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Michelet , Jacques , all the professors who aspire to the distinction of philosophes , are equally to be put down . The Jesuit is to lord it over the French University . It is in vain for the students to get up demonstrations in behalf of their popular instructors . The panic occasioned by the approach of their procession—the hasty shutting up of doors , the mustering of troops , the fidgeting of national representatives in their curule chairs , will not mend matters . The panic of the legislators subsides , and the professors are no less inexorably sacrificed .
What could not priests and Jesuits do in France at the present time if they could only agree amongst them ? But there , as amongst us , bishops have fallen to loggerheads . He of Paris admonishes his clergy to abstain from politics ; his subordinate of Chartresa lofty old man—makes it incumbent on his priests to meddle in worldly affairs so far , at least , as to pray for confusion to the Socialists : all is thus ready for a pitched battle of the dioceses . The Socialists of all nations , Conservative papers inform us , have directed their " men of action " to rendezvous in London for the Exhibition . The inexorable correspondent of the Times is at a loss to decide whether by thatphrase Jiommes d ' action we should understand the disciples of Louis Blanc or Proudhon , or simply " pickpockets . " Marshal Soult is reported as lying dangerously ill .
The German question may be reduced to these terms—Is the world to have one or two Germanys ? From the days of Frederic II . and Maria Theresa , down to the revolution of 1848 , a kind of dualism had been established in that country . Prussia and Austria shared the supreme power in the Diet . But now this nice balance of power between them must either lead to a total and absolute separation , or one of the two must succumb and admit the supremacy of the other . Two weeks ago Prince Schwarzenberg had Prussia under his thumb . But the perpetual oscillation of the Prince at the head of the latter power , the watchful jealousy of the minor German States seem now to have undone all that had been
agreed upon between the Dresden plenipotentiaries . Every day brings out a new plan . The Executive Power of the German Diet is to consist now of seventeen , now of nine , now even of five votes ; these different numbers being suggested with a view to counterbalance the power of the two great rivals , and also to gratify the petty vanity of some of the inferior states , particularly of Bavaria , which is determined to play the part of the frog in the fable , and , we devoutly pray , may meet with its ultimate fate . By the latest news , however , it would seem that arrangements have been made on the question of the Presidency . Austria will preside in the Diet , and the two powers , Austria and Prussia , will share the Presidency of the Executive Committee .
A nominal parity of power Austria is willing to award to Prussia , but she will keep the Presidency , and , what is of greater moment , the absolute and exclusive control of the federal army for herself . Added to this , she is irremovably bent on entering the German Confederacy with all her non-German provinces—a scheme , as we have often observed , which would put all rivalship on the part of Prussia too absurdly out of the question . The remonstrances of France and England , twice and thrice repeated , have been utterly void of effect . There are those
who fancy Nicholas of Russia himself begins to entertain some uneasiness of Austria ' s aggrandisement . But the real fact is , nevertheless , that the three northern despots have interchanged the chains oi their respective orders of knighthood as an emblem of the ties of friendship and common interest that bind them , and make them move than a match for all the rest of the world . They have brought their common enemy—revolution—to the ground : and they give no sign , hitherto , of fulling out in the partition of the . spoil .
Austria and Russia ncem well agreed in the share each of them covets in a spoil of a different nature ; Austria is still condensing her forces on the Hosnian frontiers , where , according to tin ; latest news from Agiam , the insurrection is spreading far and wide with alarming rapidity . Russia has long since glutted her ravenousness on Turkish provinces . Every popular outbreak in that , decrepit . State affords reasons for interference on the part , of its uneasy neighbours , and , in all cases , interference is conquest . Nor is the empire only open to the invasion at its circumference . Jn its very centre the I ' orte has no slight trouble in warding off the intolerable pretentsious of frieudH and foes .
Thus in Constantinople it is not the Sultan but the "French Ambassador that , grants protection . Dembinski has lately arrived in that city , and the reception of the Polish and Italian iefug < en , the greeting of the Garibaldi band , have been loud enough to tttun und well-nigh to displease the ; old veteran . In Switzerland the decree for confining the refugees to eei tain districts has met with Jens resistance than was anticipated . The ultni-demoemts are losing the ascendancy in all the ( iermun and not a few of the French cantons : the remonstrances of the f ^ reut powers , and especially of Fiance , nguiiiHt the right of asylum abused in Switzerland , have had great weight with the federal and cantonal Governments .
By the way , Prussia , Russia , and Austria are said to have asked France to join them in a remonstrance of a similar nature , with regard to the swarms of refugees that are now driven to England . France has not given her answer as yet , or we should have had Ijord John Russell stepping forward before Parliament with the Alien Bill in his hand . An unfortunate patriot has been arrested in Rome ¦ with some tickets of the Mazzini loan in his possession . Death ot imprisonment for life will be the unavoidable consequence . The Mazzinians in Rome , however , nothing daunted , have issued a caution to the public , in print , giving the numbers and letters of the tickets thus seized , and warning the public against them
The Count of Chambord has reached Modena , whence , after a short stay , he returned to Venice . The Grand Duchess of Tuscany and the Duke of Parma have arrived at Naples . Prince Leopold , uncle of the King of the Two Sicilies , died at Naples on the 10 th . The Ministers of Tuscany , Parma , and Modena met at Rome , with a view to persuade the Papal Government to accede to the construction of a railway , which starting from Mantua , is to cross the legations , through Ferrara and Bologna , and hence , across the Apennine , to join the Tuscan line already finished between Florence and Leghorn . All these plans are suggested in the mere interest and at the
dictation of Austria , who is anxious to establish a communication between the Adriatic and the Mediterranean , for sanitary rather than for commercial purposes . Some hopes are held out to the Roman Government that the Tuscan line will be prolonged from Sienna to Rome ; and with this boon the Romans must remain satisfied : as for any hope of joining the two seas by a line from Ancona to Civita Yecchia , or of establishing a direct communication between the Northern and Southern Provinces , by a line from Bologna to Rome , that enters not into the calculation of the Austrian projectors . Nor can the Papal Government object to these Austrian arrangements ; since the only alternative is simply to have no railway of any kind .
The Council of State lately appointed by the Pope met for the first time on the 18 th . Prince Odescalchi has been elected president of the Pontifical Academy of Science . The Archbishops and Bishops of Tuscany have sent an address to the Grand Duke of Tuscany to remind him of his promises and sacred obligations of 1848 , and to recommend the adoption of liberal
measures . The state prisoners , Poerio , Pironti , &c , condemned to the galleys for life at Naples , have been removed from Nisida , where their presence in the bar / no had created an indescribable sensation among the most abandoned convicts , who showed them every token of reverence , and expressed the most violent indignation that such men should be doomed to their own fate—and sent to the island of Ischia , there to be thrown in a dark subterranean dungeon of the castle called II Fosso , the ditch—a dark hole where no human beings have been shut up since the middle ages . In the Chamber of Turin , on the 20 th , the budget of public works Las been adopted by 11 / 3 votes against 14 . On the following day the Chamber unanimously adopted a bill for the formation of an invalid fund for the royal and mercantile navy . General Strassoldo , the newly-appointed Imperial Lieutenant of Lombard } -, reached Milan on the 18 th . The Emperor of Austria left Vienna for Trieste on the 21 st , and reached the latter city on the 22 nd . A poor parish priest of Ceregnuno , in the Polesinc , lias been condemned to two yeais' imprisonment , for having omitted the usual prayer for the Emperor , in the celebration ol the mass , on the occurrence of the Emperor ' s birthday , the 18 th of August last . The Henteiiee bears date of the 10 th of this month . The rail way between Vrroiiii and Muntuu will be opened to the public , on the ! Hnt . The new po-tal regulations agreed upon between Austria and Tuscany are published in the licu / ia Gazette of the 21 st . The Prussian Government has been taken to tusk in Parliament on the subject of the Uhn ' v . des Imurlicrs of November last . At that time troops were quartered on the people without , mercy , and the poor , especially in the country , have been oaten out of house and home . 'That ciiK / uarticriDKj amounted to a very heavy and mowt irksome taxation ; and nomc of theliberal membciH opined that Government should not have imposed it without the sanction of the Chamber . The Minister !* , however , contended that they hud acted under the pressure of necessity , and the Chamber admitted the plea by a majority of 1 /> 1 to 10 K . In a sitting of the ftth committee of Parliamentary initiative in Munich , a motion of Prince Wallcrstein bus been adopted by a minority of nix against , throe , to the ( fleet that ( Jovcriiment , should be required to lay forthwith before the House all papers relative to the question of Electoral llessc , and the intervention of Bavarian troops into that state , it , is , of course , never supposed that the Minister Von tier Pfordten will ever uccodc to the demand , which , if insiuted
upon , may only lead to the long-contemplated di * solution of the Chamber . 1 S * Count Alvensleben , the Prussian agent at Dresden has had , since his return to Berlin on the 23 rd inst ' several interviews with the King . *' M . Mercier , the French Envoy Extraordinary on a mission to the Courts of Prussia , Austria , and Russia , has arrived at Berlin . The Spanish Minister , Bravo Murillo , gives cle ar intimations of his intention to repudiate the national debt . He asks his creditors to renounce one half of their claims , when he will see what can be done for the remaining moiety . The King of Sweden has reached Stockholm on his return from Norway , and immediatel y dissolved the Regency appointed to govern in his absence . The disturbances in Norway are said to be at an end .
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PROTESTANTISM AND POPERY . The bill brought in by Mr . Lacy and Mr . Spooner to prevent the forcible detention of females in houses wherein persons bound by religious or monastic vows are resident or associated , provides that such house shall be registered by the clerk of the peace of the county in which it is situate ; that the justices for every county in which any religious house shall be registered shall appoint six or more justices of the peace to act as visitors of each house , who shall be sworn to keep secret all such matters as shall come under their knowledge in the execution of their office as visitors , except when required to divulge the same by legal authority , or for the better execution of their duty . Registered religious houses shall be visited twice a-year , and if it appear to the visitors
that any female is desirous of leaving the religious house in which she is resident , they shall have power to remove her , and to place her under the care of the matron of the union in which the religious house is situate . ' Superiors not causing their religious houses to be registered , or wilfully making any false statement in respect of such houses , or obstructing or impeding any of the visitors on their way to , at , or in , or returning from any such religious house , snail be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour . Any person assaulting a visitor in the religious house , shall be deemed guilty of a felony . Concealment of any part of a religious house , or the premises appertaining thereto , or of any person residing therein from the visitors , or the production of a false list of the inmates , shall be looked upon as a misdemeanour .
The Bishop of Oxford , in a letter to one of his clergy , accused of Tractarianism , says : —" There is need just now of great forbearance between clergy and people . After alluding to the secessions to Rome , he says that is no reason why those who go half way to Rome should be suspected of any intention to go there altogether . If the Tractarians are cast out of the Church , as they are likely to be , he prophesies the most direful calamity . "The Church of England will not long survive their expulsion , and then must come—first the war of all sects , and the end of all religion . "
The church of St . Barnabas was crowded to excess qn Sunday , by an anxious multitude , who from an early hour had assembled outside the building , for the purpose of hearing the Rev . Mr . Bennett take a final leave of his parishioners . On the doors being thrown open , every available piece of ground was immediately occupied , and the inconvenience arising from the crush was severely felt by many persons who had forced their way in . The text was John vii . /> . ' *—" And every man went unto his own house . " He alluded to the present divided condition of the Church , and to the perils with which she was beset ,
and lamented that the great work in which they hud been engaged was now destroyed . lie urged perseverance in the truth , and a strict adherence to 'he teaching of the Church . In the evening the church was ag an open , nnd Mr . Bennett preached another sermon to an equally crowded audience , but addressed himself more to the loss the puiisli would sustain in the alteration of the established ( . ervicoH of that church . During the next three or four weeks St . Barnabas will be closed , with a view , it in understood , to the removal of the ncreen and other portions of the beautiful and richly decorated chancel .
Two protests against the request of the ELshop of London , that the Reverend W . . I . E . Bennett . should retugu the incumbency of St . Paul ' s KnightHbriclgo , and the chapel of St . Itarnabas , Pimlico , were unanimously adopted at a meeting of the memberH of the congregation of those churches , held at the schoolroom attached to St . Barnabas Church , on Monday last , and were presented to Mr . 1 'Iodson , the Hishop of London ' s notary , on Tuesday , when Mr . Jiennett hignod his resignation .
The vestry of the parish of St . Georgo , Ilnnover-Nqnme , lias petitioned Parliament against the Hhani Aiiti-l'apul Aggression Hill , on the ground thtil it " will prove illusory arid ineffectual to check tho oourne of Rominh aggrandisement , or ensure t , h «) safety of the Protestant Church , Monarchy , and Constitution . " They also wish the House to examine the Bttitute-book , with a view to ascertain what 1 » W » have been pusfiud by the , wisdom of our ancoutorH " to guard tho realm and itu rueaHtwa from Papal invft-
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Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1851, page 288, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1876/page/4/
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