The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-11-16
Miscellany.
THE NEXT DANCE.

And gladden. the heart Of the Queen of the
Isles.
We than. ,.a. you for all that has welcomed him
For the sign Of true love that you bear the
Old Land,
Proud Heiress Of all that his ancestor lost,
You restore It, in giving that warm, loving
hand.
And we'll claim, too, the omen. Fate looking
And Fate, only, knows the next tune she
will play,
But if John and his Cousin join hands for the
dance
Bad luck to the parties that got in their way.
London Punch.
Dr.. BRowNsoN, in the October number
of his Quarterly Revie0, discusses the tenn
poral power of the Pope. He maintains
that the subjects of the Roman Prince have
quite as much right to pry into the methods
in which he conducts his government as
the subjects of Queen Victoria who live in
ireland have to inquire into her government
Of the island. The Pope's temporal sover-
eighty, he holds, never was, and is not now,
an absolute right. The people have now,
and always have had, their own reserved
rights as men. If the Prince governs in an
arbitrary and unjust manner, they may cast
of his rule with as much freedom and pro.
priety as they may cast of the rule of any
lay monarch. These appear obvious truths;
but the Metropolitan Record, the mouth.
piece of Archbishop Hughes, denounces
Brownson little better than hereto, and
denies that his Quarterly is Catholic pc.
riodical. The Baltimore Mirror and the
Buffalo Sentinel, the organs OF the Catholic
Bishops in those places, also join in severe
criticism upon the course f.he Review.
The New York Worlds Paris cores
pondent gives an interesting account of the
surveillance exercised over the press of
France by the government:
Previous to the establishment of journal
in France, the consent of the government
must be obtained. The name of the journal,
and the name of its principal editor and its
secretary of reduction" must besubmitted
to the minister of pubic instruction, and by
him approved. In Austria and In Russia,
the first proof of every journal published is
submitted to censor, who expunges or
alters passages or entire articles at will, but
in France no such censorship exists, and any
journal may publish any article it chooses.
The law of the 18th of February, 1852, or
rather an organic decree of that date, which
controls the French press, provides that
the minister of public instruction, may give
an advertisement, or warning to any journal
which publishes articles which he may judge
exceed the limits accorded to free discussion.
The government processes to accord and does
really permit considerable degree of lib.
erty in the discussion of any OF its projects,
but does not allow any of the organic or
fundamental principles upon which the gov.
eminent rests to be attacked, the minister
of public instruction (of course under the in.
SEPARATION of the emperor) being the judge
as to whether an article does this or not.
Two warnings are usually given prior to
the suppression or suspension of Journal,
but by special decree of the emperor,
upon the recommendation of the minister,
as in the case of the Uniuers and Gazette
de Lyon, journal may be summarily and
without any warning whatever, suspended
or suppressed.
By the terms of the amnesty of August
18th, 1859, all the warnings at that time
hanging over the press of France were
removed, and it was supposed at that time
that the Emperor would materially modify
the law, but he not only has not done it,
he has no intention of doing it. Since the
amnesty several journals in the provinces
have been summarily suppressed, and seve-
raj warned. The Opinion Rationale, one
OF the most out-spoken of the liberal jour-
nails of Paris, and which has only been es-
tablished about year, already has two
warnings hanging over it, the last one having
been brought upon it by the publication,
without note or comment, of the terribly
revolutionary speech which was made by
Victor Hugo, last spring, in the island of
Jersey. Tine Presse has also received one.
This journal was suspended once for three
months, on account of the publication of a
feullleton written for it by George Sand, in
about the last chapter of which something
derogatory to the papacy was said by one
of the characters. The world certainly
progresses. For the past six months most
of the French journals have abused the
papacy and the Pope right heartily, and
the strong arm of the government has not
molested them for it in the slightest degree.
We learn from the same correspondent,
that for the daily papers of Paris no SUBJ
scription is taken for less period than
three months, which is required to be paid
IN advance. Then the subscription must
either date from the first or fifteenth of the
month /; and person subscribing on the
tenth must either not commence receiving
his journal for five days afterward or in
case he wishes his subscription to date from
the first, the clerk, when he subscribes,
hands him the ten back papers.
Ross1rER is engaged on a large picture
of the Prince of Wales
visit to the Tomb of Washington, in COM
pany with the President, his niece and the
members of bis Cabinet. All the figures
introduced will be painted from life, the
Prince having afforded the artist an oppor-
tunity of making sketches of himself and
suite. The picture will form companion
to the " Visit of Lafayette to Mount Yer
non," by the same hand.