¥* i2l V0FC0 ^RE SC ( iifili/l peumaliFe® pH&5 THE ALARM BELL . x. BY A CONSTITUTIONALIST. • v ' NEW YORK : BAKER & GODWIN, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, PRINTING-HOUSE SQUARE, OPPOSITE CITY BALL. 1863. £t* z 4./J&3 • 3 .K33 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1S63, by BAKER & GODWIN, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. "2_ 3 /j g THE ALARM BELL. NO. 1. To Abraham Lincoln and the British Minister at Washing- ton, and the Crown of Great Britain ; the People of the United States, and the People of Great Britain. The British Minister and the President of the United States cannot be ignorant of the nature of the struggle which the French Revolution of 1789 inaugurated. It is hardly necessary to mention to those acquainted with history, that the restoration of the Bourbons to the throne of France was followed by the so-called Holy Alliance, the secret object of of which was the suppression of revolution — the perpetuation of absolutism and the Roman faith everywhere. Still, the revolutionary principle was so powerful in France that Louis XVIII. was obliged to accommodate his government to it, and it was not till Charles X. began to give evidence of a reaction- ary spirit, and his becoming a member of the Holy Alliance, and thus entering into friendly relations with the Hapsburghs, that these powers considered they had obtained a triumph over the republican principle, and at once turned their attention to the extinguishing of the same principle in other countries ; and, need it be added, in England and the United States, those two great representative powers of constitutionalism and republicanism. And it will be recollected that republicanism and constitutional forms of government were considered to be, as they truly are, the offspring of protestantism. To show this was the object of the famed lectures of Schlegel. Is it necessary to allude to the mo- mentous fact that here commences a struggle with republican ism, constitutionalism, and protestantism, on the part of these powers, which is only just on the point of culminating ? The first step in the programme was the institution of the " Leo- pold Foundation " at Vienna, designed to establish the Roman Hierarchy on the ruins of republicanism in America. This was in 1829. Mark what follows : — In pursuance of this plan, several newspapers were started in this country — the Boston Pilot, and afterwards the Freeman's Journal, and some others "West. The first thing the Boston Pilot did was to commence an attack on Puritanism. Well was it understood that in this principle our free institutions originated ; could that be disin- tegrated, the way was prepared for the overthrow of these in- stitutions. In leveling their artillery against Puritanism, they expected to obtain the sympathy of episcopalians, as well as the irreligious and indifferent of all classes of the North. Availing themselves of the incompatibility of Northern and Southern institutions — of the elements of an oligarchy which there existed — they determined to intensify and perpet- uate this antagonism. Already had Northern free institutions shown their superiority over slavery in developing the commer- cial and industrial resources of the North, and in giving to New York City the ascendency over her Southern rival — Charleston. It was not, therefore, altogether as has been al- leged, a contest between South Carolina and Massachusetts ; it was, so far as Puritanism was concerned ; but it was a con- test between South Carolina and New York — between Charles- ton and New York City — so far as commerce was concerned. Here commences that open antagonism between the North and South. We do not say that Calhounism had its origin in Aus- trian machinations; by no means; that was a product of Southern soil — of Southern ambition — an ambition growing out of an entire discordance between a slaveocracy and a democracy. But when nullification, chameleon-like, changed its color, and commenced a systematic attack on Puritanism, by presenting an organized resistance to the abolitionism of the North, we do say, that the Austro- American influence lent its aid to intensify this resistance, and appropriate it to its own ends and purposes. Martin Yan Buren, discovering the South to be unyielding and inflexible with reference to anything which would impair Southern institutions, formed that mon- grel coalition between the Northern democratic party and the 5 Southern slaveocracy, whereby the ascendancy of the demo- cratic party was to be secured by upholding the institution of slavery. The Irish emigrants of the North were in direct sympathy with Rome, and formed the bulk of the democratic party ; Austrian agents seized upon the sympathy, and arrayed it against Puritanism, and put it in connection with the slave- ocracy of the South, which was also hostile to Puritanism ; from this source, therefore, the slaveocracy received its inspir- ations. The institution of slavery, from being one which was to be deplored and tolerated only for a time, until it could con- veniently be got rid of, began to be defended first as a con- stitutional right ; secondly, as a natural right ; and finally, as a normal organization of society, to be perpetuated as a blessing to the race where it existed. We say the South was encouraged and fortified in this direction by Austro-jesuitical suggestions and doctrines thus set in active operation by the Leopold Foundation at Vienna, introduced upon American soil, and entirely at variance with the teachings of Puritanism. What was the result ? Why, the blast first blown by the Boston Pilot against Puritanism, was taken up and repeated by the South, and, after the Yan Buren marriage of the Northern democracy with the Southern oligarchy, was echoed by the politicians and organs of that party in the North. Did Governor Seymour know that he was blowing the trumpet of the Austro-Roman party in this country when he uttered the ribaldry against Puritanism in his well-known speech at Springfield, Massachusetts, on the 4th July, 1856 ? Thus the Austro-Rornan party succeeded in inaugurating an organized struggle between Puritanism, republicanism, constitutionalism, and freedom of the North, and oligarchism, absolutism, and the serfdom of the South. This was in 1832, only three years after the Leopold Foundation was instituted at Vienna. At the same time, the same power was working in England under the emancipation policy, in cautiously under- mining the Protestant Constitution of 1688, secured by the blood of Puritans, and introducing into Oxford theology puseyism as the handmaid of Jesuitism against English protest- antism, and radicalism against the aristocracy ! We have, therefore, in England, a constitutional monarchy, a marriage 6 of Romanism with radicalism ; and in the United States, a re- public, a marriage of Romanism with the oligarchy of the South ! At the same time they were working in the Netherlands to disintegrate that kingdom, and separate Belgium from Holland, to be at some future time, probably, annexed to the empire of France.* The first act in the struggle in this country was the at- tempt to establish Southern institutions upon the ruins of free- dom, by extending the area of slavery, and thus gaining the preponderance in the government. Had they succeeded in this, they would have quietly overturned our Constitution, and established a despotism in its place. Their first attempt ■ — the acquisition of Texas — was a partial success, inasmuch as it gave an additional slave State to the area of slavery, while it left other States to be carved out of its territory south of 36 cleg. 30 min., whose institutions were to be decided by the peo- ple. This curious episode in our history has not been suffi- ciently understood by our people. The war with Mexico, and the consequent acquisition of California, follow; but their scheme of slaveocratizing that State did not succeed. And then followed, as their next move on the chess-board, the destruction of the compromises, and the infamous attempt to carry the in- stitution of slavery into the territories, and erect a tier of slave States between Missouri and California, which proved, after a series of bungling scoundrelisms, equally unsuccessful. So, their last card, disunion, followed ! During the period from 1844 to 1853, particularly from 1847 to 1853, the Irish emigration to this country had vastly increased. The repeal movement in Ireland, another shuffle of the cards of the Jesuits, had projected, first to Australia and then to the United States, many of the most talented of those spirits who had been engaged in that movement ; and a new * The attempt of La Mennais, in France, just previous, to bring about a coali- tion between the church of Rome and the republicans, is hardly important here, inasmuch as it fell through so far as the actual accomplishment of his purpose was concerned, the Pope refusing to concede 7-eligious liberty and free speech, which it was the purpose of La Mennais to secure. The principles of La Mennais, how- ever, are not dead, even with the priesthood. We allude to it merely for the purpose of showing the simultaneous activity of this power in different parts of the world at the same time. step was now taken towards consolidating the Roman hier- archy on our soil. The country was laid out into dioceses, bishops and arch- bishops appointed, and the first council of these bishops assembled at Baltimore with closed doors ! With the erection of the hierarchy, the next step was for the bishops to get control of the church property in their respective dioceses, and then make this property hereditary in their office by act of Legislature ; thereby constructing an episcopal aristocracy, with immense lands, tenements, and revenues, — which are in- alienable, always increasing, but never diminishing, — trans- mitted from bishop to bishop, — a spiritual aristocracy more terrible than any other with which the nations have been cursed ! We say these bishops are demagogues in disguise, — dukes, in the habiliments of the church, with vast domains,— their dioceses being in fact duchies, and their people destined to become subjects, forming a Northern oligarchy akin to the Southern, and affiliating with it. The council of bishops is antagonistic to Congress, and stands as the executor of the canon law, which is opposed to and subversive of our civil law on our soil. It is subversive of the British, as well as of the American, Constitution! Now comes the next great development, in which the British government is as much interested as ourselves. Rome has her hierarchy established here, with vast revenues and estates ; she now needs a military, and, for the purpose of ob- taining it, she resorts to a most extraordinary movement, and one about which our Government and people should be fully informed. In the Spring of 1853, one Thomas D'Arcy McGee delivered a lecture in the city of New York, in which he recommended that " the Irish should learn military tactics, in order to deliver their adopted country from both internal as well as external enemies." In compliance with this suggestion, the following winter an officer was engaged in giving military instruction to our foreign citizens ; and, immediately in connection, an organiza- tion was commenced among them, ostensibly for the purpose of delivering Ireland from British rule. The fact that a grand filibustering expedition was preparing in this country against a friendly power naturally arrested the attention of the British 8 minister at Washington, and he called the attention of our Government to the fact ; and our Government caused a com- mittee to be assembled at Cincinnati to investigate the affair. Prominent individuals, known to be connected with the organ- ization, were brought before this committee, and they boldly acknowledged that there was such an organization, and that its object was to deliver Ireland from England, and that it num- bered then about 150,000 men. But our Cabinet could only inform the British minister that its citizens had a right to form such military organizations as they pleased, and that they could not be interfered with till they had committed some overt act of an illegal nature. But our Government and the British minister should under- stand that such a movement could only refer to a future war between the two countries ; that it is part of their programme to involve the two countries in a war. No man of ordinary intelligence would suppose that a military movement like that referred to could be made success- ful as a mere filibustering affair. But this is not all ; this military organization also constitutes the soldiery of the hier- archy already noticed, and can be wielded any time for the permanent establishment of its power. It has a bureau in each State. It has plenty of secretaries at Boston, New York, and Cincinnati. It was for a time at least, if not at the present time, headed by a Virginian of some note in the political world. Will not this explain the to us mysterious phenomenon of soldiers, armed and equipped, paraded before the altars of some of the churches in our land, where they partook not of sacra- mental bread, but the bread of brotherhood, with little Amer- ican flags accompanying the distribution ? Of course, they were thus given to understand that they were soldiers and champions of the church, and were to be used as such. Immediately connected with this military movement were arranged the details of our present Southern rebellion. It was made in direct conjunction with the abrogation of the com- promises, and the miserable Kansas imbroglio which followed, intending to make disunion the next stej) in case that failed ! It is not generally known that the Austrian minister, Chevalier Hulseman, was sent to Washington by his govern- rnent for the express purpose of furthering this scheme of a Southern rebellion ! This will seem passing strange to our people, and, perhaps, to our Government, that Austria should know more of the machinations going on for the destruction of our institutions than we do ourselves — than Buchanan's administration seemed to know ; or, are we to imagine that that notorious public functionary was a quiet observer, and thus an encourager, of these diabolical machinations ? As proof of this, we refer to the following paragraph, taken from the Austrian paper, the Ost Deutshe Post, published at Yienna in 1855 : " The nomination of Chevalier Hulseman to the post of resident Austrian Minister at Washington, and the large increase which has been made in the organization of our mission in the United States, indicate a new step in Austrian diplomacy. Up to the present time, the United States have been to Austria a sort of scare-crow, with which it was wise to avoid all contact. A wise policy, however, does not believe that danger ceases because you close your eyes to it. Austria does well, then, to prepare to take her proper position in the events of which, sooner or later, the United States are destined to become the scene." This fact, probably, is more important to our government and people than those of Great Britain, but it will not be diffi- cult for them to comprehend that the same spirit and policy which could prompt that power to engage in such a formidable conspiracy for the overthrow of our form of government, is equally active and busily employed in a similar plot for the overthrow of the British constitution — absolutism and Roman- ism arrayed against the two governments who represent pro- testantism and constitutional liberty ! Is it difficult to comprehend the machinery at work here ? The Austrian minister in close communication with the seces- sion leaders and representatives at Washington, and with Archbishop Hughes, who, with the provincial bishops com- manding in their respective dioceses, supported by an Irish military of 150,000 men, in ambush behind the democratic party, with occasional manipulations of republican leaders, compose an organized force in the northern States, with numer- ous other agencies at work, — all controlled and guided by foreign potentates, and designed to be used in the direction 10 mentioned. Their grand purpose being to get possession of England and the United States, and then remove protestant- ism. The details of their movements, will, of course, depend upon circumstances ; but their main object is to centralize and imperialise the government ; and they are endeavoring to effect this through the disintegration of the States of the Union — not merely the Southern from the Northern, but the Western from the Eastern. This, however, is only for the purpose of weak- ening the elements of opposition ; and then, if they should succeed, they will reconstruct the government ; in which case, the principles of republicanism, protestantism and civil liberty will be ignored ; and then, when thus centralized and made one gigantic machine, with an army of half a million of men, they will hurl it against England. For this purpose, the affiliated societies of the " Knights of the Golden Circle," and the butternut organizations running through the Northwestern States, are designed to be used, while the Irish military organization already referred to, known among themselves as the Fenian Brotherhood, in connection with the Emmet Monument Association, will operate upon New England, New York, less through the Western States — more in the armies of the Union. It will be somewhat start- ling to the public, probably, to be told that the greater number of these Fenians are in flie Army of the Potomac, not for the purpose of securing the permanency of this Union, but for that of embarrassing the action of the administration, and, in the meantime, making soldiers of themselves, that they may be better prepared to fight England. The Boston Pilot has so declared this within the last twelve months. The " Irish Emigrant Aid Association " is another society connected with this machinery which might be mentioned, and a pretty significant one, too. To invade the United States with a body of foreigners, with arms in their hands, would be apt to be noticed by our people and government ; but to bring them in as emigrants, and then arm and organize them as American citizens, would not be considered improper, and yet be just as effectual. The Thos. Davis Club, the Red-hand Club, the Wolf-Tone Club, as well as the " Emmet Monumentals," are all part of the same gigantic machinery, and worked in unison. Then the numerous agents moving to and fro through the country, 11 acting as correspondents of the various presses, misrepresent- ing, exaggerating, disparaging, and getting into the offices of the government, and even in the army, embarrassing, and try- ing to produce catastrophes and inaction ; let the public con- sider That a war with England is part of their programme for the destruction of Protestantism is beginning already to be re- vealed by the Boston Pilot ! For this purpose, the same Thomas D'Arcy McGee has or- ganized the inflammable materials of Canada ; the " Nation- alists " in Ireland and throughout 'England is another secret organization to further this grand plot within the British do- minions ; and how many others lurking under benevolent appellations* it will be well for the British government to in- quire into. Let England be prepared for a revolt of Ireland, Canada, and Australia, and trouble internally, while she is assailed externally by formidable enemies. Since Austria com- menced her infamous scheme of planting the Roman hierarchy upon the ruins of our municipal and State governments, a change has come over her own destiny. The Bourbons, her most powerful allies, have been driven from the throne of France, and an old and dreaded enemy has reappeared there to dispute with her the championship of Jesuitism! A struggle necessarily ensued between the French and Austrian emperors for the protectorate of Rome ; and the result is that the latter has been expelled from Italy, and the pontifical states have fallen into the cold iron-like em- brace of the French emperor. Will the Jesuits accept ISTapo- * Our country is full of Austrian agents. On the establishment of the Roman republic in 1848, over a hundred Austro-Italians came over here. We have strong suspicions that the conspirators who meditated the assassination of President Lincoln while on his way to Washington to be inaugurated, belonged to these. The papers stated that one of them who was arrested was an Italian. Are we to suppose that the Bourbon princes came over here and attached them- selves to McClellan's staff out of any regard to our institutions ? Perhaps our people may not be generally aware of the fact that the Bourbons of France are in close alliance with the Hapsburghs, and are working for a common cause. Who were the German officers that came over here and offered their services to our government on the commencement of the rebellion ? Has the administration been deluded with the idea that they have obtained places in our army for the purpose of assisting in preserving the Union ? If it has, it is a delusion fraught with peril- ous consequences ! Why is the St. Patrick's Benevolent Society a secret society ? Is it necessary that benevolence be practised under cover ? 12 leon III. as their champion ? Will the Hapsburghs consent to receive him as their friend in the place of the deposed Or- leanists ? Necessarily ; they cannot avoid it ! As a part of her programme of crushing protestantism and constitutionalism, Austria assailed the liberties of Hungary, destroying her con- stitution, and reducing her to a province, and placing the Hungarian protestant church under military surveillance ; but in doing this she weakened herself, and the loss of her Italian possessions was a necessary consequence of that weakness ; and now, the Polish insurrection threatening to spread into Hun- gary and the Austro-Polish provinces, what can she do ? She must succumb to Napoleon, or be dismembered and fall into his hands a mangled carcass. Do not our people recollect with what enthusiasm Kossuth, the representative of Hungarian protestantism and constitu- tionalism, was received by our government and people, and will they not also remember that no sooner had he landed upon our shores than two prominent influential papers in our city commenced assailing him with the vilest abuse ? Which were these papers ? The New York Herald and the Courier and Inquirer. Whence their animus ? For whom were they working? We answer — for Archbishop Hughes. The Courier and Inquirer, sometime in 1854 (we believe, for we quote from memory), ascribes the honor of having expelled this dis- tinguished Hungarian patriot from the country to the Arch- bishop ; so, by his own admissions, Col. Webb was in the serv- ice of this prelate and of Austria, and the whole band of foreign agents in the United States. The Dundalk Democrat, a paper published in Ireland, has the following important piece of information : "Napoleon has liauled down his neutral flag and hoisted his true colors ; by which he indicates that there must be no interference with the Pope's temporal power, and that Rome cannot be the capital of Italy. More than this it indicates, and the revolutionists * understand it well, and are alarmed at its meaning." This was last year, and events now transpiring evince its truth. That Napoleon III. has become the champion of Rome, consequently of absolutism and despotism against republican- ism and freedom, the world over. If so, the drama of the * Republicans. 13 world's history will suddenly be changed. Louis Napoleon steps in as the executor of the Austrian policy, of destruction of constitutions ; he becomes suddenly transformed before our eyes from the representative of conservatism into a frightful demon, shaking flaming torches and clanking chains over the free nations of the earth ! He suddenly becomes the terrible enemy of Switzerland, of Holland, of England, and the United States ! He steps forward to wield the vast machinery organ- ized by the Jesuits in the two latter countries ; he, in fact, be- comes the major-general of the 150,000 and more of the Irish enrolled and disciplined for the purpose of establishing the Roman hierarchy on our soil, and waging war with England. He has already commenced his movements — he has entered Mexico, erected an empire there, placing Maximilian, the brother of the present Emperor of Austria, upon the throne— the compensation, probably, to that power for the sacrifices she has made in his behalf! What is his object in invading Mexico? He tells us it is to give ascendancy to the Latin race ! That is it. To championize the Latin race, of which Rome is the head. Our government and people should be wary. His next movement will be with reference to the Southern Confederacy. Have the South been deceived by their Northern allies? Did they understand that it was part of the pro- gramme that the war should be carried on until they were humbled and compelled to take shelter under the wing of Na- poleon ? That they should become an appendage to the French empire ? Have the Irish been consulted with reference to this matter ? They are in danger of losing their liberty ! Their archbishops and bishops are manufacturing chains for them ! "When Napoleon, in alliance with the South, moves against the North, they will be called upon to rise and unite with him against the North. Our government should carefully consider whether, at such a crisis, there is not danger of a revolt in the Army of the Potomac ! We will suppose a contingency : A French and Confederate army move against the North, at the same time a Confederate and French fleet attack the city of New York, at the same time an insurrection breaks out in the city, extending through- out the Northern States, at the same time a revolt takes place in the Army of the Potomac — is our government prepared for 14 such an emergency ? If not, it should be, for it has the ma- terial. We say that if England assists Napoleon in establishing the Latin church in the United States, when that is done, then he will make use of the United States to establish the Latin church in old England ! We would draw the attention of the public to a remarkable clause in the speech delivered by Arch- bishop Hughes to the Nationalists in Ireland last summer. He says : " An effort will be made to redress grievances else- where, when Ireland will have her opportunity ! " This means war — nothing else. It means the revolt of Ireland, and with that revolt is connected the Irish Fenians in the United States. It means war with the United States, in which France will be engaged against England. It is not probable that, if the object of France is to establish the Latin church in the United States, England is going to join her in such a project ! For the purpose of bringing about this collision, it be- comes necessary first to excite animosity between the two countries. Mitch el, the Irish exile, comes to New York, and assists in getting up the Fenian organization referred to, and then goes South, and is now editor of the Richmond Enquirer, and is, or was, correspondent of the London Times. Is it difficult to discern whence the venom that points the articles in that great English organ on this country ? Secession families, carrying what property they could with them, have gone to England. There they enter into contracts on behalf of the Confederate Government for building iron-clad steamers to prey upon our merchantmen and destroy our com- merce ! Their influence is exerted through the press and privately to embroil the two nations. The feeling in England, therefore, is manufactured for the occasion, and for the express purpose of bringing on the great struggle referred to ! Archbishop Hughes is in favor of foreign intervention. Here are his own words, taken from his letter published in the Herald, July 16, 1863 : " There are things that no man can pretend to fathom — questions that depend on so many additional circumstances for their solution, — but there is one thing and one question that should be clear to every mind. It is this, that if a war of this kind should be continued for 15 many years, it is recognized as being allowable for other nations to com bine in their strength and put an end to it." The Archbishop, then, is in favor of European intervention. He is an ally of Napoleon. He is leagued with absolutism against democracy and republicanism ! Let America understand this ; let the democracy of the United States understand it ! Let the Irish who belong to the various secret organizations in this country understand that they have been drawn into these organizations, which are wielded by invisible powers, for the purpose of establishing a hierarchical, absolutistical, im- perial despotism at Washington, and, consequently, for uproot- ing democracy and free institutions in our country ! Let the French, English, and German democrats understand that the Austro-despotisms have their agents here, and that, in fleeing from foreign oppression, the same enemies follow them to their place of refuge, carrying on the same war, clandestinely seek- ing to use them as instruments to overturn the free govern- ment that shelters them under its wing, and establish a des- potism ! The struggle will soon change from that of absolut- ism against slavery, to one of democracy against European intervention and absolutism ! It is for the destruction of democracy, then, that the present war is waged, and that intervention will be made — a war against democracy and prot- estantism in the United States, and a war against constitution- alism and protestantism in England ; for they both go together, and the destruction of the one will be the destruction of the other ! No one, therefore, can make war on protestantism, if he would preserve his own freedom ! Protestantism and civil liberty go together. Archbishop Hughes informs us, in his remarkable letter to the Hon. ¥m. H. Seward, that " it would not be proper for him to communicate what transpired in Europe during his visit there, only the important fact that they regard the people of the United States very much as they regard the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands ; and that America must be pre- pared ! " This in a public letter, addressed to the Secretary of State of the United States, giving him a report of his visit to Europe — a visit, he says, undertaken in consequence of a request from some individual in communication with the Cabinet, — has the effrontery to declare that it would not be proper for him to LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 16 0"B12 046 821 2 communicate what transpired there, any iuriner tnan that we were considered a sort of heathen, to be taken in hand and dis- ciplined by the European powers ! Already Lower Canada threatens to secede and call in Louis Napoleon ! Will not the reader perceive the coincidence be- tween this movement on our North and his appearance in Mexico, and the agitations in New York city in reference to the draft, and the spasmodic efforts of Lee to penetrate into Maryland ? The recent riot in New York city is the beginnings of the fruit of that spirit which the Boston Pilot and Freeman's Journal have labored for the last twenty years to awaken and strengthen in the Irish heart, with express reference to prepar- ing the way for these events, and is part of the general pro- gramme ; as proof of which we cite the speech of the editor of the Freeman's Journal, a few weeks previous to the outbreak, in which he recommends the people to arm in squads of ten and fifteen, and be prepared to resist the draft ! The object of this, however, is to obtain auxiliaries to the central organization of the Fenians from among other classes of the population besides the Irish ; and the object of the recent outbursts was merely to feel of this portion of the population, and see how far they would go toward resisting the government, and how far they could be controlled by their leaders, and also to let them'know where their friends were ! If it had shown itself sufficiently power- ful, and had promised to be successful, then the rank and file of the Fenians would have developed themselves, and there would have been a simultaneous explosion throughout the North and in Canada ! but at present they keep quiet. The time for action will come when Louis Napoleon has advanced a little further. We would inquire whether there was any connection between the visit of Prince Napoleon to our shores in 1861, and the appearance of Louis Napoleon in Mexico at the present time ? He visited the United States, Canada, and Ireland. Is he to have a throne in one of these countries ? Maximilian has just accepted the Mexican throne ; there- fore we sound the alarm ! * As we were going to press, it is announced that there is some doubt whether Maximilian will accept the proffered throne. No matter ; if he does not, some one else will, who will carry out the Napoleonic policy. ,S». V0FC0 ^ S! 0012 ^««m p6RTTUllp6« pH83