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    witness a military review . The Duke of Cambridge , who was reported amongst the guests , has not gone ; the King of Prussia has not gone ; one of the Rothschild family , however , has attended the meeting . The Emperors kissed each other in public , and talked together the whole evening in private—terrible portents for Central Europe J But whether Austria is to adhere to the western alliance , whether she is to join Russia openly , or whether ostensibly to remain separate , or whether she is still to act as the instrument of that

    power in the conference organised to oppose Russia , are questions which cannot be answered for anything that has been discovered at the Olmiitz gathering . The gentleman who has just ascended Mont Blanc , auspice Albert Smith , probably discovered as much in that elevated site bearing upon the state of Europe in general as any

    tourist to Olmiitz , not an accomplice in the conspiracy there assembled , could discover from'his expedition . Albert Smith ' s popularity in the neighbourhood of Mont Blanc is said to be quite romantic ; indeed , he has gone about his labours in the true spirit of statesmanship , by placing himself en rapport with the people , and especially by giving them liberal entertainments . What a chance if he

    were to set up for Emperor of Mont Blanc , with Savoy and the Tyrol , and a large slice of Austria for his remoter provinces , monarch of all he surveys . An alliance between Albert Smith and the son of Charles Albert sounds well , and would no doubt be a more fortunate event for Europe than this conspiracy of kissing- Emperors at Olmiitz . The Americans are right in pushing their institutions wherever they push themselves ; if we could only establish an honest Englishman like Albert Smith

    on some thrones not so exalted as Mont Blanc , both the peace of Europe and the order of society would be better secured than they are at present under the long-pedigreed felons who now sit over the peoples of the Continent . Kossuth has written a letter to explain why ho coukl not attend a meeting at Stafford , and as he writes with his usual point and force , ho effectually prevents our understanding the reason . Ho seems to say that he is absent because if ho had been there his disclosures

    would have obliged our Ministers to take a decisive course in Europe . There are , however , in this letter of Kossuth ' s many truths , and amongst them the never-to-be-forgotten truth , that the reason why our Ministers flinch from upholding the influence of Europe , from vindicating . right , and from standing by

    wronged nations against imperial law-breakera is , that English statesmen have grown afraid of the people . If they have so far degenerated from their predecessors in our best times , perhaps they might learn from Mr . Albert Smith better to apprehend the feelings and motives of the monster they dread . A « k Albert Smith whether he is afraid of tho

    people in any part of Europe , and ho will tell you they aro as easily managed aa an audience in Egyptian Hall . Besides , our statesmen might loarn at homo better than to bo afraid of tho people . Let thorn attend tho meetings at Wolverhampton , Manchester , Bristol , and Leicester , and loarn avbother thoro is anything to bo afraid of in

    what happens there . Nay , going to Stafford , and . standing in tnc presence of that enthusiast , whose-object in life has been to bring Lord Palmer . ston ' a head to tho block , Lord l ' iilmeraton himself would feel aa safe in tho midst of Mr . Urquhart ' H audience aa lie wan at Melbourne , and as ho has boon this wcok at GlaKcow .

    Our old ally , Spain , hnsjust " settled . " something AV ith Lord Clarendon , in London ; General IVzuela is sent to replace Canedo as Governor of Cuba ; and , after trying- many feebler tttutcBinon , tho Court appears to Imyo

    resolved to fall back upon its old reliance : the Gazette announces that General Narvaez may return to Madrid . The Cortes meet again to be dissolved ; and , in short , the political state of Spain is once more sponged ., Bat we doubt whether the Spain of oiir day fcasryet learned to write upon the slatfe of history ., Miss Margaret Cunningham © having '¦> . resolved to . set aside the lstws of the Gtand Duchy of Tuscany , which forbid the promulgation of prohibited books , and doctrines of

    protestant or proselytizing tendencies , has given Protestant Bibles and the Pilgrim ' s Progress , in Italian , to certain peasants in the neighbourhood of the Baths ^ of Lucca . The Tuscan Government has joined issue with Miss Margaret , arid has arrested the fair and meek crusader . The English Government , which resists Russian intervention on behalf of the Orthodox Greek Christians in Turkey , sustains Miss Margaret ' si intervention on behalf of Protestants in Tuscany ;

    and having given a hesitating support to the Sultan in defence of Mussulman laws , is now about to support the lady rival of the Emperor Nicholas , in contravention of the laws of Tuscany , It is to be inferred , that public law has a reverse meaning as it is applied to Romanist or to Protestant subjects : that which is wrong in Nicholas , is right in

    Giinninghame , and that which is incompetent to England in the Golden Horn is incumbent at Leghorn ; so difficult is it to follow the turns of logic under the different colours of a secta ^ rian view . Out of evil , however , cOmeth good ; if England be illogical , she may yet be useful ; only it would be desirable that the same principle that is advanced in suppdrt of the Scottish Miss were advanced on broader

    fields and for larger objects . Liberty of conscience , which she vindicates , is a grand object ; but why not vindicate it at Naples , in Hungary—protestant Hungary ; in Bohemia , in Milan , in Sardinia , against the Pope all over the world ? In short , freedom of conscience , or Protestantism , call it which you like , is outraged in the person of Miss Margaret ; but if our Government , which is endeavouring to redress the wrong in the one particular instance , had only dealt , with evil

    at its source , and had not sanctioned tho restoration of the obscurantist old Pope , instead of pompously redressing- the wrongsof Margaret Cunninghames in detail , the wrongs of the whole world in this regard might have been set right . English statesmen , however , think it moro practical not to arrest tho torrent at its source , but to wait until it is an ocean , and then with tho broom of a Partington they will sally forth to rescue a lounging Evangelical tourist , or a romantic ladyapostlo jealous of tho martyrdom of Rosa Madiai .

    Cholera and common sense continue their fight . Cholera is taking possession of new towns , including tho metropolis ; and ia advancing- up dirty lanes , like Elm-lano , at Biiyswatcr ; up dirty ditches , like tho Wandaworth ditch ; by tho slums of Holborn , and the low grounds of Bermondsoy , until it outers the districts in which tho richer classes dwell . Common senso has just begun to moot tho onomy by a . Napoleonic attack upon his main

    body . In Nowcastlo it lias just been resolved to close up houses unfit for human habitation , of course providing for tho inmates dislodged by that " eviction . " It will probably bo found upon a roviow of tho results that tho docroaso of cholora is exactly proportionate to those decisive and direct methods of common sonse , aiid that exactly in proportion as common sonso ia passive tho cholora effects its onward march .

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    LOUD l'ALMEBSTON AT PERTH . Loitn Pai . mkhhton has had miotbor opportunity of making a holiday npooch , and him turned it to good account . In tlio City Hall of Perth , fillt ! , l with a crowd of two thousand j > whoh » , tbo freedom of tho city was nrosuntod to tho Homo

    Secretary ;\ . % ii tlie cdmStteticeraent of iis speech ; returning thanks , Lord Patmerstpn most happily complimented th cQuptyibr i * s ' finescenery , ana then Scotland , for the national character of tbe . pepple : — - ¦ " Your country , is akin&pf emblem of your national cha ract ^ r ; for ,, ^ ^ , bn / the one Jhand , it presents those bold fljeva , tipn » . . jjrtgch ,. , ^ file , gift of nature , on the other hand it exhibits ; th # Jrighestcultivation , which human skill can confer . i ; SfyJMrth andmy . interests Jie , . indeed , in other piwte of the ignited Kjugdom ; but . I may claim , at ' least one kjn ^ tiff % ., Tyi * h Scotland . , "For ' what signhies it that o man- slitbuld ! ' be horn , or of what practical value are his

    interests * if he has not had the benefit of that cultivation whichean&itibn bestows ? and ! ¦ whenever any important part of a man's education has been given him , to that place must his affections : * eeor during the ; whole -portion of his subsequent life . Now , gentjeinen , it waa my good fortune to pass three years in Edinburgh ; under the roof ; , and under the instruction > of 'that great . and good man ,- -Diigald Stewart- * -a man no less distinguished for the gtrat'capacity of his mind for his powers'to lise to the highest summit ; of science , and to penetrate the . deepest' mysteries ; of -metaphysics , ; and no less remarkable for that than for those sterling qualities of heart and of disposition which make talent practicall y useful , and which add to the dignity pf genius ; " -.-. "¦

    : The orator then launched out into larger topics : '—** Gentlemen , the' Lord PrbVostR&s been kind enough to advert to some passages'in fmy public' life . He but rightly ihte ^ i ? eied ^ the ; l 4 e tifii ^ rits- ; "rt : h'ich - | jtii . aefd- me . when he » aid that I embraced heartily and cordially those principles of Parliamentary And MunicjpaT Reform which , however inuch they exciteddPubts ; in- the mind ^ Of many men at the time when they ¦ werei broached , have , T ' think , now . gained universal concurrence by the practical experience of good Which they have ' conferred on all : classes of this great empire . Aiid whatever opinions any man' mayKave formed at the time when that great battle was foughti'there is not , L believe , an individual in th © ¦ 'Country who-would now for ah instant contemplate any " retrogression in = . ' regard to those great

    measures . Gentlemen , it was , as the Lord 'Provost has been -pleased to say , my . anxious desire > while the , charge of our foreign relationsi . was committed to my hands , in , the first place , to maintain ; unimpaired the interests ^ ajjd . untarnished the honour and dignity of the coun . try . But , as beyond these interests and ( hat honour ; there were certainly two objects which J held : constantly in vieu >; and which , to . a great degree , die Government of which Ii was a ; member , succee d ed in accomplishing—the one was tf > encourage the diffusion of the principles of constitutional government throughout tho countries of Europe . . The Lord Provost has justly said , that our efforts succeeded in establishing that which I hold to be the best ' system of constitutional government—J mean constitutional monarchy—that that ; was established in

    Belgium—that these principles of government were established in Portugal and Spain . And we may look now with satisfaction to the map of Enrope , and we may see that there nre —I speak not of those small unfortunate States of middle uud southern Italy—putting them out of the question—among the great States of Europe , there are but Austria and Russia in which , in some form or other , representative or constitutional government does not exist . I know well I may bo told , that in ' many of these countries it has for the moment been reduced to a mere form ; but , depend upon it , forms aro invaluable As long as good forms of government are maintained , no man need despair that Iho time may not come when , even without violence and without revolution , these forms may become real substance . Tho next object

    was—I will not say the next , because it was the first object— -tho abolition , tho suppression of tho detestable crime of slavery . It was a difficult task ; there were ninny resisting influences . Those influences have been , I trust , almost entirely overcome . Wo took n lino which compelled that great delinquent , Brazil , practically to abandon its crime ; and although Span ) still continues , unfortunately , to a great degree—as far as her limited moans are concerned—to perjpetrato this crime , yot 1 trust that Cuba will soon follow tho example of Urazil , mid that tho much injured raco of Africa will now bo restored to tho legitimate pursuits of ngriculturo nnd commorco , and that tho nativo will no longer tremblo at tbo sight of a whito man , fearing that ho sees in him the representative of all the it

    misoriea that cun afflict human nature . Gontlomen , IS " ~ " ' ought to bo—satisfactory to every Englishman to know that tho conduct of , our foreign rolutions is now in able hands ; that my Lord Clarendon—my noblo friend , Lord Clarendon —who is now nt the huad of that department , has penetration to sue wlMsro tho interests , and the honour , nnd tho 8 »[«' y ° ' tho country aro to bo sought , that ho has sagacity to discover tho proper moans for preserving and maintaining thoso intortwts , and thut ho has fimmuss , and energy , i » m 1 » * ° : verance to pursue thu rifcht course to arrive at a success " and porfoct msult . If my noblo friend receives—as I ' » suro ho will—tho cordial , tho genorous support ol country , you may depend upon it that ho will not < lisi » pp «»

    tho just expectations of hi . s countrymen . Tho speakor noxt referred to hia duties as Homo Secretary , and to tho help tho people should givo him in hi « work . " Gentlemen , my dutios now mo of a < lUToroi » t iiatur ^ . Tho office , which 1 have tho honour to hold pluccs m « »« " ^ in intiinato and closo relation with my f « llow-conntry xn «« { homo . 1 trust that in thu performance of those * * "V . A of rocoivo their cordial and general support . A Miul " . j ior State , gentlemen , has no better eyes , and can suo no lr than his neifvlibouiH . Th « probubility is , that aftfr » \ ^ nhorttiino of roadingbiul haud . s and \ mh > iuk , ni « p »» y ey « a will be rather worse than those of others , ilw war not lik « those of Dionyniiw tho Sicilian , and t » oy < "J JiiH very little of what conies from a distance from luin ; » countryiuen have eyer . to aee , and they havo oars to l «« ur , ^ tl >» v ! ...... > i , v , > . y ,,,, u i ,. unxnir nml ihnv have doiis to write ,

    if tlume who hco nnd liear things that uro going Y ° " d ,, ( y have tho KoednortH to coinnmnicato Xn that olllc"r , ,,, ;„ «() it is , and who may have the power of wilting tliow ^ , riglit . 1 can assure you , geatlonien—I can ns « nr « «> y confl , r . countrynion at large—that wltoover does Unit wi » " a ring a great favour on tho man in oillco , ami w » U K " " „ B roat bouofit U > tho country ut l . a- « . I huovr thut »«« w » 8

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 1, 1853, page 938, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2006/page/2/