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    Politically, This Year Is Already Regard...

    to force ; no resistance but moral resistance—a war conducted in " union , " carried on with " perseverance , * ' and animated b y " devotedness . " But if the enemies of the constitution pass its limits , then " they solemnly declare * with deliberate firmness , that , enveloped in the flag of the constitution , they will not fail in any of the duties which the salvation of the Republic may impose . And this ia a policy in which , from Cavaignac and Lamorici & re to Jules Favre and Auguste Miot , all shades of the Left will heartily join . The moral attitude is perfect . It is also a deadly reproach to those who intrigue for It De JoinviUe or for a Bonaparte , both illegal candidatures .

    In Western Europe , both South and North of France , there is no overt sign of change ; but the fact that popular intelligence has made great progress in Spain , is attested by the extension of Associative principles in that country . On this subject , our contemporary , La Republique , distinguished even among French journals for uniting the philosophy of politics with practical information , has a most instructive article , of which we shall place the substance before our English readers next week .

    Taking a sweep round by the East of Europe , from the Baltic to the Mediterranean , we discern in every part the symptoms of alarm on the Absolutist side;—an alarm getting too strong for concealment . The intelligence of an Absolutist movement from all quarters , might be summed up in two words—arrests and diplomatic activity . Police and diplomatists are busy in every state . There are arrests in Germany , arrests in Hungary , arrests in Austrian Italy ; the Berlin police system is

    extended to the JR nine ; the police report a conspiracy discovered at Venice , to break out at Brescia ; the the Ordre reports that the eruption is to take place at the foot of JEtna . Here again the only thing certain is , that the police know nothing of these rumoured conspiracies ; their masters , indeed , descry a great power rising up against them , throughout the whole range of Absolutist Europe ; they feel what they call the " volcanic soil" rising under their feet ; they discern the power of the *' Invisible Government" in the demeanour of

    the People ; they are perplexed , terrified ; they presume an explosion to take place , they would rather see the danger than live in the midst of it mseen , and they order the police to find it out : ccordingly the police reports that it has found it > ur . There is the whole story of these pretended lUcovenes . Meanwhile , Absolutism has other tribulationss in the last new discovery , for the twentieth ime , that Austrian finance is insolvent ; other open—as in the last new turn to the expectations bout Frederick William , that he is going to turn Joinan Catholic—as if it mattered what he turned ! he weathercock will probably turn southwards j-morrow : what then ?

    The colonial world is r . ot in a state of perfect epose . Cuba is nnnouticcd to be in revolt gainst Squill ; and although some doubt is cast porT the report , at . present it must be received . ith due allowance for all rumours coming across ie Atlantic . The disturbances at Quebec appear o hnve Wen exaggerated in the first accounts ; ul Canada in far from being in a healthy eondion . And at the Cape of Good Hope Governor mitli makes little way with his little Kafir war .

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES . T ^ ie most prominent topicK in the news from France ' re the uianifcbto , or Comptc-rendu of the Mountain » the people , and the huge trials for political conpiracy on nn immense scale now proceeding atLyotiH . The manifesto ia a remarkable document , full of i-r ipe in the future ; full of satisfaction -with the posil © n of the democracy , nil things considered ; axid -gited i > y 111 Montagnards . They advocate " union , / ereieveranco , and devotedness" ub the means of

    conquering their opponents . They point out how the Republic exists by being stronger than its divided jcu ; how the reelection of Louis Napoleon is irnposfble , because unconstitutional ; and they rejoice in ho fact that tho Republican party were united in the ¦ ebate on revision . The constitution is readily admit' ? A to be not perfect ; but it is a " barrier to monarchical factions . " They 'blame- in strong terms tho * ' rilitary support which the Government gives to the *"« Miuor * i > fttupid , and cruel Government of Home , " rrhioh , " under the eye of the French army , concerts / ith . the King of Nnples , the executioner of his Bubi-ctm , mn eacape from French protection , which it

    imn and disavows . They also complain that the ' ranch army in Italy " listens to the proclamations f Xladetski , another oxecutioner , whose impious outage * strike a generous population to the heart . " tefoning to domestic matter ** , the repreeeutativcfl of

    the Mountain complain of the accused m the conspiracy of Lyons having been kept for months in gaol before being brought to trial ; of the maintenance of the state of siege in five departments ; of the establishment 6 f the police system at Lyons ; of the dissolution Of national guards and municipal councils for having flulde republican demonstrations ; of the law on the national guard , " which deprives the * vile multitude of the musket , as the-electoral law deprived them of the tight of voting {'' of the prorogation of the elections of officers of the national guards , and of elections of councils-general ; also of the severities to which the political prisoners of Belle-Isle are subjected . After treating of several matters connected with acts of the last session of the Assembly , they say : —

    " Citizens , —The future , an early future , will settle all the social questions of which in the first days of the revolution of February the importance was so well understood . That future is ours . What are , in fact , the coming eventualities ? A second demand for a constitutional revision , and the double election of 1852 . In presence of the law of May 31 , which contains within itself civil war , we have , according to our right , and after weighing circumstances , refused revision ; we shall refuse it again ; it will not take place ; the fact is as certain in the future as in the past . The double election remains—the crisis

    of 1852 , as the enemies of the Republic say . Why should there be a crisis ? In 1852 , according to the formal terms of the Constitution , the sovereign people in their universality will elect a new National Assembly and a new President of the Republic , an executive and subaltern agent of the legislative will . Such is our fundamental law , confided to the vigilance , the patriotism , and the protection of all the citizens . How can this law , which has already been fully carried out several times with peace and dignity—how can it , in being again exercised in all its plenitude , occasion a crisis ? ' "

    " The enemies of the Republic , " they say , " ask us what we shall do if the president be reflected ?" " We reply , the people will not elect Louis Napoleon Bonaparte ; the people know that the constitution forbids his reelection , and they wish that the constitution should be respected . * * * The people have seen that between a prince and the Republic there is a deep abyss . All that we know , the people know . Tell us , they say to Louis N . Bonaparte , ' President of the Republic , what have you done lor the Republic ? Socialist writer , what are become of your doctrines ? Author of the manifesto , where are } 'our promises ? ' " ¦ The manifesto terminates in a reference to the law of the 31 st of May . Here are the closing words : —

    " The law of the 31 st of May will be repealed by tne assembly , because it will understand the impossibility of maintaining it in opposition to the constitution ; the reelection of Bonaparte is impossible , because it would violate the constitution ; the prorogation of existing powers is impossible , because it would violate the constitution ; the constitution dominating all citizens and all institutions—such is 1852 , without disorder , without crisis . It would not be a crisis , but a revolution , which would arise from the violation of our fundamental compact—a revolution legitimate p . s right , holy as justice , sacred as liberty . In that case we declare here , with deliberate firmness , that , under the flag of the constitution , we would not fail in any of the duties which the salvation of the lie-public might impose on us . "

    In connection with this subject we observe , that M . de Joinville is to be put forward for the presidency . Dr . Veron , editor of the Constitutionnel , lias considered the rumour sufficiently importnrit to bear the weight of ii long leader ; fighting the candidature of the Bourbon with as much asperity an the republicans attack that of Louis Napoleon . The Times also has had a lengthy leader on the same subject , and on the same Bide .

    I be other event in Franco in the great trial of fortynine men at Lyons for a conspiracy , alleged to have been planned last year . The leader of the conspiracy is Alphoriric Gent , who was a member of the OonHtituent ; and the treasonable organization is said to have extended over fifteen departments . Tne bill ol indictment is of immense length . Michel do Bourge . and Madier de Montgan are the principal defenders of the prisoners . The conspiracy is said to have been discovered by a seizure of the letters of Gent , made at Lyons last year .

    German news in interesting . The Berlin Lithoyraphirto Corrcspondenz of the 1 st instant , contradicts certain rumours which have been current in the German papers of a proposed meeting between the Sovereigns of Russia , Austria , and Prussia . No such meeting has been proposed ; but it in possible that the J ^ mperor of Austria and the King of Prussia will accidentally meet at Ischl on the occusion of the Xing of Prussia ' s journey to Italy !

    The same Ministerial puper states that tho Austriun Cabinet has despatched a note to the Government oi France respecting tho French protest on tlie Austrian annexation question . Austria declares that nhe . persists in her plan of incorporation , and that nlu ; is prepared to take all measures , no matter what they may be , to promote that object . Policemen are to be placed in the towns of the Rhine Provinces , according to tho system carried out in Berlin .

    1 'h . e Vohb Gazette of Berlin publishes n letter from Vienna of the 7 th , which stutcs that an extensive conspiracy has been discovered in Italy , and that it wus ou that account that the rigours of the state of

    siege m the Austrian provinces have been increased It is added that on the 4 th of July a gentleman at Venice died suddenly of apoplexy , and that on plac . ing seals on his papers the scheme of a conspiracy " signed by more than 400 persons , was discovered The object of it was , it is said , to kill the Emperor in the event of his going Jo Italy , and to kill all the Austrian officers on the same night . Only one conspirator resided at Venice , 37 were at Brescia , and the rest at Bologna . All have , it is said , been arrested

    Several arrests were effected at Vienna on the 6 th of persons accused of political offences . The fact is that the whole of Germany , Italy , and Hungary , is j n permanent conspiracy against the brutal despotism of their rulers . The particular acts charged against particular individuals may be and most likel y are false ; but that the people of these countries hate and abominate the Governments to which they are compelled to submit by armed force , is perfectly true .

    The Ordre of Paris , a quasi-Conservative paper however , publishes a rather different account to that in the Voss Gazette : — " Letters from Italy of the 8 th instant contain news of some importance . The journals have spoken of the discovery at Venice and Verona of a vast conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor , and to massacre all the Austrian officers . This is not quite correct . A plot indeed does exist , and one not confined to Milan , but extending throughout Italy . Some papers seized on the person of a " Vetturino , " who journeyed habitually between Rovigo

    and Bologna , afforded the first indication of the designs of the conspirators , and searches since made at Milan and Venice have led to the complete discovery of their projects . It appears , according to their general plan , that the first Democratic rising in Italy , if a rising there is to be , will originate in Sicily ; this explains the . great preparations now making for the defence of the island , which is armed and fortified in a formidable manner . One of our correspondents , usually well-informed , has no doubt that , on the least symptom of an insurrection , the Austrian garrison of Ancona will cross the frontiers of the Roman

    states , and march to the Abruzzi . At Milan the authorities are fully prepared . The garrison have received their orders , and the state of siege is rigorously enforced . A man on whom some certificates of Mazzini's loan were found , was immediately shot . Austrian finance is again in a chaotic state . The extreme discouragement , says a correspondent of the Times , which has succeeded to the sanguine expectations but a few days since entertained by the Governmental party , induces me to believe that the Finance Minister ' s plans have been thwarted ; indeed , those persons who so lately positively asserted that the loan had been contracted are now fain to confess that

    " at th-e eleventh hour unforeseen difficulties had presented themselves . " The moneyed world affirms that the terms proposed by Baron Krauss are so little encouraging that there is reason to believe he would willingly give up all idea of the loan at present were he not urged on to action by the " Reichsratli . " In this there may be some truth , for persons who r-re supposed to be intimately acquainted with the opinions of the Minister , assure me that he is so firmly persuaded no deficit will be found in the balance-sheet for 1851 , that he is extremely disinclined to make any sacrifices to the cupidity of the financiers . No doubt the Austrian emp irehaB beta sacrificed to the " cupidity of the financiers" !

    The Vienna correspondent of the Morning Chrnnwlc , who appears to be on good terms with Mr . M' (? irrdy , the American Ambassador , makes the following a" " nounccment in his letter of the 10 th : — " 1 am enabled to state , on the best authority , that tlic Porte has given notice to Austria and the oilier 1 ' owerH that it will not be answerable for the detention ol ICossuth and tho remaining six refugees beyond tl ' . of September . Tho Mississippi , an American ( ti ^ '> lH now on the « pot , destined to receive them . * < - ' wish of KoHKuth to proceed to America , and as yet n <> conditions of residence have been imposed upon hiu '» a ! J Austria will not hoar of hiu liberation , and in atiui mnK every nerve to defeat the humane intentions of t | 1 ( - Porte ; one of tho objections to Inn release being his ' having delivered up the Hungarian crown . "

    Arrest Of An American In Iiun«Ally ^ An ...

    ARREST OF AN AMERICAN IN IIUN « AllY ^ An American traveller , named Brace , enten ' ^ city of GroBBwaradin , in Hungary , on the - " May . lliH object in journeying through the . ° * . ( iiI j Was to study its institutions ; but being an A " ^ ^ and a republican , he was , it appeared , tt mis l * ' n \ n few hours after his arrival in the town he Hut « ° jo an hotel to dine , and two gentlemen at table * ' , an impression upon him for which be could n <> mi linprc-HHum upon mm lor wincii im » . »»«» _ i frieii

    count . In tho course of conversation a ' . was with him inquired after the Hungarian <;<) J ^ ,,, Iowa , and Mr . Brace spoke of it aw doing we . I , ^ tioning the name ot Ujhuzy , und observing u ^ iVlin wan much respected . Afterwards ho P ' ( ' j 1 ( , visits , and wow told by one of the authorit' < » ^ wan an object of suspicion , as he hud not him ' jj 1 ( J his pans to be vistid . Thiu made him anxioun , " . commandant of the place told him that oil w «» ^ ^ und ho took no more- trouble in the matter *

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 16, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16081851/page/2/