New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-04

new Press Law imposed on che Swiss Baad BY
the Continental Powers, the publisher Mr.
Schabhtz his son, and the printer Will be per
secuted hy the Basic Government. which has al
ready con6scated number Of copies still -
possession Of the Publisher. This vii be she
INST trial Of this Kind in Switzerland, and the A.
lair hss become already mstter OF controver-
81 between the Radicals and the Conservative
party. How anxious the Prissian Goycrnmoo<
is to conceal It's infamies during the Cologne
trial from publicity, YOU may infer from the fact
thar the Minister " the Exterior has issued or
ders tor the seizure (fahndebriele, Of The
pamphlet wherever il should appear, bat dees
not even dare To call il by its sitle. In order
20 mislead the public. he gives as its name " a
Ike0ry If CommERiS1.' while il consslns no
thing but reyelstions of the Prrssisn state mys-
tsries.
The only progress made in official Ger
many since the year lSiS, is the conclusion "
the Austro Prussisn Commercial rreoty--cs 80
core That Tresty is surrounded With so many
c!sHsslse, retrenched behind 50 many exccp-
tons, aud reserves SO many chief questions to
the future adjustment of yet unborn commis-
sionS, while the actual elimination in the tariffs
is SO small, that il amounts 20 mere aspirA-
ton tovaris real Commercial Union OF Ger
many. and is, practically speaking, utterly insig-
niicant. The most striking feature OF the
Treaty is the victory Austria has again won
over Prussia This pertdious, this base, this
eOwardly, this vscillating sham-power, has
bowed again before It's more brutal. bat more
straightforward rival. Not only has Austria
forced treaty on Prussia which the latter was
most unwilling 10 accept, but Prussia has beea
compelled 10 renew the old Zoll- Vercis with the
old tariff. or 70 promise not 20 change, Tor
twelve years, anything in her Commercial
policy without the unanimous consent OF the
minor ZOll- Veren States l. G., without the per
mission of Austriadhe South-German Statos
being not only politically, but also CONNER
cialy, the vassals of Austria, or the antagonists
of Prussia.) Since the restoration Of Divine
Power" Prussia has marched from degrade
ton 20 degradation. Her king, "a wise mani
his times appears 10 think that his people
NAV derive comforting compensation in the
Internal despotsm they are subject 20 from tho
debasement their Government has Go suher
abroad
The refugee-question is not settled yet The
ssmi- official O,Streickische Correspondent con
tradcts the statement, that Austria had ad-
dressed at this moment fresh note Go the Eng
lish Government because recent events
having shown that Lord Palmerston has recov-
cred his influence, the Imperial Governments
could not expose It's dignity 10 certain check.-
have written YOU before on Palmerston's do
claration in the House of Commons From
the English papers you know the philo Austrian
declaration OF Aberdeen in the House OF Lords,
that the English Government would make itscif
the spy and Attoney.General of Austria
Palmerstons journal now remarks on tho Oh
seyatiOn OF his colleague.
Even on the modified concession which Lord Abcs.
deem appears inclined make, cannot sly that We
LOO 4 with much confidence 20 success
No one will dare propose 20 Br itsh Goyeumcst 10
attempt It's conversion into engine OF foreign poice
aud political man trap"
You sec what good under standing thereis in tho
councils OF the Methusaem ministry between
" antauated imbecility and liberal energy.
In the whole London press there was unani-
nous cry OF indignation against Aberdeen and the
House Vt Lords, r,h one base exception, that u
The Times newspaper
The Times, YOU will remember, commenced
by denouncing the refugees aud inviting the For
eign Powers to ash for their expulsion Then.
having aSceTtained that y renewal OF the Allies
Bill would be refused with scOrn 10 che Minis
TRY in the House OF Commons. it at once over
flowed with rhetorically framed descriptions ID
the sacrifice Il was ready to make-oh dear. -
for the preservation ot the right Of asylum.
Finally. after the amiable conversation between
my Lords of the Upper House, IL reyenged It.
self on It's own high. sounding oiyism, with the
following angry explosion in its leading article
OF March 9TH;
"lr Ia believed in many parts OF the Cabinet that we
delight in this country Of menagero Of refugees-iero
ei0uF characters ot al nations, and ht for all crmes
DO tnesc foreign writers who d-n0ucs the presencs0 f
their outlawed cOuntrymen Ia Eogiani. suppose
that the existence OF refugee Ia this country IL al On
yiable atei Let them be undeceiycd, Tbs praesod
class Of beings live iOf the most part In sqund poverty,
saiiH6 ne sa ofe Stranger when they gee IT, sunk.
o. were beneath the mrbid waves OF this vast metre
polls. TAeir punishment Is sziis 10 rs harsAe.t FORE
As TO the last point, The Times Is right En-
gland il delightful country TO live out Of
In the heaven Of Mars" Dante meets with
bis ancestor, Cacciagida de Elisei, who predicts
TO him his approaching exile from Florence In
these words:
"Ts proversi siecome son al ,ss
II pane sltp, come duro Gale
10 slender sell sair per daltn scale
Thou shall, prove how salt the sayours
OF others bread, how hard tho passage
To descend and climb by others stairs
Happy Dante, another being of that wretch
ed class called political refugees" whom his
enemies could not threaten with the misery Of
q Timss-leader Happier 4" Times" that es-
esped reserved seat" in his Inferno 2"
Ii the refugees eat the salt Of the stranger,
as The Times says, getting il at strange prices,
too, which il forgot to say is The Times itself
not feeding on the strangers aesh aud blood,
How many leaders and how many pounds have
lts anonymous Pythas not made out OF French
revolutions, German instructions, Italian out
breaks aud Hungarian wars, of French /" fusil-
ladies' Of Austrian gsllows, OF confseated
heads and beheaded property Unhappy Times.
if there were no /" ferociOus characters on the
Continent, if 10 were 20 grow Older day by day
on rhe coarse food OF sInithheld Market, Lon
don chimney smoke, dirt, tsroeions cabmen, the
.iI bridges ofthe Thames, intermural interments,
pestilentis church yards, filthy drinkwster,
railway accidents, crippled pint and quart bot
lie.. and other interesting topics, which form its
eetlar st0ck-in-Jrade, 10 rhe intervals OF con
mental dnllness The Times is unchanged
since the epoch when IL called upon the British
Government 70 murder Napoleon 4. Is il