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    OUR VOLUNTEERS IN ITALY.

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    HAJRD LINES IN THE CITY.

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    ful for the progress to indulge in harsh conjectures as its cause- The British Government has emphatically promuU gated opinions ? that strike at the root of the existing state of Europe , and all that is bad in the treaties of 1815 . The German people have as much right to judge their own interests as the Italians , and if they should decide upon reducing their Royal establishment , and dismissing a few dozen of their little potentates , with or without a month ' s wages or warning , England is bound to congratulate , and not to complain . Huno-ary cannot lose her privileges on account of her latitude , and ft would be monstrous for the Minister who applauded the rising of the Italians , to discountenance an insurrection of the Magyars in favour of their historical rights .

    The last despatch uiiist tend to diminish the chances of quarrel with France , because , more definitively than any other State paper , it takes England away from the meshes of absoutist opposition to the great country of revolutionary change . With a liberal foreign policy , England can afford to the Empire no convenient pretext for quarrel , and it will not answer Louis Napoleon ' s purpose to appear less in favour of the nationalities than the Cabinet of Great Britain .

    If Whig policy were founded upon any philosophy bette r than expediency , Lord John Russell must see that it is our interest to promote , by moral means / all the necessary change in Europe , and to obtain the speediest settlement of all those car dinal questions which wilt reproduce revolution and war unt " they are finally solved . The times are favourable for succes in this endeavour if England and France can manage to coincide , as those Powers which are the chief obstacles to progress , are either crippled in resources or too full of internal difficulties to make a dangerous resistance .

    The Constitution diddles in Austria have completely failed in their object . Instead of internal peace , they have excited a commotion in all the provinces of the Empire . The Hungarian is naturally indignant becaxise offered much less than his legal claims ; while the inhabitants of Bohemia , G-alicia , and the Tyrol , feel insulted by the mockery of liberty which their Emperor dangles before their eyes . Will the Whigs still try to make Austria a counterpoise to France , . and to this chimera sacrifice , so far as they are able , the happiness of

    millions , and the good name of England ? Or will they learn to see that a free itnited Italy , a free Hungary , and a united Germany , would offer elements of permanent stability which no patched-up Austria can afford ? The overweening greatness of France cannot come to pass without an overweening folly of England in refusing to . be the champion and advocate of new ideas . The world will change , and ought to change ; and our own country should always be foremost in the beneficent race .

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    A FjEW numbers back we gave a word of censure to amateur dawdlers and hangers-on about the great scenes of moral action or physical triumph in the" various fields wh ^ re such struggles successively occur ; we now wish to express our gratitude to men of a different order , who have gone forth to act and not to criticise ; to make conquests and not tp take surveys , or bring home dinner and drawing-room gossip about how they have observed , meddled , and

    " Mumbled the game at whicn they would not bite . " Strictly " regular" proceedings are rare now-a-days in national acts and relations , and glorious " irregularities" seem to afford the highest themes of praise . As there are said to be laws through which a four-horse coach can drive , so there are treaties through whioh a regiment of cavalry can canter ; state parchments are turned into drum-heads ; and protocols have as many holes drilled in them as a straw target would have at Hythe or Vincennes ; all to prove one very old proposition- — that the rights of people to govern themaelvqs justly and reasonably , are prior to any rights of monarohs who may wish to govern them otherwise . Under a banner with this respectable

    blazon have our countrymen been fighting in the fields of Naples ; and however great their " irregularity " may have been in putting their sickles deep into the harvest of liberty , England is deeply indebted to them , not merely as the maintainers of a valuable abstract principle—not merely fox * helping to extinguish a grinding tyranny—but because , owing to the disposition to truckle and shuffle in some of our statesmen , and the peouliar position of England herself as regards this Italian struggle , she seriously wants her interests consulted and her honour maintained . Perhaps our political leaders are like Napoleon in another way , far from sorry at sharing a little of the credit as Englishmen , of which they shun the risks as statesmen , and the responsibilities .

    Owing to the extent to which England burnt her fingers in the last great European war , and the debt already on . her shoulders , owing , too , to her position with reference to France , and the 'binding necessity upon her not to throw , if she could possibly avoid it , an atom of her public strength away in forei gn fields , she has abstained from mixing herself intimately , except as far as moral influence might go , in the Italian struggle . The moral influence , whatever her censurers may say , has not been trifling , thanks to her press ; to quote only one instance of it , the exposure to the eyes of the world of the abominations of the Neapolitan prisons , respecting which the gagged press

    of the rest of Europe might have been interminably silent . However , the physical aid of France , notwithstanding her unanticipated self-payment , which tarnished it not a little , must shine brighter unquestionably in the eyes of Italy and Sardinia , than oar talk and " newspaper leaders , " no matter how earnest or strong ; and the Gallic sword has weighed heavier than the British pen . We unquestionably wanted something to make up the difference , and this something our English Volunteers in Italy have helped to give us . They are felt to be substantial specimens of the real feeling of England towards Italy , when unshackled by state reasons and political expediency .

    We have not the slightest doubt that the Italians would far rather both acknowledge and pay a debt of gratitude to England than to France ; in fact , they do not like the French generally , nor the French character , especially its levity and boasting ; the Italian ' s character in gravity and reserve far more resembles our own ; besides * in former days , they saw avast deal more of France and Frenchmen than pleased them ; however , they were not in . a position to decline

    practical aid , come whence it wotild , and it is by no means improbable that they would feel more bound in honour to join armies ¦ with . France in any future struggle than with England . To any reflecting mind there cannot be a moment ' s doubt that Napoleon- would be inclined to look for and almost demand from Italy an offensive and defensive alliance- in any . future European war , though the Leader has been amomrst the last to taunt Louis Napoleon -with ¦

    any distinct intention of . assaulting England , or of decided feelings of hostility towards her . But , at all events , it is essential that Italy should have reasons to show on the other side of the question ; and stateable grounds for a-efusing to act against England , whether in the Mediterranean or elsewhere The personal part which so many private Englishmen have taken in the struggle , their attachment to the person of Garibaldi , and his attachment to them , their eminent zeal in the cause , will all tend to establish in Italy a strong feeling in our favour .

    With Prussia wavering , disliked b j' France , distrusted by England , Austria and Russia aloof , and embarrassed by their own difficulties—for any serious attempts at aggession ugainst Italy on the part of Austria would soon be made futile—the side that Italy Avould take is well worthy of our highest interest and consideration . Neither England nor France could depend an atom , on either of the other three . It is mainly for this reason that we give a vote of thanks with three cheers to the English who havo been fighting at Naples in the cause of liberty , and for the maintenance of England ' s prestige .

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    IT is hard lines for poor people in the City of London , within the dominion of his civic majosty the Loud Mayor . If any poor wretch seeks to pick up a living in the streets within those sacred precincts—precincts saci'cd tornonoy gotting and cold-hearted selfishness—ho must snatch it like a rod-hot chosnut from a fiery furnace . The ruddy damsel , with her basket of apples j the decayed widow , with her stovo of lollipops ; the half-starved man , with his tray or combs—those and such as thoHO no soonor cross tho charmed boundary , and mingle with the civic community , whom tho City motto over prays Heaven to direct , than they arc hunted about lute wild beasts . Policemen pounco upon thorn at every corner , ana " they refuse to botako themselves to rogions westward , they are draffpfod before tho terrible justice-seat of tho Mansion-houso . At

    would appear as if Sir B . Walticp Cakden , Knight , wore always on the look-out for such eases , for it almost invariably happens that tho said scat is occupied by that high judicial pernomigre whonovor any itinerant merchants aro brought up for judgment . The worthy alaorman seems to love tho sport oi hunting his species . It wp mitttako not , ho has ocqasionally playod all tho throe parts of proseoutor , witness , and judg-o . Wo wore in hopes that public opinion had cured tho civic Knight of this propensity , and that any taunt or joko about tho seventy of Cajbdbn ' s judgment was out of Uftte , But wo flnd ourselves mistaken . Here is " Carder again !' On Saturday , November 3 rd , u woman p f povorty-stricJcon appearance , was charged before Sir Walter , with soiling 1 ftPl" ® 8 } n Lower Thamos * street , In answer to the charge sho said , that sue had six children , some of whom were ill , to suptoort , ami she nfttt no

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    924 The Saturday Analyst and Leader , [ Nov . 10 , 1860

    Our Volunteers In Italy.

    OUR VOLUNTEERS IN ITALY .

    Hajrd Lines In The City.

    HAJRD LINES IN THE CITY .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1860, page 924, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2373/page/4/