we please, but when we enter into
15th March, personal relations with a principal actor in those
15th April, 1850. affairs for the purpose of expressing our sympathy
15th May, with him, and against the constitutional authorities of
14th June,
France and of Rome, we are evidently going the way
- 15th July, j to
i embroil ourselves, and it is not our fault if we do
Each separate Instalment must contain such a nominal
amount of the loan as is divisible by- 100 without a re- not. But what is the cause in which the good people
inaisider; the means of doing which is given by the per- of Birmingham were so anxious to tender their synk•
eai.ssion to make anticipatory instalments, as contained Pathy ? That of " the truly heroic Roman people ?"
is par. 13. No such thing. Never was there a grosser imposi-
"9. The payments are generally to be made at the tion. There was nothing Roman about the affair
principal pay-office of the National Bank in Vienna, except the locality. Mazzini, Garibaldi, and their
The subscribers are, however, at liberty to mention in associates, whatever their virtues, were not Romans,
the subscription memorial one of the branch establish- nor were their objects Roman. They were Italians,
meats of the National Bank, or, if there is none, the and their avowed object was an Italian rsepublic. By
Provincial Receiving office, at which they wish to make
their payments. secret conspiracy, by overt insurrection, by actual in-
" 10. Five or Three par Cent. Exchequer-bills
as vasion, and by downright international hostilities,
well as Partial Mortg Igo Bills (Partial Ile potheka An- they made war against all the Princes, Powers,
weisungen) will be considered as cash, as well for the and Potentates that occupy the Italian peninsula
earnest money as for the instalments. The interests on and the neighbouring islands. The old sche:'ne
thosa Five per Cent. Partial Mortgage Bills which are of an Italian federation they had pronounced
not dee must be paid up by the subscriber from the (ILI treason against their cause, which was no-
on which the bonds are deposited to the day on which thing less than a Democratic Republic, whereof
the interests become due. all Italians should be citizens, and Rome the centre.
`• 11. The earnest money (par. 4) will be considered There are many grave questions involved in such a
as the first instalment. After having paid the second proiect—auestions which a Lombard, a Venetian, a
instalment, the subscriber on returning the receipt (par. - -
Sardinian a Tuscan, or a Neapolitan, might answer
3) will receive a bond ad interim on the loan, and the '
for himself, because he would have them put to him,
amount of state bond corresponding to the first instal-
ment, the bonds bearing interest payable half-yearly and would be obliged to answer them; but which an
from the day on which the payment was !nada. Should Englishman need not answer, and if he is wise will
the case mentioned in par. 5 have occurred, the amount not answer in a practical and offensive manner. In-
of earnest trsoney will be rectified according to par. 6. vasion is invasion, and war is war. These are grave
Lk,: acconet instalment then becomes the earnest money, realities, and woe to those who plunge gratuitously
tct. EL9.e rresponding amount of State Bonds will only into the quarrel. The conflict at 'Rome
rilueee_u. :aed over to the subscriber when the third instal-
aua is paid, which will then in its turn become the was not between an indigenous population
ea.rr, est money. In this way each subsequent instalm ent and an army of strangers. It was between strangers
vo.lllbe considered earnest money, and when made•the
a and strangers. About twelve thousand democratic
•otate Bonds correspondi'ic. to I► preceding payment"
tle will be handed over to the subscriber, strangers from Italy and other countries had ob-
" When the 10th instalment is de the State Bonds tamed possession of Rome, driven out its lawful
corresponding to the 9th and 10trahain;talments will be Sovereign, and, under the protection of its walls
delivered to the subscriber. and consecrated monuments, declared war
" 12. The bond ad interim on the loan against all the Governments long established in
ducal at the payment of each instalment, that such pay-
must be pro- Italy. Other strangers whether wisely or not,
ment may be entered on it. whether properly or not, we will not now discuss,
" 13. Each subscriber can pay all or some of the in but at least in more lawful guise came to drive
stalments at once before they are due, and receive the- out those first strangers, and restore the original
corresponding amount in State Bonds. A partial an- sta."-us quo of Italian affairs. Into the many other
ticipatory payment of the instalments can, however, only questions involved we will not go. We only observe
be permitted when the amount of State Bends corre- that the Prince of Canino was not merely the head of
sponding to the same can be divided by 100, without a' a, Roman Republic. Ile was the nominal head of an
remainder. Italian democracy, that is of an army of conspirators
" 14. Should one single instalment not be paid upon sual invaders, collected from many countries for the
the day on which it becomes due, the earnest money is conquest of the entire Italian peninsula. How much
forfeited to the treasury of the State, and the subscriber :further their ambition went we will not dare to sae
has neither rights nor obligations as to the future instal- A Prince, an ex-President, and a nephew
-Of.
ments. Bc riaparte,' or course: would be a very great catch
" 15. He who subscribes to a higher amount then at Birmingham; but we presume that even there
25,000 florins, or collects subscriptions to an amount will be found a few persons who expect some merit in
surpassing that sum, and deposits the earnest-money
those' whom they are delighted to honour. What,n
required in p.m 2, will receive a provision of a
4-L then,. is the prime of Canino except what he is by the i
per cent. on the amount of the payments made." ,