ALL ON THE CARD

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 301, 7 September 1860, Page 4

ALL ON THE CARD

1860 March 31. The Press newspaper announces tbat the Emperor of the French is bent ou a new piece of annexation, and is striving to obtain the cession of the County of Landau, which belongs to Bavaria under the treaty of November 1815. April 2- The Morning Post declares that the story is a canard. April 3. The Morning Chronicle declares that the Emperor would not have Landau if it were offered to him. April 6. The Spectator alleges there is no such place as Landau. April 14 The Saturday Review refuses to believe that there is anything in the story, because the Press asserts it, but considers the Emperor capable of anything. April 16. The Morning Advertiser rather hastily asserts, on the authority of the postscript to an invoice of some Bavarian beer, that the Emperor has annexed the whole of Bavaria, which it desoribes as in Prussia. April 23. Mr. Kinglake asks the Foreign Secretary whether he has heard anything of the rumor, and is desired to ask on another Bight. April 24. Mr. Kinglake repeats his question, and is told by Lord John Russell that such questions ought not to be asked. April 26. Mr. Kinglake renews his question, and is joked at by Lord Palmerston, who says that he thinks it highly probable that the Emperor has ordered a Landau to be built for him in Long Acre. April 30. The Times' correspondent happens to have just visited Landau, and there appears a graphic descripcioa of it, and of Vauban'a celebrated fortress, with its 5 curtains, 7 bulwarks, 3 redoubts, 7 lunettes, I, fort, 3 whole and 2 half bastions, and broad moats. A sketch of its history is also given, and an account of its manufactures of calico, woollens, fire-arms, copper, and vineghr. The Advertiser's notion that Landau is in Prussia is rectified by mention that it is in Rhenish Bavaria. May 1. Thus instructed, several members of the House of Commons give notice of questions on the subject. May 3. Sir Robert Peel makes a speech against the Emperor, and quotes a good deal of French. He demands whether hi on parle Francais is to be affixed on every country in Europe. Blay 4. Lord John Russell requests that all the questions may be postponed until the next Friday. May 11. Mr. Kinglake reminds his Lordship of the date, and is told that he shall have a reply on Monday. May 14. Lord John Russell states that he has received a despatch from Lord Cowley, who makes uo mention whatever of any Imperial intention upon the subject. May 18. Mr. Disraeli, on the motiou tbat the House on its rising do adjourn to Monday, makes a speech setting forth his perfect conviction that Lord John Russell is juggling and pottering with the subject, and intends to betray Bavaria. He designates the ministry as Cartographic Regenerators. Lord John, in reply, defends his entire foreign policy, and deprecates offensive language towards an ally. May 19. The Morning Advertiser announces tbat at the Privy Council on the preceding day, Lord Palmerston read a secret despatch stating that the king of Bavaria was going to abdicate in favor of the Count de Morny. • . May 22. The Morning Chronicle shows tbat Landau, having once belonged to France, ought always to belong to her. May 2L The Morning Post states that all the inhabitants of Landau, except two, are eager to be annexed to France. May 26. The Spectator contends, that as j Vaubau was a French engineer, hia works belong of right to bis own country. May 28. Mr. Kinglake gives notice of motion, that it is inexpedient than any landmark of Europe be further disturbed. Lord Palmer- j ston made an excelleut joke about Zawi-mark and Land-m, and hopes the motion wiil not be pressed. Mr. Kinglake iqtimates that he will see about it. May 29. Mr. Punch invents a masterly cartoon, setting out the whole question in the spirit of the severest satire, mingled with the richest humour, but it is evidently unfair to expect him to describe it here. —Office, 85, Fleetstreet. ■ May 30. The French correspondent of the Times gives a. significant paragraph about th» Minister of War having complained to the Emperor that the province of the Bas Rhein ia in perpetual danger of invasion on its northern frontier. Consols drop from 94f to 94^. June 2. The Times states that the Emperor intends a certain further annexation on the German side of France, and calls on the Ministers to remember they are Englishmen. June 3. Lord Cowley reading this, calls on M. Thouvenel, who declines from religious convictions, to talk about anything except the Opera, the day being Sunday. June 4. Lord Cowley, calls again, and M. Thouvenel is out, June 5. Lord Cowley calls again, and M. Thouvenel is invisible, having got a bad cold (rheum). June 6. Lord Cowley calls again, and M. Thouvenel is gone to see his little boy at Ermenonvilie. June 7. Lord Cowley calls again, and M. Tbouvenel is gone to adjuge the prize of virtue at Meaux. June 8. Lord Cowley calls again, and M. Thouvenel is particularly engaged with a gentleman from Munich. June 9. Lord Cowley writes to Lord John Russell that he thinks there is a screw loose. Lord John instantly telegraphs to his Lordship to tighten it. June 11. The Times announces that Landau has been annexed to France. June 11. To a dozen questions in the House the Miuisters reply that they have had no such information and that newspapers are not to be depended upon. June 12. The Moniteur announces that by the felicitous annexation of Landau, the last trace of Waterloo has been effaced from the map. June 13. The Morning Advertiser likens the Emperor to the wicked Grecian tyrant Caligula. ! June 14. Lord John Russell reads to the •House, amid loud cheers, a capital despatch.! which he sent through Lord Cowley on reading the Times of the 30fch, but regrets to state that Ma remonstrances hare done no good and he nobly denounces fraud and treachery, especially in sovereigns. .- y June 15. The Debats says that Lord John Russell's miserable insular instinots prevent

his appreciating the grander conceptions of thost who work in the interest of humanity. s June 16. The Charivari Exceeds if possible, its habitual stupidity, in a dialogue between Sir Peel and Lord Gladstone. June 18. (Anniversary of Waterloo.) Mr. Stanford and Mr. Wyld (M.P.) publish maps in which Landau is once more part of France.— Punch.