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[From the London Tablet.] ‘nor on the plain are our notions of good government re- is no real religious question at all involved, except the

‘cognised or revered. In both of them the more power- general feeling of dislike which men ofthe world always ce _ ful party, or that which deems itself the more powerful, entertain for those who are professedly and manifestly We have great pleasure in inserting the following is steadily consulting its own wishes and imaginary in-| governed by the dictates of a strict religious belief. article from an able and accomplished writer, bat in) terests, and quietly rejecting every other consideration. | |The Jesuits are attacked, not because they are Jesuits, doing so we think it necessary to express a partial dis-' Phe real end for which all governments are instituted, ‘but because they happen in this case to take the side of sent from it. We betieve that the out-cry against the ihe welf wre, protection, and enlightenment of the great those who are opposed to the political changes which Jesuits in Switzerland is in a certain sense a pretext; }44, of the governed—never troubles the breast of the majority desire. They have great influence in this is, the most intelligent Swiss Radicals have no such pernese orator or Viennese diplomatist. How to gain ‘education, and as they hold those opinions which happen dread of the Jesuits as they pretend to have. In that 41,6; own end in the surest and quickest way; this is the to be now unpopular in the Protestant cantons, the old sense, the out-cry raised last century against the Jesuits’, object of their anxiety, the subject of their waking cry is raised, a religious aspect is given to the warfare, by the Monarchs, the Philosophers, and the Harlots, was 244 sleeping thoughts. The Grand Duke of Lucca and a variety of topics and ideas are introduced into the a pretext, and a most dishonest pretext to boot. But, this .. 05 for his cash and his comforts ; and when the mob. “affair, which serve only to complicate the whole, and being so, the design of those who raised the pretext had o¢ « Yucca Pindustriosa” gets too noisy or too strong for confound every one who would penetrate into the real not the less a direct bearing upon religion. They struck chim, away flies the valiant Prince, and vacates the glo- spirit of the movements of the two parties. 7 — a a = suits, Some of them wished rious throne so Jong honoured by his possession. Hehies| The fact is, that there is neither Catholicism nor Pro- to get rid ofan inconvenient restraint; some to exalt him straightway to the chambers of the statesmen; hands -estantism, nor Jesuitism nor anti-Jesuitism, nor any re- the civil power Ghore Ge Ciiateh ; seine were entinated over his principality, wt all it contains to Tuscany, ligious doctrine at all, at the foundation of the dispute. A ae “for a consideration ;” passes quietly from the roll of, Nor has it anything to do with Toryism, or Whiggism, We apprehend that in Switzerland in the present day propean sovereign princes, and subsides into a private or Radicalism, or democracy, except so far as the indi- the case is pretty much the same. The conversion of | pieman? |viduals and cantons concerned happen to be previously Lacerne wan me — 5 rr Hee Ly ae cause By-and-bye, it is true, he is again to emerge from ob- imbued with any special religious or political creed. If —with’ which the ven ere indiseolubly ——e “P— security, to mount a throne, to possess the power of life, \there is any one political principle involved in the matter, did, — persuaded, strike = irreligious fear into ond death, and to rule his thousands of souls. Whenever the minority are more influenced by ultra-democratic the minds of the paeee™. They desire, it is true, to +16 reluctance of Napoleon’s widow to vacate her throne sentiments than by any other. The Jesuits, those sup- bring about the Gany’ of Switeertand, but they have ai. can be overcome, the abdicating Bourbon is to mount | nosed foes of popular rights, are Conservative, it is true ; also a great deal of Infidel fanaticism ; a from the the empty chair, and to reign over the honoured people put of what are they Conservative? Of a political sys- —— —_— ee ae, | of Parma. Happy inhabitants of Parma and Lucca! item which is essentially popular and democratic. in its scale, and terrified them with the prospect of a religious} rrow exalted your lot and blissful your destinies, to be’ spirit ofa state-of things raaintained by the mestsigid- reaction, they vowed the destruction of her independ- | alow ed thus to be the materials for arranging the diffi- | ly-enforced universal suffrage! Yet such is the result _— culties of two or three royal houses!’ Why do not we of the nonsensical cries that are raised, and of the intro- A recent Swiss writer, M. Cherbuliez, a calm, at home take example from you, and learn to submit duction of religious and party names into the discussion, thoughtful, and moderate Conservative writer and a with delighted smiles to the interference of Dukes and that they are denounced by the democrats of half the Protestant, describes his own countrymea as peculiarly Earls in our petty principalities, our boroughs, and our countries in Europe as upholders of absolutism and ene- intolerant in matters of religion. Ofcourse, he does counties? ‘mies of popular and representative government. The not exempt the Catholics; and he himself, to ail Inthe Alps the same game is played undera different fact simply is, that the numerical majority of the inha- appearance, writes under a sincere though composed name, with different pieces, and with different move- bjtants of Switzerland desire to introduce certain internal apprehension of ultramontanism and Jesuit influence. ments; for with all our sympathies for everything that changes in their political arrangements, while the con- But the sects, he says, are even more exclusive and in- may seem to be the desire of a great and valiant people, stitution of the Confederation upholds the minority in tolerant than the Catholics. On.no side, he adds, “is/ we can discern no difference between the despotic no- rejecting the proposed alterations; and that upon this there a complete understanding of the liberty of wor- tions of the Government at Berne and of those who have the majority are resolved to play the autocrat, and force ship?” And, in accordance with his political opinions, just bought and sold the people of Lucca. All our fear, the minority to submission, Catholicism, and Jesuitism, he finds the explanation of this fact in the very principle indeed, is, that no such good result wil] follow upon the | and Toryism, have no more to do with the matter than of democracy. ‘The people,” he says, “is always in- ‘machinations in Switzerland, as will be the issue of the the people of Lucca and Parma have to do in the nego- tolprant. ” “Tt wishes its belief to reign alone, as be- adbication of the money-loving Duke of Lucca. Absurd jtiations which are now giving them one sovereign in- ing alone true. It would proscribe other beliefs as fatal and monstrous as those absolute ideas may seem to us stead of another. errors ; it would prohibit their practice as the gravest of j in our island, at least they have in the present instance | 2 all crimes, as a crime against the Divine Law.” With worked well for the Luccaese, and given them the more | (Fiem the Novascotian, Nov. 173 the validity of this explanation we have nothing to do. sensible and enlightened rule of Tuscany ; while the! Es But of the fact M. Cherbuliez is a competent witness; poor Parmesans can hardly be worse off under their pro-, THE MISTAKE, and we shall but ill estimate the contest now raging in mised Prince than under the dominion of the Ministers) All the violent Tories affect to believe and to make Switzerland if we do not bear in mind that to oppose of Maria Louisa. But in Switzerland no such fortunate | ‘others believe, that the whole matter at issue in Nova the religious Catholic spirit, which is strictly on the change is apparently to follow. The majority of the Scotia, i is Howe vrs. Johnston, and that the present state defensive, there is a great deal of fanatical Infidelity. Federal Government are tyrants to the very core of their | of the Country is mere a case in Chancery, where the Nothing can be apparently more different than the hearts, They care not for religion or liberty, when Chancellor may take his time to draw up his decision at spirit which now animates the movements of contending either of those two sacred causes is arrayed against their his leisure and convenience. They say, ‘we have the parties in Switzerland, from that which dictates the ar- ideas of political expediency. Whether or not the ear of the Chancellor—he leans to us—and therefore, we rangements which seem to be now nearly completed for Sonderbund are unwise and injudicious in their opposi- ‘can lose nothing by delay; we have all the power that settling the affairs of the Government of Lucca and tion to the reforms in the executive and administrative. exists—all the offices we want, and all the salaries; we Parma. In the one case the people appear to be ar- government of the Confederation, it is more than clear are not, therefore, the party that desires to urge on the ranging everything for themselves; in the other it looks that even if wrong in some details they are right in prin- stit—continuation is our object—and any body may see as ifthe ruling power cared for nonght but their own ciple. They have the fundamental laws of the State on how Sir John agrees with us.’ Here lies the mistake— pleasure and benefit, and counted the wishes and the their side; and the blame is not to be laid upon Lucerne, the case is not one of personalities but principles—it is happiness of tens of thousands, as not worthy ofa mo- or Zug, or Unterwalden, but upon the nature of a re- not onein which the Chancellor can decide for one man ment’s consideration, in comparison with the family publican Government itself, and upon those marked and or another, but for the principle upon which he himself arrangements of a noble or a princely house. The fundamental differences in religion, manners, and lan- holds his office, and upon which every man under bim Swiss might be taken for an essential popular movenient, guage which (it is said) renders a real union of the States: must hold his. He has not to decide as to justice done originating in the people, and directed purely and into one homogeneous kingdom almost an impossibitity. to Mr. Johnston or to Mr. Howe, but the justice to be honestly for the sole and real benefit of the people; It is difficult, perhaps impossible, for a foreigner to done to a whole Province of the British Empire, that de- while the changes in the petty Italian dynasties seem enter satisfactorily into all the minutia of the subjects | mands free institutions and free representation upon the nothing better than the ins and outs of the domestic which are the real ground of the quarrel between the plan, as near as it can be applied, of the British Govern- matters of the houses of Austria, Bourbon, and Lorraine. | different cantons. How far some of them may be prac-,ment itself. We fear that Sir John may overlook this Yet, to an English eye, there is little enough tol tieable; how far others may be visionary ; how far they important consideration, and this is the point upon which -choose between the two, The autocratic spirit is the, may be, one and all, inexpedient, a mere looker-on from he is most likely to split—and we are sorry to say not ‘Moving principle in both of them. The fyrant is at re place hundreds of miles distant can probably know | altogether without danger of meeting the fate of Sir Colin

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