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scamp ostentatiously thanked God for an arrest which would moke bis scientific discovery known to the * world . The barrister retained for his defence has ) -written to the papers to vindicate his client from the charge of fraud . His invention is certainly very ingenious ; the imitation of silver is perfect . Michel ( so he is named ) is at present detained at Mazas awaiting his trial which will bring matters fully to light , both in regard to the invention and its author . Meanwhile opininion is divided , whether to consider him a mud man , a rogue , or a man of genius ; - it may be that he is a little of all . There is some talk in the scientific world here , of the new planet discovered by the German astronomer , M . Luther , on the 22 nd of last month . It has received the name of Mnemosyne .
The Observatdre of Paris hns been publishing a series of papers on the frequent appearances of Aurora Borealis which have taken place of late ; some think that these predict a hard winter . £ , amartine ' s "Entretiens " are still continued . Commercially considered , this work has not met with success , although very much admired . The poet's affairs are not yet satisfactorily arranged , the subscription not having come up to the expected mark . People wonder that he does not try his hand at a poem , as there is little doubt that anything from the pen which wrote " Jocelyne , " would meet with a large meed of public favour . In his " Entretiens /' Lamarfcine has drawn a sort of parallel between M . Thiers and the Emperor , prudently concealing the latterV name . He rather happily describes the character of M . Thiers' genius as a landscape without sky !
As I am on the subject of literature , I may mention that Mr . Bianchard jerrold has come to France on a visit , having for its principal object the investigation of the state of labour , chiefly in reference to the Institution , known as " Oonseils de Prud'hommes . " Mr . B . Jerrold , like his late father , takes great interest , in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the working classes , and the wide circulation of the newspaper he directs will insure attention to his views * The Patrie the other day notices a translation . of Mr . Dickens' " Pickwick Papers , " which has lately appeared , and has been very well received . Mr . Dickens' writings are much admired here , when they appear in a French dress .
The son of the Hon . Mr . and Mrs . Norton , died here a few days ago . He was in his thirtieth year , and for some time past had been attached to the service , of the British legation . The Uriivers lias received a government warning for a petulant article upon the China question . M . "Vexullot ' s organ has been warned several times of late , and this may be taken as another indication on the part of the Government to break with the Ultramontane faction . Considering the services they have rendered to Louis Napoleon , both on his election as President of the Republic in 1848 , and , subsequently , after the coup d ' etat in 1851 , the Ultramontanes may , with some show of reason
reproach him with ingratitude . Every day , almost , in the reign of the would-be modern Augustus , brings to light some new project for the improvement of Paris . The Jardin de Plantes is going to be considerably enlarged by the annexation of the vast space now known as the Entrepot de Vins . The chestnut trees which adorned the latter place are being conveyed to the Champs Elysees , where they will bexeplanted , and ¦ will , by the luxuriance of their verdure , contribute a fresh beauty to that delightful promenade . A new edifice , destined for the Prefecture of Police , is also to be constructed on the western side of the Palais de Justice . /
The Sardinian minister for foreign affairs , General Dabormida , arrived , in Paris on Sunday morning , and was received in audience by the Emperor at St . Cloud on Monday . It is said that the purport of his Excellency ' s mission regards , principally , the question of the debt owed by Xfombardy to Austria . It is also conjectured that the Sardinian envoy will . plead that his sovereign may be allowed' to occupy the duchies with his troops . The regency of Prince Carignan is , probably , the most important question which will be discussed between the Emperor and Victor Emmanuel ' s
emissary . * ptf judicial inquiry into the abduction of Mr . HuaV child has terminated in the commitment for trial of the young girl who was arrested at Orleans . Aa for the girl's mother there is no case against her , and'accordingly she " has been discharged , ' Mbriday ' s Wqnim * qbritjains adeoree regulating th ^ MrstittitJlQtt ' oftlie By ridicoie of Agents de Change WW # "'likely ttt \ gTve patiJBfactltao tyie public at ikr ^ eViatid thc ftrewaenters of the 'BpNWfg in par - * H 5 Cf tfrfAMfiyf xio ' XmSp'Wict * ca ' n MWe M $$ at' ifi&tw of which the Bowse is ^ ISMMwWpi , Wf , '« # ' ' sjAAtfiWy . # bt the t'rti ) \\ ipOiiV . wJi'iv ji \« . iVf <* .. ' i Linn ¦ ? ' ¦ > ¦ : «¦' . ¦ . . ¦ ' >
The Count of Montemolin , the pretender to the throng of Spain , has arrived . in Paris , and taken apartments in the Hotel du Rhin , occupying , it is saidi the identical room formerly tenated by Louis Napoleon when he was a deputy in . the National Assembl y *
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GERMANY . Bkemen , October 19 th , 1859 . The following is the reply made by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg , through the medium of his minister , to tlie note of Count Rechberg . After some introductory remarks bearing upon the receipt and contents of the Austrian note , the Duke proceeds to say , that the observations as uttered by him , as correctly reported in the public journals , bore reference particularly to the address presented to him by the City of Gotha , and when Count Rechberg complains that in that address Austria was placed in
a line with Denmark and the Netherlands , with regard to the Germany of the future , he can hardly imagine that the Duke adopts such an acceptation , for the Count is well aware that in the great struggle from which Austria has just issued , the Duke gave the most convincing proofs that nothing could be further from his thoughts than to place Austria in a line with Denmark and the Netherlands . If the Duke was ready to draw the sword for those territories of Austria not jguaranteed by the Germanic Confederation , how could he entertain the wish to exclude from Germany the German territories of the Austrian empire ?
Count Rechberg states that , as the Duke will not conceal from himself , the aim of this newly-formed so-called national party is the complete negation of the relations existing between his Imperial Majesty and the other Princes of Germany , including His Highness the Duke , and that consequently any encouragement or countenance shown to that party was equivalent to a separation from the Confederation ; and upon this a protest is based against the Duke's expression of opinion . The position and power of Austria lends weight to the charges made by the Imperial minister , that it is the desire of the Duke to break a compact , which is the protecting bond that at present unites ' princes and people of Germany , and it is , therefore , incumbent on theparj ^ of the Duke to protest most emphatically against an interpretation , which in a formal , as well as material ,, point of view , is in total opposition to his
sentiments . , ' For whatever may be the aim of the party alluded to by Count Rechberg , not only have the subjects of the Duke , but . the Duke himself , the right to claim that when they express the wish or the hope that the public law of Germany should . undergo an alteration , no one should assume that they intend or desire the alteration to be effected otherwise than by the voluntary concurrence of all the high parties concerned . I -will take the liberty to pause in my transr lation , at this paragraph , which has cost me an hour in the endeavour to discover its real meaning , and I am almost ashamed to say , I
am still unsuccessful . To comprehend my difficulty your readers must have the Original before them , and i > e fully alive to the past history of tlie existing German Princes . The Duke of Saxe Coburg is universally believed to be an honest and patriotic man . I will not , I dare not attempt to gainsay this general belief ; but I , for my own part , would never put political faith in the man who could calmly sit down and compose a paragraph like the foregoing . At first sight it appears to convey an acknowledgment of an inherent rig ht on the part of the people to have a voice in the making or uttering of the laws of the land , out a close study shows that nothing more is said than that they have a right to claim a
correct interpretation of their sentiments expressed in a petition . Tlie Duke , through his minister Seebach , proceeds to say , that no one can be more firmly convinced than he that such changes without this voluntary concurrence would only lead to the destruction of the public welfare , and present no guarantee for « i lasting benefit from such changes . 'Die Imperial Government itself within these lost ten years has by formal notes invited tlie German Governments , to take a part in a revision of the Federal compact , and laid before them plans of an alteration which contained very considerable
curtailments of the privileges guaranteed to them by the act of the Congress of Vienna ; and had it been asserted that Austria had desired to carry out these alterations without the consent of the States concemod , she would be justified in declaring such an interpretation as incorrect , The Duke is entitled to a similar rights B& 9 Highness may likewise claim to bo judged l > y hia own words * He greeted with joyful hope " the desiip fyv national strength and greatness , of power abroad , and . nni . Jj y aft homo , " IHijr i ^ ghnesp declared that M be the wavs what ,
they might by which this desired goal was sought to be attained , and take what form soever the future Constitution of Germany might , one thing was certain , that nothing really beneficial could be obtained unless Princes as well as States were ready to make sacrifices for the sake of the whole . " ' These words not only explicitly acknowled ge the free concurrence of the German Princes , but also exclude the assumption that the national strengthening of Germany can be attained but in one way They admit simply that the whole demands a sacrifice from the parts / And are these ideas really opposed to tliose of the Imperial Government ?
Austria has but lately experienced that even in her position as a non-German power she meets with the ardent support of the people of Germany ; that those very political parties , from whom the reverse has ever been anticipated , have exerted themselves with ardour to support the German Imperial State against every foreign aggression . Should not , then , this self-same experience have shown that the forms in which the direction of affairs of the Confederation is enveloped tend rather to cripple every national progress ( Aufschivung , soaring ) than to promote it ? and that if any German State has cause to wish for forms in which the patriotic instincts of the nation to make its influence itelfc
abroad may find full development , this State is the Imperial State itself , whose integrity is bound up with the most precious interests of Germany ? Perhaps it is worth the consideration of the Imperial Government that beyond Austria and Prussia there live eighteen millions of Germans , who are not alone dissatisfied with the German Federal Compact , but view it with sorrow , because it deprives the nation of the esteem due to it abroad , and prevents effective assistance being rendered to any of its members that may be attacked . The
Imperial Government will not conceal from itself that this state of feeling , if it could be kept down till 1848 , and if mixed , as it was , with extraneous elements , it could be suppressed in 1849 , is now of an intensity that renders it well-deserving , of the attention of the Governments , and that not the negation of this , hitherto legal agitation , but the acknowledgment and guidance of the same by the Governments can make it conducive to the welfare of every member of the Confederation , and , not the least , to that of the Imperial State .
The Duke would consider any change made without due regard to the interests of Austria as deplorable . Attached to the person of the Emperor by proofs of his gracious goodwill and by the possessions of his House closely connected with the fortunes of the Austrian Monarchy , his Highness would have many reasons to desire the greatness and power of Austria did not reasons of patriotic interest speak more eloquently . The mere maintenance of the existing state of things is hardly possible for any considerable length of time ; and the Duke hopes that the Federal Constitution will soon be able to offer a basis , upon which an arrangement in accordance with the interests of Austria and the strengthening and defending of the whole of Germany be made . #
may ... The amalgamation of the different parties which have hitherto been disputing upon constitutional doctrines , an amalgamation proceeding from the ardent desire to bring effective help to Austria , ought rather to have the encouragement than the opposition of Austria , At lenst , this is the view winch his Highness takes of the present movement tor unity and reform , and he thinks that , ns a German Prince , he is bound , in this sense , to give it liis
countenance . „ ,, In conclusion , he requests Count Rechberg to bring this reply to the knowledge of his Majesty the Emperor . , . This , I am inclined to think , is the vory last dying speech and confession of the unity ana refown question , for the Governments of Hanover and Hessia appear now to have given car to othor counsels , nna are letting the prosecutions instituted drop . J . ms late agitation , at the commencement , borq u Iook oi 1848 about it- 5 and although there was no real stamina in the movement , txn aceidont might imvo Kiven it a force and vivacity which might have lea aimaun
to a complete revolution . Ifc is somewhat to give the English reader a strictly correct view oi the political movements in this country , for l » ow 0 V . * mattcr-cf-faet and dull the description may be , tlio word * \ . i . l convoy more animation tlinn tlie tiung itself I ) o . sso 8 ses . The agitation which baa been liuejy going on confined itself in fact to the newspapers . T here were no meetings , discussions , nor parties . In England the movement would , have been moonshine , but here it was , nevertheless , a real
movement . , .,-, The plan of a lottery to defray tho Schiller *© btivttl has been nuide public . Th « I > ltt » I 8 " : , ?'' Every ticket to coat one dollar , arid . The » urohaaer of ton tickets to receive ono grutis . fa-^ jr er ^ ^ et # jplp « PjisP ? 4 tl * . EW prize to
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liaq | HE LEADER , [ Np . 50 Q . Oct . 22 , 1859 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 22, 1859, page 1180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2317/page/16/
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