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ainceasihg , provocating action from without . " This influence is attributed to a portion of the Sardinian press , which advocates insurrection in Austrian Italy , and even regicide . " Considering these attacks , directed with unusual violence against a friendly and . neighbouring Power , the Sardinian Government , by remaining perfectly passive , has , at the Tery least , laid itself open to the suspicion of not -having wished to discountenance them . This is not all . Appeals addressed to foreigners , with a view to
induce them to join , subscriptions publicly opened to strengthen the defensive system of Piedmont , / which is not menaced by any Power ; the official reception of pietended deputations from our Italian provinces to express their admiration for a ' policy disapproved by their own Government ; finally , the acceptance of a monument , offered , it is said , by subjects of the Emperor , to commemorate deeds of the Sardinian army , —all these are so many offensive demonstrations , which , however calculated upon the too easy credulity of the public , nevertheless have their serious aspect . "
The Austrian Government does not think it consistent -with its dignity to avail itself of the reference toy the Sardinian Government to the law courts of Piedmont , as a means of obtaining redress from the attacks complained of . The Sardinian revolutionary press , continues Count Buol , strikes at " the very principle of monarchy itself—at the roots of all social order . " The Sardinian Government , therefore , has an equal interest with the Austrian in putting doxn these excesses . At any rate , " the Emperor owes it to Iris own dignity not to leave the Sardinian Government in ignorance of the displeasure which its proceedings generally have caused him . " In his reply ( dated Turin , February 20 tli ) , Count Cavoursays : —
"I shall not undertake to justify the national press against the reproaches of Count Buol . I do not hesitate to admit , not only , as that Minister says , ' confidentially , ' but publicly , honestly , as is my custom , that it often goes to lamentable excesses—that it attacks the person of the Emperor in a manner I openly condemn . But what I think I have a right to maintain is , that the criticism ¦ of the press of the acts of the Austrian Government cannot cause it any serious embarrassment ; and that , as regards the attacks against the Emperor , it would be easy to put
a . stop to them by having recourse to the means supplied by our laws for the suppression of offences of this description . How can the journals which attack the Austrian policy impede the action of the imperial Government , " when their admission into the proviuces subjected to the Empire is rigorously prohibited ? Whatever maybe their influence in the interior of our country —and that influence is very small—tlieir action is null beyond the Tessin . The statement in Count BuoTs despatch of the reception of the Emperor at Milan is an incontestable proof of it . "
articles of the journals opposed to the Government of the King , and contain frequently personal insults and insinuations agsiiast the statesmen of . Piedmont , and create as much disgust as certain Sardinian journals cause to Count Buol .
" But this is not all . Count Buol accuses the Government of the King of remaining indifferent to tlie warm controversy of the newspapers . Truly this cannot be said of Austria . The articles of the official journals , inspired by the Imperial Government , prove that the Vienna Cabinet sanctions and directs the attacks against us . After reading a leader in the official Milan Gazette , the source of ¦ which cannot be doubted , and in which the Ministers of the Kiug are compared to Rol > espierre and Cromwell , we may well be astonished at th « bitterness of feeling which the toleration of the statesmen of Piedmont causes to Count liuol . "
In answer to the charge of tacitly encouraging publications which aim at the very principle of monarchy , Count Cavour observes that , since the 3 ears 1848-9 , when monarchy might liave been somewhat shaken , tliat form of government has been so firml y re-established in Piedmont that the republican party is almost extinct ; as a proof of which he alludes to the natural death , for want of subscribers , of the Italia c Popolo , " the sole organ of republicanism in the periodical press . " 3 Tor- the popular demonstrations in other parts of Italy , Sardinia , cannot hold herself responsible . She called the attention of the Congress of Paris to the condition of Italy ; but Austria herself , by her recent concessions , has admitted that that condition required some alterations . ¦
" As regards the monument spoken of as to be erected at Turin in honour of the Sardinian army , I may first observe that the Government of the Xing lias nothing whatever to do with it . Some persons having inquired of it whether it would accept a gift from the Milanese , it replied by a distinct and positive refusal . The offer made to the Municipal Council was accepted . The Government could not , and ought not , to have prevented it , as it was made unconditionally and anonymously . But if the Itoyal Government could not prevent the gift of a sum of money to erect a statue in honour of the Sardinian army , meant especially to record the expedition to the Crimea , it will utt allow any feature in this monument to hurt the suscepi ibility of Austria or her army , nor an inscription to imply that it was erected by Austrian subjects . This assurance appears to me of a nature fully to satisfy any complaints of Count Buol on the subject .
" Having replied to the reproaches of the Imperial Minister of Foreign -Affairs , I might , in my turn , enumerate the annoyances caused to us by tha Austrian Government , from the sequestration of the property of the Lombards and Venetians who bad legally become Sardinian subjects , to the violent and unwarranted expulsion from Milan of one of the most distinguished members of the Sennte of . the ; kingdom . But I prefer not following in the track of complaints of tlie Minister of Foreign Aflairs of Austria , so as to avoid , envenoming a dispute which we do not think can prove advantageous to either country . "
^ The writer proceeds to observe that " free discussion of the acts of the Government is one of the essential principles of the present political system of Piedmont ; " that the English papers had attacked the Emperor of Austria with as much bitterness as any of the Sardinian journals ; but that Austria , nevertheless , had sought a friendly alliance with England " when it suited her interests . " The Sardinian laws against offences of the press , says the Count , nre more severo ami certain than in any other country where freedom of discussion is allowed ; and all foreign Governments which have made use of the legal moans for the punishment of attacks against them have found the efficacy of those means . " Emperor of Austria had obtained a conviction against the Espero for an attack on him , but was dissatisfied with the smallness of the penalty .
" In listening to the bitter complaints of Count Buol against the Sardinian press , it might be supposed tliut tho Austrian press is very reserved as regards foreign sovereigns and governments , that it never oxceetls the limits traced by moderation and politeness . This , however , is not the case ; far from it . The Austrian journals , more especially those published in Lombard y , arc full of insults and attacks upon the Sardinian Government , and they do not spure tho person of the King and the member .- * of his august family . I could easily support this assertion by numerous proofs ; but I ahull confine myself to calling your attention to the language of tho journals of Milan And of Verona respecting an august princess , a near relation of the Kmperor of Austria—language which , if I am rightly informe d , led to energetic remonstrances at Vicuna from the Court of Saxony .
^ " Ii' < Jount Buol is justified in complaining of tho violence of a perfectly frets press , which is not admitted into tho Austrian States , what inut > t be said respecting a pros . * submitted to a sovero censorship , which Kp-ariw neither the institutions nor this political inun of our country , and which circulates freely among ua ? In riedmo-nt , if the attack is free , so is alao tlie duIVucc . Austria , attacked by a portion of tho press , i . s defended not only by the journals which conic to us from the other Bide of the Toss-in , but jiIso by a certain number of journuLs published in the States oC the Kiny . In Umnbard y , on the contrary , only tho attack U allowed ; tho journals there reyrouueo with impunity the mudt odious
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CONTINENTAL HOT-ES . FUANCK . . ALEXANnnic Dumas and Victor iluao . —M . Aloxandre Dumas lias addressed the following letter to the Director of the Thdiitre-Fran ^ us : " Sir , — ! learn that the " Courrl'ir" of the Fiyarn , signed Suzanne , is from the pen of Mdlle . Augustine Brohan . I have such a friendship , and such an admiration for AL Victor Hugo , Unit I desire that a person "who attacks him In his oxile should no longer act in any play of niiuo . I shall ,
therefore , be obliged by your -withdrawing from the repertoire Mudeinoitidlc ck IMh Isle , and the Demoiselles < la Saint Cijr , unless you prefer to place in other hands the characters in theso plays represented by Mdllc . Brohan . Accept , etc . — A . Duji . w . "— " This letter , " says the Belgian Xationnl ( and we heartily concur wiLli our _ contemporary ) , " will remain us a " noblu protest against the insults of a hearties .- ) woman , who lias proved herself incapable of respecting geniu . s , or fame , or misfortune , or exile . "
Sir Morton Peto , has received mi invitation from tho Emperor of the French to proceed ( o Algeria with tho view to tho construction of n railway in that colony . Sir Morton kift Sull ' olk last Saturday afternoon . The Hue to which attention i . i to be devoted , in tho firsl , in-Ktmice will commence at ( Jonstantinc , 0110 of the principal towns in the . colony , and connect that place with another important point . The length of lino at present projected id about one hundred miles . tm . M- i-iivoi . -i , chief of the French . mission !) in China , lias arrived in Paris , in order to give tin ; Emperor full information witSt respect to tliu position of the ( Jutholien in th « Celestiul lOmpire . A young ( Jorstioaji hns been arrested in tho church of St . Charles , whore ho hud concealed hiiuseli ' , und broken open tin ; poor-boxe ? .
hand ; had made all the arrangements for hanging himself , and had finally performed that exploit in the recesses of the chimney , first putting the hammer hi his pocket . The rope was cut , and the corpse , horribly decomposed , tumbled dowji into the grate . The tale is not unlike that of a celebrated , egotist of the ancient world , who , to make it supposod that ] io had been snatched up bodily to heaven , jumped down Mount Etna , and succeeded in his design till the treacherous mountain disgorged one . of his brazen sandals : a story which makes us wish that King Bomba would go and do likewise .
, speaking terms with the devil—quarrelled with his wife , ; and threatened to kill himself in such a way that his : body should not be fo und , and , consequently , that she should be unable to marry again . The wife went to bed , leaving the husband sitting by the fire . Next morning he had vanished . All the doors and windows were shut and bolted on the inside , and the most rigorous search failed to reveal the body of tho shepherd alive or dead . Several weeks passed bv , and one < lay the widow lit a fire in a back kitchen , which was seldom used . The chimney smoked very much ; so a climbing- boy was sent up to svreap it . In a very little time , the hoy came back , half fainting with , terror , and declared that there was a man in-the chimney . Such was indeed the case . -Martin . ' hid climbed Tip with a rope , a nail . an 4 a hammer in hia
The Leader has been again seized in France , together with various other English journals , including the Tory Morning Herald and John Bull . .. . '' " AUSTRIA . The Emperor , last Saturday , appointed the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Governor-General of the Lonibardo-Venetian kingdom . Count G ' yulai is appointed Commander of the Austrian army in Italy . ThaTrankfoj'l Journal states that a priest would not permit the body of an Austrian staff officer—an Englishman , of the Protestant faith—to be buried in a family vault which he had bad constructed in a churchyard , near some property he possessed in Moravia . As the diocesan , of Briinn fully approved the conduct of the priest , the- ' remains , of the officer were interred outside the churchyard .
"A new and very important reduction in the Austrian army , " says a letter from Vieuna , "is about to take place . It is said that it will be of 490 companies for the whole army , or nearly 50 , 000 men ; and that there will also be reductions in the rifles , engineers , and cavalry . "
1 TAIA " . The Commander Carafta , Neapolitan Minister for Foreign Affairs , has addressed a circular to all the diplomatic agents of the King of the Two Sicilies in foreign countries , diroct ing them to contrudict , by all moans iu their , power , the fact , falsely announced in foreign journals , that torture is . inflicted on political prisoners con lined' in the prisons of Naples . Sigr . or Carafl ' ii , in his circular , appeals to tho Ministers of foreign Towers residing at K aplos-to prove thu falsehood of those reports . A monk , who hud "been degraded for some ouences , has sent several anonymous letters to the-Archbishop of Genoa . Ho lias been arrested , and the fue-ta wero at lirat exaggerated into a . report that the Archbishop had been murdtii'Atl .
The Minister of "War at Turin haa oiYercd a reward of 400 / . to tho inventor of the best muskut for infantry soldiers . Foreigners arc allowed to compote . The amnesty granted by the Emperor of Austria to his : Italian subjects lias been ' regarded at Koine with great disfavour . Count Colloredo , the Austrian Minister at tho l ' ap . il city , complained to Cardinal Autonelli that the amnesty hud not been published in tho Itoinan oHieial journal . The Cardinal at once caused its insertion ; but it was unaccompanied by a word of comment . It in said that Cardinal Antonulli i . s not plo . isetl with the appointment of Cardinal Morlot to the Archbishopric of Paiin . 'rim riedmoiifcse liavc been enjoying the Carnival with an overJlow of l ' nu and animal spirits not common ainoiur those northern Italians .
A very unpleasant Honsutum has been created in the city of . Naples by the suicide of Captain Uadinj , of tho artillery . It appears , that , a short time before , his Majesty had given a receipt for the manufacture of signal rockets to iSudini ; tli at theso rockets had exploded unexpectedly in the fortress nenr Portiei ; and that Colonel Agostinia , . secretary of thu King , had drawn up an unfavourable report , stating that they had been improperly made . The King " wo , s lately at Capua , and received M . Uaditii with unusual affability , but after tho interview AgoBtinis told him that this treatment of him would bo very shortly changed . Uadini went home and shot himsolf , leaving a letter for tho King , no says the report , and another for his family . — - Daily News Nu / ila Correspondent . The Queen of Naples gave birth , lust Saturday , to a priiiei ; . her ninth ehilil .
Tliu ( . ' uttolico ol"G <; noa publishes a letter from Naples of tho 21 tit ult ., mentioning another explosion which took plfico three ilayri before in the fort of Vi ^ liuim , on tlic sea-side between Nnple ; j and Tortiei , but cuiiflod little Uainage . Tho lottor udds , that upon exaininution
A Htrunyru «( , ory i . s told in tho I'Vench pnjjora . Some Uino ago , a ahoplierd , namod Martin , in ona of tho rurul duitriola—a man of a sullon nature , reputed to be on
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Leader (1850-1860), March 7, 1857, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2183/page/7/
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