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      Italian Patriots And Their Oalumniatokh....

      Some escapades at the Polish meeting , the old and well-worn names of JVTarat , Danton , and Robespierre , again did duty In order to justify the slander that , Mazzini ' s friends are Socialists bent on plunder ,: and revolutionists bent on . destruction . " Miserable indeed , " says the Times , "is the position of the educated Italian . On the one side he sees liis fair country trampled down by a foreign tyranny , and when he takes the hand which is stretched out to expel the invader , he finds it streaming with gore , and itching for massacre and plunder . " -Now , why this round assertion , when the facts were patent to the writer

      for composing history consonant with the truth ? If there is any hand to ' be regarded as that stretched out on behalf of Italy , it is the hand of Mazzini . What is the blood upon it ? He has been a leader where the soldiers of his country fought for its freedom and independence , as Cromwell , asEljot , and Hampden fought . But there is this difference , that whereas the English leaders fought against their . otto misguided countrymen , Mazzini ' s officers were contending with the alien foe . It is insinuated that Mazzini demands spoliation > the stiletto , and the guillotine : now wliere are the facts for the materials of that invention r There hare , ¦; indeed , been savage slaughters in cold blood , wholesale confiscations , and inhuman

      imprisonments ; but who is it that has gorged the dungeons of Naples with thousands of victims P—¦ w ho lias caused a Simoncelli to be slaughtered at Home ?—who has hanged a Tazzoli by a slow process which prolonged the suffering for hours ? —who has confiscated the property of noblemen unconvicted of any offence ? " Mazzini held possession of Borne , but none of these things were done ; although the city was actually besieged , the pretext of a state or siege was not used for

      shooting , men or beating women during the government of the Triumvirate . Property was as safe as in London , life was endangered only by the incidents of war , and justice was sacred . Offences against life and property were committed , not by Mazzini , but by the King of JSTaples , tlie Pope , and the Government of Austria . It is not Mazzini that can hold up the red hand of spoliation;— it is the hand of the Pope which is streaming Avith gore , the hand of Austria which has committed robbery .

      The rules of a patriotic society were found on the person of Felice Orsini , detained lately at Sarzana . Amongst these rules was one imposing punishment of death for treachery within tlio association . Secret societies havo often adopted stringent rules , and necessarily . But " volenti nan fit i 7 ijuri ( i ; " volunteers enrolling in a society accept its rules at their own pleasure . That the society in question was in favour of general intolerance is not true . If the . Times had ehoson to give the rules which immediately followed tho

      one quoted , it would have found that a vindictive intolerance for the religious opinions of others , was equally forbidden with treachery within tho society itself . The Times picks out of Felice Oraini ' s rules such points as , taken by themselves , would imply a fierce resolve ; omjts tho fact that ; tho volunteer adherents to those rules wore fierce only in the resolve against their own delinquency , and generous towards others .

      And who is this Felice Orsini P Ho commanded in Aiwsona when the revolution in the States of tho Church first broke out . Tho people were then resorting to that last resort of tho oppressed—assassination . But by his tvystem of guards and hy a coinpulHory illumination Orsini . chocked tho crime , and received the express approbation of English officers on tho spot . In times of revolution rosowater philanthropies arc of little service ; but this was the service which vindicated human ity . Tito journalist had the means of testing his own statements . After tho first allusion to tho

      Mission of Onutu ; after tho firs I ; aspersions upon the- revolutionists , Mw / am himself wrote ft letter to tho Tunes , giving tho authentic imd complete toxt of the passag e , in Orsha ' s Paper , and repelling tho accusation . The J-roiitnioiit of this letter by the Times is peou-! lai ' - It was not published ; yef ; after receiving } t tho Times uses tho following language , implym that M . iwAim had booh tho accusation , and had neglected to aiiHwor it -. —•

      M . Mazzini in in London , mid had wo boon « J ^ - < wivod by jin A . iiHtrian trick , wouhl not havo lioon hIow 1 o denounce tho bane fabrication , and to vindicate ) him-Ho » nnd hi « Koutonuut bofoi-o tho oven of England

      and of Europe from such grave and damaging aspersions . " No English writer needed to have been at the mercy of any particular communication . At the first Conversazione of the . Friends of Italy , Mazzini delivered a speech , which was after wards published , in which he 'Stated ; his . political , principles , and spoke of the guillotine and of the terror of 1793 , in language which showed how utterly incompatible with his nature or opinions are those instruments . Indeed , the views of his whole life , the tenor of all that he has ever written , and . his

      conduct whenever he has put those views and those writings into action , established the one fact— -that all which is cruel and _ cowardly maybe on the other side , but never will be on his : it never has been the system of Mazzini . We might challenge the Times to point to any tiling in the conduct of Mazzini at Itome- —we will not say , which can compare with the conduct of the Pope , or with Eing jFerdinand , or with the Emperor Francis Joseph—but which cannot stand the test of the highest standard of law and morals amongst ourselves in England . In the

      ettei * which was addressed to the Times—and which was not published by that journal , but which was afterwards published by the JDaily News—Mazzini quoted the phrase of Fouche : " Give me three lines of a man , and I will bring him to the scaffold . " The writer in the Times has improved-on that maxim : he says , by nis slander— " Give me three * lines of a marts friend , and I will bring him to condemnation . " An imperfect expression by one of Mazzini ' s friends , Pianciani ; or a garbled and distorted extract from the writing of another friend , Felice Orsini , is made to serve as the pretext for accusing Mazzini

      and the Italian patriots of acts which are the very reverse of their real conduct , although that conduct has been performed in the face of the whole world . Mazzini may well disdain to notice systematic slanderers , who employ the strength of an enormous publicity to trample on the fallen , to insult the proscribed , and to deny redress to the traduced . But the fault , we . still say , is in the English people . The Times would not venture to challenge a man to do that which he has done , or'to ignore that which it has itself refused to publish , if the favour of the English public were not accorded to journals conducted upon such principles .

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      Official Progress Of Positivism. An Amus...

      OFFICIAL PROGRESS OF POSITIVISM . An amusing alarm has been created by tho Positivist tendencies of the present Government . They havo indeed been demonstrated in many forms . Tt would have been quite possible to have insisted on the right of the Crown in Australia , to havo refused " concession to popular clamour , " and to have shown that powning-street understood the business of any part of Australia much bettor than tho people on tho spot . But tho Duke of Newcastle preferred to think that , Englishmen all tho world over being about of tho same standard , local knowledge may fit any of thorn for local government , and he at oneo enabled tho Australian a to carry on tho affairs of the Australians . The result has boon that the disaffected Australians have become tho well .-affoct ; ed Australians . This in Positivism in Politics . Mr . Gladstone , following up tho example of Sir Robert Peel , has controverted that old tradition which taught that to make England prosperous it was necessary to prevent her people from getting food where they like , and to cany on their industry as thoy please , tho result being that a deiieioiit

      liar vest has not done nioro than throw a shadow upon our j ^ reat prosperity . That is Positivism in Commerce . The Presbytery of Edinburgh asked . l ^ ortl Palmers ton to dictate a simultaneous prayerfulnoHS in tho nation , as a moans to release uh ( Voni cholera . Lord Palinorston replied , that tho causes of cholera wore physical , and that , while tho people" holplessly permit tho causes to exist around them , they have no right to put up help-Iohs prayers for immunity . Loud was tho out- ; cry of tho Pharisees at this broach of custom

      for there was a canting forco in tho invitation , to pwyor , which Minis tera heretofore- have not had tho courage to resist . What have boon tho results P Tho Presbytery of Edinburgh arranged for a , day of pmyor , winch those observed who pleaaod , and those who did not please clisrogardod . In tho meanwhile , additional efforts have boon mado in . Edinburgh , and other Scotch towns , to correct that habitual disregard of cleanly arrangement , which provided plueotf for tho

      cholera to breed in ; and i he effect is that although Lord Palmerston did not order the national fast , at the dictate of the Edinburgh Presbytery , cholera is subsiding . But a new offence , was anticipated . ' It was customary for the Queen to issue a letter addressed to the clergy , which is read from the pulpits of the Church , recommending collections on behalf of the National Society , and of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts . A journal of patented piety announced , a few days baak , that this practice was

      to be- ^ discontinued —phrasing the announcement in a manner which implied horror at innovation ; at the same time that . it was partly excused by the remark , that the two societies in question are accused of Tractarian leanings . A -semi-official contradiction has been given to the report : the letters will be issued as usual , but it is remarked , that tho . contradiction is so limited as to give no pledge for the future . Now , the expectation on the part of the public , that these letters should be continued , is a striking instance of servile adherence to usage when

      it is covered by a cant . The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts , however meritorious its objects , in the eyes of its supporters , has no more claims to . national assistance of the kind than many other societies , and the National Society may be considered positively to have obstructed well considered and national aims to promote l in . a less sectarian way , the ¦ object which it professes . Sectarian or not sectarian , the societies are not State institutions , and they have no claim upon the royal endorsement of their begging petitions to

      non-subscribers . The name of the Qucsn has hitherto been used as a means of extorting- ' money from those who had no call to support the institutions ; and why Lord Palmerston , simply because the societies act in the name of tho Gospel and tho Church , should advise the Queen to place at their disposal the royal name as an instrument of cant , it would be difficult to explain . If the clergy want money , they may ( and do ) get it by stirring ' the convictions and affections of their flocks ; but certainly no Secretary of State is bound , or even justified , save by the servile plea of precedent , to extort tribute for sectarian societies in the

      name of n royal benevolence . Lord Palmerston , however , has proceeded to yet more shocking lengths ; he has granted a , commission to enquire into the causes of cholera Have we not been told that cholera was brought upon us by our political sins , and specifically by the Godless colleges and tho omission of "Fid . T ) ef . " on the first of tho florins P He doubts ! lie is not satisfied with that explanation ; but in "tho pride of intellect" he probably expects tho coinmission to report to him that cholera is caused by noxious gases and exhalations . And , indeed , such is tho wicked presumption of human nature , that tho Commissioners may so report ; and then the public will bo diverted from the " true" o . \ - planution , which describes cholera as caused by unscctarian schools or tho absence of six Jotters on a coin , to the Positive idea , that foul air and squalid lodging brood disease .

      Mao Dal Un A 8yl 17m.S. Notwithstandino ...

      MAO DAL UN A 8 YL 17 M . S . NotwitHSTANDino tho well-known instance of the Sisters of Mercy at Plymouth , under M . ins Sollon , it will create some surprise when it is known that a regular institution of Sisters of . ' Mercy ia growing up within tho Church of England . Hy a , meeting of tho friends of the Churoh . of England . House of Mercy for Olowcr , on Tuesday week , wo learn not only that tho association .

      at that place is / lourinhing , but that it is likely to bo parent of brunches at , Wantage , Bussago Norwich , Leeds- ) , Dover , and some place in SomorHotHhiro ; houses being already established at tho two places first named . Tho institution at Clowor is , to bo enlarged to hold fifty inmates , wi |/ h the power to add room for sevonty-fivo or eighty ; and it is proponed to effect a oliiAmficJition of tho inmates for their moro complete rotion of tho inmates for their moro complete

      redemption . Some circumstance *) ' attendiriLfj ; the mooting aro remarkable . It was' hold in the lodge of tho ' Provost of Eton , aa ! , th < 5 first hud been , held in the h 6 ust ? pf * this Bishop of ICxoter , and others ' , in . Lattdou . House , tho residence of tho Metropolitan I $ i (» ixot > , and in the rooms of tho Society for tho tfrojiagution of tho Gospel in Foreign Parts . Tlio PrQvost and tho jiishop of Oxford took ari antivo " part now j Dr . Armstrong , thoJJiaUopof UruluimB-.

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 10, 1853, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10121853/page/11/