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    and Prefects. We need not say that all o...

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    THE DESCENDANTS OF THE STUARTS. The Desc...

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    No. 418, Emmtabx 80, 18ggj The Ik A Deb....

    No . 418 , Emmtabx 80 , 18 ggJ THE IK A DEB . 187

    And Prefects. We Need Not Say That All O...

    and Prefects . We need not say that all offitiialam France serve two masters , Sst the Emperor and then , the Church , which contributes so much to the support of the present order of things . A Mayor , at any rate , who should ScuV the displeasure of a Cure ' , would have but a short lease of office . Many instances could be cited to sho * the arbitrary manner in which permission to exercise the Protestant religion is refused . m ^ an ce . In Ausust , 1852 , that religion was interdicted at Grand-Fresnoy , in the department of the Abne . At Franviliiers , in the Somme , it was interdicted on November 27 , 1852 , and allowed on the 13 th of the following December ; whilst at a locality in the Oiseit was authorized m 1851 , and interdicted

    , in 1853 But the grounds on which such measures are talcen are better explained in a decree pronounced by the Academic Council of theVar , interdicting a Protestant school : — "Considering that the Sieur Guilbot , by <; omin . r to La Gattde to open a free Protestant school in a commune where there was no Protestant by origin , born and recognized as such , has introduced finch a ferment of discord that the said commune has ever since been constantly divided ; and considering- that the closing of this school is asked for on all sides .... as the only and necessary means of re-establishing ¦ calm . . . it is decreed that the said school shall be immediately and for

    • ever closed . „ Precisely the same reasons are constantly alleged to justify tire closing of Protestant chapels , or the refusal to allow them to be opened . It is announced by all authorities , and even by all magistrates , that the Catholic relio-ion is the religion of Franee , and that all other religions are to be only tolerated to the smallest extent possible without absolute persecution . The principle obeyed is that the descendants of the old Protestant families are to be allowed to exercise their religion in certain , places , but that nothing like conversion is to be tolerated . -Observe the phrase , " . Protestant by origin , born and recognized as such . " doctrine all ht

    In order to prevent the spread of the hated means are thoug justifiable . Of course the Government is merely in this respect an agent of the Church , by whose powerful influence it is mainly supported . We are often assured of the weight of the peasantry being thrown into the scale of * he Empire ; but it is not so often pointed out that the peasants are chiefly acted upon ' not so much by political delusion , as by the priests . This powerful body , which sees as yet no chance of the triumph of legitimate doctrines , is unanimous in its desire to accustom the French population to obedience . It will gather up the heritage at some future day ; but , meanwhile , it gives its hearty support to Napoleonlll ., stipulating , however , that Protestantism shall be narrowed and checked in all possible ways .

    What becomes , then , of the part assigned to the Senate ? It is true that we know no instance of its opposition to laws of any kind ; but perhaps , in other departments , its interference has not yet been called ibr . In matters of religion it might have done much if it had felt so disposed . Last year it received a petition from certain Methodist preachers , begging it to examine if the decree of March 15 , 1852 ( which forbade meetings for religious objects without preliminary authorization ) , was not unconstitutional , and states that many condemnations had been pronounced under that decree with evident repugnance by the judges . The petition was referred to a -commission presided over by M . Delangle , who l-eported not only against its demands , but laid down the doctrine that among the rights of men was hot that of teaching their * brethren . Since that time the severity formerly dislayed against the Protestants has been redoubled , and has risen almost to

    p the height of absolute persecution * Nearly all demands for new schools and chapels , except in Paris and some southern departments where the members of the Reformed religion are in great force , are peremptorily refused ; and some of the more hot-headed members of the clergy look forward to the time when their rivals shall be utterly silenced . In vain has the JEmperor declared that all religions are equally protected by the State . No man is more accustomed than he to use language to conceal his thoughts ; . and the Moniteur has since admitted , in obscure and Jesuitical plivases , the whole truth of the complaints made by the oppressed Protestants of France . The doctrine therefore of liberty of conscience , preached with so much courage and ability by M . Jules Simon , whose previous works are not unof the most of the All

    known in England , has become one important day . liberties are mutually interdependent ; and it will be ever found impossible to establish political freedom in a eounti'y where absolute freedom in religion is not allowed . The question whether France ought to have become Protestant need not here bo discussed : it is quite certain that if it hud gone with England and Germany in the sixteenth century we should never lvuyo heard of convulsive revolutions in Europe . At present , a great part of its free thought has taken another direction . But there is no doubt that , it Absolute liberty of preaching were allowed in France , within a tow years the Church would lose one-third of it * Hock . There is evidently a yearning amon " the masses lor anew form of faith ; but as long as priests make or interpret the laws no change can take place that is not at the same tune a

    I * GVOl ti There hus of late been quietly formed in England , Belgium , and Piedmont , a ' Pacific Association for '' the Delenoe of Religious and l ' uilosophicul Liberty ; ' but the three liberal countries named have not the honour of originating the idc" - It came out of France , whore it . cannot pretend to xesult in any action at present . The only notice , that has been taken of it is the publication of its laws in a provincial journal , which has of course boen seized . The reason at first given was that in one of ils clauses the word ' political' was printed ibr ? philosophical ; ' but it is evident that no association of the kind would ho tolerated for u moment in Franco . One of its objects is to supply money lor tho doionco of ' victims of intolerance' Now , " even to pay the " fines to wliich fielnuy bo condemned , 'iho louiiuors must bo content to uot at first in countries whoro thoir aid is less wanted , wailing ibr a cranny by which they mtxy slip into the country whore their aid ia most wanted . tin

    ... \\ e havo not noticed M . Jules Simon ' s Lihort ^ of Vuusaieuco u book . Its literary qualities are of tbo highest order ; but wo regard it uuioily ua a jxwuiteato of the party of enlightened liberty in Franee . Wo oouio perhaps

    too late to recommend it , for we believe two large : editions are exhausted . But we cannot refrain from expressing our admiration of the author , and the hope with which the success of his labours inspires us . 11 is something that such ques tions are actively discussed in France , and that the rising generation ; has teachers so wise and so fearless . We once feared that the terrible co mmand of the Jesuits , bellowed out by M . " Veuillot in the l / ttivers —a & etissez-vovs—would be listened to . This book is one among many signs that there are better things in store for the future .

    The Descendants Of The Stuarts. The Desc...

    THE DESCENDANTS OF THE STUARTS . The Descendants of the Stuarts . An Unchronicled Page ia England's History . By WUliam Townend . Longman and Co . The Stuarts have fou nd many apologists , but none more ardent than Mr . Townend . His labour of love has been to illuminate their pedigree upon a silver and purple scroll . This book is like a painted window , blushing with the blood o £ queens and kings . As a contribution to history it is useful , bein" a careful collection of facts and inferences bearing , not exactly on an unchronicled page of English history , but on topics and personages sufficiently English in their relations to interest the historical student and the general reader . " Mr . Townendj however , has committed two mistakes : he has sought too elaborately to prove the importance of his own work , and he has gone out of the way to contradict other writers on points not essential to the development of his own subject . " That a narrative of the Roman Catholic Stuarts is a desideratum in Anglican literature is proved by the

    absence of such a work , " is an affirmation bad in style and logic . It might as well have stood , " is not a desideratum . " That there is no record of bir RichardTWalworth ' s business dealings in Southwark , after he had killed Wat Tyler , i s no evidence that such a chronicle is imperativel y called for , or that it would be edifying if compiled . Mr . Townend also winds through the long complexity of our dynastic annals , to show that the biography of kings isTimportant in the history of kingdoms , a position which might have been assumed without any sacrifice of modesty . We must not , perhaps , arrest a genealogist in his excursions , or half his learning will be lost ; but a knowledge of genealogical tables is scarcely a qualification for such , judgments as are here pronounced on the characters of sovereign families and personages . The Stuarts , Mr . Townend urges , have been more traducedvilified , and misrepresented , than almost any other race of prinses ;

    , « „ ~ / K . Mnf . ^ .. 4-K ^ . r C v . Till Krt . ir . nnrnnnriann Tl 7 lf . ll nnv T » n T " J ^(^ Ol * jl . ILlS FirSfi as a dynasty , they ' will bear comparison with any on record . ' His first illustration is unfortunate : ' " Were they savage ? The idea-of a savage Stuart seems too ludicrous for utterance . " Yet , they were even , ferocious . Charles I . was pitilessly cruel ; the Restoration , at . its . adveni , dragged Blake out of his grave . Charles II . was King of the Bloody Assizes . The reader will , at all events , be glad to find that Mr . Townend is not a practical Jacobite . He simply thinks it unfair that eight members of the Stuart family should be entirely neglected by . historians . Sir Frederick Thesiger believes their names to be hidden in Bishop Cullen's Library ; but ° it is here satisfactorily shown that the forbidden lineage , after partin " from the English throne , did not run down to its sunless sea The line still in

    through immeasurable spaces of obscurity . sparkles continental pedigrees , and Stuarts and Stuart Siinnierens , ' whose very names have been unregistered by the historians , ' are written in the book of Townend thus : —James , Prince of "Wales ; the Princess Louisa , Anne , Queen of ' Sardinia ; Elizabeth Charlotte , Duchess of Orleans ; Louis , Prince of Salms ; Louisa , Princess of Salms ; Eleohora , Princess of Salms ; Anne , Princess of Conde "; Benedicta , Duchess of Hanover : and the Princess Palatine Louisa . Of these , the Chevalier de St . George was the only British subject . First parading Hume , Mackintosh , Goldsmith , Rupin , and Iteightley , Mr . Townend demonstrates how far they luive omitted to notice thes ' e personages , and then proceeds to quote his own authorities to correct the pedigree of the House of Stuart , and to reunite the imperfect passages

    cited . The attack upon Lord Macaulay is fierce and somewhat arrogant , but it is entertaining , and we have no objection to the multiplication of critical commentaries upon a history too partial to be above correction . * But Mr . Townend relies upon very feeble evidence in some of his extracts from ' able reviewers , ' and in his comparison between the composition of Lord Macaulay and the compilation of Miss Strickland , in which the latter bears away tho palm . But it is at least amusing to find Mr . Townend breaking lances for the beauty of Anno Hyde and Mary Beatrice , for the haggard faun of Catherine Sedley and the exquisite eyes of Arabella Churchill . Tho retort courteous is triumphant . If Catherine Sedley , insists Mr . Townond , was lean , ugly , and painted , Elizabeth Villiers squinted like a dragon , which , was at leasts tho opinion of Dean Swift . We may concur with the writer on another point , in his estimate of tho bloody manduto sent by William to Gleneoe , but was there not a similar passage in tho reiyn of tho first Charles ,

    when the broad seal of England sanctioned a human holocaust as terrible r Without going further into controversy , it may bo said of this volume that ; it has . been industriously compiled , that it is of some historical value , and that the enthusiasm of tho writer adds to the narrative a zest which many readers might not anticipate from a glance at its genealogical tables reaching from the ninth to the nineteenth century .

    Sporting In Both Hemispheres. Sjiorting ...

    SPORTING IN BOTH HEMISPHERES . Sjiorting in Botlt Uami ^ heres , By J . D'Ewch , Author of Chiim , Australia , ftnd the Ialanda of tho Pacific . Boutlodge and Co . Tun Author of this book is , by the female line , a direct descendant of the well-known Charles CottoiiOyUo ^ jrot ^ T ^ V"Co ¥ i ^ il iruTiv ^~ ffinV ftwTrSuTlon ? . Mr . D'Ewcs passed Km chi 3-hood ou the banks of tho river Dove , in tho munaioii inhabited by lua ancestor , and , ns might bo anticipated , became a steady angler . Even when ut llugby , he seems to have- spent all his leisure moments m this amusement ; for tho Avon , where kliukispearo often wetted a line , runs hard by tlio College , and holds in its sedgy banks and deep holes many u monster piko and porch . His favourito resort in those boyish expeditions he Ue

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 20, 1858, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20021858/page/19/