"The man recovered of the bite ; the dog it
was that died." Francis Joseph, the Austrian, is recovering; and his beloved sub- jects feel his strength in new rigours. The mercantile classes of Lombardy having been reached by the weekly mulct, the nobles are reached by a wholesale confiscation of the property of all re- siding outside the frontier, unless they can prove the negative that they had no share in the late outbreak. Such is the shameless sequel to the assertion that the outbreak was the work of "a few brigands." A Lombard noble now finds himself in this position —he must either reside where innocent are confounded with guilty, or by residing in safety he must forfeit all he has ; or he must become a thorough tool and spy against his fellow country- men. The confiscations of Milan had been anticipated in Naples, with an improvement—that is, without the form of notice. The rule of the Absolutist Governments is rapidly assimilating itself to that of France ; and, with professions of conservation on the lips, with an immense military organization at hand, it is becoming a system for the piratical seizure of property. As this peculiar form of " order " develops itself, the commercial classes of Europe will perceive that it is fatal to security of property, and therefore to the duration of commerce.
