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MR. DARBY GRIFFITH ON AFFAIRS

ABROAD.

(From the Devizes Gazette.)
Mr. Darby Griffith, having announced a public address
to his constituents and the inhabitants of Devizes on sub-
jects of " political interest," to be delivered at the Town
Hall, was met there on Tuesday evening by a crowded con-
course. The hon. gentleman's address was long, and ern-
braced too wide and miscellaneous a crowd of topics to admit
of more than the most cursory notice at our hands. The
first, and by far the greater part of it, consisted of a series
of sketches and anecdotal memoranda relating to his recent
tour in Southern Europe, which were strung together in
chronological order, and formed altogether an amusing and
not uninstructive melange, richly characteristic of the races
of people there inhabiting, and the political movements
with which the different sections of the Austrian empire
and the Italian peninsula are now convulsed. Interspersed
were descriptive and classical allusions to various places of
interest visited by the hon. gentleman—the ancient Dacia,
Pest (with Buda), Hungary's capital, and its neighbouring
regions; the victorious crusade of Trajan eastward thereof,
and the spots his arms and his subsequent achievements
made memorable in story. Mr. Griffith then took his audi-
tors through the provinces passed in his route to Italy, via
Fiume, Pole, and Trieste. The three latter places were
conspicuous as noted seats of the arts, &c., in ancient
Istria; and the wondrous proportions and general aspect of
the famed amphitheatre of Pola were well described by the
hon. speaker, as were the geographical, physical, and other
noteworthy features of Fiume—which, though the only
part of Hungary proper, could not be depended on as a
secure harbour. Reviewing the political and social state
of these southern Austrian provinces Mr. Griffith said that
it was no longer a doubtful fact that they were ripe for
insurrection, and that the embers of revolution are
smouldering impatient for outbreak. Hungary's grie-
vances were unquestionable, and a spirit of conciliation
had not marked Austrian supremacy—yet it were unwise
in the former to attempt to achieve any so• called "na-
tional independence," and worse than doubtful policy for
England to favour so questionable an enterprise. Austria
had been our old ally, and if—as really now appeared to be
the case—now that the Metternich policy is not completely
paramount in her councils, Austria desired to introduce
reforms into, every branch of civil and judicial administra-
t•ion, and to heal old sores—better would it be, both for those
communities and the interests of Europe generally, were
Austria Proper and her dependence to accommodate matters
and come to some understanding. (Cheers and counter de-
monstrations). Austria, it was true, had long, and after
every lesson received both in Hungary and Italy, persisted
in a course the reverse of conciliatory. Her agents and
subordinates were insolent and overbearing after every suc-
cess. They exasperated, where their true policy would be to
win over by gentleness and moderation. To instance an
atrocious case within his own cognizance : An Austrian
officer lodging at a lady's house, on the first storey of which
ran a balcony fronting his own suite of rooms and others„
unoccupied, and which the lady herself temporarily used,
went out on the same to smoke a cigar, when finding his
landlady at the other end taking the evening air (in Southern
fashion) he ordered her off! She declined to retire, mildly
stating that that part of the balcony fronting the unrented
apartments and opening from the windows thereof belonged,
by established usage, to those apartments. Impatient of
resistance to his arrogant behest, this gallant soldier em-
ployed force to obtain its demand, to which, as the high-
spirited dame opposed her own, the military policeman
snatching his sword from its place in the house, cut her
down, and so disabled her from continuing the unequal con-
flict. But the sequel was the worst, as the cold-blooded and
cowardly incident caused no particular sensation, and was
unnoticed by the authorities. (Shame ! shame !) The cases
of Hungary and Venetia were, however, widely different—
Hungary had formed an integral part of the Austrian Em-
pire since 1437—Venetia had only been annexed for 46
years. Her liberation was both just, and in his (Mr. G.'s)
opinion, inevitable. There were other points of difference.
The condition of the. Hungarian peasantry was shown to
be greatly better, particularly in the comfort of their cot-
tage homes, to that of our own agricultural labourers.
On the condition of the liberated Italian provinces, that of
Naples in particular—the chivalry of some, the good and
the bad management of the revolutionary leaders, the in-
discretion of Mazzinian and other chimerical theorists, the
sinister action of priests, the hot zeal of those who aim to
spread the revolutionary element into neighbouring coun-
tries, thereby jeopardising all themselves have lately won,
Mr. Griffith descanted in full, dwelling with much feeling
on unsullied and unselfish patriotism of Ricasoli and
cotemporaries of his type, and passing a warm eulogy on
the single-mindedness and unmatched military skill of
Garibaldi. Trojan's column at Rome, "purified" by a Pope
of its heathenish profanity, and with a statue called that of
St. Peter on its summit, was made a topic for much merri-
ment by the hon. sneaker, who did not spare his Holiness
in citing some of the " lying wonders" which are used to
support the system of fraud and superstition upon which
the ecclesiastical edifice he presides over is based. Decayed
to the core, that edifice of imposture and crime was now
tottering to its fall. Mr. Griffith closed his address by
referring in some detail to the events of the last Parlia-
mentary session, his votes and speeches, his freedom froth
party shackles, a defence of his own course in the matter
of the late Ministerial scheme of reform. He said—There
is one imputation that has been rather freely bandied about
in certain quarters upon members of Parliament who may
I have taken part in the duties and the discussions of the
session which really appears to me almost too contemptible
for serious notice—namely, that they have been actuated
by personal vanity and love of notoriety in bringing their

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views and convictions before the house, oftener perhaps
than might be acceptable to some of its members. Why, can
it reallybe supposed that a member sent to such an assembly,
the great council of the nation, and we may almost say of
the world, bould be actuated by such a miserable considera-
tion as personal vanity in the attempted discharge of such
duties, or would a stimuli s of so low and grovelling a nature
be likely to inspire him with the moral courage necessary to
support him in standing up before so critical and severe an
audience, in the maintenance of the convictions he may
entertain, irrespective of the tendency of the popular or
party cry of the moment ? The noble lord the member for
Middlesex, in a speech some weeks back, appears to have
inventecl'a very ingenious classification of the House of
Commons in relation to this subject. He said, I believe,
something of this sort, that in regard to privilege of speak-
ing, the House of Commons might be divided into the class
of, first, the Ministers, . who would in the course of their

duty have to speak a great deal ; then secondly, the leaders
of Opposition, who would have to criticise the acts of the
Government, and therefore must have a good deal to say ;
thirdly, would come the class of county members, who were
men of high respectability and great social influence, and
whatever fell from them, therefore, was entitled to great
attention, as they attended largely to the' important
business of committees of the house, and used the pri-
vilege of speech with moderation and discretion.. Fourthly,
came all the borough members, and they might be consi-
dered as rather an intrusive lot—no doubt those who re-
presented large constituencies and important interests
might properly have something to say about the local in-
terests they were conversant with. The member for Man-
chester might speak about cotton—the member for Liver-
pool, about docks and shipping. The member for Sheffield
might have a word to say about cutlery and hardware, and