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      in Piedmont . In France , after the 13 th of June , vrnten ChangarBier , the confidant of the Bourbons , iras invested with ftill military powers , a royalist coup-tNtM ^^ Wtm projected . « It was , in the Russian point of view , giving the forces of the West sooiethingf ^ to do . - For ^ in Hungary the weakness of Auata ^ . T ^ i'WMe to-bring y llussian intervention , and Hiuigary is so nicely situated for parleying across tl » Dftnufe \ 7 ith those terrible Turks , the infidel foes < rf the Kusstan-Greek orthodoxy . Surely the place of England was not beside these royllist conspiracies . Yet that was the place which « £ §|! £ a ^ l of Westaioreland chose in the name of

      X&glanJl . He gave hi * instrumentalservices to the m | £ tidnary unison . We are not afraid of that diploittltic'flQ » blenian repudiating his correspondence of tM 9 flK > easily as he has denied the pretended cor-« i ^ h ^ riG ^ wlUl the Prince Consort . The letters addressed in 1849 , to" I > ear Lord Westinoreland , "hy the Minuter of Foreign Affaira of the A'tistrian Archduke Joho , are inevidence to prove that ^ iia ^ iaiSid * tried and trusty con&lant in the plemi-» 6 it ) e 1 atlaryMQueen ^ ictoria . Theflre-eaters of abso-£ |^ m «^ fiaile hefore the British Ambassador the nolle BBntimettts of their souls . They eren confide to him attsecrftta of UieirmiUtary clans . Tbe German Par-- ywy \!< w .-. yp- ' ¦"!» i"S '" ' " * ' " "¦ & ¦ ¦ ¦ — — - ^ -- wa » . i , ¦¦ ¦> . ^ . w ^ , .

      , pwg ^ ., .,,.- M' ^ iiimeat , that ridi <» toBsly modest « sem conteained by Itie , democratic people , is called in their letters to ILordWestmorelanoV ^ e « 4 ^ jnent , ^ t 3 ^ centre of th « ^ anarchjcal party , " the « ^^ tf « «^ U ^ iil ^ - i ^ trialmrc hdiiketellr ^^^ lldence ^ iat all Western GennaDy , the : army ¦ xs oloa ^ , is re ^ y to inake oommoa c ^ with the ^ ul « nTOven « ntiandthat , i ^ ref 6 re , <) nly the most « Bergetic rnmtary imasures can sa ^ e the old r ^ ime 4 i ^! ann&il ? t& ati ^ tit ^ prmces . From thU fiituation is drawn alhe « i ^ iufi « i that the courts ot Austria and Prussia

      HitMtttniteagainit the defenders of Uberty , "The J | i ^|^ gfcM \ Aostr ^ AicMiike , ^ WHBHR % BS& 3 && 8 |^^^^ H ^ i ^ W ^! is « 3 M ^^^ ^ su ^ a !^ Dot as troops of the Empire ,, I beliere , W ^^ ji ^^ la ^ msBS ^ . thatycm would render a ^^ Mr ^ l ^|^ # he > . caQte > - ' -of . cnfer , if you were to ' . reraejeentln ^ roper «[ uaTter 8 ; what I have taken the li ^^ td ^ i ^^ r ^ - ^ : ¦>!¦ ¦> . - ' ¦ . f -. < . ' ll ^ S ^| Us )!^* waf being notrefy believed in England ^ Itttr tord Westmoreland was exerting himself to

      < etfebiish Constitutionalism in Germany , that noble lord ^ wis , in fS » ct , the letter-carrier and agent of Awfria ; Tnrodghtlie medium of the . . Austrian ArchdnkeJ ^ ohn , the sanguinary Court of Vienna ma * ute of the British Ambassador to restore - the « tork *^ 5 a « te the ^ volutkm , theoid r ^ w ^ , « the old confederation ^^ a ^ iti ^ 0 bmsgt »^» . words . The Sot ^ Wjettnrorel ^^ conainission with the greatest /** delight ; " he expressed Wjnself ^ very happyT to jreceive Austrian letters . He displayed so much zeal in the terrice that " immediately upon the receipt of the letter , " he " waited ififkm iX fo&ab Brandenburg , and communicated it

      confidentially to him . " Westmoreland knew well tha i ^^ mmaa " Governmen for its own part , also taieant anything rattier than constitutionalism-, 4 hercfore-he ^ endeavoured to concert between Austria ¦ and Prussia ; toe most energetic military measures ¦ Against tfce popular movements , and to bring Abaolutist Prussia to an union with Absolutist Austria , as that union had officially existed before 1848 . < krant Brandenburg * a furious defender of the divine tight of Icings , bnt an ambitious man , opposed tlus absolute submission of Prussia to Austria . It was ¦ agreed , however , in an interview between Lord Wentmoreland and Count Brandenburg , that by

      SDutnal consent of the two Powers , " all the troops Ibj&longing to the Prussian Bund , which were now acting against the south of Germany , should act witn-those under the direction of the Archduke , and life commanded by General Peuker , and if tlie ^ take gKNfsessioin of Xandau © r of Rastatt , it would be in the name of the Empire , and in no sense of Prussia . There < mght v therefore , to be no jealousy against the Prussian troops , either in Wurtemburg or Baden , and their co-operation with the troops acting under the orders of * the Arcliduke ought to remove any which might hare arisen , " &c . ( Letter of the Earl of Westmoreland . Berlin , June 9 , 1849 . )

      The British Ambassador appeared proud of his first success . His Austrian zeal was unbounded . * 'I have thus" he writes , in a hurried manner , to save the post , " given you confidentially the answers I received from Count Brandenburg . I hope tliey may not be unsatisfactory to you . I shall be delighted to receive any further communications . Believe me , very sincerely , yours , Westmoreland . " Accordingly , the Austrian Archduke and his Ministry " were much please < L , " and " remarked with peculiar satisfaction * the result of the efforts of the British Ambassador . Still it was desired at Frankfort and at Vienna that the Prussian Government

      should completely and publicly throw off the liberal mask . Once more the Earl of Westmoreland was despatched to try the ¦ re-establishment , pure and simple , of the old Absolutist Confederation of 1815 . On the part of Austria , there was no secrecy towards the Plenipotentiary of Queen Victoria . The plan of the military movements against Baden and Rhenish Bavaria is unrolled before his eyes . Even the secret relations established by the Austrian Ministry at Frankfort with traitorous members of the Provisional Government of Baden are disclosed to him . "You know , dear Lord "Westmoreland , ' * writes die Ministry of the Austrian Archduke , * ' yo > u know , as art old and experienced soldier , that unity in command is the greatest desideratum in the field , and we have ,

      We beg to offer to the Earl of Westmoreland a new occasion for triumphant contradictjioos . Perhaps it may be found more easy to demolish tap-room oracles , than to refute the written words o ' f official documents . -Q

      moreover , in the present case , to take care not to furnish -weapons to the enemy . The anarchical party must not be allowed to proclaim , that the forces moving against Baden came as Prussian troops , or as forces Of what they will term the Prussian Sonderbund i Prussia , in her own well-understood interest ... is much safer if slie only interferes in Baden either in virtue of the stipulations of the old Confederation , or by the sanction of the central poweT ** ( of the Austrian Archduke ) , " which also has been acknowledged by all the German Governments . " At the end of this Austrian ^ missive an appeal- is made to absolutist BentiimeiiTfcs . It is remarked to the Minister of a constitutional power-that Prussia and Austria should unite now that the German Parliament was dissolved .

      ££ TiteJsarl of Westmoreland was indefatigable to receive an Austrian commission , and to run with it to Count ^ Brandenburg was the work of a moment . We have before us another letter of the noble earl , adidressed- to ** my dear General Jochmus . " Our British Ambassador xecouuts agreeably Hie military measures taken by Prussia to crush the popular movements ; , and he gives the result of his efforts to persoade Count Brandenburg in favour of a restoration uniting the absolutist Courts of Viennafi ^ nd Berlin . I-ord Westmoreland did not succeed to the extent of his wishes with the Prussian Cabinet . The Government of Berlin , for all its absolutism * atjll J « ad its pwn ambitious reserves . It

      aspired jfco assert its own ' militaiy and dynastic influence . The British Ambassador exhausted-all his energies to conciliate the ambitions "bf Austria and Prussia-: in this he Acted in accord with the views of the Government of St . Petersburg . In hia letter of Jxtna 1 > , 1849 , tfee Earl of Westmoreland writes to the Minister of the Austrian . Archduke , that " he is sorry to have been enable to prevail upon Count Brandenburg to enter into the Austrian alliance without dynastic reserves . He fears that perhaps the written acts of the Prussian Government may not , haar © been animated with the same friendly spirit . towards Austria in which he ( Count Brandenburg ) entered with me ( Westmoreland ) into the whole subject . "

      One consolation only remained still to the" British Ambassador . It was that the big guns And the musketry would aoon have done for liberty . The annihilation by grapeshot of the German revolutionthat was his end and and aim . He had no doubt that the victory of tlie Prussian and Austrian troops would bring about later the triumph of pure absolutism , and the preponderance of that great barbarian power which was already advancing towards Hungary . ' We know that power ; over

      the corpse of the Hungarian and German revolution it has marched to the assault of Turkey . Rejoicing at the massacre , tlie carnage , the bombardment , executed by the royalist troops on their march against the south-west of Germany , the Earl of Westmoreland writes to the Minister of the Austrian Archduke : — "I hope the successes of the Pkcssian as well as of the Imperial troops have continued to be as satisfactory as those whicli have already been reported here . —Believe me , very sincerely , yours , Westmoreland . "

      The success of tne Prussian and Austrian troops resulted gradually in the complete disavowal of the Prussian Union , the re-establisliment of the Frankfort Di « t , the Austro-Prussian Customs Union , effected under the auspices of the-Gzar , in view of a hostile rencontre of Germany with ) Great Britain . There are people who for some ^ timV were not awake to the import of the Prussian Unjon . The Earl of Westmoreland may boast of not having been one of the dup&s . What is now patent to all the world , the absolutist union of the two German Courts , the British Ambassador strove to effect from tlie very first . If he did not quite succeed in IS 49 , it is because a distinct ambition and a dvnustic rivalry dominating for the moment at Berlin , proved an obstacle to the design .

      Here we are reminded of the words pronounced by Lord John ltussell in the House of Commons lust Tuesday , when he referred with contemptuous triumph to the letter addressed to a morning journal by Lord Westmoreland . "Thus , " said Lord John , " whenever these allegations take BpeciQc shape , it ia obvious that they can be at onee contradicted and disproved in the most decided manner . "

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      MB . H 0 LLI 2 TS WEAVERS When we noticed the circular of the operatives at Preston last week , respecting Mr . Holliu ' s mill , -we had not seen the answer which he put forth , and wlilch is complete . Th <> weaver , E . Mason , terminated her week on the Thursday , and not on the Saturday ; and if she found a considerable piece of cloth in her loom at the commencement , she also left a piece unfinished . Her actual average earnings

      daring the six weeks ending on October the 29 th , were 13 s . 5 £ d . a week . The work at which this sum is earned is not properly speaking skilled labour , and it might be learned by a girl of ordinary capacity in two months . We have also received a circular of the operatives , showing that the prices are lower in Preston than they are elsewhere , a very proper reason , why those -who are capable of obtaining employment elsewhere , should obtain it .

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      BENEFITS OF CONCERT . Tkb Leeds Co-operative UPlour and Provision Society , formerly called the District Flour Mill Society , again illustrates the benefits of concert . Their capital is comparativel y' small ; their operations are nearly co * afioed to flour ; yet in tbe last year they obtained a return of 4387 / . upon 5 . 543 / . During the last halfyear their profits were 2247 / . With a balance ' on hand , or rather an accumulation of capital , originally subscribed in . small sums , and profits upon that , of 6261 / ., at the end of 1852 , they have a balance of 9258 / . at the end of 1853 . They have more business than , they can execute , and are only hindered from extension to meet it by the limited means at their disposal . Let tis hope they will not divide , but accumulate and extend their t » asis of trade . ~

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      ' I ! tnf THIS PEgABTaCJST , , AS ALL OPINIONS , HOWKTSS . EXTBEHX , A » AIXOWID AN WCPEKS 31 ON , TUB EDITOB KEOESSAKtliT HOLDS H 1 HHU JZE 8 PO 2 TS 1 BUS JTOB KOKK J .

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      THE TABLE-TALK OF T&E CZAB . February 4 tlu ( To the Editor of the Leader . ") Sib , —One of your weekly contemporaries has published a conversation of a distinguished gentleman with the Emperor Nicholas . I have no reason to doubt the authenticity of this interview , but I have many things to oppose to the assertion of the Cjzar . I have always regarded the generosity of the Russians , in not taking Constantinople in 1829 , as a sufficiently pleasant faWe . The attitude of the western powers was then decidedly hostile , and the Russian arnny at Adrianople vras reduced to 35 , 000 men . It could scarcely hold the population of that city in check , much less march on the capital . In short , peace was a positive boon to Russia at that time . I can well believe that the French Ambassador wrote a letter to the Czar , expressing his 'joy as a Christian and a soldier * at the ' victory * of Sinope . In 1849 , at Warsaw , another French . Ambassador , and general too , was seen on his knees at the Te Deum in honour of the Russian conquest of Hungary . I do not find it so easy to follow the Czar in his religious theory . It escapes me how questions of that nature can be said to liavo gained importance of late . It rather occurs to me that the hatred of the Christians against the Mussulmans in 1854 may be considered about equal to their hatred of the Jews at the same epoch—a hatred considerably diminished in intensity . There was a time when neither Franco nor Spain would have shown sympathy for the Turk . No doubt the indecision of the | English Cabinet lias increased the probabilities of war , but we must make allowance for fatalities . Had it not l ) een for that indecision tho common enemy of all liberties would not have advanced so far . Qui vivra verra . I ili u , Sir , your obedient servant , Ivan Golovin \ P . S . I cannot help noticing another contradiction into which tho Czar appears to have been betrayed . He says ho was not ready for war , and , in tho same breath that he could havo taken Constantinople when Prince MuuschikolF returned from hia mission .

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      Tiaere is no learned maa but will confess he hath much profited by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then , it "be profitable for him lo read , why should it not , at least , be tolerable for hia adversary to write . — MliTCH

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 4, 1854, page 114, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2024/page/18/