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      Prussia And Austria. Bonn, Sept. 17.—-Pr...

      of the King and Government , with his own beautiful voice , with the magic power of his singular personality ; and all the people said " Amen ! " That was at Erfurt , last winter . And now the " Union , " whose representatives she then addressed , is but a shadow , which one knows not whether it be dead or alive , and the Prussian Government has retired upon its last line and " will have nothing to do with the old Diet . " From the height of German championship in 1848—from the " great things " of Herr von Radowitz in 1849—we have arrived at this humble negative position in 1850 !

      And yet , though nothing can excuse the vacillations and pusillanimity of the King , great allowances must be made for the difficulties of his Government . It was opposed and thwarted by the arts and emissaries of old Mephisto himself . The Princes of Germany were the parties to be wooed and won , and they lent a more willing ear to the voice of the charmer from " below , " spoke for Austria , and promised an easy , comfortable life , with a return to the old routine , and the erasure of the year 1848 from the memory of men , than to the proposals of Prussia , whose spokesman talked of " great things" to be accomplished by

      sacrifices and self-denial ! The Princes listened complaisantly to the seductions of Austria . And the people ? Alas ! to the people also the insinuations of Mephisto have their charms . Southern Germany is Catholic . German unity with the Prussian arch-Protestant at the head of it ! What think ye of that , ye children of the once Holy Roman Empire ? It was a great theme for the numberless host of bachelors with long black frocks and tonsured heads , whose business it is to save the souls of Catholic Germany and to strengthen the power of Mother Church . That was the spiritual charm . There was also one of the material sort . Mephisto-Schwarzenberg

      opened a grand politico-economical phantasmagoria of free trade between Germany and the whole of the Austrian States ; some seventy millions of people to have free trade with each other , and be comfortably walled in by high protective duties against all outer barbarians . To be sure it was a mere phantasmagoria : but the gopd people of Bavaria , who possess lively imaginations and are deficient in political economy , thought it worth a consideration , and dreamed golden dreams of the rivers of milk and honey that were to flow to them from the rich plains of Hungary and Lombardy , and of the " centners " of cotton yarn they would spin and get rich by , when no longer hindered by foreign English competition . Those operated Mephisto against Prussia and German unity . But one more powerful still than Mephisto , Nature herself , the nature of the German people , presented great obstacles to Prussian success . German unity , the sinking of Individualism for the strength and greatness of the whole , was the end proposed ; and the Germans , personally and nationally , are the most obstinate Individualists in the world . Every German has his own views and ways , and makes a conscience of it to walk by his own lights and by nobody else . Every German province has its own " patriotism . " It is related of one town that , having set up a new gallows , it wrote tipon it , " This gallows is for us and our children . " None but our townspeople arc to be hung here ! Within the loose ties of the old Empire every variety of Government had grown up and existed together ; there were as many different forms of commonwealths as there are religious sects in England . All were enveloped within the wide folds of the imperial cloak ; but each produced and nourished different habits and peculiarities— " Particularisms "—amongst its citizens , and the sort of attachment with . which people cherish things which distinguish them from their neighbours . The Reformation , which in other countries either entirely succeeded or entirely failed , ended here in a drawn battle , and split the country in two pretty equal halves . Yet that same Reformation , which politically as well as religiously divided the country , laid also the foundation for its future unity by establishing the high German dialect as the universal language of Germany . Luther ' s Bible is the foundation-stone of German unity . German literature has since then gone on building upon that foundation , and whatsoever of nobleness and worth the late generations of Germany have produced has striven for that end—which will have to be accomplished sooner or later , in spite of Austria and all the devices of Mephisto ; and it will be Prussia ' s destiny to be the instrument . Though it may for a time try to escape its work , as the Prophet Jonah once did , it will have to obey the commands of Heaven if it mean to continue . In spite of the lamentable shortcomings and pusillanimities of this or that prominent individual , the point of gravity in Germany lies in Prussia , and not in Austria . Prussia , the youngest state of Germany , has risen and become powerful by adopting the Reformation and its consequences : the rule of intellect and of industry , Austria , by despising the new births of time in the sixteenth century , as in the nineteenth by clinging ; to the traditional and the past , has receded from Germany morally as well ns geographically ; it has receded from the North and the West , and pushed towards the

      East . During the last two centuries , while Prussia has been spreading its geographical limbs and its moral influence towards all quarters of Germany , Austria has lost the Burgundian Provinces , Alsace , Silesia , the Netherlands , and the countries between the Rhine and the Upper Danube , where Prussia has just now made new acquisitions . All this speaks plain enough . It is in vain for Mephisto to turn the current of history . And so Austria may tryfor awhile to " hunt down Prussia with diplomatic chase , to fix it , and throw it , and make it lose its breath " ( as the brave and wise old Arndt said the other day ); Austria ' s supremacy in Germany is past , and the Future lies with Prussia . J . N .

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      The Synod Of Thurles. The Synodical Addr...

      THE SYNOD OF THURLES . The synodical addresses of the National Council of Thurles to the Catholics of Ireland was issued on Saturday . It is a rather lengthy document , commencing with a wholesale condemnation of the Government colleges . The judgment of the synod is very tinequivocally expressed in the following passage : — " It is by the sternest sense of duty—by a painful but irresistible feeling of necessity—that we are compelled , dearly beloved , to announce to you that a system of education , fraught with grievous and intrinsic dangers , has , within the last twelve months , been brought to your own doors . It is Dresented to vou , we deplore to sav . in those

      collegiate institutions which have been established in this country , and associated with the name of our august , most gracious , and beloved Sovereign . Far be it from us to impugn for a moment the motives of its originators . The system may have been devised in a spirit of generous and impartial policy ; but the statesmen who framed it were not acquainted with the inflexible nature of our doctrines , and with the jealousy with which we are obliged to avoid everything opposed to the purity and integrity of our faith . Hence those institutions , which would have called for our profound and lasting gratitude , had they been framed in accordance with our religious tenets and principles , must now be considered as an evil of a formidable kind , against which it is our imperative duty to warn you with all the energy of our zeal and all the weight of our authority . "

      Having come to the conclusion that the present seminaries are bad , the " Council" next decides that other institutions must be formed ; they , therefore , state their determination to make every effort in their power to establish a sound and comprehensive system of university education . In accordance with this resolution , a committee has been appointed to examine into the details of this important project , and carry it into execution . Since the publication of the Thurles Address , a semi-official " memorandum " has appeared in the Dublin Evening JPost , which rather detracts from the authority of the former document . The following are the most important passages in the memorandum : —

      " It is known that the acts of the late synod can have no effect until they shall have obtained the sanction of the Holy See . On this account its decrees are kept secret until the final decision of his Holiness regarding them shall have been declared . With respect , however , to the synodical address—which was to obtain immediate publicity without having been submitted to the Popethe same reserve is not required ; and it is no longer a secret that it contains a passage of which many of the prelates have disapproved .

      " It is even asserted , by persons who ought to know the fact , that on certain points not yet decided regarding the colleges , the opinions of the bishops are so nearly balanced as to admit of a majority of one only . All will , however , submit to the final decision of the Holy Sec . "

      The Submarine Telegraph. Since The Break...

      THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH . Since the breaking of the original gutta percha line between England and France , certain difficulties appear to have arisen , which have interrupted the operations of the promoters of the bold undertaking . It now turns out that , in order to the complete establishment of an integral line of telegraphic service between London , Paris , and the Continent , the promoters have to obtain a grant from the French Government of the eighteen miles of line extending from the coast to Calais . To secure the concession of this section , Messrs . Brett , Wollaston , and Ed ' wards , directors of the undertaking , are now in Paris , to negotiate with the Government authorities on the subject . Complaints are made by the iishermen ,

      both on the English and French coasts , that the existence of this wire will interfere with their deep-sea fishing and subsistence , and that its track over the Varne and elsewhere is in the way of places most frequented by fish . It is intended , however , to pay these people an annual rental , and to establish for their families a philanthropic fund , to induce them to unite in the protection and conservation of a great national enterprise . The assistance of the Admiralty has also been scoured for the issue of prohibitory orders against fishing on the route of the electric sealine , an « J against ships , unless in unavoidable stress or storm , dropping or dragging anchor over its site . The authorities of Calais and Boulogne havo intimated that they will send drummers round the town to advise fishermen not to fish in these spots , and the

      company will apply for powers to punish as a misdemeanour any attempts at injuring the wire . The electric wire , thin as a lady ' s staylace in itself , will now , it is determined on , be encased either in " a five or a ten-inch cable of the diameter of those that placed the Britannia tubes in position , and these will be submerged by the aid of enormous heavy weights , almost sufficient to resist t ) ie raking pf anchors . The wire will be embedded in this gigantic cable , which is to be composed of whipped plait with wire rope , all of it chemically prepared , so as to project it from rot . It is the intention of the promoters , should their negotiations with the French Government succeed , to carry on the communication to Marseilles , the chief seaport of France .

      Doncaster Races. The Influx Of Visitors ...

      DONCASTER RACES . The influx of visitors into Doncaster on Wednesday was much greater than usual , notwithstanding the late effort to put down the races . As early as ten o ' clock , the monster trains from Sheffield began to disgorge their thousands . As the day advanced , these were followed by others of equal magnitude from Liverpool and the great manufacturing districts in Lancashire and Yorkshire , from Newcastle , Edinburgh , Birmingham , Derby , Worcester , and the

      metropolis . The streets for two or three hours were almost impassable , particularly in the vicinity of the bettingrooms , to obtain an entrance into which was a task of no ordinary difficulty . There the crowd was quite equal to that without ; but business was the very opposite of what it has generally been on the morning of the St . Leger day . With reference to the movements , it is only necessary to say that 6 to 4 was currently offered on Voltigeur , 4 to 1 and 9 to 2 taken about Pitsford to a large amount , and 30 to 1 , to two or three hundred pounds about The Italian .

      The first race was the Doncaster Plate , which was won by Mr . Eddisdn's " Eliza Middletori . " The next was the Municipal Shakes of 200 sovereign ' s j which was won by Sir J . l ^ awley ' s f ' The Ban . " Then , came the great event pf the day , which took a turn marvellous to the habitues pf the turf : — The St . Leger Stakes of 50 sov . each , h . ft . ; for threeyear olds ; colts , 8 st . 71 b . ; fillies , 8 st . 2 lb . ; the second to receive 300 sov . out of the stakes , and the third , 100 sov . ; the winner to pay 100 sov . towards expenses , and 25 sov . to the judge . St . Leger course . ( 95 eubs . ) Lord Zetland's Voltigeur ( J . Marson ) 0 Mr . Mangan ' s Russborough ( Robinson ) 0 Mr . W . Edwards ns . Bolingbroke ( Boyce ) 3 Captain Archdall ' s Windischgratz ( F . Butler ) 0 Lord Enfield ' s Beehunter ( Flatman ) 0 Mr . H . Hill's Pitsford ..... ( A . Day ) 0 Mr . Jaques ' s Mildew ( Marlow ) 0 Mr . Meiklam ' s The Italian ( Ternpleman ) 0 Mr . Watts ' s Chatterbox ( Foley ) 0 Betting—6 to 4 on Voltigeur , 5 to 2 agst Pitsford , 12 to 1 agst Windischgratz , 12 to 1 agst Beehunter , 20 to 1 each agst Russborough and Chatterbox , 25 to 1 agst Bolingbroke , and 40 to 1 agst The Italian .

      The start took place about twenty-five minutes past three , Beehunter taking a clear lead immediately after quitting the post , followed for a few strides by Russborough , and then by Windischgratz , Russborough . lying next , in company with Chatterbox and Voltigeur , Italian and Pitsford in the rear . The rearmost horses closed with the ruck in rising the hill , and before they had got to the mile-post Pitsford was in advance of-Russborough ; half way between there and the Red House he went up to Beehunter , forced the pace , and headed him round the turn , Bolingbroke and Russborough waiting on them . The Italian and Voltigeur ( the latter having been disappointed in attempting to go up ) lying in the rear . At the bend of the rails , about a quarter of a mile from home , the two leading horses were beaten , and

      were passed by Voltigeur and Bolingbroke , the former leading about three parts of a length ; next to them from the distance came the Italian , and outside of them , fourth , Russborough . This lot ran well together , to the stand , where Bolingbroke was disposed of ; Russborough then went up , but , coming in collision with Bolingbroke , drove him against the Italian , whose jockey asserts that it deprived him of a fair chance of winning . Be this as it may , Russborough cleared them a few strides from the chair , and Robinson , by one of his splendid efforts at the finish , made it a dead heat , Marson , who evidently looked for danger on the left instead of on the whip-hand , having to use the persuaders to save the race . Bolingbroke was beaten nearly three lengths . The Italian was fourth , and Beehunter fifth . Run in 3 minutes , 21 seconds .

      This result of course created a tumult of interest , increased when stops were taken for the deciding heat which it had rendered necessary : — Bottinj ? : G to 4 on Voltigeur , who laid a couple of lengths from the Irish horse until within the distance , took the lead from him half way up , and won cleverly by a length . Run in 3 min . 24 sec . The cheering , waving of handkerchiefs , and throwing tip of hats on the winner returning to scale , lasted for at least

      ten minutes . Such a scene of excitement , we venture to affirm , has never been witnessed on this or any other race course ; indeed , the St . Leger of 1850—the third in succession carried off by the winner of the Derby , and the second for which a dead heat was ever run—may bo fairly pronounced one of the most memorable on record . The concourse was so immense that after the dead heat it was impossible to keep the course clear ; and in the succeeding races , from the mob closing in upon them , horses and

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 21, 1850, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21091850/page/5/