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      Hartmann". Tina Greatest Anxiety Is Felt...

      as also in Fiance and England , to the effect that M . Moritz Hartmann , the intellectual poet and correspondent in the East of the Kolnische Zeitung , is in durance vile at Vienna , is totally false . He is still in Turkey . " Notwithstanding this contradiction , however , it will not be felt that the case is yet disposed of , and the Morning Chronicle may rest assured that there is evidence of a very

      disagreeable kind . Hartmann is distinguished for his sympathy with the national cause in Germany ; he was a deputy to the Parliament at Frankfort in 18 iS ; and he had made himself specially offensive to the Austrian Government by scourging satires on the Archduchess Sophia . He was recently atBucharest , and can no longer "be discovered by Ms friends . It is well known that when the Austrians first

      entered the Principalities , the officers of that power did interfere with the inhabitants , did demand the arrest of people obnoxious to Austrian penal law , and probably obtained custody of one or two . The subject was brought before the British Government ; something ; passed , not , we believe , discreditable either to our own Ministers , or those of Austria ; and instructions , it is understood , were conveyed to General Hess that the authority of Austrian officers should he limited to the administration of

      their own army . It has subsequently been stated , and we believe the statement , that a better understanding prevails between Omar Pacha , and General Hess ; and we are not prepared at present to make any direct eoraplaint against the conduct of the Austrian commander . The Austrians , however , have been so long accustomed to domineer on the frontier , that where they have not formed sympathetic friendships across the border , as they have s ometimes done in Illyria and Croatia , they have been in the habit of riding

      roughshod over the inoffensive ; and whatever may he the liberal feeling and probity of General Hess , we can well understand the difficulty that he would have in making Austrian colonels and captains understand that Sclavonians were socially their equals , and to be respected . Supposing Claverhouse had been suddenly converted , are we to imagine that the whole body of his dragoons could at once have received into their hearts the sympathetic light of a common humanity , ot that the Cameronians would have found

      nothing but courteay ? The original disappearance of M . Hartmauncould beaccountedfor on these grounds , and the Austrian Government might hesitate to confess that which would be discreditable to it , although its superior officers might not be responsible for the first act . The case has been laid before the British Government , and has received a considerate attention . " Wo believe that if stronger ovidence could be produced , our Ministers would do their duty , and that they would do it with

      tliat temperate firmness which' would secure satisfaction without giving just offence to Austria . For wo are sure that that is possible , -tho case , however , is exactly of that class in which the discovery of ovidonce would l ) o difficult ovon with officiul resources , but is nearly impossible for a party that has been proscribed , and is not yet reinstated in . its political and social rights , Tho continued socres y _ tliat is maintained about M . Hart-B & ann is a suspicious fact ; for wo cannot behove that tho Austriana could not nt once

      point out where Wo is ; which would entirely sottlo the question . If they have any respect tor our Government , they arc bound to do bo ; and to our own Government , wo will only say , that after tho assurances conveyed to tho triends of M . Hartmann , they are bound to « eop tho « aao in view .

      October 21, 1854 ] The Leader. 999

      October 21 , 1854 ] THE LEADER . 999

      Englishmen Emigrate To The Suffrage. Ik ...

      ENGLISHMEN EMIGRATE TO THE SUFFRAGE . Ik the youngest of our colonies the Englishman is now better off , politically , than he ia at home . If they hare not universal suffrage in New Zealand ( and -vve are not exactly able to follow the clippings which Sir George Grey , the late governor—not the Sir Greorge Grey of the Howick family—has inflicted on the statute exported from this country in 1852 ) , we are confident that every man

      emigrating to New Zealand may , within a very short time of his arrival , vote at the election of a representative . That , however , is only a small part of self-government , and the colonists have just procured , an important addition for themselves—they have secured " responsible government . " "What is that ? It is the name given to a practice— -not a written law—of the British constitution . It is the usage with us , for the Sovereign to select his Ministers from that party which can command a majority in the

      House of Commons . George the Third attempted to over-ride that rule when he persisted in retaining Mr . Pitt ; but it would not need a rebellion to prevent any monarch from doing it now : the inconvenience and danger to the Crown of being represented in Parliament by men always in a minority would preclude any renewal of poor George ' s attempt . In . colonies , however , the Crovernment was supported by the Imperial power ; our own people took little heed of the

      colonial interests ; and so a Governor was able to disregard . not only a majority , but a whole colony . And often had it been done . In Upper Canada , the family Compact ruled in high Toryism over a Radical Colony ; in Lower Canada " the British party" played oppressor over a Radical British and a , Liberal Prench majority . Insolence begot rebellion ; and the troubles of 1837 threatened , separation from the mother country , while Americana innumerable were banded to assist

      annexation . The danger was ended by the suggestion of a man to whom the colonial world owes much , and to whom in great part we owe it that _ emigration , has enjoyed that management without which it never could have expanded as it has—Edward Gibbon " Wakefield . He had before had occasion to apply his powerful and practical mind to the analysis of great colonial questions , and he did so now . ' He found the reasonable wishes of the Canadians frustrated

      by cliques , who , in the pursuit of their own paltry interests , staked the possessions otf Great Britain ; and he saw . that to introduce tho British plan into Canada would at once ease the vessel of the state . He formed an uuappointed adjunct to Lord Durham s Commission of Inquiry ; his was the master-hand , as Charles Buller afterwards avowed in Parliament , that shaped Lord Durham ' s report ; and the blue book on Canada was the exposition of the principle wluch was afterwards carried out . The results we have seen . Canada is tranquil ; in common with other provinces sho sustains the Sovereign in

      war ; " annexation" is novor hoard ; and . tho passing agitations of the clay are not greater than our own Tweedledum ministerial crises . " Well , wo have " responsible govornmenfc " hero , why then nro wo not as well off as Canada and ! New Zealand . Because wo have not tho complement—national franchise . They have got what wo have ; wo Iiavo not got what they havu . They secured tho principle that tho Minititors should represent ; tho majority , ns wo had ; but tho diu ' eronce ia this—their majority represents tho people , ours docs not . llonco their Ministers aro virtually nominated by tho people—ours arc not . Arul how did they got what they lacked .

      As we got all that we ever gained—by insisting on it . The barons and franklins got Magna Charta and trial by jury ; Cromwell and his fellow-soldiers got the Bill of -Rights j Birmingham got the Keform Bill . So Canada took up arms , and got responsible government ; as the Cape took up passive resistance * and non-intercourse , with arms in

      the background , and Anglo-Dutch rebellion on the border , and got a constitution .. But they had a leader—the same who secured responsible government for Canada . And finally the New Zealanders got their want . Edward Gibbon Wakefield was there—he laid the case before the colonists : they -were as unanimous as the Danes are now , and as successful as the Danes must be .

      Lnghshmen stopping at home at ease cannot emulate either Danes or colonists- They cannot insist , as they have done in Canada , Cape , and Copenhagen ; they eannot concentrate their assent upon one simple , inexciting , but plain principle , as the people of ~ New Zealand have . If all England were to say , we wiZZ have a * national franchise , the thing would be done ; but all England , if hot tootimid , is too lazy—or too selfish—to take care even for itself , if itself includes its neighbours too . That is the reason why England is now , politically , behind every oneof her tribute colonies .

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      Babel. (From A Various Correspondence.")...

      BABEL . ( From a various Correspondence . ") — A hew case of oppression under the present Licensing Act has been published in a letter to tlie Times The proprietor of Highbury Barn Tavern finds that the demand for semi-public dinners decreases at his house , and that the late visitors to his ball-room rapidly diminish in number , he starts thereupon a species of suburban Casino—admission sixpenceband of Grenadier Guards to dance to—room rigorously shut up at half-past eleven . The incumbent of the parish , and other gentlemen of serious habita —possibly of the gouty , but certainly not of the light

      fantastic too—take alarm at the innovation , and determine to vindicate the morals and tranquillity of the neighbourhood by closing tho tavern-keeper's casino . The next time he applies for a licenco—about a week ago—five impartial magistrates walk into tho court just as his case comes on , make a majority against him , and then walk out again . Two policosergcants are present to state that tho nightly dancing at Highbury Barn is conducted with perfect decorum , and is always over before midnight . One district magistrate has been present in tho ball-room , and has not had tho slightest fault to find with the proceedings there , but is afraid to vote against the overwhelming moral majority of five nmgistrates who know nothing of tho real merits of tho case . Tho

      renewal of tho tavern-keeper ' s casino -licence is refused —the bund of the Grenadier Guarda ia silenced —nine persons who were employed in tho dancingroom , and who supported their families on the wages of their employment , aro dismissed , toocuuse the incumbent of tho parish , and tho flvo moral magistrates , hivvo deprived tlioin of their occupation . Tho tuvorn-iceopor has no npjpoal , and cannot bo heard in his own defence , except in tha columns of tho Times . As a specimen of ilio umall municipal tyrnnny to winch Britons who novoiy never , never will bo shtves , aro obliged to submit , this caso in BuHlciontly remarkable . But there isunotlior lesson to bo learned from it . The master of tho tavern states in his letter that , during tho one

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 21, 1854, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21101854/page/15/