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London, England, 1867-01-29 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1867. ,

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characterises our times. The disease of Europe
is a deep-seated opposition to the principle of
Right. Struggles against Right, occasional rebel-
lion against Right, can call forth great but only
passing agitation. But a successful opposition to
the principle of Right has for its consequence not
disorder, but dissolution.
The ancient inhabitants of Hellas divided the
nations into two classes—the righteous and the un-
righteous—those which uphold law and order and
the sacredness of treaties through the fear of
God, and those to whom nothing is sacred. The
latter they termed in the pre-eminent—the moral
sense of the word—barbarians.
Heathens as they were, they perfectly under-
stood that genuine civilisation could alone shield
men from barbarism, and that true civilisation
could find no solid basis but in the fear of God.
They had treasured up this precious heirloom of
earlier and better times, and we, the heirs of
Christianity, do not husband its treasures better
than the prodigal son his heritage. Each passing

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day brings our unhappy generation nearer to a

communistic brotherhood with the swine ! Even
with regard to England, looking to the activity of
the press in undermining Christian principles and
Christian discipline, looking to the falling ther-

mometer of English faith in the course of the
last decennium, your readers will not feel inclined
to dispute my judgment in this matter. And if, at
the same time, they reflect on the ever-growing,
all-overpowering dominion of material interests,
will they not perceive at another point the in-
roads of barbarism. Here, again, old Hellas,
whose views are so beautifully mirrored in August
Whilhelm von Schlegel's Anion, utters her con-
demnation :

Fern magst du zu Barbaren,
Des geizes knechten, fahren.
Barbarians—slaves of avarice—how much were
to he learned out of these few words ?
This fearful crisis, through which Europe is now
passing, can neither be called a revolution of fire
nor of water (the ancient Egyptians believed
that it lay in the natural order of the universe that
from time to time a revolution of fire or of water
should break out). No ;itis a quagmire revolution.
We are barbarising (may Hellas again lend expres-
sion to my thoughts) while we are borborising ;
borboros—slime and mire—is the element on which
Antichrist builds his throne. As, at the work of
Creation, the Spirit of God brooded over the
waters, so doth Antichrist at his work of destruc-
tion hover over this slime ; and, as Christ taught
St. Peter to walk on the waters, so doth Anti-
christ teach his vassals to enthrone them on this
quagmire ; those who refuse to be his slaves sink
in it. In annexing, moreover, and in assimilating,
this element succeeds right well, in spite of fire
and of water ; but it will not go out like fire, nor
does it sink and pass away like the flood of

waters. Nations which are borborised, which
are sunk in slime and mire, are lost. lam aware
I shall scandalise many by this picture of our poli-
tical and social condition ; where I see only the
foulness of corruption others perceive the glow of
a stirring, blooming, fiery life. Everything de-
pends on the point of view taken. I will explain
what I mean.

The German poets of the Middle Age loved to
personify sensual pleasure in the following manner:
—A volumptuous female glowing in all the charms
of youthful beauty, clothed in airy garments,
sparkling with gold and jewels—thus she seemed
in front, but viewed from behind, there appeared
only the stump of an old tree, decayed and hol-

low, filled with mud and slime.
A spectre of this kind is our modern P.ovoln-
tion. Those who pay homage to her—princes as
well as statesmen, demagogues as well as the
masses, influenced by the sentiment of an 64 his-
toric mission"—may rejoice for awhile in the be-
witching embraces of this strolling enchantress ;
but ere long the Spectre will present her back to
their gaze !
Such is the view I take of our present and of
our future. The interposition of a miracle could
alone bring us better things. An old Pan (as the
ancient Heathen would have said) must suddenly
spring forth to strike a panic into the spirits of
dissolution and destruction.

But I must now try to conciliate your readers,
who have had to listen to such harsh language,
by touching on a more pleasing and grateful topic.
It was not without especial motive that in the
beginning of this Jeremiad I showed them the way
to Bronnbach. It is truly worth the journey, to
see with one's own eyes the home which the exiled
and plundered King of Portugal built for himself
in a distant German forest, to see in the sanctuary
of that mourning family a princess whose like can-
not often be found in Germany, and, at the side of

the stately mother, six blooming daughters who
unite charmingly in their own persons the Portu-
guese and the German nationality. In the only
son and heir the Portuguese nationality decidedly
predominates ; his photograph presents a promis-
ing and spirited youth wearing the uniform of a
Papal Zouave. To those who have any feeling for
the charm and the dignity of a truly Christian
household, it is inexpressibly grateful to witness
so much unpretending simplicity combined with
princely dignity, where all is nature, to find yet
nothing of what taints nearly the whole world—
nothing vulgar. Those who have leisure to look
about them, and to examine all that is done far
and wide in the land, as well by;the duchess as by
her distinguished brother, will carry away in their
heart an image never to be effaced, nay, perhaps,
to be entwined with some hopes of better things
in some future day.

The grave of Porn Miguel is in Klein-Hen-
bath, the family vault of the Lowensteins being
in the monastery there on the Engelsberg. He
reposes then on the right side of the Main, and he
died also on the same side, in the midst of the
cold and gloomy Spessart, where Prince Lowen-
stein has a hunting seat—the Karlshii.he. His
body rests on the angel's mount. May the angels
soon bear his soul aloft to the heavenly mount.

As better evidence of truth than words out of
the mouth of an enemy is scarcely imaginable, I
am induced to transcribe the following passage
from a periodical called the " Gartenlaube," as an
appendix to my account of Dom Miguel. A
previous article, in the year 1863, had described
him, after the fashion usual amongst the revolu-
tionists, as a sanguinary despot. The writer of it,
Who appears at bottom a well-intentioned .man,
Subsequently chanced to pass some time in the
neighbourhood of Bronnbach, and, like Balaam,
who went out to curse and remained to bless,
thus speaks of the much-calumniated and exiled
prince, as he really was :
" illhat most filled me with astonishment was
the Universal assurance of high and low that the
Duke of Braganza was a most benevolent, mild,
amiable, and, above all, a most charitable man,
0116 to whom his domestics were devotedly at-
tached, who was honoured and loved by every one
in Henbach, Wertheim, Bitmnbach, and in the
whole Main and Tauber country, and by the
poor and necessitous quite worshipped." Many
touching instances of the beneficence and gener-
osity of the duke were narrated to me, and by
persons so well entitled ,to credit, and of such va-
rious classes of society, that it was impossible
to doubt the truth of the narrative.. A respecta-
ble man, who knew the duke well, said to me—
" There is not a trace of deception to be found in
him ; he shows himself always and under every
circumstance as he really is." The foundation of
his being is goodness, mildness, benevolence, affa-
bility. This proves he must always have poss-
essed the qualities which now characterise him, for
it is quite impossible for the disposition of a man
to change so perfectly into its opposite in the course
of time that a sanguinary despot should become
the mildest of men.

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Reform Demonstration at Newcastle-on-

Tyne.

NEWCASELE-ON-TYNE, Monday.
A great demonstration of the working classes of
the north in favour of manhood suffrage and the bal-
lot, and organised by the Northern Reform League,
has been held here to-day. It has been specially a
Tyneside and Northumbrian gathering, and as the
day has been extremely fine and spring-like it has
passed off very successfully. A large number of
pitmen have been present, and most of the collieries
and large factories have kept holiday. The artisans
employed in the great engine works in Newcastle
and the river side and seafaring population have
been well represented. The first part of the day's
programme was the procession, and it was mar-
shalled in front of the Central Railway Station and
the streets adjacent in the following order :—Two
carriages carrying Old Reformers of 1819 and 1832 ;
Flag, band of the Reform League, Council of the
League, Demonstration Committee, Chairman, and
Speakers ; Plumbers; Stonemasons; Sons of Tem-
perance and Working Men's Club, Newgate-street ;
Stephenson's Workmen ; Blaydon, Winlaton, Lem-
ington, and Scotswood ; Hawthorn's Workmen ;
North Shields Procession; NorthumberlAndMiners;
Joicey's Workmen ; Fish Merchants ani Curvi.s-;
Gutta-percha Shoemakers, Cordwainers, and Rivet-
ters ; Brassfounders and Finishers'; Elswick Ord-
nance and Engine Works ; Coachmakers, Sad-
dlers, and Harness Makers; Free Gardners ; R.T.C.
Workmen from Howdon, and Blyth and Tyne
Company's Men; Jarrow Procession Gateshead Pro-
cession ; Onsebura Engine Works ; Amalgamated
Carpenters and Joiners, Joiners of Walker,
Wallsend, and Jarrow, and .:Plasterers ; Plate-
glass Makers arid Elswick Saw Mills; Sunderland
Procession ; Tinplate Workers ; Foresters' Court
(Blaydon) ; Wireworkers, CO,operative Smiths ;
South Shields Procession ; Coopers and Corkcut-
ters ; Tyne Watermen, Painters ; Boilermakers,
Ironfounders, Tailors, Amalgamated Engineers,
Cabinetmakers. The route taken was from Nevile-
street, along Colingwood-street and Mosley-street,
up the west side of Grey-street, round the monu-
ment to Grey-street, down the east side of Grey-
street, along Mosley-street (East), up Pilgrim-A.,
and Northumberland-street to the Haymarket.

The procession started shortly after 12 o'clock at
noon, and it was by far the largest demonstration
ever held by the working classes in the north. The
League reckoned they would be able to bring from
12,000 to 20,000 men into the procession, and cer-
tainly if they did not attain the larger they mustered
the lesser number. The trades' organisations made
themselves felt in the arrangements, for the proces-
sion, in its formation and marching, was like a piece
of machinery. The trades and benefit societies had
numerous banners and devices, and there was a mul-
titude of bands of music. But the procession was
the most remarkable for the number of well-dressed
and orderly men in it. There were few carriages in
the procession, and what there were were occupied
by the Reformers of 1819 and 1832, and Lord
Teynham and Mr. Alderman Maycock were among
them. The procession took a long time in defiling
through the principal streets of the town, and very
large crowds were in the streets. Not a policeman
was to be seen, but the most perfect order pre-
vailed, as the procession was well kept by a body
of mounted marshals. Several of the respectable
inhabitants of the town headed the procession, but
it was essentially a great demonstration of the
skilled workmen of the north.

The out-door meeting was held on the Town-
moor, and there was a large number of speakers,
all workmen. The following resolutions were put
to the meeting and carried :

" 1. That this meeting enters its solemn protest against
and its denial of, the charges of venality, ignorance, drunk-
enness, and indifference to Reform, brought against the
working classes during the last session of Parliament, and
declares that registered residential manhood suffrage, and
the ballot to be the only just and proper basis of represen-
tation.

"2. That this meeting desires to acknowledge the ser-
vices of Earl Russell, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Mr.
John Bright, the O'Donoghue, Mr. John Stuart Mill, Mr.
G. 0. Trovelyan, Mr. Joseph Cowen, Mr. John Candlish,
and all those who have supported the people's claim and
vindicated their character in Parliament.

"3. That this meeting expresses its indignation at the
conduct of those members of Parliament who have refused
to aid the working classes in their endeavours to obtain a
fair share of the franchise ; and hereby pledges itself to
unito with the men of London, Birmingham, Manchester,
Leeds, Glasgow, Dublin, and elsewhere, in their determina-
tion to press the question 'of Reform to an immediate settle-
ment, to maintain the peace and secure the contentment of
the country."

A meeting was held in the evening in the Town-
hall, Mr. Joseph Cowen, jun., in the chair, when
resolutions of a character similar to the above were
carried.

The meeting concluded in au orderly manner.
The in-door meeting in the Town-hall was crowded.
The speakers were Lord Teynham, Messrs. Ernest
Jones, George Otto Trevelyan, M.P., Alderman
Cowen, M.P., Lieut.-Colonel Perkins, Alderman
Candlish, M.P., and others. Resolutions in favour
of unity among Reformers were carried with en-
thusiasm.

INFANTICIDE IN ENGLAND.

DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRETARY.

Mr. Walpole, Secretary of State for the Home
Department, was waited upon yesterday afternoon
by a deputation of the Harveian Society of London,
composed as follows :—Dr. Tyler Smith (president),
Dr. J. E. Pollock, Mr. J. Brandon Curgenven, and
Dr. C. Drysdale, hon. secs. ; Mr. Ernest Hart, Mr.
Benson Baker, Mr. Sedgwick, Dr. H. C. Stewart,
Dr. W. Camps, Dr. W. Menzies, Dr. W. Ballard
(vice-president), Mr. E. Lowe, Dr. Maudsley, Mr.
W. ActOD, Dr. Cleveland, Dr. Westmacott, Mr. J.
B. Walker, 1k; R. Greenalgh, Mr. J. Evans, Mr.
F. C. Jackman, Dr. G. Hewitt, Mr. H. Power,
Dr. E. IL Vinen, Dr. J. O. Longman, Dr. H. Davis,
Mr. Tilbury Fox, &c.
_birthsbrtusifihned
without a
Dr. SMITH having introduced the business, which
was to secure some legislation by which the crime
of infanticide might be lessened,
Dr. DRYSDALE read the recommendations of
tthhee
committee, the principal of which w
registration of all births should hen corme
That all still-born children should b,
g.Pilsuste°rreYd,
and that certificates of still
-births
still-born
d midwives. onlyould b e
nddbcee
certificate.midwife has been pre-
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no medical man nor certified
That, in cases of still-born children,where
the case and, if he see
should make inquiry into , sent, the Poor-law medical officer of the district
fit, acquaint the coroner, who may then hold an
inquest as to the cause of death. That the regis-
tration of an illegitimate child in any other name
than that of its mother, when known, or the regis-
tering
an illegitimate child as a legitimate one,
should be a punishable offence. That the crime of
infanticide should not be punishable by death ; but
that the recommendation of the Royal Commission
on Capital Punishments be adopted, and that the
offence be considered as murder in the second degree.
That evidence be no longer required of complete
separation from the mother, that is, of entire live-
birth, for conviction ; but that it be held sufficient
for the medical and other evidence to prove that the
child was alive during birth, and that it died from
violence or neglect. That a single woman, certi-
fied to be pregnant by a medical man, should be
enabled to make a declaration of the father before
a magistrate, when there is reason to believe that he
is likely to abscond. That any pregnant woman
being destitute, should be at once admissible into
the workhouse by application on or about the com-
pletion of the eighth month of pregnancy. That,
after the period of four months has elapsed, the
mother, if a single woman, should be allowed to
leave the infant iu the workhouse ; and that the
gua,rdi3n6 be empowered to recover from the mother