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    No, 505. Nov. 26, 1859.1 THE lEADEB, 130...

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    that if England be victorious, the Grace...

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    routine in the direction of foreign affairs , by which he acquired a thorough knowledge of the details of diplomatic business . In 1834 he came to London with General Sebastiani , as second secretary * and subsequently succeeded M . de Bacourt as first secretary , when that gentleman was appointed minister at "Washington . Having a good knowledge of our language and ^ being familiar with our habits , he was quite at his ease among our countrymen , whom he charmed by his amiable and social qualities . It is stated that he was present one evening at a party at Apsley House when music , vocal and instrumental , formed a portion of the entertainment . As usual , howlistened to

    ever , under such circumstances , it was with indifference amidst the excitement of conversation , card-playing , and the incessant bustle of arrival and departure . Though celebrated as a musical dilettante and the intimate associate of such men as Rossini and Meyerbeer , on this occasion M . de Bourqueney scarcely remarked the performance . It was quite by chance that his eye fell upon the concluding morceav of the programme he held in his hand , and which was no other than the " Hymn to Waterloo . " M . de Bourqueney knit his brows and very naturally felt his sensibility wounded both as a Frenchman and as an official agent of the French ^ Government . General Sebastiani , who was

    indiffersole conduct of the negotiations on the part of France while every other power was represented in the Congress by two plenipotentiaries . When the French Government saw reason to revise its decision , and appoint a colleague ,. to act with him , M . Drouyn de Lhuys , Foreign Minister of the Emperor , was dispatched to his assistance . ^ M . de Bourqueney is now approaching his sixtieth year . Few men have had the . opportunity of seeing and studying more of public life t . ' '

    than he > and no one is better acquainted with European diplomacy and diplomatists . His long experience and practice , enable him at a glance to seize the contents of a dispatch , and he is thoroughly versed in the history of treaties . In the early part of his career he was much connected with the French press . During General Subastiani ' s ministry he wrote the leading articles oil foreign politics in the Journal des j ) ebats , and no doubt the support of that journal has materially aided in his political advancement .

    ent to music , was playing at -whist in an adjoining apartment . To inform him of what was passing was the secretary ' s first impulse , and he immediately sought the Ambassador , and pointed out to him the unfortunate piece in the programme . The Marshal looked at it and read it mechanically ; " but suddenly rising , he exclaimed in loud and excited tones : I The Hymn of Waterloo ! This is no place for US gentlemen , let us be going ! gentlemen , let us go ! " and immediately quitted Apsley House leaning on the ~ arm of his secretary and followed by all his attaches . It is scarcely necessary to add that the incident was purely accidental . The Duke of Wellington , had no more idea than his guests of the contents of the programme , and the following day an explanation was offered and an apology made , Avhicli was , of course , accepted . M . de Bourqueney remained first- secretary in London , under the embassies of M . G-uizot and M . de St . Aulairc ; but when M . Guizot became minister for foreign affairs , he quitted London for Constantinople , where he filled the functions of Ambassador , until the revolution of February . Personally attached to Louis Philippe from whom he had ever received the most marked favour , he was unwillinn to serve under the republic . He

    therefore offered his . resignation and retired into private life . As a proof of the amicable relations which existed between the King and M . de Bourqueney , Louis Philippe ' took care that his ambassador ' s somewhat epicurean taste should be gratified when he dined at the royal table . Many of those who were guests with him at the Tuileries still reinomber the deferential air with which he would bow to his Majesty after having gravel y tasted some delicate novelty and answer , " Sire , it

    is perfect . " # % ^ During the period of his liberation from public affairs he married into the family of J . uignii % and thus obtained a standing in the Parisian circles which he did not before possess . Throughout the presidency of Louis Napoleon he remained aloof from public nff'uirs , though he began to weary of this inactivity . Still compnrntively young , and capable of rendering useful service to his country , notwithstanding his well known Orleanist prcclc-Hetions , ho fluttered liimsclf . to luo persuaded by his friends to accept office . At first , Minister nt Vienna , ho was afterwards appointed French amand

    bassador at thut court by Napoleon III . ; from March , 1 S 54 , to the present time has retained the appointment . lie lias hero displayed much tayt unit ability especially in conducting the difficult and tedious negocintions -which resulted in the treaty of December , 1854 . It wns-greatly duo to him that the Kmporor of Austria was enabled to prosorvo his neutrality during tho Crimean war , and confirm liia alliance with the Emperor Napoleon against tho Kuxporor oi Russia , his former patron . Ho was rewarded . for these services by rocoi ving tho grand cordon of tlioLogion d'Honneur . h \ tho spring oi' 1855 it became ncat

    oossnry to ompowor tho Juroneu Ambnssaaor Vienna to moot Messieurs Gortsohakoff' and TitpfF , tho Itussian envoys . M . do Bourqueney was at first entrusted with tho

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    that if England be victorious , the Grace of Ood . principle and police coercion will obtain another fifty years' lease of rule . The democrats hope merely for a general conflagration , be the victory on whichever side it may . The mercantile world are almost in a state of panic at the articles translated from the Times , and all commercial transactions are confined to the ' -wants of the moment . It is , true , the only apparent foundation for the alarm spread by the Times is a statement made by exiles abroad of the vain jabber of a Zouave with a " madam " of his own class . Parisian mud-larks in uniform , Dames de la Halle , and nymphs of the Quartier Latin have become political exponents of the sentiments and

    V GERMANY . Hanover , Nov . 23 rd , 1859 . The Times , which is considered by the whole Continent as the mouthpiece of Englishmen , and , at the same time , their oracle , has brought us into a somewhat greater degree of favour with the German press . The alliance with France is regarded as dissolved , and that the two countries are upon" the eve of war . It is evident from the articles in the journals and general gossip that this is a consummation most devoutly wished for . Aristocrats and democrats are quite unanimous upon this point , though what they anticipate to gain by it is hard to be conceived . The aristocrats , perhaps , imagine

    desires of the great French nation ! Suppose I were to give your readers , in the present dearth of news , the comments which I daily and hourly hear made upon the state of England , the ' qualities of her people , the conduct of her statesmen , why , I should leave the impression upon the reader ' s mind that the Germans were the most malicious and bitter enemies of the whole English , or , to chime in with the ignorant folly of the day , Anglo-Saxon race . It signifies , in truth , little what individuals in England may say upon tho conduct of foreign affairs , or what their feelings may bo towards other nations , but on the Continent the opinion ot infor know of

    dividuals is not worth a thought , J no country on tho Continent where such a thing as public opinion exists . If your correspondent does not follow the example of certain French correspondents of the English press , it is simply because ho respects too much the understanding oi your readers . This war alarm is the solo question of interest before the public . Wo have , indeed , long dispntohes upon tho affairs of Ilessia , from Prussia , Austria , and the Hossian Government , but nobody roads them , and they consequently pass without comment . In Hessia itself tb . o excitomenc Upon the question of a little bit of constitution or no constitution appears to be increasing . The Government , countur

    it-would seem , has managed to get up a - domonstration in favour of despotism . Prussia and theHanseTowns will vote in the Diet for tho restoration of the Constitution of 1831 , under condition , of course , that all opposition to tho Federal Compact bo erased . It was rumoured , but the rumour appeared ot doubtful origin , and therefore I did not take notice of it in my last , that at the levying of the foundation of the Schiller statuo , at Berlin , a very ugly disturbance occurred . It is asserted by tho libonjlu that it was a got-up ulluir—Borne ohnrgo it to tho Kreuz Zaitung ' a party } others are so bold as to assert , that if not encouraged , It was at least winkod at by tho Government . Some sensation was produced , a fow days atter tho Schiller celebration , by the gratuitous exhibition , in the ' Gone darmen Place—where tho statue is to be orootod—of a bronze coloured group or plaster figures , which attracted a vast nrowd . burrounded with costly flowers and rare hot-houso plants ,

    was a dog of middling size ; behind it a figure of Frederick the Great , about three feet high ^ crowned with a fresh laurel wreath ; behind this was the figure of Louis Napoleon ,-with a nightcap on his head , and , resting against the figure was the bust of Robert Blum Cthe democratic leader , shot at Vienna , 10 th November , 1848 ) . The Berlin public have been puzzling their heads for a solution of this supposed allegory , but it would seem without success . The police thinking , possibly , that it was merely a freak to attract a crowd , impounded the whole group . The police have also prohibited the performance of a very popular farce entitled " Caesar Bock , "Csesar the Billy-goat , in consequence of the complaint of the French Embassy , the farce being founded upon scenes in the life of the Emperor of the French . It was reported last week that Prussia would propose in the Diet the fortification of the coasts of the North Sea , but up to the present nothing positive has transpired . It is said , however , that the Prussian minister at Frankfort is in possession of instructions upon the subject , and most probably , the proposal will be made at the next meeting . The Austrian papers rather nonchalantly inform the world that the Emperor has commanded the deficit in the treasury to be covered by next year * nor do they appear to doubt the facility of the compliance . To do so would be to doubt the superiority of the despotic over the representative system of government . The papers are silent , though not remarkably so , upon the restless state of the Sclavonic nations . The clue to the silence of the journals is found in the almost daily polite recommendations of the new police minister , who by no means desires to interfere with the legitimate freedom ¦ of the press , as he observed on his acceptance of office , but of " course the discussion of affairs of [ government might cause the authorities some embarrassment , and therefore he must recommend the journals to abstain . To so polite a . recommendation it would be rude jaot to acquiesce , . The journals have therefore" refrained from noticing the trial of a priest charged , with a certain carnal crime , but instead of suppressing curiosity this secrecy only increases it , and the stories in circulation are probably much worse than the reality . The address of the Hungarian Protestants , as was anticipated , has been rejected . Among the mass " festival reports which have filled the Gorman journals during the last two weeks I select the following description of the scene at the Working Men ' s Educational Association of Hamburg . After some preliminary amusements and ceremonies the audience were requested to arise from their seats , whereupon a Mr . Ulex addressing the bust of Schiller , said : — " To thee , more than to any other mortal , was lent the power of song ; thou , more than any poet before thee , knewest to combine mildness with strength ; thou taughtest the profoundest wisdom and the purest virtue , and courageously , as no other before thee , wast thou the herald of the rights of man and of liberty . " Behold here 1 , 000 working men who fondly love thee , and who desire to consecrate to thea some visible sign of their grateful acknowledgements . It possesses no value beyond what the sentiment with which it is given imparts to it . They have chosen this laurel wreath , with which they now , through me , decorate thy brow ( placing the wreath upon the head of the image ) . , . , , lt " But with such outward show , winch tUou thyself valuest so little , it does not end . We would wishto afford thee , in tho future , proofs of our earnest endeavours to imitate thee . I request , therefore , the members of tho Association to raise their right hands . In thy spiril , oli I Schiller , to live ; morally to porfectionate ourselves ; to cultivate tho good and boautiful ; to fight . for right , truth , and freodom—all this W m ' o 6 ^ us conflrin this promise with a thousand times repeated loud-foneJ 'Ja ! . " In all times of trial , in all timos of temptation , when-tho monitor—conscience—knocks at our breasts , then we will think on this hour , and tho spirit of Schiller will guide us in tlio right way , and save us from futuro repentance . Ho will strengthen our courage when wo shall be callod upon to stake our all for the land of our fathers , " And now to keep this celebration allvo an our memory , tho following proposal shall bo intido at our ioKt grand mooting : —1 . That a memorial with the linnffo of Schiller and tho promise just liia-ilc , shall ornament the hall of the Association . 2 . That annually , on tho second Sunday i » November , the Association shall hold a festival in rornouibrmico , and tho above promise called to rnind . " Strengthened l ) V tho consciousness ot tms ( rood intention we will now with heartfelt tlinnkfUliioss give a throofold thundering " Ze & e fioch . " And now with united voices lot * us sing the incomparable song 'An die Fronde . " The flinging

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 26, 1859, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26111859/page/17/