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JUmHWW 1' 1852 -3 THE LEAD EB. 1153
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. The Legislative body ...
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THE BURMESE WAR. Peome was captured agai...
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ADDRESS FROM THE "LADIES" OF ENGLAND TO ...
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Lkttkks From Paris. [From Ouit Own Coiut...
These twenty-five millions will be nett , clear of all charges . Bonaparte , moreover , will , have the full enjoyment of all the revenues and appurtenances of the national chateaux and palaces . The Princes of tie Imperial Family will receive a dotation of five million of francs . The presumptive heir to the crown will have for his share a dotation of 1 , 500 , 000 francs . What will Jacques Bonhomme say to all this money spent ? He j 9 . capable of rejoicing at " it , the idiot , in the hope of catching the crumbs that 'fall froni the table . In addition to the civil ' list of 25 , 000 , 000 of francs , a domain of the Crown will be constituted in favour of Bonaparte . To this effect , the grand forests and chateaux , such as Versailles , Compiegne , Rambonillet , St . Cloud , will be set apart from the domain of the state , and . humbly presented to his Majesty !
You must have been struck at the mention of a dotation of 1 , 500 , 000 francs to the presumptive heir to the throne . This presumptive heir is definitively decided to be Napoleon Jerome . The reconciliation of the two cousins is complete . " At a grand dinner given lately at St . Cloud , followed by a ball , to which only the intimates were invited , about 350 guests , Napoleon Jerome was at the right of Bonaparte , and loaded by him with attentions and flatteries . I had predicted , you will remember , that old Jerome would make his pretended nephew knuckle down , and this has been the case exactly . Old Jerome has marched out with all the honours of war : he is to have a personal dotation of two millions ; his son , as heir , is to have 1 , 500 , 000 francs ; and lastly , the Palais Royal is to be given to them both for a residence .
All the preparations for the marriage are being actively pushed on . The ^ Princess Wasais now said to be definitively chosen for the future Empress : she is reported to be a young lady of agreeable and distinguished appearance , gentle and engaging . Be this as it may , I fear she may be destined to play a suffering part in some bloody tragedy , and this makes her an object of pity , before even she can invite affection T The * Moniteur and the Journal des Debats * have been , these last few days , hymning articles of triumph in honour qf the fall of the Republic and the return of the Monarchy . " Universal suffrage has killed the Republic , " exclaims the Moniteur , and calls that an act of good sense on the part of the French people .
On the occasion of the accession of Bonaparte an amnesty is talked of . Nothing can be more unlikely . There will be no amnesty in the broad sense of the word . Partial and individual pardons , such as are granted daily , may be accorded to those who offer their submission : he will pardon those who are base enough to crave pardon , but he will not have the magnanimity to accord a true amnesty . These are the formal conditions of solicitations for pardon , such as they are stated in the Government journal of Limoges : —
1 . No notice will be taken of any applications but such as are written , signed , and authentically drawn np by or for the prisoner himself , and containing a formal undertaking to renounce all the engagements of the past , and a promise of peaceable conduct and submission for the future . 2 . The signatures must bo legalised by a functionary of the administrative order . 3 . All demands , whether through the mediation of the Prefect , or through any other channel , must ho addressed to the oiHce of the Great Seal , to be examined and judged on the report of the Keeper of the Seals , Minister of Justice .
In the meanwhile , Republicans and Legitimists are the object of unremitting persecutions . Numerous arresLs of democrats have taken place this week in Paris and the suburbs . Many thought they hud a ri ght to distribute the Moniteur , containing those famous Protests . They were arrested without mercy , !«« d up to the present time have not boon relou . sed . Jfj to the Legitimists , they are rigorously dealt with on '"¦ count of the CJhanibord Manifesto . A groat number ° f domiciliary visits are going on in the departments ; < hiU (! iuix are invested by the gendarmerie , siud searched one iiRcr 1 , 1 k ; ot . lier , for the purpose of discovering any <*<> pies of the Manifesto of Henry V . Singular contradiction of an infallible Government ! It publishes tjio Manifesto in ( he Monitvur , mid wont allow a single
: > l > y to be kept in 11 private bouse . AH the Legitimist Mayors ^ Munieipnl Councillors , md Generals are sending in their resignations nijimln ¦ 'us ( , now inen are being recruited from all parts for I'll" Imperial Guard ; the » 0 , (> 00 men lately disehargud Irom service nre arriving in Paris , in detachments commanded by sergemitH and quarter-musters ; they ant a 'l picked " men , all dJcon ' . i , nil soldiers of the army of Afrin ,. These men are to form the Imperial Guard , ' 'hut discharge of 30 , 000 mon wivh only one falsehood the more . Letters from Libourne confirm the fact . " The 13 th chasseurs , " miy » a letter from thence , " iu
disbanded to a man , but it is going to Paris by detachr nients , to form a regiment of mounted guides . " Be on your guard , then , and remember " the thief in the night . " There has been great perturbation at the Bourse of late . It is said that Rothschild is in dudgeon . Rothschild boude ! Not warned , it seems , of the fall of November 13 , he declared war against Bonaparte , and they have since been " bulling" and " bearin g" against each other unmercifully . Hence the continued fall in the Funds . Rothschild , in order to compete with the three banks recently created by Bonaparte , is going to create a private bank , which will discount bills with a single backer . The very knowing . ones regard this affair as very serious . For my own part , I cannot help believing that the mouth even of Rothschild would close to the gentle persuasion of a few millions . S . [ The account given by ' our correspondent has "been fully confirmed by what took place on Thursday . To narrate the proceedings would only be to rewrite what he has written . ]
Jumhww 1' 1852 -3 The Lead Eb. 1153
JUmHWW 1 ' 1852 -3 THE LEAD EB . 1153
Continental Notes. The Legislative Body ...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . The Legislative body proceeded on Wednesday to St . Cloud . They declared the result of their scrutiny : — Ayes 7 , 824 , 189 Noes 253 , 145 They saluted the Prince as Emperor , by the title of Napoleon III . The Emperor then addressed them in a speech , remarkable for its truthf ulness , as may be judged by the subjoined extracts : —
" Gentlemen , —The new reign which you , this day , inaugurate , derives not its origin—as so many others recorded in history have done—from violence , from conquest , or from fraud . It is , you have just declared it , the legal result of the will of a whole people . " After expressing 1 his gratitude to tie nation that three times in four years , and each time by a larger majority , had " sustained him by its suffrages , " he modestly adds" But the more that power increases in extent and in vital force , the more does it need enlightened men , such as those who every day surround me—independent men , such as those whom I address- —to guide me by their counsel , to bring back my authority within just limits , if it could ever quit them . "
He takes the title of Napoleon III ., " because the logic qf the . people has bestowed it upon me in their acclamations ; because the Senate has legally proposed it ; and because the whole nation has ratified it . " He recognises all preceding Governments , as an inheritor of their good and evil ; but he cannot pass in silence oTer the glorious reign of the head of his family , " the regular though ephemeral title of his son , whom the two Chambers proclaimed in the last burst of vanquished patriotism . " " The title of Napoleon III . is not a dynastic and superannuated pretension , but a homage to a
Government which is legitimate , and to which we owe the brightest panes of our history " The last two paragraphs are these : — " Aid me , all of you , to set firm in this land , u p set by so many revolutions , a stable Government , which shall have for its bases Religion , Probity , and Lovo for tho suffering classes . " Receive hero my oath , that no sacrifico shall be wanting on my part to insure tho prosperity of my country ; ana that , whilst I maintain peace , I will yield in nothing 1 which may touch the honour or the dignity of France . " Tho Berlin Committee of Health has made its hist
report . It states that tho cholera has for the present disappeared ; no new cases have been announced for many days , and as soon as those under treatment can bo discharged , the hospitals will be closed . Since the appearance of the disease there havo been in all 235 casos , of which 157 , considerably more than half , were fatal ; 78 were cured . In Spain , the Government seems to be preparing for the long-expected coup ( VHat by a razzia on tho press . On pretence of an unfaithful report of a meeting of Opposition Deputies , live journals have been suspended , and only the official journal and a Ministerial organ have since appeared .
The Prussian Chambers wero opened for the session on Monday by a speech from the President of the Council , in which he touched on tlie following points : —The budget has been regulated according to the requirements of the State , and according to tho economy and regularity which tradition had handed down . Up to tho present time , the treaty of September has not obtained tho adhesion of nil tho states of tho- Zollverein . That is to be regretted , but tho Government is convinced that its conduct in this matter will receive the approbation of tho Chambers . Propositions will bo made to tho Chambers as to what
concerns tho establishment , of new communications . Tlio Government will present , to them bills on the organization of the- communes and circles , and on tho subject of the Jt'irst Chamber . Tho bill concerning the First Chambor will havo for object to relieve tho Crown of tho trammels which aro contrary to the inlorent of tho country . Tlio Government ban resolved not to bo influenced b y any party , and not to interfere . in any way with logal liberty , f > ut , on tlio other hand , it . desires that , tlio Itoyal power nhall not , bo weakened by a division which would be projudiciiil to
it-That expensive luxury , the State of Siege , is reported likely to cease before lonir at Vienna . Wo thought it , had become an " institution under a truly paternal government . After four yoara' ondoavours , an Engliob ,
enjjinoor—Mr . Shepherd—has obtained leave to erect gas-works in Rome . The site allotted by the authorities is the interior of the Circus Maximus ! The number of capital executions in the Papal States during the last month is frightful . The Grand Duke of Tuscany has expelled all political refugees from his dominions . He is more resolute than ever in his determination to extirpate " heresy , " and he glories in the punishment of the Madiai . The Vienna correspondent of the Times , writing November 24 th , mentions a report that the King of Sardinia had requested an auxiliary Austrian corps , and that Radetsky was preparing to comply with the request . We only mention this report which remains unconfirmed . As a straw in the wind , it is worth mentioning , however strange .
The obsequies of Abbe" Gioberti were celebrated with great pomp , in the church of Corpus Christi , at Turin , on the 22 nd inst . The Chamber of Deputies sent a deputation to the funeral without suspending its labours . Count Cavour is said to intend to restrict the policy of his ministry , for the present at least , to financial reforms . A Bill has been brought into the Belgian Chamber to convert the Five per Cents . ( 1840 ) into 4 >\ per Cents . The Sultan , it is reported , has resolved to appease the
quarrel between the Greeks and Latins aTjout the dilapiaated condition of the cupola of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre , by undertaking the repairs himself . The Firman to that effect , read in the Church of the Grave of the Virgin by the Turkish Engineer , caused an angry discussion between the heads of the three Christian Churches ; during which , we are told , the Turks " q uietly smoked their chiboukes" in solemn contemplation , no doubt , of Christianity " at home . " In these Holy Places the Turks are constantly required to separate the Christian combatants by force .
The Burmese War. Peome Was Captured Agai...
THE BURMESE WAR . Peome was captured again on the 9 th of October , by a British force under General Godwin , consisting of about 3000 men . The enemy ' s batteries were soon silenced by the fire of the steamers ; and shells scattered the various bodies posted at points available for annoying our landing . After the heat of the day had subsided our troops were landed , and made short work of the only body of Burmese who offered anything like opposition . Our killed amounted to one ; and our wounded to eleven . Six miles from Prome there are stockades , defended by 6000 Burmese ; but , strange to say , General Godwin had demurred attacking these fellows . The troops are said to be murmuring at these continual delays . They think that three . ^ thousand soldiers _ and five hundred blue jackets would soon settle any differences between themselves and the Burmese about the possession of the said stockades .
Meanwhile , Lord Dalhousie was expected at Prome , and General Godwin had gone thither to meet him on the 15 th of October . There seems some doubt about the annexation of Pegu . But the war is now considered sis virtually ended ; and the fate of Pegu will soon be known .
Address From The "Ladies" Of England To ...
ADDRESS FROM THE " LADIES" OF ENGLAND TO THE " LADIES" OF AMERICA AGAINST SLAVERY . Certain ladies of high rank , conjoined with others who have a position in society somewhat distinct from myriads of their sisters , met at Stafford House on Friday week , to consider the question of slavery in the United States . The Duchess of Sutherland appeared to be their leader . She read a memorial , which was entitled , " The affectionate and Christian address of many thousands of the women of England to their sisters , the women of the United States of America . "
Hosing its appeal on " a common origin , 11 common faith , ami a common cause ; " and on religious grounds , the address proceeded : —• "Wo do not shut our eyes to tho difficulties—nay , tho dangers , that might boseL tlm immediate abolition of that long-established system ; we see and admit tho necessity of preparation for so great an event . ; but in speaking of indispensable preliminaries , wo cannot be silent on thoso laws of your country , which , in direct contravention of God ' s own law , ' innlilutcd in tlio time of man's innocency , ' dony , in effect , to tlio sluvo tho sanctity of marriage , with all its joys , ri ^ lits , and obligations , which separates , at tho will of tho master , the wile from tho husband , and tho children from tho parents . "
Nor could they be silent on the " awful system " which interdicts to any race religious education ; and a remedy to those two evils would commence the amelioration of the sad condition of tlio negroes : —¦ "Wo do not ; say these thingH in a spirit of self-complacency , an though our nation wore free from the guilt it perceiven in others . Wo acknowledge , with grief and shame , our heavy share in this great win . Wo acknowledge that our forefathers introduced - nay , compelled — tho adoption of slavery in thoso mighty colonies . Wo humbly confess it before Almighty Go < i ; and it in because wo bo deeply feo | , and so uiifeigncdly avow our own complicity , that , we now vontiiro to implore your aid to wipo away our common crime and our common dishonour . "
The Duchess thought that tin address presented , by tho women of England would not bo suanected ot political motives ; und besides , tho wtute of things
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1852, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04121852/page/5/
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