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WSft THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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ELECTION MATTERS. Thkee elections have t...
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The Paeliament Of The Week. The Bribery ...
but if the honourable member would permit the previous question to pass , it would be his duty to bring forward a measure upon the subject after the recess . Mr . Seegeaitt Murphy , Mr . Napier , Mr . Hume , Lord Bernard , Mt . Macguire , Sir John Sheilet , Captain Jones , Mr . Fortescue , and Mr . Monsell took part in the subsequent discussion . But the announcement made by Mr . Walpole took away all its interest . Mr . Macguire , who spoke for the first time , made a good speech , moderate in tone , but thoroughgoing in opinion . The House , after he sat down , grew impatient ; and , as Mr . Fagan , in spite of intreaties , felt bound to go to a division , the House divided on the " previous question "—namely , " That the question be now put , " and there were 140 to 94 against putting the question .
National Education ( Ireland ) . — Lord Deret stated on Tuesday , in reply to Lord Clarendon , that Government had no intention of bringing forward any measure on the sub } ect of the present system . He considered that it would be a very great evil to disturb or alter it . American Fisheries . —In answer to a question from JLord Wharnclipfe , Lord Malmesbury said that the negotiations on the subject of the North American Fisheries were not yet concluded , and that he could not , therefore , lay the papers " and correspondence on the table of the house . He paid a handsome compliment to the memory of Mr . Webster , whose loss he regretted . He had the most sanguine belief that the difference would be amicably settled .
Wsft The Leader. [Saturday,
WSft THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
Election Matters. Thkee Elections Have T...
ELECTION MATTERS . Thkee elections have taken place this week , at Abingdon , Oldham , and Durham . The Abingdon proceedings were disorderly . Lord Norreys and Mr . Burr were the candidates . Lord Norreys ranks with the Peelites ; Mr . Burr is a Derbyite ; and on the hustings he boasted of his exertions to secure the return of Protectionists in three counties—but he was not a Protectionist—oh no ! The poll decided the election in favour of Lord Norreys , by a majority of 153 to 129-At Oldham , Mr . Fox contended with Mr . Heald . Luckily for Mr . Fox , in one sense at least , he was too ill to attend the nomination , which was a scene of disgraceful rioting ; admitted on all hands to have been instigated by the supporters of Mr . Heald on the platform . Sir Joshua Walmsley spoke for Mr . Fox ; Mr . Heald for himself . The show of hands went for Mr . Heald , as the Derby ites had driven the Foxites off the ground . At the poll , Mr . Fox was the winner by at least 896 to 781 . On the polling day , the Riot Act was read , and troops , horse and foot , inarched into the town . Mr . Fox ' s supporters were shamefully ill-used by the other side .
The Durham election was tolerably peaceable . Lord Adolphus Vane , son and candidate of Lord Londonderry , and Mr . Fenwick , were the rivals . Lord Adolphus said that Mr . Fenwick was brought by Mr . Henderson , the " King of Durham , " as he thought himself . Mr . Fenwick retorted that he was the people ' s nominee , but he would be rather the nominee of the " King of Durham" than the Marquis of Londonderry . Mr . Fenwick had the show of hands . At the poll , Lord Adolphus was the victor by 539 to 498 . There has been also an election at Hury St . Edmunds . Mr . Ilardcastle and Mr . Oakes wore the candidates . At the nomination , on Thursday , the show of hands wan in favour of Mr . Oakes . The fanners rode into tho town on horseback , and drove the foot people oil' tho . irround .
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LKTTKKS FROM PARIS . [ From ouit own CoiutKHroNJuENT . ] Lkttkk XLIX . . Piirin , Tucmluy evening , November DO , 1 H 52 . TllR total result of the election is now pretty well ascertained . Exclusive of some two or three cantons , not ; yet returned , the number up to this moment has reached 7 , S (! : { , L 5 ^ O . At leas t , such is the story of this morning ' s Moniltuo : So the farce is clayed out Everywhere , you may imagine , the scrutiny has been falsified . Copious details are current on this subject . In the first , place , at Paris they began by striking out , 7 H , () 00 working men , who were classed as Republicans . At the vote of November HI , there wore only 221 , ()()() electors inscribed ; on April 21 ) , 1 K-IH , there were in nil
: H 2 , 0 () 0 ; so that besides 78 , 000 working men struck out , 'IIJ . OOO of the middle class have been similarly cancelled , probably as " suspected" persons . Whilo these erasures were being made , on tho other side of the balance electoral tickets were being ollicially distributed to the iir . sL comer who applied for them , and thin without asking for any certificate of residence , or of birth , or , in short , any document establishing the personal identity of the applicant . Any man might have gone to the forty-eight ollices where the tickets were distributed , and obtained forty-eight tickets if he wanted them . What , is more , they inscribed , under tlio denomination of clecl . curs
sufficient . By these two means the door was kept wide open for an immense system of fraud to pass through . All the Decembrists , regularly enrolled and paid , were able to vote , each man at least forty-eight times , under his real name , and at least 200 or 300 times under a supposititious name . In fact , the administrative functionaries had orders to close their eyes to the identity : of the ejectors . This was everywhere the mot d ' ordre from the Government . All this proceeding is an old trick copied from the G ^ ree-Napoleon . That great histrionic impostor used to have votingregisters opened in every commune , at every notary ' s , at every tax-gatherer ' s , at the house of every public functionary and officer . You could not go , or send to any of these persons on a matter of business without
having then and there to inscribe or get your vote inscribed . If you had already signed the list at the Mairie , you must sign again at the notary ' s , at the tax-gatherer ' s , at the juge de paix , at the huissier ' s , and so on . Every Frenchman voted at least twice . Now it was precisely the total of those superfluous { superfetes ) votes which formed the figure of three millions obtained by Napoleon for his Consulate . The method of the nephew is , you see , a great improvement on that of the uncle . Instead of voting once , the hired Bonapartist agents have been able to vx > te a hundred times each at Paris . The figures , indeed , are so bizarre , the results so fabulous , that even at the Corps Legislatif there were among those servile mutes men who could not restrain an exclamation of astonishment .
Really the case has some curious aspects . For instance : in the Republican departments—such as the Allier , the- Cher , the Nievre , the Herault , the Basses Alps , the Drome , the Saone et Loire , & c . —scarcely a non has been found : en revanche , more otds have been found than were given on December 20 . Some deputies of the Legislative Corps could not help remarking the fact aloud . This will be the only official protest against the said scrutiny . In the departments , moreover , other , lesser means were employed . All the manufacturers drew up a list of their " good" workmen ,
and a list of their " bad" workmen . The first received electoral tickets , the second received none . This manoeuvre was employed afc Paris with the working stonemasons , carpenters , and excavators employed in the reconstruction of the Rue de Eivoli—about 30 , 000 workmen in all . The contractors were allowed a certain number of electoral tickets , which they distributed at their discretion among such of their workmen as they considered hien pensans . Tho " suspected" workmen received no tickets at all . Besides , the workmen were obliged to vote at the sections of their employers , not at their own . This fact is in evidence . With such a
way of proceeding surely nothing can be less surprising than the result of tho vote of November 21 . Notwithstanding all these measures , however , the Government has been unable wholly to stiHe the great voice of public opinion in the large towns . In these , without exception , at Lyons , Bordeaux , Toulouse , Nantes , Lille , Rouen , Strasbourg , « fcc , the united total of noes , and of votes not given , far exceeds the number of ayes . That is the only protest of public opinion which has made itself heard .
The Corps Legislatif met on Friday last to proceed to tho general reckoning of the votes . Bonaparte opened the session by a . message . He did not give himself the trouble to read it himself ; he simply sent it , from St . Cloud to his faithful mutes . His words sire false and full of duplicity as ever . To reassure the Legislative Corps , lie declares , in his message , that " tlie Government will only change inform . " From this we may conclude that in substance ( an fond ) it will still bo the same system of oppression , of despotism , of tortuous ways and lying words . Merci ! He adds that ho will " contain himself within the limits of
moderation . " The massacres of the Houlevanh the nocturnal fusillades , { . he murders of the Champ do Mars , the transportations to Cayenne and to Lambessa , the proscription and the exile of sixty thousand citizenshe calls that , " moderation ! " After the reading of the message , the Corps Legislatif proceeded to the dcpouitlniwnt of tho vote . . No protest having been sulfered throughout the IJ 8 . 000 communes of France ; , these gentlemen of ( . he Legislative Corps had only to register the results of Messieurs les I ' refets . The complete ascertaining of the result will be terminated on
the evening of December I . It . is desired that ' 1 lmrs-< lay , December 2 , the anniversary of the coup d ' tUat , may beHignali / . ed by the solemn proclumationof the vote , iincl , an its consequence , by tile equally solemn proclamation of the Kmperor . Tho National Guard is convoked , an well as the regular troops . Ilonapnrte will set out , from St . Cloud in the morning , and proceed to the Arc , de Triomphe do l' 10 l , oilo : there he will be received in state by the authorities of Paris ; he will then betake himself , by the Champs lOlyse ' oH , to the TuilericH . Tho troops of the lino and tho National
will be entirely devoted to rejoicings . All the public monuments will be illuminated . Largesses will be given to tbe poor . The municipal council ( nominated by Bonaparte ) has voted 350 , 000 francs to be employed in charitable works , distributions of bread and clothes release of pledges from the pawnbrokers , & c . In the evening , the Corps Legislatif gives a grand banquet to Bonaparte . A subscription was got up for the pur . pose , which was instantly signed by all the members
Guard will form a double line , to keep the ground The proclamation of the Empire will take place in « Salle du Trone , by the three grand corps of the stat * Bonaparte will hear the proclamation , sittine- n ' the throne . The Salle has been magnificently deco rated for the occasion . The imperial throne , it is said " is of excessive -richness ; the canopy , the chair and cushion , and the table , are of velvet titaue / bespaJudal with golden beeg . .- The day of the 2 nd of December
On the occasion of the accession there is to be a nomination of Marshals of France , as in the time of the Empire . I need scarcely say , that the Generals bought by gold on the 2 nd of December , the St . Arnaud , Magnan , & c , will be promoted to this high dignity . The two legitimist Generals , the Comte de Castellane and the Due de Montemart ( great grandnephew of the mistress of Louis XIV ., the celebrated Montespan ) , will also be promoted to the rank of Marshals . Bonaparte , en digne , singe de son oncle is anxious to appear to rally the noblesse to his cause and , like a true parvenu , he descends to all sorts of meannesses to be on good terms with the old aristocracy . There will be , at the same time , a batch of new senators .
In pursuance of the same principle , the Marquis de Pastoret , some time agent of Henry V ., is to be raised to that dignity . The Imperial household is now com ^ plete . After numerous disputes , Bonaparte has settled the question among his confidants , by pronouncing his own decision . He has given all the great offices to the historical noblesse . The Due de Mortemart , besides his dignity of Marshal of France , is to be Grand Marshal of the Palace ; tbe Due de Guiche , a grandson of the Choiseul of Louis XV ., has been recalled from
Germany , where he had a ( diplomatic mission , to be Master of the Hounds . Lastly , the Due de Mouchy is to be Grand Chamberlain . The Duchess is remarkably pretty . The Imperial etiquette is to be re-established in all its rigour , in spite of the doubts of many people , and of the precedent of unceremonious simplicity of the court of Louis Philippe . Bonaparte , henceforth , will take all his meals solus . None but members of his own family will be admitted to his table . He will no longer be served by simple domestics , but by his hig-h officers in waiting . One must be a nobleman to serve that malotrti ! Many people hope , however , that the word " subject" will not be revived . It is well to undeceive them . There neither are nor can be any
more citizens in France . There remains only a master and his " subjects . " That is an immense progress You know that even in Louis Philippe ' s reign the word " subject" had disappeared from the official vocabulary . When , in 1832 , the Ministers attempted to make use of the expression , si violent protest from the left benches in the Chamber snubbed tho presumption , and since that moment it has never been employed . Now it is to be put in vigour once more , in sp ite of the principlo of the " national sovereignty . " Every citizen , in fact , by his quality of member of the sovereign , becoincs sovereign himself . Henceforward , Bonaparte will csill us bis " subjects . " Joken begin to rattle thereupon . " What consoles me , " said an exdenuty , " is that , if I am ' subject , ' Bonaparte is too . 1 chamber
find tiiat ho is subject *—to be hung . " The - lains , mallres d'holcl , equerries , and pages of Uonaparte , are sdroady nominated . Tho household of tho Empress , too , is in course of active formation ; ladiesin-waiting and maids of honour sue being recruited in every direct ion ; the wives and daughters of no '" families are particularly tho object of research , 't i « only parvenus who have such pretensions sis these new lon ls of ours . Tbe Emperor will not give audience to the first comer ; court or full dress , tights , sword , and bidden will hud * rlgiwur . Poor devils who can nfiord to waste 2000 francs ( 80 / . ) on personal decoralion for the sake of an " siudience , " will bo politely shown the door . How many old soldiers , how msiny old leather-breeches , how many old Bonaparfiat iooln , will be made to look blank ! i o I The Umpire will be ollicially announced on . tho ^ i >< i of December to all the amhiiHfiadors and ministers <> foreign courts . From the date of such notice their mission will eciiHo until they have received new <" r <' lll . " " tiiilx from their Governments . This , again , isa trudiuo of 1804 , ridiculously exhumed . f An iinmenHo civil list—of twenty-five iniHionH <> francs ( 1 , 000 , 000 / . )— -is to he appointed to Hoi ^» ^_ - * Fr . Hujot—s . subject ; ad . amenable-
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04121852/page/4/
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