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    Sept. 29 1860] The Saturday Analyst and ...

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    THE .SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISTS AT GLASGOW. W...

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    State Of Parties In Germany. Npi-Irough ...

    thev properly belong , or to constitute themselves as free and independent commonwealths . -With regard to the dynasties of ¦ Hapst > ur «* and Hohenzollern , the democrats heartily invoke " a plague on both your houses ! " They therefore call out for an agitation in favour of the convocation of a German parliament , which is to talc e the question of leadership in its oAvn hands , thus avoiding the splitting up all Germany into two rival dynastic camps . The National Verein , at first originated by men of the moderate constitutional party , has attempted to bring- about a fusion between the second and third of these political groups . IrT order to' attain this , the idea of Prussian hegemony was

    for awhile consigned to the background , or treated more as a distant possibility than us a definite aim of the League ; whereas the idea " of a central Parliament was placed in the foreground as an alluring bait to democrats . When , by means of these tactics , the League had at last attained to five thousand members , the string-pullers of the National Verein speedily began to drop as quietly as possible the agitation for a central Parliament , and to rehdist the banner of the leadership , or perhaps . we should rather say the Dictatorship , of the House of Hohenzollern ; During the recent debates at Coburg it has been shown , however , that in the National Verein . itself , composed as it is chiefly of moderate constitutionalist elements . =: f \» fmm with the wishes the wishes ol

    _ :. » i , «^ r : ^« r ; - r lv = incr in annordance of 5 uch policy is far from being , in accordance with the majority . The idea of a Prussian hegemony , to be introduced at the cost of the integrity of the national German soil , found comparatively but few open advocates . On the other hand , it was urged from many parts that the question of leadership Was one calculated to sever altogether the North and the South . Resolutions were therefore adopted , in which stress was laid on the necessity of uniting all the Federal States by means of one free constitution ; But as to the future headship of Prussia in Grermany . a more circumtory language was employed , characteristic of the difficulties which surround ¦

    that thorny question . : . . . We may here remark that of late there has arisen , in some of the branch associations of the National Vcfei . it , a very marked opposition to the "he gemonic" scheme . This has been the case especially in the branch league at Frankfort and at Cologne—both towns in which the democratic sentiment prevails ? Still further signs of such opposition may be exthe democratic

    pected to be exhibited by and bye , propogandn labouring strongly to warn the ' confiding people against the real character of the Prussian Regent . Thus an organ of the more advanced popular party at Hamburg recently reproduced , by way of souvenir , the " Black List" of those German patriots who had been deliberately shot by Court Martial , in 1849 , ut the order of that same Prince Regent , whom a servile sham-liberalism now would fain impose upon the world as the

    " hope of Germany . It appears from this list that the Prince Regent hug on his conscience as heavy an accpunt of the blood of patriots shed by him as his brother in despotism the Austrian Emperor , Within the short space of a few weeks , the Regent , after having slaughtered hecatombs of patriots on the field of battle , in Rhenish Bavaria and Baden , scrupled not to perform further wholesale massacres by virtue of that " law " which , the late Duke of Wellington was wont to speak , of as . ' no law" at all . In this fashion no loss than twenty-eight victims fell , among whom were to be found the best and bravest of the land—men

    of social and political position , who wqre led out to death m the same hideous style as Robert Blum at Vienna , and the Hungnriau generals at Arad . In this way , at the order of that " liberal" Prince of Prussia , were shot —~ W . A . Yon Trutzschler . Member of the National Assembly of Frankfort , a scion of one of the first of the aristocratic families of Saxony , who had embraced the popular cause—Von Tiedemann , governor of the Fortress of llnstadt—Von Biedenfeld , colonel

    ' —Frederick Neff , professor- —Max Dortu , an officer in the Buden Army—Elsenhnns , Secretary in the Ministry of War—Hofor , professor—Boning , colonel—Valentin Streuber , Communal Counsellor and President of tho neo-Catholio community at Mannheim—Mcilig , Major of Artillery—Bernignu , Mujor of tho National Guard—Jansen , engineer—Juoobi , commander of tho forts A and B at Rustuclt , and a number of others who loved freedom bettor than life . Nor was this all . Thanks to

    the ( sanguinary reaction of the Prince of Prussia , more men fleel from the little country of Baden than had left Poland at the groat emigration . The property of 'those exiled or imprisoned was confiscated . All tho dungeons of tho country were full to overflowing . Against tho restive part of tho remaining- population every ( sort of terrorism was omployed i the whip and stick ovon , in true Htvynuu fashion , % urcd in the grim list of torturoe . No wonder Baden , within tho Iwst ton

    years , has shown a considerable decrease , instead of an increase , of population . Facts like these ma y be thrown into oblivion for the moment , but they cannot remain long absent from men ' s memory . The Prince Regent himself , by his . daily desertion of the moderate liberal party , and the increasing , favour with which he views the pretensions of the legitimacy of Right Divine , forces his opponents to revive these blood-stained antecedents of hia . For our own part we are sure the time cannot be far off when even the most infatuated men of the National Verein will see

    the folly of the hopes thev have hitherto placed in him . If tuis light be once sufficiently cast upon the Prince ' s true character , the democratic party in Germany will speedily receive many fresh accessions ; and then only some fortuitous circumstance will be necessary , such as history so often shows , to bring again to influence a party which has neither dynastic preferences , nor any inclination to pander to the ambition of encroaching despots .

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    The .Scientific Socialists At Glasgow. W...

    THE . SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISTS AT GLASGOW . WK see that at the meeting at Glasgow for the current year the impoitaiit question . or " Averages " has been an-iiouiiced as forming a prominent topic , In matters of business " averages " lave been long regarded as forming a solid and satisfactory basis for the profitable and successful establishment of mercantile spec illations , JJut that which has time out of mind been proved a sure foundation for / ire , life , and marine assurance , has been rejected by the mystical and metaphysical school ( and ail schools are metaphysical and mystical up to a certain period of intellectual development ) , as of no authority in mor .-d and historical speculaconclusions of statisticshoweTei

    tions . The exact and rigorous , ' i are inexorably , however gradually , narrowing the authority of the school in question * whose influence maybe regarded -as growing small by degrees , and proportionately diminutive as intellectual and moral development flourish , anil expand . Bacon , Locke , BenthaJH , and : Mr . Lt ,-have , in succession , been its most formidable opponents . < ivKTF . j . KT . in his Work "On Man , " one of the really great works this century has produced , did . much to diffuse correct notions on the subject oY" averages , " applied to societarian phenomena ; but the ' greatest impetus the question has received has been given bv a work which , i ' s no . t merely one of the greatest monuments of iutelloctuul achievement of which the present .... ¦ x _ - i -... '?• I *; . * - * -i » i /» r \ V + lm frv *» rifr » c : f 7 ir > rVlr « flip world Jilt ft

    yet seen , and the second volume of which we are so anxiously oxpec . ling—we nieau " . B ire klk ' s History of Civilization in England . As collectors of materials the labours of the Social Science Cong-ressioriists will produce good , an d- we anticipate valuable practical results from a proper discussion of , the important subjeot of averages . Lord Uuoi-oiiam ' s opening address . at Glasgow was distinguished by all the facile discursiveness and learned versatility for which the oratorical displays of this eminent man are generally remarkable . Meanwhile we , resume our remarks on tho subject of Sociology . In order that a distinct conception of the science be kept woll iu mind , wo shall briefly recur to our toaches to that

    former definitions . Slondo ^ y us distinguish voluntary conduct which of its . own intrinsic nature is detrimental to human wellboinff , from that which is of its own essence harmless or beneficial , but which is made to be productive of injurious results in eonsociuenoo of its being proscribed and juimshed by false beliefs , absurd prejudices , ovuellaws , irrational institutioiiB ; t teaches us hi Vnat Uappiuoss consists . Happiness , vro hftvo seen , consists ia the satisfying of tho legitimate want ; / V of that list of wants every one whereot is satisfaable by each member of the community without prejudice to Sio Biitisfvin- of nil or any of tho wants in tho list , by S whole commanity ; --whi 5 h abstract formula wo rod woo to rLl 5 S ? * 2 n Sotieal annlioatiou by . pocifying tho to

    lowmm ^^ ssm M - tZalvlL ^ ooM which i . oonBiBtomt with the satisfy fay Sf thf loff iUmatu 7 . vants by all mankind ;¦ « nd immoral eonduot u m ^ miaMim

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1860, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29091860/page/5/