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FFARLESS ADVENTURE OF GAVAZZI AT OXFORD.

Knowing that the courtezan's life is one not only of loathsome sin, but of frightful misery-knowing that it is not, in nine eases out of ten, future pain bought by present pleasure, but that it is unredeemed wretchedness throughout-knowing that. until she has taken to drinking, which then brings in a second vice, stronger than the rest, almost every woman kept in the establishments of which we have spoken-for almost all have been entrapped, and none are free agents-would gladly exchange her life for any amount of toil and poverty with freedom, and the possibility of virtue-we urge most carnestly on the attention of all, the legislature and the people alike; men who can act, and women who can influence, of every class, not to let this subject drop until something has been done as well as said; not to be satisfied with words, however eloquent, but to require, and obtain, that these fiends in human shape be bound down with laws and penalties so strong, that virtue may be safe walking in the daylight in the very midst of us, and that fathers may not have to lament their young daughters, stolen away for foreign prostitution, from the very threshold of their homes.-Morning Star, 28th March, 1856.

(To be continued).

365

FEARLESS ADVENTURE

OF GAVAZZI INTO THE CAMP OF HIS IMPERIAL HOLINESS THE POPE OF ROME AT OXFORD.

The Papal army in

tain, and its

DURING the week the celebrated Father Gavazzi, the selfstyled "Christian Crusader," has been lecturing in the Townhall, Oxford, but, as was anticipated, his reception clearly showed, as in the case of Cambridge last weck, the mistaken judgment of selecting the universities for a visit. On Tuesday evening the subject was, "The Papal Army in Great Britain Great Bri and its Protestant Allies." There was upwards of 500 persons Protest mt present, including the undergraduates, who mustered in great es, las Papists in force, and in the course of the "Crusader's" address manifested Protestant their disapprobation of his doctrine and arguments by incessant attire. rounds of hooting, hissing, and stamping, which rendered hearing what the lecturer had to say a matter of much difficulty. On Wednesday "Tractarian Encroachment" was the text of the

Generals of
the Pope of

Rone at
Oxford,

Dr. Posey
and the
Bishop of
Oxford.

lecturer, and it soon became evident that the undergraduates, who had mustered in still greater numbers, would not allow him to proceed in silence. For half an hour after Gavazzi appeared on the platform he was unable, owing to the noise and confusion which prevailed, to commence; and when at length he did begin, only a disjointed sentence here and there was audible. The names of Dr. Pusey and the Bishop of Oxford, which were shouted out several times by members of the University, were quickly caught up, and were received with long and general applause, unmistakeably showing the estimation in which the right reverend prelate and Dr. Pusey are held in this University. The scene, on the whole, was a most exciting one; but, we may add, as being highly creditable to the undergraduates, that they confined themselves to the modes of expressing their disapprobation which we have described, without having recourse to any more violent demonstration. On Thursday evening the oration was on "The Inquisition, Ancient and Modern." A repetition of the same proceedings of the previous evenings would no doubt have been Oxford Uni- witnessed, had not the police been present in strong numbers, which, we understood, included the junior proctor, marshal, and the "four bull-dogs," four pro-proctors, and nine of the city police. At the commencement of the proceedings the undergraduates were inclined to kick up a noise, but the remonstrances and persuasions of the above University authorities and college dons were successful in producing order, and the lecture in the main was listened to with attention. On Friday afternoon Gavazzi delivered a concluding lecture on "Nuns and Nunneries," and was listened to with great attention; the number present was about 150.—Morning News, 28th April, 1856.

The police

neccssary

to keep the

Pope's volunteers of

versity in check.

War arose

out of the

effe minacy and incapa

city of the

THE VERY HONOURABLE PEACE!

By the fourth Article of the treaty of the "very honourable peace," which has just been concluded, the Allies are to restore to His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias the towns and ports of Sebastopol, Balaklava, Kamiesch, Eupatoria, and Kertch; Aberdeen. and we may very well inquire for what purpose the war, in which England alone has suffered deep humiliation and disgrace, was undertaken. His Majesty the Emperor is kindly replaced in

Earl of

Dastardly

sians at

the very position which gave Russia the command of the Black Sea; which prompted the invasion of the Turkish territory; facilitated the dastardly but unrequited massacre at Sinope; massacre by and, in point of fact, generated the war itself. This very article the Rusproves that the peace will be of no long duration. So much of Sinope. the treaty as has been published does not contain a single word of indemnity for the past, or of security for the future; yet these are the only objects which belong to a legitimate war. It Insecurity is true, that a portion of a territory formerly taken by force from Turkey, is ceded in exchange for the ports and towns of the Crimea; which is, in other terms, the same thing as when a burglar gives up a portion of his plunder, on condition that he may keep possession of part of the house to enable him to rob it at another time; for the Crimea is an acquisition by robbery and massacre, and is required by Russia, as commanding the Black Sea, and affording a base for the invasion of Turkey.

of the

peace, &c.

The treaty

of peace a

mere sham.

The Allies gain no benefit by the war, for nothing is more hollow than "the neutralisation of the Black Sea," mentioned in some of the articles. And that the treaty itself is a mere sham, appears from the fact, that there is no guarantee given, or demanded, that any of its conditions shall be observed. Russia triumphs. Her cowardly massacre of the Turks at Sinope passes off as an achievement of honourable warfare. Her butchery of the wounded and dying, as they were struggling in agony on the ground, is unavenged; and the treacherous murders at TreacherHango Head are honoured with a silence, which may be logically of British construed into tacit approval. To celebrate these splendid results sailors by of a war, in which the cavalry was destroyed by the sheerest incompetence of its principal officers, and upwards of 10,000 of our bravest troops perished through blundering ignorance and unfeeling neglect, on the part of the aristocratic administrators perished through of our military affairs, £8,000 of the public treasure is to be squandered away on the boyish diversion of firing off squibs and ignorant crackers.

ous murder

the Rus

sians.

Ten thou

sand brave troops

blundering

aristocrats.

In the meantime, it is probable that our astute ally of France has gained all that he wanted. His nephew has either already been advanced to the dignity of a Cardinal, or is to receive the Cardinal's hat; and thus it is rendered clear, that the fate of Poland is to be that of Italy. France will keep possession of Dangerous the Papal States; Austria is preparing for the enlargement of France and her Italian dominions, as is proved by the continued extension Austria. of her military area in Italy; and before the two larger Powers

designs of

A want of

statesmen

in the ring

classes of England.

Austrian

designs to

be supported by a eunring

Sardinia herself may fall. From all appearances, the partition of Italy may soon take place; for there is nothing now to prevent the formation of an alliance between the Emperor of France and the Czar, with the object of promoting the long-cherished designs of Russia on Turkey, and those of France on Italy, Belgium. and the Rhenish provinces. The want of statesmen in the ruling classes of England has allowed her to be most egregiously deceived, from the beginning of the war to the conclusion of the sham peace.

We may now comprehend something more of the Austrian Concordat. Austria, with her designs on Italy, is to be supported by all the machinery of a cunning priesteraft. France, in which nesteiaft. liberty is crushed, and a persecution carried on against the rights of conscience, has a military power which supersedes the necessity of concordats; and if, as seems to be in preparation, a nephew of Napoleon be elected Pope, on the demise of the present Nero of Rome, the fate of Italy will be sealed beyond recovery. It will be Austrian and French. The Austrian bishops are active in their way. They proscribe all religions but their own, wherever they have the power. Their organs have already recommended the extinction of Protestantism; and the Archbishop of Olmutz continues to fulminate excommunications, which, however, at present, have only the effect of ejecting the members of his own church. Everything appears to be in train by Fred. II. for a repetition of the savagery committed by Frederick II. on the most orderly and industrious of Austrian subjects.

The Arch. bishop of Oirmtz continues to fulminate

excommu

nications.

Savagery

committed

of Austria

in train for repetition.

Admirals

who will

but spare

enen ics

It is not easy to sec, that England could do anything to prevent a Russian, French, and Austrian alliance from effecting their designs upon Italy and Turkey. We may be reminded of the grand naval review, which, we suppose, was to strike terror into all the world; but we have given ample proofs, that we have both admirals who will do nothing but spare an enemy's do nothing ports and strongholds, and admirals who can do nothing. Neither is our army any better provided for offensive warfare. Nothing has been altered in the system of promotion, which taught both pretended friend and real enemy, that if our soldiers were as brave as lions, they were without commanding officers. It escaped no one's observation that it was only the intrepid bearing and steady endurance of the private men that saved the whole expedition from annihilation on several important occasions, when the French bore off all the glory of the conflict. In what other army should we ever see commen

forts and

strongVolds.

fight with

Generals of division

of themselv.s.

soldiers left to storm a fortress like the Redan, while the Common generals of division, who ought to have led them, were carried soldiers about in litters, with their heads inclosed in handkerchiefs or out lenders nightcaps, or skulking in trenches from the shot? There is 110 appearance that this disgraceful state of things will be changed very careful for the better. The Sebastopol Inquiry ended in smoke, nor is there any promise of a more useful result from the Military Commission now sitting. The oligarchy are too firmly seated, and German influences are too strong for that. An effete aristocracy, foudly adhering to feudal prejudices, and a feudal quantum of knowledge in the second half of the nineteenth century, will continue to furnish both army and navy wit twaddlers for officers; and this is as well known in France au Kussia as in England, and very probably better appreciated Owing to this blighting cause, and this absolute dead weight upon the national energies, we are really powerless, with the show of a great military and naval strength. But a time may come, when a new alliance will turn its knowledge of our true situation to advantage. Vast armies and fleets, provided with the most formidable storming apparatus, are only great encumbrances unless they have competent directors; and for want of these it is certain that an invasion of our shores is more practicable, and more likely to be successful, than when it was contemplated by Napoleon the Great, and prevented by the Nelsons and Cochranes of a time when England was both feared and respected. All this has been changed by the late war. The reverse holds good; and even the wretched Bomba, of Naples, can treat our representatives with contumely, without apprchending remonstrance, much less chastisement.

founded or sand court

The peace formed on such a treaty cannot be durable; and A peace if our apprehensions of sinister consequences to Italy, Turkey, and ourselves, should prove to be unfounded, we shall owe it to be durabi the forbearance of our late ally and late enemy, and not to the display of a showy fleet, or the ability of our rulers to ward off danger.-Morning Advertiser, 25th April, 1856.

THE NATIONAL GALLERY JOBBERY.

To the Editor of the Morning Advertiser.

SIR,-Whilst the Chelsea Commission is endeavouring to entangle some small fry of puppets in its meshes, permit me

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