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      "Christian man by the news of the massacre of Sterngia , Where the unarmed inhabitants of that unhappy city were slaughtered and pillaged by a tmnd of mercenary soldiers under the direction of a Cardinal of Holy Church ? These are the questions -vliich the Marquis pertinently asks ; and then ne refers to the 9 th chapter of St . Luke , where we aead Jesus Christ ' s reproof to the disciples who -wanted to bring down fire upon the city of Samaria , jfrom which they had been expelled ; and he bitterly Wgests that the Papal Court may as well put that -narrative in the index of prohibited books , conveying as it does , the severest censure on their recent

      The Marquis goes on to observe that the historical events which led to the acquisition of temporal soyeaetgntyiri Central Italy by the Popes are now pretty severally studied and understood . The apocryphal donation of Constantine , the forged decretals of Isidore the embezzlemen t of Exarvhate of Ravenna , ^ he ' deception practised upon King feprn , by -Writing to him a letter alleged to be dictated by bt . 3 Pteter himself , the manifold acts of trickery and . duplicity by which subsequent Popes contrived to augment their worldly possessions down to the annexation of the Legations by Alexander Borgia—< these and other such facts have become fair subjects « f public criticismand as the great body of the

      , Catholic faithful are no longer to be debarred from secular instruction , they cannot be prevented from -drawing their own conclusions adverse to the falsely alleged divine origin of the Roman monarchy . If ¦ tfcese utenable pretensions are persisted in , the consequences will be most injurious to the Catholic xeligion . Firmly convinced that it is God ' s will to maintain the perpetuity of His Church , the writer Aunibly trusts and prays that its chief minister may yet be guided to the adoption of a wiser and more ^ equitable course . Woe to him , an d woe to his agents amd advisers , if they attempt to withstand the rising tide which is now overflowing every province of

      Ealy . That God who strengthened the hands of His chosen nation of old to defend their own independence against foreign aggression , will now -aad the Italians in a similar struggle . Let the servants of the sanctuary desist therefore from opposing and maligning that holy cause . The church « an gain nothing by force , without losing much more in the destruction of the faith ; and its political victories are religious defeats . " So long as the Pope , unlike Christ , who dwelt with the people , holds aloof from the people—so long as , ensconced behind the cannon of St . Angelo , and in the command of a host of black soldiers , not less

      hos-JHe to Italy than those of the Austrian army are , he ¦ contends against the people , who are animated by Hie noblest and most ardent feelings which can inspire the human heart—so . long he is sure to have afar Jois enemies all those who can comprehend whatever is grand and generous in the love of our native ^ country ; and if the issue of this great controversy . { Should turn upon the inevitable exclusion of the one jot the other , it will soon be decided by an unanimous -vote . "

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      that would , agree with common eense j and a translation that would give a straightforward and honest meaning is entirely out of the question . The German journals have discovered from it that' Prussia is Killing to restore the Constitution of 1831 , and declares her readiness boldly in this document . But Although the document does indeed , at the conoluulaii , and most prominently , declare that " the above considerations nave become the guiding stars of the Ztegttsian Government , which has convinced itself | h * t the restoration of the Constitution of 1831 is juft ^ In ft [ Federal point of view , and is demanded * ua ion practical grounds , as well as by a sense of *! 5 Jwj »/ X fln ^ i however , among the considerations ¦*»| W eA to , the following , hidden in a rigmarole of ;? 2 H ^* £ 7 ^ ' ; pnftil thq www of the Constitution of JWiV « rhtah are effectively in opposition to the

      Federal compact must be , as a matter o £ course , struck put ( ausgemerzf ) " Now if all be . struck out , what may be considered by the Biet in opposition to the Federal compact , it is diffir cult ' for a person of moderate capacity to guess what will be gained by the Hessians . It is pretty clear that revolution and bloodshed will be the Jlnale of all this . The rulers will have it so . One would suppose that with such a gloomy future before them , when their whole system depends upon the life of one man , the princes would noAv endeavour to gain the love and esteem of their people . But they seem to be all struck with political blindness . Chamber of

      On the 5 th inst . the Hessian Deputies almost unanimously voted for an address to be presented to the Elector ^ praying for the restoration of the Constitution of 1831 . The address met with the same reception as did the petition of the town Council , presented , or rather that , was attempted to be presented , some weeks ago . The Elector refused to receive it . The entire German people feel the deepest sympathy with the Hessians , and , wherever they dare , are ready enough to show it . The territorial Assembly of Frankfort has voted that its representative at the Federal Diet be instructed to give Ms vote for the immediate and complete restoration of the Constitution of 1831 . Austria is the author of the proposal mentioned in my last . letter of making a patchwork constitution from the Old and present constitution , or rather jumble of despotic edicts .

      At the meeting of the Federal Diet oh the 3 rd inst . the Committee on Military Affairs reported in favour of the revision of the Federal vrar compact proposed by the Middle States . On the same day the representative of Baden , in the name , of his Government , proposed the establishment of a permanent Federal Tribunal , to consist of nine members . It was referred to a Copmittee . We hear absolutely nothing of the National Verein at Coburg . The Schiller Festival has completely swallowed it up just as the former did the ¦ war-against-France agitation . The festival which comes off to-morrow naturally absorbs

      the attention of the entire public , and fills the columns of the journals . The preparations are going on with a briskness unusual in this country , and everything promises well except the weather . The Hamburgers intend to have their celebration on the 13 th , it is said . The Berliners have got over some of their difficulties with the town and police authorities , and , although the Government has forbidden any illumination of public buildings , and the making of bonfires , permission and funds have been granted for the erection of a statue to the poet . It is not my province to criticise , but I should say a good poet requires no statue—his memory lives in lis works .

      As a counterblast to the Eisenach programme , 220 citizens and inhabitants of the town of Emden have issued the following expression of their views and sentiments : — - " The undersigned citizens of the town of Emden consider it a public duty to make known their sentiments as opposed to the desire enunciated by several towns for a reform of the Federal Diet and Constitution of Germany . They cannot but acknowledge , with grateful thanks , the generous endeavours of his Majesty the King of Hanover , to promote the interests of Germany in general . Above all , they remember , with gratitude , his exertions to preserve the German fleet , and his efforts in protecting jtfie rights of the people of the Duchies

      which are subject to the Danish sceptre , as likewise his patriotic wish to see Germany place herself in a position of defence against the chance of aggression from abroad during the lato war . They feel it ajso their duty to proclaim their gratitude for the great and manifold improvements made by his Majesty in the means of communication , for the facilitating of trade and navigation , conducive not only to the welfare of this country but of Germany in general . Truly appreciating those efforts , they entertain an unwavering confidence in the wisdom and paternal government of their monarch , and fervently pray that he may continue to protect and further the weal of the country with his prerogatives undiminished . " This address has , indeed , a

      suspicious look about it , and some journals go so far as to assert that it has been got up by the officials . The resolute resistance of the national and Protestant Hungarians is causing more and more trouble to Austrian statesmen . The deputation , or , at all events , a body of Pesth students did really go to Vienna to seek an audience of tho Emperor , although some papers reported that the professors had succeeded in persuading them to abstain from their expressed determination . The doputation , however , did not obtain an audience , and It is stated by the Official Press that a " disciplinary inquiry" will bo instituted against them for having 1 assumed the title of " deputation without authority . " It is hardly credible thaOuoh petty and tyrannical measures can lave been adopted with the knowledge of the Emperor . The Hungarians have of course the

      sympathy of the German people , who do not feel in th least offended or hurt at the Hungarian young men entering the lists for their native tongue against the Germaa . They are acting only as the people of Holstedn and Schleswig are acting against the Danes . The Princess of Prussia has remitted eighty ducats to the minister , Von Auerswald , to be divided between the Schiller foundation in Dresden and the Schiller monument in Berlin .

      GERMANY , Hanover , Not . 9 th , 1859 . 'Tjee Hamburger Nachrixshten publishes the memoir , -as it is termed , of the Prussian Government , with ^ reference to the affair of the Hessian Constitution . It occupies three broad columns of close print , and 3 iaa evidently been written by some gentleman who is regarded by his employers as an adept in throwing literary dust . The journals , or some of them , iar « in raptures at the splendid style of the docu-, snent , which , of course , precludes all criticism on the 3 » art of a •* ' non-German . " But if I might venture aunopinidn , I should say it was about as Jesuitical « t * d trashy a document as ever issued from a ifihenuan diplomatic source . It tells us of the Constitution as it was , as it was not , as it might be ,, ought to be , and should be , if Prussia could have her way . It is impossible to make a summary of it

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      "Tick Puke Well of English CNDEFitED . " We have had some very . amusing native letters shown to us ( says a Madras journal ) , one of which is such a clever specimen of what a native can accomplish with a dictionary and a little knowledge of English , that I subjoin a verbatim copy . It is intended to convey information to the executiv e engineer that the . post- office window was blown out by the storm : —' ¦ ' Honoured Master , —Yesterday evening came one great hurricane , valve of window aperture not fasten , first make great trepidation and palpitation , then precipitate into precinct . God grant master more long life and more great post , — I remain , honoured master ' s most obedient servant , Pcrvoe of English Department . "

      liATBST American Hoax . ;—A New York letter has the following : •—To morrow an aeronaut—a professor of course—will begin the inflation of a great balloon in New York , destined to attempt the Atlantic . The balloon itself is to be of some incredible size . Thebasket is to be of some six or eight feet diameter , with an aperture at the bottom , through which , in ease of need , the party may descend to a boat that is to be carried suspended beneath . This latter is to be 30 or 40 feet in length , equipped with sidewheels , to be driven by a caloric engine . Such is the programme , and if by any unexpected chance the balloon reaches you before , this letter I shall nevertheless have the merit of chronicling the attempt .

      Rowing ax the Antipodes . — A challenge has been forwarded to England by the friends of Mr . R . Green , the champion sculler of Port Jackson , to pull any mat ) in England for from . £ 500 to £ 1 , 000 , tJie acceptor to receive . £ 125 for his expenses in coming out . A gentleman in London has been instructed to make the necessary arrangements . Crystal Palace at Amsterdam . —This building is to be completed and opened in the year 1861 ; it will be 400 feet in length by 200 feet in width , and the central dome will be 200 feet , in height , at the junction of which will be a transept and the nave of the edifice . The structure is to be of iron and glass , but as Holland is not famous for iron it will be supplied bjr England . The contractors are Messrs . Van Heel and Holtzman . of Amsterdam , and Messrs .

      Smith and Sons , of Birmingham . The engineer Mr . C . M . Moorish ; the erection of the palace is intrusted to the superintendence of Mr . J . P . Ashton , whose practice and experience at the Hyde Park Crystal Palace of 1851 , as well as at the Crystal Palageat Sydenham , is well known . The design of the palace is by Van C . Oudshoom . Ausxjrian Bujle in Italy .- —A Venetian friend has just sent me a letter ( says a Tuscan correspondent ) , in which he draws such a picture of his unfortunate country that I could scarcely bclievo it ,

      had not the same statements reached me from other well-informed quarters . The Austrian generals govern now more cruelly than they did before the last war . Wholesale arrests have been of late made in the province of Mantua . All the members ot tne town council of Marraizolo and Ostiglia wore imprisoned * he same night . At Venice , at Verona , ao Padua , l ) rute fjorco is triumphant . Poor peasants who are unable to pay the henvy taxos are thrown into dark , dungeons , Commorce is entirely gone . Pauperism has ranched such oroportions that sniau ot

      landownors are obliged to give up the cultivatjon fields wliose crops are not sufficient to pay y ™ taxes . An Englishman can scarcely believe time whilst the land revenue of the Venetian province did not amount to 44 , 4 i ) 5 , 685 f , before the diseiiso ot the grapes and silkworms had loworecl it to the nan of that sum , this year the landowners of thoso provinces wore obliged to pay an onorpious sum m GXtP »" ordinary taxes . The emigration from the city or Mantua is beginning to alarm the Austrian Uovoi-nment . The sight is piteous . At the beginning <» the war the town was * registered as contimiing 34 , 000 inhabitants . At the preoent moment it uoe » not reckon more than 12 . 000 . Every house , Wltnaii

      it contain , is to be sola for what It will fetch , nnu n « bidder , whether Austrian or Italian , is to bo louna At Venlc © the forced taxation has mob with the mow dogged opposition , and the houses are soizou ay wv Govornnoout and sold to pay the impost . JNo *« " « " dare bid tor the property thus sold , and gruduiuy the " old palaces , with all tholr glorious souvenirs , are passing into the iron hand of the Teuton .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 12, 1859, page 1246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2320/page/10/