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pressions of thankfulness as would lead most readily
to another. Then, when the first check was given
to their ambitious proceedings, they turned sud-
denly round, and availed themselves of the vantage
ground already gained to exert all their resources
of hostility and annoyance. They verified to the
letter every prediction which had been hazarded by
the opponents of the measures for relief. After
gratefully accepting toleration and freedom for their
religion, they pushed its pretensions higher and
higher, till they are now demanding the reduction
of the Established Church to their own level, and
are but one step, in fact, from the assertion of
supremacy. They have kept the Romanist portions
of the empire in greater agitation than before, have
brought into conspicuous prominence the unna-
tional features of their creed, have revived the most
repulsive doctrines of " Popery" in its worst ac-
ceptation, have openly converted spiritual authority
into secular influence, and have clamorously de-
clared that they will regulate all their political
duties by the interests of an ambitious priesthood.
Mr. Lucas and his friends maintain that this is a
very natural and proper exemplification of their
religion. We have no desire to contradict them ;
on the contrary, we are of the same opinion our-
selves. We very much doubt whether in England,
or, indeed, in any free Protestant country, a true
Papist can be a good subject; but if all this had
been avowed some years ago, the opportunities of
Popery would never have been what they are.—
The Times.

AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS.—A proclamation to the
Hungarian soldiers in Italy, which was published
last week in the name of Kossuth, is now in his
name disowned. We are willing to believe that
the disclaiming Kossuth is the real one. In that
case, Mazzini, as the instigator of the late outbreak
at Milan, stands alone. Within a week of this
miserable riot comes an all but successful attempt
to assassinate the Emperor of Austria. Thus it is
that under a despotism the most iron oppression
never wants a plausible excuse. Severity begets
crime, and crime affords a plea for severity. For
' these mad and isolated acts of atrocity the state of
siege will be indefinitely prolonged at Vienna, and
Milan is handcuffed, gagged, and fined, till the
iron enters deeper than ever into the soul of the
people. It is easier to get into the groove than to
get out of it—yet even that is not so difficult as
it looks. The Emperor is a young man ; let him
try for once whether a little mildness will diminish
the stability of his precarious throne.—Guardian.

MINISTERIAL ARRANGEMENTS.—The John
Bull says that on Monday last the transformation
of the Foreign Secretary into an officeless leader of
the House of Commons was effected by the transfer
of the seals of the Foreign Office to the Earl of
Clarendon. This completes the extraordinary
arrangement—contemplated, it seems, from the first
formation of Lord Aberdeen's ministry—by which
two members of the cabinet occupy seats, one in
the Upper and another in the Lower House, with-
out any definite employment, and without being
specifically responsible as her Majesty's servants for
any one department of government. We regard
the arrangement, an objectionable one in itself, with
the greater jealousy, because the two noble lords
thus attached as fifth-wheels to the government
waggon happen to be the original promoters and
strenuous advocates of the establishment of an edu-
cational State Department. We cannot help think.
ing of the nursery rhyme, according to which

" Satan finds some mischief-still
For idle hands to do."

THE VACANT BISHOPRICS.—The death of two
Bishops in rapid succession,—of the Bishop of
Lincoln on Friday, and of the Bishop of Sidney
early on Sunday,—places two bishoprics at the dis-
posal of her Majesty's Ministers. The manner in
which these appointments will be filled up by the
coalition ministry will be jealously and anxiously
watched for more than one reason. Looking at the
composition of the cabinet, there is abundant cause
of uneasiness in the fact that, to confront the Deism
of Sir W. Molesworth, the Presbyterianism of the
Earl of Aberbeen and the Duke of Argyll, and the
Latitudinarian Erastianism of Lords Lansdowne and
Russell, there is no Church element, except one
tainted by Tractarian unsoundness and tendency to
separation between Church and State. But the
solicitude of Churchmen is increased by the charac-
ter of the times, which demands, both at home and
in the :colonies, not merely that the appointments
should be unobjectionable, but that the persons
placed in offices of such high trust should, by their
energy, their courage, their zeal and practical know-
ledge, be enabled to make provision for the wants
of the Church, and successfully to cope with the
difficulties which beset her, as well as with the
enemies by whom she is surrounded.—John Bull.

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.—The Monteur announces that His Majesty
the Emperor has received the reply of Queen Victoria to
the Emperor's letter announcing his marriage; as also a
similar answer from the King of Belgium.
The King of Wurtemberg has returned a reply through
his Minister at Paris, to the notification of the Emperor's
marriage. The Austrian Minister has presented letters
from the Emperor, notifying the decease of the Archduke
Regnier Joseph. The Emperor goes into mourning for
nine days. The Papal Nuncio has presented letters from
his Holiness.

A decree of the Emperor has just regularized the pro-
motion of the Marquis de Pastoret to the rank of Grand
Officer of the Legion of Honour. The nomination was
made in 1830, but events have prevented its being carried
into effect. This is the same Marquis de Pastoret who
was till lately the Count de Chambord's agent in France,
and who, though two months ago he addressed a letter to
the head of the family of Bourbon, has since gone over
to the powers that be, in consideration of a seat in the
Senate, a salary of 30,000 f. a-year, and a rosette at the
buttonhole of his coat.

General Gemeau, late Commander-in-Chief of the army
in Rome, has returned to Paris. Thirty-six military pri-
soners have just effected their escape from Fort Lamalgue,
near Toulon.

According to a return, published in the Moniteur, the
receipts of the customs duties and the indirect taxes dur-
ing the last month amounted to 8,945,549 f., being 1,344,800 f
less than in the corresponding month of 1852, and '34,434f.
more than in January, 1851.
It is said to be in the contemplation of the Emperor and
Empress to make a journey in the spring to the south of
France, and particularly to the Pyrenees, from Bagneres-
de-Bigorre to Bayonne and Biarritz. Louis Napoleon is
at this moment hurrying forward the works which were
commenced some years since at the Chateau of Pan. The
Emperor, who takes a lively interest in everything which
reminds him of his mother, wishes to visit the places
through which she so often passed, such as Luz, St. Sau-
veur, Cauteretz, and Gavarnie, all those' picturesque
mountains which, it may almost be said, are no longer
France, and are scarcely Spain. The Empress herself,
since 1845, has almost always passed the summer in the
Pyrenees with her mother, and wiil be glad to revisit
them.

In the Council of Ministers the wish of the Emperor
was adopted in principle for opening a universal exhibition
in 1854, to which all countries will be invited to send their
productions. The exhibition will take place in the Crystal
Palace in the Champs Elysees, which will be constructed
as rapidly as possible.

Utiderthe decree of the 22nd of J anuary, which con-
fiscated the Orleans property, estimated at 10,000,000 f.,
the Emperor has determined that 3,000,000 f. out of that
sum shall be employed in improving the dwellings of the
working-classes.

The Paris Presse has a notice of the assurances given in
the German papers, that the British Government will be
called on to expel the foreign refugees who have abused
hospitality by conspiring against friendly states, for the
purpose of expressing its doubts that England will swtrve
from her old feelings on the right of asylum to refugees.:

ITALY.—Six more of the insurgents have been hung
at Milan, making in all thirteen that have been put to
death. Marshal Radetzky has placed the whole of Lom-
bardy under the strictest martial law, from a conviction
that the inhabitants, " with a few laudable exceptions,
allow themselves to be intimidated by the infamous revo-
lutionary party, instead of openly and loyally making
cause with the imperial government."—The military au-
thorities, at Milan, believing that Mazzini was still in
town, have taken the most rigorous measures to prevent
him from escaping. They even opened the coffins which
were being carried to consecrated ground, to assure them-
selves that Mazzini was not concealed in one of them.
Orders had been issued to the householders to suspend, for
the purpose of lighting the town, a lamp from the first
floor of every fourth house, which is to remain burning
from six o'clock in the evening until daylight. In case of
disturbance the householders are to close their doors, and
every man found in the streets is to be treated as con
cerned in the affray. The inhabitants are forbidden to
appear on the bastions from six o'clock in the evening till
seven in the morning.
A letter from Turin, of the 21st February, says :—lt is
believed that the visit of M. Massimo d'Azeglio to Lon-
don is connected with the London refugees, and that he
has been despatched at the instance of the Queen, who
still remains in the Tyrol. The government continued
to expel from Piedmont the most dangerous of the refu-
gees. The loan of two millions would be effected with
the house of Rothschild at Paris.

All the natives of Ticino, resident in Lombardy, have
been ordered to quit the kingdom : the workmen in
twenty-four hours, landed proprietors and others in three
days. About 5,000 Ticinese will suffer by this measure.
A letter from Genoa of the 231, which states that the
steamer had brought news from Leghorn that some
sailors belonging to an English corvette theraed, bbeeienng onshore, had cried out " Vice Italie ."' a
in-
stantly arrested by the Austrians. Some stated that, at
the earnest protestations of the English captain, the
A.ustrians had set the sailors at liberty, but others, who
thought themselves better informed, declare that the
Austrians have refused to release them, and that in con-
sequence the corvette had sailed to bring the English
squadron to support the honour of its flag.
The Pope of Rome will, on the 4th of March, hold a
consistorr, at which eight cardinals will be nominated,