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    '¦he Perjurer is to be believed. Our rea...

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    * Our Correspondent Alludes To Tbo Follo...

    tl e south of France . Caesar trembles , but he trusts in l , _is « star . " Lucien Murat , the fat , has been appointed Governorfeneral of Algeria : he will only have to wait for the Emp ire , to be raised to the dignity of Vice-Roy . Vice-Einperor it should be : but what is one misnomer more or less ? General Haynau , after being hustled out of _Belgium by public indignation , has come to Paris to find a more fond , sympathetic welcome—at the Elysee . He is staying at the Hotel de Princes , and has already made his appearance more than once on the Boulevards . In the Champs Elysees , a day or two since , a certain agitation took place when he was observed ; but be is under stood to be well protected by tbe invisible but omnipresent Police .

    The coming elections at Paris begin seriously to occupy attention of the Government , whose candidates are not yet fixed . As to the Republican party , the general desire is to re-elect Cavaignac and Carnot ; but some put forth tbe name of M . Goudchaux , the hanker . A bale of copies of Victor Hugo ' s brochure has been seized in Paris . The Moniteur recounts this seizure as follows : — " The police , having been informed that certain brochures , forbidden by the authorities , were in course of clandestine distribution at Paris , and notably the recent publication of M . Victor Hugo , instituted a strict surveillance by its agents , which resulted in the arrest of Sieur D , residing in the quartier of the Hotel de Ville . A perquisition effected at his residence led to the seizure of a certa n number of

    brochures . ' A significant fact has recently occurred at Orleans . Some soldiers of the 58 th of the line took tbe side of the peasantry in a quarrel of the latter with tbe gendarmes . In consequence of an encounter that took place , eleven corporals and a certain number of soldiers were arrested and sent off to Paris . Corporal Millot , who wrote a letter on the subject to the Moniteur du Soir , has been deprived of his rank , and condemned to one month's imprisonment , for " having entertained communications with civilians , " reports the sentence . So on the one hand we find the soldiers forbidden to hold

    communications with citizens , and , on the other , the soldiers taking the side of tbe people against tbe gendarmes as the representatives of tbe Government , and routing them . Rigorous measures continue . Another batch of political victims has just been transported to Algeria . Seven prisoners ( detenus ) of the Department of Gers , one of Tarn , and two of L'Aude , have been embarked at Cette , on board the Ville de Pordeaux , for that destination .

    The " warnings" to the ., press seem to diminish in number . It is almost certain that the Government has withdrawn from the Prefects the right of " warnmg . " According to an enumeration that has been made o f these warnings , of which tho Prefects have mado such a ridiculous usage , thc number already amounts to fifty-three . Certain Protestants were anxious to hold a meeting nt Fresnoy le Grand ( Department of _L'Aisne ) , for the purpose of religious lectures . The Prefect of L'Aisne forbade their meeting .

    The Conseil de Revision of Toulouse has cancelled the sentence of the court-martial at Montpallier , by which eleven citizens of _Bedarrieux were condemned to death . S .

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    Perjurer is to be believed . Our readers who have folowed week by week the history ef tbo reigning _imposure ni Fmnce since tbe coup d'dtat will have no difficulty ' _» unravelling the tissue of falsehoods by which the _Mont-,. _" ? Pr _^ _tonds to deny that Franco is now disinherited ol " _!;• . _^ _t _fhi _" , and that political life exists no longer for _r-reneh citizens j" and they will know how to interpret t J , , ' _- llHOH , lH . " nnlimited exercise of the power of eleofr ' " ' , j'm , 1 < lu'hity and good _iiMor of our universal _suf-1 > i ' _m ' . " <> x _f ' " ° f 'he national will , " & c . < fec , tut _« p-I e < to t , h < - existing regime under which Franco is now _HjrmiUed by _^ her deliverer to " breathe at ease" and to om " _''* ' »¦ " In its eloquent vindication of tho _liberties nude '' ' !™ , UW 1 0 l , h ° _K ht » of humanity , equally trodden _,. ! " J . "'' by the man of . December , the Times truly _a-Jaii r W I ' ro - ° minonc " " " _U » o organ of a nation ; " an doit I , u , h * ho nation might bo justly proud ; and hoIn , ltt tl _» e giant ' s strength boon so nobly used . In its

    CONTINENTAL NOTES TIIK " _TIMKS" AND TIIE " MONITKO . il . " M . Louis _Bonapaiitr has at last broken tbo " contemptuous silence" be professed to observe towards tbo denunciations of the English press . An _overwhelming Phili ppic in tbo Times of the 21 st of August extorted tbo following complaint—for wo cannot call it a reply—from the oflicial scribes of the Moniteur . Tho mock dignity of 'he second paragraph of this article would bo simply ludicrous , if ( ho thought of identifying the man of the 2 nd of December with the " entire nation" ho first deceived and then degraded , were * not one more insult heaped upon ¦ I" rancre by ber pretended Saviour . The rest of the article in hiiNed on the one enormous assumption that the word ol ' ¦ he

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    execration of the man who foreswore hia oath and shed innocent blood , to wade through terrorism to usurpation , the Times has asserted a principle and a feeling which , are essentially English in the best sense . Who or what the perpetrator may be , whether a Marat or a Louis Bonaparte , a professed revolutionist or a professed " saviour of society , " in denouncing an odious terrorism , the Times expresses the sound-hearted and intense conviction of nine-tenths of the English nation ; and as a warning and example to future copyists of the present culprit ( as there are copyists of Marat ) , the leading journal has done itself and all the English press honour by committing to shame the scoundrel of December . Here is tbe first article of tbe Moniteur : —

    " We have had several times occasion to remark the malevolence towards the French Government of certain articles in the English journals . We remained silent as long as they only attacked persons , but at present the entire nation is attacked , and it becomes a duty to reply . The Times has devoted a long article in one of its last numbers to accumulate insult upon France . It compares it to the Bas-Empire , and condemns it to eternal infamy . If the Times was the organ of a nation , ours might be affected by its attacks , but that paper , the passionate interpreter of hostile parties since the 2 nd of December , merely represents an interested opposition ; what credit , consequently , is to be given to its opinions ? What right is there to endure them ? Who , m fact , could believe , as

    the Times dares to pretend , that we are disinherited of all our rights , and that political life exists no longer for us ? Universal suffrage in France is the most unlimited exercise of the power of election for a nation . We have said that the Times , in our eyes , is not the organ of the nation in the name of which it would pretend to speak . Far from us , therefore , to recriminate against the English institutions ; but could not others , less well disposed , do so ? Could not they ask the Times whether England can oppose to the tranquilbty and good order of our universal suffrage its limited suffrage and its elections accomplished in the midst of all the scandals of disgraceful jobbery ? Could it not be said to the Times that m England seats in Parliament belong almost always to the richest—that hi France

    they are free to all without distinction ; that there fortune decides—that here the people choose ; that with us everything is the expression of the national will ; that the Chief of the State , the Coips-Legislatif the Councils-General of Departments , Councils of Arondissement , Municipal Councils , all are elected by the universality of the citizens —that on the other side of the Channel , on the contrary , everything savours of the inequality of fortunes as well as the restriction of rights . The Times may , if it please , call this first essay of the most unbounded liberty infamy ; but does it select a happy moment to draw vanity from a system which conduces to the apprehension of public voting and to the demand of the substitution of secret voting in place of public election ? The Times applauded the days

    of Jul y under the Monarchy df 1830 . It approved the republican ovations after the 24 th of February . Was that because of the conquests made by the people ? No ; it was on account of the blood which waa shed . Its glorifications then were as suspicious as its present disparagement is odious . The sarcasm against the 15 th of August was consequently the natural effect of antipathy and calculation . Vainly wero propositions made to the Chief of the State to celebrate the anniversaries of tbo 10 th of December , 1848 , the 2 nd and 20 th of December , 1851 . He would not celebrate tho one , because it regarded himself alone and his triumph ; nor the other , because it was connected with a painful feeling , and because he wished , above all , to bury in oblivion even the last recollection of our civil discord . Thc anniversary of the 15 th of August has been alone consecrated , and it happened by a fortunate

    coincidence that tho festival of the V irgin , the patroness of Franco , is celebrated tho same day as that of tho Emperor . The nation comprehended that noble idea , and associated itself with it throughout the country with enthusiasm . Tbis is tbe secret of the envenomed polemic of the Times . Ear bo it from us to entertain tbo idea of stopping it . Wo trust that our prosperity will for a long period supply it with materials . But truth , manifested by facts , will , amongst serious men , ever obtain an advantage over the anonymous pamphlet inspired by interest or by passion . " On Saturday , the 28 th , the Times replied to tho Moniteur , in an article , which , if only as a mastorpieco of power , dignity , and eloquence , wo should be glad to have space to reproduce bore . It may easily bo imagined what easy gamo tbo Moniteur _wt \ s for such an antagonist .

    " We bave received , " says the Times , " from the French government tbe only honour which a government so constituted has it in its power to bestow—tho honour implied in its fear nnd its hatred Our remarks , sueh as they were , seem to have penetrated into the recesses of that imperial solitude in which Monsieur Louis Bonaparte spends the happy and dignified hours which he can save from the toil of destruction and confiscation . At the head of an enormous army , with his foot on the neck of a prostrate nation , a few lines traced in a foreign language by an unknown hand , have shaken the impassible man ( it destiny , and probed the depths of a conscience not easily accessible to the voice of truth . We cannot refuse to enter the _HhIh with such a champion . He has a right to be heard on bis own behalf , as well as on behalf of the seven million five hundred thousand votes of the 10 th of

    December . We onl y wish that ho would give our reply tbo same extended publicity in Franco as we give to his vindication in England . But this he dares not do . _GroundlcsM as Monsieur Bonaparte may call our censures , he dares not make his own nation tho judge of their justice , and all the people whom be mocks with the name of liberty will ever Know on the subject will be ho much as it , is deemed prudent to uptico in the columns of the Moniteur Trim as he says , we are not , like the Moniteur , tho organ of a nation ; but in this instance , af any rate , wo are something moro—tho organ of the conscience of tho human _raco , the organ of that feeling which distinguishes man

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    from brute , the mouthpiece of that unbending law of morality which perjured judges cannot pervert , and all the prestige of success cannot elude . " To the accusation that the Times approved of former revolutions , " not because they were conquests made by the people , but on account of the blood which was shed" No ; if we dissent from the revolution of the 2 nd of December , it is not because it has not shed blood enoug h . The proper anniversary is the 4 th of December , and it should be celebrated at the March *? des Innocens . The name , at any rate , might recall mothers murdered with children in their arms , old men slain on their thresholds , children of seven years old massacred , as well as the other glories which tho President takes so much credit to himself for not commemoratin . oa "

    " Monsieur Bonaparte" ( the article concludes ) repudiates comparisons with the Lower Empiro of Home . Can he trace no family likeness to one personage , at least , in the sketch which Gibbon gives of Commodus ? ' Amid the acclamations of a flattering court ho was unable to disguise from himself that he had deserved the contempt and hatred of every man of sense and virtue in his empire : his ferocious spirit was irritated by the consciousness of that hatred , by the envy of every kind of merit , and by tho just apprehension of danger . ' " On Monday , the 30 th , the Moniteur published the subjoined clumsy and suicidal rejoinder : —

    "The Government is not moved at insults ; it does not answer them ; but , wben facts are audaciously and outrageously misrepresented , it is always its duty to replace them in their true light . The Times , convicted of premeditated defamation , defends itself only by new calumnies . In its number of the 28 th of August , it pretends that after the 2 nd of December 1200 inoffensive and unarmed persons were assassinated by drunken soldiers in the streets of Paris . The refutation of such a calumny lies in its very exaggeration . Everybody knows that the oflicial report lays the number of persons killed during the insurrection at 380 ; that is already too much , no doubt . As to the persons accidentally wounded , the number , fortunately , amounts to eight or ten only . In the presence of positive documents opposed to false assertions , let every one judge of the good faith of the journalist . "

    As to the discrepancy between the " official report" of the numbers massacred in December , and the reports of eye-witnesses , recited by Victor Hugo , the Times in a second most calm and contemptuous reply , concludes as follows : — "Any one who will take thc trouble to refer to the evidence adduced in the recent work of Monsieur Victor Hugo , must be perfectly satisfied , unless he imputes to that eminent writer the guilt of forging the statements which he asserts to have taken down from the lips of eye-witnesses , that the estimate of twelve hundred slain is much more probable than that of four hundred . No doubt these

    are mere guesses and approximations ; the exact amount of the butchery we shall never know . We may have overstated it ; we may have understated it . -To thc cause of truth and justice a few hundreds , moro or less , matter but little . Human life is sacred , and the guilt of thc man who _assassijiates a thousand only differs in degree from the quilt of him who _knotvingly and wilfully takes a single life . " We have italicized thc last sentence as worthy of emphatic record : for in the truth here enunciated the whole pith of the accusation resides . So much for the duel ot tbe Moniteur , the servile mouthpiece of lying lacqueys , with tho leading journal of the world .

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    The Moniteur ( says tho Pa iiy Ncivs of Thursday last ) , after two rounds of journalistic pugilism with thc London f ) _ress , has retreated to the secondary position of bottlelolder , handing over the rude continuation of the combat to the Pays . If the latter paper wore better deserving of its titlo—that is , if it represented more nearly the national opinion of France , the tone of this article could not but produce some sensation on the English side of tbe channel ; and , in any case , as coming from what may bo now considered as the chief ministerial organ , it merits the fullest attention . It i . s indeed now plain that the . French Government i . s bent upon using national intimidation as an instrument for compressing the independence of the English press . " The French people , " says the Pays , " has never . suffered , nor will ever sutler other nations to interveno in its internal affairs by tbeir newspapers . "

    " The French press , " says the Pays , " has made unheard efforts for the last thirty years to heal the old differences between France and England , and to draw closer tho two nations . " However this may be ( and we regret to say to tho contrary , that , until the ' Revolution of ' 4 tt tho liberal press of France bad mado a stupid hatred of ICngluiid , and a blind adoration of tbe Umpire , its two chief weapons ol party warfare weapons by which it bus now been struck to tho death ) , it is not likely that tho French people will accept this identification with their present ruler , sought to be imposed upon them by the most , servile of a servile crew , the I ' ays , the laughing-stock of the still independent Charivari .

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    bi tho Prcsac of Tuesday , Emile de Girardiu replies with all his power and spirit to the stale and absurd assumption of M . Grimier de Cassugnae , that , but for the coup d'dtat of December , Franco would have been the prey of pillagers and murderers . Ho points ( writes the Correspondent of the Daily News ) to the rank and merits of the men who have been expelled by the Government . But it is needless to repeat his argument . ) here , as every one knowH that M . Grimier ' h bugbear is a mere invention to pen the people in the imperial fold out of terror for imaginary wolves . What is moro to the purpose is the emphatic form of tho denial . M . Girardm says at the ( 'lose of each triumphant refutation , "Sir , you are a liar , " " You aro a bar and a slanderer" — language which , according to French usage , can only be answered by an _bivittttion to appeal from the pen to tho sword or pistol

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04091852/page/3/